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October Events with HPL!
Join us for a library program this October! We have in-person programming in the auditorium, hybrid programs, and virtual programs!
Masks are currently required in the library. To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Check out our online calendar for the latest updates.
Also, follow our social media pages for additional updates and content from the library:
Facebook: facebook.com/HaverhillPublicLibrary
Twitter: @haverhillpl
Instagram: instagram.com/hplma
Youtube: youtube.com/haverhillpl
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Papercraft Workshop
Monday, October 4 at 6:00 PM
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A card making and paper crafting class for beginners as well as those with stamping and papercrafting experience. Led by Ruth Tinkham.
We will be creating projects such as multi layered cards, bookmarks and 3-D Items, using several techniques including stamping, die cutting, and embossing.
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Annawon Weeden: Understanding Indigenous Culture - Virtual
Thursday, October 7 at 7:00 PM
Courageous Conversations presents an online evening with Annawon Weeden, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.
Annawon will share and discuss Native American history in New England, cultural identity, contemporary lifeways and cultural appropriation. Born & raised on the Narragansett Tribal reservation in Charlestown, Rhode Island, Annawon eventually made his home in his mother’s Wampanoag community in Mashpee, MA.
Annawon began sharing the culture of his tribes at a young age. As an adult, Annawon's passion for preserving the culture has been clear throughout decades spent working at Plimoth Plantation and Boston Children’s Museum. In October 2016, he received a Congressional honor as Culture Bearer for the entire New England region.
Currently self-employed, Annawon dedicates much of his time to visiting colleges, museums, libraries, corporations and more, as he continues his efforts to correct misinformation and misrepresentation of indigenous people. His ability to share his tribal culture has been sought after by institutions such as the Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scholastic, PBS, the History/Discovery Channel, Nike, Harvard and many other corporate, educational and environmental organizations.
Join us to honor Indigenous People’s Day and take the opportunity to share in the Q&A during this informative evening.
This program is a collaboration of Courageous Conversations, Memorial Hall Library, Chelmsford Public Library, Haverhill Public Library, Stevens Memorial Library and Tewksbury Public Library.
Please click here or call 978-373-1586, x608 register. You will receive a Zoom link via email.
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Dividing and Transplanting Perennials
Tuesday, October 12 at 6:30 PM
Learn the indicators for perennial plant division, which plants require regular separation, and the best times to split and transplant. Tools of the trade and methods of division will be covered with live demonstrations during the active growing season. Hosted in collaboration with the Haverhill Garden Club.
About the Speaker:
Suzanne Mahler has been sharing her passion for gardening for more than 30 years, having spoken at the Boston, Rhode Island, and New England Spring Flower Shows, Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Environmental Protection Agency, and garden clubs and organizations throughout the New England area.
She is past President of the New England Daylily Society, an Overseer for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and works part-time at a local garden center.
Suzanne has been developing her acre property for 40 years and is an avid plant collector with extensive collections of woody plants and perennials including more than 300 daylily cultivars and 250 varieties of hostas.
https://www.suzannemahler.com/
This is a hybrid program. It will take place in the auditorium, with a Zoom stream available to offsite attendees. Please select to indicate whether you will be attending in person or virtually when registering.
To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Haunted Haverhill
Thursday, October 14 at 7:00 PM
Tom Spitalere of the Essex County Ghost Project will present Haunted Haverhill in the Johnson Auditorium on Thursday, October 14 at 7:00pm. Learn about some of the haunted spots in Haverhill! This talk will have a heavy Whittier/Whittierland presence.
Part of the Perplexing Paranormal series.
This is a hybrid program. It will take place in the auditorium, with a Zoom stream available to offsite attendees. Please select to indicate whether you will be attending in person or virtually when registering.
To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Advanced Retirement Planning Strategies
Wednesday, October 20 at 1:30 PM and 6:30 PM
Steve Pessotti, Local retirement planner and guest speaker from SOFA (The Society for Financial Awareness) will present an educational workshop on Advanced Retirement Planning Strategies at Haverhill Public Library on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 from 1:30-3pm OR 6:30-8pm.
For the Advanced Retirement Planning Strategies workshop, attendees will learn about:
· Estate Planning- Wills vs. Trusts- Learn how to avoid Probate.*
· Ancillary Documents-Learn about Durable Power of Attorney, HIPPA compliant Medical Power of Attorney, Health Care Proxy and Pour-over Will.*
· Life Estates- Learn how to protect your real estate from Nursing Home liens.*
· Nursing Home/Medicaid Rules- Learn about 5 year look back and asset limitations for Single and Married taxpayers. *
· Getting Fiscally Fit-Learn how to create lifetime income streams for ongoing cash flow.
