Carrying the survivor place experience onward
I am the Director of 2021 Volunteer Director of Survivorship for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of New Hampshire. This is a new role for me this year and I’m truly honored. I began walking over 20 years ago for Team Sarah’s Soldiers in support of a close family friend who lost her battle at a very young age. Later we would lose my father to prostate cancer and Sarah’s mother Donna to breast cancer. My mother is also a breast...
’As a nurse and person who does a great deal of caregiving, now my role was completely reversed’
Prior to receiving a breast cancer diagnosis, I was healthy without any significant medical or surgical history. Receiving a cancer diagnosis just knocks you off your feet and everything you were looking forward to comes to a screeching halt. As a nurse and person who does a great deal of caregiving, now my role was completely reversed. How does one cope with feeling betrayed by a once healthy body that now requires chemotherapy,...
Book: Lost Apothecary
Lost Apothecary By Sarah Penner (301 pages, mystery, 2021) The story starts in London in February 1791. Nella Clavinger learned from her mother to be an apothecary, how to use herbs, plants and other natural ingredients to help women with all kinds of sicknesses and ailments. But her mother dies, and when Nella is horribly betrayed by her lover she turns to also making poisons. Nella will not give out poison to harm another woman,...
City news: Share your thoughts on trails plan
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 will be held in person in Council Chambers at 37 Green St. (unless otherwise specified on the city’s calendar). Upcoming meetings include: Planning Board, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. Election info Absentee ballots...
Entertainment for week of Oct. 7
Live music Oct. 7 Craig Fahey at Hermanos from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 8 Dan Bauer, Becca Myari, Gardner Berry, Jack Bopp, and Sam McKenna at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Rap Night at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Grain Thief with Green Heron at the Bank of NH Stage at 8 p.m. Chris Palermo at the Pittsfield Moonlight Meadery from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 9 Rhythm Upstairs album release at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Trade at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Andre North at Concord Craft...
Book: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am By Julia Cooke (266 pages, nonfiction history, 2021) Come Fly the World is a new book about what it was like to work as a stewardess (the bygone term for “flight attendant”) for Pan American Airways in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. In ways that feel reminiscent of the TV show Mad Men, this story is at once thought-provoking, aspirational, infuriating, and immensely...
Bulletin board: Author event at Gibsons
Mansfield to present book Howard Mansfield returns to Gibson’s Bookstore to present his newest book, Chasing Eden: A Book of Seekers on Oct. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Chasing Eden is about the seekers all around us, about Americans seeking their Promised Land, their utopia out on the horizon – which by definition, is ever receding before us. In Chasing Eden we meet a gathering of Americans – the Shakers in the twilight of their utopia; the...
Book: Circe
Circe By Madeline Miller (385 pages, fantasy, 2018) Madeline Miller’s stunning second novel opens with the line “When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.” So begins the never-ending quest of Circe, the much-beleaguered, secondary antagonist from the famous tale of Odysseus we all remember from literature. Traditionally, Circe is only featured in a few pages in the Greek myth of Odysseus, where she is portrayed as a...
This week in Concord history
Oct. 8, 2001: Concord area cancer patients and their families win a prolonged and sometimes agonizing battle, when a state board approves Concord Hospital’s plan to bring radiation treatments closer to home. The decision clears the way for the hospital to install a $7.8 million radiation device in its new cancer treatment center. Oct. 8, 1856: A show called Price’s Ethiopian Minstrels opens at Concord’s Phenix Hall. The show,...
City man steps up to restore gate
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: Resident restores Old North Cemetery gate Concord resident Doug Wyman painted the gate at Old North Cemetery to give it a beautiful, refreshed look. He intends to continue painting a section at a time going forward. Thank you to Doug for...
Book: The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island By Colleen Oakley (337 pages, fiction, 2021) Piper Parrish is a beautiful young widow living on Frick Island. Her husband Tom’s crab boat went down at sea, and his body wasn’t recovered. Stunned by grief, Piper carries on with life as if Tom is still alive and with her. Piper still cooks Tom breakfast, talks to him, and walks down to the boats with him every morning. Everyone in the small town...
This week in Concord history
Oct. 1, 1900: A 26-year-old egg farmer named Robert Frost moves to a 30-acre farm in Derry. Oct. 2, 1990: The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of David H. Souter of Weare to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the State House in Concord, Souter tells a gathering of well-wishers: “I have been given much and much will be expected from me in return, and I will make that return to you and I will make it in the fullest measure that I...
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Tour upstairs downtown Join IntownConcord on Oct. 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. as they celebrate the rich culture that exists in Concord. The 12th annual Upstairs Downtown Tour will feature local theatres and entertainment venues in the downtown area. Tour stops and entertainment include Red River Theatres for a short film (everyone starts here at 1 p.m.); Capital Center for the Arts for the Grateful Dead Tribute Band, “Crawl Space”; Bank of...
Book: The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery By Martha Grimes (364 pages, mystery, 2018) A gunman shoots two glamorous people outside of a London casino/art gallery. The gunman then jumps into a London black cab and goes for a long ride around London, exactly as if he wasn’t guilty of a crime. The cab driver Robbie Parsons fears for his life and signals to other black cab drivers along the way. They contact the local young pickpockets (think...
Live Music
Live music Sept. 30 Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. DJ Lance at Area 23 at 9 p.m. Oct. 1 Karen Grenier at Moonlight Meadery in Pittsfield from 6 to 8 p.m. GA-20/JD Simo at Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. $12 live stream, $25 in person, +$2 at the door Oct. 2 Club Soda Band will perform from 4 to 6 p.m. at Eagle Square in a make-up from a rained-out summer concert. They play a wide variety of top 40, classic rock, dance, R&B, pop...
