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The trick to life Public speaking is something I love to do.

I speak to audiences all around the country.

In fact, I’m writing my Hippo column on the way to St. Louis, where I will speak to four school districts on education redesign. Sometimes my speaking engagements are commencement addresses to graduating students and their families.

This year I will speak at two commencement ceremonies in New Hampshire. So, what advice will I give these graduates? I thought that I’d give you the same advice that I will give them. I will tell them about the trick to life.

The trick to life is to find something that you would do for free, and then find a way to get paid for it. Simple, yes? Well, maybe not so simple.

I then tell them to fill in the following sentence: “That thing that I would do for free but would love to get paid for is ____.”

I inform them about a study that I saw years ago that said that the act of writing it down creates a commitment to yourself that increases the likelihood that you’ll actually achieve this goal by over 80 percent.

After they’ve written it down, I tell them to think about their goal. Is it a job that very few people will want and thus fairly easy to achieve, or one that many people will want and thus highly competitive? If it is likely to be competitive, then you have to ask yourself another question, “Why should they pick me?” You need to have a good answer.

I then tell them that the winners in life do not let the chips fall where they may, but instead work daily to influence how the chips fall. I ask my audience to envision two columns: a plus and a minus column.

In the plus column, write down things that can make achieving your goal more likely. In the minus column, include things that may get in the way of achieving your goal.

The lists that students make are always great because they reflect simple logic. The plus column always includes things like working hard, showing up on time, being reliable, over-delivering on expectations, etc. The minuses show the opposites, like being unreliable.

I want to end with a big one on the plus list and it’s worth a lot of money over your lifetime. Once again, simple logic. Are you ready? Be nice!

Fred Bramante is the past chairman and member of the New Hampshire State Board of Education. He speaks and consults on education redesign to regional, state and national organizations.

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ON THE COVER 12 REAL ESTATE RUSH Using the most recent numbers from New Hampshire’s real estate pros, we look at how this year’s market compares to years past.

The trend is leaning more toward a seller’s market than it has since the housing bubble, with more buyers than there is inventory — particularly in the southern, more heavily populated counties in New Hampshire. The pros also shared tips on how to nab a home when bids are flying.

ALSO ON THE COVER, comics are for kids, too, and the second annual Kids Con caters to the younger crowd, p. 26.

For adults, check out the Knife Skills workshop at LaBelle Winery, p. 37. And Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls talks about her Four Voices in Harmony tour with Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter and fellow Indigo Girl Emily Saliers, p. 50.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Women Inspiring Women; new app for addicts PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18

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NEWS & NOTES Bills passed

According to press releases from lawmakers and the governor’s office, several bills were passed and sent to the governor’s desk. SB 3, a bill that would create new voting restrictions based on the definition of residency, passed the House.

Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement that the legislation “helps protect the integrity of New Hampshire’s electoral process.” The House passed SB 191, which funds full-day kindergarten by raising money with keno gambling, something that is currently illegal in the state. Sununu, who has made fullday kindergarten funding a priority, praised the bill’s passage. It now heads to the Senate, which has historically rejected keno. Bills that would decriminalize possession of one ounce of marijuana, allow districts to pay for tuition at private schools, and allow people to be charged with homicide of a fetus that has reached 20 weeks are all heading to the governor, who has signaled support for each. Sununu also praised the House for passing Senate bills that would prohibit the state from requiring implementation of Common Core standards, make appropriations to the state’s clean drinking water programs under the Department of Environmental Services and make an appropriation of $30 million to the Department of Transportation that will be used to aid local highway and municipal bridge work.

of nearly half a million dollars. The AP reported the state attorney general’s office charged Katsiantonis of stealing more than $423,000 in meal and rental taxes from a restaurant and bar he owns in Manchester.

The charges relate to Grand Slam Pizza and Tommy K’s Restaurant and Bar, going back to 2011. He is scheduled to be arraigned June 15.

VA pain funding

The Manchester VA Medical Center received funding to create an outpatient pain rehab program, NHPR reported. The New England VA office granted the center $378,252, which will be used to hire a nurse practitioner, clinical psychologist and registered nurse. The center has expanded its treatment options in recent years to include things like acupuncture, yoga and chiropractic care.

Drug czar

According to a press release from the governor’s office, the so-called “drug czar” appointed by then-Governor Maggie Hassan, James Vara, will be stepping down from that role and returning to the Justice Department. Vara, who was a drug prosecutor in the attorney general’s office, will be the new AG’s chief of staff upon his confirmation by the Executive Council. Sununu had already hired a second drug advisor, Marty Boldin, in February. And in the same release announcing Vara’s departure, the governor’s office also announced it will be hiring forSununu’s stance mer Manchester police chief David Though two other Republican Mara to replace him. Mara has been governors in New England have serving as interim police chief in voiced their opposition to Presi- Portsmouth. dent Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate New mosque Agreement, Gov. Chris Sununu said The Islamic Society of Greater he stands by the president, NHPR Concord is planning on establishing reported. Sununu, an environmental a permanent mosque in the capiengineer by training, reportedly said tal. The Concord Monitor reported the specific issue is not something the mosque would be located in he’s thought about. Meanwhile, a vacant industrial building on Republican Gov. Charlie Baker of North Main Street. Concord curMassachusetts called the decision rently does not have any mosque. “disappointing” and Vermont Gov. The Society plans to purchase the Phil Scott, also a Republican, called building at 181 N. Main St. and an it “concerning.” abutting house at 9 Pearl St. The plan is to demolish the house and Katsiantonis use the lot for parking. The building New Hampshire state rep and is next door to First Congregational Manchester alderman Thomas Kat- Church, which has agreed to allow siantonis, a Democrat, has been the mosque to use its parking during charged with tax evasion and theft Friday prayers, which can attract HIPPO | JUNE 8 - 14, 2017 | PAGE 4

people from across the state.

BizGen award

BizGen, an organization that gets high schoolers involved in entrepreneurship through pitch competitions, announced the winners of its fourth annual competition. According to a press release, Derryfield Academy students Madison Kochanek and Tyler Crews received the first-place prize of $4,500 for Lily Pods, a technology solution for common pains and cramps. Overall, 70 students and 30 adult volunteers participated in this year’s competition.

Flying Yankee

The historic stainless steel streamliner train that’s been warehoused in Lincoln will not be coming back to Concord after plans to install a permanent display were derailed, the Concord Monitor reported. Volunteers with the Flying Yankee Restoration Group still want to bring the eponymous train to the capital, with long-term plans to create a transportation museum. But the group failed to raise enough money and there were complications with the land they were planning to use near Big Jim’s Home Center, according to the story. The new plan is to put the train on display on state land in Lincoln not far from where it’s being kept.

Hundreds of people turned out to a candlelight vigil in Concord on Saturday, June 3, to remember Sabrina Galusha, a 23-year-old woman who was stabbed and killed four days earlier, the Concord Monitor reported. The circumstances of the stabbing are still a mystery, but police have arrested and charged 20-year-old Daswan Jette for the murder.

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A new farmers market in Pembroke was set to kick off for the summer on June 7, the Concord Monitor reported. The market got approval for 26 vendor stands in front of town hall, according to the story.

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A local woman named Madeleine LaRose has taken it upon herself to clean up and paint a neglected and vandalized sidewalk planter Bedford in Nashua, the Telegraph of Nashua reported. LaRose is the widow of Dick LaRose, Amherst who ran the Modern Restaurant across the street from the planter, where a plaque Milford honoring the family is located nearby.

Future In Sight, a Concord nonprofit formerly known as the New Hampshire Association for the Blind, received a $300,000 grant from the New Hampshire Department of Education, the AP reported. The money is meant to fund an expansion of technology and teacher training for visually impaired children in the state. Future In Sight will start getting the money in July and will work with the state to develop and roll out the new services, which are hoped to bridge a gap for blind and visually impaired children who don’t have access to technology.

Faith leaders and immigrants rights activists gathered outside the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester June Derryto show 6 for a morning vigil Merrimack support for immigrant families at risk of deportation, the AP Londonderry reported.

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A community for women Women’s professional organization turns 10

By Ryan Lessard

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On May 25, the state’s largest women’s organization, Women Inspiring Women, celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and its founder, Leslie Sturgeon, is taking stock of its growth over the decade.

In 1989, when Sturgeon was just 22, she started her first business, which rented office suites and provided association management and office support services. She had attended a business and secretarial school, but entrepreneurialism was in her blood.

“Mostly I had grown up in an entrepreneurial family. It was just a lifestyle for me,” Sturgeon said.

She said she began developing her leadership skills as a teenager in high school and, in the process, she learned the importance of relationships with other women as mentors.

“The reason why I started Women Inspiring Women is because, informally, I was getting together with local women that I looked up to and respected: business owners and teachers and other professionals in the area,” Sturgeon said.

After about 18 years in business, she decided to launch WIW in May 2007, to turn what had been informal monthly meet-

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ings into a larger, more formal gathering of professionals.

“At the time, I thought this would be just a once-a-month get-together in the Lakes Region, which is where I grew up and where my businesses were located,” Sturgeon said. “And, very rapidly, it grew.

I was drawing in people from all over the state.”

She invited about 750 women to the first launch event, and over the next three years

she expanded the organization to Concord, Manchester, Bedford and Portsmouth, with launch events for each new region.

“The main focus is personal and professional development. So it’s education and empowerment. And by education, I mean we might have a speaker on getting out of your comfort zone or mindset issues and time management and things like that.

We also touch upon careers and relationships, business — we do a lot of business

programming and business education,” Sturgeon said.

She now has about 4,500 women on her mailing list with about 350 of them members who pay the $85 annual fee.

Sturgeon estimates about 60 percent of her members are small business owners and the rest are various kinds of professionals.

“Actually, my tagline is ‘an organization for fabulous women,’ because really it’s something for everybody,” Sturgeon said.

A big part of the group is just creating relationships, so there’s a strong networking component, but not strictly for career purposes.

She organizes two day-long WIW events each year. The next is the Inspiring Women in Business event on June 22 in Bedford, which focuses more on business. Sturgeon expects about 150 women to attend.

The largest event she holds each year is the New Hampshire Conference for Women, which will be held on Nov. 3 this year.

When it started, there were about 250 women in attendance; that has since doubled.

The event covers a range of motivational and empowerment topics to help the whole woman.

To Sturgeon, the group is more than just a membership organization.

“It’s more like a community,” she said.

Taking the next step

Smartphone app aims to connect addicts to treatment

By Ryan Lessard

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Recent graduates of University of New Hampshire are working on an app that will connect addicts to treatment and recovery services with real-time vacancy information.

For 21-year-old Sam Warach, the issue of addiction treatment hits close to home.

“When I was, like, 12 years old, I had an older brother who died of an overdose, which really kind of rocked my world.

No one in my family really expected it,” Warach said.

It took Warach the better part of his teens to grieve the loss of his brother, but he said he walked away with a will to persevere that he took with him into college.

He said he was always interested in entrepreneurialism, but a few experiences in school helped focus his efforts.

When he was a sophomore, he heard about an opportunity to start a student-run entrepreneurship club.

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“I was one of the first students who sort of hopped on that and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it,’” Warach said.

Later, he took a course on social entrepreneurship, which focused on tackling social problems.

His first venture was an app that improves access to local farmers market products, for which he earned a Runner-up Holloway Award at UNH. But his idea for making something that would prevent and mitigate substance abuse was taking root in the back of his mind. He began working on the app, which is dubbed NextStep, in earnest last September.

Not having enough skill in the software development area, he recruited the help of a few other students like Max Miller.

“It was only getting worse in the public.

The overdoses were only rising. In 2016, there were 53,000 overdoses related to opioids,” Warach said. “Something needs to be done.”

The way NextStep would work is a user would put in the town they live in and they’ll be given a list of nearby treatment

or recovery centers and it will show which being a potential barrier to access. ones have room for new patients, a process “We’re really just trying to provide he compares to Hotels.com. something that someone can have in their “There is a problem with capacity at a bedroom or wherever they are,” Warach said.

Some additional features may also connect users with volunteer recovery coaches, something Warach described as Tinder for sponsors. Right now, he’s hoping to recruit recovery coaches who can volunteer to be available through the app.

Folks who are interested can contact him at team@nextstep.world.

He’s also trying to raise money for the venture, which he said would ultimately be a not-for-profit company. And Warach said he’s coordinating his efforts with state officials.

SAM WARACH The plan is to launch the app in January 2018, just in New Hampshire initially. lot of these centers; however, on average, “And then after a testing period, when in the country, they are under capacity,” we’re sure the technology works the way Warach said. “The idea behind it is that it’s supposed to, and it’s helping people they can find a recovery center regionally … we plan to roll it out in New England that has availability to treat them.” and then hopefully nationwide after that,” And he’s not worried about smartphones Warach said.

... I had an older brother who died of an overdose, which really kind of rocked my world.

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NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Taking the pulse

Dartmouth student revolutionizing polling Terren Klein, a senior at Dartmouth College, is developing a new app for public opinion polling called Pulse, which he says is more accurate and gets participants more engaged than traditional polls. He recently won $100,000 in investments from the Millworks II fund. He graduates on Sunday, June 11.

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What makes your way of polling different from traditional polling?

I think the [value] to the survey taker with current polling is pretty lackluster to say the least. It’s “give us your private information and … your personal thoughts about things in exchange for nothing in return — maybe a chance at winning a gift card.” But with Pulse, what we’re trying to do is we’re telling them, “Hey, take this survey in order to learn about yourself and your community and yourself within the context of your community and also, if you’re not interested in learning about yourself on that particular topic, we’ll incentivize you with points that are exchangeable for rewards at local or national businesses.” … The thing that surprised me, I guess, is you’re going through this process where everybody hates it. … What we’re trying to do is really turn it on its head.

So what is Pulse and how does it work?

Pulse is a community-based survey platform that is trying to change the way all organizations collect and understand the opinions of their constituents. And we’re starting with college and high school campuses but ultimately we want to help any organization such as corporations and even local and national governments. The way it works is it’s a centralized platform for your particular community where anyone in the organization can put up a survey and there’s a dual incentive to take that particular survey. The first is, after taking the survey, you get immediate access to results, [broken] down by different demographics, relevance. At Dartmouth, it’s class year, major, gender [etc.], and you also get to actually talk and deliberate over the results with your peers. And the second incentive is Pulse points, which I was referring to before.

Is it a smartphone app or a website people go to?

So far it’s been a website that is mobilefriendly, and right now we’re transitioning to adding an app for iOS and Android and that will be released over the summer.

What are you really into right now?

One of my biggest passions is performing. … At Dartmouth theater, I’m in an improv comedy group. … It’s one of my favorite creative outlets.

How did you get the idea for this?

It came from a place of frustration with the current survey-taking process. The connection I made was there was a protest last year. … It really shook the Courtesy photo. whole campus. It was about Black Lives Matter using the library and it really divided the campus because there was no reliable source of public opinion information. What happened was people turned to talk to their friends or anonymous social media platforms and just got a completely distorted view of what everyone thought about what happened, and that only exacerbated the issue. In reality, only 250 people out of 4,400 were even in the library to see what happened.

So the connection I made was, wouldn’t it be great if everyone could just click a button and know what everyone thought about a particular issue broken down by every possible demographic that you could possibly be interested in? … Who in this community is hurting the most? Who disagrees with who? And it was that experience combined with working with the office of institutional research, which is the office on campus that conducts surveys. … We were doing a survey with them and that’s when I heard first hand … that the survey culture was just fundamentally broken. …

So, fresh off of coming from an internship at a polling firm in D.C. and having to sift through public opinion data all day, I knew how cool this stuff could be and I just realized that, in the current survey-taking process, for one reason or another, they are hiding this information from the people who would really be interested in it: the survey-takers. That’s when the idea happened.

Do you plan on expanding this for things like political polling?

Yeah. Ultimately, this is just a new way to doing surveys. That’s not restricted to college campuses, so I would think that the first step to doing political polling might not be expanding and sending out a survey to a random sample of Americans because one of the driving factors of getting someone to take our surveys is … to learn about yourself in the context of your community. … Right now, the tighter the community is — a college, corporation, a state, whatever it is — that would probably be the low-hanging fruit that we’d like to tackle first. — Ryan Lessard

NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Disaster aid gets approved

Gov. Chris Sununu’s request to the Trump administration for a disaster declaration was granted by the president. NHPR reported federal money will be used to help pay for the damage caused by the nor’easter in March, specifically for Carroll and Belknap counties.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The storm was estimated to have caused more than $2 million in damage.

