You can’t Google this
We paired NHTI student Cameron Buker with library technical guru Kevin French for a database showdown. Cameron tried tracking down information on Google while Kevin used one of the library’s subscription databases. Guess who won? Yeah, it was Kevin, by a landslide. But Cameron came away with a fresh perspective on reliable searching techniques. ***** Goodbye Google. No more fruitless searches for a query on “how to properly manicure...
Center for the Arts Weekend kicks off in July
The Center for the Arts (CFA) is collaborating with businesses and organizations in Sunapee Harbor around its popular Arts in the Harbor and Naturally New England Arts Exhibit and Crafters Show, which has run for almost five years. The Center for the Arts supports, promotes, and connects the literary, performance, and visual artists of all ages in the popular vacation region of Lake Sunapee. This summer, the CFA is working in...
This week in Concord history
Dec. 28, 1863: Henry Plummer Brooks, a Pittsfield boy of 14 years 10 months, enlists in the Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. After fighting in two battles, he will die of illness in North Carolina. A history of the town’s Civil War soldiers will assert that although there were younger drummer boys during the war, Plummer was the youngest by 10 months of any soldier who carried a rifle. Thus the town will claim both...
Week in history for Dec. 14, 2023
Dec. 14, 2001: William King, former chairman of the state Republican Party, a state delegate and manager of Merrill Lynch on Main Street, dies at the age of 90. Dec. 14, 1999: For the first time in more than a decade, the Concord teachers union authorizes its leadership to call for a strike vote if a settlement on a new three-year contract is not reached within the week. Dec. 14, 1774: A crowd of 400, led by Thomas Pickering, a...
Bulletin board for the week of June 15, 2023
Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music On Friday, June 16 at 2 p.m. at the Richard Brown House on 142 South Village Road in Loudon, through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus is on songs about leaving Ireland, sometimes focusing on the reasons for leaving (a man who is driven from his land by English persecution), sometimes...
