Friday, November 11th Events

32nd Annual Waldorf Crafts Fair & Festival

Time: 6:30 PM-11:59 PM
Place: Monadnock Waldorf School, 98 S. Lincoln St., Keene
Price: Free
Ages: All

Fine handcrafts and gifts to do your holiday shopping, puppetry, storytelling, gnome forest for children, music, delicious foods, and much more. Friday night is for adults only and includes a Dessert Cafe. Saturday is for families.

America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward

Time: 5:00 PM
Place: Marlboro Graduate School, Brattleboro, VT (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: older crowd 

A senior fellow of the United Nations Foundation in its Climate and Energy Program, Robert Repetto has worked for over 25 years to develop and promote reasonable responses to the challenges of climate change. His talk will lay out those challenges and how they can best be met and overcome. Prior to his work at the foundation, Repetto was professor of economics & sustainable development at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Earlier in his career he was vice president of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., a Pew Fellow at the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and an advisor on economic planning in India, Pakistan and Indonesia. He is the author of a new book, America’s Climate Problem: The Way Forward. 

One Act Plays by Caryl Churchill

Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Marlboro College, Whittemore Theater, Marlboro, VT (about 29 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: older crowd 

The theater program at Marlboro College will present two one–act plays by Caryl Churchill. The first, “Far Away,” takes place in a post–apocalyptic world of sparseness. Joan, the heroine hat–maker, negotiates her way through the world, one precarious step at a time. The second play, “A Number,” centers around Salter, a father who made the choice long ago to clone his son. These productions feature the acting talent of Marlboro students Kirsten Wiking, Courtney Varga, Luc Rosenthal, Evan Lamb and Luke Benning. Directed by visiting professor Anna Bean, who directed The Clean House at Marlboro last fall. 

Radiology Open House & Teddy Bear Clinic

Time: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Place: Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, 17 Belmont Avenue, Brattleboro, VT (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All 

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital celebrates National Radiologic Technology Week® to honor the hard work and accomplishments of its radiologic technologists.

The Radiology Department will host an open house and Teddy Bear Clinic on Friday, November 11, 2011 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM, on the ground floor in the Richards Building. Children are invited to the clinic to learn about how x-rays work. Those who bring along their favorite stuffed animal or toy can have an x-ray taken of it that they can take home.

NRTW® is celebrated each year during the week that includes November 8, the day that German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the x-ray in 1895. 

What's special about today?

The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests, 1992
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