The October Autumn Celebration is an open-air market of 50+ vendors, featuring music, artisan demonstrations, history and more!  You will find delightful handmade items along with local businesses with their products. This is a great time to start your holiday shopping, as you will find a variety of great gift items, including food, household items, wear-ables, artwork, and more.

Each year, vendors gather at the Sugar Hill Meetinghouse, the Carolina Crapo Memorial Building, and the Sugar Hill Museum. There is plenty of parking in the field behind the meetinghouse and plenty of handicapped parking.

11 am, Saturday, Steve Taylor presents: New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality
Hundreds of one-room schools dotted the landscape of New Hampshire a century ago and were the backbone of primary education for generations of children. Revered in literature and lore, they actually were beset with problems, some of which are little changed today. The greatest issue was financing the local school and the vast differences between taxing districts in ability to support education. Other concerns included teacher preparation and quality, curriculum, discipline, student achievement and community involvement in the educational process.  Steve Taylor explores the lasting legacies of the one-room school and how they echo today
Steve Taylor is an independent scholar, farmer, journalist, and longtime public official. With his sons, Taylor operates a dairy, maple syrup, and cheese making enterprise in Meriden Village. He has been a newspaper reporter and editor, and served for 25 years as New Hampshire’s commissioner of agriculture. Taylor was the founding executive director of the New Hampshire Humanities Council and is a lifelong student of the state’s rural culture. This program is brought to you by the Sugar Hill Library Elaine Burpee Memorial Fund.

1 pm, Sunday.  Free Concert with Maple Leaf Seven
Traditional jazz and swing band performing throughout the NorthEast for concerts, dances, Mardi Gras events, weddings, OktoberFest and worship. Founded in 1977 with CD’s available. Trumpet, clarinet, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass and drums with vocalist. Traditional jazz inspired by Louis Armstrong and New Orleans style; classic swing in the Ellington small-band style

At the Lupine Celebration, we have over 90 vendors and participants at the market, many of them will be returning.  Click here to learn more about the market and who is coming.  White Mountain Gourmet Coffee will be a cornerstone of the Autumn Celebration. Last year, your donations raised over $500 for local food pantries.

Come join in the fun and camaraderie of our first annual Bretton Woods Mountain Bike Fondo. Grab your bike and gear up for this tour of the Bretton Woods cross-country bike trail system in the heart of the White Mountain National Forest.There are course options for riders of every ability so wether you are a beginner or an expert, there is an adventure waiting for you. Come ride your bike, make some new friends, eat some good food and experience what a Fondo is all about!

• 8 – 9am – Registration
• 9:30am – Corrals open10am – Beginner Fondo starts
• 10:30am – Intermediate Fondo Starts
• 11am – Advanced Fondo starts

Cost: $20 per person, $40 for families / groups of 4

For more information or to register on-line at www.brettonwoods.com/bikefondo

The Bretton Woods Adventure Center at the Omni Mount Washington Resort invites you to the 1st ever Fell Into October! Autumn Festival. Taking place on Saturday, September 30th and Sunday, October 1st, this celebration of all things New England really will have you “falling” in love with autumn in the mountains!

This event includes the 6th Annual Fell Race at Bretton Woods, a race featuring a combination of mountain racing and orienteering that takes racers through off-road terrain with challenging elevation changes and will be sure to be a blast for spectators of all ages!

We are also introducing our first ever Bretton Woods Mountain Bike Fondo. This tour of the Bretton Woods Cross Country Trail System, in the heart of the White Mountains National Forest, features course levels with varied terrain for riders of every ability so whether you are pedaling for leisure or for a cause, there is an adventure waiting for you!

There will be family friendly activities all afternoon on Saturday. You do not want to miss this event which will be sure to please! For more information on the Fell Into October! Autumn Festival, please visit: brettonwoods.com/autumnfest

Bretton Woods is excited to partner with acidotic RACING in hosting this Uphill-Only event. The Mount Rosebrook Ascent will take participants from the base of the mountain to the summit of Mount Rosebrook and will count toward USATF-NE “Mountain Goat” status and award one (1) USATF-NE Mountain Circuit point to all finishers. The distance is 1.8 miles with roughly 1600 feet of elevation gain.

Registration opens at 10am and the race starts at noon. For more information or to register on-line, visit: brettonwoods.com/rosebrookascent