Book: The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Girl with the Louding Voice By Abi Daré (368 pages, fiction, 2020) The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré is an emotional, spirited, coming of age tale about the importance of keeping hope, knowing your self-worth, caring for others, and staying resilient during troubled times. Adunni, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl, dreams of continuing her education and becoming a teacher. When her mother dies she has to end her schooling and...
Poem: Last sap bucket
I walked the same hundred acres that my grandfather did so many decades ago. A slight fog was burning off as I crested the hill at the center of the property and looked out over the hundreds of New Hampshire sugar maples. A family tradition at first and then a very lucrative business for my grandfather, early mornings collecting the maple sap from each tin sap bucket followed by late nights feeding the fire in the sap house. He was a...
Warner spotlights sap house tours, pancakes and syrup contest
Warner’s maple producers join with the town’s organizations and businesses to create a town-wide maple celebration. Seven sap houses will be demonstrating how they turn sap into maple syrup and other maple treats: Baker’s Syrup, Bates Maple Syrup, Courser Farm, Kearsarge Gore Farm, Rogers Maple Syrup, Turyn’s Tap’n & Sap’n What’s Sappenin and Young’s Sugar House. Each sap house has a unique personality, and they’ll have different...
Tapping into the sweetness
Give cabin fever the boot this March by celebrating New Hampshire Maple Month. The maple season is ramping up and maple producers across the state will be opening their sugar shacks to share their sweet products and the maple making process. People from across the Granite State have the opportunity to experience one of New Hampshire’s most beloved traditions. Will Streeter of Mac Hill Maple in Tamworth said that during Maple Month,...
Where to go to find syrup around the capital
In need of a sugar rush this weekend, head over to your local maple syrup maker as Maple Month peaks with Maple Weekend, March 19 and 20. Contact sugarhouses before you go to confirm hours and programs. Many will be hosting additional activities from pancake breakfasts to horse-drawn rides. Here’s a sampling of where you can find New Hampshire Maple Producers Association members around the capital area: Concord Mapletree Farm 105 Oak...
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Jazz Sanctuary This Sunday, March 20, at 1 p.m., Jazz Sanctuary presents “Turning the Tables – The Jazz of Righteous Anger” at Concord’s First Congregational Church, UCC (177 N. Main St.). This event, originally scheduled in January but postponed due to COVID, features vocalist and Pastor Emilia Halstead with the seven-piece jazz worship ensemble, The Prodigals, under the direction of jazz arranger and trumpeter, Bob “Dr. Cool”...
This week in Concord history
March 17, 1681: The Governor’s Council proclaims this a day of public fasting and prayer for John Cutt, New Hampshire’s first colonial governor, who has fallen ill. Cutt soon dies, but New Hampshire will observe Fast Day for more than three centuries. March 18, 1852: George G. Fogg, Concord editor, Free Soil leader and temperance man, puts the best face on his party’s election loss to the Democrats. “The men who have carried...
City news: Sign up for golf leagues
The city manager’s office sent out the City Manager’s Newsletter last Friday. The full newsletter can be found by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the “Newsletter” button. Here are some highlights: Sign up for Beaver Meadow leagues Tuesday Night Twilight League: Two divisions will be created with a maximum of 18 teams per flight. League matches begin May 10. Senior League: All senior members and non-members that play Beaver Meadow...
Book: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles By Ray Bradbury (887 pages, dystopian, 1945-1999) There’s something for everyone in this collection of Ray Bradbury’s finest works. Whether you prefer standard sci-fi, or if a nostalgia-soaked bildungsroman is more your speed, Bradbury has you covered. Four of Bradbury’s most popular stories are assembled here in over 800 pages. Sure, the page count may seem daunting, but collections allow you...
Entertainment for March 10 to 20
Live music March 10 Andrew North at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Bach Lunch Lecture: Celtic Fiddle Fury at the Concord Community Music School at 12:10 p.m. March 11 Tyler Allgood at Penuche’s Smokestack Blues Band at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Mr. Aaron at Kimball Jenkins at 9:30 a.m. Chris Lester at Over the Moon Farmstead in Pittsfield at 7 p.m. March 12 Dan Weiner at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Queen City Soul at Penuche’s Jared Moore at the Downtown...
