Poet showcase at Gibson’s Bookstore
Gibson’s to host poetry showcaseApril is National Poetry Month, and Gibson’s Bookstore is marking the occasion by offering “Poet Showcase: An Anthology of New Hampshire Poets” on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.Hobblebush Books brings to print poems originally chosen for the online Poet Showcase curated by former New Hampshire Poets Laureate Patricia Fargnoli and W. E. Butts.Presenting poets include: Hope Jordon, Dudley Laufman, Lr Berger, Mary...
Look who’s trying to find love on Craigslist
We sure do love poking around Craigslist to see what’s happening on the Missed Connections pages. So in the first Insider of each month, you’ll find the best (and printable) posts we found. Here is what we came across for March, so sit back and enjoy what we can only hope will turn into true love. Nice Pick up Truck – m4m (Concord Heights)–March 29 We talked Tuesday outside your work about our pick up trucks. U are 20’s I...
We sure do take fun vacations
As you probably know, we’re not big fans of the cold. But we’re also fascinated by the thought of going to Antarctica. So it was a win-win when Jon and Pam Pearse of Concord took along a copy of the Sewalls Falls Bridge Issue when they climbed aboard the National Geographic/Lindblad Expedition in early January. The Pearses snapped a quick pic with the Insider at British Base ‘A’, Port Lockroy in Antarctica, an iconic stop for most...
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Ham and bean supper SaturdayJump into spring with a classic New England ham and bean supper at the East Congregational Church, 51 Mountain Road, on Saturday, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The menu includes two kinds of made-from-scratch beans, baked ham, homemade brown bread and rolls, coleslaw, assorted casseroles and a scrumptious dessert buffet.Adults are $8, children 6 to 12 are $5, and ages 5 and under are free. Takeout is available, and...
This Week in Concord History
April 5, 1881: Fire badly damages the works of the Page Belting Co. in Concord. The loss is estimated at $24,000.April 5, 2002: Charles Gravenhorst, a self-described pastor who hosts a late-night Christian show on Concord Community TV, is arrested on charges related to an alleged sexual assault in Maine.April 6, 1853: City government is established in Concord. April 6, 1993: For the first time, Concord’s Bob Tewksbury gets an Opening...
Book of the Week: In the Heart of the Sea
In the Heart of the SeaNathaniel Philbrick 2001, 296 pages Nonfiction In 1821, a ship based out of Nantucket was sailing off the coast of Chile when it spotted a drifting lifeboat. The lifeboat contained two survivors of the Essex, a whaler that had been hit by a sperm whale and sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean three months before. Herman Melville based his novel Moby Dick on the Essex tragedy, but where Melville ends (with the...
There’s a movie sneak peek, people skating in circles and beer tastings
Tuesday If you have a child between the ages of 4 and 8 who you want to play baseball this season, go to the Concord Boys and Girls Club, 55 Bradley St., from 6 to 8 p.m. for registration. Play ball! Wednesday If you’re into sneak peeks, then do we have a good one for you. Concord filmmaker Dan Habib has been working on a new documentary, Intelligent Lives, and will be showing a 14-minute preview of the film at Red River Theatres at 5...
Meet more of the Capital Area Student Leadership group
The Capital Area Student Leadership program encourages students to become active, effective participants and leaders in their schools and community. The goals of CASL are: • To recruit sophomores from area high schools who show leadership potential and young adults likely to assume greater community responsibilities. The CASL program has graduated more than 400 students over the last two decades. • To inspire students to develop,...
Bulletin Board
Magic show to benefit Stephanie Spirit ALS fund There will be a world class magic show at Abbot-Downing School on Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. to benefit the Stephanie Spirit ALS Fund. The fund was created to benefit Abbot-Downing teacher Stephanie Bates, who was diagnosed with ALS. Magicians Mike Bent, Bob Riordan, Jon Stetson and David Garrity will perform. Tickets are $10, and there will be a preshow at 1 p.m. Janet Moffett NHTI to...
This Week in Concord History
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 will try his hand. March 30, 2002: Parking at Concord High School has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember, the Monitor reports. Now the city council has decided to do something about the parking dilemma. In its...
The Insider’s Guide to Spring in New Hampshire
March 24 Raptor Migration in New Hampshire The spectacle of large numbers of migrating hawks, eagles, falcons and other ‘raptors’ has always captivated people, and historical accounts of this phenomenon in N.H. date back to the 1700’s. Conservation of raptors is now a major theme across the globe, and species’ population changes can provide evidence for conservation needs – or successes. N.H. Audubon maintains two active monitoring...
A raptor talk, a nice big breakfast and Easter festivities galore
Thursday If there’s one thing we like talking about here, it’s raptors. Whether we’re referring to the modern birds of prey or the prehistoric killing machines everyone fell in love with in Jurassic Park, we just can’t get enough. If you’re as crazy about raptors as we are, you should check out a talk on raptor migration in New Hampshire at the Audubon McLane Center. It gets going at 7 p.m., and donations will be accepted. For more...
CRTC culinary team sure can cook up a tasty three-course meal
It’s good to be the best, especially when we’re talking about an area that includes the entire state of New Hampshire. And you can add a group of five culinary arts students from the Concord Regional Technical Center to that list after winning the New Hampshire ProStart cooking competition at the UNH Stillings Dining Hall in Durham on March 5. The team, made up of Chase Haines (Concord High School), Anthony Costello (Pembroke...
