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BY JOdY rEESE 

PuBLISHEr’S 

nOTE 

The saga 

It’s unlikely that Liquor 

Commission Chairman 

Mark Bodi thought a drunken 

woman stumbling out of 

a Keene bar last December 

would cost him his job. 

The governor and attorney 

general are pushing to remove Bodi for meddling 

in an investigation of a Keene bar. Bodi has admitted 

to ordering surveillance equipment returned 

to that bar. Given Bodi’s admission, his removal 

seems appropriate. 

So how did a drunken woman lead to all this? 

According to the attorney general’s petition 

to remove Bodi, Keene bar the Railroad Tavern, 

which is owned by city council member Randy 

Filiault (whom I know from my days covering the 

Keene City Council for the Keene Sentinel), was 

being investigated for overserving two customers 

(one of them the above-mentioned woman) in 

December 2009 and January 2010. In New Hampshire, 

for now, the liquor commission investigates 

those kinds of charges. Commission officers went 

to Filiault’s bar with a subpoena and while they 

were there state Rep. Dan Eaton, D-Stoddard, 

showed up and spoke to them. 

Later Eaton, whose House district does not 

include Keene, called Bodi to express concerns 

about the behavior of the commission officers at 

Filiault’s bar. If that were the end of it, we’d never 

have heard of that poor drunken woman. But Bodi 

went ahead and got involved in the ordeal by calling 

Filiault and ordering officers to return seized 

surveillance equipment to Filiault. 

So why did Bodi get involved (the first time 

ever, he claims)? Bodi says state Rep. Eaton pressured 

him to, but Eaton says he was very careful 

to not ask Bodi to take any actions and that if Bodi 

felt any pressure it was perceived, not real. 

So who is Eaton? 

Eaton has been in the NH House of Representatives 

for 20 or so years (also someone I covered 

as a Keene Sentinel reporter). He’s majority floor 

leader and serves as the chair of a couple of committees 

and is a member of numerous committees, 

including a member of the joint legislative fiscal 

committee, which works out financial matters 

between the House and Senate. Eaton backed 

legislation to move liquor enforcement from the 

liquor commission (a move Bodi opposed) to the 

state police and was a sponsor of two bills involving 

the commission during this period. One of 

those bills would have given a legislative committee 

oversight over the liquor commission. It’s fair 

to say he’s a bigwig in the House. While the attorney 

general’s office investigated Eaton’s role, they 

found no evidence that he broke any laws. 

Speaker of the House Terie Norelli stood by 

Eaton, who has not been removed from any of his 

posts, saying there is no evidence of wrongdoing 

against him in the attorney general’s report. But 

what about right-doing? Did Eaton act appropriately 

in calling Bodi, given his powerful position 

in regard to the liquor commission? 

Why would Bodi feel he has to placate Eaton? 

Why would Eaton call a department head to complain 

about the actions of its officers? Whether 

perceived or real, it’s clear from his testimony 

Bodi thought he was playing good ole boy New 

Hampshire government. 

And that’s bad news. The rule of law is extremely 

important in how government works. 

We can’t have elected officials or public servants 

creating a second set of rules to get things 

done. 

12 Ten years of people 

over the years Hippo has talked to a variety 

of people — politicians, artists, gadflys. We 

look back at some of our most memorable 

interviews. 

Also on the cover: Twilight is back 

with another movie installment. our resident 

dorks debate the merits of vampires vs. 

werewolves, on Page 44, and film critic Amy 

Diaz admits that she has read all the books, 

on Page 48. 

And there’s new food in downtown Manchester: 

pizza in the old Merrimack Restaurant 

spot, and wings on the corner of Bridge 

and Elm. See these stories and lots of other 

food news and events starting on Page 36. 

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news in Brief 

• See state spending reports online: In an 

effort to improve government transparency, 

the state recently began posting its monthly 

spending reports online. The website, www. 

nh.gov/transparency, also includes budgetary 

information, federal stimulus spending data, 

state contract information and revenue reports. 

Gov. John Lynch said he was committed to 

improving the transparency and accountability 

of state government, as well as bringing 

greater efficiency in how the state conducts 

business. A state press release said the new 

website would be continually updated and 

improved during the next several months. 

• Collecting felons’ DNA: Lynch signed 

legislation last week requiring convicted felons 

to submit DNA samples upon entry into 

prison and when they are released. Lynch said 

the measure was another tool for law enforcement. 

Sexual offenders and child sex offenders 

are also required to submit DNA samples. The 

new law would add as many as 9,000 additional 

DNA samples to the state’s information 

base. The legislation would create a greater 

trail of information, according to a state press 

release. The additional samples would particularly 

benefit the state’s new Cold Case Unit, 

which was created last year. 

• New municipal complex planned: Manchester 

aldermen signed off unanimously 

last week on the concept of the Manchester 


Municipal Complex, a new campus facility 

to house the Department of Public Works 

and the Police Department. The new complex, 

which would occupy about 10 acres 

and house more than 500 employees, would 

be situated at the current Highway Department 

location on Maple Street and expanded 

to the current Water Works site. Public Works’ 

four divisions — Highway; Parks, Recreation 

and Cemetery; Facilities; and Environmental 

Protection — are currently housed separately. 

The complex would also centralize the 

city’s maintenance facilities for its $30 million 

vehicle fleet. According to officials, there 

are also safety concerns with current facilities. 

The Police Department currently has 

insufficient land for expansion, inadequate 

parking and uncontrolled site access. The new 

building would be a “critical facility,” protecting 

it from natural disasters, terrorist attacks 

and infrastructure failures, according to a city 

press release. It would also have more space 

for evidence storage and would contain controlled 

and secure building access, a secure 

booking area and safe vehicle storage. A public 

hearing was expected to be held this past 

Tuesday. A final vote on bonding resolutions 

was scheduled for Tuesday, July 6. 

• State rep. to attend leadership program: 

State Rep. Shannon Chandley, D-Amherst, 

was chosen to participate in the 2010 Emerging 

Political Leaders Program this summer 

at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. 

Chandley is a first-term representative 

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and member of the House Criminal Justice 

and Public Safety Committee. Chandley was 

nominated by Speaker of the House Terie 

Norelli, D-Portsmouth. Chandley will be one 

of more than 50 potential leaders to attend the 

program, which takes place during three days 

in July. She’ll go through a series of intense, 

interactive and provocative discussions led 

by a distinguished faculty member from the 

Darden School of Business at the University 

of Virginia. 

• City councilor gets training: Concord 

City Councilor Rob Werner is slated to attend 

the Harvard University Kennedy School of 

Government’s Senior Executives in State and 

Local Government program this summer. 

The three-week residential program will run 

July 5-23. The program, which will include 

elected and appointed officials from across 

the country, provides training that helps officials 

assess the tasks they face in managing 

results-driven government agencies. Werner 

is serving his second term on the city council 

and is chairman of the Concord Energy 

and Environment Committee. He is also the 

national field director of Americans for Campaign 

Reform, a national organization based 

in Concord that advocates for public funding 

of federal elections. 

• Intown moves: Intown Manchester 

(www.intownmanchester.com), a nonprofit 

organization that works in cooperation with 

the city to improve downtown Manchester, is 

moving to a new office inside the Brady Sul- 

livan Plaza at 1000 Elm St. as of July 1. The 

organization had called the corner of Hanover 

and Elm streets home for a decade. Executive 

director Stephanie Lewry said in a press 

release the move will allow Intown to apply 

more resources toward contracted duties, 

such as street maintenance, beautification initiatives 

and business support, without having 

to raise taxes in the Central Business Service 

District. The new location is adjacent to the 

post office inside the plaza. 

• Veterans Home welcomes more: Lynch’s 

signature on a bill earlier this month opened 

the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton 

to anyone who served in the Armed Services. 

Previously, the home was available only to 

those who had served for at least 90 days during 

a time of war. The legislation also changes 

the calculation of partial pay to include allowances 

for state employees who are members 

of a reserve unit or the National Guard and are 

called to full-time active duty. 

• New lottery director: Charles McIntyre 

was selected last month to serve as the ninth 

executive director of the nation’s oldest lottery 

system, the New Hampshire Lottery 

Commission. McIntyre, formerly the assistant 

executive director and general counsel for the 

Massachusetts State Lottery, has experience 

in gaming best practices, gambling regulation 

and law enforcement. He was formerly 

a senior prosecutor with the Norfolk District 

Attorney’s office. McIntyre is also a member 

of the International Masters of Gaming Law. 

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Artists redesign richard’s 

Downtown Manchester stalwart Richard’s 

Bistro is getting a makeover with help 

from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. 

The Lowell Street eatery (www.richardsbistro.com), 

which opened 15 years ago and 

is known for its fine dining, recently enlisted 

art school students to create a new design 

for the restaurant’s interior. 

“It needs a face lift,” said owner and chef 

Richard Vareschi. 

The Institute of Art (www.nhia.edu) was 

on board with making the design but they 

had to pull it together quickly. Renovations 

needed to happen from July 4 to July 10. 

(The restaurant will be closed during that 

time.) Just a few weeks following graduation, 

the art school tossed together a class 

centered on the restaurant’s redesign. The 

six students in that class essentially competed 

for the design, with the restaurant 

ultimately choosing the design concept by 

Kate Whalen and June Trisciani. The design 

concept is called “Timeless tradition with a 

new twist.” 

“It was time for something new,” said 

head chef Matt Provencher. 

The new plan will feature a redesigned 

entranceway, a revamped bar, and new 

Granite State Independent 

Living’s human resources 

manager, Mara olisky, was 

recently elected president of 

the Human Resources Association 

of Greater Concord. 

Amherst 

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Two Quiznos restaurants 

in Nashua closed recently, 

including one last month 

located on Coliseum Avenue. 

A Quiznos on Amherst Street 

closed recently as Bedford well, 

reported the Telegraph. 

lighting and carpeting. The restaurant won’t 

look drastically different than it does now, 

since the current layout works well in the 

small space the eatery occupies. 

Genella McDonald, who taught the 

course, said it was a great opportunity for 

students to get real experience in contract 

design. 

“It’s not the kind of opportunity you 

get in a school setting very often, if ever,” 

McDonald said. 

McDonald said Whalen and Trisciani 

strove in their proposal to recognize that 

people don’t come to Richard’s Bistro for 

the design; they come for the food. The restaurant 

has an established clientèle and so 

McDonald said the design concept needed 

to work for longtime customers and potential 

new ones. The highly regarded food 

will not be getting a makeover. 

Vareschi said the financing for the project 

is coming from St. Mary’s Bank and the 

city’s economic development office. 

—Jeff Mucciarone 

new monthly paper 

For Glenn Ouellette and Jay Syrene, the 

Queen City Examiner is the people’s paper. 

The pair teamed up to give Manchester 

MANCHESTER 

Spotting a man heading into 

the woods in Merrimack 

with a gallon of water, a 

policeman followed the man 

as he led him to a patch of 

about 30 marijuana plants, 

reports indicated. He was 

arrested and a search of his 

residence turned up drug 

paraphernalia and growing 

materials. 

Derry 

Merrimack 

Police took 37 people into 

custody after breaking up 

Londonderry an underage drinking party 

in Merrimack during the 

past weekend. Police initially 

responded to the party due 

to a noise complaint. They 

NASHUA took 31 underage people 

into protective custody and 

arrested six more for resisting 

arrest, reports indicated. 

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a free local newspaper focused on the big 

issues of the day and with an emphasis on 

fact-checking and providing in-depth coverage 

of local affairs. The monthly paper 

also provides state and national coverage. 

With a nonprofit, independent model, the 

pair expect to provide city hall coverage as 

well as stories about how national issues or 

legislation might impact New Hampshire 

and Manchester. In the paper’s first edition, 

which hit newsstands June 14, Ouellette 

provided a detailed story on the city’s television 

contracts. 

“We will take on mismanagement, corruption 

and misguided city, state and national 

policies, irrespective of party lines,” according 

to the paper’s opening edition. “We will 

be blind to party affiliation, instead we will 

set our sights upon individual policies and 

voting records when we focus on politics.” 

The next edition will come out Aug. 2, 

and for now, the paper would be available 

the first Monday of each month. Ouellette 

and Syrene would like to begin publishing 

twice a month and then on a weekly basis 

eventually. The first edition, of which 5,000 

copies were printed, spanned 16 pages and 

Syrene said they’d like to increase it to 24 

pages. The paper will also accept submitted 

stories, provided there is nothing slanderous 

or libelous in them. 

“It’s been fun,” Ouellette said. “For those 

that said this would never get off the ground 

— it did. It wasn’t as difficult as we were 

told. People are interested in knowing the 

truth.” 

Syrene said the response has been overwhelmingly 

positive so far. Many have 

said the city needed another local paper 

after the Manchester Express, which was 

published by Quality of Life Publications, 

closed down in January. Syrene and Ouellette 

said the paper wouldn’t cater to any 

political party. 

Ouellette, who has previously operated 

newspapers in New Brunswick, Canada, 

and in Maine, said he and Syrene will extensively 

fact-check articles and will provide 

footnotes with links to documentation when 

information is proved to be false or is misrepresented 

in articles. 

Considering Manchester’s cultural influences, 

Ouellette said the Examiner would 

eventually occasionally print stories in both 

English and Spanish or English and French 

to cater to different ethnic groups. 

Ouellette and Syrene said they are currently 

working on creating a website, www. 

qcityexaminer.com, for the paper. 

Syrene and Ouellette are planning to print 

8,000 copies of the second edition, which 

will be available at public libraries, hospitals, 

grocery stores and hotels — in total 

about 500 locations. 

With a nonprofit model, Ouellette said 

the Examiner would offer discounted or free 

advertising space to local nonprofits depending 

on their spending capabilities. He also 

said they’d offer breaks to local businesses 

that can’t afford to advertise elsewhere, 

as well as to cultural organizations trying to 

get the word out about festivals. 

Send e-mail to queencityexaminer@ 

gmail.com. The mailing address is 814 Elm 

St. Suite 90A. 

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real-life networking 

City groups attract young professionals 

By Jeff Mucciarone 

jmucciarone@hippopress.com 

If you’re young, at least at heart, and you live 

at least somewhat close to Nashua, Manchester 

or Concord, there are organizations you can turn 

to for fun, professional development or to meet 

some new friends or colleagues. Each city has its 

own young professionals network: the Concord 

Young Professionals Network (CYPN), the Manchester 

Young Professionals Network (MYPN) 

and the Greater Nashua Young Professionals Network, 

which is called iUGO (pronounced you-go, 

and which means connect in Latin). 

The groups try to connect with young professionals 

in similar ways. They have brown bag 

lunch gatherings with experts or business leaders. 

They get together for social networking 

events at local bars and restaurants. They offer 

expert panels where members can hear from and 

interact with area CEOs or community leaders. 

And they all have events that give participants 

a chance to try something new, such as a wine 

tasting or sushi tasting. None of the three groups 

charge an annual membership fee, though members 

are charged a fee for some events. 

“At the highest level, it just opens all kinds 

of doors,” said Karen Cooper, chairwoman of 

iUGO’s board. iUGO celebrated its three-year 

anniversary last week. The group has a growing 

list of more than 1,200 members. “It presents 

opportunities you might not otherwise have. … 

We feel that, when members are connected, if 

you’re connected well personally, that leads to 

more job satisfaction.” 

Prior to becoming involved with iUGO (iugonashua.com), 

Cooper, who works at Rivier 

College, pretty much went home to Milford 

every night after work. After joining, she got to 

appreciate more of what greater Nashua has to 

offer. As a guideline, iUGO targets professionals 

ages 22 to 40, but it has a number of people older 

than 40 who are active. So “young at heart” is 

really the only criterion, Cooper said. 

“I think you’re happier at work when you feel 

you’re part of a community,” Cooper added. 

With more than 2,000 members, the MYPN 

(www.mypn.org), which formed in 2004, is the 

largest young professionals network in the state, 

and E.J. Powers, vice-chairman of the MYPN 

board, said it has led the way for similar organi- 

Preseason politics 

Lawn signs are up, campaigns in gear for fall votes 

By Jeff Mucciarone 

jmucciarone@hippopress.com 

Still leading up to the primaries in the 

Granite State, analysts and politicians are in 

wait-and-see-mode. 

“I think to some extent we’re still waiting to 

see how the [New Hampshire] races are going to 

fit into the larger narrative,” said political analyst 

Dean Spiliotes of NHPoliticalCapital.com. 

Democrats made considerable gains in the 

state in 2006 and 2008 — so much that some 

questioned whether New Hampshire had lost 

its “swing state” status. Dante Scala, a political 

science professor at the University of New 

Hampshire, said perhaps the shift to Democrats 

had been overstated. 

“I think there’s a good amount of anxiety 

and uncertainty about the course of the country, 

grumpiness about the economy,” Scala said. 

For almost a decade, New Hampshire vot- 


zations. Recently working with a client in Salem, 

Powers, who is vice president of strategic communications 

at Montagne Communications, said 

the client told him people are working on putting 

together a similar network in Salem. 

“It’s great to see other groups popping up and 

supporting the overall goal of attracting and retaining 

workers in New Hampshire,” Powers said. 

The different groups interact regularly. 

“I think it makes every sense to share information, 

to use each other kind of as springboards to 

get to higher levels of quality,” said Josh Robinson, 

a member of the CYPN (www.concordypn. 

org) steering committee. 

Christopher Williams, for example, is president 

and CEO of the Greater Nashua Chamber of 

Commerce and a member of iUGO’s steering committee. 

He was also the founding chairman of the 

MYPN and is co-chairman of the statewide “Stay. 

Work. Play.” (www.stayworkplay.org) initiative. 

“It has really blossomed into six different 

groups across the state,” Williams said. “It’s 

amazing what a germ of an idea can turn into.” 

The young professionals groups have been 

particularly important resources for people 

who didn’t grow up in New Hampshire or who 

don’t have an established core of colleagues and 

friends, Williams said. “It was a very unique thing 

that New Hampshire hadn’t experienced until 

2004,” Williams said. 

Each of the groups holds regular networking 

events at local restaurants and bars. 

“Basically, the concept that we’re working with 

is to ... reach out to those people in the demographic, 

22 to 45, trying to engage people who work 

or live in Concord and make it clear to them that 

this perception that Concord is closed after 5 p.m. 

on weeknights is wrong,” Robinson said. CYPN 

events sometimes draw more than 100 people. In 

September, the CYPN holds an event called Ignite, 

where as many as 20 people can take five minutes 

to show off some interesting, quirky or unique talent, 

such as skills with a Rubik’s cube. 

“Every time I go, I’m meeting many new people, 

new faces,” Robinson said. “It tells me we 

have a very steady rotation of new interest ....” 

CYPN, which launched in 2004, started slowly 

but has grown considerably. It has 1,600 members 

today. “Members” are people on the group’s 

e-mail list. Robinson said initially there was a little 

resistance from the business community, which 

ers cast ballots that were essentially anti-George 

Bush and by extension anti-Republican. Now 

into the Barack Obama era, there’s flux among 

voters still sorting things out. Democrats could 

previously count on the independent voters, but 

that isn’t likely to be the case this time around, 

Scala said. 

Republicans, for their part, appear poised 

to regain some ground in the fall. How much 

ground is the question, analysts say. 

Scala will be watching Obama’s approval 

ratings. The president has weathered the last several 

months, despite issues in Afghanistan, the 

oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the continued 

struggling of the economy. If Obama drops suddenly 

in approval, that could signal trouble for 

Democrats, but if his approval spikes, that might 

help to energize Democratic voters. Scala said 

he thought voters’ ambivalence toward Obama 

could go all the way down the ticket. 

Though there were no big surprises in her 

didn’t know what the group was all about. 

“It took a little bit of time to open the eyes of 

some of the other businesses to the opportunities 

we were offering,” Robinson said. “Initially, they 

didn’t all recognize the value of the demographic.” 

The groups are not all about socializing. Many 

members of the CYPN are looking to get more 

professional development. In turn, the organization 

provides an enrichment series that is “geared 

more toward people who want substance, not to 

just have a drink, people who want to actually 

learn something,” Robinson said. 

CYPN recently began its own brown bag lunch 

series, in which groups or officials will make presentations. 

Main Street Concord was the first 

featured group; it gave a presentation on its effort to 

re-think downtown Concord. At a brown bag lunch 

event with MYPN last year, officials presented on 

extending commuter rail to Manchester. 

MYPN has hosted local developer Dick Anagnost 

and Manchester Boston Regional Airport 

director Mark Brewer. Last year, MYPN hosted a 

panel discussion with some of the most successful 

women in the state, such as former attorney general 

Kelly Ayotte. “They provide guidance for our 

members, shed light on their path....” Powers said. 

The mix of events is key because of the variety 

of professionals in the groups. 

“If you come in with an open mind, sure, you 

might gain some professional development, you 

might build your professional network. You also 

can come wanting to have fun. If any of those 

things are accomplished, that’s all the better,” Cooper 

said. 

CYPN is fighting back against the perception 

the group is a bunch of suit-and-tie-wearing business 

people. Robinson said there’s always a place 

for suits and ties at meetings, but the organization 

wants anyone in a profession, teachers and plumbers 

along with bankers and lawyers. 

Cooper said iUGO is growing and is becoming 

more efficient in the process of planning and 

coordinating events. She said events are becoming 

more and more creative and recently the 

group had its website redone and has begun to 

have a presence on social media platforms. 

iUGO tries to create a welcoming atmosphere. 

Members of the steering committee are always 

on the lookout for new faces to make sure they’re 

engaged and connecting. Cooper said that’s key 

because many people do come alone. 

testimony, former attorney general and current 

Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte is catching some 

flack for her office’s lack of action in the case of 

a major financial scandal. Ayotte, in her testimony 

two weeks ago, didn’t say anything analysts 

think is particularly damaging, but that hasn’t 

stopped Democratic Senate candidate Paul 

Hodes, currently a U.S. Representative, from 

blasting Ayotte in a recent television ad. 

“This is the best opportunity Paul Hodes has 

had in a long time to nose into the conversation,” 

Spiliotes said, adding Hodes’ poll numbers have 

stagnated recently. He said Hodes is having a 

tough time getting noticed, perhaps largely due 

to the fact that he’s not facing a challenge in the 

Democratic primary. Ayotte, on the other hand, 

is feeling pressure from Ovide Lamontagne and 

Bill Binnie. None of the Republican candidates 

have jumped on Ayotte yet, but that could be 

coming. 

“It’s a very frustrating thing and potentially a 

The MYPN started as about a dozen people 

with an idea. Mike Skelton, chairman of the 

MYPN board, said all of the group’s founders 

have since moved on from the board of directors. 

“We have completely graduated into a new 

generation of MYPN leaders,” Skelton said. “You 

do lose your institutional memory a little bit.” 

Skelton said MYPN is grounded in social networking, 

but it has expanded to become a place 

where people can gain professional development 

and enhance their careers. 

The MYPN is run by an all-volunteer board 

and steering committee, and Skelton said the 

board will be unveiling some different events 

and programs that should garner sufficient funds 

to hire a paid staff member. MYPN would be the 

only young professionals network in the state to 

do that, if it comes to fruition, he said. A paid 

staffer would piece together the logistics of the 

operation while letting the board focus on the 

high-level strategic planning, Skelton said. 

Setting itself apart from other groups, the MYPN 

runs the annual Start-up Challenge, a business plan 

competition whose winner gets $25,000 to get the 

business rolling, along with in-kind guidance and 

resources. About 60 applicants sent their business 

plans in for the most recent competition. 

All the groups support the state’s “Stay. Work. 

Play.” initiative. Williams said the initiative was 

born out of a University System of New Hampshire 

program designed to increase the percentage 

of college graduates who stay in New Hampshire 

to work. That mission is a little different from the 

that of the young professionals networks, but the 

success of the initiative could depend partly on its 

ability to work with the networks. 

In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, the number 

of young people in the state was decreasing, 

though that appeared to be due more to the birth 

rate than to a “brain drain,” Williams said. Still, 

the state was falling behind many areas nationwide 

in getting young people to settle in the state. 

Today, the state is seeing progress in the 30-to- 

40 age bracket, but less in the 20-to-30 range. 

Nashua and Portsmouth benefit from their proximity 

to Boston, and Nashua from its high-tech 

manufacturing companies. 

“I think it’s all about providing experiences 

so they end up putting roots down in New 

Hampshire and feeling part of the community,” 

Skelton said. 

dangerous thing for someone in [Hodes’] position,” 

Spiliotes said. Scala said, on the plus side, 

Hodes doesn’t have to expend the resources in 

the primary that Republican candidates do. 

Scala said for Hodes and other Democrats 

not facing a primary, the concern is the Democratic 

base might not be as engaged as it has 

been in the last few election cycles. That’s not 

unexpected. They have control of the governor’s 

office, both congressional seats, one senate seat, 

and both houses of the state legislature. He said 

it’s only natural that the sense of urgency is lost 

to some extent. The problem for Democrats is 

that Republicans are likely to be anything but 

complacent. 

“You’re seeing [Rep. Carol Shea-Porter] and 

[Hodes] experiencing troubles they didn’t see in 

2006 and 2008,” Scala said. “They had the wind 

at their back, the national wind. That doesn’t 

appear to be the case.” 

Even those with primaries may face trou-

les in interesting a voter base that may be 

more concerned with their vacations than figuring 

out who to cast a ballot for. Scala will be 

watching to see how and when campaigns on 

the same side start to fire at each other. 

In the 1st Congressional District, the race on 

the Republican side seems to be between former 

Manchester mayor Frank Guinta and Sean 

Mahoney, who has picked up current Queen 

City Mayor Ted Gatsas’ endorsement. Rich 

Ashooh is in the conversation as well, and Bob 

Bestani is also running. 

Former Republican representative Charlie 

Bass appears to be in pretty good shape in 

his primary race with Jennifer Horn, who challenged 

Hodes for the seat in 2008. “I thought 

she might be a big tea party test case…. It 

hasn’t quite resonated…,” Spiliotes said. 

On the Democratic side in the 2nd District, 

Ann McLane Kuster is looking strong, though 

Katrina Swett has substantial resources left 

over from her 2008 run for Senate, which she 

ended when Sen. Jeanne Shaheen entered the 

contest. 

“That hasn’t really started feeling like a 

head-to-head, knock-down fight yet,” Spiliotes 

said. “Kuster has done a good job getting out in 

front. Progressives don’t have a good sense of 

how big Swett’s support is in the state.” 

Spiliotes said the tea party movement is present 

in New Hampshire but more muted than 

elsewhere. The question, he said, is to what 

extent the tea party is driven by libertarians versus 

social conservatives like Sarah Palin. Horn 

was one candidate who could have benefited 

from the tea party, but that hasn’t materialized. 

Lamontagne could be another possibility in the 

Senate race, Spiliotes said. 

Though Republicans are trying to jump at a 

perceived chance to beat Gov. John Lynch, who 

is seeking a record fourth term, it’s still going to 

be difficult. Lynch isn’t likely to win with 70 

percent of the vote, however. 

Scala figured former Health and Human 

Services Commissioner John Stephen had a 

decent chance at garnering 45 percent of the 

vote against Lynch. That’s a far cry from some 

of Lynch’s previous opponents. Recent polling 

data on Lynch was likely taken as a wake-up 

call in his camp. Lynch will have to work harder 

this time around. Scala figured he would put 

in the extra effort as there has been plenty of 

advance warning regarding Democrats’ perceived 

vulnerability. 

Spiliotes said Stephen is currently talking a 

lot about Lynch and what he’s done wrong, but 

at some point it will need to become less about 

Lynch and more about him as an alternative. 

“If Lynch can shake things in that way, that’ll 

help him,” Spiliotes said. “Certainly, he is in 

decent shape.” But Lynch has had to deal with 

a number of controversial issues, particularly 

a same-sex marriage bill he signed into law. 

He’s also dealing with a poor economy, alleged 

wrong-doing in the Liquor Commission and 

continued budget woes. 

New Hampshire is doing better than the 

country as a whole economically but it is difficult 

to measure the mood in New Hampshire, 

particularly in the summer when voters are less 

engaged. 

“It’s a real balancing act,” Spiliotes said. “It 

could tip in favor of New Hampshire not being 

hit as hard as other places, or it could tip and 

really have a big change, and then the name of 

the game will be what does that say about state 

politics?” 

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Putting brakes on books 

English professor says slow down 

Are you reading this too quickly? university of new 

Hampshire English professor Thomas newkirk believes that 

readers get greater enjoyment and comprehension when 

they read slowly. His recent article “The Case for Slow 

reading” in Education Leadership has gotten wide attention. 

He is also the author of the books Misreading Masculinity: 

Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture (2002) and Holding on 

to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles 

Worth Fighting For (2009). 

made you look into the topic 

of slow reading? 

Q:What 

Well, I’m a slow reader myself 

and I hadn’t seen too many others 

make a case for this kind of reading I do. So 

I explored it and I found a lot had a lot to say 

about it. A deep pleasure comes from reading 

slowly. I think in school often, and in the 

media and our culture, the thing is fast is better. 

I wanted to argue against that for my own 

benefit. 

What did you find? 

I think that [for] people who believe in the 

value of literature, there’s a deep-seated belief 

in being deliberate, being patient and paying 

attention to language. ... For most of history, 

we didn’t have hundreds of books available, 

so the books we had were precious, and we 

read and re-read them. Mainly the Bible.... 

Slow reading, I think is normal. Fast reading 

is more of a modern thing. 

Does this apply across the spectrum [from 

literature to textbooks]? 

Some kinds of reading you’re just trying to 

get a fact off the Internet. Obviously, you’d 

be reading quickly. What happens in our culture, 

when you’re just reading for facts, when 

you’re reading that way, you’re just reinforcing 

your own opinions, you’re not following 

a line of thought. When you’re reading arguments...the 

health care bill, you can follow a 

line of arguments, where you’re not just reading 

in this kind of sideways Internet way. You 

can follow a line of argument; that’s the only 

way to really engage in thought. 

Does this apply to specific age groups? 

I think little kids understand this better than 

we do because they love hearing things again 

and again.... I think it has applicability across 

age groups. I’m not saying every bit of reading 

should be slow or not done on the Internet. 

I’m arguing for another kind of reading that 

can be really powerful. I believe it crosses the 

age range. 

It would seem the biggest part of this is 

that slowing down provides more enjoyment. 

Pleasure is a deep part of it. You can slow 

down and enjoy something. ...Similar to the 

slow food movement, where you are more 

deliberate and pay more attention to what you 

do ... slow down to really enjoy it. 

What’s the response been to this piece? 

I think there’s been a lot from readers 

regarding their own experiences. There’s been 

a lot of positive from slow readers, who like 

to slow down and pay attention, read poetry 

slowly. One comment was that this will 

turn kids into remedial readers. I’m not arguing 

everything should be done slower. I really 

don’t believe that. I think primarily, people at 

Thomas Newkirk. Photo 

by Perry Smith, UNH Photographic 

Services 

the university, we 

read for a living — 

frankly, we’re paid 

more than anything 

else to read. When 

people say they’re 

a slow reader and 

I ask them if it’s 

an advantage, they 

usually, say, “Yeah 

it is.” It speaks 

to a kind of reading 

people haven’t 

heard or talked a 

lot about. 

Whose responsibility is it to get people 

to slow down — parents, educators, 

individuals? 

I think everybody. Practices in school, read 

aloud to [students], have students read aloud, 

something they’ve written or a passage they’ve 

liked. Some recovery of memorization. Parents 

reading aloud to kids. I think parents are 

in this frantic world too where they don’t stop 

and slow down and read to their kids as long 

and as much as you’d like. Re-reading, those 

practices ... really finding time to make a place 

for those. I think it’s everybody. 

What about teachers, what do they think 

about this? 

I haven’t got back as much of a response. I 

definitely think the SAT test, there’s too high 

a premium on speed and quickness. The deliberate 

and thoughtful student, often a student 

I’d like to have in class, is penalized.... early 

on, we teach kids that if they’re slow, if it 

takes them a long time to get through something, 

they’re poor readers. Whatever we can 

do to get rid of that idea, because once they’ve 

decided they’re poor readers ... they may 

decide not to be a reader, they just don’t and 

they just assume they’re not good at it. 

Is there room to let students slow down? 

Part of the problem with our education system 

is there are so many standards. They don’t 

have time to do anything in depth. ... It’s not 

just slow reading, but slow writing, thoughtful 

discussion — people don’t feel they have time 

to do it. It’s too bad. ... 

What does memorization mean in terms of 

reading? 

Particularly for poetry or lines from a favorite 

novel, people hold them literally as part of 

their bodies. They often become available to 

you at times, they become meaningful for you. 

We have sayings, slogans, lines that motivate 

us that are in our head, that are there when we 

need them. 

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regarding alcohol effective Thursday, July 1. Alcohol will no 

longer be permitted at Silver Lake and alcohol will not be allowed at 

Pawtuckaway’s day-use area. The restriction at Pawtuckaway excludes 

the campground. Ted Austin, director of the Division of Parks and Recreation, 

said there have been complaints and incidents during the last 

couple years. The move comes in an effort to maintain a family-oriented 

recreational environment. Visit www.nhstateparks.org. Call 271-3556. 

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that 1 out 8 public pools in 13 states in 2008 needed to be closed due to 

health concerns. In New Hampshire, of the 507 routine pool inspections 

conducted in 2008 by the Public Pool and Spa Program, a division of the 

state Department of Environmental Services, 25 resulted in immediate 

closure, according to the Union Leader. In Manchester, 129 inspections 

were made of indoor and outdoor public pools, hot tubs and natural 

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most common violation being pH control, the article said. 

QOL score: -3 

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If you can imagine that, you know what it 

feels like to be Danny Ainge as he tries to 

reshape the Celtics into a contender again 

next season. And, despite a year of managing 

minutes, age-related injuries and a cruise 

control mentality among some veterans, it 

appears Danny will give it one more run with 

the current core. So he needs to maneuver his 

way to getting some new players to balance 

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cap position. 

It’s not that Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce 

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records along the way. It’s just that only KG 

may have a better season in the coming year. 

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removed from the surgery that cost him the 

2009 playoffs. Still, at 34, even that is dicey, 

because 34-year-olds with 14 years of tread 

on the tires usually lose productivity, not gain. 

As for the other two, Pierce will be 33 on Oct. 

13 and Allen 35 on July 20, and while each 

had his moments, both showed signs of wear 

during the season and in the playoffs. 

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big for the retiring Rasheed Wallace. They 

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lost production offensively and on the 

boards that will most likely happen in 2011. 

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a Top 10 player as KG was when the Celtics 

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of the three, it doesn’t appear they’ll have the 

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Ray Allen: A free agent whose 16.3 points 

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year and his 36.3% from threepointland was 

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a year, maybe two, but not if the numbers go 

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Kevin Garnett: Maybe it’s the knee still 

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the vital player for team defense, but he’s no 

longer much of a low-post scorer and he got 

killed on the boards by Pao Gasol in the finals 

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still key, but now a number two or, more likely, 

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like Michael Jordan in Washington after age 

robbed him of his ability to slash — a jump 

shooter. So I think he’s down to third-star status. 

He can also opt out of his $21 million 

contract, which would help. But not if they 

have to give him an extension for three or four 

more years to do it. Plus he’s the only one who 

could maybe bring a future star in a deal. 

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that, though I have two comments. Thanks to 

that and the deaths of Len Bias and Reggie 

Lewis, they went 22 years between titles. And 

second, I find it interesting the guy traded 

from the core — one Danny Ainge — easily 

had the most productivity left. Danny saw 

it first hand and needs to leave sentimentality 

behind. 

The 1965 Yankees Syndrome: They went 

from first to worst over two years with a stop 

in sixth place in between. It happened because 

stars Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford and Roger 

Maris were in decline when they won the 

’64 pennant but few realized it because they 

were still intimidated by the Yankees uniform. 

But 1965 for them, was like all those inexplicable 

home losses to the Nets, Wizards and 

other bad teams in 2010. So if I’m Danny, I’m 

thinking of this because it wasn’t the last team 

that played well one year and was nowhere 

close to that four months later. 

Needs: In order: First, another star to meet 

the formula. Second, rebounding. Rondo can 

not dominate a game unless they force transition 

and you need to control the defensive 

boards to do it. Third, a low post scorer — 

with KG and Pierce in transition they need 

one. Youth — it will lead to a more consistent 

regular-season performance — preferably in 

Rasheed’s vacated back-up center spot. And 

maybe a coach. 

Conclusion: While some say you’ve got to 

go for it when a title is in sight and not worry 

about a long-term collapse, I’m more inclined 

to try to get three titles over 10 years while 

being in contention that whole time even if it 

means stepping back next year. Twenty years 

of Celtics irrelevance was tough to take and 

I don’t want that to happen again. So they 

have to be wary of 1965 Yankees syndrome, 

be ready to explore moving Pierce, Allen or 

Garnett if the right deal comes along and be 

willing to do it if it does. 

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slugger Lou Gehrig addressed sold-out 

Yankee Stadium on Lou Gehrig Day after 

word surfaced he was suffering from what 

would be soon be called Lou Gehrig’s disease 

and claim his life two years later. Other 

than Magic Johnson’s HIV press conference 

of ’91, there’s never been anything like 

it in sports. Look for it on YouTube. 

