Tuesday, May 15th Events

Understanding Courage. It's Our World, Too!

Time: 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Place: Keene Public Library, Kay Fox Room, Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: n/a

Participants in this three-part afterschool service project will explore how young people have changed the course of history and affected change in their communities. During the three sessions, young people will learn how they can become more active in our community. And each participant will design and create a mixed media collage based on the theme of courage and community involvement. Artwork will be displayed on city Express buses during the spring and summer. 

Genealogy

Time: 6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Place: Northfield Public Library, Meeting Room, Northfield, MA (about 20 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All

Interested in researching your family history? Here is the place to learn and share tips with others. Everyone welcome.  
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Coffee's On

Time: 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Place: White Church, 55 Main St., Grafton, VT (about 30 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All

Everyone is welcome every Tuesday for coffee, snacks and a good chat. Bring any projects you are working on, or come and learn to knit! Men & women always welcome. Free WIFI.

802-843-1052
graftonevents@gmail.com

This Versus That: An Interactive Nutrition Class

Time: 3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Place: Cheshire Medical Center, 580 Court St., Keene, NH
Price: Free
Ages: Older

Regular salt vs. sea salt. Ground beef vs. ground turkey. Sugar vs. artificial sweeteners. These are just a few of the topics on the agenda for this interactive nutrition class. Come and learn the nutritional profile of these and other commonly controversial foods.

Free and open to the public.

Central Conf Room 6

603-354-5460
commed@cheshire-med.com

www.cheshire-med.com

Sky Watch

Time: 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Place: Wadleigh Memorial Library, 9 Nashua St., Milford, NH (about 37 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All

Brief indoor introduction to stargazing and then outside to view the stars. With N.H. Astronomical Society. Rain date: May 16. Phone: 673-2408

Banjos, Bones & Ballads

Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Wilton Public & Gregg Free Library, 7 Forest Rd., Wilton, NH (about 32 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All

Jeff Warner, folklorist and community scholar with an evening of old new England music. Sponsored by a Humanities to Go grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
Contact: 654-2581

What's special about today?

Pierre Curie's birthday, 1859
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day, 1862
The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia, 1918

National chocolate chip day