Barbara Morse’s ‘Around Town’ at chamber
New Hampshire Art Association artist Barbara Morse will have her artwork on display in an exhibit titled, “Around Town,” at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Visitors Center beginning in April. Morse has developed her own style of drawing with graphite that she calls “In Sharp Focus.” Indeed, those viewing her work could easily get lost in examining all the details she puts into her pieces. A Connecticut native, receiving her...
City news: Outdoor dining begins April 15 in 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: Outdoor dining During the March City Council meeting, the City established a permanent outdoor dining policy in the City of Concord. This new program is an effort by the City to establish a uniform application and standards, as well as...
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Author talk From the co-author of The Spirit Almanac and mindbodygreen’s Senior Sustainability Editor comes a timely guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, with new science on why nature makes us healthier and happier in body and soul. Author Emma Loewe visits Gibson’s Bookstore virtually on April 13 at 7 p.m. to present Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us. She is joined in conversation by Gibson’s...
An artistic journey to the White Mountains
Writer Howard Mansfield and composer Ben Cosgrove will be performing “A Journey to the White Mountains in Words and Music” at the Capitol Center for the Arts on April 14, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $24 and are available online at ccanh.com. The show is about how the discovery of the White Mountains affects us to this day. “Pioneering artists in the 19th Century taught Americans how to look at the wilderness,” said Mansfield. “Americans...
Book: The Last Bookshop in London
The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II By Madeline Martin (320 pages, fiction, 2021) It is August 1939. Grace Bennett and her best friend Viv have always wanted to live in London. They travel to the big city just as blackout curtains are being put up and people are preparing for the blitz. Viv gets a job at Harrod’s, the magnificent department store. But Grace is given a job (reluctantly) by Mr. Evans at his bookshop....
Entertainment for March 31 to April 10
Live music March 31 Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Celtic Woman, Postcards from Ireland, will be at the Capitol Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. April 1 Paul Driscoll at Over the Moon Farmstead from 7 to 9 p.m. ABT Studio Company will be at the Capitol Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. River Sister at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. ODB Project at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Album party for June Sexton with opener Faith Ann at Area 23 at 8...
This week in Concord history
March 31, 1968: Nineteen days after Sen. Eugene McCarthy captured 42 percent of the Democratic vote in the New Hampshire primary, President Lyndon B Johnson tells a national television audience: “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” April 1, 2000: Concord’s Matt Bonner gets a taste of Final Four basketball as a freshman, scoring four points and grabbing two...
City hall, garage work underway
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: April 6, 7 p.m. City Council: April 11, 7 p.m....
Meet the CASL Class of 2022: Part 2
Twenty-five motivated high school sophomores from seven schools in the Greater Concord region are enrolled in Capital Area Student Leadership (CASL). Offered by the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, and underwritten by Northeast Delta Dental, CASL is the state’s only regional student leadership and civics program. Enrolled students learn about Concord’s history and inner-workings, gain hands-on experience in public speaking...
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Walker lecture The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for “Counterfeit Cash,” a tribute to Johnny Cash. Counterfeit Cash, a Johnny Cash tribute band, performs songs made famous by the man in black, including “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and “Big River.” The concert will be held April 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Learn more at walkerlecture.org. Author talk...
Woman World
Woman World By Aminder Dhaliwal (247 pages, graphic novel, 2018) In many ways, Aminder Dhaliwal’s graphic novel Woman World is a story of the dystopia-that-wasn’t. Set in a present or near-future Earth, this is the story of an exclusively female society that finds itself carrying on after a gradual, worldwide disappearance of men. After a predictably rocky transition (e.g. swaths of men being kidnapped, their ejaculate traded on the...
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Walker Lecture The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for “Japan, Land of the Rising Sun,” a travelogue with Brent Winebrenner. Explore Japan with travel photographer and documentary filmmaker Brent Winebrenner. This multimedia presentation is a visual feast that will educate and inform the Walker audience about this magical land, her sometimes turbulent history, deep-rooted traditions, vibrant culture, and determined...
Book: Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Paper Scissors By Alice Feeney (295 pages, thriller, 2021) What would life be like if you weren’t able to recognize anyone’s face — including your loved ones’? It would certainly be a challenge navigating day-to-day interactions; would you even be able to trust your sense of reality? Face blindness is a real condition, called prosopagnosia. It also plays heavily into the plot of Alice Feeney’s thrilling new novel, Rock Paper...
Meet the CASL Class of 2022: Part I
Twenty-five motivated high school sophomores from seven schools in the Greater Concord region are enrolled in Capital Area Student Leadership. Offered by the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, and underwritten by Northeast Delta Dental, CASL is the state’s only regional student leadership and civics program. Enrolled students learn about Concord’s history and inner-workings, gain hands-on experience in public speaking and other...
Entertainment March 24 to April 3
Live music March 24 Craig Fahey at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Crawlspace with opener Mike Morris at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. March 25 Masceo Williams at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Steven Fry Acoustic Trio at Area 23 from 6 to 7 p.m. Somewhere In Between at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Mr. Aaron at Kimball Jenkins at 9:30 a.m. Ziggy and Miles Johnson at Over the Moon Farmstead in Pittsfield at 7 p.m. Panorama (Tribute to Cars) with opener Being Petty...
This week in Concord history
March 25, 2000: Concord High defenseman Joe Garofalo has been named Division I hockey player of the year, the Monitor reports. It is the second year in a row he has won the award, which he shares this year with Bishop Guertin goalie Dave MacDonald. March 26, 2002: A new study shows that the combined willpower of town meeting voters across New Hampshire raised more money for conservation this year than any other public or...
Camps ahead
The Insider will be highlighting a few summer camps this week, April 21 and May 19. Stay tuned for summer fun for kids. Hopkinton writing camp Writing camp for students entering grades 3 through High School will be offered at Maple Street School in Hopkinton from June 27 to July 1 or Aug. 15 to 19. Options include full day, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $200 or half-day 9 a.m. to noon for $150. Writing Camp is a time for students who love to...
City news: Chisholm named interim fire chief
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: Chisholm named interim fire chief Deputy Fire Chief John Chisholm has been named Interim Fire Chief of the Concord Fire Department, effective March 29 when current Fire Chief Sean Brown retires after an expansive and impressive career...
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...
