Book of the Week: Vivid depictions of subterranean
Underland By Robert Macfarlane (Non-fiction, 496 pages, 2019) There are few fears as universal as darkness and claustrophobia. Few concepts as alien as the geological timescale of the Earth. Few experiences as life changing as placing your palm against a hand-print older than your language. Robert Macfarlane, a renowned naturalist, explorer, and author, wrote Underland as a bridge between our shared myths of the...
City newsletter: Apply for state relief fund
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: FY21 proposed budget The proposed FY21 budget is available online at: concordnh.gov/ Archive.aspx?ADID=5027. This web page also includes links to the Finance Committee’s budget schedule. Main Street Relief Fund Pre-qualification Due...
Book of the Week: A riotous romp through space
Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 1) By Tamsyn Muir (Sci-fi/fantasy, 448 pages, 2019) Gideon is a sassy, sword-wielding ward of the desolate Ninth House. She is desperate to break free of her imprisonment and be anywhere else in the solar system, so she can kick butt, win glory, and flirt with other lady knights in peace. Harrowhawk Nonagesimus, heir to the Ninth House and a prodigy who can summon legions of the undead from...
Making Good Health Simple: The plank
With gyms closed and at least some social distancing precautions expected to continue through the summer, it might be hard to keep up the routines you are used to doing. However, it is still important to stay active for a healthy body and mind. Instructors from 43 Degrees North will be sharing quick exercises with the Insider that you can do at home. The Plank It’s one of my favorite exercises because you can do it anytime and...
Kindness Challenge: Teachers go above and beyond
There are so many people going above and beyond for others right now that it’s hard to choose who to focus on first. As the end of the school year is approaching and teachers have worked harder than ever during remote learning, it seemed like a good time to tell stories about local teachers who are showing kindness in action. The stories about these teachers have one thing in common. They all go “above and beyond.” I hope these...
This week in Concord history
May 27, 2003: Daniel Littlefield of Meredith goes to trial in Belknap County Superior Court on charges he killed a 69-year-old Bedford man, John Hartman, in a hit-and-run boat crash last summer on Lake Winnipesaukee. May 27, 2001: Families from all over New England descend on Wilmot’s Eagle Pond Lodge Conference Center for the sixth annual Half Moon Sober Festival, an event dedicated to the proposition that you don’t need alcohol to...
Poem: Life from our Past
It is that fleeting glimpse, of life from our past, we so deeply desire, these thoughts to last. Nostalgia can be an old friend, easily awakened without a thought, an elusive memory from childhood, you didn’t realize you sought. Perhaps a conversation or visit, or the scent of pine from the forest, will rekindle those memories, that have remained dormant at rest. These memories are welcome, for they return like an old friend, time...
Looking back: A trip down North Main
Please take a trip back in time with me to North Main Street. This is a photograph of North Main Street in Concord. The photographer stood over a century ago on North Main Street looking south towards our downtown. He was close to where now are traffic lights at the intersection of 393 and North Main in the middle of the road. Some perspective for your enjoyment: The first house on the left is the present day Carrigan House, the large...
