New Hampshire Magazine April-May 2020

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Contents

April/May 2020

Top Doctors 2020 38 First Things

from left: photos by joe klementovich, courtesy; inset from top left: by kendal j. bush, jenn bakos, courtesy and matthew mead

4 Editor’s Note 6 Contributors Page 8 Feedback

46 603 Navigator

603 Informer

603 Living

10 Mountain Town Beer

28 Author Jeff Sharlet’s

82 Spring

31 Politics

is this the end of the firstin-the-nation primary?

36 Transcript

by David Mendelsohn

38 Situation: Critical

The state’s smallest hospital, Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, provides crucial care in the North Country, and yet still faces challenges to remaining open.

by Karen A. Jamrog photos by Joe Klementovich

46 Living Legend

When you think of Bigfoot, grainy, dubious tabloid photos come to mind, but Pamula Pierce Barcelou of Claremont is bringing the beast to the big screen via the restoration of her father’s 1972 film “The Legend of Boggy Creek.”

by Jack Kenny

54 Top Doctors 2020

The results of the annual Castle Connolly Top Doctors poll are in.

See who made this year’s list.

“this brilliant darkness”

by Rick Broussard

Features Meet belly dancer Angela Flagg of the Barefoot Truth Dance Company.

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by James Pindell

Go north of the notch

32 Blips

nh in the news

by Erica Thoits photos by Kendal J. Bush

by Casey McDermott

14 Top Events

33 Artisan

by Emily Heidt

by Susan Laughlin

16 Our Town

34 What Do You Know?

Small venues

Lancaster

Lilac time

by Matthew Mead

Shannon Wallis

by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers

86 Local Dish

vegan whoopie pies

recipe by Patti Dann

88 Seniority

moving to a community

20 Food & Drink

by Lynne Snierson

90 Health

crisis in the er

by Karen A. Jamrog

92 Calendar of Events What to do this month

edited by Emily Heidt

Mr Kim’s

by Jess Saba photos by Jenn Bakos

26 Sips

local libations

by Michael-Hauptly Pierce

98 Dine Out good eats

Pondering the daniel webster birth place

by Marshall Hudson

ON THE COVER Dr. Henry Pallatroni of Portsmouth was selected as a Top Doctor in the specialty of neurosurgery. See the entire list starting on page 54. Photo by Kendal J. Bush

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Mr. ambassador

by Bill Burke

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Time flies when you’re having fun.

Or not. The last time I subjected myself to the trial of having an “official” portrait taken was in the summer of 2009. That shot has aged much better than I have, but it was time to let it go.

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he process of letting go began last issue with a placeholder photo taken at a high school class reunion (not mine) by my friend and photographer P.T. Sullivan. He had caught me looking up from a gin and tonic with a slight smirk. The look seemed appropriate for someone who had, by all appearances, aged 11 hard years in the month since the previous issue.

I had agonized over the decision to change my public face for a while, and then went with the smirk, just to get it over with.

Of course, it’s important to remember that such moments of self-consciousness usually only matter to oneself. Folk singer Pete Seeger used to get crowds to sing out loud along with him by reminding them of this fact. “You may think everyone’s looking at you when you sing,” said Seeger, “but everyone around you is too busy thinking that everyone is looking at them.”

Of course, the editor’s note isn’t usually the most well-read page in a publication anyway.

Who really cares what the editor looks like or has to say about the contents of a magazine?

If that person is doing his or her job, the rest of the pages should speak for themselves.

So I wasn’t really surprised when the only person to even comment on my new casual photo last month was my mother-in-law. She wasn’t impressed, just for the record.

But above, in all its graying glory, is my new official portrait. Yes, I’ve gained weight and given up on finding an executive cut for my thinning hair. On the plus side, the tie I’m wearing once belonged to the late commissioner of cultural resources Van McLeod.

It’s a model they sell at the New Hampshire Historical Society gift shop for $30, but I got mine free by attending Van’s memorial service back in 2016 and picking it out of a bunch his wife was giving away. I don’t wear ties very often, now that I can get away with it, but this one will always be special.

I know people who cannot take a bad photo. No matter what’s going on with their hair or mouth, they look like the camera has a crush on them. I’m not one of those people.

I look most like myself when I’m in motion.

My facial impression is the sum total of a bunch of odd tics that seem to pass over my features like weather patterns. Every now and then they coalesce and the camera captures me the way I like to think I look. Those occasions are getting rarer of late, but they still happen. I like this shot (by my friend and photographer John Hession) because I look interested but just a little skeptical. I’m amused but in an intellectual way — not the goofy way that my amusement usually manifests on my face.

The fact that this magazine is so often a library of faces of local people from all walks of life occurs to me, and I wonder how often (or rarely) we have given those subjects the same consideration I’ve given myself here, taking the time to find just the right moment between forced “picture faces” to find the one I chose to represent me.

For everyone who has been poorly depicted by us, I apologize. It’s the least I can do here at this moment when I reveal my own new ain’t-perfect-but-it’ll-have-to-do look.

But enough about me, what about the contents of this brand-new issue of New Hampshire Magazine you hold in your hands?

Well, you’ll read about the state’s top doctors and its smallest hospital and, just for fun, about our state’s legendary population of Bigfoot (Bigfeet?). There’s not enough room to go into detail about all that, now that I’ve rambled on about my own face for 300 words or so, but really, who cares what an editor has to say about the contents of a magazine?

If that person is doing his job, the rest of the pages should speak for themselves.

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About Face

Contributors Before calling the Monadnock Region home, photographer and frequent contributor Kendal J. Bush, who took the cover photo and photos for “Living Legend,” traveled the world as an editor and videographer for the National Geographic Channel and NBC. She combines years of experience as a photojournalist with her film school education to yield colorful, creative portraits, and corporate, wedding and event photography.

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Longtime freelance writer and reporter Jack Kenny braved the wilds of Claremont to research our beastly feature story “Living Legend.”

Regular contributor Joe Klementovich took the photos for the feature story “Status: Critical.” See more at klementovichphoto.com.

Jess Saba, who wrote “Food & Drink,” grew up between the White Mountains and the Seacoast. She uncovers stories of all types across the state.

David Mendelsohn, who has been contributing his unique portraiture to us for years, once again delights the eyes in this month’s “Transcript.”

Stylist, author, photographer and lifestyle editor Matthew Mead produced this month’s “Living” on springtime favorite, the lilac.

Longtime New Hampshire Magazine “Health” contributor and freelance writer Karen A. Jamrog wrote the feature story “Status: Critical.”

About | Behind the Scenes at New Hampshire Magazine As you may have noticed from our cover date and folio, we are combining our April and May issues this month (our calendar and other timely sections have been beefed up accordingly) so we can bring you the second of our 2020 special editions, Best Places New Hampshire, in May. Where Lifelong New Hampshire (in February) focused on personal stories from those who call the Granite State home, Best Places will cover all of our favorite spots that make our state the unique, wonderful place we all love. This issue is for newcomers and old-timers alike, providing guides, maps, tributes and insider reports on the lay of the land.

We’ve been exploring our towns and wilderness for decades, and with our band of literary and photographic contributors, we’ll bring new perspectives on locations that you may think you know well or introduce you to places near at hand that you never knew existed.

Knowing where it’s at in New Hampshire has been a hallmark of New Hampshire Magazine for 20 years. Now, with Best Places New Hampshire, we’re sharing our secrets with our thousands of devoted monthly readers and online viewers.

Learn more about our exciting new project at nhmagazine.com.

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Send letters to Editor Rick Broussard, New Hampshire Magazine, 150 Dow St. Manchester, NH 03101 or email him at editor@nhmagazine.com.

Feedback

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Don’t Take New Hampshire for Graphite

I enjoyed Marshall Hudson’s article on the Pierce graphite mine [“What Do You Know?” March 2020].

Marshall may be interested in other New Hampshire graphite mines. My website on New Hampshire minerals, mindatnh.org, has photos of graphite specimens from 15 New Hampshire localities.

Tom Mortimer Amherst

Meatless Marketing

I was very excited to read Mariela Marrero’s article “Learn to Go Meatless” in the March issue of New Hampshire Magazine [“Local Dish”]. I was less than excited to read the entire article and still not have a clue where “The Hungry Dragonfly” was located. It seems to me that Marketing 101 should cover “make it easy for the reader to find you” without having to run to the internet to research your business. For those other readers wondering the same thing, it’s Rochester.

Darlene Johnston Manchester Editor’s Note: The Hungry Dragonfly would be a great name for a restaurant, but in fact it’s the name of Marrero’s website where she blogs about meatless meals (with a Latin flair) and features recipes and incredible photos of her culinary creations. Check out The Hungry Dragonfly on Instagram as well.

The Common Man Speaks

My name is Alex Ray, owner of the Common Man Family of Restaurants.

I received the New Hampshire Magazine in the mail this month and was happy to see Claremont being featured [“Our Town,” June 2019]. The local spots highlighted were some good ones, including mention of our inn and restaurant on the Sugar River. After reading the article, I wanted to call a little more attention to the significant efforts that have gone into revitalizing the mills and river area. I have often said that Claremont was lucky enough to be overlooked by HUD and other government “improvement” projects, which to me meant that its great wide 8

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main streets, historic buildings and unique residences remained unspoiled.

I remember driving through the area years ago and falling in love with its potential. Then I went to the town planning board and fell in love with them — they had such passion for restoring their town!

When I made a pitch to my partner Rusty McLear and gave him a tour of the abandoned textile and Woven Label mill buildings we would one day own together, it was a slow, quiet ride back home with him and my architect and contractor ... very quiet (“Is he kidding?”). We ended up investing over $16 million into the revitalization in partnership with the city that made significant upgrades with a parking garage, pedestrian bridge and other infrastructure.

Yes, we could’ve gone to Nashua, Hanover, the Seacoast, but I love to save old buildings, and I thought our investment could help Claremont turn the corner economically, given its proximity to the robust, lively Hanover and Upper Valley.

In closing, thank you for featuring Claremont and for your series that is increasing awareness of the history, beauty and great potential of our many small towns that can use this great exposure.

Alex Ray, founder/owner The Common Man Family

Way-Out-There-Weird

You’ve outdone yourselves with this new magazine [Lifelong New Hampshire 2020].

I could hardly put it down to do the necessities of life here at home. It has kept me entertained while smiling, grinning and often shaking my head both “no” and “yes.”

I’d hardly realized how many ways one can approach life here in New Hampshire until this edition of New Hampshire Magazine delivered its plethora of common and not-so-common ways. A few of the spokespersons are way-out-there-weird, to run the opposite of the conservative holdback-your-urges types.

Thank you, and I look forward to more in future editions.

Char Delabar Cornish

Wolfeboro Follies

I live in Wolfeboro and just read the article [“Our Town”] in the March New Hampshire Magazine. I am not sure when you visited

Wolfeboro to write the article, but several places you recommend are no longer in Wolfeboro. The Hole In The Wall is gone and Winnipesaukee Chocolates are no longer located in town.

When you next visit Wolfeboro, stop by the newly totally renovated Lake Wentworth Inn (old Allen A) and give them a shout-out in your magazine.

We love the magazine and read it cover to cover when we receive it.

Sally Gilbert Wolfeboro Editor’s note: Thanks for the corrections.

Sadly, the Hole In The Wall has closed and while Winnipesaukee Chocolates no longer has a downtown store, you can still find their uniquely local chocolate bars in a number of specialty shops in town.

Missing Museum

Re: Wolfeboro Our Town — How could you have missed mentioning the Wright Museum of World War II in this article?

Shame on you!

Calvin Knickerbocker Nashua Trench art from the Wright Museum exhibit “Shaped

by Conflict” that runs from May 1 to June 22.

Editor’s Note: You can’t hit all the good spots in a place known as the “Oldest Summer Resort in America,” but it has been too long since we gave the Wright Museum some well-deserved attention. The museum is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year by expanding its education center and exhibit and archival spaces in time for a May 1 opening. For May 13, they plan an admission-free open house for the public, sponsored

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603 Navigator “Instead of water we got here a draught of beer ... a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once — which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.” — Henry David Thoreau

The new taproom at Schilling Beer Co. in Littleton compliments the original brewpub located right next door. Both overlook the Ammonoosuc River.

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Photos by Kendal J. Bush

Top Events 14 Our Town 18 Food & Drink 20 Sips 26

Mountain Town Beer There’s plenty happening in the north

BY ERICA THOITS If you work at New Hampshire Magazine, chances are people will ask you where to go, eat, drink, shop, etc. When it comes to beer, some recommendation-seekers are still surprised that there’s first-rate craft beer in the state at all, though that happens less and less as breweries continue to open and offer consistently excellent beer. When I tell people that my newest favorite region for brewery hopping is Littleton and the nearby towns, the skepticism returns. No disrespect to the Seacoast — it remains a great place to visit a large number of breweries in a small area — but I’m encouraging you to explore north of the Notch.

On a ski trip with friends and photographer Kendal J. Bush in February, we visited three — Rek’-lis Brewing Company in Bethlehem, the new tasting room at Schilling Beer Co. in Littleton and Iron Furnace Brewing in Franconia. Additionally, you’ll find Copper Pig Brewery in Lancaster and Coös Brewing Company in Colebrook (see “Our Town” on page 16 for more about Copper Pig). Go south down 93 just a bit, back through Franconia Notch, and there’s One Love Brewery and Woodstock Inn Brewery in the ski town of Lincoln. In winter, the après-ski vibe is strong. In all seasons, the area’s love for New Hampshire’s mountains comes through in rustic décor and crowds of folks who might have just come in from the trails.

Breweries aren’t only opening up north, they’re expanding. Rek’-lis, for instance, was started in 2016 by Ian Dowling and Marlaina Renton in a 12-by-12 shed. That grew into a brewpub, which (while still open) is undergoing another round of construction. Our large group of eight managed to find space at the cozy downstairs bar, though by midafternoon on a Saturday every table and bar seat was filled both upstairs and down. Another sure sign of nhmagazine.com | April/May 2020

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LOCAL BEER

Photographer Kendal J. Bush momentarily crashed the upstairs private party happening at Iron Furnace Brewing in Franconia to capture this photo of the taproom’s bar area.

More beer coming soon is a welcome prospect at the expanding Rek’-lis Brewing Company in Bethlehem.

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popularity? The line of folks holding pagers waiting by the door as we filed out.

Schilling, housed in an 18th-century grist mill in Littleton, opened a modern brewing facility and tasting room next door. Our crew enjoyed flights both by the fire and outside, wrapped in provided warm blankets, on the porch overlooking the icy Ammonoosuc River. After, we visited the original brewpub for charcuterie, possibly the best pretzels in the state and wood-fired, Neapolitan-style pizza.

In Franconia, New Hampshire’s only remaining blast furnace, a 200-plus-year-old iron smelter built of dry stone, stands by Gale River. Just across the road is its namesake — the relatively new Iron Furnace Brewing.

Opened by a group of friends who grew up in the North Country, the taproom is open, airy and, we discovered, the best place of the three we visited for a larger party. The upstairs loft was booked for a private event, but there were plenty of spacious tables on the first floor.

Though it was too cold to sit outside even with the large heaters, an outdoor area will offer even more room when the temperature gets a bit higher than 20.

The actual beers at all three breweries rotate often, all the better for repeat visits. Next time you’re planning a beer-cation, consider the mountain town breweries. The beer tastes even better after a day spent skiing (or hiking). NH

Get There Rek’-lis Brewing Company 2085 Main St., Bethlehem reklisbrewing.com

Schilling Beer Co.

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The upstairs room at Rek’-lis Brewing Company

Iron Furnace Brewing 115 Main. St., Franconia ironfurnacebrewing.com

More to Explore Coös Brewing Company 13 Merrill St., Colebrook coosbeer.com

Copper Pig Brewery 1 Middle St., Lancaster copperpigbrewery.com

There are so many more great breweries, both in northern areas and in all other regions. Visit nhmagazine.com/beer for a comprehensive map.

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TOP EVENTS

April/May | Picks

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Up Close and Personal

From live music and plays to stand-up comedy, these intimate venues allow you to experience a variety of entertainment up close and personal.

“The 39 Steps”

March 27-April 12 Hatbox Theatre, Concord

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a spy novel, add a healthy dollop of “Monty Python,” a dash of the Marx brothers, and a pinch of “Three Stooges,” and you have “The 39 Steps.” This two-time Tony and Drama Desk award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 characters (played by a talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, bawdy limericks, missing pinky fingers, inexplicable accents and some good old-fashioned romance. hatboxnh.com

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Steven Rogers

April 18, The Loft, Portsmouth

Originally from Syracuse, New York, Steven Rogers is a New York City-based comedian who’s been making people laugh for most of his life. Rogers made his national TV debut in 2019 on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and was featured at multiple comedy festivals such as Lucy Fest and the Rogue Island Comedy Festival. He also hosts a popular anxiety-themed podcast with fellow comedian Andrew Schiavone called “Panic Attacking.” Rogers’ comedic ability has established him as a feature

Return to the days of hair bands with Broadway favorite “Rock of Ages” at the beautiful Rochester Opera House.

act in comedy clubs and also as a regular opener for Brian Regan in theaters across the country. themusichall.org

Trek Geeks Live: Why “Star Trek” Matters

April 26, Bank of New Hampshire Stage, Concord

For over 50 years “Star Trek” has provided an optimistic view of humanity through the lens of science fiction. The stories have captivated us and the characters have inspired us in 750 episodes and 13 feature films.

Join Dan Davidson and Bill Smith for their live podcast recording that will celebrate “Star Trek” and its fandom. They will discuss its impact on society over the last half-century and why the franchise is more relevant today. banknhstage.com

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that all three marriages are on the brink of disaster, and all three women are facing the challenges of their lives. Nicky’s husband has been indicted for embezzlement, Molly’s husband is stalking her and Debra’s husband is leaving her for another woman. When the men mistakenly lock themselves in a basement meat locker, the women are faced with a life-or-death decision: Should they leave the men out in the cold or let them thaw? One by one the women make their choices with more than a little help from one another. mdplayhouse.com

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Roomful of Blues

May 15, Tupelo Music Hall, Derry

Comedian Steven Rogers will perform at The Music Hall’s Loft.

“Rock of Ages”

April 30-May 17, Rochester Opera House, Rochester

This musical takes you back to the times of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair. This five-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway show features the hits of bands including Night Ranger, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and more. rochesteroperahouse.com

“The Smell of the Kill”

Roomful of Blues has toured the world and recorded over 25 albums, and even though the lineup has changed over the years, the band has always been one of the most joyful blues ensembles in the world.

The winning combination of jump, swing, blues, R&B and soul remains their calling card, as does their ability to fill the dance floor. Grab your friends and family and get ready to dance the night away. tupelomusichall.com

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3. Trek Geeks Live, Concord

May 14-24, M&D Playhouse, North Conway

4. “Rock of Ages,” Rochester

“The Smell of the Kill” revolves around Nicky, Debra and Molly, who have tolerated one another during once-a-month dinners for years. While their unseen spouses play golf in the dining room, the women exchange confidences for the first time, revealing

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OUR TOWN

Go North

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Lured by lovely Lancaster

BY BARBARA RADCLIFFE ROGERS

W

e entered Lancaster on Route 3 over a shoulder of Mt. Prospect, where we stopped to visit the summer estate of John Wingate Weeks, now Weeks State Park. Sitting at the summit of the 2,037-foot mountain, the estate overlooks a 360-degree panorama of Lancaster, the Presidential Range and the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River.

Much of that landscape is part of the vast White Mountain National Forest, which — along with the entire National Forest system — was created as a result of the untiring efforts of Weeks himself. His home, carriage house and round stone tower combine to form a beautifully preserved example of an early 20th-century summer estate, and exhibits inside tell more about

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his conservation work.

Five miles of trails weave through the park, one of which circles the base of Mt. Prospect and connects to the 12-mile Lancaster portion of the New Hampshire Heritage Trail. The trail continues into town, with markers noting some historic sites, including the 1862 Mechanic Street Covered Bridge over the Israel River. A second, Mt. Orne Covered Bridge, crosses the Connecticut River from Lancaster to Lunenburg, Vermont. That double-span bridge was built in 1911 to replace the one destroyed in 1908 by a logjam created by timber from the northern forests carried on the rushing waters of the spring melt-off.

The smaller Israel River runs through the center of Lancaster, beneath the stone and

brick walls of Copper Pig Brewery, known for its Little Piggy Porter, Kilkenny Irish Red and Ice Jam Lager, as well as seasonal brews. The “pig-centric” menu includes brown-ale-braised pulled pork sliders and tacos of locally sourced pork marinated in Kilkenny Red. We noted that the pretzels and breads are from the Polish Princess Bakery, just up Main Street.

Sharing the former mill building is the William Rugh Gallery, which represents painter Ed Widmayer, art photographer Fletcher Manley, engraver Kathleen Cantin and furniture craftsmen Peter Guest and Dana Southworth, along with other artists and crafts people. Across Middle Street, a former bank is now the home of Simon the Tanner, which carries quality boots, shoes and clothing for the outdoors.

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Farther along the brick mercantile building that forms one side of Main Street is the Polish Princess Bakery, which began in 2008 in the kitchen of Magdalena Randall.

It has grown to an inviting bakery/café featuring buttery Polish and European pastries and a selection of French breads, hearty ryes and sourdoughs made from natural unbleached flours and freshly ground flours milled locally from organic grains. Pastries include fruit kolache, Polish poppyseed rolls and Lithuanian honey cake, along with scones, lemon tarts and sticky buns.

Browsing in Israel River Trading Post, we found an impressive collection of antiques, curiosities and vintage treasures.

