The second Saturday contra dance at the Tamworth Town House is canceled.
Belle Staffords talk about a month’s travel around Kathmandu Valley, Nepal with a shaman, and how ancient healing traditions are alive and pertinent today will be at Cook Memorial Library on Wednesday, March 18, at 7 p.m.
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