Pub Night
The Harvard General Store will host its pub night Friday, Sept. 12, from about 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Food and beverages will be available for purchase starting at 6 p.m., with the musical performance to follow. Currently scheduled: Sweet Connection at 7 p.m., Bare Hill Band at 8 p.m. Get details at www.harvardgeneralstore.com.
‘Disruption’ Documentary
A newly released documentary about climate change will be shown Friday, Sept. 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the sanctuary at the Harvard Unitarian Universalist Church. Viewers can learn how bold action could tip the balance toward a sustainable future. The movie is free and open to all.
Harvard Farmers’ Market
The Harvard Farmers’ Market will take place Saturday, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to noon in front of the Hildreth Elementary School. Produce, meat, dairy products, baked goods, seafood, and other products will be available. Bring knives for sharpening at the Venier Forge Knife Sharpeners’ booth. Music will be by Alicia Bakis and Friends. Sept. 13 is also “Kids’ Day” at the market, including a “Get Growing” contest, with awards to be presented at 11:30 a.m. (harvardfarmersmarket.org)
Access Digital Books
The Harvard Public Library will host a session to teach people how to download magazines, eBooks, and eAudiobooks from the library system. Participants should bring their tablets, eReaders, and other devices to the library Saturday, Sept. 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Build Gnome Homes
The Harvard Conservation Trust will host a village-building event Saturday, Sept. 13, from 10 a.m. to noon on the conservation trail behind Hildreth Elementary School, where families will transform the trail into a gnome and fairy village. Feel free to bring some natural backyard trimmings. (harvardconservationtrust.org)
Lions Club Fall Festival
The Harvard Lions Club will present its annual Fall Festival Saturday, Sept. 13, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 150 Ayer Road. More details. For the full schedule of events, go to www.harvardfallfestival.com.
Outdoor Poetry Walk
Poet Susan Edwards Richmond will lead a plein air poetry walk through the landscape of pond, waterfall, stream, fields, and forests at Old Frog Pond Farm, 38 Eldridge Road, Sunday Sept. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. Poems related to growing food on the farm will be featured. Register at www.oldfrogpondfarm.com.
Artist Reception
The Center on the Common will host a reception to celebrate two new exhibits Sunday, Sept. 14, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Center. The photography of Chet Hooper and the landscape paintings of Gabriel Sennott will be on display between Sept. 4 and Sept. 27.
Girl Scout Registration
The Harvard Girl Scouts will host a night of information and registration for all girls, grades K to 12, Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the Congregational Church of Harvard. A special information and registration event for Daisy Girl Scouts, grades K and 1, will be held Saturday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m. at St. Theresa’s Deacon Hall. For more information contact Janice Kennedy at kennedyshome@charter.net.
Open House for Applewild at Devens
An open house for prospective students and their families will be held Wednesday, Sept. 17, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Applewild at Devens, 27 Jackson Road, Devens. The school offers year-round, curriculum-based preschool for ages 2.9 -5; enrollment is ongoing. For information, call 978-342-6053 ext. 110 or e-mail admissions@applewild.org.
Open Mic Night
The Center on the Common will hold an open mic night, hosted by Kevin O’Leary, Thursday, Sept. 18, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Center. Performers should sign up before the show, at 7 p.m. BYOB for the over-21 crowd. For more information, email Rachel at rachel@centeronthecommon.org The suggested donation is $5.
Rummage Sale
The Center on the Common will host a rummage sale Saturday, Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Center. To rent a table contact Rachel at rachel@centeronthecommon.org.
Molly Tuttle Trio
The Harvard Friends of the Arts will host the Molly Tuttle Trio Saturday, Sept. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Volunteers Hall at the Harvard Public Library. Doors open at 7 p.m. Molly Tuttle, John Mailander, and Brittany Karlson create a soulful mix of original and traditional music, displaying a deep respect for the past, with an eye toward the future of acoustic music. Admission to the show is free, but donations—which support the programming of Friends of the Arts—are welcome. Reserve seats at 978-456-4114.