Whitey Ford: Slight Yankees lefty from 

the ’50s & ’60s glory years who manager 

Casey Stengel put in a five-man rotation to 

manage his innings to prevent injury. Never 

won more than 19 for him despite playing 

for all those great teams. But when former 

WWII army major Ralph Houk took over 

the Yanks in 1961, now in a four-man rotation 

Ford went on to his best season ever 

at 25-4 and two years later won 24, showing 

Casey to be overprotective. It all led to 

a second-best all-time .690 winning percentage 

to Spud Chandler’s .717. If he stays on 

his current pace Jon Lester will top both to 

become the all-time best in baseball at .729. 

Danny Ainge: Celtics guard on the 

wrong end of the Larry Bird double foot 

surgery of 1989. With Bird out for the year 

and youngster Reggie Lewis waiting in the 

wings, Danny was the old man out when 

Red Auerbach made maybe his biggest 

blunder in sending Ainge and Brad Lohaus 

to the Kings for journeyman bigs Ed Pinckey 

and Joe Kleine to fill the void created by 

Bird’s absence. The C’s became a slow, lumbering 

team that got run out in a first-round 

playoff sweep by Detroit. Might a better 

solution have been going smaller with the 

promising Lewis at 3 and leaving Danny — 

who was coming off his first All-Star game 

appearance — at the 2? 

Branch Rickey: Legendary baseball front 

office inventor who signed Jackie Robinson 

to break the color barrier, invented the 

farm system to help the Cardinals become 

the second-biggest Series winner ever, laid 

the groundwork to help the Pirates win in 

1960 and be a prodigious producer of hitter 

after hitter from its farm system in the 1960s 

& ’70s. His retribution for being forced out 

in a power struggle in Brooklyn in the early 

’50s with Walter O’Malley was swiping 

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teammate Adam Wainright split the vote. 

Alumni News: The news was not good for 

former F-Cat hurler Dustin McGowan, who’s 

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sense of geography somehow went south when I 

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Thumbs Up: To the students competing for 

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These are the people in 

your neighborhood 

10 years of conversations 


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For years now, Hippo has run weekly Q&As — with candidates for public office, authors, 

downtown boosters, business people, people who have gone on journeys or achieved interesting 

goals and even the occasional psychic. 

These conversations offer a different way to get to know the people in our community. And 

occasionally, we’ve even sat down with some for longer interviews — conversations not just 

about the news of the moment but also about the past and the issues that matter to someone who 

has played a role in state politics or spent a lifetime entertaining audiences. 

We’ve published more than a dozen of these conversations in our 10 years. Here’s a look back 

at what some of these folks have had to say.

october 10, 2002 January 2, 2003 

donald Hall, poet 

Donald Hall first spoke to the Hippo for the 

Oct. 10, 2002, issue. Hall, who was U.S. Poet 

Laureate in 2006, lives northwest of Concord. 

In 1998, he released a book of poems 

called Without, which dealt with the illness 

and death in 1995 of his wife, the poet Jane 

Kenyon. His collections of poetry since then 

have included The Painted Bed in 2002 and 

White Apples and the Taste of Stone in 2006, 

a collection of his poems from 1946 through 

2006. In fall 2009, he published Unpacking 

the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry. 

In 2002, Hall spoke with Dan Szczesny 

about The Painted Bed and about Kenyon. 

Do you believe you need to be passionate 

in order to be a poet? 

Yes. What most people do in living is, in 

order to avoid suffering, they turn the volume 

down in general, and you can’t do that. Now, 

maybe we have that character to begin with, 

which is why we can continue to be poets. 

The incidence of bipolarity in writers, as you 

probably know, is extraordinary. 

Do you try to repress the emotion when 

you are writing or embrace it? 

I don’t try to pull back. I don’t know how 

to pull back. I guess I don’t believe in it. 

It’s a subject of will when it comes to those 

extremes. 

Hall also spoke about living in New Hampshire 

and the farm house in Wilmot that had 

been in his family. 

You’ve written that the people of this 

house and farm inhabit your present, not 

your past. Is that still the case? 

Yes. I mean I don’t literally see them — 

we didn’t feel their presence like they were 

ghostly presences. But it just was habitual. 

It’s metaphorical, rather than spiritual. I mean 

here is the barn where I used to sit on a threelegged 

stool and watch my grandfather milk 

as he recited poems to me. I have the stool 

in the parlor now. There’s so much here that 

goes way back. I was first here in 1928 at the 

age of six weeks. 

What type of energy or inspiration do 

you get from the community? How does it 

become part of your work? 

It has diminished as the community has 

gotten older and died and has not been 

replaced by the same people with whom I 

have the same long continuation of commu- 

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nity. But then again, when I was growing up, 

I was, like a lot of kids named Donald, called 

Donny, and when I came back there were 

still people calling me Donny, and it sounded 

great! My grandmother played the organ 

in the church from the age of 14 to 92, and 

that is continuity. I can practically see her little 

black sequined hat. And there are a lot of 

people I see occasionally who were with me 

in Sunday school, so there is some continuity 

of the same people, the same buildings. 

I come back and the hills are so much more 

full of forest now, but they’re still there. Continuity. 

… 

Hall spoke with Dan Szczesny again for the 

Aug. 3, 2006, issue of the Hippo shortly after 

being named poet laureate. 

Are you intimidated by the company of 

past laureates you keep? 

No, why should it? 

I assume you are friends of some of 

them. 

I know them or are friends with some of 

them. Pinsky is an old friend and I talked with 

him on the telephone. 

Have they given you any advice? 

Ted Kooser told me that he wrote 500 postcards 

saying “I cannot read your manuscript,” 

“I cannot write a blurb for your book.” I will 

do that too. Pinksy told me I was not to expect 

any help from the Library of Congress. You 

don’t have an assistant or a secretary there. 

You don’t have an office. You have certain 

duties which I’ve spoken to you about but 

they are very minimal. You are a stand-in for 

poetry. 

This title has now increased your reading 

fees, made you more of a valuable entity. 

Yes, I’m told that the normal fee for a poet 

laureate is $10,000 per reading. I’ve been getting 

$5,000 for a long time. 

The most important question I guess is 

how will this title affect your social life. 

It’s going to get me some! I don’t have any 

and I will be seeing more people than I ever 

have otherwise, which may be something 

good for me at this age. 

Is that something you’re looking forward 

to? 

Not particularly, but it will be there and I’ll 

see what I can do with it. … 

Your career has spanned half a century, 

giving you the opportunity to work with and 

be part of many different literary movements 

and trends. Instead of asking you what’s the 

secret to life, I’ll settle for what’s the secret 

to a good poem. Though if you have the 

secret to life, that would be good too. 

[Laughs] I want the poem to be the receptacle 

and embodiment of a feeling or a series 

of feelings, feelings sometimes in contradiction 

to each other, and with that as my end I 

need to arrive right with the beauty of sound 

and the beauty of resolution of metaphor and 

all sorts of things I would call beauty, and that 

is the tool or the method for expressing and 

memorializing a particular feeling. 

dick Anagnost, developer 

Dick Anagnost has been the public face for 

a lot of Manchester’s development projects 

over the years — particularly when it comes 

to turning historic buildings into modern 

residential or commercial space. The Bond 

Building, the Chase Block, the Pearl Street 

School, apartments across the city — Anagnost 

seems to be perpetually in the news for 

bringing new purpose to properties, including 

his current project, River’s Edge, which 

will feature Elliot Hospital facilities, on the 

former Jac Pac site. He spoke to Dan Szczesny 

for the Jan. 2, 2003, issue of the Hippo. 

From your perspective as a local developer, 

is there a danger in redeveloping a city 

and losing its character? 

You always watch out for that, but I don’t 

think that’s the case. An outside developer 

is going to come in based on the foresight 

of people recently in office and in the Planning 

Department. They looked at Manchester 

and said “this is the character we want to have 

here, this is the character that we want to maintain” 

and they put this into effect by creating 

things like a Millyard Review Committee. 

Is that the reason why there hasn’t been 

much interest from chains, a Starbucks or a 

Barnes & Noble, for the downtown? 

Well, there has been a lot of interest. The 

problem is we can’t necessarily fit their criteria 

and if we are going to make them think 

outside the box — I mean even Dunkin’ 

Donuts, we had a heck of a time getting them 

onto Concord and Elm streets because we had 

to make them think outside the box. A retailer 

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a vanilla shell.” They have the same parameters 

that their real estate people are sent out 

in the field with and they rarely deviate from 

those parameters. That’s why you see most 

of them in shopping malls, because they can 

get their square box and relocate half the distance 

between a Gap store and a Filene’s 

and all these other criteria that… they have 

developed. … 

So it’s a matter of convincing them to 

come? 

It’s all in the way it’s presented. We’ve been 

successful in redeveloping the Chase Block, 

the Bond Building… I mean, I know there was 

controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood, 

but we took an old auto parts store and turned 

it into a very beautiful building and the neighbors 

are very pleased with their neighbor. Even 

though we went through all that, those are all 

things that are redeveloping downtown. They 

are diverse in their uses, diverse in their tenants. 

This kind of diversity is what attracts a 

lot of people … if you were to consider downtown 

Manchester between Valley and Bridge 

streets as being a shopping mall and somehow 

get all those merchants and landlords to pull 

together and market it that way, you’d have a 

vibrant retail sector downtown just like in the 

Mall of New Hampshire. 

Bob Shaw, 

former Manchester Mayor 

If there was an issue facing Manchester, 

Bob Shaw had an opinion about it. Father 

of four and husband of wife Lorraine, Shaw 

owned two Manchester businesses (Shaw’s 

Service Station and later Bob Shaw’s Italian 

Sandwich Shop), was active in the Rotary 

and served two terms are Manchester’s mayor. 

He spoke to Amy Diaz about his life in 

Manchester and his time in city and local 

politics for the Dec. 11, 2003, edition of the 

Hippo. Part of that interview reran in the 

Aug. 19, 2004, edition, a few days after Shaw 

died in a traffic accident. He was 70. 

In the 2003 interview, Shaw spoke about 

his family — his four children and his 11 

grandchildren. 

I think that’s what you strive to reach is 

a point that you are the grandfather. That 

they’re around you and you talk to them. 

In a given week, I probably talk to half of 

them…. My grandchildren get all As on the 

honor roll, almost all of them…. 

He and Lorraine said they stayed together 

for almost half a century in part because it’s 

what they promised each other they would do. 

It takes forgiving. If you have somebody 

that’s so opinionated, that knows everything, 

that’s always right, you can see who’d have 

to be the forgiving person. … The one thing 

that we have going is that we’re thankful. 

And that we never argue about money. 

Part of what Shaw felt made him a good 

mayor was his management and problemsolving 

skills. 

My only ability, probably, is that I can see 

what something should look like. OK, now 

I’ve got to figure out how to make it look like 

that. When I came in, I could see how the 

budget should be written. … Simple solutions 

to complex problems. 

Shaw said one of the first projects he tackled 

as mayor was fixing the schools, which 

suffered from neglect. 

I got the city workers to identify the solution. 

I used almost all inside talent. I didn’t 

pay people to come in and give us advice. 

So this inside talent worked out really, really 

well. These people were waiting a long time 

to tell you what was wrong and how to fix it. 

I go to the school, why isn’t the school clean? 

Well, mayor, we can’t clean the school if we 

don’t have solvents, if all you have is water 

and a mop …. Teachers would have to buy 

their own window shades. 

Barbara Lawler, actress 

Michelle Saturley spoke with Barbara Lawler 

for the April 22, 2004, issue of the Hippo. Lawl- 

April 22, 2004

er was named Best Actress in a Musical in 

the 2003 NH Theatre Awards for her role in a 

local production of Ragtime. Though a mildmannered 

manager at a local bank by day, 

Lawler, a Bow resident, acted in local theatrical 

productions and did local and national 

television commercials and radio voiceovers. 

Lawler performed in the Actorsingers production 

of Cats in 2006. 

How did you get into acting? 

My mother always called me “Sarah Bernhardt” 

as a kid, so I think I was a pretty 

dramatic kid. I started acting in high school, 

and I was always singing in the chorus. The 

bug really hit, and I decided I was going to 

go to college to study acting. Then my life 

took a different turn, and instead I got married 

and had a family. When the kids were little, I 

was busy, so I didn’t have time to do anything 

else. But as they got older, I started auditioning 

again. The first auditions I did were for 

Stage One, back when George Piehl still had 

his summer season over at the Palace Theatre. 

I did a few more shows there, and then over 

at Actorsingers in Nashua, and it just expanded 

from there. 

When you were raising your children, 

how did you find ways to keep the creative 

spark? 

I’ve always been an entertainer. And when 

your kids are little, you are so busy, sometimes 

you just don’t think about anything 

else. But I guess I found small ways to keep 

that alive. I did a lot of crafts with the kids, 

and we sang constantly. Music was a big part 

of their upbringing. I did a lot of sewing, too. 

I used to make matching outfits for the kids 

for holidays and such. It’s funny, because 

they look at old photographs now and they 

say, what were you thinking? … 

How do you keep the work in the theater 

from interfering with your family and work 

life? 

Sometimes it does. That’s why my family 

ended up being involved in theater with me. 

… That’s why my husband got involved with 

running the sound at a lot of the shows I’m 

in. As a matter of fact, if I’m not in a show, 

sometimes we will run sound together. I’ve 

learned a lot about that aspect of theater that 

I never would have known otherwise. … And 

my son Sean was actually in a few shows 

with me when he was little. 

Frank Guinta, 

republican politician 

Frank Guinta, a former Manchester alderman, 

surprised many when in November 

2005 he beat incumbent Bob Baines in the 

city’s mayoral election. Will Stewart talked to 

Guinta for the Nov. 17, 2005, edition of the 

Hippo, about his plans for the city, which he 

would go on to serve as mayor for four years. 

He left office earlier this year and is currently 

a candidate in the Republican primary for the 

state’s 1st Congressional District. 

On a scale of one to 10, and be honest, 

how surprised were you that you won? 

We looked at this race, from the beginning, 

as a race we thought we could win. We 

also knew that we had to run an almost flawless 

campaign. We started to see, in October, 

the hard work begin to pay off because you 

could see the momentum shift. I think by the 

time we got to the “6-55-3” message, we really 

started to see people galvanizing around it. 

We were elated. I was thrilled, the team was 

thrilled. We always thought that it was neck 

and neck so, you know, we were happy that 

we won, but we were not shocked by any 

stretch. 

Do you feel you have a mandate from the 

people? 

Well, I think the appropriate term is that 

people clearly want change. And the fact that 

6-55-3 — six years of tax hikes, 55-percent 

increase in violent crime and three failing 

high schools — resonated. Elections are 

more about issues and those are the issues 

that I ran on and those are things that I’m 

going to deliver changes on in the city. And I 

think I have the support of the city. … 

What’s your opinion of government’s role 

in development, particularly the public-private 

partners that have become popular as 

of late? 

I think the role of government is to foster 

an environment that allows the private sector 

to succeed. And we need to foster economic 

development and growth in the community. 

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deborah Scranton, filmmaker 

Deborah Scranton, a documentary filmmaker, 

was behind one of the most compelling 

early films about the war in Iraq — The War 

Tapes, which was released in 2006. This 

movie told the story of the troops by giving 

the three soldiers cameras and letting them 

record what they saw. Richie Victorino spoke 

with Scranton, as well as the three soldiers — 

Mike Moriarty, Steve Pink and Zach Brazzi 

— for the June 22, 2006, issue of the Hippo. 

Scranton’s newest film is Earth Made 

of Glass, which had its world premiere at 

the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in the world 

documentary competition. The film is about 

Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s efforts to 

expose the truth about the Rwandan genocide 

and genocide survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu’s 

journey to find out what happened to his 

father. 

Filmmakers are notorious for being control 

freaks. Was it difficult to give up the 

cameras? 

I guess the way I looked at it was, it was 

a very conscious decision to never allow 

myself, or anyone from the production team, 

to go to Iraq. Because if any one of us went 

it would have immediately diminished what 

the soldiers were creating. It would become 

about us. When I went down to Fort Dix and 

I hopped out in front of 180 guys and told 

them about my vision I made them a promise. 

I said that we would tell their story wherever 

it took us, through their own eyes and their 

own words. 

Why do you think the soldiers were able to 

trust you and your vision? 

I think in any documentary film, a lot of it 

is based on trust and relationship. The film 

isn’t about the Internet but it couldn’t have 

been made without it. It allowed us to talk 

back and forth with each other and discuss 

the process. … 

Do you find that the film achieved what 

you wanted it to achieve? 

[pauses] I’m really proud of it. I meant 

what I said that I gave them my promise that 

we would tell their story, wherever it took us, 

no matter what. 

Was there anything about the footage that 

you were surprised about? 

I was surprised by the visceral experience 

of a 360-degree war. Once you lock and load 

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er you are, whether it’s an IED [Improvised 

Explosive Device — roadside bomb] or a 

VBIED [Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive 

Device — a car bomb], not knowing if 

it’s friend or foe. … 

What do you hope this film to do? 

To spark conversations and start dialogue. 

I think right now there’s a divide. There are 

people who know a soldier, who are living 

it, and I think there are a lot of people in this 

country that don’t. We’re a country at war. I 

think it’s important to understand what that 

means, as best we can. 

Barry Steelman, movie expert 

Barry Steelman has been a fixture on the 

Concord movie scene for years. He owned 

and operated the movie theater Cinema 93 

and later owned Cinema 93 Video, which 

closed in 2009 (and before Concord, he ran 

now-closed theaters in Manchester). Now, 

he’s the facilities manager at Red River Theatres, 

the independent theater he helped to 

bring into existence in Concord. He regularly 

organizes film events at the theater, such 

as the recent series of Movies about Movies, 

that bring together film experts and movielovers. 

Amy Diaz spoke with Steelman for the 

Nov. 9, 2006, issue of the Hippo. 

Were you always interested in the 

movies? 

Yeah. I can probably remember going to 

the movies in 1949, so I was six. 

As it became a lifelong passion, what did 

you want to do in movies? 

As a young person, the dream was to either 

be in the movies … [or be] a filmmaker. 

In the fall of 1955, Steelman’s grandfather 

had a stroke. Steelman’s mother took Barry 

with her to visit him, in Worcester, Mass. She 

decided to stay longer, keeping Steelman out 

of school from October through Christmas 

when he was 12. Because of polio scares, 

Steelman wasn’t allowed to visit his grandfather 

in the hospital during the day. 

And guess what I did? I went to the [movie 

theaters] in downtown Worcester. … I saw 

for the first time Rebel Without a Cause. And 

being 12 years old and in the throes of being 

disenfranchised a little bit. … When I saw 

this movie with James Dean, I said wow, I 

can relate to this. … 

Steelman worked at Cinema 93, a one- 

screen theater, from the late 1960s until it 

closed decades later. 

How did the economics of the cinema 

work over the years? Especially with one 

screen. 

There were numerous attempts of design 

on how to break that up into two screens. 

Because it would have made an incredible 

amount of difference in my economic welfare. 

One screen, you’re sunk, if it doesn’t do 

any business. And you’re sunk if it does. 

How so? 

You had a customer base that … would see 

the movie sometimes on day one or day two. 

And if you played it for six weeks, they would 

get angry because there was no change in the 

program. … I played Dances with Wolves 

for six months and it was the biggest thing 

that I played there. … It was incredibly busy 

to begin with. At the end of January, Oscar 

nominations came out and it got a shot in the 

arm. … A month or six weeks after that, it 

won best picture, best director … back the 

business went again for another month or 

so. Towards the last couple of months of the 

engagement I was sneaking [other] things in, 

showing matinees … I didn’t want to give it 

up because on weekends it would come to 

life again. 

Walter Peterson, 

former nH governor 

Walter Peterson was governor of New 

Hampshire from 1969 through 1973. He 

was and is part of a traditional style of New 

February 1, 2007

England Republican — small government, 

balanced budget and hands off people’s 

personal lives. “Walter Peterson Republicans” 

might be a smaller group these days, 

but the former governor, who lives with his 

wife in Peterborough, still holds that Yankee 

viewpoint. Peterson, 87, still lives in Peterborough 

and remains active on a number of 

boards and with a number of organizations, 

though he recently said he is trying to cut 

back some. John Andrews talked with Peterson 

for the Feb. 1, 2007, issue. 

Peterson talked about his time in the 

legislature. 

The legislature in those days on most 

things was non-partisan. People would work 

together. You’d get to know people, you’d 

make common cause, you found out that 

there were some people in the Democratic 

Party [who] were, surprise surprise, very 

smart, very wonderful people, good people. I 

made a lot of friends across the aisle, as well 

as in the Republican Party. Later on, when I 

was Majority Leader and then Speaker, sure, 

I carried the ball for the leadership, what 

they wanted, but by getting on the inside, I 

could also argue for what made sense and 

what didn’t. That was awfully good training 

— not just for politics, for anything, for life, 

how to get along with people, how to make 

people come together, how to find common 

ground. 

You don’t want one side to win. 

You want everybody to be happy. You 

want a win-win. 

While you were in the legislature, what 

prepared you, what did you learn there, that 

helped you as governor? 

To appeal to the best in people. Everybody 

has a good side and a less good side, and the 

ordinary politicians, they appeal to the worst 

in people. If you, every time you get up, 

instead of running other people down you 

appeal to the highest aspirations and values 

— it’s not a new idea, it’s as current as today. 

You got several politicians out there doing it 

right now: Barack Obama, Deval Patrick. 

Is there something about politics that 

makes it more tempting to appeal to the 

worse side of people? 

It’s an easy shortcut to win short-term, and 

a way to build animosities that last a long 

time. Look at the world around you, look at 

what’s happening in the world. You begin to 

January 2, 2003 

see what we’re seeing in Iraq, for one thing, 

is the result of ancient enmities, a civil war 

going on, death squads and everything else, 

and we were party to that. [Under] the guise 

of bringing something good, we didn’t. 

Shane Brady and Arthur 

Sullivan, real estate gurus 

Brady Sullivan — you see the name everywhere 

in Manchester. In the April 5, 2007, 

issue of the Hippo, Lisa Brown set out to 

answer the question “Who is Brady Sullivan?” 

Well, for starters, they’re two people: 

Shane Brady and Arthur Sullivan, both 

raised in Manchester. The duo rehabbed old 

buildings throughout the area, turned apartments 

into condos and have their name on 

several high-profile buildings in downtown 

Manchester. 

What was your first deal? 

SB: We wanted to buy the 156 units at Bass 

Island Estates. We teamed up and decided we 

would buy it together. It was a fun, interesting 

story. It was an FDIC property. 

AS: We needed about $500,000 to buy it. 

SB: No, we had the $500,000 for the 

deposit. We were having a hard time getting 

financing and we almost lost our deposit. 

You almost lost a half a million dollars? 

SB: Yes. This was in 1992 when the market 

was crashing and no one wanted to loan 

us money. 

We finally got a loan out of Ohio. The 

Teacher’s Pension Fund out of Ohio. I was 

probably 24 years old. We were borrowing a 

million dollars. 

I bet every bank around here wishes they 

had given you that first loan. 

SB: We went to every bank around here 

and they denied us. That’s the way it went. 

Everybody else was in trouble. If you owned 

any real estate, you were in trouble. Everybody 

was in trouble those days. 

After you bought Bass Island Estates, 

then what? 

AS: Then we went through and turned 

the property around like we do today. We 

emptied the property out, renovated it and 

re-tenanted it and had a cash flow. 

According to Sullivan in a follow-up interview, 

the apartment complex was an FDIC 

property, which meant that the Federal 

Deposit Insurance Company owned it and 

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the time, the FDIC had so many properties, 

there was little oversight of the management 

companies, and as a result, Sullivan said, 

Bass Island Estates was run down, mismanaged 

and half empty, with all but a handful of 

tenants behind in rent. Sullivan said he and 

Brady wanted everyone out, so they could 

clean the place up. 

AS: The first month Shane and I had it, 

we had to get a police detail to be there at 

night. We emptied the whole property, renovated 

it, re-tenanted it and just repositioned 

the property from a class C to a good B or Bplus 

property. 

So, once that was done, you rented it again 

as apartments? 

AS: Yes. We developed a positive cash 

flow, which propelled us to do more deals. 

May Gruber, Manchester 

institution 

When May Gruber spoke with John 

Andrews for the June, 21, 2007, issue of the 

Hippo, she was photographed wearing a 

“01.20.09” shirt and an Al Gore for president 

button. With her husband Sol Sidore, Gruber 

stared the Pandora factory in the 1950s. 

She also helped to start a weekly newspaper 

in Manchester (the long-defunct Manchester 

Free Press), the Manchester Community 

Music School, the New Hampshire Symphony 

and the League of Women Voters of New 

Hampshire. 

You do spend a lot of time between New 

York and Goffstown. What keeps you coming 

back? 

When I became president of Pandora ... the 

manufacturing was here and the showroom 

was in New York. And so I shuttled back 

and forth to be in each place because, one, 

you had to be aware of what the customers 

were saying, and two, you had to be aware of 

what we were manufacturing. After I sold it, 

I was so accustomed to going back and forth, 

I couldn’t give up either, because I love my 

home in Goffstown, and I have a very nice 

place in New York. It’s really a studio apartment, 

but it’s right near my alma mater, NYU. 

It’s a neighborhood familiar to me. … 

Are politics different in New York than 

they are here? 

I don’t get involved in politics in New 

York. I live in New Hampshire. I pay taxes in 

New Hampshire. I vote in New Hampshire. 

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March 12, 2009 

I founded the Goffstown Democratic Club. 

I think I can make more of an imprint here 

where it counts. 

Do you consider New York more of a, New 

York is your second home, this is your first 

home? 

New York is my fun place. I go to museums 

and I go to shows and I see art movies 

that you never see here. I shop in stores ... it’s 

just for fun. And doctors — my internist is in 

New York ... [He] has a specialty in geriatrics, 

and since I’m very old, I think that’s the 

right thing to do. 

Do you still get over to the mills in 

Manchester? 

My office is in the mill building because 

we still have quite a bit of interest in it. We 

sold Pandora, but we did not sell the buildings 

they were in. We now have the building that 

used to be our distribution center, and I think 

it’s the longest building in the Millyard ... and 

we also own the former locomotive works. 

We just bought it back from Dunn Furniture. 

And then we also own the little mall across 

the street, which we had bought to protect the 

Pandora factory store so that we would have 

more parking. 

Michael Buckley, chef 

Area foodies know Michael Buckley. In this 

age in which chefs have fans and followers, 

Buckley has given his devotees three places to 

try his food: Surf in Nashua, Buckley’s Great 

Steaks in Merrimack and his original claim to 

local foodie fame, Michael Timothy’s Urban 

Bistro in Nashua. You can find Buckley and/ 

or his food at many of the local foodie events 

and he’s one of the chefs slated to participate 

in the Have Knives, Will Travel chef-exchange 

event at Richard’s Bistro. Susan Ware talked 

to Buckley for the Sept. 20, 2007, issue of the 

Hippo. 

Why New Hampshire? 

I’m a local guy. I grew up in Brookline. Sarah 

[Buckley’s wife] is from Hollis; we knew 

each other in high school but didn’t date until 

later on. We live in Hollis now with our three 

kids. It’s not where you are but what you do 

that counts. 

Did you always want to own your own 

restaurant? 

Yes, my goal was to own one. I’d say most 

chefs like the idea of having their own place. 

It’s lots of hard work, and it isn’t for every- 

one. Some are happy just cooking, and when 

they punch out they can go golfing. When 

you’re an owner, it is very different, it is 24/7. 

It is hard to leave the job when you go home. 

How do you juggle the demands of the 

restaurant business and family? 

I am extremely fortunate to have a wife 

who completely understands this business. 

She puts in a lot of hours at the restaurants 

and gets what it takes to be successful in this 

business. My kids are fantastic. When I get 

home there is never all this drama about dad 

not being home; they all understand and support 

our goals. 

Tell me about the menu. 

At Michael Timothy’s we change the menu 

every month. There are house specialties, but 

not because we say they are, but because people 

tell us they are. Sometimes we’ll take 

something off of the menu and believe me 

I’ll hear about it. I can’t imagine taking off 

the Mediterranean salad, tournedos of beef, 

seared duck, white chocolate crème brulée 

or warm, soft chocolate cake. People would 

have fits. We took the field salad off once — a 

simple dish with scallion sour cream dressing 

and ham croutons — and we got a lot of feedback 

about it, so we put it back on. … 

What advice would you give someone considering 

opening a restaurant? 

I have to be careful not to offend anyone 

here. First, if you do not have solid restaurant 

experience, front and back, you end up 

relying on a few key employees, which you 

become hostage to. If they aren’t good, or 

they leave you, you are in big trouble. It is 

a very risky way to do business. The restaurant 

business is extremely tough. Margins are 

very small and getting smaller all the time as 

labor, food and energy costs keep going up. It 

isn’t just a job. 

John H. Sununu, 

NH Republican Party head 

For New Hampshire Republicans, there 

was a bright spot to the losses for November 

2008 — they got John H. Sununu, former governor 

and chief of staff to President George 

H. W. Bush, fired up. He took over as head 

of the state party organization in early 2009 

and has spent the months since then laying 

the groundwork for the 2010 elections. He 

spoke with Jeff Mucciarone for the March 12, 

2009, issue of the Hippo.

Why did you decide to reenter the ring? 

Well, New Hampshire is really such 

a great state, and I saw it changing dramatically 

for the worse. I have kids and 

grandkids that I want to be able to enjoy 

the state and all the benefits of the state the 

same way I did. And I felt that if I didn’t 

get involved, it might never get restored to 

where it should be. I really do believe that 

over the last 10 to 12 years — now with 

the new administration coming in, it’ll be 

12 out of 14 years of Democratic rule in 

the state — that the state really has lost a 

great deal. We’ve lost a lot of the quality of 

life. We’ve lost a lot of the aspects of local 

control which kept our citizens involved 

and self-governing. We’ve shifted power 

from cities and towns to Concord. And we 

have lost the fiscal discipline and the management 

discipline that made this a very 

well-run state that people really loved living 

in. It’s still a good state, but not as good 

as it used to be. It used to be a great state. 

And we have to try and help restore it. I 

saw that one of the biggest problems was 

that Democrats campaign well and govern 

terribly. But I also recognized that the 

problem was a problem within the Republican 

Party where we have not defined the 

difference between ourselves and the Democrats 

in a way that registered with the 

voters, and in a way that explained why the 

Republican traditional way of doing things 

really was done for the benefit of the state 

over the last half century. 

Now that you’re back into it, do you feel 

energized or reinvigorated? 

I’m dangerous. 

How so? 

I’ve started to get back into the details 

of issues, like budgets, like the integrity 

of the public employee retirement system, 

like the policies on helping cities and 

towns govern themselves, on issues like 

the school funding issues, the school control 

issue. And as I get back into the details, 

I am a bit energized, but I, unfortunately, 

get more and more disappointed because 

I’m finding out things were even worse 

than I thought when I agreed to accept the 

responsibility of coming back. 

Was there sort of a specific moment 

that you look back to, maybe in the last 

year, where you said, “I have to get back 

involved”? 


Yeah, it was a family intervention. My 

sons, my wife, kids came in one day and said, 

“We have to talk to you.” I said, “What’s it 

about?” And they said, “Well, everybody’s 

been asking you to consider being chairman 

of the party — we think you have to take it.” 

And I had the funny feeling that I couldn’t 

get out of the room if I didn’t say yes. So I 

said yes. 

Now that you’re back in, what are you 

hoping to accomplish? 

What I have to do is help define the difference 

between the two parties in a way that 

can be communicated, not just by me, but by 

the Republicans involved [in] the political 

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2010 election. 

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endorsing a lot of practices that really aren’t 

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for organic ... I just think there should 

be less subsidies of doing it the wrong way. 

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be very challenging, but it’s exactly what’s 

going to have to happen. 

Now here’s the little secret. It’s not all 

going to happen through policy. It’s going to 

happen through consumers demanding these 

kinds of foods, and then the market conditions 

will actually favor, you know, farmers 

are going to move in these directions with or 

without the subsidies... 

What’s most on your mind right now 

when it comes to food? 

I would say the national obesity, diabetes 

and cancer epidemics. I’ve lost three friends 

in the last nine months to pancreatic cancer. 

And I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have 

someone in their lives suffer from cancer. … 

You spoke at the UNH commencement 

this year, I believe. And it’s a tough economy, 

and new grads frequently are looking 

for advice. So what do you think they need 

to do to see … personal success, and help 

build a stronger economy and healthier 

environment? 

The short version, is ... everything starts 

somewhere, every car they drive, every drink 

that they drink, every piece of clothing they 

wear, was created by somebody asking my 

two favorite words, which are “Why not?” 

This is the time ... that the sort of conventional 

economy is broken, and yet we see 

signs everywhere of incredible opportunity 

if we’re willing to think a little out of box. 

... I went on to tell them about some of the 

incredible odds that we’ve had to overcome 

over the years to build Stonyfield. And I’m 

actually optimistic in these times because I 

see the companies that are surviving ... and 

beginning to prosper because they are reinventing 

themselves. They’re getting rid of 

inefficiency and they’re thinking about new 

ways of doing things. 

And I’ll just give you one example. Stonyfield 

was investing in conservation, energy 

reduction, obviously 20 years ago. Those 

savings — we did a calculation this morning 

of ... — this is ballpark — just the current 

financial savings that we are receiving 

for current environmental investments that 

we’re making, and they total about four and 

a half million a year. 

To summarize ... the idea that the environment 

and economy is in conflict is a dinosaur. 

It’s dead. It’s over. And young people who 

recognize that this is how money’s going to 

be made in future, this is how we’re going to 


do commerce, by reducing our carbon footprint 

and using resources of the Earth more 

wisely — they’re the ones who are going to 

win. 

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Manchester’s mayor 

Ted Gatsas is trying things. Even before 

he took the oath of office this January, he 

had some ideas for new ways to organize 

Manchester schools. In the few months 

he’s been in office, he’s done more reorganization. 

A life-long Manchester resident, 

Gatsas, a Republican, was an alderman 

for Manchester’s Ward 2 from 1999 until 

he became mayor, and was a state senator 

from 2000 until 2009. Before getting 

into politics, he owned a staffing business 

with his brother. Gatsas, whose heritage is 

a mix of Greek and Lebanese, may be the 

city’s first mayor of Greek ancestry. Jeff 

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It was a business that offered services to 

small businesses. It’s the place I grew up, 

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people hold out their hands to natives to 

try to help them out. ... It’s always been that 

way and it always will be that way. 

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to help new business owners with the 

process of opening up in the city? 

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at Manchester as a segment, we must 

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with the communities around us so that 

we’re going to enhance the region and the 

state? Obviously, we have the airport, which 

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THIS WEEK 

EvENTS To CHECK ouT JuLY 1 - 7, 2010, ANd BEYoNd 

Sunday, July 4 

Celebrate 234 years of Independence Day in Nashua at Holman Stadium, 67 Amherst St. There will be a Field Day of activities for kids, free sandwiches 

from Chick-Fil-A and more from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. And come back around 9 p.m. from fireworks. Or head to Concord, where vendors, music 

and more will set up in Memorial Field — vendors open at 5:30, a DJ begins a set at 6 p.m. and a band starts at 8 p.m. Fireworks will begin around 

9:15 p.m. A $2 donation will be collected at the gate. Call 225-8690 or go to onconcord.com/recreation. In Manchester, Saturday, July 3, is the big 

day for fireworks — the show will start at around 9:15 p.m. in Arms Park. 

Thursday, July 1 

Keep that World Cup feeling 

going with some local soccer. 

Today at 7 p.m., the New Hampshire 

Mountaineers will play 

Boston at Southern New Hampshire 

University in Manchester. 

The NH Phantoms will play the 

Albany Highlander Friday, July 

2. See www.mountaineersoccer. 

com or www.nhphantoms.com. 

Free: an afternoon of yoga 

Try your hand at yoga for free. Zaanti Yoga 

and Meditation in downtown Wilton will offer 

free yoga on Wednesdays, 1 to 2 p.m., during 

July and August in the park on Main Street. 

Bring water, a mat and your flexibility. 


The New Hampshire Fisher 

Cats have games for the next four 

evenings against the New Britain 

Rock Cats at Merchantsauto.com 

Stadium in Manchester’s Millyard. 

See them Thursday through 

Saturday at 7:05 p.m. or Sunday, 

July 4, at 6:35 p.m. There will 

be fireworks at all of the shows 

except Friday’s, when there will 

be a Fisher Cats hat giveaway. 

See www.nhfishercats.com. 


The Prescott Park Arts Festival 

will present outdoor 

productions of Peter Pan Thursdays 

through Sundays through 

Aug. 22 at Prescott Park in Portsmouth. 

Shows start at 7 p.m. on 

Thursdays and Sundays, 8 p.m. 

on Fridays and Saturdays. See 

www.prescottpark.org. 

Cheap: a night of dance 

The Queen City Ballroom’s annual Dance 

Party With a Fireworks Show will be held 

on Saturday, July 3, from 7 to 10 p.m., at 21 

Dow St, Manchester. Singles and couples of 

all levels are welcome. Tickets cost $12 per 

person. No reservations necessary. Call 622- 

1500 or e-mail QnCtyBalrm@aol.com. See 

www.queencityballroomnh.com. 


