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Pontine Theatre presents The Stories of Alice Brown

May 17, 2019

Pontine Theatre premieres an original stage adaptation of the short stories of Alice Brown, Wednesday, May 29 at 6:30 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. This free event is open to the public. Brown was born in 1857 on a farm in Hampton Falls, N.H., a community that later acted as a template for the… Read More »

Monument Men – The Crazy Horse Memorial

May 15, 2019

The construction of Mount Rushmore was looked upon unfavorably by Native Americans who were promised the Black Hills in a treaty, only to be broken later by the United States. In order to honor the legacy of the Native Americans who lived in western South Dakota, an even larger monument of Crazy Horse is currently… Read More »

A Local Family Connection to Titanic

May 10, 2019

Laconia’s Warren Clement will present the story of Alma Paulson, a passenger on the Titanic, and his family connection, Wednesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. This free event is open to the public. The RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her… Read More »

Dr. Sax’s Little Big Band in Concert

May 9, 2019

The 2019 Taylor Concert Series, sponsored by the Bank of New Hampshire continues Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building with Dr. Sax’s Little Big Band. The event is free and open to the public. Band Leader Jon Lorentz leads this group in swing jazz classics, made popular by the ensembles… Read More »

Grief, Neighbors & Walking Each Other Home

May 9, 2019

In the later decades of our lives, we all walk a path that includes the loss of loved ones and neighbors. Yet, we don’t have to walk this path alone. To borrow the title of a wonderful book by long-time friends Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, we’re all Walking Each Other Home. We bear witness… Read More »

Frees Brothers Big Band in Concert

April 25, 2019

The Frees Brothers Big Band was formed in 1972 to support and encourage development of musical talents of the public – especially young musicians – and its members, and to foster an appreciation of music of all eras. The men and women who make up the band live and work throughout Central and Southern New… Read More »

Author John Tuohey, rescheduled from March 25

April 25, 2019

“…but few are chosen,” is the story of three boys coming of age in the mid-1950’s. Growing up in working class Irish Catholic neighborhoods in the northeast U.S., they are desperate to escape lives of loneliness, petty crime and violence. At 13, ready to enter high school, they each come to the same decision to… Read More »

Author Lecture: Margaret Porter “Beautiful Invention”

April 22, 2019

Hollywood beauty. Brilliant inventor. The incredible story of a remarkable and misunderstood woman. Hedy Kiesler, Austrian actor of Jewish heritage, scandalizes Europe with her nudity in the art film “Ecstasy.” Her hasty marriage to a wealthy munitions merchant disintegrates, as he grows increasingly controlling and possessive. Even worse, he supplies deadly weapons to Hitler’s regime.… Read More »