Shaker Spring House Walk
The Harvard Historical Commission will lead a walk to the Shaker Spring House Saturday, Sept. 20, at 1 p.m. The walk will begin in the parking area at the end of Green Hill Road, which is off Old Littleton Road and is the last street on the left, just before the Route 2 overpass. The Shakers constructed the spring, its housing, and the piping to the Shaker Village around 1855. The Historical Commission recommends that participants prepare for the walk by reading a history of the spring by Daniel Boudillion at his website, www.boudillion.com. The walk is limited to 20 people; register at hhcommission.wordpress.com/2014.
Living History Tour by Moonlight
The Harvard Historical Society will host moonlight tours of the town center cemetery Saturday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m., starting at the check-in table on the grass next to the General Store; subsequent tours will start every 10 minutes or so. Following the tours, attendees are invited for drinks and a dessert buffet across the street at 1 Elm Street. For planning purposes, the Society requests that reservations be made with curator Judy Warner at curator@harvardhistory.org or 978-772-6722. If there is heavy rain, the event will be held Sunday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m.
Tour de Pond
The Bare Hill Rowing Association will host a fun and friendly oar- and paddle-powered boat race around Bare Hill Pond—“Tour de Pond”— Sunday, Sept. 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Scullers and paddlers will navigate around the pond on a marked course. The Tour will include racing with canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards; even several recreational, flat-bottomed sculling singles will be provided for those with sculling experience who don’t have access to a boat. Participants can launch from their own docks or bring boats to the beach on race day. Adequate steering skill is required. Spectators are encouraged to come down to the beach and enjoy food provided by the General Store. To sign up to borrow a boat and register for the race, go to www.barehillrowing.com. Entry fees are $15 per boat for adults and $10 per boat for juniors. Prizes will be given to top finishers in each event and age category.
Reception for Weekly Sculpture Walks
Old Frog Pond Farm will host an artist reception Sunday, Sept. 21, from 1 to 5 p.m. at 38 Eldridge Road. Music will be courtesy of the bluegrass band Wild Blue Frogs and the Morningside Studio Jazz Band, and artist Linda Hoffman’s studio will be open and exhibiting her sculptures and prints by Erika Radich. In addition, the sculpture walk “Around the Pond and Through the Woods” will be open both on Sept. 21 and on weekends, 1 to 5 p.m., from now through Oct. 5.
Chamber Ensemble
The Row Twelve Chamber Ensemble will perform a program of classical music, jazz, dance, film and poetry Sunday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m. in Volunteers Hall at the library. Included will be a short film by Whitney Lauritsen and a reading about Mont Ventoux and Petrarch; “Six Appalachian Vignettes,” and two movements from the “Pathetique” piano sonata by Beethoven. The Ensemble is a branch of the Boston Theater Group. Admission is free.
Armen Donelian Trio
The Fanfare Home Concert Series will present the Armen Donelian Trio Sunday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. at the Chapman and Ruze residence on Willow Road. The concert, to benefit Fanfare, will feature New York-based jazz musician Armen Donelian, who blends his Armenian roots with the deepest currents of modern jazz. George Schuller, son of Gunther Schuller, will be on drums, and Dave Clark on bass. Attendees should bring their own beverages and snacks to share. To reserve tickets, which are $20, email jpnchapman@yahoo.com or call 978-456-0033.
Warner Free Lecture:
‘Mystery of Music’
The Warner Free Lecture Series will present “Mystery of Music” Friday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Volunteers Hall in the Harvard Public Library. Musicians Steve Peisch and Helen Batchelder will offer a presentation exploring how music affects our moods and how different people and cultures respond to music. Admission is free.
Apple Harvest Ramble
The ramble, a 5- or 10-mile run through town, will be held Saturday, Sept. 27, at 9 a.m. at the Bromfield School. The race starts from Elm Street, across from the General Store. Refreshments to follow at Bromfield School. Proceeds benefit local charities. To register and for information, go to www.harvardraces.org.
