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Hello Craigville family and friends, This week we have the honor of having Family Camp with us for another summer. It has been wonderful to see such vibrancy and energy around the village as these families enjoy their time with us. On Wednesday evening, I watched as the young and young at heart went to the beach and flew kites. To see everyone working together and looking up to the sky with a smile on their faces was a joyful site. When have you done something purely for the joy of it?

-Kate McKey-Dunar, Chronicle Editor

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

Tuesday, August 11th Bookies Meeting- 9:30am @ Hansens’ Home

Tuesday, August 11th Movie Night (Big Hero 6)- 7:00pm @ Tabernacle

Friday, August 14th Evening of Stories and Memories- 7:00pm @ Tabernacle

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Thank you Ellen Cardarelli for providing us with a spectacular Illumination Night. Ty Newcomb and his Tijuana Group were fabulous. It was so nice to sit out on the green and listen to the wonderful renditions of Herb Albert's Tijuana music.

Thanks also to the homeowners who lit and decorated homes for the event. Craigville was certainly an enchanted village for the night.

Willie is back home from her surgery and is ready to accept and process your late dues. Remember that the Cottage Owners are responsible for half of the cost of village expenses. This includes roads, park areas, lighting, and more. We also sponsor the principle village events such as the Icebreaker, July 4th, Illumination Night, and movie nights. Please make out your checks to CCOA and send them to : Willie Shoemaker P.O. Box 655 Windham, NH 03087

-Lee Williams CCOA President

Your membership in the CCMA is important to the village. It would be greatly appreciated if you would get your dues to the Craigville Retreat Center Office so that your membership is helping to keep the village the special place that it is to all of us. Thanks!

-Nancy Hansen

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!

• Two twin beds including wooden headboards, footboards and rails (the beds are not matching) available for free. Contact Clark or Barbara Gates at 508-790-0432.

Groups: Beth Yeshua Shayna Mahoney Holistic Health Yoga Group Archbishop Williams High School Lighthouse of Faith Cottages Sanchez Family Price Family Thompson/Tucker Family O'Donnell Family Liberty Family Parr Family Loretta Worters Twichell Family Prather Family Ann Forcier Please visit our web site (http://craigvilleretreats.org) and check us out on Facebook. We still have some rentals available. Please call the office 508-775-1265 for details.

-Mary A Woodbury Director

Craigville Retreat Center

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

• 1 Timothy: 4:11-16 (Paul encourages Timothy to continue teaching and preaching, letting “no one despise your youth”).

• Mark 10:13-16 (Jesus proclaims, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs”).

This week’s hymns:

• Be Thou My Vision (UMH 451) • Prayer of St. Francis

Preparing for this week: This week, we will be blessing our favorite seashells from the summer as a sign of gratitude for all of the blessings of our time in Craigville. Reflect upon what you are most grateful for this summer.

• Tuesday, August 11, 7:30am: Morning Prayer

(Tabernacle). We welcome the morning through a prayerful exploration of the Celtic spirit in Christianity. Edward Dunar fills in for Rev. Dr. Bruce Epperly.

• Friday, August 14, 10am: Outdoor Bible Study (Eggers Chapel). We reflect upon scripture together using a Bible study method popular in Anglican communities in Africa. We meet at the Tabernacle sign and walk to the Eggers Chapel (or a rain location) together.

• Friday, August 14, 7pm: Evening of Memories and Stories (Tabernacle). Rev. Dr. Bill McKinney leads us in an informal and joyous evening of recollections for the community to gather to share stories and legends about Craigville.

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I have had a few people say to me that they didn't realize we collected membership dues for the RLPP. We do! There are forms to fill out in the Lodge and the post office, and you can either deliver or mail your checks with the forms to Valerie Lane. 86 Summerbell Ave.

It is only $10.00 per person to become a member, and the more members we get the greater chance we will have of obtaining a grant to help with the further restoration of the herring run. We will also have forms at the Red Lily Pond dinner and auction Saturday night.

We are also now selling 2016 calendars with photos of Craigville in the different seasons done by Doug Farquhar, hot off the presses! We will have them at the dinner as well.

For those of you who are coming to the dinner, we will see you Saturday night at the cocktail hour and auction on the Green at 5:30! Dinner at 7:00. And don't forget your dues!

-Valerie Lane Treasurer, RLPP

This week as we celebrate the life in and around the pond we take a leap from slow turtles to fast mammals!

Many warm-blooded carnivores/omnivores depend on the pond to feed themselves and their young. A family of foxes lived under one of the houses on the Midway for several winters, and the kits could be seen frolicking on the lawns in the early spring.

Raccoons and skunks are voraciously omnivorous and will eat everything from duck eggs to mice to beach plums. Muskrats live in the pond, and we have even had a report of a beaver by the fish ladder.

Careful observers may spot the sleek, shy fisher cat, which is not a cat at all, but a member of the weasel family. These elusive carnivores can let out a blood-curdling scream in the middle of the night, which is sure to wake the soundest sleeper and leave them in a cold sweat, wondering which neighbor has been murdered. The scream goes on and on, sometimes for five minutes. Then the fisher falls silent and moves on about her business.

Other mammals in and around the ponds include opossums, squirrels, mice, rats, and shrews; bats skim the surface, consuming thousands of insects. The village is currently overrun with rabbits. This proliferation is probably due to the removal of their principal predator, the feral house cats, now mostly spayed or neutered (this is a good thing, as they were also decimating the songbird population.)

We occasionally see a gray seal or two on the beach, and coyotes live in the bog behind the Tabernacle. Deer abound in the woodlands across Route 28, but I have never seen one in Craigville. In early days, they were part of the staple diet of humans on Cape Cod. In New England, over the last five hundred years, humans have replaced wolves as the primary predator for deer. Nowadays, there’s an active deer hunting season in our county, with many bow hunters stalking the November woods.

