The Walpolean

WHS Speaker Series

“12,000 Years in the Granite State”

with Dr. Robert Moody

The Walpole Historical Society’s Speaker Series continues on Friday, Feb. 10th, 2017, at 7:00 PM at the Walpole Town Hall.

Anthropologist Dr. Robert Moody will share with the audience how, by the end of the Ice Age, archeological evidence discovered in Keene proves that people have lived in our region for 12,000 years.

Dr. Moody, who was the director of the Paleoindian Tenant Swamp excavations in Keene, has spent the last 30 years studying Native American archaeological sites in New England. Dr. Moody notes that, “The native Abenaki people played a central role in the history of the Monadnock region, defending it against English settlement and forcing the abandonment of Keene and other Monadnock area towns during the French and Indian Wars. Despite this, little is known about the Abenaki, and conventional histories often depict the first Europeans entering an untamed, uninhabited wilderness, rather than the homeland of people who had been there for hundreds of generations.”

He will discuss how the real depth of native history was revealed when an archaeological study, prior to construction of the new Keene Middle School, discovered traces of four structures dating to the end of the Ice Age. Undisturbed for 12,000 years, the site revealed information about the economy, gender roles, and household organization of the Granite State’s very first inhabitants, as well as evidence of social networks that extended for hundreds of miles across northern New England.

This is a free event, sponsored by the Walpole Historical Society and supported by the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and the public is invited to attend.

“Mines of the Monadnock Region”
Friday, Jan.13, 2017 at 7:00 PM

From mica to feldspar and eventually the addition of beryl, the Monadnock Region has
had its share of world famous mines. Join Jim Pecora, the Southwestern New Hampshire Mines
and Mining Historian for a fascinating and informative look at over 200 years of mining history,
a history that is unfamiliar to most of those who live here.

Pecora’s “Show and Tell” multimedia presentation will open doors to a world full of hard work, often by crews of immigrants, who mined within some massive subterranean tunnels beneath our region.

For over a hundred years, mica was the money-making mineral in Monadnock.  Learn about mica’s many ordinary and WWI and II top-secret uses. In addition, the audience will learn some amazing information about South Acworth’s famous Beryl Mountain and the world renowned Big Mine in Alstead.
Spend an evening learning something new and interesting about your region.

This Speaker Series “Mines of the Monadnock Region” is free, and the public is invited to attend on
Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, at 7:00 PM at the Walpole Town Hall.

Please help us spread the word that the BF 5K Winter Classic scheduled for Saturday morning has been postponed due to weather conditions that would risk participants’ health and safety. We will reschedule the event for the spring.

Cody Tallent, a senior at Bellows Falls Union High School, is an accomplished distance runner and a staff member at Meeting Waters YMCA’s Y Day Camp and Y-ASPIRE afterschool program. He’s bringing all of these characteristics together to organize a 5K run and walk to benefit the regional Y’s Reach Out to Youth Scholarship Fund. The Bellows Falls 5K Winter Classic will be held at 10AM on Saturday, December 17^th. It starts and finishes at the Rockingham Recreation Center on Playground Road.

“I’m doing this to finish my Senior Project. I wanted to do a road race because I love running,” Tallent states. “I wanted Meeting Waters YMCA to be the beneficiary of the event because I have seen first-hand how the Y has benefited kids and I know the money will help kids and families in our community.”

According to the race organizer, the 5K route will consist of two laps of a 2.5 kilometer circuit (about a mile-and-a-half). “Hopefully, this will encourage families to come and do the event together. Children could stop after one lap while the parents continue on,” Tallent adds. “Like the Y does every day, I’m hoping this event promotes healthy lifestyles and there’s no better way to do that than to get a whole family involved.”

More information about the BF 5K Winter Classic—as well as a Registration Form—are available at Meeting Waters YMCA’s website (www.meetingwatersymca.org). Registration is now open. One may register the morning of the event, as well. Questions can be directed to Meeting Waters YMCA’s administrative office at 802-463-4769 or by writing info@meetingwatersymca.org.

Founded 121 years ago, Meeting Waters YMCA is a non-profit, charitable social service agency “strengthening the foundations of community” in the Bellows Falls, Fall Mountain, Springfield and Brattleboro regions.

The Walpole players will present Christmas on the Air – a step back in time featuring highlights from the golden age of radio, radio plays, skits, carols, and gags – at the Walpole Town Hall, Helen Miller Theater Friday December 16 at 7:00 PM.

In the old time golden radio skits the Bickersons will be back celebrating Christmas Eve, Art Linkletter may be making an appearance with his kids, and Fibber McGee will bring home his Christmas tree. Songs of the season and other merriment will also be included.

The holiday entertainment will be presented in similar format to the players popular “Cabin Fever Radio Follies” that they have preformed the Saturday after Town Meeting for the last four years. The performers will be the “Radio Follies” crew and others. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the audience is seated at round tables of eight. You may bring your dinner, snacks, beverages of choice, and friends and take a break from the stress of the holidays. You may make it a party and linger after the show.

Tickets are $10. each and all proceeds go to Our place Drop in Center and the Fall Mountain Food Shelf. They are available at Galloway Real Estate and Joanie Joan’s.

Sharing Bread – a Multigenerational Service

Join us at the Walpole Unitarian Church Sunday at 10 a.m. for a special Thanksgiving Weekend service of sharing bread and pondering the sacred in the food we prepare to nourish ourselves and others.

Led by Worship Committee Chair Antonia Andreoli and trustee Dorothy Read, the service will include readings that reflect this season of sharing food, with a special twist. If you like, please bring along a loaf of bread. We’ll be invited to choose someone else’s bread to bring home (or share right there!), and leave a donation for it in our “Manna Jar,” the jar we use to collect pocket change and donations for our local food pantries.

You don’t have to bake and bring a loaf to participate, of course. There will also be jars of a sourdough starter that has been going for years (made originally from grapes from the vines at Mountain View Winery and another friend’s batch of sourdough, added to by yet another’s) and instructions will be included.

So, come share the bread and your thoughts. We are a Welcoming Congregation committed to love and social justice.

The shopping day is Saturday the 19th, NOT the 18th.  Thanks you Beth Colley for bringing that to my attention. When retired, one overlooks details like dates! – Lil

Dale Woodward sent me this valuable information this morning.  Just crossed a couple of items off my To Do list!  – Lil

The First Congregational Church, famous for our pies, will be holding their annual Thanksgiving pie sale Wednesday, November 23rd at the Walpole Post Office, 9:00 to 11:00.
Let us bake for you!

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