Kittens!

Meghan brought their three 6-week old little kittens to the library again. They tuckered themselves out playing, then slept on her lap while she worked on the computer for a long while. They are keeping the one Meghan has her hand on and the two others will go to their new homes around Thanksgiving. Kitten visitors brighten our day. Thanks for coming, you little cuties!

A bunch of turkeys at story time

Here are today's story time kids - Connor, Kyle, Jack & Anya - with the turkeys they made during craft time.

Three little kittens

The Davis girls brought their three 4-week-old kittens to the library on Saturday in the middle of a Nor'easter and that brightened everyone's day! The kittens had just learned to walk and their hindquarters were wobbly and kept splaying out. You could see they wanted to play, but couldn't get their bodies to cooperate. Judy has picked one out to adopt when they are old enough.

Judy's cat visits the library

Poor Spooky... he spent many of his early months in a cage in New Orleans (he's a hurricane Katrina orphan) so he wasn't too keen on getting back in his cat carrier when his library visit was over. Here he is pictured with Judy's husband, Bud, and her sister-in-law Margaret.

More Pokemon Club members

Pictured with their favorite Pokemon cards above: Haden chose Ancient Mew because it's the rarest card you could ever get. Audrey chose Squirtle because h'e cute and he's powerful when he evolves. Elizabeth chose Shifty because "he's my strongest." Tucker chose Blaziken who is a Fire Pokemon that's really powerful.

Pokemon fans gather at the library

8 enthusiastic Pokemon collectors gathered last Friday for Pokemon Club. They ate popcorn and checked out each other's collections. No one actually played Pokemon yet. There's plenty of time for that! We're going to have Pokemon Club after school every Friday through the week before Thanksgiving. Pictured above the kids pick their favorite Pokemon cards to be photographed with: Hilary chose Igglybuff because "it's adorable." Liam, the club founder, chose both Aggron ex and Mightyna ex because they a both brave Pokemon, cute, and extremely dangerous. Kyle's favorites are Golem (becasue he's really strong) and Pikachu (because he's cute.) Abram chose Mew because he's cute and Umbreon because he's "so cool." Next post I will show the 4 other Pokemon Club members and their favorite Pokemon.

They've got rhythm

We have so much fun on Wednesdays. Here we are with the rhythm sticks.

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Louie, our official greeter

Here's Bryn saying hello to Louie at the library today.

Scenes from Storytime Fall 2006

Hannah and Andrew enjoy playing together after storytime.

It was Lego-City after storytime last week!

Our puppet creators

Tyler & his grandmother













Tiffany and her puppet looked quite a bit alike!









Cora is a very fashionable pirate.

Arr, it's Captn Shush!

I have received a number of wonderful photos from the parade which I will be posting over the next few days. This is one of my favorites, taken by Jennifer Molin's daughter.

Scenes from Our Book & Bake Sale

Thank you so much to all volunteers, book donors, bakers, and buyers who made our book & bake sale so very, very successful! We set a new record this year: $1100 was made from book & popcorn sales over two days and close to $500 was earned with the bake sale. The painting raffle netted $286.


The table was laden with goodies.














Meghan helped sell raffle tix.











The rain forced us to set up the book and bake sale completely in the barn, but that turned out ok... especially for kids who like puddles.














We found homes for many, many great books.

Raffle winner

The raffle for Peg Scully's watercolor netted $286. The drawing was Friday, August 4th. Peg herself drew the winning ticket: Margery Conrey won the painting. I called her and she came immediately to pick up her prize. Congrats, Margery!

We're Number One! We're Number One!

The pirate puppets that Tyler, Tiffany and Cora made turned out so great! The parade judges thought so too - The Freedom Public Library won a first place trophy! Thanks so much to Paul Mathieu for leading the puppet workshop and to Heidi Glavin who made the gorgeous professional-looking banner and who also helped with the workshop. What would the library do without great volunteers like them?? This is a question I ask myself daily. Thank you!

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Jigsaw fun

Louie the cat is not that good at putting puzzles together but he's excellent at taking them apart. Despite his reputation, Martine & Pim warmly welcome Louie as he walks on the nearly completed puzzle that patrons have been working on for the last few weeks.

Pirates on Parade

Paul Mathieu has been leading a small but dedicated group of puppet-makers in creating some fabulous pirate puppets for the Freedom Old Home Week parade which will be taking place at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 29th.

Storytime kids at the beach

Jassmyn, Cora & Anya water the librarian to help her grow (as if she needs that!) while visiting baby Jordan looks on.

Friday night at the movies

Jack & Tanner were smart & brought their own lounge chairs to Pizza & Movie night at the library Friday. 28 adults and children enjoyed "Muppet Treasure Island" and 11 adults & teens at "Freaks & Geeks" later on that evening. Next week, everyone is invited to see "Freaky Friday." Congratulations to Patty Ferguson and Joel Rhymer (no, it wasn't rigged!!!) for winning this week's Adult Summer Reading program drawing.

Liam picks a winner! Nora acts goofy!

Congratulations to Joyce Silke, the first winner in our Adult Summer Reading Program. Once you register to participate, you fill out a form for each book you read to be entered into a weekly drawing for some great prizes from local businesses. Joyce chose a $10 gift certificate from Lazy Susan's Restaurant and two $5 gift certificates from the Freedom Farm Stand. Many thanks to these businesses for supporting the Freedom Public Library. Thanks also to the Valley Originals Restaurants, A Second Glance Hair Salon, King Pine Ski Area, Mount Washington Hotel, Hartmann Model Railroad Museum, Dana Cunningham and Kevin's Discount Center!

Thomas spins a plate

During question and answer period after Double Vision's performance at the school last week, Thomas told Jody Scalise that he, too, can spin a plate. Jody invited him up on stage to show off his talent. Thomas got a big round of applause!