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The Summer News Weekly For All People… In All Seasons In all seasons

Craigville Village, Massachusetts

August 23-29, 2013

Community Calendar Sunday, August 25th 9:30 AM Listening/Comment Hour - Tabernacle 5:00 PM Cottage Owners’ Meeting - Tabernacle 6:00 PM Evening Worship in the Tabernacle Saturday, August 31st 12:30 PM Craigville Post Office Closes

CCOA Meeting and Dues: Both Important The Craigville Cottage Owners’ Association meeting on Sunday, August 25th at 5:00 PM in the Tabernacle is very important! We need your comments on this summer’s activities in the Village. The CCOA (Craigville Cottage Owners' Association's) 2013 goal is to have all 92 cottage owners join and become full members of our community! There are still many families who have not yet paid their membership dues for 2013 and it isn't too late to do so. Please understand that every penny of your dues/membership monies go directly into paying for all of Craigville's landscaping, parks, shared space maintenance; the upkeep, plowing and surfaces of all our roads, (as they are private and not maintained by the town); all lighting; speed bumps and security guards to protect our residents' safety; Special Events such as The 4th of July Parade/Band, Halloween In July, Illumination Night, and the Annual Icebreaker at the beginning of each summer to meet and re-introduce us all to our neighbors. One of the finest examples of our CCOA Association's strength in numbers was shown in the form of a dangerous gas leak that had been oozing its noxious, foul odor out onto Lake Elizabeth Drive for over a decade. Although many concerned residents had tried in vain to address this problem individually, it wasn't until we all banded together last summer and waged a Tour de Force phone-calling campaign to National Grid - that the CCOA collectively solved the problem completely, once and for all. No one is paid to serve on the Cottage Owners' Association Board or Committees; we all participate as volunteers and rotate leadership. We appreciate the continued support of all of our neighbors and friends who have already paid membership dues for 2013 and look forward to welcoming you who may have forgotten during the busy summer season. You can pay your dues to CCOA Treasurer Willie Shoemaker at Sunday's Cottage Owners Meeting, or if you cannot attend that meeting, you can give your check made out to CCOA to any of the CCOA officers - Willie, Lee Williams, Nancy Hansen, or Dede Danforth-Underwood - or mail your check to Willie Shoemaker at P.O. Box 655, Windham, NH 03087. Thank you!

-Dede Danforth-Underwood, Secretary, CCOA

CBA: It’s a Wrap Yes, the CBA Beach will close on Labor Day, so get ready to clear your bathhouses (and make sure your guest fees are paid) by the end of the day on Monday, September 2nd, after you catch that last wonderful week of the summer season!

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THE OLD CRAIGVILLE POST OFFICE Unfortunately, summer is coming to a close much too fast for us all, which means that the Post Office gift shop will be closing on Aug. 31st. It’s not too late to get the last minute gifts for the holidays and to offer suggestions for items you would like to see for sale in the future. Please don’t forget our little village shop, for we survive only on your continued support.

!Debbie Almy, Chair, Post Office Committee

Tabernacle: “The Laughing Community” This is the title of the sermon for the Tabernacle Sunday Worship Service, at a new time this week (6:00 PM, or shortly following the Craigville Cottage Owner’s Meeting in the Tabernacle.) Our preacher this week, Jennifer Munroe-Nathan, is the senior pastor of the Church of Christ, Congregational, in Millis, MA and known throughout New England for both her preaching (recipient of the Koinonia Preaching Award at Andover Newton Theological Seminary) and her humor (as a stand-up comic at nightclubs in Massachusetts and Rhode Island). Laughter heals, physically, mentally and spiritually. The Craigville community, and our Tabernacle, are all about healing (as in “Healing on the Sabbath”). Hospitality defines community. Those who want to prepare for this special evening worship service at the Tabernacle might read Rev. Munroe-Nathan’s Old Testament text, Genesis 18:1-15. If you were in the Tabernacle for the Ecumenical Service on August 4th, you’ll remember this passage was echoed in the reading on “faith” from Hebrews that day. Hint: What is the Hebrew word for “laughter?”

