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Weekend Events with JCC and around Town: FRI, Oct 6 – MON, Oct

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FRI, Oct 6

  • Community Event: PUMPKIN PEOPLE
    Through Oct 31

  • Community Event: FALL POP-UP ART SHOW by Jackson Art Gallery
    5-8:30pm • Wentworth Tent, Jackson

    • Join us for our 4th Annual FALL POP-UP ART SHOW & SALW at The Wentworth tent in the heart of Jackson Village, NH. This show will feature the work of 20+ artists. Fine art in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor & woodblock prints as well as hand blown glass, pottery,fine art prints and more!
    • There will be an opening reception and “meet the artists” on Friday, Oct 6 from 5-8:30pm. Be the first to see the show.
    • The show continues on Saturday, Oct 7 from 10am-6pm and on Sunday Oct 8 from 10am-5pm. Free and open to the public.
    • Participating ARTISTS: Melanie Barash Levitt: oil; Terri Brooks: watercolor/ pastel; Jennie Blair: pottery; Matt Brown: woodblock prints; Connie DeFlitch: watercolor; Margaret Dries: acrylic; Celeste Fleming: watercolor; Sandra DeSano Pezzullo: oil; Janet Gill: pastel; Joelle Goff: oil; Linda Gray: oil; Michael Graves: oil; Rebecca Klementovich: acrylic; Valentina Kobilansky: oil; Debbie Mueller: oil’ Jessie Lozanski : oil; Mo Myra: watercolor;Chris Muzerall: oil/watercolor; Deb Samia: watercolor ; Molly Mundy: watercolor; CharlotteThibault: oil; Nathan Macomber: glass
  • Community Event: FRYEBURG FAIR
    Frybeurg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, ME

  • Community Event: SANDWICH FAIR
    Sandwich, NH

  • Private: WEDDING REHEARSAL
    4pm • Jackson Community Church
  • Community Event: FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ: Mike Hathaway Quintet: Mike Hathaway, Jon Deveneau, Brian Hathaway, Marc & Brenda LaForce
    7pm • Majestic Café

    • Info & tickets: https://www.conwaymajestic.com/
    • $10/pp
    • Every Friday night, enjoy jazz, blues, and more in the intimate setting of the Majestic Café. More details above at “learn more”.
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Wildcat Tavern: Al Shafner • 7-9pm • $5 cover
    • Shannon Door: Rafe • 6-9pm
    • Red Parka: Rek’lis • 8-11pm
    • Shovel Handle Pub: Michael Loughlin • 5:30-8:30pm
    • Ledge Brewing (Intervale): Food for Bears • 6-8pm

SAT, Oct 7

  • Community Event: PUMPKIN PEOPLE
    Through Oct 31

  • Community Event: FALL POP-UP ART SHOW by Jackson Art Gallery
    10am-5pm • Wentworth Tent, Jackson

    • Join us for our 4th Annual FALL POP-UP ART SHOW & SALW at The Wentworth tent in the heart of Jackson Village, NH. This show will feature the work of 20+ artists. Fine art in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor & woodblock prints as well as hand blown glass, pottery,fine art prints and more!
    • The show continues on Sunday Oct 8 from 10am-5pm. Free and open to the public.
  • Community Event: FRYEBURG FAIR
    Frybeurg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, ME

  • Community Event: OPEN HOURS @ Jackson Historical Society
    1-3pm • Jackson Historical Society

    • Also open by appointment.
    • More info: https://www.jacksonhistory.org/
    • White Mountain Art Sale
      • The Jackson Historical Society is holding its 21st annual White Mountain Art Sale. There are currently over 50 items from private collectors, primarily 19thcentury paintings. To see the online catalog, go to https://www.jacksonhistory.org/catalog.html. Items are available to purchase as they arrive, so check the catalog frequently to see new additions.
      • The Society is open Saturdays and Sundays 1-3pm.  If you are interested in a painting, the Society can open by appointment. Contact info@jacksonhistory.org.
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
  • Private: WEDDING
    3-5pm • Jackson Community Church
  • Community Event: MAJESTIC CAFE PERFORMANCE: Jon Deveneau, Tom Rebmann, & Moe Baillargeon
    7pm • Majestic Cafe

