Schedules, Registration, Committee Meetings, etc. can be found on NYYM’s website.

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)

This year is the 314th Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions. All are welcome. For more information visit, http://www.nyym.org/silverbay09/

Chad Dell, who filmed various Friends reading portions of this minute at last summer’s Yearly Meeting, put the video on YouTube. Friend’s will recognize one of our own members in here.

“New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends’ (Quakers) statement on torture, approved on July 25, 2008. In this statement, Quakers from New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut sign on to the National Religious Campaign Against Torture’s (nrcat.org) “Statement of Conscience” and its “Declaration of Principles” seeking an end to torture.”

At the rise of meeting for worship on January 4, 2009, we will continue in worship sharing format to address the queries for the State of the Meeting report. There will be a potluck following the worship sharing.

1. How does love manifest itself in your meeting, in your communities and in the world?
2. Does the spirit of worship extend into our committee work and into meeting for worship with a concern for business?
3. What efforts are you making to reach out to people in your community and grow your meeting?  Is advancement a priority?
4. Especially in this time of economic uncertainty, are you taking stock of the meeting’s financial health and planning for ways to help those in need?

For more information about the State of the Society report visit NYYM.

http://www.nyym.org/spark/is2008.12.html

Topics Include:
Care and Aging Coordinator for PYM
AFSC Seeks Regional Director for Middle Atlantic Region
AFSC to Hire Associate General Secretary for Inclusion
NEYM YAF Gathering January 1–4, 2009
NYYM First Day School Wiki Site Up and Running!
Innovative Religious Education for Reluctant Teens
Flushing Meeting Needs Sprinkler System
Heeding God’s Call: A Gathering on Peace
Christopher Sammond’s Travel Calendar
AFSC Mexico Summer Project

This issue features a written version of Christopher Sammond’s report to the Yearly Meeting at Summer Sessions, an important reminder about evaluations of Summer Sessions, news about Quaker flood relief in Iowa, announcements of upcoming events, and lots more.

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Agenda

Cordially Invites You To An Inspiring Presentation By

Ann Grieg

Vegans By Necessity:
Transforming Poverty With Protein
In El Salvador

Sunday, May 4 at 11:15 A.M.
Scarsdale Friends Meetinghouse
133 Popham Rd., Just East Of Rte. 22

More details here.