-Steve Brown, Interim 2013 Tabernacle Administrator

Craigville Bookies Continue Our last gathering of this season will take place on Wednesday, September 11th at 9:30 AM at Linda McKinney’s cottage on Lake Elizabeth Drive. We are reading The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe. It is the story about a mother and son’s conversation about the books they have read during their lives as the mother is undergoing chemotherapy. It is not a morbid book. If you have any questions or for more information please call Nancy Hansen at (508) 775-5667. Craigville Tennis: A Great Season The Craigville Tennis Club wrapped up yet another terrific season last Sunday with the "Year End Celebration", where trophies were awarded to younger players and the Junior Team members received "Craigville Tennis" towels to commemorate their accomplishments on the court. The celebration capped-off the Annual Parent-Child Tournaments, where Elizabeth Croteau pulled double duty, stepping in for her injured father and winning the 10 and Under Division with her brother Will in a hard-fought victory over Michael and Dean Frekking. Elizabeth then shifted gears and went on to join Stevie Driscoll (again subbing for Dan Croteau) to win the 16 and Under Division in a back and forth and exciting match against Gage Picullel and his partner, Patrick. Both matches (and in fact ALL match play) demonstrated the great skills, court etiquette, and sportsmanship taught by Pro Lisa Packard and Assistant pro Stevie Driscoll all summer! In addition, the Junior Team had a stellar season with a 4-and-1 record, despite two rainouts, and a victory over long-time rival Hyannisport. Men’s and Ladies’ Round Robins were also well-attended and saw some great play, and the Mixed Doubles Events were both well-received and lots of fun. Please keep your eyes open for the new Craigville Tennis Club website, which should be up and running within the next few weeks (CRAIGVILLETENNISCLUB.COM). Keep playing over the winter and we look forward to seeing you back on the courts next year!

-Dana Haseotes and The Craigville Tennis Committee

“Craigville Cards” I will be continuing to sell my Craigville Cards as an ongoing fundraiser for the Red Lily Pond Project Association. They sell 5 for $15.00 and are unique to the village and the lake. I also have some of a lake in Chester, CT that my good friend Cindy Kershaw made and donated to us. If anyone is interested, they can contact me at: capecodwoman43@gmail.com. -Valerie Lane, Fundraising Chair, RLPP

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Thought of the Week (from E.L.): Today is a good day to make small changes – changes that, if maintained, will make me happier and healthier.

CRAIGVILLE PAINTERS PAINTING CRAIGVILLE – 2013 On August 8th, the Craigville Painters completed the scheduled six weeks of “Radical Joy” painting special places in Craigville.

July 2 – The view of the Village Green from the open doors of the Tabernacle (the alternate site due to rain in the Chapel in the Pines).

July 11 – The Gazebo on Red Lily Pond - behind Craigville Inn – also a misty, rainy day, though great for painting water lil ies and leaping fish.

July 18 – The 40 Steps Landing – Looking to the Atlantic Ocean and CBA July 25 – Craigville Village Green - 360° views of Craigville Inn, volleyball court, and

Post Office Gift Shop. August 1 – Causeway Beach Overlooking Lake Elizabeth, blooming with bright water

lil ies and fishermen in colorful canoes. August 8 – The Dell beside the Post Office - Culminating our painting with a

Clothesline Art Display…even when a misty morning promised rain, a bright August sun emerged at mid-day.

Weather is always an added challenge for en plein air painting, yet our purposeful painters – with 8 decades of ages among us – contributed 18 paintings in a variety of mediums: watercolor, pastels, crayons, sharpie pens, charcoal pencils, and oils, to the Red Lily Pond Project Auction. Thank you! to all the Craigville Painters and their supportive families. For their assistance and encouragement, we are grateful to Mary Woodbury and the Craigville Retreat Center staff. The continuing hearty welcome of our Painters’ art by the Red Lily Pond Project Auction manager, Valerie Lane, and the organizing assistance of Millie Delaney, is expecially appreciated. To the art buyers – what fun it is to see our framed paintings displayed in your Craigville cottages! The inspiration for the Craigville Painters Painting Craigville began 3 years ago when Steve Brown, as President of the Red Lily Pond Project, enlightened a gathering of the RLPP Board members who were viewing the progress of the Red Lily Pond and Lake Elizabeth, which together had just been designated status as a Great Pond. There are 139 of these Great Ponds on Cape Cod. This recognition of official status by the MA Dept. of Natural Resources, MA Division of Marine Fisheries and the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod enables important necessary care and funding resources for our Great Pond. Steve introduced us to the “Earth Exchange” – happenings of communal witness and gatherings created by Radicaljoyforhardtimes.org. Their envisioning is of “a planet where people and wounded places are reconciled through acceptance, love, and acts of beauty, so no part of the Earth is orphaned from the cycle of life.” Our C.P.P.C. purpose is to paint what we see and feel of these special Craigville places, to record their moment in time (perhaps with some artistic license!) and to share our creativity with the Craigville community. During the past three summers, the Craigville Painters have painted in Village public places. Thanks to invitations from generous cottage owners to paint from their points of view, the Craigville Painters will arrange some Encore Art Dates in the off-seasons. Interested?

