Events

2024 Event Calendar

Saturday, June 22 Celebrating Springfield’s Volunteer Organizations, 1:00 -3:00,
Come learn what amazing activities the 12 organizations do to help make Springfield special and perhaps find something that you’d like to do to join the fun!

Saturday, June 29 Celebrating the Farm Kitchen: Making some special goods, 1:00-3:00,
Learn how butter and soap are made the “old-fashioned” way!

Saturday, July 6 Celebrating the Red, White & Blue: Bake Sale, Hot Dogs and Root Beer Floats, 1:00-3:00,

Saturday, July 13 Celebrating Summer: Recreation Committee’s Summer Festival featuring the Forever Locked Display 10:00 – 2:00, followed by BBQ Chicken dinner 5:00-7:00 at Springfield Recreation Field
The famous “Forever Locked” display of two fighting moose returns home, originally found in Gile Forest, Springfield

Sunday, July 14 Celebrating Bastille Day: Toasting the French 75 Cannon, its history and other WWI arms and Springfield’s role in WWI, 1:00-3:00,
The French cannon donated by the French Government to Dartmouth College as a thank you for the students that volunteered in World War I. Raise a toast on Bastille Day – July 14 – with French 75 mocktails and a special exhibit of World War I weaponry from NH gun collector Peter Plunkett. Inside the museum find more information on Springfield’s World War I veterans

July 20 Celebrating our Ancestors and Veterans: Cemetery Tour, oral history making and pulled pork lunch 11:00 – 2:00, Springfield Meeting House, Four Corners Road
Springfield veterans will be invited to tell their military story captured in film as part of the Historical Society’s ongoing oral history project. At the same time, the Cemetery Commission hosts a guided tour of heroes buried in the Pleasant View Cemetery. To top it off, there will be a traditional pulled pork lunch ($10 per plate) All Springfield veterans are invited to a free meal as a small way to say thank you for your service.

July 27 Celebrating Springfield’s summer homes: Wonderwell at Sunset; Bring a Picnic to Historic Talk, Tour and Enjoy the Sunset, 5:00, Philbrick Road, Springfield

August 3 Celebrating Springfield’s forests: Springfield Library hosts a talk on Eastern Coyotes in NH; exhibits on Gile Forest, Town-owned woods. Ausbon Sargent and more; Wood Crafts exhibit and sale and Kid crafts; Conservation Committee hike; Hot dogs and root beer floats, 12:00 – 3:00, Springfield Historical Society Museum, Four Corners Road

August 17th at 7:00 PM
NH Humanities Lecture with speaker Mary Kronnenwetter who will present a lecture on NH Naturalist Ernest Baynes

August 17 Ramble Round the Lake Race, 8:00 registration, 9:00 race starts
Family friendly 5K race/walk around Lake Kolelemook. Registration Form 2024

August 31 Celebrating Springfield’s Harvest: Bake Sale, 1:00 – 3:00,

October 12 Annual Meeting with Music and Potluck as well as the Pizza Bus

November 9 Celebrating Comfort Food: Sip a Soup Luncheon, Sale and Puzzle Swap

December 7 Recreation Committee Holiday Fair