NH makes Top 10 economy list

According to a ranking by WalletHub, New Hampshire’s economy was eighth overall in the country, compared to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study was based on 27 key indicators and broken into three main categories: economic activity, economic health and innovation potential. New Hampshire was first for unemployment, third for percent of jobs in high-tech industries and fourth for GDP growth.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: In a separate study by WalletHub, New Hampshire was also ranked the third-best state for jobs.

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Starting this week, New Hampshire’s biggest city is home to a bikesharing program, overseen by Cambridge, Mass.-based company Zagster, which operates 150 bike-sharing programs in more than 30 states, according to the Union Leader. Users can pick up bikes from one of the program’s five stations in the Queen City for $2 an hour (or $15 a month or $30 a year) and return them to other stations after use. Stations are at Stanton Plaza, the YMCA of Downtown Manchester on Mechanic Street, The Puritan Backroom on Hooksett Road, City Hall Plaza, 1230 Elm St. and Gateway Park at the entrance to the Millyard from Exit 5 of Interstate 293.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: In total, there are about 30 bikes, five per location, featuring front baskets, easily adjustable seats, pedal-powered tail lights and GPS units to discourage theft.

Pride Night at Fenway Park

The New Hampshire Gay Men’s Chorus is booked to sing the national anthem at Fenway Park this Friday, June 9, before the Red Sox take on the Detroit Tigers as part of the baseball team’s Pride Night game. If you miss them this time around, the group also sings at the Minor League Baseball Eastern-Division All Star game hosted by the New Hampshire Fisher Cats Wednesday, July 12, at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester, where the chorus has been performing yearly since 2010.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The chorus is on the threshold of its 20th anniversary, with more singers part of the group than ever before. For more information, visit nhgmc.com.

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Last Saturday, June 3, was Free Fishing Day in New Hampshire, at which time New Hampshire Fish and Game allowed anyone to fish without a license. New Hampshire Fish and Game sells an average of 150,000 fishing licenses each year, according to NHPR, but this is a great way to try before you buy. The event happens the first Saturday in June each year, and there’s another the third Saturday in January.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Kids under age 16 can always fish for free.

QOL score: 67 Net change: +5 QOL this week: 71

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To me, baseball is a warm-weather sport.

Thus, with such lousy weather through most of May and now into June in the spring that just won’t get started, I’ve had a tough time getting into baseball.

Especially with the Red Sox playing such uninspired baseball through most of it. Fortunately, we had the Celtics to fill most of that void, but with the NBA finals starting as badly as they did last year I got down to business and took a thorough look at what’s been going on around MLB. Here are a few of the more interesting stories underway.

Not that I’m against this, because I love the action, but with 40 players on pace to hit 30 homers as I write this, it makes you wonder if the ball was juiced over the winter.

Baseball 101: Since 1920 only three catchers have led the AL or NL in hitting.

Who are they?

Incidentally, not one of those 40 sluggers is a member of the Red Sox. Speaking of uninspired baseball, most were saying Theo’s young Cubs would dominate the next five years or so. But instead the world champs are hovering around .500 with a hangover from ending the 108-year Cubs curse. The good news is they’re just a game out in the weak NL Central and still have time to shake it off.

Albert Pujols just became the ninth player to reach 600 homers. While he hasn’t been the same player in Anaheim of L.A. and the World he was in St. Louis, two of baseball’s biggest records are in sight if he can play until 42. On his current pace he’ll finish the year with 618. Then he’ll need to average 29 homers the next five years to pass Barry Bonds as the alltime leader. What percentage of people not located in the 415 and 628 areas codes do you suppose are not rooting for that to happen? The RBI record is closer, where he’ll need to average just 88 per year to get by

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Hank Aaron’s 2,297.

If you don’t think building through the farm system is the way to go, take a look at Houston, a young team coming of age with home-grown stars like Jose Altuve (.323), Carlos Correa (projecting 33 homers and 117 RBI) and Dallas Keuchel (9-0) on pace to win 114.

Baseball 101 Answer: The only catchers to lead the league in hitting since 1920 are Ernie Lombardi (.342 for Cincy in 1939 and .330 with the Boston Braves in 1942), Minnesota’s Joe Mauer (who ‘06, ’08, ’09) and Buster Posey (.336 for San Francisco in 2012).

Baseball 102: Name the eight players to win three straight batting titles during their career.

Incidentally, many see Mauer as a cinch Hall of Famer, but why? He’s won those batting titles, but he’s a middle-of-theorder hitter with just one 20-plus-homer season who’s never knocked in (or scored) 100 runs. Yogi Berra knocked in 100-plus five times and had 11 20-homer seasons and it took him three tries before he made the Hall. Plus, with Mauer not hitting above .277 since 2013 his career .300 average is in danger.

It’s a major advantage most don’t have, but after seeing Mauer be the latest top catcher to badly decline upon reaching 30, how long before the Giants say “I like Buster hitting .343 and we better move Posey to first base”?

Ever since Larry Bacarria drove my face into the ground in a Babe Ruth League game when I was 14 on a head-first dive to score, I haven’t been a big fan of sliding head-first to any base. But not just because of what Northport, LI, Babe Ruth League’s answer to Johnny Bench did to me. It exposes hands and fingers to jamming or worse — which, if you don’t know, really hurts — and thus is an injury waiting to happen. Latest to learn that lesson the hard way is Mike Trout, whose .337 average

and 16 homers are now lost to the Angels for eight weeks thanks to a head-first slide at second base. Think, people, will you?!

Speaking of stupid injuries: Is anyone else in the running to win the 2017 bonehead move of the year besides SF hurler Madison Bumgarner? Or after his injuring his pitching arm falling off a mini-bike should we just give it to him now?

Speaking of the Yanks: With 6’7” and whopping 282-pound Aaron (here comes the) Judge leading the AL in homers with 18, is he on his way to becoming the best behemoth slugging outfielder since Frank Howard was sending shivers down the backs of third basemen throughout the AL? Baseball 102 Answer: The eight to win a batting title in three consecutive seasons do not include my guess of Ichiro, but I did get the others after that: Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Stan Musial, Rod Carew, Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn and Miguel Cabrera.

With 40 strikeouts in 27 innings, a microscopic 0.33 ERA and being 4-0, the game’s most versatile reliever is terrorizing the American League. So I’ll ask: Did the Red Sox blow it more with the unhittable Andrew Miller than with any other player the last 20 years when they cheaped out at $9 million in the 2016 off-season to hand him to the Yanks for a measly million more? As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman, that was a “big mistake — huge!”

Finally, does this count as the Hippo Sports curse? On the very day I said in this column, “Eduardo Rodriguez finally appears to be living up to his promise” especially since “he doesn’t have even one bad outing on the resume,” he goes to the DL after giving up four homers and seven runs while getting bombed in Baltimore thanks to re-injuring the knee that derailed last season with a slip/fall in the bullpen while warming up.

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It’s 8 straight for Bedford Winning Streak of this Century: Talk all you want about the Golden State Warriors going into the NBA finals on a 12-game winning streak. But how about the Bedford tennis team, which won its eighth straight state title and now has five straight seasons with 17 wins and no losses and 98 straight wins overall? That let captain Zach Gould close out his high school career at 65-0 after he beat Sam Grodin in the top-seed match in leading the Bulldogs to yet another state title with a 7-2 win over Derryfield.

Sports 101: Twelve Red Sox hitters have led the American League in batting average in a season. How many can you name?

Out-of-Town Scores: Nicely done by the Nashua father-son duo of Phil and James Pleat at the USGA National Amateur Four Ball Championship at famed Pinehurst Resort in South Carolina. They shot even par in the two-day stroke competition against a field from across the country to come up just one shot short of getting into the match-play part of the championship.

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11 – strikeouts by Kaylee Chouinard in going the distance in Goffstown’s Round 1 win over Portsmouth in the Division II softball tournament as she gave up a run on four hits in G-town’s 11-1 win.

13 – whopping games the New Hampshire Fisher Cats already find themselves out of first place in the Eastern League’s Eastern Division.

Help Wanted: Nice to see out-of-work friend Chip Kelly landed on his feet at ESPN. I’m guessing after axing 100 staffers in a rather high-profile massive firing, his versatility to talk from experience about both NFL and college ball made it a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone hire.

Quote of the Week: It comes from NBA legend and logo model Jerry West after he was asked by Dan Patrick about LaVar Ball on his radio show: “I wouldn’t want a father like that.”

Sports 101 Answer: The 12 Red Sox players to lead the AL in hitting are Bill Mueller, Manny Ramirez, Nomar Garciaparra, Wade Boggs, Carney Lansford, Fred Lynn, Carl Yastrzemski, Pete Runnels, Ted Williams, Billy Goodman, Jimmy Foxx and Tris Speaker.

On This Date – June 8: 1950 – The Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns by a record 25 runs in a 29-4 pasting. 1976 – Bruins Nation is in mourning after sainted Bobby Orr signs a five-year deal to play for the Chicago Blackhawks. 1992 – Reliever Steve Howe is banned from baseball for drug use for a world record seventh time.

19 – runs scored in a 10-9 playoff donnybrook won by Bedford over Concord in the state softball tournament when Jackie Harrington had a three-hit day and knocked in Audrey Peterson with the game-winning run before getting erased at the plate going for an insidethe-park homer.

52 – points the Big Ballers AAU team coached by the know-it all-yakker gaining national pub by living

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his life through his kids and who got their HS basketball coach fired lost by to a team from Compton, California in an AAU tournament last weekend. A team that had two of LaVar Ball’s three kids on it, whom he says will soon rule the basketball world.

105 – wins against one loss for the Bedford High since Shawna Morley took over as coach of the boys soccer team at BHS.

Frank Howard: Behemoth 6’7” and 255-pound slugger with the Dodgers and Washington Senators in the 1960s to early ’70s. Didn’t hit soaring fly balls like the upper-cutting average-challenged 6’6” slugger Dave Kingman. Instead he hit vicious line drives that had third basemen begging to play back on the outfield grass. The best was hitting 36, 44, 48 and 44 homers in consecutive years between 1967 and 1970 as the career total marched toward 382. The best nickname was the Washington Monument, and the fact that’s nice to know is he was an All-American hoopster at The Ohio State and Philadelphia took him in the 1958 NBA draft.

Washington Senators: Team given the most sarcastically descriptive line for any team by early sports writing legend Charles Dryden: “First in war, first in peace and last in the American League.”

Yogi Berra: Greatest catcher and baseball philosopher of them all, whose best Yogism was of the Minneapolis restaurant that no one went to anymore because it was too crowded. In his spare time he was a three-time MVP, 18-time All-Star with 358 career homers and holder of World Series records for most hits, RBI and titles won with Joe DiMaggio at 10.

Johnny Bench: Other greatest catcher of them all with 11 20-plus-homer seasons and six with 100-plus RBI. His peak was the highest among all catchers and came in MVP years of 1970 (45- 148) and 1972 (40- 125), and no one was a better defensive catcher.

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Why buyers are caught in a feeding frenzy for homes and how to buy a house in this tough market

*Information in the house boxes: Provided by the NH Realtors Association housing report.

All figures are for the month of April.

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When Eva Stenberg of Newport started looking for a house last fall for her two college-age sons and a couple roommates to stay in while they attended school, she had no idea what she was getting herself into.

She quickly had to raise her initial price range of $150,000 to $160,000 because all she could find in that range were mobile homes. She passed on a $200,000 home in Epsom because the location wasn’t ideal but has regretted it ever since — as she would soon learn, the competition for starter homes has reached a fever pitch over the past year.

“It was no longer people underbidding the requested price, it was people overbidding,” Stenberg said. “The pricing started to creep up on us, so it got harder and harder. And by the time we were in the January, February time frame, the houses were turning in three to five days. We didn’t even know it was on the market and it would already be pending.”

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Each home she encountered was the target of a bidding war. Ultimately, she visited nearly 25 homes before closing on a house in Nottingham for $200,000. On average, Stenberg estimated, they looked at about three to five houses every weekend.

“I’d say a lot of them were bought before I could even get an appointment to look at them,” Stenberg said. “There were some that we went to go see and we found out that evening they were pending. We didn’t even have a chance.”

What Stenberg encountered is happening across southern New Hampshire, and experts say it’s caused by record low housing supply and growing buyer demand.

Taking stock

The state has fewer available houses on the market than ever before. Accord-

ing to the most recent data released by the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, there were 5,275 houses for sale statewide in April. That’s down from 7,726 in April 2016 and 8,525 in 2015. And it’s the lowest it’s been since they started to track those numbers in 2005.

“We don’t physically have enough inventory for buyers who want to buy homes,” said NHAR President Rachel Eames.

While demand has gone up in the past year, Bill Ray at the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority says inventory has not kept up, which makes the supply side the anomaly in this situation.

And the problem is not unique to houses. Apartment units are also extremely scarce. Ray said the 2017 rental housing report due later this month will show a continued decrease in the rental vacancy rate. Preliminary numbers show

the vacancy rate for two-bedroom apartments (not counting subsidized units) to be at 1.4 percent, an all-time low.

“Since I have been here, in 21 years, I have not seen that,” Ray said.

That dynamic is naturally raising rents, which in turn drives more people to seek homes.

Robert Tourigny, the executive director of NeighborWorks Southern NH, said the tight housing market combined with the tight rental market has created a perfect storm for prices to skyrocket.

“I don’t recall seeing both of them as tight as they are right now. Usually if the home buyer market is really robust then it leaves some vacancies and such in the rental market. And the opposite is true,” Tourigny said. “But right now, what seems like the last few months, the demand on both sides, I think, is unprecedented.”

The main reason housing inventory is unusually low is that there aren’t enough new houses being built. Construction virtually stopped during the recession. This was partly due to a mass exodus of con-

tractors during the recession. But for those developers who are still working in this industry, there are many barriers to new building new houses, from local ordinances to land availability and land prices.

“Access to financing for the buyers is always a challenge, as well as getting through the development approval process at the local level and zoning requirements,” Tourigny said.

And as long as the focus is on building multi-family rental units, Ray concludes that those projects must be more profitable.

Right now, Ray said, the highest demand is among houses priced at $300,000 and below, which the Housing Authority defines as first-time homes. But those are not a priority for developers.

“We’re not seeing a lot of housing built for sale for under $300,000. In fact, I’m not sure if there’s any,” Ray said.

Eames said developers are only building an estimated 20 percent of the housing stock that’s needed.

The market is tightest in the southern counties with the greatest populations: Hillsborough, Rockingham, Strafford and Merrimack. And as the state runs out of houses, more and more people are looking to buy houses.

Buying power

The immediate driver of housing demand in the state is the economic recovery.

“What we’ve seen is economic improvement, especially in the southern part of the state,” Ray said.

As a result, more people can afford homes than during the recession.

According to a March report by the Housing Authority, median household income in 2015 roughly returned to 2008 levels, when inflation is accounted for.

The economic recovery also means an uptick in population. Ray said more people are migrating from Massachusetts and looking for homes. The state’s population is expected to increase by 100,000 over the next 25 years, according to Eames.

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There is also increased competition over starter homes in the $200,000-to-$300,000 price range from different age groups.

Along with young, first-time homebuyers in their 20s and 30s, the market is also seeing a lot of middle-aged empty-nesters and Baby Boomers who are looking to downsize from a bigger, high-maintenance home to something more manageable.

Ray said the older buyers often have a competitive edge.

“The downsizers bring equity and as a result they have cash to pay for the houses … and compete better than a first-time homebuyer,” Ray said.

Lisa Capicchioni, a senior loan officer at Residential Mortgage Services, has 25 years of experience in the local housing market. As a lender, she’s seen more buyers in their 40s and 50s who were able to sell their houses at a premium and come to buy smaller houses with more capital for down payments and closing costs.

And Capicchioni said they don’t even need to put down as much as 20 percent to gain an edge. Even with 5 or 10 percent down, they’re making more appealing offers than the zero-down governmentfinanced loans offered to some first-time homebuyers who can’t afford to make big down payments.

The disparity grows more pronounced when a house is in a bidding war.

“When you’re talking about first-time homebuyers, they’re more shackled … because they don’t have the ability to keep going up on price,” Capicchioni said.

Still, Ray said, the types of homes firsttime homebuyers and downsizers are looking for don’t always overlap. Downsizers, he said, are often looking for a smaller footprint, but they still want some of the nicer amenities, like granite countertops.

Prices launching

Low supply and high demand mean higher prices, as any Economics 101 class would tell us. But the problem appears to be exacerbated on the demand side by demographic competition and on the supply side by burdensome regulations at the local level and fewer contractors. On top of that, an aging population getting reverse mortgages to stay in their homes longer and a younger population that moved back in with parents and grandparents have kept more houses from going on the market.

The last time the market was this hot was during the housing bubble, which saw median prices for single-family homes peak in New Hampshire at about $270,000 in 2005, according to data from the NH Realtors Association. In 2016, prices rose to about $249,000, just shy of 2004 prices.

