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Six furniture makers joined together three decades ago to form the NH Furniture Masters Association, creating a new space to share their craft with the world. The organization and its members have helped shape the growth and evolution of the studio furniture movement. To celebrate their contributions, the Furniture Masters Association is holding a “Founders Exhibition” showcasing the work of its original six members – Brian Braskie, Lenore Howe, David Lamb, Terry Moore, Jere Osgood and Bill Thomas – and kicking off a year of exhibitions and events culminating in the group’s autumn show at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester.

The “Founders Exhibition” opened on Jan. 22 and will run until March 28, with an opening reception taking place on Friday Feb. 7 from 5 p.m – 7 p.m. at the NH Furniture Masters Association’s gallery, located at 49 S. Main St. in Concord.

The nonprofit remains dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the centuries old tradition of fine furniture making. The group of over 25 professional furniture makers, promotes the growth and sales of fine furniture made by its members through exhibitions and educational initiatives including Prison Outreach Programs at the NH State Prison for Men, Maine State Prison, and NH Correctional Facility for Women.

About the founders: David Lamb grew up at Canterbury Shaker Village and learned his craft as an

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Terry Moore, a self-taught artisan who came to New Hampshire from Wales in the 1970s, belongs to the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and has formerly served as president of the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers. He designs and builds furniture on commission out of his shop in Wilmot.

apprentice to a European furniture master before attending Boston University’s Program in Artisanry. The former artist laureate of New Hampshire now builds furniture on commission at his shop in Canterbury. He has won design awards for his work and been featured in national publications.

Terry Moore, a selftaught artisan who came to New Hampshire from Wales in the 1970s, belongs to the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and has formerly served as pres-

ident of the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers.

He once toured as a musician for a rock opera and now designs and builds furniture on commission out of his shop in Wilmot. Moore cites early Korean furniture design, the French Art Deco movement, and 20th century English craftsman Edward Barnsley as his inspirations.

Bill Thomas has been creating one-of-a-kind furniture since 1979, with his work spanning eighteenthcentury styles ranging from

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New England Queen Anne to Baltimore Sheraton. A graduate of the North Bennet Street School in Boston, the former chairman of the Furniture Masters Association enjoys building his furniture by hand and working closely with clients as he fashions his designs. His work has been featured in many auctions and exhibition held by the organization.

Jere Osgood grew up on Staten Island, New York before studying architecture at the University of Illinois and then enrolling in the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of American Craftsmen program. He opened a studio in Con-

necticut, taught at Boston University, and moved to New Hampshire, where he crafted furniture in Wilton until the end of his life. Recognized as a leading studio furniture maker and instructor, he passed away in Peterborough in 2023.

Brian Braskie and Lenore Howe spent 42 years as furniture makers together and created products our of their North Woods Chair Shop that now reside in places across the world. The couple, who lives in Canterbury, studied Shaker design, specialized in chairmaking, and garnered national recognition.

They now spend their time as gardeners.

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By RACHEL WACHMAN The music festival season kicked off last month for students at John Stark Regional High School in Weare. Several band and choral musicians attended the 20th annual Granite State Invitational Music Festival on Jan. 9 alongside students from several other New Hampshire schools. John Stark students also participated in the Chamber Festival at the University of New Hampshire on Jan. 11.

This year’s festival attendees from John Stark include Dylan Burke (Classical All-State), Eloisa Osgood (Jazz All-State), Zane Talbot (Classical All-State, All-New England), Elizabeth Westfahl (Classical All-State), Emmerson Brown (Classical All-State, Chamber festival) and Nick Tetro (Classical All-State, All-New England).

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musicians is the Jazz AllState Festival, taking place Feb. 6-8 at Pinkerton Academy. Then, the New England Music Festival Association’s Concert Festival will be held on March 13-25 in Middletown, Connecticut.

The musical season will culminate in the Classical AllState Festival in Concord on April 3-5.

Dan Williams, instrumental music director at John Stark, expressed pride in his students’ accomplishments.

“As I near the end of my teaching career, I’m seeing the fruits of many years of labor in our growing music program, an increase in the number of students from our small school who are able to make it into these festivals, and an increase in the number of students in our program who are pursuing performing arts-related fields post-high school,”

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John Stark Regional High School music students are participating in a slew of music festivals throughout the spring of 2025.

