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A wren is a busy, deliberate, cheerful bird full of song and flit with boundless energy. It embodies the perfect energy and analogy for the Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network of Bethlehem, New Hampshire and forms its acronym. WREN started in 1994 with a USDA Rural Enterprise and Business Grant to serve 15 women entrepreneurs and has helped grow and mentor countless others. It’s evolved into a women-led network of 600 members in 13 states. They cherish and celebrate their diversity as “artist and techies, visionaries and actionaries, entrepreneurs and business supporters, the highly-educated and the self-taught, the wealthy and the resourceful, the near and far.”
WREN has a little downtown compound that houses the non-profit organization’s office and classroom space to fulfill parts of its educational mission. Recent renovation includes a retail store from which 150 members sell handmade goods, wares and consumables. With 50 artist members, the Gallery at WREN provides professionally lit and curated gallery space to a small community of 2,500. “Inspire. Create. Connect” is their mantra.
Oil painter and collage artist Kristine Lingle works in the store and is
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