Kindness Column: Rethinking the definition of family
When my younger sister was in kindergarten she was obsessed with the Disney movie Lilo and Stitch. She dressed up as Stitch for Halloween, she had a Stitch themed birthday party at Red River Theatres where we all watched Lilo & Stitch and the DVD of the movie was permanently in our home DVD player. I remember this quote from the movie because we watched it so often that it was hard to forget it: “Ohana means family, family means...
Live music in the capital area Aug. 5 to 15
August 5Bad Medicine at Eagle Square at 7 p.m.Craig Fahey at Hermanos from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.August 6Paul Driscoll at SHARA Vineyards, 82 Currier Road, Concord, from 6 to 8 p.m.Blind Owl Band at Bank of NH Stage at 8 p.m. (doors 7 p.m.) $18 plus processingAugust 7Eric Lindberg Duo at Contoocook Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to noonJoel Begin at Concord Craft Brewing from 4 to 6 p.m.Josh Foster at Contoocook Cider Co. from 5 to 7...
City News: Beware of road work across the city
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: Road work Birchdale Road bridge replacement: E.D. Swett has completed half of the bridge abutments and decking. Over the next two weeks, private utilities will be working to transfer the overhead lines to the opposite side of the road so...
The Hiding Place
By Paula Munier (323 pages, mystery, 2021) Mercy and Elvis return with another exciting mystery. Many years ago, Mercy’s grandfather, Grandpa Red, a sheriff, was shot in the line of duty. Mercy’s grandmother Patience never forgave his deputy, August Pitts, for coming to work late that day. Now Pitts calls Mercy to his deathbed. He asks Mercy to find Beth Kilgore, an abused woman who has been missing for 20 years. Mercy also hears that...
This week in Concord history
Aug. 5, 2003: The Rev. Canon Gene Robinson, 56, of Weare, makes history when the country’s Episcopal bishops vote 63-42 to make him the country’s first openly gay bishop. Aug. 5, 1855: On a visit home in Chester, N.H., Benjamin Brown French worries that the nation is headed toward civil war because of the Southern movement to add new slave territory. “To this movement I am sorry to see a Northern President lending his aid!” he writes...
Bulletin board: Aug. 5, 2021
Meeting Maynard Joyce Maynard joins Gibson’s Booksore on Aug. 5 at the Phenix Theatre (38 N. Main St.) in a rare New Hampshire event, to present her new novel, Count the Ways. This is a ticketed event. Phenix Hall doors will open at 6 p.m., with a performance by the Cold River Ranters. It’s a party, so BYOB! Joyce Maynard will read from Count the Ways, take questions from the audience, and sign books. Tickets with the new book...
The Postscript Murders
By Elly Griffiths (315 pages, mystery, 2020) An unlikely trio set out on the trail of a murderer, following clues that lead them to a literary festival in Scotland. Peggy Smith is an older woman who lives in assisted living housing, Seaview Court, in England. Her “carer,” Natalka, finds her sitting by the window one morning. Peggy has passed away. She is pronounced dead from natural causes. But Natalka thinks that it was murder. Peggy...
Poem: Days of summer
Days of summer, thoughts from the past, sometimes bittersweet, but we still want them to last. A picnic near the lake, ice cooler sandwiches made, the very best memories, will never ever fade. I ride to the mountains, wading in the ice-cold brook, the old photographs, ones your parents took. There was a time, when the clock ran slow, with the innocence of youth, we now only know. Each year in the past, now passing perhaps a little too...
