Arts
Peterborough Concert Series presents Echoes of Floyd
The Peterborough Concert Series will present a full audio and visual Pink Floyd experience, featuring Echoes of Floyd and its intergalactic light show, on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m. at the Peterborough Town House, 1 Grove St. in Peterborough.More...
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson to speak at Toadstool
Poet Rebecca Kaiser Gibson of Marlborough has just published her first novel, “The Promise of a Normal Life,” and will be at The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough to introduce and discuss the book on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m.In “The Promise of a...
Wilton Collaborative Space hosts reception for Ukrainian artist Olga Necheporenko
By JOSH LACAILLADE
A Ukrainian artist is showing support for her home country through art and creative expression.On Sunday, Feb. 5, Olga Necheporenko set up shop at the Wilton Collaborative Space to showcase her portrait and landscape paintings to the community. Local...
Hancock Library to display Laurence Danel-Moore paintings
HANCOCKLibrary to display Danel-Moore paintingsHancock Town Library, 25 Main St., will display an exhibit of paintings in various mediums by Laurence Danel-Moore Feb. 18 through March 21. There will be an opening reception in the library’s Daniels...
The Park Theatre schedules special screening of ‘80 for Brady’
With the Patriots not in the Super Bowl, The Park Theatre in Jaffrey is offering alternative entertainment with a “Galantine Day Screening Party” for the new comedy, “80 for Brady” on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.The Park Theatre is the...
Memoirist to speak at Monadnock Writers’ Group
On Saturday, Feb. 18, at 10:30 a.m., Monadnock Writers’ Group hosts writer Darcey Gohring at its monthly speaker series. ‘The free event, held at Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St., is intended to be of interest to both readers and writers of...
Be the Change: John Letendre – Narcan’s role in fighting opioids
By JOHN LETENDRE
The United States has been struggling with an opioid epidemic for approximately two decades. Some say it was was brought on by the now-well-known opioid OxyContin. However, we have heard the names of many other opioids during this epidemic such as...
Ruth Clark: Heal your gut
Did you know that digestive symptoms are the No. 1 reason why Americans visit their health care practitioner?The problemIn fact, 20 million Americans suffer from chronic digestive diseases, which are one of the most-prevalent causes of disability in...
Paula Kay Kerouac teaches painting class at Blue Bear Inn in Francestown
By ROWAN WILSON
Paula Kay Kerouac taught a painting class in the dining room at the Blue Bear Inn on Wednesday night. The class painted snowy owls using a reference photo of a painting that Kerouac created. As the students worked on painting in their owls, Kay...
‘Stories to Share’ with David Macy postponed
The Jaffrey Civic Center’s “Stories to Share” event with MacDowell interim Executive Director David Macy, has been postponed from Friday, Feb. 3, to Friday, Feb. 10, at 5 p.m. because of the weather.Macy will share anecdotes illustrating the...
‘Long Work For Justice’ opening at Dublin Community Center postponed
Due to the weather conditions, the opening reception for the “Long Work For Justice” exhibition at the Dublin Community Center, 1123 Main St., has been postponed from Friday, Feb. 3, to Friday, Feb. 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. “Long Work for Justice,” which...
Gift preserves 56 acres of forest and wetland habitat in Jaffrey
By ASHLEY SAARI
The Monadnock Conservancy has received a gift of a 56-acre property on Sanders Road in northeast Jaffrey, preserving important forest and wetland habitat.The property, located near the Dublin and Peterborough town lines, belonged to the Sholl family....
Nickolay Manuylov displays art at Mariposa Museum
Moscow-born Nickolay Manuylov, aka “Kuk,” began his career as an underground artist in Stalin’s USSR.It was an era when the art that Kuk, his late wife Lidiya Kirillova, and other nonconforming artists made was illegal. The mythological and esoteric...
Peterborough Players presents ‘The Seagull’
Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) makes her West End debut in a 21st-century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” a tale of love and loneliness, adapted by Anya Reiss for The Jamie Lloyd Company. Peterborough Players, 55 Hadley Road, will...
Film explores Joseph Lindon Smith’s life
Dublin artist Joseph Lindon Smith is most known for his Egyptian paintings, which captured the artwork on the walls of tombs as they were being discovered in the early 20th century, and for his elaborate pageant productions.The short film “Joseph...
Convergence Quartet performing at The Park Theatre in Jaffrey
The Monadnock Music team of musical director Rafael Popper-Keizer and general manager Laina Barakat have collaborated with Vermont Jazz Center to present The Convergence Quartest at The Park Theatre, 19 Main St. in Jaffrey, Sunday, Feb. 5 at 4...
Green Living: Peter and Ann Harrison hike and maintain trails throughout the Monadnock region
By ROWAN WILSON
On Jan. 24, around noon, Peter and Ann Harrison parked at the start to the Evans Flats Trail in Peterborough. They both wore backpacks and snowshoes and carried tools.They were in the woods for more than 2 1/2 hours working on the trail. They trimmed...
High Mowing School middle-schoolers present Hilltop Circus
High Mowing School’s seventh- and eighth-graders will present "The Hilltop Circus with a Chance of Meatballs" Thursday, Feb. 16, at 4 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 17, at 6:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m. at the school, 77 Pine Hill Drive in Wilton.The...
PHOTOS: Music on Norway Pond presents “Jazz in January” with Mehmet Sanlikol
Grammy-nominated MehmetSanlikol and his trio performed Sunday at Hancock Meetinghouse for Music on Norway Pond’s “Jazz in January.”
Backyard Naturalist: Brett Amy Thelen – The patron saints of play
Earlier this winter, I stopped by a local pond while on a break between meetings. I had intended to get out for a walk much earlier in the day, but instead found myself glued to the computer, buried under a mountain of emails, spreadsheets and...
