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NEW BEDFORD The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum (RJD) will join museums nationwide in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families. The 2021 program will begin on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 15, 2021, and end on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021.
Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and participating museums nationwide. “We are grateful to The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum for their leadership in strengthening community through their participation in the Blue Star Museums program this summer,” said Ann Eilers, acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Blue Star Museums include children’s museums, art, science, and history museums, zoos, gardens, lighthouses, and more, and hail from all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia
Contoocook River region town criers for May 16, 2021
Published: 5/15/2021 1:45:14 PM
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Spring sale
■The annual Bow Garden Club Spring Plant Sale will go on! This year s sale will be an outdoor event held on May 29 from 9 a.m. to noon at the edge of the Bow Community Building parking lot under popup tents. The sale will be held rain or shine.
■The Bow Garden Club invites you to a free event, “Cooking & Gardening with Edible Flowers” on June 14 at 6 p.m. on Zoom. Join expert gardener and renowned chef Liz Barbour as she explores the varieties of edible flowers you can grow in your garden and the many ways you can incorporate them into your cooking. Chef Barbour will take you on a tour of her cottage-sized gardens and will demonstrate two delicious recipes featuring edible flowers from her own gardens. Virtual seats are limited and registration is required. Email president@bowgardenclub.org to register.
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In recognition of Armed Forces Day, the Orange County Museum of Art is offering military service members and up to five household members a chance on Saturday to participate in a morning of art appreciation and enjoy a free lunch during “See Art, Make Art.”
Guests will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a guided tour of select works in the museum, where they will explore the different ways artists use visual compositions to invite conversations on theme, subject matter and more. Afterward, participants will be asked to create their own works of art.
Presented by OCMA, in coordination with Blue Star Museums, the event concludes with free complimentary boxed lunches that can be enjoyed outside on museum grounds or taken to go.
Museums around the country are participating in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military personnel and their families this summer.
The 2021 program begins on Armed Forces Day, Saturday. It ends on Labor Day, Sept. 6. The program is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and museums offering free admission to the nationâs active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve.
More than 2,000 museums across America participate in Blue Star Museums each summer. According to the National Endowment for the Arts, the following north country museums are taking part in the program:
Georgia Museum of Art to participate in Blue Star Museums
Edward Laning (American, 1906 1981), study for Pipeline Through Tuscany, Benevento, 1944 47. Gouache on paperboard, 7 5/16 x 10 3/16 inches. Collection of Michael T. Ricker.
ATHENS, GA
.-The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will participate this summer in Blue Star Museums, a program organized by the National Endowment for the Arts that offers free admission and special discounts to military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day (May 15) through Labor Day (September 6).
Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and museums across the United States. Each summer since 2010, Blue Star Museums have offered free admission to the nations active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve.