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at home with Marcia “If we, citizens, do not support our artists ...

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How important is art in our lives? If what Yann Martel says is true, then imagine for a moment our world without it. Our walls at home would be bare of any paintings or drawings. Perhaps we would hang practical items or stack shelves of books. But wait, any items could we potentially hang on our walls for utilitarian purposes ... from kitchen tools to baskets and even curtains were dreamed up by someone who drew them on paper, an artist. Yes, but we’d still have our bookshelves to decorate our homes! Right? Nope, writing is an art, so nix the bookshelves along with the books.

Would we even have walls to hang anything on?

After all the houses we live in were designed by architects, who are, essentially, artists with a vision for three-dimensional design. Maybe we would live under a lean-to outside and sing songs for entertainment. Ah, but songs are also art. So no singing. No drums. No musical instruments.

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Well, at the very least we sit around a fire and cook our meals. Nope, we would have to eat our food raw since cooking is a culinary art. And would we even be gardeners cultivating food at all? Isn’t agriculture an art form?

What would we be without art? It would be a crude reality indeed. We would be less than even the birds, who use their vocal cords to create sweet artful music.

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Yes-yes #2: Thoughtful placement. Art represents a connection to the creator of the work and often this can be provocative. Political messages abound as do sexual and psychological studies, some of which are graphic and disturbing. A powerful tool, art can evoke emotional response in an instant. Living with fervent images can be connective and reaffirming however careful thought of their placement is crucial. Strong images require more physical space, less sensual destraction and should offer the feeling of a door opening to discussion. Large rooms and walls work well as do outdoor spaces. Thinking of the function of a space is also important. Bedrooms and dining rooms are spaces where a softer approach is more befitting.

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At what point did all this exploration become completely intimidating? As collectors, creators or devotees how do we return to the uninhibited joy found in artistic expression?

In the Monadnock Region we are so fortunate to live amongst artists of all manner of expression style and medium. We can fill our spaces with community art, works of friends, professionals, children.

Interior design is art. In its composition of colors, textures, surfaces, shapes and patterns we are creating a three dimensional canvas into which we step in to live. Seemingly unintentional decisions tell our story: Are we dark tones, open spaces, clutter, books, family photos, cultural iconography, all new and shiny, all old and burnished? Of these decisions, the most personal of commitments is the art we choose. Somewhere along the spectrum of crafts to fine art we all find ourselves.

Within each of our hearts is a desire to connect with the person, the story, the style of expression described in some-

thing made by another person. Living with art should be as natural as breath. It should be as inconstant as the wind, as lively as our dreams. All good so far ... but, there must be rules involved you ask curiously, weather patterns across this vast landscape.

The essential few mandates in my experience are best informed by the well known motivational phrase “Just Do It”! And in that spirit, lets dispense with the no-nos and reference the yes-yeses.

Yes-yes #1: Perpetual self-expression. Something has

caught your eye, intrigued you, beckoned you to learn more visually. What was the nature of your capture? Scholarly, emotional, aesthetic, archetectonic? Exploring that connection is the beginning of life with art and beginning implies that this will become an adventure, a constant shifting, repurposing and rethinking of the world of art around you.

In this sense, your “arts intelligence” is sharpening, growing, changing as you move through your unique life experiences.

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Yes-yes #3: Scale. Microscopic, to larger than life, artistic works challenge us to look further. The relationship of the work to the size of the space is critical in how we perceive the image. Tight groupings of small to mid-sized paintings invite us to explore the group, thus creating a strong, collective configuration. One large image or object can transform a small or uninteresting space and playing with oversized objects in a space creates an immediate sense of refinement. Intricate works should be carefully shared so that they can be approached and even picked up if necessary. Framing is a dynamic tool, enhancing our attraction to two dimensional images despite their size. A postage stamp sized image can become grand with an oversized frame and wide mat; deep frames that come off the wall really invite us to the center of an image, floating or frameless images seem to expand beyond the perimeter of the canvas. Mural art drawn or painted directly on a wall offers immediate understanding that can be bold and billboard like or subtle like a summer landscape. The scale of wall art conveys the feeling behind the message.

