Daniel Jantos 15 years at North Unitarian Chapel Society

2. Picnic for painting crew

4. The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
saying, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast, feast on your life.

6. 2000 The congregation said aye!

7. Present at 2002 service

13. Fields of new green grasses weaving in gentle winds,
With nesting Bobolinks in the quiet.
The sound of a brook washing over rocks,
And the song of all the coyotes surrounding you up
the hill.
Music in the house you built yourself for your family.
Music in the church; quiet prayer and meditation in
the church;
Your own words of reflection each week;
Laughter and good food at countless potlucks and
parties;
Times at the Pizza Oven!
All the people for whom you gave counsel
Or performed weddings and memorials.
The difference you made to young people here.
The greetings each morning as you walk into town.
Welcoming hugs on Sunday.
Remember all this and remember us
As we send you with blessings on the journey into
the next chapter of your life

16. Ministers and Christmas Past

17. Christmas 2014

19. The organ constructed by the Hutchings, Plaisted
& Co. highly recongnized by the Organ Historical
Society as “The Thayer Organ,” was built in 1875
for the studio of colorful Boston organist Eugene
Thayer. It was restored in 1969 by Robert Newton
of Andover Organ Company of Methuen,
Massachusetts, and by A. D. Moore, Inc. in 2007.
It was brought via the Woodstock Railroad in1881
to the present building through the influence of
Woodstock-born Samuel Whitney, notable Boston
organist and composer at the Church of the
Advent. It was recorded in 1959 by E. Power Biggs
who debuted “Variations on America” by
Charles Ives.
Known by its bright yet full sound, it can render a
broad range of music with dramatic effect despite
its modest size of little more than 900 pipes. This
organ is to America as a Gottfried Silbermann
organ is to Germany!

22. In Memoriam: Reverend Sa’adah
Haven Spencer
Neil Wigglesworth
Eunyce Swift
Terry Copley
Don Delay
David Gates
Don Marietta
Ron Leonard
Beverly Lewis
Dick Randall
Curt Bourdon
Charles Egbert
Nancy Nye
Nancy Martin
Alice Gould
Ryland Stout
Lou Kannenstein
Annette Compton
Trish Compton
Lucille Atwood
James Christy
George Schuler
Kathy Wendling
Rick Von Unwerth

23. Requiem by Nancy Martin
It’s gone. Gone to a pauper’s grave
We met the truck coming out
Burdened with the giant truck.
The splendid body dismembered,
Fettered to the truck bed.
What had you done to deserve a death like that?
Had you not sheltered the small birds,
Harbored a menu of grubs
Made a pathway to the sky
For free spirited porcupines?
And how about the famous branch?
(We could not bear to watch them cut it off.
We fled, the sound of the chain saw tearing At our hearts,
And when we came back you were gone).
The bench where generations of children
Had learned not to be afraid
Had learned how to run down the slope
Grab the swing and leap off into space,
The branch polished smooth by chaffing rope is gone . . .
So many memories are printed with that swing
Small children, big children, babies on daddies’ legs,
Unborn babies, parents hugging tiny ones.
To make a place for weightlessness
A place to smell lilac blooms,
A place to be quiet,
A place to sing,
A place to think,
A place to feel the wind in your hair
A place to come back to
And now you are gone
Requiem, Requiem, Aeternam

25. Grief’s Work
by Nancy Martin
Receive the Sorrow
Grind it in.
And let the tears
When they begin,
Flow from wells
Too deep to know;
And in their flowing
Let them show
The distance you have
Yet to go.
Accept the loss,
Let it grow
Force yourself
To face it. So
Feel the pain,
Absorb the ache,
Learn from the sadness
How to make
A new-felt strength
No grief can shake.
Acknowledge anger
Feel it burn,
Name the hurt
And from it learn
To share the grief
And in the sharing
Find relief
Through other’ s calling
No loss will be
Beyond our bearing

