Friday, October 7th Events

1. Opportunity for 12-18 year olds

Time: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Place: Keene Public Library, 60 Winter st., Keene, NH
Price: Free

Do you like coming to the library? Do you want to have a voice about the programs that we offer? Then join the Teen Advisory Group. 

The Keene Public Library is looking for teens interested in joining its Teen Advisory Group’s (TAG) programming and publicity team.  These TAG meetings are for anyone ages 12 – 18 to help organize programs, activities, and services at the Keene Public Library.  These programs could include, but are not limited to, a Halloween Party, Talent Shows, Trivia Contests and other fun activities.  Members might write reviews of books, music or films; help plan library programs; suggest some weblinks; identify local teen artists or writers to feature in the library’s Teen Zine; and promote the library in the community. Teens will also help plan library programs and new teen spaces and initiate podcast and video productions. These meetings allow the youth of the library to voice their opinion and really have their hands in the programs that the library puts offers the community.

2.Family Dance at the Library

Time: 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Place: Keene Public Library, 60 Winters St., Keene, NH

Price: Free

Join us for a fun family dance with Andy Davis of Dancing Masters.

The Keene Public Library hosts a monthly free family dance for children and audults of all ages and abilities. Family Dances started at the Keene Public Library in the summer of 2003. Over the years, the series has become an important library program that helps to develop early literacy skills and is fun too. Folk dancing helps to encourage the basic concepts of rhythm, repetition, sequencing, patterning, predictability, anticipation, musical cues, auditory discrimination, and counting. These are all important early learning skills.  Traditional dance also is a great way to introduce children to the world’s rich diversity, to teach the enjoyment of dance, music, and rhythm and to begin a livelong habit of the social enjoyment and physical activity of dancing.

3. Candelight Open House at Horatio Museum & Wyman Tavern

Time: 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Place: Wyman Tavern 339 Main st., Keene, NH/Horatio Colony 199 Main St., Keene, NH

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A Candlelight Open House of the Wyman Tavern Museum and the Horatio Colony Museum will be held October 7th. Come and feel the warmth and charm of these two historic structures as they might have been 200 years ago. This collaborative open house is free and open to the public. Two blocks apart, the museums are walking distance from each other. For more details, contact HSCC at hscc@hsccnh.org or 603-352-1895.

4. Lissa Schneckenburger in Concert

Time: 8:00 PM

Place: Nelson Town Hall, Nelson, NH (about 11 miles from Keene)

Price: $12/$9 (senior, youth and advance internet)

World class fiddler and local hero Lissa Schneckenburger with Boston based guitarist Bethany Waickman come to the Nelson Town Hall on Friday, October 7 for an 8 PM concert. 

The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new.

5. Nobody Left Inside: Hikes with babies

Time: 10:00 AM-Noon

Place: Harris Center, 83 King's Highway, Hancock, NH (20.93 miles from Keene)
Price: Free

Join veteran Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol Faber and her baby on a hike from the Harris Center for all those still small enough to see the world from frontpacks or backpacks. Enjoy the morning as a great way to get out into nature with your youngest naturalist, along with other parents with very young children. 10 a.m. at the Harris Center. 

6. Galileo: The Man and his Discoveries 

Time: 7:00 PM
Place: McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive, Concord, NH (55.46 miles from Keene)
Price: Free with admission (get free admission)

Join amateur astronomer and Discovery Center Educator Matt Amar as he unveils the persona of Galileo Galilee and reveals little known facts about the man and his ambitions. Using the Discovery Center’s state-of-the-art digital theater, Matt will take you on a virtual tour of the Sun, Moon, Venus and Jupiter. Discover how telescopic observation of these four objects changed how we look at the universe forever. Then visit the observatory for a live telescopic view of Jupiter, the Galilean Moons, and other night sky jewels!

7. Film "In the Footsteps of Marco Polo"

Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Marisposa Museum, 26 Main st., Peterborough, NH (20 miles from Keene)
Price: Free

On First Friday, October 7th the Mariposa Museum will show the Emmy nominated film In the Footsteps of Marco Polo. The film which premiered on PBS in 2008 was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Art & Cultural Programming for that year. It was made available to the Mariposa by co-creator, photographer Denis Belliveau. Many people have big dreams, but only a few bold adventurers live them. Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell took a wild idea retrace Marco Polo's entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back and spent two incredible years of their lives making their dream a reality.