Scenes from the past week

Here are some photos from events during the past week or so:

Keith Murphey (one of our favorites) performing in Bethany Church at the New World Festival in Randolph.

The "Good Shepherd" stained glass window in Bethany Church

Pascal Gemme (far left) and Nicholas WIlliams (4ith from left with head down) at the New World Festival

Chris Newman (guitar) and Maire Ni Chathasaigh (harp) at the Festival - two outstanding performers!

Horse pull at the Guilford Fair - we like the way they do it at Guilford better that at the fair in Maine. Guilford is kinder to the horses.

Prize-winning quilt in Guilford Fair

Today, we got a call from Kathy Leo about a Hallowell sing at Valley Cares in Townshend. Maurice was actively dying - could we be there in an hour - 11am? We said "yes," even though we were not dressed yet. We got there just at 11am, and learned that Maurice had died minutes earlier. The family wanted us to sing for them, and then, because the community there had experienced 6 or 7 deaths in just the past month or so, we sang for a group of residents and staff in the lobby. All very much appreciated.

On our way back down Route 30, we stopped at the Windham County Historical Museum in Newfane, which Ellen had never been inside of. It is open very infrequently.  We went in and Ellen found postcards! I could happily spend a day there - lots of local history resources. I was struck by the primitive beauty of this 1860 blacksmith sign;

1860 Blacksmith sign in Windham County Historical Museum

Then we headed to the Brattleboro Farmer's Market. Ellen wanted flowers - zinnias in particular - from the flower stand there. We also ate Indian food there for lunch which was very good. And a gelato!

The flower stand at the Farmers Market

Now I am at the Dummerston Church organizing choir music for tomorrow. This evening we are going to a Scott Ainslie concert at Andy and Robin Davis' house. We saw Robin and Emma earlier today - when we stopped for gas at the Irving gas station in West Dummerston, they were at a table in front of the store promoting Special Olympics - Emma is a prize-winning swimmer and skier! Today was "Circle-K Special Olympics Day" all over Vermont, they said.