Yes-yes #4: Color. There is no medium more powerful than color in design and art. So often even designers fall into the trap of having art mingle too perfectly with the space.

This works a little bit like camouflage: flattening surfaces, hiding contours. An artist friend of mine used to speak of tension in works of art, which he described as a natural and needed element. Color can create this tension beautifuly. If a space is all neutral and white it needs color so that it doesn’t float away. Black is a grounding element in all spaces, one that should always be present. Bold contrasting colors in works of art can weave their way around a space like a spontaneous song. With important works of art the color palette informs every decision of the space, but again not literally, rather in further chromatic exploration.

Yes-yes #5: Objet D’Art. The beauty of useful objects,

every day or exalted, should not go unnoticed. I recently discovered walls of mounted antique tobacco baskets, elegant in their faded grey patina and wide open weaves. Ceramics have been used for centuries for pouring, milking, mixing, serving and cleaning, their shapes refined according to their function. There are exquisite objects created for visual enjoyment alone such as the beloved guinea hens I discovered years ago in the south of France. Eastern export porcelain as well as German and French porcelain is exquisitely re-

fined in color and design. Imagine anything from a picnic basket to a cricket cage, a sock darning ball or woodworking tool. There is a beauty in the form that is art and can be displayed as such.

Considering all these suggestions, I think the most important idea is that this is your own creative journey. You become the artist as this unique interior space fills with your very personal art collection.

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n the northwest corner of Winchester Street and Main Street in downtown Keene, New Hampshire, stands a house that has been described as a scrapbook of history.

The Horatio Colony House has stood on that corner for more than 200 years, built in 1806 by Abel Blake, the son of Nathan, one of the first white settlers of Keene. Forty years later, Blake sold the house to Elias Joslin, a blacksmith, who left the home to Emeline, his daughter, who married Horatio Colony I at the Unitarian Church in 1863.

For the next 114 years, the house would be the home of the Colony family, with Charles Taylor Colony, the son of Emeline and Horatio, receiving ownership when he married Ellen Warren in 1899. Their son, Horatio Colony II, lived his whole life in the home, a life that was punctuated by trips around the world, including China, Japan, Siam, Burma and India. In 1977, Horatio Colony II died, and in his will he established a trust, mandating the house be kept as it was at his death and hundreds of acres on West Hill be conserved as a nature preserve.

“Local history, how Keene came to be, is embodied right here,” says Anita Carroll-Weldon, who, for nearly two decades, has been the director of the house that is now a museum and the Horatio Colony Nature Preserve.

From 1996 to 2000, Carroll-Weldon was the director of the Bidwell House Museum in Monterey, Massachusetts. “That is an 18th-century house on 190 acres of land,” she says. “The board of directors of the Horatio Colony Museum was looking for a director who had experience both with operating a historic house and preserved land.”

Carroll-Weldon was not familiar with the history of Keene or the Colony family when she first heard about the job, but she was pleasantly surprised to learn that that history is well-documented.

What was surprising to her then and to this day, is that many people who have called this corner of New Hampshire home all their lives have no idea what kind of historical gem they have right here in their community.

“I hear it a lot from people who live here,” she says. “One day people decide to just visit, or they have house guests, and they are looking for things to do. This becomes a big discovery for them.”

Horatio Colony’s grandfather, Josiah, had founded the Faulkner and Colony Woolen Mill in 1815 with Francis Faulkner. The mill operated until 1948, the longest-running fam-

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ily-owned mill in the country, producing flannel and other woolen products. It sat empty for many years after its closure but was converted into a marketplace in 1983. The marketplace had its heyday into the early 21st century, but stores began to move out, and now it’s being converted once more, this time into 89 apartments.

The Colony family also owned and operated the Cheshire Mills in Harrisville and the Colony Farm in West Keene. The Colony House on West Street, which is still in the hands of the Colony family, is operated as a bed and breakfast. Both the Colony House and the Horatio Colony Museum are examples of Federal period architecture.

