We found actual signs of spring last week
If you remember a few weeks back, we put out our annual Spring Guide. It covered all kinds of great events happening not just in Concord, but all around the state. There were also a couple things about gardening, filling potholes and a new springy beer.Then, it snowed – a couple times. It didn’t amount to much, but it sure did put a damper on things and made us wonder if spring was ever going to show up. And we wanted a chance at...
Farmers Market to begin another season
Folks who are unsure of what to do with their Saturday mornings now that the Winter Farmers Market has closed for the season can breathe a little easier. That’s because the Concord Farmers Market opens for the season on Saturday. The annual opening of the downtown market is a sure sign that spring is finally here and has been for more than three decades. On Saturday, beginning at 8:30 a.m., Capitol Street will be lined with pop tents...
Clean up the city by filling some of those blue bags
Now that spring is (finally) here, you’re going to start noticing all the things the large piles of snow kept under wraps for the last few months – mainly trash. We’ve never quite understood why people think it’s okay to basically use the outdoors as their personal trash can, but unfortunately it happens and the rest of us are forced to live with it. While we always want to pick up trash whenever we see it lying in the road, on a...
Pierce Manse to host plant sale
In partnership with Canterbury Plantation, the Pierce Manse is hosting a spring plant sale on Saturday and Sunday at the home that was once lived in by the only president from New Hampshire. Since it has been a bit of a wonky spring thus far, and just recently started to warm up for the growing season, Kevin Bragg, owner of Canterbury Plantation, was in a wait and see approach as to what would be available at the sale. The original...
Entertainment: Three on-stage productions to keep you busy
If you’re into theater then this is the week you’ve been waiting for. There are three main stage shows ranging from the high school ranks to the final installment of the Community Players of Concord’s 90th season. With it being the beginning of the month, many places didn’t have their up to date music information online, so use this lineup as a starting point and if you don’t see your favorite spot here, check in with them as the week...
We figured out how to escape The Enigma
While my first experience at Concord Escape Room was a blast, those 15 final seconds (that we went over) have haunted me ever since. It was actually my first-ever attempt to get out of a room that was designed and built to keep me inside – at least until the digital clock hits all zeroes – and in my eyes I failed. Not just because me and my three partners in mystery solving cracked the final puzzle just after the timer ran out, but I...
On Stage: What if ‘The Odd Couple’ was a pair of women?
Sharing a living space with someone can be challenging. Whether it be a sibling, significant other or a child, there will undoubtedly be things about that person that drives you bonkers.That’s the basic idea behind Neal Simon’s play, The Odd Couple, which features an unlikely pairing. Felix Unger, a neurotic, neat freak newswriter, is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison, a sportswriter who doesn’t really...
On Stage: Shakespeare goes Hollywood with Players
It’s been one impressive 90th season for the Community Players of Concord. From classic shows like the Wizard of Oz and The Hunchback of Notre Dame to the lesser known run of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and the rare beyond the main stage production of Kid Cult Cosmology at Hatbox Theatre, the Players really know how to put on a celebratory season. But it’s not over quite yet, as lovers of Shakespeare, comedies and stories...
Bulletin Board: Paper shredding, hand bells and poetry slam
Tickets remaining for documentary Dismas Home of New Hampshire, a residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation and reentry program for formerly incarcerated women, have limited tickets remaining for their first awareness and educational event on Wednesday at the Red River Theatres. The program will run from 5 to 7:30 p.m. and will begin with a pre-screening reception with appetizers prior to the viewing of the New Hampshire premiere of...
Cats, cats and even more cats at Everett Arena
If you’re a cat lover, then you’ll want to clear your schedule for the weekend because the Seacoast Cat Club is returning to Everett Arena, for both, count them both, days this weekend. It might be the first cat show of the new Cat Fanciers’ Association show season, but this is Seacoast’s 40th show and the goal every year is to make it bigger and better. One of the spectators’ favorite events is the “Pet Me Cats” area. These cats are...
Missed Connections: Sandwiches, locked car and workout pants
We can only imagine how glad you were last month when you realized this Missed Connections monthly report would continue. Samesies here. So sit back, relax and take in all the printable postings we found on Craigslist for the month of April. Believe us, there were a couple we would have liked to include here, but we just couldn’t print for a variety of reasons. Once again we’ll add the standard shameless plug that we’re looking for a...
