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Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
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AMC Presents: Trail Signs of the White Mountains & Finding Your Way
AMC volunteer and historian Bill Moss speaks on trail signage in the White Mountain National Forest. If you’ve ever wondered about trail blazes, trail names, or the rhyme and reason behind the signs that you see in the woods, check out this interesting talk.
Featured Evening Programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
AMC Presents: Forests of Lilliput
Guest speaker and AMC volunteer Jeff Pengel will present a program exploring the miniature world of lichens, mosses and liverworts. Photos of the odd shapes and colors of these diminutive plants will help us to understand their unique features and role in the larger ecosystem.
Featured Evening Programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Art Exhibit — “The Painted Sketch: Crawford Notch”
This is the last week to visit the exhibition, “The Painted Sketch: Crawford Notch,” by artist, Michael E. Vermette, which is on display through October 29, in the Mt. Willard Dining Room at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highland Center at Crawford Notch. The exhibit is free and open to the public when the space is not otherwise in use.
The exhibit features Vermette’s contemporary painted sketches created in the “plein air” style, outdoors in the White Mountain National Forest and Crawford Notch State Park, and at the Highland Center site.
Vermette served as artist in residence at the Highland Center for a week last fall and a week last winter. During those residencies, he created 11 painted oil sketches and 11 watercolor sketches that were made completely outdoors (en plein air) within the region. Sometimes working near the lodge, other times snowshoeing to a site with his studio on his back, he painted in cold weather amid challenging conditions. Each painting was rendered within a two- to three-hour block of time on location to capture the light. “Each painting was an adventure that tells a story,” he says.
Crawford Notch has long been an inspiration for artists drawn by the majesty of the surrounding peaks and crags. White Mountain School of Art painters frequented the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries to practice plein air outdoor landscape painting. One of the school’s more famous members, Frank Shapleigh, worked from his art studio in what is now the Shapleigh Bunkhouse on the Highland Center site.
Vermette’s expressive paintings show a love of color and light. In his evocative oils, watercolors, and pastels, he emboldens color by putting into practice traditional methods of the masters to cause the pigment to be brighter, richer, and more translucent.
For more information on the exhibit, call the Highland Center at (603) 278-4453, or email [email protected].
Oktoberfest at AMC Highland Center
The AMC Highland Center is hosting its first celebration of fall and beer with a fabulous Oktoberfest! Stop in for beer, lunch and fun.
• Beer Tasting with local brewery Rek’lis
• A-la-carte lunch, including beer favorites like bratwurst
• Lawn games & kids’ activities all afternoon.
For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
AMC Presents: Death in the White Mountains
Author Julie Boardman studied the scenarios of 219 hikers, climbers and back-country skiers who died in the White Mountains. In her new book and in this presentation, she sheds light on some of the surprising trends that led to these tragedies, with lessons for all adventurers.
Featured Evening Programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
AMC Presents: Reinventing Agriculture in the North Country
Guest speaker and local farmer Tim Wennrich of Meadowstone Farm shares his perspective on agriculture in the North Country, along with his story of building a successful farm in Bethlehem.
Featured Evening Programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Art Exhibition — “The Painted Sketch: Crawford Notch”
The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highland Center at Crawford Notch is the setting for the exhibition, “The Painted Sketch: Crawford Notch,” by artist, Michael E. Vermette, which is on display through October 29, in the Mt. Willard Dining Room. The exhibit is free and open to the public when the space is not otherwise in use.
The exhibit features Vermette’s contemporary painted sketches created in the “plein air” style, outdoors in the White Mountain National Forest and Crawford Notch State Park, and at the Highland Center site.
Vermette served as artist in residence at the Highland Center for a week last fall and a week last winter. During those residencies, he created 11 painted oil sketches and 11 watercolor sketches that were made completely outdoors (en plein air) within the region. Sometimes working near the lodge, other times snowshoeing to a site with his studio on his back, he painted in cold weather amid challenging conditions. Each painting was rendered within a two- to three-hour block of time on location to capture the light. “Each painting was an adventure that tells a story,” he says.
Crawford Notch has long been an inspiration for artists drawn by the majesty of the surrounding peaks and crags. White Mountain School of Art painters frequented the area in the 19th and early 20th centuries to practice plein air outdoor landscape painting. One of the school’s more famous members, Frank Shapleigh, worked from his art studio in what is now the Shapleigh Bunkhouse on the Highland Center site.
Vermette’s expressive paintings show a love of color and light. In his evocative oils, watercolors, and pastels, he emboldens color by putting into practice traditional methods of the masters to cause the pigment to be brighter, richer, and more translucent.
For more information on the exhibit, call the Highland Center at (603) 278-4453, or email [email protected].
Stories in Wood: White Mountain Art Exhibition
Artist Craig Altobello uses beautiful wood marquetry to capture the scenes of adventure and nature of the White Mountains. His colorful wood panels are created primarily from North American wood and include landscapes, birds, alpine flowers, and mammals native to the Northern Forest, as well as huts, rock cairns and dramatic skies. He is a juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH
The exhibit will be on display in the Mt. Willard Dining Room of the AMC Highland Center from June 23 – August 28. An opening reception is set for Friday, June 23, from 5 to 7 p.m., with dinner available for purchase that evening.
The exhibit is free and open to the public when the space is not otherwise in use.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
AMC Presents: Mountains of Stars – Astronomy at Crawford Notch
Dr. Doug Arion will give a presentation on the intricate and fascinating connections between life on Earth and the history and phenomena of the Universe around us. You’ll have a chance to view stars through telescopes, or check out our new indoor planetarium.
Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.