Entertainment Feb. 17 to 27
Live music Feb. 17 New Hampshire Music Collective showcase at Area 23 at 7 p.m. Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 Crooked Organ Trio at Penuche’s Feb. 19 Carleton Page at the Downtown Concord Winter Farmers Market in Eagle Square from 9 a.m. to noon Ken Budka at Concord Craft Brewing from 3 to 6 p.m. Alex Cohen at Chen Yang Li from 7 to 10 p.m. Joey Placenti at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. The Tumble Toad at Penuche’s Feb. 22...
Cheryl Miller art on exhibit
New Hampshire Art Association artist Cheryl Miller will have her artwork on display in an exhibit titled, “Stitched Together – Elements of Nature from Textile Fragments,” at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Visitors Center beginning Feb. 21. Miller is a textile artist who creates fabric collages using hand dyed cottons, batiks, and vintage fabrics that are stitched by machine. Her work incorporates an eclectic mix of old...
This week in Concord history
Feb. 17, 1740: John Sullivan is born in Somersworth. He will grow up to be a vain lawyer with British sympathies and an American Revolutionary War general, but not a good one. Feb. 17, 1900: Deep in debt, the 96-year-old Abbot & Downing coach and wagon company is taken over by creditors. Employment has dropped from 300 to 200. The families of Lewis Downing and J. Stephens Abbot will no longer be involved in running the...
