The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 in New York.
Entries Tagged as 'City Library'
August is Inventors Month
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, local history
This August be sure to honor New Hampshire inventors: eat your lunch out of a tupperware container using a spork while riding on your Segway!
Tags: Dean Kamen·Earl Silas Tupper·George Laramy·globe·inventions·new hampshire·Segway·spork·tupperware
Introduction to the Internet Class
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · City Library, Computer Classes, Events, Main Branch, Technology
Don’t know how to use the Internet? Come on in and learn by taking our basic “Introduction to the Internet” class.
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Computer Class: Ebsco Database
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · City Library, Computer Classes, Events, Main Branch, Technology
Database Computer Class: come learn about the depth of research tools available to library patrons online Monday August 23rd at 6:30 PM.
Tags: academic journals·America's News Magazines·American History Online·Business and Company Resource Center·car repair manuals·Computer Class·current events·databases·Ebsco·genealogy·Issues & controversies·magazine articles·Manchester City Library·New Hampshire Newspapers·New Hampshire Sunday News·New Hampshire Union Leader·Novelist·Novelist K-8·Reference USA·Science Online·SIRS Knowledge Source·Winchell Room
Mirthquake Silent Film Festival
August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · City Library, Events, Main Branch, Movies
Mirthquake Silent Film Festival is now showing in select locations around New Hampshire and we’re lucky enough to be one of those locales! Come on in and experience Mirthquake first hand.
Tags: "Kids Boots"·16mm screenings·Burton Holmes·Buster keaton·Clara Bow·Cole Johnson·early sound cartoons·Eddie Cantor·Educational Comedy Shorts·Lloyd Hamilton·Mirthquake·Natalie Kingston·new hampshire·Patsy Kelly·Ray McKee·Riley the Cop·silent films·Silent Travelogues·Thelma Todd·Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly Shorts·Three Ages with Buster Keaton
What a summer!
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Ages 0-2, Ages 2-3, Ages 4-5, Ages 6-13, Children, City Library, Events, Friends of the West Manchester Community Library, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-12, Grades K-2, Main Branch, Summer Reading Program, Teens, Uncategorized, West Branch
You didn’t even have to swim to Make a Splash at the Manchester City Library this summer. Children and teens alike participated in our annual summer reading program. The theme for children, pre-school to fifth grade was Make a Splash-Read! This summer we saw a huge increase in participation with 414 children with over half [...]
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Summer Stars
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library
The Perseid meteor shower has been observed by mankind for almost two thousand years.
Tags: astronomy·Carl Sandburg·meteor showers·Perseids·poetry·Swift-Tuttle comet
August Gardening
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, City Library
Gardeners who find it too uncomfortable to work outside may enjoy staying inside with some of our gardening books.
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Catch a Wave! Make a Splash! Read about New Hampshire!
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, NH Room, local history
Take a break from your usual summer fare and read up on some local history.
Tags: Books·Eric Jones·Fritz Wetherbee·Grace Holbrook Blood·history·John Clayton·local history·new hampshire·New Hampshire Room·Rebecca Rule·Tamara K. Hareven·Thomas D'Agostino
Computer Classes
July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · City Library, Computer Classes, Events, Main Branch, News, Technology
The Winchell room will never be the same again: we are pleased to announce a complete series of computer classes!
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