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The Big Read: New Hampshire Reads To Kill a Mockingbird, March 2010
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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for  Thursday, March 18, 2010:

Film: To Kill a Mockingbird, 1:00pm to 3:30pm at Kimball Library, Atkinson.
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird, lead by librarian Ann Myer. 1:00pm to 3:00pm at Hampstead Public Library, Hampstead.
Play Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird. Come join in a play reading of Harper Lee’s [...]

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Thanks to the NH Film & Television office you can see a video on YouTube of the presentation that was part of the Kick-off Reception. These events took place in the courtroom at the NH Supreme Court and were filmed by Concord Community Television.
Part 1 – Atticus Finch Speaks for the Defense
              (Larry Lickteig [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for  Wednesday, March 17, 2010:

Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. 10:00am to 11:30am at Exeter Public Library, Exeter.
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. 10:30am to 12:30pm at Gale Library, Newton.
Film: To Kill a Mockingbird, 11:00am to 1:00pm at Colby Memorial Library, Danville.
Pot Luck Dinner and Book Discussion: To Kill [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for Tuesday, March  16, 2010:

Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. 1:00pm to 3:00pm at Chester Public Library, Chester.
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. Part of a joint book discussion with Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield. 2:00pm to 3:30pm at Meriden Library, Meriden.
Film: To Kill a Mockingbird, 2:00pm to [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for Monday, March 15, 2010:

 Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. 10:00am to 11:30am at Conway Public Library, Conway.
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. 10:30am to 12:00pm at Olivia Rodham Memorial Library, Nelson.
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird, lead by librarian Ann Myer. 7:00pm to 8:30pm at Hampstead Public Library, Hampstead.
Book [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for Sunday, March 14, 2010:

Book Discussion led by Suzanne Brown: To Kill a Mockingbird. Suzanne Brown is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in such national literary magazines as The Yale Review, The Southern Review, and The Indiana Review. Her work has been anthologized in New Stories from the [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for  Saturday, March 13, 2010:

Film: To Kill a Mockingbird, Taking place in the auditorium. 2:00pm to 4:00pm at Keene Public Library, Keene

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for  Friday, March  12, 2010:

Lunchtime Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. Please bring your own lunch and join us for a discussion of this year’s Big Read selection.  We’ll provide coffee, tea and dessert! 12:00pm to 2:00pm at Effingham Public Library, Effingham.
 Atticus Finch Portrayed by Richard Clark. 7:00pm [...]

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Many locations around NH will be showing the film To Kill a Mockingbird this month. The first showing is tonight, March 3rd at 7pm, in Keene.

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for  Thursday, March  11, 2010:

Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. The Morning Book Group at Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Lunchtime Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird. Please join us for a lively discussion led by recently retired English teacher Rhetta Colon.  Bring your own lunch.  We’ll [...]

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Jonathan Cohen and Noelle Poremski get ready to go on the air with Word of Mouth host Virginia Prescott.

Today on NHPR’s Word of Mouth, the whole hour was devoted to a discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird and the role of defense lawyers in society.
Virginia Prescott’s guests for this special edition of Word of Mouth were Center for the Book Advisory Board Chair Eleanor Strang; Professor and Poet Jenn Monroe from Chester College [...]

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The Toadstool Bookshops of Keene, Milford, and Peterborough, NH have, since the first store opened in Peterborough in 1972, been dedicated to providing a fascinating array of books to satisfy the diverse interests of the people of the Monadnock Region.
We join the Big Read in featuring To Kill A Mockingbird in our stores, encouraging everyone [...]

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The Conway Public Library offers community residents of all ages access to information sources, a place to gather, and opportunities for lifelong learning and personal growth.  From childcare outreach services to our annual One Book One Valley program, the Conway Public Library reaches beyond the confines of our facility in order to be an active [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for Wednesday, March  10, 2010:

Film: To Kill a Mockingbird, 10:30am to 12:30pm at Moultonborough Public Library
YA Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird, 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Kimball Library, Atkinson
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird, 6:30pm to 8:00pm at Exeter Public Library
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird, 7:00pm to 9:00pm [...]

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MISSION STATEMENT: To serve the people of Moultonborough as a center of information and to promote knowledge, culture, enjoyment and education for all residents and users of the library.
 The staff of the Moultonborough Public Library is very excited to be a part of the Big Read for 2010. To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic book [...]

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North Hampton Public Library’s mission is to provide resources and services to meet the evolving  informational needs of our Community. We serve a community of about 4700 on the NH seacoast that was once the summer home to the celebrated writer Ogden Nash. North Hampton Public Library joined The Big Read to bring together members [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for  Tuesday, March  9, 2010:

Brown bag book discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird, 12:00pm to 1:00pm at Somersworth Public Library
Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird
Join the regular monthly book discussion group for adults at Baker Free Library, Bow to discuss To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 12:30pm [...]

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The Effingham Public Library was established in 1893 in the reading room of the Charitable Masonic Institute. Its mission is to provide a center for the community that promotes education, leisure and creative pursuits by providing a means to access information and resources. 
We decided to participate in this year’s “Big Read” to try to restore [...]

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Joseph Patch Library is in Warren. We are a resource for our community to motivate people to read, use computers through our Broadband and Wi-Fi, provide children and adult programs and sponsor book groups and various events. We are happy to be part of the Big Read so that our Book Group can read and [...]

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These are the Big Read NH events scheduled for Monday, March  8, 2010:

Book Discussion: To Kill a Mockingbird,  7:00pm to 9:00pm at Lee Public Library
Not Guilty!  And I Can Prove It.  A presentation by New Hampshire criminal defense attorney Len Harden about the role of defense lawyers in the criminal justice system. Taking the portrayal of Atticus [...]

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Hall Memorial Library, serving the towns of Tilton and Northfield, has a long commitment to providing our community with opportunities to connect with life beyond our borders, and ponder issues which are universal.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic which addresses both these goals. We will read it at the New Hampshire Veterans’ Home and [...]

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On January 2, 1897, the Plaistow Public Library officially opened to the public with a core collection of 267 books.  The Library was open one day a week and the budget for the first year of operation was $114.48.
 The goal of the Plaistow Public Library was to provide the town of Plaistow with a proper [...]

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On Saturday, March  7, 2010 Concord Public Library will host a book discussion led by Suzanne Brown on To Kill a Mockingbird from 2:00pm to 4:00pm in the Concord Public Library Auditorium.
Suzanne Brown is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in such national literary magazines as The Yale Review, The Southern Review, and The Indiana Review. Her work [...]

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Larry Lickteig portrayed Atticus Finch at the Kick-off reception for The Big Read which was held at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on February 25, 2010.
In New Hampshire, Larry recently appeared as Treves in The Nashua Theatre Guild’s The Elephant Man (2009 NHTA finalist, community theatre, best actor in a drama/comedy) and as Henry in Bedford [...]