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EVERY WEEK IN OUR COMMUNITY
| Monday Evening:
Monday Night Contra Dance
8:00 pm ~ Nelson Town Hall
Admission: $3.00
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Tuesday & Thursday:
Town Offices Open
9:00 am until Noon
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Sunday:
Nelson Congregational Church
Service at 9:30 am
Info 603-847-3280
Chapel By The Lake
Service at 10:00 am
Info 603-847-9900
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Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Hours Monday 10:00 - 1:00
Tues, Wed, Thurs
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Story Hour: Tuesday
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Oct - May
Saturday 10:00 - 1:00
Free Internet Connection
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Knitters & Crocheters Club
meets every other Thursday, 10:00 am, at the Chapel By The Lake
next meeting: 05/10 |
| Does Your Project Need Funding?
If you are planning a community project that you believe will benefit the Nelson and Munsonville community, there may be funds available to help you get started. Moving in Step has a convenient downloadable application form available at the website.
Contact Richard Popovic 847-3192 or Dave Birchenough 827-3552 for more information.
What's Happening in the Marketplace?
What makes our online Classifieds and Marketplace so unique? It's our friends and neighbors that make it stand out.
At the Marketplace you will find sections for all kinds of listings, such as:
Trade Talents & SkillsBarter Central. Right here! Trade something you know for something you need. Trade something you do or have for something you'd like to know or have done.
Goods Available / Goods Wanted
What do you need? What can you sell?
Services Available / Services Needed
List or enlist services like photography, web site building, knitting lessons, instruction on choosing the right iPhone or iPad, ride shares ...
You'll find it at the Marketplace
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Greetings!
It's the first newsletter issue of the month, and it's L-O-N-G! Not all of this month's events are listed, but there's a fairly good representation here for you. Next week, we'll add the rest.
See you at the May Day Celebration on Sunday!
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 | Dessert Pot Luck with The Selectmen |  Be on hand this Thursday evening at 7:00 pm as Maury Collins and Dave Upton, Nelson Town Selectmen, meet with us for a Dessert Pot Luck. The Pot Luck will be held in the Henry Melville Fellowship Hall.
As you know, the Selectmen are very interested in keeping the residents of Nelson and Munsonville as informed as possible concerning the big renovations to the Town Offices and to the Town Hall. The wish to discuss the plans for renovating the town offices, temporary relocation of same, funding, and answer any questions we might have. Warren Hammack, our third Nelson Selectman, would like to be present as well, but he has a previous engagement.
So join us tomorrow evening and bring your favorite sweet!
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| May Day in Nelson!!! Sunday, May 6th
|  No one knows the true origin of the celebration of May Day. Some say it is as old as time itself. What we in Nelson and Munsonville know is that May Day is a day of casting off the cares of winter, and to enjoy the beautiful New England spring.
We come together on the Town Common, some to dance and others to visit with those we may have not seen since the first snowflake fell. The children are delighted with the bright colors of the May Pole ribbons, waiting their turn to help weave the ribbons when it's time for the May Pole Dance. But first, we are treated to the trumpet sounding of Jack In the Green as he heralds the arrival of another beautiful Spring in Nelson.
The Jack In the Green Morris Men and the Harrisville Morris Women will be dancing, of course! The dances will begin right at 10:30. And we'll have the Cake Walk for the children. And the gigantic bubbles will be back to enchant the kiddos!
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Our May Day celebration will take place on May 6th, beginning at around 10:30 am. We hope to see you there! Folk of all ages look forward to this annual community event. |
| DAR to Honor Jane Kirk at Luncheon |  I would like to share this info with my Nelson neighbors. Over the years, I have taken care of Nelson children who were referred to me by the Nelson school. Because of this, I have been awarded 2nd place, nationally, for the National Daughters of the American Revolution Community Service Award. (My Revolutionary ancestor, John Farwell, is buried in the Nelson cemetery!)
I think ...
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| Farmer's Market Report |  Welcome to the Nelson/Harrisville Farmers' Market!
Nelson's Agricultural Commission is very pleased to inform you that plans are moving right along for this year's NelsonHarrisville Farmers' Market.
Our Farmers' Market will allow our friends and neighbors to gather and purchase fresh, seasonally-grown food that was produced within a drivable distance from their home. And, it will afford our local gardeners a place in which to sell directly to you, the consumer.
But first, applications from our local gardeners and home-grown goods people need to be accepted and processed. If you haven't yet received your copy of the By-Laws and the Application, you can down load a copy here and mail it in with your Application fee.
A full schedule of the proposed dates when the Farmers Market will be open is on the calendar.
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| A HUGE Thank You from Nelson School!!!
|  Thanks to the members of our community, the Nelson School students raised over $6,000.00 at this year's Nelson School Auction. We at the school are very grateful to all of you who turned out to bid on our 'treasures' and on the donations from local businesses. We are so thankful, too, for the many people who volunteered their time to make our 5th Annual Nelson School PTO Auction such a wonderful success. Our Auction proceeds will go a long way towards realizing our dream of having an outdoor structure at the school. There will be an Auction De-Brief at the next PTO meeting, Monday May 7th at 6:45 pm. If you can't be there, your input is important and we'd like to include it. Please email Joy Birdsey-Smith any comments, improvements, thoughts etc. |
| Knitters & Crocheters Club to Meet |  Our Knitting and Crocheting Club meets at the Chapel By the Lake in Munsonville every other Thursday morning from 10:00 am until noon. We'll be meeting on May 10th and again on May 24th.
