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Good Morning, I volunteered at the Green Center on Saturday and saw the usual collection of interesting items (and people). Note that the next open date for the Green Center is October 15th. It will be closed on October 1st and on October 8th ( Indigenous People's Day is Monday). See my calendar . We had our first sighting of an invisbile child A butterfly watering can It would be nice just to know everything instead of those years wasted in school Sorted buttons in a very nice cigar box Our seasonal area has your Halloween items Nothing is as funny as a clown with a golf ball in his eye socket? I still can't figure out how this works Just in time for Thanksgiving. This is an enamel with a painted design. This went quickly. A bit of Coney Island at the Green Center Black Lotus candle holder Modeling a hat Plenty of hats to choose from This item did not last long before some customer took it home How ironic is

The 2nd Quadrennial As American as Apple Pie On his birthday Woody Meiszner held a party in his barn and invited the Temple-Sharon-New Ipswich democrats. We all enjoyed a slice of homemade apple pie with coffee and hot cider, and a chance to meet the candidates. In October of 2012 Woody Meiszner hosted the first  apple pie summit in his barn in New Ipswich, NH In 2012 Annie Kuster was running for Representative of New Hampshire's Second District, She won and is running for reelection in 2016 For a small donation I got an official Blue-Pon good for some pie and coffee Grassroots politics New Hampshire style Dan Weeks is running for Exectutive Council in 2016 Signing up Steve Shurleff running for NH Speaker of the House Senator Peggy Gilmour  candidate for NH Senate District 12 Lee Nyquist   candidate for NH Senate District 9 Dan Weeks running for Executive Council Homemade pies were delicious Garth Corriveau  ca

Good morning, The Green Center had some interesting items that appeared this weekend. This is a look at some of the older items that arrived. Couroc Tray Formed by Guthrie Courvoisier, owner of Courvoisier Galleries in San Francisco the Couroc Company (1948-1990s) was a Monterey California company that produced many  different types and shapes of trays, boxes, ashtrays and glassware from 1948 until their closure. . Courvoisier developed a secret formula for phenolic resin which was molded into these item. Designs were created with metals such as this owl which could be embedded into the material. Couroc of California pieces were the wedding and shower present of choice from 1950’s to the 1980’s.  1864 We get old books on a regular basis but this won the prize from 1864, wonder if anything has changed in the Congress since then  Antique Plate Antique Plate Curious why this plate is marked Antique Ivory, was it an antique when it was first fired? One

During my vacation week I took the short hike along the MacLellan Trail to Lower Purgatory Falls. I realized that the drought would have reduced the flow and the falls would be merely a trickle. However it was even drier than I suspected. MacLellan Trial is an easy short hike. However it is not marked very well and numerous paths branch out as you approach the falls. It was dry as can be and I think these leaves just gave up for the year. A waterfall in which no water falls - Lower Purgatory Falls. Howerver it does have a puddle. It is common to find ferns growing in leaf litter on rocks in the deep forest. These are severly distressed by the drought. The upper part of the falls, you can see the waterline on the stones I have photos available for sale