Entertainment for April 28 to My 7
Live music April 28 Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. DJ Dicey at Area 23 at 8 p.m. April 29 Susan Werner at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. Karen Grenier at Over the Moon Farmstead from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. R&B Dignity at Area 23 at 8 p.m. April 30 Lucas Gallo at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Zach Nugent Disco Dead at Bank of N.H. at 8 p.m. Joey Clark at the Downtown Concord Winter Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to noon Brad Myrick at Two...
Book: How Stella Learned to Talk
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World’s First Talking Dog By Christina Hunger (260 pages, memoir, 2021) How Stella Learned to Talk is one of my favorite books published in 2021. This light-but-fascinating read willappeal to animal lovers, parents of young children, or anyone interested in language acquisition and verbal communication. Part memoir, part popular science, this is the story of speech-language...
This week in Concord history
April 28, 1974: Gov. Mel Thomson returns to New Hampshire after two days in the Caribbean studying oil refineries. Thomson’s office refuses to say precisely where in the Caribbean area he was. April 28, 1752: On a trapping expedition north of Plymouth, young John Stark leaves camp to check his traps and is captured by Indians. He is beaten, taken north to Canada, forced to run the gauntlet and, after five or six weeks in captivity,...