The 41st Newton Highlands Village Day is this Sunday, June 12. The planning committee has been hard at work at bringing you a great event. Great live music on two stages, delicious food by Bread & Chocolate, O’Hara’s, Anna’s Taqueria, Newton Pizza House, Otake, Walnut Market, and Indulge! candy shop (celebrating their 25th with fun giveaways.)
- 5K Road race at 10am – sign up on line or on Sunday in front of the Hyde Center
- O’Hara’s Beer garden opens at 10:30am in Rodney Barker Sq in front of Bread & Chocolate
- Event opening at 11am (pretty cool opening involving a drummer and a juggler)
- Great jazz all day, featuring Dave Milazzo quartet. If you are a jazz musician, bring your instrument and sit in!
- Fun headline bands for young families, including Vanessa Trien, Stacey Peasley, and more
- Lots of local craft vendors
- Fleck Coffee tasting in front of their shop
- Silent auction at the Area Council table
- Brookline Bank Fun Zone in the parking lot near the Brigham House
- Magic shows near Green Planet Kids
- Juggling, free face painting, caricatures, arts and crafts
- Full schedule and complete info is on the web site’s main page
The weather will be great, so come on out and celebrate the neighborhood!
From my perspective, this was the best NH Village Day yet perhaps because it gave me a chance to man a booth for the proposed Newton Highlands Local Historic District (LHD) along with Rodney Barker and many other LHD supporters. We answered well over 100 inquiries from many curious folks that attended the festivities. Most seemed positive. It was a friendly, joyful and somewhat raucous affair. Well done to Steve Feinstein and so many other people that made this event possible. If I was to name one of them or even 20 of them, I’d still leave several people out. You all know who you are. Thanks.
Nice job, Newton Highlands!
Congratulations to the organizers on a job well done. And thanks to the person who shouted “look out!” as a tent went sailing by my head. Really. The wind was wild.
Thanks for the kind words Bob, Greg and Sallee. It’s amazing to watch the volunteers, vendors, and merchants show up in the morning to make a festival appear and then fold back down like a pop-up book. I loved seeing smiling kids with face paint, people amazed by magic tricks and jazz virtuosity, the folks jumping out of chairs to dance to salsa, kids enthralled by Stacey and Vanessa, Eunice’s delicious food, and, though unplanned, blog editors bravely leaping to catch flying tents.
And huge thanks to Anna’s Taqueria, O’Hara’s, and Whole Foods for their leading sponsorship roles. Thanks to Salon Capri, The Village Bank and Brookline Bank for their Gold sponsorship. Thanks also to Bronze sponsors Green Planet Kids, Paulette’s Ballet Studio, Fleck Coffee, Bread & Chocolate, and Indulge! candy shop.
The all-star volunteer planning committee: Maureen Oates (5K), Chris Pitts (music), John Rice(logistics/city liaison/whatever he’s asked), Eunice Feller (graphics), Groot Gregory (treasurer), Anna McTigue (booths), Linda Gulman (auction), Amy Wayne (auction+). Huge thanks to Lt Frank Foley and the Newton Police Cadets for doing all the heavy lifting of tables, chairs, stages, tents, even a bounce house), the Newton Police Dept, DPW + Newton Fire Dept (touch a truck) and Newton Parks and Rec (trash).
I did a few things too, but frankly I feel like a conductor who handed out the music and waived a hand. The skilled, motivated virtuosos in the orchestra know what to play and come in right on the beat. Bravo!