Events

Sunday August 28th at 5 PM, the Dana Meeting House will host the final evening meditation and service with Rev. Campbell Lovett of Holderness.

The Dana Meeting House Association with generous support from New Hampshire Humanities, will host Dr. Robert Goodby’s presentation, “12,000 years ago in the Granite State” on Saturday July 16th from 6-8 p.m. at the Dana Meeting House at 288 Dana Hill Road in New Hampton.

The Dana Meeting House Association will host “Fiber Day,” a day of Wool, Quilts and more at the historic Meeting House in New Hampton on July 9 th from 10-3. This family event is free and open to the public. There will be many different displays, informal talks and demonstrations as well as a corner for kids to draw and make squares for a “paper quilt.” Last summer, the “Quilts of Dana Hill exhibit” was so well attended that the volunteers decided to bring it back again but expand it to include other important fibers that were used in 1800 when the Dana Meeting House was built. Fiber Day will not only include traditional and contemporary quilts but also displays about wool, spinning, carding, dyeing and even an antique sock making machine and demonstration. This event is being hosted by the Dana Meeting House Association and co-curated by guest quilt artist Eileen Lovett from Holderness, board member, Lucienne Brown of Three Creeks Farm NH and artist and board member, Blair Folts. “The Meeting House is a perfect venue for displaying quilts and this year we will also have woolen displays under the tent outside. Quilting has always been about community and it is doubly special to display the quilts in a meeting house built in 1800 and harken back and think about “how things used to be,” said Eileen Lovett, co-curator. Featured quilter this year will be contemporary artist Holly Pope from Boston. Holly graduated from Cornell University with a degree [...]