First Thursday Hike at The Fells

What: Join Nick Scheu, Landscape Director, and Simon Parsons, Education Director, at The Fells for a one-hour hike on The Fells property. These informal, moderate walks will be an opportunity to get a little exercise, spend time out in the landscape, and perhaps discover something new about the property once owned by the John Hay family.  

When: Thursday, June 1, 11 a.m.

Where: The John Hay Estate at The Fells, 456 RT 103A, in Newbury

Info: Members: free, non-members: included with regular admission fee. No reservations necessary. Meets at The Fells Kiosk. For more information, visit online: thefells.org.

Merrimack Valley Ringers

What: South Church will be hosting the Merrimack Valley Ringers in concert. Currently celebrating their 21st season, the Merrimack Valley Ringers are an auditioned community handbell ensemble devoted to sharing the art of handbells and handchimes with everyone.  MVR’s members delight audiences with their infectious joy and make it their goal to capture their audience from the first note with their gusto and warmth.  Considered partners in each performance, audiences are drawn in by the ensemble’s personality, spontaneity, and unflappable spirit. 

When:  Sunday, June 4 at 3 p.m.

Where: South Congregational Church, 27 Pleasant St., in Concord

Info: The concert is free, however a free-will offering will be taken to support the South Church operating budget.  For more information about MVR's Spring Concert series, check out their website. mvringers.org

Wild Women of Winedale at Majestic Theatre

What:  This joyful and exuberant, yet ultimately touching, comedy focuses on three women at crossroads in their lives—the Wild sisters of Winedale, Virginia—Fanny and Willa and their frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye. This feisty and fun-loving trio has supported and cheered one another through life’s highs and lows through the years, including the early demise of two of their husbands. And they really need each other now, as Fanny experiences a hilariously inappropriate reaction to her 60th birthday, while Willa is so stressed out from her nursing job she resorts to vodka and speed-knitting to cope, and Johnnie Faye, determined to put her year of fraught widowhood behind her, desperately tries to find a man—preferably a man with a house, since hers is somewhere at the bottom of a Florida sinkhole. These women’s lives are further upended by the responsibility of caring for their free-spirited, ailing aunt and the realization that they are drowning under loads of family keepsakes and possessions nobody wants—especially them! With equal doses of hilarity and heart, these extraordinary women come up with delightful and surprisingly unorthodox ways to clear the clutter from their lives, their homes and their relationships so they can move their lives forward. Together they prove it’s never too late to take another one of life’s paths for a grand new adventure.

When: Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, June 4 at 2 p.m.

Where: The Majestic Theatre Studios located at 880 Page St., in Manchester

Info: Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors 65 and above, and youth 17 and under. Tickets can be purchased by visiting or calling the box office at 669-7469, online  at majestictheatre.net or at the door prior to the performance. 

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