That reminded us of another trove of antiques and vintage goods that we had discovered several years ago on our way to the Lancaster Fair. Potato Barn Antiques is not just an antiques shop. It’s more like a collection of shops, with entire rooms devoted to single themes, such as antique tools or lighting fixtures from all eras. There are sections devoted to quilts and textiles, books, art, advertising and paper collectibles, Christmas and other holidays. An entire sub-shop called Lady’s Slipper Vintage is filled with ladies’ clothing, hats, costume jewelry and accessories dating from the 1860s through the 1960s. It’s like a museum where you can take home the exhibits.

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to find it we left the downtown on Middle Street and Grange Road. The Garland Mill has been in continuous operation since 1856, driven by water from Garland Brook. Power transmission through shafting, pulleys and belts uses original technology dating from the Civil War era.

One of the last operating examples of its kind in New England, the family-owned Garland Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Timber frame construction is the specialty today, and in an open shed near the mill, we found mortised joints in progress. More than just a historical curiosity, Garland Mill’s use of old technologies has made them a net energy producer.

When the system is not used for milling, it generates power that’s sent to the grid and on an annual basis the mill produces more electricity than it uses. NH

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the society’s Wilder-Holton House Museum, which occupies the oldest house in Coös County, and the first two-story house built in this part of New Hampshire. For its first decade, until a meetinghouse was built, the house was the scene of both town meetings and church services. The 1780 farmhouse has the further distinction of being one of the few places in the state that are believed to have been a station on the Underground Railroad. Because harboring fugitive slaves was illegal even in the north, there is little documentation of safe houses, but as the owner was an active abolitionist it is relatively certain that this was one.

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on the National Register of Historic Places.

Displays inside include antique tools, furniture, decorative items and utensils, including a hand-cranked vacuum cleaner. It’s not all ancient history — the kitchen is fitted out in tools and décor of the 1940s and ’50s.

Another of the older homes in Lancaster is the Stone House, easy to spot on Main Street for its granite walls and elegant pillared façade. It was built about 1840 from blocks taken from one giant boulder, a glacial erratic that stood near Lancaster’s border with Northumberland.

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Mr Kim’s A lab for Korean-inspired meals

By Jess Saba, photos by jenn bakos

Mr Kim’s is located at 107 State St. in Portsmouth.

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ith dark, moody jewel tones, playful framed art and the slogan “positive vibes only,” Mr Kim’s restaurant in Portsmouth provides a unique backdrop for exploring Korean dishes. Suggest this restaurant to your friends, and you may be the hero of the night. Or maybe you’re looking to learn a little more about your date — there are plenty of chances to see if they’re game to try something new, like yakitori, bibimbap, banchans or mochi.

To spot Mr Kim’s from the street, look for a corner building with a bold orange-red door and a white pointillistic Korean tiger mural spray-painted on the black brick façade. Amidst the prolific Colonial-era red brick that makes up most of Portsmouth, Mr Kim’s stands out.

It took four visits for me to fully understand what makes Mr Kim’s special. The first trip I went solo — I sat at the downstairs bar and talked with the bar manager Kevin Walsh. He recommended milk punch, pork dumplings ($11) and the dessert option at the time, the chocolate mochi cake with raspberry sauce. It was a perfect small meal.

I suggest going back a few times and easing into the menu. With Chef Gary Kim’s range of influences and scope of culinary skills, it can take a few attempts to match your tastes with his dishes. And sometimes, his drive to create new dishes means a few things need a little more perfecting, though they are certainly worth trying if only to be part of his ongoing effort to achieve culinary perfection.

On a cold January night, I brought a friend for a second visit. We both ordered full entrées, tempted by the promise of comfort foods to shake off the cold. Both dishes had elements that were excellent. My friend ordered a delicious bolognese with slow-cooked tender meat. It was just a bit too heavy for him to finish.

So, why did I keep going back for a third and fourth time? Because this restaurant is interesting and I wanted more. Each element is made incredibly well because Kim is a talented chef.

On my fourth visit, there were a number of times during the meal when I laughed out loud. For instance, nestled into a bowl of charred broccoli, Japanese eggplant and candied almond slices, I discovered a bright orange orb — carrot mochi ($11). With the prongs of my fork, I poked the dumpling. It gave a little. nhmagazine.com | April/May 2020

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I broke its skin and stretched the carrot purée up, up, up, until it snapped back into place. I tasted the lovely flavor and laughed. I hadn’t known what to expect — I’d never had mochi like this before. It was delicate — rich in flavor, like a carrot soup made somewhat solid in form. Delight followed surprise, as Kim had intended.

Lamb is one of Kim’s specialties, so I recommend the spicy cumin lamb bibimbap ($17), a mixed rice dish with cumin sauce, herbs, sichuan oil, a sunny-side-up egg and crispy steamed white rice. The slow-roasted lamb in this dish takes two days to prepare. Dig a little. It’s fun to crack through the browned rice shell and build a bite to crunch into.

The menu changes frequently, but the Korean rice cakes are a staple, with different dressings at each evolution. As of my last visit, the cylindrical and bitesize Korean rice cakes ($10) were served with caramelized onions, roasted celeriac root and Gruyère cheese — a combination inspired by the flavors of the age-old French onion soup.

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I recommend visiting now because two things often happen with this type of unbridled creativity — either it burns out after a few years of heavy output or the menu narrows in scope and the staff stick to “safe bets.”

I can’t promise you’ll love everything you try, especially with ingredients that may be unfamiliar, but I can promise your palate will expand and you’ll be in the presence of one of the most fearlessly creative chefs in the state.

Kim’s skills shine through in his artful plating of each dish. Check out his Instagram @MrKimsRestaurant, where you can see overhead shots of plates that showcase his attention to aesthetic details. The dishes that leave the kitchen look like contempo-

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Above: The bulgogi sliders Below: Writer Jess Saba digs in.

rary art. Cubes of tofu stacked in towers, bright beet-colored sauces splash across the plate, noodle bowls presented in rich broths topped with 6-minute eggs splayed to mirror slices of Long Island duck breast — absolutely beautiful. NH

After so much spice and crunch and flavor, the anticipation for something sweet builds with each dish. Plated beautifully, the tres leches mochi cake ($8) is presented in a line of six staggered rectangular cubes of soft mochi cake topped with a marshmallow fluff draped in chocolate ganache and miso caramel.

Drink Up Try the delicate homemade sodas crafted by bar manager Kevin Walsh. The lavender soda ($4) is flawless. It comes in an amber bottle with a small gold sticker featuring Mr Kim’s iconic tiger. Pop the cap and pour the tinted purple drink into a crystal high glass and enjoy a fancy nonalcoholic drink.

Don’t miss the milk punch ($11). It takes three days to build flavor through an infusion of melon, lychee, lime, green peppercorn, cardamom and vanilla. The infusion is then clarified by adding milk. The lime citrus causes a reaction that separates the mixture, which is then strained to become a milk-washed punch. It’s mixed with Soju (a colorless distilled beverage popular in Korea) and sake to create the cocktail.

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Loaded Question Brewing in Portsmouth

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y the time this issue reaches readers’ hands, the outside world will have become lovely and warm again. But as I pour my soul onto paper on this rapidly cooling March Manchester porch, and pour myself another something or other, that day seems still seems far away.

I met with Tom Bath from Loaded Question Brewing in Portsmouth back in November, when winter winds made it even harder to brave the distance from my car to the front door. I trusted in Daedalus as I maneuvered the maze to the brewery, and was rewarded by a cozy yet industrial space with sincere character and a smell of malt.

Tom, the owner, is surrounded by amazing folks, but he is most assuredly the captain of the ship. He says (about branding), “I look at the setting and the atmosphere and the experience. I wish it was all about the beer, but I am acutely aware it is not.” We sampled Equatorial Dreams, with a hint of coconut, and Sparkle Toes, named by Tom’s daughter — both were solid in technique without being afraid to take chances. With experiments like Project Krausen, where the same beer is fermented side by side with different yeasts,

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Loaded Question Brewing is helping New Hampshire expand its palate. Look for a constantly rotating list of world-class styles (they had a Flanders Red in barrels when we chatted) and crowd-sourced returns.

In the capital, something different is fermenting. Concord just welcomed its first distillery, Steadfast Spirits Distilling Co., a long-overdue addition to the area. CJ Lundergan, founder and chief alchemist of the Alembic, has spent a year integrating old recipes and new technology. I was fortunate enough to work at a brewery 40 paces away from Steadfast, and have been able to follow their progress over time via all five senses, if you dig my ditch. About three years ago, our landlord at Lithermans asked us how we would feel about a distillery in the complex. I think he expected us to see it as competition.

Not that the beverage world, even on a local scale, is altogether altruistic — but we take care of our own, and variety draws a crowd.

Now I have a distiller for a neighbor.

CJ is a firefighter with a talent for making sweet distillate. Taking a historical cue from preindustrial America, corn is the major player in much of what happens here. As a

start-up, “brown” liquor is a while down the road, since it depends on barrel time. White lightening, what Uncle Jesse Duke would call moonshine, is likely tastier than you would expect when well made, and Steadfast makes a clean one. But in artful anticipation of darker spirits, they have released another product line called Trouble’s Moonshine. Rudi the cat, my furry editor, suggests half Trouble’s Citrus Squeeze and half your favorite seltzer over ice. He also asks that you leave it out for him, as he is a lush.

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603 Informer “Perfect camera tech creates the illusion of unmediated vision. That amazing picture that looks like it’s real? That’s a deception. This — sort of what it looked like, something like what I saw, something like what I felt. — is the truth.” — Jeff Sharlet, “This Brilliant Darkness”

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“Yes, he had torched the church, among the oldest in a town of old churches, Lebanon, New Hampshire.” — You Need to Be So Close

“‘Stop!’ he shouts. I stop. He stops. Straddles his bike. ‘You taking pictures of my house?’ he says.” — As We Are

“He used to be a soldier and he still carries the armor, Ephesians 6:11 ...

‘I started in the army,’ he says. Drugs, he means.” — Be Here Soon

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Lingering Glances An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Rick Broussard

Even the best journalism must map the surface of its subject, probing deeper to choose elements that provide traction and color for a story. In his new book, “This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers,” Dartmouth professor Jeff Sharlet takes a contrary course, letting the mundane and the overlooked have their full say. With photos and long-form captions, he blends the graphic immediacy of Instagram with the mindfulness of psychotherapy, unraveling the truths wound up in another human being by simply looking and listening. His chronicled encounters expand like a pinch of sand or a bug’s eye under a microscope, revealing the strange forms and wondrous connections that surround us in every detail of every passing moment. such stories within a few weeks of that first one. The process did evolve. I make pictures, but I’m not a photographer. I was — I am — a writer learning to write with pictures as well as words.

Your father provided some impetus for the work as a result of a heart attack?

Jeff Sharlet, associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth and the best-selling author of “The Family” (made into a Netflix documentary series), “C Street” and “Sweet Heaven When I Die.”

Describe your process for gathering these stories. Has it changed over time?

It wasn’t so much as a process as an intuition, a feeling I had late one night, working on deadline toward a more conventional magazine story, that I felt like I’d pushed those conventional means of storytelling as far as they were going to go for me at that time. The experience is described in the opening image, of Mike at Dunkin Donuts: insomnia, loneliness, look up and see another human being and try to connect with them. My means was the camera, and the conversation that takes place around the making of an image.

I began to think I might make a book of

In 2014, my father had a heart attack, and I began driving back and forth across the Green Mountains, from my home to his in upstate New York, to take care of him and to move him out of his house, which had in those years become something of a hoard, or maybe a vast archive. He was a writer, too, and a scholar, and I spent many long nights sifting through papers. I couldn’t sleep anyway — the heart attack came at a point in my writing life when all the hard stories I’d told over two decades as a journalist were beginning to catch up with me. It wasn’t that I’d seen too much; rather that I hadn’t taken account of the way such stories accumulate, the way the stories you tell become, in another sense, a story of your life as well. That’s what was keeping me up at night. In short, my life was falling apart, and the only way I knew to try to put it back together again was through more stories, the stories of everyday lives all around me. I think of it in terms of a line from my friend Leslie Jamison’s powerful book “The Recovering”: “the saving alchemy of community.” I found that twice — first, in the two years of reporting that followed my father’s heart attack, and then after my own,

at 44, after I wrote what I thought then would be the book’s last line. It wasn’t, thank God. Have any of the lives you’ve summarized in this way returned to you?

In one sense, all of them. I wrote this book because I learned you can’t leave the stories you tell — the ones that matter to you anyway — behind. But IRL, as they say? One of the heroes of the book is a homeless woman named Mary Mazur, the subject of a chapter called “A Resourceful Woman.” I love Mary, but she’s also — very proudly — a difficult soul. “I’m a tough bitch,” she likes to say, and she doesn’t let anybody tell her what to do.

That includes making what you and I might consider healthy choices. She moves in and out of the system, and when she’s out, she’s hard to find. There are others whose families I stay in touch with. The other main hero of the book, Charly “Africa” Keunang, was killed in 2015. His family helped me write my story of his life and death. The book is also implicitly an account of my own attempt to return home to my children, from whom insomnia and the kind of reporting life I was leading were taking me too far.

My daughter, who’s a little older, appears throughout the book. She hasn’t returned to me; I’m lucky to have returned to her.

Is this a new form of storytelling or is it just a variation on traditional forms? One reviewer compares you to Steinbeck.

Oh, no, it’s not new. I don’t feel so much of an affinity with Steinbeck as with those writers who’ve tried to marry pictures and words.

Not so that photographs serve as illustrations for text or text serves as caption for photographs, but in a fashion that allows you to write with both. I came to this mutant genre, “literary journalism,” through James Agee’s and Walker Evans’ 1942 “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” I wouldn’t compare myself to either of those towering artists except inasmuch as I’m fascinated by the same equation between image and text. And increasingly technology is making it possible for writers like me to write with pictures; at the same time, I see more and more photographers alert to the possibilities of that marriage between pictures and words. nhmagazine.com | April/May 2020

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What’s your most vivid memory of such an encounter in New Hampshire?

It’s really the first one, Mike, at Dunkin Donuts in West Lebanon. I ended up making a lot of stories about night bakers at Dunkin, and the people who linger there on the nightshift, but that first moment of looking up from my coffee, seeing this night baker wearing this ornate skull shirt — which is not the Dunkin uniform — and realizing I was more interested in talking to him than in the magazine story I was writing — I was more interested in the actual everyday lives all around me than the “big story” that’s easy to sell to a glossy — that was a revelation.

Does this part of the country where you live, the New England heartland and the Connecticut River Valley, seem particularly rich for what you are doing?

It does to me. As a journalist I’ve traveled all over the US, and I know of no other region that is so much itself — so relatively unhomogenized, so particular to its own past. We speak often of Southern regionalism, and that’s powerful and fascinating, but get off the highway in New Hampshire and Vermont and start talking to people and you’ll find the antidote to so much of the sameness of contemporary life. It may not be as visible as it is in some other parts of the country, but I think it may run deeper.

How long do you plan to continue doing it?

I don’t know. I’m working on another more conventional magazine story now, and a new book that includes images but not like this. At the same time, I continue to make these stories. Even traveling around on book tour. So far, they’ve sustained me. I guess I’ll keep making them until they don’t. NH

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The End?

Our primary status may be in jeopardy

BY JAMES PINDELL

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or a century, New Hampshire has held the nation’s first presidential primary. At first, no one cared.

Then, it toppled a president. Soon, the state picked presidents. And, for the past few decades, our quadrennial exercise has become a massive spectacle that’s closely watched around the world.

This year, New Hampshire voters turned out in record numbers, local political party leaders didn’t rig the election for one candidate, and the state government ran a smooth election. Just the same, the larger-than-life New Hampshire presidential primary for 2020 could be the last of its kind.

In a world that is increasingly digital, insular and deeply partisan, the New Hampshire primary is a symbol of how American democracy should be practiced. Those who get to run for president in a serious way are governors, senators or successful in business. The people they talk to and vacation with and trade text messages with all day largely live in a rarefied bubble.

As candidates, the New Hampshire primary required them to meet real people in diners and take their questions at town hall meetings. Having to engage with folks in unscripted moments before they go on to make decisions about sending troops to war

or who wins or loses in the tax code is one of the most beautiful things about the primary.

Then there was New Hampshire’s track record of giving candidates a comeback story, or choosing someone who was not the obvious frontrunner with all the money.

The popular myth that any child born in America could someday be president of the United States was more real because the New Hampshire primary existed. In a small state election where money only goes so far, what really matters is how the candidates stand in the marketplace of ideas and their ability to connect with other humans.

If a monument is ever erected to the New Hampshire primary, it should be of a regular person and some candidate sharing a genuine moment of human connection — even if it’s a confrontational moment.

For decades, New Hampshire has locked arms with compatriots in Iowa who run the nation’s first presidential caucuses eight days before the New Hampshire primary. But the Iowa caucuses in 2020 were a debacle on an incomprehensible scale. In truth, it was the third time in a row there was some problem with the caucuses. Even Iowa leaders who fought tooth-and-nail to protect their status are now conceding that Iowa won’t be first anymore, and might not even hold a caucus.

There appear to be just two ways this could affect New Hampshire. First, this could be the most glorious primary ever.

If Iowa is scrapped and caucuses are seen as outmoded, it’s plausible that for the first time since 1968, New Hampshire will be the first presidential contest. In the modern era, where there is more attention on the early states than ever before, the Granite State could basically pack the punch of both Iowa and New Hampshire combined.

The second path could take many forms, but all with the same result. Maybe New Hampshire will continue to have, technically, the first primary but it may not mean much because of other party maneuvers. Maybe there is a national primary, or a rotating set of regional primaries. Maybe the parties will pick another state to be the first contest to award delegates to the national conventions.

In that last case, New Hampshire would likely still hold the first primary — without delegates — but the question then is whether only longshot candidates will show up, and whether the media will treat it as a major event.

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Film Attraction New Hampshire is ready for its closeup

BY CASEY MCDERMOTT

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ure, the Oscar and Golden Globes nominations, the praise from long roster of film critics societies and mainstream audiences alike, the chance to work with the likes of Daniel Craig and Jamie Lee Curtis — that was all great.

But to Chris Stinson, a Concord kid who parlayed a passion for film into a career in the industry that’s spanned more than two decades, there was something even more exciting about being part of the crew that brought the sleeper hit “Knives Out” to life.

“It helps kind of open up a broader conversation of, ‘Hey, there are New England-based filmmakers, or New Hampshire-based filmmakers that can work on real stuff,’” Stinson says. “It’s not just some tiny movie you’ve never heard of. We can do real, legit stuff that goes to the Oscars and is up for three Golden Globes.”

Stinson’s specialty — on “Knives Out” and otherwise — is as a line producer. That means he deals with the parts of moviemaking that are often unseen, but just as critical as the cast or cinematic choices: mapping out the production budget, lining up potential filming locations, hiring crew members and making sure the project stays on schedule.

He spent 22 years working in Los Angeles but recently moved back east, where he runs Live

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Free Or Die Films, an independent production company in Portsmouth that’s trying to convince his Hollywood peers to give New England — or better yet, New Hampshire — a closer look.

His motives are, he admits, at least somewhat self-interested: “If I could just drive an hour to work a day instead of flying across the country, that would be nice.”

Massachusetts, right next door, is already a popular film destination — after all, “Knives Out” filmed there. But Stinson says their project also overlapped — quite literally, at times — with “Little Women,” the television show “Castle Rock” and “four other very large productions” that were filming in the same location at the same time.

So, Stinson says, why wouldn’t a crew want to relocate a few miles north to New Hampshire instead? It’s much cheaper than other popular film markets, it boasts plenty of rich scenery and that scenery hasn’t already been used in dozens of other movies before.

“What we need to do for New Hampshire is to start meeting with all of these Massachusetts-based location managers and say ‘Hey, if you guys have three to five days of your movie where you’re having trouble finding locations in Massachusetts, don’t rule us out,’” Stinson says.

“Say you need a Canobie Lake Park, or a Fisher

Cats ballpark stadium, or an airport that’s easy — Manchester Airport instead of Logan.”

Making the case to film crews is just one part of the sales pitch, though. Stinson’s also been spending lots of time meeting with New Hampshire business leaders and other officials to encourage them to promote the Granite State’s big screen potential. He hopes one day he won’t just see movies made in the state — but about the state too.

“There are so many writers that are from here, all their movies get made somewhere else,” Stinson says. “It’d be nice if they actually filmed here.” NH Good Company: In case you needed any added incentive to make it out to a show at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion this summer, it’s one of six spots up for “Outdoor Venue of the Year” in the Academy of Country Music Awards. The Gilford venue is competing with the likes of the legendary Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside of Denver, so while it might be cliché, we think it’s safe to say it’s an honor just to be nominated.

Hollywood Bound: Congrats to friend of “Blips” and Rochester native Kyle Tanguay, who has been featured on these pages for his path to becoming a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader, for making it to Hollywood during the latest season of “American Idol.”

No matter how far he makes it, we think the fact that he earned such warm praise at his audition from the likes of judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Katie Perry should be enough. “From one shower singer to another, it’s a yes,” Richie said.

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Chris Stinson (third from right) and his partner Amy Greene (left) at the 32nd Independent Spirit Awards where Live Free or Die Film’s “Chronic” was nominated for best feature. Also pictured are “Chronic” stars David Dastmalchian (left) and Tim Roth (right).

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gar in spots to create whites lines, revealed under the brown surface. The colors used may be the only seasonal element to her designs, as she sells the most eggs in December as hanging ornaments.

But Easter is the traditional time for egg dyeing throughout history and cultures.

Wallis may not have a Ukrainian heritage for design inspiration, but she has gathered dozens of “egg friends” all over the world on social media. She’s also been invited to participate in a show at the Pysanka Museum in Kolomyia, Ukraine, in April to bring back to the homeland variations of the technique that took root in America and Canada over the past 100 years. As a side note, she says that the most respected egg artist in the Ukraine is a soldier fighting, at the moment, against the Russian aggression.