The fortune that was created through the operation of the mills allowed Horatio Colony II to travel the world, to write novels and to collect what Carroll-Weldon considers remembrances of his travels. “The pieces are evocative of memories of trips and travels and experiences,” she says.

The museum’s rooms are filled with hand-carved and ceramic figurines, minerals and rocks, glass paperweights, grandfather clocks, four-poster beds, highboys, cribbage boards, pitchers, books and more books, paintings, crewelwork, journals and a genuine Thomas Edison Gramophone.

“The three generations of family that lived here all added things,” says Carroll-Weldon. “But the biggest stamp you see is that of Horatio the second. Everything in the eight rooms of this house is original and exactly the way it was when Horatio died. The pieces you see out are the pieces he chose to live with.

They represent and honor the different cultures he visited.”

Though the house was built in the Federal style, in 1898, the interior was renovated, which included ripping out the wide plank pine floors and replacing them with narrow oak strips and installing tin ceilings. Decorative Delft tiles from Holland were added to some of the fireplaces, and the hearth was replaced by an addition containing what was then a modern kitchen. The old kitchen was converted into a dining room (pictured on the cover).

“The table setting is the only we get to change,” says Carroll-Weldon. “Everything else has to stay in place.”

Carroll-Weldon says the renovations basically converted the interior of the home from Federal style to late Victorian.

In the 1950s Horatio Colony re-did all the wallpaper in the home.

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atHome with History (continued) “The wallpaper as we go through the house sets the tone, the atmosphere, for each room,” says Carroll-Weldon. “Every room is eclectically furnished. It’s the wallpaper that really changes the feeling of the rooms.”

There is also quite an excellent collection of Japanese pieces here in the house, says Carroll-Weldon. “Most of them came through Mary Curtis, Horatio’s wife.”

Her father, Francis Gardner Curtis, was a Japanese scholar and the nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner, who has an art museum in Boston named after her.

“When Francis passed away, he gave one-third of his collection to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, one-third to Mary and one-third to Mary’s sister,” says Carroll-Weldon.

Much of the artwork in the home was created by the members of the Colony family, including watercolors and crewelwork

by Horatio’s mother and pencil drawings by his father. There is even a picture of a young Horatio II, painted by Horatio himself from a photograph.

“Victorian homes were supposed to be an illustration of a family’s interests and education, their travels … their outward expression,” says Carroll-Weldon. “When people came to visit, they would see, for instance, the mineral collection, which showed their interest in science. These collections were springboards for telling stories.”

The floors in each of the rooms are covered with rugs collected by Horatio II. “They are all handmade,

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“They’re all late 19th century.”

The fact that the rugs are still in relatively good shape is a testament to their craftsmanship, she added.

“This house has a comfortable feeling,” says Carroll-Weldon. “A lot of people who visit say they could live here. It’s warm and has a very good, lived-in feel to it. It’s not ostentatious. It’s very homey.”

The Horatio Colony House Museum is located at 199 Main Street, Keene, and is open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 1 through Oct. 15.

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hat makes a house a home? For some people it’s the heirloom furniture, for others it’s decor that’s been gathered from around the world. Whether every square inch is covered, or the spaces are mostly bare, everyone does it their own way. For Sandy Crawford and Mark Weltner of Concord, Massachusetts, their way was to build a house in Guilford, Vermont to be a second home sanctuary now, and later a retirement home. This home makes their lives simple, upholds their principles, and will allow them to age-in-place when the time comes for that.

Both prefab and custom, Sandy and Mark took the best of both worlds to make this home theirs.

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building sustainable homes, such as this one. While the upfront costs were higher in this house than a home with conventional energy systems, running the house costs very little.

“It’s unbelievably cheap,” says Sandy. “Our electric bill is under $14 a month, which covers all our utilities.” A private well means no water bill.

This home doesn’t just support Sandy and Mark’s principles. The house is also a comfortable space, especially for Mark, who suffers from asthma. Because of the air exchange system, plus the super-efficient cooling and heating technology, the windows need never be opened. Dust from outside doesn’t get in.

