Jean Cronin Connolly will be participating in the first ever Center for the Arts Open Studios Weekend on October 7 and 8 from 10 to 3 PM each day, along with eleven other local artists opening their studios to the public. Jean will be showing her Landscapes, Seascapes, and Still Life oils in her studio […]
Featuring Anastasia Robinson
Soprano Anastasia will appear as a soloist with Kearsarge Chorale in two Messiah performances – Saturday, November 18 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, November 19 at 3 PM. Ms. Robinson, a native of Springfield, New Hampshire, now residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gave a stellar performance with the Chorale last fall in Poulenc’s Gloria. The Messiah […]
Friday beginning at 7 PM
Traveling north from his home in Greenfield, Massachusetts, “songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, finger-style guitar player, fly-fisherman and beer drinker” Zak Trojano will entertain the audience at the next Andover Community Coffeehouse on Friday, October 20, beginning at 7 PM in the Highland Lake Grange Hall in East Andover. It’s free and open to the public (though […]
Michael Chabon’s new book, “Moonglow,” sat around the house for almost a month before I could bring myself to finish it. Chunks at a time, I had fallen into his story and wondered, “Is this part true? Could it have happened that way?” Soldier, engineer, and rocket enthusiast, Chabon’s grandfather married a Jewish Frenchwoman who […]
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OCTOBER October 6 First Fridays! Presents Northern Stage! at Whipple Hall, New London 7 PM The Center for the Arts presents a Northern Stage Preview of their 2017-2018 Season! Actors will perform snippets of the upcoming productions – including A Doll’s House, a stunning play about New England’s favorite poet Robert Frost, Disney’s The Little […]
Friday from 5:30 to 7 PM
Come and enjoy the Center for The Arts’ First Friday on October 6th, 5:30-7pm at Whipple Hall, 429 Main Street in New London. Northern Stage actors will perform snippets of the upcoming productions – including A Doll’s House, a stunning play about New England’s favorite poet Robert Frost, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, a world premiere […]
ADULT You Say it First – Susan Mallory Map of the Heart – Susan Wiggs Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie Glass Houses – Louise Penny Secrets in Death – JD Robb A Legacy of Spies – John Le Carre The Right Time – Danielle Steel Y is For Yesterday – Sue Grafton No Man’s Land […]
Saturday and Sunday from 10-3
Start and pick up map at Whipple Hall, 429 Main Street, New London where Ludmila Gayvoronsky, Barbara Hunting and David Tibbetts will be showing their work. Then visit nine studios within 15 minutes of New London: Maria Blanck, Jean Cronin Connelly, Elizabeth D’Amico, Loren Howard, John J. Koron, Vicki V. Koron, Mary Mead, Roger Wells […]
Honoring Gail Fitzpatrick
The Bachelder Library in East Andover is about to turn over a new leaf with the departure of Gail Fitzpatrick, who has welcomed you into the library for the past four years. Coming to us from a long career in teaching, Gail continued to enjoy engaging with cheerful young people, through story hours, visits to […]
The trustees of the Andover Libraries are pleased to welcome Laura Pauling of New London as the new director of the Bachelder Library in East Andover. Her official start date is Tuesday, September 5, but you may run into her beforehand as she prepares to take over from retiring director, Gail Fitzpatrick. Even as the […]