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movie from M. Night Shyamalan, 

opens today (the only other 

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is The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 

which opened Wednesday). The 

movie is based on the Nickelodeon 

animated series Avatar: The 

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Turn the art around 

Expert advises leadership, innovation 

By Adam Coughlin 

acoughlin@hippopress.com 

The best way for a struggling 

arts organization to revitalize itself 

is not by cutting programs, according 

to the president of the John F. 

Kennedy Center for the Performing 

Arts in Washington, D.C., but 

instead to focus on offering unique 

and innovative art because donors 

will choose to fund organizations 

that are vital and offering more to 

the community. 

Michael M. Kaiser, as part 

of “Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy 

Center Initiative,” spoke to a gathering 

at the Capitol Center for the 

Arts on June 24. Known as “The 

Turnaround King,” Keiser has a reputation 

of taking arts organizations, 

from the Kansas City Ballet to the 

Royal Opera House in London, on 

the verge of bankruptcy and turning 

them into thriving operations. 

To do this, Kaiser does not rely on 

the patronage of large foundations 

but instead believes that individual 

donors, which provide 60 percent of 

arts funding, are the savior of arts. 

“I don’t believe there is one country 

or city where you can’t raise 

funding,” Kaiser said. “No one 

city or state is immune [to] fundraising 

but you have to get people 

excited.” 

That is why Kaiser recommends 

a two-pronged promotional strate- 

24 Art 

Includes listings for gallery events, ongoing exhibits and classes. To get listed, 

e-mail arts@hippopress.com. 

ART LISTINGS 

Art events 

• FIRST THURSDAYS The Currier 

Museum of Art is open late from 5:30 

to 7:30 p.m. first Thursday of each 

month with special programs including 

live music, lectures and film, at 

150 Ash St., Manchester. Call 669- 

6144 ext. 108 or see www.currier.org 

for tickets. 

Gallery openings 

and events. 

• REMAINS OF THE DAY exhibit 

of work by Robin Luciano Beaty will 

be on display through Aug. 2 at Three 

Graces, 105 Market St., Portsmouth. 

Admission is free. Opening reception 

Fri., July 2, 5-8 p.m. in conjunction 

with Art ’Round Town. Call 436- 

1988 or visit www.threegracesgallery. 

com. 

• SCOTT BULGER Photographies 

on display Thurs., July 1, through 

Fri., Aug. 27, at the Carolyn Jenkins 

Gallery, Kimball-Jenkins Estate, 266 

North Main St., Concord. Opening 

reception Fri., July 9, 7-11 p.m. Visit 

www.kimballjenkins.com or call 225- 

3932. 

• AN ARTISTS’ CIRCLE James 

Aponovich and Elizabeth Johansson 

and 13 friends have a seven-week 


gy. The first is program marketing, 

which gets people to buy tickets. He 

said the easiest way to do this is by 

offering programs that are new. Kaiser 

said arts organizations should 

lead the public, not follow it. They 

shouldn’t focus so much on giving 

people what they want but instead 

offer things that are illuminating. This 

takes imagination, which Kaiser said 

has been beaten out of many because 

of worries about money. But he said if 

leaders in arts organizations are able 

to carve out a few hours every week 

to plan four or five years down the 

road, it will give them time to plan 

some special events. 

If those involved, especially the 

board members, are excited about 

the programs it will be easier to get 

people excited about the organization. 

Organizational marketing is 

something Kaiser said can be inexpensive 

and have a huge impact on 

creating a positive cycle. Kaiser said 

many board members fail to involve 

their friends, family and colleagues, 

which wastes a valuable resource. 

Kaiser said when times are tough 

— and he would know because 

when he began at the Royal Opera 

House it had a $30 million deficit 

— it is important for the arts organization 

to have one voice that delivers 

the best message. Kaiser said occasionally 

if an arts organization says 

it is about to go bankrupt it will get 

an emergency donation but those 

exhibition at the Sharon Arts Downtown 

Exhibition Gallery in Depot 

Square, Peterborough, 924-2787, 

sharonarts.org. Opening reception on 

Fri., July 9, 5-7 p.m., and continues 

with a series of educational programs 

and events through the closing reception 

on Fri., Aug. 27, 5-7 p.m. Both 

receptions are free and open to the 

public. 

• CHRIS MYOTT work will be on 

display through Sept. 30 in the New 

Hampshire Antique Co-op’s Tower 

Gallery, 323 Elm St./Rte. 101A, Milford. 

Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

daily. An artist reception will be held 

Sat., July 10, 1-3 p.m. Call 673-8499. 

In the galleries 

• 10 FOR 2010: Ten Emerging Painters 

to Watch, features work by alumni 

of the NH Institute of Art through 

Aug. 31 at the Robert M. Larsen Gallery 

at Sulloway & Hollis, 29 School 

St., Concord. 

• AMBER GRISEL, paintings, at 

Apotheca Flowers & Tea Chest, 24 

Main St. in Goffstown, 384-3939, 

apothecaflowers.com. 

• ART IN THE MILL Children’s 

works from the Picturing Writing 

Project on display through Aug. 20 

on the second floor at UNH Manches- 

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are few and far between and carry 

a huge cost. 

“If things are bad you don’t have 

to lie,” Kaiser said. “But point out 

the positives.” 

A positive for many arts organizations 

is joint ventures, which Kaiser 

said if used properly can have real 

power. Of course, these sorts of 

collaborations need to be made by 

competent arts managers, and Kaiser 

said there has been a real failure 

to educate these types of people. 

He said billions of dollars are spent 

training artists but much less on 

training the managers. If an orchestra 

is failing, the great oboe player 

won’t be heard. This is why Kaiser 

started the Kennedy Center Arts 

Management Institute to equip artists 

and lovers of art with the skills 

to thrive in any economy. 

“We are no longer a manufacturing 

nation,” Kaiser said. “We need 

to educate kids to become problemsolvers 

and independent thinkers. 

The arts is a good place to start.” 

With such a reputation, Kaiser has 

spoken all over the world. But he 

said most countries look to America 

for advice on how to independently 

raise funds — because America was 

founded by Puritans there has been 

a separation of art and state, Kaiser 

joked. In other countries the government 

funds the arts. Now that many 

of those governments are cutting 

back, other countries are looking 

26 Theater 

Includes listings, shows, auditions, workshops and more. To get listed, e-mail 

arts@hippopress.com 

ter, 400 Commercial St., Manchester. 

Exhibit is free and open to the public. 

Call 641-4101 or visit www.unhm. 

unh.edu. 

• ART UNDER GLASS The members 

of the Hollis Arts Society will be 

exhibiting their work in the front windows 

of 100 Main St., Nashua from 

July 2 through Aug. 31. Visit www. 

hollisartssociety.org. 

• CAPTURING THE HUMAN 

SPIRIT Documentary images of photographer 

Jerome Liebling through 

Sept. 19 at the Currier Museum of 

Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, www. 

currier.org, 669-6144. 

• CONCORD ARTS MARKET an 

outdoor juried artisan and art market 

at Eagle Square in downtown Concord, 

along with the city’s farmers 

market, which runs from 8 a.m. to 

noon on Capitol Street. The Arts Market 

will run Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 

3 p.m. The market will be closed July 

3 but open July 15-17. Visit concordartsmarket.com 

or call 229-2157. 

• CROSS CURRENTS IN 20TH- 

CENTURY ART Prints and ceramics 

from the Anne C and Harry Wollman 

Collections open to the public through 

Sept. 6 at the Currier Museum of Art, 

150 Ash St., Manchester, www.currier.org, 

669-6144. 

• IN DELICATE BALANCE stainless 

steel kinetic sculpture by George 

Sherwood on display at the Currier 

Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, 

until Sunday, Sept. 19. Visit 

www.currier.org, call 669-6144. 

• INVITATIONAL SCULPTURE 

EXHIBIT 13th annual outdoor 

exhibit runs through Oct. 17 at the 

Mill Brook Gallery and Sculpture 

Gardens, 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord. 

Gallery hours are Tues.-Sun., 11 

a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment. Call 

226-2046 or visit www.themillbrookgallery.com. 

• IF I WERE AN ANIMAL The 

Hollis Arts Society presents a show 

of animal-themed work in a variety 

of media at the Community Council 

Gallery, 100 West Pearl St., Nashua. 

Contact Pat Hurd, president of the 

Hollis Arts Society, at 882-1503. 

• MAMAN DISAIT A featured art 

exhibit by Rhea Cote Robbins in 

the Beliveau Galeria at the Franco- 

American Centre, 52 Concord St., 

Manchester, 669-4045, www.francoamericancentrenh.com. 

• MERRIMACK RIVER PAINT- 

ERS Art exhibit will be held at 

Franklin Pierce Law Center, 2 White 

St., Concord through Sept. 8. Call 

513-5111. 

toward America to learn how to fill 

the gap. 

He said arts like symphonies 

and operas are in particular danger 

because, whereas a theater can do a 

smaller show, if there are 80 members 

of an orchestra there are 80 

members of an orchestra. 

“In the arts we don’t increase 

worker productivity very well,” 

Kaiser said. “There are the same 

number of people in Hamlet as there 

were when Shakespeare wrote it.” 

Yet, when a 1,300-seat theater is 

built there will be 1,300 seats next 

year and the year after, so there is a 

ARTS 

Michael Kaiser (left) and Ric Waldman, director of programming at the 

Capitol Center for the Arts. Adam Coughlin photo. 

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Includes symphony and orchestral performances. To get listed, e-mail 

arts@hippopress.com. 

• NARCOTT AND SAWAF Hsiu 

Norcott and Marilene Sawaf will show 

their work in the ReMax building at 2 

Ash St., Hollis. Call 465-8800. 

• OF NIGHTMARES installations, 

sculpture, painting and drawing by 

various artists through July 4 at 119 

Gallery located at 119 Chelmsford 

St., Lowell, Mass. 

• OPEN STUDIO NIGHTS third 

Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. at Verdigris Artisans, 

88 N. Main St., Suite 205, Concord, 

www.verdigrisartisans.com. 

• OUT & OUT ART exhibition of 

photography & digital art by Albert 

Wilkinson at Hampshire First Bank, 

221 Main St., Nashua. Call 578- 

2652. 

• PORTRAITS FROM THE PAST 

exhibit featuring the Hopkinton Historical 

Society’s collection of portraits 

through Sept. 4 at 300 Main St., 

Hopkinton. Hours are Thurs. & Fri. 

9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 

Admission is free. Call 746-3825. 

• THE ART AND FUNCTION OF 

CROOKED KNIVES exhibit highlights 

the blend of utility and artistry 

of the carved wooden handles as well 

as the many objects created with this 

unique tool, on display until Oct. 31 

at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum 

located at 18 Highlawn Road, War- 

fixed potential there. To fill this gap 

between rising costs and fixed earning 

potential, many organizations 

raise ticket prices, which squeezes 

a lot of people out. 

And there are a lot of people who 

want to see good art. Kaiser said 

more tickets are sold each year to 

art events than to sporting events. 

“Seventy percent of tourists in 

America come to observe culture,” 

Kaiser said. “That is a big economic 

sector.” 

Now all arts organizations need 

to do is figure the best ways to capitalize 

on that. 

ner. 

• THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Artwork 

from more than 85 artists is 

on display at Art 3 Gallery (44 West 

Brook St., Manchester, 668-6650, 

www.art3gallery.com) through July 

9 during regular gallery hours Monday–Friday 

9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; weekends 

and evenings by appointment. 

• THE OLE BALL GAME A history 

of baseball in Laconia on display 

through August at the Laconia Public 

Library, 695 Main St., Laconia. Call 

527-1278 or visit www.laconiahistorical.org. 

• U.F.O.s ARE COMING Unframed 

originals from local artists will be on 

sale through Aug. 4 at White Birch 

Fine Art, 8 Mohawk Dr., Londonderry. 

Call 434-0399 or visit www.whitebirchfineart.com. 

• UNLEASHED Multi-artist exhibit 

at the McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills 

Ave., Concord through July 30. Hours 

are Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 

p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or by 

appointment. Call 225-2515 or visit 

www.mcgowanfineart.com. 

• WALKING WITH US Honoring 

the Northeast Native American 

Heritage. The exhibit is rich with 

contemporary and traditional fine 

arts and crafts by sixteen artists and

Work by Scott Bulger. Courtesy photo. 

• Bulger in Concord: Taking photos 

doesn’t make someone a photographer. 

Being a photographer doesn’t make someone 

an artist. Scott Bulger is all of those things 

and his newest book, Khronikos, which is 

ancient Greek for the Chronicler, showcases 

his artistic photographs. Seventeen of the 

54 images in the book will be on display at 

the Kimball Jenkins Estate, 233 North Main 

St., Concord, from July 1 to Aug. 27. “I like 

to search out the overlooked,” Bulger said. 

“Things people walk by and don’t notice. 

There is inherent beauty on a brick wall or 

an old piece of statue. People are too busy 

to notice these things.” Bulger has embraced 

digital photography and doesn’t think it is 

easier or more difficult than traditional film 

photography. “I used to spend eight hours a 

day in the darkroom,” Bulger said. “Now I 

is open through Sept. 12 at the Mill 

Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 

236 Hopkinton Road, Concord. Gallery 

hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 11 

a.m. - 5 p.m., and by appointment. 

Call 226-2046 or visit www.themillbrookgallery.com. 

• WATERCOLORS OF THE 

WOODS Work of the late James 

Trask will be on display through 

Fri., July 30, in the conference room 

at the Society for the Protection of 

NH Forests Conservation Center, 54 

Portsmouth St., Concord. Hours are 

Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; however, 

the conference room is used for 

meetings, so call ahead, 224-9945, to 

make sure it is open. 

THEATER LISTINGS 

• The Acting Loft 

516 Pine St., Manchester 

666-5999, actingloft.org 

• Actorsingers 

219 Lake St., Nashua, 889-9691, 

actorsingers.org 

• Adams Memorial 

Opera House 

29 W. Broadway, Derry, 

437-0505, derryarts.org 

• Amato Family Center for the 

Performing Arts at Souhegan 

Valley Boys & Girls Club 

56 Mont Vernon St., Milford, 

672-1002 ext. 2, svbgc.com 

• Andy’s Summer Playhouse 

Wilton, 654-2613, 

andyssummerplayhouse.org 

• Anselmian Abbey Players 

Dana Center, 641-7700 

• Bedford Off Broadway 

Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, 

557-1805, bedfordoffbroadway.com 

• Bedford Town Hall 

70 Bedford Center Rd., Bedford 

• Belle Voci 

Local Color 

still spend the same amount of time but at 

least I’m out in the family area and my kids 

can sit on my lap. It is a more pleasant experience.” 

He said he tried several media to 

find an outlet for his artistic expressions. But 

he was best at taking photos. He likens his 

job to that of a translator and says the camera 

is like his eyes in a box. Bulger said a good 

photograph captures the senses and emotions 

of a moment. Being able to do that comes 

through hard work and instinct, the latter 

being difficult to teach. “Everything I photograph 

moves me,” Bulger said. “I try to have 

other people feel the same. But if they don’t 

like it, they don’t like it. You’re either an 

artist or you’re not. You’re creating for yourself.” 

An artist reception will be held Friday, 

July 9, 7-11 p.m. Visit www.kimballjenkins. 

com or call 225-3932. 

• Deadline added: Artists interested in 

education will have until Friday, Sept. 3, to 

submit applications to the State Arts Council 

offices to be listed on the Arts in Education 

Artist Roster. The roster allows schools to 

find local artists in a variety of disciplines 

who can come into the classroom and share 

their ideas, skills and energy with the students. 

“It is a relatively new field,” said 

Coordinator Catherine O’Brian. “It is a 

lengthy application process where the artists 

have to show what they would do in a 

short- and long-term residency in a school 

but also show they are not only great artists 

but also have experience working with students 

in a public school.” O’Brian said the 

council is always looking for new artists as 

well as more diversity and, while being on 

the roster is a nice seal of approval, the artists 

still need to do their own marketing. There 

is also a roster of Health Care Artists. Visit 

www.nh.gov/nharts/grants/artists/aieroster. 

htm. —Adam Coughlin 

Mill Brook gets native 

The Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture 

Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road, 

Concord, is hosting its second annual 

exhibit: “Walking with Us — Honoring 

the Northeast Native American 

Heritage.” The exhibit showcases 

contemporary and traditional fine 

arts and crafts by 16 artists and will 

be on display through Sept. 12. Gallery 

hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and by 

appointment. Two artists who will be featured include Percy 

Fortini-Wright, who was a graffiti artist with such a 

reputation that he was admitted to art school and has since 

earned a Master of Fine Arts, and George Longfish, who 

has a distinguished career as a gallery director at University 

of California, Davis, and has exhibited in museums 

across the country. Call 226-2046 or visit www.themillbrookgallery.com. 

James Munoz sculpted “Abenaki Dove” 

in terra cotta. Courtesy photo. 

bellevoci.org, 848-7986 

• Capitol Center for the Arts 

44 Main St., Concord, 225-1111, 

ccanh.com 

• Concord Chorale 

224-0770, 

concordchorale.org 

• Concord City Auditorium 

2 Prince St., Concord, 228-2793, 

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NH training made the difference 

Could these Acting Loft performers be the 

next big stars? Courtesy photo. 

Adam Coughlin 

acoughlin@hippopress.com 

Two alumni of the Acting Loft in Manchester 

directed and produced the independent 

movie The Mystery Team, which is now out 

on DVD. And while their success has been 

great, it is even sweeter because it is being 

enjoyed by those who helped them along the 

way. 

Dan Eckman (director) and Meggie 

McFadden (producer) rose to fame by making 

humorous Internet videos as part of the 

Derrick Comedy troupe. Acting Loft Artistic 

Director Chris Courage is not surprised by 

this rise to fame. He could see it coming. 

“Dan was an actor and filmmaker since 

I’ve known him,” said Courage, which was 

when Eckman was about 11 years old. “He 

always approached performance from a 

directorial standpoint. He didn’t want to be 

an actor but he wanted to know what actors 

went through so he could direct them.” 

Courage said McFadden worked in the production 

aspect and as his special assistant for 

several years. Courage said the Acting Loft 

was very much an intern program for the two. 

“Success brings recognition,” Courage 

said. “There are a lot of theater companies 

in New Hampshire. This makes people more 

www.theaudi.org 

• Concord Community Players 

224-4905, communityplayersof 

concord.org 

• The Dana Center 

100 Saint Anselm Drive, 

Manchester, 641-7700, 

anselm.edu 

• The Majestic Theatre 

281 Cartier St., Manchester, 

669-7469, majestictheatre.net 

• Manchester Community 

Music School 

2291 Elm St., 644-4548, 

mcmusicschool.org 

• Manchester Community 

Theatre and Second Stage 

Professional Co. 

698 Beech St., Manchester, 

627-8787 

• Milford Area Players 

673-2258, milfordareaplayers.org 

• Muchachos Drum 

& Bugle Corps 

PO Box 5197, Manchester, 

674-7650, www.muchachos.org 

• Music and Drama 

Company (MADCo.) 

Londonderry, madco.org 

• My Act 

myact.org, 429-3950 

• Nashua Theatre Guild 

PO Box 137, Nashua, 

03061, 320-2530 

nashuatheatreguild.org 

• New Thalian Players 

newthalianplayers.org, 666-6466 

• Nashua Community 

College Performing 

Arts Club (PAC) 

505 Amherst St., Nashua, 

428-3544 

• The Palace Theatre 

80 Hanover St., Manchester, 

668-5588, palacetheatre.org 

• Peacock Players 

14 Court St., Nashua, 886-7000, 

peacockplayers.org 

• Profile Chorus 

profilechorus.org 

• School of Theater Arts 

at The Amato Center for 

Performing Arts 

56 Mont Vernon St., Milford, 

672-1002 ext. 20 

• Seacoast Repertory Theatre 

125 Bow St., Portsmouth, 

433-4472 

• SNHU Drama Club 

2500 North River Rd., Hooksett 

• Yellow Taxi Productions 

yellowtaxiproductions.org 

• CABARET AFTER HOURS 

presented by Cabaret De Boheme 

of New Hampshire Mondays, 7-10 

p.m., at the Element Lounge, 1055 

THEATER 

aware of what we’re doing.” 

On a personal level, Courage said the success 

of his alumni confirms that what’s being 

done at the Acting Loft has meaning. Courage 

began the company 15 years ago to give 

kids in New Hampshire the kind of training 

that was available in California and New 

York. 

This feeling of pride is not confined to 

those involved at the Acting Loft. Mathew 

Cahoon, Arts Facility Director at Stockbridge 

Theatre at Pinkerton Academy, said 

when students succeed — and he’s had several 

perform on Broadway — it is what 

teachers live for. 

“As a teacher of theater, nothing makes 

you prouder,” Cahoon said. “Well, maybe if 

your own children did it. But after four years 

with these kids, in some ways, it does feel 

like they’re your children.” 

Cahoon said so many of these students 

enter high school not knowing much about 

theater and when they fall in love with it and 

then shine, it is a great feeling to know you 

were part of that process. 

This sentiment was echoed by Diane 

Rothwell of the Timberlane School District, 

whose former students include a trombone 

player for the singer Michael Bublé. 

“Having these alumni come back and tell 

their story really inspires the young students,” 

Rothwell said. “Of course we try to 

help them succeed in many ways, not just in 

the arts.” 

While the success of alumni can lead new 

students to a specific theater company, others’ 

success does not keep them performing, 

according to Courage. 

“If someone is interested in acting and 

then they hear about Dan and Meggie they’ll 

know the Acting Loft provides great training 

and it may be the impetus for them to 

walk through the door,” Courage said. “But 

once inside they’ll study because of their 

passion.” 

Elm St., Manchester, 627-2922. 

Brandon Mallard and Barbara Lawler 

perform classic jazz standards and 

Broadway showtunes (www.nhcabaret.com). 

• The Blonde, the Brunette and 

the Vengeful Redhead will be performed 

until July 4 Tuesdays-Saturdays 

at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. 

at the Peterborough Players, 55 Hadley 

Road, Peterborough. Tickets cost 

$38-40. Call 924-7585 or visit www. 

peterboroughplayers.org. 

• RENT The musical by Jonathan 

Larson through July 24 at the Seacoast 

Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow 

St., Portsmouth. Show times are 

Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays 

at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sundays 

at 2 p.m. Ticket cost $17.50 - $42. 

Visit www.seacoastrep.org or call 

433-4472. 

• TWO ROOMS JDK Production’s 

play, Two Rooms will be performed 

on Fri., July 2, and Saturday, July 3, 

at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 4, at 

9:30 p.m. at the Players’ Ring, 105 

Marcy St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost 

$10. Call 436-8123 or visit playersring.ticketleap.com. 

• FREUD’S LAST SESSION A 

new play by Mark St. Germain will 

be performed July 7- 8 at the Peter-

• Hall of fame: The Actorsingers, 219 

Lake St. in Nashua, www.actorsingers.org, 

320-1870, has welcomed three new people as 

Actorsingers Life Members — David DuCharme, 

Beth Fenske and Glen Grimard were 

recognized for their 15 years of consecutive 

service with the organization, which means 

they have been involved in at least one show 

or project yearly since 1995. They join about 

100 lifetime members, which means they will 

no longer have to pay dues but will still be 

able to participate in all the Actorsingers has 

to offer, which includes shows, meetings and 

the ability to vote on issues. “It’s an honor,” 

DuCharme said. “I have put in a lot of time 

directing, acting and being on boards. But it 

is what I love to do.” 

• New season announced: The Palace 

Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester, has 

announced its 2010-2011 season and tickets 

are currently being sold. To choose the shows, 

according to Kerri Christopher, director of 

public relations, there is a process of thinking 

about what can and should be done, what 

has been done recently and what rights can be 

secured. The new season highlights an original 

creation of artistic director Carl Rajotte, 

Piano Men, which brings to life the music of 

Elton John, Stevie Wonder and many more. 

The schedule includes Altar Boyz, Sept. 24- 

Oct. 9; Life is a Cabaret, Nov. 5-20; The 

Nutcracker, Nov. 26-28; A Christmas Car- 

borough Players, 55 Hadley Road, 

Peterborough. Performances are 

Tuesday-Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays 

at 4 p.m. Tickets cost $38-40. 

Call 924-7585 or visit www.peterboroughplayers.org. 

• OLIVER will be performed July 9- 

25 at the Leddy Center, 38c Ladd’s 

Lane, Epping. Performances on Fridays 

and Saturdays will be at 7:30 

p.m. and Sundays and Wednesdays 

at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $16 and $18 

depending on seating. Call 679-2781 

or visit www.leddycenter.org. 

• AS YOU LIKE IT The Open Door 

Theatre at New England College 

will perform on Fri., July 16, and 

Sat., July 17, at 7:30 p.m. and Sun., 

July 18, at 3 p.m. at the Mainstage 

Theatre in the Science Building on 

Depot Hill Road in Henniker. Tickets 

cost $12 for general admission 

and $10 for students. Call 428-2382 

or e-mail nectheatre@nec.edu. 

• CHILDREN OF EDEN will be 

performed on Fri., July 16, Sat., July 

17, Fri., July 23, and Sat., July 24 at 

7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 25, at 2 p.m. 

at the Majestic Theatre. Tickets cost 

$12-$18. 

• ANNIE The Palace Theatre Com- 

ol, Dec. 3-19; Rumors, Jan. 14-29; Piano 

Men, Feb. 18-March 5; 42nd Street, March 

25-April 9 and Hairspray, April 29-May 14. 

Tickets costs range from $15 to $45. Tickets 

are available by calling 668-5588 or visiting 

www.palacetheatre.org. 

• Info and auditions: The Actorsingers 

will be holding an information night for 

their new main stage production, Elton John 

and Tim Rice’s AIDA. Anyone interested in 

participating in this show, which is rich in 

singing and dancing, is encouraged to come 

to an info night on Friday, July 23, at 7 p.m. at 

the Actorsingers Hall, 219 Lake St. in Nashua. 

“It’s a great time for anyone to just show 

up and meet the directors and ask questions,” 

said Amy Friedman, a producer of the show. 

“Most theaters don’t have these types of nights 

but we’re one of the largest community theaters 

around and we’re lucky enough to have 

our own building.” “I expect that the show 

will be full of spectacle,” said Judy Hayward, 

music director. “And with auditions, even if 

a person feels that they don’t have a flair for 

this particular style, I feel that the music and 

the dance will actually help foster it along. So 

much of the music and dance is uplifting, one 

can’t help but enjoy it.” There will be a dance 

workshop on Thursday, Aug. 5, 7-8:30 p.m., 

for anyone who wants to practice their moves 

before auditions, which will be held Friday, 

Aug. 6, 7-9 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 7, 11 

a.m.-1 p.m. Friedman said those auditioning 

should bring a piece of music appropriate to 

the show. AIDA will be performed Nov. 5, 6, 

and 7. Visit www.actorsingers.org or call 320- 

1870.-—Adam Coughlin 

Manchester gets 

some theater in 

the park after all 

Bedford Youth Performing 

Company presents a 

production of Annie, Jr. on 

Friday, July 16, at 6:30 p.m. 

at Veterans Park, 889 Elm St. in Manchester. The show, which 

is directed by Ann Davison, is free and open to the public. The 

Bedford Youth Performing Company, was founded in 1996 and 

provides instruction in music, dance, theater and a creative preschool. 

Visit www.bypc.org or call 472-3894. Courtesy photo. 

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Children’s performances 

• CAPITOL CENTER FOR THE 

PERFORMING ARTS The North 

Country Center for the Arts Children’s 

Theatre presents the 2010 Little 

Smiles Children’s Summer Series 

Tuesdays at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in 

Govenor’s Hall at the Capitol Center 

geared for ages 3 and older, $6:Goldilocks 

and the Three Bears, July 6. 

Call 225-1111 or visit ccanh.com. 

• ANDY’S SUMMER PLAY- 

HOUSE This summer performances 

at Andy’s Summer Playhouse, 582 

Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton, include: 

Dick Tracy July 1-3 and July 8-10 at 

7:30 p.m. and Wed., July 7, at 2 p.m. 

Call 654-2613 or visit www.andyssummerplayhouse.org. 

• PALACE THEATRE Summer performances 

on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. and 

6:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 10 a.m. 

at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., 

Manchester. Performances include: 

Blues Clues on July 6 & 7. Tickets cost 

$6. Call 668-5588. 

• RAMONA QUIMBY based on the 

books by Beverly Clearly, Ramona 

Quimby will be performed July 2, 

July 3, July 9, July 10, July 14, July 

16, July 17, July 23 and July 24, 

at 10:30 a.m. at the Peterborough 

Players, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. 

Tickets cost $10 for adults, $8 

for children. Call 924-7585 or visit 

www.peterboroughplayers.org. 

CLASSICAL LISTINGS 

• SEACOAST WIND ENSEM- 

BLE will hold a free outdoor concert 

on Thurs., July 1, at 7 p.m. in 

downtown Concord’s Eagle Square. 

In case of rain, the concert will be 

held one week later on Thurs., July 

8, at 7 p.m. Visit www.nhhistory.org 

or call 228-6688. 

• SONGS AND STORIES of a 

Canado-American Childhood will be 

performed in English and French by 

Kenneth Jean Cloutier on Fri., July 

2, at 7 p.m. at the Mariposa Museum 

& World Culture Center, 26 Main 

St., Peterborough. Call 924-4555 or 

visit www.mariposamuseum.org. 

• INDEPENDENCE DAY EVE 

Merrimack Concert Band and the 

94th Army Band will perform on 

Sat., July 3, at 7:30 p.m. on the 

bandstand in Abbie Griffin Park, 

adjacent to Town Hall, 6 Baboosic 

Lake Road, Merrimack. Admission 

is free. Call Executive Director Laurie 

Ludvigsen at 424-0558 or visit 

www.merrimackconcert.org. 

• SUMMER SINGS Singing nights, 

Tuesdays, July 6-27, 7:30-9 p.m. in 

the community room at Concord 

Community Music School, 23 Wall 

St., Concord. No prior experience 

Palace Theatre becomes 

Irish 

Ronan Tynan will perform on Saturday, 

July 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the 

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in 

Manchester. Known the world over as 

a member of the Irish Tenors, Tynan 

will be singing on July 4 at a Red Sox 

game at Fenway Park in Boston. He is also one of the 

most sought-after motivational speakers in the U.S., presenting 

nearly 50 speeches annually. Ticket prices for his 

one-night-only Palace performance range from $24.50 to 

$59.50 — the $59.50 tickets include a meet and greet with 

Tynan before the show. Call 668-5588 or visit www.palacetheatre.org. 

Courtesy photo. 

necessary, $12 per session. Call 228- 

1196 or visit www.ccmusicschoo. 

org. 

• MONADNOCK MUSIC Free 

classical concert held Thurs., July 8, 

at 7:30 p.m. at Rindge Pierce Hall, 

Franklin Pierce University, 40 University 

Drive, Rindge. Another concert 

will be held on Thurs., July 8, 

at 7:30 p.m. at Hancock Community 

Church, 47 Main St., Hancock. Call 

924-7610 or visit www.monadnockmusic.org. 

• MONADNOCK MUSIC Free 

classical concert held Fri., July 9, 

at 7:30 p.m. at Marlow Jones Hall, 

Marlow. Another concert will be 

held on Fri., July 9, at 7:30 p.m., 

at Peterborough All Saints’ Church, 

51 Concord St., Peterborough. Call 


• ESSENTIAL CONCERTI classical 

concert Sat., July 10, at 7:30 

p.m. at Peterborough Town House, 

1 Grove St., Peterborough. Tickets 

cost $10-$30. Call 924-7610 or visit 

www.monadnockmusic.org. 

• CHAMBER MUSIC MASTER- 

PIECES Guest speaker is Pulitzer 

Prize winner Melinda Wagner on 

Sun., July 11, at 4 p.m. at the Jaffrey 

Center Meetinghouse, 7 Main St., 

Jaffrey. Ticket cost $10-$30. Call 


• ROBERT DIONNE performs 

piano and vocal cabaret on Sat., July 

10, at 7:30 p.m. and Thurs., Aug. 26, 

at 7:30 p.m. at the Majestic Theatre, 

281 Cartier St., Manchester. Tickets 

cost $10 in advance and $12 at the 

door. Call 669-7469 or visit www. 

majestictheatre.net. 

• LOWELL PHILHARMONIC 

ORCHESTRA free concert Sun., 

July 11, at 3 p.m. at Pawtucket Congregational 

Church, 15 Mammoth 

Road, Lowell, Mass., rain or shine, 

under a pavilion. Visit www.lowell- 

philharmonic.org. 

• MONADNOCK MUSIC free 

classical concert Mon., July 12, at 

7:30 p.m. at the Starving Artist, 10 

West St., Keene. Call 924-7610 or 

visit www.monadnockmusic.org. 

• BROOK WILLIAMS The guitarist 

will perform on Wed., July 14, at 

7:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of Pines, 

10 Hale Hill Road, Rindge. Tickets 

cost $10-$30. Call 924-7610 or visit 

www.monadnockmusic.org. 

• MONADNOCK MUSIC free 

classical concert Thurs., July 15, at 

7:30 p.m. at the First Church of Jaffrey, 

14 Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaffrey. 

Call 924-7610 or visit www. 

monadnockmusic.org. 

• BORROMEO STRING QUAR- 

TET will perform on Sat., July 17, at 

7:30 p.m. at the Peterborough Town 

House, 1 Grove St., Peterborough. 

Tickets cost $10-$30. Call 924-7610 

or visit www.monadnockmusic.org. 

• SUMMER BAND Manchester 

Community Music School will perform 

free concerts on Sat. July 17, 

at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 15, 

at 2:30 p.m. at Manchester’s Stark 

Park, 89 Park Ave., Manchester. Call 

644-4548, or visit www.mcmusicschool.org. 

• OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES 

Rock My Soul choir opens the 2010 

Summer Concerts on the Plaza on 

Thurs., July 15, at 7 p.m., at Nashua 

Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. 

Concerts held every Thursday 

through Aug. 19. Call 589-4610 or 

visit www.nashualibrary.org. 

• FIESTA DE MUSICA Manchester’s 

Muchachos Drum & Bugle 

Corps will hold a concert on Sun., 

July 18, at 5:30 p.m. at Chabot- 

McDonough Field, 1 Crusader 

Way, Memorial High School, Manchester. 

Tickets cost $12 for adults, 

$10 for seniors and kids under 12. 

Visit www.muchachos.org or call 

674-7650. 

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ACTIvITIES foR CHILdREN ANd fAMILIES, WoRKSHoPS, voLuNTEER oPPoRTuNITIES, EvENTS To KEEP You HEALTHY ANd MoRE 

Gardening 

Climbing hydrangea. Henry Homeyer photo. 

By Henry Homeyer 

news@hippopress.com 

The Beatles’ “White Album” created quite a stir 

when it came out in 1968 because it didn’t have a 

photograph or any artwork on the cover. Similarly, 

an all-white flower garden would be considered 

radical by most gardeners. Gardeners tend to want 

bright colors — red, purple, yellow — but white 

is fabulous at dusk and acts as a counterpoint to 

colors at any time of the day. Here are some white 

flowers you might like to consider. 

First, in March, there are snowdrops (Galanthus 

nivalis). Diminutive, they spread quickly if 

happy, even out into the lawn. Plant bulbs in late 

summer. Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) is 

an early wildflower that does well in shady gardens 

and displays lovely eight-petaled blossoms 

above 6-inch leaves that stay nice-looking all 

summer. If you can find a double bloodroot for 

sale, buy it! I have some — they bloom like little 

double peonies. 

You all know white daisies — they grow by 

the roadside and in many of our gardens. Breeders 

have developed interesting and different 

hybrid Shasta daisies (Leucanthemum x superbum) 

such as ‘Aglaya” (it has frilly petals) and 

‘Becky’, a tall, vigorous one. ‘Marconi’ is a 

semi-double I have grown and liked. They are 

not long-lived plants, however, and do best when 

The White Garden 

Guy Listings 

MISCELLANEouS 

Expos/festivals/fairs 

• GUNSTOCK ARTS & CRAFTS FES- 

TIVAL at the Gunstock Recreation Area, 

Route 11A, Gilford, on Sat.-Mon., July 3-5, 

10 a.m.-5 p.m. See fine jewelry, woodcrafts, 

photography, pottery, felting and more. 

Admission & parking are free. Call 332-2616 

or visit www.castleberryfairs.com. 

• HILLSBOROUGH BALLOON FES- 

TIVAL will be held Thurs., July 8, through 

Sun., July 11, at Grimes Field in Hillsborough. 

Hot air balloons offer flights and tethered 

rides as well as a chance to see many 

balloons in one location. The fair also will 

include live music, a parade, carnival, fourwheeler 

mud bogs, fireworks, mini tractor 

pulls, horse pulls, a fireman’s muster, an 

artists’ fair, skydivers, a car show and a 

5K-road race. Admission to the festival is 

free, though some events do have a fee and 

parking costs $5 per car. Call 464-0377 or 

go to www.balloonfestival.org. 

• LAKEFEST at Church Landing Inn, Meredith, 

on Thurs., July 8, 5-8 p.m. Enjoy live 

music by the Spain Brothers, live auction, and 

food from an assortment of food vendors. 

