Autumn in Sugar Hill

Saturday - September 24th
42nd Annual Art Sidewalk Sale & Show - Littleton
Art Exhibits, Sales, and More
Fall Festival of the Arts - Lisbon
Live Entertainment, Farmers' Market, Scarecrow Contest,
Exhibits, Activities, Quilt Show

Saturday & Sunday, September 24-25
30th Annual Littleton Lions Classic Car Show
Saturday parade, Sunday Pancake Breakfast
Meadow Street Exhibition - $3.00 admission

Saturday & Sunday, Oct 1-2

Celebrate 2011 Autumn in Sugar Hill
Open-Air Market 10 am - 3:30 pm
Artisan Demonstrations at the Market
TBA: Special Children's activities at Sugar Hill's Richardson Memorial Library.

Saturday Market Schedule
10 am: Sara Glines shares NH History through family personalities
11 am: Booksigning & Discussion Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, author of A History of Cannon Mountain: Tales, Trails, and Skiing Legends
Noon: Booksigning & Discussion with Kay Morgan, contributing author & co-editor of Beyond the Notches: Stories of Place in New Hampshire's North Country
Both Meghan and Kay will be available all day to sign books and will have copies of their books for sale.
1 pm: Free Folk Concert with Uncommon Folk

Sunday Market Schedule
11 am & 2 pm: Explore T'ai Chi with Mary Sturtevant.
Noon: Booksigning & Discussion with Kay Morgan, contributing author & co-editor of Beyond the Notches: Stories of Place in New Hampshire's North Country. Kay Morgan will be at the market all day to sign books and will have copies of books for sale.
1 pm: Sara Glines shares NH History through family personalities
11 am: Booksigning & Discussion Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, author of A History of Cannon Mountain: Tales, Trails, and Skiing Legends

Saturday & Sunday, Oct 1-2
Sugar Hill Historical Museum
The Museum will be open special hours this weekend. Their main building exhibit this year is Sugar Hill Blooms: Sweet Peas to Maple Trees. Stop in to learn more about how Sugar Hill's history is intertwined with flowers, potatoes, and maple trees. Also visit the restored Cobleigh Tavern Room, Barn & Blacksmith exhibits, Giftshop, and more. Free Admission although donations are welcomed.

Harman's Vintage June 2007 Cheddar (aged almost 4 years) - $7.75 per pound.
We still have some of this vintage 2007 Cheddar available. Important Note: This cheddar will have a few bits of crunchy, crystallized whey in the heart of the cheese. This occurs when cheddar ages and this particular vat of cheese has a bit more crunchy bits than most of our cheeses have had in past years.

In-Store Specials if you have a Lupine Festival Tour Book!

November's News:

  At the very end of October, Maxine Aldrich fell and fractured her pelvis. She healed well and is now doing well. On another note Maxine's sister, Elizabeth "Betty" Gray Morse (age 88) died quietly in her sleep on November 8th. Betty and her late husband, Chet, (pictured right) worked at Harman's during the busy holiday season of 1987 because Maxine was a short-handed that winter. Betty will be missed. For those of you that have a copy of Harman's cookbook, we feature some of Betty's recipes as she was a great cook and baker.

Remembering
10 Special People

Mahram Ali (50)- Afghanistan
Watchman
Cheryl Beckett(32) - Ohio
Nurse
Daniela Beyer(35) - Germany
Linguist, Translator
Brian Carderelli(25) - Penn.
Videographer
Jawed (24) - Afghanistan
Cook & Optical Aide
Dr. Tom Grams - USA
Dentist
Glenn Lapp(40) - Penn
Nurse & Mobile Clinic Work.
Dr. Tom Little (61)- New York
Optomistrist
Dan Terry (63)- The World
Community Relations
Dr. Karen Woo - UK
General Surgeon
Maternal Health

Click below to read more:
Tom Little to receive the Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2011

Tom would be the first to say that he is receiving too much attention for his work in Afghanistan but this is a wonderful honor and honors all of those that have and are working in areas like Afghanistan.

On August 5, 2010. 10 members of a 12 member Medical Team were murdered as they were returning to Kabul, Afghanistan after completing a mobile medical clinic of Eye Care, Dental Care, Maternal Health. They had traveled and hiked to a remote area in Nuristan, Afghanistan. They had traveled and trekked over a 16,000' snow-covered pass to reach this area to provide medical care to people that hadn't had medical care in years.. At times the trail was such that the team had to ferry supplies because the pack animals were too fearful. These people were ordinary people in many ways, just working in an area where their skills were so badly needed. They were fathers with young children, grandfathers, and grandfathers-to-be, brothers, sisters, a bride-to-be, sons, daughters, and friends.

