Art in the Age in Tamworth, NH: Day Four
Our fourth and final day in Tamworth was spent visiting the Tamworth Community School.
The school holds community lunches every Thursday afternoon, and the spread included local favorites, including Fred Bickford’s roast beef, Karl Behr’s chicken, Maple Moon Farm ham, Maplewood Farm egg salad, local cheeses and vegetables. Delicious homemade bread was baked by Peg at Sunnyfield Bakery, some made with wheat grown in New Hampshire!
This particular lunch was celebrating the 92nd birthday of one of Tamworth’s favorite residents, Bun Nickerson.
After lunch, we headed over to the schools new pig pen to see the newest editions to the farm; piglets Hamlet, Sassafras, Kevin Bacon.
We were also able to meet with Community School development coordinator and teacher Lianne Prentice, garden manager Kim Knollenberg, and former student Eric Dube to learn a little bit about the school’s past and current projects.
Founded in 1989, The Community School is a private non-sectarian co-educational day school serving 30 students in grades 6 to 12. Community school students are bright, highly motivated young people from 15 towns in central New Hampshire and western Maine.
The Community School’s mission is to support students on their individual learning paths within a caring and respectful community.
Students and teachers collaborate in small multi-disciplinary classes, at School Meetings, and in the school’s gardens and forests to build a healthy local community that contributes to a sustainable world. In preparation for college and meaningful work, students learn by doing, connect with nature, develop an ethic of stewardship, solve real problems, and provide service to others.
Visiting the school was an inspiring experience, and we’re definitely looking forward to attending more community lunches in the near future. Maybe we’ll even be able to sip some ROOT together at the Community schools bi-annual dinners!