When Wallis gets around to having her DNA tested, she almost hopes there is a percentage from Eastern Europe. That would explain a lot of things. NH Eggs are $25 to $45 for chicken and duck, depending on size and complexity, and $70 for larger goose egg designs.

Wallis also creates earrings out of partial eggshells.

Beyond Tradition Live free and dye eggs

By Susan Laughlin

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yeing eggs in spring may be a pagan tradition that was adopted by the Christians, but the folks in Eastern Europe took it to the highest level.

The technique of creating colorful patterns with a wax resist is called pysanky, and it came to the United States with the émigrés of the Ukraine in the diaspora that began just before WWI. The cultural traditions took root here and in Canada, and were passed through to the current generation.

Shannon Wallis is from the Upper Valley, not the Ukraine, but nevertheless enjoys the patterns and colors of the pysanky technique. She often runs into folks who know the history and recognize the regional patterns on her eggs — the patterns she first used to learn the process.

After eight years of developing her style, Wallis created her own language of design

elements that goes beyond the traditional. She sees patterns everywhere — on someone’s dress, in a Hindi henna tattoo or flowers. Wallis says it’s a challenge creating two-dimensional geometric designs with squares and triangles that skirt a conical egg, but therein lies the satisfaction.

Starting with a raw chicken or duck egg, Wallis draws on the first layer of design with a kistka filled with flowing hot wax. Wallis says the method is like creating a coloring book — first she draws the lines in wax and then colors in between with dyes. Finally, all the wax is removed with a few seconds in a microwave, and the design is revealed. That is her favorite moment — is it a masterpiece or a mess? The finished eggs are “blown out” to preserve them.

Lately, she has been experimenting with brown eggs that are first “etched” with vine-

Shannon Wallis will be exhibiting in Londonderry on May 16 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church’s Spring Fling craft fair. Her work is for sale at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s shops in Meredith, Hanover and Littleton. She is also available to teach and demonstrate the technique.

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

Where Was He Born?

Pondering Daniel Webster’s birthplace by marshall hudson

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aniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, but his birthplace is in Franklin. The house he was born in did not actually rotate, but now the front door is in the back, and the back door is in the front. The original house Webster was born in still exists in its original location, but it is not the original house in the original location in which he was born. Ponder on all that for a bit.

Webster was born in 1782 on a hardscrabble farm in a wilderness corner of Salisbury.

Forty-six years after his birth, the township of Franklin was created from portions carved off Salisbury, Andover, Sanbornton and Northfield. The corner of Salisbury where he was born became part of the new town of Franklin. Thus, Webster was born in Salisbury, but shifting town lines put his

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birthplace now in Franklin.

Webster was the ninth child in a family of 10, and he was frail and sickly. Because of his poor health he was excused from hard physical farm work, and spent much of his time reading. Webster developed a love of learning and an excellent memory. Proud of his son’s ability to learn quickly, Ebenezer Webster arranged to have his son formally educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and then, at the age of 15, Daniel entered Dartmouth College, where he developed a reputation as a fearless debater. Upon graduation from Dartmouth in 1802, he accepted a teaching position in Fryeburg, Maine, before turning to the study of law.

After a successful career as a teacher and lawyer, Webster was elected as a New Hampshire congressman in 1813, and he

This 1913 newspaper photo shows the house where Webster was born when it was attached as an ell to the Sawyer farmhouse.

served two terms before deciding to move to Boston to resume his law practice. Massachusetts called upon him, and he served that state as both a congressman and senator before being asked to serve as secretary of state by presidents Harrison, Tyler and Fillmore. As a lawyer and statesman, Webster earned recognition and fame for his skills as an orator. Webster’s impassioned oratory was legendary, and he had no equal among his American contemporaries. With a quick wit, silver tongue, dominating physical presence and the magic of the spoken word, he persuaded judges and juries, and moved colleagues in Congress to his point of view.

His father, Ebenezer, had served with Rogers’ Rangers during the French and Indian War, earning the rank of captain. As reward for his service, Ebenezer was given acreage in the undeveloped land grant north of Boscawen called “Stevenstown,” which later incorporated as Salisbury.

Ebenezer settled the prop-

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The birthplace today, seen from the road with the restored cabin reunited to its woodshed

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erty and built a one-room log cabin, where most of his children were born. At the time that Ebenezer built the cabin, his nearest neighbor to the north was in Canada.

By 1774, Ebenezer had made plans and begun to build a larger home for his family, which had outgrown the log cabin.

But when the Revolutionary War began, Ebenezer, still bearing the rank of captain, left his family and led his local militia to join forces with Gen. John Stark. Ebenezer returned home from the fighting whenever possible to work the family farm and continue construction on the larger two-room frame house. By 1780, he had completed the house in time for the birth

“This rock marks — the house in which Daniel Webster was born ...” reads the marker in front (or back) of the birthplace. The chiseled line removed the words “the site of.”

of Ezekiel, the only sibling other than Daniel to be born in it.

This house where Daniel Webster was born in 1782 was constructed such that the front door faced a Native American trail paralleling Punch Brook. In 1780, there was only a bridal path where North Road is today, and most travel took place along the old trail. Thus, Ebenezer constructed his house to face most of the “traffic.” As North Road developed and the Indian trail faded away, the front became the back of the house and the back door became the front door.

In 1784, Ebenezer sold his homestead to Capt. Stephen Sawyer. Sawyer built a new farmhouse just west of the birthplace.

According to legend, when Sawyer wanted to construct the ell of his new farmhouse (the shed-like structure that connects the living quarters to the barn), he decided to utilize the vacant Webster house and moved a portion of it to his farmhouse and attached it. Only the central portion of the old Webster house was moved. The south end bedroom remained behind and was used as a chicken coop. The north end woodshed was relocated and continued to be used as a woodshed. The brick fireplace and chimney were knocked down and used to fill in the cellar hole. Thus, for over a century, the Daniel Webster birthplace house existed in three separated pieces.

The Sawyer property passed through several owners until 1910 when the Daniel Webster Birthplace Association, which wanted to preserve the birthplace as a historical site, acquired it. They raised funds, conducted research and developed plans to resurrect the house. The restoration was

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based primarily on existing sketches of the birthplace house. The original cellar hole was located and re-excavated, and the ell from the Sawyer House was detached and returned to the newly re-excavated old cellar hole. While digging out the old cellar hole, bricks from the original chimney were found and used to rebuild the fireplace. Other salvage material included foundation, hearth and doorstep stones.

The original woodshed and former bedroom-turned-chicken-coop were beyond saving and were razed and reconstructed.

A 1913 newspaper clipping shows the ell from the Sawyer house being relocated, and states that the replicated portions are being made to conform in lumber and carpentry as nearly as possible to the original 1782 building.

But is it really the restored original house in the original location? The bedroom and woodshed reconstructed around the relocated ell are based upon a drawing produced in 1851, which has been discredited, and its accuracy is disputed. The 1913 Birthplace Association members claimed that Webster sanctioned the illustration, but the Webster family moved away from this dwelling when Daniel was only about 3 years old. Webster claimed to have a memory of its appearance, perhaps gained through return visits during his boyhood. The house Webster described in other documents is not entirely consistent with the building that exists today. Other than lore, the ell from the Sawyer house was never confirmed to be a surviving portion of Webster’s original home.

At best, the present hybrid structure contains some portions of Webster’s original birthplace and likely sits approximately where the original house once stood.

Today’s “Daniel Webster Birthplace House” is about three-fifths old fabric, moved twice, and about two-fifths newer fabric constructed in 1913 to replicate a sketch of the 1780 dwelling. At worst, the present structure consists of only a period-appropriate portion of a neighboring house, moved onto an excavated, unverified old cellar hole, and pieced together in 1913 to resemble a sketch of questionable accuracy.

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Flow Motion Photos and interview by David Mendelsohn

Belly dancing isn’t easy. Stand in front of a mirror and try swaying your hips without moving any other part of your body. That’s just the start. Then meet Angela Flagg, whose undulations could make a jaded Sultan blush. She started without any confidence or natural ability and recently completed her own teaching certification. Anyone can learn how to do it, she says, regardless of shape or size (or gender). Belly dancing; rich in history and incredibly athletic.

And not really sexy at all — if you keep your eyes closed.

When I started dancing, I never dreamed I’d be performing. I was just taking a class. Ha! I had been intrigued by belly dance since childhood. I’m Lebanese, and I saw a belly dancer at a church hafla, which is basically a party. I was blown away by the power and the beauty.

I never thought it was for me though. I thought I was too skinny, clumsy and uncoordinated to be a dancer.

After being a stay-at-home mom and taking care of others for years, I decided to do something for me. I took an introductory belly dance workshop. A few months later, I started with a weekly class. It snowballed from there.

Dancing turned out to be so much more for me than a class. It is a path to healing for myself, my dance family and the world.

It’s about connection. Even if I’m not onstage, I’m dancing with others, and the energy we create is strong.

When the audience is there, we can share that strength and healing with them as them as well.

American Tribal Style, or ATS, is structured group improvisation and a lead-and-follow format.

You can have from two dancers to as many as you can safely fit on a stage. The result of everyone knowing this dance language is what looks like a choreographed piece. Many times I’ve had an audience member comment on the choreography, and I love telling them it was improv!

I’ve been with the Barefoot Truth Dance Company for about a year and a half. It is a nonprofit with the intention of social engagement through art. We are all ages, sizes and experience levels.

Men do dance. They are welcome. The Barefoot Truth Dance Company has several male members who perform belly dance, street dance, and fire and flow arts.

All bodies are welcome. Any size, shape or ability.

Moves can be adapted based on your needs.

You don’t have to show your belly if you don’t want to.

That’s something a lot of people are concerned with.

An 1896 film featuring belly dancing by a performer named Fatima was so scandalous that the Edison Company producers burned a white-picket censor bar onto the film to veil the more provocative movements. We’ve come a long way, baby, from those innocent times, and now belly dancing is appreciated as good exercise for the lower back and spine. “Women who belly dance are having a lot of fun and feel young at heart,” says Angela Flagg. “As for that impossible hip movement, it can be done. It takes a heck of a lot of practice, and you get some really amazing muscle tone while generally still remaining very curvy.”

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Situation: Critical How a 16-bed hospital and a group of dedicated doctors, nurses and paramedics manage the health and emergency needs of North Country residents and tourists

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About four years ago in January, after loading hay for her horses into her truck, Kim Hamel felt crushing pressure in her chest

and a disconcerting “electric” sensation. She went into the kitchen of her Colebrook home and dialed 9-1- — but then she hesitated. At only 42 years old, and with no known history of heart trouble, she couldn’t believe she was having a heart attack, but at the same time instinctively felt certain that she was. “I knew it was a heart attack somehow,” she says today.

With just 16 beds, Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital (UCVH) in Colebrook is the state’s smallest hospital.

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She eventually did call an ambulance and, soon after arriving at nearby Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital (UCVH), she blacked out and went into cardiac arrest. Health providers performed CPR and used a defibrillator to get her heart pumping again. If there hadn’t been a hospital so close by, she says, she surely would have died.

Unlike many readers of this magazine, who might be able to get to a hospital in 10 minutes — maybe 15 with traffic — people who live in the North Country or other remote region might find that quickly getting to medical care isn’t so simple.

Turns out the hospitals in remote areas don’t have it too easy either. After an alarming number of rural hospitals went belly up in the ’80s and ’90s, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began to offer a “critical access hospital” designation to rural health facilities that meet certain criteria. In return, those hospitals get financial breaks here and there to help them keep their doors open.

UCVH in Colebrook is a prime example of a critical access hospital. With only 16 beds, it is the state’s smallest hospital. But to people who live nearby — and to the many tourists who unexpectedly find themselves in need of medical care while visiting the area — it’s

hugely important.

“We are kind of the poster child for a critical access hospital,” says Edward Laverty, PA-C, chief medical officer and an emergency medicine specialist at UCVH. Unlike some critical access hospitals that receive exemptions, “we’re actually the only hospital in the state that meets the true criteria for critical access hospitals,” Laverty says. “It’s something we’re very proud of.”

UCVH serves an area that covers 850 square miles, 20 communities and more than 8,000 residents, extending up to the Canadian border and into parts of Vermont and Maine. The hospital provides routine care, but also treats trauma patients, including many victims of car or motorcycle crashes, and ATV and snowmobile accidents. Some receive their care solely at UCVH, while others are transferred to tertiary care locations, including Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, Maine Medical Center in Portland and the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. “A lot of times when the weather’s bad, the [medical] helicopter can’t fly,” Laverty says, “so the trauma patients come to our facility, [where] we treat, stabilize, and then transfer them to a tertiary care trauma center.”

During weekends, UCVH sees “a huge influx” of trauma patients in its emergency

department, Laverty says. The ER’s summer numbers have also been on the rise as an increasing number of trails open for ATV use.

“And that’s just the tourism part,” Laverty says. “The local community relies on us very heavily for their medical care.” According to UCVH’s website, the ride to Colebrook takes an hour from the farthest reaches ofCoös County — not a short drive, but matters would be significantly worse if UCVH didn’t exist, with some area residents having to travel well over two hours to reach Dartmouth-Hitchcock or Manchester’s Catholic Medical Center. “And if you’re having a heart attack,” Laverty says, “that’s not very good timing.”

Laverty likens UCVH to a MASH unit, an isolated surgical hospital that serves soldiers wounded in warfare. Only in UCVH’s case, emergency patients come in not with battle wounds but with injuries sustained in motorcycle, snowmobile or ATV crashes, or in the midst of cardiac arrest or other medical emergency.

Despite the crucial role that critical access hospitals play and the assist from CMS, many of them struggle to remain open. Some form partnerships with a larger healthcare group, as UCVH has with North Country Healthcare, to pool IT resources and gain other ad-

Above: Kim Hamel Below: Edward Laverty, PA-C, chief medical officer and an emergency medicine specialist at UCVH

vantages, but many rural hospitals find that they have no choice but to cut back services.

In 2003, for example, UCVH closed its obstetrical care unit. Scaling back OB services is not uncommon among critical access hospitals, given the overall expense involved and insurance carriers who require a premium due to the high-risk nature of obstetrics at a rural

hospital. “If you’re not doing a lot of deliveries, it makes the deliveries you are doing more risky,” Laverty explains.

Finding people to staff rural hospitals is also a challenge. “Recruitment and retention is probably one of the hardest things that we do,” Laverty says. “It always sounds good when I first interview people. They’re like, ‘Oh, it’d be so great to work there,’ but then they get here and they’re like, “Wow, you’re hours from an airport. There’s really nothing here.’” Most often, he says, providers quit or turn down a job offer because their spouses find that in the Colebrook area “there’s not much for them to do.”

The healthcare providers who choose to remain face some tough realities. When it comes to social determinants of health — regional characteristics such as the average income, education, employment status and availability of social support networks — the North Country checks all the wrong boxes, Laverty says. “We’re kind of number one [in the state] for cancer rates, we’re number one for alcohol [abuse], we’re number one in tobacco abuse.” Diabetes and opioid addiction also have strong footholds in the area, he says, and the average age continues to climb

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as more retirees relocate to the area while young people stay away due to the limited OB and other services and the scarcity of jobs — particularly following drastic cutbacks at two of the area’s major employers, The Balsams and Ethan Allen. These health-related features of the area simultaneously complicate matters for UCVH and underscore the importance of its existence.

The hospital’s financial worries include its many patients who don’t have health insurance, and the lack of community resources for patients, says Lindsay Lea, RN, chief nursing officer at UCVH. “We won’t discharge a patient unless we have a safe discharge plan for that patient.” Patients might lack a safe discharge plan because they’re homeless or isolated, or they’re unable to make important decisions and there are no available community resources to help. In such instances, sometimes patients who don’t have a medical need to be in the hospital remain there anyway, Lea says, creating “significant expense” for the hospital.

But UCVH remains steadfastly focused, Lea says, on the needs of the community.

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Above: Clifton “Kip” Cilley in the lab processing samples Below: Lindsay Lea, RN, chief nursing officer at UCVH

bigger is better — that at bigger hospitals, they must know more about what they’re doing and what you need. And I think that we prove every day to our community that that’s not always true.”

Although Lea says UCVH is “pretty judicious about [spending], because we have to be,” the hospital doesn’t skimp on needed equipment. It offers the latest in mammography technology, for example, and has upgraded its CT equipment so that patients are exposed to lower doses of radiation. “Those are things that I think the population really wants,” Laverty says. “They expect the same care at their critical access hospital as they do when they go to Dartmouth-Hitchcock.”

In addition, since the 1990s, UCVH has employed telehealth technology to supplement in-house services and knowledge with expertise from Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Catholic Medical Center, Androscoggin Valley Hospital and Northern Human Services.

Teleradiology enables UCVH patient imaging such as X-rays and CT scans to be read remotely by doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and UCVH uses telehealth in its emergency and pharmacy departments, and for behavioral health and other services. The telehealth

“ Transportation is hard up here, and there’s not a lot of resources for patients who are having a difficult time.”

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programs “allow us to potentially keep the community patients here that we’d normally have to send out because we didn’t have the specialty,” Laverty says.

UCVH also offers a specialty services clinic, where OB/GYN, neurology, cardiology, and other specialists come regularly to spare patients a long drive. The decision to host visiting specialists was made after “we noticed that was a gap [in patient care],” Lea says.

“Transportation is hard up here, and there’s not a lot of resources for patients who are having a difficult time.”

Given the tenuous existence of some rural hospitals, do area residents worry about what life would be like if UCVH closed its doors?

“Absolutely,” Laverty says. “I work in the emergency room, so I get to hear on the front line about how thankful people are that we’re here.”

Indeed, community members have shown their support for the hospital, helping UCVH to raise just shy of $1 million a couple of years ago, Laverty says, for an upgrade of the hospital’s emergency and physical therapy departments, among other areas. “So many people are so appreciative of being able to have their healthcare locally,” Laverty says. “And people from away, they can’t believe how upgraded and modern and sophisticated our equipment is.”

Those from out of town also marvel at how quick the ER wait is at UCVH. “I had one guy Ken Magoon Jr. of Magoon Logging had two reasons for choosing his current home — the view and the proximity to UCVH.

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Life-saving Access Critical access hospitals such as Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital (UCVH) in Colebrook might be small compared to some of the other hospitals in New Hampshire, but it plays a crucial role in safeguarding the health and well-being of area residents and tourists who come to the area.

Here are some of the ways UCVH served its community in 2018: 308 inpatient admissions 4,512 ER and walk-in visits 149,675 lab tests 17,551 outpatient rehabilitation visits 5,408 X-rays 1,330 CT scans 347 MRIs The hospital also provided charity care, specialty clinics and health education, and continues to serve Medicare and Medicaid patients. *Statistics provided by UCVH.

actually tell me he wants to drive up from southern New Hampshire the next time he needs to go to the emergency room,” Laverty says with a chuckle, “because it’d be quicker for him to drive up here to be seen” than it would be for him to go to his local ER. For Laverty and Lea, working at a critical access hospital appears to be a passionate and personal mission. “Some of it’s the adventure, the challenge, because I don’t have all the consultants and I don’t have all of the specialists at my fingertips, so I really and truly have to be a jack-of-all-trades and a MacGyver,” Laverty says. “I wake up every day looking forward to going to work, and when I’m not going to work, I’m kind of bummed ... I think UCVH is very important to the North Country, and for everyone [who visits the area].”

Lea got her first glimpse of working at UCVH through a school-to-work program when she was a high school student growing up in Colebrook. “I was just enthralled by it,” she says. “I was so impressed with the care that they provided — they did so much with so little. ... I knew I wanted to work in my community and make a difference here, and I think at a small hospital you [can] do that.”

Which gets to the heart of what can set a small rural hospital apart from larger city facilities: “It doesn’t have a whole lot to do with medicine or equipment,” Laverty says. “It’s the

personal touch. It’s knowing people and people knowing you, being able to see them and be with them at a personal level and helping them at a time of need.”

Laverty notes that UCVH’s nursing staff provides “extra TLC” for patients, and properly cleans people who come in from an accident — which, based on his experience, does not always happen at bigger hospitals, where he says some patients are left with “blood or glass in their hair because nobody took the time to wash them thoroughly.” When patients come to UCVH, he says, “we treat them like they’re our friend and neighbor — because they are our friends and neighbors.”

“We not only care for our community, we care about our community,” Lea says. “Not to say that bigger hospitals don’t [do the same], but at a smaller hospital there may be that much of a stronger connection. I think that we do a really good job of providing exceptional care but also excellent customer service because we’re treating our own, you know? It’s who we are.”

Lea adds that, following transfer to another hospital, many patients who return to UCVH for rehab or skilled nursing care echo the same sentiment: “‘I’m so glad to be home.’” NH

A scene from Colebrook

“We not only care for our community, we care about our community. We’re treating our own, you know? It’s who we are.”

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The creature known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Skunk Ape or the Abominable Snowman seems to exist everywhere, but so far has left no scientifically significant trace to establish its reality beyond eye-witness accounts — often experienced in the wilderness or at night.

Hundreds of modern sightings have occurred, even here in the Granite State, but that number is likely to surge now that a Claremont woman has lovingly restored a movie, made by her dad, that first launched the monster to pop-culture fame.

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“The beauty of the bottoms under soft moonlight is transformed into a dark, menacing danger. And the shadows of the night trigger our imagination into being in places where possibly the creature is lurking. Because you know he’s out there, somewhere.” — From “The Legend of Boggy Creek” easts of the water and the wild turn in full flight from the sound of it. Trained hunting dogs retreat from the mere scent of it. A young child races through an open meadow to warn townspeople about the presence of “some kind of wildman in the woods by the creek.” A long, hairy arm reaches in through the window a family home, making its occupants flee in panic.

