Dear Readers,

We would like to thank local artists Juan Arriola, Pat Donahue, Ethel Engler, Ruth Halbach, Janice Leitch, Eleanor Linkkila, Brian Tracy, Janice Trecker, and Pete Vertefeuille for their contributions to another spectacular town calendar, “Peaceful Ponds”. Next year we are featuring “Hampton Farms”, a broad subject which can include farm lands, corn fields, farm animals, old barns, watering holes, maple syrup pails … We invite artists to submit their paintings and photographs to us at: hamptongazette@yahoo.com. According to Pete Vertefeuille, who prepares our pictures for the calendar, a photograph must be: an image close to 8” x 10” and set to 300 pixels per inch and a file extension of JPEG in order to use in the calendar. Other criteria: your picture must be representative of one of New England’s seasons, and a place that is recognizably Hampton.

We are also preparing a future calendar for “Hampton Horses”, a subject which generated more responses than any other request for information we asked of neighbors, then and now. The same rules apply: horses in the context of a season, and in a familiar place in Hampton. If you have some, please send them in. And on your travels through town with a camera, if you come across something uniquely beautiful, please send us a photograph of it and we will archive it in a file that’s already labeled “Future Calendars”.

Hampton is a very photogenic town, and we look forward to showcasing it, year after year.
The Hampton Gazette