Canaan Town Library

Canaan Town Library’s Summer Reading Program is our way of encouraging everyone to read together all summer long – in whatever form that takes! It could be audiobooks, eBooks, graphic novels, picture books, chapter books – we love them all! Whatever age you are, we encourage you to celebrate the summer at CTL, where your adventure begins!

All programs are free and open to all children, preschool through 5th grade.  This year, we are hoping you will join us by playing READING BINGO!  Fill in the squares on your bingo card to win some great prizes.

Pick up your Bingo Card at the Canaan Town Library starting Saturday, June 29th!

Summer Events:

July 6: Take and Make Craft Kit*

July 13, 9:30 am: Story Time

July 27, 10 am – 12 pm: Lego Club

August 3: Take and Make Craft Kit*

August 7, 10:00 am: Squam Lake Science Center: Wildlife Adventure**

Join a naturalist from Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to meet three live animals that you could see on your next outdoor adventure! Learn about the places they live, what they eat, and the adaptations that help them survive., Outdoor Classroom, Canaan Elementary School

August 17, 9:30 am: Story Time

August 24, 12:00 pm: Bingo Celebration Ice Cream Social

August 31, 10 am – 12 pm: Lego Club

* Supplies are limited.

** This event is co-sponsored with the Enfield Public Library.

Happy Summer Reading!

The Canaan Town Library                       

Summer Reading is designed to encourage reading for pleasure in a relaxed environment, stimulate a lifelong reading habit, provide an opportunity to make friends and connect with library staff, and generally create interest in libraries. PARENTS – Want to read along with your child this summer?  Look for our Adult Summer Reading Program, BEAT THE HEAT BEACH READ BINGO!

The painters have made their way to the front of the library! The front door will be CLOSED this week. Please enter the library through the lift entrance or the back door. Please do not park in the back driveway, those spaces are reserved for town employees.

Please join us for our discussion of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: the Story of Success. We will meet at 6:00 pm for our annual Summer Potluck at the home of one of the “Bookies”. Contact the library for directions.

Registration is full. Contact the library to be put on the waiting list. Join us for a Friends of the Canaan Town Library craft program — Build a Terrarium. Saturday, July 20, 10:00 am. Materials are provided for this free program. Donations are welcome and 100% will go to the Friends of the Canaan Town Library. Registration is required and space is limited to 12 Adults. To register, email the library at circulationdesk@canaanlibrary.org or call 603-523-9650.

2024 MEETINGHOUSE READINGS BEGIN JULY 11

        The Meetinghouse Readings, Canaan, NH’s grassroots literary series, presents its 36th season of outstanding and emerging voices in fiction, poetry and nonfiction beginning Thursday July 11, 2024.

            Founding moderator William Craig returns to the podium to welcome novelists Lynn Stegner, Yukiko Tominaga, Paul Harding and Ken Cadow and poets Ellen Bryant Voigt and Jennifer Militello.

July 11            Lynn Stegner / Yukiko Tominaga

July 18            Ellen Bryant Voigt / Paul Harding

July 25            Jennifer Militello / Ken Cadow

 Militello, whose collections include The Pact (2021) and Knock Wood (2019) will be celebrating her appointment as New Hampshire Poet Laureate. A catastrophic storm kept former Vermont Poet Laurate Voigt (Headwaters, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006) from reading at the Meetinghouse last summer; her re-engagement is much-anticipated!

Booklist praised Lynn Stegner’s 2016 story collection, For All The Obvious Reasons, for “incandescent” prose leaving “an indelible impression on the reader’s memory.” She is racing copies of her soon-to-be-published novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, to the Meetinghouse.

“A skilled collage of carrying on and finding oneself after catastrophe” (Ethan Joella), Yukiko Tominaga’s 2024 novel, See: Loss. See Also: Love is receiving praise including Best Book of Spring 2024 (Oprah Daily).

The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding (Tinkers, Enon) is This Other Eden, reimagining the true story of an outcast community on Maine’s Malaga Island. This Other Eden was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023, a finalist for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2024.

In Norwich resident Ken Cadow’s debut novel, Gather, a teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction. Gather was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award,

As ever, the readings will be held in the beautiful 1793 Meetinghouse on Canaan Street. Admission is free; homemade refreshments are memorably worthy of generous donations. Authors’ books will be on sale, courtesy of the Norwich Bookstore.

ALL READINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 P.M..
Please, No Infants, Toddlers or Squirmers!

For more information, visit meetinghousereadings.wordpress.com
or call 603 523 9650 Canaan Town Library
Press: 802 369 4955  williamcraigvt@gmail.com  William Craig

Story time meets at 9:30 am at the library. Hope to see you: June 1, July 13, and August 17. All are welcome. Stories are perfect for ages 0-5!

New dates for Tech Night have been scheduled. January 24, February 7 & 21, March 6 & 20, April 3 & 17.

Have questions about your tech? Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm.

Thanks to the Friends of the Canaan Town Library, patrons now have access to the digital version of the New York Times.

Hover over the Online Resources menu at the top of the page, click on New York Times and follow the directions to get a daily link to the complete digital New York Times. There’s no need to pay, you just need to create a New York Times account. You will have full access for the next 24 hours!