Gilmanton Women’s Club
The next meeting of the Gilmanton Women’s Club will be held at the
home of Diana McElwee, 258 Loon Pond Rd, Gilmanton, NH, on Monday
October 6th at 1:30 p.m.
The Gilmanton Women’s Club was formed in 1971, with a mission to
raise funds for the benefit of Gilmanton’s townspeople, and local
organizations.
We are always delighted to welcome new members. If
you would like to learn more about our organization please contact
or Bernadette Gallant, President at 364-7709, or Judy Bakos,
Secretary at 267-5056, and/or visit our web site at:
www.gilmantonnh.org Community Gilmanton
Women’s Club o r:
http://www.gilmantonnh.org/index.php?pg=org&oc=gwc
[The second web address takes you directly to their page].
Gilmanton Food Pantry And Thrift Shop News
October Sale At Gilmanton Thrift Shop
During the month of October all women’s pants are being offered at 2
pairs of pants for $1.00. What a buy! Everything else in the Shop
is 50% off.
New Winter Hours
Beginning Monday, October 13th, the Gilmanton Food Pantry and Thrift
Shop will be closed on Monday’s throughout the winter months.
Winter hours are Wednesday 3 – 7 pm and Saturday 10 am – 2 pm.
Telephone number: 603-364-0114.
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/GilmantonCommunityChurch.
Gilmanton Year-Round Library October Calendar
Story Times - Every Wednesday morning at 10:30 a and every Thursday
afternoon at 1:30. Note::, there is NO STORY TIME on 10/9 because
Miss Pam is away at a conference. For questions on children’s
programs call children’s librarian Pam Jansury, 364-2400.
Gilmanton Crafters - Every Tuesday at 1:30 pm
Magic the Gathering - Every Thursday from 6-8:30 pm
10/1 Home School Group 1-3 pm. All home schooling
parents are welcome to join this open forum. Share ideas, lesson
plans! What has worked for you? Reach out to the Home Schooling
Community!
10/2 Crafternoon 3:15-5 pm Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?
Come make a beautiful button tree and take home your one-of-a-kind
creation.
10/2 Energy Share 7 pm
10/7 6 pm. Book Talk with Author Peter Miller- Jane
Varney Durgin: Her Life and Times. Meredith author Peter Miller
will speak about the abolitionist activity that occurred in the
Lakes Region and vicinity during the last three decades of slavery
in America.
10/8 Gilmanton Year-Round Library Board Meeting 7 pm
10/9 Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, 7 pm.
Back by popular demand, Pat Clarke repeats the Gilmanton Historical
Society’s program on Gilmanton’s most notorious resident.
10/11 Drop In knitting 10-12 am
10/14 The Capital Crime of Witchcraft with Margo Burns 7
pm. 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. Program sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.
10/15 Home School Group 1-3 pm. All home schooling
parents are welcome to join this open forum. Share ideas, lesson
plans! What has worked for you? Reach out to the Home Schooling
Community!
10/16 Lego Club 3:15-5 pm.
10/16 Cabot Cove Crew 7pm
10/21 Paper & Popcorn 3:15-5 pm. This is a brand new
club for kids who enjoy movies based on popular children’s books.
Stop into the library beginning October 1st and pick up
a copy of the book, read it at home and then come back on October
21st to watch the movie and participate in fun activities. Program
is for children in third, fourth and fifth grades only.
10/23 An Afternoon at the Movies 1:15-3 pm. (Gilmanton School early
release date. )
10/23 Winter Bird Feeding with Wild Bird Depot owner
Steve White presents, 7 pm
10/24 Teen (Tween) Night - Halloween Style 6:30-9:15 pm
10/29 Home School Group 1-3 pm. All home schooling
parents are welcome to join this open forum. Share ideas, lesson
plans! What has worked for you? Reach out to the Home Schooling
Community!
10/30 Family Movie Night - Roald Dahl’s The Witches 6 pm
Who Was Herman Mudgett (HH Holmes)?
At Gilmanton Year-Round Library
October 9
Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, Gilmanton’s most
notorious resident, is Pat Clarke’s subject at the Gilmanton
Year-Round Library on Thursday, October 9 at 7 pm.
Pat Clarke, will present a program on Gilmanton’s most notorious
(late) resident, the convicted serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett,
alias H.H. Holmes, on Thursday, October 9 at 7 pm at the Gilmanton
Year-Round Library.
