Community Center Fun Day!

Join us from 11:00 a.m. til 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 8, 2011, for our first Monterey Community Center Fun Day! It's a fundraiser for the Community Center, so please come have fun and support the creation of the center at the Wilson McLaughlin house.

The weather is going to be perfect!

There will be enjoyable activities for all family members, including:

• Pumpkin Roll contests
• Vegetable Decorating
• Rubber Duck Races in the Konkapot River at Bidwell Park (well, plastic ducks, actually)
• pony rides
• BAKE SALE
• tours of the Community Garden
• live acoustic music by Monterey musicians
• light lunch fare provided by Gould Farm

We'll be on the Community Center property at the corner of Main Rd (Route 23) and New Marlborough Rd, and the driveway is marked by a sign on Main Rd.

Admission to the Fun Day is free for all; we'll be selling booklets of tickets for you to use as you wish for the various events. And of course we hope you'll be generous with your donations to help us create this community resource.

Driveway

The new driveway is now complete; thanks to the Monterey Road Crew and to Tryon Construction, who all worked through the hottest days in July to build this new access to the property. Come on in and explore!

Monterey Community Garden

There is now a Community Garden on the property, between the house and Main Rd (Rt 23) in the field that you glimpse as you drive by. All 18 plots were occupied in 2011, and the vegetables and flowers were fantastic!

See the Garden page (status menu).


Oil painting by Edith L. Wilson

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The Wilson-McLaughlin House

FWMH completed the repair and reshingling of the roof of the Wilson-McLaughlin House in 2009; we are currently having all traces of hazardous materials such as asbestos removed and will soon be working on the structure.

See the Plans page for more details.


The Monterey Community Center is a joint project between the townspeople of Monterey, MA, and the Friends of Wilson McLaughlin House, Inc. (FWMH), a private, non-profit corporation formed for the express purpose of creating the Center in the spirit of Edith L. Wilson's bequest to the Town.

FWMH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation; all donations are tax-deductible.