This Week at JCC & Around Town: Wed, Aug 4 – Sun, Aug 8
WED, Aug 4
- FITNESS with LAURIE McALEER
9am • JCC Parish House (in-person)
Join us for a free, gentle fitness class. Please let Laurie McAleer know you will attend. Masking and social distancing required. - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
2-5pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- Community Event: FLOW & ALIGN YOGA with Anjali Rose
5pm • Zoom. (Zoom Pre-registration link)
Class sponsored by the Friends of the Whitney Center. We will explore the body, mind and soul with mindful movement. These yoga classes are intentionally created with sequences to instill strength, flexibility and mobility. This fun and community oriented class is for all ages and abilities. Simply bring a mat, strap, block and blanket. - Community Event: WHITE MOUNTAIN CEILI BAND
5:30 – 9pm • Wildcat Tavern Dinner reservations required: 800-228-4245 or 603-383-4245.
The musicians will play on the porch of the Igloo a safe distance from guests and vice versa. Join Michael Levine (guitar), Dexter Harding (tenor banjo), Siena Kaplan-Thompson (fiddle) & Fiona Howell (flute) for traditional Irish Session music. Stomp your feet, clap your hands, and dance a little jig as these accomplished musicians play centuries old tunes. For more information on the White Mountain Ceili Band visit: whitemountainceiliband.com
THURS, Aug 5
- Community Event: NATURALIST LED HIKE in JACKSON
10am • Tin Mountain Conservation Center Field Station, Jackson
Registration required link. Or call Call 603-447-6991.
Join Tin Mountain Conservation Center for weekly hikes at the Jackson Field Station property every Thursday in July & August. - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
10am-7pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- Community Service: WAY STATION SHIFT
1pm • Food pickup
2:30pm • Curbside package preparation
5pm • Shift at curbside with guests
@ 15 Grove St, North Conway, NH
Rev Gail and JCC volunteers serve this weekly outreach to local homeless and housing-insecure residents. - Community Event: WHITE MOUNTAINS JEWISH FILM FORUM – On the Basis of Sex (virtual)
7:30pm • Zoom. Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsc-irrzMiH91L67W2f1TujAssDhSXCnoU.
Watch the film in advance. At the WMJFF FILM FORUM on Zoom, Attorney Hillary Schneller will discuss Ginsburg’s legacy including her own work as Senior Staff Attorney for The Center for Reproductive Rights. This fall the Supreme Court will review a Mississippi Abortion law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. In the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Center for Reproductive Rights will defend the right to abortion, a right recognized in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, 1973. Learn about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and this landmark case first-hand from our guest speaker.
FRI, Aug 6
- Community Event: AWARENESS in the SANCTUARY – Opening to Fresh Perspectives 9:30-10:15 am • In-Person @ Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation Sanctuary & Via Zoom. Please email for registration link: jackisue@aol.com.
Led by Jacki Katzman • With an introduction by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum. Focus on Prayers: Bring aim to your prayers with this Awareness Through Movement Eye Lesson. It’s deeply relaxing for the eyes and the whole self, sitting with closed eyes while ‘gazing’ at your hands joined in prayer position. Not only may your prayers find direction, but catching, tossing and hitting may also be improved. Advance Registration Required. Optional donation to Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation (Suggested but not required: $15). Audio recordings of the series will be available. - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
2-5pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATIONS (zoom)
5pm • Zoom. Email for Zoom link: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org.
Conversation about this week’s scripture. - Community Event: OLD FOREST GROWTH EXPLORATION
8am-1pm • Grants Parking Lot, Glen, NH to Pondicherry, NH.
Advance registration required. Call 603.447.6991 to register.
Old-growth forests are rare in New Hampshire. This field trip is an opportunity to learn how to recognize old-growth forests and to understand why they are so important for biodiversity. David will provide a checklist of old-growth characteristics for participants to use for notes on this and future visits. Using measuring tools such as a diameter tape, clinometer, increment borer, and prism will be demonstrated. This easy-rated hike is a two-mile round trip with minimal elevation gain. We will, however, be off-trail for most of the session and walking on uneven ground with fallen branches and logs. Bring water, lunch, a pencil, and clothing for the weather. Binoculars, a camera, and a hand lens are helpful. David Govatski is a retired forester and silviculturist who has studied and explored old-growth forests and ancient trees across North America. - Community Event: SHABBAT SERVICE
6pm • In-Person @ Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation Sanctuary & Via Zoom
To join the congregation on Zoom, please register: bhcsynagogue1920@gmail.com - Community Event: MUSIC at SHANNON DOOR: Riley Parkhurst
Evening • Shannon Door - Community Event: GARDEN STAGE CONCERT SERIES –
Evening • Wildcat Tavern
Tickets and reservations required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-jason-spooner-band-tickets-157541231063
Two shows per night, 4:30p-6:30p (Seating 3:45p), 7p-9p (6:45p Seating), Tables have a max of 6 people, All Events are 21 years and older only.
