Book: Sea Prayer
Sea Prayer By Khaled Hosseini (48 pages, young adult fiction, 2018) Sea Prayer is a timely, heart-wrenching tale of love, hope, peril, and bittersweet nostalgia experienced by a refugee family. For fans of Khaled Hosseini, the story will feel familiar in content, but novel in format. For those unfamiliar with Mr. Hosseini’s work, this book is a concise, low-pressure introduction to one of the great writers of the 21st century. This...
Celebrate with the Children’s Theatre Project
The Children’s Theatre Project of the Community Players of Concord will be celebrating its 25th anniversary (albeit in its 26th season) with a very special production of All Together Now! a global event celebrating local theatre at the Concord City Auditorium on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. and 13 at 2 p.m. Reserved seating at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., is $15. Information and tickets are available at...
Book review: Of Women and Salt
Of Women and Salt By Gabriela Garcia (204 pages, fiction, 2021) Gabriela Garcia’s sweeping debut novel, Of Women and Salt, demonstrates in a mere 204 pages how our past is inextricably linked to both our present and our future. The book spans four centuries and highlights the struggles of women from two different families. It is remarkable how Garcia masterfully connects the women in both families in such a short novel. The story...
Entertainment for the week of Nov. 11
Live music Nov. 11 State Street Combo at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 Masceo Williams at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Lamont Smooth at 8 p.m. at Area 23 Jocelyn and Chris at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 Phil Sargent at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Senie Hunt at Concord Craft Brewing from 3 to 5 p.m. Sidepiece at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Hank Osborne and Friends at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Doug Farrell at the Downtown Concord Winter Farmers Market...
CYPN: Chown looks to share her knowledge
Concord Young Professionals Network (CYPN) introduces you to the “Young Professional of the Month,” Sindy Chown. Each month, the CYPN Steering Committee recommends a young professional in the community it thinks readers would enjoy getting to know better. Sindy Chown Where do you live? I live in Concord with my two daughters Gabriela (17), Soraya (13) and my husband, Mark. Why do you choose to live in the Greater Concord area? I...
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Christmas Fair The United Church of Penacook, at the corner of Community Drive and Canal Street in Penacook, will hold a Christmas Craft Fair and Bake Sale on Nov. 13 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Crafters will offer home décor, holiday decorations, knit/crochet hats, mittens, scrubbers, printed tees, totes, stuffed toys, jams and jellies, wool felted hats and accessories, handbags, coin purses, artisan soaps, and fused glass. There will also...
Costume contest winner is…
The Concord Monitor’s launched its inaugural Halloween Pet Costume Contest this year. We were happy to do this with For the Love of Pets Everywhere. In addition to sponsoring the contest, they provided the winner with a $100 gift card. The winner was chosen by a random drawing, we simply asked everyone who wanted to win to submit a picture of their pet in the Halloween spirit. We are pleased to announce that Louie Under the Sea is...
This week in Concord history
Nov. 12, 2003: Concord’s Luke Bonner, a senior and basketball star at Trinity High School in Manchester, signs his national letter of intent to play for West Virginia. Nov. 12, 2000: Concord High routs longtime nemesis Londonderry, 53-8, advancing to the state Division I football championship. The win ends a streak of lopsided defeats the Tide had recently suffered at the hands of Londonderry. Concord will go on to win the state title...
City newsletter: Attend the next ‘Coffee With A Cop’
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: Coffee With A Cop Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning at Coffee With A Cop and thank you to White Mountain Gourmet Coffee for hosting. We were happy to be able to hold this event again after a long hiatus. We enjoyed saying...
On the trail of excellent craftsmanship
The Route 3 Art Trail tour is offering a driving art tour of local arts and crafts on Nov. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour includes nine locations from Concord, through Penacook, and ending in Boscawen. Enjoy art exhibits, a holiday art and craft showcase, open studios, demonstrations by artists, family-friendly events, free raffles and other goodies along the trail. Start on either end of the tour and make a day of it! The Route 3...
