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Obituaries
Abstract Paintings & Tribal Masks Exhibition At New Hampshire Antique Co-Op
Now on view through May 31, 2020
Congregational Church Stays Connected
During the suspension of in-person activities in light of the Covid-19 situation, the Congregational Church of Amherst, UCC has a variety of ways for members and others to connect with church programs. This is especially important during April as Holy Week and Easter are on the horizon.
The most up-to-date information about church activities can be found on the church’s website (ccamherst.org) or by calling the church office at 673-3231. Sunday services are broadcast on FacebookLive and recorded for later on-line viewing. Services are followed by a Virtual Fellowship Hour. Links for these and other events can be found on the website.
The church’s Facebook page is another source of information, including updates and video messages from the pastors. Pastors Maureen Frescott and Kate Kennedy are available to provide pastoral care during this time, and the church welcomes community members to connect with this loving, serving, open and affirming community of faith.
Lorraine Alice Hamilton
AMHERST – Lorraine Alice Hamilton of Amherst, New Hampshire, Beach Haven, New Jersey and Rancho Mirage, California died June 14, 2020 from pancreatic cancer at her home in California. She was 73 years old and a participant in the trial of a new cancer drug at NYU Langone in New York City since April 2019. She hoped that results from the trial would improve care for other patients who develop this cancer. She was with her family when she died and was
Donald Richard Haaker
Donald Richard Haaker, 80, born June 2, 1940, son of Carl E Haaker and Jeanne LaRochelle Haaker of Fitchburg, MA, son, brother, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, peacefully passed away on Sunday, June 7, 2020 at Saint Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, MA.
Don, as he was affectionately referred to by friends, and Dad or Grandpa by family, was a proud veteran, avid fisherman, former business owner, collector of “As Seen On TV” gadgets, and
Library Programs
ZOOM Family Storytime
Tuesdays, Now tru April 20, 2021. • 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
virtual program via zoom
REGISTER NOW FOR ZOOM FAMILY STORYTIME!
Make sure to include your email address in the registration.
Check your inbox on the morning of the program for your Zoom invitation! (the same invitation link will work for all 8 meetings in this session)
If you are registering more than one person, only fill in the email field once, or you will receive multiple emails.
Ages 3 and up, younger siblings welcome.
Our family storytimes are for the entire family to enjoy. We begin every session with a welcoming routine. We follow that with a simple story targeted primarily to the younger siblings in the group (but still plenty of fun for the older ones!).
After that, we'll move on to stories that require a little more focus. If your youngest children are getting 'antsy' at that point, you are welcome to bring them out to play in another room (or simply check that the 'mute' button is on)---making sure to come back to join us for the concluding routines and craft at the end of each program.
The Call of Kiliminjaro
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 • 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
virtual program via zoom
Get ready to climb 19,341 feet to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro – one of the famed Seven Summits – the roof of Africa. Based on his memoir, The Call of Kilimanjaro, author, adventurer, and TV host Jeff Belanger takes you on a breathtaking multimedia journey of Tanzania that’s spiritual, motivational, and uplifting.After his brother-in-law Chris passed away, Jeff made the decision to take the trip of a lifetime, both in honor of Chris and in pursuit of clarity about his own life and goals. The Call of Kilimanjaro is a day-by-day record
of Belanger’s ascent to the peak of Africa’s highest mountain. What he learned along the way transformed his life.Presenter Jeff Belanger is a storyteller, adventurer, journalist, and one of the most visible explorers of the unexplained today. The author of over a dozen books published in six
languages, he is also the Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer ofthe PBS and Amazon Prime series New England Legends and the weekly New England Legends podcast. He’s been a guest on hundreds of television and radio networks and programs, including History, Travel Channel, Biography Channel, PBS, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, BBC, and Coast to Coast AM.
*Please register with a valid email address to ensure that you receive login information.*
A Mindful Experience of Poetry Writing
Wednesday, April 28, 2021. •. 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
virtual program via zoom
This 90-minute interactive presentation focuses on using mindful writing techniques to write poems. We’ll begin with an overview of the basic concepts of mindful writing, including impermanence, preconceptions about writing ability, inner voice, and audience proximity. With a more mindful approach to the writing moment, every moment can become a prolific moment. We’ll discuss how we can reduce writing worry that come from future- or past-
oriented mindless thinking. We’ll practice a mindful writing technique: steering and stocking our internal talk with metaphors and similes for writing. Participants will leave the session with a new poem started.
Facilitator Alexandria Peary (MFA, MFA, PhD) is Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the recipient of a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship in support of her mindful writing workshops for survivors of the state’s opioid crisis and her establishment of the North Country Young Writers’ Festival, happening in Berlin, NH, in May 2021. She is the author of seven books, most recently The Water Draft, Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing, and the anthology COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Gettysburg Review, New York Times, New American Writing, Yale Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, New England Review, and the Denver Quarterly. She specializes in mindful writing, the subject of her 2019 TEDx talk, ‘How Mindfulness Can Transform the Way You Write’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yxnFac7CNA and also the popular series she runs for the National Council of Teachers of English: NCTE Presents - Mindful Writing Series - NCTE
More information about her initiatives as state poet laureate can be found at her blog (New Hampshire Poet Laureate) and on Twitter @NHPoetLaureate She is a professor at Salem State University and lives in Londonderry, NH, with her husband and two daughters.
Gardens of Cornwall and Devon
Monday, May 3, 2021 • 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
virtual program via zoom
Warmed by the Gulf Stream, the magical gardens in Cornwall and Devon are home to some of the most exciting, rare, and beautiful plants in the British Isles. Enjoy an armchair tour of twelve historically and horticulturally important gardens of this region, from the tropical Abbey Gardens of Tresco to the mystical Lost Gardens of Heligan and the futuristic biomes of the Eden Project.
Presenter Jana Milbocker is a garden designer, speaker, and author. She combines horticulture, design, and travel tips to educate, inspire and delight both new and seasoned gardeners. Jana loves to visit gardens and historic sites in the U.S. and abroad, and share her trips through her books, photos and blog.
She published The Garden Tourist: 120 Destination Gardens and Nurseries in the Northeast in 2018, and The Garden Tourist’s New England in 2020.
She has lectured at flower shows in Mass., Conn., Maine, New York and New Jersey, as well as a multitude of horticultural societies, garden clubs, and libraries in the Northeast. She is owner of Enchanted Gardens, a landscape design firm in the Boston area. EnchantedGardensDesign.com
She is past president of the Holliston Garden Club, and active in the Garden Club Federation of Mass., Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and GardenComm International.
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