Tag: Madbury Public Library

• July so far: Good Trouble in the Summertime

  22 July 2025 I’m was up this morning far earlier than accustomed for this retiree, as Levi Ellis and his painting crew arrived at 8 am to restore my shower and apse ceilings and our big deck to their original pristine state.  And it’s unusually cool for mid-July in New Hampshire, a welcome reprieve from…

  georgeannmurphy

  July 22, 2025

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  Brian Chu, Easthampton MA, Ellis Painting Company, Fourth of July, Good Trouble Protest, independence-day, John Lewis, Madbury Public Library, MC Perkins Cove, New Horizons Band, Ogunquit Playhouse, Oxbow Gallery, Southern NH Ukelele Group, summer, The Bear

• Norm erosion

  9 June 2024 With meteorological summer entering its third week, the nights continue to grow longer, the grass grows faster, and the time for seasonal repairs and cleaning is at hand.  This past week I also attended the New Hampshire Library Association Trustees conference in Concord, heard internationally known digital services librarian and consultant Nick…

  georgeannmurphy

  June 9, 2024

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  Boston Public Library, decay of decorum, Kittery ME, Madbury Public Library, Mark Shanahan Boston Globe, New Castle Common, New Hampshire Library Trustees Association conference, Nick Tanzi, norm erosion, Placework Architects, Portland Museum of Art controversy, Wood Island Lifesaving Station

• October Miscellany: The Helpers

  23 October 2023 As my birth month draws to a close, I can report I’ve enjoyed weeks crowded with happy personal incident.  And so, Dear Readers, as I suggested last post, it’s the helpers I catalog here, turning away quite deliberately from the horrors of the 24-hour news cycle. Here they are, in chronological order:…

  georgeannmurphy

  October 23, 2023

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  dendrochronologists, Dr. H. Jack Myers, FAT HAM, Great Bay NH, Heather Cox Richardson, Madbury Public Library, Shakespeare, Susan Sinnott, Wagon Hill, Wells Reserve ME, Wentworth Nursery