Dungeons & Dragons, and book valentines
The Concord Public Library will host a Dungeons & Dragons workshop on Jan. 27 at 5 p.m. Interested in D&D? Are you a newcomer to the classic role-playing game or a veteran looking to understand the new edition? CPL and Double Midnight Comics welcome you to a 5th edition character building workshop. It will be held in the Library Auditorium/Lower Lounge and is open to teens and adults. And for the rest of the month, we’re...
Newly bereaved support group to meet Feb. 3
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering a bereavement program “Newly Bereaved” Support Session on Tuesday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Concord Regional VNA Hospice House, 240 Pleasant St. in Concord. Sessions are held the first Tuesday of each month. This session provides grief education and support for those who have experienced the recent loss of a loved one. Pre-registration is not required. For more information,...
Bow Garden Club is accepting new members
The Bow Garden Club is currently on hiatus. The club will begin their new garden club year in April with monthly membership meetings and a variety of educational programs and will resume their ongoing community beautification projects and fundraising efforts through the end of the year. Their Executive Board, however will be meeting throughout the winter months to finalize the program topics and activities the club will be providing...
Musicians of Wall Street to perform on Feb. 6
The Musicians of Wall Street will present a journey through rich traditions of folk hymns, spirituals and sacred music in a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6 in the Concord Community Music School’s Recital Hall, 23 Wall St. The concert, titled “Simple Gifts: Hymns and Sacred Songs,” will feature three Music School faculty members – Andrea Veal (soprano), Liz Faiella (fiddle, vocals), and Kathryn Southworth (piano) – with Dan...
Nominations needed for city’s Most Fascinating
Who do you know that’s fascinating in Concord? Concord Community TV (ConcordTV) is looking for eight of Concord’s Most Fascinating Inpiduals to feature during its eight-hour live telecast of Concord On Air, that will be broadcast on Concord’s three local cable channels on Sunday, March 29, from noon to 8 p.m. Who can be considered fascinating? Think of an eclectic mix of captivating people from Greater Concord who are prominent names...
Six-week hip function series at Get Fit NH
Weekend warriors’ running injuries, a nagging sore back and chronically achy knees are all very common complaints that, surprisingly, can be caused by hip dysfunction. Sitting all day at work can also lead to pain and decreased mobility. Get Fit NH Concord is offering a six-week series designed to restore proper function and train the hips to work properly. Students will learn a progressive method of restoring hip function, including...
‘Champagne for Caesar’ to be screened at NHTI
The NHTI Film Society proudly presents Champagne for Caesar (Rated “PG”; 1950; 99 mins), Friday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Sweeney Auditorium.Admission is by donation (free with an NHTI student ID). For more information contact Steve Ambra at 271-6484 ext. 4101 or sambra@ccsnh.edu.
‘Importance of Play as Adults’ offered by VNA
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering a free presentation “The Importance of Play as Adults” on Monday, Feb. 9, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at United Methodist Church of Penacook, Penacook Community Center Senior Program, 21 Merrimack St. in Penacook. Many adults have the mindset that they are too old to play. Play can dramatically transform our personal health and our relationships. Engaging our body and mind through...
Learn about your health care options on Feb. 7
Get Covered Concord! Health insurance enrollment in-person help will be available in Concord on Feb. 7. Do you have questions about how to find affordable, quality health insurance? Heard about Healthcare.gov, but not sure what to do? Do you have questions about re-enrollment? If you are uninsured or under-insured, you may want to know about the best way to sign up for an affordable, quality health plan. We would be happy to help!...
Royal Tea party at Penacook library Feb. 7
The Friends of the Penacook Branch Library are hosting a “Royal Tea Party” on Feb. 7, from 10 to 11 a.m. for children ages 5 and up. Guests are invited to wear their royal finery to come and enjoy crafts, refreshments and, of course, tea! This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please call the Concord Public Library at 225-8670.