27. Fall 2013 Threat of escalating Syrian involvement Demonstration

29. Dance in worship, a worship service
integrating dance with Peg Brightman,
choreographer. Choreographer Peggy
Brightman is currently rehearsing with a
group of six local dancers to prepare for
a special June 23 service, which will
integrate three dances into a worship
service, led by Rev. Daniel Jantos,
assisted by Dian Mellinger, music
director and the choir. Brightman’s
choreography will include Signs from
Earth, (based on a sign language
interpretation of an ancient Buddhist
prayer,) Simple Gifts – a Shaker dance
set to music by Aaron Copland, and
Wondrous Love, a joyful dance inspired
by the images of saints, carved on the
portals of Gothic cathedrals

30. A festive and original Solstice dance will feature the
Moving Spirit Vermont Dancers at NUCS with guest
speaker Robert Hanson, long time sixth grade teacher
with the Pomfret Schools. The service will celebrate and
explore the night sky of the solstice season. With Rob
Hanson in the pulpit and dance, music and poetry
interwoven throughout. The service will open with a
joyful new dance to music by Handel, with the five
dancers carrying candles down the aisles to bring light
into the sanctuary. The second dance plays homage to
the brutal force of winter set to Sting”s evocative song
“Cold Song.” The concluding dance of celebration,
“River Hymn,” is set to recorded music by noted
Vermont composer cellist Eugene Friessen. Moving
Spirit –Vermont is an ensemble of five dancers directed
and choreographed by Peggy Brightman; they have
presented special dance services with original new
choreography on five different occasions. The dancers
of of Moving Spirit Vermont include Nicole Conte, Jenny
Glefan, Suzy Malerich, Gina Sonne, and Hope Yeager.
The dancers draw from rich and diverse backgrounds in
social dance, modern dance, ballet, and musical
comedy.

37. Power Pair
Alexandra “Finn” McFarland, 18, and Anna
Ramsey 18 Woodstock, VT
Anyone who assumes teenage girls would
rather spend their time taking selfies than
helping others hasn’t met Alexandra
McFarland and Anne Ramsey. In 2011, as ninth
graders, Finn and Anna volunteered to deliver
produce to Woodstock”s local food pantry
through the non-profit Change the World Kids.
While there they noticed the pantry did not
have any fresh veggies. In tenth grade they hit
on the idea of a root cellar.

45. 17 Yards of cow manure get dumped on the grass
Hay placed on the manure and then the cardboard
Right: Dirt and compost
Have been put down
On top of the card-
board. The laborious
job of digging layers to
plant the plants
Below right:
Anne and Sarah after
the last plant has been
Planted.
PPlacing the river stones on the paths

46. Anne placing stones for the Yin Yang symbol
Flourishing garden mid-summer
Anne, Tessa & Kuba placing stones on path
Early fall before the first harvest
Anne and Sharon harvesting herbs

47. The work crew with Rossers
New Iberia, Louisiana
Memories of our work
trip to Louisiana 2005
Seth Libby
Donna Durgin
Mike Backman
Dasha, Lynn
Terra, Frankie
& Marissa
Ralph Lancaster Donna
Durgin

48. “Home”
New Iberia, LA Ralph Lancaster
Mark Libby
Daniel with Donna Durgin Ralph, Donna, Daniel, Mike and Seth
Karen Rosser, Mary Waugh
The “Big Project”
A new kitchen for the
Rossers

49. Fortifying ourselves with a food mart breakfast
Before heading off to our first clean up job
Our first clean up job The last wheelbarrow full of trash for the day
What a trash moving team!
After the front yard was cleaned a very happy
grandfather demonstrated his sword skills for us.

50. The owners provided Dunkin Donuts The home we worked to remodel A welcome lunch break
At work cleaning up debris A job well done by the clean up crew. Now to rebuild
The clean up crew, builders, and owner of the homes A feast prepared for us by the family

58. A roof
For
the
Pizza
oven
Joby: Anne Dean Award, Sustainable Woodstock
Norwood: Sustainable Woodstock Education Award fd
dd
2015
Spring-Summer

60. Oneness group 2015
Perma garden grant

64. ____Check in with yourself to see that you
are having enough “fun”
The 14th item on the Checklist for
Coordinating the Christmas Eve Program
2012 I continue to check in with myself,
Thanking you.
Photos taken during lunch break at Artistree
during the story telling workshop
.
Brenda