“We’ve lived here one year, and honestly, I’ve dusted just once,” says Sandy. “We don’t need a vacuum cleaner for this house. We hardly ever open the windows, and I know that sounds crazy. But it’s a super-healthy house.”

Dey explains, “The systems in this house bring fresh, filtered air in and exhaust stale air out.” For Mark, this is truly a blessing. With this system of air exchange, plus their minimalist approach to furnishings and interior trim, the accumulation of dust is greatly minimized, and Mark can breathe easy.

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oth educators, Sandy and Mark have clearly done their homework in building this one-level, three-bedroom, two-bath, component-style home by Unity Homes, Walpole, New Hampshire on a property set on 94 acres. Their assignment was to build an energy-efficient home. Using their creativity and smarts, as well as choosing a Unity Home, they get an A-plus in execution.

One of the principles that guided them in building this home was to keep it local. So, whenever possible, they used local craftspeople and locally sourced materials. Sandy explains, “We wanted a house to relate to here.” The cabinet pulls, towel racks and hooks were forged by John Boyd, a blacksmith in Charlemont, Massachusetts, with design assistance from his wife, Deb Boyd. Exterior siding and flooring are from the hickory trees on the property. Their sawyer and forestry advisor was Steve Smith, Guilford, Vermont.

For landscaping, they made use of what was right there.

“The rocks from the former barn and house foundations that were here are very much a part of our landscaping,” says Sandy. “They make up all of our walls, the stone steps behind the house, the stone benches across the property, the stonework by the pond, and other various just nice-to look-at-rocks we placed in the landscape.”

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Another principle that matters to Sandy and Mark is caring for the environment, so they designed the house to use very little energy. Whatever energy has to be produced to run the building is offset by the energy it creates, hence this building is a called a “net-zero energy” house. They also designed the house to be very low maintenance, so it’ll use fewer materials as the building ages. For example, by using a bleaching agent on the exterior siding, it will never need to be painted or stained.

To be a net-zero energy house they used technology that incorporates both tried and true low-tech methods, such as siting the house to face south, and the newer, more advanced technologies, such as lithium batteries for energy storage. A net-zero energy house must be designed to require minimal resources to heat and cool it.

Andrew Dey, operations director, Unity Homes explains how this is done. “This home has floor, walls and roof with thick insulation and triple-glazed windows that are very energy efficient. The joints are very carefully sealed to minimize air leakage. Building in this way minimizes the home’s energy use.”

Because the house is well-insulated and air-tight, it can be efficiently heated and cooled with something called an air source heat pump. Electricity for the house comes from

TOP: To be a net-zero energy house the owners used technology that incorporates tried and true low-tech methods, such as citing the house to face south, as well as adding solar panels.

LEFT, TOP: A loft adds an extra private space on the second floor.

LEFT, BOTTOM: The owners enjoy their sun room year-round

the grid and is produced by solar panels. Excess energy is stored in batteries kept in a utility room store. This energy is used as needed. Thus, the house is powered no matter what the weather brings.

Lastly, there’s another principle that they aimed to meet: to not be just an energy consumer, but an energy provider.

“Any electricity not used goes back into the general grid system for the region because we participate in Green Mountain Power’s (GMP) Tesla backup battery program. We run the house with a 9,900-watt solar electric system. GMP draws from us during peak times on the grid,” explains Sandy.

“We not only use energy, we generate power. We’re part of the energy revolution.”

Keeping it minimal and clutter-free not only keeps the air less dusty but creates a restful, calm home. Private spaces are tucked away. Shared places flow openly from where you cook, to where you eat, to where you relax. A screened porch overlooking fields and eventually a pond is Sandy’s quiet corner to take it easy. “I spend a lot of time on the porch,” says Sandy.

Their simple interior design includes locally-made décor and treasured family heirlooms. In the dining area is Sandy’s grandmother’s wrought iron and glass table.

“We wanted to pick out furnishings that were made by local artists to support their work and really speak to our taste and values,“ says Sandy. For example, on a wall in the living room area, there’s a photo of an unfolding fiddlehead fern by fine art photographer John Lehet, Hartland, Vermont. It matches the fiddlehead design on the cabinet pulls nearby in the kitchen space.