• LAVENDER DAY on Sat., July 10, at Canterbury 

Shaker Village (288 Shaker Road, 

Canterbury, 783-9511 www.shakers.org), 

starting at 10 a.m. Learn the culinary, medici- 

In which we meet the author’s all-time favorite flower 

divided every two or three years. 

Candlestick primroses (Primula japonica) are 

just finishing up their bloom cycle in shades of 

white, pink and magenta. I just got a pure white 

one called ‘Potsford white’ from Cider Hill Gardens 

in Windsor, Vt. I will grow it in moist soil in 

the shade of an old apple tree. It will drop seeds 

and within a few years it should produce a nice 

clump for me. 

White bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabalis 

alba) is less known than the standard pink form, 

but is a good addition to any garden. And the 

fringed or wild bleeding heart (D. exemia) has a 

white variety that for me, at least, blooms much 

of the summer in rich soil and a half day of sun. 

Look for it. 

Then there are the hydrangeas. One of my favorites 

is the climbing hydrangea, which is currently 

in bloom for me. Formerly called Hydrangea petiolaris, 

it is now classified as Hydrange. anomala. 

(Why do taxonomists keep changing the names 

just as soon as we learn them?) The climbing 

hydrangea will attach itself to brick or stone (but 

not wood) and bloom on the north side of a building 

or wall where there is very little light. The 

stems are shaggy and interesting in winter, and 

the blossoms big and bright. 

Everyone knows the ‘Peegee’ hydrangea or 

snowball bush (H. paniculata). A late summer 

bloomer, this medium to large shrub will bloom 

well for a hundred years or more with very little 

care — even in crummy soil, and undaunted by 

compaction or salt. Put cut stems in a dry vase 

before frost and the flowers stay nice forever. 

Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus) is a fabulous 

shade or semi-shade plant with fluffy white panicles 

of tiny white blossoms. It is a large plant 

that can stand three to four feet tall and wide. It 

does fine in dry soil so long as it is rich in organic 

matter. The male plants have showy flowers with 

panicles up to 12 inches long. The plants are a bit 

like astilbes on steroids. 

Speaking of which, astilbes (Astilbe x arendsii) 

are great flowers that do well in shade, or 

nal and household uses of the lovely lavender, 

and tips on growing and sustaining lavender. 

In the Lavender Tea Room, enjoy lavender 

treats and a musical performance. Lavender 

plants will be available at The Shaker Box 

Lunch & Farmstand. Admission costs $17 

for adults, $8 for children ages 6-17, free for 

age 5 and under; $42 family rate (includes 2 

adults and 3 children). 

• LAKESIDE LIVING EXPO at Gunstock 

Mountain Resort, Gilford, on July 

16-18. Show hours are Fri., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 

Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., 10 a.m.-4 

p.m. Seminar time is at 1 p.m. on all three 

days. Meet manufacturers of log and timber 

frame homes, and see home décor and 

indoor/outdoor cottage accessories. Seminars 

are free. Discount tickets available at 

www.boninarchitects.com. 

MuSEuMS & TouRS 

• Canterbury Shaker Village 

288 Shaker Road, Canterbury, 

783-9511, shakers.org 

• McAuliffe-Shepard 

Discovery Center 

2 Institute Dr., Concord, starhop. 

com, 271-7831 

• Currier Museum of Art 

150 Ash St., Manchester, 

669-6144, currier.org 

• Laconia Historical 

& Museum Society 

in the Laconia Public Library at 

695 Main St. in Laconia, 

527-1278, laconiahistorical.org 

• Langer Place 

55 South Commercial St., 


langerplace.com 

• Lee Scouting Museum 

& Library 

571 Holt Ave. in Manchester, 

669-8919, scoutingmuseum.org 

• Manchester City Hall 

One City Hall Plaza, off Hanover 

St. in Manchester, 624-6455 

in full sun if the soil stays lightly moist. They 

come in a variety of colors, including white. 

Another astilbe-like plant is giant fleece flower 

(Persicaria polymorpha). It gets to be six feet 

tall and grows in clumps in full sun and moist 

soil. It blooms for several weeks, but is a messy 

cut flower. 

My all-time favorite flower is a double white 

peony, ‘Festiva Maxima’. Highly fragrant, it 

is a double peony with a splash of red (a drop 

of blood from a fairy princess?) in the massive 

white blossoms. The fragrance sends me — it 

should be made into a woman’s perfume. 

Impatiens is a wonderful annual shade flower 

that comes in many different colors, among 

them white. Buy a six pack of impatiens and 

plant them 8-10 inches apart right now in a shady 

location. Be sure to mix some compost into the 

soil and they will turn into flowering masses of 

white within a few weeks. Not a prima donna, 

the impatiens will clean off its own dead blossoms 

and keep on blooming until frost. 

You can root cuttings of impatiens easily by 

cutting off stems and placing them in a jar of 

water indoors near a window. Just pinch off a 

few lower leaves and get that part of the stem 

into the water and it will root. 

Angel’s Trumpet (Datura inoxia) is a remarkable 

annual that grows to be 3 feet tall and 

displays a constant series of 6- to 8-inch white 

trumpet-like flowers. It does best in moist soil 

and full sun. The large seeds are poisonous, so 

it is not for families with curious babies or rambunctious 

puppies. Readily available in nurseries, 

I buy them every year. 

So get some white flowers and grow them 

near the porch or deck where you unwind at 

night. Like those night-flying pollinators, you 

may also enjoy the fragrance of your nightblooming 

flowers. 

Henry Homeyer is a gardener and garden 

designer. His e-mail address is henry.homeyer@ 

comcast.net. 

Tide pool critters 

The Blue Ocean Society will bring 

tide pool plants and animals to the 

West Manchester Library (76 N. Main 

St., Manchester, 624-6560) on Thursday, 

July 15, at 10 a.m. Experience 

live tide pool animals and plants with 

the Blue Ocean Society’s traveling tide pool. Kids will enjoy a selection 

of critters including crabs, sea stars, mussels, barnacles, periwinkles and 

sea anemones. The tide pool program is for children in grades K-5. 

• Millyard Museum/Manchester 

Historic Association 

200 Bedford St., 622-7531, 

manchesterhistoric.org 

• New England Synthesizer 

Museum 

6 Vernon St., Nashua, 881-8587, 

synthmuseum.com 

• New Hampshire Aviation 

Museum 

South Perimeter Road, 

Manchester, 669-4820, nhahs.org 

• New Hampshire Snowmobile 

Association Museum 

Beaver Brook State Park Museum 

Complex off Route 28, 

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29 Museums & Tours 

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31 Sport & Rec 

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29 The Garden Guy 

Advice on your outdoors. 

30 Kiddie pool 

Family activities this weekend. 

31 Treasure Hunt 

Find buried treasure in your closet 

32 Car Talk 

Click and Clack give you car advice. 

34 Tech 

John Andrews gives you gadget advice. 

food 

36 New eats in Manchester 

Portland Pie Co. and Wings Your Way 

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Family events for this weekend 

• Bring your craft-loving 

kids to the 39th Annual Gunstock 

Arts & Crafts Festival 

at the Gunstock Recreation 

Area, Route 11A, Gilford, 

Saturday through Monday, 

July 3-5, from 10 a.m. to 5 

p.m., rain or shine. Families 

can browse the handmade 

fine jewelry, woodcrafts, 

photography, unique pottery, 

felting and more. Food and 

musical entertainment can 

also be enjoyed, as well as 

craft judging in various categories. 

Admission & parking 

for the festival are free. Call 

332-2616 or visit www.castleberryfairs.com. 

• The Manchester Fireworks 

will be on Saturday, 

July 3, at 9:15 p.m. or when it 

gets dark. Fireworks explode 

over the river, shot from 

Arms Park (which is closed to 

vehicular traffic around 5 p.m. 

but open to viewers). In Arms 

Park, vendors will sell food 

and drink. High land throughout 

the downtown as well as 

some of the lots on the other 

side of the river gets frontseat 

views. Diehard fireworks 

fans can set up chairs on some 

parts of Elm Street. 

• The Concord Fireworks 

will take place at Memorial 

Field, on Sunday, July 4. Vendors 

open at 5:30 p.m., a radio 

DJ will begin a set at 6 p.m. 

and a band concert begins at 

8 p.m. At dusk (approximately 

9:15 p.m.) the fireworks 

will start. Bring blankets and 

lawn chairs. A $2 donation 

will be collected at the gate. 

The rain date is July 5. Call 

225-8690 or go to onconcord. 

com/recreation. 

• The Nashua Fireworks 

and Field Day will 

take place on Sunday, July 

4. This day-long Independence 

Day celebration kicks 

off at 10 a.m. Daytime festivities 

will continue through 

1 p.m. at Holman Stadium, 

67 Amherst St., Nashua, and 

will include bounce houses, 

Allenstown, 648-2304, 

nhsnowmobilemuseum.com 

• Museum of N.H. Natural 

History 

6 Eagle Square in Concord, 

228-6688, nhhistory.org 

• Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum 

18 Highlawn Road, Warner, 

456-2600, www.indianmuseum.org 

• Seacoast African American 

a caricaturist, carnival games 

and prizes, relay races, magic 

shows, snow cones and free 

sandwiches from Chick-fil- 

A. The annual City of Nashua 

fireworks will start at approximately 

9 p.m. Contact Parks 

& Recreation at 589-3360. 

• The New Boston 4th of 

July Celebration is on Sunday, 

July 4, starting at 10 a.m. 

at Hillsborough County 4H 

Youth Center, Route 13, New 

Boston, rain or shine. Families 

will enjoy a parade, the 

firing of the Revolutionary 

War-era Molly Stark Cannon, 

a fiddler’s contest, an exciting 

mud volleyball tournament, 

a horse pulling competition, 

family entertainment, a bonfire, 

and fireworks, of course. 

A chicken barbecue and fair 

food will be available. Free 

parking. No pets. Admission 

is $5 for adults, free for children 

under 12. Visit www. 

new-boston.nh.us. 

• The Strawbery Banke 

4th of July Celebration 

takes place at Strawbery Banke 

Museum (14 Hancock St., 

Portsmouth, 433-1100) on 

Sunday, July 4, from noon to 

5 p.m., with a children’s bike 

and wagon parade, traditional 

games and crafts, historic garden 

tours, live music, living 

history, hands-on activities, 

and food and fun for all. There 

will be a book-signing event 

at the museum store, with 

author Patricia Q. Wall signing 

copies of her book Beyond 

Freedom. See www.strawberybanke.org. 

• Cheer on the N.H. Fisher 

Cats (Merchantsauto. 

com Stadium, 1 Line Drive, 

Manchester, 641-2005) with 

the family. The Fisher Cats 

baseball team is the AA minorleague 

affiliate of the Toronto 

Blue Jays. Families can attend 

games Thursday, Friday or 

Saturday, July 1-3, at 7:05 

p.m. vs. New Britain Rock 

Cats; or an Independence 

Day game on Sunday, July 4, 

at 6:35 p.m. vs. New Britain 

Rock Cats. A special 4 th of 

Cultural Center 

135 Daniel St. in Portsmouth, 

430-6027, saacc-nh.org 

• SEE Science Center 

200 Bedford St., Manchester, 

669-0400, see-sciencecenter.org 

• Speare Museum 

5 Abbott St., Nashua, 883-0015, 

nashuahistoricalsociety.org 

• U.S. Marconi Museum 

July Atlas fireworks spectacular 

will take place after that 

game. Visit www.nhfishercats.com 

for tickets and more 

game information. 

• Bring the kids to watch 

an exciting soccer match-up 

at Southern New Hampshire 

University, 2500 N. River 

Road in Manchester with the 

N.H. Phantoms on Friday, 

July 2, vs. Albany Highlanders. 

Last season, tickets cost 

$7 for adults, $3 for children. 

See www.nhphantoms.com or 

call 329-4422. 

• Enjoy the River Celebration 

at Children’s Museum of 

New Hampshire, 6 Washington 

St., Dover, on Thursday, 

July 1, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Families 

are invited to learn about 

New Hampshire rivers and 

boats via hands-on activities 

and demos inside the museum, 

and dockside tours of the 

Captain Edward H. Adams 

gundalow. Admission is $8 

for adults and children, $7 for 

seniors, free for kids under 1. 

Call 742-2002. 

• Learn about the science 

of climate change at 

the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery 

Center (2 Institute 

Drive, Concord) during the 

Center’s Super Stellar Friday 

program on Friday, July 

2, at 7 p.m. Meet Discovery 

Center exhibit icon Dr. Barry 

Rock, a real person with 

an amazing job. As professor 

of Natural Resources and 

Forest Research at UNH, Dr. 

Rock relies on satellite imagery 

and personal observations 

to tell the story of our climate’s 

effect on life on Earth. 

Dr. Rock will discuss the latest 

scientific information 

regarding climate research on 

Camel’s Hump in Vermont 

and the forests of the Czech 

Republic. Following the program 

will be a free Skywatch 

outside with the New Hampshire 

Astronomical Society. 

Telescope viewing begins 

dusk. Visit www.starhop.com. 

14 N. Amherst St. in Bedford, 

472-8312, marconiusa.org 

Exhibits 

• “THE EVOLUTION OF COL- 

LECTING” exhibit at the Millyard 

Museum in Manchester. For 110 

years the Manchester Historic Association 

has collected a wide variety 

of historical artifacts ranging from 

General John Stark’s cooking pots

An antiques expert helps you 

search for buried treasure 

Dear Donna, 

I got this lamp from my grandparents. I have 

tried to do research on it but there is no name 

on it so it has been tough. I would like to sell it 

if it has enough value. Any information would 

help. Thanks for your time. 

Ellen in Manchester 

Dear Ellen, 

Your lamp is a called a slag glass lamp and these 

were very popular around turn of the last century. 

A lot of them were generic (unmarked). Yours is 

a nice one because of the color and because the 

glass is curved and not flat (tough to replace if any 

of the panels get broken, though). 

There were a lot of known makers and some 

of them bring really good money in the market 

today, such as Miller, Bradley and Hubbard, 

Tiffany, etc. But even the ones with no name 

on them are attractive to today’s buyers. 

A lot of the lamps with makers’ marks on 

them were made out of bronze or brass, but 

others were just a base metal with an applied 

finish to look like bronze or aged metal. Some 

even were just painted in colors. 

If you are looking to sell the lamp, consider its 

condition — yours looks good. First in importance 

would be that all the glass panels are not 

broken; then you’d want to check that the wiring 

is good and the finish on the lamp is clean and not 

worn off, and finally the style and design of the 

lamp have a lot to do with the value as well. 

These lamps can be very plain or elaborate. 

Colors can be amber, green, yellow, amethyst, 

and breeches to the personal effects 

of the famous 29-inch-tall circus 

performer “Commodore” George 

Washington Morrison Nutt. Today 

the MHA’s collections include 

more than 660,000 objects covering 

11,000 years of history. 

• QUILT EXHIBIT at The New 

England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck 

St., Lowell, Mass., 978-452-4207, 

www.nequiltmuseum.org, through 

July 11. Titled “Women’s Writes: 

Signature Quilts and Their Stories,” 

the exhibit highlights aspects 

of women’s material history in the 

19th century. Museum hours are 

Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. 12-4 

p.m., through Oct. Cost is $7, $5 for 

seniors and students. 

• WORLD WAR II EXHIBIT 

depicting the events of 1943 honoring 

Private First Class Jacob Curvey, 

who served in the U.S. Army 

in WWII in the Pacific theater, at 

the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro, 

www.wrightmuseum.org. 

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Golf 

• GOLF CLASSIC at Stonebridge 

Country Club, Goffstown, on Fri., 

July 9, 12:15 p.m., hosted by the 

New Hampshire Legends of Hockey. 

Silent auction, dinner and live auction 

to raise money for the preservation 

of the history of hockey in N.H. 

Visit www.nhlegendsofhockey.com. 

Spectator 

• LOWELL SPINNERS, the Red 

Sox single-A minor-league affiliate, 

play at LeLacheur Park, 450 Aiken 

St., Lowell, Mass. Find tickets and 

a complete schedule at www.lowellspinners.com. 

• MANCH-VEGAS ROLLER 

GIRLS (www.manchvegasrollergirls.com) 

compete throughout the 

region; see schedule and video footage 

online. Home bouts are at the 

West Side Arena, on Electric Street, 

just below the Nazaire Biron (Kelley 

Falls) Bridge. Upcoming home 

bouts include July 10 vs. TBA. 

• NH FISHER CATS (Merchantsauto.com 

Stadium, 1 Line Drive, Manchester, 

641-2005) is the AA minorleague 

affiliate of the Toronto Blue 

Jays baseball team. Upcoming home 

games for July: Thurs.-Sat., July 1-3, 

7:05 p.m. vs. NB; Sun., July 4, 6:35 

p.m., vs. NB; Thurs.-Sat., July 15-17, 

7:05 p.m., vs. Mets; Sun., July 18, 1:35 

p.m. vs. Mets; Mon.-Wed., July 19-21, 

ruby, etc.; the metal work can be plain or intricate 

(some have a scene in them that shows 

when you light them). 

Looking at yours, Ellen, I would say that 

even without a maker’s name, it should be in 

the $400 range in the retail market. 

Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in 

the antiques and collectibles field and owns From 

Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown 

(www.fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com). She is 

an antiques appraiser, an instructor, a licensed 

auctioneer and a member of the N.H. Antiques 

Dealers Association. To find out about your 

antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the 

object and information about it to Donna Welch, 

From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 

Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or e-mail 

her at footwdw@aol.com. Or drop by the shop 

(call first, 624-8668). 

Plenty of fish in the pond 

The Fourth Annual SummerFun Fishing 

Derby will take place on Saturday, 

July 10, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Horse 

Pond Fish & Game Club, 13 Horsepond 

Avenue, Nashua. Sign-in will begin at 8 

a.m. The fishing derby, sponsored by the 

Horse Pond Fish & Game Club, U.S. 

Fish & Wildlife Service, Nashua PAL 

and Target Stores, is for boys and girls 

ages 5 to 12 years (accompanied by an adult). Registrations 

are limited to the first 75 fishermen. All participants should 

bring their own fishing rod, tackle and bug spray. No fly rods 

will be allowed. All entrants will receive a T-shirt, and trophies 

will be awarded to top finishers in different categories 

including “most fish caught,” “biggest fish caught” and “largest 

tree limb caught.” To register for the fishing derby, call the 

Nashua Recreation Dept. at 589-3370. The Horse Pond Fish 

& Game Club is located off Broad Street on Horsepond Avenue, 

approximately ½ mile from the Nashua Mall. 

vs. Seadogs; Mon.-Wed., July 26-28, 

7:05 p.m. vs. Senators. Visit www. 

nhfishercats.com. 

• NH MOUTAINEERS SOCCER 

games held at Southern NH University, 

2500 N. River Road, Manchester. 

Upcoming home games are: Thurs., 

July 1, 7 p.m., vs. Boston; Sat., July 

10, 3 p.m. vs. New York Athletic Club. 

Visit www.mountaineersoccer.com. 

• NH PHANTOMS SOCCER at 

Southern New Hampshire University, 

2500 N. River Road in Manchester. 

Upcoming home games include 

July 2 vs. Albany Highlanders, 

July 20 vs. Western Mass Pioneers, 

and July 24 vs. Long Island Rough 

Riders. Go to www.nhphantoms. 

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Dear Tom and Ray: 

My grandmother 

once owned a 1963 

Rambler. It was the 

only car she ever had 

— my grandfather 

bought it for her the 

year I was born (the 

car was brand new, 

and so was I!). She 

had that car until she passed away in 1994. When 

we were at her house going through things and getting 

ready to sell the house, I went out to the garage 

to see the car. Much to my horror, it was GONE! My 

dad explained to me that she had sold the car when 

her health was starting to decline. Everybody loved 

that car — she took immaculate care of it all those 

years. It really broke my heart to know that it was 

gone. Fast-forward a few years, when I took a new 

job in the same area near where my grandmother 

had lived. I happened to be at a car show, and in the 

midst of all those ‘57 Chevys, old T-birds, Corvettes 

and Mustangs, which all start to look alike pretty 

quickly, I saw a very familiar-looking car a couple 

of rows over. Sure enough, it was my grandmother’s 

‘63 Rambler! I introduced myself to the owner, and 

we talked quite a while. A couple of years later, I 

noticed he had the car for sale. Unfortunately, I was 

in no position to be able to buy it or care for it. 

Now it is for sale again! I’m trying to be as practical 

as I can, I don’t want to make a rash decision, 

but I want that car -- if for no other reason than to 

have it back in the family again, and for the satisfac- 


tion of saving it from some unknown fate. I jokingly 

told the guy, “My grandfather bought it for his wife, 

so I’ll buy it for MY wife!” He let me drive the car -- 

I never got so many thumbs-ups in my life! (Usually 

it’s that other finger!) My wife is OK with this, but 

space is limited, and I know just enough about cars 

to know that I would rather pay someone else to do 

any major work on it. The car is in pristine condition, 

and I certainly would want to keep it that way. 

What do you think? What are the ins and outs of 

owning an antique car like this? It would be fun to 

take it to all the car shows. My sisters are trying to 

talk me into getting it. I’d like to think my grandparents 

are looking down from heaven, saying: “Buy 

it! Buy it!” Should I just go for it? — Dave 

P.S.: All the original paperwork is with it, 

including a 1963 issue of Motor Trend magazine 

in which it was declared Motor Trend’s car of 

the year. 

TOM: Dave, you absolutely have to buy this 

car. This car was meant to be yours. And after 

seeking you out several times, only to be cruelly 

turned away by you, Grandma’s Rambler is 

begging to be reunited with you once more. You 

can’t deny it! 

RAY: Is it practical? No. But we all know that 

love isn’t always practical, Dave. Sure, it’s going 

to cost you a few bucks. But this is a piece of your 

history. How can you put a price tag on that? 

TOM: It would be best if you had somewhere 

to store it, especially during the cruel winter 

months. So once you buy the car, you’ll probably 

want to start looking for a new house. Something 

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CAR TALK BY ToM AND RAY MAGLIozzI 

This car purchase was meant to be 

with a three-car garage. 

RAY: Right. And you’ll want to do some of 

the light maintenance yourself. That’ll require a 

Sears 759-piece tool kit with a rolling steel cabinet. 

And don’t forget the air compressor. 

TOM: Of course, you’ll need to install a 

hydraulic lift. That may require a little renovation 

of the garage to give you the required head 

room. But 15 feet ought to do it. 

RAY: For the more complex repairs, you’ll 

need a professional. And because of the age of 

the car and its delicate condition, you’ll need 

a retired geezer who used to work at an AMC 

dealership. Of course, it’s best to have that person 

living on the premises. So budget for a small 

guest house on the property, too. 

TOM: And maybe a second guest house for 

his nurse. And don’t forget to equip the mechanic’s 

house with a wheelchair ramp, a Stannah 

Stairlift and a portable defibrillator. 

RAY: But that’s all small potatoes compared 

to the pleasure you’ll derive from having your 

grandmother’s car back in the family. Don’t let it 

get away this time, Dave. 

TOM: Right. I once owned a ‘65 AMC Ambassador 

that I loved. And I let it go. A few years 

later, I tried to get it back, but it was too late. 

RAY: Right. My brother didn’t care for his 

cars the same way your grandmother did, Dave. 

By the time he tried to reacquire it, it already had 

been shipped to South Korea as scrap metal, and 

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By John Andrews 

jandrews@hippopress.com 

The economic news was 

abuzz recently with the 

announcement that China 

will allow its currency, the 

yuan, to float. 

I won’t pretend to fully understand money 

supply and currency manipulation, but 

the basic idea is this: rather than having 

the yuan always worth the same number 

of dollars, the two currencies will rise and 

fall independently. For a decade, the yuan 

appreciated slightly but was kept to a little 

over eight per dollar. China officially 

stopped this “pegging” to the dollar back in 

2005 and started doing it unofficially again 

in 2008, after the value rose to less than seven 

per dollar. 

We care because China buys an awful 

lot of U.S. debt, and we buy an awful lot of 

goods made in China. 

Specifically, electronics. 

If the yuan, as it has whenever it’s been 

un-pegged in the past, grows more valuable 

in comparison with the dollar, then our 

gadgetry is poised for a price bump. Don’t 

panic yet, though — even healthy appreciation 

of the yuan won’t break our technology 

addiction. 

Take the iPad as an example. Research 

firm iSuppli reported in April that each $500 

iPad costs $260 to build. Much of that cost 

is incurred, yep, in China: parts manufacturing 

and labor to put it together. There are 

plenty of costs not included there, not the 

least being the considerable development 

that went into the thing, as well as transport 

to our shores, marketing, technical support, 

yada yada. 

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When will tech cost more? 

I yuan, you yuan, we all yuan a floating yuan 

If the Chinese currency goes up 5 percent, 

and even if that affects the entire $260 hardware 

cost, you’re still looking at just north 

of a 2.5-percent increase in price. Considering 

that final assembly labor itself is more 

like 3 percent of an iPad’s cost (rather than 

more than half for the hardware as a whole), 

if individual components come from outside 

China, this will affect prices even less. 

In fact, one Foxconn plant in Shenzen, 

where many Apple products are made and 

poor working conditions apparently prompted 

several suicides this spring, is increasing 

salaries by a whopping 20 percent. Apple 

is subsidizing most of that increase, yet the 

net impact to the iPad’s retail price is nothing, 

nada, zippo. They’re eating the increase 

because it’s relatively small. So as important 

as Chinese labor is for all the consumer 

goods we enjoy, their financial reward isn’t 

exactly handsome by our standards. 

With the fast pace of technological development, 

a slowly increasing yuan will 

barely even dent the getting-more-for-less 

curve we’ve come to expect as new products 

outstrip their predecessors in features 

and speed after a few meager months on the 

market. The upgrade cycle might get a tiny, 

temporary respite, but we’ll barely even 

notice once the Playstation 5 or 6 is out. 

And all this, of course, is just one small 

part of a larger relationship between two 

countries and between them and the rest 

of the world. Whether a stronger or weaker 

yuan would be good or bad for the U.S. 

is a matter of considerable debate, but most 

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Weekly Dish 

Notes from the local food scene 

By Amy Diaz 

adiaz@hippopress.com 

• Culinary good deed: Commercial Street 

Fishery in Manchester is gone, but there is 

still some life in their gift certificates. Those 

holding CSF gift certificates can spend them 

at Z food and drink, 860 Elm St. in Manchester, 

629-9383, www.zfoodanddrink.com. The 

restaurant will accept CSF gift certificates 

Sunday through Thursday only. The customer 

is responsible for the first $25 of the total 

bill, after which the gift certificate value, up 

to $50 per visit, will be applied to the outstanding 

balance (with any remaining value 

able to be redeemed during future visits), 

according to an e-mail from the Fishery. The 

offer is good through Sept. 30. 

• Do you know your Washington State 

Pinot from your Sonoma Cab? WineNot, 

170 Main St. in Nashua, will hold a Wine 

Tasting Competition at Mortgage Planners 

Nashua, 221 Main St. in Nashua, on Thursday, 

July 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. Sample wines 

from around the world and compete for a 

$100 price. RSVP to Jan at 821-5184 or 

jan@mortgagplannersne.com. 

• New burger: Route 28 Roadhouse, 4 

Sanborn Road in Londonderry, 425-7553, has 

a new burger on the menu: the Highwayman 

Cheddaburger. It’s a half-pound fresh sirloin 

burger breaded and deep fried, topped with 

Monterey Jack, cheddar and bacon, and finished 

with Route 28 steak sauce and served 

with fries, according to an e-mail. 

• More markets: The Penacook Village 

farmers market has opened for the season at 

the Rolfe Homestead, 11 Penacook St., on 

Mondays from 4:30 to 7 p.m. See penacook. 

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• Wine tasting: The Drinkery, 2 Young 

Road in Londonderry, www.thedrinkeryshop.com, 

will offer a tasting of four 

wines on Thursday, July 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. 

The wines are Sydney Ann Pinot Grigio, Jelu 

Malbec Rose, Folk Machine Pinot Noir and 

Jelu Syrah. 

• lakeFest: The NH Lakes Association 

will hold the third annual LakeFest on 

Thursday, July 8, from 5 to 8 p.m., at Church 

Landing Inn in Meredith. Tickets cost $50 per 

person, $75 for a couple, and are available 

at www.nhlakes.org/LakeFest2010.htm. The 

event will include live music from the Spain 

Brothers, an auction and a chance to try food 

from a variety of area restaurants including 

Curt’s Caterers, Hart’s Turkey Farm, T-Bones 

and Cactus Jack’s, Cakes by the Lake, Jewell 

& the Beanstalk, Cabot Cheese, Candia 

Vineyards, Farnum Hill Ciders and Poverty 

Lane Orchards, LaBelle Winery, Stone 

Gate Vineyard, Long Tail Brewing, Magic 

Hat Brewery, Smuttynose Brewery, Fabrizia 

Limoncello, Haunting Whisper Vineyards, 

Inn at Danbury & Alphorn Bistro, Kevin’s 

Café and The Lakehouse Grille. 

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Elm St. in Manchester, 232-7201, www.pattieshackonline.com, 

will hold a Snack Pattie 

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Continued on page 38 


By Madeleine Staub 

food@hippopress.com 

The Portland Pie Company takes pizza 

very seriously. 

The Maine-based company recently 

opened a pizzeria in the former home of the 

famed Merrimack Restaurant in downtown 

Manchester. 

“If there is any type of food that tastes 

good… we can make it on a pizza,” said 

Chief Operations Officer Joe O’Neil. The 

Red Claws Pie, made with real lobster meat, 

and the Bar Harbor, a pie made with scallops, 

bacon and alfredo sauce, reflects the company’s 

Portland roots. “A lot of people come 

in and say they’ve never tried seafood on a 

pizza but this is delicious,” O’Neil said. The 

restaurant offers each of its pizzas on four 

different kinds of dough: basil, beer, garlic 

and wheat. The beer dough is made with 

Maine microbrews and adds a dimension of 

texture to the pizza. Pizzas are also offered 

in a gluten-free option, which includes vegan 

cheeses. 

Their four doughs are sold at Hannaford 

grocery stores and can also be purchased at 

the restaurant. The restaurant will also prepare 

“take and bake” pizzas for customers 

that are par baked and topped so customers 

can bake them at home. 

The restaurant offers a variety of salads, 

sandwiches and freshly prepared soups. The 

Eagle Ridge, a sandwich with Montreal seasoned 

steak, mushrooms, peppers, onions 

and American cheese, is one of the most 

popular menu items. 

There are more than 70 menu items available. 

A seasonal menu is offered with new 

items, and the most successful of these are 

transitioned onto the regular menu. When 

the company adds items to the menu, less 

popular ones are edited out — “We have to 

decide what’s really not holding its own,” 

O’Neil said. When a pie is retired, it goes to 

the “Pie Graveyard,” but even some of these 

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It’s pizza from portland 

Former Merrimack Restaurant spot gets new life 

Winging it 

Bridge Street corner gets a new eatery 



Wings Your Way, a New Hampshire seacoast 

favorite, opened in Manchester on 

Tuesday, June 1. The local chain, with restaurants 

in North Hampton and Durham, is 

now open at the corner of Elm and Bridge 

streets. The restaurant offers a casual dining 

option and boasts 20 televisions so that 

customers can watch their favorite athletic 

events while they eat and drink. 

Wings can truly be made “your way,” with 

20 different sauces and rubs that range from 

mild to special reserve. There are also some 

exotic flavors, like Thai peanut and mango 

habañero. There is a range of bone-in and 

boneless sizes, from six pieces to “The Anna 

Nicole (Pre-TRIMSPA),” which includes 50 

wings. 

pies rise from the dead on occasion due to 

what O’Neil calls a “cult following.” Cooks 

are trained to make items that aren’t on the 

menu anymore if people are still asking for 

them. 

Of the 10 beers available, six are from 

Maine microbreweries, including four Shipyard 

beers and Geary’s HSA. The restaurant 

also features a variety of wines, which the 

company tries to keep affordable. They use 

a nitrogen gas wine cooler designed to preserve 

wines after they have been opened, 

which allows the restaurant to offer wine by 

the glass inexpensively. The company offers 

beer or wine flights, each comprising four 

small glasses of different varieties of beer or 

wine. Currently on offer is a pinot noir flight, 

and the flights will be rotating through white 

wines as the summer progresses. They owners 

are working on getting the necessary 

licenses to serve mead from a Maine company 

that uses local ingredients. 

The Portland Pie Company will deliver 

west to Saint Anselm College, east to the border 

of Auburn, south to the airport and north 

to Southern New Hampshire University. 

Owners Nat Getchell and Steve Freese 

grew up in Maine and were college roommates 

at Thomas College in Waterville. They 

both went on to work for Shipyard Beer, but 

were interested in trying something new. 

“They wanted to try something and start 

something of their own,” O’Neil said. Thirteen 

years ago they started the first Portland 

Pie Company in Portland, Maine, because 

they thought the area was lacking good pizza 

options. The original Portland location was a 

pickup and delivery service, which received 

a positive reception from Portland residents. 

After about eight years, they decided to 

begin opening full-service locations in Portland, 

Scarborough and Westbrook. 

“We wanted an opportunity to brand the 

product face to face,” O’Neil said. 

The company’s strategy in Portland was to 

become popular in the city and then fan out 

The menu isn’t limited to wings; it includes 

a variety of wraps, sandwiches, appetizers 

and salads. Some of the more famous dishes 

include “The Monica Lewinsky,” a buffalo 

bleu cheese wrap, and “The Eminem ‘Rap,’” 

a wrap filled with honey barbecue chicken 

tenders and ranch dressing. The menu is full 

of pop culture references and double entendres. 

A pulled pork chipotle burrito, called 

“The Britney,” is described as, “Hot and 

sloppy — just like Ms. Spears!” 

Kirby and Cory Nadilo, siblings and business 

partners from Connecticut, started their 

first Wings Your Way in Durham five years 

ago. 

“I always wanted to go into the restaurant 

business, and Cory we always knew was 

going to be an entrepreneur,” Kirby said. During 

Cory’s senior year of college, he drafted 

the business plan for an unnamed wings res- 

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Joe O’Neil (left) and John Flebotte (right). 

Photo by Madeleine Staub 

to surrounding towns. They wanted to enter a 

second market, and “Manchester just seemed 

to be the best fit,” O’Neil said. If the downtown 

location is successful, the owners hope 

to expand to towns around Manchester. 

The availability of this particular location 

also played a key role in their decision 

to move to Manchester. They were drawn 

to the Merrimack Restaurant’s history as a 

community meeting place and a magnet for 

political figures and reporters during primary 

season. The Portland Pie Company has 

already hosted Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas 

and former New York City mayor Rudy 

Giuliani, and O’Neil said, “We intend to carry 

on the tradition as much as the city allows. 

We’re looking forward to going into the primary 

season and off-year elections.” 

They’ve brought in a few managers and 

staff members from the Maine locations for 

the first few months and have hired 50 local 

residents — “All 50 individuals are absolutely 

fantastic people,” O’Neil said. General 

Manager John Flebotte lived and worked in 

Maine for a few months before the opening 

so that he could better understand the inner 

workings and day-to-day operations of a 

Portland Pie Company location. 

portland pie Company 

786 Elm St., Manchester, 622-7437, www. 

portlandpie.com 

Hours: Sunday through Wednesday, 11 a.m. 

to 10 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday 

and Saturday, 11 a.m. to midnight 

Bar area at Wings Your Way. Photo by Madeleine Staub 

taurant in a college town. Three months after 

he graduated, he and Kirby opened Wings 

Your Way in Durham. The original Wings 

Your Way was a quick-service facility, and 

the two had always wanted to open a fullservice 

restaurant. A few years after opening 

Wings Your Way in Durham, they were 

faced with a tough decision to make: sell the 

Durham Wings Your Way in order to open a

larger restaurant, or pinch pennies for years 

in Durham with the hope that they could 

one day raise the capital needed to open a 

second restaurant. The Durham Wings Your 

Way was sold and the North Hampton location 

opened two and a half years ago. 

Kirby and Cory didn’t have culinary experience, 

but they knew the kind of food they 

liked and wanted to sell at their restaurant. 

Cory came up with combinations he wanted 

to see, and Kirby wrote the menu before 

they tried making many of the items. 

“Luckily, everything tasted very good,” 

Kirby said. 

“The whole concept of the menu is your 

way,” Kirby said. The menu items include 

many options, and substitutions are welcomed. 

Kirby expressed that this idea came 

from her frustration at other restaurants 

where she knew the ingredients were accessible 

but she as a customer wasn’t allowed 

to substitute one item for another. 

Customer service is one of Wings Your 

Way’s major focuses. Kirby said she is constantly 

asking herself, “Are people happy to 

be working here? Are people happy to come 

in?” For the first few weeks, the Nadilos 

made the decision to over-staff somewhat. 

“The last thing you want is people coming 

in their first weeks and being in over 

their head,” Kirby said. 

The Nadilos have always wanted to open 

a Wings Your Way location in Manchester, 

and looked at around 10 different potential 

spaces before they found their new home. 

“It’s really about finding the right space 

and location,” Kirby said. “We knew this 

was it.” Some may doubt, however, how 

perfect the 8,000-square-foot facility could 

really be. In the past 15 to 20 years, five 

different clubs and restaurants have occupied 

the space. Kirby said she is not worried 

about the location’s past, because the North 

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Farmers markets 

• AMHERST Thursdays, 2:30 

to 6:30 p.m., in the Village Green 

through October. Call 249-9809. 