Those are but a few of the memorable scenes in the “The Legend of Boggy Creek,” a 1972 docudrama about a strange, unidentified creature that is said to have kept the small rural town of Fouke, Arkansas (population 350), both frightened and fascinated for years. Movie audiences proved fascinated as well by the drama featuring a legendary creature known locally as 48

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the Fouke Monster, but elsewhere called Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti or, in some climes, the Abominable Snowman. The low-budget film grossed a reported $20 million as a box office hit while competing with such Hollywood heavyweights as “The Godfather,” “The Poseidon Adventure” and “Deliverance.”

Its producer and director was Charles B. Pierce, a filmmaker from Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border, about 15 miles from Fouke. His daughter, Pamula Pierce Barcelou, who is now a resident of Claremont, New Hampshire, had the film remastered and plans to show it in at least three New Hampshire movie theaters this month. It’s already been shown in two dozen theaters around the country, says Barcelou, and “we’re outdrawing first-run movies,” she adds.

“It was all over the internet, anything

about Boggy Creek,” she says. “I’ve had so many people write to me and say, ‘Thank you for doing this.’”

Resurrecting the film involved a tracking down of the rights to it, which, it turned out, had reverted to L.W. “Buzz” Redwell, the trucking magnate who had advanced Charles Pierce $100,000 for the film’s production. Redwell turned the rights over to Barcelou for one dollar. An original print was obtained from the British Film Industry in London and enhanced by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. “Four thousand pictures were taken of each frame to give it the kind of depth that you feel like you could a reach out and touch someone,” Barcelou says. Restoration of the sound was handled by Audio Mechanics recording studio of Burbank, California.

Reports of strange happenings in tiny Fouke, Arkansas, had already spread far and wide when Pierce and filming partner Earl Smith were working on a movie in Los Angeles. Spotting a teenager wearing a T-shirt celebrating “The Fouke Monster,” Pierce told Smith, “I think we’re making the wrong movie.” When they embarked on the Boggy Creek venture, young Pamula, then 10 years old, at first refused to get caught up in the excitement surrounding the legendary beast.

“No way, there are no monsters,” she says, recalling her initial response to the ominous reports. But as the story came together in her father’s movie, the beast of Boggy Creek seemed like an unseen member of the family. “I grew up with a monster,” she says. The eldest of four children found it was “like having an additional sibling.”

The production relied heavily on local residents, many of whom played themselves in the movie. The viewer meets an interesting group of backwoodsmen, including Smokey Crabtree and his son Travis, who was hunting in the woods near Boggy Creek when he saw the creature and managed to fire a couple of shots in its direction while beating a hasty retreat. John Oates finds two of his prize hogs were slaughtered during the night. He returns later to find them gone.

“What kind of thing can pick up 200-pound hogs and walk off with them?” he wonders aloud. An unmolested kitten is apparently frightened to death outside its home after a creature fitting the description of the Fouke Monster was seen prowling just outside the house. O.H. Kennedy came across huge, three-toed footprints in Willie Smith’s bean field, generating sill more excitement and nationwide publicity.

Barcelou had a small role herself, playing the daughter of Bessie Smith, the young

Pam Barcelou in her Claremont home that has been turned into a production office and supply depot for her “Legend of Boggy Creek� film restoration and marketing plans

mother who tries to humor a group of small children who claimed to have seen the monster lurking in the nearby woods. Accompanying them to the site, she loses her skepticism in a skipped heartbeat when she sees the creature and shares in the children’s fright.

“Don’t run!” she hollers to them while racing to catch up to them. Other scenes in the film depict the hair-raising incidents said to have spread successive “waves of terror” throughout Fouke and surrounding communities.

According to the website of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), sightings of “large, hair-covered man-like animals in the wilderness areas of North America have been reported for more than 400 years.” The reports can be traced to the culture and folklore of Native Americans of the United States and Canada, and they’ve continued to the present day. They are often made by people of “unimpeachable character,” according to the BFRO, which concedes, nonetheless, that some are the result of “a combination of misidentification of known animals, wishful thinking and the deliberate fabrication of evidence.”

While most of the reported Bigfoot sightings in the US have come from the Pacific Northwest, New Hampshire has had a couple hundred of them, according to Crystal Panek, the New Hampshire field researcher with the BFRO. Yet only about a dozen of them have been posted on the organization’s site. Most people don’t want to give their names or otherwise be identified with their sighting out of fear of being disbelieved and even ridiculed for what they claim to have seen, Panek says.

“They’re afraid people will say they’re crazy.” Privacy concerns are also an issue where physical evidence, such as abnormally large footprints, is found. “Most people who have shared encounters with me are extremely

private and do not want trespassers on their property,” notes Panek, who has been with the BFRO since 2015.

Work for the all-volunteer agency involves questioning people about what they claim to have seen and looking for evidence to substantiate it. Extra weight is given to eyewitness offered by policemen, town officials or

Barcelou at 4 or 5 with her dad, Charles B. Pierce, who created "The Legend of Boggy Creek" documentary and several other "cult" films

others with credibility and “standing” within their respective communities.

Panek’s own experience with Bigfoot sightings goes back to her childhood in Oswego, New York. After the family discovered a door to their home had been broken, Panek says, she and her twin sister awoke later that night to find a large, hairy creature standing in the doorway of their bedroom. She recalls climbing down from the top berth of their bunk beds and huddling with her sister in the lower bunk.

“After that, everything went black,” she recalls. Years later when her own 5-year-old reported seeing a “big, hairy man” pass by the window of their home, “all those images from

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what I saw years before came flooding back.”

One notable incident in New Hampshire created the famous Hollis Flea Monster story. The May 18, 1977, edition of The Nashua Telegraph reported the brief, unsubstantiated story.

LOWELL MAN FLEES HOLLIS, AFTER SIGHTING MONSTER.

Police here are awaiting the return of a Lowell, Mass., man identified only as Mr. St. Louis, after he reported seeing a 10-foot tall hairy monster Saturday night at the Hollis Flea Market. Chief Paul Bosquet said the man came into police headquarters at about 10:30 Saturday night to report the strange incident.

St. Louis told the dispatcher that he, his wife and two sons were sleeping in their pickup truck when they were awakened by the shaking of their truck.

The man said he looked out and saw the what he described as a 10-foot-tall hairy animal with human-like features shaking the truck.

The Lowell man quickly started the truck and sped off to the police station where he reported the incident. Police went to the scene, but could find no evidence of the animal. Bosquet said the area in which the truck was parked was covered with pine needles and no footprints could be found ...

The Hollis chief said the animal may have been a bear that came out of the nearby woods in search of food from a nearby rubbish container.

Fred Bellen describes his memorable walk in the woods on a warm day in the early autumn of 1994. A resident of Conway at the time, Bellen was hiking in the Redstone quarry part of the town at the base of Rattlesnake Moun-

Bigfoot sightings that actually get reported are probably just a fraction of those experienced by people. “I’d say that 95% or more of the cases I handle do not want anyone to know that they have had an encounter,” says Crystal Panek, field researcher for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO). The chart to the left shows the breakdown, by county, of New Hampshire sightings reported to the BFRO. If you have a sighting you’d like to report, contact her at crystalpanek@hotmail.com or fill out a sighting report at the BFRO website (bfro.net/GDB/ submitfm.asp.) You’ll also find a list of upcoming research expeditions should you feel bold enough to follow the call of the wild. The BFRO hasn’t hosted one in the Granite State yet, but if they get enough requests, they will, Crystal Panek, field says Panek. researcher for BFRO

tain when he noticed the usual sounds of birds, frogs and squirrels had ceased. “I was taught that if this happens, chances are that a predator is nearby,” he says. Chances are he was not expecting the kind of predator he has described with remarkable detail.

“So I stopped to look around [and] about 200 to 250 feet in front of me was this massive human-looking thing with red hair all over its body except its face and hands. Its face looked like a baboon, but its skin was charcoal black. The thing was at least 10 feet tall, if not more. It had its back against a telephone pole and it looked as if it was scratching its back. The hair on its arms was about 8 inches long. I could see the muscles in its legs. It never looked in my direction.”

Despite a strong urge to run, Bellen recalled being taught that running only increases the danger of being pursued and caught by a wild animal. So he slowly retreated, looking over his shoulder to be sure the creature was not following. “Once I heard the birds again is when I felt safe enough to run. I didn’t stop running until I reached my vehicle,” he says.

Though it was more than a quarter of a century ago, Bellen, now an Epping resident, says he never told anyone about it until recently, out of fear that people would consider him mad. That makes him no less convinced that what he saw was as real as the lasting impression it has made on him.

“To this day, I have nightmares about it,” he says. “I wake up in a cold sweat after dreaming of the thing chasing me, even though he didn’t.”

Aleksander Petakov of Nashua, a documentary filmmaker with a keen interest in that study of mysterious creatures known as cryptozoology, says the subject of Bigfoot is one that comes up often during the lectures he gives at libraries and in cryptozoology conferences. “I’ve always had an interest in documentaries, especially on cryptozoology,” he says. “That includes all sorts of creatures — Bigfoot, Loch Ness, the Lake Champlain Monster. The list goes on.” Petakov’s 2016 documentary, “Shy Man of the White Mountains,” is about an Abenaki researcher studying the Bigfoot phenomenon in New Hampshire.

“There’s definitely a long history of sightings of hairy, upright creatures in New Hamp-

“So I stopped to look around [and] about 200 to 250 feet in front of me was this massive human-looking thing with red hair all over its body except its face and hands.”

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Right: The poster art for the movie was created by legendary movie illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, who became famous for the 21 iconic storyboards he created for George Lucas, which are credited with winning production approval for “Star Wars.” The resemblance between the Boggy Creek monster and “Star Wars'” Chewbacca is striking and probably not coincidental, says Barcelou. nhmagazine.com | April/May 2020

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shire Native American folklore,” says Petakov, com, Lee traced the rise of Bigfoot mania to who also cites a history of early settlers, partica small item appearing in a northern Califorularly in Coös County, passing on accounts of nia newspaper called the Humboldt Times. A “Wood Devils” in the forest. “I’ve been told by letter from a reader told of loggers who had people who grew up in the area that they were come across mysteriously large footprints. told ‘Don’t go out too far out in the woods to “Maybe we have a relative of the Abominable camp or the Wood Devils will get you.’”

Snowman,” journalist Andrew Genzoli joked in a column that ran alongside the letter. The The International Cryptozoology museum displays a 9-foot depiction of Bigfoot near its paper’s readers wanted to know more and the parking lot at Thompson’s Point in Portland, Times accommodated their interest with folMaine. Loren Coleman, the museum’s foundlow up articles about the footprints and the er and director, says he has a lifelong interest name the loggers gave to the unseen creature in mysteries and anthropology. The passion is who had left them — Bigfoot. “And so a legend was born,” wrote Lee. apparently shared by many, as he reports that Stories of the creature became a staple of visitors to the “world’s only cryptozoology supermarket tabloids and grist for movies and museum” since it opened 16 years ago have television. The TV series “Bigfoot and Wildincluded people from every state and from boy” featured the mythical creature and the Spain, Nepal, China and “all over the world.” orphan he raised as a crime-fighting duo in the The author or co-author of some 40 books, the The Fouke Monster figure above is a prototype that will be available to purchase soon.

Pacific Northwest. Real-life reports of the creapreeminent cryptozoologist notes that there The plan is to add a chip that will produce ture persisted, however, as did the response of is enough evidence of mysterious creatures to the characteristic cry of the Bigfoot often recorded by investigators. Boggy Creek wines skeptics seeking to debunk them. An article sustain the public’s curiosity. (below) and other merch is available from at the How Stuff Works website suggests how “There’s enough interest for people to write legendofboggycreek.com. “pranksters” might have manufactured some of magazine articles, but not enough for state government to fund expeditions and hunts,” he says. ries, renewed interest was sparked in the late the “evidence” of Bigfoot’s presence.

“To make ‘bigfoot’ prints, a prankster While sightings of Bigfoot and other strange 1950s, according to Washington, DC, journalcreatures may have been going on for centu- ist Becky Lee. In an article appearing at History. would just mold two large feet out of plaster,

Demand for the movie and related products is already strong and expected to increase as the film finds a new audience among the kids and grandchildren of the original fans.

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attach them to the bottom of his shoes and walk with a very long stride (possibly leaping with each step),” notes How Stuff Works. Rare photographic “evidence” often turns out to be men in ape suits, critics say. Indeed, the Fouke Monster, not being available for filming, was portrayed in “The Legend of Boggy Creek” by a man in a gorilla costume.

Barcelou believes the creature called the Fouke Monster is real, but adds “I don’t give it supernatural powers,” despite reports of its picking up and walking off with a pair of John Oates’ 200-pound hogs. “Many known animals have that kind of strength,” she says.

“A lion can throw a 200-pound warthog. They take on animals all the time.”

Fouke, Arkansas, now a city of some 850 residents, has grown a bit in the nearly half-century since “The Legend of Boggy Creek” made its debut, but the story still has an impact on the economic life of the city as well as the imagination of moviegoers.

“Oh, goodness, yes!” says Mayor Terry Purvis, when asked if the legend has made the city a tourist attraction. A year ago, when Barcelou returned for a showing of the remastered film at the Texarkana theater where it had made its debut 48 years earlier, people from several states and as far away as England flocked to the event, he says. Purvis, now in his 13th year as mayor, recalls seeing the movie as a 17-year-old and thinking it was a great horror film, “very scary and neat.” He

“I’ve been told by people who grew up in the [Coös County] area that they were told ‘Don’t go out too far out in the wood to camp or the Wood Devils will get you.’”

— Aleksander Petakov, documentary filmmaker

sees it now as a force for economic development as the legend continues to draw visitors to the community. A must stop for visitors is the Fouke Monster Mart, the combination of a large country store and the Fouke Monster Museum. Purvis expresses no doubt the creature itself has been seen and heard and has left evidence of its presence in the fields and farms near Boggy Creek.

“Over the years there have been literally thousands of these sightings,” he says. “It’s pretty hard for me to call all these people liars.” Nor does he give credence to the notion that some of the sightings might have been of known animals that startled observers might

An encounter with the beast in "The Legend of Boggy Creek." A screening of the completely restored film will take place on April 23 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth.

have mistaken for the legendary beast.

“These are country people, who’ve lived all their lives in the country,” says Purvis. “If it’s a black bear, they’ve seen that.”

Perhaps there has been no bigger skeptic than Herb Jones, one of the many Fouke residents who played themselves in the movie.

Jones was a hermit who lived in a shack deep in the bottomland by Boggy Creek. By his own account, it was “14 miles by boat to the nearest road and a pretty good walk to town.”

Jones had a very strong conviction concerning the creature that many of the townspeople had come to regard with a combination of fascination and horror.

“People always ask, have I seen the Fouke Monster,” he says. “Now let me tell you somethin’. There ain’t no such thing. I been livin’ in these bottoms for better ’n 20 years and I ain’t never seen no monster.”

But fellow Fouke resident Charlie Walraven might have said Jones was lucky. Walraven says he saw “the thing” walk in front of his car as he drove down a dark, deserted road one night.” I couldn’t even believe what I was watchin’,” he says.

“I reckon there are a lot o’ folks who don’t believe anything ’til they see it for themselves,” Walraven says. “’Course, if they’re like me, maybe they’ll be wishin’ they hadn’t seen what they did.”

At the cryptozoology museum in Maine, Loren Coleman suggests there may never be enough eyewitness accounts or physical evidence to reach anything like a consensus about the reality of the nonexistence of the “monster,” by whatever name it’s called.

“If there were enough evidence to confirm that Bigfoot existed, we wouldn’t be talking about him,” says Coleman. “There’s evidence enough to keep people looking.

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399 Leading Physicians in 57 Specialties NOMINATED BY THEIR PEERS For the 2020 Top Doctors Poll, we selected national research firm Castle Connolly to conduct the survey process. Included are 399 doctors in 57 specialties, as nominated by their peers, who cover a wide range of medical needs from pediatrics to surgical care.

We also asked several of this year’s Top Doctors to share a quotation, goal or anecdote that helps motivate or inspire them to continue practicing medicine at the highest level.

Top Doctors 2020 KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS Many of the doctors featured in this survey practice in more than one hospital and many have private practices. Below is a list of the hospitals in the state and their abbreviations: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital/ Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (APDMH) Lebanon

ADOLESCENT MEDICINE Keith Loud, M.D., M.S.C. DHMC, DartmouthHitchcock Manchester Lebanon (603) 653-9663

Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Center (BASC)

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

Catholic Medical Center (CMC) Manchester

Barbara L. Deuell, M.D.

Cheshire Medical Center/ Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene/DartmouthHitchcock Health (Cheshire/DHK) Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) Manchester Concord Hospital (Concord) Cottage Hospital (Cottage) Woodsville Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (DHMC) Lebanon

PRH Allergy Associates of New Hampshire Portsmouth (603) 436-7897

John N. Kalliel, M.D. Elliot Hospital, CMC Manchester Allergy Inc. Manchester (603) 668-6444

Amit Kumar, M.D.

Franklin Regional Hospital (FRH)

SNHMC Southern New Hampshire Asthma and Allergy Nashua (603) 577-3065

Frisbie Memorial Hospital (FMH) Rochester

Kevin Roelofs, M.D.

Elliot Hospital (Elliot) Manchester Exeter Hospital (Exeter)

Lakes Region General Hospital (LRGH) Laconia Littleton Regional Healthcare (LRH) Monadnock Community Hospital (MCH) Peterborough Nashua Ambulatory Surgical Center (NASC) New London Hospital/DartmouthHitchcock Health (NLH) Parkland Medical Center (PMC) Derry Portsmouth Regional Hospital (PRH) Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (SNHMC) Nashua Speare Memorial Hospital (SMH) Plymouth St. Joseph Hospital (SJH) Nashua Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital (UCVH) Colebrook Valley Regional Healthcare (VRH) Claremont Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH) Dover

PRH Allergy Associates of New Hampshire Portsmouth (603) 436-7897

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Connor Haugh, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S. CMC, SJH New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 663-6888

Jamie H. Kim, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC, PMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 663-6657

Daniel M. Philbin Jr., M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S. CMC

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“A mentor of mine once said, ‘Remember, we are regular people lucky to have the privilege of being neurosurgeons!’ Someone gives you their body when it is diseased or broken and says to you, ‘Fix me.’ You open them, you fix them and they get better. You are rewarded with their gratitude and the accomplishment of bringing someone back to Henry Pallatroni III, M.D. health. It is this exchange that motivates me to Neurological Surgery give every patient my full effort and provide the PRH, Exeter Hospital highest level of care. I can’t think of a better proCoastal New Hampshire fession. I am fortunate to be doing this every day.”

Neurosurgeons

New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 669-0413

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Bruce W. Andrus, M.D., M.S. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5724

Steven P. Beaudette, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC, SJH, Huggins Hospital New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 883-5673

Craig Berry, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC, SJH New England Heart & Vascular Institute Nashua (603) 883-5673

Robert Capodilupo, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 669-0413

Wendi Cardeiro, M.D., F.A.C.C. SNHMC Foundation Cardiology Nashua (603) 577-2039

Peter Dourdoufis, D.O. PRH Cardiovascular Care of NH & York Newington (603) 431-6691

Louis Fink, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 669-0413

Gregory M. Goodkin, M.D.

Robert M. Lavery, M.D., F.A.C.C. Elliot Hospital Elliot Cardiovascular Consultants Manchester (603) 627-1669

Jeffrey Taylor Lockhart, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Hospital Cardiac Associates Concord (603) 224-6070

Michael E. Metzger, M.D.

Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 773-9992

Stephen Hanlon, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC, PMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 669-0413

Alan T. Kono, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-2929

Kevin F. Kwaku, M.D., Ph.D. DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Lebanon (603) 650-4590

FMH Strafford Cardiology Associates Rochester (603) 332-1400

Ayesha Nazeer, M.D. Concord Hospital, LRGH Concord Hospital Cardiac Associates Laconia (603) 524-1600

Sachin Saksena, M.D. FMH Strafford Cardiology Associates Rochester (603) 332-1400

Steven Lee Schwartz, M.D., F.A.C.C. SNHMC, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Foundation Cardiology Nashua, (603) 577-2039

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Anthony J. Aversa, M.D. Concord Hospital Northeast Dermatology Associates Concord

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Matthew F. Kamil, M.D.

Robert A. Levine, M.D., F.A.C.E. SJH Nashua (603) 881-7141

Congratulations to our 2020 Top Doctors!

SolutionHealth is proud to recognize our 2020 Top Doctors from Elliot Health System and Southern NH Health System.

Thank you for all that you do to keep our community healthy.

View our entire list of top docs at solutionhealth.org/TopDocs

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“I love working with employers and employees from business and municipalities of all sizes. Practicing occupational and environmental medicine at our community hospital, which is a member of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health system, allows me to be flexible and effective in keeping workers, companies and our community healthy and well. I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this recognition.”

Phillip B. Collins, M.D.

Occupational Medicine Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

Mini Mahata, M.D.

David Buono, M.D.

John E. Ford, D.O.

Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Stratham (603) 926-1119

Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Epping (603) 693-2100

LRH Weeks Medical Center Whitefield (603) 837-9005

Sue A. Taylor, M.D.

Joann Buonomano, M.D.

Scott C. Jaynes, M.D.

