Autumn days are waning and the frost will soon be on the pumpkins. Time to gather ‘round the cauldron and brew up some magic. Halloween is the most playful time of the year and, as has been the tradition for a dozen years, Project Sunapee is once again brewing up some magic for you!

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Singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenny Solomon's style has been compared to early Bob Dylan, Guy Clark, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Solomon began his career in the late 1960s. A fixture at the now defunct Idler Coffeehouse in Harvard Square, Cambridge, he regularly performed there on Friday nights for over eight years. The Idler was a training ground for songwriters such as Geoff Bartley, Paul Rishell, Spider John Koerner, and Ric Ocasek. During these years as a solo performer he shared bills with many touring performers including Chris Smither, Carolyn Hester, Bonnie Raitt, and Spider John.

From the 1980s through the mid-1990s, Solomon continued to write, but rarely performed in public. He chose rather to raise his family and work in environmental research at Harvard University. From 1978 though 2009 he managed a research program that investigated ozone depletion in the stratosphere and more general climate change issues.

In 1997 Solomon got back into performing and formed a folk/country band appropriately enough called Solomon. Performing his original material, Solomon has released one EP and five CDs. Since the onset of Covid, he has been performing solo. His full length albums are available on his website.

Just for you, a playlist to set the mood for "All Hallows Eve"

The New York City-based singer, composer and writer zeroes in on moments from daily life to reveal strange, absurd and heartbreaking voyages. In the words of one critic, his stirring songs and monologues “dance between comedy, commentary and communion.”

Keckler will be joined by guest pianist Matthew Dean Marsh to serve up highlights of his work and share new music and narratives written during the pandemic, excerpts of a work currently titled Book of Life.

SKIT presents this original play adapted from the novel by Ceil Warren at the Warner Town Hall in Warner.

November 5th and 6th at 7:30pm and 7th at 2:00 pm

November 12th and 13th at 7:30 pm and 14th at 2:00 pm

Note Change of date: Shaker Bridge Theater announces a change of date for Opening Night to November 4th.

​Homebound due to illness, 17-year old Caroline is suspicious of sweet, athletic Anthony after they are thrown together to work on an English project about Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. As the pair stumbles through the poem, they begin to share secrets and let their guards down, eventually unlocking the mystery that brought them together in the first place. With searing poignancy, I and You is a heartfelt, funny, and unexpected story about how much we need each other despite our differences. LEARN MORE

 

My name is Mia Cahill and I'm now a freshman at SMHS. I've done the cereal drive since I was in 3rd grade at SCES. This will be my 7th year doing the cereal drive at Sunapee Elementary School, I've always believed that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and everyone deserves the chance to eat breakfast, with that being said, each year around Halloween, kids and staff at the Elementary School bring in boxes of cereal that are all donated to the Sunapee food pantry, every year we have filled the towns food pantry and the rest goes to surrounding towns to help fill their food pantry.

This year I'm hoping to also involve the town as a whole. If you have a kiddo at the elementary school, you can send them to school with the boxes and they will be able to bring them in that way! If not, there will be places to bring cereal in at the Sunapee Safety Service Building (Police Station) or at the Sunapee Town Hall.

Each year on the last school day before Halloween, which this year will be Friday October 29th, all the elementary kids will walk throughout the school, as their Halloween parade and bring out all the cereal collected into police trucks, and from there the Police Department will bring all of the cereal boxes to the food pantry.

The Sunapee Board of Selectmen invite you to join them as Sunapee bids "farewell” to Town Manager, Donna Nashawaty, and thanks her for the wisdom and leadership that guided our town during 17 years of service.

Please join the Sunapee Selectmen for a

Retirement Open House in honor of Donna Nashawaty.

Join us to help her celebrate 17 years of dedicated service

to the Town of Sunapee.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Town Meeting Room

23 Edgemont Road

Mark your calendar! The next Coffee with the Chief is on FRIDAY, October 29, 2021 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. at the Safety Services Building. Come and meet your new Town Manager, Shannon Martinez. Bring your questions, comments and appetite and join us for coffee and breakfast on the 29th!

Runners Alert: Registration is open for the 15th Annual Sunapee 5 K Turkey Trot.

Now in its 15th year, the Lake Sunapee Turkey Trot has become a wonderful family tradition for more than 800 racers. Grab your family and friends, throw on a costume (optional, but really fun and highly encouraged), work off some calories, and make this great event a part of your Thanksgiving tradition! Learn more.

This handsome replica of the original weathervane was crafted in the Iron Garden workshop and donated by the artisan Jeff Weisheipl and his wife Paula. The Board of Directors of the Livery accepted the gift most gratefully.

Historical note: Moses Knowlton commissioned a cupola, built by Albert Stocker to be placed atop the Abbott Library... however, it was feared the roof of the Abbott would not support the cupola and it was instead donated to the Harbor Livery Stable where Mr. Knowlton could see it from his home across the road (now the LSPA offices) where it has been ever since. Mr. Knowlton then donated a weathervane, featuring a running horse, to proudly stand atop the cupola. Legend has it that many years ago, bold thieves employed a helicopter to steal weathervanes off many barns and public buildings in the area, including the Livery Stable. It was thought they perhaps were the same villains who stole the Cricket weathervane from atop Faneuil Hall in Boston. Whatever the truth may be? This handsome weathervane now looks over the rooftop to the lake and it is hoped no one will ever attempt such a theft again!

Thanks to historian Barbara Chalmers for this bit of history and lore.

Headless Horseman at Full Circle Farm

Have a rollicking good time on Halloween... but beware of things that go bump in the night.

Thanks to the photographers who kindly shared their photos for posting in future “Happenings”. We are most appreciative of such contributions... so don’t be shy... forward your photos to: info@projectsunapee.org. Seasonal photos of local places & events are always welcome.

Until we meet again next week, please be neighborly. Take good care and stay well and enjoy these last fleeting days of autumn.

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