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    2016



    Events

    To 2015
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    To 2017

    The Student Art Exhition is becoming a tradition! This was its third year.

    This year the theme was World Cultures, and four classes from local middle and high schools participitated. Thanks go to their teachers, Francine Kontos, Shelley Quintin, Sandy Blanc, Bonnie Dubois, Kate Freear. and Joe Boucher. 
    The exhibit took place at the May 21 & 22 Open House.
    Different hands for different cultures.
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    different clothes, too.
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    All our Open Houses had events associated with them

    The Caterpillar Lab joined us for the second year:
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    Wildlife Encounters came for their second year...very educational.
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    We sponsored an Artisan's Fair. We will do that again...it was well attended.


    One Special Open House, 'A Walk in the Words', combined literature and gardens:

    Paritally supported by a grant from the NH Humanities, we had speakers (here is Becky Rule)...


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    ...poets (here is the renown David Ferry)...

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    ...and music (with the Oyster River Jazz Band):

    There were many other activities: writing Haikus, story tellings, a word garden and more.


    Then we closed the year with the First Annual Fairy and Hobbit House Festival, quite the success!

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    People arrived by the bus loads:

    to visit (and build) our fairy and hobbit houses:
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    with our own scrumptious fairies:


    We had music every Saturday thanks to a wonderful band called Dale's Jazz Lab:
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    and a bluegrass band with Melissa Bragdon instructor on a Sunday too;


    We sponsored an art show:

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    Meghan Samson had an exhibit of ceramic heads. Here she is next to one.


    We hosted Mastway Elementary School:

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    The entire Mastway School visited one Friday. All 275 of them.

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    They rotated thru activity stations. One child said it was the best day of school she ever had had.


    And threw a concert:

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    Tj Wheeler, renown bluesman, performed with tap dancing by Ayan Imai-Hall, and a suprise appearance by master saxaphonist, Charlie Jennison.


    Visitors

    We had lots of visitors:

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    ​Dover High Art Students
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     Art Students from other schools

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    Girl Scouts

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    The Granite State Ambassadors

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    The neighbors

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    Louise White's Writing class

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    and Yoga classes...three different groups: Symmetry, Peace Tree, and Awakening Grace.


    The Community

    We launched a new undertaking in the Town of Lee: Lee in Bloom!

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    We started with a 1000 sq ft area in front of Mastway School that was empty, and prepared it:

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    ​We planted tulips with the help of the Mastway Elementary students, who did an entire project on bulbs:

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    ​When done, and plants were added, it looked a little thin:

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    ​But then the tulips burst forth:

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    The students loved it:

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    ​and it shone from then until the fall, including the Hairy Balls in the plant on the left:


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    We were in Lee's 250th anniversary parade to celebrate "Lee in Bloom".


    Other Events

    Bedrock Gardens is a good place to have a wedding.

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    The Property

    The Torii


    Tilting to the left, as the wood at the base rotted
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    Its death is nigh (see the two buzzards, one on the top of each front upright??)

    Poured concrete footings, bought new PT lumber and started to put it together.
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    Here I am cutting the swoops out of 8"x16"x14' lumber

    Carved the family's names on the bottom of the swoops...
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    Putting the swoops on


    And how it looks today:
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    We made a Gnome Home...


    ...burned grasses

    The burn...
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    After the burn...
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    Friends of Bedrock Gardens

    The Friends of Bedrock Gardens, the nonprofit being groomed to inherit Bedrock Gardens, was extremely active this year. Over 70 volunteers contributed more than 1200 hours!
    Here Kate Bashline emcees at the Volunteer Tea at the beginning of the season.
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    Very important event: We met with some horticultural giants from gardens from Pennsylvania to Maine for two days, and they hammered out a report that will serve as the foundation for our strategic plan. Funded by a grant from the NH Charitable Foundation.
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    Joan van Landingham sponsored a fundraising house party in March.
    And we had a end-of-season party. Here are some merry makers, but Kate and Gary Bashline also won prizes for their volunteer work during the year.
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    Of Interest

    We continue with our love affair with animals:

    Newborn fawn.
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    If you look carefully, you can see a piece of a another frog sticking out of his mouth. No wonder he is so fat.
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    More turkeys than usual. This tom was next to the house.
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    Jill had her second hip replaced. Went home the afternoon of her surgery. Took no pain  meds except Tylenol. Walking well within a week.  Shortly she was climbing trees and doing yoga without a problem. Now that is what I call successful surgery!
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    We are rewarded for our work...

    Best cultural oasis in NH for 2016 by NH magazine.
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    All good things must come to an end...

    See you next summer.
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    YUM!

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