Friday, July 31st Illumination Night 7:30pm- Tyler

Hello Craigville family and friends,
This week I tried something that I have heard about many times but had never attended: the Craigville Painters.
Avis and Alison helped one of Ginny Henderson’s granddaughters and I get our gear together and paint on the shore of
Lake Elizabeth. It was so much fun to be outside and noticing the beauty around me. I have to say that my painting wasn’t
great but I now have it in my small apartment. It makes me smile every time I look at it. It is something I can take with me
when I am not in Craigville to remind me of this special place. How do you take Craigville with you?
-Kate McKey-Dunar, Chronicle Editor
Friday, July 31st Illumination Night 7:30pm- Tyler Newcomb Group performing
Saturday, August 1st Craigville Painters- 9:30am @ Village Green
August 3rd-6th Adult Bible Study- 10:30am @ Tabernacle
Tuesday, August 4th Craigville Painters- 9:30am @ Gazebo behind Inn
Thursday, August 6th Family Board Game Night- 7:00pm @ Tabernacle
Saturday, August 8th Red Lily Pond Dinner -5:30pm @ Village Green and Inn
Thanks to Doug Farquhar, next summer's calendar has
received most of the event dates. Be sure to purchase
one of the calendars at the RLLP Auction and Dinner.
If you or a group you know have plans for next
summer, please get them to me as soon as possible as
dates are already booked.
-Lee Williams
CCOA President
Thank you to all who sent in their membership forms and
dues after the summer reminders were sent out last
week. If you have not sent yours in, please take the time
to fill out the form and check and get it to the Craigville
Retreat Center Office. Thanks so much!
-Nancy Hansen
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If you are in need of an item for summer (a stroller for a
visiting grandchild) or if you find you have one too many
of a useful home/garden item (appliances, furniture, toys,
decorations) and would appreciate passing it along, for
sale or for donation, please contact the CCOA Wishlist
via the Craigville Chronicle. Chances are a neighbor
might love your "can't use anymore" items.
Reduce, re-use, recycle!
• Dear Craigville Friends, We are in search of a
double (full-sized) bed frame. The mattress
and/or box spring can be, but do not necessarily
have to be, included. If any among you have a
bed this size that you would like to sell, please
let us know. Thank you!
-Dede Danforth-Underwood
([email protected])
Over the past several weeks, our readings at the
Tabernacle have focused on the idea of nourishment.
We have heard the story of Elijah receiving bread and
water from an angel in the desert and two different
accounts of Jesus feeding the crowd of five thousand.
We have reflected upon the idea of spiritual nourishment
and our call to be servers of “second helpings” in the
Kingdom of God.
This Sunday, August 2 at 9:45am, we will
continue to think about the nourishment offered by Jesus
Christ, who reveals himself as the “Bread of Life.” A
classmate of mine from Harvard Divinity School,
Christopher Whiteman, will preach a sermon titled “Give
Us a Sign.” Christopher, a candidate for ordination in the
Episcopal Church, is a very thoughtful and gifted
preacher—this year, he was the winner of the Billings
Groups:
Cook Family Reunion
Schilo Church, Stamford Ct. family group
Boston College Urban Catholic Teacher Corps
Family Camp, Joanne Hartunian
St. Johns, E. Bridgewater, MA
Cottages:
Bosco Family
Lembrikov Family
Lang Family
Ackles Family
Comeaux Family
Price Family
O'Donnell Family
Baumer Family
Johnson Family
Friday, July 31st, Illumination Night
Band on Green & Ice Cream Social at Inn Dining Room
7-9 pm. Adults $4 Youth (under 18 yrs) $2.
Please check out our web site:
http://craigvilleretreats.org and like us on Facebook links
on web site. We still have space available in cottages
etc. Please call the office for availability and costs.
-Mary A Woodbury
Director
Craigville Retreat Center
Preaching Prize. After hearing him preach this past
spring, I was excited about the possibility of bringing him
to the Tabernacle.
Craigville resident Rev. Joanne Hartunian will
preside over Holy Communion, our sacrament of spiritual
nourishment. Janet Edmonson, a member of the
Community of Jesus in Orleans, MA, will play the organ
for us, and Wayne Tooker will offer special music.
Wherever you are on the journey of faith, I hope
that the Tabernacle is a community of spiritual
nourishment for you.
