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    2013



    We could not do it without our Volunteers!

    To 2012
    To 2014
    We had help at the greeting tent...and at both spring and fall clean-up.
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    This year we held an amazing week-long sculpture camp

    Eight intrepid enrollees, a talented instructor (Meghan Samson), second from the right, and a talented welder (Joel Bowman) on the left. (Jill is fourth from the left.)
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    Everybody worked hard...
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    And made...well...art!
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    And we held other Educational Classes...

    Like this Flower Arranging Class with Ellen Karelitz:
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    and the UNH landscape design course visited:

    Our Open House Days were busy!

    We are developing a docent program. Very Exciting. You too can be a docent...See the Volunteering Page. Here is this year's group:
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    We have a new plant geek, Hobson Jandebeur:
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    We had amazing music...
    The Leftist Marching Band:
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    Not once, but three times:
    ...and Liz, the terrific trombonist:
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    And people seemed to enjoy it:
    and, near the Tea House, a guitar group with Randy Newman:
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    Lots of Groups Visited

    And we had our first international visit, by the International Dendrology Society!
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    There were not only Garden Clubs,

    ...like the Opechee Garden Club,
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    but people just out for an experience,...like this "Always an Adventure " Group:
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    ...and Kids, too

    From the very young:
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    Oyster River Parents and Preschoolers
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    ...through the Oyster River Middle School:
    to the annual visit by those creative souls of Francine Kontos's sculpture class at Dover High School.
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    We even were a site for a professional model shoot!

    by Nylora photography [she also this image also taken here at the pond]:
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    We not only had different Tai Chi Classes,

    Here is one with Lin Lin Choy:
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    and one with fans:
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    ...but WMUR filmed a session on Tai Chi here for NH Chronicles

    First, Master Chen visited, and gave a lesson:
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    ...and then he, and is class were filmed by Cindy Jupp-Jones for a segment on WMUR's NH Chronicles. Watch it here.
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    And Yoga!

    There were classes: Symmetry Yoga and others...
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    ...they also had fun:
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    Bedrock Gardens is a Good Place to Get Married...

    At the Spiral Gardens:
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    Christina and Jake
    A happy couple on the Allée:
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    Amy and Heather

    We were busy

    Repairing leaks:
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    Transplanting trees:
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    Placing Art:
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    and, most fun of all, making art! Here is the Gothic Archway before and after: 
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    Made a Sacrificial Table too (not done yet...we call those WIPs [Works In Progress]).
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    We took some eye-opening pix

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    as did Kathy Dunham:
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    and Lena McClellan for her Masters in Photography:
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    How other people see things can open your own eyes...

    Jill Made Sculpture

    Some are small, like her series of Metal Men, but they fit on top of a long row of posts, an architectural element that we call "The Wave."
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    Some are in trees, like this bird of prey, "Quetzalcoatl", next to a bag of bones in The Dark Woods.
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    Her love of turtles continues:
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    "He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother."

    Other Events 

    First Grandchild:
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    Oren Fransway Browne
    so we've been doing this:
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    And life goes on...

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