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  • Volunteers Plant 4,000 Seedlings at The Rocks

    Anna Berry
    May 13, 2022

    Nearly 40 volunteers, including groups from two high schools, planted more than 4,000 Christmas tree seedlings this month at The Rocks in ...

  • Caledonian Record: Nigel Manley Retires As Forest Society Christmas Tree Farmer

    April 13, 2022

    Through the decades, Manley established a thriving operation with some 32,000 Christmas trees in the fields, has greeted thousands of families making the annual tradition to The Rocks to cut their own trees, and has developed a robust set of education programs,.

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  • Long-time Christmas Tree Farmer, North Country Director Nigel Manley to Take on New Role with the Forest Society at The Rocks

    Jack Savage
    April 13, 2022

    Manley will continue to work part-time for the Forest Society on a variety of programs.

Rocks Estate Expands Parking, Landscaping, Prepares For Christmas

Work Prompts Closure Of Rocks’ Trails Until Mid-September
August 10, 2021
The Rocks
Yellow caution tape on top of a photo of The Rocks illustrates the ongoing closure through September.

By Robert Blechl

BETHLEHEM — As it remakes The Rocks Estate into its northern headquarters, the Society For the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is expanding parking, completing landscaping, and preparing for a full Christmas tree season.

The new parking area will open up 96 new spaces, including accessible parking spaces, behind the Carriage Barn at the south side of the building.

The landscaping includes a three-tiered amphitheater at the site of the 2019 fire.

Both projects are now underway and are on track to be completed in the next two months.

“The big idea is to get all of this done before the cold weather comes and we’re ready to go for Christmas,” said Anne Truslow, vice-president of development for SPNHF.

The project was born of a vision to fully renovate the Carriage Barn following the February 2019 accidental fire that destroyed the Tool Building, the estate’s previous center of operations.

Read the full article in the Caledonian Record (subscription required).

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