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Library Summer Forum | Norman Barres | Helping People Help Themselves

By ADMIN |

[ July 29, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] AN ORDINARY MAN WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY DESIRE TO HELP PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES

The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library
Summer Lecture Series
At the Nelson Town Hall
Gather after 6:30, listen to live music.
Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time)
Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library.

The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each [...]

Published on June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Community Gathering, Cultural, Educational, Library |
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Library Summer Forum | Mike French | The Blackbird Spyplane: An Eyewitness Account

By ADMIN |

[ July 22, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library
Summer Lecture Series
At the Nelson Town Hall
Gather after 6:30, listen to live music.
Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time)
Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library.

The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each speaker is from (or strongly connected to) Nelson, and brings unique [...]

Published on June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Community Gathering, Cultural, Educational, Food, Library |
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Library Summer Forum | Frankie Brackley Tolman and Harvey Tolman | The Story of Cape Breton Music

By ADMIN |

[ July 15, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library
Summer Lecture Series
At the Nelson Town Hall
Gather after 6:30, listen to live music.
Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time)
Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library.

The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each speaker is from (or strongly connected to) Nelson, and brings unique [...]

Published on June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Community Gathering, Cultural, Educational, Library |
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Library Summer Forum | Jeff Littleton | Wildlife Habitats of Nelson

By ADMIN |

[ July 8, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library
Summer Lecture Series
At the Nelson Town Hall
Gather after 6:30, listen to live music.
Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time)
Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library.

The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each speaker is from (or strongly connected to) Nelson, and brings unique [...]

Published on June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Community Gathering, Cultural, Educational, Library |
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Open House at

By ADMIN |

[ June 13, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Open House of One Room Schoolhouses and Academies

The Monadnock Historical Societies Forum, or Roundtable Forum, is hosting an open house of many of the remaining one room schoolhouses and academies in the region.  The public is invited to visit each site to learn what it was like to attend school during the 19th and early [...]

Published on May 22nd, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Cultural, Educational, History, Life in Nelson |
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Nelson School Science Fair

By ADMIN |

[ April 29, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ] The 3rd & 4th grade students of Nelson Elementary School will present their Science Fair projects this evening.

Their projects and ideas cover a very broad range of interesting subjects.  Projects will be presented with models, posters, and/or displays.

It begins at 5:30 pm and you are invited to drop by at any time until 7:00 pm [...]

Published on April 15th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Educational, Nelson School |
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By ADMIN |

[ May 17, 2010; 10:30 am; ]

We will be discussing

Here If You Need Me

by

Kate Braestrup

Books may be borrowed from the library

Here If You Need Me is the story of Kate Braestrup’s remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness. It is dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable, an uplifting account [...]

Published on April 7th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Educational, Library | Leave a comment
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Library Book Group

By ADMIN |

[ April 19, 2010; 10:30 am; ] We will discuss My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid

Coming in May

Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Book Discussion

Monday morning, May 17, 2010 at 10:30 am

We will be discussing

Here If You Need Me

by

Kate Braestrup

Books may be borrowed from the library

Here If You Need Me is the story of Kate Braestrup’s remarkable journey from [...]

Published on April 7th, 2010 | Category: Calendar, Educational, Library | Leave a comment
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Fight over Incorporation:

By Rick Church |

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the early history of Nelson. Click here to go to the previous article.
We dont know what our early Nelson forebears looked like, but we can speculate that they might have appeared something like this.
At the proprietor’s meeting in March 1773 the town voted [...]

Published on August 27th, 2009 | Category: Educational, History, Life in Nelson, Rick Church History Articles | Leave a comment
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Nelson History: Early Settlement

By Rick Church |

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the early history of Nelson. Click here to go to the first article.
The task of settling Monadnock Number Six, a town eight by five miles in the middle of the wilderness, must have been daunting.  It would take a strong will to [...]

Published on July 9th, 2009 | Category: Educational, History, Life in Nelson, Rick Church History Articles | Leave a comment