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"Children": exhibit of 85 photos of children from around the world by Stan Fry - open until September 1
Stan Fry took these stunning photographs of children while travelling in the Americas, China and Africa. They hang in our upstairs gallery.
2PM on Sunday, August 22
Our second "story circle" following a great circle in April. This is an opportunity for people in the community to share stories of immigration - your own and your ancestors'. In April, we heard stories of Finnish immigration. We have billed this as a day to hear the stories of Franco-Americans also, and in fact we invite the entire community to join to share and listen. As different as the places are that we came from, the stories of immigrants have much in common and we have much to learn from each other.
Flower Mandalas by Linda Wyman Derman
Linda was a NH Art Educator of the year, a dear friend, supporter and board member of Mariposa. Her amazing flower mandalas are on display in the window to the left of our front door into late August.
Willard Richardson and Jane Kronheim - Harrisville folk artists - until late August
Jane Kronheim is a contemporary folk artist living in Eastsview, Harrisville. Her colorful paintings on wood hang in our library. Willard Richardson's jewelry, painting and carving on bone and horn are displayed in the corner case in our back hallway. Willard was born in 1917 and grew up in Eastview in Harrisville in a house some call the “Moses Eaton House”. After his early years at the one room schoolhouse just up the road (where he was the last student of that school now fallen into the ground), he walked to Hancock High School, where he met Gertrude Seaver. Willard graduated from UNH in Animal Husbandry in 1941 and married Gertrude in that year. He became a dairy farmer and she a teacher. They had five children, Alayne, Brian, Carla, Dale and Elissa. Willard developed the skills of a Yankee farmer. He fashioned beautiful tool handles using his shaving horse and draw shaves, polishing them with a piece of broken glass. Willard extended these skills into the world of folk art as a carver, painter and jeweler. His family believes he inherited his artistic abilities from his mother, who taught her seven children to notice the beauty and wonder of nature. His great grandfather was Moses Eaton, Jr., an itinerant stenciler who adorned the walls of homes and inns, including the Hancock Inn, throughout New England and upstate New York. Willard’s art developed after retiring from dairy farming in the 1960s. It is whimsical and humorous, like the man himself. Whether etching on bone or horn or silver, carving wood, painting bottles or firkins, he took joy in his work so it became play. Willard’s signature designs are pairs of animals, often dancing on their hind legs, which you’ll see here on earrings and a necklace. His most unusual piece was a pencil holder made from a snapping turtle’s neck and head. He set the eyes with red glass and hung it near his armchair. I remember the twinkle in his eyes as he showed it off to visitors. Willard also made butter prints in various sizes, replicas from farming days gone by. He turned them on his wood lathe and carved them with chisels and knives often made by him from pieces of scrap steel. Willard sold his work from his living room and entertained his visitors with great stories, many of them recorded by Linda Morley for the state archives. Willard recounted with glee the story of the bad boy (not himself) who climbed on the roof of the one room schoolhouse across the way with a bucket of coals to set the school on fire. He remembered the now-mythical days of farm and small town life in our region. His art records some of this history. The horn on the left with a design of man scything grass holds water and the sharpening stone used to whet the scythe. Note the belt hook that attaches it to the worker’s belt. Gertrude, born in 1920, survived Willard by five years. She died on Oct. 19, 1994.
First Friday, September 3: Opening of "Southeast Asia" and Sebastian Lockwood telling the story of Monkey King
5 PM Kid Craft; 6 PM reception; 7 PM Sebastian Lockwood and the epic story of Monkey King. Monkey King's epic adventures are told in the Chinese classic, Journey to the West. The story has become part of Chinese popular culture and from there traveled to Vietnam, where it is remembered in toys, playing cards, TV and video versions. Sebastian will share the drama of powerful and mischievous Monkey King, who finally meets his match in none other than the Buddha!
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