By April, median prices rose to $260,000.

Of course, the prices in the early 2000s were inflated by risky lending practices that drove up demand. Right now, Eames said, it’s a “slight” seller’s market because they stand to get asking price in most cases.

“It’s not like prices have gone totally crazy,” Eames said.

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According to data from the April realtors report, sellers were getting 98.1 percent of their listed price. That’s as high as it’s been since 2005.

“They’re getting top price, sometimes even over the listed price,” Capicchioni said.

How to nab a house

When it comes to buying a house in this market, especially a first home, people need to be equipped with a combination of the common fundamentals and a few additional skills. For a lot of people, the struggle is caused by the speed with which they need to act. Among other things, it means people aren’t given enough time to mull over the major decision of buying a house.

“The market isn’t really allowing them to sit and absorb the numbers. They have to act quickly,” Capicchioni said.

And that can mean missed opportunities. Melissa Starkey, the owner of Starkey Realty, said it’s important to be ready to pounce when the right house comes along.

“Be mentally prepared to offer right away if you like the house. Don’t make snap decisions that you’re going to regret. But … if you hem and haw it’s not going to be around,” Starkey said.

That can make the process more stressful.

“I think it adds added stress and pressure for sure,” Eames said.

“You’re under the gun to get your offer in and hope it’s the best offer. … People get very anxious.”

Whether the buyers have had experience in the housing market before or not, they often have to adapt to the highly competitive environment.

Be flexible

Ryan Tufts, a homeownership counselor at NeighborWorks, said there’s a house out there for everyone, even in this tight market. The trick is being open to change and compromise.

“The people who are most successful right now are the most flexible. Maybe it’s not the right part of town they wanted initially or maybe they made some compromise on how great of shape the home was in,” Tufts said.

He said virtually all of the people he’s helped counsel through the homebuying process have found a home by being flexible.

“If you’re going to come in saying I need a three-bedroom, two-bath on a nice quiet street with a two-car garage, this is my price range, in this part of town — OK, we’d all love that, but you might have to give up some piece of that,” Tufts said.

Eva Stenberg, who bought a house in Nottingham for her two sons, said the trial and error and rapid-fire pace of her search helped to home in on which things she was willing to sacrifice.

“You have no ability to make a choice,” Stenberg said. “You had to learn what you were willing to accept and what you weren’t willing to accept so that you could jump on it.”

It also took constant vigilance and keeping an open line of communication with her real estate agent, Starkey, and her lender.

Christine Paige and her husband Richard needed to downgrade from the 2,900-square-foot house they were renting in Epsom. She is 68 and Richard suffered a stroke, so shoveling their long, winding driveway in the winters became impossible.

Paige wanted to get a house near the Seacoast, but she soon found that prices were too high and the houses were not always in good shape.

“There were just no homes out there anymore. No good homes,” Paige said.

She also didn’t expect the kind of competition they were up against, so, with the help of her realtor, Rachel Eames, and her loan officer, Carol Jordan at Merrimack Mortgage, she figured out a compromise: look at Seacoast area homes farther inland. She settled on a 2,025-square-foot house in Rochester.

Paige says she’s a Type A personality and was stressed whenever she hit a bump in the road, like when the Rochester home had elevated levels of arsenic in the groundwater.

But she credits Eames and Jordan for jumping in at every step to make the process as painless as possible. The arsenic problem, for example, was resolved by getting an arsenic mitigation system installed.

Capicchioni said it often takes first-timers losing out on two or three homes before they begin to reevaluate their approach.

Education

Tufts said one of the best ways to be prepared going into the homebuying process is to get educated on the process. This is especially helpful for first-timers but can also serve as a refresher course for someone who has bought a house before.

“For anyone who’s buying a house or interested in learning more about it, the main thing we offer is a workshop that’s geared toward teaching you the fundamentals of home-buying,” Tufts said.

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15 budgeting, looking at savings, debts and credit scores.

Knowing what you can afford is important, Tufts said, because too often people bite off more than they can chew.

“The big thing we’ve encouraged throughout whatever the market is like is to really know that you can afford this payment that you’re stepping into and the additional costs of owning a house,” Tufts said. “Maybe their rent and actual mortgage payment might be a little bit equal but usually people are getting a bigger space, they’re going to have a higher utility [cost] so their actual costs are going to go up usually by hundreds of dollars a month in most cases.”

Then he brings in a lender to talk about mortgage options and assistance programs, followed by a real estate agent who talks about why it’s important to have an agent, the home search process and what a purchase-and-sale agreement looks like.

Finally, Tufts invites an insurance agent, home inspector and someone from a title company to go over the final steps, from making sure the house has good bones to considering different insurance options.

“I don’t expect anyone to leave this class a seasoned vet, but I want them to at least have some exposure to what they’re going

For sellers While sellers might have an advantage in this market, that doesn’t mean it can’t be stressful for them as well.

Eames said sellers may often think multiple bids is always a good thing, but it can backfire.

“There’s also a reverse bidding war,” Eames said.

The reverse bidding war, Eames said, is a phenomenon that happens when bidders find themselves in a competitive situation and they have no interest in going back and forth and escalating prices in the process. So buyers will drop like flies and the seller will be left without closing the deal.

There are also exceptions to the rule that says this is a seller’s market.

David Flanagan is in the process of selling his house in Northwood. Right now, he’s closing a deal to sell it for $310,000.

But he didn’t have anything close to a bidding war.

After he put his house on the market in April, he did about 10 showings but only got a single offer on the house. He priced it “a little bit high” and then lowered the price after a couple weeks.

“My only advice is really to just come up with a good plan … and don’t overprice,” Flanagan said.

Eames said the biggest mistake for sellers would be to enter the market with an asking price that shoots way over the mark. If the price is accurate, it will attract more bids, and with more bidders comes higher prices from competition.

to encounter so they can continue their research in an intelligent way,” Tufts said.

Build your team

As buyers like Stenberg and Paige can attest, having a good team behind you can be the difference between failure and success.

“Having a strong team is definitely something we would recommend,” Tufts said.

Tufts said it’s important to build a good relationship with your real estate agent, lender and possibly a homeownership counselor so that they can communicate with you and sellers and iron out all the difficult parts of the process.

Buyers can often lose sight of their own control of the situation, so Tufts said buyers must keep asking questions and make sure their team knows what it is they want.

“Don’t forget that you’re the boss in this situation. No one is really getting paid until you buy the house,” Tufts said.

Real estate agents and lenders are all very skilled at what they do, Tufts said, so buyers need to pick people they are comfortable with on a social level.

“Find someone who talks more your speed and your language to work with you, and who’s available when you’re available,” Tufts said.

Availability is key, which is why Tufts recommends sticking with lenders who are local. Local lenders are more likely to pick up the phone when you need them. In a market where time is of the essence, it’s more important than ever to avoid situations where you’re waiting for days for a call back.

Prequalify

When asked what advice she would give to other homebuyers, Stenberg’s very first point is to start the loan process.

“Make sure you get prequalified. Find the range. Know your max limit,” Stenberg said.

Coming into the home search process with that knowledge will help to narrow your search and inform you when to back away from a bidding war when it starts to exceed your limit.

Robert Tourigny at Neighborworks said that while home prices are currently climbing, loan rates are still very good, hovering around 4 percent.

“Fortunately, interest rates have remained quite low for an extended period of time,” Tourigny said.

But Stenberg cautions buyers to not get carried away by the bidding process.

As with many other recent homebuyers, she had to overbid to win her home by a few thousand dollars. But, in the end, she stayed within her price range and was able to do that because she kept in constant contact with her lender and kept sight of what her range was.

Town research

Eames said that one way to stay limber and quick in the search and bidding process is to complete all the necessary research on the town and neighborhood in advance.

“Typically, for commuting purposes, buyers will be looking at three towns,” Eames said.

If you know what towns you’re looking in, all the research comparing crime statistics, municipal services and school districts can be done already. That way, you’re not scrambling to do extra homework when considering a home in what is likely to be a short window of opportunity.

Wants vs. needs

One of the very first things Eames does when she sits down with a new client is discuss what a buyer wants and needs. Those things vary from person to person but the more an individual can categorize the things they’re looking for into those two columns, the more flexible they will be when it comes time to compromise and make a decision.

Eames defines wants as luxury items, amenities like a garden plot or a nice view. Needs, on the other hand will make or break a deal. So, if a buyer conflates wants with needs, they likely won’t find that perfect home in their price range.

Write a letter

In addition to working with an agent to craft the best possible bid and act swiftly in the face of heightened time constraints, a personal letter to the sellers might provide that little extra icing on the cake. Lisa Capicchioni said a personal letter is an opportunity to talk about your story, the things you want for you and your family and maybe your personal struggles.

“So [sellers] can look at them as real people,” Capicchioni said.

The personal stories may tug at the heartstrings of the seller and help you stand out in a crowded field.

Sell first

If you’re coming into the market already a homeowner and you’re looking to buy a different home, often your bid will come with what’s called a home sale contingency. That’s a way to make sure you can transition seamlessly from one house to the next but it also represents a burden for a seller who may be eager to sell fast.

Melissa Starkey said home sale contin-

gencies are a major obstacle to getting a bid accepted in this highly competitive market.

A solution may be to sell your existing home first and figure out a temporary living situation while you look for the next home.

“One of the questions I ask sellers is, ‘Do you have a place to go?’” Starkey said.

Even the highest bid can be overlooked if there’s a contingency attached to it. That’s what happened with the home Christine Paige bought in Rochester.

She said their bid was the second highest of five with about $10,000 over the asking price. The reason she got the house was that the highest bidder had a sale contingency.

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For young first-time buyers who are hoping to get a house with no money down, that may be possible in many cases still, but in particularly competitive regions it may be necessary to sweeten the deal with a small down payment.

Of course, many people don’t have the kind of liquid capital that requires. So, Capicchioni said, it may require turning to family members for personal loans or cash gifts to raise the money needed.

If that’s still not possible, there are assistance programs that can help. The federal USDA rural development loan program provides 100 percent of the home price in certain designated rural areas, according to Tufts. It’s only available to first-time homebuyers. That leaves closing costs, but even then, that cost can be largely covered by the sellers in the negotiations.

In New Hampshire there’s also a tax credit program provided through the Housing Authority called the mortgage credit certificate that can provide up to $2,000 in tax credits per year. Tufts said you have to apply for that before you close on your loan and buyers qualify based on a household income level.

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Join the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire for its annual barbecue and fly-in at Nashua Airport (83 Perimeter Road, Nashua) from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., with lunch served at noon. The event features antique cars, motorcycles, trains and more on display, in addition to aircraft. Admission is $30 for adults, $10 for kids ages 5 to 16 and free for kids under 5. Visit aviationmuseumofnh.org.

EAT: locally grown food The Bedford Farmers Market continues on Tuesday, June 13, from 3 to 6 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Seton Parish (190 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford) and will feature a wide variety of locally grown fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products and more. Visit bedfordfarmersmarket.org.

DRINK: at Henniker Brewing Join the Henniker Brewing Co. (129 Centervale Road) for its kickoff to summer celebration, on Saturday, June 10, from noon to 4 p.m., which will feature beer samples, food trucks, live music, tours of the brewery and more, as well as the return of Sour Flower, the brewery’s dry-hopped sour ale. Admission is free. Visit hennikerbrewing.com or call 428-3579.

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Join the Wadleigh Public Library (49 Nashua Road, Milford) for a New Hampshire Fish and Game presentation from 6 to 7:30 p.m. featuring conservation officer Todd Szewczyk. He will give an overview of the Fish and Game department, and will talk about fishing, hunting, search and rescue, and New Hampshire wildlife. Admission is free. Visit wadleigh.org or call 249-0645.

BE MERRY: at a health fair Big Kahunas Cafe and Grill (380 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack) will host its whole health fair on Sunday, June 11, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event includes music, food, vendors, health presentations, yoga demonstrations and more. Admission is free. Visit nhkahuna.com or call 494-4975.

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McGowan says goodbye with Bruce McColl exhibition

By Kelly Sennott

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Bruce McColl’s “The Color of Seasons” is the last art show for McGowan Fine Art as we know it today.

Tucked away on Hills Avenue in the heart of downtown Concord, the 16-piece exhibition — bright and representative of iconic New Hampshire scenery — is on view June 6 through July 7, with an opening reception Friday, June 9, from 5 to 7 p.m., and an artist talk on Saturday, June 17, from 11 a.m. to noon.

Gallery owner Sarah Chaffee announced in late April that the gallery, after 37 years, would close its doors this July, but during a recent visit there were still many pieces to frame and loose ends to tie before signing off. Orders and requests have been flying in.

“I think there’s always been this feeling that, I’m a big gallery. I’ve been here forever. I’ll be here forever. So when it was announced, I think a lot of people were shocked,” Chaffee said. “I’m really shocked by how many people are coming out and buying last-minute art purchases. … And now I’m trying to figure out, can we finish all this work by our deadline of July 7?”

The gallery began in Mary McGowan’s barn in 1980, starting with corporate art consulting and growing to include a frame “Bruce McColl: The Color of Seasons” Where: McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord When: June 6 through July 7; opening reception Friday, June 9, from 5 to 7 p.m., artist talk Saturday, June 17, from 11 a.m. to noon Contact: mcgowanfineart.com, 2252515, art@mcgowanfineart.com

Bruce McColl and Sarah Chaffee during a studio visit. Julie Hamel photo.

shop and art gallery. The Hills Ave. space was designed by her husband, architect Duncan McGowan. Chaffee took over when Mary McGowan retired in 2011.

In its closing, Chaffee is most concerned for her “top-notch” staff. Some, like her corporate art consultant Amanda Lacasse, will continue in the field, offering corporate art consulting services privately, but the future is still a little murky for everyone, including her 75 regional artists. For many of them, the gallery is their primary or only representation.

“It was a fast and not-fast decision on my part. It’s been a struggle ever since the recession started. There are changing buying habits,” she said.

More and more collectors are buying art online. But when budgets were tight, Chaffee felt it was important to not cater to just “what people want,” or what she knew would sell.

“I also bring in work that I think people should look at, and I think people should

like. And those types of galleries are few and far between. They tend to operate in big cities where there’s a much bigger population to pull in,” Chaffee said.

At the time of her interview, McColl’s pieces were at the gallery in the midst of being framed. All are energetic with color and mark-making, bringing to life his interpretation of Granite State sites in Franconia, Derry, Hopkinton and Appledore Isle, plus Sanibel Island in Florida.

For many of the paintings, McColl looked to art history; for example, “Celia Thaxter’s Garden and Babb’s Cove” is like an homage to Childe Hassam’s work. “White Birch, Autumn Winds Beneath Lafayette” was inspired by White Mountain painters featured in the Currier Museum of Art’s fall 2016 exhibition “Mount Washington: The Crown of New England.”

“I think it’s interesting, this day and age, how people are looking at history in a different way and challenging [previous

interpretations],” said McColl, who is also director of art education at the Currier Art Center, naming Hamilton as an example.

“There’s such a rich tradition of painters going up to the White Mountains. I felt like I was in the presence of many generations of artists.”

When outdoor temperatures dropped, McColl turned to floral still lifes, but whenever possible he painted plein air, a rare choice among New England artists because of weather. Cool temperatures cause fingers to tense and media to thicken up, whereas heat causes paints to dry fast. Artists must work quickly.

“It’s funny; the work, it is very fast, and you can see there’s a lot of movement in these, but if you look at his strokes, you see they’re well thought out,” Chaffee said. “I think there’s a lot of movement and mark-making.”

For McColl, the choice was as much about the art as it was about time outside.

“All of us are so attached, in our working lives, to our digital and technological worlds. When I’m outdoors, I’m wonderfully disconnected with that part of my life and completely absorbed in ... experiencing nature with smell and sound and sight. And that, for me, is really transportive,” he said. “When I walk away after a day or two in these landscapes, wrestling with these paintings, I feel energized and revived.”

McColl, like the rest of the art community, is sad to see McGowan’s end, calling it the region’s most important and long-standing gallery. But Chaffee said she hopes to continue the business in some way, looking at options to perhaps open a smaller space with a frame shop, because McGowan has been more than just a business.

“It’s not just selling the artwork, but it’s really about shepherding an artist’s career,” Chaffee said.

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• Curious magic: The Currier Museum of Art’s (150 Ash St., Manchester, currier. org, 669-6144) newest show is “The Curious Magic of Varujan Boghosian,” on view June 10 through Sept. 4. The show features 60 works by the Upper Valley artist, who has “created a singular niche for himself in the contemporary art world,” according to a press release, challenging the viewer to look at common objects in a new way by presenting them in unique contexts. He’s a master draftsman, watercolorist and sculptor of found objects, and the artwork on view ranges from early abstract prints to presentday pieces. You can check out the new show at Free New Hampshire Second Saturday on Saturday, June 10, from 10 a.m. to noon (free admission for Granite State residents).