WDH Endocrinology & Diabetes Consultants Dover (603) 742-1143

FAMILY MEDICINE Mark J. Aronson, DO LRGH Lakes Region Family Practice Laconia (603) 527-2969

Barbara A. Bates, M.D. Cheshire/DHK Keene (603) 354-6763

Teri L. Brehio, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Hospital Family Health Center Hillsboro (603) 464-3434

Annika Brown, D.O. DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heater Road Lebanon (603) 650-4000

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FMH, WDH Goodwin Community Health Somersworth (603) 749-2346

Maureen Erin Cashman, M.D. FMH Rochester Hill Family Practice Rochester (603) 335-2401

Mayumi ChataniHinze, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (800) 653-0776

Kevin M., Donovan, D.O. FMH Rochester Hill Family Practice Rochester (603) 335-2401

DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heater Road Lebanon (603) 650-4000

J. Gilliam Johnston II, M.D. DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heater Road Lebanon (603) 650-4000

Timothy G. Keenan, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Stratham (603) 778-1620

Keith A. Lammers, M.D. Elliot Hospital Elliott Family Medicine at Amherst Amherst (603) 249-3000

David V. Ferris, D.O.

Richard J. O’Brien Jr., M.D.

Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Littleton (603) 444-2464

LRGH Belmont Family Health Belmont (603) 528-0990

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Steven Thomas Olive, M.D. FMH Family Care of Farmington (603) 755-9801

Michael A. Pangan, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 775-0000

David Reall, M.D. FMH Rochester Hill Family Practice Rochester (603) 335-2401

Nashua (603) 577-4081

Christopher N. Dainiak, M.D. PMC, CMC, BASC Granite State GI Consultants Derry (603) 432-8802

Aristotle J. Damianos, M.D. PRH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Portsmouth (603) 433-2488

Roger M. Epstein, M.D.

Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Kingston (603) 642-3910

PRH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Portsmouth (603) 433-2488

Tamara Shilling, D.O.

Stuart R. Gordon, M.D.

Mark Reeder, M.D.

FMH Barrington Family Practice Barrington (603) 664-9003

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5030

Michael F. Thompson, M.D.

PRH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Portsmouth (603) 433-2488

FMH Goodwin Community Health Somersworth (603) 749-2346

Andrew G. Tremblay, M.D. Cheshire/DHK Keene Family Medicine Keene (603) 354-6758

GASTROENTEROLOGY Jaime A. Baquero, M.D. PRH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Somersworth (603) 692-2228

Jack T. Bueno, M.D. SJH Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua

Marylyn Virginia Grondin, M.D.

Brian Hyett, M.D. PRH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Portsmouth (603) 433-2488

Jennifer M. Lewis, M.D. FMH, WDH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Somersworth (603) 692-2228

Sean P. Lynch, M.D. PRH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Somersworth (603) 692-2228

CongraTulaTionS To all our Core PhysiCians Who Were named “ToP DoCs” ThiS Year

These physicians are representative of the excellent providers throughout Core Physicians’ primary and specialty care network. Together, we provide comprehensive, patient-centered care throughout the Seacoast. alexandra Bonesho, MD Core Pediatric & adolescent medicine John Brennan, MD Core Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine

Gregory Goodkin, MD Core Cardiology Peter ihm, MD Core otolaryngology & audiology

roderick Bruno, MD Core orthopedics

Timothy Keenan, MD Core Physicians, Family medicine

David Buono, MD Core Physicians, Family medicine

Christopher Knox, Do Core otolaryngology & audiology

a. neil Clerk, MD Core orthopedics

Daniel Kunz, Do Core rheumatology

Paul Deranian, MD Core Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine

steven Loh, MD Core Pediatric & adolescent medicine

eileen Forrest, MD Core Pediatric & adolescent medicine

Mini Mahata, MD Core endocrinology

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suzana Makowski, MD Core Physicians, Palliative Care Thomas McGovern, MD Core orthopedics roger nowak, MD Core orthopedics Michael Pangan, MD Core Physicians, Family medicine Mark reeder, MD Core Physicians, Family medicine Thomas sherman, MD Core gastroenterology Geoffrey Starr, MD Core neurology Jay swett, MD, FaCs Core general Surgery

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Patrick Casey, M.D. Sports Medicine Concord Hospital Concord Orthopaedics, PA

“I enjoy the challenges of taking care of all my patients, from professional athletes to baby boomers to young little leaguers.

They all pose different challenges and require different thought processes. That diversity in the population I work with keeps things interesting and engaging. I love trying to keep people as active as they can be no matter their situation.”

William E. Maher, M.D. WDH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Somersworth (603) 692-2228

Srikrishna Nagri, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (603) 577-4081

Richard I. Rothstein, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5261

Robert A. Ruben, M.D. WDH, FMH Atlantic Digestive Specialists Somersworth (603) 692-2228

Thomas M. Sherman, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 772-5528

Corey A. Siegel, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5261

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Mark Jan Silversmith, M.D. CMC NH Gastroenterology at CMC Bedford (603) 625-5744

Robert Daniel Thomson, M.D. Concord Hospital, MCH GI Associates of New Hampshire Concord (603) 228-1763

GERIATRIC MEDICINE Samuel Joel Goldman, D.O. Elliot Hospital, CMC Senior Health Primary Care at Elliot Senior Health Center Manchester (603) 663-7030

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY Evelyn Fleming, M.D. DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Specialty Care at Bedford Medical Park Lebanon (603) 653-3525

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Loyd A. West, M.D. DHMC, DartmouthHitchcock Concord Lebanon (603) 653-9300

HAND SURGERY Paul C. Bettinger, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center Keene (603) 354-5454

Roderick Bruno, M.D. Exeter Hospital, PRH, FMH Core Physicians Exeter (603) 777-1000

Robert J. Heaps, M.D. SNHMC, Elliot, CMC, BASC, SJH, PMC, NASC The New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center Nashua (603) 883-0091 Bedford (603) 669-5454

H. Matthew Quitkin, M.D., M.B.A. PRH, York Hospital Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, PA Portsmouth (603) 431-1121

Jinsong Wang, M.D., Ph.D. BASC, CMC, Elliot, PMC The New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center Bedford (603) 669-5454 Salem (603) 898-0180

HEMATOLOGY Elizabeth M. Bengtson, M.D. DHMC, Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon (603) 650-5529

Archana Bhargava, M.D. FMH Center for Cancer Care & Hematology,Rochester (603) 335-8490

Frederick Michael Briccetti, M.D. Concord Hospital, Elliot Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Concord (603) 224-2556

Rebecca Eisenberg, M.D. FMH Center for Cancer Care & Hematology Rochester (603) 335-8490

Marc Gautier, M.D. DHMC Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon (603) 650-5747

Kenneth Meehan, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-4628

Gary N. Schwartz, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-6181

Jeanna Walsh, M.D. Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hooksett (603) 622-6484

Jill M. Winslow, M.D. DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene Keene (603) 354-5466

HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE Lisa Ann Leinau, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center Keene (603) 354-5400

Sarah J. Macduffie, D.O. WDH

Wentworth Health Partners-Supportive & Palliative Care Dover (603) 740-3330

Suzana K. Makowski, M.D. Exeter Hospital Palliative Care Of Exeter Exeter (603) 580-6457

Donald Byrne McDonah, M.D. SJH Nashua Radiology Nashua (603) 882-3000

INFECTIOUS DISEASE Alexander Granok, M.D., F.A.C.P. SNHMC Infectious Disease Associates & Travel Medicine Merrimack (603) 429-1611

David Jay Itkin, M.D. PRH Appledore Infectious Disease Portsmouth (603) 433-8733

James T. Noble, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord (603) 230-1939

INTERNAL MEDICINE John A. Batsis, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-9500

Brian A. Binczewski, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2600

Belinda Lynne Castor, M.D. CMC Manchester (603) 625-6198

Top Doctors 2020 Paul Richard Clark, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord (603) 224-4003

Wentworth Health Partners Internal Medicine Dover (603) 609-6800

Joseph Peter Cunniff, M.D.

Kevin A. Silva, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Elliot Hospital Elliot Internal Medicine Londonderry (603) 434-1919

Eric W. Eisenberg, M.D. FMH Skyhaven Internal Medicine Rochester (603) 330-3404

John J. Fothergill, M.D. North Country Medical & Wellness Colebrook (603) 331-0500

Laura Fox, M.D. PMC Southern New Hampshire Internal Medicine Associates Derry (603) 216-0400

Stephen K. Liu, M.D., M.P.H. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-9500

Heather L. Marks, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2600

Kevin Y. Pho, M.D. SJH SJH Adult Medicine Nashua (603) 891-4500

Donald E. Reape, M.D. SJH SJH Internal Medicine Nashua (603) 891-4500

Pamela R. Schultze, M.D. WDH

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LRH North Country Healthcare Littleton (603) 444-2002

Lijun Song, M.D., Ph.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2600

Vijaya Upadrasta, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2600

Tanja VanderLinde, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord (603) 224-4003

Vlasta Zdrnja, M.D. CMC Queen City Medical Associates Manchester (603) 625-6198

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY Jeffrey Field Bleakley, M.D., F.A.C.C. CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 669-0413

Jonathan Bridges, M.D., F.A.C.C. York Hospital, PRH New Hampshire Cardiovascular Care Portsmouth (603) 433-5300 Cardiovascular Care of York Hospital York, Maine (207) 363-6136

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Cardiovascular Care of NH and York Newington (603) 431-6691

Jeffrey Colnes, M.D., F.A.C.C. York Hospital, PRH Cardiovascular Care of York Hospital Somersworth (603) 742-9373

James DeVries, M.D. Cheshire Medical Center, DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5724

James M. Flynn, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I. CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 669-0413

Charles H. Catcher, M.D.

Keisuke Shirai, M.D., M.Sc.

Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Concord (603) 224-2556

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5534

Mary D. Chamberlin, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-6181

Peter H. Crow, M.D. Elliot Hospital, Concord Hospital, CMC New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hookset (603) 622-6484

Gina M. DiVenuti, M.D.

Danny M. Sims, M.D. Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hooksett (603) 622-6484

Zachary S. S pigelman, M.D. Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, PMC Lahey Oncology and Hematology at Parkland Derry (603) 537-2060

Douglas Jay Weckstein, M.D.

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5724

Elliot, Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hookset (603) 622-6484

Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hooksett (603) 622-6484

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE

Konstantin Dragnev, M.D.

NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-6272

James E. Gray, M.D., M.S.

John E. Jayne, M.D.

Emily R. Baker, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-9306 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (603) 577-4300

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY Bradley A. Arrick, M.D., Ph.D. DHMC Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon (603) 653-6181

Michael S. Buff, M.D. Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hooksett (603) 622-6484

Kathryn C. Hourdequin, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-9474

Gautami S. Rao, M.D. SNHMC, Massachusetts General Hospital Foundation Hematology/ Oncology Nashua (603) 886-7900

Meredith J. Selleck, M.D. Concord Hospital New Hampshire OncologyHematology, PA Hooksett (603) 622-6484

CMC, DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-6063

Steven A. Ringer, M.D., Ph.D. CMC, DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-6063

NEPHROLOGY Kulli M. Barrett, M.D. FMH, PRH Seacoast Kidney & Hypertension Specialists Portsmouth (603) 436-3433

Peter Cheung, M.D. Elliot Hospital, CMC Nephrology Associates, PA Manchester (603) 641-5800

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Michele G. Rush, M.D., Sleep Medicine

LRGH, Speare Memorial Hospital, LRGHealthcare Sleep Evaluation Center

“I have been practicing Sleep Medicine for over 20 years, having merged it with my Neurology practice at first and then concentrating on it solely ever since 2001. My most enjoyable moments at the office occur when a patient gleefully tells me how much better they are sleeping after treatment for their sleep disorder. They are happier, healthier, safer and their personal relationships improve.

There is nothing like a good night's sleep and I am happy to guide my patients toward that goal.”

Michael Casimir Danielski, M.D.

Brian D. Remillard, M.D.

Henry Pallatroni III, M.D.

FMH, PRH Seacoast Kidney & Hypertension Specialists Portsmouth (603) 436-3433

DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-3830

PRH, Exeter Hospital Coastal New Hampshire Neurosurgeons Portsmouth (603) 433-4666

Sean W. Fitzpatrick, M.D. SNHMC, SJH Southern NH Nephrology & Hypertension Nashua (603) 577-5377

Sucharit Joshi, M.D. FMH, PRH Seacoast Kidney & Hypertension Specialists Portsmouth (603) 436-3433

Shiv Kumar, M.D. FMH, PRH Seacoast Kidney & Hypertension Specialists Portsmouth (603) 436-3433

Naresh Matta, M.D. FMH, PRH Seacoast Kidney & Hypertension Specialists Portsmouth (603) 436-3433

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Ana Stankovic, M.D. PMC Center for Kidney and Metabolic Disorders Salem (603) 890-2771

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY Perry A. Ball, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5109

David F. Bauer, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-9880

N. Ross Jenkins, M.D. Elliot Hospital, Concord Hospital New Hampshire NeuroSpine Institute Bedford (603) 472-8888

Hulda Magnadottir, M.D. APDMH Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery Lebanon (603) 448-0447

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Harold J. Pikus, M.D. APDMH, NLH Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery Lebanon (603) 448-0447

Nathan E. Simmons, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5109

Paul P. Wang, M.D. CMC, Concord Hospital, Elliot Hospital New Hampshire NeuroSpine Institute Bedford (603) 472-8888

Richard Finkelman, M.D. WDH Wentworth Health Partners Coastal Neurology Services Dover (603) 749-0913

Barbara C. Jobst, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5104

Keith J. McAvoy, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2940

Lara K. Ronan, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5104

Geoffrey Starr, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter, (603) 777-1000

Leslie Suranyi, M.D. LRGH Laconia Clinic-Hillside Park Location Laconia (603) 524-5151

Vijay M. Thadani, M.D., Ph.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5104

Robert Thies, M.D.

NEUROLOGY

Elliot Hospital Elliot Neurology Associates Manchester (603) 663-4800

Jeffrey A. Cohen, M.D.

Gary D. Usher, M.D.

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5104

Khosro Farhad, M.D. WDH Wentworth Health Partners Coastal Neurology Services Dover (603) 749-0913

WDH Wentworth Health Partners Coastal Neurology Services Dover (603) 749-0913 Portsmouth (603) 749-0913

NEURORADIOLOGY Rihan Khan, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-4488

Corey N. Sides, M.D. CMC Southern New Hampshire Radiology Consultants Bedford (603) 627-1661

NUCLEAR MEDICINE Jeffrey Mendel, M.D. PMC Salem Radiology Salem (603) 890-2800

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Danielle Albushies, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Kristen L. Bannister, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Valerie A. Bell, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Dartmouth-Hitchcock Merrimack Nashua (603) 577-4300

Mark A. Conway, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. SJH OB/GYN Associates of Southern NH Merrimack (603) 883-3365

Anna M. Deyoung, M.D. WDH Dover Women’s Health

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Patricia C. Furey, M.D., F.A.C.S. Vascular Surgery

Catholic Medical Center, St. Joseph Hospital and Vein & Vascular Specialists

Dover (603) 742-2424 Portsmouth (603) 742-2424

Timothy J. Fisher, M.D., M.S. DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-9300

Lara C. Hanlon, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Marc F. Leclair, M.D. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

David R. Levene, M.D. MCH Monadnock OB/GYN Associates Peterborough (603) 924-9444

Kelly M. MacMillan, M.D. SJH OB/GYN Associates of Southern NH Merrimack (603) 883-3365

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“I had the hope at a young age that an individual could make a difference in the world. Now as an adult and a surgeon that is a certainty and this is why we have passion for our work.

Medicine gives back every moment our patients give us their hope and trust. I am sustained by my faith in my work, my incredibly loving and patient family, skillful, talented partners and team members at my hospital who support the work we undertake at the highest level. I am surrounded by heroes.”

Karen Kay Maynard, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. SNHMC Women’s Care of Nashua Nashua (603) 577-3100

Heidi Meinz, M.D. Elliot Hospital Manchester Obstetrical Associates, PA Manchester (603) 622-3162

Deborah Ann Mueller, M.D. FMH Caring Partners Obstetrics & Gynecology Rochester (603) 335-6988

Lisbeth A. Murphy, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Sonja Nelson, M.D. PRH Harbour Women’s Health Portsmouth (603) 431-6011

Polyxeni S. Rounds, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC

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Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Jeffrey M. Segil, M.D. WDH Dover Women’s Health Dover (603) 742-2424

Brenna Corbett Stapp, D.O. Elliot Hospital Manchester Obstetrical Associates, PA Manchester (603) 622-3162

Joycelyn Helene Vardo, D.O. WDH Dover Women’s Health Dover (603) 742-2424

Jennifer Weidner, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Fletcher R. Wilson, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Elliot Hospital, CMC Bedford Commons OB-GYN, PA Bedford (603) 668-4646

Occupational Medicine Phillip B. Collins, M.D. APDMH Occupational Health Services Lebanon (603) 448-7459

Ophthalmology Anthony J. Correnti, M.D. Elliot Hospital NH Eye Associates Manchester (603) 669-3925

Andrew Marc Garfinkle, M.D., Ph.D. LRGH Laconia Eye & Laser Center Gilford (603) 524-2020

Warren Goldblatt, M.D. PRH, FMH Eyesight Ophthalmic Services Portsmouth (603) 436-1773

Marsha Kavanagh, M.D. PRH, WDH Eyesight Ophthalmic Services Portsmouth (603) 436-1773

Richard J. Lasonde, M.D. PRH, WDH Excellent Vision Eye and Laser Center Portsmouth (603) 430-5225

Kimberly Licciardi, M.D. Elliot Hospital NH Eye Associates Manchester (603) 669-3925

Patrick James Morhun, M.D., F.A.C.S. DHMC, NLH New London (603) 526-2020

Paul S. Musco, M.D. SMH White Mountain Eye Care & Optical Plymouth (603) 536-1284

Newton Timothy Peters, M.D., F.A.C.S. FMH Eyesight Ophthalmic Services Portsmouth (603) 436-1773

Patrick Joseph Riddle, M.D. SJH, SNHMC Nashua Eye Associates, PA Nashua (603) 882-9800

Douglas R. Scott, M.D. LRGH Laconia Eye & Laser Center Gilford (603) 524-2020

George J. Shaker, M.D. Elliot Hospital The Medical Eye Center, PC Manchester (603) 668-2020

Lucian Szmyd Jr., M.D. FMH Eyesight Ophthalmic Services Somersworth (603) 436-1773

David Alan Weinberg, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Eye Care Concord (603) 224-2020

Orthopaedic Surgery William A. Abdu, M.D., M.S. DHMC Spine Center Lebanon (603) 650-2225

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Julianne A. Mann, M.D. Dermatology

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon

“One of my greatest joys as a pediatric dermatologist is helping my patients and their families understand medical information in an engaging and empowering way. I strive to listen well, explain thoroughly, and help families make the best shared decisions for them as individuals. Because skin conditions and birthmarks in children often have psychological, emotional and social impacts, I make sure to give families strategies that help empower their children to feel positive and self-confident. I feel privileged to work with children who inspire and motivate me each and every day to be the best that I can be.”

Uri Michael Ahn, M.D.

Eric Arvidson, M.D.

John-Erik Bell, M.D.

CMC, Elliot Hospital New Hampshire |NeuroSpine Institute Bedford (603) 472-8888

Holy Family Hospital Essex Orthopaedics & Optima Sports Medicine Salem, (603) 898-2244

DHMC, NLH Lebanon, (603) 650-5133

Eric R. Benson, M.D. Elliot, CMC, PMC, BASC

New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center Bedford (603) 883-0091

Somersworth (603) 742-2007

Avnish Neil Clerk, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 777-1000

PRH Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics Portsmouth (603) 431-3575

Jeffrey Clingman, M.D.

Stephen J. Fox, M.D.

Alexander David Davis, M.D.

LRGH Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists Gilford (603) 528-9100

Concord Hospital Concord Orthopaedics Concord (603) 224-3368

Mark Christopher Cullen, M.D.

WDH Wentworth Health Partners Seacoast Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Somersworth (603) 742-2007

WDH Wentworth Health Partners Seacoast Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Portsmouth (603) 742-2007

Mark J. Geppert, M.D.

Sam Ogden, MD Pediatrics

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Ricardo A. Gonzales, M.D.

Mayo Noerdlinger, M.D., F.A.A.O.S.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord Manchester (603) 695-2830

PRH, York Hospital Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Portsmouth (603) 431-1121

John M. Grobman, M.D. LRGH Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists Gilford (603) 528-9100

Cherie Holmes, M.D. Cheshire/DHK Keene (603) 654-5482

Gregory Leather, M.D. Cheshire/DHK (603) 354-5482

Glenn S. Lieberman, M.D. LRGH Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists Gilford (603) 528-9100

Thomas F. McGovern, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 777-1000

Kevin J. McGuire, M.D., M.S. Spine Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-2225

Marc J. Michaud, M.D. Elliot, CMC, BASC, PMC New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center Bedford (603) 883-0091

Roger B. Nowak, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 777-1000

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DERMATOLOGY

PULMONARY DISEASE

Teri L. Brehio, MD FAMILY MEDICINE

William F. Santis, MD

Ira M. Parsons, M.D. FMH The Knee, Hip and Shoulder Center Portsmouth (603) 431-5858

Frederick M. Briccetti, MD

Meredith J. Selleck, MD

Michael S. Buff, MD

Thomas A. Sheldon, MD

Patrick Casey, MD

Hoke H. Shirley, MD

Spine Center, DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-2225

Paul R. Clark, MD

Danny M. Sims, MD

Scott J. Fabozzi, MD

Wayne K. Stadelmann, MD

Anthony H. Presutti, M.D.

UROLOGY

Stephen J. Fox, MD

Russell A. Strong, MD

Stephen P. Imgrund, MD

Robert D. Thomson, MD

Jeffrey T. Lockhart, MD

Veronica Triaca, MD

Adam Mackay Pearson, M.D., M.S.