-Edward Dunar
Theologian in Residence
[email protected]
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Additional information about this week’s readings and
hymns, including links to text, sheet music, and
recordings, are available on our website
(craigvilletabernacle.org).
This week’s readings:
• Ephesians 4:1-16 (Paul encourages the
community to seek unity and build up others in
love)
• John 6:24-35 (Jesus reveals that he is the Bread
of Life)
This week’s hymns:
• Lift High the Cross (UMH 159)
• O Food to Pilgrims Given (UMH 631)
• One Bread, One Body (UMH 620)
Preparing for this week: It is appropriate that we are
thinking so much about nourishment this summer
alongside our theme, “God of All Generations.” It is often
around food where we create treasured memories, pass
down traditions, and share wisdom across the
generations in our own lives. This week, take time to
savor and appreciate a meal that you share with loved
ones. Reflect upon the ways in which this meal feeds not
only the body, but also the spirit.
During difficult times I have found comfort in Psalm 23,
which assures us that God is our shepherd and
protector. Many familiar songs have their roots in the
psalms. For example, the popular “On Eagle’s Wings” is
based in part on Psalm 91. On the other hand, some
psalms are disturbing and confusing. Verses about
violence and war seem to conflict with our experience of
God as the Lord of Peace.
How can poetry help us become better people
and disciples? How can we use psalms in our prayer
life? What should we do with psalms that describe God
in ways that contradict our own experience? Throughout
the week, we will think about these questions as we
reflect upon psalms ranging from the inspiring to the
confounding. Bibles will be provided, but feel free to
bring your own if you have a favorite copy or translation.
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In conjunction with Family Camp, we will be offering an
extended Adult Bible Study over the course of four days.
From Monday, August 3 through Thursday, August 6, we
will meet at 10:30am in the Tabernacle to reflect upon
different selections from the Book of Psalms.
On one hand, the psalms offer us some of the
most memorable and poetic selections from scripture.
We only have a week before our dinner and auction!
Please get your reservation forms and checks in to
Valerie as soon as possible. We are expecting a good
turnout. There are some fantastic auction items for you
to peruse and our fabulous auctioneer Dick Delaney is
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Sunday, July 26, 9:45am: Sunday Worship
(Tabernacle). Rev. Ken Read-Brown will
preach a sermon titled “Our Place in the
Scheme of Things.” The MACUCC Adult Music
Camp will provide special music.
Monday, August 3-Thursday, August 6,
10:30am-11:30am: Adult Bible Study
(Tabernacle). Over the course of four days, we
discuss psalms ranging from the inspiring to the
challenging.
Tuesday, August 4, 7:30am: Morning Prayer
(Tabernacle). We welcome the morning
through a prayerful exploration of the Celtic
spirit in Christianity led by Rev. Dr. Bruce
Epperly.
Thursday, August 6, 7pm: Family Board Game
Night (Tabernacle). Come for a night of
games, pizza, and fellowship. We’ll play board
games ranging from classic to contemporary.
going to make our evening a wonderful success. Come
along and help our Red Lily Pond fundraising while
enjoying fellowship with friends and neighbors and
eating a delicious meal and drinking Martin's great wine.
See you there!
-Valerie Lane
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This is the sixth of ten weekly articles on the life of the
pond. This week, our focus is turtles!
The Red Lily Pond Project Association hosted its
Annual Meeting on Wednesday, to re-elect our Board of
Directors and plan next Saturday’s (August 8th) Dinner
and Auction! In preparing for this Annual Meeting, I dug
into the files to review the organization’s By-Laws and
Articles of Organization, dating back to September 1983.
We’ve come a long way in the last thirty-plus years!
Sometimes it seems progress has been more like a turtle
than a hare, which got me thinking about turtles, and the
turtles of Red Lily Pond.
Long-time Craigville residents tell stories about
old Grandmother Snapping Turtle, a mythical creature
big enough to take off a toe dangled from a rowboat on
the pond a generation ago. No one that I know actually
claims to have lost the legendary toe: perhaps it
belonged to some unsuspecting houseguest, lost in the
mists of time.
There are indeed big snapping turtles in the
pond. Last spring, a snapping turtle hung out at the fish
ladder, looking to feast on migrating herring (a vigilant
community member scooped the fish past the turtle!).
