Andy
Submitted Jul 27, 2010 at 09:26 — Directions to Virginia's place:
FROM the EAST:
(1) Get to Moscow Woods Rd. in East Calais which leads west off Route 14. It's about 50 yards north of the E. Calais store.
(2) Turn west onto Moscow Woods Rd. (formerly known as the Dump Road) and start watching your odometer if you're into distances. Bear left, passing the mill, the Post Office, and a little triangular garden with a road sign--all on your right. Pass the recycling station on your left and follow Moscow Woods Rd uphill to Ledge Road on the left, marked with a NIPs sign, about 1.2 miles from Rt 14.
(3) Turn left on Ledge Road. Bear right at the fork (plunging into the woods). About .6 mile from Moscow Woods Rd. you come out from the woods near a shack.
FROM the WEST:
(1) Coming through Maple Corner and/or Kent's Corners, come down the Kent Hill Road to the North Calais Road.
(2) Turn left (northward) on the North Calais Road. Pass Dugar Hill Road on the left and take the next right onto Moscow Woods Road. Cross Jack Hill Road. Take the next right turn, Ledge Road.
(3) Follow the directions on Ledge Road from step 3 above.
Submitted Jul 20, 2010 at 11:07 — Hey, NIPs! Because of the increase in BOGUS EMAIL, and the less-than-airtight security of our site, I'm going to make the NIPs list temporarily disappear from the public page. We'll probably need to institute more rigorous measures in a number of ways, but we can talk about that at the next couple of meetings.
GREENSBORO DANCES should be starting this Sunday--stand by for definitive word.
ALSO: Remember Chuck and Nancy Milch? They were faithful NIPs back in the days when we were doing the Lyndon Grange Hall dance. Nancy could tell you a pretty interesting story about one of those dances. They've been living down in Massachusetts for a while but have always stayed in touch and come to a fair number of hayfield junkets. Come greet them Wednesday!
Submitted Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58 Directions to Frank's family camp from Peacham Village are as follows:
From Peacham Village center
a. From the Peacham Store take the dirt road past the store and up the hill past the Church
b. At the top of the hill bear left and go past the Cemetery on your left (the Peacham Fire station is across a green on the right). (0.2 m from Peacham Village center)
c. Continue and go down the steep hill (Academy Hill), then across a short flat to a STOP sign. This is the intersection of Maple Tree Lane and the Green Bay Loop. (0.6 m from Peacham Village Center)
d. Go straight through the intersection and you will be on Green Bay Loop.
e. Go 1.4 miles where you will come to the crest of a hill. There is a brown sign that says "Devil's Hill Trail Head". There will be a paper sign posted that says Bayley Camp with an arrow.Turn right here and follow the road for the Devil's Hill Trail Head. (2.0 m from Peacham Village Center).
f. Travel 0.8 miles on the Devil's Hill Trail Head road there will be a turn to the left on to a camp road. There will be another paper sign posted that says Bayley Camp with an arrow (you are now 2.8 m from Peacham Village Center) Follow this road to the camp app. 0.5 m. Keep to the left until you run out of road.
Submitted Jun 23, 2010 at 22:03 This year's hayfield junket will be on a Wednesday for the first time! It will go from 2:00 or so p.m. until whenever! Call me if you need more info at 802-684-3991. Thanks--Lois
Submitted Apr 15, 2010 at 19:44 NIPS stalwart George Ray has had his knee replacement surgery and is recovering nicely. His mailing address is P.O. Box 92, Woodbury, VT 05681
Submitted Apr 04, 2010 at 18:25
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Submitted Mar 20, 2010 at 11:51 NIPS member Andy Leader and Calais poet Geoff Hewitt will be reading some of their poems in Hardwick at the Memorial Building (where the police station is located, and no, they haven't been arrested) on Tuesday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. Any available NIPS, and anyone off the street, are most welcome to attend.
Submitted Mar 15, 2010 at 23:12 Irish Night on St. Patty's 3/17 at Langdon St. Cafe: 7-9pm concert with Pete Sutherland, and Benedict Koehler and Hilari Farrington, followed by an open Irish Session. Kenric will host potluck and music for anyone who wants to eat, then go to the session, or stay and play at his house. Some folks are already planning to attend the concert. ADDITIONAL NOTE: Dance in Glover on Saturday, 3/20!
