Hauling wood and cutting ice filled days
Winter was not a time of indolence or hibernation at Eagle Pond Farm in the days before its main crops were Donald Hall’s and Jane Kenyon’s poetry and prose. Winter in those earlier years was when wood for the stoves, cut in summer, had to be hauled from the steep slopes of Ragged as soon […]
Plant a pollinator-friendly garden
Learn how to plan and plant a pollinator-friendly garden at 1:30 PM on Sunday, March 26 at the Wilmot Community Association’s (WCA) Red Barn, 64 Village Road in Wilmot. This free program is sponsored by the WCA and the Wilmot Garden Club. Suzanne Paul, owner of Wilmot-based Terra Niche, will discuss how homeowners can add […]
Potluck supper at 5 PM
The 2023 Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway (SRKG) Annual Meeting will be held at the Sutton First Free Will Baptist Church beside Kezar Lake in North Sutton on Sunday, March 26. The evening begins with a Potluck Supper starting at 5 PM. All are welcome to join, but please bring a dish to share. The SRKG board will […]
March 19; Adults $18, Members $15, Students $8
March is the month to celebrate your Irish ancestry (or “wanna be” ancestry) with all the music, dancing, and laughter of St. Patrick’s Day. On Sunday, March 19 at 4 PM the Center for the Arts will be presenting Irish music performed by the Sunapee Singers and Irish Step Dancing by the McGonagle Irish Step […]
March is winter clearance sale month
Kristal Laroche, owner of “For the Love of Crafts” has joined the Andover Thrift and Gift Shop as a new “in-house” artisan. Kristal served in the US Navy as a TM3 Torpedoman’s mate third class on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69, based out of Norfolk, Virginia. Kristal was captain of a 50-caliber […]
Andover Service Club is gauging interest
Interested in displaying your craft and artisan items at a local, pre-holiday arts and crafts fair? The nonprofit Andover Service Club is soliciting interest in the revival of the Christmas in October “Jingle Bell Craft Fair.” This successful fair was held for many years at the end of October in the auditorium of the Andover […]
Fundraisers include raffle, benefit concert
The Andover Fourth of July Committee has been meeting each month, preparing for the arrival of Tuesday, July 4, 2023. This year the Village Green will be bustling with vendors selling a variety of items, and there will be plenty of food and drinks. There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work finding a few […]
Tuesday, March 21, at 6 PM
The seed catalogs are in the mail and the choices are endless – so many heirlooms and new and improved varieties of herbs, vegetables, and flowers! Why grow from seed, you ask? Growing from seed gives you a wider array of plant options, allows you to push the growing season, saves money, gives you control […]
All three workshops offered in March
“Out of the Blue,” a workshop for kids and adults to build bluebird houses ready for spring nesting, will be presented on Saturday, March 11, from 10 AM – noon. The workshop will be taught by Harvey Best and Wyman Ordway, long-time Andover residents and woodworkers who are interested in bringing the bluebirds back to […]
Advance registration - limited to 12
“Paint and Sip” will be offered again on Sunday, March 19, from 6 to 8 PM at The Andover Community Hub.This opportunity for a social evening with others, while also learning a thing or two about painting, will be taught by Andover artist Molly Leith. Using a post-impressionist winter landscape by Canadian artist Jennifer Woodburn […]