Art and Craft Summer Classes for Children & Adults in New Hampshire

Art & Craft Classes for Children & Adults at the League of N.H. Craftsmen

CENTER SANDWICH, NH
July-August

On your next getaway into Northern New Hampshire, introduce the creative side of your mind with an arts and crafts class at the place where famous artisans have settled to unfold their talents. The League of N.H. Craftsmen in Center Sandwich, NH hosts a wide variety of classes where you and your loved ones can demonstrate your artistic side. Spend the afternoon making simple books, make some sterling silver earrings for your friend, turn one of your old, dingy chairs into a natural strand cane seat you’ll be proud to take home, or even learn how to make pizza from absolute scratch! There are several more classes running throughout the July and August months and many more for the kids! Click here to view the upcoming classes. Nearly 25 minutes down NH-113, the Manor on Golden Pond awaits your arrival to make your getaway as relaxing as can be. Let the sweeping images of Squam Lake and the White Mountains take your breath away accompanied by the charm and coziness of this New England country inn, the Manor on Golden Pond.

Nashoba Valley Wine Tour and Bed & Breakfast – Bolton, Massachusetts

Nashoba Valley Wine Tour and the Charlotte’s House

Bolton, Massachusetts

Up in a hilltop orchard in the charming town of Bolton, Massachusetts, The Nashoba Valley Winery is producing the most superior fruit wines and exquisite foods since 1978. Here’s a brief overview of this fantastic winery that makes them worthy of over 100 national and international medals and perfect destination for your next vacation. Every Saturday and Sunday of the year join the tour-guides and discover the process for making their highly-acclaimed fruit wines, brandies and distillates. The one-hour tour includes a tasting of four selected wines plus two additional standard wines and then receive a commemorative wine glass to take home. As book your wine tour, don’t forget to make the dinner reservation at the carefully restored rustic farmhouse now called J’s Restaurant. Mix up the vacation the next day to check out some of the finest distilled spirits and crafted beers made from the freshest ingredients. If you and your loved one really enjoy everything, Nashoba Valley Winery hosts a stressless and elegant wedding day.

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Glass Blowing Exhibit and the Belfry Inne & Bistro in Cape Cod

In the Glass Blowing exhibit a guest was selected randomly to try glass blowing for himself!

Feel the heat as you watch molten glass being turned and twisted into exquisite forms at the Sandwich Glass Museum. Here you will find many exhibits and activities that could easily fill up an entire vacation for you and your loved ones of any age. Currently, Edward and James Poore explain their journey through the glass realm and display their expertise in the contemporary exhibit called “Two Generations of Glass Engravers, Cutters and Sculptors”. Learn about dining in the Victorian Era as Hannah “Rebecca” Burgess flourishes the glass made finger bowls, celery vases, epergnes, butter dishes, knife holders, and even individual salt shakers. Get some fresh air on a walking tour highlighting the historic town’s American architecture and the people of the village and their past. Be sure not to miss the Annual Cape Cod Glass Show and Sale featuring 45 nationally prominent glass dealers offering antique and collectible American & European glassware dating back to the 18th century.

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Thanksgiving in Vermont

Thanksgiving at Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock, VT

Come celebrate Thanksgiving and Billings Farm & Museum’s 25th Anniversary. Grab everybody in the family for a Wagon Ride pulled by the Percheron teams through the farm. It’s running every Saturday and Sunday in November from 10am-4pm. In the last week of November you can learn about the Thanksgiving traditions in the Victorian Parlor during the holiday weekend. Just to top off the spirit, feast to a wonderful 19th century Thanksgiving meal prepared by costumed guides.

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Cape Cod Spa in Chatham, Massachusetts

Treat your mind and body with a mellowing massage and aesthetic remedies provided by Sol Spa. Stimulate your day of therapy, or perhaps a week, with a tonic massage suited for you. Having at least twelve different choices from Deep Tissue to Swedish Strokes, you’ll be able to attend to your body type. Despite Sol Spa’s such up-scale character, the assumed high prices are not to be expected. For only $25, try the Sitting in the Garden massage for soothing relief. Next, pamper the most precious part of your body; your face. See your face glow with the Oxygenating Facial that cleanses, stimulates, and rebuilds your deepest skin cells. Then, spoil yourself some more and revitalize your hands, feet, and skin where needed most. Make your therapeutic vacation worthwhile and check out the packages offered to get everything at one valued price. E-mail info@solspachatham.com to make reservations or answer any questions you may have.

Stay at the Captain’s House Inn for an experience as concilitating as Sol Spa. Back in 1839, Captain Hiram Harding built a home with a charming Greek ambiance for his wife of one year. What now is the Captain’s House Inn, provides 16 quarters and two acres of scenery and garden with outbuildings and swimming pools. 

“The Captain’s House Inn is the consummate romantic getaway. It makes you dream of coming back.”

— Jill Rigby, Travel Editor, Toronto Sun

With many special packages from a Babymoon to a three-night New Year’s Eve premium, The Captain’s House Inn endues the perfect elopement accommodations. Avoid stress and enjoy you and your partner’s quite memorable day while The Captain’s House Inn will do all the work to ensure a graceful ceremony. 

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