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Ice Show at Strawbery Banke: Seacoast Winter Party on Ice!  Portsmouth, NH

Saturday, January 14   10:30am – 4:30pm                          Cost -- $54 includes lunch and the show
Labrie Family Skate at Strawbery Banke will host this professional ice skating show on their outdoor ice rink.  The show will feature international skating champions, such as Alissa Czisny, as well as Ryan Bradley and the graceful pairs duo of Kim Navarro and Brent Bommentre.  Some of the skaters in the show have appeared in the annual ABC TV productions, "Shall We Dance on Ice."  Prior to the show we will enjoy lunch at the Roundabout.

Millyard Museum and a French Canadian Brunch   Manchester, NH

Tuesday, January 17    9:30am - 4:30pm                          Cost -- $47 includes admission and brunch
The Museum features the permanent exhibit, Woven in Time: 11,000 Years of Amoskeag Falls, that tells the story of Manchester and the people who have lived and worked here.  The story starts with the native peoples and continues with the area's early farmers and lumbermen, and the beginnings of industry.  Then the story focuses on the development of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.  This powerful corporation would become the largest textile producing company in the world.  Their vast brick millyard still dominates the cityscape.  The story continues into the 20th century, as innovative businesses flourish, and new groups of immigrants come to Manchester.  Before our museum visit we'll enjoy brunch @ Chez Vachon.

Palace Theater's matinee production of Smokey Joe's Cafe   Manchester, NH

Saturday, January 21   12:30 – 5:00pm                          Cost -- $44 for transportation and the show
Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.  The original Broadway cast recording won a Grammy award in 1996.  The revue opened on Broadway in 1995, running for 2,036 performances, making it the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history.

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, exhibit Inventing Impressionism   Providence

Wednesday, January 25    9:00am – 3:30pm            Cost -- $52 includes admission, tour, and lunch
When the Impressionists first presented their work in 1874, contemporaries perceived their methods and unconventional subject matter as radical from accepted ways of making art.  This selection of works by Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mary Cassatt highlights the Impressionists' creative use of process and materials to represent subjects in a way that had never been done before.

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