Book: Notes on a Nervous Planet
Notes on a Nervous Planet By Matt Haig (296 pages, nonfiction, 2018) Matt Haig asks the question: How can we live in a mad world without going mad? People are essentially cavemen, he states, and our natural selves haven’t changed for tens of thousands of years. While humans haven’t changed, the world we inhabit changes rapidly and constantly. Human beings are not equipped to keep up with the pace of life today, resulting in...
Entertainment the week of Nov. 4
Live music Nov. 4 Bach’s Lunch Lecture: “The Birth of Art Song” by David Ripley at Concord Community Music School at 12:10 p.m. Scott Solsky at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 5 Dwayne Haggins at Over the Moon Farmstead in Pittsfield from 6 to 8 p.m. Jared Steer at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Nov. 6 Ryan Williamson at the Downtown Winter Farmers Market at Eagle Square from 9 a.m. to noon. April Cushman at Concord Craft Brewing from 4 to 6 p.m....
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Snowman Fair Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow, invites you to come to our Snowman Fair on Nov. 13 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to enjoy the spirit of Christmas shopping. For your shopping pleasure, we will have holiday crafts, beautiful handmade items to wear or to use in your home, themed gift baskets, special gifts for pet owners. Plan to check out our jewelry table and pick up a Take and Make Craft Gift for kids....
This week in Concord history
Nov 4, 1976: Two days after winning a third term, Gov. Mel Thomson sums of the voters’ mood: “They think I’m an SOB, but they still vote for me.” Thomson says he may seek a fourth term or even a stint in the U.S. Senate. (Ultimately, he will lose to Democrat Hugh Gallen.) Nov. 5, 1996: Jeanne Shaheen defeats Ovide Lamontagne to become the state’s first female governor. Voters re-elect U.S. Sen. Bob Smith. Nov. 5, 1996:...
‘Wonders’ to premiere at Hatbox Theatre
Welcome to the Finger & Wood Recovery and Rehabilitation Clinic, dedicated to serving the physical, spiritual, and mental health of those unfortunate individuals who have lost their superpowers. The facility is on high alert. There is a highly reliable threat leveled against the clinic, reducing the staff to a minimum of four highly trained professionals. It is likely that the threat is aimed at one of the residents: Nemi,...
Secret Service welcomes new task force officers
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: U.S. Secret Service welcomes new task force officers in New England The U.S. Secret Service welcomed newly deputized task force officers to the New England Cyber Fraud Task Force (NECFTF). The NECFTF is composed of officials from state...
Book: Tad
Tad By Benji Davies (32 pages, children’s fiction, 2020) “Sometimes the biggest stories have the smallest beginnings.” Tad is a beautifully illustrated and uplifting picture book by Benji Davies about one tiny tadpole’s biggest adventure. Tad is the littlest tadpole in the whole wide pond. She tries very hard to keep up with all of her tadbrothers and tadsisters and doesn’t understand why they are all growing legs and hopping out of...
Halloween events and trick-or-treat times for the Concord area 2021
Allenstown Allenstown is holding the second Annual Halloween Lighting Contest, which will run from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15 to register your home for decorations and vote on the best decorations. The award ceremony will be held Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. at the Blueberry Express Park, this is sponsored by the Allenstown Economic Development Committee. For more information, call (603) 485-4276. Trick-or-treating planned for Oct. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m...
This week in Concord history
Oct. 28, 1906: The New York World reports that Mary Baker Eddy of Concord is mentally and physically unfit to lead the 800,000-member Christian Science church, which she founded. Eddy is 85 years old. “Mrs. Eddy looked more dead than alive,” wrote two reporters who had never seen her. “She was a skeleton, her hollow cheeks thick with red paint.” Mayor Charles Corning visits Eddy after hearing this account and finds her “keen of...
