The Library will be closed from Saturday, May 24, through Monday, May 26, in observance of the 2025 Memorial Day holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday, May 28 at 9:00 a.m.

Since 1971, Memorial Day has been a national day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States, observed on the last Monday of May. Thank you to all who have served.

For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website. There you’ll find more resources about this date, including links to veterans cemetery databases, and information about flag displays.

For More Information

• American Legion
• National Parks Service Memorial Day – Over 150 Years of Remembrance
• NH Veterans’ Cemetery – 100 Nights of Remembrance — Taps is played every Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Starting on Memorial Day, Taps will be sounded nightly at 7:00 p.m., rain or shine through September 11.

Learn More in the E-Library

• Ancestry Library Edition – Available in the Library during business hours, you can view census records, historical records, photos, stories, and maps.
• Digital books. magazines, and more are available to you in the e-library with the Libby, hoopla, and CloudLibrary apps.
• HeritageQuest – A comprehensive treasury of over 4.4 billion records, American genealogical sources including local and family histories, over 700 million records from the U.S. Federal Census 1790 through 1940, military records, wills and probate records, maps and photos, city directories, and national censuses including Argentina, Netherlands, Czech Republic, and several other countries.
• NewsBank – Provides full-text U.S. newspapers, including The Union Leader, the NH Sunday News (since 1989), and The Concord Monitor (since 2002).