SAT, Aug 7
- Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
10am-2pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- Community Event: MUSIC at SHANNON DOOR: Joe McDonald
Evening • Shannon Door
SUN, Aug 8
- INTERFAITH GATHERING
8am • Pavilion behind Whitney Community Center & Zoom
Email for Zoom link: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org. - VIRTUAL WORSHIP ZOOM & IN-PERSON
10:30am • In sanctuary or by zoom. Email for Zoom link: jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org.- Join us for worship with music, scripture, prayer and reflection.
- Live music by Alan Labrie
- Message with Rev Gail Doktor
- Stay for coffee hour (via Zoom and in-person).
- Singing in community now practiced (we may sing with masks depending on local COVID statistics).
- In-person attendance requires social distancing and masking requested for non-vaccinated individuals.
- Service will also be live-streamed to website and Facebook (if technology supports this function on the day of event). Afterward, recordings of worship service will be posted to Facebook, Vimeo.com channel & Youtube.com channel.
- Community Resource: MUSIC under the TENT – Jeff Warner
4pm • Jackson Library tent and lawn
Bring chairs and a picnic. Come early for space under the tent. - Community Event: MUSIC at SHANNON DOOR: Bobby Sheehan & Jeremy Holden
Evening • Shannon Door
From Jackson eNews: Boston Post Cane awarded to Warren Schomaker
Boston Post Cane awarded to Warren Schomaker
The Jackson selectmen awarded Warren Schomaker the Boston Post Cane at their meeting July 27, 2021. In 1909 the Boston Post, in a publicity effort, sent 700 gold-headed ebony canes to towns in MA, RI, ME, and NH to be given to the oldest resident of the town. Most of the canes have been lost over the years, however Jackson still has its original cane, which is stored in the Town Office. A replica cane is given to the recipient.
Warren Schomaker, aged 97, was born in Sydney, Australia, on January 27, 1924. His mother, Ivy Emma Hill, was from Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia. His father, George, was born in 1885 in a covered wagon travelling west from Chicago on the trail to Oregon. His birth was registered in Seattle, Washington.
Warren came to America in 1945 and secured his first job with Stromberg Carlson, a maker of telephone equipment, in Rochester, NY. While in Rochester, Warren and a partner formed Utility Services, Inc. in 1955 to acquire its first small telephone company in Melvin Village, NH. More acquisitions were made in Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota. In 1960 Warren and 2 partners formed Continental Telephone Corporation, later renamed Contel. During the next 10 years, more than 110 acquisitions were made in 42 states, Barbados, Trinidad/Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, Grand Bahama, Quebec, and Ontario. Contel went public in 1964.
In 1996, Warren and Leslie moved from Kennebunkport to Jackson. Having been president of the Kennebunkport Historical Society, Warren was interested in joining the Jackson Historical Society. Under his leadership, with the help of many, accomplishments of the Society have been numerous and have placed it in the enviable position it holds today. Just a few accomplishments include:
- Getting 17 structures named to the National Register of Historic Places.
- Staging a year-long bicentennial celebration
- Helping the grammar school kids create a time capsule, which is stored at the Society
- Erecting the Korean War monument
- Creating the Memorial Walk to the Town Offices.
- Restoring the old snow roller across from the Wentworth
- Paying for the paving of the Old Town Hall (before the Society was using it) and purchasing the chairs now at the Whitney Center
- Restoring the Town Hall – new roof, upstairs egress, new siding, new wiring, general renovations
- Publishing numerous books of historic interest.
- Making 19th century White Mountain Art a focus of the society, with lectures, exhibitions, and art sales, and creating the Museum of White Mountain Art upstairs in the Town Hall.
- Commissioning a replica of the Town’s Boston Post Cane and having a case made for the original.