On that day, adults and children can revel in Creative Studio Saturday: Mythical Creatures, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., or check out a focus tour of “The Curious Magic of Varujan Boghosian” that starts at 11:30 a.m. that day.

You can meet the artist himself Sunday, June 11, at 2 p.m. during an ARTalk with museum curator Kurt Sundstrom. Regular gallery admission is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $10 for students, $5 for youth ages 13 to 17 and free for children younger than 13.

• Contemporary impressionism: Award-winning contemporary impressionist artist John Farrar mounts an exhibition of his art at the Andres Institute of Art Visitor Center, 106 Route 13, Brookline, with an opening reception Friday, June 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. The show is on view through Sat-

Art Events • CONCORD ARTS MARKET Starts Sat., June 3, and occurs almost every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Saturday, Sept. 30, at 1 Bicentennial Square, Concord. Visit concordartsmarket.net.

• DERRY HOMEGROWN FARM & ARTISAN MARKET June 7 through Sept. 20, Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. at 1 W. Broadway, Derry. Locallymade food, art and crafts. Visit derryhomegrown.org.

Open calls • CALL FOR ART For upcoming Studio 550 shows, which change every month and are at the Studio 550 Art Center, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com for details on upcoming shows and how to submit pieces or call 232-5597.

“Above and Below,” 2011, by Varujan Boghosian. Collage, 19 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. Museum Purchase: The Henry Melville Fuller Acquisition Fund, 2015.30.3.

urday, June 10, from 1 to 5 p.m. The artist’s work has also been exhibited at the Fitchburg Art Museum. For more information, visit andresinstitute.org/events.

• Artisan fair and plein air painting: Bedrock Gardens, 45 High Road, Lee, hosts an open house with an artisan fair Saturday, June 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, June 18, from noon to 4 p.m.

Local artisans will offer wares — jewelry, paintings, pottery, wood pieces, outdoor landscapes — while some artists will be painting on site, with a wet paint sale afterward to benefit the gardens. On Saturday, there will be music by Dale’s Jazz Lab from noon to 2 p.m. Bedrock Gardens is a private garden, not regularly open to the public except for special events like these.

Reservations aren’t required, and there’s a suggested $10 donation (free for kids) to visit. Call 659-2993 or visit bedrockgardens.org. — Kelly Sennott

Openings • DAVID POPPIE June artist of the month at Exeter Fine Crafts.

61 Water St., Exeter. Artist who creates pieces from disposable objects. Reception Fri., June 2, 6-8 p.m. Visit exeterfinecrafts. com, call 778-8282.

• “THE COLOR OF SEASONS” Featuring paintings

by Bruce McColl. On view June 6-July 7, with a reception Fri., June 9, from 5 to 9 p.m.

McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord. Artist talk Sat., June 17, 11 a.m.-noon about his process. Visit mcgowanfineart. com or call 225-2515.

• JOHN FARRAR Awardwinning contemporary impressionist artists mounts exhibit.

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• “THE CURIOUS MAGIC OF VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN” Currier Museum of Art. 150 Ash St., Manchester. June 10 through Sept. 4, featuring art by the New Hampshire resident, a master draftsman, watercolorist and sculptor of found objects.

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Playing an instrument by yourself is one thing. Doing it live on stage with an orchestra is another thing entirely.

“With a live orchestra, you can hear all these different instruments. In some ways it’s distracting, but in the end you’re all making music together,” said Mila Filatova, a Manchester-based piano instructor, during an interview in her home studio.

But opportunities to play with an ensemble are hard to come by for amateur pianists, whose instruments are less, well, portable. Some of Filatova’s advanced students have performed with local companies like the Nashua Chamber Orchestra or the New Hampshire Philharmonic via successful auditions or by winning competitions, but they’re the exception.

So Filatova decided to create an opportunity: the Sempre Musick Concerto Project, which takes the form of a concert Sunday, June 11, at 3 p.m. at Nashua High School South.

Nineteen young pianists ages 9 to 18 from Mila Filatova’s Piano Academy will perform music by Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg, Saint Saëns and others, plus a special commissioned work by Robert Edward Smith alongside the Sempre Musick Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro David Feltner, who also directs the Nashua Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Each will perform solos or duets ranging from 3 to 16 minutes.

It’s structured not like a traditional children’s concert, but like one you might see in a major metropolitan concert hall, spanning two hours and split by an intermission.

Filatova said she produced a similar event in 2012 with 11 piano soloists, which was well-received and had students asking for more.

But producing the Sempre Musick Concerto Project concert requires a great deal of work. Only since Filatova began a leave of absence at St. Paul’s School, where she taught until a year ago, has she been able to Sempre Musick Concerto Project

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Where: Nashua High School South, 36 Riverside Drive, Nashua (take a left at concrete school sign, go to back of the school) When: Sunday, June 11, at 3 p.m.

Admission: Free, donations accepted at the door to defray costs Contact: milafilatova.com

Maxine Park, a piano student of Mila Filatova, performing Mozart’s Piano Concert No. 21 with the Nashua Chamber Orchestra earlier this year. Park is among the young pianists taking part in the Sempre Musick Concerto Project. Courtesy photo.

muster the time and energy to boost opportunities for her 40 private students, from recitals and community service projects to performances at prestigious locales, like the Mount Washington Hotel.

This upcoming concert is the biggest of the year for most of her young pianists, including 14-year-old Alessandra Mariano, an eighth-grader at the Academy for Science and Design in Nashua. Mariano learned her piece — the first movement of the Grieg concerto — last summer and has spent the past several months polishing.

“One of the harder issues is trying to balance yourself with the orchestra. There are a few parts in the concerto where you want to sound like you’re arguing with the orchestra. You play, and then the orchestra plays. You want it to sound like conflict.

And then, in other parts, you have to try and blend in with the orchestra, like you’re accompanying it,” Mariano said.

Filatova said her students have performed in Carnegie Hall and abroad. Some are beginners, but most are advanced and take piano seriously, traveling as far as 90 minutes to study with her in the Queen City. Many continue with music after high school, receiving admission to top music schools and college scholarships.

Mariano has performed with a symphony orchestra before, but was still nervous and excited for this unique opportunity.

“Usually, I get nervous before [a concert], but it’s really exciting because I’ve been practicing a lot,” Mariano said. “If you’re just a solo pianist, you work with the teacher and by yourself. With the orchestra, you get to go to rehearsals, and you have to work with the conductor and other orchestra members. … You get a new experience, working with other people.”

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• Seacoast concerts: The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra presents a concert, “Scheherazade & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Sunday, June 11, at 3 p.m. at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. There’s a pre-concert discussion at 2 p.m. Audiences will also get to listen to the orchestra’s concerto and aria contest winners. Tickets are $25. Visit themusichall.org. Women Singing Out! also presents some concerts on the coast this weekend with the Funky Divas of Gospel on Friday, June 9, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, June 11, at 3 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 1035 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, and on Saturday, June 10, at 3 p.m. at First Parish UCC, 176 W. High St., Somersworth. All the music in the program is designed to lift hearts and help listeners stand strong. Admission is $15.

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• NH resident wins Obie Award: Andy’s Summer Playhouse Artistic Director and Hollis native Jared Mezzocchi won an award for design and multi-media projections for Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone at the 2017 Obie Awards, which recognizes excellence for off-Broadway theater, according to a press release. Mezzocchi is also on the faculty of the University of Maryland’s theater program. Before he starts up again at Andy’s Summer Playhouse this summer, he’ll complete a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough. Visit andyssummerplayhouse.org.

• Social event of the season: Bedford Off Broadway presents its spring production of Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo directed by Michael J. Curtis

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by NH photographer Becky Field. Opening reception Tues., June 13, 5-7 p.m. Manchester City Hall, 1 City Hall Plaza, Manchester.

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Theater Productions • MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Palace Theatre production.

June 2-June 25. 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit palacetheatre. org. Call 668-5588, ext. 127.

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• THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO Bedford Off Broadway production. Fri., June 9, at 8 p.m.; Sat., June 10, at 8 p.m.; Sun., June 11, at 2 p.m.; Fri., June 16, at 8 p.m.; Sat., June 17, at 8 p.m. Bedford Old Town Hall, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. $12. Visit bedfordoffbroadway.com.

The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra performs at The Music Hall this weekend. Photo by Virgil Mehalek.

Friday, June 9; Saturday, June 10; Friday, June 16, and Saturday, June 17, at 8 p.m. (plus a matinee showing Sunday, June 11, at 2 p.m.) at the Bedford Old Town Hall, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. The play takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December 1939, when Hitler is invading Poland and Gone With the Wind is in the midst of its world premiere — but Atlanta’s elite are more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season.

Tickets are $12. Visit bedfordoffbroadway.com.

• Audition for a show: The Leddy Center for the Performing Arts holds auditions for Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Saturday, June 10, at the theater, 38C Ladd’s Lane, Epping. Artistic Director Elaine Gatchell is looking for men, women and children to fill the roles. Men should prepare “The Candy Man,” and women should prepare “Cheer Up Charlie.” Kids can sing any of the Oompa Loompa songs, but girls auditioning for leads should prep “I Want it Now!” while boys should prep “I Have a Golden Ticket!”

Make an appointment by calling 679-2781.

Rehearsals begin Sept. 3, and shows are Oct. 20 through Nov. 8. Visit leddycenter. org or email info@leddycenter.org.

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• ALL SHOOK UP Palace Youth Theatre production. Wed., June 14; Thurs., June 15; Tues., June 20; Wed., June 21, at 7 p.m.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $14. Visit palacetheatre.org. Call 668-5588.

• ONE ACT WONDERS New World Theatre production. June 16-June 25. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit hatboxnh.com. Tickets $16.50.

Classical Music Events • BACH’S LUNCH CONCERT Thurs., June 8, 12:10-12:50 p.m.

Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord.

Featuring faculty members Peggo Horstmann Hodes singing, Kent Allyn on piano, bass and guitar.

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• FUNKY DIVAS OF GOSPEL Women Singing Out! Concert.

Fri., June 9, at 7 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, 1035 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth; Sat., June 10, at 3 p.m., First Parish United Church of Christ, 1035 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth; Sun., June 11, at 3 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church. Tickets $12-$15. Visit womensingingout.org.

• PORTSMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Concert Sun., June 11, at 3 p.m. at The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. Tickets are $25. Visit themusichall.org or call 436-9900.

• COLORS UNSEEN Concert with Manchester Community Music School. Featuring original works composed by adult student at Grace Episcopal Church, 106 Lowell St., Manchester, Wed., June 21, at 7 p.m. Visit mcmusicschool.org or call 644-4548.

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After a successful inaugural year in Concord, Kids Con New England is moving to a bigger space with twice as many comic book artists, new activities and returning favorites like kid-friendly panels, open video gaming and “Pirate Camp.”

This year, the Granite State’s only comic book convention specifically designed for kids is inviting the next generation of comic book lovers to the Radisson Hotel in Nashua on Sunday, June 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“We’re really trying to promote art education and literacy through comics,” said con organizer and local artist Emily Drouin, who pens the comic book series EPLIS with her husband. “Kids respond very well with the visual aspect of graphic novels and ... through characters. … Much like an animated cartoon show, they still get that simulation with comics, and it’s great to see them get excited about reading as an art form.”

Kids Con New England was launched last year after Drouin discovered the need for more activities

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for children at several annual comic book conventions in the region.

If you were there last year, you might have encountered princessthemed storytimes, Jedi training, face-painting, a balloon artist and cartoon and comic book-making workshops. All of those features are returning this year, Drouin said, but on a much larger scale.

“This new space is three or four times the size [of last year’s] … and we’re using the whole floor,” she said. “We’ll have workshops in two rooms throughout the day and panel rooms with superheroes that kids

Schedule of events

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Kids in cosplay pose at last year’s Kids Con. Courtesy photo.

The general age bracket for the event is 4-12, with most hands-on workshops (coloring, mask making, drawing, etc.) and meet and greets tailored toward the younger crowd, while video game tournaments and panels are more for ages 8 and up.

Ongoing activities like face painting, Pirate Camp and Jedi Training are appropriate for all ages.

Other event highlights Jedi training: 10:15 to 11 a.m., 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., 1:30 to 2 p.m. and 2:15 to 2:45 p.m.

Mario Kart video game tournament: 11 a.m. to noon Food concessions: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Princess Academy: noon to 12:30 p.m. and 12:45 to 1:15 p.m.

Superhero meet and greet: 1 to 1:45 p.m.

Pokemon video game tournament: Workshops Learning to draw imaginary crea- 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Disney Princess magical sing-along tures: 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. and storytime: 3 to 3:30 p.m.

Mask-making: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Cartooning basics: 11:30 a.m. to Kids and family costume contest: 3 12:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

The art of comic book-making: 1 to Group costume photos: 4 p.m.

Kids’ Sketch-off: 4 to 4:45 p.m.

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Face-painting and ballooning: all Build a lightsaber: 2 to 2:45 p.m. day Create a superhero: 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.

Pirate Camp with Northeast BucZentangling: 3 to 3:45 p.m. caneers: all day Baystate Ghostbusters meet and greet: all day

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can ask questions.”

Drouin said a majority of the artists appearing at the convention are independent cartoonists and children’s book illustrators, and some even travel from as far away as Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C. But visitors will also meet plenty of artists from right here in the Granite State — like Ed Smith of Londonderry, the selfdescribed “Cartoonist at Large,” who writes and draws superhero and science fiction comics. Others include Michael Mitchell of Tilton, whose specialty is in educational historical comics, and Jesse Lundburg of Laconia, creator of the “Harold the Happy Human Eater” comic book series.

“A lot of these people self-publish and print their own comics, as well as do original art and comic book covers,” Drouin said.

This year’s workshops and panels will focus on topics like how to draw imaginary creatures, the basics of cartooning and character creation for comics, how to build a lightsaber and more. Also included is a Kids’ Sketch-Off at 4 p.m., when kids compete for the best creation to win prizes.

Open gaming featuring Pokemon and Mario Kart will be held throughout the day, with two hours dedicated to tournaments for both games. Sign-ups for the tournaments are available on the day of the event.

“We’ll have a couple of caricaturists there and people doing crafts and face-painting too,” Drouin said.

Kids Con New England When: Sunday, June 11, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Radisson Hotel, 11 Tara Boulevard, Nashua Cost: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, veterans and kids ages 5 to 17, free for kids under 5 Visit: kidsconne.com

Outside on the grounds of the Radisson will be a Pirate Camp held throughout the day featuring members of the Northeast Buccaneers.

“They’ll teach kids how to use a play pirate sword and do a swordfight with the captains, how to fire a fake cannon and teach them how to become an honorary member of their ‘pirate brethren’,” she said.

“We’ll have them in the lobby [of the hotel] if it rains out.”

Also out on the grounds will be a meet and greet with the Baystate Ghostbusters, a nonprofit Ghostbusters fan group based in Massachusetts.

Look for characters like R2-D2 from Star Wars and Pikachu from Pokemon, as well as superheroes like Iron Man, Spiderman, Deadpool, Wonder Woman and many more. Costumes are also encouraged for the whole family. A costume contest will be held at 3 p.m., followed by a group photo session with all of the contest participants at 4 p.m. “[The event] is designed for kids, but also for kids at heart, so even adults will enjoy acting like the kids,” Drouin said.

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Join Maple Hill Farm (119 Ridge Road, Hollis) for an all-ages multi-sensory hike on Saturday, June 10, from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Educator Brooke Arthur will lead participants on a multi-sensory exploration of the woods and will teach activities for heightened focus in each of the five senses while creating experiential poetry. Families are welcome and no prior poetry-writing experience is necessary. Admission is $5 per family and free to Beaver Brook Association members. Visit beaverbrook.org or call 465-7787.

Join the Millyard Museum (200 Bedford St., Manchester) for an American Girl Doll Tea Party on Saturday, June 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bring your American Girl Doll and enjoy crafts, tea and other refreshments, followed by a guided tour of the museum with your doll. Admission is $10 Oink oink! per person and children must be accompaJoin the Kimball Library (5 Academy nied by an adult. Visit manchesterhistoric. Ave., Atkinson) for a Peppa Pig party on org or call 622-7531.

Saturday, June 10, from 11 a.m. to noon.

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Some basics: The Chelsea Flower Show is held on the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital in central London, which is now a retirement home for World War II soldiers. The show is bigger than anything in America: It encompasses 11 acres of displays, the vast majority of which are outdoors. That means that full-sized mature trees are installed, and in one case, a garden in a faux stone quarry was installed with blocks of stone stacked up more than 25 feet. The show includes garden displays, rare plants, sculpture, food courts, vendors selling garden paraphernalia, music and much, much more. It has been an annual event since 1913 with the exception of a few years during the World Wars.

