You can’t Google this
We paired NHTI student Cameron Buker with library technical guru Kevin French for a database showdown. Cameron tried tracking down information on Google while Kevin used one of the library’s subscription databases. Guess who won? Yeah, it was Kevin, by a landslide. But Cameron came away with a fresh perspective on reliable searching techniques. ***** Goodbye Google. No more fruitless searches for a query on “how to properly manicure...
events at gibson’s
Local fantasy author talk NH fantasy author Jacquelyn Benson visits Gibson’s Bookstore for the first time to present her new book, The Tomb of the Sun King, the sequel to the action-packed historical fantasy Empire of Shadows, on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 6:30 p.m. Benson will be in conversation with her audiobook narrator, Alex Picard. Local horror author showcase Gibson’s Bookstore is blessed (or haunted?) to have a wealth of horror...
Join renowned poets for workshops
Two inspiring poetry workshops are offered this fall at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen. The workshops are for adults and students ages 16 and older, open to beginning and continuing students. Registrations are now being accepted online on the Twiggs Gallery website, twiggsgallery.org or in person. Poet and author, Ala Khaki will lead a daylong workshop, “Poet as an Unacknowledged Legislator of the World” on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 10 a.m....
Center for the Arts Weekend kicks off in July
The Center for the Arts (CFA) is collaborating with businesses and organizations in Sunapee Harbor around its popular Arts in the Harbor and Naturally New England Arts Exhibit and Crafters Show, which has run for almost five years. The Center for the Arts supports, promotes, and connects the literary, performance, and visual artists of all ages in the popular vacation region of Lake Sunapee. This summer, the CFA is working in...
This week in Concord history
Dec. 28, 1863: Henry Plummer Brooks, a Pittsfield boy of 14 years 10 months, enlists in the Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. After fighting in two battles, he will die of illness in North Carolina. A history of the town’s Civil War soldiers will assert that although there were younger drummer boys during the war, Plummer was the youngest by 10 months of any soldier who carried a rifle. Thus the town will claim both...
