Get energized to tackle those overdue clean outs of your garage, cellar, attic, garden shed or closets! Bonnie Borremeo Tomlinson is back to help you get started! Grab your trackign sheet at the desk.
In this presentation Wilton native Jon Sargent will share his tracking experiences and
give his insight on how to identify and interpret animal tracks, trails, and sign. Jon has
over 30 years of tracking experience and has tracked with Susan Morse of Keeping
Track, author Mark Elbroch, and completed an apprenticeship with tracker and author
Paul Rezendes.
Join us at this special holiday event for all ages. Storyteller, songsinger and games leader, Todd Goodwin blends his experiences in camping, education and theater to provide a memorable and unique experience for audiences and participants of all ages. Mr. Goodwin began his career as a story teller while a camper, counselor and director of Camp Monomonac in Rindge, NH. Around the campfire there are no loudspeakers, costumes or sets, just the face and voice of the teller who uses the imagination to take you to different places in time and space. Mr. Goodwin creates many of the stories he tells from his camping back ground and growing up as a New England Yankee. He adds to his repertoire from literature and multi-cultural traditions and the blessings and challenges of everyday life. Sponsored by Ledgewood Bay Senior Living.
Quilts are so much more than bed coverings, they tell a story of their times.Join us for a talk on quilts and the stories they tell presented by Cheryl Williams, docent at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA. Learn about the Jane Stickle Quilt which is part of the Bennington Art Museum collection and on view from 9/2-10/14. On view in our rotunda will be a copy of this famous quilt.Sponsored by Ledgewood Bay Senior Living
Sign your team of 2-6 up today to take part in this special Old Home Days event under the tent on the FRES Flat with Trivia hosts Will Kindler and Kermit Williams. To sign up call the library 603-654-2581 or email us at Wilton Library.
Author and wooden boat builder Kevin Martin brings you through the woods and into some cities in the 4 states to find these impressive living parts of our landscape. The trips include old growth pine or hemlock forests and a city tour with a horse chestnut in Portsmouth NH that was planted by a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Northern NE has several national champion Big Trees and some of those are also shown. Big Trees of Northern NE directs you on 66 trips to find over 160 of the largest trees that are on public land or in the cities where the public can see them up close. 4th generation NH native and outdoorsman Kevin Martin shares stories of big trees around the region, along with information about their history, management, and caretaking. Kevin lives in Epping, NH. See website at www.kevinmartin.wcha.org/bigtrees.