Cheshire/DHK Keene (603) 354-5482

Akhilesh Sastry, M.D. PRH Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Portsmouth (603) 431-1121

Mark B. Silbey, M.D. Cheshire/DHK Keene (603) 354-5482

Gregory W. Soghikian, M.D. CMC, Elliot, PMC, SNHMC, BASC, NASC New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center Bedford (603) 883-0091

HEMATOLOGY

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY SPORTS MEDICINE

INTERNAL MEDICINE

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY PULMONARY DISEASE

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Su K. Metcalfe, MD

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Robert E. Mitchell, MD UROLOGY

Ayesha Nazeer, MD

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

James T. Noble, MD INFECTIOUS DISEASE

UROLOGY

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

RADIATION ONCOLOGY RHEUMATOLOGY

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY PLASTIC SURGERY

COLON & RECTAL SURGERY GASTROENTEROLOGY

UROGYNECOLOGY/FEMALE PELVIC MEDICINE & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

Tanja VanderLinde, MD INTERNAL MEDICINE

Jeanna Walsh, MD HEMATOLOGY

Douglas J. Weckstein, MD MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

David A. Weinberg, MD OPHTHALMOLOGY

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Patients who have a choice, choose us to keep them, their families and their communities healthy.

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Top Doctors 2020 David C. Thut, M.D. WDH Wentworth Health Partners Seacoast Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Somersworth (603) 742-2007

James C. Vailas, M.D. CMC, Elliot, PMC, SJH, SNHMC,BASC, NASC New Hampshire Orthopaedic Center Bedford (603) 883-0091

Gavin R. Webb, M.D. WDH, FMH Seacoast Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Somersworth (603) 742-2007

OTOLARYNGOLOGY James P. Bartels, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 622-3623

Anders Holm, M.D. FMH, WDH Northeast ENT & Allergy Somersworth (603) 742-6555

Peter Soon Ihm, M.D. Exeter Hospital, PRH Core Physicians Exeter (603) 772-8208

Keith Jorgensen, M.D. PMC Dr. Jorgensen Professional Association Derry (603) 432-8104

Christopher Knox, D.O. Exeter Hospital, Portsmouth Regional Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 772-8208 Portsmouth (603) 772-8208

Christopher Ryder, M.D. Valley Regional Hospital, Springfield Hospital Connecticut Valley ENT Claremont (603) 542-5073

Andrew R. Spector, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 622-3623

OTOLARYNGOLOGY/ FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY Benoit J. Gosselin, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8123

PAIN MEDICINE James A. Mirazita, M.D. SNHMC, LRGH Pain Solutions Nashua (603) 577-3003

Praveen Suchdev, M.D. SNHMC, LRGH Pain Solutions Nashua (603) 577-3003

PATHOLOGY Stephen Brady, M.D. Northeast Dermatology Associates Portsmouth (978) 691-5690

James Samuel Smoot, M.D. Elliot Hospital Pathology Specialists of New England, PA Manchester (603) 663-2583

Arief Suriawinata, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-7211

Wendy Wells, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-7211

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Top Doctors 2020 PEDIATRIC ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY

Robert Walsh Hickey, M.D.

Samuel J. Casella, M.D.

PRH, WDH Allergy Associates of New Hampshire Portsmouth (603) 436-7897

DHMC Lebanon (603) 653-9877

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY Naomi Gauthier, M.D. DHMC, WDH CHaD at WentworthDouglass Hospital Dover (603) 740-2366

Jenifer Glatz, M.D. DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Lebanon (603) 695-2740

PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGYONCOLOGY Julie Kim, M.D., Ph.D. DHMC Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon (603) 650-5541

Adam R. Weinstein, M.D.

Mark Dixon Carney, M.D.

DHMC, DartmouthHitchcock Manchester Lebanon (603) 653-9884

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord, Concord Hospital Concord (603) 226-6100

PEDIATRIC SURGERY Elizabeth S. Soukup, M.D. Elliot Hospital Manchester (603) 663-8393

PEDIATRICS Erica Boheen, M.D.

PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY

Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Epping (603) 693-2100

Matthew M. Hand, D.O.

Charles T. Cappetta, M.D.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2790

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (603) 577-4400

Eileen Forrest, M.D.

Adela M. De Vera, M.D. MCH Monadnock Regional Pediatrics Peterborough (603) 924-7101

Alexandra DeBlasio Bonesho, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Epping (603) 693-2100

Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 772-8900

Gregory Kaupp, M.D., F.A.A.P. SNHMC Medicine-Pediatrics of Nashua Nashua (603) 594-6337

Stacey Kopp, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (603) 577-4400

Tessa J. LafortuneGreenberg, M.D.

Leslie S. Dick, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord Concord (603) 226-6100

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord Concord (603) 226-6100

ADVOCATES FOR THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

Ready to help in the Boardroom or the Courtroom

Michael Pignatelli

Steve Lauwers

Ken Bartholomew

Adam Varley

Judith Albright

Adam Pignatelli

Mike Lewis

Larry Smith

Lindsey Dalton

Catherine Simms

RN Paralegal

Paralegal

Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C. www.rathlaw.com Concord (603) 226-2600

Nashua Montpelier Boston (603) 889-9952 (617) 523-8080 (802) 229-8050

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Top Doctors 2020 Terri L. Lally, M.D. WDH Dover Pediatrics Dover (603) 742-4048

Steven P. Loh, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Stratham (603) 658-1823

Theresa M. Oliveira, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord Concord (603) 226-6100

Mitchell N. Pivor, M.D. FMH Lilac City Pediatrics Rochester (603) 335-4522

Todd M. Poret, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord

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Concord (603) 226-6100

Andrew Jeffrey Schuman, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (603) 577-4400

Pamela S. Udomprasert, M.D. FMH Rochester Pediatric Associates Rochester (603) 332-0238

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Barry Charles Gendron, D.O. WDH, PRH Seacoast Area Physiatry Portsmouth (603) 431-5529

Bruce Myers, M.D. WDH, PRH Seacoast Area Physiatry Portsmouth (603) 431-5529

Daniel Sherwin Zipin, D.O. PRH Access Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics Exeter (603) 431-3575

Thomas M. Frates, M.D.

PLASTIC SURGERY

CMC, Elliot Hospital New Hampshire NeuroSpine Institute Bedford (603) 472-8888

Cecil Wesley Bean, M.D.

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WDH, FMH

Wentworth Health Partners Plastic Surgery Specialists Dover (603) 516-4268

Steven Lawrence Brown, M.D. CMC, Elliot, BASC BASC Bedford (603) 232-2860 CMC Wound Care Center Manchester (603) 663-6000

Todd E. Burdette, M.D. Elliot Hospital Elliot Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Manchester (603) 314-6450

Mark B. Constantian, M.D., F.A.C.S. SJH, SNHMC

Office of Dr. Mark B. Constantian Nashua (603) 880-7700

Charles J. Gaudet, M.D. PRH, York Hospital Piscataqua Plastic Surgery & Skin Care Portsmouth (603) 431-5488

Wayne K. Stadelmann, M.D., F.A.C.S Concord Hospital, CASC, NLH Concord Plastic Surgery Concord (603) 224-5200

Dale C. Vidal, M.D., M.S. APDMH, DHMC Multi-Specialty Clinic, Surgery Lebanon

Top Doctors 2020 Christopher C. Daigle, M.D., F.C.C.P.

(603) 443-9572

Psychiatry

SNHMC, SJH Nashua (603) 889-4131

Santharam Y adati, M.D. Elliot Hospital Elliot Behavioral Health Services Manchester (603) 669-5300

Pulmonary Disease Graham T. Atkins, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5533

John P. Brennan, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 775-0234

James Carroll Jr., M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5533

Paul Deranian, M.D. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 775-0234

Sunil Dhunna, M.D. Elliot Hospital Elliot Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Manchester (603) 663-3770

Richard I. Enelow, M.D.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Pulmonary Manchester (603) 645-6407

Stephen P. Imgrund, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Pulmonary Medicine Concord (603) 224-9661

Joseph Hou, M.D.

Amit Joglekar, M.D. FMH Rochester Pulmonary Medicine Rochester (603) 335-0909

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5533

CMC

Southern New Hampshire Radiology Consultants

FMH Rochester Pulmonary Medicine Rochester (603) 335-0909

Muhammad Mirza, M.D.

Harold L. Manning, M.D.

DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5533

Vinia Madonna C. Mendoza, M.D.

Radiation Oncology Alan C. Hartford, M.D., Ph.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-6600

Brian R. Knab, M.D.

Elliot Hospital Elliot Pulmonary Medicine Associates Manchester (603) 663-3770

Elliot Hospital Radiation Oncology Associates, PA Manchester (603) 663-1800

David C. Picard, M.D.

Su K. Metcalfe, M.D.

Concord Hospital Concord Pulmonary Medicine Concord (603) 224-9661 Concord Hospital Sleep Center Concord (603) 230-5627

SELECTED AS TOP DOCTORS 2020

Concord Hospital Radiation Oncology Associates, PA Concord (603) 230-6100

Thomas Sheldon, M.D. Concord Hospital Radiation Oncology Associates, PA Concord, (603) 230-6100

Your Imaging Specialists Elizabeth Angelakis, MD Arash Delshad, MD Christopher Eckel, MD Adam Elias, MD David W. Fontaine, MD Wane Joselow, MD Asim Maher, DO

Betsy Angelakis, MD

Peter van der Meer, MD

Tad Renvyle, MD

Natalia Marks, MD John Pierce, MD Tad Renvyle, MD Dan Sheibley, MD Kevin Rivera, MD Corey Sides, MD

Corey Sides, MD

John Pierce, MD

David Fontaine, MD

Experience, Innovation & Commitment

Robert Sprague, MD Peter van der Meer, MD

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Top Doctors 2020 REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY/ INFERTILITY Joseph A. Hill III, M.D. PRH, Winchester Hospital Fertility Centers of New England Portsmouth (781) 942-7000

Kristen Wright, M.D. Elliot Hospital Boston IVF Bedford Fertility Center Bedford (781) 674-1200

RHEUMATOLOGY Daniel A. Albert, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8622

Christopher M. Burns, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8622

Irene Orzano Hou, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester Manchester (603) 695-2550

William F.C. Rigby, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8622

Hoke H. Shirley III, M.D. Concord Hospital, NLH Concord Orthopaedics, PA Concord (603) 224-3368

Alicia J. Zbehlik, M.D., M.P.H. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8622

SLEEP MEDICINE Michele G. Rush, M.D.

Cheshire/DHK (603) 354-6570

LRGH, Speare Memorial Hospital LRGHealthcare Sleep Evaluation Center Gilford (603) 737-6755

Sherry A. Guardiano, D.O.

SPORTS MEDICINE

Todd F. Dombrowski, M.D.

Cheshire Medical Center Keene (603) 354-6570

Anthony Ippolito Jr., D.O. FMH Rochester Rheumatology Rochester (603) 994-7433

Daniel Kunz, D.O. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 777-1000

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Patrick Casey, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Orthopaedics, PA Concord (603) 224-3368

Christopher James Couture, M.D. SNHMC Victory Sports Medicine Merrimack (603) 429-3155

Tahsin Ergin, M.D. Holy Family Hospital Essex Orthopaedics & Optima Sports Medicine

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Salem (603) 898-2244

Jeffrey I. Kauffman, M.D., F.A.A.O.S. LRH Alpine Clinic Franconia (603) 823-8600

Jonathan Mack, M.D. Elliot Hospital Elliot Orthopaedic Surgical Specialists Manchester (603) 625-1655

Joshua Aaron Siegel, M.D. PRH Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics Exeter (603) 775-7575

SURGERY Stacey A. Abbis, M.D. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua Nashua (603) 577-4141

Richard J. Barth Jr., M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-9479

John Chadwick Britton, M.D. FMH Surgical Associates of Rochester Rochester (603) 332-3355

Robert A. Catania, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.M.B.S. CMC The New England Weight Management Institute Manchester (603) 627-1887

David J. Coppola, M.D. WDH, FMH

Seacoast General Surgery, PC Dover (603) 749-2266

Mark R. Elias, M.D. FMH Surgical Associates of Rochester Rochester (603) 332-3355

Esthia GiakovisSterling, M.D. Elliot Hospital Elliot Surgical Specialists Manchester (603) 627-1102

Lawrence M. Hoepp, M.D. Elliot Hospital, CMC Elliot Surgical Specialists Manchester (603) 627-1102

William S. Laycock, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8010

Patrick Mahon, M.D., F.A.C.S. CMC, PMC, Elliot, SJH Surgical Care Group at CMC Manchester (603) 627-1887

Jennifer Lee Peppers, M.D. MCH Peterborough (603) 924-4668

Alice Rocke, M.D. Littleton Regional Hospital Littleton (603) 444-0997

Kari M. Rosenkranz, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-7901

Tajammul Shafique, M.D., F.A.C.S. LRGH Lakes Region Surgical Associates, PC Gilford (603) 528-1547

Timothy M. Sherry, M.D. FMH, WDH Surgical Associates of Rochester Rochester (603) 332-3355 Seacoast General Surgery, PC Dover (603) 749-2266

Jay W. Swett, M.D., F.A.C.S. Exeter Hospital Core Physicians Exeter (603) 775-7405

Christopher M. Weinmann, M.D., F.A.C.S. LRGH Lakes Region Surgical Associates, PC Gilford (603) 528-1547

Brent C. White, M.D. DHMC, Mt. Ascutney Hospital & Health Center Lebanon (603) 650-8010

Andrew Wu, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.M.B.S. CMC Manchester (603) 627-1887

THORACIC & CARDIAC SURGERY David J. Caparrelli, M.D., F.A.C.S. CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 663-6340

David J. Finley, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8537

Jock N. McCullough, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-7390

Gerald L. Sardella, M.D. CMC New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 663-6340

Benjamin M. Westbrook, M.D. CMC, Elliot Hospital New England Heart & Vascular Institute Manchester (603) 663-6340

UROGYNECOLOGY/ FEMALE PELVIC MED & RECONSTRUCT SURGERY Elisabeth A. Erekson, M.D., M.P.H. DHMC, CMC Specialty Care at Bedford Medical Park Bedford (603) 629-8388

Deeptha Sastry, M.D. PRH Harbour Women’s Health Portsmouth (603) 431-6011

Veronica Triaca, M.D. Concord Hospital Concord Hospital Center for Urologic Care, Concord (603) 224-3388

UROLOGY Egbert Baumgart, M.D. FMH Lahey Institute of Urology Rochester (603) 330-3545

URGENT CARE

James Betti, M.D.

www.ccmdcenters.com

PRH, FMH Lahey Institute of Urology Rochester (603) 742-5011

William Bihrle III, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-5091

Sandy M. Chin, M.D. WDH Manchester Urology Associates at Dover Dover (603) 742-1444

Scott J. Fabozzi, M.D. Concord Hospital, Huggins Hospital Concord Hospital Center for Urologic Care Concord (603) 224-3388

Christopher R. Girasole, M.D.

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Elliot Hospital, CMC Manchester Urology Associates, PA Manchester (603) 669-9200

E. Ann Gormley, M.D. DHMC, APDMH Lebanon (603) 650-5091

Sarah J. McAleer, M.D. Elliot Hospital Manchester Urology Associates, PA

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Congratulations to Dr. Dainiak for being named a

TOP DOCTOR

four years in a row!

LEFT TO RIGHT: CHRISTOPHER DAINIAK, M.D. ALLISON ANASTASOFF, APRN KNUT ROALSVIG, M.D. ROBIN LABERGE, PA-C STEVEN TAYLOR, M.D. SAMANTHA HARRINGTON, PA-C LEON MCLEAN, M.D.

UNCOMPROMISING EXCELLENCE IN GASTROENTEROLOGY Providing High-Quality, Low-Cost Gastrointestinal Care Now performing procedures at the Bedford Ambulatory Surgery Center and soon to be at the new Surgical Center of New Hampshire at Derry, an independent outpatient endoscopy center!

Call today for an appointment!

Manchester (603) 669-9200

Michael J. Michaels, M.D. PRH, FMH Lahey Institute of Urology Rochester (603) 742-5011

Robert E. Mitchell, M.D. Concord Hospital, N Concord Hospital Center for Urologic Care Concord (603) 224-3388

John J. Munoz, M.D.

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Elliot Hospital, CMC Manchester Urology Associates, PA Manchester (603) 669-9200

TOP DOCS FOUR YEARS IN A ROW!

• Orthopaedic Surgery • Sports Medicine • Anterior Total Hip Replacement • On-Site Physical, Occupational, Hand, and Pelvic Therapy

Tahsin M. Ergin, MD, FACS (left) and Eric B. Arvidson, MD (right)

“I’m an active guy, and Dr. Ergin has enabled me to get outside again to chop wood and attend breakfasts with fellow veterans. He’s an exemplary surgeon - the best you can get.”

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“My flexibility and range of motion are greatly improved and I’m moving with less pain.

I anticipated the worst in terms of recovery, but Dr. Arvidson got me moving quickly.”

16 Pelham Road/Route 97 Suite 1 Salem, NH 03079

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Joseph M. Ullman, M.D. Catholic Medical Center Elliot Hospital

VASCULAR SURGERY James M. Estes, M.D.

William Farber Santis, M.D.

Patricia C. Furey, M.D., F.A.C.S.

William A. Selleck, M.D. Elliot Hospital, CMC Manchester Urology Associates, PA Manchester (603) 669-9200

Chad Wotkowicz, M.D.

- Patient Lee Munger

St. Joseph's Hospital Nashua Radiology Nashua (603) 882-3000

Elliot Hospital, CMC Manchester Urology Associates, PA Manchester (603) 669-9200

Concord Hospital Concord Hospital Center for Urologic Care Concord (603) 224-3388

TOP DOCS who are part of a Team of Highly-Skilled Orthopaedic Surgeons

Jeffrey P. Chapdelaine, M.D.

WDH Wentworth Health PartnersCardiovascular Group Dover (603) 516-4265 The Cardiovascular Group at Pease Portsmouth (603) 610-8055

Cyrus B. Noble, M.D.

Nominated By Our Peers, Praised By Our Patients...

VASCULAR & INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

FMH Lahey Institute of Urology Rochester (603) 330-3545

CMC, SJH Vein & Vascular Specialists Bedford (603) 665-5150

Philip Goodney, M.D. DHMC, Exeter Hospital Lebanon (603) 650-8193

Richard Powell, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8193

David H. Stone, M.D. DHMC Lebanon (603) 650-8193

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Lilac Time Scents of the season

BY MATTHEW MEAD Just as our landscape emerges from a long, white winter, New Hampshire’s state flower, the purple lilac, begins its fleeting season of fragrance and color that reminds us why this bloom is one to celebrate.

The story of the lilac is one intricately woven into the fabric of the Granite State. It was a favorite garden shrub of the colonists who, in the late 1760s, planted European cultivars on the Seacoast. A hardy, woody plant, the purple lilac grows well in our multizoned state, and in just a few years, produces a generous harvest of fragrant blooms. Gov. John Wentworth, New Hampshire’s first governor, was a big fan of the lilac and dotted his official Portsmouth residence with a multitude of plants brought from England. The flowering shrub grew in popularity in the 1800s as botanists and landscape enthusiasts introduced a mix of hybrid varieties boasting flowers in all shades of purple and white.

The inclusion of the purple lilac in Portsmouth’s first settlement endures to this day. The Governor Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion celebrates the lilac season with a spectacular outdoor festival for the whole family. Enjoy tours of the grounds and mansion, stroll the waterfront and visit the plant stand for young lilacs you can purchase and plant at your own home. Bring a camera and browse the lilac paintings by local artists that are for sale and fully savor this special season.

The 2020 festival date has not yet been announced, but look for it in late May. Also coming at the end of that month is “All About Lilacs,” an afternoon of workshops also held at the mansion.

Guest speakers will share information on how to grow and care for lilacs, you can take a guided tour to view heirloom lilacs, and plants will be available for sale. Visit wentworthcoolidge.org for more information, and read on for ideas and inspiration for decorating with this lovely flower. nhmagazine.com | April/May 2020

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Savoring the Season

The bloom time for lilacs is short, just a few weeks between late May and early June.

The best way to enjoy the flowers is to plant bushes in your yard and to cut the blooms to add the fragrance to your home. Hybrids come in 100 varieties and in multiple shades, from light purple to a rich and royal shade of burgundy. White lilacs are also popular, and all produce a deep, intoxicating and unmistakable scent.

Preparing Blooms for Arrangement

Lilacs have tough, woody stems and need a lot of hydration when used in a cut arrangement. Sharp pruning shears and a hammer to smash the stems will prepare the blooms to accept the maximum amount of water.

1. Cut lilac blooms early in the morning when the air is cool and the shrub isn’t sapped by the afternoon sun.

2. With sharp pruning clippers, cut blossoms from the bush, leaving 8 to 10 inches of woody stem for arranging. Cut stems a few inches above the nubby growth knot.

3. On a block of wood or cutting board, smash 1 or 2 inches of the bottom stem and place directly into fresh, cool water. Change water every two days for longest bloom life.

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Ways to Enjoy the Many Lilac Varieties at Home Arrangements are the natural way to enjoy lilac flowers. Mix colors and varieties to make interesting displays, or use one variety to make a bold statement. Purple-colored glass, old stoneware and decorative pottery all make beautiful vessels for blooms, but you can also be more creative by weaving branches into a wreath for a garden party, or adorn the top of a hat for a special occasion like a wedding. A favorite idea of mine is to spread the season through an unexpected gift. Tie a glass jar with ribbon or twine and fill with water. Add a small nosegay of lilacs and hang on a front door as a surprise sentiment of the season.

Leave a small note or simply keep the gift from a secret admirer.

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Where to Buy Lilac Bushes

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Honey Lilac Popsicles Refreshing and pretty, these honey lilac popsicles are an early summer heat reliever.

New Hampshire state parks and highways have a multitude of plantings that you may enjoy on country rides and sightseeing excursions, but to add the lilac to your home landscape, visit one of these popular garden centers to find an array of species and colors.

