KENSINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Story Time
2025-05-22 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-20 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-13 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-22 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) and 6 more dates
Join us for Story Time! Each week we explore a different theme through stories, songs, games, and a craft, followed by playtime.

Egizia Brown: learn about Italy
2025-05-06 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
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.

Book Club
2025-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Our April book club will be held at the library on Wednesday, April 30th at 12 noon.
We will be discussing our March book club choice for 30-45 minutes: Transatlantic by Colm McCann and then The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin. “A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself.”

Mah Jongg Club
2025-04-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-22 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-08 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)

Ellie Atherton: The Last Phase of Life: Preparation ~ Caregiving ~ Embracing the Mystery
2025-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
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.

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

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.
