Tapestry Tuesdays!

A Life Between the Lines: A Half-Century of my Poetic Journey

Join Literary Arts Guild's member Dianalee Velie for the evening as she reads excerpts from her six books of poetry written at different periods of her life. The most recent book will take you on a poetic journey through Italy with poems about her experiences teaching poetry in Cortona, Cannero Riviera on Lago Maggiore, and in Santa Croce di Camerina, Sicily while visiting her cousins.  She hopes you’ll fall in love with the sights and sounds of these poems and develop a yearning to read more poetry and also to write poems about your own life experiences whether near or far. 

Velie,  has published 6 books of poetry and a collection of short stories, has taught poetry, memoir and short stories both in New England, New York and abroad, and has had poems and short stories published in hundreds of magazines and journals. In addition, she leads the John Hay Poetry Society, which has been meeting for close to 20 years, and has created a permanent poetry path in Newbury that honors New Hampshire Poet Laureates.

 “Colorful Journey: 

Ten Years Of Turning Sketches Of New Hampshire Into Hard Cover Books” 

with Sue Anne Bottomley

Join Sue Anne as she describes her remarkable journey to every town in New Hampshire, capturing the unique spirit of each in colorful illustrations.

5:30 The New London Inn

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Catherine O’Brian & Jody Wells

A Lively Evening 

with two South Sutton Poets! 

Catherine and Jody met through poetry, when long-time friend, poet and educator, Wesley

McNair introduced them.  In their poems they celebrate and transform their varied life

experiences. Wide ranging topics include family, marriage, travel, the arts and small town, rural life.  Jody grew up in South Sutton; Catherine grew up in the Philippines.  They now live in one of the oldest houses in the Village. Catherine O’Brian is the author of a chapbook, The Servants’ Vitamins with poems from The White Nightgown. She holds an MA in Writing Poetry from UNH where she worked with Charles Simic and Mekeel McBride. 

She now teaches poetry classes at the Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen.

Jody Wells has been writing poems since high school and has been published in Off the Coast, Concrete Wolf. The Bradford Bridge and other journals, most recently in Visual Verse I, II, III, and IV.

5:30 The New London Inn

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Byron Carr Painting Waterfalls

 The most fun you can have watching paint dry. Byron Carr does watercolor painting demonstrations on 22x30 or up to 2ft x 3ft paper. Using  techniques of slopping, spraying, splattering and scraping the paint to create a waterfall painting. 

5:30 The New London Inn

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Amber Crowtree

"Poetry Endures; A Reading of Life and Meaning"

Amber Rose Crowtree is an award-winning poet of New Hampshire. She grew up living by the four seasons on the coast of Downeast Maine, with worm-diggers, fishing families, blueberry-rakers, loggers, and chambermaids.  
Poems from Amber Rose Crowtree’s chapbooks, Harboring the Imperfect and The Inviolable Hours, invite you as a sojourner of life, where wilderness, body, and mind brew together and fulfill your spirit. 

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Discovering NE Stone Walls

 Why are we so fascinated with stone walls? Kevin Gardner, author of The Granite Kiss, explains how and why New England came to acquire its thousands of miles of stone walls, the ways in which they and other dry stone structures were built, how their styles emerged and changed over time and their significance to the famous New England landscape. Along the way, Kevin occupies himself building a miniature wall or walls on a tabletop, using tiny stones from a five-gallon bucket .

 Kevin Gardner is a writer, teacher, tradesman, and a lifelong resident of Hopkinton, NH. He has been a stone wall builder for forty years, and is the author of The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls, as well as poetry, songs, and essays.

Loosen

Kyle Potvin’s debut full-length poetry collection is Loosen (Hobblebush Books, 2021). Her chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. She is a two-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and received a commendation in the 2019 International Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry in Medicine. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Ecotone, The New York Times, and others. She is a peer reviewer for Whale Road Review. Kyle lives on the seacoast of New Hampshire.

Join us as Kyle shares from her new book.

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Hidden Treasures of the Northern Rail Trail.

  Charley Freiberg is a commercial photographer who lives in Wilmot, NH.  He has been doing historical preservation photography for nearly 20 years, and photographed all the man-made structures along the Northern Rail Trail several years ago.  His work may be found on the Library of Congress site or gracing the backrooms of most New England state archives.  

   He also photographs for over 400 artists and craftspeople across the United States, as well as for clients such as McGraw-Hill, IBM, Hinckley Yachts, Fine Woodworking Magazine, and other magazines.  

   In his presentation he will discuss and share his photographs of the stonework of the Northern Rail Trail, much of which is hidden from the casual observer along the trail. 

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Cellphone Photography 101

Instructor: Sher Kamman

The cellphone has transformed the art of photography. Now wherever you go you have one of the most inspiring, capable, and fun photographic systems in your hand. It is an amazingly powerful tool for creating beauty and art.

Learn how to unlock the power of your cellphone images by becoming fluent with the easy to use photo-editing app Snapseed. You will learn how to edit and stylize your images from the moment of capture. Before coming to class you must download the Snapseed app on to your phone so we can quickly start learning how to use it.  ALL LEVELS

That Reminds Me of a Story

 Stories speak to us of community. They hold our history and reflect our identity. Rebecca Rule has made it her mission over the last 20 years to collect stories of New Hampshire, especially those that reflect what's special about this rocky old place. She'll tell some of those stories - her favorites are the funny ones - and invite audience members to contribute a few stories of their own.

 Rebecca Rule gathers and tells stories in New England, mostly New Hampshire. She is the author of a dozen books. Her latest is That Reminds Me of a Funny Story. Her other titles include Headin' for the Rhubarb: a NH Dictionary (well kinda) and Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire, as well as the children's books, The Iciest Diciest Scariest Sled Ride Ever and N is for NH. For ten years she hosted "The New Hampshire Authors Series" on NHPBS. She currently hosts "Our Hometown" also on NHPBs

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