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Simply Storytime Goes Trick-or-Treating

After a Halloween-inspired Storytime, we’ll head upstairs to trick-or-treat on the main floor! Costumes are encouraged. Recommended for children ages 5 and under. No registration required.

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Understanding Medicare and Your Options

This is a hybrid event. Join us in person in the Mayer Room or online via Zoom. No registration required. To attend via Zoom, click here. Medicare is an essential program […]

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CANCELED: U.S. Senate Candidate Forum

This event has been canceled. Read more about why from NHPR. Join us for a U.S. Senate candidate forum hosted by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) in partnership with the […]

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Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants, indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court worked. This talk took place at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH, on October 20, 2026, and was co-sponsored by the Howe Library and the Hanover Historical Society. Margo Burns is the 10th-generation great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged in Salem in 1692 on the charge of witchcraft. She is the project manager and an associate editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press.
The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us
Artist Corey Burchman discussed his work and exhibit, “The Poetry of Color”, on display in the Ledyard Gallery at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH from October 31st through December 30th, 2026. More information about the Global Children’s Art Programme can be found on their website: https://glocap.org/
Ledyard Gallery Interview - Corey Burchman
Author, fortune teller, and cultural educator Jezmina Von Thiele talks about her recent book, Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, co-authored with Paulina Stevens. She offers an introduction to the Roma, an Indian diaspora people more commonly known by the slur/misnomer “Gypsies", and shares what it’s like growing up in a fortune telling family and being raised to do this work. This program took place on September 22nd, 2026 at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH.
Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling: A Conversation with Author Jezmina Von Thiele
Justin Strauss, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, guides us through the earliest evidence for animals in the fossil record and what hypotheses exist for driving early animal evolution. In addition to this historical narrative, Professor Strauss will also take us along for a ride into his research in the remote mountains of northwestern Canada, where the search for these fossils also happens to be in the some of the last vestiges of wilderness on our planet.
Searching for the Oldest Animal Fossils
Ashley Offill, Curator of Collections, Hood Museum of Art, explores the instrumental role of archeology in forming many early museum collections, and the legacies and lessons of archaeological objects in the modern museum. This talk is in dialogue with the Hood Museum exhibitions Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean and From Mastodon to Mosaic: Building an Academic Art Collection in America. This talk took place at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH, on July 29, 2026.
Excavations and Exhibitions: Digging into Archeology and the Art Museum
Russ Cohen, naturalist and wild foods enthusiast, grew up in Weston, Mass, where he spent much of his free time in the woods, thereby cultivating a strong spiritual connection to nature. He received his bachelor's degree in land use planning from Vassar College in 1978, and received a masters in Natural Resources and a law degree from The Ohio State University in 1982. Until retiring from state service, Russ was employed by the Riverways Program (now part of the Division of Ecological Restoration) of the Mass. Department of Fish and Game since 1988, and served as its Rivers Advocate from 1992 until June of 2015. Other past employers have included the Nature Conservancy, the Land Trust Alliance, The Hillside Trust, a land trust in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. This program was cosponsored by Howe Library and the Hanover Conservancy. https://www.hanoverconservancy.org/
Edible Plants
Chelsea Hanrahan, volunteer investigative genetic genealogist with the DNA Doe Project, presents on how genealogists use DNA research to assist law enforcement, shares real-life case examples, and discusses ways the public can contribute to this important work. Since 2021, Hanrahan has combined her lifelong interests in genealogy and true crime through her work in investigative genetic genealogy. In addition to volunteering with the DNA Doe Project, she serves as a researcher for the New England-based podcast Murder, She Told and works with the F.A.I.R. Lab at the University of New Hampshire to support forensic anthropology research and public education efforts surrounding genetic genealogy. This talk took place at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH on July 7th, 2026.
Investigative Genetic Genealogy and the DNA Doe Project: A Crash Course
Anthropologist Laura Ogden discusses the ongoing legacy of Charles Darwin in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile, with particular focus on the ways Darwin’s depictions of Indigenous people in the region continues to shape the present. Her talk is based on a decade of research in the region, including collaborations with ranchers, conservation organizations, and the Yagán Indigenous community. This talk took place at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH, on May 7, 2026. Laura Ogden is Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her current book project, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, is called 'The Book of Birds: A Memoir of Extinction,' and explores our obligations to species threatened with extinction.
Darwin, Colonialism, and the Lost Tribes of the Fuegian Archipelago

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