Gilmanton Old Home Day Set For August 15, 2015
The Gilmanton Old Home Day Organization has set the date for next
summer’s event for Saturday, August 15. Officers for
the 2015 Old Home Day celebration will be Sarah Baldwin Welcome,
president, Rick Puleo, vice president, Paula Gilman, secretary, and
Barbara Angevine, treasurer.
The committee will be welcoming volunteers for many
tasks. For information, contact Sarah Baldwin-Welcome at
267-7943 or e-mail at
[email protected].
Book & Bake Sale At Gilmanton Iron Works Library
The Gilmanton Iron Works Library will hold a Book and Bake Sale on
Saturday, October 11 from 9:30 to noon. The historic library,
located at 10 Elm Street, will host a sale that will offer books,
videos, and DVDs, as well as a wide variety of baked goods, sweets,
and other treats.
“Book and bake sales are the primary fundraisers for our small
library,” explains Susannah Chance, president of the Gilmanton Iron
Works Library Association. “This year we are hosting a fall sale
after receiving multiple requests for one from our patrons.”
The Gilmanton Iron Works is a seasonal library and will close for
the winter after the sale on October 11. Members and the public are
encouraged to visit the library to check out books for winter
reading, and to return books that were checked out over the summer.
A public library serving the community since 1916,
the Gilmanton Iron Works Library is listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. A small group of volunteers maintains the
building and the library’s extensive collection of books and DVDs.
For more information, visit the Library at 10 Elm Street in the
Iron Works, at
www.gilmantonironworkslibrary.weebly.com
or at the Library’s Facebook page.
Gilmanton Food Pantry And Thrift Shop News
Thank You!
As a result of your generosity, 18 school kits were provided to
children in need in Gilmanton. Thank you to all who donated items
to complete these kits with required supplies for the children’s
first day of school.
The Gilmanton Food Pantry would like to thank the Still Seeking Farm
for their generous donations of fresh vegetables.
Due to an overwhelming response to our campaign to raise funds for a
new refrigerator, the Gilmanton Food Pantry now has a new
refrigerator. Thank you to everyone who donated and to all those
who support our mission to be of assistance to members of our
community. We are appreciative and grateful for all donations of
food, money, clothing and time.
We welcome new volunteers. If you would like to consider giving a
few hours a month of your time for this worthwhile endeavor, please
contact Barbara Reed, Volunteer Coordinator at 556-9449.
New Winter Hours: Wednesday, 3 – 7 pm and Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm.
Telephone: 603-364-0114.
Location: Route 140, Gilmanton Iron Works.
Parking & Entrance: Gilmanton Community Church Parking Lot.
Mailing Address: Post Office Box 16, Gilmanton, N.H. 03237
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GilmantonCommunityChurch.
The Capital Crime Of Witchcraft - What The Primary
Sources Tell Us
At Gilmanton Year-Round Library, Tuesday, October 14
Margo Burns explores the Capital Crime of Witchcraft at the
Gilmanton Year-Round Library on Tuesday, October 14, 7 pm.
Margo Burns presents her research on the 17th Century witchcraft
trials on Tuesday, October 14, 7 pm at the Gilmanton Year-Round
Library.
On first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may
seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with
hysterics. Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in
seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source
manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants,
indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals
of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the
fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court
worked. This program focuses on the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692
and 1693, when nineteen people were hanged and one crushed to death,
but also examines a variety of other cases against women in New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
Margo Burns is the 10th generation great-granddaughter of Rebecca
Nurse, who was hanged in Salem in 1692 on the charge of witchcraft.
She is the project manager and an associate editor of Records of the
Salem Witch-Hunt, published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press.
This work is the definitive collection of transcriptions of the
legal records of the episode. Burns currently works at St. Paul’s
School, where she is the director of The Language Center.
The program, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council, is free and
open to the public. The Library is located on NH Route 140,
opposite the Gilmanton School.
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