KENSINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Treasures of the Gardner Museum: A Journey Through Art and History presented by Jane Oneail (virtual)
2025-04-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Jane Oneail returns to KPL for another wonderful, informative zoom talk on art.
This one will be The Treasures of the Gardner Museum: A Journey Through Art and History.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston houses an exquisite collection of art spanning centuries and cultures, all displayed in a stunning Venetian-style palazzo.
This program offers visitors a glimpse into the fascinating world of Isabella Stewart Gardner, an eccentric patron of the arts who carefully curated every aspect of her eclectic museum. From masterpieces by Rembrandt and Titian to delicate textiles and precious works on paper, the Gardner Museum invites you to explore a captivating blend of art, history, and one woman’s extraordinary vision.
Link To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9Y2u4AOdTHu2zvSUVirLvg

Mah Jongg Club
2025-04-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-08 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)

Story Time
2025-04-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-08 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for Story Time! Each week we explore a different theme through stories, songs, games, and a craft, followed by playtime.

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.

Jane Oneail: Rhythm and Hues: The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy (virtual)
2025-02-12 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
This is the first of four virtual presentations by Jane Oneail in 2025.
The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural explosion in the 1920s, saw African American artists challenge stereotypes and celebrate their heritage. From the poetic simplicity of Jacob Lawrence to the cosmopolitan portrait photographs of James Van Der Zee, this era produced works that continue to resonate today. Discover the visionaries who gave voice to the African American experience and forever changed the landscape of American culture.

Book Club: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2025-01-29 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?
Book club will meet on Tuesday, January 28th @ 6:30 PM at KPL and Wednesday, January 29th @ 12 noon at Eastman’s Corner.

Santa Party
2024-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Join us for our annual Holiday Party at the library.
We will have stories, cocoa, cookies and, of course, Santa!

Needle Felting Workshop
2024-11-23 11:00 - 13:00 UTC
Julie Cyr returns to the library for another needle felting workshop for teens and adults.
This class is limited to 12 participants so please let us know if you would like to sign up!

Michael Tougias: Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds (virtual)
2024-11-20 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Michael Tougias: Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds
New York Times bestselling author Michael J. Tougias chronicles harrowing survival stories and discusses the lessons learned. Tougias has interviewed over 100 people who survived against all odds and researched many historical figures who have achieved the near impossible. He supplements their stories with a handful of first-person accounts from some of the toughest survivors in history, including John McCain, Mary Rowlandson (captive during King Philip’s Indian War), Howard Blackburn, Captain Bligh, Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, mountain man Hugh Glass, Admiral Byrd, Shackleton, WWII pilot James Whittaker, Teddy Roosevelt, USS Indianapolis survivors, and many more from mountain climbers to early explorers of the new world.
Please call or email the library if you would like to attend this virtual event.

Book Club: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
2024-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
Book club will meet on Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30PM at the library and on Wednesday, November 20th at 12 noon at Eastman’s corner.

Book Club: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
2024-11-19 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH, 03833, United States

Dan Billin: Last of the Granite State Rattlesnakes
2024-11-17 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, NH, 03833, United States
Dan Billin: Last of the Granite State Rattlesnakes

Rattlesnakes were so common in colonial-era New Hampshire that dozens of places were named for them, ranging from the Massachusetts border to the White Mountains. They were so abundant some settlers could pay their property taxes with the bounties offered for killing them. Today, however, Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake, is the state’s rarest native animal—only a handful are known to survive. State law protects them now, but that may not be enough to save them. Wildlife biologists have predicted this tiny remnant will die out without extraordinary intervention.
This event will be held in-person at the library.

Jane Oneail: Rembrandt & Vermeer: Masters of the Dutch Baroque (virtual)
2024-11-13 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Join us virtually for another one of Jane Oneail’s wonderful presentations:
The Dutch Golden Age of Painting was ushered in by a prosperous middle class and a new demand for images like still-lifes, portraits and genre scenes. The undisputed masters of the era were Rembrandt and Vermeer. This program provides an overview of the artists’ careers and an introduction to some of their most famous works.
We have a new way to sign up for this event. Just click on the link and register.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduqpqjMqHdZ3Y5FLuts4hoi3qWsBwjpK

A Dramatic Recital of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe with Jeffrey Zygmont
2024-10-23 17:30 - 19:00 UTC
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
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.
