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The Colebrook Chronicle
Friday, October 7, 2016
Around The Region
The 2016 Summer Olympics may be well behind us, but the Sawyerville Baptist Children’s Club brought
the action back for their “Wacky Olympics” at the Sawyerville softball field this past weekend. Corey
Bellam photo.
An autumnal fixture in the Eastern Townships, the Wera Vegetable
Farm “Fall Monster” has officially signaled the arrival of fall at the
corner of Rte. 143 and Rte. 147, near Lennoxville. Corey Bellam photo.
LAST SUMMER
FARMERS’ MARKET
The leaves are falling, the
temperatures are dropping, and
the summer Lancaster Farmers’
Market is ending. This Saturday,
Oct. 8, marks the last Farmers’
Market in Lancaster on Centennial Park for 2016. With no
music planned for this week, it
will be a quieter affair, leaving
room for conversation, laughter,
and enjoyment of this Autumn’s
bounty. Squashes, kale, pumpkins, apples, and other late season produce abound, waiting for
the perusing customer to take
home and enjoy. Pie and other
autumnal delights wait to be
eaten by the connoisseurs of
locally made baked goods. Future
Christmas gifts of wooden signs,
cutting boards, hand carved
bowls, soap, lotions, bird ornaments, woolen delights, expertly
crafted jewelry, pet goodies, and
so much more await the savvy
consumer.
The Farmers’ Market is not
leaving the Lancaster community without local shopping
options for the holiday season,
though. The Winter Market is
planned for Nov. 19, Dec. 3, and
Dec. 17. Located this year at the
Lancaster
Congregational
Church, next door to the Centennial Park, the new winter set up
is not far from the Summer location. The hours for the Winter
Market will be 9 to noon. There
will be a wide selection for the
area’s holiday needs, so stay
tuned.
The last Summer Market will
be located at the Centennial
Park from 9 to noon. The Market
not only accepts SNAP, but it has
an extra incentive program. Contact the Market Manager via the
webpage
at
www.lancasterfarmersmarket.
org, or just show up and ask with
any questions. The Lancaster
Farmers’ Market would like to
thank their generous sponsors
(The Center for Acupuncture,
EXIT Realty, the Mountain View
Grand Resort and Spa, Lancaster Eye Care, and more) for
their help making this local
Farmers’ Market a reality.
AMY SPEACE AT
CABIN FEVER SERIES
On Oct. 14, 42 Maple Contemporary Art Center in Bethlehem
welcomes singer/songwriter Amy
Speace to the stage from Nashville, Tenn. This is the first
scheduled performance of the
2016-2017 Cabin Fever season,
and will also include an opening
performance by rising star, Ben
de la Cour.
Born in Baltimore, Speace
started her creative career in the
theater. She studied classical
acting in New York City after
graduating from Amherst College and then spent a few years
rushing from Lower East Side
theater rehearsals to film and
commercial auditions. After a
spectacular breakup with a boy
in a rock band, she bought a
cheap guitar and started putting
her poetry to music and began
appearing at local folk clubs like
The Sidewalk Cafe, The Bitter
End and The Living Room. She
was discovered by Judy Collins
in 2005, releasing her debut in
2006 on Collins’ Wildflower
Records, “Songs For Bright
Street” to rave reviews.
Rock cri tic Dave Marsh wrote
"Amy Speace’s songs hang
together like a short story collection, united by a common van-
tage
point
and
common
predicaments…it’s a gift to hear
a heart so modest even when it’s
wide open." Her songs have been
recorded by Judy Collins, Red
Molly, Memphis Hall of Fame
blues artist Sid Selvidge and
others. National Public Radio
has described her voice as “velvety and achy” and compared her
to Lucinda Williams.
Ben de la Cour has lived a
different kind of life. After growing up in Brooklyn, he set out to
see the world as an amateur
boxer, bartender, and agricultural worker, living in Havana,
Paris, London, Los Angeles, and
New Orleans before finally settling in Nashville. It was at
Nashville’s Greenland Sound
that de la Cour recorded the
eleven songs of tightly crafted
“Americanoir” that make up his
second album “Midnight in
Havana.” In May of 2016, de la
Cour was selected as one of six
winners of the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival “New Folk”
competition.
Cabin Fever is made possible,
in part, thanks to the generous
support of several communityminded businesses; Union Bank,
Mascoma Savings Bank, Littleton Food Co-Op, Bank of New
Hampshire, P&S Equipment and
Rentals, Crosstown Motors, Littleton Chevrolet and Presby
Environmental. Seating is limited to 50 people and advanced
purchase is strongly recommended. Tickets are available at
42 Maple, The Maia Papaya,
Catamount Arts, or online at
Eventbrite. If you are interested
in purchasing tickets for the
Cabin Fever Concert Series,
please call 575-9077 or visit the
website at www.42maple.org.
FULLER’S SUGARHOUSE
EXPANDS BUSINESS
Fuller’s Sugarhouse is making progress on its Fuller Maple
Farm project, an expansion that
will further enhance its ability to
produce the “Best in New Hampshire – Best in World” pure
maple syrup and maple products.
Fuller’s Sugarhouse, a familyowned and operated business, is
Stuart Main of Bishopton, Que., along with some of his paintings,
one of the mutliple artists on display during two local art shows across
Bury this past Saturday. Corey Bellam photo.
Fuller’s Sugarhouse in Lancaster has recently announced an expansion to its family maple business. From left: Russell, Ed, James, and
Dave Fuller. Courtesy photo.
also pleased to announce that
Jim Fuller, son of the owners
Dave and Patti Fuller, has joined
the operation to assist with the
new expansion and carry on the
Fuller family’s maple sugaring
heritage.
The Fuller Maple Farm project includes the construction of a
new 40x80 ft sugarhouse on
Route 2 in Jefferson and one
million feet of piping to transport
sap directly from the maple trees
to the sugarhouse for production.
The new sugarhouse and sugar
bush are located on a 723-acre
parcel within the 10,000-plusacre Randolph Community Forest. The sugarhouse construction
is expected to be completed by
the beginning of November.
The sugarhouse will contain
an evaporator and three climatecontrolled tanks with a combined
capacity of 18,000 gallons. “The
sap will be piped directly into
climate-controlled tanks inside
of the new sugarhouse and not
be exposed to air until production,” says owner Dave Fuller.
“This gives us even more control
over the final product and continue our ability to ensure food
safety and quality.” Another
advantage of having the sugarhouse in close proximity to the
sugar bush is that visitors interested in learning how maple
syrup is produced will see the
entire maple syrup production
process in one location. Fuller
expects that this maple syrup
production will increase the size
of his current operation.
All the maple syrup produced
from the Fuller Maple Farm will
be packaged in the current Full(Continued on page 15)