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Music in Community
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We are 28 households. We range in age from 'children on the way'  to more than 80 years. We are 26 women, 20 men, and 17 youth aged 16 and under. We work from home, commute within New Hampshire and to Massachusetts, and enjoy retirement. We attend public and private schools and we homeschool. We own our homes and rent. We value sustainability, community, farming, having fun, and living lightly on the earth.

 
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How do we celebrate the holidays without succumbing to consumerism and making ourselves crazy? Holidays can be a major challenge for many reasons, chief among them for 

Molly & Elsbeth

us has been the feeling that we're going through the motions of celebration without engaging in the substance.

 

In founding and living in a cohousing community, we've made a conscious choice to live our lives more intentionally. For us, that has meant reflecting on how to honor traditions in ways that connect to the substance of celebration.

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5 Things I've Learned in Cohousing That Enriched My Holidays
Decorating gingerbread lanterns

One of the great things about co-housing for me is that neighbors often compensate or fill in for gaps in my own interests and abilities. Consider, for example, that my 9-year-old daughter lacked a costume with just a couple days to go before Halloween. She didn't even have a concept yet, let alone a functioning costume, and this weighed on me. I have to confess that I've never been a big Halloween fan in the first place; I like the idea of creating fun costumes, but buying plastic costumes and knocking on other people's doors to ask for candy just irks me. Do we really need any more plastic or sugar in our lives?

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Music can make a community...
Justin and Stacey on violin and accordion for our New Year's concert

Music is not hard to hear at Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm (Nubi). Whether it be the sweet sound of a violin or flute in summer wafting from an open window, someone practicing on the Steinway in the Common House or jazz played on the Common during a CSA celebration, Nubi residents not only listen to music, but make it as well. Two of our favorite musical events are just around the corner: our annual Family Contra Dance and our New Years Day Musical Recital/Concert.

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Nubi Pig Club News & Holiday Recipes 
Ruth's brother is impossible to find a gift for. Last year they learned he does happily accept the gift of a prettily wrapped pound of bacon.

When Ruth was an academic star at Princeton, U Michigan and MIT racking up degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering, classmates might have voted her many things, but person most likely to lead her neighborhood pig group is not one of them. Sometimes, however, smarts and perseverance are needed in unexpected roles.

 

For Ruth, the big engineering question became how to keep the pigs warm in the field in early spring as she worked with others to create hay bale enclosures and then lay awake all night worrying about her charges. Not since E. B. White's Charlotte, has anyone cared quite so much about a young pig.

 
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Heard on the Nubi Path This Week

What are your strategies for making the holiday season manageable and meaningful? 

 

Carol H.:

Carol H.

 

"We don't have a lot of "have-tos" for our holiday season, which helps us to focus on spending time together as a family. As a musician, I've always been so busy during the holiday season, up through Christmas eve, that I often couldn't focus on our celebrations until afterwards. So, if the 25th happens to be celebrated on the 28th, it works for us. We try not to get too focused on details. We keep our tree simple and organize potluck meals. Now that our kids are grown, we all made the decision that we don't give gifts to the older generations, just to the kids. Instead, I ask them to send us photos. We also try to give support to other groups in need. This year we are making a donation to an organization called LIFT, Lowell Iraqi Families in Transition."

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Events 

Here are a few local events great for getting a taste of our wider community happening between now and Dec. 9.  We hope this gives you a sense of what a great region this is to live in. Suggestion: come visit us for our Open House this Sunday, then enjoy the Tree Lighting downtown.   

  

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Performance by Sebastian Lockwood
Tuesday, November 27, 7 pm
Mariposa Museum, 24 Main Street
This is the story of Gilgamesh, King of Kings, who brought back knowledge from before the flood - who loved and lost his companion Enkidu and had to find out why we die. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets over four thousand years ago, in what is today Baghdad Iraq - the Biblical Garden of Eden between the Tigris and the Euphrates. This is a live telling of the great epic by one of our region's great storytellers, Sebastian Lockwood. It is the story of our journey into mortality and our desire to "live forever." Gilgamesh does live forever by writing his story in stone.
This is a story of the ages that works for all ages.

 

Nubanusit Neighborhood Open House

Sunday, December 2, 2-4 pm
Steele Rd Peterborough
Come visit our available homes, common house, meet neighbors! RSVP (telephone 207-200-NUBI) or walk-ins welcome.

Peterborough Holiday Tree Lighting
Sunday, December 2, 4:30-6:00
Downtown Peterborough
Tradition abounds at this annual Peterborough event featuring a visit from Santa, caroling with the Actors' Circle Theatre troop throughout and the lighting of the tree at 6:00! Warm up at the Peterborough Historical Society with cookies and cocoa ,
enjoying lively piano accompaniment. The South Meadow School Dance Team will perform their "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies".

Frost Heaves presents Holiday Hilarity
December 7, 8 and 15 at 7:30 p.m., December 9 at 2 p.m.,
Peterborough Players (www.frostheaves.com)
Frost Heaves, the award-winning Yankee comedy show returns to the Peterborough Players Theatre with all-new Yuletide nonsense including: a visit to the Retirement Home for Classic Toys, what happens when Christmas tree lights go to the dump,
Real Yankee Toys for kids (including the Kiddie Cordwood Kit), Life's Little Mystery Theatre, the news from Frost Heaves with Fred Marple, the Song on the Spot (an original song based on audience suggestions), prizes, surprises, and much more.
Guaranteed to be family friendly, extended family, blended family, and second-cousin-twice removed friendly.

December 8, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Common House Dining Room or porch
Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm. RSVP (or 207-200-6824)

A December Fanfair, Monadnock Chorus Concert
Saturday Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Sunday Dec. 9, 3:00 p.m.,
Peterborough Town House
This concert will feature the chorus accompanied by a brass ensemble with organ, tympani and percussion. Beautiful motets by Anton Bruckner, exciting new music of American composer David McCullough (Canite Tuba), and works by Gabrielli and
the King's Singers will inspire us with old and new sounds of the holiday season.

"Festival of Lights" - Mariposa Museum
Sunday, December 9, 2 p.m.
Mariposa Museum, 24 Main Street
Included in the presentation are cultures from around the globe whose winter holidays share the element of light, whether it be a lantern, a star, a candle, or a bonfire. At this community event for families and all ages Terry Reeves, Education Director at the Mariposa, will share traditions from India, Sweden, Mexico, Holland, the US, and other parts of the world through hands-on folk art, food, stories and crafts. Admission: Adult $5, Child $3, Members Free.

Ongoing: Ready for your second visit to our community?  Join us for an upcoming community meal: Sundays or Thursdays at 6pm.  Take a second look at that home you have your eye on, meet more neighbors and get all your questions answered. RSVP (telephone 207-200-NUBI).
Homes Available

Check out 4 homes for sale with prices recently reduced.  Sizes range from 2-bedroom to 3-bedroom.  Schedule a showing during our next open house or by appointment.