A Poets' Christmas

Portsmouth's Pontine Theatre will be performing A Poets' Christmas on Thursday, December 2nd at 7:00 PM in the Parish Hall of Trinity Episcopal Church. A Poets' Christmas will feature storytelling, toy theatre, and holiday music. Pontine Theatre's Artistic Directors, Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers have created a special program featuring holiday themed works by three beloved poets. Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales will be brought to life with poetic movement, spirited characterizations, and charming bits of stage magic. A Child's Christmas in Wales is full of colorful aunts and uncles, playmates and adventures, all set in a snowy December long ago and far away.
The centerpiece of the program is a story poem by Ogden Nash, The Christmas That Almost Wasn't. Upon its publication in 1957, the plot of this delightful tale was amusingly summarized in a New York Times review: "Take a rollicking jolly king and his cheering subjects, add an evil nephew, bring it to a boil with other assorted hags and hoodlums, create an inextricable situation, send a boy to extricate, have him meet a bad, bad bird and good little girl and a long-dead saint".
A Poets' Christmas also includes a lively staging of Clement Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas!
Don't miss this charming program!
For more information call the library at 542-7017.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Fiske Free Library.

Thanksgiving Pie Sale

Thanksgiving Pie Sale

We will be having a Thanksgiving Pie Sale on Tuesday, November 23rd in the library from 9:00 AM until the pies are all sold. Whole and half pies will be sold.

If you would like to donate a pie for the sale, please call us at 542-7017 or sign up at the checkout desk.

All proceeds from the sale will support the programs and services of the Fiske Free Library.

David Sussman: "Cosmic Cancer"

On Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM David Sussman will be at the Fiske Free Library to discuss his recently published book titled The Cosmic Cancer: Effects of Human Behavior on Life of our Planet. The book discusses the effect of overpopulation and human behavior on our planet.
David and his wife Claire have worked off and on for many years in developing countries throughout the world, primarily in Latin America. David has been a professor of Mathematics and Engineering, an engineer, and a farmer. In collaboration with a Polish economist his treatise on design of industrial and infrastructure investment projects is due for release in April, 2011.
Before moving to New London several years ago David and Claire were very active in the Charlestown and Claremont communities. Copies of the book are available at Violet's Book Exchange in Claremont.