Welcome to a musical program honoring New England legend Bob McQuillen, patriarch of the longstanding tradition of New England Contra Dance music. After a short historical overview of the importance of this music to our region, we will be treated to a concert of contra dance music from past to present featuring Bob McQuillen and his band, Old New England, with Jane Orzechowski, Deanna Stiles and some fabulous surprise guests.

Leaf Seligman, writer and Unitarian Universalist minister, seeks to help us grapple with the challenges of modern life, inviting us to find in spirituality a path to contentment. She approaches traditional religious texts in a creative manner, offering new ways for us to consider abstract questions. How do we reconcile the brilliance of technology with the exploitation enlisted to produce it? How do we make sense of our lives in the context of the world that contains and sustains us? How do we answer the call to joy amid despair and disparity?