‘Love Letters’ pulls heart strings in Concord
Love Letters by A. R. Gurney was nominated in 1990 for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It follows the ever-changing relationship of Andrew and Melissa through 50-plus years of correspondence, starting at age 6 in first grade. Gurney deftly creates characters, their personal growth, locations, historic and cultural shifts through his articulate and often funny pen. It illustrates how relationships formed and flourished before the advent of...
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Walker Lecture The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for “Central and South America,a Travelogue” with Marlin Darrah. Explore the beautiful Spanish colonial town of Antigua, Guatemala; the stunning islands and Mayan monuments of Belize; the renowned National Parks of Costa Rica; the marvel of the Panama Canal and the Indians of the San Blas Island of Colombia; the incomparable mountain UNESCO World Heritage sites of Cuzco...
This week in Concord history
March 10, 1964: Absentee candidate Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary with 36 percent of the vote. Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, who have campaigned hard in the state, take 22 and 21 percent respectively, and write-in Richard Nixon, the former vice president, wins 17 percent. March 11, 1952: Sen. Estes Kefauver’s grass-roots presidential campaign...
CYPN of the Month: Ellis enjoys volunteering in spare time
Concord Young Professionals Network introduces you to the “Young Professional of the Month,” Patrick Ellis. Each month, the CYPN Steering Committee recommends a young professional in the community it thinks readers would enjoy getting to know better. Patrick Ellis How old are you? 35. Where do you live? I live in Hollis with my wife Morgan and my kids Graham (4) and Avery (18 months). Where do you currently work? For the last 3 years,...
City news: Taking in the trails around Concord
The city manager’s office sent out the City Manager’s Newsletter last Friday. The full newsletter can be found by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the “Newsletter” button. Here are some highlights: City meetings City meetings are held in person in Council Chambers at 37 Green St. (unless otherwise specified on the city’s calendar). Upcoming meetings include: City Council: March 14, 7 p.m. Planning Board: March 16, 7 p.m. Trail...
This week in Concord history
March 3, 1972: Four days before the New Hampshire primary, 1,800 people rally for President Nixon at the armory in Manchester. Among them is Gov. Walter Peterson, who beams: “There is no doubt this is Nixon country.” March 3, 1915: The Legislature takes a poll on Prohibition. Of Concord’s 18 state representatives, only one votes in favor. After all, that year there are 33 places in Concord where liquor can be legally sold: 13...
1900: Old Walker School
The Old Walker School is pictured in the year 1900 on the site of the current day Walker School Media Building. The Concord Union School District purchased this empty lot to build the first Walker School that is pictured in in this photograph in the year 1873, after the prior building burned in a terrible fire. The prior building was the Methodist General Biblical Institute, formally known as the Old North Church. The Old North...
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Walker concert The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for a concert by Artful Noise. The string quartet will perform “Sounds and Colors” by Gwyneth Walker, “String Quartet” by Florence Beatrice Price, and Opus 96 by Anton Dvorak on March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. The show is free. For more information, visit walkerlecture.org. Virtual author visit Gibson’s Bookstore is pleased to...
City new: Meet Concord’s new head of housing
The city manager’s office sent out the City Manager’s Newsletter last Friday. The full newsletter can be found by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the “Newsletter” button. Here are some highlights: Housing and Redevelopment has new director Julie Palmeri is returning to her hometown of Concord as the new Executive Director of Concord Housing and Redevelopment where she is taking over for John Hoyt, who is retiring after more than...
Entertainment for March 3 to 16
Live music March 3 Remembering the Green Martini at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. Dan Weiner at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Bach Lunch Lecture: ‘Irish Pub Songs’ at 12:10 p.m. at Concord Community Music School March 4 Justin Cohn at Pats Peak from 6 to 8 p.m. Talisk at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. March 5 Tim Kierstead at the Downtown Concord Winter Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to noon Kimayo at Concord Craft Brewing from 2 to 5 p.m....
