City Newsletter: Improvements and updates
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: Concord NEXT zoning update public meetings The Phase 1 Draft of the new Zoning Code was presented in part yesterday and more today in a series of public presentations and stakeholder meetings. Come to a small group stakeholder session to...
Son’s resilience inspires art
Photographer Mark Bolton’s work is currently on display at the NHTI library gallery through March 6 in an exhibit called “A Son’s Gift.” The pictures chronicle the life of Mark’s young son, Max, who was born with a heart defect but is now thriving. Max, now 11, had two open-heart surgeries at Boston Children’s Hospital. He currently leads an active life that includes Tae Kwon Do, swimmings, biking and playing with friends. Bolton is a...
Discovery Center aims to inspire
There’s a whooshing sensation to entering the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center – the darkened entranceway, the solemn, close-quarter hallway, and then, all at once, the massive bright atrium with aircraft and space artifacts aplenty. The effect is not unlike taking flight itself. And it’s by design, says Jeanne Gerulskis, the executive director of the Concord center. But it wasn’t always like that. Twenty-one years ago when...
Granite State treasure trove
The New Hampshire Historical Society, a private nonprofit – not a governmental agency – was founded in 1823. It is home to artifacts such as the first eagle to top the State House, an Abenaki dugout canoe and an early Snowmobile. The society began to collect written materials immediately upon its founding, began to collect artifacts in 1825 and began to exhibit its artifact collections in 1831. It opened in its current location in...
Step back in time at Shaker Village
Canterbury Shaker Village offers visitors a variety of entertaining, educational and engaging experiences in one of the most picturesque settings in northern New England. Guided and self-guided tours, accessible historic buildings, family activities, exhibits, educational programs, special events, unique shopping, the museum cafe and picturesque grounds offer you more than you can do in a day. Canterbury Shaker Village was established...
Museums outside of Merrimack County
Culture, of course, is not confined to the capital region. Here are some other museums and history-geared spots that might be worth checking out, though by no means is it an exhaustive list. Currier Museum The Currier Museum of Art features European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture, including works by Picasso, Monet, O’Keeffe, Wyeth and LeWitt with exhibitions, tours and programs year-round. The...
While you’re in Warner
With a population of about 3,000 people, Warner isn’t the first place you might think would have five museums. In addition to the N.H. Telephone Museum, the town also has: Firefighters Museum The museum opened in 2008 in the N.H. Telephone Museum building and features a wide array of antique firefighting equipment, including an 1824 Hunneman Handpumper, a ladder truck of the same vintage, and a 1927 Chevrolet Fire Engine. Open during...
Head to Warner for a cool little museum
Mourning old technology might be a fool’s game, but I defy anybody to try out a dial phone at one of the state’s most delightful museums and not feel at least a slight pang of loss. Go ahead, spin the dial on one of the solid, heavy 1960s AT&T phones on display at the New Hampshire Telephone Museum – the curator doesn’t mind. Enjoy the way you need just the right amount of effort to turn the dial, the way you can tell instantly...
Cap Center hosts Arc Attack show
Arc Attack was staged at the Capitol Center for the Arts on Wednesday as part of the Lincoln Financial Education Series. ArcAttack’s Engineering program covers academic standards for students in fifth through eighth grades relating to engineering and design. Audience members have the opportunity to help Arc Attack solve problems, learn about the scientific method, and apply critical thinking skills. The next Lincoln Financial...
Explore history of house with past owner
Kimball Jenkins School of Art is currently offering tours of the 1882 High Victorian Gothic mansion designed by architect Amos Porter Cutting, who also design the state library building. Volunteer Eleanor Poirier, often in costume as Louise Kimball Jenkins, leads the tours. You might also see Clark Todd dressed as Cutting. John Kimball settled the area in the late 1700s. For the next six generations, the Kimballs built a series of...
Poem: A Simple Letter
The little girl had a letter, her thoughts written most sincere, she paid her postage this late fall day, in search of a mailbox near. Her letter was very special, she spent writing each moment she had, this letter contained so much more than words, for it was written to her Dad. It was late fall nineteen seventeen, her letter was destined for the war overseas, Christmas was coming very soon, she asked him to come home...
This week in Concord history
Feb. 19, 2003: Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina brings a populist, blue-collar message to Page Belting factory in Concord, his first appearance in New Hampshire since joining the 2004 presidential race. Feb. 19, 1965: Television personality Jack Paar films a show in Gilmanton. He tells school board member Mrs. Harold Bryant he wanted to do a show about “a small, friendly New England Town.” Paar and his seven-man crew eat...
Bulletin Board: Health service offered and fundraiser
CRVNA offers Walk-In Wednesday Concord Regional VNA offers Walk-In Wednesday on Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to noon at Horseshoe Pond Place Senior Resource Center, 26 Commercial St., in Concord. Walk-In Wednesday is held on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the same time. A Concord Regional VNA team member is available to meet with people individually regarding their specific concerns. Whether it is in-home support, caregiver resources,...
Entertainment: Massive chorus takes the stage and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ remix
Live music Today Ken Budka at Concord Craft Brewing from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Kid Pinky at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Irish Music with David Levine and Roger Duhaime at Area 23 at 5:32 p.m. Thursday Ryan Williamson at Cheers from 5 to 8 p.m. Eugene Durkee at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Leah Cordero at Penuche’s Rescheduled Bach’s Lunch Lecture, “Jazz Lives On and On!” at Concord Community Music School at 12:10 p.m. Friday Stoned Wasp at Area 23 at...
Yoga, musical theater and… naps
It was a Sunday afternoon in the city of Boston. I was sitting in the Boston Opera House, struggling to stay awake. My wife and I were in the first row of the balcony, with a phenomenal view of the stage. The touring production of “Phantom of the Opera” was churning through act one, and my head was doing a bob and weave act. I tried shifting positions and changing my breathing. I tensed and relaxed my muscles, tried some good old...
Book of the Week: Woman must find own way and kidnapper
The Spies of Shilling Lane By Jennifer Ryan 355 pages/2019/fiction In Ashcombe Village, England, March 1941, housewife Mrs. Braithwaite takes out her notebook and writes up her thoughts. “How do you measure the success of your life?” Mrs. Braithwaite thinks it has to do with how respected you are, your social standing. But when her cheating husband divorces her, she is ousted from the Women’s Voluntary Service group in the...