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Chat with Albom Gibson’s Bookstore is pleased to join Books & Books in Florida and indie bookstores across America to virtually present Mitch Albom as he presents his new novel, The Stranger in the Lifeboat, on Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He...
Entertainment week of Oct. 28
Live music Oct. 28 Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29 Bad Bad Hats with Kitner at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. $15+ Mac and Kelsie at Area 23 at 9 p.m. Boneshakrz at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Delfeayo Marsalis at the Concord Community Music School at 8 p.m. $20-$35 (livestream available for $20). A workshop for young musicians will precede the concert from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Registration is required. Ryan Williams on at Over the...
City news: Get ready to vote on Nov. 2
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: Election is Tuesday Sample ballots for the Election can be viewed online at: concordnh.gov/1708/Nov-2-2021-Sample-Ballots. Additional information is available at concordnh.gov/elections. For more information about the upcoming election,...
Book: Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic By Silvia Moreno Garcia (320 pages, fiction/gothic horror, 2020) Set in a remote mining town in 1950s Mexico, at first blush, Mexican Gothic doesn’t seem like the ideal setting for a traditional gothic tale. However, Moreno-Garcia expertly creates a cloying, dreary, and ghastly ambiance. The setting itself becomes a primary character, its atmosphere entwined with spine-chilling plot elements and mysterious characters....
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A tour of England The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join them for “Southern England with Marlin Darrah” on Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium. Join Marlin Darrah – the world’s most traveled filmmaker – to see Southern England’s diverse cultural, historical, and scenic sites: Southampton, the White Cliffs of Dover, Canterbury Cathedral, the Cotswolds, Stonehenge, Cambridge and Oxford, Big Ben, the Parliament...
Live music Oct. 21 State Street Combo at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Patty Griffin and Gregory Alan Isakov at the Capitol Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. $50+ Oct. 22 Start Making Sense (a Talking Heads Tribute) at the Bank of NH Stage at 8 p.m. $18+ FuzzBoxx at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Andrew North and the Rangers at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Mikey G. at Over the Moon Farmstead in Pittsfield from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 23 John Franzosa at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m....
Author events at Gibson’s bookstore
Criminal justice Gibson’s Bookstore is pleased to welcome Professor Ravi Shankar for a virtual pre-launch event as he presents his memoir, “Correctional,” on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. “Correctional” recounts Shankar’s experience with the criminal justice system stemming from an incident of racial profiling that took place in New York City during their “stop-and-frisk” years. It would eventually lead to him doing jail time. While in...
Family drama in Hatbox’s play
Hatbox Theatre, in association with Lady Llama Productions, is proud to present American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown, from Oct. 15 to 24, at the Hatbox Theatre. A Florida police station in the middle of the night. Two parents searching for answers. Estranged couple Kendra and Scott must confront their feelings about their disparate histories and backgrounds after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop...
This week in Concord history
Oct. 22, 1987: After passing through a small crowd bearing signs reading “Run, Don, Run,” and “New Hampshire Needs Trump,” real estate magnate Donald Trump tells the Portsmouth Rotary: “This country is in trouble. It needs strength, competence and intelligence.” But he adds: “I am not a candidate for president.” Oct. 22, 1770: The trustees of Dartmouth College hold their first meeting in Keene, inaugurating the administration...
City news: Pitco moves forward with Concord facility
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: Pitco facility Pitco Frialator is moving forward with plans to construct a 356,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Concord on Integra Drive after the Concord Planning Board granted major site plan approval during their September...
Making Strides day-of event guide
Parking is available at the Hugh Gallen Parking Lot, on South Fruit Street. Welcome Tent: Volunteers will answer questions. Pink ribbon pins, programs, route maps and “I Am Making Strides For” stickers are available. Survivor sashes available here and at Survivor Place. Survivor Place: Breast cancer survivors, their caregivers, and families are invited to join the survivorship community at Survivor Place. Be among others who have...
