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Hello Craigville family and friends, This week I tried something that I have heard about many times but had never attended: the Craigville Painters. Avis and Alison helped one of Ginny Henderson’s granddaughters and I get our gear together and paint on the shore of Lake Elizabeth. It was so much fun to be outside and noticing the beauty around me. I have to say that my painting wasn’t great but I now have it in my small apartment. It makes me smile every time I look at it. It is something I can take with me when I am not in Craigville to remind me of this special place. How do you take Craigville with you?

-Kate McKey-Dunar, Chronicle Editor

Friday, July 31st Illumination Night 7:30pm- Tyler Newcomb Group performing Saturday, August 1st Craigville Painters- 9:30am @ Village Green

August 3rd-6th Adult Bible Study- 10:30am @ Tabernacle Tuesday, August 4th Craigville Painters- 9:30am @ Gazebo behind Inn Thursday, August 6th Family Board Game Night- 7:00pm @ Tabernacle

Saturday, August 8th Red Lily Pond Dinner -5:30pm @ Village Green and Inn

Thanks to Doug Farquhar, next summer's calendar has received most of the event dates. Be sure to purchase one of the calendars at the RLLP Auction and Dinner.

If you or a group you know have plans for next summer, please get them to me as soon as possible as dates are already booked.

-Lee Williams CCOA President

Thank you to all who sent in their membership forms and dues after the summer reminders were sent out last week. If you have not sent yours in, please take the time to fill out the form and check and get it to the Craigville Retreat Center Office. Thanks so much!

-Nancy Hansen

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If you are in need of an item for summer (a stroller for a visiting grandchild) or if you find you have one too many of a useful home/garden item (appliances, furniture, toys, decorations) and would appreciate passing it along, for sale or for donation, please contact the CCOA Wishlist via the Craigville Chronicle. Chances are a neighbor might love your "can't use anymore" items. Reduce, re-use, recycle!

• Dear Craigville Friends, We are in search of a double (full-sized) bed frame. The mattress and/or box spring can be, but do not necessarily have to be, included. If any among you have a bed this size that you would like to sell, please let us know. Thank you!

-Dede Danforth-Underwood (dgud4th@msn.com)

Groups: Cook Family Reunion Schilo Church, Stamford Ct. family group Boston College Urban Catholic Teacher Corps Family Camp, Joanne Hartunian St. Johns, E. Bridgewater, MA Cottages: Bosco Family Price Family Lembrikov Family O'Donnell Family Lang Family Baumer Family Ackles Family Johnson Family Comeaux Family Friday, July 31st, Illumination Night Band on Green & Ice Cream Social at Inn Dining Room 7-9 pm. Adults $4 Youth (under 18 yrs) $2.

Please check out our web site: http://craigvilleretreats.org and like us on Facebook links on web site. We still have space available in cottages etc. Please call the office for availability and costs.

-Mary A Woodbury Director

Craigville Retreat Center

Over the past several weeks, our readings at the Tabernacle have focused on the idea of nourishment. We have heard the story of Elijah receiving bread and water from an angel in the desert and two different accounts of Jesus feeding the crowd of five thousand. We have reflected upon the idea of spiritual nourishment and our call to be servers of “second helpings” in the Kingdom of God.

This Sunday, August 2 at 9:45am, we will continue to think about the nourishment offered by Jesus Christ, who reveals himself as the “Bread of Life.” A classmate of mine from Harvard Divinity School, Christopher Whiteman, will preach a sermon titled “Give Us a Sign.” Christopher, a candidate for ordination in the Episcopal Church, is a very thoughtful and gifted preacher—this year, he was the winner of the Billings

Preaching Prize. After hearing him preach this past spring, I was excited about the possibility of bringing him to the Tabernacle.

Craigville resident Rev. Joanne Hartunian will preside over Holy Communion, our sacrament of spiritual nourishment. Janet Edmonson, a member of the Community of Jesus in Orleans, MA, will play the organ for us, and Wayne Tooker will offer special music.

Wherever you are on the journey of faith, I hope that the Tabernacle is a community of spiritual nourishment for you.