I was privileged to to count two of these men as my friends. Dan Terry devoted his life to helping others in Afghanistan. He met his wife, Seija, while working in a remote area of Afghanistan and they had three daughters that they raised in Afghanistan. Dan was the type of person that could talk to anyone and make them feel like they were the most important person to Dan at that moment (and they were). A gift I wish had rubbed off on me a bit. The last known photo of this team was taken on an Afghan man's cellphone. After he learned of the deaths, this Afghan man hiked out of the valley to purposely bring this photo to the families and let them know how heartbroken he and his fellow villagers were over this evil act. The photo shows Tom Grams, Glen Lapp, Tom Little, and Dan Terry at the end of an Afghan meal in a villager's home enjoying tea and conversation.

For more information on the organization that Tom, Dan (at the time of his death, Dan was working with another group), and I were with; you may visit their website: www.iam-afghanistan.org. I, Brenda Aldrich, worked with this organization from 1987 to 1999.

 

Tom Little came to Afghanistan in the 60's with his wife, Libby, and stayed. He also raised three daughters in Afghanistan, two of whom have returned and worked in Afghanistan in these past years. Tom Little was one of the first persons I met when I went to work in Afghanistan for 12 years. He was always trying to figure out why I wore bifocals before I was 40! I taught both Tom and Dan's middle daughters back in the 80's when they were both in 4th grade. When we disected a heart for science - we used a water buffalo heart (huge) and had a surgeon come explain it. The classroom was unique. If you have one of Harman's cookbooks - you will find on page 265, a cookie recipe that was written as a writing assignment by Nellika Little. To honor Tom's life - We have decided that for every Harman's Cookbook sold in 2010; we will give the Little family $5 for a family memorial to his life.

I always wanted to go on one of Tom Little's Mobile Medical clinics but my skills were not the skills they really needed. Tom did take me on one trip because he figured a gal from northern NH could drive down the icy gorge road with the medical equipment and once there I could put my practical skills to use supervising the building of latrines. I also got to work in the pharmacy after I mastered the necessary Pashto sentences needed to dispense the eyedrops: Take them 3 times a day: Morning, Noon, and Night. The last medical trip I went on with Tom was to the region of Nuristan (but not as remote as the 2010 trip). There I was able to do a bit more and do the eye chart work before the patient saw the doctor. I didn't drive to get into this location as most of the time I kept my eyes shut hoping we wouldn't fall off the cliff - believe me the road up Mt. Washington looks like a 4 lane highway to me now. I have a video of the road and even watching I cringe. We had to hike in because the road didn't go all the way and set up tents. The recovery center was in a cleaned out animal lean-to. Tom found a nice sandy spot for my tent . . . sandy because it was in a dry river bed that flooded everytime it rained. The tent got moved after the first rain!! The flood actually came up to the pink fly but I couldn't take a picture of it because my camera was in the tent! Thankfully it was a new tent and suprisingly, it didn't leak even through the zippers although it sat in about 18 inches of water for at least an hour.

Our herd of deer went shopping one night and came back with new bow ties! The deer herd at Harman's grows every time a truck come over from The Rocks Estate. You can adopt one of these deer for $35, $15, or $10. All monies are divided between The Rocks Estate, The Society for the preservation of NH Forests, and Trees for Troops. Several have been adopted over the past year!  Notice this little guy in the middle photo below . . . I think Nigel's let a giraffe into his deer herd and the other little gal is either getting ready to dance or trip someone. The last truck, delivered does and bucks! We have several deer coming for the holidays, take one home with you.

In November & December, we received 1008 orders, shipped out 2,555 packages, and cut 8,500 pounds of Cheddar. We also survived all the curves thrown at us during the season: the Hobart Mixer that decided to quit before all the Cocktail Cheese Spreads were made, the new Web Store with its bugs and its temperamental calendar (most of you requested that your cheese to be delivered in 1969), our special thickness saran wrap that was faulty and the replacement saran days away, and numerous other little things. But we kept smiling even through a few night shifts of cutting more Cheddar. On one of our busiest days we cut and wrapped over 500 pounds of Cheddar as well as packing and shipping out 237 packages. Each day we normally had 5 to 7 people working and while the office has to stay quiet as we type or answer the phone - the packing room is often roaring with laughter! When it's quiet out there, we wonder what is going on!

The Crew: Lori, Brenda, Sue, Carol, Sharon, Maxine, Mi Yong, Laura, Roxanne, and Nancy (Harriet's behind the camera, taking the photo)! We celebrated the finish of the shipping rush by enjoying Sue's homemade Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (made with Harman's Cheddar, of course)!!

Lori and Laura packing boxes to be shipped.
Photo Courtesy of: Suzanne Flag
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