Old Home Days This year Old Home Sunday will be on August 8, starting off the week of events and ending with the big festivities on Old Home Day, Saturday, August 14.
NELSON’S 2010 GRADUATES Keene High’s Class of 2010 his year eleven Nelson students graduated from Keene High School. We are always proud that our Nelson youth do so well. Peder Schillemat, son of Duane and Kathy Schillemat, will be attending Brigham Young University in the fall, with plans to major in Psychology. This summer, he is working as a Lake Host at Granite Lake, cleaning the town buildings and doing odd jobs. In high school, he was a member of Keene High Interact and went to El Salvador in February to build houses. Peder also earned his Eagle Scout rank this spring, having completed a project mapping the Munsonville Cemetery. (continued on page 3)
T FIFTY YEARS OF MUNSONVILLE, PART 2 by D. Asa Bennett uring our early years in town families were close. Mothers shared resp o n sib ilities for neighbor children and activities at the Munsonville School, including Packersfield Club, were shared social events. Inspired by Josette Lyon, my wife, Barbara, Charlotte Pratt and several other moms of young children started and operated a pre-school. It was housed at the Chapel-By-The-Lake - after a number of modifications required by the State of New Hampshire were made. Funding was a challenge – as usual. One quite lucrative men’s fund raising activity was paving driveways. A friend at Markem wanted his driveway paved and offered us the job. He was the impetus to get us started on the venture. We found people with trucks willing to donate their vehicle and time to deliver the hot top purchased from a local plant, rented a roller and with a cadre of volunteers from town with shovels and rakes to do the prep work and spread the hot top, we paved driveways and walkways. A small tuition was charged for the pre-school and the women held bake sales and auctions to provide funds to continue to support the school.
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Most of the residents living in Munsonville when we came to town have either moved away, died, or both - in that order. Only two or three still remain plus a few offspring born after we moved here and remained. (continued on page 6)
Lacking a recent photo of our KHS 2010 Nelson Graduates, here they are at the end of 6 th grade in 2004. Oh, they grow up so quickly - l to r: Kegan Landfair, Lee Germeroth, Jonathan Bower, Peder Schillemat, Trevor Merrifield, Ian Frederick, Nevada Mullen, Nic Besdansky, Zachary Scott, Jacob Sturk, Hillary Wilson, Michayla Newcombe, Megan French, and Jocelyn Frederick and Eleanor Mackenzie on the swing.