Craft Festival
Fruitlands Museum will host a festival of fine New England crafts Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine in the museum’s upper fields. Local artists will purvey hand-made crafts including glass, photography, mixed media, wood, pottery, and jewelry. Admission is $5 and includes entrance to the museum galleries; admission for children 12 and younger is free.
In-Town Courses
- At Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio: Bird-watching with Susan Edwards Richmond Saturday, Sept. 13, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.; Plein air painting with Heather Barros Saturday, Sept. 13, 10 a.m. Register at www.oldfrogpondfarm.com.
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At Center on the Common: After-school classes, including:
- Paper Quilling, ages 5 to 8, Mondays 3:30 to 4:30, $15 per class. Register at Kabil.gangai@gmail.com.
- Paint Rhythm, grades 2 and up, early release days. Art and music led by Rachel Manly and Mike Geezil, each class devoted to different genre. $35 per class or $180 for six classes. Register at www.paintrhythm.com.
- Yoga, Art, and Nature, ages 7 to 10, early release days. Class will meet behind HES and walk to Center. Register at sarahepyne@gmail.com
- Art and Cloth. Grades 2 to 5 on Wednesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m. Grades 5 to 8 on Thursdays 3:30 to 5 p.m. Register at www.artandcloth.org.
- Glass Painting, ages 8 and up, Fridays 3:30 to 5 p.m. $30 per class. Register at Kabil.gangai@gmail.com.
- Private music lessons on guitar, bass, ukulele, drums and hand percussion, piano. More information at michaelgeezil@gmail.com.
Save the Date (in Harvard)
- Oct. 3: Manufacturing trade job fair, Devens
- Oct. 11: Harvard Flea Market
OUT OF TOWN
Concerts at the Bull Run
- Sept. 12: Asia
- Sept. 19: Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson
- Sept. 24: Roy Book Binder
- Sept. 26: Melissa Ferrick
- Sept. 27: Geoff Muldaur
Tickets available at www.bull-runrestaurant.com
Career Fair
Harvard high school students are invited to attend a college and career fair Wednesday, Sept. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School, Fitchburg. Representatives from more than 90 two- and four-year colleges and universities, technical, business, and military schools, and labor unions will be on hand to answer questions.
Bach’s Lunch Concert
The Indian Hill Music School will host a free concert of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Thursday, Sept. 18, at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at 36 King St., Littleton. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served; bring your lunch.
Pan Mass Challenge
The Bolton Pan-Mass Challenge Kids Ride will be held Sunday, Sept. 28, from noon to 2 p.m., at Florence Sawyer School, 100 Mechanic St., Bolton. Riders choose from three routes for ages 2 to 14 and will enjoy music, face painting, bike decorating, complimentary bike checkups, refreshments, and more. Donations fund cancer research and treatment at Dana Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. Registration fee is $10, with a $25 fundraising minimum. Register at www.kids.pmc.org/bolton.aspx by Sept. 22 to receive a PMC Kids T-shirt and goodie bag. For information contact mortimer.sarah@gmail.com.
Chamber Music in Grafton, Worcester
The Worcester Chamber Music Society will present “Wunderkind,” the early music of Mozart, Mendelsohn, and Glazunov in two performances Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Congregational Church, Grafton, and Saturday, Sept. 20, at the First Baptist Church, Worcester. Both performances start at 7:30 p.m., with a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. Guest artist is Marcus Thompson on viola. Tickets are available at www.worcesterchambermusic.org or 978-456-2730.
Tour Old Barns in N.H.
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, with Freedom’s Way and the Hollis Historical Society, will host a day of barn exploration Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting at the Lawrence Barn Community Center, 28 Depot Road, Hollis, N.H. Participants can hear a lecture at 10 a.m. by John Porter, co-author of “Preserving Old Barns,” followed by tours of seven barns. For information and registration, contact the Preservation Alliance at 603-224-2281 or bt@nhpreservation.org.
Save the Date (out of town)
- Sept. 28: Holdenwood Trail Run, Shirley
- Oct. 1: “Accidental Universe” lecture, Concord
- Oct. 4: Styrofoam and athletic shoe recycling, Bolton
- Oct. 25: Orchestra at Indian Hill, Littleton