Tickets for next year’s show go on sale Aug. 1, and although prices are not yet posted, tickets are not cheap; this year a full-day ticket went for £100 ($128). Each year the number of tickets is limited and they generally sell out before the event — this year some determined attendees apparently paid scalpers £500 and more. It’s the Super Bowl of gardening.

If you want to go next year, the best plan is to buy a membership to the Royal Horticultural Society, which allows you to attend a day before the doors open to the public, and offers discounted tickets.

I go to flower shows to learn. I delighted in seeing new (to me) species of flowers and new ways of combining flowers in the garden. I loved meeting garden experts and artists who created sculpture for the gardens.

So what are some of the things I learned?

Thistles, which we generally consider weeds, can look great when planted in the garden.

There I was in a city of millions, and a thistle, Atropurpureum, was loaded with bees of all sorts! Clearly a great pollinator. Although a quick internet search did not lead me to seeds for that magenta-purple variety I saw there, I did find some seeds for a species native to the U.S. — Cirsium discolor — that is not the weedy pest farmers hate. So I shall order some seeds and try growing it.

Alliums were in all their glory at the show. Big, dramatic balls of flowers on 18to 30-inch stems were used in many of the gardens. These are bulb plants in the onion family, and I have a few. I shall look for Allium schubertii, which has an otherworldly pinkish flower head about 16 inches across.

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variety name, Powder Puff.

Angelica is another flower that was often used in the show. This is a 3- to 5-foot-tall purple-leafed flower that I grew 25 years ago, but it is a biennial that does not come back after flowering, and I dropped it from my plant palette. But I have already purchased and planted one since returning from the Chelsea show. It can be very dramatic in the garden.

Ferns were used as filler in many of the gardens at Chelsea, and I shall try using them, too. Of course, their gardens only had to look good for six days, so ferns that spread, or get too tall, were not a problem, though they might be in my garden. I have a patch of Japanese Painted Fern, which is great in dry shade. But this summer I will investigate other ferns. Many nurseries sell them, but I admit I haven’t paid much attention to them.

Interesting people I met? George Ball, owner of Burpee Seeds, was there. He is a highly knowledgeable (and opinionated) plantsman who is passionate about seeds. I was interested to learn from him that Melania Trump’s grandfather was a Slovenian onion breeder.

Mr. Ball pointed out that most vegetable seeds originally came from Europe, which is actually farther north than we are, and hence not good choices here. He believes that modern hybrids, not heirloom seeds originally from Europe, are best. And he told me that in a blind taste test, 4 of 5 times, Burpee’s hybrid Brandyboy beat the heirloom Brandywine, which is one of my favorites for flavor. I am trying it this year, since it ripens earlier, and produces more fruit, according to him. I’ll let you know how mine do in August.

At a reception on press day by David Austin Roses for a new rose named after actress Dame Judi Dench, who was there, I met the 91-year-old founder of the company. I was able to thank him for all the beauty he has introduced to the world.

The English know how to throw a party.

Picnics with Champagne were everywhere.

Women wore flowered clothes and elegant garden hats; men wore suits, even in the hot sun. Everyone was very polite. And I got to check off another item on my bucket list.

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I’m not sure of the origin but I believe they are from the 1950s or 1960s. They could have been a home delivery product.

My mother bought several items from a traveling salesman of kitchen chalkware, such as potholders, string dispensers, etc.

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Why do the pros tighten everything so tight?

Dear Car Talk: I’ve changed my own oil for many years now (less and less as I get older and when the outside temperature is cold). It’s one of the few things I can do

By Ray Magliozzi anymore. My question: Why do oil places have to tighten the drain bolt and filter so tight? My dad taught me to tighten the drain bolt finger tight and then just a little more; for the oil filter, handtighten it and then turn it another half-turn.

I’ve never had either one leak on me. However, when I’m the next one to change my oil after the pros, I have to use a 12-inch pipe as a wrench extender, along with a hammer, to loosen the bolt. I also have to use several varieties of filter wrenches to loosen the filter. How come? — David Well, it could have something to do with your advancing age, David. How often do you have to use that oil-filter wrench these days to open a jar of applesauce?

Actually, the reason those guys tend to overtighten the drain plug and filter is due to painful experience. Several years ago, Rocko the oil-change guy got distracted and let some guy drive away with

a loose drain plug. A few days later, the guy was back, demanding that his boss at Pokey Lube pay for his engine — which had seized up. And the boss took it out of Rocko’s paycheck.

So ever since then, Rocko says, “OK, Mr. Funnyman, let’s see you leak oil now!” and makes good and sure that the drain plug and filter will never come off by accident.

Unfortunately, you can do damage by overtightening things, too. If you overtighten the drain plug, you can strip the threads. And while it’s harder to do, you can damage the rubber gasket atop the oil filter if you really overtighten it.

Most likely, though, it’s just going to make it really difficult for the next guy to remove the plug and filter. And I guess Rocko, and his brethren, are counting on someone else being the next guy.

But I don’t think they’re doing it maliciously, David. They’re just erring on the side of too tight rather than too loose.

There is a happy medium, of course.

And you’ve come pretty close to identifying it. In the shop, we tighten the oil plug about as much as we tighten a spark plug.

I don’t know what that is, but it’s probably in the neighborhood of 20-30 foot-pounds

of torque. I’d describe it as “hand tight, plus a little more.”

And for oil filters, we suggest tightening it as tight as you can get it by hand -- so you turn it until it stops naturally, and then you might be able to twist it another quarter of a turn.

And if you have to use a 12-inch breaker bar to get it off, then back off a little next time.

Dear Car Talk: I have a friend who owns a 2009 Nissan 350Z. He’s having trouble with the convertible-top mechanism, which puts the top up and down. Periodically, it simply does not work. The cost to diagnose this problem and fix it is estimated to be over $2,000. Can he simply disconnect the automatic mechanism for the top and raise and lower it manually? — Larry It can be done, Larry. But it’s not easy — you don’t just unplug the motor and, voila, you’ve got a manually operated top.

There’s a hydraulic motor and a bunch of hydraulic lines, and removing all that stuff is a messy and difficult job.

Your friend may be able to get it fixed for a lot less than $2,000. Instead of going to the dealer -- where they’re likely to just replace

the whole system -- he should find a shop that specializes in convertible-top repair.

There are shops like that in most major areas, and they do nothing all day but fix convertible tops. That’s the kind of place you want.

It’s not my area of expertise. My brother had a ‘74 Caprice Classic Convertible, and when his top stopped working, he just left it down and let the car fill up with water.

And then leaves. And then snow. And then, in the spring, a family of raccoons.

But we did ask a guy who’s worked on convertible tops for 30 years: James Thompson, of Topless Auto in Chattanooga (who probably has some walk-in customers who are disappointed to discover that he’s in the car business).

He says the most common problem he sees with 350Z tops is bad brushes on the lift motor. If that’s your friend’s problem, the brushes may be able to be replaced, or, at worst, he’d need a new lift motor. But either way, it’s well short of $2,000.

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You simply push the button and the top goes down. That’s much more elegant than getting out of the car and grunting while you smear bird droppings all over your tuxedo.

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PLANT SALES • The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens (456 Route 103A, Newbury) will hold its 26th annual plant sale on Saturday, June 10, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The sale will include a wide selection of plants from The Fells, as well as garden art products and a table of gently used clay pots, landscape tools and more. Kevin Bragg of Canterbury Plantations will be attending with a selection of his herbs, annuals and vegetables. The Fells will offer free tours of their Main House to all shoppers, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Visit thefells.org or call 763-4789.

• Don’t miss the Merrimack Garden Club’s annual plant sale on Saturday, June 10, from 8 a.m. to noon at St. James Church (646 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack). The rain-or-shine sale will feature hundreds of perennials donated from local gardens, as well as a raffle and specialty plants grown by local plant owners and collectors. Members of the club will be on hand to guide customers and answer questions. Visit merrimackgardenclub.org.

Children & Teens Nature • A WHALE OF A WORLD’S OCEAN DAY CELEBRATION An internationally recognized day to honor the world’s ocean and celebrate all it provides, the Center’s World Oceans Day celebration is a great opportunity for families to have an exciting shared learning experience focused on the important role the ocean plays in our everyday life. Sun., June 11, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Seacoast Science Center, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye. $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and military service members, $5 for kids ages 3 to 12, and free for members and kids under 3. Visit seacoastsciencecenter.org or call 436-8043.

• HEALTHY RIVERS PRESENTATION A group of young students have been conducting a local river study with the Fishways since January. Find out what they have discovered and learn about the Merrimack River. Fri., June 16, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center, 4 Fletcher St., Manchester.

Free. Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

Clubs Women’s • SHARING OUR LIVES Each meeting will be guided by a theme for that session and set of questions designed to use as a springboard for sharing. Thursdays, June 8 and July 27, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Women Supporting Women Center, 111 Water St., Exeter. $10 for members or $15 for non-members. Visit wswcenter.wordpress. com/register or call 772-0799.

Continuing Education Certificate/degrees • NEW HAMPSHIRE POLICE CADET TRAINING ACADEMY The Cadet Training Acad-

emy is designed to help young people ages 14 to 20 to develop their skills and knowledge of law enforcement and to define their life skills for the future. Sat., June 24, through Fri., June 30. NHTI, Concord’s Community College, 31 College Drive, Concord. $200 for the one-week, overnight program. Visit nhchiefsofpolice.com/ calevents/cadetacademy or call 863-3240.

Professional development • 17TH ANNUAL COUNTRY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA SCHOOLHOUSE CONFERENCE If you have an interest in the history and preservation of one-room schools, this conference is for you. Sun., June 11, through Wed., June 14. ColbySawyer College, 541 Main St., New London. Visit countryschoolassociation.org.

• TED NIGHTS AT THE DERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY The Derry Public Library will be hosting TED Nights this summer.

TED Talks are short, powerful talks on a wide variety of topics.

Attendees will view TED Talks and discuss them afterwards. Each night will have a different theme.

Come for one night or come to them all. Mondays, 6:30 to 8 p.m., June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24, Aug. 14, and Aug. 28. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free. Visit derrypl.org or call 432-6140.

• TIME MANAGEMENT Join certified life coach Diane MacKinnon, M.D. for an interactive presentation where she’ll share her strategies for good time management. She’ll also go beyond tips and hacks to discuss mindset, procrastination and free time.

Tues., June 13. Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson.

Free. Visit rodgerslibrary.org or call 886-6030.

Crafts Workshops • QUILLING WORKSHOP Quilling also makes beautiful tree ornaments and gift tags as well as paintings and free-standing sculptures. Sat., June 10, 10:30 a.m., and Wed., June 21, 6 p.m. Pelham Public Library, 24 Village Green, Pelham. Free ($5 tool available for purchase; registration is required).

Visit pelhampubliclibrary.org or call 635-7581.

• “MAKE & TAKE” BOW TIE PROJECT CLASSES Participants can learn basic woodworking skills while handcrafting a custom bow tie using beautiful hardwoods. No experience or tools needed. Instruction provided by the store’s expert woodworkers and teachers. Sat., June 10, 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Rockler Woodworking and Hardware Store, 373 S. Broadway, Salem. Free instruction and materials. Visit rockler. com or call 898-5941.

Festivals & Fairs Events • SOMERSWORTH INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Featuring music, crafts, food, activities for kids of all ages and more. Sat., June 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Memorial Drive, Somersworth. Free. Visit nhfestivals.org or call 692-5869.

Health & Wellness Exercise & fitness • BODY READING WORKSHOP In this workshop specifically for teachers, learn to identify the body’s most obvious anatomical landmarks and learn to see restrictions and alignment on different body types and shapes.

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CAREERS

Rob Carolan Meteorologist

Rob Carolan of Nashua is the president and CEO of Hometown Forecast Services, which provides weather forecasts to more than 50 radio stations in New Hampshire and across the country, as well as a variety of other facilities like Manchester-Boston Regional Airport and Harvard University.

Explain what your current job is.

We’ll prepare audio recordings of weather forecasts in our office in Nashua and send them to our radio station clients in email attachments or via an FTP [file transfer protocol] service. … We work with WOKQ, WPKQ, The Shark in Portsmouth … and we serve other radio stations from the Virgin Islands across the U.S. to San Francisco. … We have a relatively small staff, but we have more usually during the snow and ice season, from November through about April.

How long have you been in your career?

I’ve been on the radio professionally since 1990, and I founded Hometown Forecast Services in 2001.

How did you get interested in this field?

I grew up in the Bronx, and when I was 5 years old I went to visit friends in Orange County, New York, in the summer. … I witnessed lightning hitting a tree, and from that moment I was hooked. … I’ve always had an interest in weather, so much that it’s like a sickness.

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ability, you must judge them on their own abilities … and that’s always stuck with me.

What do you wish you’d known at the beginning of your career?

That I’m in an extremely competitive business. …

We’re up against companies like AccuWeather and the National Weather Service, but staying in business for as long as we have has been a testament to the quality of the work that we do.

What is your typical at-work uniform?

It’s pretty casual here, just jeans and T-shirts.

How did you find your current job?

My wife is from New Hampshire and she What was the first job you ever had? wanted to stay here in New England. … We I mowed lawns in my neighborhood in lived in Boxborough, Mass., for a bit before New York when I was 13 years old. moving up here to Nashua. … I knew that I — Matt Ingersoll was going to have to live very close to my WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO business because weather is obviously 24/7, RIGHT NOW? so my house is five minutes from my office.

What’s the best piece of work-related advice anyone’s ever given you?

A former boss once told me that you can’t judge your employees based on your

I love surf fishing. … My job can be stressful, especially during the winter months and severe weather, so I always look forward to taking that first trip after April. … I just came back from the Outer Banks.

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What kind of education or training did you need for this job?

I have a degree in meteorology from Lyndon State College in Vermont. …

When I first went to college, Lyndon was a rarity [for its meteorology program]. …

There were only three in New England at the time, but there are many more of them out there now. … You take classes in calculus, linear algebra and physics, and Courtesy photo. meteorology classes like tropical meteorology, climatology and synoptic meteorology. … I also took classes on broadcasting and statistics.

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Paramedics/AEMT/EMTs. Department Managementpersonnel pursuant to State of New Hampshire Division of Fire Standards and Training, Fire 703.01 Our staffing level is increasing and you can be a part • Nationally Registered Paramedic/AEMT/EMT and Store Management of it. Come grow with us! The Town of Merrimack is a

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Merrimack Merrimack, Attn: Sharon Marunicz - HR, 6 Baboosic Lake and apply. Shaw's is an Equal Opportunity Employer. harborhomes.org/careers Manchester, Derby, Vergennes, and Waterbury. has seen an increase in emergency calls in the last www.shaws.com 5 years. In 2016, we responded to over 2,900 emergency calls.

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FOOD More than Italian

Fratello’s hosts new monthly dinner series

By Angie Sykeny

News from the local food scene

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By Angie Sykeny

Fratello’s Italian Grille is going beyond Italian cuisine with a new monthly dinner series hosted at its events center in the Manchester Millyard.

Each dinner, held on the second Tuesday of the month, will feature a unique five-course menu centered around a theme, with each course focused on a different part of the palate.

“I think a lot of people know Fratello’s for its Italian-based menu, but the corporate chef and team of chefs come from a variety of backgrounds and have a lot of experience in working with different flavors,” catering director Samantha Limoges said. “Our goal is to show that although we do Italian and we do it well, we can also put out new and interesting modern menu items and give people a different kind of night out.”

The series kicks off with the Night in Napa Valley dinner on June 13, which will feature courses paired with Robert Mondavi Collection wines from California’s Napa Valley region.

The menu includes quail galantine on

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• New hard cider line: Gould Hill Farm (656 Gould Hill Road, Contoocook) recently launched a new line of hard ciders under the name Contoocook Cider Company. The line features four varieties, including Contoocook Blend, a rich, sweet cider with caramel notes; Roxbury Russet, a bottle-condition sparkling cider with a spicy, tart dryness; Cranberry, a sparkling cider that brings together apple and cranberry; and Hampshire Honey, a bottle-conditioned cider with fall wildflower honey from the White Mountains.

Three of the varieties contain 6.9 percent alcohol by volume; Roxbury Russet is 9 percent alcohol by volume. The cider is currently available at the farm’s tasting room. Tasting hours are Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday from noon to 6 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call 746-3811 or visit gouldhillfarm.com/contoocook-cider.html.

