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Trees
Paintings by Maria Crespo
February 1 to 25
Maria Crespo is originally from the Mid-west but has been Philmont resident for the last 31 years. She has a degree in studio art but put painting aside to raise a family, work full-time and run a small business (asialuna.com). Now that she is an empty nester for the last few years, she has starting painting again. Maria think's of herself as a colorist and says that "it’s been very therapeutic, and I’ve been fortunate enough to show my art locally these last three years".
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Unveiling the Lives of Tudor Wives: a 2-part series presented by The Grounded Goodwife.
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Beneath Tudor Bedsheets: menstruation, contraception, "tilling the fields of Venus," childbirth, and impotence
March 2 at 6:30 PM, Zoom
Click here to register
There were no pregnancy tests in the Tudor era. The man would be the first to know if conception had occurred because he would feel “extraordinary contentment”. As a contraceptive, it was suggested that a woman could carry, between her breasts, the testicles of a castrated weasel.
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Frilled to Meet You!: Tudor life, appetites, and dysfunction
March 16 at 6:30 PM, Zoom
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The Tudors ate way more meat than we do today. Henry VIII and his courtiers consumed between 4,500-5,000 calories per day. On one occasion, Henry VIII and his household ate: 720 larks, 240 pigeons, 192 partridges, plovers, and teals, 132 capons, 84 pullets, 36 herons, 45 sheep, 34 pheasants, 24 peacocks, 20 storks, 12 pigs, 8 calves, 7 swans, 6 oxen in ONE DAY!
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Asian Mahjong Lessons
With Eliza Twichell
Wednesdays at 1 pm in the Annex
RSVP not required, but welcome
A Great Chance to Meet New People, Use Your Brain, and Laugh.
The game of Mahjong dates back to the early 1800's in China and became popular in the United States in the 1920-30's. There are a number of versions of the game including "American" Mahjong which relies on players purchasing new cards each year. We'll be teaching Asian Mahjong. Asian Mahjong hands are built in a more flexible way. All materials will be supplied.
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American Mahjong
Every Tuesdays, 1 pm
Annex
American style Mahjong on the current card. We are not currently offering lessons.
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Cookbook Group
Saturday, March 11 at 1 pm
Join our Cookbook Book Group where we discuss the various aspects of a different cookbook each month (how easy was it to follow, if the food was good) and have pot luck of recipes from the cookbook.
This month is selection is
Milk Street: the world in a skillet
Christopher Kimball
Liberating the skillet from commonplace fare, the author shares what he's learned from his travels and from cooks in more than thirty-five countries through more than one hundred recipes that will transform and expand use of this versatile piece of cookware. |
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Book Group
Saturday, February 18 at 2:30 pm, Annex
Join us as we will be discussing:
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives. Fellowship Point reads like a classic 19th-century novel in its beautifully woven, multilayered narrative, but it is entirely contemporary in the themes it explores: a deep and empathic interest in women's lives, the class differences that divided us, the struggle to protect the natural world, and, above all, a reckoning with intimacy, history, and posterity. It is a masterwork from Alice Elliott Dark.
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