Easter came early this year thanks to ConcordTV’s Eggstravaganza
There was no way we were going to miss out on ConcordTV’s inaugural Easter Eggstravaganza, so we stopped by on the opening day to see what kind of fun was being had.
Meet some students from the Capital Area Student Leadership program
The Capital Area Student Leadership program encourages students to become active, effective participants and leaders in their schools and community. The goals of CASL are: • To recruit sophomores from area high schools who show leadership potential and young adults likely to assume greater community responsibilities. The CASL program has graduated over 400 students over the last two decades. • To inspire students to develop, refine...
Steve Ambra earns top spot in NHTI staff photography contest
During February, NHTI held a photo contest among staffers to see who was the best with a camera in their hand. Nine photos were entered and hung on the library wall for visitors to vote on. In case you missed the previous spread in the “Insider” last month (shame on you), there were some pretty great pictures. We had a feeling it would be a hard choice for voters, kind of like which issue of the “Insider” is your favorite. (Hint: It’s...
There’s nothing like a good book
Concord Public Library is one of more than 100 public libraries in New Hampshire that are participating in the “N.H. 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” program, which encourages parents and other caregivers to make sure children are read at least 1,000 stories before they start kindergarten.
City Briefly
Last week, City Manager Tom Aspell was so excited about the first day of spring that he couldn’t wait to pass along all the upcoming information about spring projects in the city. So like he does each week, he compiled all the big news for Concord in to the City Memo. It’s back South Main to get face-lift On Monday, March 28, the Main Street reconstruction project will resume. Construction will begin on the east side of South Main...
Book of the Week: ‘MARTians’
MARTians Blythe Woolston 2015, 216 pages Fiction In a dystopian near-future, Zoë Zindleman has just been forcibly graduated from her newly privatized high school. Zoë now has the choice of belonging (body and soul) either to AllMART or to QMART, where “your smile is [our] welcome mat.” She also needs to make a choice about where to live: either in the perpetually for-sale house that her mother has abandoned, the sinister MART...
This Week in Concord History
March 22, 1901: The Massachusetts-New Hampshire boundary is finally settled. March 23, 1825: The Rev. Nathaniel Bouton is ordained as minister of the First Congregational Society of Concord. From 1730 until now, the town of Concord, voting as a parish at town meeting, appropriated money to pay the pastor and support the church. The new society will sustain itself without taxpayer support. March 23, 1867: Forty-two years after becoming...
The Bulletin Board
Wine and beer tasting at Old Town Hall in Bow The Falcon Booster Club’s second annual “Taste of Bow Spirit” Wine and Beer Tasting event and silent auction will be held March 30 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, 91 Bow Center Road. Contact Karen McGee at ishore@comcast.net for tickets. Insider staff NHTI Film Society to show ‘The Winding Stream’ The NHTI Film Society will screen The Winding Stream (not rated) on Friday at 7...
There’s some cool stuff on the horizon in Concord
We know it’s only March, but the reality is that spring is around the corner. And that’s a good thing. Bye-bye winter, better luck next year. Since this is the Insider Guide to Spring and there’s always lots of great stuff going on in Concord once the weather warms up, we figured why not key in on a few important dates that are coming up in the next couple months – before summer gets here. Don’t worry, we won’t expect you to remember...
Adventure Shopping: Easter edition
Since Ocean State Job Lot’s slogan is ‘Adventure Shopping,’ we decided to head down there to see what we could find to fill our Easter baskets.
Poetry, soup and plenty of Easter fun
Wednesday It’s time. We know you’ve been spending hours in front of the mirror reciting that poem you wrote oh so many months ago and now you’ve got to share it with the world. And it just so happens, the Poetry Society of N.H. is hosting its monthly get-together at Gibson’s Bookstore tonight at 7 p.m. The evening starts with a reading from Midge Goldberg, followed by an open mic session. Newcomers are encouraged – and that’s you. As...
The Concord Library is hosting another Peeps Diorama contest
You can’t think of Easter without Peeps popping into your head. Those marshmallow shaped bunnies and chicks, of all sizes and colors, just scream ‘put me in an Easter basket for young children to devour.’ But the Concord Public Library is hoping you take a different approach with your Peeps purchase this year: like make a diorama out of them. That’s right, the Peeps Diorama contest is back and the library’s staff is looking for...
Instagram photo of the week
Everybody knows that firefighters put out fires, save people’s lives and rescue cats from trees, but did you know that they are also in the business of making rainbows? Those guys really do it all. Actually, this is a Concord Fire Department training exercise caught on camera by Instagram user @revkevnh. That little rainbow there – small as it may be – might be the most well-defined one we’ve ever seen on Instagram. Nice work,...
Book of the Week: ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’
No. 4 Imperial Lane Jonathan Weisman 2015, 341 pages Fiction American college student David Heller stays after his study abroad classes end, working as an assistant to Hans Bromwell, a quadriplegic. David gets to know Elizabeth, Hans’s sister, and Cristina, his niece. The novel is part eye-opening historical fiction – David observes the social upheavel of 1980s England and Elizabeth talks to him about her marriage to a Portuguese...
Bulletin Board
Final Lenten Luncheon scheduled for Thursday The Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., will be hosting the final speaker in its Lenten Luncheon series sponsored by the Greater Concord Interfaith Council, on Thursday. Joan Gilmore, project coordinator for Welcome Concord, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. Lunch will be provided. Cost is $7 and tickets are available at the door. Joan Day Bereavement program offered by Concord...
