The timing is the same as for our last potluck. Plan to arrive at 6 pm so we can begin eating by 6:15. We will start our discussion at 7:00 and end by 9:00. The location is at the Zarin’s home. For directions contact Richard or Lauri.

Please let Richard or Lauri know if you have not confirmed and are planning to attend, or if you have a change of plans.

Colonial Fun For The Whole Family and features a William Penn re-enactor plus other historical characters. A brochure of the event is available here (PDF).

Keep reading to find out about things to do in the area, a map to the park and more details.

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Directions to HMM

The Northwest corner of Connecticut has much to offer…come for the day or make it a weekend.

Things To Do

New Milford

Harrybrooke Park
Bicycling, Walking, Jungle Gyms

Sunny Valley Preserve
Walking, Bird Watching

Lovers Leap State Park
Hiking, Views over Lake Lillanonah

Town Green
Walk around New Milford’s historic town green, with shops, restaurants, gazebo and movie theater

The Pratt Center
explore the preserve, hike the trails and visit the nature center.

The Northwest Corner (15-45 minutes)

Kent Falls State Park
Hiking, Waterfalls

Clark Outdoors
Explore the Housatonic River by Canoe, Kayak or Rafting

Hike the AT / Berkshire Hills
Explore sections of the Appalachian Trail or other area trails

The Antiques Capital of CT
Want to find that special antique head across Rt. 67 and 317 to the town of Woodbury and it’s historic main street lined with antique shops

The Institute for American Indian Studies
4th Annual Green Corn Festival – 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT 06793. Phone: 860-868-0518.
Join IAIS staff and friends at our Annual Green Corn Festival on Saturday, August 1/2009 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm to celebrate this time of year when the first corn is ready to be eaten. Dale Carson, Abenaki and nationally known Native American chef, will host the event and prepare traditional Native American dishes on an open fire in our outdoor replicated Indian village.

Summer Concert Series at City Center Danbury
Curtis T Blues/Soft Rock

Bandshell/Danbury Green, Danbury, CT 06810. Phone: 203-792-1711.

On Saturday, August 1, 2009 starting at 7:30PM the Danbury CityCenter Summertime Concert Series continues with Curtis T Blues/Soft Rock. Concerts are all free. Bring a chair and a picnic and enjoy the show.

14th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival
Litchfield Jazz Festival, Kent School, One Macedonia Road, Kent, CT 06757. Phone: 860-567-4162. Fax: 860-361-6288 . Litchfield Jazz Festival, now in its fourteenth summer, is held at the Campus of Kent School in Kent, CT on July 31, August 1, 2, 2009

Elsewhere In the State

Times are estimated from Housatonic Meeting as the starting point.

The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art – Ridgefield (30 minutes)

The Maritime Aquarium (with IMAX) – Norwalk (40 minutes)

Sherwood Island State Park – Westport (50 minutes)

The Mark Twain House – Hartford (60 minutes)

The Wadsworth Atheneum – Hartford (60 minutes)

Silver Sands State Park – Milford (60 minutes)

Mystic Seaport – Mystic (2 hours)

Mystic Aquarium – Mystic (2 hours)

The writing and art included in this book will focus on the personal spiritual experiences, beliefs, and identities of contemporary young Friends from all branches. The editorial committee includes young adult Friends from the US, Canada, Bolivia and Kenya, representing the various theological perspectives of Friends.

Contact Information

phone: 215.241.7251
email: americas@fwccamericas.org
website: www.fwccamericas.org

Included will be 21-speed Denali 7005; microwave oven; antique quilting frame; furniture including bed, double size futon w. frame, TV stand w. shelf, Pfaff oak cabinet c. 1927; lawn mower; rowing   machine; household treasures; kitchen equipment; small appliances;   children’s equipment; collectibles; books; and more.  All goods are   quality items – clean and in working condition.

Parking is available at the Red Barn just south of the meetinghouse,   with handicap parking at the meetinghouse.  For directions and more   information, please call 860-355-9330 or visit   www.housatonicmeeting.org.

Cleaning up around the building, interior and exterior. Building and Grounds will compile a list of tasks to be done. Friends are asked to contact Ann and Terry with any observations/concerns they have to add to the task list. The clean up day is this First day, May 4th.

The contract is ongoing work, budgeted at 21 hours per week. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining a consistent web site architectural structure, ensuring a consistent look and feel across all FGC web sites (www.fgcquaker.org, www.quakerbooks.org, www.quakerfinder.org, www.quakeryouth.org, and www.quakerquestfgc.org), recommending and implementing enhancements and modifications to the FGC web sites, and assisting staff in posting content. We are looking for someone who has good communication skills and can translate IT language for other staff. Strong HTML and CSS skills, familiarity with Drupal 5.1x , and basic PHP skills are all required. Candidates with project management skills and a familiarity with Quakerism preferred. Candidates within a half day’s drive from Philadelphia preferred, for availability for twice monthly meetings in the FGC office. Full job description is available. Compensation is between $25 and $35 per hour depending upon qualifications.