I’ve witnessed a big snapping turtle laying her eggs in
the Patterson triangle where Lake Elizabeth and Valley
Avenue meet.
Snapping turtles are at the apex of the Lake
Elizabeth food chain, but they are by no means the only
turtles that live in the pond, the river, the marsh and the
The weather is behaving so we plan to have our concert
on the Green for ILLUMINATION NIGHT FRIDAY JULY
31 - that is today! Ty Newcomb and his Tijuana Group
will be playing Herb Alpert's Tijuana music starting at
7:30pm. Please do remember to bring a chair.
During and after the concert Ice Cream will be
on sale in the Inn Dining Room, and then you can enjoy
a stroll through the village to look at all the lighted
houses.
-Ellen Cardarelli
sea. Lake Elizabeth and Red Lily Pond, along with their
embankments, provide habitat and nests for box turtles
and painted turtles. The marsh may provide refuge for an
endangered species, the diamondback terrapin, which
hibernates through the winter beneath the mud of tidal
flats.
Marine turtles, or “sea turtles” live in the ocean
and, like many New Englanders, spend their winters in
the tropics and migrate north in the summer. A species
that often makes the news is the Kemp’s Ridley turtles,
which ride the Gulf Stream north. They occasionally
round the tip of Cape Cod and get snagged by the cold
Labrador Current to wash ashore “cold stunned.” Marine
biologists and concerned citizens rescue some of these
wanderers and return them to the warmer south coast of
Cape Cod.
It’s tempting to use turtles as metaphors for
human lives in Craigville. We may hibernate for a while
but we come out in the summer to make the world a
more diverse, interesting, and beautiful place. It may
seem that we are slow but we press on, reach our
destination, and launch the next generations into the
waters of the pond, the marsh, and the sea.
Imagine the turtles in the pond as symbols of the
patience and persistence required to work together over
the next weeks and years to assure the pond’s bright
future.
Keep on swimming! Like turtles, we make
progress when we stick our necks out!
-Steve Brown
Join us for a night of games, food, fun, and fellowship.
On Thursday, August 6 at 7pm, we will meet in
Tabernacle for Family Board Game Night. We’ll have
many different games on hand, ranging from the classic
to the contemporary (Settlers of Catan or Carcassonne,
anyone?). Bring a game to share if you have a favorite.
Snacks and beverages will be provided. People of all
ages are welcome!
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August is arriving. When I was working that usually
meant the end of summer for me, for the month of
August just flew by. Then I was back into the real world
or working. Don’t let August pass you by before you visit
the gift shop to get yourself or a houseguest a memento
from the village.
This month the Craigville Bookies are reading Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau. We will meet at Nancy
Hansen's home, 7 Vine Ave. on Tuesday, August 11 at
9:30 AM. Come even if you do not read the whole book.
Meaning: To relax or be at ease
History: Parisian nobles risked condemnation from their
peers if they appeared in public without an elaborate
hairdo. Some of the more intricate styles required hours
of work, so of course it was a relaxing ritual for these
aristocrats to come home at the end of a long day and let
their hair down.
-Debbie Almy
Recently Craigville experienced a rare weather
happening when we had a tornado warning. The alarms
in cell phones were buzzing off the hook, and the TV
weather people were in high gear saying Craigville was
where the tornado was headed. I have been in this
village for well over 50 years and this was a first for me.
Hurricanes yes, tornadoes no. Lets have a lesson on
what a tornado is and why we do not usually have to
worry about this deadly form of weather.
A tornado is a ferocious rotating column of air that
is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a
cumulonimbus cloud which can develop in a very short
time. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, but
they are typically in the form of a visible funnel whose
narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a
July 31st is Illumination Night and the Craigville Painters
will paint the exotic decorations around the village green
the next morning- August 1st from 9:30am to 12:00pm.
The 360-degree view of the Post Office Store, the
volleyball field, Craigville Inn, and the Tabernacle being
all aglow with colorful lanterns and mid-summer flowers
is a painter’s dream! Art supplies are available free for
everyone, for all ages and talents or feel free to bring
your own.
The waterways mural of the complete ecosystem around Craigville Village, painted by over 20
people from ages 4 to 91, is on view at the Tabernacle
from 9am to 3pm daily.