• Summertime brew: Henniker Brewing Co. (129 Centervale Road, Henniker) will have its fourth annual Kickoff to Summer event on Saturday, June 10, from noon to 4 p.m. There will be tours, beer samples, food trucks, games, live music, local food vendors and the return of the brewery’s summer seasonal, Sour Flower, a dry-hopped sour ale with tart, tropical notes of pine, mango and citrus.

The beer will be available in four-packs of 16-ounce cans. Admission is free. For more information, call 428-3579 or visit hennikerbrewing.com.

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Night in Napa Valley Dinner When: Tuesday, June 13, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Fratello’s Italian Grille banquet hall, 155 Dow St., Manchester Cost: $70 per person. Seating is limited.

RSVP by Saturday, June 10.

Contact: 641-6776, eventsinthemillyard. com More upcoming dinners Buzzing for Beer - Tuesday, July 11 New Hampshire Farmers Dinner - Tuesday, Aug. 15 Tour of Italy - Tuesday, Sept. 12

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Fratello’s banquet hall. Courtesy photo.

a bed of spicy greens, Humboldt Fog cheese and port wine reduction; cranberry conundrum citrus granitee; pan-seared seabass with golden lentils on top of a saffron broth; braised lamb shank with a wild mushroom risotto and grilled asparagus; and Grand Marnier and chantilly creme baumkuchen with a wine cream mousselette and hazelnut croquante. Wines will include a fume blanc, chardonnay, pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon.

“California tends to have a lot of earthy and clean flavors,” Limoges said. “We’ll be pairing the menu with higher-end wines that complement those flavors.”

The head chef and a wine representative will talk about each dish, what it does for the palate and why it’s paired with its respective wine.

Other dinners in the series will include the Buzzing for Beer dinner, featuring a craft beer-inspired menu paired with flights from New Hampshire breweries; the New Hampshire Farmers Dinner, featuring ingredients from local SAMANTHA LIMOGES farms and beverages from local wineries, breweries and distilleries; and the Tour of Italy dinner, featuring signature dishes from different regions of Italy.

Our goal is to show that ... we can also put out new and interesting modern menu items....

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FOOD

Making the cut

Workshop teaches culinary knife techniques

By Angie Sykeny

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Unless you’ve been to culinary school, it’s possible that you’ve been misusing your kitchen knives all along — which is why LaBelle Winery is offering a chance to learn more effective knife skills during a workshop on Wednesday, June 14.

The workshop will answer questions like what kinds of knives to use for different kinds of food, how to use them effectively and how to cut safely.

“People really appreciate it because many of them have never had this type of instruction unless they went to culinary school,” said Michelle Thornton, director of sales, business and program development for LaBelle Winery. “We all have a set of knives in our drawers, but do we know how to keep them sharp or how to not get cut? Many people realize they’ve been cutting the wrong way their whole life.”

Each participant will be given a set of knives and various fruits and vegetables on which to practice the knife techniques, such as carrots, potatoes, celery, apples and onions. Participants will watch demonstrations of different cutting, slicing and dicing techniques using different types of knives, then try out the techniques on their own, asking questions and receiving personal, hands-on instruction when needed.

“There’s a lot of back-and-forth and oneon-one,” Thornton said. “Someone will come over and guide you and show you where to put your fingers and how to move the knife. It’s truly a learning environment.”

The class will also feature an integrated wine tasting in which participants can try several varieties of LaBelle wine.

Taught by winemaker and winery owner Amy LaBelle and the winery bistro’s Executive Chef Eddie Ceccherini, the class is one of the most-attended programs in The

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Knife skills class at LaBelle Winery. Courtesy photo.

Winemaker’s Kitchen: Cooking with Wine Instructional Series, a series of cooking programs featuring dishes with wine as the main ingredient.

“A few years ago, when giving her instructional cooking classes, Amy realized that when she demonstrated chopping and preparing things with knives, people asked a lot of questions,” Thornton said. “It dawned on her that there was a need for a class to help people better understand those basics.”

A second knife skills class focused on creating garnishes and artistic food displays will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 13.

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The event, hosted by the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, is happening Thursday, June 15.

All proceeds raised at the event will support the Seacoast Science Center’s Marine Mammal Rescue program.

“It’s a great time to bring members of the community together who not only love the work we do but also love local food and sampling bites from different restaurants and caterers,” said Marine Mammal Rescue Manager Ashley Stokes, who is coordinating the event.

The food being served at the party will include tuna bites and tuna salad on a crustini, hand-cut chips, chicken salad wraps and turkey wraps, grilled cheese quarters, smoked chicken and bacon, lobster bisque shooters, chowders, shrimp tostada and seated beef ribeye. There will also be sweets like cupcakes, macarons, cookies, cake pops, whoopie pies and other assorted desserts, plus a fire pit with s’mores.

“There will be a variety of cuisines,” Stokes said. “Not knowing what the palates of 250 to 300 guests will be, we try to have things to accommodate a variety of palates and tastes so that everyone can find at least a couple of things they want to try.”

In addition, there will be a signature cocktail created by Atlantic Grill’s master bartender specially for the event.

“Two years ago it was a rum punch with Gosling Black Seal rum, and last year it was some kind of ginger martini,” Stokes said.

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Culinary Playground (16 Manning St., Derry) will host a New England seafood dinner couples cooking class on Saturdays, June 10 and June 17, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. With instruction from a cooking expert, couples will make their own meal from start to finish that will include crab cake sliders with homemade slaw, mussels meuniere, roasted lemon asparagus and strawberry-lemon pudding with pound cake. The cost is $155 per couple; BYOB is welcome. Bring plastic containers for leftovers. For more information, call 3391664 or visit culinary-playground.com.

• New Hampshire’s best: New Hampshire Magazine’s 16th annual Best of NH Party takes place on Thursday, June 15, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium (1 Line Drive, Manchester). There will be food and drink samples from more than 65 booths, plus live entertainment and a fireworks display. Tickets cost $65 for adults, $55 per person in groups of six or more, and $19 for kids ages 4 to 10. For more information, visit nhmagazine.com/best-of-nh.

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Food & Drink Beer & wine making classes • PILSNER Fri., June 9, 6 p.m.

Incredibrew, 112 Daniel Webster Highway South , Nashua. $40 per case if you bring your own bottles and $50 with bottles and cap stickers included. Space is limited, and registration is required. Call 891-2477. Visit incredibrew.com.

• SEVILLE ORANGE SANGRIA Fri., June 16, 6 p.m.

Incredibrew, 112 Daniel Webster Highway South , Nashua. $60.

Space is limited, and registration is required. Call 891-2477 or visit incredibrew.com.

Beer & wine tasting classes • CHEESE AND WINE PAIRING Part of the Winemaker’s Kitchen Cooking Class Series.

Wed., July 12, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

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Beer, wine & liquor dinners • BEER PIG ROAST Five courses from each part of the pig will be paired with five Pipe Dream. Thurs., June 8, 6 to 8 p.m. Pipe Dream Brewing, 49 Harvey Road, Londonderry. $60 per person. Call 404-0751 or visit pipedreambrewingnh.com.

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summer farmers markets open this week.

The new Barnstead Farmers Market (barnsteadfarmersmarket.club) at Maple Street Church (96 Maple St.) starts Saturday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to noon, and continues weekly through Oct. 7. Seacoast Community Marketplace (facebook.com/ seacoastcommunitymarketplace) at Scamman Farm (57 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham) starts Saturday, June 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and continues weekly through Oct. 28. New Boston Farmers Market (newbostonfarmersmarket.webs.com) at the town common (corner of Route 13 and Meetinghouse Road) starts Saturday, June 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and continues weekly through Oct. 21. Merrimack Farmers Market (merrimacknh. gov/farmers-market) at Vault Motor Storage (526 Daniel Webster Highway) opens Wednesday, June 14, from 3 to 6 p.m., and continues weekly through Oct. 11.

Manchester Community Market (manchestercommunitymarket.org) at Victory Park (105 Concord St.) starts Thursday, June 15, from 3 to 6:30 p.m., and continues weekly through Oct. 12.

Executive Chef Todd Lytle, featuring special guest winemaker Carol Shelton. Tues., June 27, 7 to 9 p.m. Hunt Club in the Crowne Plaza Nashua, 2 Somerset Parkway, Nashua. $90. Call 204-5569 or visit winenotboutique.com.

Beer, wine & liquor festivals & special events • ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Party features live music, food and 20 beers on tap, including the release of several barrel aged beers. Sat., June 10, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Pipe Dream Brewing, 49 Harvey Road, Londonderry.

Call 404-0751 or visit pipedreambrewingnh.com.

• KICKOFF TO SUMMER Event features tours, beer samples, food trucks, games, live music, local vendors and more, plus the return of Sour Flower, the brewery’s dry-hopped sour ale, in 16-ounce four-pack cans.

Sat., June 10, noon to 4 p.m.

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Chef events/special meals • WINE CELLAR FARMTO-TABLE DINNER Multicourse meal will feature local ingredients as well as samples of a variety of LaBelle wines.

Winemakers Amy LaBelle and Cesar Arboleda will talk about the history of the winery and its wines, and local farmers will share their stories between

courses. Fri., June 16, 7 to 9 p.m.

LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. $95. Includes a complimentary wine pairing. Visit thefarmersdinner.com/event/ labelle-winery-wine-cellar.

• BRUNCH & BUBBLES Monthly farm-to-table brunch featuring fresh ham, eggs, pulled pork, a mac and cheese bar, fresh pastries and fruit, quiches, frittatas and more, plus complimentary Sparkling Cayuga with a make-your-own mimosa bar.

Sun., 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., June 25, July 9, Aug. 13, Sept. 24 and Oct. 22. Flag Hill Winery & Distillery, 297 N. River Road, Lee. $42.

Reservations are required. Call 659-2949 or visit flaghill.com.

• FARM-TO-TABLE BRUNCH BUFFET Weekly buffet features seasonal fruit and produce grown at the farm, baked goods and egg and breakfast meats prepared by farm kitchen and bakery staff. Sun., 9 a.m. to noon, June 18 through Aug. 27. Moulton Farm, 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. $16.99 for adults and $9.99 for children age 10 and under. Call 279-3915 or visit moultonfarm.com.

• FARM-TO-TABLE DINNER CLUB Monthly four-course dinners prepared with local food and paired with wine or beer samplings from local wineries and breweries. Monthly, last Thursday, 6 p.m. Roots Cafe at Robie’s Country Store , 9 Riverside St., Hooksett. $40. Call 485-7761, or visit rootsatrobies. com.

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I am always looking for easy snacks and meals. Unfortunately, oftentimes the easiest thing to do is grab something packaged — something processed — rather than something that more resembles real food when we are hungry. Granola bars, crackers, popcorn and chips win out over food that takes a while to prepare. While it makes so much sense time-wise to go to the pantry, our health implores us to reach for perishables — fresh fruit and vegetables, lean proteins and other food that doesn’t come in all that packaging with all those extra ingredients we can’t even pronounce.

Easy and quick is key for my life right now. I have two little girls, I’m pregnant and the thought of extensive meal prep makes me want to lie down and take a nap. I came across an Instagram post about sweet potato “toast” and was intrigued.

Sweet Potato “Toast” Makes a few slices of toast per potato 1 sweet potato, sliced lengthwise into ¼- to ½-inch slices (this is the hardest part!) sour cream or Greek yogurt 1 avocado, sliced cheddar cheese, shredded

Put your sweet potato slices in the toaster on about medium/high (this is number 5 on my toaster). You will have to re-toast the slices a few times (four or five) before they are done. There will be some browning and the slices will become softer.

Top as you like! My recipe is with avocado slices, Greek yogurt and cheddar cheese. I could have added salsa or squeezed some lime over the top. Simple, fast and so easy!

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• LAMB BARBECUE Features marinated lamb and other authentic Greek dishes and desserts. Sat., June 17, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 1168 Bridge St., Manchester. Visit stnicholas-man-nh.org.

• PORTSMOUTH TASTE OF THE NATION An evening with some of the Seacoast’s best chefs, brewers and winemakers. Wed., June 21, 6:30 to 10 p.m. Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth. $85 for general admission, $150 for VIP admission. Visit ce.nokidhungry.org/ events/portsmouth-taste-nation.

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Sweet potatoes are an incredible source of vitamin A, which is critical for bone health and eyesight, not to mention for supporting a healthy immune system.

Sweet potatoes are a much better choice than bread if you’re looking for something that will fill you up and sustain you in the nutritional department. Just like toast made with bread, sweet potato toast has a flavor profile that goes with lots of things, so the possibilities are endless.

Go with a Mexican food theme like I did below, throw some turkey vegetable chili on top for more protein or go with chicken, red onions, cheddar and barbecue sauce (throw on bacon if you want!).

Try this out with your sweet potatoes and I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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I recently sort of went to Bordeaux, France, where I tried some wine from the 2014 vintage. I say sort of because I didn’t, unfortunately, actually get to travel there, but the next best thing was attending a tasting with Guillaume Touton from Touton Selections. To say he knows a little bit about French wine is an understatement, as he was born in Bordeaux and grew up in the wine business.

I had a few minutes to sit down with Guillaume before the event, which was at the New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlet in Nashua, and he recounted Bordeaux’s 2,000-year wine history and how the style is replicated all over the world. He also noted the location’s geography, which made it an ideal port for trading, and the excellent climate.

“You buy a bottle of wine but also some history,” he said, explaining how the labels tell a story of the chateau (which means castle), or winery. Many date back hundreds of years and are still around today.

“When I drink a wine, I immediately know the story behind it.”

Guillaume explained that here in the United States we really only see good Bordeaux vintages. Years where the wine is not good for whatever reason — environmental or otherwise — it is sold more locally and doesn’t usually make it this far west because it isn’t worth the cost. This vintage we tasted, along with 2015 and 2016, was a good year for Bordeaux. Sadly, the region had a recent frost that completely wiped out the bud growth, which means we will not see a 2017 vintage.

The tasting included samples of five Bordeaux wines, ranging in price from $24 to $80. It is also worth noting that some were from the left bank, which is predominantly merlot; others were from the right bank, which is mainly cabernet sauvignon.

Here are some tasting notes. All wines are from 2014 and available at any New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlet.

Chateau d’Aiguilhe: The name means “needle” and it comes from Cotes de Castillon on the right bank. This wine is 80 percent merlot and 20 percent cabernet franc. $23.99 Chateau Prieure-Lichine: This wine is from Margaux on the left bank and is 65 percent cabernet sauvignon, 30 percent merlot and 5 percent petit verdot. This was my favorite wine of the night. $40.99 Chateau Gazin: This is a very interesting wine. The nose on it is pretty off-putting,

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but it tastes much different than it smells. I found it got better as I drank it. It is 95 percent merlot and 5 percent cabernet franc. $71.99 Chateau Fombrauge: This wine is also from the right bank and is 90 percent merlot, 9 percent cabernet franc and one percent cabernet sauvignon. I found it to be pretty tannic on its own, but think it would be good with food. The new owner of this chateau revitalized it about 20 years ago and elevated the brand. $26.99 Chateau Beychevelle: This wine is from the left bank and is a blend of 51 percent merlot, 39 percent cabernet sauvignon, 5 percent petit verdot and 5 percent cabernet franc. There is a boat on the label with the sail lowered at half mast in honor of the former mayor who ordered that ships do this to pay homage to him. It is also very popular in China because there is a dragon on the label as well. It is one of the top 10 wines in Bordeaux and was my second favorite wine that we tasted. Guillaume said this wine could easily be aged eight to 10 years. The 2016 vintage is going to be released soon. $78.49 I walked away from this tasting with two bottles of Bordeaux and much more knowledge about the region and its history. I am hoping to visit one day, but for now enjoying wine from the region will have to do.

