A Yale University library housing a rare collection of 18th-century letters, manuscripts and other items in a old home here is a step closer to a multimillion-dollar expansion. The Lewis Walpole ...

In an age where friends can be made with the click of a mouse, new Library Director Sal Genovese wants to make the new library a center for real community relations. Genovese took over the library’s ...

Margaret Powell, who retired in May as the W.S. Lewis Librarian and executive director of the Lewis Walpole Library (LWL), met with YaleNews recently to discuss the retrospective exhibition that is ...

The Walpole Public Library will display the exhibit “Diversity” consisting of about 35 posters from the collection of Stephen Lewis at the library, 143 School St., until May 24. The posters hail from ...

Characterized by comically grotesque figures performing lewd and vulgar actions, bawdy humor provided a poignant vehicle to target a variety of political and social issues in 18th-century Britain. A ...

Before the pandemic, the Friends of the Walpole Public Library arranged in-person presentations ranging from live music and one-act plays to storytelling, talks on art and history, and discussions ...

WALPOLE, N.H. >> The town's library is in need of a new director. Mary Farrell, who has served in the position the past four years, is moving to Maine with her husband and the library at 48 Main St.

It looks like another one of the grand old homes along the historic Main Street, albeit on a bigger piece of property with a couple of big red barns. But the library signs still occasionally bring the ...

The Walpole Town Library Survey is completed, providing both definitive and gratifying results from town residents and library users. 142 surveys were returned, a healthy response for a small New ...

SEYMOUR DE HICCI has this to say in his English Collectors of Books and MSS, 1530-1930: “Although the library of Horace Walpole . . . contained some very valuable books and manuscripts, the interest ...