Gregg Pauley to present Beethoven Project
Pianist Gregg Pauley presents the fifth of nine concerts in his Beethoven Project at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at the Concord Community Music School Recital Hall, 23 Wall St. in downtown Concord. Pauley’s concert will highlight the color and quality of one of Beethoven’s most famous keys – the key of three flats, which includes E-flat major and C minor. Pauley will feature three of Beethoven’s sonatas composed in these keys....
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net and visit us on Tumblr (reading-rumblr.tumblr.com and concordteens.tumblr.com) and Facebook facebook.com/ConcordPublicLibrary).The Magician’s LandLev Grossman2014, 401 pagesFiction Like the first two books in this series – a cross between Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia, but with sex and drugs – The Magician’s Land had me hooked from page...
Super Bowl Adventure shopping
We hit up Ocean State Job Lots to find all the essentials to make your Super Bowl party the best on the block. All we’re waiting for now is our invitation.
Are you hosting the Super Bowl party this year? We’re here to help
So let’s get the facts straight.It’s only a couple days from Super Bowl Sunday (depending on when you actually picked up the Insider this week, but we can only assume you were waiting for the delivery driver at the dispenser in front of the State House on Wednesday morning) and the party is at your house. It’s your first time hosting and the nerves are starting to set in.It’s okay, we’re here to help. We’ve put a few of these soirees...
We wanted to get to the bottom of this whole Deflate-gate scandal
So unless you have managed to avoid the television, internet and radio this week (or have been hibernating with a nice bear family this winter), we imagine all of you have heard about this Deflate-gate thing. Now this isn’t going to be a story by Patriots fans (which we are) defending their beloved team, because there’s no reason to add our two cents to the equation when everyone, their grandmother, their brother and unborn children...
Art and Bloom brings a piece of spring to the month of January
The Concord Garden Club took over McGowan Fine Art for three days last week to hold its 13th annual Art and Bloom show. The exhibit consisted of a hand selected collection of work by none other than Sarah Chaffee. From there, garden club members created floral masterpieces to represent the art. Unfortunately, since cut flowers don’t last that long, the show is over, but please enjoy these photographs.
St. Paul’s Hargate Gallery is home to Tom Devaney’s latest creations
You may know Tom Devaney from that giant eyeball that keeps a close watch over the intersection of Pleasant and Main streets, but what you may not know is that he’s quite the accomplished artist besides his recorded organ of vision. Want proof? A lot of his stuff is on these pages and even more of it is on display under the title, Simultaneous Perspectives, at St. Paul’s School’s Hargate Gallery through Feb. 28. And FYI, that lifelike...
Our cameras and stomachs hit up the macaroni and cheese bake off
Granite State Dairy Promotion held the New Hampshire’s Own Macaroni and Cheese Bake Off on Saturday, and it was a delicious thing to behold.
If you want to get to know the guy behind the eye, here you go
Tom Devaney has been watching you for quite some time now.Well, actually his recorded right eye is the one catching a glimpse of you whenever you pass through the intersection of Pleasant and Main streets, but you may have noticed it’s no longer there. And just to be clear, we’re talking about the giant eye ball in Devaney’s downtown studio and not the one he was born with.But don’t worry, like Devaney told a concerned citizen who...
NHTI set to host its 13th annual wheelchair basketball fundraiser
Zech DeVits was someone you’d probably call larger than life. It wasn’t just because he stood well over 7 feet tall due to being born with a rare genetic condition called gigantism and skeletal dysplasia, and the fact he was still over 6 feet riding in his wheelchair. No, it’s because even though DeVits has been gone for almost 10 years, passing away at the age of 22 – just weeks before graduating with an associate degree from NHTI in...