For a couple with demanding careers in the Boston area, this is their retreat now, and in the future, it will be an easyto-live-in home when they retire. “It’s our do-it-once house, to last and to stay,” says Sandy. “Everything is just as we had hoped.”

Even at almost 1,700 square feet, all on one level, this house makes a small footprint on the earth.

When hopes makes a home that is healthy not just for those who live in it but is good for the planet too, that’s more than just a building; it’s part of a revolution.

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in the kitchen

Create an Authentic Thanksgiving Feast

“Thanksgiving we eat and drink of ye best.” — Dated Nov. 24, 1748 from William Haywood’s journal, Charlestown, New Hampshire

By Marcia Passos-Duffy

iving thanks — and bringing out “ye best” — is still at the heart of what Thanksgiving is all about today. And what better way to mirror an old-time Thanksgiving than to make a meal using the traditional foods that New England settlers ate? Well, OK, that’s what the entire country does in one form or another: Turkeys, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, cranberries.

But here in New England we have the unique advantage of realizing true authenticity: We can eat what the original settlers ate using fresh produce and meat grown and raised right here. You can’t get more authentic than that. If you want to go all out in authenticity, not only use locally grown foods, but original settler’s recipes.

For example, syllabub, a precursor to eggnog,

was brought over from England and served on special occasions in the colonies; cranberry sauce was a favorite of John Adams, but the old recipe kicks it up a notch with brandy (or rum); and Marlborough pudding — made with apples, sweet butter and sherry — was a favorite dessert.

While many of our basic Thanksgiving ingredients are the same, despite our opulent modern-day holiday feast, it still pales in comparison the variety and spectacle of 18th century Thanksgiving dinners. What was important then was putting on a fancy spread. Color was paramount. Using different jams and jellies spiced up a plain table. Also important was elevating (literally, on a raised platter) the “masterpiece” food ... the turkey!

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Syllabub was a popular dessert with the colonists and variations on this recipe have been found as late as the Middle Ages. The following modern adaptation will make a Syllabub Dessert Parfait for 10 people. For a punch add more wine until you have achieved the desired consistency.

2 cups of whipped cream 1/2 cup of white sugar 1/8 cup of white wine 1/8 cup of freshly-squeezed lemon juice and zest of lemon Grated nutmeg Sprig of mint Lemon slice Whip cream until thick in a chilled bowl. When the cream begins to thicken, add the sugar, white wine, lemon juice and zest of lemon. Continue to whip until thick. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Spoon the mixture into footed parfait glasses and garnish with a sprig of mint, a slice of lemon and a sprinkle of grated nutmeg.

Skillet Cranberries

(Adapted from “The Thirteen Colonies Cookbook”) Serves 4-6 “Arrived at Dr. Tufts where I found a fine Wild Goose on the Spit and Cranberries in the Skillet for Dinner” – John Adams, April 8, 1767 1 pound fresh cranberries 2 cups brown sugar 1/4 cup brandy or rum Spread 1 pound of fresh cranberries in an iron skillet. Sprinkle the sugar over them, cover the skillet (with foil), and place in a warm oven 250 degrees F for 1 hour.

Remove the foil and pour ¼ cup

brandy or rum. Continue cooking and do not stir since this breaks up the cranberries. Continue cooking until rum or brandy evaporates.

Marlborough Pudding

Original recipe from Amelia Simmons’ “American Cookery” (1796).

Original Recipe “Take 12 spoons of stewed apples, 12 of wine, 12 of sugar, 12 of melted butter, and 12 of beaten eggs, a little cream, spice to your taste; lay in paste No. 3, in a deep dish; bake one hour and a quarter”.

Modern Adaptation (from “Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook”) Yield: One 8-inch deep dish pie 6 tablespoons sweet butter Juice of 1 lemon 3/4 cup stewed, pureed apples 3/4 cup sherry 1/2 cup heavy cream 3/4 cup white sugar 4 eggs 1/2 recipe for pie crust (or 1 pre-made pie crust) Pinch of salt 2 teaspoon grated nutmeg (or to taste) Melt butter and set aside to cool.

