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Making Sense of the Civil War book discussion series in Derry, Newport  

Four New Hampshire libraries will host book discussion series on the lasting historical, social and cultural impacts of the Civil War. The series, Making Sense of the Civil War, will be offered in Derry and Newport this spring. 

Books in the series will be available though participating libraries and include March by Geraldine Brooks, Crossroads of Freedon: Antietam by James McPherson, and America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation onTheir 150th Anniversaries edited by Edward L Ayers. 

Making Sense of the Civil War is funded by National Endowment for the Humanities as part of its We the People initiative, which promotes scholarship, teaching, and learning about American history and culture.

The series will begin at Derry Public Library on Wednesday, March 21 and will continue on April 4 and 18 and May 2 and 16. Denise Askin will facilitate the discussions, which will take place from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m.

The series will also at the Richards Free Library in Newport. Keith Williams will lead five discussions beginning on Monday, March 12 and continue on March 26, April 16 and 30, and May 21. Discussions in this series will begin at 7 p.m.

Fall discussions will be held at the Littleton and Exeter Public Libraries. For more information, call 224-4071.

Book and lecture series to explore Forest and Mountains: Living and Working in the North Country

The Humanities Council has awarded a grant to the White Mountains Community College and the Berlin Public Library for a book discussion and lecture series that will explore life and labor in the North Country in the 20th century.

The four-part series will begin this month with a discussion of Louise Dickinson Rich's We Took to the Woods on Wednesday, February 29. This first session will be led by Suzanne Brown, Dartmouth College. All four sessions will be held at 7 p.m. in White Mountains Community College's Fortier Library.

The series continues on Wednesday, March 28. when Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Plymouth State University, will offer a talk titledSaving the Mountains: New Hampshire and the Creation of the National Forests.Craig Doherty will lead a book discussion on Wednesday, April 25 on Robert E. Pike's Spiked Boots: From New England's North Country, True Stories of Yesteryear, When Men Were Rugged and Rivers Wild.

The series concludes on Wednesday, May 23 when Maggie Stier will present a multi-media talk on The Old Man of the Mountain: Substance and Symbol. All four sessions are free and open to the public. Books for the two book discussions are available to borrow from the Fortier and Berlin Public Libraries. For more information contact Katie Doherty at 752-1113 x3086.