On Display: Sarah Beauregard has a unique perspective
You’ve seen Concord sights plastered all over Insider pages for years, but never quite in the same way that Sarah Beauregard has decided to show off the capital city. The local artist uses techniques like stacking photos and rubber bands to enhance photographs of the city for a unique take on scenes that we look at every week. Beauregard’s work is currently on display in the NHTI Library through Labor Day.
Poetry Society of New Hampshire’s Barbara Bald and Len Krisak to speak at Gibson’s Bookstore
The Poetry Society of New Hampshire meets at Gibson’s Bookstore on the third Wednesday of most months, and this month’s headliners are Barbara Bald and Len Krisak, who will appear Wednesday at 7 p.m. An open mic follows their readings. All are welcome, and newcomers are encouraged. Bald is a retired teacher, educational consultant and freelance writer. Her poems have been published in a variety of anthologies: The Other Side of...
Watch the solar eclipse from the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
Science lovers, rejoice. It’s that rare time again, when all Granite Staters will have an opportunity to see an eclipse of the sun. Monday is the day this celestial phenomenon will take place, and the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is prepared to celebrate with you. The center has teamed up with the New Hampshire Science Teachers Association to plan a full day of activities leading up to a gathering outside, starting at 1:25 p.m.,...
Concord City Auditorium has a full slate of events for the fall season
It’s everybody’s favorite time of year again – time to look over the Concord City Auditorium’s fall schedule, which is now posted to concordcityauditorium.org.When the weather starts to cool off, people tend to like to do things indoors, and that’s where the Audi comes in. There’s always something going on over there, and it seems like there are more events every year.Here are some highlights of the upcoming season: The 27th annual...
Submit your nominations for Concord’s Most Fascinating Individuals of 2017
Although the beauty and history of Concord is all around us, we can’t forget about all the amazing people right here and now who make it such a wonderful city in which to live and work. To acknowledge these incredible folks, each year ConcordTV asks you to nominate the Most Fascinating Individuals of the year. On Oct. 15, we’ll feature selected individuals as guests and subjects of brief films on our eight-hour live broadcast, Concord...
Concord Model Railroad Club show is coming down the track
If you can’t get enough of the model railroad scene, make sure you go full steam ahead to the Concord Model Railroad Club’s 32nd annual show at Everett Arena this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The model railroad show is the club’s biggest event of the year, and it also serves as the club’s lone fundraising event. It’s been going on for 31 years now, and it looks to still be chuggin’ along just fine. The show is quite the spectacle....
Food Snob: We tried the Seafood Medley from Newick’s
We here at the Food Snob – all two of us – have differing tastes from time to time. For the most part we both love everything, but every once in a while we discover that we do indeed have different ideas of what’s tasty.Take seafood, for example. The other Food Snob doesn’t care much for it – he’ll dabble with scallops from time to time, but that’s basically it.This one, on the other hand, can’t get enough of the stuff. That’s why I...
Tasty Brews: Kona Big Wave from Newick’s Lobster House
We don’t always get seafood for lunch, but when we do, we get a beer to go with it.That’s exactly what we did last week, when we hit up Newick’s Lobster House for a little midday recharge. You can read all about the food on the next page, but what about the tasty brew we washed it down with?While the restaurant offers mostly classic, tried-and-true beers, they did have Kona Big Wave on tap last Tuesday, so we ordered one of those....
Party in the Park coming to Rollins Park
If looking to better your chances in a chosen career path, making connections with professionals in your local community is one of the first steps to make. And it’s lucky that we live in Concord, because events to aid us in networking are being organized by our community members on a weekly basis. On Thursday, the Concord Young Professionals Network is joining forces with Associated Builders and Contractors Young Professional Group to...
Funds for Education Golf Tournament 2017 at Beaver Meadow raises $23,000
Beaver Meadow Golf Course hosted the 2017 Funds for Education Golf Tournament on Aug. 2, with 37 teams and 146 players participating. The tournament, which raises money for the Chamber’s Business Grants for Teachers and the Capital Area Student Leadership program, was a big success again – Chamber President Tim Sink said he estimates the tournament brought in about $23,000. “It is good, but we’ve been doing it forever, so we’ve...