Book: Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land By Anthony Doerr (626 pages, historical and literary fiction, 2021) Cloud Cuckoo Land is an ambitious matryoshka-doll-of-a-book. This riveting story spans the 1400s to the future, occurs in several places geographically (space, Constantinople, Idaho), and is held together by an invented ancient text, written by Anthony Doerr but inspired by the works of 2nd-century author, Antonius Diogenes. This is a deceptively...
Take a hike to learn about sugaring history
Make maple syrup season even sweeter with a Sugar Camp Guided Hiking Tour at Canterbury Shaker Village. Join local land surveyor Mark Stevens for a two-mile (four-miles total) tour to the Shaker’s remote sugar camp on March 12, 19, or 26 from 1 to 5 p.m. On this exclusive tour, participants will walk back in time through the remnants of a once thriving Shaker Village maple sugar camp, now seemingly lost and forgotten deep in the...
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Walker performances The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for “Doo-wop with The Rockin’ Daddios” on March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. The show is free. Learn more at walkerlecture.org. Author event Professor of Anthropology Robert G. Goodby visits Gibson’s Bookstore virtually on Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. to present A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, focusing on the...
Speaker to discuss Noyes Academy
NHTI invites the public to the next Wings of Knowledge Speaker Series event, “The Abolitionists of Noyes Academy,” with historian Dan Billin. Join us on campus or online as we shine a light on this dark chapter of New Hampshire history. In 1835, abolitionists opened one of the nation’s first integrated schools in Canaan, NH, attracting eager African-American students from as far away as Boston, Providence, and New York City. Outraged...
Crafts, Drafts & Barrels upcoming
Concord Hospital Trust is pleased to present Crafts, Drafts & Barrels, an evening of spirit, beer and wine tasting, hosted by Martignetti Companies of New Hampshire. The event will be held March 18 at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord and will include admission to take in the universe while you sip, dine and mingle. Guests will sample local restaurants’ delicious food thoughtfully paired with exceptional spirits,...
This week in Concord history
Feb. 24, 1976: President Gerald Ford barely defeats Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire primary. On the Democratic side, the winner is long-shot Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Feb. 25, 1780: Jonathan Harvey is born in Sutton. He will grow up to be president of the New Hampshire Senate in 1818, the same year his brother Matthew is speaker of the New Hampshire House. Feb. 25, 1978: Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas comes to New Hampshire...
Book: Bewilderment
Bewilderment By Richard Powers (278 pages, science fiction, 2021) Like any good dystopian sci-fi, Bewilderment take place in a plausible — almost TOO plausible —near-future setting. As through looking into a funhouse mirror, we watch the characters move through a society that’s almost recognizable as our own, impacted by technology that feels like it’s just over the horizon of our real-life here-and-now. The science itself isn’t the...
Entertainment for the week of Feb. 24
Live music Feb. 24 Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Connelly, Felix Hold and Mallory Wiess at Penuche’s Feb. 25 The Honeybees at Penuche’s Soggy Po’ Boys at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 John Franzosa at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Josh Foster at the Downtown Concord Winter Farmers Market in Eagle Square from 9 a.m. to noon Andrew North at Concord Craft Brewing from 3 to 6 p.m. Ryan Williamson at Chen Yang Li from 7 to 10...
‘Lifespan of a Fact’ will be staged at the Hatbox Theatre for three weekends
Broadway hit, The Lifespan of a Fact, produced by Lend Me a Theater, will be presented at the Hatbox Theatre in Concord for through March 6. The Lifespan of a Fact is a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth. Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact-checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy — an essay that could...
City newsletter
The city manager’s office sent out the City Manager’s Newsletter last Friday. The full newsletter can be found by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the “Newsletter” button. Here are some highlights: City meetings City meetings are held in person in Council Chambers at 37 Green St. (unless otherwise specified on the city’s calendar). Upcoming meetings include: Zoning Board of Adjustment: March 2, 7 p.m. City Council: March 14, 7 p.m....