Squeeze lemon and remove seeds. Add lemon to stewed apples, sherry, cream, salt and sugar and mix well. Add melted butter to mixture, blending well.

Beat eggs and add to mixture.

Prepare pastry and line deep, 8-inch pie plate. Season with grated nutmeg and spoon mixture into prepared pie plate.

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garden A FALL GARDEN CHECKLIST

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all is a more relaxed time in the garden, but there is still plenty to do. I usually keep busy until snow flies and I can’t see the ground! Tending to and tidying gardens and landscapes now will give you a jump on activities next spring.

Here is a checklist of some usual and important fall outdoor projects for gardeners.

• Fall is a good time for planting trees, shrubs, bulbs and perennials. Earlier in the fall is best, as it gives them time to form roots and get established before the soil gets too cold and roots stop growing (often when the soil temperature gets down to 40 degrees F). Spring bulbs should be planted in fall, even if you do so late, rather than try to hold them until next season.

• As long as your grass is growing, keep it mowed. Then, usually about mid-October with the last mowing, you can lower the mowing height by about a third. This keeps the grass from being too long by spring, more susceptible to snow mold and other diseases.

• Canna, gladiolus, dahlias and other summer bulbs should be dug for winter storage, after frost kills the tops.

Canna can be stored in pots with soil or compost, gladiolus can be stored dry in paper bags. Dahlias should be allowed to dry, once dug, for only a few hours to a day, or they will begin to shrivel. Then either wrap the dahlia tubers in plastic wrap, or store in slightly moistened peat moss or sawdust. Kept too dry over winter and the tubers will shrivel; kept too wet and they’ll rot.

• Fall is NOT the best time to prune, as wounds won’t heal fully before winter, and so diseases can enter the exposed stems. Do prune if you can’t wait until spring, or if branches are dead, diseased, or damaged. Prune them too if they’re crossing and rubbing other branches.

• Keep leaves raked, particularly from lawns, as they’ll smother grass. They can be left on perennial beds to help provide winter protection, and recycle nutrients back into the soil, but you’ll need to make time to rake them mostly off next spring. You can compost leaves, use them as a mulch around

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• Fall is a great time to add compost to flower and garden beds, particularly once they’re cleaned up. The compost can work into the soil over winter, and be ready for spring planting. Since compost breaks down in the soil, it needs to be added every year or two. If you add compost yearly, you can merely “top dress” lightly. Otherwise add an inch or two, and scratch into the soil with a tined hoe or gravel rake.

• If you have garden beds, fall is a good time to edge them to keep grass from encroaching. You can use edging tools just for this purpose, or a square-tipped spade to cut the edge and hoe to remove any grass. If a small and more formal area, you might consider adding an edging material such as paving stones or flexible upright plastic edging from home supply stores.

• Once you’re done with tools and equipment such as mowers, get them ready for winter. Add stabilizer additives to mower fuel, or drain the fuel so fresh can be added in spring.

Clean grass clippings from mower decks. Drain hoses, and store clay pots so they won’t get wet, freeze, and crack. Clean dirt off tools, and oil them so they don’t rust. Now is a good time to sharpen hoes and particularly pruning tools. Many hardware and garden stores have sharpeners for the latter.

• Don’t forget during these last days in the garden this season to reflect back and make notes on changes, crop rotations, new plants for next year, and what worked and didn’t work out well. If you have plant labels, revisit all your plants one last time and make sure the labels are intact, legible and don’t need replacing.

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harness will need to be fitted to your dog to make sure that it’s comfortable for her and performs effectively by Pulling on leash is a common problem that lessening or stopping the pulling. An ill-fitting harness a lot of dogs have. The best answer, unfortunately, can cause chaffing, especially on dogs with a very short is…don’t ever let him start in coat. If your dog can still pull the first place. This is one of somewhat while wearing their those behaviors that is easier to prevent than it is to fix after harness or Gentle Leader, stop moving forward. Plant the fact. But don’t despair, there are a few things that you your feet and wait for him to let the leash go slack. When it can do to help. does, try taking another step.

