{"id":1603,"date":"2012-07-04T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2012-07-04T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:00:07","slug":"summer-reading-kick-off-concert-at-john-curtis-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Kick-off Concert at John Curtis Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians:<\/p>\n<p>Songwriter\/singer\/guitarist Jay Mankita will perform his \u201cBig Dream<br \/>\nSongbook\u201d on Wednesday, July 11 at 4:00 p.m. to officially begin the<br \/>\nJohn Curtis Library\u2019s summer reading program for children. Jay plays<br \/>\nfun, funky songs on electric and acoustic guitars and invites<br \/>\nparticipation by kids of all ages and their families.<br \/>\n* *<br \/>\nMankita is also an environmental activist and tours in his<br \/>\nrecycled-vegetable-oil-powered van. After the concert, he will give a<br \/>\nshort presentation outdoors during which he tells families about the<br \/>\nvan and how we can all help to care for the environment.<br \/>\n* *<br \/>\nRegistration for the library\u2019s summer reading program will begin<br \/>\nafter the show. Children who sign up for summer reading will receive<br \/>\nreading logs and be eligible to earn prizes throughout the summer<br \/>\nbased on how much they read. This year\u2019s summer reading theme is<br \/>\n\u201cDream Big&#8211; READ\u201d. The statewide summer reading program is<br \/>\nsponsored by your local library, the Massachusetts Library System, the<br \/>\nBoston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.<br \/>\n* *<br \/>\nThe concert is funded by the Friends of the John Curtis Library. Free<br \/>\ntickets are available at the children\u2019s room desk. For more<br \/>\ninformation, call 781-826-2972, extension 4, or e-mail the<br \/>\nchildren\u2019s librarian at lcampbell@ocln.org<\/p>\n<p>. <\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221;,<br \/>\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221; (&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;) is a community service that has been<br \/>\nprovided to self-selected residents of the Town of Hanover since the spring<br \/>\nof 2004.<br \/>\nFor submission guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions about<br \/>\n&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;, please go to http:\/\/www.atotw.com.<br \/>\nTo search for archived &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; news, view the archive.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be added to this distribution list, click here.  Please<br \/>\nfollow the link in the response e-mail to validate your account.  You will<br \/>\nnot receive &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; e-mails until you complete this step.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be removed from this distribution list, click here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nPowered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians: Songwriter\/singer\/guitarist Jay Mankita will perform his \u201cBig Dream Songbook\u201d on Wednesday, July 11 at 4:00 p.m. to officially begin the John Curtis Library\u2019s summer reading program for children. Jay plays fun, funky songs on electric and acoustic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=1603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atotw_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}