225th Anniversary celebration fundraiser

There is still time to get tickets for the anniversary fundraiser lasagna dinner and family feud game show on January 26th.  Tickets are $20 each.  More info from Dorene Adams at 547 2706.

Library Events

Check out the latest newsletter from the Library with details of upcoming events.

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Only two spaces left.

Wet Felting Class, Sat., Jan. 17, 10am-12noon - in the Wensberg Room
Make your own felt picture, approximately 7x7 inches.
We will use wool, soap, water and our hands to make a small sheet of felt, one of the strongest and most primitive fabrics in the world! Think of wool boots in Norway, and felted yurts in Mongolia.We will embellish our felt pictures with needle felted details. 
Cost is $25/person. Materials are included.  Class size is limited to 10. Ages 9 and up.
Call to sign up.  547 2790

Felting exhibit at Library

The work of fiber artist Michelle Russell will be on display at the Library through February 28.  Meet the artist, Wednesday January 14 from 6:00 to 7:00.

An exciting new venture in town!

Plowshare Farm is opening a store .  The store will be called Local Share and feature produces made either locally or at Plowshare Farm.

Our hope for the future is that this little enterprise can turn into a coffee house/store, which would be located in the larger space of the Meeting House (where the nail salon use to be).  We fantasize this becoming a local place to hang out, find out about (and post) local events, and a place for local producers to showcase their wares.

Starting with the coffee house is too much for us so we are starting with the smaller place next to Riverside Restaurant for the first year and only doing retail sales but no coffee or food service.  We intend to open on January 21 but do a Grand Opening on Saturday, January 31.  In a year we would like to increase our hours to 8:30am-12:30pm Tues-Sat but for now we will be open Wed. - Sat. 10:30am-1pm.

Our desire is to provide a service to our Greenfield friends and neighbors who make things for sale and to increase our presence/relationships within our little town.

We ask people who have something to sell to participate by setting up their own display, coming in weekly to do accounting of sales and by sharing the news about Local Share.  All sales will be 'by consignment' with Plowshare making a percentage of each sale (probably 20% but we are open to feedback).  Plowshare is sell organic granola and cookies, handmade bees wax candles and some felted items.  We hope 6-8 other local folks will have goods in the store.

Plowshare needs are to increase the richness of our relationship to our community, to be of service to our community and to not have this project be a cost burden.  Plowshare hopes to offer a service which becomes a long-term, direct support to local businesses and cottage industries.

 

Interested in finding out more?  Please contact Kimberly Dorn, Plowshare Director, at 547-2547 orkimberly@plowsharefarm.org

 

Teen Pizza & Movie Night

At the Library January 2 at 6:00 pm.  Call the library to sign up.  547 2790

Are you researching your family tree?

The Stephenson Memorial Library has partnered with the Greenfield  Historical Society to bring you TWO great new resources:  Ancestry.com Library Edition and Heritage Quest Online!  Access to both databases is FREE with your library card.  Just log in at stephenson.biblionix.com.  Ancestry is only available in the library (either on our computers or on our Wi-fi), but Heritage Quest is available anywhere you have internet access.  

If you have any questions, please contact Julie at the library at stephensonlib@myfairpoint.net or 547-2790.  Enjoy!