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Summer Social, 2025
with Rhonda Irish
In-Person
Free
September 3, 2025
Kineowatha Park/Barn
12-4 pm
A time to get together and socialize with fellow Gold LEAF members. This will be a potluck lunch at Kineowatha Park in Wilton from 12 noon until 4 PM. Donations welcomed.
Will run
Horse Rescue Farm, Talk and Tour
with Irene Bondendorf
In Person
The Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals (MSSPA) is unlike any other animal welfare facility in New England.Originally formed in 1872 to protect the horses that pulled Portland streetcars.
The Society now provides around-the-clock staffing and has access to veterinary services 24 hours a day. It maintains 100 equines on its farm facilities, animals which have been seized by Maine law enforcement officials and placed by court order with the society (provided the animals are not suffering) are kept for the entirety of their life or placed in forever homes.
The tour of this facility will be educational and inspiring.Please wear comfortable shoes or boots as the ground can be muddy.
Bring your own lunch, as there are picnic tables available.
Date: October 1, 2025, 1:30 pm
Carpool: TBD
Irene is a Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, a graduate of a four-year International College based in Florida and Oxford, England.
Irene has a 24-year practice and has staffed Dr. Barbara Brennan’s Intensives in the United States and Mondsee, Austria. She holds a Multidisciplinary Degree incorporating Business and Social Science Majors. Irene brings her experience in the Education, Medical, and Corporate Business world to her healing practice.
Farmington Solar Farm
with Bradley Greenleaf
In Person
A talk and tour at the Farmington Solar Farm. We will meet at the York entrance on Route 2, across from Mosher's Seafood.
Date: October 7, 2025, 10 am
Bradley Greenleaf is a senior solar technician with Nextera Energy.
Lecture at the South Solon Meeting House
with Véronique Plesch
In-Person
The South Solon Meeting House (1 Meeting House Rd, Solon) deserves to be called the “Sistine Chapel of Maine”: between 1952 and 1956, courtesy of the nearby Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, its interior was completely covered in frescoes depicting Biblical subjects, along with a few secular depictions in the lobby. A dozen artists, many at the time in their twenties, participated. Most of them went on to become famous, often in other media, such as beloved writer and illustrator of children's books, Ashley Bryan. Come learn how this extraordinary place came about in the middle of rural Maine and discover the messages its frescoes convey. Please dress warmly for this lecture!
For more on the Meeting House: https://web.colby.edu/southsolonmeetinghouse/
Driving directions from Famington, ME https://tinyurl.com/3ezefstc
October 9, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: South Solon Meeting House
1 Meeting House Rd, Solon, ME 04979
Carpooling: TBD
Véronique Plesch is the James M. Gillespie Professor of Art at Colby College. Born in Argentina and raised in Switzerland, she holds advanced degrees from the University of Geneva and from Princeton University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1994, the year she joined the Colby faculty. Plesch is the author and editor of nine books and over 100 articles in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, among others, on the topic of religious fresco cycles. She is one of the editors of the Maine Arts Journal: Union of Maine Visual Arts Quarterly, to which she regularly contributes. In 2022, she taught a semester-long course on the South Solon Meeting House.
Will run