Program Date: Every Tuesday & Thursday at 10AM

Strength, Balance, & Stretch

  • Taught by Exercise Specialist, Ann Fargo.
  • CDC & NH State health precautions followed.
  • Meets Tuesday & Thursday at 10AM.
  • $75 for 25 classes.

Veteran's Meet

  • Meets on select Thursdays – Call for your appointment 603-624-9230 X 301
  • Live at the Gibson Center
  • Health Precautions followed
  • Social and Educational Programs for Veterans

Caregivers

There are four options for caregivers who would like some added support. REACH, a Zoom meeting, Friendly Visitors, and 1:1 Peer Support. Call Jill if you are interested.

REACH: stands for Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health in the Community.  Caregivers will meet with trained coaches and learn to solve common caregiver challenges.  Meeting options are currently in-person one-to one coaching or via phone or ZOOM.

Caregiver Peer Support: There are caregivers who have probably experienced your challenges and can offer a non-judgmental ear.  Currently caregivers prefer phone calls so they can keep their loved ones safe

Late Evening Zoom Meeting: We realize that many caregivers do not have the luxury of attending a meeting during the day.  We are looking to host a later in the evening meeting via zoom for those caregivers who can not leave their homes for meetings.

Friendly Visitors: Trained volunteers interact with people. Caregivers and the person they care for can both benefit from socializing with another person. Caregivers can find an hour of respite when they do not have to be on high alert, and the person who is cared for meets a new person to do fun things with, such as puzzles, walks, photo albums, or just chatting.

Contact Jill at the Gibson Center, 603-356-3231 or   for more information.

Program Date: Mondays at 12:30PM

FunDay

  • Group Games
  • Word Search
  • Crossword
  • Jeopardy
  • BINGO
  • Yard Games
  • CDC & NH State health precautions followed.
  • Mondays at 12:30PM
Program Date: Monday and Friday at 10:30AM

Chair Exercise

  • For people who have not exercised recently, or use assistive devices for walking
  • CDC & NH State health precautions followed
  • Meets Monday and Friday at 10:30 AM
  • Donations accepted
Program Date: Fridays 12:30PM – 3:00PM

Friday Painters

The Mount Washington Valley Arts Association holds it’s Friday Painters at the Gibson Center. Each week people take turns setting up a display, and then people paint, or color, the display. At the end, people share their work, and ask if they want suggestions.

The group is open to Gibson Center members, bring your own supplies.

Program Date: Fridays - By Appointment

Computer training by David Smolen

  • Free Tablets and Chromebooks available depending on demand and distribution from grant sources
  • Learn skills to communicate and connect through email and video conferencing (Zoom),
  • Learn how to access medical practice portals for appointments, labs and questions
  • Learn how to access Telehealth appointments
  • Internet safety
  • Scam Prevention
  • CDC & NH State health precautions followed

Limited number of attendees, call 603-356-3231 to sign up for classes at the Gibson Center

Program Date: Monday and Thursday at 4:00PM

Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance

  • For people who want to improve their balance and strength
  • An Evidence Based program
  • Developed by Fuzhong Li, Ph.D
  • Learn to recognize when your body is unsteady
  • Learn the response to maintain balance, using 8 forms
  • CDC & NH State health precautions followed
  • Meets Monday & Thursday afternoon at 4:00PM
Program Date: 2nd & 4th Wednesday 10:00AM

Small Town Quilters

  • Bring current projects for show and tell
  • Bring craft supplies you no longer need, for swaps
  • Monthly group projects
  • 2nd & 4th Wednesday 10AM
  • CDC & NH State health precautions followed
Program Date: Friday 10:00AM

Claiming Our Vitality

Vitality is a gift of our creation.  We can claim it.  This discussion group offers the opportunity to share ideas together about how we might realize our vitality and what it looks like.  We know we have full support of the eternal universe in claiming our inherent vitality.  It’s fun to move forward together getting the ideas that raise our consciousness and shift our lives gently, step-by-step, into easy, wholesome vitality.  As essential parts of creation, we can enjoy the peaceful, purposeful and healthy life for which we are intended.

