Two of the chairs donated to the Hannah House chair auction were painted by an artists' collaborative that includes staff members from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; the chairs were designed as a complementary pair. As it turns out, this pair of one-of-a-kind paintings that use Adirondack Chairs as their canvas will be providing comfort for birthing mothers on multiple
levels - not just raising money for Hannah House services to adolescent parents and their babies, but also providing comfort for birthing mothers at DHMC itself (where, incidentally and because DHMC is a regional medical center, many of the girls at Hannah House also go to give birth).

This lovely matched pair of Adirondack chairs, "Creature Comforts I" (left) decorated with lupines and "Creature Comforts II" (right) decorated in an iris motif, were painted by an artists' collaborative that includes staff from Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center. Auctioned separately, the chairs brought $325 and $350 respectively and were bought back by their own sponsors - for a very special purpose.

       Each of the 21 Hannah House Chairs at the auction had a sponsor. In this instance, "Creature Comforts I" was sponsored by DHMC's Certified Nurse Midwifery Program and "Creature Comforts II" by physicians in DHMC's department of obstetrics and gynecology. The sponsors of these two chairs bought the chairs back in winning bids at the Hannah House auction - for the purpose of placing them in a special garden at DHMC's Birthing Pavilion where they can provide grace and comfort for the countless new moms and their famlies who will get to enjoy them in the years to come.

       Just think...A matched pair of chairs

• painted by a team that included artists from DHMC and
• sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock birthing and obstetrical departments
• in an auction to benefit pregnant and parenting youth and their babies at Hannah House, then
• bought back by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock departments who sponsored their creation
• for placement in a special garden in the Birthing Pavilion at DHMC
• for the comfort of birthing women and their families.