He was told he was missed, so he’s out of hibernation
Here’s another potpourri of usage problems that I have been gathering for a while.∎ An AP piece in the Monitor tells us that “Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire’s chances to enter the Hall of Fame are dwindling.” The writer probably thought it was awkward to write “Roger Clemens’s, Barry Bonds’, Sammy Sosa’s, and Mark McGwire’s chances to enter the Hall of Fame are dwindling,” but he really shouldn’t have used...
Bishop Brady ballers get new uniforms from Monahan Foundation
When the Bishop Brady varsity boys and girls basketball teams took the court Friday night, they did so wearing some fresh new gear. We’re talking brand new Under Armour uniforms, travel suits and shooting shirts. Yeah, we told you it was fresh. That’s not a word we throw around lightly when it comes to athletic apparel. While it may seem a little odd to get all this stuff midway through the season, there’s good reason for it. This...
Smirnoff nice – Tue, 20 Jan 2015
We like to think Yakov Smirnoff would be a fan of the Insider if he were still alive today. Wait, he is alive? Anyway, here we see Tina Fife, Jim Timmins, Maureen Timmins, Terry Banfill, Danny Webster (holding the paper) and Howard Banfill outside the Yakov Smirnoff Theater in Branson, Mo. Now if you’ll excuse us, we have to go remove a piece of erroneous information we’ve left on Smirnoff’s Wikipedia page.
Out of their element – Tue, 20 Jan 2015
We tossed this photo on Instagram because we were wondering who let these veggies in to the Granite State Dairy Promotion’s New Hampshire’s Own Macaroni and Cheese bake off Saturday? Although there were some veggie-based offerings, including un-beet-able macaroni and cheese, featuring (shocker coming): beets.
This Week In Concord History
Jan. 20, 1798: Concord’s first accidental fire is recorded at 10 p.m. in David George’s hat shop on North Main Street. “Let this, fellow citizens, excite everyone to vigilance,” writes the Concord Mirrour. “Query – would it not be a good plan for every man to keep a good ladder and one or two proper fire buckets always ready?”Jan. 20, 1994: The temperature in Concord drops to 28 below zero, a record for the date.Jan. 20, 1994: A...
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 20 Jan 2015
This may look like a digital representation of stuff inside your body from one of those drug commercials with a million deadly side effects, but it’s actually Thistle Blue Dynamite, as shot by our friends at Cole Gardens (@colegardens on Instagram). Tag us with #concordinsider when you post!
Concord High students create Hunger Games for Hunger for charity
One of the biggest summer blockbusters for the past few years, The Hunger Games franchise, has inspired a lot in youth culture since the novels first hit the racks in 2008. T-shirts, toys, and even Jennifer Lawrence’s trademark braid are in high demand among the series’s target demographic, teens. The irony there being that The Hunger Games actually depict a dreary future where a rich upper class walk on the downtrodden in order to...
Missed Connections: Let’s have that beer and cig in our P.J.’s
We at the Insider like to scour Craigslist’s Missed Connections to see if anyone in Concord wants to make our naughty list is finding true love online. Here, presented unedited as always, are some of the best recent entries.To Army Barbie! – m4w – 54 (Concord N,H.)I Don’t think that You read C.L. Anymore.. Any- way By some slim chance That You do? It make’s Two Year’s that We Broke up because of Your Cheating. For what...
Evo Endurathon will have you climbing the walls all Saturday long
We’re stuck in the middle of January, which is pretty much the worst thing ever. But if cabin fever has you practically climbing the walls, there’s a chance to channel that impulse productively coming up at Evolution Rock + Fitness. The gym is hosting Evo Endurathon on Saturday, where climbers rack up as many vertical feet of climbing as they can in a nine-hour span starting at 8 a.m. And don’t worry – if you’re new to the sport and...
Classic Concord Photo – Tue, 20 Jan 2015
Fact: The first General Hospital in Concord was at this home located at the corner of South Main and Allison streets a really long time ago. Fact that isn’t true: The first season of the beloved, long-running soap opera “General Hospital” was shot on site. Thanks to reader Earl Burroughs for the photo!
