League of N.H. Craftsmen is pushing the limits
We’re all about going to the extreme here at the Insider. No matter the topic, we’ll dive head first into the nitty gritty details to give you the best story possible.It’s just how we roll, and if you’re the same kind of person, then do we have an art exhibit for you.The latest League of N.H. Craftsmen show is all about pushing the limits, and that also happens to be the name of the show.“Pushing the Limits” is a multimedia...
Look who’s trying to find love on Craigslist
We took to Craigslist last week to see who had been posting on the missed connections pages in our neck of the woods during the month of March. And we found all these great entries to share – and that we could print, unedited, of course. LAWS – m4w (Concord) – March 24 Every time I go to concord I can’t help but stare. I know we both married but have to get off my chest. Your hot!!!! Hot guy in red truck, saw each...
This Week in Concord History
April 4, 1983: Concord City Clerk Marjorie Foote retires after 19 years on the job. “I knew just about everything that was going on with people in this city,” she recalls. April 4, 2003: Two weeks into spring, the greater Concord area wakes up to 6.4 inches of snow and promises of more to come. April 5, 2002: Charles Gravenhorst, a self-described pastor who hosts a late-night Christian show on Concord Community TV, is...
Book of the Week: ‘The Inheritance’
The Inheritance: A Charles Lenox MysteryCharles Finch2016, 304 pagesMystery set in London in 1877 Charles Lenox, a detective, is asked by an old friend for some help. A man he knew from boarding school, Gerald Leigh, has come into a mysterious inheritance. Leigh, who has become a renowned scientist, is not sure if he wants to accept the inheritance. Is the inheritance from the same mysterious benefactor who paid for Leigh’s schooling?...
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Penacook library to host tea party Penacook Branch Library will hold a tea party on Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. The party is free for children ages 5 and up. who are invited to dress up and bring a favorite doll or stuffed animal. Tea and snacks will be provided. Terri Tracewski NHTI Film Society to screen 2016 film The NHTI Film Society will screen The Colorado (Not Rated, 2016, 91 mins.) on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Sweeney...
Look at all the fun you could be having this spring
Performances A Kidsummer Night’s Dream In the woods outside of Athens, the realms of humans and fairies collide! This musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream explodes in a joyous celebration of Shakespeare’s classic comedy. Kidsummer is full of mischief and mayhem, misunderstandings and magic potion mix-ups, as kings and queens, humble workers, fairies, parents and kids all chase their dreams. When: March...
There’s a lot going on this spring within an hour from here, too
As you’re all well aware, we’re pretty big fans of Concord. Our job (generally) prohibits us from ever leaving this fine city, and that’s just fine with us.But we understand that not everybody has the same passion for the capital city as we do, and sometimes people just want to see what’s going on elsewhere.That’s why we pulled together this list of some spring highlights going on within about an hour from Concord. We didn’t scour the...
Adventure Shopping: Ocean State Job Lot is prepared for spring
Now that it’s officially spring – though it may not feel like it – we decided it would be a good time to make a little visit to Ocean State Job Lot to see what kinds of seasonal scores they had in stock. As usual, we found a lot of cool, weird and funny stuff. Have a look.
Good times brewin’ for N.H. Craft Beer Week
From Maple Weekend to New Hampshire Craft Beer Week – talk about a smooth transition.That’s right, the seasonal, themed weeks continue around here, this time honoring another liquid we all know and love: beer.March 31 through April 8 is New Hampshire Craft Beer Week (yes, that’s nine days, because beer is too good to be squeezed into a traditional week), and you better believe there are plenty of things going on in Concord related to...
Cappies voting begins this Friday
It’s almost April and that can only mean one thing: Cappies voting starts soon. The annual tradition kicks off April 1 and you can cast your ballots for the entire month. That means you have 30 days to help your favorite spots in the Concord area earn the distinction of the very best. Voting will take place in a wide array of categories. You can help decide the best bar atmosphere, deli or coffee shop in food and drink. Best gift...
Award nominations sought for Grange, Audubon
Grange N.H. State Grange Community Service Director Dick Patten is seeking nominations in a variety of categories for the annual State Grange awards. Included in the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year award are police officers and deputy sheriffs. Firefighters and paramedics are to be nominated in the Firefighter of the Year category. Know a teacher, principal or college dean who you think qualifies for the Educator of the Year...
New Hatbox show starts Friday
For the next three weekends, Hatbox Theatre becomes home to a future where robots do all our work for us and humans have lost their way. The classic science-fiction play, R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots will be performed by Late Bloomer Productions. The show will run Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., starting this Friday through April 16. Written in 1920 by Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek, R.U.R:...
Lots of live music to be heard this weekend
If you’re looking to rock out, mellow down or cut a rug, there’s plenty in store for you in Concord this weekend. There always seems to be a full slate of live music in this city, and it’s no different this weekend. Get a real early jump on the weekend by checking out Craig Jaster at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana on Wednesday, starting at 6:30 p.m. There’s never a cover charge to listen to music at Hermanos, so you can save all that cash...
McGowan is celebrating the last 20 years
McGowan Fine Art owner Sarah Chaffee has been a mainstay at the downtown gallery for two decades, and that is a reason to celebrate.So that’s exactly what’s happening – with a new exhibit, of course. “Twenty Years of a Singular Vision” opens this week and will run through April 28. And on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., there will be a big party at the gallery.But before she’s the toast of the town, we caught up with Chaffee to talk about...