Contact Avis Strong Parke or Alison Melavalin, 508-771-8298

RED LILY POND DINNER In my write up about the Red Lily Pond dinner last week, I neglected to mention one of our most fantastic helpers! Ashley Brady-Lyons was invaluable when we set up the tables in the dining room, and also when we were setting up for the silent auction. She kept us all moving and focused and was an enormous asset. Sorry, Ashley! Thank you! You were great! -Valerie Lane, RLPP Fundraising Chair

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Craigville Retreat Center

The Retreat Center is busy preparing for both new and returning groups that will come to the Village this fall. In the meantime, students are returning to schools and families are focusing on those preparations. More news on who will be in Craigville this Fall in the Labor Day edition.

-Mary A Woodbury, Director, Craigville Retreat Center

A Bridge For People, A Highway For Herring In 2008, the Red Lily Pond project sponsored a community survey of several different designs for a footbridge across the herring run at the bottom of the Forty Steps. Craigville residents weighed in—and selected a design that was safe, sturdy, beautiful, durable (vandal-proof!), and a huge improvement on the collapsing steel culvert that clogs the herring run at present. Then came the challenge: securing the permits and funding the design and construction! The first written estimate we received for the permitting and engineering was $11,100! This struck us as unreasonable, because, together with a dozen volunteers, we had recently built a similar bridge in Vermont in one day, including carrying all the materials into the woods. More realistic estimates have surfaced, the permit application is in process, and we are ready to build this bridge. All this is thanks to our contributors! Members of the community who have attended the house tours, participated in the annual dinners, and bid at the silent and live auctions, have over the last two years enabled the Red Lily Pond Project to raise the almost the entire cost of this new bridge! A capstone contribution could provide a naming opportunity! If you have an idea, contact me, or any of our Board of Directors members. Watch the Chronicle in coming months for details—our goal is to dedicate this bridge early next summer! -Steve Brown, President, RLPP Red Lily Pond Project Association Donations and Membership We are almost up to $8,500.00 cleared after taking in donations and memberships since the fundraiser dinner on August 10th. If anyone hasn’t given yet and has been meaning to, or wants to help us make it up to our $10,000 goal, send your donations in to Valerie Lane, 86 Summerbell Ave., Centerville, MA 02632. It has been a great year and I thank everyone who has been so generous, both with donations of items for our auction and with money. Let’s try to get to the $10,000 goal! Next summer, on a Sunday afternoon in July, we will have our house tour again., If anyone is interested in having their house on the tour, please contact me at:, capecodwoman43@gmail.com or call at 508-778-0507. We will need six houses and I am looking for helpers, too. Have a good interlude between seasons. Thanks again for all the support this year. It has been great! -Valerie Lane, Treasurer, RLPP

Singers, don’t forget: If you like to sing, join in the “Pick-Up Choir” Rehearsal from 9:00-9:30 AM on Sunday morning, September 1st, before the Tabernacle service with South Congregational Church. Come sing with Music Director Pam Wannie in this special service that marks the end of our summer season! This is your opportunity to “join the chorus”!

Missing Earring (from last week’s edition): Found!!!

Wish List Report: We are still hearing about special Village items that some people might like to include on our community Wish List. If you see a need or would like to donate, please reply through The Chronicle at craigvillechronicle1872@gmail.com or call Dede Danforth-Underwood at (508) 775-1408. Wishes can come true!

