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Apple Hill Tuesday Evening Summer Concerts

[ July 6, 2010; 7:30 pm; July 13, 2010; 7:30 pm; July 20, 2010; 7:30 pm; July 27, 2010; 7:30 pm; August 3, 2010; 7:30 pm; August 10, 2010; 7:30 pm; August 17, 2010; 7:30 pm; August 24, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] For over thirty years, the Summer Concert Series has nourished audience members from New Hampshire and beyond. Each Tuesday evening performance features the Apple Hill String Quartet and renowned guest faculty–hosted in Apple Hill’s Louise Shonk Kelly Barn in Nelson, New Hampshire. All concerts are free and open to [...] [...]

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Contra Dance | Adina Gordon with Celticladda

[ November 13, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students Beginner’s Workshop 7:30 The Monadnock region’s hottest Celtic band returns to the Nelson Town Hall for an evening of energized dancing, lead by nationally renown caller Adina Gordon. Celticladda is: Randy Miller, fiddle; Bill Thomas, Uillean pipes and flute, Gordon Peery, piano. [...]

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Contra Dance with Mary DesRosiers

[ September 11, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students Beginner’s Workshop 7:30 Join one of the Monadnock region’s finest callers for an evening of classic contras. Stratospheric music provided by the incredible Rodney Miller (fiddle), the impeccable Sarah Bauhan (flute and whistle), and the inimitable Gordon Peery (piano). [...]

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Contra Dance | Don Primrose and Heathen Creek

[ October 9, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students Beginner’s Workshop 7:30 The amazing Heathen Creek returns to the Nelson Town Hall, with caller Don Primrose at the helm. Heathen Creek” is what happens when contra music has a head-on collision with Gen-X. Rutman’s scorching fiddle soars while Johannsen (guitar) and Koyama (mandolin) [...] [...]

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Mock Drive In Movie Night

[ August 13, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] An old home week family favorite at the Nelson School. This years feature movie is “Wizard of Oz”. Cost: Various for food and beverage, movie is by donation Sponsored by the Nelson PTO and the 6th Grade Class. Proceeds are for the 6th Grade class trip. Come dressed as your favorite Oz character! Enjoy popcorn, root beer floats (with [...] [...]

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Ice Cream Social and Band Concert

[ July 11, 2010; 5:00 pm; September 5, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] Location:Nelson Congregational Church $4.00 / $5.00 for ice cream (concert is free) Local ice cream, hot fudge, hot butterscotch, strawberries, whipped cream and toppings. Bring friends and families to enjoy this summertime favorite! Contact Nelson Congregational Church 847-3280 or Joy Birdsey 847-9533 Volunteers needed and Welcomed! [...]

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Agricultural Commission Exploratory Meeting

[ July 6, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] Calling all Nelson Farmers, Gardeners, and others interested in Agriculture: Your Planning Board is sponsoring a public meeting to explore a proposed Town Agricultural Commission. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at 7:00 pm at the Town Hall. Refreshments will be provided. Featured speakers at this meeting will be Amanda Costello, District Manager of [...] [...]

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Town of Nelson Email Addresses

New @townofnelson email addresses have been established for town officials and town boards. When mail is addressed to one or more of the addresses below, it is forwarded to the individual(s) who can best respond. In some cases this may be a board chair, or in other cases it may go directly to the town office, [...] [...]

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Contra Dance | Dead Sea Squirrels | Nelson Town Hall

[ March 12, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Nelson Town Hall Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students Beginner’s Workshop 7:30 The Dead Sea Squirrels is a string band with a twist.  Our tunes come mainly from the Southern US, but because we play for contra dances, our repertoire is made up of danceable tunes arranged in medleys designed to closely match and [...] [...]

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Chapel-By-The-Lake | Annual Flea Market

[ June 19, 2010; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Household items, all sorts of odds and ends, plus some gems: bunk bed aluminum boat electric organ New donations welcome – please call Leonard or Marion Frazier at 847-3231 [...]

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A Visit to the Montshire Museum

Nelson School’s sixth graders spent the night at the Montshire Museum in Norwich, VT on Thursday, June 3. They arrived at the museum around 6:00 pm, after an early dinner at Friendly’s, and spent the evening rotating in small groups through three different activities:  StarLab, Evening Walk, and Science Discovery Lab.  The activities were followed by [...] [...]

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Library Summer Forum | Norman Barres | Helping People Help Themselves

[ July 29, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] AN ORDINARY MAN WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY DESIRE TO HELP PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Summer Lecture Series At the Nelson Town Hall Gather after 6:30, listen to live music. Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time) Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library. The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each [...] [...]

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Library Summer Forum | Mike French | The Blackbird Spyplane: An Eyewitness Account

[ July 22, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Summer Lecture Series At the Nelson Town Hall Gather after 6:30, listen to live music. Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time) Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library. The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each speaker is from (or strongly connected to) Nelson, and brings unique [...] [...]

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Library Summer Forum | Frankie Brackley Tolman and Harvey Tolman | The Story of Cape Breton Music

[ July 15, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Summer Lecture Series At the Nelson Town Hall Gather after 6:30, listen to live music. Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time) Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library. The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each speaker is from (or strongly connected to) Nelson, and brings unique [...] [...]

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Library Summer Forum | Jeff Littleton | Wildlife Habitats of Nelson

[ July 8, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] The Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Summer Lecture Series At the Nelson Town Hall Gather after 6:30, listen to live music. Program starts at 7:00 (Nelson time) Usually runs for about an hour, followed by refreshments and socializing in the library. The library has sponsored this program for several years. Each speaker is from (or strongly connected to) Nelson, and brings unique [...] [...]

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1st Thursday Pot Luck Supper

[ June 3, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Moving In Step, a Community Project, will sponsor a live talk this evening given by Bonnie Hudspeth of Monadnock Marketplace.  Bonnie will fill us in on the new Co-Op being formed this year for residents in the Monadnock Region. We all meet at around 6:30 in the evening in the Henry Melville Fellowship Hall of [...] [...]

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Moving In Step Steering Cmte Meeting

[ June 8, 2010; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] The Steering Committee of Moving In Step, a Community Project, will meet this evening at the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library on Nelson Common Road at 7:15 pm. On the agenda: Old Business Committee Reports The Nelson Community Forum New Business and any other matters The public is invited to this meeting. [...]

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Moving In Step Steering Cmte Meeting

[ June 29, 2010; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] The Steering Committee of Moving In Step, a Community Project, will meet this evening at the Olivia Rodham Memorial Library on Nelson Common Road at 7:15 pm. On the agenda: Old Business Committee Reports The Nelson Community Forum New Business and any other matters The public is invited to this meeting. [...]

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Open House at

[ June 13, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Open House of One Room Schoolhouses and Academies The Monadnock Historical Societies Forum, or Roundtable Forum, is hosting an open house of many of the remaining one room schoolhouses and academies in the region.  The public is invited to visit each site to learn what it was like to attend school during the 19th and early [...] [...]

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Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Book Discussion

[ June 21, 2010; 10:30 am; ] We will be discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Books may be borrowed from the library From Bookmarks Magazine “Traditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naïve” (San Francisco Chronicle), this epistolary novel, based on Mary Ann Shaffer’s painstaking, lifelong research, is a homage to booklovers and a nostalgic portrayal of an era. [...] [...]