Have your energy field repaired at this fair
Is your personal aura all out of whack? Is your energy field misaligned? Or maybe your body’s inner workings are just a little bit out of tune? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re in need of some spiritual and energy healing, which will be provided at the Holistic Health/Psychic Fair at the Bektash Shrine Center on Saturday.This free, one-day-only event, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April Fools Day no less,...
Catch the Chamber’s 26th Business Showcase
Do you need to get reacquainted with some of the local businesses that make up the fabric of your life? If so, you’ll want to check out the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s 26th annual Business Showcase at the Courtyard by Marriott/Grappone Conference Center next Tuesday.The showcase is somewhat like a trade show, in that all kinds of businesses will have representatives on hand, though this will be more informational than...
Bow Garden Club to open year with meeting Monday
The Bow Garden Club will open their 2017 garden club year on Monday with a presentation by David Murray of Murray Farms Greenhouses, located in Penacook. Murray’s topic will be “Understanding New Plants” and he will enlighten attendees with humorous anecdotes, great gardening tips and stories about his life growing up on the farm. Murray Farms began as a dairy farm, started by Murray’s great-grandfather in the early 1900’s, complete...
Coffeehouse is back at Audubon
Birds and Beans Coffeehouse returns to the N.H. Audubon McLane Center with another great show. The husband and wife duo of songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Harvey Reid and vocalist and violinist, Joyce Andersen, will take the stage for an evening of musical fusion. “It’s just a variety of bluegrass, folk, old time Celtic,” said Ruth Smith. “Just a nice array of music.” Reid is considered somewhat of a master of the...
Tim finished his Easter bunny pic
With the help of his wife, Mary, and daughter Sophie, Tim finished his Easter Bunny pic. It’s too bad he can’t enter it in the Easter Eggstravaganza coloring contest because this one would be tough to beat. If you’re between the age of 4 to 12, you still have time to enter. Drawings will be accepted through Friday, so go to yourconcordtv.org/projects/easter-eggstravaganza for more info and to print out the page above. Happy coloring,...
This Week in Concord History
March 28, 2003: The Concord Monitor is named New England Newspaper of the Year by the New England Newspaper Association. It is the 13th time the daily Monitor has won the award since the contest debuted 20 years ago. March 29, 1909: George Foster, a real estate man and investor, takes over the Abbot and Downing Co., once again saving it from collapse. Foster will bail out just over two years later, and yet another new owner...
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Rundlett showing ‘Screenagers’ Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6 ½ hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time — friction she knew all too...
Book of the Week: ‘Nagasaki’
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War Susan Southard 2015, 302 pages Nonfiction Published 70 years after an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese port city, Southard’s Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War presents the stories of numerous survivors and their experiences following the bomb. Southard’s story focuses on five hibakusha –“bomb affected people” – in particular, and traces their movements on the morning of the bombing and in...
It’s been quite a weird maple season so far
Like the late, great Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots once said, so much depends on the weather.Making maple syrup is no exception to this rule.In the world of syrup making, the weather – and the temperature, specifically – runs the whole show. Too cold and everything’s frozen solid. Too warm and the sap becomes too runny and bacteria-laden.Like any business that relies on Mother Nature for cooperation (plow drivers, ski resorts...
What’s with all the different colors of syrup?
If you’ve ever noticed a difference in color from one bottle of maple syrup to the next, you’re not losing your mind (hopefully). And no, that isn’t just food coloring (again, hopefully).Maple syrup comes in four grades: Grade A Golden, Grade A Amber, Grade A Dark and Grade A Very Dark. These grades relate to the color of the syrup and also the flavor. In general, the darker the syrup, the stronger the flavor. But how do they end up...
Concord has loads of delicious maple treats
If you’re a certified maple addict, you really lucked out this week. Since this is the Maple Issue, and since maple trees produce edible products, we thought it would be a good idea to scour the city looking for as many maple treats as we could find. Whenever the task calls for going out looking for tasty treats across the city, we’re ready and willing to answer the call.Here’s a little sampling – once again, in true Insider form,...
Go Try It: Eat a maple ice cream sundae while you work
If there’s one thing we like to do around here, it’s eat on the job.We understand that we’re among the lucky few out there who actually get to go out and treat ourselves to lunch, dinner and dessert on the company’s dime – which is why we like to use that privilege to the fullest. They tell us if we don’t use it, we lose it, and none of us want that to happen. On that note, it’s time to dig right into this week’s Go Try It, which is...
Got a few maple trees in your yard? Tap ’em!
So you have a bunch of sugar maples in your backyard and want to try making your own syrup, but you don’t have the necessary equipment or a spare few thousand dollars to invest in it. What do you do? Well, just head down to your nearest agricultural supply store and drop a couple bucks on a tap and a bucket. That’s all you really need.Dean Wilber, owner of Mapletree Farm in Concord, knows a thing or two about making maple syrup – he’s...
Food Snob: Have you ever had cinnamon bun pancakes?
With this being the Maple Issue, we had to find a way to put some maple syrup in our bellies.And what better way than drizzled on top of pancakes, French toast or waffles?A while back, we saw that Friendly’s had added a bottomless pancake option to their menu. You would start with three buttermilk pancakes, and once you were done, your plate would be replaced with another one containing two more. Each time your plate was cleared, two...
Check out this scenic shot we found on Instagram
Thanks to last week’s blizzard, Instagram user @broussardish had a nice frame to set up this scenic photo of Abbot-Downing School over the weekend. Tag us using #concordinsider so we can find your classic shots of Concord.
