The official site is worth taking a look at.
For those who missed the spectacular opening ceremonies, here are many renditions to choose from.
For news and results, click on Fox, New York Times, USA Olympic Committee, ESPN and many others
For Olympic history in general, here are some kodak moments, and some YouTube moments. For Michael Phelps in particular, click here for videos of his record-breaking performances.
Click here to quiz your Olympic trivia knowledge.
For comic relief, click here.
By Jay
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August 18, 2008 – 11:13 am
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Are you interested in serving on the library’s board from October 1st, 2008 to April 1st, 2009 - to serve the months remaining of a departing board member’s term. You must be a Tamworth resident. The board meets at 7:00 p.m. every second Monday of each month at the library. There is some committee work expected of you as well. If you are interested, please post a comment below this blog post. Your comment will be sent directly to the library director, and kept confidential.
By Jay
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August 13, 2008 – 2:47 pm
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| August 24, 2008 |
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JASMINE LAMB IS A POET, ROSY LAMB A PAINTER will launch their book, Outside the Garden: Poems and Paintings on Sunday, August 24, 2008, 3:00 p.m. at the library. The sisters grew up in rural New Hampshire, moved away, and have come back together for this book, drawing on each other and their childhood for its inspiration.
Outside the Garden is the sisters’ first book. In it, poems and paintings speak to one another on facing pages, and together create a larger portrait of two women, their journeys into adulthood and their love for each other. The book is, in a sense, an act of recognition and memory, a glimpse of their intimacy and lives. Vulnerable, vital and earth-bound by turns, Jasmine Lamb’s poems evoke a girl’s passage to womanhood, her encounter with illness, and her path back to health. The book itself was born out of a period of convalescence, during which Rosy would visit Jasmine and paint her as she slept. As the visits continued, as the sisters baked apples and reminisced, Outside the Garden took shape. Their shared aesthetic vision deepened to produce a work of softness, beauty, and presence.
The authors:
Rosy Lamb has shown her work in the United States, Canada, France and Hong Kong. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and she lives and works in Paris. Jasmine Lamb lives in Vermont, where she gardens, teaches yoga, writes, and works with people through her ListeningArts practice.
By Jay
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August 13, 2008 – 12:10 pm
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Stanley Kunitz was much revered by poets everywhere. He had a way with language and sensibility that was unique. From today’s Writer’s Almanac,
It’s the birthday of the poet Stanley Kunitz, (books by this author) born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905. He attended Harvard University, where he wanted to teach in the English department, but he was told that Anglo-Saxon students wouldn’t want to be taught by a Jew. He said, “That almost broke my heart. And I think in the end it probably did me a great favor because it prevented me from becoming a completely preoccupied scholar.” He went on to work as a farmer, and he served in WWII when his conscientious objector status was denied.
Stanley Kunitz published his first book of poetry when he was 25, called Intellectual Things (1930), and he continued to write and publish for 75 years. In 2000, he published The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz, and that same year he was named poet laureate of the United States, when he was 95 years old, He died at age 100.
Stanley Kunitz said, “Poetry is inseparable from my life force, and that began very early. It was a great gift, and it has sustained me through the years, and the losses that have attended those years.”
He said, “The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like the rapture breaking through on the mind.”
And, “Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.”
By Jay
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July 30, 2008 – 2:50 pm
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By Jay
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July 28, 2008 – 7:27 pm
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Cover art: watercolor by Marge Kendrick
The Friends of Cook Memorial Library have produced a charming calendar for 2009. In full color, on sturdy coated stock, it features the work in paint, collage, ink, and pencil, of twelve library patrons. Two of them are staff. It celebrates local sights and spirit. Several people, leafing through it, crowed, “It FEELS like Tamworth!”
Folded, they are 7″ x 7″, open they are 7″ x 14″ - small enough to fit into your satchel, sturdy enough to hang on your wall. At only $12 apiece, they are a terrific art bargain, and a great gift and memento of a the area and the library.
They are now available at the library, and this is our very own Shameless Commerce Division proudly announcing its arrival. All proceeds support library doings. You could send a check for $14 ($2 for shipping costs), pay to the order of Friends of Cook Memorial Library, to CML Calendar, 93 Main St., Tamworth, NH 03886, and get one, or $28 for two, and so on…
We thank you in advance. You won’t be disappointed!
By Peggy
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July 16, 2008 – 2:44 pm
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Anita Shreve, the critically acclaimed author of fourteen novels, will present her new book at the Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH on Tuesday, November 18th. Her discussion will be followed by an interview with NPR newscaster, Laura Knoy, host of NHPR’s “The Exchange” Tickets are on sale to the public Saturday, July 19th.
By Jay
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July 12, 2008 – 1:13 pm
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By Jay
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July 9, 2008 – 7:02 pm
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Because of a renewed interest in “all things French”, I’ve been taking a look at our collection of French cookbooks. When I read Au Rue Tatin, it whetted my appetite for more; author Susan Loomis has a blog. So then I took out Julia’s Mastering the Art classic, but her recipes are too fiddly for me. I’m not spending all day making baguettes; I’m just not.
Julie and Julia describes the frustration of trying to cook French when you don’t have any time, don’t have the right equipment and don’t have access to proper ingredients. Published from Julie’s blog a few years ago, this book is funny, and well worth a gander.
If you are interested in current blogs about French cooking, here’s one from a Parisian blog called Chocolate and Zucchini. Here’s another by Sam (English) and Fred (French.) There’s a whole world of recipes out there. Get into that kitchen and get busy!
By Jay
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July 9, 2008 – 6:00 pm
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We have a new little book on the shelf, “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. Pausch is a self-professed geek who grew up to be a professor of things like Creating Virtual Reality. His own reality took a 180 degree turn when he learned he had pancreatic cancer. Has pancreatic cancer. The book, co-written by a Wall Street Journal writer (I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your name…), is the hard-copy version of the real lecture Pausch delivered at Carnegie Mellon, part of a lecture series inspired by the theme: what would you say if it were really your last lecture? He had, he said, the right material.
The book contains 51 small chapters, or essays, or headings. The lecture is visible in its entirety on YouTube. Here is a way to look at things, like life and death, through the clear eyes and experience of an energetic scientist who loves his life, his family, and has made the most of his chance to prepare a veritable last lecture.
By Peggy
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July 1, 2008 – 6:07 pm
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