ISSUE NO. 339 / February 8, 2023

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

An early Valentine’s greeting from Mother Nature, courtesy of Kathy Lowe.

What a difference a day, or two makes… when it comes to the weather.  Windchill of minus 40 to a balmy 20 plus over the past weekend! Then yesterday and today, the glorious sight of a brilliant sun rising as the full moon was setting in the western horizon.  Finding ourselves in the stillness of Winter’s calm and meditative moments gives way to gratitude for everything we do. Beauty is all around in these New Hampshire hills.

On Sunday, January 29th, CBS Sunday Morning Show closed with such a beautiful, meditative moment video: "Winter in the White Mountains”. Enjoy that video at the end of this week’s message. 

Tomorrow at Flying Goose: A forever favorite at The Livery’s Summer concerts, Ari Hest performs.

>>Flying Goose

Friday night, February 10th: Click Horning takes the mic at the Sunapee Coffeehouse.   

Click Horning also known as "Click" is a singer, guitarist and composer

The Lake Sunapee, NH region has always had more than its share of musicians. Maybe it's the mountain air or maybe it's the scenery, but something keeps them coming back. Just ask Click Horning, New London's singer songwriter who left when he was seventeen for the Big Apple. Twelve years, a record contract and an album later it was time to come back. Early influences were Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Peter Paul & Mary, as well as rock and roll and R&B that he listened to growing up. >>Sunapee Coffeehouse

Next Saturday, February 18th there will be a hot time at The Livery’s Dance Party!

Set sail on a journey through the capital of classical music.

Sally Pinkas

From Vienna with Love

Thu, Feb 9 at 8 pm

Rollins Chapel

Often heralded as the capital of classical music, the Austrian city is the birthplace of many immortal works across time. Pinkas, who will be leading a Dartmouth Music Study Abroad program in Vienna later this spring, presents works by five great Viennese masters: Marianne Martinez, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Alexander Zemlinsky. >>More Information

“Of all the earthly music that reaches farthest into heaven,

is the beauty of a truly loving heart”.

Henry Ward Beecher

As the first part of Town Meetings under SB2, community members gathered for the past two nights to become informed about issues and budgets pertaining to warrant articles that will be on the School and Town ballot on March 14th. Happenings will publish a list of all candidates for office next week.

Sunapee Rec. Dept has announced a great variety of Summer Camps and programs. The time to enroll your kids is now. >>Info & registration

What's Happening

In honor of the season, our own Barbara Chalmers has been researching ice-in (as opposed to the well-tracked ice-out) dates. Holes in the data mean that her list is far from complete, but it provides an interesting picture. It turns out that ice-in is much more difficult to pinpoint than ice-out. In some years, the report was tempered by the notation that there was still a patch of open water in the middle or that although the lake had frozen over, it was still not thick enough for “teaming.” Even if taken as approximate, a quick look at the dates is revealing. Until very recent years ice-in happened in December and often in early December. In 1880—the 1880/1881 season known as “The Long Hard Winter”—ice-in was accomplished by the end of November! >>Read 'Sunapee Echoes'

A hearty “THANK YOU” to all local Highway Departments and the DOT for their diligent clearing of the roads and keeping us safe during recent snow storms!  

Plow drivers are our heroes!

There’s great snow on the Mt. and hillsides to the delight of downhill and cross-country skiers as well as snowmobilers and snowman builders!

Snow is also perfectly timed for Newport’s annual Winter Carnival this weekend!

Be certain to stop by the Library Arts Center during Carnival.

LET’S GET ARTSY ( in the galleries)

Frozen out & postponed last week… CFA’s First Friday Gallery Stroll will take place this week!

February 10th First Friday

Open Receptions for all five galleries!

5:00 - 7:00

New London Inn / Bar Harbor Bank and Trust / New London Barn Playhouse / Fleming Center / Tatewell Gallery / Candita Clayton Gallery

More information here!

Folk Art at DHMC

If you are fortunate/unfortunate enough (take your pick, or maybe both) to find yourself at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center too many days in a month, and the weather is unrelentingly cold and gray, you would find the exhibition “Barn Windows and Folk Art” by artist Isa Oehry a delight, a balm, a whimsy to put paid to any gathered gloom. >>Full Article

ARTSY (on stage) 

One night only: Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Briggs Opera House

Saturday, Feb. 11 at 9PM

Suggested donation $10

Be transported straight to Transsexual, Transylvania for one night only as JAM presents the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Briggs Opera House with a live shadow cast of familiar Upper Valley faces. This show is rated NC-17 and audience discretion is advised.

Doors open at 8pm, show begins at 9pm. First come, first served. Doors will close once seating is at capacity. >>Learn More

February is “Library Lover’s Month”. What better place to spend a Winter’s day than Story Time or Drop-In Playgroup at the Abbott in Sunapee.     

Share your Valentines message at the Tracy Library or learn a little magic at the Richards in Newport.

What do you love about Tracy Library?

Stop in all month long to help us decorate our windows by writing your own personalized heart shaped message!

New! Magic Class for Kids ages 11-13

Class is FULL, but a new Spring Session will be announced soon. 

with instructor Magician Bruce Cronin

Tuesdays, Feb. 14, 21 and Mar. 7, 14, and 21

3:30-5:00pm in the Library Arts Center Gallery

Making things appear, disappear, change color, multiply… learn all the basics of magic in this fun and engaging five-week class taught by professional magician, Bruce Cronin! 

JUST A REMINDER FROM DOT: Construction has begun at the Exit 11 Park’n Ride in New London. Dartmouth Coach is maintaining their usual schedule, but be aware that parking spaces are limited.

Impressive! By one vote, Sunapee Happening's readers chose the correct answer of November 25th in the year of 1880 as the earliest known date that Lake Sunapee was frozen-over. The annual Lake Sunapee ice-out date has been determined since 1869 and has been well documented in a chart. But the frozen-over date, now called ice-in, was not always noted and has never been documented in a chart - Perhaps because it happens at a time when no one can be on the lake! Researchers are looking into this lost bit of lake history. (Sunapee Historical Society)

Planning for Mt. Sunapee Ski Area began in the spring of 1946 when two engineers with the NH Department of Highways scouted the mountain to establish the locations for: a single-chair lift serving 3 ski trails, a rope tow for an open beginners' slope, a base lodge, a top warming lodge, parking area and access road. Construction was completed for a grand opening day celebration on Dec 26, 1948 that included a Hollywood star, champion skier, and a helicopter drop of congratulatory telegrams over the assembled crowd.

Video from CBS Sunday Morning Show

It's not often that New Hampshire is featured on a major network, but indeed, what we all find beautiful about living in this fine state was recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Click on the link below to enjoy a little more than two minutes of the beauty of the White Mountains. Enjoy!