The stunning new library is a prime example of the Society working with other organizations and the entire community. The Society saved the timbers of the historic Trickey barn, which was scheduled to be demolished to make way for the Whitney Center, and stored them in trailers for a future use. They were later donated to the Town for the library. Building the library was a town-wide project with many people, young and old, involved. Once building plans were complete, Sam Harding was the general coordinator; Carrie Scribner mobilized the children; Michael Weeder was the master builder.
Anne Pillion noted “Warren Schomaker, through both his extraordinary vision and getting-it-done abilities, is a shining example of how one person can accomplish far-reaching and long-lasting community benefits. We thank Warren for his years of tireless work, generous support, valuable expertise, entrepreneurial leadership, and unsurpassed dedication on behalf of the Society and the Town of Jackson.”
July 25 Worship
This Week at JCC and around town: July 20-25
Highlights: Hike, fitness class, yoga, MWV Jewish film forum, music at local venues & Music under the Tent (library), Awareness in Sanctuary series (Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation), C3 conversation, shabbat service, worship and more
TUE, July 20
- Community Event: CHAIR YOGA – A Healthier You with Anjali Rose
9:15am • Zoom. (Zoom pre-registration link)
6-week series/online class sponsored by the Friends of the Whitney Center. We explore various exercises to improve posture, balance and strength using the core weight of the body and light hand weights. This fun and insightful class is for all ages and abilities. Simply bring a chair, two blocks, a strap and light hand weights. - CLERGY LUNCH
12:30-2pm • Zoom.
Meeting of Clergy of the Eastern Slope for peer work and community networking. Rev Gail attends. - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
10am-7pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
WED, July 21
- FITNESS with LAURIE McALEER
9am • JCC Parish House (in-person)
Join us for a free, gentle fitness class. Please let Laurie McAleer know you will attend. Masking and social distancing required. - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
2-5pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- Community Event: FLOW & ALIGN YOGA with Anjali Rose
5pm • Zoom. (Zoom Pre-registration link)
Class sponsored by the Friends of the Whitney Center. We will explore the body, mind and soul with mindful movement. These yoga classes are intentionally created with sequences to instill strength, flexibility and mobility. This fun and community oriented class is for all ages and abilities. Simply bring a mat, strap, block and blanket. - Community Event: WHITE MOUNTAIN CEILI BAND
5:30 – 9pm • Wildcat Tavern Dinner reservations required: 800-228-4245 or 603-383-4245.
The musicians will play on the porch of the Igloo a safe distance from guests and vice versa. Join Michael Levine (guitar), Dexter Harding (tenor banjo), Siena Kaplan-Thompson (fiddle) & Fiona Howell (flute) for traditional Irish Session music. Stomp your feet, clap your hands, and dance a little jig as these accomplished musicians play centuries old tunes. For more information on the White Mountain Ceili Band visit: whitemountainceiliband.com
THURS, July 22
- Community Event: NATURALIST LED HIKE in JACKSON
- 10am • Tin Mountain Conservation Center Field Station, Jackson
Registration required link. Or call Call 447-6991.
Join Tin Mountain Conservation Center for weekly hikes at the Jackson Field Station property every Thursday in July & August. Highlights include the summit of Tin Mountain, a tin mine on the property, and historic homestead, and a mountain pond. Tin Mountain’s naturalist will explain the historic use of the property, help identify plant species, and point out animal signs. These hikes are a great way to explore the lesser trod trails of the White Mountains and avoid the crowds. Participants of all ages welcome. - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
10am-7pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- Community Service: WAY STATION SHIFT
1pm • Food pickup
2:30pm • Curbside package preparation
5pm • Shift at curbside with guests
@ 15 Grove St, North Conway, NH
Rev Gail and JCC volunteers serve this weekly outreach to local homeless and housing-insecure residents. - Community Event: WHITE MOUNTAINS JEWISH FILM FORUM – AMERICAN PASTORAL
7:30pm • Register (required) here: Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ode-gpzwqHNMrAgWIy847oogkB4MPSZ2A Watch the film first on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, ahead of time on your own and then join the group at 7:30pm for a conversation led by author Benjamin Taylor. From Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation: A film based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth: Seymour “Swede” Levov comes of age just after World War II, in a thriving and triumphant America. A legendary high school athlete, the diligent and successful inheritor of his father’s glove factory, the proprietor of an eighteenth-century stone house in the heart of WASP country, the devoted husband of a beautiful and intelligent wife, and the father of a charming daughter, the Swede appears to have fulfilled the ambitions of generations of struggling forebears. But his carefully constructed life begins to collapse as he and America face the challenges of the turbulent sixties, and he sees his adored daughter, Merry, turn first into a rebellious adolescent and then into a revolutionary terrorist. As Swede Levov watches in bewilderment everything he treasures, everything so industriously created by his family over the course of three generations, is blown up by an angry girl’s bomb. American Pastoral is a wrenching and cathartic piece of work. It is a book about America: about loving and hating it, about wanting to belong and refusing to belong.