Bulletin Board: Free music, kayak fun and theater news
Free concert at Penacook church United Church of Penacook is hosting a concert featuring the Lev-Evans Duo on Aug. 22 at 7 p.m. In addition to their individual music careers, Gili Melamed-Lev and Mark Evans formed their four-hand piano duo in 2013 – that’s one piano, two pianists, and four hands on the keyboard. The concert is free and open to the public. For more, visit ucpnh.org. This duo is in residence at Avaloch Farm Music...
Book of the Week: ‘Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves’
Chinese Cooking for Diamond ThievesDave Lowry2014, 278 pagesFiction Tucker is driving through northern New Hampshire when he meets the beautiful and mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. He is instantly smitten, and determined to help her. After a short road trip they part ways. Tucker travels to St. Louis to stay with his friend Langston and work as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant. He quickly works his way up to a chef...
This Week in Concord History
Aug. 15, 2002: John Christian Broderick, the son of state Supreme Court Justice John Broderick, agrees to spend up to 15 years in state prison for smashing his father’s face with a guitar last March. Aug. 15, 2003: Speaking at a rally at the State House plaza in Concord, local environmentalists and public health advocates condemned President George W. Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative and called upon the state’s congressional...
Throwback Brewery made a special Master of Art saison beer for Rock On Fest
One of the best parts of any festival – and life, really – is the presence of beer.We’re pretty lucky to live in a city that puts on so many big events every year, and with those big events typically come some special, one-off brews. Whenever the SNOB/New England Indie Fest comes to town, a New Hampshire brewer whips up a special concoction to be served throughout the festival. Same goes for the 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey...
There’s no shortage of live music to be heard this week
The Rock On Fest may be the musical highlight of the week in Concord, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only thing going on. As usual, there will be all kinds of musical acts to be heard all over the city – and even one in Bow – so we pulled together this list of shows going on throughout the week, taking right through the weekend. As always, we probably didn’t find every single event, but we still came up with quite a roundup that...
We took a tour of local farmstands to see what’s fresh right now
New England may be best known for its winters and unpredictable weather, but when it isn’t snowing, we can actually produce quite a bit of food around here.Even though we’re in a capital city, there are still all kinds of options for those who like to buy locally grown and distributed produce. Between all the orchards, farms and farmers markets, there’s almost no need to ever go to a big, chain grocery store for produce – at this time...
Final Live Music on the Lawn concert to feature Miketon and the Night Blinders
It may be hard – and sad – to believe, but we’re already in the final month of summer. Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are distant memories, and back-to-school shopping has already begun. One way to savor what’s left of the summer is to check out Concord Public Library’s last Live Music on the Lawn concert of the season on Aug. 16, featuring Miketon and the Night Blinders.The April Cushman Band got the season rolling with a...
Go Try It: Tales of New Hampshire Family Story Time at New Hampshire Historical Society
We’re in the thick of summer now, and kids are surely growing more restless by the day. With no school in session, it must be hard to find any educational and fun things for kids to do in the summer, right?Wrong.The New Hampshire Historical Society, located right here in Concord on Park Street, offers just the thing to satisfy both needs every Tuesday morning. It’s called Tales of New Hampshire family Story Time, and it is basically...
Concord actresses to appear in ‘Heathers the Musical’
Monitor staff Concord teens will star as two of the three Heathers in Heathers the Musical opening this week with the Peacock Players in Nashua. Eliza Richards will play the alpha in the clique, Heather Chandler. GraceAnn Kontak portrays Heather Duke.They will be joined by Mary Sullivan of Londonderry as Heather McNamara, Aly Aramenton of Londonderry as Veronica Sawyer, and Jakov Swartzberg as Jason “JD” Dean.Pablo Rubin of Concord...
