The acroterians are back that means the roofing job is done! Thanks to Pat and his crew for their efforts. THANK YOU HENNIKER RESIDENTS for supporting the Tucker Free Library!
June 2018 – Three generations of Tucker Free Library Employees
Bonnie Smiley is pictured with Helene Dermon cutting the cake at the 75th Anniversary of the Tucker Free Library September 23, 1979. Bonnie Smiley was the mother of Margaret Smiley Russell and grandmother of our current employee Hugh Russell. I have always loved books. My parents would bring me to the library when I was growing
April Vacation Week Fun at TFL
The White Birch Vacation Day Camp came to the Tucker Free Library during April Vacation Week. The kids had fun showing Betha Gutsche, representative of OCLC, our new Playground for the Mind! Tucker Free Library was one of 15 libraries in the nation to receive a $5100.00 grant to create a community engagement space. Recognizing that children learn literacy skills
Library Employment Opportunity – CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN
A New 1000 Book Scholar!
A new 1000 Book Scholar! Willa MacCabe is a Reading Superstar! Willa took part in the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, a program that hopes to boost learning potential by encouraging reading to your child. All preschoolers are welcome to take part! Willa gets to take home a bedtime story book of her choice!
May 2018 – LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION CREW
The building thus built, adorned and furnished by many generous friends of the town is free for the use and benefit of the people of the town of Henniker and will be free to them and their children forever. May we all live long to enjoy it together.(1) Bids were to be collected for simply building the library. The grading,
A FUN MORNING AT TUCKER FREE LIBRARY
Tucker Free Library was one of 15 libraries in the nation to receive a $5100.00 grant to create a community engagement space. Recognizing that children learn literacy skills through talking, singing, reading, writing, and play, the library used the funds from this grant to create TFL KIDSpace. This innovative space provides families with children a chance to learn to solve
OUR TOWN, OUR LIBRARY, OUR HISTORY
In the Manchester, NH newspaper dated September 23, 1904, the headline read “HANDSOME GIFT WAS DEDICATED TUCKER FREE LIBRARY NOW IN HANDS OF TRUSTEES, UP TO DATE IN EVERY WAY.” During the morning of September 22m 1904 the library was open for public inspection. Town residents and neighbors visited the library for the first time!…The importance of a library was
January 2018 – GEORGE TUCKER & HENRY MARTYN FRANCIS
When the residents of Henniker voted to accept the gift of George Tucker at the 1903 Town Meeting, they formed not only a Board of Trustees to oversee the operation of the completed library, but also a building committee to steer the planning and construction of the new facility. It has been recounted that the committee toured several different libraries
February 2018 – BENNETTS IN THE SNOW
LIBRARY HISTORY FACTS: Fannie W. Bennett was the librarian from 1921 to 1955. During her time as the librarian, the Tucker Free Library transacted its first INTERSTATE INTERLIBRARY LOAN (1932). Story time was cancelled and the library was closed for a period in 1940 because of Scarlet Fever. In January of 1941 the library was closed at 7PM instead of