GILFORD — Gilford photographer Emery Swanson will have a gallery showing of his work at Awakenings Espresso Cafe, 1429 Lakeshore Rd, Gilford, during the month of February.
Swanson is a founding member of the Gilford Clickers photography club, and two years ago formed his own company, which specializes in Landscape and floral photography for businesses and homes. His work features images primarily from the Lakes Region area.
"I joined the Clickers photography club for something to do once a month", says Swanson, "but that has blossomed into an all-consuming passion. After encouragement from my family, Istarted doing art fairs as a way to turn this passion into some extra income. But after doing that, I realized that I get the biggest personal satisfaction from seeing people look at my work and smile. Or listen to them reminisce about going to some of the places in my pictures. I love the stories. I get so charged up when I see that my work has touched someone."

MOULTONBOROUGH — Old-fashioned Valentines will be featured as the February seasonal block for the Country Village Quilt Guild meeting on February 6 at 1:30 p.m. in the Moultonborough Life Safety building. All levels of sewers are invited to create a Valentine Block, reminiscent of days when a variety of heart shapes and construction paper equaled infinite designs, lacy paper doilies were added and everyone got a tongue depressor full of smelly paste to put it all together.
Now fabric will replace the paper and a fusible web will be used instead of paste. For more information about the background block and supplies, contact Karen Sticht at 279-5682 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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Valentine Block (Courtesy photo)

Over 40 members of the community are involved in putting on Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which the Winni Players will be performing at the Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium on February 15-17. Included in the cast are Laconia residents David Bownes, Rick Morten, Lissa Mascio, Brett Billings, Lea Mascio, Jim Rogato and Saphaedra Renee. (Courtesy photo)