  • Community Event: M&D PLayhouse’s MURDER on the ORIENT EXPRESS
  • 7:30pm • Eastern Slope Inn, Conway
  • MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Shannon Door: Mike & Becca • 7-10pm
    • Wildcat Tavern: Jonathan Sarty • 6:30-9pm – $5 cover
    • Red Parka: Rek’lis • 8-11pm
    • Ledge Brewing (Intervale): Diana’s Bath Salts • 6-9pm

SUN, Oct 8

  • INTERFAITH SERVICE
    8am • Old red library in Jackson / zoom

  • PET BLESSING
    9:15-9:45am • Gazebo by Historical Society

    • Community invited!
    • Meet at the gazebo by the Historical Society.
    • Bring your animals (on leash, in backpack, or via some contained method, or in a photo, or simply by name) to receive a blessing
    • Offering healthy treats (with owner permission)
    • Held annually in honor of the upcoming Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi.
    • Blessing facilitated by Jackson Community Church
  • WORSHIP @ JCC
    10:30am   • Jackson Community Church & Zoom

  • HOSPITALITY
    11:30am • JCC Parish Hall

    • Hospitality after Church
  • Community Event: PUMPKIN PEOPLE
    Through Oct 31

  • Community Event: FRYEBURG FAIR
    Frybeurg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, ME

  • Community Event: SANDWICH FAIR
    Sandwich, NH

  • Community Event: FALL POP-UP ART SHOW by Jackson Art Gallery
    10am-5pm • Wentworth Tent, Jackson

    • Join us for our 4th Annual FALL POP-UP ART SHOW & SALW at The Wentworth tent in the heart of Jackson Village, NH. This show will feature the work of 20+ artists. Fine art in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor & woodblock prints as well as hand blown glass, pottery,fine art prints and more!
    • The show continues on Sunday Oct 8 from 10am-5pm. Free and open to the public.
  • Community Event: TIN MOUNTAIN SLOW WALKING
    2-3:30pm • Tin Mountain Consevration Center, Albany

    • Join us for a slow-paced walk that takes a closer look at the world around us and explores the Tin Mountain Conservation trails in Albany, NH. Outdoor highlights include an 1800s quarry, beaver pond and resident flora & fauna, while inside the Nature Learning Center you will find animal mounts and a gem & mineral collection. These leisurely investigations of the trails, and tour of the Learning Center are perfect for all ages; you are never too young or too old to have a new adventure.
    • Program Fee: $15/person or $25/household
    • Members are free, so consider becoming a member!
    • Register online here. Walk ins welcome.
  • Community Event: OPEN HOURS @ Jackson Historical Society
    1-3pm • Jackson Historical Society

    • Also open by appointment.
    • More info: https://www.jacksonhistory.org/
    • White Mountain Art Sale
      • The Jackson Historical Society is holding its 21st annual White Mountain Art Sale. There are currently over 50 items from private collectors, primarily 19thcentury paintings. To see the online catalog, go to https://www.jacksonhistory.org/catalog.html. Items are available to purchase as they arrive, so check the catalog frequently to see new additions.
      • The Society is open Saturdays and Sundays 1-3pm  If you are interested in a painting, the Society can open by appointment. Contact info@jacksonhistory.org.
  • Community Event: HEART SONGS & CIRCLE SONGS – Community Sing
    1pm • Majestic Theater

    • Singing in community with others is an embodiment of the universal need to connect and share with one another, and a direct path to wellness and joy.  Through simple, original, a cappella songs, Heather and Bernice will gently and joyfully guide participants through a shared time of singing together.
    • Tickets by donation: https://www.conwaymajestic.com/
  • Community Event: M&D Playhouse’s MURDER on the ORIENT EXPRESS
    3:30pm • Eastern Slope Inn, Conway

  • Community Event: COLD RIVER RADIO SHOW
    6pm • Majestic Theater

    • Tickets and info: https://coldriverradio.com/#3d4e40d4-5be6-45bb-b573-e21d2b8f2c13
    • Headlining Old Eleven; Singer/Songwriter Mehuman; Author Sarah Stewart Taylor; Local Spotlight Kenny Truhn; Host Jonathan Sarty and  His Fabulous Cold River Radio Band: David Mattacks, Todd Baker, Mike Sakash and Joseph (Sonny) Barbato. Guest Guitarist Jarrod Taylor!C
  • MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Shannon Door: Jeremy Dean • 6-9pm
    • Red Parka: Joe Winslow • 45-8m
    • Shovel Handle Pub: Michael Loughlin • 5:30-8:30pm

MON, Oct 9 – Holiday (no school)

Reflections on action & service: advocating and helping others and ourselves. Themes from Jame 2 and Matthew 7.