-Edward Dunar Theologian in Residence

worshipleader@craigvilletabernacle.org

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Additional information about this week’s readings and hymns, including links to text, sheet music, and recordings, are available on our website (craigvilletabernacle.org). This week’s readings:

• Ephesians 4:1-16 (Paul encourages the community to seek unity and build up others in love)

• John 6:24-35 (Jesus reveals that he is the Bread of Life)

This week’s hymns: • Lift High the Cross (UMH 159) • O Food to Pilgrims Given (UMH 631) • One Bread, One Body (UMH 620)

Preparing for this week: It is appropriate that we are thinking so much about nourishment this summer alongside our theme, “God of All Generations.” It is often around food where we create treasured memories, pass down traditions, and share wisdom across the generations in our own lives. This week, take time to savor and appreciate a meal that you share with loved ones. Reflect upon the ways in which this meal feeds not only the body, but also the spirit.

In conjunction with Family Camp, we will be offering an extended Adult Bible Study over the course of four days. From Monday, August 3 through Thursday, August 6, we will meet at 10:30am in the Tabernacle to reflect upon different selections from the Book of Psalms.

On one hand, the psalms offer us some of the most memorable and poetic selections from scripture.

During difficult times I have found comfort in Psalm 23, which assures us that God is our shepherd and protector. Many familiar songs have their roots in the psalms. For example, the popular “On Eagle’s Wings” is based in part on Psalm 91. On the other hand, some psalms are disturbing and confusing. Verses about violence and war seem to conflict with our experience of God as the Lord of Peace.

How can poetry help us become better people and disciples? How can we use psalms in our prayer life? What should we do with psalms that describe God in ways that contradict our own experience? Throughout the week, we will think about these questions as we reflect upon psalms ranging from the inspiring to the confounding. Bibles will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you have a favorite copy or translation.

• Sunday, July 26, 9:45am: Sunday Worship

(Tabernacle). Rev. Ken Read-Brown will preach a sermon titled “Our Place in the Scheme of Things.” The MACUCC Adult Music Camp will provide special music.

• Monday, August 3-Thursday, August 6, 10:30am-11:30am: Adult Bible Study (Tabernacle). Over the course of four days, we discuss psalms ranging from the inspiring to the challenging.

• Tuesday, August 4, 7:30am: Morning Prayer (Tabernacle). We welcome the morning through a prayerful exploration of the Celtic spirit in Christianity led by Rev. Dr. Bruce Epperly.

• Thursday, August 6, 7pm: Family Board Game Night (Tabernacle). Come for a night of games, pizza, and fellowship. We’ll play board games ranging from classic to contemporary.

We only have a week before our dinner and auction! Please get your reservation forms and checks in to Valerie as soon as possible. We are expecting a good turnout. There are some fantastic auction items for you to peruse and our fabulous auctioneer Dick Delaney is

going to make our evening a wonderful success. Come along and help our Red Lily Pond fundraising while enjoying fellowship with friends and neighbors and eating a delicious meal and drinking Martin's great wine. See you there!

-Valerie Lane

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This is the sixth of ten weekly articles on the life of the pond. This week, our focus is turtles!

The Red Lily Pond Project Association hosted its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, to re-elect our Board of Directors and plan next Saturday’s (August 8th) Dinner and Auction! In preparing for this Annual Meeting, I dug into the files to review the organization’s By-Laws and Articles of Organization, dating back to September 1983. We’ve come a long way in the last thirty-plus years! Sometimes it seems progress has been more like a turtle than a hare, which got me thinking about turtles, and the turtles of Red Lily Pond.

Long-time Craigville residents tell stories about old Grandmother Snapping Turtle, a mythical creature big enough to take off a toe dangled from a rowboat on the pond a generation ago. No one that I know actually claims to have lost the legendary toe: perhaps it belonged to some unsuspecting houseguest, lost in the mists of time.

There are indeed big snapping turtles in the pond. Last spring, a snapping turtle hung out at the fish ladder, looking to feast on migrating herring (a vigilant community member scooped the fish past the turtle!). I’ve witnessed a big snapping turtle laying her eggs in the Patterson triangle where Lake Elizabeth and Valley Avenue meet.

