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Dr. Douglas Arion, Director of the Carthage Institute of Astronomy, presents Stars Above the Notch: Astronomy at Pinkham Notch, the AMC featured evening program.
Pinkham Notch evening programs are free and open to the public. Call to find out more or to be added to the monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings.
Guest speaker and botanist Kevin Berend will present a program on the Ecology of Alpine Snowbank Communities. Alpine snowbank communities are rare, diverse ecosystems found in the Northeast only in sheltered sites above treeline, where snow insulates and shelters plants from wind and late-season frosts. These areas are highly sensitive to climate change, and may serve as indicators of regional changes in precipitation patterns and temperatures.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Come one, come all to the Mt. Washington Regional Airport in Whitefield on June 24 & 25 to help celebrate the airport’s 70th birthday. Along with free admission and free ice cream both days, there will be airplane and helicopter rides, kids’ aviation crafts, a Ride the Wilds OHRV simulator, community craft fair & expo, and food vendors.
Additional highlights include the Annual Presby Tractor Show, a Classic Car Cruise-in (Saturday, 12-5 p.m.), and Model Railroad Rides.
Saturday evening (7:30-10:30) dance to the music of Not Your Mother, and on Sunday morning ( 8-11) fuel up at the FREE Pancake Breakfast compliments of the Neil & Louise Tillotson Fund and the Whitefield Lions Club.
More info is available by calling (603) 837-9532.
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.
ConnCorki: A Homemade Catamaran of Wine Corks Sails the Length of the Connecticut River
Come join Pan van der Laan and Bob Fink, two intrepid sailors, as they navigate their unique craft along the Connecticut River from Pittsburg to the sea. Named ConnCorki after the river they hoped to navigate, the corks that float it, and an homage to Kon-Tiki, the balsa wood raft of Norwegian adventurer Thor Hyerdahl, used to cross the Pacific in 1947. Bob Fink helped Pan Van der Laan build the catamaran. Most of the 65,000 corks came from a wine tasting room at Cheers in Boston, but retired doctor Van der Laan said some patients contributed and helped, too.
All programs are held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Summit Lodge’s Great Room. Attendance is free and the public is invited to all programs. Call (603) 788-4004 for confirmation of dates and topics.
Foot stompin’ traditional fiddle music will be celebrated when the Don Roy Trio from Maine performs in the popular Great North Woods Committee for the Arts at the Country Club Concert Series.
GNWCA President Charlie Jordan said, “We are delighted to bring Don and his group back to Colebrook for what is sure to be a fun night of top-notch old-timey music.” The Don Roy Trio features Maine’s own Don Roy on fiddle, his wife Cindy on piano and Jay Young on upright bass. The night will also feature some old-time step dancing.
Bring the lawn chairs and the kids and enjoy a fine summer evening of free music at Service Credit Union Heritage Park on the banks of the Androscoggin River, just north of downtown Berlin. The evening features the music of northern New Hampshire musician Tim Dion.
And stay tuned for a couple more FREE concerts this summer.
Big Scoop Catering will be on hand selling food. Please, no pets.
Santa’s Village is open every day from Father’s Day Weekend in June through Labor Day in early September.
The park opens at 9:30 a.m. every day in the summer season. Closing time is 6 p.m. for the entire month of July and the first four weeks of August; closing time is 5 p.m. in June, August 28th-31st, September, and October.
The daily admission rate for 2017 is $32 per person; ages one, two and three enter for free.
The admission includes a full day of JOY and excitement, including: unlimited rides, shows, and attractions; live professional performances; the Elfabet game and prize; visits with Santa and his reindeer; a ring from our blacksmith; use of the water park; use of a stroller; parking; and loads of Christmas spirit and memorable family fun.
All of the shops and attractions are scheduled to operate daily, even in the rain; we sometimes need to temporarily close some rides when lightning is spotted.
Guests who enter the park during the final three hours of the operating day (that’s after 3pm in July and most of August, or after 2pm in June and August 28th-31st and September and October) receive a non-transferable “Return Pass” to visit for another full day during the season.
Join us at the fire pit for a summer camfire and s’mores!
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
This concert will debut Alan Epstein’s CD, “Sunset on Meriden Hill,” released in March of this year, which features Alan on mandolin accompanied by Jim Prendergast on guitar. The CD is a wonderful, easy listening, instrumental recording of some Alan’s favorite melodies to play on the mandolin. The title track of the CD was written by Alan and was inspired by one of his frequent visits to the North Country with his wife Bonnie, a Colebrook native. Joining Alan for the concert will be Jim Prendergast who, after 30 years working in the recording studios and orchestra pits of Nashville TN, now resides in southern NH.