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).

Finally!  The date for the Nelson Community Forum has been set!  Everyone’s buzzing about what will come out of this one-and-a-half day event.

What IS this ‘Community Forum’?
At the Nelson Community Forum, we will all come together to reaffirm town strengths, identify problems and concerns, and collectively plan action projects.

What’s the Agenda for the Nelson Community Forum?
The schedule for the Nelson Community Forum is:

Friday Evening 5:30-9:30 pm
• Arrival and potluck supper at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
• Introduction to the Community Forum
• Overview of the community using census information
• Collective community evaluation

Saturday 8:45 am
Sign-in, Light Refreshment, Beverage and then:
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
• Identification of key issues
• Brainstorming and evaluation of potential solutions
• Lunch
• Selection of immediate action initiatives
• Plans to achieve and implement goals

We know you have questions, so we’ve included a link to our Simple FAQ.

You can even Register online! See you at the Forum!

Finally!  The date for the Nelson Community Forum has been set!  Everyone’s buzzing about what will come out of this one-and-a-half day event.

What IS this ‘Community Forum’?
At the Nelson Community Forum, we will all come together to reaffirm town strengths, identify problems and concerns, and collectively plan action projects.

What’s the Agenda for the Nelson Community Forum?
The schedule for the Nelson Community Forum is:

Friday Evening 5:30-9:30 pm
• Arrival and potluck supper at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
• Introduction to the Community Forum
• Overview of the community using census information
• Collective community evaluation

Saturday 8:45 am
Sign-in, Light Refreshment, Beverage and then:
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
• Identification of key issues
• Brainstorming and evaluation of potential solutions
• Lunch
• Selection of immediate action initiatives
• Plans to achieve and implement goals

We know you have questions, so we’ve included a link to our Simple FAQ.

You can even Register online! See you at the Forum!

Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett.

The book is at the library and a CD is on order.

From Publishers Weekly

This memoir of Patchett’s friendship with Autobiography of a Face author Lucy Grealy shares many insights into the nature of devotion. One of the best instances of this concerns a fable of ants and grasshoppers. When winter came, the hard-working ant took the fun-loving grasshopper in, each understanding their roles were immutable. It was a symbiotic relationship. Like the grasshopper, Grealy, who died of cancer at age 39 in 2002, was an untethered creature, who liked nothing more than to dance, drink and fling herself into Patchett’s arms like a kitten. Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars; Bel Canto) tells this story chronologically, in bursts of dialogue, memory and snippets of Grealy’s letters, moving from the unfolding of their deep connection in graduate school and into the more turbulent waters beyond. Patchett describes her attempts to be a writer, while Grealy endured a continuous round of operations as a result of her cancer. Later, when adulthood brought success, but also heartbreak and drug addiction, the duo continued to be intertwined, even though their link sometimes seemed to fray. This gorgeously written chronicle unfolds as an example of how friendships can contain more passion and affection than any in the romantic realm. And although Patchett unflinchingly describes the difficulties she and Grealy faced in the years after grad school, she never loses the feeling she had the first time Grealy sprang into her arms: “[She] came through the door and it was there, huge and permanent and first.”
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At the Nelson Town Hall

Southwestern Community Services will be available to answer any questions you may have about qualifying for programs such as Fuel Assistance, WIC, Housing, Headstart and more. Please drop by and we will be happy to help
More info: Becky Holland, 719-4134  bholland@scshelps.org

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) lay down thunder and crunch that is equal parts Keith Murphy and Kurt Cobain. Blissfully tired contra dancers concur — the Heathens are all about rhythm, and they’re dead-on. But the trio plays lush too — sultry digressions full of lilt and peppered with caprice. From Pittsburgh to Peterborough, from Coeur D’Alene to Concord, Heathen Creek has been busting it up for seven years, filling the night with music and generally knocking the socks off all and sundry. rough, from Coeur D’Alene to Concord, Heathen Creek has been busting it up for seven years, filling the night with music and generally knocking the socks off all and sundry. oyama (mandolin) lay down thunder and crunch that is equal parts Keith Murphy and Kurt Cobain. Blissfully tired contra dancers concur — the Heathens are all about rhythm, and they’re dead-on. But the trio plays lush too — sultry digressions full of lilt and peppered with caprice. From Pittsburgh to Peterborough, from Coeur D’Alene to Concord, Heathen Creek has been busting it up for seven years, filling the night with music and generally knocking the socks off all and sundry.

Sponsored by the Monadnock Folklore Society

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.

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 enhance the movements of the particular contra dance being taught/called.  We tend to push the boundaries of the southern style with spontaneous fiddle and fiddle/guitar harmonies.

Members of the band consist of Craig Edwards and Cathy Mason on twin fiddles or fiddle/banjo, and Henry Yoshimura on guitar.  We have played and toured widely on the East Coast, and have rocked the house at venues including the Cambridge VFW dance, Glen Echo, MD, Shepherdstown, WV, Glenside, PA, Bethlehem, PA and many others, as well as dance and music weekends and festivals, most recently, The Folk Project in New Jersey.

Band members are active musicians in many other bands as well, including: The Zydecats, Grand Bois Cajun Band, The Rhythm Method String Band and The Brazen Hussies.