Snapping turtles are at the apex of the Lake Elizabeth food chain, but they are by no means the only turtles that live in the pond, the river, the marsh and the

sea. Lake Elizabeth and Red Lily Pond, along with their embankments, provide habitat and nests for box turtles and painted turtles. The marsh may provide refuge for an endangered species, the diamondback terrapin, which hibernates through the winter beneath the mud of tidal flats.

Marine turtles, or “sea turtles” live in the ocean and, like many New Englanders, spend their winters in the tropics and migrate north in the summer. A species that often makes the news is the Kemp’s Ridley turtles, which ride the Gulf Stream north. They occasionally round the tip of Cape Cod and get snagged by the cold Labrador Current to wash ashore “cold stunned.” Marine biologists and concerned citizens rescue some of these wanderers and return them to the warmer south coast of Cape Cod.

It’s tempting to use turtles as metaphors for human lives in Craigville. We may hibernate for a while but we come out in the summer to make the world a more diverse, interesting, and beautiful place. It may seem that we are slow but we press on, reach our destination, and launch the next generations into the waters of the pond, the marsh, and the sea.

Imagine the turtles in the pond as symbols of the patience and persistence required to work together over the next weeks and years to assure the pond’s bright future.

Keep on swimming! Like turtles, we make progress when we stick our necks out!

-Steve Brown

The weather is behaving so we plan to have our concert on the Green for ILLUMINATION NIGHT FRIDAY JULY 31 - that is today! Ty Newcomb and his Tijuana Group will be playing Herb Alpert's Tijuana music starting at 7:30pm. Please do remember to bring a chair.

During and after the concert Ice Cream will be on sale in the Inn Dining Room, and then you can enjoy a stroll through the village to look at all the lighted houses.

-Ellen Cardarelli

Join us for a night of games, food, fun, and fellowship. On Thursday, August 6 at 7pm, we will meet in Tabernacle for Family Board Game Night. We’ll have many different games on hand, ranging from the classic to the contemporary (Settlers of Catan or Carcassonne, anyone?). Bring a game to share if you have a favorite. Snacks and beverages will be provided. People of all ages are welcome!

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August is arriving. When I was working that usually meant the end of summer for me, for the month of August just flew by. Then I was back into the real world or working. Don’t let August pass you by before you visit the gift shop to get yourself or a houseguest a memento from the village.

This month the Craigville Bookies are reading Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau. We will meet at Nancy Hansen's home, 7 Vine Ave. on Tuesday, August 11 at 9:30 AM. Come even if you do not read the whole book.

July 31st is Illumination Night and the Craigville Painters will paint the exotic decorations around the village green the next morning- August 1st from 9:30am to 12:00pm. The 360-degree view of the Post Office Store, the volleyball field, Craigville Inn, and the Tabernacle being all aglow with colorful lanterns and mid-summer flowers is a painter’s dream! Art supplies are available free for everyone, for all ages and talents or feel free to bring your own. The waterways mural of the complete eco-system around Craigville Village, painted by over 20 people from ages 4 to 91, is on view at the Tabernacle from 9am to 3pm daily. Please call Avis or Alison at 508-771-8298 for more information

Meaning: To relax or be at ease History: Parisian nobles risked condemnation from their peers if they appeared in public without an elaborate hairdo. Some of the more intricate styles required hours of work, so of course it was a relaxing ritual for these aristocrats to come home at the end of a long day and let their hair down.

-Debbie Almy

Recently Craigville experienced a rare weather happening when we had a tornado warning. The alarms in cell phones were buzzing off the hook, and the TV weather people were in high gear saying Craigville was where the tornado was headed. I have been in this village for well over 50 years and this was a first for me. Hurricanes yes, tornadoes no. Lets have a lesson on what a tornado is and why we do not usually have to worry about this deadly form of weather. A tornado is a ferocious rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud which can develop in a very short time. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, but they are typically in the form of a visible funnel whose narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a