Please call Avis or Alison at 508-771-8298 for
more information
cloud of debris and dust. Most tornadoes have wind
speeds less than 110 miles per hour, are about 250 feet
across, and travel a few miles before dissipating. The
most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more
than 300 miles per hour, stretch more than two miles
across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles.
Tornadoes winds rotate cyclonically, which is
counterclockwise, in the northern hemisphere and
clockwise in the southern, and they come in various
colors, from red, pink, blue or the most threatening jet
black depending on what type of ground they are over.
They may be as narrow as 7 feet across, or as wide as
2,6 miles across which is record width set in May of
2013. Tornadoes emit sounds resembling a whooshing
roar, rushing rapid water, a jet engine, or the most
frequently reported, sounds like a fright train. Since
many tornadoes are audible only when very near, sound
is not a reliable warning of a tornado, plus many of the
associated sounds may be coming from a near by
severe thunderstorm.
Hurricanes are rated in severity by categories with
1 being the least dangerous to a 5 which results in
catastrophic damage. Hurricane Bob, the last hurricane
to hit Cape Cod was a Category 2 in 1991, which did
substantial damage to boats but was far less destructive
then Carol of 1956.Tornadoes are measured by the
Enhanced Fujita Scale that ranges from 1 to 5. An EFS
5
3-5 develop from thunderstorms known as a supercell,
which in addition to tornadoes, contain very heavy rain,
frequent lightning, strong wind gusts, and hail all of
which contribute to devastating damage. Hurricanes
give us days to prepare, while tornadoes give you
minutes, if you are lucky.
The United States has the most tornadoes of any
country, nearly four times more than estimated in all of
Europe, excluding waterspouts. This is mostly due to the
unique geography of our continent. The westerly wind
flowing off the Rocky Mountains collides into the moist
air coming off the Gulf of Mexico and these frequent
collisions of warm and cold air, breed strong, long-lived
storms throughout the year. A large portion of these
tornadoes form in an area of central United States
known as Tornado Alley. The United States averages
about 1,200 tornadoes per year are most common in
spring and least common in winter, but tornadoes can
occur any time of year when the favorable conditions
occur. Spring and fall experience peaks of activity as
those are the seasons when stronger winds, wind shear,
and atmospheric instability are present. Tornadoes
usually occur in the after noon between 3PM and 7 PM
due to the heat of the day, yet a record setting tornado in
1936 happened at 8:30 AM, so basically they can occur
at any time with no warning.
Finally, why don’t we usually have tornadoes in
New England is because there are too many things in it’s
way, like tall buildings, mountains in Northern New
England and the general hilly uneven terrain preventing
the cyclonic action to gain strength. If you have ever
seen a “dust devil” forming over a field then you have
seen a mini tornado trying to develop. Tornadoes need
vast open space to develop where the cyclonic wind
action can gather strength, so the plains with miles of
open space is the perfect breeding ground, for there is
nothing to stop the increasing turbulence. What to do if
a tornado is about to hit, go to the lowest part of your
house your basement, or get into a area in the middle of
your house away from windows, a bathroom is perfect
Get into the tub, with your pets as well, and cover
yourself with a blanket. In a car do not try to outrun it, get
out and get into a low place.
-Doppler Debbie Almy
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Red Lily Pond Project Association Dinner
Saturday August 8th, 2015
5:30-6:30pm Wine and hors d’oeuvres on the Green
7:00pm Dinner in the Inn dining room
Silent Auction during cocktails and Live Auction following dinner
The annual Red Lily Pond Project Association fundraiser dinner featuring Austin Peters, chef
at the Inn, is only one week away. A delicious buffet dinner awaits you including Steamship
Round of Beef, Chicken Piccata, Grilled Portabella Mushrooms, Buttered Green Beans, Red
Bliss Parsley Potatoes, salad, and Strawberry Shortcake for dessert. Please fill out the
reservation form below and deliver it to Valerie Lane at 86 Summerbell Ave. by Wednesday
August 5th at the latest, (hopefully before), call Valerie at 508-778-0507, or email Valerie at:
<[email protected]>
Thank you for your support to help save our beautiful pond!
__________________________________________________________
I wish to attend the Red Lily Pond dinner on Saturday, August 8th, 2015 in the Craigville Inn
dining room on the pond.
Name: _______________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________________________
Number of Reservations at $50.00 per person (Wine, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, and auctions
included):
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