To apply, send letter of application and resume by May 15th to Lucy Duncan, Associate Secretary for Programs, FGC, 1216 Arch Street., Ste 2B, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, or lucyd@fgcquaker.org.

More detailed information available here.

This project needs 18 volunteers to make the exhibit effective over the full day in shifts of an hour or two each for the literature table and greeting functions.

Here’s why.

The Quarterly Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee, representing Amawalk, Chapppaqua, Croton Valley, Housatonic Valley, Purchase, Scarsdale and Wilton Monthly Meetings as well as other local Friends, will host the AFSC anti-war exhibit, Cost of War, from 8 AM to 8 PM on Income Tax Filing Day, April 15, Income at the Westchester County Court House Plaza on Martin Luther King Blvd. just south of Martine Ave. in White Plains.

The “Cost Of War Exhibit” is based upon the work of Nobel Prize winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz and his colleague, Linda Bilmes, who estimate the per day cost the Iraq War for the first 4 years has been $720 million.

The exhibit consists of ten full/color banners, seven feet high, and three feet wide, dramatically mounted back to back on five stands to the height of 12 or 13 feet. The title banner proclaims the cost of one day of the Iraq War as $720 million and asks the viewer, “How would you spend it?”

The other banners give examples of alternative uses for that daily sum: “93,364 Head Start places for children”; “84 new elementary schools”; “423,529 children with healthcare”; “34,904 scholarships for university students”; “12,478 elementary school teachers”; “1,274,336 homes with renewable electricity”; “6,482 families with homes” or “1,163,846 children with free school lunches.”

In addition to the banners, there will be an AFSC petition: Defund the Iraq War/Refund Human Needs, for viewers to sign; full color Cost Of War brochures; and “Frequently Asked Questions” fliers as well as an introduction sheet listing Monthly Meetings in the Quarter to hand out.

That’s where we need the volunteers.

This Cost of War exhibit is not merely an opportunity for members of all the Meetings in the Quarter to work together on an important and dramatic project, but a chance for us all to get to know one another a little better, become more familiar with other meetings in the Quarter to knit our Quaker community together a little more tightly.

We hope some of your members can find a little time somewhere during their Tax day to join with other Friends in the Quarter or at least to stop by. If they can actually put in an hour or more, they should call our Volunteer Coordinator, Virginia Auster at (203) 846-9288. If you have trouble reaching her or her answering machine, call Charles Sirey at (914) 238-0961. If any need more information, call Charles; Virginia; or Bob Bogen, Committee Clerk.

[This exhibit is one of the major projects planned by the committee this year. It follows a dozen other events over the last several years by the committee as well as three other exhibits developed by the AFSC that have been shown in Westchester over the last year or so. All four exhibits were and are coordinated by Charles Sirey of Chappaqua Meeting with major participation of Friends in other Monthly Meetings. Some Friends will remember the AFSC Eyes Wide Open Exhibit at this same location, with its solemn large bronze statues dead and wounded solders in earlier wars, with hundreds of military boots laid out in formation representing New Yorkers who died in Iraq. It generated major photo and written coverage in the local daily papers and their web sites. ]

Bob Bogen, Purchase Quarterly Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee Clerk

“Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” will be shown at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 27, at the Housatonic Quaker Meetinghouse in New Milford, at Route 7 and Lanesville Road (just north of Lanesville Rd. intersection). The documentary film provides a look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities. All are welcome and there is no charge. Healthy refreshments and discussion will follow. The program will conclude at 5:00 pm.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is the documentary film sensation that has changed the largest company on earth. The film features the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world. It’s an emotional journey that will challenge the way you think, feel… and shop.

Plot Synopsis: This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight Goliath. From a family business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and American values.

Parking will be available at the Red Barn just south of the meetinghouse. For more information, call Bill Holcombe at 203-313-4438.

Directions

From Interstate 84 : Take exit 7 to Route 7 north. Go 4.5 miles to where it joins Route 202. Turn right and continue north another 4.5 miles. Meeting house is first driveway on left after traffic light at Sullivan Road/Lanesville Road.

From New Milford : Go south on Route 7 for 2.8 miles from the junction with Route 202 (New Milford Bridge). Meetinghouse is on the right just past a small cemetery and before traffic light at Sullivan/ Lanesville Road.
Directions with a Map

Parking

Friends can park at the Housatonic Friends Meeting, if you arrive and there no spaces left, please go back out the driveway, take a right and pull in at the next driveway on the right for the Red Barn. From there you can walk up the construction side of the road to our driveway safely and out of the way of traffic.

Childcare

Childcare and First Day school will be provided during worship.