Current members are working on a variety of projects- prayer shawls; hats, mittens, and scarves for homeless and needy children, helmet liners for our troops overseas, a sampler afghan and other personal projects.
If you love to knit or crochet or would like to learn, this is the place for you. Our members have a combined experience of hundreds of years of knitting and crocheting. At every meeting tips and patterns are freely shared and the coffee pot is always on at the Chapel By The lake.
Call 847-3231 to confirm meetings dates and times.
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| Agape Cooking Class |  This month's class will be held on May 11th at the home of Lew and Laurie Derby from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. The theme for this class will be "Local and In Season". We look forward to learning what to do with fiddleheads and asparagus, parsnips and rhubarb.
Come join us! Participants are asked to bring ingredients or dishes with recipes if they wish.
Please contact the Derby family at 847-9966 if you would like to attend.
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| Town Offices Seek Temporary Quarters
|  The Town of Nelson is looking for a new "home' where town business can take place as usual during the Town Buildings Renovation. Before renovations can begin, the town needs either a set of rooms, or a small cottage, where the Town Clerk and Tax Collector can do business, the Selectmen can hold meetings and gatherings, the town office employees can work every day, AND somewhere 'official' that the residents of Munsonville and Nelson can still go for their necessary dealings with the town. During the past few Selectmen's meetings, (read the minutes here), suggestions were discussed including renting space in Harrisville, using the small building on the hill just across from the Town Office owned by Wally Francis, Mobile office units, and the Nelson School. One recurring theme was how to make the temporary quarters handicapped accessible. It was noted that the board must act very soon to get a location for the Town Offices as there is a lot of work to do just to get ready for the renovations. And the burden could be made easier if there were someone in town with a building or a set of rooms that might be rented for the duration. Are you such a person? Do you know of someone who has space to rent that might be made handicapped accessible rather easily? If you have any thought or ideas, please contact Maury Collins, Selectman, either via email or by calling him at 847-0047 (Town Offices, or call 847-3321 at home. |
| 2nd Saturday Contra Dance Features ...
|  The Monadnock Folklore Society presents the Nelson Second Saturday Contra Dance on May 12th beginning at 8:00 pm in the Nelson Town Hall, featuring Nils Fredland calling with Jane Orzechowski and Bob McQuillen.
Nils Fredland has been making music, leading dances, and bringing people together for 20 years as a teacher; singer; instrumentalist; contra, square, and community dance leader; and workshop leader. He shares his skill, charisma, grace and goofiness with contra dancers coast to coast every weekend. He is known for his technical skill, disarming friendliness, comfortable stage presence, and soothing voice.
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| Clean Up @ Apple Hill Center |  The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music will be conducting (no pun intended) its annual Spring Clean Up of the Center's grounds on Saturday, May 19th from 9:00 am until 1:00 pm. Many volunteers are needed to help with this event, and we'd certainly welcome you to pitch right in.
The 'festivities' begin at 9:00 am and we'll be all finished up by 1:00 pm. Refreshments will be offered to all of the hard-working volunteers!
For more information, please contact:
Mailing address: PO Box 217, Sullivan, NH 03445
Location: 410 Apple Hill Rd, Nelson, NH 03457
Phone: 603-847-3371 | Fax: 603-847-9734
Email: music@applehill.org
Website: www.applehill.org
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| "A Night to Remember" Book Discussion |  She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. "A Night To Remember", Walter Lord's 1955 classic novel, is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival.
The Library Book Discussion Group meets on May 21st at 10:00 am. "A Night to Remember" may be borrowed from the Library.
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| In the Merry, Merry Month of May
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Dessert Pot LuckMay 3rd - Henry Melville Fellowship Hall 7:00 pm May Day in NelsonMay 6th - Nelson Town Common 10:30 am Nelson School PTO MeetingMay 7th - 6:45 pm Nelson School Luncheon to Honor Jane KirkMay 8th - noon Keene Country Club Tea Room Knitters & Crocheters ClubMay 10th - 10:00 am Chapel By The Lake Agape Cooking ClassMay 11th - 6:00 pm Lew & Laurie Derby's home 2nd Saturday Contra DanceMay 12th - 8:00 pm Nelson Town Hall Troy MacGillivray & Kimberley Fraser in ConcertMay 13th - 8:00 pm Nelson Town Hall Apple Hill Center Clean UpMay 19th - 9:00 am Apple Hill "Nelson Past & Present"May 24th - 7:00 pm A Power-Point presentation with Alan Rumrill Chapel By The lake More meetings and gatherings will be announced as soon as information becomes available.
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Candyce Fulford
on behalf of Moving In Step, a community project |
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