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  • Join The Crafty Crew. Fridays from 10 am to noon, North Walpole Branch Library. Join us weekly—or whenever you can—for a fun gathering with fellow crafters. Share ideas, work on your projects, and enjoy some creative time together. Just bring along your current portable craft project and let's get creative!
  • Wiggle Time. Songs, dancing and bubbles. Mondays at 10 am.
  • Caregivers Support Group. Meets the second Tuesday of the month, 2 pm, Main Library.
  • Story Time at the Main Library. Wednesdays at 10 am and 5:30 pm.
  • Walpole Town Library Story Walk at Distant Hill Nature Trail. Open every day, dusk to dawn. New books every month.
  • Did you know that Walpole has organic garden plots with a nominal $25 membership per season? Learn about "No Till" gardening, soil management, share seeds and knowledge, be part of a multi-generational community, and attend special events. Any level of gardening experience is welcome! Join us for a presentation led by the Hooper Institute Director and Walpole Community Garden members. Light refreshments provided.
  • Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 PM Walpole Town Hall, Join us to commemorate and reflect upon the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a film screening and discussion! Together, we’ll watch a short excerpt from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, followed by a community discussion. The featured segment from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, “The Spirit of Service,” explores service as a core American value, from the nation’s founding through to the present day – examining volunteerism, civic participation, public leadership, and more. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Keene State professor, Margaret Mott. Free and open to the public. This event is made possible by New Hampshire Humanties, in partnership with NHPBS, with additional support provided by Dogswell Benevolent Trust. By the People: Conversations Beyond 250 is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
  • Poetry reading, Thursday, April 9 @ 7PM Walpole Town Library. The Walpole Town Library is delighted to host a reading with poets Chard deNiord, Alice Fogel, and Lesle Lewis. Chard deNiord is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Westminster West (2025). He served as poet laureate of Vermont from 2015 to 2019 and taught English and Creative Writing for twenty-two years at Providence College, where is now a Professor Emeritus. Alice B. Fogel (she/her) is the New Hampshire Poet Laureate emerita (2013–2019). She gives talks and workshops for all ages on reading and writing through the New Hampshire Councils on the Arts and the Humanities and works as a professor and one-on-one as an academic coach with neurodiverse students at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont. Her most recent book of poetry, Nothing But: a series of indirect considerations on art & consciousness, was published in 2021. Lesle Lewis’ poetry collections include Small Boat (winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize), Landscapes I & II (2006), lie down too (2011), A Boot’s a Boot (2014), and Rainy Days on the Farm (2019). Her chapbooks published by Factory Hollow Press include It’s Rothko in Winter or Belgium (2012) and Hydrogen (2025). She has two forthcoming collections in 2026.
  • Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 PM Walpole Town Hall. Join us to commemorate and reflect upon the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a film screening and discussion! Together, we’ll watch a short excerpt from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, followed by a community discussion. The featured segment from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, “The Spirit of Service,” explores service as a core American value, from the nation’s founding through to the present day – examining volunteerism, civic participation, public leadership, and more. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Keene State professor, Margaret Mott. Free and open to the public. his event is made possible by New Hampshire Humanties, in partnership with NHPBS, with additional support provided by Dogswell Benevolent Trust. By the People: Conversations Beyond 250 is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

New at the Library!

Love is on the air by jane moore
The healing power of resilience by tara narula
the man from steamtown by james adair
departures by julian barnes
the kids who aren't okay by ross greene
when the world fell silent by donna jones
becoming ghost by cathy linh che
birdwatching in new hampshire by eric masterson
the dark time by nick petrie
vanished in the crowd by rhys bowen
the cozy christmas chocolate shop by caroline roberts
the rise and fall of sadie macqueen by juliet ashton
springtime at cherry tree cottage by cathy woodman
leaving home by mark haddon
bread of angels by patti smith
the bookstore diaries by susan mallery
hygge and kisses by clara christensen
boston 1776 by j. d. dickey
judy blume a life by mark oppenheimer
citizenship by daisy hernandez

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