The
Smith Meeting House Calendar for 2010 (Times subject to change):
October 17, 2010 – 4:00 p.m. - Annual Harvest Church Service.
November 21, 2010 – 4:00 p.m. - Annual Thanksgiving Day Service.
December
19, 2010 – 4:00 p.m. - Christmas Church Service.
Photographs Of The 1930s Document The Great Depression At Gilmanton
Historical Society
Photographs of the 1930s by
Dorothea Lange are featured at the Gilmanton Historical Society program on
Tuesday, September 28.
Introducing America to Americans: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s,
is the final program of the Gilmanton Historical Society’s 2010 summer
series. The presentation complements July’s Gilmanton 1920-1940 history
program with a slide presentation by Martin Fox featuring photographs taken
during the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration. The slide
presentation and discussion examines how these photographs define the era.
The program on Tuesday evening, September 28, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Old
Town Hall on Route 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works. A social hour with
refreshments starts at 7 p.m.
The program is sponsored in part by the NH
Humanities Council. The public is welcome. There is no charge and donations
to support the Historical Society programs are welcome.
The
evening will begin with a brief annual meeting including election of
officers for the 2010-2011 year. If you are interested in
serving on the Historical Society Board, want to know more about
opportunities to work on Society projects, or would like to offer ideas for
future programs, please contact president John Dickey at 267-6098.
The
Gilmanton Historical Society offers a number of publications on the history
of the Town. They are available at all Society programs, at the Town Clerk’s
Office, and at the Brick House in Gilmanton Corners. The Society’s Museum,
in the Academy Building, is open by appointment. Call curators Jeanine
Moorhead 267-8870 or George Carpenter 267-8907.
Gilmanton Land Trust Annual Meeting Features Cogswell Mountain Hike
The
Gilmanton Land Trust 2010 annual meeting on Saturday afternoon, September
25, features a hike on the Cogswell Mountain Conservation Area led by Tom
Howe and Sarah Thorne.
The annual meeting will convene at 2 p.m. at the
Gilmanton Year-Round Library (“the library in the barn”) on Route 140
opposite the Gilmanton School.
Following a brief business meeting, Tom
Howe will offer a short history of the Cogswell Mountain Conservation Area
after which attendees are invited to explore some of the trails in the
preserve.
Conservation easements in the Cogswell Mountain
Conservation Area are held by the Gilmanton Conservation Commission and the
Society for the Protection of NH Forests. Property owners John and
Ursula Allen, Frank Allen, Gary and Denise Ambelas and Frank Scherkenbach
and Kimberly McGovern (Perkins tract) make possible this
extraordinary area, some 500 acres preserved from development for
recreation, wildlife habitat and scenic beauty. The area
stretches from Route 140, across from the Gilmanton School, northward toward
Middle Route and Perkins Road.
Anyone interested in the work of the
Gilmanton Land Trust, and its projects to conserve special places in
Gilmanton, is welcome to attend. For information contact Carolyn
Baldwin, secretary, at 435-8814,
[email protected].
Gilmanton Community Church Food Pantry Walk
On Sunday, October 3, 2010,
at 2:00 p.m. the Gilmanton Community Church Food Pantry will be holding
their annual Food Pantry Walk.
Walkers will be walking for pledges of
food, for the Pantry. The walk will begin at Smith Meeting House, and
continue down to Stone Road, Burke Road, and onto Stage Road, ending at the
Iron Works Community for a free Spaghetti dinner at 4:30 p.m. for all
walkers. All are Welcome!
There will be a $5.00 charge for non-walkers at
the dinner. Volunteers are needed to assist in the preparation and serving,
of the spaghetti dinner.
The Gilmanton Boy Scout Troop will be joining
us in the pickup of trash along the roadsides as we walk.
A pledge sheet
for food may be picked up at Gilmanton Community Church Office, 364-7891,
and Beth Lavin’s Hair Salon, 267-1992.
Obituaries
Jean M. Brough
Laconia - Jean M. (Morrison) Brough, 88, formerly of 14
Beech Street died at Goldenview Healthcare on Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Jean was born February 12, 1922, in Northfield, N.H., the daughter of
Ernest S. and Ida M. Morrison Greene.
Jean lived all of her life in the Belmont-Laconia area. She attended
Belmont Elementary School and graduated from Belmont High School in 1941.
Jean was a waitress at the Shore Diner in Lakeport for years. She worked for
31½ years at Laconia Shoe and at K-Mart in Gilford for 13 ½ years. She
obtained her beautician, real estate and notary licenses. She also served
ten years on the Zoning Board.
Jean was a member of the United Baptist Church of Lakeport. She was a
very active person. She was a forty-two year member and former president of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1670 Auxiliary, a forty-two year member
and former president of American Legion Post #1 Auxiliary and District
Director. She held many posts in both Auxiliaries. She was a thirty-six year
member of the Laconia Emblem Club #80 and held many offices, serving twice
as president. Her hobbies included crocheting, reading and putting together
puzzles. She loved playing with her puppy, traveling, eating in new
restaurants, all of her clubs, organizations and helping others.
She was a very loving and giving person.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Edward Brace, Jr. and his wife,
Carolyn, and James Stanley Brace and his wife, Gerry, all of Bossier City,
Louisiana; a daughter, Donna Mae Monroe, and her husband, John A Monroe, Jr.
of Center Barnstead, N.H; nine grandchildren, David Vaillancourt, Jr. of
Epsom, N.H., and his daughter, Whitney Vaillancourt, and his fiancée, Tracy
Freeman, and daughters, Jenna and Britta Osburg, John L. Monroe and his
wife, Cheryl, and their children, John, Arthur and Carter, of Bow, N.H.,
Robin Quinn and her husband, Kevin, and their children, Harold and Henry all
of Shreveport, Louisiana, Michelle McKellar and her husband, Gregg, and
children, Grace and Carolyn, all of Shreveport, Louisiana, James Brace and
his wife, Diane, and their children, Tyler and Kailee of New Boston, N.H.,
Christine Boulanger and her husband, Rob, and their children, Nick and
Andrew, of Auburn, N.H., and Jamie Good and her husband, Josh, and their
children, Jenna and Jacob, of Temple, Texas, and Kim Dowling Flint and her
children, Kiley Stedman and her children; sisters, Anne Ouellette Morrison
of Laconia and Marion Pitman of Ft. Lucie, Florida; a half sister, Dot
Patterson, of Rumney; a sister-in-law, Pia Morrison, of Westminster, MD; and
many nieces and nephews.
Special recognition is given to nephew, Dave Ouellete, and his wife,
Tammy, and niece, Diane Ouellette, for being so loving and devoted to Jean.
She was predeceased by her husband of twenty-eight years, Norman Brough;
by three brothers, John S. Morrison, William G. Morrison, and Ernest R.
Morrison; and by three sisters, Ida H. Maleham, Ruth Martin and Jacqueline
Morrison.
A Funeral Service was held on Saturday, September 18,
2010, at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau- Paquette Funeral Home, Laconia.
Burial followed in the family lot in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Laconia.
Memorial donations may be made to the Norman and Jean Brough Scholarship
c/o Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation, PO Box 7312, Gilford, NH
03247-7312.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home and Cremation Services,
Laconia was in charge of the arrangements.
For further information and to view an online memorial go to
www.wilkinsonbeane.com.
