| LIBRARY LINES (continued)
Sign out
Passes for The Children’s Museum, the McAuliffe Shepard
Discovery Center, and the Currier Museum of Art in
Manchester. Downloadable Audio Books from the NH
Library website
http://nh.lib.overdrive.com
are
available for patrons using your Hill Library card.
Registered borrowers should call 664-2800 for the numerical
password.
The March
13 Movie, Aliens in the
Attic (2009-PG) at 7pm, is a comedy/family movie about kids
defending their vacation home in Maine from knee-high
aliens.
March 15 Poetry Reading and book
signing at 7pm features Susan Robar of Lee, NH,
author of a collection of poems entitled Lost My
Abstract.
“Sue’s poetry delicately weaves the intricacies of life’s
beauty and pain—the physical and the emotional—with
reverence for language, the thread so fragile yet powerful,”
says Marty Young Stratton.
The March 22 Trustee Meeting at 5:30pm is open to
all. Call for transportation: 664-9089.
Discuss Half Broke
Horses by Jeanette Walls
with the Book Club March 25 at 7pm.
The March 27 Movie, G-Force
(2009-PG),
features “…a group of highly trained guinea pigs on their
mission to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the
world,” says a Blockbuster review.
The Hill Library is once again sponsoring a
Certified CPR/First Aid class on Saturday, March
27th, beginning at 9am. Instructor is Rochester Fire
Department Captain Tom Bonneau. The cost for the class is
$50 payable to Captain Bonneau at the time of the class.
Limit: 10 people, so please sign up at the library as soon
as possible.
Book Review
David Halberstam’s last book, The Coldest
War, is one of the most recent about the Korean War of 1950 to
1953. Many books on this subject deal with campaigns or unit
actions but this dwells on underling causes and the effects
of generals and world leaders on the conflict. Thus we can
seeboth the underlying motives and many of the pressures
that affected high-level decision-making. As a child I was
forever hearing about President Truman, Dean Acheson and
others on the radio. Now these and other personalities can
be understood in historical context. This is a truly timely
book to read as our Korean War veterans fade away following
our soldiers of World War II. Author Halberstam brings life
to all major historic figures of this early Cold War period
in such detail that we can understand not only the Korean
War but also many other events of the time. When you lift it
from the book’s transparent jacket and open it so you see
the spine and both covers, you have a black and white photo
of a line of G.I.s and vehicles on the road away from the
Yalu River area. This photo by David Douglas Duncan aptly
captures the spirit of that 1950 winter.
Comment by summer resident: “You people do
many good things for this town.” |