• BARRiNgTON on Saturdays, 9 

a.m. to 1 p.m., June to October, at 

Routes 9 and 125, accorss from Calef’s 

Country store. Call 749-0377. 

• BEDFORD Tuesday, 3 to 6 p.m., 

at Benedictine Park off Wallace 

Road, through October. Special 

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See www.bedfordfarmersmarket.org. 

• CANTERBuRY Wednesdays, 

4 to 7 p.m., in Canterbury Center 

in the Elkins Library parking lot, 

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• DEERFiElD on Fridays, 3 to 7 

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Hampton location had a similar reputation 

and has worked out well. 

“I’m a true believer in putting the right 

thing in the right space,” she said. “Bottom 

line, this place was just crying out for 

a restaurant.” 

Kirby said that Wings Your Way isn’t trying 

to be a hip club, as many of the previous 

tenants have tried to be, and the Nadilos 

have taken steps to alter the space accordingly. 

They changed the stage area to raised 

seating, and made a very distinct separation 

between the more family-oriented dining 

area and the bar area. She said that generally 

bar-goers and families don’t enjoy their 

experience as much if they are forced to comingle, 

so the current setup is designed to 

make both types of customers happy. The 

Nadilos have also created a small function 

space that can be rented out. It has its own 

HD television that can be connected to a 

computer for slideshows and presentations. 

The Nadilos were excited by the downtown 

location because there has been a lot of 

growth in the area but most of the businesses 

are still lunch places, upscale restaurants 

or bars. They believed their $9.99 price 

point was a needed addition to the area. 

They are hoping for a chain of 10 to 15 

restaurants throughout New England, but 

are currently focusing their attentions on 

their two existing locations. 

“I think the worst thing you can do is 

expand too quickly,” Kirby said. 

Wings Your Way 

1181 Elm St., Manchester, 836-5150, www. 

wingsyourway.com 

Hours: Sunday through Wednesday, 11 

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is a $5 entry fee. Call or visit the eatery to 

sign up. 

• Kugel and rugelach: Temple B’Nai 

Israel, 210 Court St. in Laconia, will hold 

a Jewish Food Festival on Sunday, July 

11, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. On the menu 

are blintzes, kugels, brisket sandwiches, 

stuffed cabbage, potato pancakes, strudel, 

cheese cake and rugelach. Take a break 

from eating for the raffles and the “Almost 

New Boutique” sale, then head back to the 

eating — takeout is available by calling 

267-1935. 

• Do you have mad chili skills? The 

Henniker Rotary Club 2010 Chili Fest is 

looking for competitors for its chili cook- 

1. See www.seacoastgrowers.org. 

• HENNiKER Wednesdays, 3 to 

7 p.m., at 931 Flanders Road, July 

through September. Call 428-7196, 

www.hennikerfarmersmarket.us. 

• HillSBOROugH in Butler Park, 

corner of Main and Central streets, on 

Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, starting 

July 7. Call 464-4640. 

• HOOKSETT Wednesdays, 4 to 7 

p.m., on Riverside Street near Robie’s 

Store, July 14 through September. 

Call 268-0279 or see Hooksett 

Farmers’ Market on Facebook. 

• lACONiA — SATuRDAYS on 

Beacon Street on Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 

noon, starting June 26. Call 267-6522 

or e-mail BPRamsay1@aol.com. 

• lACONiA — THuRSDAYS 

Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m., at the Municipal 

Parking Lot. Call 528-8541. 

• lEE on Thursdays, 3 to 6 p.m., at 

the Old Fire Station on Route 155. 

Call 659-9329. 

• MANCHESTER on Concord 

Street between Chestnut and Pine 

streets on Thursdays, 3 to 6:30 p.m. 

starting June 17. See www.manchesterfarmersmarket.com. 

• MERRiMACK Wednesdays, 4 to 

7 p.m., through October, at the Commons 

Marketplace, 515 DW Highway. 

See www.merrimacknh.gov. 

• MilFORD in the Granite Town 

Plaza parking lot (on Route 101A 

between the Oval and Wilton) on Saturdays, 

9 a.m. to noon, starting June 

19. Call 673-2963 or go to www.milfordnhfarmersmarket.com. 

• NASHuA — FRiDAY at City 

Hall plaza (229 Main St.), on Fridays, 

noon to 4 p.m., staring June 18. Call 

883-5700 or see www.downtownnashua.org/farmers 

for details. 

• NASHuA —SuNDAY at the Main 

Street Bridge, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 

p.m., starting June 6 rain or shine. 

Call 883-5700 or see www.downtownnashua.org/farmers 

for details. 

• NASHuA — TuESDAY Tuesday, 

2 to 6 p.m., through October at 

St. Louis de Gonzague Church parking 

lot, 48 West Hollis St. Call 878- 

3437. 

• NEW BOSTON on the town 

common on Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 

noon, starting June 19. June 19 features 

music from The Maple Sugar 

Gang. Call 487-2480 or e-mail 

pygarus@aol.com. 

• NEW lONDON Wednesdays, 

3 to 6 p.m., on the Green on Main 

Weekly Dish 

Continued from page 36 

Street, June 30 through Sept. 15. 

See www.marketonthegreen.com. 

• NEWMARKET on Saturdays, 

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Oct. 9, at 

The Stone Church, 5 Granite St. in 

Newmarket. Call 659-5900. 

• NORTHWOOD Thursdays, 

3 to 6:30 p.m., near the Junction 

of Routes 4, 43 and 202, through 

November. Call 942-8313. 

• NOTTiNgHAM Sundays, 1 to 4 

p.m., at Blaisdell Memorial Library, 

through October. Call 679-5392. 

• PENACOOK Mondays, 4:30 to 

FooD 

off on Sunday, Aug. 22, from 1 to 4 p.m., at 

Pat’s Peak in Henniker. The event includes 

music, crafts, activities for the kids and a 

car show, but the highlight is the chili contest 

— with divisions for restaurants and 

amateurs. See www.chilinewhampshire. 

org for entry forms and rules. 

• Pizza for a cause: The First Congregational 

Church in Manchester will hold 

a Flatbread Community Benefit night on 

Tuesday, July 6, from 4 to 9 p.m. at the 

Flatbread Company, 138 Congress St. in 

Portsmouth, with a portion of pizza sales 

to help families in New Orleans. 

• Wine lessons: Dover Wine, 364 Central 

Ave. in Dover, 742-9463, is offering 

a free wine class on Thursday, July 22, at 

6:30 p.m. Call to reserve a spot. 

Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge: 

The Ultimate Guide to Mastery with 

Authentic Recipes and Stories, by 

Grace Young (2010, Simon & Schuster, 

313 pages) 

Simply sautéing some vegetables and 

meat in a pan is not stir-frying. 

In Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, you 

don’t get an actual recipe for a stir-fried dish (Spicy Dry- 

Fried Beef) until page 70. What precedes this first dish is 

advice on picking the right wok and why you want carbon-steel 

and not non-stick, how to get that wok ready 

for use and how to cook in it when it’s new versus as it 

is used. And there is advice on other equipment — how 

to keep your knives sharp so you can get those perfect 

stir-fry pieces and what wok accessories you might need. 

You get the contents of a basic stir-frying kitchen — with 

pictures so you know what kind of peppers to look for 

and how to identify five-spice tofu. You will likely use 

ginger — the book gives you a ginger primer: how to 

buy it, peel it and juice it and just what minced, shredded 

and sliced ginger should look like. And because the 

cut is such an important part of the dishes, you get similar 

advice on garlic and scallions and, throughout the book, 

on other ingredients as well. 

This is not 100 things to stir-fry; Stir-Frying to the Sky’s 

Edge is a serious, complete study of this fundamental 

part of classical Chinese cuisine. The book offers recipes 

from several Chinese regions — Cantonese, Hong Kong, 

Hakka — as well as recipes where Chinese cooking techniques 

and flavors have fused with other cuisines. These 

recipes are often accompanied by the tale of migration, 

as 19th- and 20th-century Chinese emigrants moved to 

countries in Southeast Asia, to Peru and elsewhere. This 

makes the book a delight to read as well as instructional 

to cook from. You feel like you’ve added not just new 

recipes to your cooking repertoire but a new understanding 

of the world. — Amy Diaz 

7 p.m., downtown, through Oct. 11. 

Call 568-0428. 

• PETERBOROugH Wednesdays, 

3 to 6 p.m., Depot Square, 

through Oct. 13. See www.peterboroughfarmersmarket.webs.com. 

• PORTSMOuTH Saturdays, 8 

a.m. to 1p.m. through Nov. 6, at City 

Hall parking lot, 1 Junkins Ave. See 


• ROCHESTER — DOWN 

TOWN on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 

3 to 6 p.m., through Oct. 28, at the 

Fosters Daily Democrat parking lot,

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Fox Country Smokehouse offers a variety 

of smoked meats, sausages and other 

foods at its Canterbury store. The Fox family 

has owned and operated the smokehouse 

since 1969 and has expanded their market 

across the country using online retailing. 

Currently, the second generation of Foxes, 

Matt and Sarah, operate the smokehouse 

with the help of Bill Annis. 

The smoked meats include ham, bacon 

and pork. Smoked duck, rainbow trout 

and salmon are also available. The smokehouse 

has its own original recipe sausage, 

along with kielbasa, bologna and breakfast 

sausage. The Foxes smoke entire six- or seven-pound 

chickens, and during the holiday 

season they also smoke whole turkeys. They 

don’t stop with just meat, poultry and fish; 

they sell smoked almonds and cashews, 13 

varieties of smoked cheeses, and a mustard 

sauce. “Everyone swears there’s horseradish 

in the mustard sauce, but there’s none. 

It’s sweet, but it’s definitely got a bite to it,” 

Annis said. The retail store also sells maple 

candy, locally roasted coffee and homemade 

jams from nearby farms. 

Fox hand mixes the original cure used 

by his father when the smokehouse first 

opened. When the meat comes in, it is put 

in a brine of water, salt, sugar and other 

spices, and kept at a temperature of 32 to 

35 degrees. This curing process takes seven 

to 10 days. Then, the items are smoked for 

roughly 24 hours. Annis explained that the 

smoking process used to require much more 

care and effort. If the wood fell on itself, the 

fire would go out and ruin the process. 

“Charley was up all the time checking 

to see if it was still smoking,” Annis said. 

Today, everything is smoked using hickory 

sawdust, which creates a darker smoke and 

a distinct flavor. Using sawdust makes the 

process much safer and easier to monitor. 

FooD 

smokehouse in Canterbury 

Just follow the aroma of hickory sawdust 

90 N. Main St. Call 332-1765. 

• ROCHESTER — FOuR COR 

NERS on Fridays, 3 to 6 p.m., and 

Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon, through 

September at the Four Corners 

antique store nearly the intersection 

of Route 202A, Estes Road and 

Meaderboro Road. Call 332-9770. 

• RYE on Wednesdays, 2 to 5 p.m., 

through Oct. at 580 Washington 

Road. Call 379-2007. 

• SAlEM on Wednesdays, from 

3 to 7 p.m., in Hedgehog Park on 

Route 28 starting July 21. 

• SANBORNTON Fridays, 3 to 6 

p.m., Route 132 across from Lane 

Tavern. Look for live music and 

demonstrations. Call 286-8700. 

• SEACOAST MARKETS (659- 

5322, info@seacoastgrowers.org, 

www.seacoastgrowers.org) See 

www.SeacoastEatLocal.org. 

• TANgER OuTlET FARMERS 

MARKET at Tanger Outlet Center 

off exit 20 in Tilton, Wednesdays, 

3 to 6 p.m., from June 23 through 

Sept. 22. 

• TEMPlE Sundays, 10 a.m. to 

1 p.m., Town Common on Route 

45 and Old Town Hall in Winter, 

Hickory trees do not grow in New Hampshire, 

and the sawdust has to be shipped 

in from Wisconsin. All the smoked items 

are prepared in the same way. During the 

time between September and December, 

the smokers are running six or seven days 

a week to meet the demand for holiday 

gifts and meals. In the summer, however, 

the farm smokes items only twice or three 

times a week. 

Fox’s father, Charley, and mother, Carolyn, 

started the small farm in Canterbury in 

1969 and built the smokehouse from stones 

found in their fields. Charley Fox’s intention 

was to smoke his own pork and perhaps 

the meat of other local farmers. 

“It was just a backyard hobby that developed 

into a business. He slowly started 

doing his own, and people started asking if 

he would smoke their product,” Annis said. 

In 1978, the smokehouse became a USDAinspected 

facility and was able to share its 

product offerings through mail order. Over 

time, and as demand grew, the product line 

grew and began to include more unique 

items. 

When the demand from other farmers for 

their smoking services grew, they stopped 

raising their own pigs. 

“We still cater to that today. Individuals 

who raise pigs will still bring their hams 

and pigs to smoke,” Annis said. The smokehouse 

gets the meat for its line of products 

from Poultry Products of New England in 

Hooksett, and purchases its cheese from 

Cabot Cheese in Vermont. 

The Foxes created a website with which 

they could sell their smoked products 

about 10 years ago, which has proven very 

successful. 

“There’s usually between 500 and 700 

packages that go out for Christmas time and 

the number keeps growing,” Annis said. 

Despite the large number of shipments, 

their retail store and wholesale customers 

still account for most of their sales. Area 

businesses that prepare or sell Fox Country 

Smokehouse meats include Heritage 

Pancake House in Sanbornton, Quality 

Cash Market in East Concord, Yankee’s 

Market in Hopkinton and D&D Market in 

Belmont. 

Fox Country smokehouse 

164 Briar Bush Road, 

Canterbury, 783-4405 

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. 

to 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 

through December. Call 878-0802. 

• WANER at Warner’s Town Hall 

lawn, Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon, 

starting June 5. Call 456-2319 or 

e-mail kgfarm@tds.net. 

• WEARE FARMERS MARKET 

at 1436 South Stark Highway, on 

Fridays, 3 to 6 p.m., starting June 

18, when there will be free activities 

for kids (also, check out the new 

skate park) and live music from 

The Johnnies. 

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Foodie Rich Tango-Lowy helps you search the aisles 

No one really knows why they’re called 

strawberries. Some say it’s because the 

fields were bedded with straw, but there’s no 

evidence strawberry fields are or ever were 

bedded with straw. Some say it’s because 

unchecked strawberries grow as if they’re 

“‘strewn”‘ across a field, but that seems a 

bit of a stretch as well. Whatever the long 

lost reason, strawberries are strawberries 

and the etymology is lost to us. Even the origin 

is rather fuzzy. Strawberries have grown 

in many parts of the world for thousands of 

years; there’s evidence that Romans cultivated 

them as far back as 200 BC. 

The bright sweet strawberry we’ve all 

come to know and love is a more modern 

affair. When Europe first knocked on America’s 

door they found the locals enjoying 

sweet delicious strawberries (variety F. virginiana). 

They brought cuttings back to the 

Old Country for study and cultivation. In 

the early 1700s a French soldier returned to 

France with strawberry cuttings from Chile 

(F. chiloensis). The two hybridized, resulting 

in the great grandaddy of today’s sweet 

fragrant fruit. 

The largest, sweetest strawberries you’ll 

ever taste are grown in the rich fields in and 

around Santa Maria, Calif., as any fortunate 

soul who’s experienced them will attest. 

Big as your fist and like eating sugar. The 

annual Santa Maria Valley strawberry festival 

is held in late April and it will change 

your view of strawberries forever. 

That said, New Hampshire farmers have 

been growing some mighty fine strawberries 

this year and I’ve been mightily partaking. 

Strawberries, strewnberries, whatever; 

every farmers market and farmstand has 

them — get ’em while they’re fresh. 

Oct. 30, at 141 Rollins Road in 

Rollinsford. See www.wentworthgreenhouses.com. 

• FOOD MAPS The New Hampshire 

Chapter of the Northeast 

Organic Farming Association offers 

maps (available in print from NOFA- 

NH at 224-5022 or info@nofanh.org 

or in an interactive version at www. 

nofanh.org) showing locations of 

organically produced foods across the 

state. Online, click “Organic Farms 

and Land Care.” The site lists farms 

by region and can narrow down the 

search by type of food. 

• NH ONliNE FARMERS MAR 

KET www.nhfarms.com offers 

links to New Hampshire farms selling 

fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, 

maple and honey products, flowers, 

baked goods and more. 

Festivals/cook-offs/expos/ 

parties/book events 

• AFROCARiBBEAN FESTivAl 

The Ujima Collective will hold 

its annual Afro-Caribbean Festival 

on Sat., Aug. 7, from 11 a.m. to 6 

p.m. in Veterans Memorial Park in 

downtown Manchester. Look for 

tasty foods from the islands as well 

as music, dancing and more. See 

ujimacollective.mysite.com or call 

627-4631. 

• CANTERBuRY FAiR Canter- 

bury Fair (in Canterbury, Exit 17 off 

Interstate 93) is always the last Saturday 

in July (July 31 this year) and 

features crafts, kids’ activities, live 

entertainment, canoe polo, square 

dancing, a bake sale, a 5K race and 

more. Food includes chicken barbecue, 

shrimp rolls, hot dogs, sausages, 

hamburgers, veggie burgers, 

a frappe bar and more. Admission 

is free (parking cost is $5 per car). 

Visit www.canterburyfair.com. 

• CHili FEST Henniker Rotary 

Club has scheduled its annual Chili 

Fest for Sun., Aug. 22, at Pat’s Peak 

in Henniker. In addition to a chili 

cookoff competition, the event often 

includes a car show, performances, 

activities for the kids and more. See 

www.chilinewhampshire.org. 

• ClAMBAKE Manchester’s Trinity 

High School Football Foundation 

will host a Classic American 

Clambake on Sun., Aug. 8, noon to 4 

p.m. The day will include a chowder 

contest with local restaurants competing 

for the title of best chowder, a 

classic clambake menu (with lobster, 

clams, clam chowder, corn on the 

cob, potato and dessert), a muscle 

car show, a DJ, pie-eating contest and 

more. Tickets for the full clambake 

experience cost $40; a chicken dinner 

is available for $30 and kids under 10 

can get a hamburger or hot dog meal 

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I’m a chocolatier and a purist. When 

I want strawberries and chocolate I aim 

for the most powerful flavor experience 

I can create. Here it is. 

Warm a cup or so of jam, preferably 

apricot or raspberry, in a small saucepan 

until it just begins to simmer. Stir in 

a good drizzle of fruity red wine or port 

and let cool about five minutes. Meanwhile, 

wash the strawberries and dry 

them well. Dip each strawberry in the 

jam and set it on waxed paper to set up 

for 15 or 20 minutes. Transfer the strawberries 

to a beautiful platter and serve 

with small chunks of very good very 

smooth very dark chocolate such as 

Valrhona, Scharffen-Berger, or El Rey. 

(If you’re truly serious, seek out Valrhona’s 

64 percent Manjari.) 

for $10. Trinity High School is at 582 

Bridge St. in Manchester. See www. 

classicclambake.com for more on the 

event. 

• FOlK FESTivAl The free 

Lowell Folk Festival returns Fri., 

July 23, through Sun., July 25, at 

a variety of locations in downtown 

Lowell, Mass. The weekend begins 

with a parade. In addition to a variety 

of musical performances with 

styles ranging from Cajun to Celtic, 

the weekend includes an ethnic food 

festival, art, crafts and activities for 

kids. Visit www.lowellfolkfestival. 

org or call 978-970-5000. 

• iCE CREAM SOCiAl On 

Thurs., Aug. 19, Concord Co-Op, 

24 S. Main St. in Concord, www. 

concordfoodcoop.coop, 225-6840, 

will hold a free ice cream social 

from 6 to 8 p.m. The event will 

feature a free sundae bar as well 

as samples of frozen desserts. The 

evening will include children’s 

activities, live music and grilled hot 

dog samples. 

• lATiNO FESTivAl The 11th 

Latino Festival of NH is schedule 

for Sat., Aug. 21, at Veterans Park 

in Manchester. Plan on a parade 

followed by music and a chance 

to sample a variety of foods from 

Latin America. See www.latinosunidosnh.org.

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Dinner menu available at 5 p.m. 

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Wednesday thru Friday 4:00p.m. to 11:30p.m. 

Saturday & Sunday 12:00p.m. to close 

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Summer is officially in full swing with 

the 4th of July weekend on the horizon and 

I am compelled to come to the defense of 

the much-maligned wine that falls between 

white and red, a wine that is particularly 

refreshing and versatile for summer — and 

year-round — sipping. 

Traditional rosés have been around for a 

long time. Ranging from somewhat sweet 

like the Portuguese Mateus and Lancers 

(OK, admit that you drank these when you 

were in college and you’ll be dating yourselves!) 

to bone dry like the French rosés 

from Tavel to sweet and bubbly like the 

Italian Brachetto D’Acqui, rosé always 

has a place at the European table. My love 

affair with rosé started when I was 19 and 

I spent the summer as an au pair just north 

of Lyon, in France. There I was introduced 

to the light, fruity reds from Beaujolais and 

the roses from Anjou and Tavel. Many years 

later, as an expatriate in Geneva, I renewed 

my acquaintance with Switzerland’s Oeil de 

Perdrix, translated as “eye of the partridge,” 

which is made from Pinot Noir. 

There are several ways to make rosé (I’ll 

get to blush and “white” rosés in a minute). 

Saignée, a French term meaning “bled,” 

occurs when the winemaker runs off or 

bleeds the juice from a red wine after the 

initial crush. The length of time the juice has 

stayed in contact with the grape skins before 

the run-off will determine the depth of color 

in the rosé. The remaining juice becomes 

more concentrated red wine because of 

the ratio of juice to the skins. The second 

method, maceration, assumes that all of 

the crushed juice is destined to become a 

rosé. As with saignée, the winemaker monitors 

the color of the wine, tannins and other 

flavor components and removes all of the 

juice from contact with the skins when the 

rosé is ready for fermentation. Rosé sparkling 

wines are most frequently made by 

adding a small amount of finished red wine 

(Pinot Noir in the case of Champagnes) to 

the bubbly to achieve the desired hue. An 

inexpensive, basic rosé may be created by 

blending finished white and red wines, but 

the result is usually inferior to the first two 

methods. 

So where does White Zinfandel fit in this 

picture? The Trinchero family and their original 

winery, Sutter Home, started producing 

a pale rosé from Zinfandel in 1972 that they 

marketed as an Oeil de Perdrix. Turns out 

the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms 

wanted an English name on the label so 

they added “A White Zinfandel Wine.” Forward 

to the 1975 vintage when the saignée 

Zinfandel juice refused to ferment to the 

targeted dryness, and the winemaker set it 

aside. After a couple of weeks, Trinchero 

tasted the problematic batch of wine only 

to discover that the sweet pink tasted pretty 

good. By 1987, Sutter Home White Zinfandel 

was the top-selling premium wine in the 

United States. 

Just like the movie Sideways boosted 

DRINK 

sales of Pinot Noir and caused Merlot sales 

to tank, the rise in popularity of White Zinfandel 

and related sweet blush wines caused 

a decline in sales of traditional, dry rosés. 

The past five years have seen a dramatic 

shift in the acceptance of rosé. Wine Spectator 

and Wine Enthusiast magazines have 

featured cover page spreads, blogs and 

newspaper columnists are touting the versatility 

and variety of rosés on the market, 

and more wineries are adding dry rosés to 

their product lines. Just a couple of weeks 

ago Wine Spectator Online featured a video 

titled “Real Men Drink Pink.” 

Rosés can be and have been made from 

just about any red grape or blend of red 

grapes, and can be still or sparkling. In 

southern France, most rosés are made 

from Grenache, Syrah, and Cinsault. Loire 

rosés may be Pinot Noir or Cabernet Franc. 

Argentines use Malbec to make still and 

sparkling rosés. Whether it’s called rosé, 

rosato, rosado or Oeil de Perdrix, with the 

advent of summer I invite you to explore 

the delights of pink wine. 

Paulette’s pink picks: 

2009 Rhone valley vineyards “la vieille 

Ferme” Rosé, ventoux AOC, $8.99 

(NH Code 31320) 

Made from Grenache and Cinsault by 

the Perrin Family, who also makes the 

acclaimed Chateau de Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape, 

this is a great value and 

consistently delivers classic notes of watermelon 

and strawberry. Available at many 

NH State Liquor Stores. 

2009 i’M Wines Deep Rosé, Napa valley, 

$12.99 (NH Code 46018) 

Isabel Mondavi’s son crafts this bold, dry 

rosé in the saignée method from 100% Cabernet 

Sauvignon grapes sourced from the 

family’s vineyards. Unusual and enchanting, 

this is truly a red wine drinkers’ pink! 

Available at many NH State Liquor Stores. 

2009 Joseph Mellot “le Rabault” 

Sancerre Rosé, loire, $27.99 (NH Code 

14038) 

Salmon in color, this wine made from 

100% Pinot Noir delivers a subtle minerality 

with strawberries and cream on the 

mid-palate. Definitely a food wine; it with 

melon & prosciutto, and serve chilled but 

not icy cold. Available at the Wine Society 

in Nashua. 

2008 Domaine Tempier Bandol Rosé, 

Provence, $34.99 (NH Code 36493) 

Another salmon-hued rosé, the Bandol 

is made from 50% Mourvedre, 28% Grenache, 

20% Cinsault and 2% Carignan 

using a combination of the saignée and 

maceration methods. Wine Spectator rated 

this wine at 90 points. Have patience and let 

the wine open up in your glass for the full 

aromatic impact. Available at selected NH 

State Liquor stores. 

Paulette Eschrich is a dedicated oenophile 

and former wine retailer who runs a 

wine book club and conducts custom inhome 

wine tastings.

Red, white and green 

A lot of wine, a little cash 

In this occasional 

series, we’ll look at a 

red and a white, neither 

over $20 (and most under 

$15). 

For the red this week, 

we took a chance on a 

blend — Toasted Head’s 

untamed Red ($12.99). 

This wine is a blend of 

Syrah, Zinfandel and Petite Sirah grapes 

— all known for producing big brash red 

wines. These grapes, according to the bottle, 

come from Toasted Head’s own estate 

vineyards as well as other North Coast California 

vines. The wine was big and jammy 

— full of the kinds of flavors you’d expect 

with this blend, with the zinfandel in particular 

standing out. The wine has some 

spiciness to it and lots of tannins with a bit 

of that suck-the-moisture-from-your-mouth 

feeling you get from some zins and petite 

sirahs. “A good rustic red,” said the serious 

wine-lover. As we drank our way through 

the bottle, the wine opened up, giving some 

complexity to the flavors. We enjoyed this 

wine with a big juicy flavorful burger and 

the pairing was perfect. 

It’s not unusual to enjoy such red better 

with food than on its own. But it isn’t 

Drink Listings 

Classes/workshops on wine/ 

beer making 

• PATRiOTiC BREWiNg IncrediBREW, 

112 DW Highway in 

Nashua, 891-2477, incredibrew.com, 

has more beer and wine events on its 

schedule. In July, it’s patriotic brewing 

with split-a-batch nights of red 

(Wildfire Red on Tues., July 13), 

white (Belgian White on Tues., July 

20) and blue (Blueberry Ale on Tues., 

July 27). Brewing starts at 6 p.m. 

and $50 gets you two cases of beer 

(bottles not included). Help brew and 

return in two weeks for bottling. Call 

or e-mail dave@incredibrew.com to 

reserve a spot for one of the beer- or 

wine-making events. 

• viNTNER’S CEllAR CuS 

TOM WiNERY — BEDFORD 

Vintner’s Cellar at Sebbins Brook 

Marketplace, 410 South River 

Road, Route 3 in Bedford, offers 

a chance to taste and create cus- 

“Fr edom is the right to 

live as you wish.” 

And to eat where you wish. 

Happy Independence Day! 

Breakfast/pastries • Salads 

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tom wines. Call 627-9463 or go to 

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Classes/workshops on beer/ 

wine tasting 

• BE YOuR OWN SOMMEliER 

WineNot Boutique, 170 Main St. 

in Nashua, 204-5569, nhwinenot@ 

yahoo.com, will offer a wine course 

starting in July called “Be Your Own 

Sommelier.” The classes will run Fridays, 

6 to 8 p.m., for six weeks. Sign 

up for all six weeks for $210, or sign 

up for the individual classes: “Tasting 

like a Pro” on July 9 ($30), “Learning 

Wine Language & Label Terms” on 

July 16 ($30), “Big 6 Wine Grapes” 

on July 23 ($30), “Pairing Wine with 

Food” on Aug. 6 ($50), and “Wine 

Complexity” on Aug. 13 ($50). Call 

to sign up and for more information. 

DRINK 

as often that you come 

across a white you’d definitely 

recommend to 

serve as part of a meal 

instead of as a glass 

enjoyed on its own. The 

Estancia Chardonnay 

($10.99) is a food white 

— a good complement 

to marinated chicken, 

salmon and bass. Grill those foods and the 

flavors of the grill will probably mix well 

with the flavors of the oak in this chardonnay. 

The oak is there but not overwhelming, 

as it can sometimes be, and not accompanied 

by the vanilla flavors you often find 

in budget chardonnays. Here, you get more 

citrus and green apple. This wine hails from 

Monterey County, California, and is different 

from the oaky, buttery Chardonnays that 

come from other regions of the state. The 

Estancia is a good reminder that varietals 

can be treated very differently. And in this 

case it’s the lack of strong oak and vanilla 

that really make it a treat. 

“Red, White & Green” is by two wine-lovers, 

one serious and one casual, who are always 

on the lookout for a great bottle at a good price. 

All prices according to the state liquor store (nh. 

liquor.state.nh.us) unless otherwise stated. 

special wine tastings 

• lA CAvE AuX viNS The Franco-American 

Centre, 52 Concord 

St. in Manchester, 669-4045, www. 

facnh.com, will hold its annual La 

Cave aux Vins wine tasting on Friday, 

July 16, 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets cost 

$100 for a couple and can be purchased 

by contacting Lise Sutton at 

-669-4045 or lsutton@facnh.com. 

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Stout and Gravitation Quadruple 

as well as beers such as Old Brown 

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MUsIC, 

pop CULTURE 

Index 

CDs pg45 

• Minus the Bear, Omni, A 

• The Golden Filter, Voluspa, A 

BooKs pg46 

• Excavating the Sutler’s House: 

Artifacts of the British Armies in Fort 

Edward and Lake George, A 

Includes listings for lectures, author events, 

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or event, e-mail Lisa Parsons at lparsons@ 

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FILM pg48 

• The Tiwlight Saga: Eclipse, C+ 

• Mother And Child, B 

BooKs, 

GAMEs, CoMICs, 

MoVIEs, DVDs, 

TV AND MoRE 

Dork vs. Dork: The Twilight saga: Eclipse 

Glenn is ‘on’ Team Jacob; Dan ‘supports’ Team Edward. (What, no mummies?) 

There is but one scientific certainty that I know: werewolves are 

It all begins… with a choice. Indeed. And if given a choice 

far, far better than vampires. Werewolves have a longer historical 

between Edward Cullen and Count Dracula (you know, the 

record than vampires. They are referenced in the Satyricon from 

actual vampire), my money’s on Bela Lagosi. This is going 

60AD and the founders of Rome were probably werewolves when 

to get complicated, so try to not be distracted by Dakota Fan- 

you think about it. When was the earliest vampire story? Oh, what 

ning here, OK? Focus! 

was that? The mid-17th century? Werewolves have two millennia 

There’s this scene in the 1931 film where a guest at Dracula’s 

of kicking ass and taking names all over Western history. Also, 

castle cuts his finger on a kitchen knife, and Lugosi’s Dracula is 

werewolves aren’t Native American “yah” dudes who never discovered the T-shirt; unable to restrain himself and lunges for the speck of blood. The moment is more 

they are dudes who turn into half-man half-wolf monsters, come to your house and or less pulled from the Bram Stoker book and sort of similar to the silent film Nos- 

wreck up the place. Silver bullets don’t stop them, buddy; that is a myth introduced in feratu. It’s that lack of restraint, the blood lust, as opposed to Cullen’s — I don’t 

early 20th-century retelling of the French Beast of Gévaudan tale, and was added to know — mopey urges, that set the standard for vampires. 

make something French seem tough. 

There have been so many vampires over the years, mostly ridiculous, but some 

Fact: Werewolves are hardcore atheists who are not scared of crosses. Double memorable and true to the spirit of vampires. Christopher Lee was pretty good. 

fact: Werewolves are the subject of much better heavy metal than vampires are. Chris Sarandon in Fright Night was fun. Remember that line about how it’s not 

Triple fact: HBO’s True Blood is really dumb. 

the cross that defeats vampires, it’s belief. That’s a throwback to Lugosi. Then Ann 

While Joss Whedon, Charlaine Harris and even J.K. Rowling have all cashed fat Rice came along, and vampires began the slow, dreary slide to melodrama. Buffy 

checks by emasculating the ferocious total awesomery of werewolves and betting had fun, sometimes, when Angel was bad or with early Spike. 

on the supposed sexual magnetism of vampires, let me ask you this: Who would The Twilight Saga is, of course, the natural progression of the vampire’s decline. 

you rather make out with, a brawny hunk who can toss you around like a rag doll The defanging, if you will, of a cultural touchstone, replaced by trite and hollow tween 

or a clammy dweeb who perpetually smells like a pack of clove cigarettes chain angst. No blood lust. No fear. Just another sanitized soap opera for the ringtone set. 

smoked on a hot plate of roadkill? Also, a technical but salient point: since none But it could be worse, I suppose. The werewolves could win, and that’s just plain 

of the “werewolves” in Twilight turn into half-man half-wolves they are not true silly, as the Underworld series has illustrated. And now Edward and Jacob have to 

werewolves and thus do not tarnish the good werewolf name. The same cannot be team up to protect Bella? Ugh, why? There’s more heat between the two of them, 

said of vampires, but frankly, they didn’t have much gravitas left to lose. than anything Kristen Stewart can muster. I don’t know, it’s all so sad. In the end, 

I’ll go with Team Edward, but only because there’s no Team Lugosi. 

DAN REspoNDs 

Really, those are your facts? Here’s some more. Fact: Michael Landon 

was a werewolf. And Michael J. Fox. And Seth Green. Not exactly the werewolf 

dream team, buddy boy. Heck, Wolfman Jack was the best werewolf in 

history and he was born that way! 

Fact: in 1971 a werewolf faced a vampire woman (in the classic Werewolf 

vs. the Vampire Woman) and got its mangy butt kicked. 

No, I’m afraid any “monster” that can be defeated with a rolled up newspaper 

and is constantly complaining about his curse pales in comparison to 

pretty much any vampire. Except Gary Oldman. 

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safe for the painfully bland who spend their time walking their chocolate labs 

instead of cutting themselves for attention. I confess, I’ve done the goth dance 

at NYC’s Bat Cave and spent my fair share of allowances on Vampire: The 

Masquerade RPG books. But, given the choice between Edward’s mope-a-dope 

of my senses and wolf goofing teen charm through a bong haze, I’ll disagree 

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Minus The Bear, Omni 

Dangerbird Records, May 4 

I don’t know if 

we can say that 

we’re in a time 

when “grower” 

music — stuff 

that takes a while 

to grow on you 

— is doomed. If 

anything is suffering, 

it’s rabid fandom. A band gets an idea, 

people grow to like it, and all of a sudden 

there are 500 clones of that artist with which 

to contend. Immediately, things get ruined 

by idiots putting out albums, and fans lose 

interest. Overall a much better environment 

than during the ’70s, when there were about 

10 bands with records on real record labels, 

but perhaps a case could be made for being 

able to copyright a vibe itself as opposed to 

an individual song. That’s one solution anyway 

— call me a snob, but quantity is not a 

synonym for quality. 

Seattle grower band Minus The Bear have 

accepted their birthright with this album. 

Having abandoned the puzzling but great 

indie fusion of records past, they’re now a 

cross between 90125-era Yes and Jackson 

Browne with just enough hiphop/funk/ 

glitch thrown in to be a pain in the neck to 

lame-brained taste-makers. Sure, it’s antiquated 

AOR-radio for the first two tunes, 

like Spyro Gyra risen from the grave, but 

“Secret Country” needs to be in every proggeek’s 

iPod, for its fiercely male vibe but 

for this one riff that clubs you over the head 

with a “crap, I’ll be humming this for the 

rest of the week” stick. The band is scarytight, 

too, which is a trip coming from this 

generation — thank Allah they’re not off 

being a generic fusion unknown. A 

— Eric W. Saeger 

• The flood of new summer 

releases has slowed to 

a trickle — with all manner 

of sexy bare flesh around, 

attention spans are too short 

for albums, and so we get 

EPs, like the new one from 

goth charlatan Trent Reznor 

and his wife, under the band 

name How To Destroy 

Angels, streeting Tuesday. 

The video for “The Space in 

Between” is a wholesome, 

helpful how-to about what 

to do if you’ve killed a person: 

you write a song that 

sounds like old Nine Inch 

Nails, and then get your 

wife to sign a prenup that 

includes the recording of 

an EP in which she will star 

as a talking bloody-mess 

corpse in a video, simple. I 

am overcome with hope for 

the future as art-loving kindergarteners 

are striking for 

Hostel to be shown during 

playlist 

A seriously abridged 

compendium of recent 

and future CD releases 

Wednesday snack times. 

