Our spice club is a take and make offering. We will feature different spices in future editions
Included is a brochure with different recipes to try and information about the featured spice.
Available while supplies last behind the circulation desk.
Meet at library at 8:45 to find out the walk location
Have you ever thought about foraging for mushrooms but don’t know where to start? Join us for an intro to mushrooms and foraging. We’ll walk and talk about mycelium and mushrooms, and how mushrooms relate to their environment. We’ll talk about the mushrooms we find, and talk about how to look at them and what to look for to help identify them.
Walk is led by Christine Gagnon, a Goffstown resident and certified in Wild Edible Mushrooms through the state of RI. Recently featured on NHPR and on NPR’s Here and Now. Christine has presented to the local Boy and Girl Scouts, leads group walks in NH and MA, and private walks with Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn, and Obama portrait artist Kehinde Wiley.
Funding for the storytelling events is provided by the NH State Council on the Arts as well as funds administered by the NH State Library and provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Artist Statement: Betsy Holmes
https://www.holmesartstudio.com/
Pandemic Lemonade: Painting During COVID
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’. The ongoing Covid experience has been devastating, yet it is often human nature to ‘make the best of a bad situation’. This exhibit is a visual example of my ‘lemonade’, finding beauty in a terrible time.
I am an outdoor/plein air oil painter with a passion for nature – the seasons, weather, light… all of it is inspiration for my work. As a former resident of New Boston and now living on Deering Lake, I’m very fortunate to have this available outside my door. During Covid, I have challenged myself to paint in many ways: to get outdoors everyday in January and do a new painting; to climb in the White Mountains with my gear to capture the spectacular views; to find quite spots all around us where beauty abounds.
As we continue to shape our lives around the changes in public health, climate, and economies the outdoors will continue to give solace. If you have a special place you are willing to share – please let me know so I can try to ‘put it down in paint’.
Artist Biography
Betsy Holmes is an outdoor/plein air oil painter with a passion for nature – the seasons, weather, light… all of it is inspiration for her work. Most of her paintings are from New Hampshire, Vermont and the Adirondacks of New York, painted outside on location.
Betsy is a former resident of New Boston and now resides with her husband Ralph on Deering Lake. She is a volunteer instructor of plein air painting and art history at Granite State College OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute), and is a land steward with the PLC. A former Library Director, Betsy served on the Whipple Free Library Board of Trustees and is still enjoys the programming and collections of WFL as a non-resident borrower.
Space is limited to 8 participants.
To sign up for this class, please email Allison at adultserviceswfl@gmail.com to reserve your space.
There is a suggestion donation of $5 to cover material costs.
Take and Make Craft for Adults
at the Whipple Free Library
Pick up kits at the library while supplies last. Ask for them at the circulation desk.
Meeting will be a hybrid meeting, meaning you can attend in person or via Zoom.
To get on the list for this event, contact Allison at adultserviceswfl@gmail.com
Dec 15th – The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman
January 26th (4th Wed of month) – The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
Future Who Dunnit? Book Club selections
January 8th 2022 – The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson