What is a Community Read?
A community read is a shared reading experience where members of the community all read and discuss one book. The Great North Woods Community Read connects members from the areas of Gorham, Berlin, and Randolph through the Public Libraries and the White Mountain Community College.
2024 Fall Community Read
American Eclipse by David Baron
This Summer join us in reading American Eclipse by David Baron for our community read. A community read is a shared reading experience where members of the community all read and discuss one book. The Great North Woods Community Read connects members from the areas of Gorham, Berlin, and Randolph through the Public Libraries and the White Mountain Community College.
In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another – an adventuresome female astronomer – fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.
Events/Important Dates:
- Gorham Book Discussion Meeting August 28th, 2024 @ 6:30PM
- Author Talk October 9th, 2024 @ 6:00PM
- Attend in Person at White Mountain Community College 2020 Riverside Drive, Berlin, NH, 03570
- Register via Zoom wmcc.edu/library-events/
2023 Fall Community Read
A Deep Presence by Robert G. Goodby
Join us as we go almost 13,000 years back in time to join a small groups of Paleoindians as they endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire.
Learn about the remarkable story of Native Americans in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, part of the traditional homeland of the Abenaki people. From the Tenant Swamp Site in Keene, with the remains of the oldest known dwellings in New England, to the 4,000-year-old Swanzey Fish Dam still visible in the Ashuelot River, A Deep Presence tells their story in a narrative fashion, drawing on the author’s thirty years of fieldwork and presenting compelling evidence from archaeology, written history, and the living traditions of today’s Abenaki people.
Events/Important Dates:
- September 20th, 2023 6:30 PM Book Discussion at the Gorham Public Library
October 4th, 2023 6:00PM Author Talk with Dr. Robert Goodby.
A little about the author: Robert Goodby is Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University. He earned his PhD in anthropology from Brown University and has over thirty years of experience excavating Native American archaeological sites in New England. He is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society, a former Trustee of the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, and served on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. Visit his website at monadarch.com.
Find out more at the author talk. Join via Zoom, or attend the watch party at WMCC in Berlin.
Join Via Zoom
Attend a watch party @ White Mountain Community College.