Hannaford Bag Month

Hannaford Bag Month

Hannaford Bag Month, Gibson receives $1 for every bag purchased (great time to ask people to buy bags)

Program Date: 5/1/2025 & 5/15/2025

Spring Movie Series: Leading Men Through the Decades

  • May 1st, One-Eyed Jack, A 1961 film, starring Marlon Brando (who also directed) and Karl Malden
  • May 15th, Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford THE star if the 80’s
Program Date: 5/2/2025

Kentucky Derby - wear a hat to lunch

Friday the 2nd, is the day before the Kentucky Derby, wear a hat to lunch today!  We will parade in the dining room and offer prizes for the most unique, most “Derbyish”, and most colorful.

Program Date: 5/5/2025

Boston Pre-Trip Talk

Monday the 5th we will meet for our Boston Pre-Trip Talk.  Please bring your emergency contact information, your car license plate number, and you will receive the itinerary, and luggage tags.  If you can not attend this event, please make an appointment to exchange information .

Program Date: 5/7/2025

The DellaValla Trio

The DellaValla Trio will be here for their last concert during the school year on Wednesday the 7th. People will want to arrive early for this special event.

Program Date: 5/8/2025

Art with Elaine

Thursday the 8th, we will start a painting of a sunflower, in our Art with Elaine class. Please register for this class by Monday the 5th. $5 materials fee.

Program Date: 5/9/2025

Mother's Day

Friday the 9th, we will honor the ladies. The kitchen crew will create something special in honor of Mother’s Day.

Program Date: 5/13/2025

Red Parka Pub lunch

Red Parka Pub lunch, dining room closed Tuesday the 13th.

Program Date: 5/14/2025

Virtual Dementia Tour

Wednesday the 14th, You will have an opportunity to experience the Virtual Dementia Tour after lunch. While this program was developed to offer a window into what a person with dementia experiences, it can also offer insight into what people with some sensory challenges may face. (do you know someone with hearing loss, or vision challenges, this will help you experience life as they do.) Please register for this experience, 603-356-3231

Program Date: 5/20/2025

Hearing for Life

Hearing for Life, Tuesday the 20th, a paid sales presentation, offering introductory hearing tests. Please sign up for your screening by calling 603-356-4800.

Program Date: 5/23/2025

Memorial Day lunch

Memorial Day lunch, Friday the 23rd, We often have cookout style food, served in the dining room. Maybe a couple of patriotic songs before lunch. I am always chilled by the Table for the Missing Man.

Program Date: 5/24/2025 10-5pm & 5/25/205 9-4pm

Gibson Memorial Day Craft Fair

Gibson Memorial Day Craft Fair, on the front lawn, Saturday May 24th, 10-5 and Sunday May 25th 9-4.

Program Date: 5/26/2025

Closed for Memorial Day

The Gibson Center is Closed for Memorial Day, Monday the 26th.

Program Date: 5/27/2025

The Gibson Book Club

Lost And Found Sisters

Gibson Book Club will meet after lunch on the 27th. We will discuss the book Lost And Found Sisters by Jill Shalvis.

Looking ahead to JUNE

  • Age Friendly Walks, Mondays at 9AM, be on the lookout for the list of meeting places on the Gibson Webpage calendar.
  • Friday June 6th, Volunteer Appreciation. Dining Room Closed.
  • Father’s Day lunch on June 13th.
  • Gibson Closed on Thursday June 19th.
  • Longest Day, Friday June 20th, dessert auction, Lawn games.
  • Summer Camp Pen-pal visits start the week of 30th June.

Gibson Center Day Trips

For all bus trips, please sign up, and pay in advance. Call 603-356-3231. Federal health precautions are followed on the bus. For Door to Door Transportation trips you will be called with your individual pick up time the day before the trip.

Please sign up for trips as soon as possible, we often need to make reservations weeks in advance.

All trips this season have reduced rates due to the generosity of program sponsors.

Program Date: 05/07/2025

Humane Society

Monthly trip to the Humane Society to meet and socialize Cats. First Wednesday each month, after lunch. May 7th.

Program Date: TBD

First Friday Concerts at the Majestic

Donations accepted for the performance.

Program Date: 05/09/2025

Brownfield Market

We will visit the Brownfield Market after lunch on May 9th. They have amazing produce! Bring your own bags.

Program Date: 05/04/2025

Portland POP’s Star Wars A New Hope

Portland POP’s Star Wars A New Hope

Sunday, May the 4th (be with you). The Portland POP’s plays the iconic John Williams’ score A New Hope, Star Wars. The symphony will play live, as the movie is shown on a very BIG screen!  An unforgettable event. We have tickets in the balcony so that we can look straight across to see the movie, and not get a crick in our neck looking up.

