KENSINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Needle Felted Owls (craft)
2025-11-01 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Kensington Public Library Sawyer Room, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH, 03833, United States
Julie Cyr returns to the library for a fun needle felting activity to make owls.
(class limited to 12)
Please call the library to sign up.

Jeffrey Zygmont presents: Graveyard Sounds Haunting Words by Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson
2025-10-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Kensington Public Library Sawyer Room, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH, 03833, United States
Greet Halloween with delightfully spooky poems and stories by two American masters, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. The recital features gruesome poems in a pounding cadence by Poe, his sinister short story
The Tell-Tale Heart and quietly haunting, eerie and elusive works by Dickinson.
Helpful explanations provided with each of the time-honored works help you fully understand, appreciate and enjoy them. Creepy props enhance the Halloween atmosphere.

Egizia Brown: learn about Italy
2025-05-06 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | NH
Join us and learn about Italy through the eyes of Egizia Brown, the author of Rough Seas and Strange Food: Emigrating from Abruzza to Nova Scotia and From Vico to Porta Nuova and Beyond: Memories of an Abruzzo Childhood.
Besides teaching us about her native country, she will also be bringing Italian cookies.

Ellie Atherton: The Last Phase of Life: Preparation ~ Caregiving ~ Embracing the Mystery
2025-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | NH
Join us for a meaningful conversation and Ellie’s practical guidance on preparing for the final phase of life. This will be a wonderful opportunity to learn from her many years of experience.
Topics will include:

Understanding Advance Directives, Portable DNR, and POLST
When to start planning
Becoming a caregiver
Recognizing the phases – life review, physical changes, last days, death bed visions, and final hours
Having eyes for the mystery and beauty during this sacred time of life

Ellie Atherton, RN, author of Stepping Stones, has been caring for the dying as a hospice nurse since 2003. She has presented a TEDx talk, designed and taught courses, and offers public presentations to enhance knowledge and reduce fears of dying.

Richard Kruppa presents World War II Songs and Stories
2025-03-09 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH, 03833, United States
In an entertaining and informational fashion, Richard Kruppa presents World War II Songs and Stories.
This program, “illustrated” with music, celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.
Exeter’s Kruppa, known musically as “Ramblin’ Richard,” is a member of the New England Foundation for the Arts. He is retired professor who studied Gospel and American folk music, and an active musician who makes more than 300 performances each year. He tells the stories and sings the songs while accompanying himself on guitar, five-string banjo and baritone ukulele. (pix of Richard )

Breeding Season Backyard Birds with Steve Hale
2025-03-05 17:30 UTC | Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH, 03833, United States
This is an engaging and interactive presentation featuring common and likely breeding season birds to any backyard in New England. This presentation offers ID tips, including learning a few birds by their song. Tips on feeding birds to attract the most diversity are also provided. Set up as a bird-quiz, audience members love to test their own knowledge.

A Dramatic Recital of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe with Jeffrey Zygmont
2024-10-23 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | NH
Just in time for Halloween! Jeffrey returns to Kensington Library to do a recital of Poe’s long, spooky poem The Raven, along with a few props that help really bring it to life.
Jeffrey was here last February for an animated talk about Robert Frost.

Becoming Wolf: Eastern Coyotes in New Hampshire
2024-10-16 17:00 - 18:30 UTC | NH
Chris Schadler returns to KPL for a talk on Becoming Wolf: Eastern Coyotes in New Hampshire
Myths surround the coyote and cloud our understanding of it. Originating as the
smaller western coyote, eastern coyotes share genes with the eastern wolf and
Great Lakes Gray Wolf. Its hybrid nature enables its resilience and adaptability to
live in farms, forest, or cities. While livestock are not its natural prey, sheep, goat
and chicken farmers can coexist and even benefit from their presence.
It has rewilded the northeast with its howl and ability to prey on large and small
mammals but despite its ecological benefits, it is the most persecuted carnivore in
North America. And despite human efforts to eradicate it, it survives and thrives
among us.
Chris holds a Masters in Conservation Biology and offers 40 years of
research and specialization in wild canids, particularly the Eastern Wolf
and the Eastern Coyote. Now retired from teaching Conservation,
Dendrology and Wolf Ecology at UNH and Conservation at Granite
​State College, she provides education and presentations throughout New
England.