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FEATHER/FUN FACTS: WOODPECKERS BY DEBBIE ALMY Woodpeckers hammer and chisel away at the bark on a tree, or the side of your house, or even an old telephone pole, eating whatever insects and larvae they can find inside. The woodpecker’s long tongue, which is covered with sticky saliva, has a barbed end, and may be as long as the woodpecker itself. The tongue curls back up and around its skull, which allows it to be so long. Now how can their brain sustain the intense pounding their pecking causes? The woodpecker has a thick skull made of soft bone with little fluid around the brain, quite different from a human’s skull construction. The bird contracts muscles around the jaw before impacting the wood, therefore allowing the whole body to help absorb the shock, not just the skull. Years ago, football helmet-makers copied the woodpecker’s unique skull design to help protect their customers. Now, with raised concern over the serious ramifications of concussions, the makers of helmets are re-thinking their designs and totally re-vamping their products. Woodpeckers are instantly recognizable by their unique behavior of pecking vertically on trees and poles, but how much do you really know about these outstanding birds? There are more than 180 species of woodpeckers worldwide, but none of them are found in Australia, Madagascar or New Zealand. The downy woodpecker is the most common backyard woodpecker in North America, and is one of only about two dozen woodpecker species found in the United States. Hairy woodpecker, which is slightly larger than the downy-, flicker-, pileated- and red-bellied woodpeckers, are the other varieties seen in North America. Most woodpeckers have zygodactyl feet, which means they have toes facing both the front and the back, allowing them to grip trees and poles vertically. They use those toes with their stiff tail feathers to brace themselves on trees as they climb. Woodpeckers eat bugs, sap, fruit, nuts and seeds and they are often attracted to suet feeders. They do not have vocal songs; instead, they drum on resonant objects such as hollow trees and logs, utility poles, chimneys, rain gutters and trash cans. Woodpeckers drum to attract mates, establish territories, and otherwise communicate, and both genders are known to drum. Between feeding, excavating nest cavities and drumming, woodpeckers can peck up to 20 times per second, or a total of 8,000-12,000 pecks per day. Most woodpeckers have a distinct undulating flight consisting of a few rapid wing beats followed by a quick glide when the wings are tucked against the body rather than spread like other birds. Their average life span can last from 4-11 years, depending on the species. The greatest threats to woodpeckers include habitat loss through urban development and population sprawl, insecticide use that eliminates food sources, and natural disasters such as forest fires that eliminate dead wood for feeding and nesting. Now what do you do if a woodpecker decides that the side of your house is going to be his new home? Two tried and true methods to change his mind are: hang an aluminum pie plate near the hole so it swings in the breezes, or put a piece of either aluminum foil several layers thick, or a piece of aluminum metal over the hole they have started, and that will hopefully send Woody the woodpecker away. By the Post Office here in Craigville there is a telephone pole, by the mailbox side, that has been the home for the flicker woodpecker for years. His distinctive call of “flicka, flicka, flicka” can easily be detected. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yikes! Where has the summer gone?! Next Friday is the final edition of the Chronicle for Summer 2013! Please send us your organization’s highlights and your impressions of this year as we close out this chapter of Craigville 2013. We hope you have enjoyed the season! The submission deadline is Wednesday, August 28th, and our e-mail address is craigvillechronicle1872@gmail.com. Thank you for sharing your news with us this year. REMEMBER, WE WELCOME ALL NEWS PERTAINING TO CRAIGVILLE NEIGHBORS AND ACTIVITIES. AND, we are always on the web at Craigville.org (postings to info@craigville.org) and for the CCOA page “friend” us on Facebook (postings for FB page to Geoffrey Underwood dgunderwo@gmail.com)! The Craigville Chronicle is sponsored by the Christian Camp Meeting Association and the Craigville Cottage Owners Association, and is produced weekly from the last week in June through Labor Day weekend and off-season once during the Fall (November), Winter (February) and Spring (May). Please e-mail your news to Alice Brown, editor, at craigvillechronicle1872@gmail.com. Craigville Retreat Center information can be found 24/7 at www.craigvilleretreats.org. !Alice Brown, Editor