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Once again, an Australian band proves its talent won’t be relegated to its own boundaries and can compete worldwide. For three albums now, this indie-rock crew has tabled the same sleepy Columbia House vocal sound as Los Campesinos, except the songs are quanta better and they only need four people instead of seven to get the job done. Their supporting sound palette in this one is a blocky selection of midcareer Prince (“The Kids Are Cool”), No Doubt (“That Boy”) and, in “Sunrise,” a fairly unique take on the Grizzly Bear/Beach Boys idea that’s all hook and no filler. All of these tunes have one or more variations on unrushed, previously explored, throwback summer vibes, as well as subtle nods to hip-hop and Deadmau5 neo-disco, for one example “The Distance,” wherein the bass and drums are miked up Chromeo-style to emulate the stuff Rod Stewart was doing in 1980. A — Eric W. Saeger Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records)

Chicago-based jazz flutist Mitchell is keen to add her name to the list of Afro-futurist visionaries that recently added noise-rap outfit Death Grips to the fold. The idea, first espoused by Sun Ra, whose proclaimed “experiences in space” didn’t catch on until the late ’60s, when the hippy movement found they were in agreement with the thought of a society that revolved around a harmonious marriage of technology and peace, nowadays seems as far away as Jupiter. Toward unrolling her own variation, Mitchell uses an odd mix of instrumentalists, including Japanese shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki, the result being a concoction that’s simultaneously world, jazz, Zappa and, at rare times, pop. The sci-fi-centric concept behind this is as unsettling as the music itself, one world (run by men) that’s full of injustice and violence, and Mandorla, a more feminine place in which technology is used for the good of all, not just the enrichment of a few. Musically it’s as one would expect, a bit herky-jerky, sometimes hippy-ish, but always a head trip. A — Eric W. Saeger

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• Some PR dude wanted to send me the upcoming new Nickelback album, Feed The Machine, but I lost the email on purpose, it’s totally gone. You may recall how, in 2013, these blockheads were voted 2nd Worst Band of the Nineties by the readers of Rolling Stone, second only to Creed. Right, time to click ’n’ barf, let’s visit the YouTube and barf at whatever monstrosity they’re passing off as a single. Wait, the title track is is almost good, kind of proggy, like Tool, sort of ... wait, why are they trying to look like the Suicide Squad in their video, and why the laser guns? The singing is still wicked annoying. So are the lyrics. I’m closing this window before it gets worse.

• Fleetwood Mac alumni Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie were the best part of that disgustingly popular super-band, and now they are back, with a self-titled album and a single titled “In My World.” Halfway through this new song, I was like, “Gick, so what, who cares,” but then it started to sink in how awesome it is. I’m not wild about the murky vocal effects on Buckingham’s voice, but his finger-pick quitar style has, believe it or not, gotten even more awesome. These two will probably be awesome when they’re 90 years old. Sorry but it’s true, the song’s awesome, and so are these two almost-90-year-olds.

• Country-pop-whatever Lady Antebellum has a new album coming out also, called Heart Break, and now that that’s out of the way, let’s look at French indie-band Phoenix, who will release their sixth LP, Ti Amo, on June 9. The title track is OK, totally like all that Chicago-house disco garbage Steve Aoki and David Guetta were doing for a while there. Wicked super annoying. I don’t care for this stuff. — Eric W. Saeger

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They’re never far from view.

“There are lots of stone walls everywhere you go in New Hampshire. Maybe not in the inner city of Manchester or Nashua, but three miles from there, you’ll start to see them,” said Gardner, a Hopkinton resident, now known as the local expert on these structures since writing The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls.

The book, published by Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Co., in 2001, touches on history, technique, stylistic development and aesthetics and tackles how and why New England came to acquire its thousands of miles of stone walls. Ever since its publication, he’s kept busy presenting with the New Hampshire Humanities Council, as many as 50 or 60 times per year. Most events include a wall-building demonstration involving tiny stones from a five-gallon bucket.

Gardner began building stone walls in his early 20s with his family’s company, Owen Associates, in 1973. From a historical perspective, he found them fascinating, but he also discovered his temperament suited the trade well.

“It’s one of those things — you’re either very interested in it or horrified by the prospect of doing it,” Gardner said, laughing. “But it surprises me, even now, how much people are interested in hearing about how we got these walls and how they developed over time.”

Of course, nobody is far from the countryside in the Granite State. Many are curious about structures on their own properties, or wonder how people moved these heavy weights in a non-mechanized age.

“One of the things that really surprised me … is the enormous range of different organizations that will book this presentation,” he said. “Not just libraries and historical societies, but garden clubs, land trusts, service organizations, retirement communities. It has a broad appeal that I didn’t anticipate.”

Some of his most common inquiries were about how to build walls around their land, a demand that has increased as the state has become more populated.

“When I started doing this in the early 1970s, people who devoted themselves to it were quite rare. There were a few [build-

ers] in any given place you went to. Now … the residential housing construction boom stimulated demand for landscapers that naturally led to people wanting to put stone work into their landscape schemes around these homes,” he said.

Finally, after 16 years, Gardner has a new book with all the answers: Stone Building: How to Make New England Style Walls and Other Structures the Old Way, published in early May. This one is more specific than the first title, complete with instructions and tips.

It also addresses problems you might face putting these walls up the “rough” way.

At the time of the phone call, Gardner was gearing up for a few presentations on stone walls: at the Toadstool Bookshop in Milford (Saturday, July 10), the Quincy Bog Nature Center (Wednesday, June 14) and the East Andover Grange Hall (Thursday, June 15).

After that, he heads to St. Paul’s School to revel in his other passion — theater — where he’ll teach “Shakespeare for Performance” and direct high school productions of The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night from June through July.

In fact, he’s a man of many interests; for years he worked as an actor and he’s published poetry, songs, essays and news stories. His teaching credentials include gigs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the New Hampton School, Plymouth State University and many local high schools.

From 1985 to 2010 he was a performance critic, feature writer and producer for New Hampshire Public Radio.

Someday, Gardner would like to merge his passions and write something more creative, with characters, plot and a clear storyline, but he’ll ride the stone wall train a while longer.

The structures are so important to the New Hampshire landscape, and he doesn’t see local curiosity dwindling anytime soon.

“I think people are interested in stone walls because they are interested in where they are,” Gardner said.

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In Vote First or Die, political reporter Scott Conroy has published the longest ever Yelp review, not of a restaurant but of an entire state.

On barbecue in northern New Hampshire, he writes: “a suspect proposition under even the most ideal of circumstances.” On the Errol Motel in Coos County: “a cozy lodging option if you’re ever in the area to do some snowshoeing or need to dispose of a corpse.”

The Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield has a “distinct ‘The Shining’ vibe.”

Peterborough is a “postcard-perfect town.”

Of Popovers on the Square in the state’s “most charming small city,” Conroy writes, “If you’ve never had a popover, I recommend you put this book down right away and get on the road to Portsmouth.”

Then there’s the reason for this eclectic road trip: the 2016 election.

Conroy, a former writer and producer for The Huffington Post (and co-author of a book on Sarah Palin), spent more than a year traversing New Hampshire while covering the 2016 election. You can’t always tell from the caustic zingers, but he’s developed an affection bordering on respect for the Granite State, and Vote First or Die is a robust defense of its first-in-the-nation primary, which some political observers would like to dump.

Conroy has a personal connection to New Hampshire; he wed his wife, Jo Ling Kent, at the Mountain View resort (the details of which you can read in the wedding archives of The New York Times). Moreover, the ceremony was performed by Secretary of State Bill Gardner, so there’s no small amount of bias when Conroy pronounces him a “walking, talking encyclopedia of New Hampshire politics” that every Granite Stater loves.

But Conroy, as it turns out, likes most of the residents of New Hampshire that he writes about, from Bill Shaheen, the lawyer and strategist in Dover, to Addy Simwerayi, a Manchester resident who emigrated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with his persecuted family and met Conroy on a “New Hampshire Rebellion” walk.

In fact, it’s the people of New Hampshire and the way they approach the presidential contest that is the most convincing argument for leaving the primary system intact, Conroy says, calling the state “a small but essential island of virtue and discernment in the vast sea of contemptibility that consumes our public life every four years.”

Conroy dismisses pundit Mike Barnicle, who trolled New Hampshire and its status in Boston Globe columns in the 1980s and early ’90s, and also the Iowa caucuses which he deems “far more susceptible to shenanigans” than the first primary.

“The perception, earned over many decades, is that New Hampshire is the sober adult in the room left to clean up the mess that the unruly children of Iowa often make. Although it’s an oversimplification, like many stereotypes this one is founded in some truth,” he writes.

And although many people consider the 2016 primaries and election as a state-sanctioned carnival (and Conroy admits that he rues its ultimate victor), the election “doesn’t invalidate the underlying principles that have made the New Hampshire primary work for a century,” he writes.

“New Hampshire voters really do take their roles in the process more seriously than voters do just about anywhere else. They pay attention. And perhaps far more important, they make the candidates pay attention.”

Peppered with anecdotes, Vote First or Die drops names (and places) liberally; The Bridge Café, Spare Time Bowling, the Red Arrow Diner and MoeJoe’s Family Restaurant have cameos here along with a host of others.

And Conroy is not just an engaging writer; he proves himself a smart reporter, too. In one of his most interesting anecdotes, Conroy reveals how he managed to remain in the building during a fake “executive session” of the Londonderry Fish and Game Club, staying behind when other media were ousted, and thus was able to hear (and report) how Rand Paul talks when he thinks no reporters are listening.

Despite that bit of insight, “Rand Paul proved to be neither the most interesting man in politics nor the most interesting man in his own family,” Conroy writes.

He also isn’t a fan of Trump (“a disgrace”), Marco Rubio (“mechanical”), or Dr. Ben Carson, who he says “spoke with a particular kind of inflection that sounded a bit like a late-career Michael Jackson telling a particularly terrifying ghost story.”

That’s the essence of Conroy — both caustic and personable, telling interesting stories with memorable flair, such as his description of Hillary Clinton’s first foray into New Hampshire as a 2016 candidate.

The trip, he said, “was orchestrated by her handlers, as if she were a rare and precious falcon being put on display before a clumsy group of amateur bird-watchers. ‘You may admire the specimen from afar, but if you should dare move within arm’s reach, you’ll be asked to leave.’”

And he described Paul’s offhand dismissal of the United Nations in Londonderry as “discontinuing the international body entirely, like it was an out-of-date toaster.”

If you eat, breathe and dream politics, Vote First or Die is a riot; if you don’t, it’s a wickedly funny education. And 10 bucks says Conroy moves to Peterborough some day. A — Jennifer Graham

• An accidental leader: The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, hosts Manal al-Sharif on Thursday, June 15, at 7 p.m., to discuss her memoir, Daring to Drive, about how she became the accidental leader of the Women2Drive movement, which stunned Saudi Arabia and then the world in 2011. Tickets to the event are $40 and include a copy of the book, a bar beverage and book signing meet-and-greet. Visit themusichall.org or call 436-2400.

• Book fest: The National Society of Newspaper Columnists hosts its national conference at the Center of New Hampshire Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester, June 8 through June 11, and for the first time ever, it hosts an open-to-the-public book festival with the New Hampshire Writers’ Project Saturday, June 10, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the sitting room off the lobby. Two dozen national and local authors will greet readers with signed copies of their books, including Rebecca Rule, Dan Szczesny (who is The Hippo’s associate publisher) and others. Visit columnists.com.

• Concord’s Abenaki Indians: The Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord, hosts its next Wednesdays’ Wisdom Potluck with the Kimball Jenkins Community Art School Wednesday, June 14, at 5:30 p.m., featuring local author Stephen Berwick, who just released his ninth book. His presentation, “We Walk in the Steps of Native New Englanders,” is about the Abenaki Indians who inhabited Concord. The event is free and open to the public; BYO (food, wine, beer or other refreshments). Visit themillbrookgallery.com or call 226-2046. — Kelly Sennott

Books Author Events • ALEXANDRIA MARZANOLESNEVICH Author talks about The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir. Thurs., June 8, at noon., at Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough. And that same day at 7 p.m. at Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter. Call 778-9731.

• JAMES CREWS Poet talks about The Book of What Stays.

Fri., June 9, at 1 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough. Visit toadbooks. com.

• LINDA GREENLAW Author talks about Shiver Hitch. Fri., June 9, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com. Call 224-0562. Second event Sat., June 17, at 3 p.m., at Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford.

• KEVIN GARDNER Author talks about Stone Building: How to Make New England Style

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• RICHARD RUBIN Author talks about The Last of the Doughboys. Sat., June 10, 7-8:30 p.m. Warner Town Hall, Main St., Warner.

• MARTY KELLEY Author talks about Almost Everybody Farts. Sat., June 10, at 1 p.m.

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• PETER JANNEY Author talks about Mary’s Mosaic. Sun., June 11, at 5 p.m. RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth.

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• DIDI PERSHOUSE Author talks about The Ecology of Care.

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• LISA GARDNER Author talks about Find Her. Wed., June 14, at 6:30 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford. Visit toadbooks.com.

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• ERICA BODWELL Author talks about Up Liberty Street.

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Wonder Woman (PG-13)

Gal Gadot fights for truth, justice and the Amazonian way in Wonder Woman, a (finally!) excellent entry in the DC Extended Universe.

The movie unfolds as a prolonged flashback, with Wonder Woman/Diana (Gal Gadot) receiving from Bruce Wayne a hard copy of the photo she’d been digging through Lex Luthor’s hard drive for in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

The photo shows Diana in World War I Belgium with a group including a man we will come to know as Steve Trevor (Chris Pine).

Then we meet young Diana (Lilly Aspell) and see her childhood on Themyscira, a Paradise Island populated

by Amazons, a group of fighting women charged by Zeus with protecting humanity from Ares, the God of War. Diana is the daughter of Hippolyta (Connie Nelson), queen of the Amazons. Hippolyta doesn’t want young Diana to be trained to fight, but Antiope (Robin Wright), Hippolyta’s sister and the head of the Amazonian army, disagrees. Ares was gravely wounded in a long-ago battle but Antiope is certain that one day Diana will have to face him.

Eventually, Hippolyta agrees, telling Antiope to train Diana 10 times as hard as any other Amazonian warrior.

When we see Gal Gadot-aged Diana, she is a fierce fighter, eventually besting even Antiope with a surprise burst of CGI-bwam-ness. Diana ponders this new ability on a cliff overlooking the ocean where she sees an airplane burst through the magical whatever that keeps Themyscira hidden and crash into the sea. She swims out to the plane and pulls out the pilot: one Steve Trevor, who, after a few squeezes with the Golden Lasso, reveals himself to be an American working for the British as a spy.

The Germans who were chasing him also burst through the magical island shield, leading to a fight on the beach between Germans and their guns and Amazonians and their arrows and swords.

The Amazonians are more than a match for the soldiers, despite their technological disadvantages. But the battle leaves Diana convinced that Ares is behind this Great War Steve describes. She decides to leave the island with Steve to find and kill Ares and protect the humans she thinks have been led astray by him.

They go first to London, to deliver to British higher-ups intelligence Steve has gathered about a German general named Ludendorff (Danny Huston) and Dr. Maru (Elena Anaya), a scientist making poison gas. Though others in the German military and government are ready to sign an armistice with the Allied powers, Ludendorff is convinced they can still win the war

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with an extra deadly poison he is developing. Diana becomes convinced that this Ludendorff is Ares in disguise. When Steve decides to go against British command and run a secret mission to find and destroy the facility making Ludendorff’s weapon, Diana insists on coming with him. To help in the mission, Steve pulls in three old friends: Sameer (Said Taghmaoui), a con-man; The Chief (Eugene Brave Rock), a non-combatant who knows the front, and Charlie (Ewen Bremner), an expert marksman.

Also expert marksmen? Patty Jenkins, this movie’s director, and Allan Heinberg, author of the movie’s screenplay. Somehow, magically, they have hit an absolute bullseye when it comes to getting the tone of this character and this movie just right.

Diana is earnest and principled and brilliant but unaware of the (1918) modern world. But she is not a dolt or a goodytwo-shoes or a tortured saint (cough, Henry Cavill’s Superman, cough). She’s a strong (physically, emotionally, confidence-wise) woman and a smart woman and, at times, a funny woman. And a woman, not some fakey fanboy idea of what a woman should be. I like that the “woman” part of the Wonder Woman identity seems to have been treated as important. Gal Gadot also gets Wonder Woman just right, playing all her facets — the bravery, the bad-assedness, the woman in love — with a geniuneness that isn’t overly serious.

The action is also well-calibrated. There are at least three big set-piece battle scenes that are each wonderful in their own way, with nicely choreographed action and a good balance of “big fighting wide-shot” and individual characters. Even though we know from the movie’s opening (Diana in 2017 Paris) and from the Justice League trailer that runs before the movie that Wonder Woman makes it out of this story A-OK,

the scenes still have stakes and energy.

Is Wonder Woman perfect? No, it’s probably too long by about half an hour — though I’d have watched an even longer version if it had more of the gang and their exploits and more Lucy Davis, who plays Steve’s secretary Etta Candy and is also quite awesome. But this movie was a delight to sit through and it gave me hope for the DC Extended Universe.

Franchise in trouble? Summer popcorn movies fail to pop? Not enough fun in the action universe? Wonder Woman to the rescue! A Rated PG-13 for sequence of violence and action, and some suggestive content.

Directed by Patty Jenkins with a screenplay by Allan Heinberg, Wonder Woman is two hours and 21 minutes long and distributed by Warner Bros.

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (PG)

Trouble-making elementaryschoolers accidentally turn their principal into a superhero in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, a big, bright animated movie based on the books by Dav Pilkey.

