There’s lots to share this week beginning, sadly, with the end of the official tennis programs. Despite the days of rain, the courts held up and tennis was a big success this summer, both on and off the courts. It’s a high bar for next summer, Dave, Susan and Soren.

The Community House will continue to be open, hours will vary according to weather and usage. Please pick up after yourself and your kids.

Saturday morning yoga will continue at least until Labor Day weekend and maybe beyond if there’s interest.

Jose sent in the following on the clean up day: Last Saturday morning young and old heeded the call to put hands together and spruce up the JPVIS amenities. Grounds leader Gordon Scowcroft had the plans and materials set to take care of the beds between the upper and lower courts. Under the guidance of Gordon and Dave, the beds underwent a thorough rehab. The gutters of the director’s cottage were cleaned, the lawn mower came out; the grounds are ready for the fall season. A heartfelt thanks to all who came out!

I’m sorry that I missed this event that Kit Andrews wrote in about: The concert presented by the Lincoln Festival Chorus, with terrific small orchestral and jazz band back-up, at Boothbay Harbor’s Congregational Church this past Friday and Sunday evenings was terrific.  Frosting on the cake were the contributions to the bass and soprano sections by Rob Beattie and Louisa Rossano.

Cary Edwards initially shared some information about an upcoming museum show about professional women in the late 1800s in which she modestly described herself as “having an involvement.” With a bit of probing, it turns out that Cary had the initial idea after reading a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder and realizing that Ingalls and Cary’s relative, the museum’s founder and architect, were born within days of each other in 1867. Cary was curious who else had been born that year, the beginning of the first wave of feminism, and found a number of talented professional women such as the composer Amy Beach and the Henry Street Settlement House founder Lillian Wald. The museum was interested in an exhibit on the topic but when Covid hit became worried about funding a curator for the show.  Cary agreed to start the research and as she went along the museum director encouraged her to keep going. The women in the upcoming exhibit of photographs and artifacts have been chosen from about 40 women in the exhibit catalogue, written by Cary. The exhibit can be seen from late October through March at the Hill-Stead museum in Farmington, Connecticut, which has an excellent website by the way.

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