cloud of debris and dust. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour, are about 250 feet across, and travel a few miles before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 300 miles per hour, stretch more than two miles across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles. Tornadoes winds rotate cyclonically, which is counterclockwise, in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, and they come in various colors, from red, pink, blue or the most threatening jet black depending on what type of ground they are over. They may be as narrow as 7 feet across, or as wide as 2,6 miles across which is record width set in May of 2013. Tornadoes emit sounds resembling a whooshing roar, rushing rapid water, a jet engine, or the most frequently reported, sounds like a fright train. Since many tornadoes are audible only when very near, sound is not a reliable warning of a tornado, plus many of the associated sounds may be coming from a near by severe thunderstorm. Hurricanes are rated in severity by categories with 1 being the least dangerous to a 5 which results in catastrophic damage. Hurricane Bob, the last hurricane to hit Cape Cod was a Category 2 in 1991, which did substantial damage to boats but was far less destructive then Carol of 1956.Tornadoes are measured by the Enhanced Fujita Scale that ranges from 1 to 5. An EFS

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3-5 develop from thunderstorms known as a supercell, which in addition to tornadoes, contain very heavy rain, frequent lightning, strong wind gusts, and hail all of which contribute to devastating damage. Hurricanes give us days to prepare, while tornadoes give you minutes, if you are lucky. The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, nearly four times more than estimated in all of Europe, excluding waterspouts. This is mostly due to the unique geography of our continent. The westerly wind flowing off the Rocky Mountains collides into the moist air coming off the Gulf of Mexico and these frequent collisions of warm and cold air, breed strong, long-lived storms throughout the year. A large portion of these tornadoes form in an area of central United States known as Tornado Alley. The United States averages about 1,200 tornadoes per year are most common in spring and least common in winter, but tornadoes can occur any time of year when the favorable conditions occur. Spring and fall experience peaks of activity as those are the seasons when stronger winds, wind shear, and atmospheric instability are present. Tornadoes usually occur in the after noon between 3PM and 7 PM due to the heat of the day, yet a record setting tornado in

1936 happened at 8:30 AM, so basically they can occur at any time with no warning. Finally, why don’t we usually have tornadoes in New England is because there are too many things in it’s way, like tall buildings, mountains in Northern New England and the general hilly uneven terrain preventing the cyclonic action to gain strength. If you have ever seen a “dust devil” forming over a field then you have seen a mini tornado trying to develop. Tornadoes need vast open space to develop where the cyclonic wind action can gather strength, so the plains with miles of open space is the perfect breeding ground, for there is nothing to stop the increasing turbulence. What to do if a tornado is about to hit, go to the lowest part of your house your basement, or get into a area in the middle of your house away from windows, a bathroom is perfect Get into the tub, with your pets as well, and cover yourself with a blanket. In a car do not try to outrun it, get out and get into a low place.

-Doppler Debbie Almy

******************************************************************************************************************************************* WE WELCOME ALL NEWS ABOUT CRAIGVILLE ACTIVITIES AND NEIGHBORS. You can always find us on the web at Craigville.org. The Craigville Chronicle is sponsored by the Christian Camp Meeting Association and the Craigville Cottage Owners Association. It is produced weekly from the last week in June through Labor Day weekend and off-season during the fall (November), winter (February), and spring (May). Please email your news to craigvillechronicle1872@gmail.com. You can find Craigville Retreat Center information at www.craigvilleretreats.org

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Red Lily Pond Project Association Dinner

Saturday August 8th, 2015

5:30-6:30pm Wine and hors d’oeuvres on the Green

7:00pm Dinner in the Inn dining room

Silent Auction during cocktails and Live Auction following dinner The annual Red Lily Pond Project Association fundraiser dinner featuring Austin Peters, chef at the Inn, is only one week away. A delicious buffet dinner awaits you including Steamship Round of Beef, Chicken Piccata, Grilled Portabella Mushrooms, Buttered Green Beans, Red Bliss Parsley Potatoes, salad, and Strawberry Shortcake for dessert. Please fill out the reservation form below and deliver it to Valerie Lane at 86 Summerbell Ave. by Wednesday August 5th at the latest, (hopefully before), call Valerie at 508-778-0507, or email Valerie at: <capecodwoman43@gmail.com>

Thank you for your support to help save our beautiful pond! __________________________________________________________

I wish to attend the Red Lily Pond dinner on Saturday, August 8th, 2015 in the Craigville Inn dining room on the pond. Name: _______________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ Telephone: ____________________________________________ Number of Reservations at $50.00 per person (Wine, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, and auctions included): _______________________________________________________

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