2019 Annual SRK Greenway Potluck

SRK Greenway Annual Meeting

The 2019 SRK Greenway Annual Meeting will be held at the Sutton First Free Will Baptist Church beside Kezar Lake in North Sutton, NH on Sunday March 31st.

The evening begins with a Potluck Supper starting at 5pm. All are welcome to join but please bring a dish to share. The Sunapee Ragged Kearsarge Greenway Board will hold their Annual Meeting following the potluck. This quick business meeting led by Greenway Chairman Nick Baer is designed to share with the community the current status, important issues and latest news of the SRK Greenway.

Please join us after the Potluck Supper and Meeting for a Slideshow Lecture from local alpinist, rock climber and author, Jon Sykes.

Jon Sykes has been on thousands of hiking and climbing trips in the NH White Mountains. His adventures have run the gamut from rock and ice climbing to alpine mountaineering and backcountry skiing. He has been credited with numerous first ascents of both rock and ice climbing routes in New England. And he has published two popular climbing guidebooks focused on the White Mountains.

Live Free and Climb

Jon will share slides and stories from his extensive rock climbing and hiking in the White Mountains over the past 40 years. The title of his lecture is Live Free and Climb. You will not want to miss it.

Remembrances of Arthur Robbins

Arthur E. Robbins

Art (in the red jacket) on an SRK Hike in 2006

Online memories of Art Robbins come from people who knew Art as an exceptionally humane, hard-working, witty judge on NH’s District Court in Concord. Art died early October at his home in North Sutton.
    Most of us knew him as an exceptionally humane, witty and probably too skinny SRK Greenway hiker, biker, and character actor at Sutton’s Old Home Day. After over 25 years on the daily judicial bench trying to help people who had a hard time helping themselves, Art deeply appreciated the trails and woods and charms of semi-rural New Hampshire not distant from his daughters in Manchester and Vermont.
    He especially loved King Hill in North Sutton for its accessibility, its cellar holes and old quarry gently hinting of hard-working folk not too consumed with urban envies and ambitions. He led a few well-attended SRK Greenway hikes on King Hill and let people discover the mix of woods and history for themselves.
    In summer,  his on-site cemetery re-enactments of Sutton’s civil war veterans revealed Art as a time-traveler who could inhabit lost souls.  Art was a very special man perfectly suited to New Hampshire’s personal touch.

SRK Greenway Hike Sutton NH Arthur Robbins

Photo taken at the King Hill Reservation Ski Hut in 2010. Art Robbins in the center with red jacket. Photo also includes Alice Perry, Tom Lawton, Gerry Gold, Lee Carvalho, Roy Schweiker, Dick McNamara, Gwen Hunter and other SRK hikers.

 

 Please follow this link for more comments from some of Art’s other admirers.
We are not aware of any memorial gifts; but, we know that as his health slowly dropped Art especially loved the Northern Rail Trail for bicycling.