Submitted Feb 25, 2010 at 20:55 On 3/24, I was in Norwich because my school was on winter break. But planning to work at school and go to music, I had actually started driving northward on I-89 with snow falling very heavily. Seeing many vehicles off the road was fairly ominous. But then I came up behind a VERY long line of cars and trucks at a standstill with other vehicles coming up and halting behind me. There was no telling whether some semi had jackknifed or what, so it was a real possibility that people could be trapped there indefinitely. Fortunately, I was able to drive along the shoulder to one of those crossovers you're not supposed to use and escape to the southbound lanes. Still, I sorely missed my weekly Wednesday music fix! ~Chip
Submitted Feb 12, 2010 at 13:40 WORCESTER DANCE is Saturday Feb. 13, a Valentine's Day contra Dance featuring more waltzing than usual from 7:00 - 9:30 pm in the Worcester Town Hall. Gonna play? get there around 6:30-6:45 to tune up and warm up.
Submitted Feb 01, 2010 at 23:32 Monday night, Heidi called me from the Craftsbury Outdoor Center --- VERY short notice but we can eat and play with George Wilson and Dave Kaynor Wed. 2/3 and 2/10. Dave would split the calling with me. Whaddya think?
Submitted Jan 27, 2010 at 05:05 Directions to Anita's-
From the North-
Either take I-89 to Exit 5(Northfield) - go right(towards Northfield) when you exit- go down long hill(RT 64) until the bottom- at stop sign go left(RT 12 South)-
or- take RT 12 South out of Montpelier- go through Northfield, pass Norwich Univ., in south Northfiield you'll see a Mobil Gas station on the right set below the road- and you'll see signs pointing to the interstate- you're now at the same point as those who took I-89.
At this point- by the Mobil station, you'll go 3 miles south on RT 12(- will be leaving Northfield and entering Roxbury-)make a right on Steele Hill- before you get to this right turn there is a tannish house with a freestanding large garage also tannish, on the right, followed by a "school bus stop ahead" sign, and a beige trailer set below the road on the right at Steele Hill- go up Steele Hill to the top- the road winds to the right- go with it- then make an immediate left on Eagle Peak Road- that is my road- and you are now in West Brookfield- I'm the first place on Eagle Peak Rd on the left- you'll see the greenhouses, etc- house is natural hemlock with a green metal roof- 3748 Eagle Peak Rd, phone # 485-4622
Submitted Jan 11, 2010 at 19:53 DIRECTIONS TO BRIAN'S: Come north from Montpelier or south from Worcester on Rt. 12 to Shady Rill (about the same location as the Wrightsville Reservoir). Turn west on Shady Rill (take a left coming from Montpelier, a sharp right from Worcester). Drive 2+ miles just past Rumney Memorial School on your left. The paved road goes left, you go sharply right to the first house on the right. click HERE for a map; call 802-229-2161 if you get lost.
Submitted Jan 08, 2010 at 16:28 Dance at Worcester town hall 7 pm Saturday--if you're not already there for Fran's potluck birthday party, get there before 6:45 to tune up and warm up.
Submitted Jan 01, 2010 at 16:04 On Saturday, Jan. 2, Janet and Andy Leader will present a program of traditional ballads, old time songs, and country music at the Red Hen Cafe and Bakery in Middlesex from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. We'd love to see some fellow NIPSTERS there if the weather's ok.
Submitted Dec 13, 2009 at 06:11 And save 12/16 to join everyone at Lois's for her annual holiday NIPs session!
Submitted Nov 07, 2009 at 08:41 Advance info---music will be at Tom and Charlotte's on Nov. 18, we don't usually try for an official session the day before Thanksgiving, and *** on Dec. 2 we are invited to Kate Abram and Ron Langley's home in Barnet!!! ***
Submitted Oct 09, 2009 at 23:12 Hi All,
We are committed to play at a 350 event on October 24 at Hazen Union HS in Hardwick-[350 parts per million carbon awareness event- there will be 350 minutes of music] We will be playing at 7:30 for about half an hour. [Andy and Janet will be performing at 7:10]. If you know for sure that you will or will not make it please let me know so that I can let the organizers know about how many of us to expect. email or 802 472-6292. Hope to see ya there.
George
