North Conway

Big Event this week!

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To all One Book One Valley readers! This Thursday, November 17 at 7 pm is our big event. Tom Ryan, author of Following Atticus, will speak at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity, on the corner of Route 16 and Grove Street in North Conway village. Atticus M. Finch will attend, questions will be asked and answered, and books will be signed. Please join us, even if you haven’t (yet) read the book. This event is free and open to the public.

Tom Ryan will donate his speaker’s fee to the Animal Rescue League of NH-North. If you wish, donations to ARLNH-North will be accepted at this event.

An event each day

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This week (Oct.31-Nov. 4), there are five Following Atticus book discussions at locations throughout the valley (see schedule). All are welcome at any of these events.

At the Madison Library on Thursday, November 3 at 7 pm, One Book One Valley’s project humanist, Marcia Schmidt Blaine, will give a talk on “Saving the Mountains: New Hampshire and the Creation of the National Forests,” a look at the history of the mountains and trails that we all enjoy today.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Weeks Act, the law that created the eastern national forests. New Hampshire’s White Mountains played a leading role in events leading to the act. Focusing on Concord’s Joseph B. Walker and the Forest Society’s Philip Ayres, Marcia Schmidt Blaine will explore the relationship between our mountains and the individuals who worked to protect them in this New Hampshire Humanities Council program.