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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)

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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.

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

The next Purchase Quarterly Meeting on May 4 will be at Scarsdale Meetinghouse, 133 Popham Road just west of Rte. 22 in Scarsdale. Worship will begin at 10:00 a.m. and the program at 11:15 will focus on the work of Maryknoll Lay Missioner, Ann Grieg, and her twelve years working in El Salvador to improve the health and diet of poor communities. She will speak on “Vegans by Necessity: Protein for El Salvador’s Poorest.”

Grieg, a trained dietician followed her leading to join the Maryknoll Lay Missioners, whose objective is to “create a more just and compassionate world by responding to the needs of the poor.” After working in Peru for nine years, she came to El Salvador to utilize her skills in nutrition, health education and cooking techniques. Her goal was to integrate high protein soy products into the diet of those with very limited economic means. The result was joining with a team of medical and childcare specialists to found the not-for-profit Salvadoran Foundation, which distributes food and trains community members in the use of soy products.

The project began in 2002 in response to the impact of earthquakes that devastated the poor areas. Initially the project was run in one community and has now grown to the point where Ann and others have trained at least 15 economically poor Salvadoran communities to become self-sufficient in the use of soy products for human nutrition.

As always, the program will be followed by a brown-bag lunch at 12:30 (drinks and desserts provided by Scarsdale Friends), and Purchase Quarterly Meeting for Business will begin approximately at 1:20 p.m. Childcare will be provided, and a children’s program is now being discussed. More information will be forthcoming later in the month. This is a program open to all and guests from the community are very welcome!

Please note that this is a bicycle Sunday, and the Bronx River Parkway will be closed to cars from 10 am – 2 pm. (See directions below). For further information: Mary Eagleson: mleagleson@aol.com or John Dempsey: juandempsey@yahoo.com.

Directions (map at www.scarsdalefriendsmeeting.org):

from Bx.R. Parkway before 10:00 a.m.: Crane Road Exit (coming South, the exit is on the left). Right at exit, continue straight to traffic light after train station (Popham Rd.), make left and go to just before Rte.22. Meetinghouse is on the left.

from Rte. 22, WP Post Road – to Popham Road, Scarsdale (pass Village Hall), make right, and go to second right into parking lot.

from Hutchinson R Pkwy: Weaver St (Exit 20), go to light (Weaver St.) and make right and go straight to “Five Corners” (l mile) and make 90 degree left turn so that you go down hill (Heathcote Rd.) to bottom intersection (1.5 mi.) to WP Post Road, Rte. 22. Make left onto Post Rd., one block passing Village Hall, make right, and go to second right into parking lot.

by Metro North RR: Harlem Division line to Scarsdale. Go to corner of Popham Rd. and face uphill (East) and walk l/2-mi.east on Popham Road.

Purchase Quarter Youth Group
Will meet
During Quarterly Meeting
At Scarsdale MM

Sunday, November 5
10 AM until Rise of Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business Meeting

Pending Resolution of Logistical Issues,
A Sleepover will be held the preceding Evening
5 PM
Also at Scarsdale MM

Visit the Scarsdale MM Website at www.scarsdalefriendsmeeting.org for the latest developments.

Contact Bowen Alpern
Alpern@acm.org
(914) 736-5447
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