Tune into the ‘Talk Concord’ pod
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: Upcoming city meetings City meetings will be 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, Oct. 6, 7 p.m. City...
Entertainment the week of Sept. 23
Live music Sept. 23 Craig Fahey at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 24 Eaglemania at the Capitol Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. $35-plis Blaggards with the Outsiders Punkabilly Rebels at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. $15-plis Technical Difficulties at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Old Tom and the Lookouts at SHARA Vineyards at 5:30 p.m. Eric Lindberg at Moonlight Meadery at 6 p.m. Sept. 25 John Franzosa at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Fruit Flies Like a...
Capital Arts Fest schedule
FRIDAY 6 p.m. – “Sharing Oneself” Faculty Art Exhibit opening at Kimball Jenkins School of Art 6:45 p.m. – Barranquilla Flavor salsa lesson at Kimball Jenkins 7 p.m. – Ballet Misha dance performance at Kimball Jenkins 7:30 p.m. – “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” at the Hatbox Theatre (ticketed event) 8 p.m. – “Moonrise Kingdom” outdoor movie by Red River Theatres at Kimball Jenkins 8 p.m. – Eaglemania at the Capitol Center for the Arts...
League of New Hampshire Craftsmen to present
The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen plan to have a line-up of their juried members present outdoors along South Main Street during the weekend of the Capital Arts Fest. Members will be set up Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Shop for fine crafts from members of the League and talk with the makers about their process and inspiration. Participating artists include Jennifer Guest Armstrong, Lori...
This week in Concord history
Sept. 23, 1972: Attorney General Warren Rudman testifies in favor of tougher laws for convicted felons including, in several specific categories of murder, the death penalty. Usually, he says, a life sentence means parole in 12½ years. “That’s appalling,” he says. “That’s just not right.” Sept. 23, 1815: Barnstead is visited by “The greatest gale in the midst of rain and storm ever known there,” according to a town history....
City News: Participate in Concord’s BioBlitz
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 will be 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, Oct. 6, 7 p.m. City Council, Oct. 12, 7...
Kimball Jenkins display faculty show
Kimball Jenkins School of Art will be marking the opening of their faculty art exhibit on Sept. 24 in conjunction with the Capital Arts Fest. “Sharing Oneself” will feature media by more than a dozen faculty members, who teach ceramics, drawing, painting, photography and printmaking. The show will include paintings in watercolor and acrylic, woodblock prints, photographs and ceramics. Faculty include Marcia O’Brien (ceramics), Mike...
Capital Arts Fest returns for fifth year
By Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce The fifth annual Capital Arts Fest will be the biggest celebration of art and culture that the Capital City has ever hosted. On Sept. 24 through Sept. 26, artists and organizations in downtown Concord and beyond will welcome visitors to a vibrant multi-arts festival. This immersive event offers lively, joyous and interactive arts experiences. View contemporary and traditional crafts, listen to...
Book: Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers By Sara Ackerman (391 pages, fiction, 2018) It’s 1944, wartime, on the big Island of Hawaii, in the little town of Honoka’a. It’s three years after Pearl Harbor and one year since Violet Iverson’s husband Herman disappeared. Violet’s ten-year-old daughter Ella is troubled. She’s been picking at her freckles, making scabs, and wetting her pants. Violet thinks that Ella knows something about Herman’s...
Walker Lecture Series announce fall line-up
Since 1896, the Walker Lecture Series has brought stimulating speakers and musicians to Concord. COVID forced a change from live performances to virtual ones, but now the series is back in the Concord City Auditorium for the fall 2021 season. “We plan to be in the Audi for the year,” said Walker trustee Jon Kelly. “If things change, we will adjust.” Travelogues have long been a staple of the Walker Lecture Series and fall 2021...
Entertainment for week of Sept. 16
Live music Sept. 16 Ken Clark at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Drum Circle at Area 23 at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 Blue Light Rain at Bank of NH Stage at 8 p.m. $15+ MVP Band at Area 23 at 8 p.m. Decatur Creak at SHARA Vineyards from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 18 Chris Peters at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Jam at Area 23 from 2 to 5 p.m. Kilroy and Crooked Cash at Area 23 at 8 p.m. North River Duo at Contoocook Farmer Market from 9 a.m. to noon Kimayo at Gould Hill...
New Hampshire native returns for concert
Blaggards, the South Irish Rock Band from Houston, Texas, will perform Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage. The band is comprised of drummer Eric Hughes, who grew up in Colebrook and attended Plymouth State College; guitarist/vocalist Patrick Devlin, and bassist/vocalist Chad Smalley. Blaggards formed July 2004 in Houston, Texas, and plays a blend of traditional Irish music mixed with rock n’ roll, informed by...
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Duo presents family history Gibson’s Bookstore is pleased to join Books & Books in Florida and indie bookstores across America on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. to virtually present Anderson Cooper as he shares his new book, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the...
This week in Concord history
Sept. 16, 1845: Benjamin O. Bartlett, 57, of Pembroke dies. “He has left his surviving friends the rich consolation of believing that their loss is his gain,” the New Hampshire Courier reports in his obituary. Sept. 16, 1973: Three Roman Catholic laymen announce plans to open a new liberal arts institution, Magdalen College, for 300 students, saying American universities have lost their intellectual and moral vigor. Years...
Book: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories By Lucia Berlin (399 pages, short stories: fiction and memoir, 2015) Lucia Berlin was truly the definition of a literary diamond in the rough. Born in Juneau, Alaska, in 1936, she lived a colorful and varied life right from the beginning. Her father was a mining engineer, and his work brought the family all over the country and into Mexico and South America. While various pieces of her...