On Display: It’s a special year for the N.H. Weavers Guild
All the way back in 1938, a lady by the name of Bessie Swain gathered together a small group of weaving enthusiasts and formed the New Hampshire Weavers.Do a little quick math, and you’ll see that the group – better known these days as the N.H. Weavers Guild – is celebrating 80 years, which is quite the milestone.And what better way for an organization that’s all about the creation of hand crafted textiles to toot their own horns than...
There’s a day dedicated to homebrewing
If you couldn’t tell by the name, the Concord Area Homebrewers are big into making beer. They don’t do it to sell or make money off of – it’s purely about the art of making a fermented concoction of hops, barley, yeast and water. And they’ll do it in driveways, kitchens or backyards. This Saturday, a group from the local homebrewers club will be outside Lithermans Limited (in the parking lot at 126 Hall St. Unit B/C) creating a pair...
Free Comic Book Day to take over Concord on Saturday
Everyone loves free stuff. And if you’ve been known to enjoy thumbing through a comic book or two, then you’re going to really love what we’re about to tell you. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and Double Midnight Comics (67 S. Main St.) is once again embracing the industry created day to say thanks to lovers of comics from all over the city and beyond. From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Double Midnight will giving away free comics – and lots of...
Author events, book clubs and workshops this week
Lupica to speak No. 1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica will be at Gibson’s Bookstore on Friday at 6 p.m. as he begins an exciting new chapterbook series, perfect for fans of Cam Jansen, filled with his trademark sports action and heart, featuring a lovable twin brother-sister duo who solve sports-related mysteries. There’s nothing 8-year- old twins Zach and Zoe Walker love more than playing sports and solving mysteries. And when...
Two benefits on tap for Friendly Kitchen
The Friendly Kitchen provides something that some folks don’t always have and others that for granted – their next meal.And it’s a huge undertaking to provide two meals a day, every day. That’s why Concord’s soup kitchen is in constant need of donations, either food or monetary. The Monitor/Insider hosted the Pizza Pie Showdown in March that resulted in a more than $800 donation to the Friendly Kitchen, but that money will only go so...
Love space? Then Aerospacefest is for you
Have you ever dreamed of what it’s like to travel to space? Us too, but unfortunately you can’t just hop on a space shuttle and go on vacation to the moon. Or can you?But we have the next best thing: You can meet a real-live human who has been to space at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center’s annual Aerospacefest on Saturday.New Hampshire’s own Dr. Jay Buckey will be the keynote speaker at the annual event that celebrates space and...
Ladies, Concord Mom Prom is this Friday
It’s prom season, and before all you ladies out there groan about being too old to dance the night away, you might want to turn your attention to what you’re going to wear on Friday night.Because the Concord Mom Prom is this week at the Grappone Conference Center at 7 p.m., and if you haven’t already, you’re going to want to start making some plans for a big night out on the town.The idea for a mom prom started in Michigan in 2006 as...
This Week in Concord History
May 1, 1891: By custom, Concord’s May Horn ushers in a day of celebrating the final escape from winter. The horn is peculiar to Concord. “The ‘oldest inhabitant’ cannot recall a first day of May in his boyhood when the din of the horn did not reverberate in some wee hour,” the Monitor reports. May 1, 1903: After 48 years of Prohibition, New Hampshire begins issuing licenses for liquor sales. May 1, 1925: The Granite...
Book of the Week: ‘An American Marriage’
An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018, 320 pages Fiction Celestial has a bad feeling as she and her new husband, Roy Othaniel Hamilton, drive closer and closer to Roy’s hometown of Eloe, La., to visit his parents. She asks Roy to turn around, to drive them back to Atlanta, where they’ve settled as an up and coming couple, one an executive and one an artist, both on the brink of success and recognition. If only Roy had listened.Flash...
The Arts: New exhibits at Chamber, Forest Society
League of N.H. Craftsmen Fairy Tales and Fantasies Through: June 15 The Grodin Collection Through: Ongoing Location: 49 S. Main St., Suite 100 Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kimball Jenkins Robert Dorr Through: May 31 (extended) N.H. Weavers Guild Through: May 16 Location: 266 N. Main St. Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. McGowan Fine Art Impressed Through:...