The first thing to do is to If the leash tightens up, stop stop him from practicing the again. Ideally, you are waitunwanted behavior while you ing for him to look back at work on training him to walk you perhaps wondering why nicely on his leash. A head you keep stopping. When this halter such as a Gentle Leadhappens, praise and reward er or a no-pull harness will the eye contact. At this point, keep him from pulling while you can lure him back to your you work out the best way to side and try moving forward train the new behavior. Using the Gentle Leader does require together.

Now that you’ve got your that you desensitize your dog equipment figured out, one of to wearing it. You’ll want it to be as positive an experience as the easiest ways to train your dog to walk nicely on his leash possible before you head out is to teach him or her to heel. for a walk with him wearing This can be achieved by feeding it for the first time. A no-pull

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a high-value food reward to your dog while she is walking politely next to your leg.

I would practice this in short intervals. Reward each step next to your leg for 3 or 4 steps at first. Slowly build up to more and more steps.

Then ease up on the rewards as she gets better at the behavior. You might be able to take two or more steps between rewards. And then after a while 5 or 6 steps, and so on until you can cross a street between rewards.

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Hans Schepker creates art through mathematics, he does this through making stained glass sculptures of intricate shapes.

He currently teaches math and science at Waldorf schools around the US. He travels the world attending math conferences, displaying and selling his art.

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By training, I’m an electrical engineer. I worked in Germany in that field for a while, but when I was asked to work on torpedo guns, I quit. After that, I became a tailor and,

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It was really cool! I did that for nine years, and I got to be known around the world for it. But I wasn’t making money, so I starting baking part time in Keene and after two weeks, I was full time. I like to describe it as: the baker saw my work and quit … not quite like that, he was going to quit anyway. I was also a classroom teacher at the Monadnock Waldorf School. For now, I teach math through art.

Why did you become an artist?

I grew into it. I didn’t decide consciously, OK, I’m going to be an artist now. And currently, I’m really more a teaching artist. I use my artistry: stained glass, origami, beading and crocheting to make math visible. It’s this whole thing with STEM versus STEAM, STEM doesn’t involve heart and hand.

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Describe your art style.

I use stained glass. I make very unmaintained pieces.

It is math based. You can attach numbers to my pieces. It should have some definable form. I spend a lot of time on the internet, searching for and researching new shapes and new ideas all the time. I can also do windows, I’ve done three and I’m working on a fourth. So, yeah, that’s my style. If you can attach math to it, I’ll do it.

Describe your process.

If it’s a more complicated project, I start by visualizing it and then I make a paper model. I have to try the math out. Sometimes I make a stick figure. Maybe even one that is scaled to the size I want it to be. If I’m working on something that’s based on a cube, I don’t need to do a paper model. There are shapes that you can fill without gaps, like cubes. I try to figure out good faces to fill and which ones can I make of glass, so I can still see the structure. Essentially it’s variations on that, it just depends on the shape.

What inspires your work?

That’s an interesting question. I like shapes that I can understand. Here’s a little antidote from way back when I first started with glass. I made paper models pretty much all my life, origami,

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Do you sell your art?

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Actually, I sell most of my work through math conferences. At them, people can see the product and the equations that made it.

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ART atHOME (Continued) Are your pieces suitable for outdoors?

It’s all possible. When making pieces for the outdoors, I like to make them so they are not illuminated. All I really need to take care of is that no water can stand in it or on it. The bottom may just need to be a little slanted, but that’s part of the design. I have made outdoor stained glass sculptures. Hanging lamps run on line voltage, so they can be difficult to display outside. I do have a sculpture that runs on low voltage, but those light bulbs are hard to find and burn out so quickly. I’ve run out, so I need to come up with a new source. But, again, it’s all possible.

16 Greenlawn Street Keene, NH lefthandquilter@gmail.com

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Studio hours by appointment or chance.

