March 22 at 7:30 PM
Guitarists of the legendary band Little Feat, Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett, have joined forces as an acoustic duo that critics say blows audiences away. They will be performing songs from their Little Feat catalog and more at The Flying Monkey Performance Center on Saturday, March 22 at 7:30 PM. Tickets start at $29. Paul […]
March 27 thru April 11
Colby-Sawyer College’s Fine and Performing Arts Department will host the 41st annual Gladys Greenbaum Meyers Juried Student Art Exhibition, featuring students’ latest works in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, watercolor, and mixed-media. The reception will be held on Thursday, March 27, from 5 to 7 PM in the Marian Graves Mugar Art […]
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"
Colby-Sawyer College’s Fine and Performing Arts Department presents Orlando, a play based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 27, 28, and 29 at 7 PM in the Sawyer Fine Arts Center. Seating is on-stage and tickets can be reserved at Colby-Sawyer.edu/tickets. Cost is $10 for the general public and free […]
March 23 concert is free and open to the public
The Colby-Sawyer College gospel choir, Voices of CSC, will present its spring ensemble Celebration of Gospel: Remembering the Past, Embracing the Present on Sunday, March 23 at 7 PM in Wheeler Hall at the Ware Student Center. The concert is free and open to the public. Under the direction of director Jeramey Winfield ’13, the campus […]
Goal is more music on campus and in the community
On Wednesday, March 12, Colby-Sawyer College and Kearsarge Chorale signed an agreement that will enhance the college’s music curriculum while providing a permanent performance venue for the Chorale and expanding the musical opportunities available to college students and area residents. The two institutions will remain autonomous under the agreement, working under their own by-laws and […]
Janet Moore, Andover Library Trustee
In the March issue of School Library Journal, Editor in Chief Rebecca Miller writes about an innovative school lunch tray program. In six metropolitan areas across the country, cafeteria trays — those compartmentalized foam plates tossed to the landfill — are being replaced by compostable trays made from a sugarcane byproduct. What impressed me, besides […]
June 27 and 28 at the Red Barn in Wilmot
The Wilmot Community Association (WCA) is seeking artists and artisans from Wilmot and adjoining towns to participate in the second annual Imagination into Art, an artists’ exhibit and sale, on June 27 and 28 at the WCA’s Red Barn, 64 Village Road, next to the Post Office in Wilmot Flat. The event will open with […]
5 PM in Sunapee Harbor
The community is invited to the Lake Sunapee Region Center for the Arts’ “First Friday” event on April 4 from 5 to 7 PM. This evening’s program of Words, Music, and Art is brought to you by the Center’s Literary Arts Guild. The event will be held at the Lake Sunapee Protective Association’s Knowlton House […]
Adult Fiction The Valley of Amazement, Amy Tan White Fire, Preston and Douglas Between Sisters, Kristin Hannah Innocence: a novel, Dean Koontz Bartenders Tale, Ivan Doig King and Maxwell, David Baldacci South of Broad: a novel, Pat Conroy Waiting for Wren, Cate Beauman Counterfeit Agent, Alex Berenson Dear Life: Stories, Alice Munro Going Dark, James […]
Welcome to winter-over and over again; as I write, the forecast speaks of more snow for mid-February. So I’ll start you off with a book based in the Arctic wilderness of the Greenland ice cap. Yes, Frozen in Time is Mitchell Zuckoff’s recounting of the survival saga of a downed World War II flight crew, but […]