FRI, July 23
- Community Event: AWARENESS in the SANCTUARY — Deep Eyes
9:30-10:a5am • Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, Bethlehem, NH / Zoom
Led by Jacki Katzman, Movement Mentor, BHC member and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®.
Registration Required for All participants. Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUode2rqjkqGtZyCr28HqH3tWbTa1ZGTvRX Questions? Please contact Jacki – jackisue@aol.com. Upcoming sessions: July 30 – Resting on Inside Eyes, August 6 – Prayer Hand Eyes – Direct Your Attention. A donation to the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation for the 4-lesson series ($50), or $15 per single session, will be appreciated. Participants have the option of Zoom or in-person attendance in the sanctuary. Open your eyes to fresh perspectives, guided by principles of the Feldenkrais Method. “Fresh Perspective” begins with a topical reading selected by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum followed by a guided, body-based meditation. Lessons are appropriate for people of all abilities, body types, levels of fitness, faiths and spiritual orientations. . - Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
2-5pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATIONS (zoom link)
5pm • Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83028442916
Option: Call in via touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866 Meeting ID: 83028442916 (#)
Conversation about this week’s scripture. - Community Event: SHABBAT SERVICE
6pm • In-Person @ Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation Sanctuary & Via Zoom
To join us on Zoom, please register here: bhcsynagogue1920@gmail.com - Community Event: MUSIC at SHANNON DOOR: Mike Malkin & Becca Deschenes
Evening • Shannon Door
SAT, July 24
- Community Resource: LIBRARY OPEN
10am-2pm • Jackson Library- Return to full hours of Tu&Th 10-7, W&F 2-5, Sa 10-2. We will continue to close on Sunday for the time being.
- Masks and distance will be strictly required while in the building. If you’re unable to mask, you can still take advantage of our pickup or delivery service – simply let us know what you need.
- One family at a time in the kids room.
- Bathrooms and meeting room remain closed.
- Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
- Community Event: GARDEN STAGE CONCERT SERIES – TYLER JAMES KELLY
Evening • Wildcat Tavern
Link: Tickets and reservations required.
https://www.wildcattavern.com/events/the-garden-stage-dinner-concert-series-with-tyler-james-kelly/ Two shows per night, 4:30p-6:30p (Seating 3:45p), 7p-9p (6:45p Seating), Tables have a max of 6 people, All Events are 21 years and older only. - Community Event: MUSIC at SHANNON DOOR: Bobby Sheehan & Jeremy Holden
Evening • Shannon Door
SUN, July 25
- INTERFAITH GATHERING (ZOOM & IN-PERSON)
8am • Pavilion behind Whitney Community Center & Zoom
Zoom link required; Email jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org for info.. Join us for poetry, prayer and conversation. - VIRTUAL WORSHIP (ZOOM & IN-PERSON)
10:30am • Zoom link required; Email jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org for info.- Join us for worship with music, scripture, prayer and reflection.
- Live music by Alan Labrie
- Message with Rev Gail Doktor
- Stay for virtual coffee hour (via Zoom only).
- Singing in community now practiced.
- In-person attendance requires social distancing, masking requested for non-vaccinated individuals.
- Service will also be live-streamed to website and Facebook (if technology supports this function on the day of event). Afterward, recordings of worship service will be posted to Facebook, Vimeo.com channel & Youtube.com channel.
- Community Resource: MUSIC under the TENT – Shana Aisenberg (Appalachian & Contra Dance Fiddle)
4pm • Jackson Library tent and lawn
Bring chairs and a picnic. Come early for space under the tent. - Community Event: MUSIC at SHANNON DOOR: Bobby Sheehan & Jeremy Holden
Evening • Shannon Door
July 18 Worship
Reflection: Mud in your Eye