• Shameless L.A. false 

god Bret Michaels will 

release new album Custom 

Built next week, but it 

is actually a secret Nobama 

government tactic to take 

the census of all American 

women over 40 who have 

leopard print somewhere 

in their wardrobes. “Every 

Rose” is on there, as is the 

Rock of Love theme song 

“Go That Far,” but worst 

of all is the appearance 

of underage Disney horror 

cartoon Miley Cyrus, 

who will help Bret sing the 

sexytime ballad “Nothin To 

Lose,” the lyrics of which 

were written by Vladimir 

Nabakov a couple of weeks 

before a comet destroyed 

all intelligent life on Earth. 

• Benise is the awful, 

awful Fabio of guitar. His 

live concert-spectacle video 

The golden Filter, Voluspa 

101 Distribution, June 15 

I sometimes test 

the goth-feverdream 

efficacy 

of albums on 

my wife. After 

just a couple of 

spins of this 

perfect cross 

between Collide 

and Goldfrapp (that’s reviewer-ese for 

“early Madonna with a creepy-eerie spiderweb 

edge and some techno-glitch,” in case 

you don’t know either of those bands) I was 

completely sold, but the missus — who’s as 

goth-minded as they come — is still, to 

date, not. There I was, hanging brackets for 

the damn pointless window drapes, cranking 

this and fully expecting to hear a familiar 

“Well this is kinda cool,” but no. Later, in 

the car, driving around: still zippo. I finally 

asked and got, “It’s like background music.” 

For what? Cutting? 

Forget that noise. The woman is 

spoiled, getting free Coldplay and Pink 

and Scissor Sisters albums for her car 

and not having to suffer reviewing Glitch 

Mob and trombone-jazz albums in order 

to earn them. 

Be ready: there’s a PR/Pitchfork scheme 

to front this boy-girl pair as the next Portishead. 

There’s barely a trace of hiphop 

in here, however, and as far as glitch and 

squelch and on-the-phone-patched vocals, 

Collide has it by a length. But Collide 

couldn’t write a song to save their mothers, 

thus I pronounce this the greatest 

goth-slash-dance-pop album of all time, 

for this minute. A — Eric W. Saeger 

Benise: The Spanish Guitar 

will be in stores next week. 

It is an art experience, in 

which our long-haired hero 

plays awesome Yngwie 

“licks” while saving the universe 

from the Scientology 

pyramids or something, and 

there will be bras thrown on 

stage, many bras, of all cup 

sizes, because he is the only 

man on Earth who’s aware 

that chicks will always dig 

hair. 

• Had enough yet? Ready 

to stick your head in a jet 

engine yet, so you won’t 

accidentally hear the groovy 

hip new sounds, above? 

No? Well, there’s always 

Skynyrd-tinged grind-metal 

band Texas Hippie Coalition, 

whose new album 

Rollin’ will be in your Pandora’s 

“Suggested, but only 

if you hate yourself” list 

next week! The single is 

“Pissed Off and Mad About 

It,” which steals from 

Pantera and Rob Zombie, 

but I’ll admit it does have 

a spooky cool part with a 

talk box for your ringtone, 

so not a total loss. 

— Eric W. Saeger 

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Excavating the Sutler’s House: Artifacts 

of the British Armies in Fort Edward 

and Lake George, by David R. Starbuck, 

university Press of New England, 2010, 

118 pages. pages 

Before any Declaration 

of Independence, there 

were British settlers 

fighting not against 

Britain’s royal government 

but for it against 

the French in the New 

World. The British set 

up camp on Lake 

George and Lake Champlain, and one New 

Hampshire anthropologist has made it his 

job to dig into those sites. 

David Starbuck is associate professor of 

anthropology and sociology at Plymouth 

State University. He previously wrote The 

Archeology of New Hampshire: Exploring 

10,000 Years in the Granite State. Now 

with Excavating the Sutler’s House he documents 

the findings of his team (and earlier 

archeologists) at a handful of sites in northern 

New York state, particularly at a sutler’s 

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who set up shop near a military camp 

and sold goods to soldiers. 

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• Hollis Social library 

2 Monument Sq., Hollis, 

465-7721, 

hollis.nh.us 

• Hooksett Public library 

1701B Hooksett Rd., Hooksett, 

485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org 

• Manchester City library 

405 Pine St. (main branch) 

and 76 N. Main St. 

(West branch), 624-6550, 

manchester.lib.nh.us 

• Nashua Public library 

2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4610, 

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• Exams 

• Contacts 

• Eyeglasses 

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nashualibrary.org 

• Rodgers Memorial library 

194 Derry Road, Hudson, 

886-6030, rodgerslibrary.org 

• Tucker Free library 

31 Western Ave., Henniker, 

428-3471, tuckerfreelibrary.org 

• Wadleigh Memorial library 

49 Nashua St., Milford, 673-2408, 

wadleigh.lib.nh.us 

• Wilton Public library 

7 Forest Road, Wilton, 654-2581, 

wiltonlibrarynh.org 

Bookstores 

• Barnes & Noble 

1741 South Willow St., 

Manchester, 668-5557; 

235 DW Hwy, Nashua, 

888-5961; bn.com 

• Borders 

76 Fort Eddy Road, Concord, 

224-1255; 

281 DW Hwy, Nashua, 

888-9300; borders.com 

• gibson’s Bookstore 

27 South Main St., Concord, 

224-0562, 

gibsonsbookstore.com 

• MainStreet Bookends 

16 E. Main St., Warner, 

456-2700, 

1093 Elm St., Manchester 

(beside Black Brimmer) 

(603) 296-0235 059490 

trove of artifacts in a region that includes 

“some of the most significant eighteenthcentury 

military sites in the United States.” 

This book, slim and unimposing, includes 

a list of artifacts recovered there, and it’s 

flush with photos showing the items up 

close. Laid out before you are the soldiers’ 

wine bottles, the dishes they ate with, the 

knives they used, the coins from their pockets, 

their keys and padlocks, combs and 

pipes. There’s a mostly intact sundial and 

compass that was made in the 1730s. 

Starbuck also shows and tells us about 

the excavation itself, which is as enlightening 

and interesting as the history. The 

process of discovery, of piecing together 

this building’s life story, is an adventure in 

its own right. 

For context, and because it’s yet another 

informative part of the historical record, 

Starbuck provides quotes from the diary of 

Jabez Fitch Jr., who served in Fort Edward 

in 1757 and ’58. One entry mentions that the 

soldiers made chocolate the previous night. 

“The sutlers probably sold a great deal of 

hot chocolate, especially in the mornings, 

and it would have been just as popular as 

coffee,” Sutler says. 

My kinda guys. A —Lisa Parsons 

mainstreetbookends.com 

• River Run Books 

20 Congress St., Portsmouth, 

431-2100, riverrunbookstore.com 

• Toadstool Bookshop 

586 Nashua St., Milford, 

673-1734, toadbooks.com. 

other 

• Manchester Historic 

Association 

200 Bedford St., 622-7531, 

manchesterhistoric.org 

• New Hampshire 

Humanities Council 

19 Pillsbury St., Concord, 

224-4071, www.nhhc.org 

• New Hampshire State library 

20 Park St., Concord, 

www.nh.gov/nhsl 

• New Hampshire 

Writers’ Project 

SNHU, 2521 N. River Rd., 


nhwritersproject.org 

• Rivier College 

420 Main St., Nashua, 

888-1311, rivier.edu. 

• uNH Manchester 

400 Commercial St., Manchester, 

641-4101, unhm.unh.edu 

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pop CULTURE: BooKs 

Author events 

• TRACY WiNN discusses Mrs. 

Somebody Somebody on Thurs., July 

1, at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore. 

• JAMES SullivAN discusses 7 

Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes 

of George Carlin on Thurs., July 8, 

at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore. 

• liNDA gREENlAW discusses 

Seaworthy on Fri., July 16, at 7 p.m. 

at Gibson’s Bookstore. 

• PAul WAiNWRigHT discusses 

his fine art book A Space for Faith: 

The Colonial Meetinghouses of New 

England on Sat., July 17, from 11 

a.m. to 2 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore 

(during Concord’s Market Days). See 

www.aspaceforfaith.com. 

• JAMES TABOR discusses Blind 

Descent: The Quest to Discover the 

Deepest Place on Earth, on Thurs., 

July 22, at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore. 

• DAviD HERliHY discusses 

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale 

of an American Adventurer and 

His Mysterious Disappearance on 

Thurs., July 29, at 7 p.m. at Gibson’s 

Bookstore. 

• WRiTERS ON A NEW ENglAND 

STAgE presents authors 

interviewed on stage by a New 

Hampshire Public Radio host at 

The Music Hall in Portsmouth. 

Writers scheduled for the 2010- 

11 season are Margaret Atwood 

on Tues., Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m.; 

Simon Winchester on Mon., Nov. 

8, at 7:30 p.m.; Joseph J. Ellis on 

Tues., Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m.; Joyce 

Carol Oates on Mon., March 28, 

2011, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $13 

per event. Most go on sale to the 

general public at noon Sat., July 10. 

Buy in person at 28 Chestnut St., 

by phone at 433-3100 or at www. 

themusichall.org. 

Lectures and discussions 

• WHAT DO YOu WANT TO 

DO WHEN YOu gROW uP? 

free discussion with Glen K. Currie, 

poet, essayist, photographer, 

softball coach, collector and community 

volunteer, on Wed., July 7, 

1-3 p.m. in the auditorium of Concord 

Public Library. 

Book discussions 

• ANiME CluB at Nashua Public 

Library for grades 8-12 meets on the 

first Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m. 

• BOOK gROuPS at Borders in 

Nashua include Armchair Globetrotters, 

mystery book group, science 

fiction book club and more. 

The Book 

Report 

• local author writes book 1: The official 

description on the website includes 

the terms “forty-something wife,” “ambitious 

men,” “fateful Caribbean cruise” and 

“secrets and desperation,” which ought to 

give you some idea whether Saferwaters 

is your kind of novel. It’s written by Manchester 

lawyer Teresa Tucker. Learn more 

about the author and book at copiousbeast. 

com. 

• local author writes book 2: New 

Hampshire resident and neuromuscular 

therapist Joe Danna has written a book 

called “The Narrow Gate: A Journey 

through Identity, Belief, and Perception,” 

which he describes as a “journey into 

self,” set in Gloucester, Mass. The book 

• BuDDHiST PHilOSOPHY 

book discussion group at Barnes 

& Noble in Manchester focuses on 

current literature on Buddhist topics, 

meets the second Monday of 

each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in 

the bookstore’s café. Pre-registration 

is appreciated; anyone with 

an interest in Buddhist philosophy 

is invited to join. E-mail dharmastudy@aol.com. 

• CANDiA SMYTH PuBliC 

liBRARY book discussion group 

meets for friendly one-hour discussion 

once a month. The library is 

at 55 High St., Candia, 483-8245, 

www.smythpl.org. 

• ClASSiCS CROWD at Milford 

Toadstool Bookshop reads 19thcentury 

British classics and meets 

at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of 

each month. New members always 

welcome. 


liBRARY evening book discussion 

group meets on the second 

Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. in 

the Hunt Room. 


liBRARY Brown Bag Book Club 

meets on the last Tuesday of the 

month from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the 

Hunt Room. 

• POSiTRONiC BRAiNS book 

club for sci-fi readers meets third 

Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at Barnes & Noble 

in Nashua. New members invited. 

• RODgERS liBRARY in Hudson 

offers an afternoon and an evening 

book discussion group. Books 

are available at the library; for more 

info or to add your name to the 

group mailing list, call 886-6030, 

e-mail askus@rodgerslibrary.org or 

visit www.rodgerslibrary.org. 

• SAvvY WORKSHOP marketing 

group at 55 S. Commercial St. 

in Manchester presents the first 

meeting of the Riveting Readers 

Book Club for Professional Growth 

and Career Development on Wed., 

July 14, at 6 p.m., discussing How 

to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules 

for Getting and Keeping Customers 

and Clients. Author Jeffrey J. Fox 

will attend via teleconference to 

take questions from participants. 

Registration for the event costs 

$30 and includes a hardcover 

copy of the book; participants 

who bring their own copy may 

register for $10. Register online 

at savvyrainmakers.eventbrite. 

com or by calling 656-9009. 

• SCiENCE FiCTiON & FAN 

TASY discussion group meets at 

7 p.m. second and fourth Wednesday 

of each month at Toadstool 

Bookshop in Milford. Welcomes 

older teens and adults to share the 

books they’ve recently read. 

• SOCRATES CAFÉ based on 

the book by Christopher Philips, 

Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of 

Philosophy, meets at 7 p.m. on 

the first and fourth Monday of 

each month at Nashua Borders, 

and meets on the first Wednesday 

of each month at 7 p.m. at Milford 

Toadstool Bookshop. 

• TuCKER FREE liBRARY 

hosts a discussion of the appeal of 

Stieg Larsson’s books on July 14 

at 6:30 p.m. 

• WADlEigH liBRARY in 

Milford hosts adult book clubs 

that meet monthly, new members 

always welcome. 

• WARNER AREA BOOK 

CluB meets on certain Sundays 

at MainStreet BookEnds in Warner. 

All are welcome; call Jen at 

456-3021 or e-mail Jennkane@ 

tds.net to sign up. 

• WiNE SOCiETY BOOK 

CluB with wine tasting, monthly, 

hosted by Paulette Eschrich at 

the Wine Society, 18C Pond View 

Place in Tyngsboro, Mass., 978- 

649-8993. Cost is $25 per participant 

for each event. The number 

and type of wines served will 

depend on the number of attendees. 

Registration closes one week 

prior to each meeting; advance 

registration with payment is 

required, and cancellations after 

the registration deadline will not 

be refunded. All Book Club tastings 

are held Thursdays from 6:30 

to 8 p.m. 

poetry 

• POETRY SOCiETY OF NH 

meets on the third Wed. of each 

month at Gibson’s Bookstore for 

a poetry reading followed by an 

open mike hosted by Don Kimball. 

All are welcome; come to 

listen or to read. Wed., July 21, at 

7 p.m.: Nate Graziano and Mary 

Alexandra Agner read. 

• SuMMER 2010 POETRY 

READiNg SERiES in the Simon 

Center of New England College 

(98 Bridge St., Henniker). All 

readings are at 7:30 p.m. and are 

free and open to the public. Call 

219-9172 to confirm. Thurs., July 

1: Tara Rebele and New Media 

class. 

draws heavily from Danna’s studies of A 

Course in Miracles and The Kybalion, and 

his spiritual beliefs as a member of The 

Rosicrucian Order. Learn more about the 

author and book at jpdanna.com. 

• And in the “Why can’t we have 

something cool like that?” department: 

Portsmouth Public Library (cityofportsmouth.com/library, 

427-1540) has 

available two Amazon Kindles, two Barnes 

& Noble Nooks and two Sony Touch Edition 

e-readers available to patrons age 18 

and older for one-week borrowing. No 

renewals, and there’s a $2-per-day late fee. 

Each device comes preloaded with 10 to 

20 e-books for you to use as testing material. 

You don’t have to leave a deposit but 

if you lose it you’ve bought it. 

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FILM 

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 

The Twilight saga: 

Eclipse (pG-13) 

smokin’ hot werewolf 

beefcake and tortured, 

romantic vampire poet are 

both in big swoony love with 

an everygirl in The Twilight 

saga: Eclipse, part three in 

the wish fulfillment gothic 

romance series. 

This movie opens nearly exactly 

where previous film New Moon 

ended, with vampire Edward Cullen 

(Robert Pattinson) trying to convince 

human Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) 

to marry him. She has apparently 

been saying no for the weeks that have 

elapsed in the breach between movies. 

Marriage is, like, weird and old and 

Bella is more interested in the kind of 

forever that comes with being bitten 

by a vampire — even though Edward 

would prefer she stay mortal. But 

Edward isn’t the only one after Bella’s 

heart. The werewolf Jacob Black 

(Taylor Lautner) is in big hunky shirtless 

love with her too. He can be her 

boyfriend without wanting to eat her 

and they can grow old and have hairy 

children together — being “dead”, 

Edward and vampire Bella could never 

have children (hey, you with the 

giggling, stop reading ahead). 

But there are bigger problems in 

the town of Forks than a totally Bev- 


erly Hills: 90210-style love triangle. 

Victoria (now played by Bryce Dallas 

Howard), the vengeful vampire 

who hunted Bella all through the last 

movie, is still on the lookout for her. 

And in nearby Seattle, people are 

being killed and going missing at 

such an alarming rate that Dr. Carlisle 

(Peter Facinelli) and the rest of 

the Cullen Scooby Gang are pretty 

sure that someone’s creating a vampire 

army. And the creepy red-eyed 

vampire royalty the Volturi — led by 

creepy red-eyed sadist Jane (Dakota 

Fanning) — is still waiting for 

Edward and his special powers of 

mind-reading to make Bella and her 

special powers of not being readable 

one of them already. 

And to make things even worse, 

Bella’s dad (Billy Burke)? Still totally 

hating on Edward. As the movie 

opens, she’s basically grounded. 

Curfews, vampire army — being a 

teenager sucks. 

So, yes, we get The Forbidden Kiss 

— though why it happens when it does 

makes even less sense the way it’s set 

up in the movie than the shaky way it 

happened in the book. And The Tent 

Scene is even more squirm-inducing 

and strangely hilarious than it ever was 

in the book — and yes, I give, I read the 

books. All of them. They are like one 

of those find-the-3-D-image posters 

that used to be on display in every mall. 

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You can’t look away, even though your 

eyes are crossed and you’re embarrassed 

to be spending this much time 

looking for, like, a Romulan ship. 

There are some structural, storytelling 

problems with this movie. The 

big climactic battle in this episode is 

almost an afterthought, it’s so barely 

a part of the story. A lot of supporting 

characters and little plot points go 

uncontextualized — I can’t see how 

someone coming fresh to this universe 

can possibly untangle the wad 

of characters and relationships. The 

movie picks as its focus the romantic 

turmoil — Jacob’s love for Bella, 

Bella’s fear of marriage, Edward’s 

horrible taste in jewelry. (The engagement 

ring he offers her looks like half 

a diamond-encrusted thimble.) And 

these things are explained and examined 

via lots of painfully flat dialogue, 

at least three flashbacks and way too 

many ultra-tight close-ups of one of 

our three main characters, leading 

you to think things like “that Kristen 

Stewart really has a lot of forehead” 

and “geez, Robert Pattinson, cheer 

the hell up already.” The movie sort 

of underlines all the ways in which 

the story could have been more interesting 

with a tweak here and a polish 

there — the way the characters could 

have been more dimensional. The 

audience at my screening, based 

on squeal-accompanied applause, 

Reviewlets: Snack-sized movie reviews 

* Indicates a movie worth seeking 

out. Previously reviewed 

movies have grades. For full 

reviews of most movies here or 

movies previously released, go 

to www.hippopress.com. 

The A-Team (Pg13) 

Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper. 

A special forces team goes 

rogue to clear their names 

— and blow stuff up. C+ 

Grown Ups (Pg13) 

Chris Rock, Adam Sandler. 

Our local commencement 

speaker also brings along David 

Spade, Rob Schneider and 

Kevin James for this movie 

about boyhood friends reuniting 

as adults. C+ 

Iron Man 2 (R) 

Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle. 

Tony Stark is Iron Man, who is 

REVIEWs BY AMY DIAZ 

awesome. C+ 

Jonah Hex (Pg13) 

Josh Brolin, John Malkovich. 

And not doing anybody any 

favors, Megan Fox. A bounty 

hunter unleashes badassery on 

the Old West in this adaptation 

of the comic book. D 

*The Karate Kid (Pg) 

Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith. 

Mr. Chan is the Miyagi (called 

Mr. Han here) and the Will 

Smith progeny is the new kid 

learning to wax-on-wax-off. B+ 

Knight & Day (Pg13) 

Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz. 

Romantic comedy alert — Cruise 

plays a spy on the run and Diaz 

is a hot girl caught in the crossfire. 

C 

The Last Airbender (Pg) 

Noah Ringer, Nicole Peltz. 

seemed to agree that Jacob was the 

more interesting of the boys Bella has 

to choose from. In this book/movie in 

particular, you have to use your own 

imagination to fill in some of holes in 

explanation for Bella’s unwavering 

love for Edward. 

Lautner can’t seem to figure out 

where to correctly put the emphasis 

in his sentences, much less how 

to match them with some believable 

emotion. Pattinson is at risk of cracking 

his skull, so deep is the furrow of 

his brow. Stewart might seem like 

Meryl Streep in comparison (there 

are some genuinely nice scenes 

between Bella and her parents) but 

she’s still basically giving the same 

halting, open-mouthed performance 

she has in the previous two movies 

(though this time in an unflattering 

wig thing). 

But, to some extent, so what? 

The point of the movie — all of 

these movies — seems to be some 

deeper, more primal guilty pleasure. 

Lick the frosting of hurts-so-good 

romance off the top and bite into 

the desire-beyond-reason cupcake, 

enjoying the crunch of campy-badacting 

sprinkles. Eclipse isn’t good, 

per se; might not even be as “good” as 

New Moon. But Eclipse is still goofily, 

dizzyingly enjoyable. Sure, the 

books are kind of ridiculous and the 

movies are ridiculous and unevenly 

acted but they are fun, wonderful silly 

fun that, if you are a girl, reminds 

you of the intense embarrassing silly 

emotions of your younger girl 

self. It’s fun to giggle at these things 

— I’m sure girls of the Bella-andyounger 

age enjoy the movie for 

reasons that both overlap with mine 

and are different. But for me, it’s 

the wacky roller coaster quality that 

makes them exciting and the glad- 

I’ll-never-be-there-again nostalgia 

that makes them entertaining. C+ 

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences 

of action and violence, and some sensuality. 

Directed by David Slade and 

written by Melissa Rosenberg (from the 

novel by Stephenie Meyer), The Twilight 

Saga: Eclipse is two hours and four 

minutes long and distributed in wide 

release by Summit Entertainment. 

M. Night Shyamalan presents 

your 4th of July weekend entertainment 

with this big actionstravaganza 

(in 3-D!) about warring 

tribes and a boy with supernatural 

powders. Can’t be worse than 

green wolves! Opens wide on 

Thursday, July 1. 

Shrek Forever After (Pg) 

Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz. 

Allegedly, the green moneymaking 

machine ends up the 

Mother and Child (R) 

Three women deal with 

different approaches to 

motherhood in Mother 

and Child, an actory but 

ultimately more or less 

satisfying movie. 

Karen (Annette Bening) is a brittle 

and joyless 50-something who lives 

with her ailing mother (Eileen Ryan) 

and works at a nursing home. She 

seems like someone who has hardened 

into her current bitter and unkind state 

— openly hostile to her mother’s home 

caregiver, Sofia (Elpidia Carrillo), and 

Sofia’s young daughter Cristi (Simone 

Lopez). And despite being interested 

in Paco (Jimmy Smits), a new worker 

at the nursing home, she is difficult 

and off-putting in the extreme when he 

attempts to begin a friendship with her. 

Though there could be many reasons 

for the hard-packed personality 

Karen has developed, you sense that 

the main reason is related to the 

scenes we see in the movie’s opening 

moments, when a young girl has sex 

with her boyfriend and then, months 

later, is seen sitting in a room with 

other girls who, like her, are now in 

a family way. Karen gets only a few 

glimpses of her baby girl before she 

is whisked away, leaving only an 

ever growing hole in Karen’s soul. 

Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) seems to 

have a bit of a hole in her soul as well 

— adopted at birth, she has never met 

her birth mother, lost her adopted father 

at a young age and does not have a 

good relationship with her mother. 

We suspect that Elizabeth, also brittle, 

judgmental and relatively lacking in 

joy, doesn’t have a good relationship 

with anybody. A talented lawyer with 

ambitions, she has avoided putting 

down roots. When she interviews at a 

new law firm with owner Paul (Samuel 

L. Jackson), she also informs him 

that it’s better if she reports to a man 

than a woman, as women often feel 

threatened by her. When we see her 

aggressively seduce a married man, we 

can guess at why that might be. 

Lucy (Kerry Washington) and her 

husband Joseph (David Ramsey) 

want a child but Lucy can’t get preg 

series with this little riff on It’s 

A Wonderful Ogre Life. Though 

at times a bit talky and reflecty 

for a younger audience (also, 

long), this Shrek isn’t a bad 

place to stop. C+ 

*Toy Story 3 (Pg) 

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen. 

Andy heads to college and the 

famous toys head back to the 

big screen. Bring Kleenex. A-

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nant. They turn to Sister Joanne (Cherry 

Jones), a nun working at an orphanage, to find 

a child to adopt, perhaps the child of Ray (Shareeka 

Epps), a difficult 20-year-old woman 

who wants to give up the child she’s carrying. 

Perhaps it’s hope that keeps Lucy from 

seeing what her mother (S. Epatha Merkerson) 

senses, which is that Ray is not going to 

make adoption easy for them. Though seemingly 

entering into the adoption process to 

please her husband, Lucy slowly becomes 

more and more devoted to this unborn child 

Ray is carrying. 

In all three story lines, the women are 

dealing not only with children but with their 

mothers, whether present or not. In all three 

cases, the women have, however briefly, some 

form of surrogate children — for Karen it’s 

Kristi, for Elizabeth it’s a teenage neighbor 

— with whom they work out some of their 

feelings about the whole mother and child 

situation. They also have some kind of coming 

to terms with their own mothers. There is 

just enough to spoil here that it’s hard to go 

into more detail, but the way the movie ends 

up, its final 30 or so minutes, really does get 

to many different aspects of mothering and 

being mothered. The movie has some smart 

things to say about the relationship — particularly 

between mothers and daughters — and it 

leaves you thinking about the nature of motherhood 

long after the movie ends. 

Which is all my way of saying, hang in 

there. Particularly during the movie’s first 

hour, which moves in geological time and 

presents us with one scene after another featuring 

the less sympathetic, more unlikeable 

qualities of the central characters. I remember 

checking my cell phone hoping I’d gone 

maybe an hour and being discouraged to find 

that I was only 30 minutes in. Even worse, the 

next time I checked the clock, it was only four 

minutes later. 

There is a “look at my performance” quality 

to these initial scenes, as if all of these women 

were establishing their fitness for Oscar consideration. 

Combined with the harshness of 

the characters they play, this actory acting is 

as off-putting as Karen’s first-date suggestion 

to Paco that he watch his weight. There are a 

few moments of dry humor, but mostly there 

is a sense of weariness, as though the actors, 

and with them us, are doing some very heavy 

lifting. I felt myself passing time in the theater 

long before I got sucked into the story. 

This much buildup isn’t completely forgiven 

by the less self-conscious, more engaging 

performances. I liked where the movie went 

and the change we saw the characters go 

through, but I wish the getting there had 

been more enjoyable. Writer-director Rodrigo 

Garcia has a lot of HBO TV shows on his 

résumé and I feel like a lot of the things he did 

with the first half of the movie are probably 

more suited to episodic television, where you 

have weeks, not minutes, to build a character. 

Mother and Child is, like the relationships 

it discusses, messy, difficult and not always 

pleasant — and it is eventually worth it. B- 

Rated R for sexuality, brief nudity and 

language. Written and directed by Rodrigo 

Garcia, Mother and Child is two hours and 

five minutes long and is distributed in limited 

release by Sony Pictures Classics. 

 

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POP CULTURE: 

Cinema locator 

AMC Tyngsborough 

440 Middlesex St., Tyngsborough, 

Mass., 978-649-3980. 

Chunky’s Cinema & Pub Nashua 

151 Coliseum Ave., chunkys.com 

Chunky’s Pelham Cinema & Pub 

150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499 

Cinemagic Hooksett 

1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 

644-4629, cinemagicmovies.com 

Cinemagic Merrimack 12 

Movies outside the cineplex 

RED RIVER THEATRES 

11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600, 

www.redrivertheatres.org 

• Beethoven (PG, 1992) Thurs., 

July 1, at 1:45 p.m. 

• City Island (PG-13, 2010) Thurs., 

July 1, at 5 p.m. 

• Mother & Child (R, 2010) Thurs., 

July 1, 2 & 7:30 p.m. 

• Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (G, 2009) 

opens Thurs., July 1, at 7:30 p.m.; 

Fri., July 2, through Sun., July 4, 

at 1:30 & 5:45 p.m.; Mon., July 

5, and Tues., July 6, at 1:30 p.m.; 

Wed., July 7, and Thurs., July 8, at 

5:45 p.m. 

• Please Give (R, 2010) Thurs., July 

1, at 2:30 & 8 p.m.; Fri., July 2, 

through Sun., July 4, at 3:30 p.m.; 

Mon., July 5, through THurs., July 

8, at 5 p.m. 

• The Secret in Their Eyes (R, 2009, 

Spanish with subtitles) Thurs., July 

1, at 5:05 p.m. 

• City of Your Final Destination 

(PG-13, 2007) Fri., July 2, through 

Sun., July 4, at 1, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; 

Mon., July 5, through Tues., July 6, 

at 2 p.m.; Wed., July 7, and Thurs., 

July 8, at 2 & 7:30 p.m. 

• Jaws (PG, 1975) Fri., July 2, 

through Sun., July 4, at 3 & 7:50 

p.m.; Mon., July 5, and Tues., 

July 6, at 7 p.m.; Wed., July 7, and 

Thurs., July 8, at 1:30 p.m. 

• Solitary Man (R, 2010) Fri., July 

2, through Sun., July 4, at 1:05, 6:30 

& 8:30 p.m.; Mon., July 5, through 

Thurs., July 8, at 2:14, 6:30 & 8:30 

p.m. 

WILTON TOWN HALL 

Main Street in Wilton. wiltontownhalltheatre.com 

or call 654-FILM. 

• City of Your Final Destination (PG- 

13, 2007) Thurs., July 1, 7:30 p.m. 

• Mother & Child (R, 2010) Thurs., 

July 1, 7:30 p.m. 

• Mid-August Lunch (Adults only, 

Italian subtitles) Fri., July 2, through 

Thurs., July 8, at 7:30 p.m. Plus, 

Sun., July 4, at 2 & 4:30 p.m. 

• Please Give (R, 2010) Fri., July 2, 

11 Executive Place Dr., Merrimack, 

423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com 

Flagship Cinemas Derry 

10 Ashleigh Dr., Derry, 437-8800 

Entertainment Cinemas 6 

192 Loudon Road, Concord, 

224-3600 

AMC at The Loop 

90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen, 

Mass., 978-738-8942 

O’Neil Cinema 12 

through Thurs., July 8, at 7:30 p.m. 

Plus, Sun., July 4, at 2 & 4:30 p.m. 

• 1776 (1972) Sat., July 3, at 4:30 

p.m. 

MILFORD DRIVE-IN 

101A in Milford, 673-4090, www. 

milforddrivein.com. Scheduled 

to open soon, weather permitting. 

Check Web site for changes 

related to weather or screenings. 

Open seven nights a week through 

Labor Day; drive-in opens at 

6:15 p.m.; movies begin at dusk. 

Admission is $20 per car (up to 6 

occupants). 

• Screen 1: The Twilight Saga: 

Eclipse (PG-13, 2010); Letters to 

Juliet (PG, 2010) 

• Screen 2: Toy Story 3 (G, 2010); 

Grown Ups (PG-13, 2010) 

FRANCO-AMERICAN 

CENTRE 

52 Concord St., Manchester, 669- 

4045, francoamericancentrenh.com 

• Blanc (1993), Tues, July 20, at 7 

p.m. 

MANCHESTER CITY 

LIBRARY 

405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550, 

www.manchester.lib.nh.us 

• 1776 (PG, 1972) Wed., July 7, at 

1 p.m. 

• Monster vs. Aliens (PG, 2009) 

Mon., July 12, at 1 p.m. 

• Sherlock Holmes (PG-13, 2009) 

Tues., July 13, at 6 p.m. and Wed., 


• Flushed Away (PG, 2006) Mon., 


• Jaws (PG, 1975) Wed., July 21, 

at 1 p.m. 

• National Treasure: Book of 

Secrets (PG, 2007) Teen movie, 

Tues., July 26, at 4 p.m. 

• The Princess and the Frog (G, 

2009) Mon., July 26, at 1 p.m. 

WEST BRANCH 

COMMUNITY LIBRARY 

76 N. Main St., Manchester, 624- 

FILM Continued 

Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry, 

434-8633 

Regal Concord 

282 Loudon Road, Concord, 226 

3800 

Regal Hooksett 8 

100 Technology Dr., Hooksett, 

641-3456 

Showcase Cinemas Lowell 

32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass., 

978-551-0055 

6560, www.manchester.lib.nh.us 

• Family movie, Fridays at 3 p.m. 

NASHUA 

PUBLIC LIBRARY 

NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 

589-4600, www.nashualibrary.org. 

Call 589-4646 for the library’s film 

line, a schedule of upcoming movies. 

Films subject to change. Seating 

is limited. Food and drink are 

not permitted in the theater. 

• Plaza Pics Friday evenings in July 

at7:30 p.m. (live entertainment followed 

by a movie) in Greeley Park. 

• Fantastic Mr. Fox Fri., July 9. 

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 

(PG, 2010) Fri., July 16. 

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The 

Squeakquel (PG, 2010) Fri., July 23. 

THE MUSIC HALL 

28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436- 

2400, www.themusichall.org 

•The Secret in Their Eyes (R, 

2010) Thurs., July 1, through Sat., 

July 3, at 7:30 p.m. 

• The Secret of Kells (PG, 2009) 

Sun., July 4, at 4 & 7:30 p.m.; 

Mon., July 5, and Tues., July 6, at 

7:30 p.m. 

• A Clockwork Orange (1971) 

Wed., July 7, at 7:30 p.m. 

• The Square (R, 2009) Thurs., July 

8, and Fri., July 9, at 7:30 p.m. 

NEWBURYPORT 

SCREENING ROOM 

82 State St.., Newburyport, Mass., 

978-462-3456, www.newburyportmovies.com 

• Mid-August Lunch (NR, 2008, 

Italian with subtitles) Thurs., July 

1, at 7:30 p.m. 

• The Good, The Bad, The Weird 

(NR, 2010, Korean with subtitles) 

Fri., July 2, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., July 

3, at 4:45 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 4, 

at 7:30 p.m.; Mon., July 5, through 

Thurs., July 8, at 7:30 p.m. 

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July 2 - 8 

SOLITARY MAN (R/2009/90 min.) 

Fri., Sat., Sun.,1:05, 6:30, 8:30 

Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., 2:15, 6:30, 8:30 

CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION (PG-13/2009/118 min.) 

Fri., Sat., Sun.,1:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon., Tue., 2:00 

Wed., Thu., 2:00, 7:30 

PLEASE GIVE (R/2010/90 min.) 

Fri., Sat., Sun., 3:30 Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., 5:00 

JAWS (PG/1975/124 min.) In the Screening Room w/noted exceptions 

Fri., Sat., Sun., 3:00*, 7:50 Mon., Tue., 7:00* Wed., Thu., 1:30 

HACHI: A DOG’S TALE (G/2009/93 min.) In the Screening Room 

Fri., Sat., Sun.,1:30, 5:45 Mon., Tue., 1:30 Wed., Thu., 5:45 

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Route 101A • Milford NH 

(603) 673-4090 

Wednesday - Thursday 6/30 - 7/8 

Shows Start at Dusk 

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The Twilight 

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PG-13 

Letters to Juliet 

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Film times, descriptions & purchase tickets online at 

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TOWN HALL THEATRE 

(603) 654-FILM (3456) 

www.wiltontownhalltheatre.com 

Starts Fri — NH Premiere 

“MID-August lunch“ 

(Pranzo di Ferragosto) Italian 

Every Evening 7:30 Sun mats 2:00 - 4:30 

Starts Fri — Area Premiere 

Catherine Keener — Oliver Platt 

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Adults $ Saturday Afternoon Library Classic Film 

William Daniels — Howard DaSilva — Ken Howard 

The powerful musical-comedy-drama about the creation 

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Sat 4:30pm ~ free admission ~ donations to charity 

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Children (under 12) and Seniors (65 and over) $4.00 

Toy Story 3 

G 

Grown Ups 

PG-13 

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Nite Roundup 

Local music 

& nightlife news 

By Michael Witthaus 

music@hippopress.com 

• Ballroom boom: Enjoy fireworks from 

the vantage point of the Queen City Ballroom 

after partaking in dancing and a dessert buffet 

at the downtown dance studio. A DJ plays 

a mix of contemporary and classic tunes for 

all skill levels. Afterward, the action moves 

outside for an explosive display over Arms 

Park. Sign up on their Facebook page to qualify 

for a special discount. Attend the Fireworks 

Dance Party on Saturday, July 3, at 7 p.m. at 

the Queen City Ballroom, 21 Dow St. in Manchester; 

details at www.queencityballromnh. 

com. 

• Horn gods: Members of Groove Alliance 

and other area players recently formed Introduction, 

dedicated to the music of Chicago, a 

band that launched an era of horn-based pop 

in the early 1970s. The eight-piece group has 

a particular love for the incarnation fronted by 

guitarist Terry Kath, which produced hits like 

“Make Me Smile,” “Beginnings” and (you 

guessed it) “Introduction.” See Introduction 

on Thursday, July 1, at 8:30 p.m. at Whippersnappers, 

44 Nashua Road in Londonderry. 

There’s a $5 cover; more at www.whippersnappersnh.com. 

