Yes, I know: this is the blog spot of the Deering Public Library. Usually what I write are announcements of events or anodyne reviews or comments. I'll just say that the library is a grand symbol of freedom and unfettered thought. Killing people, black people, movie goers, little kids, is the opposite of freedom. Today I am extremely sad. In case you missed it, a skinny white dude shot nine people dead in a black church in Charleston. He sat among those folks during bible study. They accepted him among them. He shot them dead. He is said to have wanted to start a race war. According to him, black people are taking America away from him. What is wrong with that view? As Jon Stewart noted: in Charleston black people drive over streets named for Confederate generals and the Confederate flag flies, unbowed by the crime, over the state capitol. And the white guy is afraid of blacks taking over his country? There is something seriously wrong here. There is something seriously wrong when states, and individuals, display the Confederate flag. In the South they explain it as a symbol of their glorious heritage; a heritage that absolutely depended upon the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children for 300 or so years. And those Rebel license plates we see around here? What IS their message? Freedom... to what? Keep a house slave maybe? Or, maybe to shoot a black person during bible study. We will fret about this massacre for a while. The word parsers will find a way to make this heinous crime, this act of terrorism, something unique to one disturbed individual and not a sign of systemic disease of racism in our country. And the NRA and their Running Dogs will find new ways to put guns into the hands of more people. I am sad.
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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.
"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.
