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Great Picnic113 viewsAttendees at Friday night’s “Great Picnic” on the one-acre Munro preserve overlooking Mattapoisett Harbor enjoyed live music and adorned their tables with creatively competitive centerpieces featuring everything from a palm tree to pickleballs. Mattapoisett Land Trust Vice President Peter Davies told the Wanderer that the Mattapoisett Museum and the MLT have jointly organized the event for five nonconsecutive years. Proceeds from the annual event support their programs. Photos by Mick Colageo
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Great Picnic113 viewsAttendees at Friday night’s “Great Picnic” on the one-acre Munro preserve overlooking Mattapoisett Harbor enjoyed live music and adorned their tables with creatively competitive centerpieces featuring everything from a palm tree to pickleballs. Mattapoisett Land Trust Vice President Peter Davies told the Wanderer that the Mattapoisett Museum and the MLT have jointly organized the event for five nonconsecutive years. Proceeds from the annual event support their programs. Photos by Mick Colageo
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Mattapoisett Land Trust113 viewsThe Mattapoisett Land Trust sunflower garden, planted in solidarity with Ukraine, is now in full bloom at the Seahorse. Ukraine is the largest exporter of sunflower oil in the world so it’s the country’s national flower. Photos courtesy of Mattapoisett Land Trust
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Rochester Fire Department113 viewsThe Rochester Fire Department held its annual Awards Ceremony on September 28 at Rochester Memorial School, featuring a celebration honoring first responders representing Rochester Police, Fire and ROCCC departments who acted on an emergency call to save the life of Fire Chief Scott Weigel during a critical cardiac event at his home on August 14. Photos by Mick Colageo
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ORR Spirit Week113 viewsThe culmination of Old Rochester Regional High School’s Spirit Week was a pep rally held after October 7 classes in the gymnasium. ORR sophomores performed a Wizard of Oz skit, and the ORR Bulldog joined Dorothy and company. The seniors displayed a "Back in Time/Back to the Future" theme, featuring a cleverly constructed “Delorean,” a colorful aerobics class, lots of action and energetic music with Marty McFly and Doc Brown characters joined by the heroic Bulldog.
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Ned's Point113 viewsPhoto by Steve Chicco
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Marion Museum of Natural History113 viewsThe Marion Museum of Natural History celebrated its 150th anniversary with a Friday night discussion on the 700-pound meteorite Coahuila, led by Mark Munkacsy. Later in the evening, Ted and Elizabeth Brainard visited Coahuila with Executive Director Liz Leidhold, while Treasurer Mike Cronin set up a telescope on the sidewalk out front of the Elizabeth Taber Library where attendees took turns viewing Jupiter and its moons. Photos by Mick Colageo
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Halloween Parade113 viewsThe streets of Marion were flooded with Halloween Parade participants and attendees, as members of the Sippican Elementary School Band helped the “witches” of the Marion Art Center lead a procession that began at the Music Hall and went down Front Street, up Main Street past the Elizabeth Taber statue and onto Spring Street, where children were met at Town House by staff members handing out candy for the kids. Photos by Mick Colageo
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Alice in Wonderland113 viewsThe Old Rochester Regional High School theater group’s production of “Alice in Wonderland” opens on Thursday, November 17, at 7:00 pm. Alice is played by Cattarinha Nunes, while the King is played by Jackson Veugen and the Queen of Hearts by Kathleen Dunn. Photos by Ryan Feeney
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Friends of Marion Council on Aging 113 viewsThe Friends of Marion Council on Aging extended its outreach by going with tabletop-size trees for its annual Festival of Trees held Saturday at the Cushing Community Center. Raffle tickets are available until December 8. Photos by Marilou Newell
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Marion Art Center113 viewsFine works from gemstone jewelry to small paintings to textiles, pottery, wooden utilitarian items demonstrating a wide variety of artistic expression are now on display at the Marion Art Center's Small Works and Holiday Shop through December 16. Some of the well-known local artists include Sarah Brown, Alice Shire, Patricia White, Jaye Degnan Tirimacco, Kyle Riseley, Samantha Taylor, Michael Pietragalla, Julie Kohaya, Hailey Angione, Kim Savoie, Kim Barry, Joann Vierkant, Lynn Hahn, Sue Yee Verkaart, Lisa
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Marion Natural History Museum113 viewsThe Marion Natural History Museum braved the snowy weather Wednesday and attending members were rewarded with 18 different shoreline bird sightings. The sightings included a large “raft” of sleepy Greater Scaup, Canada Geese, American Black Duck, Surf Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Hooded Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Horned Grebe, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Loon, American Crow, American Robin, House Finch, Song Sparrow and Northern Cardinal. Thank you to Justin Bar
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