• Meat and greet: Meat Loaf’s early ups 

and downs were fodder for VH1 Behind the 

Music, but the rocker has survived and thrived, 

recently performing “Bat Out of Hell” with an 

opera singer on British television. Saturday, 

he performs at Meadowbrook. After the show, 

the state’s first fireworks happen over Lake 

Winnipesauke, beginning promptly at the 

stroke of midnight. See Meat Loaf on Saturday, 

July 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Meadowbrook U.S. 

Cellular Pavilion, 72 Meadowbrook Lane in 

Gilford. Tickets cost $24-$67 at www.meadowbrook.net. 

• Mystical Fourth: Folksinger Rahel, who 

appears as part of Milford’s Fourth of July celebration, 

wears many musical hats. In addition 

to playing folk-rock with the duo Rootes, she’s 

recorded traditional Yiddish music, made a 

world/roots album praised by Jam magazine, 

and released a children’s record inspired by 

Mother Goose. Rahel also hosts a weekly 

radio show on Nashua station WSMN 1590. 

See Rahel on Sunday, July 4, at 6:30 p.m. in 

Keyes Park in Milford. Visit www.rahelmusic.com. 

• Drag strip hip-hop: Grammy-nominated 

rapper Yung Joc caps a day of quarte- mile 

drag racing featuring cars and motorcycles, 

along with a Hot Import Nights auto show. 

The Atlanta-based Joc, whose real name is 

Jasiel Robinson, recently released Mr. Robinson’s 

Neighborhood, and has shared the stage 

with Young Jeezy and Keisha Cole. See Yung 

Joc at on Saturday, July 3, at 9 p.m. following 

the racing action at New England Dragway, 

280 Exeter Road in Epping; for more, call 

679-8001. 


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HIPPO NITE 

BARS, CLUBS, BANDS AND OTHER AFTER-DARk AMUSEMENTS 

Jerry’s kids 

Shades of Grateful Dead in Greensky Bluegrass 



Years before the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia 

was a dedicated banjo player. In 1964, he 

and a pal drove to Kentucky and auditioned 

for “Father of Bluegrass” Bill Monroe’s 

band. Garcia didn’t get the gig, and when he 

got home to California, the dearth of pickers 

pushed him toward guitar-playing. The 

rest is history. 

Since that time, plenty of musicians have 

traveled in the other direction, adapting a 

jam band ethos to traditional acoustic music. 

Michigan-based Greensky Bluegrass is currently 

playing the New England summer 

festival circuit (and a “secret” New Hampshire 

Fourth of July show — check twitter. 

com/campgreensky for details). 

The band — Anders Beck on Dobro, 

banjo player Michael Arlen Bont, guitarist 

Dave Bruzza, Paul Hoffman on mandolin 

and bass player Mike Devol — was inspired 

by Garcia’s mid-’70s group Old and In the 

Way and his later collaborations with David 

Grisman. 

“We weren’t steeped in tradition — we 

were one of those bands that came from the 

other side,” Devol said recently from his 

home in Kalamazoo. “Mike wanted to get 

a banjo and Dave started playing acoustic 

guitar because they were into the Dead. 

Bluegrass is in our name, but I often feel 

that the songs we’re writing aren’t bluegrass 

songs. They have a different texture.” 

On the road, Devol said, the satellite radio 

plays Outlaw Country, indie station XMU, 

Jam On and (of course) the Grateful Dead 

channel. These eclectic listening tastes are 

reflected in Greensky Bluegrass’s original 

songs, most written by Hoffman and Bruzza. 

Indeed, the world-weary “Against the Days” 

and “What’s Left of the Night,” both from 

their last studio effort, Five Interstates (produced 

by Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone), 

share as much with Ryan Adams and Wilco 

as with Allison Krauss. 

On the other hand, GSBG was named 

best bluegrass band at the 2006 Telluride 

Bluegrass Festival. It’s this deft balance 

Fan-driven music 

Gravity Tavern pulls them in 



One quick look around the remodeled 

Gravity Tavern, located in a former 19thcentury 

axe factory across the parking lot 

from Kiki’s Restaurant in New Boston, and 

the sense is immediate: this is a listening 

room. 

It’s rustic, from the exposed roof beams to 

the rough-sanded wide pine floorboards. But 

situated above the bar and at other strategic 

locations throughout the spacious tavern are 

curved acoustic panels, which enhance the 

overall sound. Other touches — the room’s 

of modern instincts and oldschool 

roots that sets them 

apart from many other purveyors 

of acoustic roots music. 

One way the band puts a 

new spin on an old idiom is 

through its clever selection of 

cover songs. On All Access: 

Volume One, a live album 

released earlier this year, 

they fill Pink Floyd’s “Time/ 

Breathe (Reprise)” with new 

life, and strip the artifice from “A Day In the 

Life” — though they do give the epic final 

note of the Beatles’ song a go. 

They’ve been inspired to rework everyone 

from Journey to Talking Heads. 

“If it somehow lends itself to bluegrass, 

or it’s so obscure you want to take it into 

it, we’ll do it,” Devol said. The band was 

in Seattle when the King of Pop passed. A 

pal from Railroad Earth texted the news. 

“We worked up an arrangement of ‘Beat It’ 

and ‘Heal the World’ — a Michael Jackson 

homage.” 

Devol has a classical background and was 

a would-be manager when he began with 

the band. After studying the cello at Central 

Michigan University, he decided a different 

future was in order. 

“I wasn’t really seeing myself with a 

career in cello,” he said, and opted instead 

to go to grad school with an eye toward 

working on the business side of the music 

industry. 

“Greensky were buddies, I was a fan, 

I worked at the brewery they played at,” 

Devol said. When their bass player decided 

to leave to raise a family, they asked him to 

join the band. “They said, ‘Dude, you play 

the cello, right? Get a bass.’” 

With Bruzza’s help, Devol began a twomonth 

crash course. 

“I had just come into Bela Fleck, Union 

Station, and jam bands who had that bluegrass 

side to them. But I received most of 

my bluegrass education in Greensky Bluegrass,” 

he said. “They gave me a bunch of 

albums, and Dave came over and taught me 

song after song. I learned 75 songs before I 

layout, a big deck overlooking the Piscataquog 

River equipped with outdoor speakers 

— reinforce the music-friendly impression. 

There’s plenty of space for performers 

like Ameranouche, Acoustic Truffle and the 

Russell Hill Band to spread out. On a recent 

Friday night, the Bradford Bog People 

played old-time bluegrass in the far corner 

of the room. Pub tables are situated far 

enough away from the band to keep conversation 

from drowning out the music. 

Black leather couches arranged in an 

L shape across from a large fireplace at 

the tavern’s center seemed to whisper, “sit 

down, relax and enjoy.” It feels like a hybrid 

Greensky Bluegrass. J. Van Buhler photo. 

went out to play our first set.” 

One thing Devol had to learn was the 

band’s free-spirited style. 

“We know where we’re starting and where 

we’ll end up, but a number of our songs have 

sections where the actual direction we go is 

entirely improvisational,” he said. 

“We do compositional stuff too. Where 

I come from, I respect what can be accomplished 

by premeditation. But you can make 

choices there and plan ahead if you’re in 

communication with your band members to 

make really cool things happen.” 

The new live record, 26 songs comprising 

nearly two hours, captures one of the band’s 

recent hometown shows. It’s an effort they 

hope to repeat with future All Access releases. 

Says Anders Beck in the liner notes for 

the two-disc set, “it’s about the jams and the 

improvisation. Our live shows are where we 

are able to give our original songs a life of 

their own each night.” 

Devol agrees: “There’s something fun 

that can be really powerful with going with 

what’s happening in the room. There’s a 

lot that factors to your energy. It can yield 

some amazing moments, where it’s hard to 

remember exactly what happened until you 

go listen to it after the show.” 

Greensky Bluegrass 

Where: secret location, more information at 

www.twitter.com/campgreensky 

When: Sunday, July 4 

Greensky Bluegrass is also playing Friday, 

July 2, at the NATEVA Festival, Pottle 

Road in Oxford, Maine (www.natevafestival.com). 

of your best friend’s living room and a topend 

recording studio, with pricey Mackie 

speakers driving the house sound. 

“The musicians are told to keep it low, 

and focus on talent over amps,” said Joel 

Bedard, who been began booking the music 

earlier this year. “So far, everyone seems to 

be very receptive to that because they like 

the idea of showcasing as opposed to blowing 

the windows out.” 

Bedard is a music fan with fond memories 

of his Vermont college days: “I saw Phish 

100 times without paying a cover charge,” 

said the Nashua native, who lived in Boulder, 

Colo., and Seattle after graduation.

“I’ve always tried to be around a college 

town — that’s where a lot of the up and 

coming music is.” 

But New Boston isn’t Boulder. Though 

bucolic, his current hometown can feel 

pretty remote at times. “We like to say 

it’s close to nowhere,” Bedard said, laughing. 

So when Kirsten “Kiki” Montgomery 

broached the subject of bringing music to 

her recently opened farmhouse restaurant, 

Joel Bedard saw a chance to do something 

about it. 

Now in his early 40s, Bedard’s tastes 

have refined over the years, spurred by trips 

to the Winter Hawk (now Grey Fox) Bluegrass 

Festival in upstate New York. 

“I like the clean aspect of acoustic music 

— you can actually distinguish each of the 

individual instruments,” he said. “I think 

it’s really the essence of the talent of the 

musicians.” 

Ideally, Gravity Tavern will one day 

come to resemble the Folkway in Peterborough, 

which closed in 1996. In its heyday, 

that music club hosted early performances 

by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Suzanne Vega, 

Greg Brown and other seminal musicians. 

With a day job as a program manager 

with PC Connection in Merrimack, Bedard 

doesn’t have nearly the time he’d like to 

devote to his new avocation of live music 

impresario. Still, he doesn’t miss an opportunity 

to find new recruits for his mission. 

He booked Ameranouche after doing a 

Cisco networking job at a Manchester dog 

kennel run by the wife of the band’s guitarist. 

At a recent lunch at Daniel’s in Henniker, 

he noticed Mink Hills Band was playing the 

restaurant, so he dashed off an e-mail invitation 

to them to play the Gravity Tavern. 

“I’ve been checking out Savoy Truffle 

since the late ’80s, when I used to see 

them at the White Horse Tavern in Milford,” 

Bedard said, so booking the Seacoast 

band for a July 29 acoustic show was a nobrainer. 

He’s also reached out to Harlow’s 

Tavern in Peterborough and Boynton’s Taproom 

in Manchester to see if they can work 

together to attract bands to the region. 

Venues 

Capitol Center for the 

Performing Arts 

44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111 

The Colonial Theatre 

95 Main St., Keene, 352-2033 

Dana Humanities Center at 

Saint Anselm College 

100 Saint Anselm Dr., 

Manchester, 641-7700 

Franklin Opera House 

316 Central St., Franklin 

934-1901 

Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 

• moe. Thurs., July 1, at 8 p.m., 

Casino Ballroom 

• Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa 

Fri., July 2, at 8 p.m., Casino 

Ballroom 

• Paul Rodgers Sat., July 3, at 8 

p.m., Casino Ballroom 

• Meat Loaf Sat., July 3, at 8 

p.m., Meadowbrook 

• Badfish! A Tribute to Sublime 

Sun., July 4, at 8 p.m., Casino 

Ballroom 

• George Clinton & Parliament 

Funkadelic Wed., July 7, at 8 


NITE 

Bradford Bog People at Gravity Tavern. Courtesy 

Photo. 

Upcoming performers include Newfound 

Grass (July 1), Hungrytown (July 31), 

Charlie Christos (Aug. 13) and Lunch at 

the Dump (Aug. 27). Some higher-energy 

shows are also scheduled: Electric Truffle 

on Aug. 14, as well as September appearances 

by Jamantics and Superfrog. Bedard 

recently began a music blog (http://gravitytavern.blogspot.com) 

to keep patrons up to 

date as the schedule evolves. 

“We hope it takes on a life of its own,” 

Bedard sid. “What we’re looking to do is 

create a synergy where not just people but 

the artists hear about the place and say, 

‘Wow, that sounds like a fit for us.’” 

Gravity Tavern 

169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton 

Beach, 929-4100 

Leddy Center 

38c Ladd’s Lane, Epping, 679- 

2781,leddycenter.org 

Lowell Auditorium 

East Merrimack Street, Lowell, 

Mass., 978-454-2299 

The Music Hall 

28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 

436-2400 

The Old Meeting House, 

1 New Boston Rd., Francestown 

Palace Theatre 

• Amos Lee Fri., July 9, at 7:30 

p.m., Lowell Summer Music 

• Benjamin Burnley Fri., July 9, 

at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom 

• Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk 

Fri., July 9, at 8 p.m., Tupelo 

• Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE Sat., July 

10, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom 

• Gary Hoey Sat., July 10, at 8 

p.m., Tupelo 

• Jimmy Cliff Sat., July 10, at 

7:30 p.m., Lowell Summer Music 

• Ozomatli Sat., July 10, at 8 

p.m., Music Hall 

• Huey Lewis & the News Sun., 

What: Gravity Tavern 

Where: 35 Mount Vernon Road in New 

Boston 

Info: www.gravitytavern.com, 325-4122 

Upcoming performances, all shows start 

8 p.m.: 

Friday, July 2, New Found Grass 

Saturday, July 3, Putnam Smith 

Friday, July 9, Charlie Christos 

Saturday, July 10, TBA 

Friday, July 16, Gary Lopez 

Saturday, July 17, Mark Marquis Trio 

Friday, July 23, Gerry Pawquet 

Saturday, July 24, Ballou Brothers 

Thursday, July 29, Dave Gerard/Truffle 

Friday, July 30, TBA 

Saturday, July 31, Hungrytown 

CONCERTS 

80 Hanover St., Manchester, 

668-5588 

Rochester Opera House 

31 Wakefield St., Rochester 

335-1992 

Tupelo Music Hall 

2 Young Road, Londonderry, 

603-437-5100 

Verizon Wireless Arena 

555 Elm St., Manchester, 

644-5000 

Whittemore Center Arena at 

UNH 

128 Main St., Durham, 862-4000 

July 11, at 8 p.m., Casino Ballroom 

• Joan Armatrading Sun., July 

11, at 7:30 p.m., Music Hall 

• Melissa Etheridge Mon., July 

12 at 7:30 p.m., Casino Ballroom 

• American Idol Live! 2010 

tour Wed., July 14, at 7:30 p.m., 

Verizon 

• Cinderella Wed., July 14, at 8 


• Cake Fri., July 16, at 7:30 p.m., 

Lowell Summer Music 

• Chris Isaak with Marc Broussard 

Fri., July 16, at 8 p.m., 

Casino Ballroom 

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NITELIFE LISTINGS 

Music & parties 

• ISLANDSIDE on Thurs., July 8, 

at 6 p.m. at The Seacoast Science 

Center’s (570 Ocean Blvd., Rye) 

Music by the Sea stage. Tickets $8, 

or $2 for children ages 3-12. Purchase 

advance tickets at the Center 

or online at seacoastsciencecenter. 

org. Present your SSC membership 

card to purchase your ticket at halfprice. 

Call 436-8043. 

• GREAT WATERS POP 

ORCHESTRA “Pops Celebrate 

America,” on Fri., July 9, at 8 

p.m., at Great Waters Music Festival 

(58 N. Main St., Wolfeboro). 

Conducted by Peter Mansfield the 

Great Waters Pops Orchestra presents 

favorite patriotic and signature 

American music. For ticket purchase 

and more information visit 

www.greatwaters.org, or call 569- 

7710. 

Bowling 

• BOUTWELL’S BOWLING 

CENTER 152 N. State St., Concord, 

224-0941. 

• LAKESIDE LANES 2171 Candia 

Road, Manchester, 627-7722, 

www.lakesidelanes.com. 

• LEDA LIGHTHOUSE 340 

Amherst St., Nashua, 889-4884, 

www.ledalanes.com. 

• KING BOWLING LANES 751 

Mast Road, Manchester, 623-9215, 

www.kinglanes.com 

• MERRIMACK TEN PIN CEN- 

TER 698 DW Hwy., Merrimack, 

429-0989, 8:30 a.m. to midnight. 

• STADIUM TEN PIN Maple 

Street, Manchester, 625-9656, 

www.stadiumtenpin.net. 

• TONY’S LANES 244 Elm St., 

Milford, 673-6673. 

Free Outdoor Concerts 

• WILTON MAIN STREET will 

sponsor a summer concert series in 

Main Street Park starting with the 

Temple Town Band on Thurs., July 

1, from 6 to 8 p.m. See www.mainstreet.wilton.nh.us. 

• 195 th ARMY BAND in celebration 

of July 4th, on Fri., July 2, at 

7 p.m., at the Adams Memorial 

Opera House in downtown Derry 

and at the Manchester Library at 

noon. They will also perform at the 

Manchester State Park on Sat., July 

3, at noon. 

• ALL TOGETHER NOW Beatles 

tribute band will perform on 

Tues., July 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the 

Hampstead Meetinghouse. Visit 

www.MeetinghousePark.org. 

• 5 STARS at the Nashua Public 

Library plaza at 2 Court St. in 

Nashua on Thurs., July 8, at noon. 

The rock band members play in 

the Maine Army National Guard 

195th Army Band. In case of rain, 

the concert will be held indoors. For 

more information about this and all 

the library’s summer concerts, call 

Carol at 589-4610 or go to www. 

nashualibrary.org. 

• BROOKS YOUNG BAND on 

Sat., July 10, at the gazebo in Rollins 

Park at 6 p.m., in Concord. 

Singles events 

• SINGLES PARTY on Sat., July 

3, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., at the Radisson, 11 

Tara Blvd., in Nashua. Hosted by 

Together of NH. Cost is $10 before 

9 p.m./$12 after. Complimentary 

hors d’oeuvres until 8:30 p.m. Business 

casual, non smoking, cash bar, 

door prizes. Professional DJ. 

• BYOB SINGLES DANCE 

every Fri., 8 p.m. to midnight at 

Daniels Hall, Route 4 in Nottingham. 

Casual dress, free buffet, and 

drink setups, smoking outside on 

patio. Cost is $11, 942-8525, www. 

singlesdanceparties.com. 

Trivia nights 

• BARLEY HOUSE 132 North 

Main St., Concord, 228-6363, 

Wednesdays. 

• BLUE MERMAID 409 the Hill, 

Portsmouth, 427-2583, Mondays, 

7-9 p.m. 

• CENTRAL WAVE 368 Central 

Ave., Dover, 742-9283, Tuesdays. 

• DERRYFIELD 625 Mammoth 

NITE 

Independence 

Day 

Bring the family to 

the Adams Memorial 

Opera House on Friday, 

July 2, at 7 p.m., 

for a free concert 

hosted by the Greater 

Derry Arts Council and performed by the 195th U.S. Army 

Band. The band will also present a brass/sax performance 

(“All Brass No Ammo”) at the Manchester City Library on 

the same day at noon, and will offer a rock band performance 

at the Nashua Public Library on Thursday, July 8, at 

noon. The unit is based in Bangor, Maine, and includes performers 

from all over the state. For additional concert dates 

and to learn more about the National Guard and the band, 

visit www.me.ngb.army.mil/units/band. 

Road, Manchester, 623-2880, 

Thursdays 7-9 p.m. 

• FAT TONY’S ITALIAN GRILL 

61 N. Main St., Rochester, 335- 

7020, Wednesdays 8-10 p.m. 

• FODY’S 9 Clinton St., Nashua, 

577-9015, Tuesdays 

• KELLEY’S ROW 421 Central 

Ave., Dover, 750-7081, Wednesdays 

8-10 p.m. 

• THE KNOT IRISH PUB 58 A 

Main St., Durham, 868-2959, Mondays 

9-11 p.m. 

• LA BEC ROUGE 73 Ocean 

Blvd., Hampton, 926-5050, Sundays 

8-10 p.m. 

• MARGARITA’S 1 Nashua Dr., 

Nashua, 883-8107, Wednesdays 8- 

10 p.m. 

• PATRICK’S PUB & EATERY 

18 Weirs Road, Gilford, 293-0841, 

Mondays 8-10 p.m. 

• PEDDLER’S DAUGHTER 48 

Main St., Nashua, 821-7535, Tuesdays. 

• POLCARI’S OF SALEM 368 S. 

Broadway, Salem, 893-7111, Tuesdays 

8-10 p.m. 

• PRIME TIME SPORTS BAR 

& GRILL 620 Lafayette Road, 

Seabrook, 760-7231, Wednesdays 

9-11 p.m. 

• RI RA 22 Market Sq., Portsmouth, 

319-1680, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. 

• SKY LOUNGE 522 Amherst St., 

Nashua, 882-6026, Wednesdays 

team trivia night 

• WILD ROVER 21 Kosciuszko 

St., Manchester, 669-7722, wildrover.com, 

Mondays 7 p.m. 

Jutras Post #43 Pro-america 

• Mondays • 

SuPer TriFecTa availaBle 

Play Free On yOur BirThday!! 

(Must pay for WTa’s) 

Minimum payout $150 on all games 

Win on a double number (11, 22, etc.) 

and get an extra $50 for single winners 

Drawing! 3 packages per night will be 

given away for the following week. 

Buy an $18+ package receive an $18 package free 

doors open at 4:00pm 

Game starts at 6:45pm 

•Tuesdays & Saturdays• 

Buy 1 Package 

Get $18.00 

Package Free. 

Tuesdays Saturdays 

Open 4:00pm Open 3:30pm 

Game 6:45pm Game 5:15 & 6pm 

Community Bingo Center • 1050 Holt Ave Manchester 

625.2345 Doors open at 4pm 

060173

Across 

1. ‘Stay’ Lisa 

5. Group for Stones demographic? 

(abbr) 

9. Michael Penn ‘__ And That’ 

13. Inactive Tool song? 

14. Famous bassman, that hates collars? 

rockandrollcrosswords.com 

15. Singer/famous drunk MacGowan 

ZZLE ON THE RUN 

t sown for love 

o Goldfrapp told to 

h '__ By __' 

t 'That Smell' was 

16. How many Grammys you want 

this year 

17. Eddie Clarke of Fastway 

18. Roy Ayers ‘___ Forth’ 

19. “______ to the other side” 

(5,2,7) 

22. What band hits after show 

23. Supertramp ‘__ Raining Again’ 

24. Oceany Who song (3,3,4)30. 

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ttish folktronica band 

ou Can ___ Me' Katy 

't Answer Me' Parsons 

pens in between tours 

n song that set a 

? 

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spended Matchbox 20 

dwig And The Angry 

e thing Stevie Wonder 

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 

13 14 15 

16 17 18 

19 20 21 

22 23 

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 

34 35 36 

37 38 39 40 

41 42 43 

44 45 46 47 

48 49 50 

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 

59 60 61 

62 63 64 

65 66 67 

15. I __ The Sheriff 

20. Hip hop's West 

21. BTO 'Let It __' 

24. What drumstick does, 

eventually 

25. Paul Stanley uses one on 

down time 

26. 'Sweet Love' Baker 

27. REM's Michael 

28. "Shoot that poison ___ 

through my heart" ABC 

29. What touring rockers 

come home to 

31. What Lita Ford will do to 

her 'Eyes Forever' 

32. What town's sound curfew 

has you on 

33. Try to fill all of them 

39. 90 year old rocker, 

perhaps 

40. What Bob Stinson of the 

Replacements got 

42. Good music makes fingers 

do this 

45. '89 Rush album 

47. What band did to their 

hearts 

49. "__ like a knife, but it 

feels so right" 

51. 'Sober' band 

52. "Boo!" alternative 

53. Scrambled Urge Overkill 

song? 

54. 'Love For ___' Talking 

Heads 

55. 'Theater Of Pain' band 

56. Freddie King 'I'm __ 

Down' 

57. A-ha 'Take ___' (2,2) 

58. View Pearl Jam has in 

mirror 

59. Geffen bought this record 

company in '03 © 

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Written By: Todd Santos 

Fills the slots on bill 

34. What Paul and Linda got when 

touring with Wings 

35. What Belly fed 

36. “__ to me, but please don’t 

leave” Crow 

37. In reserve Weatherthans tune? 

38. Chuck Berry enemy 

39. Seal ‘Kiss ___ Rose’ (4,1) 

41. __ Shop Boys 

42. It’s #1, for the lucky ones 

43. Button rockers want to press 

after career err 

44. “With your bitch __ rappin” 

GnR 

46. Where very big shows get advertised 

48. Radio Corp Of America label 

50. The Cult’s ‘Devil’ 

51. Graham Parker And The Rumour 

album from ‘80 (3,2,9) 

59. Wet Canucks from 90s? 

6/24 

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T O N K S E M I M U R P H 

A U T O M A T I C F O R T H E 

T A N T H I N H E D 

B O B B Y D A R I N A U R A 

A R E R I T A T R E Y 

B E L F A S T A N N A 

E S T A T E C A L L M E 

T E A M R E P L I E D 

F R E T S O H O T A D 

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N E V E R S A Y G O O D B Y E 

C R E A M Y O U R L E E R 

H E N R Y S U N Y E A R 

60. ‘Dream Weaver’ Wright 

61. Yo La Tengo ‘__ Of Silence’ off 

Ride The Tiger 

62. Recording charges 

63. Less Than Jake ‘Krazy __’ 

64. Not Aretha, but close 

65. Ryan Adams ‘The Sun __ Sets’ 

66. Got sown for love 

67. Who Goldfrapp told to stop 

Down 

1. Phish ‘__ By __’ 

2. What ‘That Smell’ was about? 

3. Led Zeppelin ‘Somethin’ __’ 

4. Scottish folktronica band (4,4) 

5. ‘If You Can ___ Me’ Katy Perry 

6. ‘Don’t Answer Me’ Parsons 

7. Happens in between tours 

8. Down song that set a course? 

9. R.O.C.K. In ____ (3,3) 

10. Suspended Matchbox 20 song? 

11. Hedwig And The Angry __ 

12. One thing Stevie Wonder can’t 

do 

15. I __ The Sheriff 

20. Hip hop’s West 

21. BTO ‘Let It __’ 

24. What drumstick does, eventually 

25. Paul Stanley uses one on down 

time 

26. ‘Sweet Love’ Baker 

27. REM’s Michael 

28. “Shoot that poison ___ through 

my heart” ABC 

29. What touring rockers come 

home to 

NITE 

31. What Lita Ford will do to her 

‘Eyes Forever’ 

32. What town’s sound curfew has 

you on 

33. Try to fill all of them 

39. 90 year old rocker, perhaps 

40. What Bob Stinson of the 

Replacements got 

42. Good music makes fingers do 

this 

45. ‘89 Rush album47. What band 

did to their hearts 

49. “__ like a knife, but it feels so 

right” 

51. ‘Sober’ band 

52. “Boo!” alternative 

53. Scrambled Urge Overkill song? 

54. ‘Love For ___’ Talking Heads 

55. ‘Theater Of Pain’ band 

56. Freddie King ‘I’m __ Down’ 

57. A-ha ‘Take ___’ (2,2) 

58. View Pearl Jam has in mirror 

59. Geffen bought this record company 

in ‘03 

©rockandrollcrosswords.com 

Written By: Todd Santos 

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MUSIC THIS WEEK 


Allenstown 

Ground Zero 

48 Allenstown Rd. 

Amherst 

Club Comedy 

at Amherst 

Country Club 

72 Ponemah 

Road,673-9908 

Ashland 

Bullwinkles Bar 

& Grill 

19 Main St., 

968-3131 

Common Man 

60 Main St., 

968-7030 

Auburn 

Auburn Pitts 

167 Rockingham 

Rd, 622-6564 

Holidays Bar 

and Grill 

346 Hooksett 

Road, 483-0880 

Barrington 

Chip ‘N Run Pub Nippo 

Lake Golf Course, 550 

Province Rd. 664-2030 

Barnstead 

Barnstead Music Hall 96 

Maple St., 269-2000 

Bedford 

C.R. Sparks 

18 Kilton Rd, 647-7275 

Slammers 

547 Donald St., 668-2120 

Belmont 

The Lodge at Belmont 

Route 106, 877-872-2501 

Top of the Town 

88 Ladd Hill Rd, 528-3244 

Boscawen 

Alan’s 

133 N. Main St., 753-6631 

Bristol 

The Homestead 

1567 Summer St., 744-2022 

Kathleen’s Cottage 

90 Lake St., 744-6336 

Mill Fudge Factory & 

Ice Cream Café 

26 Central Square, 744-0405 

Brookline 

Griffings’ Side Trax 

99 Route 13, 673-3244 

The Loft at the Grange 

12 Main St., 315-9423 

Candia 

Henderson’s Pickin’ Parlor 

179 Raymond Rd, 483-5001 

Concord 

The Barley House 

132 N. Main St., 228-6363 


Ashland 

Common Man: acoustic 

open mike 

Auburn 

Holiday’s: Just Us 

Bedford 

Slammers: karaoke w/ 

Legion of Doom 

Belmont 

Top of the Town: Joe 

Holiday 

Candia 

Henderson’s: acoustic 

Beijing & Tokyo 

61 S. Main St., 228-0888 

Green Martini 

6 Pleasant St., 223-6672 

Hermanos 

11 Hills Ave., 224-5669 

Loudon Road Restaurant 

and Pit Road Lounge 

388 Loudon Rd, 226-0533 

Makris 

354 Sheep Davis Rd, 

225-7665 

Penuche’s Ale House 


The Red Blazer 

72 Manchester St., 224-4101 

Deerfield 

Lazy Lion Café 

4 North Road, 463-7374 

Derry 

Adams Opera House 

29 W. Broadway/ Rte 102 

Brookstone Grille 

14 Route 11 E., 328-9250 

Burgundy’s Billiards 

35 Manchester St., 437-6600 

Coffee Factory 

55 Crystal Ave., 432-6006 

Deerhead Club 

314 Londonderry Turnpike, 

Halligan Tavern 

32 W. Broadway, 965-3490 

King’s Row 

1 E. Broadway 

Steve-N-James Tavern 

187 Rockingham Road, 

434-0600 

Dover 

American Legion Post 8 

640 Central Ave. 

Barley Pub 

328 Central Ave.,742-4226 

Dover Elks Lodge 

282 Durham Road 

Dover Bowl 

887 Central Ave., 742-9632 

Dover Brick House 

2 Orchard St., 749-3838 

11th Frame Bar 

887 B Central Ave., 742-9632 

Fury’s Publick House 

312 DW Highway, 617-3633 

Jimmy’s Sports Bar 

15 Mechanic St., 740-4477 

Kelley’s Row 

421 Central Ave., 750-7081 

RJ’s 

83 Washington St. 

Station House 

11 Fourth St., 743-4489 

Top of the Chop 

One Orchard St., 740-0006 

Dublin 

Del Rossi’s Trattoria 

Route 137, 563-7195 

Town Hall 

Route 101, Main St. 

Durham 

Acorns Restaurant 

15 Strafford Ave., 862-2815 

open mike 

Concord 

Barley House: Barleyoke 

Green Martini: open 

mike w/ Steve Naylor 

Hermanos: Craig Fahey 

Deerfield 

Lazy Lion Café: Mike 

O’Donnell 

Derry 

Brookstone: Bruce Marshall 

Burgundy’s: karaoke 

w/DJ Steve 


Epsom 

Circle 9 Ranch 

Windymere Dr., 736-9656 

Epping 

American Legion 

232 Calef Hwy. (Rt. 125) 

Holy Grail Food & Spirits 

64 Main St., 679-9559 

Exeter 

Shooter’s Pub 

10 Columbus Ave., 772-3856 

Gilford 

Ellacoya Barn & Grille 

2667 Lakeshore Road, 

293-8700 

Gunstock Ski Area 

719 Cherry Valley Road, 

293-4341 

Patrick’s 

18 Weirs Road, 293-0841 

Goffstown 

Village Trestle 

25 Main St., 497-8230 

Wa Toy 

611 Mast Road, 668-1088 

Hampstead 

The Pasta Loft 

220 E. Main St., 378-0092 

Route 111 Village Square 

472 State St., 329-6879 

Hampton 

Boardwalk Inn 

139 Ocean Blvd., 929-7400 

Breakers By the Sea 

409 Ocean Blvd, 926-7702 

La Bec Rouge 

73 Ocean Blvd, 926-5050 

Old Salt 

409 Lafayette Rd, 926-8322 

Sea Shell Stage 

on Ocean Blvd. 

Ron’s Landing 

379 Ocean Blvd, 929-2122, 

Wally’s Pub 

144 Ashworth Ave., 926-6954 

Whales Tales 

169 Ocean Blvd, 967-4771 

Henniker 

Daniel’s 

Main St., 428-7621 

Pat’s Peak Sled Pub 

24 Flander’s Road, 

888-728-7732 

Sled Pub 

686 Flanders Road, 

888-728-7732 

The Henniker Junction 

24 Weare Rd., 428-8511 

Hillsborough 


538 West Main St 

Boomerang’s 

37 Henniker St., 464-3912 

Mr. Bill’s Saloon 

55 Henniker St., 

Hollis 

Alpine Grove 

Dover 

Barley Pub: bluegrass 

jam w/Steve Roy 

Fury’s: Irish night 

RJ’s: DJ J Smooth 

Station House: open 

mike w/ Gene Sibley and 

Nappy’s Old Band 

Hampstead 

Pasta Loft: Beloved Few 

Hampton 

La Bec Rouge: Elijah 

Clark 

Sea Stage Shell: Angela 

West and Showdown 

19 S. Depot Rd, 882-9051 

Hooksett 

Asian Breeze 

1328 Hooksett Rd, 621-9298 

Hudson 

Johnny’s Pizzeria 

11 Tracy Lane, 943-5382 

Linda’s Sport Bar 

2B Burnham Rd, 886-0792 

kingston 

The Kingston 

1686 House Tavern 

127 Main St., 642-3637 

Rick’s Cafe & Grille 

143 Main St., 642-3833 

Laconia 

Baja Beach Club @ 

China Bistro 

89 Lake St., 524-0008 

Black Cat Café 

17 Veterans Sq., 238-3233 

Broken Spoke Saloon 

1072 Watson Rd, 366-5511 

Cactus Jacks 

1182 Union Ave., 528-7800 

The Crazy Gringo 

306 Lakeside Ave., 366-4411 

Fratello’s 

799 Union Ave., 528-2022 

Weirs Beach Lobster Pound 

72 Endicott St., 366-2255 

Weirs Beach Smokehouse 

Rt 3 Laconia, 366-2400 

Margate Resort 

76 Lake St., 524-5210 

Naswa Resort 

1086 Weirs Blvd., 366-4341 

Paradise Beach Club 

322 Lakeside Ave., 366-2665 

Patio Garden Restaurant 

Lakeside Ave. 