CYPN: Kate Fleming is someone you need to know
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s Concord Young Professionals Network introduces you to the Young Professional of the Month for August, Kate Fleming. How old are you? 39. Where do you live? Concord. Where do you currently work? Intown Concord. Where did you go to school? University of Denver. What do you like to do for fun? Anything outside! Running in the woods with my friends, beach days with my family, skiing in the winter....
Catch the final Granite State Roller Derby event of the year at Everett Arena
If you like seeing women on roller skates shoving each other around a concrete track for a couple hours, you only have one more chance to see such a spectacle in Concord.We can only be referring to Granite State Roller Derby, which has its final Concord match of the season this Saturday at Everett Arena.The home team Legislashers will take on the Granite Skate Troopers, a team from the New Hampshire Roller Derby league, at 7 p.m. This...
Check out this nice rural shot we found on Instagram
There have been some pretty nice sunsets around here this summer, and there’s no shortage of photos on Instagram to prove it. We liked this one, by user @michaelpmurphy, taken at the community gardens on Clinton Street. Something about the sky, the old bike with the box on the back and the floral surroundings just gives a quintessential New England summer feel, don’t you think?Have you taken a cool photo somewhere in Concord? If so,...
Who knew chickens were roaming Concord streets?
This chicken was recently seen walking around South Street. No word on whether he or she lives on the street or was just out for a leisurely stroll. It’s not every day you see a chicken roaming around downtown Concord, so we figured we’d share.
On Display: Spinning Tales & Weaving Stories at League
The League of N.H. Craftsmen’s latest show has been open to the public for a little more than a month, but if you haven’t stopped in to see “Spinning Tales & Weaving Stories,” you might want to consider it. The exhibit showcases the work of juried craftsmen who put a special spin on the stories they tell through their craft, and as you can see, the work is pretty impressive. The best part is, this is only a small sample of what...
Bulletin Board
Final summer show at St. Paul’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will host its final summer concert on Sunday at 4 p.m. The show, Gospel to Gershwin: Celebrating American Music, featuring Olga Tines, is the fifth concert of the season. Tickets are $7 and available at the parish office (21 Centre St.), by calling 224-2523 and at stpaulsconcord.org. You can also get them at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St.). The series is part of St....
Book of the Week: ‘Half the Sky’
Half the SkyNicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn2009, 294 pagesNonfiction I consider myself privileged, compared to many. I’ve received a splendid education. So why is it that I had no idea of the worst horror of our times, discussed in Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide?Did you know that: More of the world’s women have died in the last 50 years, simply because they were women, than all of the soldiers...
This Week in Concord History
Aug. 8, 1861: The Democratic Standard, a Concord newspaper with Southern sympathies, refers to the Union Army as “Old Abe’s Mob.” When angry returned soldiers from the First New Hampshire Volunteers gather outside the Standard office, the paper’s frightened proprietors stand in the windows, pistols in hand. The owners fire three shots in the melee that follows, but no one is injured. The mob burns some of the Standard’s property and...
The Insider’s night out in Concord, 2017 edition
There was once a time when Tim and I had no problem staying up all hours of the night, roaming the streets and throwing caution to the wind. We used to be able to burn the candle at both ends with the best of them. That was before kids. Long before kids. These days, there’s a lot of going to bed at reasonable hours and getting ahead on house and yard work. But every once in a blue moon, when the stars align just right, we can find it...
Go Try It: Singing bowl sound meditation at Back in Motion
It feels like everybody is always so busy these days, especially in the summer. Between work, summer camps, vacations, yard work and all the other hassles of everyday life, it can be pretty easy to get yourself all wound up and out of balance. One way to relieve some of the stress is by attending singing bowl sound meditation sessions at Back in Motion, in The River Guild at the Smokestack Center. On the second and fourth Thursday of...
Nonprofits sought for annual Day of Caring
Granite United Way will host its annual Day of Caring events in Merrimack County this September and is currently seeking projects from local nonprofits.This year marks the 25th year of Day of Caring events.Nonprofits can participate by submitting a project for the more than 2,000 volunteers that take part in Day of Caring, Granite United Way’s signature volunteer movement. Businesses and organizations will sign up to volunteer to help...