These diverse mammals play a critical role in the ecosystem of the ponds and watershed. Some of them prey on others, and they all depend on an abundant supply of water. They thank you for sharing the habitat! We on the Red Lily Pond Project Association Board of Directors thank you for your continuing support of the entire pond ecosystem through this week’s festive dinner auction! A few tickets are still available—if you’ve been looking for the best way to spend your Saturday evening, look no further!

-Steve Brown

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One of the things that makes our village remarkable is its rich history. Some families in Craigville have roots going back generations. Other new arrivals already have humorous, interesting, or meaningful memories about their time here. These stories remind us how unique our community is. On Friday, August 14 at 7pm, Bill McKinney will lead us in an informal and joyous evening of recollections for the community to gather to remember what brought us to the village, retell funny stories about the village, share legends and tall tales, and welcome new neighbors. We will also remember members of the community who have died in the past year. Come ready to share a story and to learn more about our village! Bring your interesting Craigville photographs or memorabilia. Sean Lahey will be video recording our event so that we can preserve our stories for the future.

We will meet on Tuesday, August 11 at Nancy Hansen's home, 7 Vine Ave. at 9:30 AM to discuss Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau. Come and join our discussion.

Join us on Tuesday, August 11th at 7:00 for the final movie night of the summer. Bring your popcorn and pillows to enjoy Big Hero 6. From Walt Disney Animation Studios, Big Hero 6 is an action-packed comedy-adventure about the special bond that develops between Baymax, a plus-sized inflatable robot, and prodigy Hiro Hamada. When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon, and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends into a band of high-tech heroes called Big Hero 6.

The terrible storm that tore through our village was a good reminder to have that umbrella nearby. We have them, and they are just the perfect size—not too big, and not too small. Don’t forget those new fleece tops that may come in handy as we head into the cooler months.

Jenny Osprey has finally got all her babies out of the nest and flying. The smallest one finally made it out of the nest. We watched as baby osprey got as far as the wire between the two electrical poles. Teetering back and forth on the wire, it was scared to take the next flight to the adjoining pole where two other ospreys were chattering away and calling to it to continue its flight. After about five minutes it joined the others where they all sat for at least a half hour. I am sure the littlest one was thinking, “Oh dear, how am I going to get back?”

Now they are all flying but still like to be fed. Now that they are getting bigger the nest is VERY CROWDED. It looks like they are sitting on one another. Sometimes two of them sit on each end with one up in the nest. It looks like they are on a seesaw. Once the storm came this week you could tell they were very aggravated. It was a wonder that they did not get blown out of the nest. It won't be long when the whole family leaves us and begins its journey to warmer places. August is going much too quickly.

-Maxine Shortman

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Meaning: Someone who is past his prime History: New England chicken farmers generally sold chickens in the spring, so the chickens born in the springtime yielded better earnings than the chickens that survived the winter. Sometimes, farmers tried to sell old birds for the price of a new spring chicken. Clever buyers complained that the fowl was “no spring chicken,” and the term came to represent anyone past their prime.

-Debbie Almy

Have you ever wondered why some people are able to float in the water, while others sink like a rock, no matter what they try? Does it matter if the water is salt ocean water, or fresh lake water?

Whether a person is a floater or sinker has to do with the person's center of mass and their body density. The closer the center of mass in your body to your lungs, the better. Most of the time a sinker will start sinking from their feet or hips first, and basically tip to vertical in the water, and that is how they sink. This does make swimming and floating harder on them, but as long as they lean their body forward and try to focus their weight on their chest and lungs, they can stay horizontal on the surface of the water. Body density has to do with the ratio of lung capacity to the density of muscle and bone mass in the person's body.

Your ability to float is determined by your body composition. In other words if you are lean and muscular and have a low or even normal body fat percentage, so you will more than likely sink. If you have a higher body fat percentage then you will most likely float. It sounds wrong to say that a heavier person will float while the lighter person sinks for it comes down to one basic fact. Relative density. Human muscle is more dense and therefore less buoyant than fat. Fat contains water and oil and is less dense and therefore floats well. So in simple terms, muscle weighs more than fat so fat floats

and muscle sinks. Yes, fat people are better floaters than thin, or muscular people.

Also your upper body will float better and for longer because your lungs contain air which helps keep it up, whereas your legs will be the first part to sink for they are heavier, also the density of the water is a factor. Salt water weighs more per unit of volume, so you will float higher in saltier water than you would in fresh water.

A long time ago in ancient Greece, a mathematician named Archimedes was taking a bath. When he got in, a certain amount of water was pushed up and overflowed over the rim of the tub. He figured out that if the weight of the object being placed in the water is less that the weight of the water being displaced, or pushed out, the object will float. This is known as buoyancy or the Archimedes principle. Buoyancy is the upward force we need from the water to stay afloat, and it's measured by weight. Buoyant forces are why we feel so much lighter when we're in a swimming pool or bathtub. Our bodies are mostly water, so a person's density is fairly close to that of water.

What is buoyancy? As you float, your weight presses you down into the water and the water presses back, pushing you up. When you get into the water, your body pushes the volume out sort of like you are making a hole in the water. As long as what you pushed out weighs more than you do, you float. You weigh less than the water you are in for your lungs, filled with air, act like a balloon which lifts you to the surface naturally. If you want to try to figure out all this out, remember a gallon of water weighs almost 8 pounds, so put that into the mix.

What really amazes me is how huge cargo ships, with hundreds of crates stacked like buildings on their decks manage to float without tipping over. How they float and how much water they must displace is truly a mystery to me, but I am sure Archimedes could explain it in a minute.

-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-

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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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