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Time to put on the shades and enjoy the summer! Our current display at the Conway Public Library compares summer fun then and now.  It begins with a map from x date showing hiking trails in what is now Whitaker Woods. The Conway Public Library's Henney History Room has many historic trail and tourist guides showing long lost summer attractions. For a previous blog on that subject see this link here .  Donald Hall captures a nostalgic look at late 19th century summers in his book Lucy's Summer .  The cover art features an iconic summer picnic.  add cole picnic? popular to have picnic in cemetery  The book also features New Hampshire's old home day celebrations  previous blog here .  fix text under rollins pic x search hhr online calendar yields 38 results here .  summer specific books  x Here are a few with summer specific titles.  x x x x x x A major highlight of the summer season is our Independence Day celebrations.  We are alread...

Greetings from the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room.  Today is World Ocean Day! Time to shell ebrate! In honor of today's event and our upcoming "Oceans of Possibilities" theme for our summer library reading program ... I offer you one of Keith Henney's most unusual books... ...with the intriguing title, "A Hunt for Sea-Going Elephants, 1899-1901."  You can find a link to it in our online catalog here . For more on Keith Henney see our previous blog here .  This book is quite a departure from the many technical and scientific books he wrote on electricity and radio, or his many books on local history. It serves as a good introduction to today's theme.  The purpose of the World Ocean Day is to inform the public of the impact of human actions on the ocean, develop a worldwide movement of citizens for the ocean, and mobilize and unite the world's population on a project for the sustainable management of the world's oceans.  The book...