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Gandhi

Have you ever experienced a “work of mercy” (“good deeds for the benefit of the neighbor”) to be a two-way street? — Tanya Barnett

Prayer
Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy
O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born to eternal life
 — St Francis of Assisi

The Good You Do: Taking Action

It is not enough to be compassionate: you must act. — The Dalai Lama
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Reflections on following stars, receiving epiphanies: themes in Matthew 2 and Isaiah 60.

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Follow That Star — lyrics by Paul Baloche
In the quiet of the night
Under the wide expanse of sky
I am alone and asking questions… why
What’s this longing in my heart
What’s the reason for my life
And this solitary light is shining, callingFollow that star, follow that star
Uncover the mystery of Who You are
I’ve searched for a lifetime,
I’ve come from afar
And discovered my destiny
Is to follow that starLike the light of early dawn
I see the promise there beyond
And a hope within begins to rise
Love is calling to my heart
Reaching deep into my soul
And reveals to me the reason for living …
What joy, what hope, what good news
He brings to me and you …So I follow that star, I follow that star
Uncover the mystery of Who You are
I’ve searched for a lifetime, I’ve come from afar
Discovered my destiny is to follow that star
Follow that star, follow that star
Follow that star, follow that star
I have to follow that star
Follow that star
Follow that star

Of Stars

God’s time [Emancipation] is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.  — Harriet Tubman

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? — E. M. Forster

Once upon a time there were some very wise men who were all sitting in their own countries minding their own business when a bright star lodged in the right eye of each of them. It was so bright that none of them could tell whether it was burning in the sky or in their own imagination, but they were wise enough to know that it didn’t matter. The point was, something beyond them was calling them, and it was a tug they had been waiting for all their lives. — Barbara Brown Taylor 

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. — Victor Hugo

Stars and moon are an object of consciousness. They are in store consciousness. In the world of the oyster, they have no-eye consciousness and no-ear consciousness. The things that we see, the oyster cannot see. So, sense organs are one condition to give birth to consciousness. The object gives rise to consciousness. And these are manifested from seeds. And store consciousness holds all the seeds. The sense organ and the object rely on each other to create consciousness. Object and subject. They are divided into two parts but this isn’t exactly correct. We cannot take one out of the other. This is called Interbeing. — Thich Nhat Hahn

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. — Og Mandino

No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born  … God give you joy!— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Well we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. — John Lennon, Instant Karma lyrics

Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair. — St Francis of Assisi

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. — William Butler Yeats

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. — Victor Hugo

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. — Charles Lindbergh, Autobiography of Values

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. — Christa McAuliffe

The Starlight Night
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
   O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!

   The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! …

Touched by an Angel
— Maya Angelou

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
We dare be brave
And suddenly we see that love costs all we are
And will ever be.
Yet it is only love which set us free

Of Epiphany

In order to reach a distant shore, one must consent to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Ghee

All we know for certain is that we are three old sinners, That this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, And miss our wives, our books, our dogs, But we have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow the star. — W.H. Auden

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. — Saint Augustine

So there we have it: a call, a path, a life, a destination—all safe in the heart of God, and given to us, bit by bit, as we do our part and accept both the invitation and our soul’s transformation that the journey requires. Putting one foot in front of the other, as Jung said, trusting that this life, and this path, is given us for a reason. It is … a path that will be utterly unique to you, yet also grounded in our common experience as people of the star. … We follow the light, though we do not know the way. Yet we need not know everything to follow Christ. We need only trust the invitation and the One extending it. — Rev Mariann Edgar Budde

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow. Heinrich Rohrer
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