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About Deering Public Library

The petition to the Senate and House of Representatives in Portsmouth to incorporate a library in Deering was granted on 6 December 1797.

"To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in general Court at Portsmouth November 1797 Humbly sheweth [sic], That Robert Alcock Thomas Merrill Thomas Aiken William Forsaith James Sherrier and others their Associates Inhabitants of Deering have purchased a number of Books, for the purpose of a social Library in said Town, but finding it necessary to be Incorporated, in order to realize the advantages thereby Intended, by purchasing books in common, your petitioners therefore pray that they may be Incorporated with such priviledges [sic] as are usually granted in such cases, and they as in duty bound will ever pray
Robert Alcock for himself and Associates"

The Deering Library's Mission is to create a vibrant community center that inspires curiosity, personal growth and opportunities for life-long learning.



To view our policies, agendas and the minutes of trustee meetings please visit the library, or use the link to the Town of Deering website.



Deering Public Library is located in Southwest New Hampshire's glorious Monadnock Region. Deering is a quintessential New England town with a white clapboard church, a town hall at its center and a population of approximately 1800 people. The library is located year round on the second floor of the town hall. Our seasonal school house library is open during the summer.



DEERING CHRISTMAS PARTY!


This year's Christmas Party will be held on Saturday, 6 December, in Town Hall. Festivities will begin at 1:00 pm with several craft tables and for an hour or so Town Hall will be transformed into a Christmas workshop. At 2:00 pm Roger Tincknell will once again enliven Town Hall with his engaging program of songs and general merriment. We have it under good authority that Santa has taken time out from his busy schedule to visit Deering at 3:00, when he will listen to Christmas wishes. This year there will be a raffle for a locally made Gingerbread House and each child who attends the party will have a chance to wil (so make sure to get a free raffle ticket for each child when you come to the party!).

The Christmas party is presented by the Trustees of the Deering Public Library, who wish for all of you a most wonderous Christmas and end of year.



As I write this, I am looking forward to Thanksgiving a couple of days from now. As much as Christmas is a holiday of giving gifts and general festivities. Celebration of the birth of Christ. Closing down the old year and looking forward to the coming year with renewed hope for something better. Thanksgiving is the time when we gather together as families and, well, give thanks for the bounty that we have received over the year. We give thanks to those who have touched us during the year. We take comfort in our families, our homes, our hearth. Thanksgiving is a peaceful time. A time of simple pleasures. What can be simpler, more altruistic really, than sharing food around our common home fires. My favorite story for this season was written by Truman Capote, it was a recollection of a Christmas from his youth in the Depression.  Around this time of year a cousin of young Buddy, in the story, an elderly woman announces that it is 'fruitcake weather,' time to make the fruitcakes that will be ready as gifts for Christmas. This is a story of family and generations, written in a perhaps more difficult time but also in a time far simpler than ours of today.  I hope you will take a bit of time to read this story and that you will enjoy it as much as I have. Here is a link: http://www.sailthouforth.com/2009/12/christmas-memory.html