Banjos, Bones and Ballads by Jeff Warner
EXETER — Visit the Exeter Public Library today at 1 p.m., for the kickoff of the library's Spring Music Series.
Jeff Warner, the 2007 New Hampshire Art Council Fellowship recipient will present the program "Banjos, Bones, and Ballads."
This program will include an afternoon of tavern songs, banjo tunes, 18th century New England hymns, sailor songs and several humorous stories about traditional singers and their songs. This very special program is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire Humanities Council (NHHC).
This performance is free and open to the public. It will take place in the Bruce Sloan Reading Area in the adult services section of the library.
For more information, contact the library at 772-3101.
EXETER — The February theme show at the Seacoast Artist Association is now underway, and is entitled "Black & White With a Splash of Red."
The SAA has awarded Dennis Stevens, a painter from Seabrook, 'Best of Show' for his acrylic painting titled "Still Laughing."
An artists' reception and opportunity to vote for the 'People's Choice' will be held Saturday Feb. 15 from 2-4 p.m., at the SAA gallery at 225 Water Street.For more information, e-mail gallery@seacoastartist.org or call 778-8856.
EXETER —A panel of religious leaders will explore the proposed repeal of New Hampshire's death penalty, at a free public discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Exeter Congregational Church, located at 21 Front St.
New Hampshire is one of 32 states that allow the death penalty. The N.H. state Legislature is currently considering a bill, HB1170 FN, which would repeal the death penalty. Supporters of the repeal, including some of the state's key religious leaders, have raised concerns about the morality and fairness of the death penalty, as well as its cost and ineffectiveness as a deterrent. Opponents of the repeal say that the state has considered the death penalty very rarely, and only for a small number of very serious crimes.
Leading the panel will be a speaker who lost a family member to homicide and who supports repealing the death penalty. For a year after his son, Scott, was shot and killed in 1987, the Rev. Walter Everett, retired pastor of the United Methodist Church in Hartford, Conn., said he was consumed by rage and depression. Yet after Scott's assailant was convicted and expressed profound remorse for his actions, the Rev. Everett began corresponding and eventually visiting with the man and, three years later, testified in support of his being released on parole.
Since then, the Rev. Everett has become an ardent advocate of the anti-death penalty movement and serves on the boards of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights and the Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty.
Joining the Rev. Everett on the panel will be the Rev. Marcel I. Martel, associate pastor of Saint Michael Parish in Exeter and Saint Mary Parish in Newmarket; and the Rev. Daniel Ferry, a retired Episcopal priest and a member of the N.H. Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty.
The panel is presented by We the People, a free lecture and film series exploring issues at the intersection of current events, religion, and ethics. We the People is co-sponsored by the Congregational, Episcopal, and Unitarian Universalist churches of Exeter, in association with Phillips Exeter Academy and Water Street Bookstore. The panel will be held in the vestry of the Congregational Church, which is handicapped-accessible. Street parking is available.
For more information about We the People, go to www.exetercongchurch.org, or call 772-421
Economic Development Commission, 8 a.m., Nowak Room, Town Offices. Conservation Commission, 7 p.m., Nowak Room, Town Offices.
Planning Board, 7 p.m., Nowak Room, Town Offices.