Bedford Fields Home & Center 331 Route 101, Bedford (603) 472-8880 bedfordfields.com Churchill’s Garden Center 12 Hampton Rd., Exeter (603) 772-2685 churchillsgardens.com Country Brook Farms 175 Lowell Rd., Hudson (603) 886-5200 countrybrookfarms.com Demers Garden Center 656 S. Mammoth Rd., Manchester (603) 625-8298 demersgardencenter.com

Maple Hill Nursery 197 W. Swanzey Rd., Swanzey (603) 357-2555 maplehillnursery.com Rolling Green Nursery 64 Breakfast Hill Rd., Greenland (603) 436-2732 rollinggreennursery.com Wentworth Greenhouses & Garden Center 141 Rollins Rd., Rollinsford (603) 743-4919 wentworthgreenhouses.com

The Wentworth-Coolidge Lilac Festival

Prep Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Servings: 10 Popsicles Calories: 34 cal Ingredients • 3 cups water • 1/3 cup lilac honey • 3 drops of food coloring in shades you love, like lilac, violet and lavender Instructions 1. In a small saucepot, bring water to just under a boil. Remove from heat and stir in honey.

Portsmouth, held in late May. The 2020 date to be announced soon. Free. Go early, the festival is popular and attracts a large crowd. Parking is also free, but a stroller is best for young children.

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2. Fill popsicle molds, leaving about an 1/8-inch (3mm) head room at the top. Wipe the top of the mold dry, place lid on popsicles and insert the popsicle sticks. Freeze overnight or at least eight hours.

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Vegan Whoopie Pies Twist on a classic New England dessert

Yield: 32 pieces for 16 pies

This cream filling yields more than necessary for this recipe, but you need the volume in the bowl for it to whip light and fluffy. Excess frosting can be frozen for future use. (Editor’s Note: We were able to whip up the filling using one buttery stick by stopping the mixer and redistributing the frosting in the mixer bowl.)

Whoopie Pies 2 cups flour

1/4 cup cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup canola oil 1 cup water 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup soy milk (we used oat milk.)

Cream Filling

4 vegan buttery sticks (We used one 8-ounce stick of Miyoko’s Cultured Butter with 1 cup powdered sugar.)

You may remember Café Indigo in downtown Concord (2004-2014) as a vegan haven, especially for breads and cakes. Owner Patti Dann of Hopkinton started the café after becoming an “accidental vegan,” she says. Seems her three girls came home from college with different appetites and it was just easier to prepare one meal for get-togethers. “Before we knew it, my husband and I were vegan too,” says Dann.

When one of their daughters couldn’t find a vegan wedding cake, the experiment began in earnest. The resulting carrot cake, based on a family recipe, became the focus of Café Indigo. While the café was in operation, Dann developed a multitude of other recipes, both sweet and savory.

“It was basically a commercial kitchen with a small seating area. It became a test kitchen where I asked folks for their honest opinion,” says Dann. “Now that the café is closed, my loyal former customers keep asking for the recipes.” In response, Dann created a cookbook of her greatest hits called “Simple Vegan Comfort Food,” featuring 90 recipes that were developed, tested and served at Café Indigo, including many of her breads, sweets and savory dishes.

An earlier cookbook was put together with the help of Dann’s grandchildren, the third generation of vegans. “Vegan Kids in the Kitchen” is just that — kids using their hands to make everything from breads and cookies to a vegan roast.

Now Café Indigo lives on with Dann’s famous carrot cake, which can be found on shelves at Whole Foods Markets nationwide. And no, that recipe is not in her cookbooks. Will Café Indigo be revived? Dann’s grandchildren hope so. She wishes them luck. She already gave them the recipes.

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5 cups powdered sugar (Granulated sugar can be pulverized in a blender to make powdered sugar. Just make sure it’s not warm from the process.)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or use silicone sheets.

Add all the dry ingredients to the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment, and mix together. Add the canola oil, water, vanilla and soy milk. Mix on low until smooth.

For each whoopie pie, scoop up 1/8 cup of batter and place on the cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool before filling.

Cream Filling: Add the buttery sticks to the bowl of your stand mixer. Whip at high speed until fluffy. This may take 10 to 15 minutes.

The butter will get lighter in color as you go.

Add sugar and vanilla and whip until the sugar is fully incorporated and the filling is smooth and creamy.

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Though Concord’s Café Indigo is no longer open, you can still enjoy Patti Dann’s vegan recipes, thanks to her cookbooks like “Simple Vegan Comfort Food.”

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Time to Move?

What you need to know before choosing a retirement community

BY LYNNE SNIERSON

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o more snow to shovel or lawns to mow, and freedom from the obligations of maintaining a private home are incentives aplenty for retirees to move to a retirement community.

But before you make the emotional and financial investment, be sure to do your homework because there’s so much more to consider than swimming pools, dinner parties and walking with your dog on an idyllic nature trail.

The starting point is to get a clear understanding of the difference between a master-plan retirement community (like The Villages in Florida and Sun City, Arizo-

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na, or any others in warm-weather climates that attract flocks of senior snowbirds), an age-restricted neighborhood governed by a homeowners association and a continuing care retirement community (CCRC).

While New Hampshire doesn’t have any master-plan retirement communities, the state map is dotted with 55-plus residential developments that sprout up like purple loosestrife. Both are entirely unlike a CCRC, which is essentially a life plan community.

“A lot of people who consider this don’t understand the difference between a CCRC and a retirement community. They think we are a real estate product. We are not.

We’re insurance,” says Catherine Toomey, the vice president of marketing at RiverWoods Exeter, RiverWoods Durham and Birch Hill in Manchester.

For seniors of means, a CCRC may be the ideal option for aging in place. It’s designed for healthy people in search of security since they can stay in the same community as they advance through the inevitable aging process, while receiving a continuum of care through independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care and/or memory care. Moreover, you can bring your pet with you. Sounds terrific, doesn’t it? But read the fine print before sticking a “for sale” sign in your front yard.

“The first thing is that people need and should have all the facts,” says Paul Charlton, the vice president of marketing for the established Taylor Community in Laconia and its new sister community in Wolfeboro.

“How much does it cost? What is included?

How many square feet is my residence?

What are my options? You absolutely have to understand all the factual stuff before you can make the decision to move here or to somewhere else,” he says. “You need to educate yourself and know exactly what you’re doing, where you’re going and what all the terms are.”

For most people, says Charlton, the time between beginning to research options and actually making the move to a retirement community is measured in years, not months. “That just goes to show how much you really do have to dig in and understand things before you make that move,” he says.

“You must take the time and make the effort to get your facts straight and to get a good feel for the place.”

Because the decision-making process can be overwhelming, Toomey decided to sum up important information in a book.

She and the RiverWoods CFO also tour the country teaching seminars to financial advisors and estate planning attorneys so they may best advise their clients.

“The free booklet on all this explains the difference between CCRCs and the different contracts and knowing exactly what you are buying,” says Toomey. She emphasizes that it’s crucial to understand that there are three different contract types.

“Are you [your estate] going to get money back after you pass away or not? What kinds of service are offered? What is the cost of those services? You have to do your homework and fully understand the contract,

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understand if the community is nonprofit or for profit, understand what the increases of the fees can be,” says Toomey.

She also recommends that you visit the place you’re considering — and, ideally, more than once. Take a good look around, talk to residents without a marketing person present and even stay overnight if you can.

“It’s a big, big investment and your entire future is riding on this,” says Toomey.

In recent years, the CCRC concept has evolved to university-based retirement communities that allow residents primary access to advanced educational and recreational opportunities, plus excellent care at major teaching hospitals. They were created by top schools like Duke, Notre Dame and Stanford, and there are now about 70 of them across the country. Although residents don’t have to be alumni of the university, about 10% at each community are, and those residents thoroughly enjoy the connection with their alma mater. That’s the case at Kendal at Hanover, which is situated on a bucolic 65-acre campus about two miles from Dartmouth College.

“We have quite a few residents who are associated with the college, whether they

are alumni or former faculty, and we also have residents who are closely related to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as former physicians, professors or staff,” says Jeff Roosevelt, Kendal at Hanover marketing and public relations director.

“Certainly, the two Dartmouths are very well connected to Kendal,” says Roosevelt.

“Many of our residents take advantage of the Osher at Dartmouth Lifelong Learning Program, and we’ve heard that some audit classes at Dartmouth,” he adds.

Kendal at Hanover, which has 150 individual homes, is at capacity with 400 residents, who are catered to by a well-trained staff of 300, and there is a long waiting list. Roosevelt explained that it is a Type A contract community, which means you pay an entry fee and maintain the monthly fees, with possible annual increases, for all the services provided. If you have longterm insurance, then that can be factored into a reduced entry fee depending on the strength of the individual policy.

Located closer to the Seacoast is the new RiverWoods Durham, which is not yet completed. While not affiliated with the University of New Hampshire, it does have a

partnership with the school.

“We’ve done some really fun things to connect with UNH. It’s wonderful,” says Toomey. “We have a lot of alumni, professors and staff members, so they have a real connection to the university and can maintain it. They love that. Every one of the residents gets a UNH student ID, which allows them to get a Wildcat card. If they are of a certain age, and I believe it’s 75, they can audit a certain number of classes for free.”

No matter what type of CCRC you choose, nor how long the waiting list, proponents are convinced that all are preferable to aging in place at home, which can lead to isolation, depression, health issues and a diminished quality of life. But taking the plunge is still a major decision.

“It’s huge. It’s so big that we say this is really a choice for optimists. It’s for people who say, ‘I’m not done yet. I want to meet new friends. I want to learn new activities.

I’m excited about the next chapter,’” says Toomey. “We have a group of ladies in their 80s who ski together. We’ve had people fall in love again and we’ve had marriages. None of these people would have ever met if they hadn’t moved to a community.” NH

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ER Emergency

Backlogs frustrate doctors and patients

BY KAREN A. JAMROG

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t seems reasonable to expect that if you go to a hospital emergency room, you will receive medical care lickety-split.

After all, that’s what the ER is all about, right? It delivers the ultimate in urgent care.

Depending on the medical condition that brings you to an ER though, you might find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into the cushions of your waiting room chair as minutes tick by and you continue to wait to receive care.

It’s not that you’re being ignored; the most critical patients must be seen first. But an array of other factors also contributes to ER delays. For example, many patients seek treatment at the ER for decidedly non-emergent conditions such as coughs, colds, or

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dental pain, taking up time and resources in the ER and making it difficult for doctors to promptly attend to patients who need care for more serious conditions, says Joseph Guarnaccia, DO, section chief and medical director of the Elliot Emergency Department, and Urgent Care Services.

Some people choose to go to an ER because their work hours make it problematic for them to visit their primary care doctor’s office when it is open. Some don’t want to wait days or weeks for an appointment with their primary care doctor, or they lack transportation to get to a primary care office. In effect, the ER has become a safety net “for people who have unscheduled or unmet medical needs,” says Christopher A. Fore,

MD, chief quality officer and emergency medicine physician at Concord Hospital.

The opioid epidemic, which often involves co-occurring mental and physical health disorders, and our aging population have also increased utilization of the emergency department, says Matthew C. Dayno, MD, FACEP, assistant medical director and director of emergency ultrasound in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Elliot Health System.

In addition, costly prescription medications and worries about insurance copays, along with the difficulties faced by those who lack healthcare insurance or are on Medicare or Medicaid, lead some individuals with treatable, chronic conditions to mismanage their condition and ultimately land in the ER after their health reaches an emergency state.

A dearth of psychiatric services leads many patients to seek care in the ER too. If a hospital has no place to send those patients for help, sometimes “they end up quote-unquote ‘boarding’ in the emergency department for a period of time,” Dayno says. Meanwhile, healthcare mergers and consolidations have shuttered emergency departments and reduced the overall number of in-patient beds at some facilities, causing patients to bide their time in an existing ER while they wait for an available in-patient bed.

There is no easy fix for the predicament that plagues ERs across the country — particularly because some drivers of the problem are embedded in the US healthcare system and beyond hospitals’ and patients’ control. It’s a situation that frustrates patients and doctors alike, but Fore sees signs that in some parts of the country, at least, the situation is improving, and says that hospitals are taking steps to address the problem. At a minimum, you might have noticed efforts at your hospital or primary care doctor’s office to make it easier to book appointments. “Access to the system is one of the things that we’re trying really hard to improve,” Fore says.

More providers today see patients in the evening and on weekends, and some hospitals offer telehealth appointments and services such as online clocks that show current ER wait times — and sometimes persuade patients who don’t truly need emergency care to go to a more appropriate setting, such as a primary care office or urgent care clinic. Some hospital-owned urgent care

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centers even enable patients to join a virtual line before leaving home, so that they can avoid a lengthy wait-room stay after they’ve arrived at the facility. “We’re trying to [enhance] the system to make it convenient for patients,” Guarnaccia says.

“Giving people access to the most appropriate [healthcare] location is just really, really important,” Fore says, “and something that we need to continue to work on, because if you don’t give people the most appropriate access point, they’ll usually find the open door, and sometimes that’s the emergency department.”

Everyone needs the ER — it’s just a matter of timing. “You want to give the best care at the right time for each patient,” Dayno says. If an ER doctor is trying to care for a patient with abdominal pain who’s been shuffled out to the hallway to make room for a patient who arrived at the ER with symptoms of a heart attack, “it’s not good for anybody,” he says. NH

When to go to an urgent care center Going to an emergency room when it’s not necessary to do so can create delays and cause frustration for everyone. It can also prevent doctors from quickly helping patients who are in serious medical trouble.

If you think that you or a loved one needs emergency care for a problem or injury that might threaten life or risk disability, do not hesitate to call 911 or to go to an emergency room.

But if you’re unsure that emergency care is necessary, call your primary care doctor’s office for advice, or consider going to an urgent care center. Many of these freestanding, walk-in medical clinics exist in the Granite State, and although they might not be open 24 hours a day, most do see patients beyond the hours when the typical primary care office is open.

Examples of medical conditions that are often better suited for an urgent care facility than an ER include: - cold, flu, sore throat - low-grade fever - earache - migraine - slight rash - minor broken bone or sprain - minor cut that requires stitches - minor burn

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Calendar OUR FAVORITE EVENTS FOR APRIL/MAY 2020

Fairs & Festivals 4/3-4

Exeter LitFest Calling all bibliophiles, this event is for you. Start the weekend with a kick-off party, followed by a daylong schedule of events on Saturday, including keynote speakers like Exeter’s Victoria Arlen, book launches, author talks, children’s programming, art exhibits and more all around downtown. LitFest concludes with a gala poetry reading at the Word Barn. Free.

Times vary, downtown Exeter. exeterlitfest.com

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NHVegFest There will be vegan vendors, food trucks, live music, drum circles and lectures on a variety of vegan topics throughout the day. Enjoy food tables from local vegan restaurants where you can buy lunch and desserts. Don’t forget to bring your own reusable bag, as vendors don’t supply bags. Feel free to also bring old cookbooks or magazines to a share and take table.

Free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Hampshire Technical Institute, 19-23 Institute Dr., Concord. (603) 5331349; nhvegfest.com

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NH Sheep and Wool Festival Currently in its 44th year, the festival features programming both for producers of sheep and wool and for those of us who are just fans. Don’t miss the long list of workshops and demos on woolen clothes-making, or for a good laugh, the human-and-sheeppartnered costume contest. $5-$7. Sat 9 a.m. to 5 pm., Sun 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Deerfield Fairgrounds, 32 Stage Rd., Deerfield. nhswga.com

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New Hampshire Renaissance Faire Noble knights and fair maidens alike will find something to enjoy in this longstanding Grante State fête.

Spread across two weekends and a massive fairground venue, this Best of NH award-winning event includes everything from an archery range and knight, pirate and gypsy encampments to a zoo animal area said to contain real dragons. $10-$15. Brookvale Pines Farm, 154 Martin Rd., Fremont. (603) 679-2415; nhrenfaire.com

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4/16-19 I Will Survive This inaugural four-day celebration of strength and resilience will benefit the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence. Things kick off on April 16 with a beer pairing dinner at Revival Kitchen & Bar in Concord, featuring beer from Lithermans Limited. Other fun (and tasty) events include a release party for the I Will Survive sour ale at Lithermans, with food from Dos Amigos and Cannoli Stop, and live music, silent auctions, an after-party, stand-up comedy and more. Visit nhcadsv.org/ iwillsurvive for complete details.

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Exeter Arts & Music Festival There’s no shortage of Seacoast-area festivals on the calendar this summer, but you can get a head start on the season with this fest from Town.Exeter.Arts.Music.

There’s plenty of family programming, but this party is especially impressive with attractions like a rock climbing wall, an ecovillage and sets from hip local musicians to supplement the standard arts festival fare. $10. Swasey Parkway, Exeter.

(603) 512-8396; teamexeter.com

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4th Annual Dixville Notch Music, Arts & Crafts Festival Kick off the summer with the best arts and music the North Country has to offer. This festival is jam-packed with workshops, demonstrations, art shows and live music by such art-

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Monadnock International Film Festival We’ve named this 8-year-old fest as the finest up-andcoming film festival in years past and, boy, do they deliver. This year, you can catch them on their continued upward rise. Lineups haven’t been finalized yet, but attendees can expect a curated selection of feature-length and short films and panels on filmmaking featuring many of the people who brought the movies on the roster to life. Times and locations around Keene and Peterborough vary. (603) 522-7190; moniff.org

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March 26-5/2 Being & Feeling (Alone, Together) Artists in Being & Feeling (Alone, Together) explore embodiment, emotion and being, and how we make our way through the world, full of feeling, as solitary individuals and together with others. This is not an exhibition on emotions, but rather an experimental platform to contemplate the human condition via themes of longing, memory, regret, hope, ambivalence and delight. How does it feel to encounter representations both familiar and strange? How do we bring empathic curiosity to our interactions with self and others? The work includes portrait sculpture, animation, painting, sound art, video, performance and photography. Free. Times vary, Lamont Gallery, 20 Main St., Exeter. (603) 777-3461; exeter.edu ists as blues duo Roy-Hudson with White Wolf.

Don’t miss the vendor fair for local goods of all stripes from vendors like Anita’s Arts and Wandering Woolies. Free. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mohawk Falls, 1478 NH-26, Colebrook. (603) 237-1898; dixvillenotchfestival.com

5/23

Greenerborough Fair This fair brings consumers, farmers and companies together for a full day of education and conversations on how to use products, techniques and services to increase the sustainability of one’s family and the community as a whole. Free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., ConVal Regional High School, 184 Hancock Rd., Peterborough. (603) 924-7234; greenerborough.org

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Memorial Day Weekend Craft Fair Over 80 exhibitors will be displaying their fine jewelry, pottery, gourmet foods, quilts and so much more.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Schouler Park, 1 Norcross Circle, Route 16, North Conway. (603) 528-4014; joycescraftshows.com

Sports & Recreation 4/5

Great Bay Half Marathon The 14th Annual Great Bay Half Marathon & 5K is returning to Newmarket for another day of scenic New England

running by the Great Bay estuary. Join thousands of runners and spectators at New Hampshire’s best spring road race, where you celebrate your finish with an after-party featuring Smuttynose craft beer and plenty of food. $25-$79. 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Newmarket Mills, 55 Main St., Newmarket. greatbayhalf.com

4/11

Slushpool Party at Loon Mountain Sick of winter? Celebrate the end of this snowy season with the Wet Tug-O-War and Slushpool Party at Loon Mountain. Skiers and riders will try to skim across a pond of ice-cold water, and SPY Optic will be giving out prizes for best tidal wave and wildest costume. If you aren’t feeling crazy enough to participate in either event, you can always watch it. 12 p.m., Loon Mountain, 60 Loon Mtn Rd., Lincoln. (603) 745-8111; loonmtn.com

5/3

Portsmouth Half Marathon This annual marathon is back for another day of scenic New England running. Join the fun at New Hampshire’s newest half and put sneakers to pavement as you run along the outskirts of Portsmouth and through the historic towns of Greenland and Newington. Hang around after for an after party featuring craft beer from Smuttynose, pizza samples from American Flatbread, Stonyfield Yogurt and refreshing Hint Water. $34-$69. 8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., Lowe’s, 1440 Greenland Rd., Greenland. portsmouthhalf.com

5/3

Cinco de Miles 5K Break out your best sombrero and bring the whole family to participate in the festivities. There will be live course entertainment and the first 1,500 to register will receive a free quarter zip pullover. After you finish the race, take a break to enjoy music and redeem your cervesa and margarita tickets. $10-$30. 9:15 a.m., Bedford High School, 47 Nashua Rd., Bedford. millenniumrunning.com

5/3

Cycle the Seacoast Get in your exercise, your sightseeing and your charity for the month at this fundraiser event for the American Lung Association. The annual cycling challenge features 25-, 50- and 100-mile routes, all starting and ending at Cisco Brewers and snaking along some of the most stunning oceanside viewpoints on the Seacoast. Not a bad way to spend your Sunday. $33-$45. 7 a.m., 35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth. action.lung.org New Hampshire Magazine is a proud sponsor of this event

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Rock ’N Race Join more than 5,000 runners, walkers and volunteers participating in the largest charity race north of Boston. All funds raised at this event support Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care to make a difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families. You can help by sponsoring a participant, volunteering, underwriting a service, nhmagazine.com | April/May 2020

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Runner’s Alley Cisco Brewers Portsmouth Memorial Day 5K This event hosts over 2,000 runners and walkers annually. This premier race has a fast, flat course, a huge feast, live music, kids fun run, VIP club and a Cisco beer for each participant over the age of 21. Proceeds from the event will go directly to Krempels Center. $25$40. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Cisco Brewers Portsmouth, 35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth. (603) 570-2026; krempelscenter.org

Miscellaneous 4/3

Winery Comedy Tour Nationally recognized comedians travel the country tasting local wine and making new fans in this new comedy circuit that brings quality comedy to folks for a fraction of what comedy clubs demand. Find out which local wines pair best with hysterical laughter when The Winery Comedy Tour comes to Brookline, New Hampshire. $14. 7 p.m. Averill House Vineyard, 21 Averill Rd., Brookline. (603) 371-2296; averillhousevineyard.com

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tasting room, chat with wine experts and representatives about your favorite wine samples, and enjoy a raw bar, pasta station, artisanal cheeses and more. $40. 5 to 8 p.m., AC by Marriott Portsmouth Downtown, 299 Vaughan St., Portsmouth. wineexpo-nh.com. New Hampshire Magazine is a proud sponsor of this event.

