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A Changing Landscape: The Stonewalls Remain
Tuesday, February 8, 7pm
Plainfield, NH resident and longtime UVLT supporter, Peter Stettenheim has taken a series of images spanning the years from 1980 to the present. Please join us for a slide show, followed by a discussion about changes in the Upper Valley’s landscape.
Also at the Quechee Library this month you can view half of UVLT's photo display. The other half is going up at the Tip Top building in White River Junction.
Vermont Housing and Conservation Coalition Legislative Day
Wednesday, February 16, 7:30am - 2:30pm
Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT
Join us in Montpelier to express your support for Vermont Housing and Conservation Board funding.
This year, Governor Shumlin has proposed full funding for VHCB. With a $176 million budget deficit, this is an extraordinary development. Some in the Legislature have already suggested that we don’t need to fund conservation when Mental Health and other services to vulnerable Vermonters are being cut deeply. BUT conservation and affordable housing are critical economic development investments that must remain a priority throughout the challenges of the State's fourth consecutive year of fiscal crisis.
If you'd like to join the carpool leaving from the Upper Valley, please contact Nora at (603) 643-6626 ext. 102 or
noradoyle-burr@uvlt.org
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Sunday Stroll &
Bear Pond Trail Snowshoe
Sunday, February 20, 1pm
Hall Road, Canaan, NH
Join us for a winter outing! This event will be hosted by the Upper Valley Land Trust in partnership with the
Mascoma Watershed Conservation Council. Led by UVLT Trustee Roger Hanlon, we will snowshoe and explore the pond and its surrounding wetlands. Bring a snack, water, and snowshoes and wear warm clothing. We will be starting along Hall Road, on private, conserved land.
Directions:
From Exit 17 off I-89 in Lebanon, proceed east on Route 4 thru Enfield, then on into Canaan. After crossing the Mascoma River, there is a long straight stretch of highway; near the end pass Mascoma Regional High School on left, then cross the river again, pass Goose Pond Rd. and proceed uphill on Rte 4. 1.2 miles after the high school, turn LEFT onto Hall Rd. We will meet at the end of the town road, about 1/4 mile in from Rte 4.
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Tuesdays, February 22 – March 29, 12 – 1:30pm
UVLT’s office, 19 Buck Road, Hanover, NH
Catamount Earth Institute, the Co-op Food Stores, Sierra Club, Sustainable Hanover, the Upper Valley Land Trust, the Upper Valley Localvores, the Valley Food Council and Vital Communities invite you to join with 8-12 friends and neighbors for a Menu for the Future discussion group this winter.
This is a six-session discussion program about sustainable food systems. Topics include: industrial agriculture, organics, processed food, Fair Trade, food and health, and eating sustainably and locally.
Contact Nora to sign up for the group convening at UVLT –
noradoyle-burr@uvlt.org or (603) 643-6626 ext. 102. Our group will include farmer & UVLT Trustee, Chuck Wooster of Sunrise Farm in Hartford.
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Wednesday, February 23, 7pm
FRESH the movie is a celebration of the farmers, thinkers and business people who are re-inventing our food system. The movie features Michael Pollan, Will Allen and Joel Salatin; they offer a practical vision for the future of our food and our planet. The movie will be followed by a panel discussion.
The event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters, the Howe Library and Upper Valley Conversations partners - Catamount Earth Institute, the Co-op Food Stores, Sierra Club, Sustainable Hanover, the Upper Valley Land Trust, the Upper Valley Localvores, the Valley Food Council and Vital Communities.
The film will also be screening in Bradford twice in February:
- Monday, February 7, 6:30 pm, Colatina Exit Upstairs
- Sunday, February 13, 4 pm, Bradford Academy Auditorium
For more information about the Bradford screenings, contact Nancy Jones at 802 439-3562 or
npj@valley.net for information about the screening in Hanover, contact Heather at
Heather.Backman@thehowe.org or 603-640-3252.
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Did you know that a “dingle” is a “dell, or small wooded hollow”?
I decided to look this word up after seeing it twice in reference to a property in Cornish, New Hampshire. Carol Heath and her family donated a
conservation easement on their property known as
Fern Hill in December, but it was only after the closing that I learned the name Fern Hill comes not only from the long swath of ferns bordering the Heath’s driveway, but also from the beautiful Dylan Thomas poem of the same name. The beginning of that poem reads:
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
Not knowing what “the dingle starry” meant, I wondered if it bore any relation to name of Dingleton Hill Road, the road Fern Hill has frontage on. After looking up the definition, I was immediately struck by its appropriateness.
Learn more about dingles and the newly conserved Fern Hill from UVLT Project Manager, James Thaxton by visiting the
news section of our website.
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