2025 Summer Series

Please join us for the 215th Annual Meeting of the Corporation
Peacham Library
July 14
Business meeting 6:30 PM

After the business meeting, our speaker, King Arthur Baking School Instructor LUCAS DIGGLE, will talk about
“The Price of Progress: Innovation and its Aftermath”

Lucas Diggle will discuss some of the 19th century trends in American baking and how these, along with WWI, set the stage for the innovations that followed. We’ll look at how westward migration and industrialization influenced the home baker, small scale commercial operations, and emerging industrial producers. From there we’ll track how the inter-war period laid the groundwork for the decades that followed and discuss how American bakers (and others) set about recovering traditional processes that produce more flavorful, nutritious loaves. We’ll close with the current state of affairs and where things may be headed.

This is the first event in our “Summer Series – What’s Cooking”, presented by Peacham Hostorical Association and Peacham Library.

Future Events:

Heirloom Recipe Baking Contest
July 20
4 PM – 6 PM

To enter this contest you may use a recipe from the Peacham Pantries Community Cookbook (circa 1940) or your own family heirloom recipe dating from before 1950. No limits on the location or origin of your family recipe. Peacham Pantries recipes can be viewed online, or you can make copies at the library.

Fabulous Prizes!!
King Arthur Baking Class Gift Certificate
Peacham Cafe Gift Certificate

Come, taste and vote for your favorite to choose the People’s Choice Award.
Guest Judge Rose Hattabaugh, Senior Recipe Developer at Milk Street, will choose Best in Show from all entries.

Peacham Historical Association Annual Meeting
August 6
6:30 PM: Business meeting
7:00 PM: Speaker Erin Moulton, Writer and Researcher

Recipe for Success: Finding Women Through Community Cookbooks
Community and church cookbooks are treasures which can be a springboard to historical and genealogical adventures, with clues to unlock the stories of our female ancestors.

Family Book Discussion: Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O’Shaughnessy
August 14
6:00 PM

“Lasagna Means I Love You” is a middle grade fiction book, voted by students in 4th-8th grades as the winner of the Golden Dome Award for 2024-2025. After her beloved Nan dies, Mo enters the foster care system. She finds a hobby – taking up cooking and collecting other people’s family recipes. Can she cook up a new place to call home?
Bring along your own family recipes and share the stories behind them. All ages welcome!