· Financial Blunders-Learn how to preserve and protect assets against risk.
· Lump Sum vs. Pension Income Payouts- Learn about the benefits and disadvantages of distributions.
· Social Security- Learn about the major changes.
*Disclaimer: This is an educational workshop. We are not attorneys and we are not providing legal advice.
To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Behind the Paranormal: Everything You Know is Wrong
Thursday, October 21 at 7:00 PM
Join 50+ year supernatural adventurer, author and broadcaster Paul Eno for a journey through the paranormal from prehistory to the planets and our future, with bizarre cases of ghosts, poltergeists, demons, cryptids, UFOs, and other mind-wrenching phenomena he and his son Ben have experienced personally. As seen on the Travel and History Channels, this world-famous father-and-son team have revealed bizarre connections not only between seemingly unrelated occurrences but also between the paranormal and our everyday lives, the history of our species, and our possible future as a race. Meet inter-world parasites that might be farming your family or community, encounter disappearing buildings, and ghosts of people who aren't dead. Push the boundaries as you find out what the Bible and other ancient documents might really mean, and what UFOs, invisible friends, and those footsteps in the attic could really be. Welcome to the multiverse, where explaining the paranormal is not the problem. It's handling the explanations. Everything you know is wrong.
Part of the Perplexing Paranormal series.
This is a hybrid program. It will take place in the auditorium, with a Zoom stream available to offsite attendees. Please select to indicate whether you will be attending in person or virtually when registering.
To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Basics of Gmail
Wednesday, October 27 at 2:00 PM
Join us for an introductory class on Gmail, the Google email service. We'll go over setting up an account, writing an email, navigating your inbox, managing messages, and more!
This program will take place in the computer lab on the second floor of the library.
To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Trivia Night: Halloween Edition!
Thursday, October 28th at 6:30 PM
Join us at the library for a fun night of trivia! This game will be Halloween themed, so bring your knowledge of all things spooky! The winning team will win a Halloween gift bag!
This is a hybrid program. It will take place in the auditorium, with a Zoom stream available to offsite attendees. Please select to indicate whether you will be attending in person or virtually when registering.
To protect patrons and staff, we will require masks for all indoor programs. Masks are required for all patrons aged 2 or older, regardless of vaccination status.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Crafting Corner: DIY Velvet Pumpkins!
Pick up kits between Monday, October 25th and Friday, October 29th
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Make your own velvet pumpkins! Register here to reserve your kit, pick up your kit from the library, and go to our website to follow an instructional video made by HPL staff to put it all together!
You can pick-up your kit starting Monday, October 25th. The last day to pick up is Friday, October 29th. Please call the library at 978-373-1586, x608 to arrange a curbside pick-up.
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Virtual Tabletop Guild
Saturday, October 30 at 2:00 PM
An ancient darkness is on the rise as the Virtual Tabletop Guild continues the Age of Ashes campaign for Pathfinder 2nd Edition!
Nestled in the foothills of the Five Kings Mountains, the quaint town of Breachill has a proud tradition of assembling groups of adventurers to handle tasks beyond the skill and scope of their humble guardsmen. When during this month's Call for Heroes a humble goblin scholar beseeches the town council to investigate the signals for help from an abandonned Hellknight citadel, will our adventurers be up for the task? What strange creatures and bygone mysteries will they find hidden beneath Hellknight Hill?
Participants may create their own 1st level characters for Pathfinder 2nd edition to play as, or use available pregenerated characters. If you have any questions about this process or the system, feel free to send me an email!
The meeting will be conducted virtually via Discord and the Foundry virtual tabletop program.
--For Adults (18+) only.
Registration is required. A link to the Foundry game will be sent at least 15 minutes prior to event start time.
Registrants must have a stable internet connection, a microphone (integrated, external, or headset) and headphones/earbuds.
If you are interested in this program but are unable to attend, I would like to hear from you! Please send me an email at mvalenzuela@haverhillpl.org with any questions or concerns regarding program scheduling and/or content.
Please visit haverhillpl.org or call 978-373-1586, x608 to register.
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Hallow-Read Around the World
October 1-October 31 in Beanstack
Join the Hallow-Read Around the World Challenge on Beanstack.
Spooky season is upon us! In the U.S., Halloween is a holiday full of merrymaking, magic, and mischief. Many cultures celebrate life and death through rituals and celebrations with their communities. Learn about the origins and practices of various Halloween-like traditions around the world. Read all month long and complete activities to earn badges.
Visit haverhillpl.beanstack.org to get started!
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