George (voice of Kevin Hart) and Harold (voice of Thomas Middleditch) are best friends and fourth-graders who regularly save themselves and their classmates from the crushing boredom of school with pranks — some aimed at their grumpy principal, Mr. Krupp (voice of Ed Helms).

After a prank involving fellow student (and, as he’s later described, class suckup) Melvin (voice of Jordan Peele) is caught on video tape, Krupp finally has the proof he needs to bring the hammer down on George and Harold. Their punishment?

He’s going to put them in separate classes, thus destroying their friendship. The boys are determined that will never hap-

pen and, using a hypnosis ring George got in a box of cereal, they hypnotize Krupp.

With the sudden and inexplicable power to convince Krupp he’s anything they say he is, they tell him he’s Captain Underpants, the star of many of the comic books the boys have created together.

Captain Underpants is relatively heroic, despite flying around in underpants and a red cape and generally resembling a giant baby. As the boys learn when Krupp begins to act as Underpants, he’s also kinda dumb.

A snap of the fingers turns the Underpants persona on, a splash of water brings back an angry Krupp. Sometimes, what appears to be Krupp is actually Underpants, whom the boys convince to go “undercover” as Krupp. It’s this version of the principal who hires Professor Poopypants (voice of Nick Kroll), an obvious evil scientist, to serve as the school’s science teacher.

Loud and colorful and full of what felt like so many fart jokes, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a really charming movie that does a good job of balancing what feels like realistic kid viewpoints (on friendship, school, the hilariousness of the planet name “Uranus”) with absurd visuals and situations.

(And is probably appropriate for, give or take based on your kid’s interest in and tolerance for superhero and supervillain action, kids the age of the fourth-grade leads.) Not to get way too serious for a movie that features a whoopee cushion orchestra and a giant evil toilet, but I really liked how this movie gives boys not just a rollicking action adventure but an emotional adventure too. The George and Harold friendship is important — not just to the story but to George and Harold, and they discuss this fact.

And I like that a core part of George and Harold’s friendship is working on creating comic books together. Without getting all messagey about it, this movie is supportive of many good things: boys expressing their emotions, kids making stuff, imagination and a celebration of the fart jokes that are a cornerstone of kid humor.

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie leans in to the jokiness and big silly qualities that seem to be a hallmark for DreamWorks Animated movies and it works wonderfully here. A very kidappealing adventure with well-integrated moments of positive messages, this movie is a welcome start to what could be a fun new series. B+ Rated PG for mild rude humor throughout. Directed by David Soren with a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller (from the books by Dav Pilkey), Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is an hour and 29 minutes long and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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• My Cousin Rachel (PG-13, 2017) Fri., June 9, at 1, 3:25, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sat., June 10, at 1, 3:25, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sun., June 11, at 1, 3:25 & 5:50 p.m.; Mon., June 12, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Tues., June 13, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Wed., June 14, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Thurs., June 15, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.

• Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (NR, 2017) Fri., June 9, at 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sat., June 10, at 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sun., June 11, at 2, 4 & 6 p.m.; Mon., June 12, at 2:10 & 7:35 p.m.; Tues., June 13, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:35 p.m.; Wed., June 14, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:35 p.m.; Thurs., June 15, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:35 p.m.

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• Open doors: A no-cover show stars original rockers Ajar Project. The Wilton quartet performs new songs and selections from its first two albums. Musically, they’re a moving target, mixing heavy, fuzz-tone-laden licks with intricate, jazz-like playing. Go Thursday, June 8, 9 p.m., Penuche’s Music Hall, 1087 Elm St., Manchester. More at facebook. com/ajarproject.

• Chuckle on: Tickle your funny bone with an evening of standup comedy. Stephen Bjork mines the everyday for laughs, gratefully avoiding vulgarity; the Boston comic still manages to touch on everything from shopping to cannibalism. Ryan Gartley opens. Go Friday, June 9, 8 p.m., Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem St., Laconia.

Tickets are $20 at pitmansfreightroom.com; the show is BYOB. • Rolling in: Laconia Motorcycle Week includes plenty of music. Laconia’s newest venue offers two acts a day, starting with an afternoon set of country from April Cushman Band, followed by AC/DC tribute band Dirty Deeds; others on tap include Eric Grant (June 11), Houston Bernard (June 13) and Annie Brobst (June 15). Go Saturday, June 10, 1 p.m, Whiskey Barrel, 546 Main St., Laconia. See whiskeybarrelnh.com • Brew brunch: Enjoy acoustic music from singer-guitarist Quincy Medaglia, part of the Sunday Brunch series at the tap house.

There are worse ways to show solidarity with the citizens of Great Britain than having a breakfast of bangers and mash washed down with Newcastle Brown Ale. Go Sunday, June 11, 1 p.m., British Beer Co., 1071 S. Willow St., Manchester. See britishbeer.com.

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On Earth Day 1992, Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Indigo Girls — Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — performed at Foxboro Stadium in Massachusetts. The same group closed out Newport Folk Festival a few months later, this time with a name, Four Voices in Harmony. It would be their last official show for 25 years.

In February, the Four Voices announced a 10-date tour, with a penultimate stop at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford. In a recent phone interview, Amy Ray talked about the supergroup’s beginnings, performing at Baez’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction and planning for the tour planning.

How did the Four Voices tour come together?

We’d been touring with Joan a little bit over the past couple of years and we’d also done some shows with Chapin, so we were just trying to do something again, all four of us. …

Then when Joan was going to do the Rock Hall of Fame, she asked us to come and play with her in support of two songs she was doing.

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bigness of the whole event. We’re not used to that, we just kind of do our thing ... but I think that for Joan to get in was a big deal, important and good for women.

Who else do you think should be in there?

Carole King, as a great writer of huge hits ... Kate Bush, Sonic Youth. I had a list in my head — Siouxsee and the Banshees are not in there. I try to think of people that directed a vision and a change of culture at some point. … Kate Bush is a great example of someone who is massively accomplished, kind of a prodigy, and she really changed things. When you look at women — and men — stylistically as songwriters, she had a massive influence on what is happening today. I was glad to see Pearl Jam get in — they recognized SleaterKinney, Brandi Carlile. ... They’re always great at being feminist.

What was it like playing at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

We did “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” which is in our DNA and pretty easy, but we’d never done “Deportees” so we were How do you see the current role of protrying to learn harmonies at the last minute, test music? timing and all that. A big part was nerves; it’s Well, it’s so different now. Joan and I defalso a huge place. You get awestruck by the initely have those conversations all the time about what the role of the protest song is now, Four Voices – Joan Baez, Mary because I think she feels there are not as many Chapin Carpenter & Indigo Girls people singing in that way, and it’s not the same When: Friday, June 16, 7 p.m. kind of voice. ... Songs have a different place Where: Bank of NH Pavilion, 72 Meadin it, and I haven’t figured it out yet. I think owbrook Lane, Gilford it’s important to write about what is going on Tickets: $29.75-$69.75 at banknhpaviland talk about it and be informed and still have ion.com live performance together because that is how

What can people expect at the Four Voices show?

I have no idea. We’re in the beginning stages. I’m sure we’ll do “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” — stuff we have always done. … When we’re all up there at the same time, we’ll have five Chapin songs and five Joan songs, six or seven Indigo songs that we all learn together. We’re picking what those are.

Then each person has a few solo songs. …

We’re just working on what we think would be fun to do.

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Tab Benoit Thursday, June 8, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey Gaelic Storm Friday, June 9, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey Everclear w/ Vertical Horizon and Fastball Saturday, June 10, 7 p.m. Casino Ballroom Another Tequila Sunrise: Tribute to the Eagles Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre Recycled Percussion Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey Strafford Wind Symphony Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Rochester Opera House Albert Cummings Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry America Sunday, June 11, 7 p.m.

Cap Center Recycled Percussion Monday, June 12, 8 p.m. Flying Monkey An Evening with Diana Krall Wednesday, June 14, 7:30 p.m.

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Bank of NH Pavilion Rocks Island Blues Band Tuesday, June 20, 7 p.m. Franklin Opera House Kurt Vile with Julie Bryne Wednesday, June 21, 6 p.m.

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JONESIN’ CROSSWORDS BY MATT JONES

“Snappy Comebacks” — get your return on investment 16 Marriage starter 17 Gloss over, vocally 18 Grab a belief?

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31 Four-award initialism 32 Charmed 36 The whole thing 37 Airwaves regulatory gp.

40 Planetarium depiction 41 Call for Lionel Messi 42 Northern California draw 45 One of four on a diamond 46 Brothel owner on a pogo stick?

50 Word in multiple “Star Wars” titles 53 Neighbor of Morocco 54 Acid in proteins, informally 56 ___ District (Lima, Peru beach resort area)

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1 Lyft competitor, in most places 2 Bauhaus song “___ Lugosi’s Dead” 45 Sheep’s sound 47 Made out 3 “Don’t bet ___!”

48 Miracle-___ (garden brand) 4 ___ Soundsystem 49 “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” bassist 5 Stanley Cup org.

6 Sailors’ uprising Charles 7 “A Little Respect” synthpop band 50 Brand name in the smoothie world 8 They get greased up before a birthday 51 Server piece 9 A.L. Central team, on scoreboards 52 Morose song 10 Schnauzer in Dashiell Hammett 55 Gumbo veggie books 57 Uninspired 11 Swear word?

58 B in Greek Philosophy?

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All quotes are from Reflections: Life After learned to call each other and ask if, in truth, the White House, by Barbara Bush, born June they are attending. Many times they are not.

8, 1925.

Everyone else is not doing it.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) Anyone Gemini (May 21 – June 20) I had not can start their own website and many have. cooked in twelve years, so it is not surpris- I have more people tell me something they’ve ing that my pasta was NOT too good. In fact, heard, and I’ll say, “How interesting. That’s it was dreadful. George W. was polite, but his not true.” Then they’ll tell me they saw it on dad said, “I like my pasta rare.” Have your the Internet. … It is all about being accountpasta the way you like it. able. Sadly, many writers are not. Hold your Cancer (June 21 – July 22) My good sources accountable. friend and neighbor, Mildred Kerr, and I Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) We went went to Luby’s cafeteria for lunch. A perfect- to a dinner one night and I sat at the “I don’t ly strange, attractive woman came over, put know” and “What did you say?” end of the her face in mine, and said, “Aren’t you some- table. You’ve got to hold up your end of the body? I know I know you.” She never took conversation. a breath and continued, “Are you a teacher?

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) We did some Have you waited on me in a store? Didn’t you campaigning with Jeb, separately and together. Jeb is an inspired speaker and, in truth, is help me at Sears? Everybody is somebody.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Vince Gill is a the best in the family — but don’t tell the others really fine golfer. Many entertainers take up I said this. Everybody’s got their own skills. golf because they have all day in strange Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) For years towns to wait around for their evening perfor- I struggled through books that I didn’t like mances. Good time to pick up a new hobby? very much. For every good book I read, I Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Half our fam- am ashamed to say I read some awful ones. ily were Astros fans … and half were Ranger Finally, I have matured, and if I don’t like it fans because of Uncle George. … My dream after 100 pages, I put it away. There are so was that the Astros and the Rangers would many books that I want to read. Stick with the be in a World Series, and then I couldn’t lose. good ones.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) … I went to Get ready for some friendly competition.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Back during nearby Portland to shop for bedspreads and a the 1988 election, I had told George that if he few things we needed to make our guesthouse didn’t become president, not to worry, there a little more comfortable. I also went to a trewere ten things I really wanted to do and mendous bookstore to stock up for reading for couldn’t do if he were president. One was for the Greek cruise we were about to take…. We our springer spaniel, Millie to have puppies. then went on to Sam’s Club, a great, mind-bog“Easy,” he said, and Millie did have six pups gling store. Your mind is going to be boggled.

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(1) Andrew Bogut, signed as a free agent by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers in March and expected to be a key player in the team’s quest to defend its league championship, checked into his first game and played 58 seconds before crashing into a bench and breaking his leg. For that 58 seconds, the Cavs owe Bogut $383,000. (2) Jose Calderon signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors in March, but the NBA-leading Warriors changed their mind (for unforeseen reasons) two hours after the deal and released Calderon. For his 119 minutes as a Warrior (6:06 p.m. to 8:05 p.m.), Calderon was paid $415,000.

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• The inexplicable ease with which foreign hackers attack U.S. computers and security systems is finally grabbing the attention of officials. In a March Washington Post report, a technology expert from Britain’s King’s College London told a reporter of his astonishment to realize that the “security chips” on Congressional staff members’ identification badges are fake: The badge “doesn’t actually have a proper chip,” he said. “It has a picture of a chip.” Apparently, he added, “It’s (there) only to prevent chip envy.”

• Suzette Welton has been in prison in Alaska for 17 years based almost solely on now-debunked forensic evidence, but the state’s lack of a clemency process means she cannot challenge her life sentence unless she proves “complete” innocence. Evidence that the fire that killed her son was “arson” was based not on science but on widely believed (but wrong) folklore on how intentional fires burn differently than accidental ones. (The bogus arson “trademarks” are similar to those used to convict Texan Cameron Todd Willingham, who suffered an even worse fate than Welton’s: Willingham was executed for his “arson” in 2004.)

• Reverence for the lineage of asparagus continues in epic yearly Anglican church festivities in Worcester, England, where in April celebrants obtained a special blessing for the vegetable by local priests as a costumed asparagus pranced through the street praising the stalks as representing “the generosity of God.” Critics (including clergy from other parishes) likened the parades to a Monty Python sketch, and “an infantile pantomime,” with one pleading plaintively, “Really, for (God’s) sake,” can’t the Church of England offer “more dignified” worship?

• In May, as Taunton, Massachusetts, police were about to arrest Amy Rebello-McCarthy, 39, for DUI after she left the road and crashed through several mailboxes (with the crash causing all of her tires to deflate), she, laughing, told officers there was one other thing:

She had a bearded dragon in her bra (where it was riding while she drove). The lizard was turned over to animal control.

• Felicia Nevins complained to reporters in May that the Pasco County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office had improperly drawn attention to her on a matter of a purely personal nature that she had called for help, concerned that the sperm she was storing for in-vitro fertilization (kept under liquid nitrogen in a thermos) might explode. Deputies had placed the details (but not her name) on the office’s Facebook page, but the Tampa Bay Times deduced her name from public sources.

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Skills: (1) In May, the British tribunal dealing with student cheating rejected the appeal of a law student who was caught taking an in-class exam with her textbook open (permitted) but containing handwritten notes in the margins not permitted, but written in invisible ink legible via the UV light on her pen. (2) On testing day in March for Romania’s 14- and 15-year-olds, administrators of the country’s popular DEX online dictionary, acting on suspicion, changed the definitions of two words likely to be improperly looked up by cheaters during the exam. “(H)undreds” of school searches for the words took place that morning, but administrators were still mulling an appropriate punishment for the cheaters (who were, of course, easily identified by their misapplication of the suspect words).

Awesome!

• India’s Supreme Court approved an order recently that forced bars and liquor stores to close down if they were located less than 500 meters (1,640 feet) from state or national

highways. India Times reported in April that the Aishwarya Bar in North Paravoor, Kerala, is still (legally) operating at its old location even though it is clearly within the 500-meter restricted area. The owner explained that since he owns the land behind the bar, too, he had constructed a “serpentine” wooden maze in back and front that requires any entering customer to take the equivalent number of steps it would take to walk 500 meters. (A tax office official accepted the arrangement.)

• Canadian Anton Pilipa, 39, who suffers from schizophrenia, was discovered safe in the Amazon rainforest state of Rondonia, Brazil, in November 2016, which was the first sighting of him since his disappearance in March 2012. He was unable to communicate well and had no ID or money, but his family has actively been searching for him and believe the only way he could have traveled from the family home in Scarborough, Ontario, to Brazil (6,300 miles) was by hitchhiking or walking. (Bonus: The area in which he was found is noted for alligators and snakes.)

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Secrets of Highly Successful Business Owners: When Michelle Esquenazi was asked by a New York Post reporter in September (2013) why her all-female crew of licensed bounty hunters (Empire Bail Bonds of New York) is so successful at tricking bail-jumpers into the open, she offered a euphemism for a female body part. “It’s timeless,” she counseled. “Of course he’s going to open his door for a nice piece of (deleted).”

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NIGHT OF COMEDY Orlando Baxter & Drew Dunn

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Thurs., June 15

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8:00 p.m. $18

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JOSH RITTER

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MARC COHN

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EAGLEMANIA - Sat, June 24 World’s Greatest Eagles Tribute Band

JIM MESSINA - Fri, July 21 Country-Folk-Rock Legend

MIKE ZITO

Opener: Gina Sicilia

Films & Looking Ahead

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Sat., June 17

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RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER

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