This program, back by popular demand, repeats the presentation in
August at the Gilmanton Historical Society which drew a capacity
audience. The program is free and open to the public.
The Library is located on NH Route 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works,
opposite the Gilmanton School.
Mr. Clarke will cover Mudgett’s educational and teaching history in
Gilmanton, his experiences in medical school, and try to correct
some of the myths that have arisen about him.
Anti Slavery Activists In The Lakes Region
At Gilmanton Year-Round
Library October 7
Meredith author Peter Miller will talk on the anti-slavery movement
in the Lakes Region at the Gilmanton Year-round Library on Tuesday,
October 7th at 6 pm. His book, Jane Varney Durgin - Trick Rider,
Quaker Preacher, Opponent of Slavery - Her Life and Times, will be
available.
Meredith author Peter Miller will speak about the abolitionist
activity that occurred in the Lakes Region and vicinity during the
last three decades of slavery in America, on Tuesday October 7th,
6:00 pm, at the Gilmanton Year-Round Library.
In 1835, a mere three years after the New England Antislavery
Society became the first group to advocate the immediate and
unconditional abolition of slavery, similar anti-slavery groups were
formed in a number of New Hampshire towns, and the New Hampshire
Antislavery Society held its first annual convention. However, the
radical abolition of slavery was unpopular even in the North at this
time, and these abolitionists were censured and attacked. Miller
will describe the successes and reverses experienced by New
Hampshire abolitionists that year.
Many women wished to participate in the crusade against slavery,
too. Because most men of that era did not welcome women’s
involvement in political or social causes, the women formed their
own anti-slavery societies to insure that they, too, could
contribute to the abolition of slavery. Miller will describe how
this issue fractured the anti-slavery movement in New Hampshire, and
he will depict how women defied gender stereotypes to persevere in
their mission
In 1850, the passage of the heinous Fugitive Slave Act led many more
Northerners to become radical abolitionists. Miller will identify
the principal components of this Federal legislation, and he will
describe how abolitionists attempted to thwart enforcement of this
Act politically and through civil disobedience, such as the forceful
rescue of arrested fugitives and participation in the Underground
Railroad.
One local person who was highly involved in the anti-slavery effort
was the Lakes Region’s legendary Jane Varney Durgin, a Quaker who
was born and raised in Wolfeboro and who lived in Sandwich most of
her adulthood. Though not one of the foremost abolitionists in New
Hampshire, she worked on behalf of the slave politically and through
the Underground Railroad, and she illustrates how local women
courageously fought against slavery. Miller will identify her
anti-slavery initiatives and put them in historical perspective.
Signed copies of Miller’s recently published book, Jane Varney
Durgin – Trick Rider, Quaker Preacher, Opponent of Slavery – Her
Life and Times, will be available for purchase.
This event is free and open to the public. The
Gilmanton Year Round Library is located on Route 140 in Gilmanton
Iron Works opposite the Gilmanton School. For more
information, contact the Gilmanton Year Round Library (364-2400) or
Peter Miller ([email protected]).
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor,
Whose interests is the Executive Committee of the Belknap County
Delegation representing? Certainly not those of the Belknap County
nursing home residents.
Belknap County has an obligation, and honor, to provide its nursing
home residents with the best care possible. The county also must
facilitate the nursing home staff’s capacity to do the best job they
can.
When the Executive Committee of the Belknap County Delegation -
Representatives Burchell, Comtois, Flanders, Greenmore, Tilton,
Vadney, and Worsman - obstructs the county’s and the nursing home’s
ability to perform this job they are acting out of petty
self-importance. They are not looking out for the best interests of
the Belknap County nursing home residents.
This latest skirmish between the Executive Committee and the
Commissioners is reprehensible. When the Commissioners and the
County Administrator inform the Executive Committee that they are
not available on a planned meeting date, the Executive Committee
holds it anyway. When one of the Commissioners speaks out about the
impending crisis affecting both the nursing home and the jail,
Chairman Tilton simply shrugs.
Lives and livelihoods are at stake. This is not the way to run
county government, by personal agenda and intimidation. This kind of
hijinks has characterized the interaction between the majority on
the Belknap County Delegation and the Commissioners for far too
long. Two of those Representatives, Greenmore and Worsman, are not
running for reelection but one of them, Burchell, is seeking to be
elevated to County Commissioner status! It is time to change the
membership and attitude of those responsible for running our county
government.
Lew Henry
Gilmanton Iron Works
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