Students Richard Desforges, Dylan Burke, Elka Fuller, Eloisa Osgood (back row), Charlotte Matzke, Giana Farren, Rebecca Scoledge, Berkley Newcomb, Elena Hernandez, Emily Taylor, Blair Schou (front row) attended the 20th annual Granite State Invitational Music Festival on Jan. 9.

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The gathering will include remarks about recent rehabililtation projects and ongoing initiatives at the historic estate, as well as preservation activity in the surrounding neighborhood.

The meet-up comes after a similar gathering in October. These events aim to

offer insight into the long, diverse history of creative preservation activity in Concord by individuals, developers, civic groups, and local and state governments.

"We’re proud of our rehabilitated mills, reuse of the City WaterWorks, rescue of the Rolfe Barn in Penacook, recent stabilization of the last-of-its-kind Gasholder, and all the care that people put into caring for our terrific housing stock, Main Street buildings, and much more," said Liz Durfee Hengen, preservation consultant and long-time city

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Kimball Jenkins is a community cultural center located in downtown Concord, NH. The 3-acre campus is a historic estate with public gardens, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The organization is celebrating 40 years of creating strong relationships within the local community through art, history, and culture.

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Spanning three days, six ice rinks, and eight divisions, the 14th annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship and Winter Festival will bring together hockey players from around the state for a weekend of competition and celebration. If the weather holds up, this will be the first year the tournament has been outside since 2022.

Inaugurated in 2001, the tournament commemorates the first organized ice hockey game in the U.S., held in 1883 at the St. Paul School in Concord. Every year, the event hosts approximately 95 teams and 700 hockey players for one of the biggest hockey happenings of the winter season. The tournament, based at White Park in Con-

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The 1883 Black Ice Hockey Association transforms White Park in Concord into multiple ice rinks for their annual tournament in January.

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This year’s championship will take place Feb. 7-9.

“The true enjoyment of the event being held at White Park makes you realize the fun and why we do this, to see people’s enjoy-

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“Every year, we’re amazed by the results and the generosity for our friends and neighbors in need.”

For every item collected, the bank pledged $2.00 to community food pantries, amounting to $5,000 in donations. Thanks to the generosity of its customers and community, Merrimack County Savings Bank made $6,500 in donations to the following food pantries: The Friendly Kitchen in Concord, Bow

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Merrimack County Savings Bank's nine branches collected 2,500 new and handmade mittens, gloves, hats and scarves to distribute to local non-profits in need of winter essentials as part of its annual Mitten Tree Drive. Niki Boutin and Deb Stoodley from The Merrimack from the Nashua branch received more than 200 Mitten Tree donations from the knitters at Hunt Community in Nashua.

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history Feb. 6, 2003: An overnight maintenance worker at the McDonald’s Restaurant in Penacook is severely beaten by two men in an attempted robbery early in the morning, the police say.

After the incident, Dana VanDemark, 48, of Hill, is taken to Concord Hospital where he undergoes surgery for face and head injuries.

Two men, Mitchell J. Edward, 20, of Elkins Street, Franklin, and Travis Turcotte, 23, of South State Street, Concord, will be arraigned on several charges related to the robbery.

Feb. 6, 1976: Federal Judge Hugh Bownes declares New Hampshire’s public school prayer law unconstitutional and issues a permanent injunction against recitation of prayers in schools.

Feb. 6, 1901: The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is formed. The group is a reaction to failed governmental efforts in Concord and

Washington to promote safe and regenerative forestry policies. Years of fires, floods and clear-cutting have left the state’s northern forest in terrible condition.

Feb. 7, 2002: Hundreds of families weathering economic hardship across New Hampshire are struggling to heat their homes this winter because additional federal heating assistance is being withheld by the Bush administration, the Monitor reports. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg and U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass have each made several appeals in recent months to Bush administration officials to release the money.

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Feb. 8, 1897: Concord’s first movie plays at White’s Opera House. The show includes bathers at Rahway, N.J., a watermelon-eating contest, a mounted policeman stopping a runaway horse and a three-minute boxing match featuring Gentleman Jim Corbett.

“There is nothing fake about it,” the Monitor reviewer reports, adding that the pictures are “vivid and truthful.”

Feb. 8, 1847: Franklin Pierce addresses a large meeting called in Concord to advocate “a vigorous and determined prosecution of the war with Mexico. Pierce will win a brigadier general’s commission, and his war exploits will help propel him to the presidency in 1852.

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