Weirs Beach Smoke House 

Route 3, 366-2400 

Londonderry 

Coach Stop Restaurant 

and Tavern 

176 Mammoth Rd, 437-2022 

Mayflower Grange 

535 Mammoth Road, 

867-3077 

Stumble Inn Bar & Grill 

20 Rockingham Road 

Whippersnappers 

44 Nashua Road, 434-2660 

Loudon 

Graverobbers Coffeehouse 

Loudon Congregational 

Church, 7018 Church St., 

783-9478 

Manchester 

900 Degrees 

50 Dow St., 641-0900 

American Legion Wm H 

Jutras & Post No 43 

56 Boutwell St., 623-9467 

American Legion Post #79 

35 W. Brook St. 


Sweeney Post 

Hudson 

Linda’s: open mike w/ 

Scott Barnett 

Epping 

Holy Grail: The Scott 

Barnett Band 

Laconia 

Cactus Jack’s: John Ayer 

Margate: Jason Mancine 

Paradise: Jonathan Scott 

and Blazing Hearts 

Londonderry 

Coach Stop: Dan Shea 

Whippersnappers: Introduction 

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251 Maple St., 623-9145 

Black Brimmer 

1087 Elm St., 669-5523 

Bo’s Riverside 

500 Commercial St., 

625-4444 

Boynton’s Taproom 

155 Dow St., 623-7778 

Breezeway Pub 

14 Pearl St., 621-9111 

City Sports Grille 

216 Maple St., 625-9656 

Club 313 

93 S. Maple St., 628-6813 

Club Liquid 

23 Amherst St., 645-7600 

Derryfield Country Club 

625 Mammoth Rd, 623-2880 

Don Quijote 

333 Valley St., 792-1110 

Element Lounge 

1055 Elm St., 627-2922 

Fratello’s 

155 Dow Street, 624-2022 

Gaucho’s Churrascaria 

62 Lowell St., 669-9460 

Hanover St. Chophouse 

149 Hanover St., 644-2467 

The Hilton Garden Inn 

101 S. Commercial St., 

669-2222 

Ignite Bar & Grille 

100 Hanover St., 494-6225, 

Jewell & The Beanstalk 

793 Somerville St., 624-3709 

Jillian’s Billiard Club 

50 Philippe Cote Drive, 

626-7636 

Johnny Bad’s 

542 Elm St., 222-9191 

J.W. Hill’s 

795 Elm St., 645-7422 

Lafayette Club 

387 Canal St., 623-9323 

Lazy Nick’s Coffee House 

362 Huse Road, 232-7187 

Mad Bob’s Saloon 

342 Lincoln St., 669-3049 

McGarvey’s 

1097 Elm St., 627-2721 

Milly’s Tavern 

500 Commercial St., 

625-4444 

Mint Bistro 

1105 Elm St., 625-6468 

Moe Joe’s 

2175 Candia Rd, 668-0131 

Murphy’s Taproom 

494 Elm St., 644-3535 

New England Revival 

Coffehouse 

Calvary Fellowship Church, 

60 Bailey Ave., 625-9550, 

Olympic Lounge 

506 Valley St., 644-5559 

Piccola’s Upstairs Lounge 

815 Elm St. 

Penuche’s Grill 

96 Hanover St., 626-9830 

Raxx Billiards 

1211 Elm St., 203-1458 

Rocko’s Bar & Grill 

253 Wilson St., 626-5866 

The Shaskeen 

909 Elm St., 625-0246 

Starbucks 

Manchester 

Black Brimmer: Fighting 

Friday Duo 

Breezeway: DJ McKay 

Derryfield: Mugsy Duo 

Club 313: DJ Biggie, 

karaoke w/CJ 

Club Liquid: Renegade 

Soundstation 

Fratello’s: Ferdinando 

Argenti Trio with sit-ins 

Johnny Bad’s: blues jam 

w/Wan-Tu Blues Band 

Rocko’s: A Loss For 

Words, Transit, Good to 

Go, Longshot, A Faylene 

Sky, No Luck 

Shaskeen: Sam Kiri, Josh 

1111 S. Willow St., 641-4839 

Strange Brew Tavern 

88 Market St., 666-4292 

Unwine’d 

865 Second St., 625-9463 

Wally and Bernie’s 

20 Old Granite St., 641-2583 

The Wild Rover 

21 Kosciuszko St., 669-7722 

Workmen’s Club 

183 Douglas St. 

The Yard 

1211 S. Mammoth Road, 

623-3545 

Z Food and Drink 

860 Elm St. 

Meredith 

Camp 

300 DW Highway, 279-3003 

Giuseppe’s Pizzeria 

& Ristorante 

312 DW Highway, 279-3313 

Merrimack 

Jade Dragon 

515 DW Highway, 424-2280 

Milford 


15 Cottage St., 673-9804 

Elisha’s Restaurant 

437 Nashua St., 249.9353 

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J’s Tavern 

63 Union Sq., 249-9222 

The Pasta Loft 

241 Union Sq., 672-2270 

Shenanigans 

586 Nashua St., 672-2060 

Tiebreakers at 

Hampshire Hills 

50 Emerson Road, 673-7123 

Nashua 

The Amber Room 

53 High St., 881-9060 

Boston Billiard Club 

55 Northeastern Blvd., 

595-2121 

The Bounty 

Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern 

Blvd., 800-230-4134 

Club Social 

45 Pine St., 889-9838 

Country Tavern 

452 Amherst St., 889-5871 

Estabrook Grill 

57 Palm St., 943-5035 

Fody’s Tavern 

9 Clinton St., 577-9015 

Gate City Pub 

56 Canal St., 598-8256 

Haluwa Lounge 

Nashua Mall, 883-6662 

Killarney’s Irish Pub 

Holiday Inn, Exit 4, 

888-1551 

Lafayette Club 

34 High St, 889-9860 

Laureano Nightclub 

245 Main St. 

Martha’s Exchange 

185 Main St., 883-8781 

Michael Timothy’s 

212 Main St., 595-9334 

Logan 

Strange Brew: Les 

Moore Trio 

Unwine’d: Chad LaMarsh 

WB’s: DJ Bob 

Milford 

J’s Tavern: Rich Fauteux 

Shenanigans: open mike 

w/ Randy Kohler, Johnny 

Thunder, Andy Simpson 


Amber Room: DJ Louie 

Devito, DJ Danny D 

Fody’s: Josh Logan Band 

Gate City Pub: karaoke 

w/DJ Bernie D 

Nashua Garden 

121 Main St., 886-7363 

Old Amsterdam Bar 

8 Temple St., 204-5501 

The Peddler’s Daughter 

48 Main St., 880-8686 

Penuche’s Ale House 

4 Canal St., 595-9831 

Pine Street Eatery 

136 Pine St., 886-3501 

The Polish American Club 

15 School St., 889-9819 

Sausage King 

53 Main St., 204-5110 

Shorty’s 

Nashua Mall, 882-4070 

Simple Gifts Coffee House 

58 Lowell St. 

603 Lounge 

14 W. Hollis St., 821-5260 

The Sky Lounge 

522 Amherst St., 882-6026 

Slade’s Food & Spirits 

4 W. Hollis St., 886-1334 

Stella Blu 

70 E. Pearl St., 578-5557 

Sun Plaza Bar & Grille 

295 DW Hwy, 888-4904 

Villa Banca 

194 Main St., 598-0500 

Newton 

Hen House Sports Bar 

& Grill 

85 S. Main St., 382-1705 

Pelham 

Shooters Billiards & 

Lounge 

116 Bridge St., 635-3577 

Peterborough 

Harlow’s Pub 

3 School St., 924-6365 

Peterborough Players 

Theater 

Hadley Road 

Plaistow 

Corner Pocket 

181 Plaistow Rd., 382-3130 

The Sad Café 

148 Plaistow Rd,382-8893 

Portsmouth 


96 Islington St. 

Blue Mermaid Island 

Grill hill at Hanover and 

High streets, 427-2583 

Daniel Street Tavern 

111 Daniel St. 

Dolphin Striker 

15 Bow St., 431-5222 

Fat Belly’s 

2 Bow St. 610-4337 

Gas Light Co. 

64 Market St., 431-9122 

The Hilton Garden Inn 

100 High St., 431-1499 

Jitto’s Supersteak 

3131 Lafayette Rd, 436-9755 

The Music Hall 

104 Congress St., 

433-3100 

Paddy’s American Grill 

Martha’s Exchange: DJ 

Miso, Brian Lemire 

Peddler’s Daughter: Mindseye 

live karaoke night 

Stella Blu: G Man from 

Mama Kicks 

Studio 99: piano karaoke 

Newmarket 

Stone Church: Superfrog 

Portsmouth 

Blue Mermaid: Let’s Get 

Married, Rising Tribe 

Gas Light: T.M.F.I. 

Jitto’s Supersteak: music and 

spoken-word open mike 

Press Room: Morgan Davis 

27 International Dr., 

430-9450 

Players Ring Theater 

105 Marcy St., 436-8123 

Portsmouth Pearl 

45 Pearl St., 431-0148, 

Press Room 

77 Daniel St.,431-5186 

The Red Door 

107 State St., 373-6827 

Red Hook Brewery 

35 Corporate Dr., 430-8600 

Ri Ra Irish Pub 

22 Market Square, 319-1680 

Rudi’s 

20 High St., 430-7834 

Rusty Hammer 


The Wet Bar 

172 Hanover St. 

Raymond 

Famous Legends Bar & 

Grill at Strikers East 

4 Essex Drive 

Freetown Yankee Market 

58 Route 27, 895-3418 

Salem 

Black Water Grill 

43 Pelham Road, 

328-9013 

Jocelyn’s Lounge 

355 S. Broadway, 

870-0045 

Maggie May’s 

326 S. Broadway, 

893-4055 

Sayde’s Restaurant 

136 Cluff Crossing Rd, 

890-1032 

The Varsity Club 

67 Main St., 898-4344 

Sandown 

The Crossing 

328 Main St. 

Seabrook 


169 Walton Road 

Chop Shop Pub 

920 Lafayette Rd, 474-6001 

Prime Time Sports Grill 

620 Lafayette Road, 

760-7230 

Stratham 

Acoustic Outfitters 

72 Portsmouth Ave.778-9711 

Sunapee 

Sunapee Coffee House 

Methodist Church, Route 11 

Tilton 

Lakes Region Fitness 

407 W. Main St., 286-3337 

Windham 

Jonathon’s Lounge 

Park Place Lanes, Route 

28, 800-892-0568 

Red Door: Beat Pervert 

Ri Ra: Kilcollins Band 

Rudi’s: Chris O’Neil 

Raymond 

Legends Bar: DJ Chuckie 

Whucky 

Yankee Market Pub: 

karaoke w/DJ Frankie 

Seabrook 

Chop Shop Pub: Vegas 

Temper 


Allenstown 

Ground Zero: Mural, 

Comma, KYOTY, Main

tain Radio Silence, No 

Man Is An Island, Kalo 

Bedford 

Slammers: Best Not 

Broken 

Belmont 

Top of the Town: Joe 

Holiday 

Bristol 

Kathleen’s Cottage: 

Irish music session 

Mill Ice Cream Café: 

bluegrass open mike w/ 

the Uncle Steve Band 

Brookline 

Griffing’s: The Risen 

Concord 

Green Martini: Maseco 

Dover 

Barley Pub: Elsa Cross 

Brick House: Coincidence 

Jimmy’s: Country Fried 

Fridays 

Kelley’s Row: Lush 

Puppy 

RJ’s: DJ Big Pez 

Dublin 

Town Hall: acoustic 

open mike w/ Harry 

Epping 

Holy Grail: Karen Grenier 

Gilford 

Patricks: Nobody’s Fault 

Hampstead 

Pasta Loft: Sun X 4 

Village Square: Switchback 

Hampton 

McGuirk’s: The Pop 

Farmers 

Ron’s Landing: The 

Sonic Boomers 

Sea Shell: Onset 

Wally’s: The Bars 

Whale’s Tales: The 

Rockaholics 

Henniker 

Pat’s Peak: open mike 

w/ John Mann 

Hooksett 

Asian Breeze: DJ Albin 

kingston 

The Kingston 1686 

House Tavern: Mike 

Belkas 

Laconia 

Broken Spoke Saloon: 

Liquid Audio 

Fratellos: Paul Warnick 

Margate: Jeff Lines 

Naswa: 195th Maine 

Army National Guard 

Rock Band 

Paradise: Five Flavor 

Discount 

T-Bones: Aaron Seibert 

Londonderry 

Whippersnappers: Spiral 

Circus 

Manchester 

Black Brimmer: Radio 

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Band members of the world, unite and take over 

Do you have an upcoming show? Make sure that even if the 

venue doesn’t let us know, it gets listed in the Music This Week by 

sending us updates of your upcoming gigs. Send locations, dates 

and times for your upcoming shows to music@hippopress.com. 

Send information by noon on Monday to get listed for the coming 

week. Or send us links to your regularly updated website or 

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... or you, with a club... 

Does your bar/restaurant/coffeeshop frequently host musical performances? 

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MySpace page, you can send us those links as well. Get the information in by noon on Monday 

to make the coming Thursday’s paper. 

... and if you are a music fan... 

If you’re out on the scene and see a show at a location not regularly listed in the Music 

This Week, let us know at music@hippopress.com. Our goal is to give you the most 

complete live music listings in the region each and every week. 

Meat Loaf at Meadowbrook 

Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) will 

brings his “Hang Cool Tour” and special 

guest Lisa Bouchelle to Meadowbrook 

on Saturday, July 3, at 8 p.m. Known for 

tunes like “Bat out of Hell,” he has been 

performing for more than 35 years. Parking 

opens at 5 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m. See www.meadowbrook. 

net or call the box office at 293-4700. 

Club Liquid: Renegade 

Soundstation 

Club 313: DJ Susan 

Esthera, karaoke w/CJ 

Derryfield: Pat Foley, 

Endangered Species 

Element: DJ Daddy Dave 

Fratellos: Paul Warnick 

Johnny Bad’s: karaoke 

w/DJ RokkStar 

Milly’s: Mummified in 

Circuitry, May Thorns, 

Supplication, WMCF, 

Blades of Indica, Where 

Monsters Come From 

Mint Bistro: Two For 

Dinner 

Rocko’s: A Breath 

Beyond Broken, Tips for 

the Hopeless, Run Forest 

Run!, Frozen Edys, 

Oceans of December, 

Hopeless Rebellion, 

Cadence, Notes from the 

Underground 

All your 

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Daily specials and all your friends. 

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(At the corner of Valley and Massabesic) 

622-3644 • Fax 647-6320 

www.billyssportsbar.com 

BILLY’S PROMOS 

Thursday, July 1 st 

7-9pm 

Prizes & 

Giveaways 

Closed 4th of 

July Weekend. 

Please visit the 

Derryfield for Brunch! 

Have a safe and 

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& Best Sports Bar 

in the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 

2008, 2009 & 2010 Hippo Readers’ Poll 

Voted Best Bathroom 

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Hippo Readers’ Poll 

Best Sports Bar & Best Buffalo Wings 

2006 & 2008 

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th of July Hours 

Closed Sat., Sun. & Mon. 

Regular Hours 

Mon. - Fri. 11am-1am 

Sat. 9am-1am 

Sun. 7 30 am-1am 

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Shaskeen: live music 

Strange Brew: Rhythm 

Method 

WB’s: DJ Bob & DJ 

Bobby G 

Milford 

Pasta Loft: Tom Russo, 

Rich and Bobby 


Amber Room: DJ Johnny 

C, DJ Danny D 

Boston Billiards: DJ 

Roberto 

Fody’s: Chad LaMarsh 

Gate City Pub: Ramone, 

karaoke w/DJ Bernie D 

Martha’s Exchange: 

DJ Miso, Brian Lemire 

Peddler’s Daughter: 

live music 

Studio 99: young musicians 

open mike 

Sunplaza Bar & Grill: 

DJ Chris Lovett 

Peterborough 

Unitarian Universalist 

Church: open mike w/ 

Jack Kid 

Plaistow 

Sad Café: Last Minute 

Sedative, Borderline Eleven, 

Divine Addiction 

Portsmouth 

Blue Mermaid: Connor 

Garvey and Seth Gooby 

Fat Belly’s: DJ Chuckie 

Whucky 

Gas Light: DJ Koko 

P, Eddy’s Shoe, Don 

Severance 

Press Room: Superfrog 

Red Door: Tanner Ross 

Rudi’s: Duke 

Seabrook 

Chop Shop Pub: Tigerlily 

Saturday, July 3 

Allenstown 

Ground Zero: Ark of 

the Covenant 

Auburn 

Holiday’s: John Chouinard 

Belmont 

Lodge: Fastlane 

Bristol 

Mill Fudge Factory: 

Ameranouche 

Concord 

Green Martini: Kenny 

Weiland and Hank 

Osbourne 

Hermanos: George 

Christiansen 

Dover 

Barley Pub: Old News 

Brick House: karaoke 

dance party w/Erich 

Kruger 

Kelley’s Row: Jimmy D 

RJ’s: DJ J Smooth, DJ 

Pez, DJ Koko P, DJ Biggie, 

DJ B Money 

Epping 

Holy Grail: Hopeless Folk 

Epsom 

Circle 9 Ranch: Levis 

‘n’ Lace 

Gilford 

Patricks: Common 

Knowledge 

Hampstead 

Village Square: live 

music 

Hampton 

La Bec Rouge: Slipt 

Mickey 

Sea Shell: Afterburner 

Wally’s Pub: The Bars 

Hooksett 

Asian Breeze: Dogfathers 

Hudson 

Linda’s: Phoenix w/ 

Krista Angelucci 

Laconia 

Broken Spoke Saloon: 

Anarchy Angels 

Paradise: Tigerlily 

Londonderry 

Whippersnappers: 

Instant Vintage 

Manchester 

Black Brimmer: Coverslip 


Club 313: DJ Bob, 

karaoke w/CJ 

Club Liquid: DJ Danjah 

Derryfield: Monkey 

Bar, Nobody’s Fault 

Element: DJ Took 

Raxx Billiards: open 

mike w/ Sadi Khan and 

Mista Matt 

Shaskeen: live music 

Strange Brew: Soul 

Shakers 

WB’s: DJ Bobby G 

The Yard: Branded No 

Rules 

Milford 

Pasta Loft: Loose Grip, 

Mike and Tom 


Martha’s Exchange: 

DJ Miso, Brian Lemire 

Peddler’s Daughter: 

live music 

Stella Blu: Legion of 

Funk 

Sunplaza Bar & Grill: 

live music 

New Boston 

Gravity Tavern: Putnam 

Smith 

Newmarket 

Stone Church: The 

Guilty Pleasures 

Portsmouth 

Blue Mermaid: Fate 

Revisited 

Gas Light: DJ Pez, 

Charlie Christos, Max 

NITE 

Dance and fireworks party 

The Queen City Ballroom (21 Dow St., 

Manchester, 622-1500) will host its annual 

“Dance Party with a Fireworks Show” 

on Saturday, July 3, from 7 to 10 p.m. 

The celebration will include a classic 

and contemporary DJ as well as a dessert 

buffet. Singles and couples of all levels are welcome. The party will 

provide views of the Manchester fireworks, weather permitting. 

Tickets cost $12 per person (for each party). No reservations necessary. 

See www.queencityballroomnh.com. 

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Sullivan 

Press Room: jazz lunch 

w/Ricky King Russell Trio 

Red Door: Agent 001 

Ri Ra: Nimbus 9 

Rudi’s: Duke 

Seabrook 

Chop Shop: Back in 

Black 

Sunday, July 4 

Concord 

Penuche’s: open mike 

w/ Steve Naylor 

Belmont 

The Vineyards: Carol 

Leary Duo 

Bristol 

Homestead: Jazz Plus 

w/Duke Snyder and 

Chuck Beever 

Dover 

11th Frame Bar: open 

music jam 

Barley Pub: live music 

Jimmy’s: open mike w/ 

Denis Patrick and The 

Gene Sibley Group 

Goffstown 

Village Trestle: Wan-tu 

Blues Band, Lisa Marie 

Hampton 

Ron’s Landing: The 

Read/Allen Duo 

Sea Shell: Nick Diamond, 

The Continentals 

kingston 

Rick’s: blues and rock 

open mike w/ Bobby 

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Cheech & Chong 

The comedy duo will perform at the 

Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (169 

Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach) on Tuesday, 

July 6, at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $36 and can 

be purchased at the Casino website, www. 

casinoballroom .com, or by calling the box 

office at 924-4100. Visit www.cheechandchong.com. 

Laconia 

Naswa: Souled Out 

Show Band 

Lononderry 

Whippersnappers: Troy 

& Tramack 

Manchester 

900 Degrees: blues jam, 

open mike 


Club 313: karaoke w/CJ 

Derryfield: Sum X 4 

Element: karaoke w/DJ 

Sharon 

Jillians: Dreadrock 

Johnny Bad’s: open mike 

w/ Dennis The Menace 

Shaskeen: The Spain 

Brothers & Friends, traditional 

Irish session 

Strange Brew: blues jam 

Meredith 

Giuseppe’s: open mike 

w/ Michael Bourgeois 

and Lou Parrazzo 

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Newmarket 

Stone Church: Gospel 

Brunch and open mike 

w/Dave Ogden 

Portsmouth 

Gas Light: Cody James 

and Relevation 

Press Room: Unseen 

Cinema 

Red Door: Green Lion 

Crew 

Stratham 

Acoustic Outfitters: 

acoustic open mike w/ 

Ellen Carlson 

Monday, July 5 

Allenstown 

Ground Zero: Our 

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Candia 

Henderson’s: electric 

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Concord 

Hermanos: Joe Deleault 

Red Blazer: open mike 

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Langley 

Dover 

Kelley’s Row: traditional 

Irish sessions 

Top of the Chop: Dave 

Ogden 

Hampton 

La Bec Rouge: open 

mike w/ Elijah Clark 

Sea Shell: B Street 

Bombers 

Londonderry 

Whippersnappers: open 

mike w/ Gardner Berry 

Manchester 

900 Degrees: blues jam, 

Rhythm of Manchester 

Derryfield: Lisa Guyer 

Element: Cabaret De 

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Murphy’s: open mike 

Shaskeen: Scalawag, 

open traditional music 

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Meredith 

Camp: acoustic open 

mike w/ Linden Mazurka 

Portsmouth 

Gas Light: Elijah Clark 

Press Room: Sharon 

Jones Trio 

Red Door: Hush Hush 

Sweet Harlot music series 

Ri Ra: Oran Mor 

Tuesday, July 6 

Bedford 

Slammers: karaoke w/DJ 

Robyn 

Concord 

Barley House: traditional 

Irish session 

Hermanos: Glenn Paladino 

Kilarney’s Pub: karaoke 

w/DJ Bernie D 

Dover 

Brick House: open mike w/ 

Anthony Vito Fiandaca 

Fury’s: Tim Theriault 

and Friends 

RJ’s: DJ J Smooth 

Hampstead 

Pasta Loft: acoustic open 

mike w/ Mike Belkas 

Hampton 

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Londonderry 

Whippersnappers: VJ 603 

Manchester 

Derryfield: Dave Clark 

Fratello’s: blues jam 

w/Wan-Tu 

Johnny Bad’s: karaoke 

w/DJ RokkStar 

Milly’s: open mike w/ 

Johnny Keys 

Murphy’s: open mike 

Shaskeen: Manchuka 

Strange Brew: Peter 

Parcek 

Meredith 

Camp: local acoustic 

artists 

Milford 

J’s Tavern: G Man from 

Mama Kicks 


Fody’s: karaoke w/DJ 

Maz 

Newmarket 

Stone Church: bluegrass 

jam with Dave Talmage 


Manchester 

Bo’s Riverside @ Milly’s: 

Comedy Showcase 


Londonderry 

Tupelo: Comedy Night 

Portsmouth 

Gas Light: Paul Warnick 

Press Room: Larry 

Garland Jazz Jam w/Bob 

Halperin 

Red Door: PB Kidd 

Wednesday, July 7 

Antrim 

Redneck’s: open mike 

w/ Boogieman 

Concord 

Green Martini: open 

mike w/ Steve Naylor 

Hermanos: Glenn Paladino 

Dover 

Fury’s: open mike w/ 

Paul Chase 

Dublin 

DelRossi’s Trattoria: 

Celtic open mike w/ 

David del Rossi 

Gilford 

Patrick’s: Joe McDonald 

Manchester 

Boynton’s Taproom: 

Mike Donovan, Selena 

Coppock, Jenny “Z” 

Tuesday, July 6 

Hampton Beach 

Casino Ballroom: 

Hampton 

Sea Shell: The Continentals 

kingston 

The Carriage Towne Bar 

& Grille: Mike Belkas 

Laconia 

Cactus Jack’s: Stas 

Naswa: Joel Cage 

Londonderry 

Whippernsnappers: 

VJ 603 

Manchester 

Derryfield: Ron Adams 

Johnny Bad’s: open 

mike w/ David Thompson 

and Steve Devine 

Murphy’s: blues jam 

w/Catfish Howl 

Strange Brew: Les 

Moore Trio 

Unwine’d: Craig Fahey 

WB’s: DJ Pat 

Wild Rover: Marty 

Quirk 

Cheech and Chong 


Concord 

Cap Center: Mike Dugan 

Hampton Beach 

Casino Ballroom: John 

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Milford 

J’s Tavern: Lisa Guyer 


603 Lounge: open mike 

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Fody’s: open mike 

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Studio 99: jazz jam 

Sausage King: open 

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Portsmouth 

Blue Mermaid: open 

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Gas Light: Ralph Allen 

Press Room: John 

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Red Door: Evaredy 

Ri Ra: Granite Men 

Rudi’s: Dimitri 

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6 Turns in the fridge 

10 “I love,” in Latin 

13 She came between Hillary and Michelle 

14 Napkin fold 

16 Turn down 

17 Cereal for people with good fortune during a 

fictional “Simpsons” month? 

19 Pilot’s heading: abbr. 

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to pass? 

23 Nonclerical 

25 Env. attachment 

26 Likely (to) 

29 One of the Osmonds 

32 Drug bust 

35 Cereal that’s shockingly good? 

38 He’s always got a court date 

39 Little bits 

40 Award won by Taylor Swift in 2009 

41 “Scenes 

from ___” 

(1991 Bette 

Midler film) 

42 Pasta topping 

43 Cereal eaten 

mainly by 

important students? 

45 “That’s delicious” 

46 Book in the 

Septimus Heap 

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1970): Jewelry, buttons, 

ladies accessories, 

rosaries, vanity items, 

gardening items, small 

furniture, vintage cook 

books. Call Deb at 

603-540-7052 

DIABETIC TEST STRIPS 

WANTED: Will pay up to 

$10 per box. 

Call 603-623-3954. 

oLD BooKS, cast iron door 

stops, cast iron banks, old 

picture frames, and old 

photographs. 437-0775. 

ToP DoLLAR PAID FoR 

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48 Waikiki island 

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53 With 62-across, cereal that sounds like a bad 

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57 Show showers 

61 Honorific poem 

62 See 53-across 

64 ___ carte 

65 Therefore 

66 “___ tell you something...” 

67 Prefix meaning “wood” 

68 Political cartoonist Ted 

69 Feeds the hogs 

Down 

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2 Half-human, half-goat creature 

3 Pained expression 

4 “Family Matters” annoyer 

5 Girl in an Eric Clapton song 

6 Tachometer stat 

7 Minnesota’s St. ___ College 

8 Actress Garr 

9 Northern California newspaper, slangily 

10 Yosemite photographer 

11 Paste for Japanese soups 

12 Farm beasts 

15 “Back ___” (2005 song by 

Mike Jones) 

18 Some cigs 

22 “Keep on Truckin’” cartoonist 

24 Like some tunes 

26 Cause fought by the Gray 

Panthers 

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Independent college preparatory day school seeks an 

experienced Science / Technology Teacher. 

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of three 

years of classroom experience in the subject, a proven 

commitment to the development of young people and 

enthusiasm for learning. We seek an inspiring teacher who 

is well versed in teaching techniques that reach a variety 

of learning styles. Sense of humor and fl exibility required. 

Duties include teaching chemistry and technology 

courses, and coaching athletic or robotics teams. Formal 

programming experience and robotics experience a plus. 

Applicants interested in joining our dynamic community 

and close-knit faculty should send a cover letter, resume, 

and references to Mary Halpin Carter, Dean of Faculty and 

Academic Programs at mcarter@derryfi eld.org. 

For information about The Derryfi eld School, please visit 

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Amherst Clinical & Social, 

Amanda Thomas, State 

Farm Insurance. 

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the 1974 Oscars 

30 Gossipy bit 

31 More pointless 

33 Cold home heated by a qulliq 

34 AC ___ (auto parts manufacturer) 

36 Classic game with power pellets 

37 End of many languages 

38 He preceded and followed Conan 

44 Historic name in supercomputers 

46 Fort where the Civil War started 

49 Heavenly ___ (ice cream flavor) 

51 Word on some doors at school 

52 “Oliver Twist” food 

53 Cajole 

54 How some sit about 

55 Charlie Chaplin wife O’Neill 

56 Table salt, to chemists 

58 Prefix meaning “within” 

59 Patrol in the provinces, for short 

60 “___ the Sheriff” (1980s Suzanne Somers 

sitcom) 

63 ___ Aviv, Israel 

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VELMA 

All quotes are from Joey Pigza Loses 

Control, by Jack Gantos, born July 

2, 1951. 

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) “I wanted 

him to stop telling me who I was when 

I knew better. He wanted me to be something 

I wasn’t, and I wanted him to be 

something he wasn’t. We were so far 

apart. And yet, even though I knew he was 

wrong, he was my dad, and I wanted him 

to be right. More than anything, I wanted 

him to have all the answers.” Someone 

you wanted to have all the answers does 

not. Things will be alright anyway. 

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) “I was pretty 

good at throwing rocks, so I figured I’d 

be pretty good at pitching.” You may be 

asked to translate your skills into a new 

realm. 

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) “I hadn’t 

gone all that far when I saw a video game 

arcade. Okay, Joey Pigza, I said to myself, 

if you are going to lose it, this is the place 

that will send you around the bend.” Your 

weaknesses may be put to the test. Stand 

firm. 

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) “I went 

into the office and for the next three hours 

I changed the channel about once every 

second. I wanted to watch everything and I 

couldn’t get myself to watch any one thing 

so I just spun through the channels so fast 

that I nearly watched them all at once and 

that seemed to keep me in one spot.” Try 

to focus on one task and do it well. 

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) “Half 

of me loved it because he was saying we 

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would never be lost from each other again. 

The other half was a little scared because 

if I wanted to get away from him it meant 

I couldn’t—couldn’t run or hide or disappear 

without him finding me.” Reassess 

your level of intimacy with important others. 

Don’t stick around with someone who 

won’t let you breathe. 

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “Then 

I remembered I had to spend the whole 

day with Grandma. I decided, on the spot, 

that I was going to be nice to her. I figured 

it was my choice to set the mood. She 

was always going to be her two selves— 

one nice and funny, and the other mean 

and scary. She wouldn’t change, because 

she never felt that anything she did was 

wrong. … So, I’d start off with my best 

food forward. And if she was mean, then 

I’d stay nice for as long as I could until 

she wore me out and I’d go hide.” You 

can’t control other people, so stop wasting 

energy trying to. 

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) “By the 

time I got inside the mall there was only 

one thing on my mind. Call home. But I 

didn’t have any money. So when no one 

was looking I ran up to the wishing well 

and began to scoop all the change out and 

put it into my hat. I didn’t make me feel 

good to be stealing other kids’ wishes, but 

then I thought there must be some nice kid 

out there who if he knew me would make 

a wish that I was home with my mom and 

wouldn’t mind if I used his wish money in 

the pay phone to make it come true.” Give 

what you can. 

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) “I want- 

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ed us to score a lot of runs and win the 

game but I was always happy when our 

team got its third out and I could go back 

to the mound and do only what I was good 

at, which was throw hard at the catcher’s 

glove and let the rest of the team do everything 

else.” Enjoy the sweet relief of being 

able to do what you’re good at. You’ll be 

called on to do other stuff soon enough. 

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) “The 

next morning I woke up feeling like half 

me and half not, like when you mix bak- 

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ing soda and vinegar together and come 

up with a totally weird third thing.” Get in 

touch with your real self. 

Aries (March 21 – April 19) “Mom 

once said it was my mistakes that made 

me interesting, and although I didn’t 

understand her then, I did now.” Aim for 

the right mix of interesting and accurate. 

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) “I wanted 

to say that last night was a turning 

point in my life too, but I wasn’t sure just 

yet what direction it was going to turn.” 

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Take things slowly and pay attention to 

how things are changing. 

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) “What if 

he’s not nice? What if he hates me? What 

if he’s as crazy as you always said he was? 

What if he drinks and gets nasty? What if 

I don’t like him? What if Grandma tries to 

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2 + 2 = 4 or 2 or maybe 8 

New York state school officials had promised 

to crack down on soft test-grading to end 

the near-automatic grade-advancement by students 

unprepared for promotion. However, a 

June New York Post report found that the problem 

lingers under the current grading guideline 

called “holistic rubrics.” Among examples cited 

by the Post (from a 4th-grade math test): 

How many inches long is a “2-foot-long skateboard”? 

(Answer: 24; “half-credit” answer: 

48). Also, if you have 35 book boxes, and each 

contains 10 books, how many books are there? 

(Answer: 350; “half-credit” answer: 150). 

Can’t Possibly Be True 

• According to a May report by Seattle’s 

KOMO-TV, former Oregon National Guardsman 

Gary Pfleider II is awaiting the results 

of his latest appeal to end the garnishment of 

his disability checks to cover $3,175 for gear 

he supposedly “lost” when he was shot in 

Iraq. Pfleider was hit in the leg by a sniper in 

2007, bled profusely and was evacuated (and 

is awaiting his ninth surgery on the leg), but 

the Oregon Guard apparently believes that, 

despite the trauma, Pfleider somehow should 

have paused to inventory the equipment he was 

carrying and to make arrangements for its safekeeping 

during his imminent hospitalization. 

• To ease the crowds entering the Texas Capitol 

building in Austin, officials recently opened 

an “express” line, bypassing most security precautions, 

for selected visitors and personnel. 

Obviously, members of the legislature use the 

express line, along with Capitol employees 

presenting ID. A third category of favored visitors: 

anyone with a Texas concealed-weapons 

carry permit. The Houston Chronicle reported 

in June that the lobbyists frustrated with the 

long security lines have been applying for concealed-weapons 

permits even if they expect 

never to touch a firearm. 

• Though he reportedly hacks more frequently 

lately, 2-year-old Ardi Rizal of Banyuasin, Indonesia, 

continues to smoke two packs of cigarettes 

a day, according to a May dispatch in London’s 

Daily Mail and other news reports. Local officials 

offered Ardi’s parents a new car if they 

convinced him to quit, but the mother warned that 

her son throws massive, head-banging tantrums if 

deprived of his smokes, and his fisherman father, 

noting Ardi’s generous girth, says the kid looks 

fine to him. (Unfortunately for the parents, Ardi 

prefers only a certain high-end brand, which costs 

the equivalent of about $2.75 a pack.) 

• Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported in May 

that Qantas Airways has acknowledged reusing 

plastic knives and forks from its in-flight 

meals as many as 30 times before discarding 

them. One supplier who visited Qantas’ Q 

Catering center in the Sydney suburb of Mascot 

was told that the Qantas cutlery’s plastic is 

“more robust” than ordinary plastic utensils 

and is completely safe (after special cleaning). 

• It took until spring 2010 (eight years after 

the invasion of Afghanistan) for the U.S. Army 

to realize that enemy fighters in that vast, 

mountainous country were difficult to shoot at 

because they are often so far away. The Associated 

Press reported in May that the Army is 

only now reconsidering its reliance on standard 

M-4 rifles (whose effective range is under 

1,000 feet), in favor of M-110 sniper rifles 

(effective at more than 2,500 feet). (Shorterrange 

rifles work well in Iraq, since the fighting 

is closer-in.) 

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BY CHUCk SHEPHERD 

Unclear on the Concept 

Psychologists generally discount that children 

at age 6 can form a specific intention 

to “sexually” molest anyone (as opposed to 

roughing someone up or being obnoxious), but 

the principal of Downey Elementary School in 

Brockton, Mass., nonetheless suspended a firstgrade 

boy in 2006 for “sexual harassment.” 

The boy admitted putting two fingers inside a 

girl’s waistband, but his parents sued, livid that 

a “sexual” motive had been assumed. In February 

2010, Brockton’s daily Enterprise reported 

that the school would pay the boy a $160,000 

settlement for the principal’s overzealousness. 

The Year of the Blind! 

(1) In Urfa, Turkey, in April, pop singer 

Metin Senturk set the world speed record for 

an unassisted blind driver (in a Ferrari F430, at 

about 175 mph), an experience he called “like a 

dance with death.” (2) In March in Watertown, 

Mass., two blind teenage fencers from local 

schools for the blind squared off in what was 

believed to be the first such match ever. (3) The 

Edinburgh (Scotland) Arts Festival announced 

in June that it would display, beginning in 

August, an exhibit of images taken by the blind 

photographer Rosita McKenzie, 56. 

Sucker Nation 

• The New Living Expo in San Francisco in 

May showcased such “healthy-living” breakthroughs 

as a $1,200 machine promising to 

suck toxins out of your body; a $249 silver 

amulet to protect you from “deadly” cell phone 

radiation; and a $15,000 Turbo Sonic if your 

red blood cells need to be “de-clumped.” A 

Canadian study at the same time found that 97 

percent of people who admitted buying “antiaging” 

products did not think they would work 

but nevertheless confessed their need to hope 

like those who “hope” the viper-venom-derived 

$525 Euoko Y-30 Intense Lift Concentrate will 

prolong their lives. 

• Recurring Theme: Once again, the larger 

question in a “swindling psychic” case is not how 

Portland, Ore., “psychic” Cathy Stevens man- 

aged to separate Mr. Drakar Druella, 42, from his 

$150,000 (which she needed, to cure Druella’s 

“negative energy”). The larger question is how 

did a man so totally lacking in street smarts manage 

to amass $150,000 to begin with. Explained 

Druella, “(Stevens) could cry (at) will. (She) 

becomes what you want and need her to be.” 

People With Issues 

At her arraignment in Missoula, Mont., in 

April, Jackiya Ford, 37, refused to enter a plea 

to various fraud charges because, she explained, 

“Montana” is not a legal entity. According to 

the prosecutor, after Ford was shown a house 

for sale by a local agent, she tried to cut out the 

middleman by filing an ownership claim to it 

and all the land within 20 miles of it (although 

she generously offered to sell it to the current 

residents, aka the legal owners, for $900,000, 

but only in “silver or gold”). Armed with her 

(fraudulent) ownership document, she broke 

into the home and posted a no-trespassing sign 

(the only visitors allowed: people authorized 

by “our Lord and Savior Yahushua”). (As if 

she weren’t busy enough, she also disclosed 

that she is pregnant.) 

Armed and Clumsy (All New!) 

In this latest collection of men who accidentally 

shot themselves recently, private 

parts were the center of attention. University 

of Illinois campus police officer Bryan Mallin 

accidentally shot himself in the butt while 

shopping in Chicago (March), and Timothy 

Davis, 22, digging through a drawer in Fort 

Myers, Fla., last October, also accidentally 

shot himself in the butt. And four other men (a 

shopper at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store 

in Lynnwood, Wash., a 17-year-old in Vallejo, 

Calif., 20-year-old Jeffrey Disney in Hamilton, 

Ohio, and 50-year-old David Blurton, in 

Dillon, Colo.) accidentally shot themselves in 

what for men is their most cherished spot. 

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