Plainfield, New Hampshire
Note: The auction is concluded and raised over $20,000 for the project
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Cory Taber was a nine-year-old boy who loved life and sports and brought sunshine into the lives of many people. He was tragically killed in an accident in June of 1987. His parents and brother lived in Plainfield, New Hampshire at the time and are members of the Community Baptist Church. |
| The church owns six acres of property that for many years was a vacant field with a softball diamond. Following Cory’s death, town and church people worked together and created what is today, Cory Taber Memorial Field. It is comprised of the same softball diamond, soccer field, lighted tennis and basketball courts, trees and flowers, picnic tables and wonderful space to celebrate life and God’s creation. | |
The upkeep of the field is done by Cory’s family and many people that volunteer to clean up and maintain the beauty of the space. Since it takes money for the field’s maintenance an idea was born that will provide some needed funds for improvements to Cory’s Field.
The Community Baptist Church is in the midst of some major exterior renovation to its nearly 200 year old parsonage. Vinyl siding, vinyl windows, painting of the trim and new shutters and doors are all part of the project. Since new windows were being put in, there were about 45 old windows being removed; some of them probably close to 100 years old. What to do? Dispose of them? Sell them?
Cory’s father, Charlie, came up with an idea that has excited members of the church and community. He has distributed the old windows to area artists for them to create whatever they choose on a window. The windows will be auctioned off in October, through a silent, sealed-bid auction. There is a website where you can view the windows, www.windowsforcory.com. You will be amazed at what these artists have done.
| As the pastor of the church and the resident of the parsonage, I am so pleased that the windows did not go to a landfill, but will grace the homes of members of our community for years to come. I came to the church two years after Cory’s death, yet his parents are wonderful friends and I am so pleased that we are able to honor Cory in this way these many years later. |  |
Rev. Suellen Leugers
Plainfield, New Hampshire