2019 Calendar of Events

Oct. 5 & 6 (9-3) Cheshire Craftsmen Fair • Recreation Center, 312 Washington St., Keene NH

Oct. 12-13-14 (10-5) Fall Foliage Art Tour 16 Greenlawn St, Keene, NH From Main Street: Four blocks north on Washington St. Right onto Greenlawn.

(2 guest artists sharing my studio)

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Nov. 8 (5-8p), Nov. 9 (9-3) Holiday Open Studio 16 Greenlawn St, Keene, NH Several guest craftsmen

a Project of the arts Council of Windham County

Gallery Walk BrattleBoro’s Monthly First-Friday CeleBration oF the arts · · · 5:30 to 8:30 · · · 30 to 40 exhibits & events, some with live music and an artist reception.

Nov. 23 & 24 (10-5) Artists of Salmon Falls Open Studios Front Street, Rollinsford, NH 70+ artists millartists.com Nov. 30 (9-3) Annual Keene Craft Fair KHS • Arch Street, Keene, NH Nov. 29 & 30/ Dec. 1 (10-5) Walpole Artisans Tour • Walpole Town Hall, Walpole, NH Dec. 7 (9-3) Craft Fair St. Georges Greek Orthodox Church West St, Keene, NH

www.GalleryWalk.org Guide available online and at most venues.

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Candlelight Open House Horatio Colony House, Keene, NH horatiocolonymuseum.org SEE AD ON PAGE 12 Oct. 5 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.)

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Oct. 5 (10 a.m.-noon) Magical History Tour Starts at Railroad Square in Keene, NH. Tickets: $10 pp. hsccnh.org Oct. 5 (11 a.m.-5 p.m.)

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Newfane Heritage Festival Dummerston & Newfane Village Common, VT. www.newfaneheritage festval.blogspot.com Oct. 12-13 36th Annual NH Wool Arts Tour. woolartstournh.com SEE AD ON PAGE 27 Oct. 12-14 Annual Open Studio Art Tour monadnockart.org/ plan-your-tour/ Oct. 12 (8 a.m.-9 p.m.)

Monadnock Pumpkin Festival Cheshire County Fairgrounds East Swanzey, NH Oct. 13 & 14 (9 a.m.-4 p.m.)

17th Annual Heirloom Apple Days at Scott Farm Orchard scottfarmvermont.com/ heirloom-apples/ heirloom-apple-days/

Oct. 14-15 Brattleboro Area Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Tour West Brattleboro, VT. facebook.com/ events/296841694242323 Oct. 17-20 (10 .m.-8 p.m.)

Brattleboro Literary Festival Brooks House, Main St., Brattleboro, VT. www.brattleboroliteraryfestival.org Oct. 19 • Peak into Peterborough Peterborough, NH townofpeterborough.com Oct. 25-26 2019 Vermont Ukulele Harvest Next Stage Arts Project 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, VT. www.vermontukulele harvest.com Oct. 27 Keene Pumpkin Festival Downtown Keene, NH. www.pumpkinfestival.org

NOVEMBER

Nov. 1-10 8th Annual Brattleboro Film Festival. • Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro, VT. brattleborofilmfestival.org Nov. 8• Holiday Open Studio Mary Ellen Angelo Originals meaoriginals.com SEE AD ON PAGE 29

fall events Nov. 29, 30/Dec. 1 (10 a.m.-5 p.m.)

17th Annual Walpole Artisans Tour facebook.com/ WalpoleArtisansCoop/ SEE AD ON PAGE 28 Nov. 30 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.)

Annual Keene Craft Fair Keene High School, Keene, NH

DECEMBER

Dec. 6 (5-8 p.m.)

Jingle Fest Downtown Greenfield, MA Dec. 6 & 7 (7-8:30 p.m.)

Holiday Open House Horatio Colony House horatiocolonymuseum.org SEE AD ON PAGE 12 Dec. 7 (4-7 p.m.)

Night of Lights & Lantern Parade, Peterborough, NH Dec 7 &14 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.)

2019 Holiday Pet Family Photos. $25 per session. Peterborough Paw Spaw Proceeds benefit the Monadnock Humane. Society.

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Nov. 22 (4-7 p.m.)

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