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Gilmanton NH News

October 1, 2014

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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

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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

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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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