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A line drawing of a cottontail. (© USFWS)

Bunny Bonanza

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Get ready for spring by spending an afternoon learning all about bunnies with teacher Claudia Dery. Hear stories, play games, and meet a real live rabbit named Snoopy.

A boy lies on the ground, smiling next to his "sun shelter." (photo © Jenna Spear)

Afterschool Program: Small Worlds and Wild Imaginations

Event Series Afterschool Program: Small Worlds and Wild Imaginations
Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States
This event is now full, but you can still join the waitlist.

Join Harris Center teacher-naturalist Nikko Gagnon for a weekly adventure focused on creating our own small worlds! Together, we’ll build small creatures, their homes, and their worlds using natural materials found in our environment.

A boy lies on the ground, smiling next to his "sun shelter." (photo © Jenna Spear)

Afterschool Program: Small Worlds and Wild Imaginations

Event Series Afterschool Program: Small Worlds and Wild Imaginations
Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States
This event is now full, but you can still join the waitlist.

Join Harris Center teacher-naturalist Nikko Gagnon for a weekly adventure focused on creating our own small worlds! Together, we’ll build small creatures, their homes, and their worlds using natural materials found in our environment.

A boy lies on the ground, smiling next to his "sun shelter." (photo © Jenna Spear)

Afterschool Program: Small Worlds and Wild Imaginations

Event Series Afterschool Program: Small Worlds and Wild Imaginations
Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States
This event is now full, but you can still join the waitlist.

Join Harris Center teacher-naturalist Nikko Gagnon for a weekly adventure focused on creating our own small worlds! Together, we’ll build small creatures, their homes, and their worlds using natural materials found in our environment.

An otter perched on a rock, surrounded by open water. (photo © Tom Koerner / USFWS via the Flickr Creative Commons)

Utterly Otters

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Join naturalist Susie Spikol for a lively talk on the bounding, sliding, swimming otter! We’ll spend some time getting to know this charismatic local mammal and learning how to recognize its tracks and sign.

A wooly mammoth diorama. (photo © FireHawk Hulin via the Flickr Creative Commons)

New England’s Long Ago Elephants: Woolly Mammoths and Mastodons

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Discover the long-lost lives of the woolly mammoths and mastodons that once roamed New England with Harris Center naturalist and woolly mammoth lover Susie Spikol!

A painting of the eruption of Vesuvius seen from Portici by Joseph Wright of Derby. (photo © art collection of the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA)

The Year Without a Summer

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Following the devastating eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora, 1816 came to be known as “the year without a summer.” Join Mount Washington Observatory’s Will Broussard to explore the many natural and cultural impacts this event had on the world, including right here in New Hampshire

A vintage postage stamp depicting a dog in a space ship..

Space Animals

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Join Susie Spikol for an evening slideshow on the history of animals in space as part of the Hancock Town Library’s summer reading program.

Dinsmore Pond, as viewed from the Hiroshi Loop Trail. (photo © Will Holden)

Water Connections: What Fresh Water Means to Us and What We Mean to Water

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Join journalist Jim Rousmaniere for a talk based on his new book on the connections between people and water. He'll discuss floods and flood control, watershed protection, hydropower, pollutants, and more.

A Short-tailed Shrew pokes its head out of a stone wall. (photo © Gilles Gonthier)

The Venomous Shrew and the Secrets of the Deep Dark Below

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Venom like a cobra and an unstoppable appetite, all packed into a creature who weighs less than a penny? Yes! This is not fake news. Come hear about the remarkable life and times of the short-tailed shrew, who lives right beneath your feet.

A man crouches with a Wild Turkey perched on his head. (photo © PBS Nature)

“My Life as a Turkey” Film and Talk

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

This charming, award-winning documentary provides a rare glimpse into how these curious, intelligent wild birds see the world. Following the film, NHFG biologist Mark Ellingwood will be on hand to "talk turkey."

Two Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks huddle on mossy ground. (photo © Pavel Tomkovich)

Plovers, Knots, and Spoonies: Shorebird Success Stories from the Field

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Join Scott Hecker, Director of Bird Conservation for the International Conservation Fund of Canada, for a talk about ICFC's work to protect Piping Plovers, Red Knots, Spoon-billed Sandpipers and more on their wintering grounds in the southern hemisphere.

An osprey peers out from its nest. (photo © Bill Crouse)

Tracking Ospreys from New Hampshire to South America

Hancock Town Library 25 Main Street, Hancock, NH, United States

Join Iain MacLeod for an introduction to Project OspreyTrack, a multi-year project that uses GPS trackers to follow Ospreys from their nests in New Hampshire to their wintering grounds in South America and back.