Concert and transportation are $82, due to the generosity of sponsors.  We will go out for lunch, on your own, before the show.
Program Date: 05/16/2025

Mamma Mania-ABBA Tribute

Mamma Mania-ABBA Tribute

Friday, May 16th.  $55 covers the show and transportation.  Dinner on your own at the Country Kitchen.  3-midnight.

Program Date: 05/20/2025

Bedrock Gardens, in the Spring

Tuesday May 20th, pack a picnic lunch, and travel to the Bedrock Gardens to view the spring flowers.  $37 covers transportation and entrance fees.

Program Date: 05/25/2025

Memorial Day Community Concert

Memorial Day Community Concert

Sunday, May 25th.  Home pick ups for the Patriotic Wind Ensemble concert.  The concert is free because Karen and Jim Umberger are sponsoring it.  Bus by donation.  Bring money for ice cream.

Program Date: 06/17/2025 & 06/18/2025

Lupine & Polly’s Pancakes

Lupine & Polly’s Pancakes

June 17th & 18th. $20 for transportation.  Shopping at the Cheese Shop, ice cream, and lunch at Polly’s on your own.  9AM-5:30PM

Program Date: 06/25/2025

Neil Diamond Tribute

June 25th.  $48 covers transportation and the concert.  Dinner on your own at Ken’s.  This is held at the SeaSide Pavilion, so bring a sweater.

Program Date: 07/11/2025

SeaDogs & Fireworks

Sea Dogs

Friday, July 11th, we will travel to Hadlock Field for the SeaDogs game.  The game and transportation are $33.  They do not allow outside food, so bring a bag lunch to eat on the bus, or plan to purchase your supper at the stadium.  4-midnight.

Gibson Globetrotters Overnight Trips

Please sign up for all programs: 603-356-3231. Collette has a fantastic insurance policy, one can cancel up to 24 hours before the trip.

Program Date: April 12-19, 2026

Discover American’s Music Cities

Grand Ole Opry Show

Tour Highlights:

April 12-19, 2026 Visit New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Graceland. French Quarter, Jazz Revue, Grammy Museum, Graceland, Civil Rights Tour, Barbecue Lunch, Ryman Auditorium, Grand Ole Opry Show, Historic RCA Studio B, Country Music Hall of Fame.

  • Trip organized by Collette Tours
Click here for trip Flyer
Program Date: May 30-June 2, 2025

2025 Bus Trip: Spring in Boston

Old North Bridge Concord, MA

Tour Highlights:

Spring in Boston, for the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World. Boston, Lexington, Concord, Salem.

  • $577 ppdo 3 nights, 6 meals.
  • Trip organized by Diamond Bus Tour
  • Only 2 rooms left!
Click here for trip flyer
Program Date: October 18-26, 2025

Myrtle Beach, Spotlight on Shows

Myrtle Beach, Spotlight on Shows

Tour Highlights:

5 different shows, the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk, Living History Farm, National Harbor, Airborne and Special Operations Museum, October 18-26, 2025,

  • $1230, 8 nights, 14 meals.
  • Trip organized by Diamond Bus Tour
  • Deposit Now Due
Link to tour information

There are four options for caregivers who would like some added support. REACH, a Zoom meeting, Friendly Visitors, and 1:1 Peer Support. Call Jill if you are interested.

REACH: stands for Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health in the Community. Caregivers will meet with trained coaches and learn to solve common caregiver challenges. Meeting options are currently in-person, one-on-one coaching, phone, or ZOOM.

Caregiver Peer Support: There are caregivers who have probably experienced your challenges and can offer a non-judgmental ear.  Currently caregivers prefer phone calls so they can keep their loved ones safe

Late Evening Zoom Meeting: We realize that many caregivers do not have the luxury of attending a meeting during the day.  We are looking to host a later in the evening meeting via zoom for those caregivers who can not leave their homes for meetings.

Friendly Visitors: Trained volunteers interact with people. Caregivers and the person they care for can both benefit from socializing with another person. Caregivers can find an hour of respite when they do not have to be on high alert, and the person who is cared for meets a new person to do fun things with, such as puzzles, walks, photo albums, or just chatting.

Contact Jill at the Gibson Center, 603-356-3231 or   for more information.

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