4/11

Flavors of the Hearth Cooking Class: Celebrating Springtime Taught by the museum’s culinary historians, guests learn hearth-cooking techniques using traditional methods and recipes that would have been familiar in the 1800s households of Puddle Dock. Participants gain hands-on experience using these methods to prepare a traditional menu and then dine family-style to enjoy the feast they have helped to create. $70-$90. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Strawbery Banke, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth. strawberybanke.org

4/19 & 5/17

English Country Dance The Monadnock Folklore Society hosts English country dances, a form of social dance that harkens back to the days of Jane Austen and “Pride and Prejudice,” but its roots extend farther back in time. Its traditions and innovations continue right up to the present. Hauntingly beautiful tunes, elegant yet simple steps, friendly people and beautiful surroundings combine to make an English Country Dance a pleasant and energizing experience.

No special clothing is required, but comfortable clothes and shoes are recommended. Beginners and singles are welcome and all dances are

taught throughout the session. $10. 2-5 p.m., Dublin Town Hall, 1120 Main St. (603) 876-4211; monadnockfolk.org

4/19

Cold River Radio Show The Best of NH award-winning show presents exclusively New England-based artists, comedians, authors and storytellers, and focuses on the unique culture of the Northeast. Through the acts it features live on stage, The Cold River Radio Show introduces listeners to New England life. $30. 7-9 p.m. Theater in the Wood, 41 Observatory Way, Intervale.

(603) 986-1985; coldriverradio.com

4/24

Lottery Cocktail Party From local theatre groups to presidential speeches and big-name entertainers, the humble Rochester Opera House hosts some of the most impressive arts events in the state. Help them maintain their outstanding offerings with this fundraiser featuring food, music, and auctions, including a $10,000 grand prize. $100 admits two people. 5:30 p.m., Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St. Rochester. (603) 355-1992; rochesteroperahouse.com

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Murder Mystery Weekend in Wolfeboro Who did it? Was it Miss Scarlet in the garage with the candlestick? Enjoy a weekend of bribery and multiple murders at The Wolfeboro Inn. Examine the evidence, find the clues, observe strange behaviors, listen for gossip and always watch your back. Guests and staff will be playing

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4/18 Rescue Run: Race for Marine Mammals Few things will get you hyped up to save the animals like a jog through their beautiful New Hampshire habitats, and this annual event from the Seacoast Science Center lets you do both. The 5K courses wind through the forests, shoreline and beaches of Odiorne Point State Park. Try a timed run, opt for an untimed walk, and help our local wildlife — the day supports the center’s Marine Mammal Rescue Team. $15-$30. 9 a.m. Seacoast Science Center, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye. (603) 436-8043; seacoastsciencecenter.org

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CALENDAR together at the same time. Come alone or get your own group together for this experience you won’t soon forget. $269-$799. Times vary, The Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro. (603) 569-3016; wolfeboroinn.com/local-events.html

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Bedrock Gardens 2020 Seasons Opens This emerging public garden integrates unusual botanical specimens and unique sculpture into an inspiring landscape journey. This 37-acre site is transitioning from a historic farm and private garden to a public oasis of art, horticulture and inspiration. Visit a garden that The Boston Globe described as “one of the most beautiful and intriguing landscapes in New Hampshire.”

Plan your spring, summer and fall with some time in this oasis. Bring your family and friends outdoors. Order a box lunch or bring a picnic. $5-$10. 19 High Rd., Lee. (603) 659-2993; bedrockgardens.org

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18th Annual Benefit by the Sea This event will take place at the gorgeous Wentworth by the Sea as you enjoy a cocktail hour, formal dinner and dancing to live music by Uptown Funk. There will also be an opportunity to make a pledge of support for Cross Roads House. This gala is a vital part of securing the necessary funds to continue providing shelter and life-changing services for the homeless in the Granite State. Dress is black tie optional. 6 p.m., Wentworth by the Sea, 588 Wentworth Rd., New Castle. (603) 436-2218; crossroadshouse.org

5/3

Paws for Compassion Brunch This fundraiser is for Pope Memorial SPCA of Concord-Merrimack County and features a delicious brunch, silent auction and special guest speaker, Rebecca Rule. Rumor has it that there will also be time to socialize with their adorable adoptable pets. $50. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Grappone Conference Center, 70 Constitution Ave., Concord. (603) 856-8756; popememorialspca.org

5/9

29th Annual Kitchen Tour This walking tour of hand-selected homes boasts newly renovated kitchens on every block. It is the perfect get-together for Mother’s Day weekend and the tour benefits Portsmouth’s Music Hall. The tour will provide access to some enviable and surprising locations. If you are looking to turn your imaginings into reality, the craftsmen, artisans, designers and architects involved in creating these incredible spaces will be on-site to answer your questions. $28-$33. 10 a.m., varied locations around Portsmouth. themusichall.org

economic, social and community development, and they facilitate people and projects that enhance engagement in the arts. $100. 5-8 p.m., DoubleTree by Hilton, 700 Elm St., Manchester. nhbca.com New Hampshire Magazine is a proud sponsor of this event

5/13

Storytelling in the Digital Age For decades, scholars have been lamenting the rise of technology and prophesying the death of the book and the humanities. However, rather than seeing one technology (the internet) defeat another (the printed book), perhaps we are witnessing the dawn of a new genre: digital literature. In an interactive discussion, participants will explore how technology is affecting how we read, write and experience stories. Free.

7 p.m., Grantham Town Hall, 300 NH Route 10, Grantham. (603) 863-7355; nhhumanities.org

5/24

Memorial Day Weekend Fireworks Show at Hampton Beach Bring a blanket and the whole family and kick off summer with this incredible fireworks display. 9:30 p.m., Hampton Beach, 115 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach. (603) 9268717; hamptonbeach.org

5/29

Bob Sagat Yes, Bob Saget has starred in many successful television shows, including two of the most family-friendly shows network TV has ever produced (“Full House” and “Americas Funniest Home Videos”), but he’s also been an out-ofhis-mind, Grammy-nominated standup comedian for over 30 years. From his HBO special “That Ain’t Right” to his scene-stealing cameos in “Entourage” and “The Aristocrats,” it’s always effective as Saget embraces his dark side. This show is for mature audiences only. $52-$67. 8 p.m. The Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry. (603) 437-5100; tupelohall.com

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Enigma Variations This program includes “Dances of Galanta,” “Das Trinklied unter dem Mond,” “Fratres” and “Enigma Variations.” Jeffrey Zeigler will be play the cello and Shen Yiwen will conduct the program. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to witness these unforgettable performances. $10-$52. 8 to 10 p.m., Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. (603) 595-9156; symphonynh.org

4/11

11th Annual Mother’s Day Weekend Craft Festival Spring is in the air and the atmosphere will be filled with color and music at this annual festival. Over 75 artisans from all over the Granite State will display and sell their works including pottery, fine art, wind chimes, pet gifts and more.

There will also be a culinary fare of herbal dips, kettle corn, pies, pesto and jams, just to name a few. Free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Town Common, 4 Lincoln Ave., Hampton Falls. castleberryfairs.com

5/13

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NHBCA 36th Annual Arts Awards Gala Save the date for the 36th annual gala event, where you can join others in celebrating art and community.

The NHBCA educates, motivates and recognizes business support of and participation in the arts.

They also advocate for the value of the arts in

The Cubicle Concerts series features local musicians as they drop in to the New Hampshire Magazine offices, set up in our tastefully decorated cubicle, and do what they do best.

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KASHMIR The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Show Kashmir, the nation’s best Led Zeppelin tribute show, is the most authentic representation of Led Zeppelin on the modern national touring scene. The live stage show, sound and likeness brings audiences and fans back to the days when the mighty Led Zeppelin ruled the musical landscape. For those who dream and wish to experience a live Zeppelin show, Kashmir will fit the bill. Tickets start at $29. 7:30 to 10 p.m., The Flying Monkey Movie House & Performance Center, 39 S. Main St., Plymouth. (603) 536-2551; flyingmonkeynh.com

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Melissa Etheridge The Grammy- and Academy Award-winning artist presents a night of songs inspired by acts of kindness, love, resilience and bravery on all levels. “The Medicine Show” is an album of renewal, reconciliation, reckoning, compassion and healing. $55-$375, 7:30 p.m.,

THE REBEL COLLECTIVE

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Zac Brown Band This iconic American country/ rock band is coming to the Granite State for two nights of music and fun that you won’t want to miss. Grab your friends and listen to popular songs like “Chicken Fried,” “Whatever It Is,” “Colder Weather,” “Keep Me In Mind” and more.

Ticket prices vary. 7 p.m., Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, 72 Meadowbrook Ln., Gilford.

(603) 293-4700; banknhpavilion.com

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Through 5/31

In The Midst of Something Splendid This two-gallery exhibition features abstract paintings on canvas and paper by this well-respected member of the Dartmouth studio art faculty, Colleen Randall, including new works created in 2018 and 2019 alongside slightly earlier works from her Immanence and Syncope series.

Free. Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock St., Hanover. (603) 646-2808; hoodmuseum. dartmouth.edu

4/17

Wild & Scenic Film Festival The 11th annual festival is bringing people together to celebrate our shared environment, telling incredible stories about the human-nature connection.

SELT — Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire — will be hosting this event, and all proceeds will benefit the conservation programs of this nonprofit land trust. $20. 7 p.m., The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. (603) 436-2400; themusichall.org

Performing Arts 4/1-11

Robert Frost’s New Hampshire The team at Pontine Theatre premieres a new work based on the early poems of Robert Frost, a longtime summer resident of Franconia. Known for his New England settings, his stark depictions of the difficulties of rural farm life and his use of colloquial speech, Frost is widely admired as a true American Master. $24-$27. Times vary, Pontine Theatre, 1 Plains Ave., Portsmouth. (603) 4366660; pontine.org

4/10

Colin Hay Colin Hay, a Scottish-born Australian musician and actor who performed as lead vocalist of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist, returns to the Capitol Center of the Arts stage. His inclusion as a playlist favorite from the likes of Metallica to The Lumineers reflects his continuing relevance and broad appeal. $43-$63. Shows at 6:45 and 8 p.m., Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. (603) 225-1111; ccanh.com

4/17-26

“Steel Magnolias” This play is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana who are “as delicate as magnolias, but tough as steel.”

Filled with hilarious repartee and humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, one of the women risks pregnancy and forfeits her life.

The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength — and love — that give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. $12-$15. Times

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5/16 Dandelion Festival This festival is dedicated to the world’s most misunderstood plant — the dandelion. Taste samples of dandelion dishes, wander through the “Our Medicine Through Time” exhibit, create dandelion crafts, paint a colorful flower pot, handpick potted seedlings to plant at home, view a live beehive and learn about the bee’s relationship to the dandelion and so much more. $5-$10. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Rd., Tamworth. (603) 323-7591; remickmuseum.org

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Shakespeare at the Movies A New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra performance. Most of us are familiar with the titles of Shakespeare’s plays. So are movie producers and composers.

Whether it’s a film version of a play, or a musical or film based on Shakespeare, there’s plenty of familiar music around. “West Side Story” is based on “Romeo and Juliet,” but there are many other adaptations of “Romeo and Juliet” as well. The musical “Kiss Me Kate” is based on “The Taming of the Shrew.” There are many more, and you’ll get to hear them all. Popcorn, anyone? 7:30 p.m. 5/2 and 2 p.m. 5/3. Seifert Performing Arts Center, 44 Geremonty Dr., Salem. (603) 647-6476; nhphil.org

“The Bodyguard” The breathtakingly romantic thriller, “The Bodyguard,” features a host of irresistible classics including “Queen of the Night,” “Run to You,” and one of the greatest hit songs of all time, “I Will Always Love You.” Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge, what they don’t expect is to fall in love. $25-$46. Times vary, The Palace Theater, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. (603) 668-5588; palacetheater.org

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Open World: Video Games and Contemporary Art This dynamic exhibition explores how contemporary artists have been influenced by video games, a large part of popular culture since the 1970s. It will feature paintings, sculptures, textiles, prints, drawings, animation, video games, video game modifications, and gamebased performances and interventions. The artworks reference a broad cross-section of games, ranging from early text adventure and arcade games to modern multiplayer online role-playing games and first-person shooters.

Participating artists are influenced by some of the most popular video game franchises, including “Super Mario Bros.,” “The Legend of Zelda,” “The Sims” and “Final Fantasy.” $5-$15.

Times vary, Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. currier.org

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KT Tunstall The Scottish singer/songwriter broke into the public eye with her song “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.” $49-$59. The Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst St., Manchester. (603) 668-5588; palacetheatre.org

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4/18 Discover WILD New Hampshire Day This annual education event from the state Fish and Game Department is jam-packed with lectures and presentations, wild animal meet and greets, and opportunities to try out archery and other sports. Best of all? It’s free. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, 11 Hazen Dr., Concord.

(603) 721-3421; wildlife.state.nh.us

5/1-6/22

Shaped by Conflict: Mementos of the WWII Era This exhibit gives visitors an in-depth look at common mementos and personal items of the WWII era. Including handmade trench art, postcards, sweetheart pillows and much more, this exhibit illustrates how Americans sought to commemorate a critical moment in our nation’s history. $8-$12. Mon to Sat 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sun 12 to 4 p.m., Wright Museum of World War II, 77 Center St., Wolfeboro. wrightmuseum.org

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Wayfinding: Maps of the White Mountains Not only does the White Mountain Region have a long history of maps and mapmakers, it also boasts one of the richest assortment of map designs of any mountainous region. This interactive exhibit will feature maps from the far and recent past, as well as new map tools for today’s hikers, tourists, scientists, weekend explorers and enthusiasts. Free. Mon to Fri 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Museum of the White Mountains, 34 Highland St., Plymouth. plymouth.edu

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OUR GUIDE TO FINE DINING IN EVERY REGION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

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DINE OUT Our restaurant listings include Best of NH winners and advertisers along with others compiled by the New Hampshire Magazine editorial department. Listings are subject to change from month to month based on space availability. Expanded and highlighted listings denote advertisers. For additional and more detailed listings, visit nhmagazine.com.

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MERRIMACK VALLEY 900 Degrees H

PIZZERIA 50 Dow St., Manchester; 900degrees.com; $–$$$ L D

1750 Taphouse

AMERICAN TAVERN/PIZZERIA 170 Rte. 101, Bedford; (603) 488-2573; Facebook; $-$$ B L D

A Lot Of Thai

THAI 360 Daniel Webster Hwy., Merrimack; (603) 429-8888; alotofthainh.com; $-$$ L D

Amphora H

GREEK 55 Crystal Ave., Derry; (603) 537-0111; amphoranh.com; $–$$$ L D

Angelina’s Ristorante Italiano

ITALIAN 11 Depot St., Concord; (603) 228-3313; angelinasrestaurant. com; $$–$$$ L D (

Canoe Restaurant and Tavern

AMERICAN 216 S. River Rd., Bedford; 935-8070; 232 Whittier Hwy., Center Harbor; (603) 253-4762; magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com/canoe-restaurant-and-tavern $$-$$$ L D (

Casa Blanca

COLOMBIAN 34 1/2 Canal St., Nashua; (603) 595-1670; casablancanh.com; $-$$$ L D b

Cask & Vine

TAPAS 1 E. Broadway, Derry; (603) 965-3454; caskandvine.com; $-$$ D

Consuelo’s Taqueria

MEXICAN 36 Amherst St., Manchester; (603) 622-1134; consuelostaqueria. com; $ L D

The Copper Door H

AMERICAN 15 Leavy Dr., Bedford; (603) 488-2677; 41 S Broadway, Salem; (603) 458-2033; copperdoorrestaurant.com; $$–$$$ L D (

Cotton H

AMERICAN 75 Arms St., Manchester; (603) 622-5488; cottonfood.com; $$–$$$$ L D (

Crazy Noodle

JAPANESE/ASIAN 44 Nashua Rd., Londonderry; (603) 965-4914; crazynoodlehouse.wordpress.com; $-$$ L D

The Crown Tavern H

524-9373; magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com; $$–$$$ L D

Greenleaf

On the Corner Grill

FARM-TO-TABLE 54 Nashua St., Milford; (603) 213-5447; greenleafmilford.com; $$-$$$ D (

ITALIAN/SEAFOOD 418 Island Pond Rd., Derry; (603) 952-4636; otcgrill. com; $$-$$$ L D (lunch Thurs-Sun)

The Gyro Spot

Pho Tai Loc

GREEK 1073 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 218-3869; thegyrospot.com; $LD

VIETNAMESE 28 Railroad Square; (603) 521-8744; photailocnashua. com; $-$$ L D

Halligan Tavern

Republic H

AMERICAN 32 West Broadway, Derry; (603) 965-3490; halligantavern.com; $–$$ L D

MEDITERRANEAN 1069 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 666-3723; republiccafe.com; $–$$$ L D

Hanover St. Chophouse H

Revival Kitchen and Bar

STEAKHOUSE 149 Hanover Street, Manchester; (603) 644-2467; hanoverstreetchophouse.com; $$$–$$$$ LD(

In n Out Burritos

MEXICAN 494 Amherst St., Nashua; (603) 417-5532; Facebook; $-$$ L D

Jocelyn's Mediterranean Restaurant & Lounge

Kashmir Indian Cuisine

La Medina

TAPAS 99 Union Square, Milford; (603) 213-6951; Facebook; $$-$$$ L D

Daw Kun Thai

MEXICAN 3 Amherst Rd., Merrimack; (603) 420-8860; losprimosmexnh. com; $-$$ L D

East Derry Tavern

TAVERN/INDIAN 50 E. Derry Rd., Derry; (603) 537-0792; eastderrytavern. com; $-$$ L D b

The Birch on Elm H

El Arroyo Mexican Restaurant

NEW AMERICAN/TAPAS 931 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 782-5365; Facebook; $–$$ L D

MEXICAN 292 Route 101, Amherst; (603) 554-8393; elarroyonh.com; $-$$ LD(

bluAqua Restrobar

Food & Fashion of India

SOUTHERN AMERICAN 930 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 836-3970; Facebook; $$–$$$ L D

INDIAN 483 Amherst St., Nashua; (781) 572-1056; foodandfashionofindia.com; $-$$ L D

Buba Noodle Bar

The Foundry

VIETNAMESE 36 Lowell St., Manchester; (603) 232-7059; Facebook; $-$$ L D

AMERICAN/FARM-TO-TABLE 50 Commercial St., Manchester; (603) 836-1925; foundrynh.com; $$-$$$ D b

Buckley’s Great Steaks H

Gabi's Smoke Shack

Los Primos Mexican Restaurant

Mangia

ITALIAN 33 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 647-0788; gomangia.com; $–$$ D BYOB (

Matbah Mediterranean Cuisine

MEDITERRANEAN/TURKISH 866 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 232-4066; matbahcuisine.com; $–$$ L D

Mint Bistro

FUSION/JAPANESE 1105 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 625-6468; mintbistronh.com; $$–$$$ L D b (

MT’s Local Kitchen & Wine Bar

NEW AMERICAN 212 Main St., Nashua; (603) 595-9334; mtslocal.com; $–$$$ L D

New England’s Tap House Grille H

STEAKHOUSE 438 Daniel Webster Hwy., Merrimack; (603) 424-0995; buckleysgreatsteaks.com; $$–$$$$ D

BBQ 226 Rockingham Rd., Londonderry; (603) 404-2178; gabissmokeshack.com; $–$$ L D

TAVERN 1292 Hooksett Rd., Hooksett; (603) 782-5137; taphousenh.com; $–$$ L D b

Café El Camino

Giorgio’s Ristorante

Noodz H

PUERTO RICAN 134 Newton Rd., Plaistow; (603) 974-1652; cafeelcamino. com; $-$$ L D (closed Mon-Wed)

Café Momo

NEPALESE 1065 Hanover St., Manchester; (603) 623-3733; cafemomonh.us; $-$$ L D (

Campo Enoteca

ITALIAN/MEDITERRANEAN 969 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 625-0256; campoenoteca.com; $$–$$$ L D

MEDITERRANEAN 707 Milford Rd., Merrimack; (603) 883-7333; 524 Nashua St., Milford; (603) 673-3939; 270 Granite St., Manchester; (603) 232-3323; giorgios.com; $$–$$$ L D (

Granite Restaurant and Bar

NEW AMERICAN 96 Pleasant St., Concord; (603) 227-9000; graniterestaurant.com; $$–$$$$ B L D b (

Grazing Room

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Sabatino's North

Smokehaus Barbecue H

BBQ 837 Second St., Manchester; (603) 627-7427; ribshack.net; $–$$ L D

ITALIAN 427 Amherst St., Nashua; (603) 821-7356; cucinatoscananashua.com; $$-$$$ L D (

AMERICAN/TAVERN 2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford; (603) 472-2001; bedfordvillageinn.com; $$–$$$$ L D (

CARIBBEAN 138 Main St., Nashua; (603) 459-8566; rhumnashua.com; $$-$$$ D

KC's Rib Shack H

Cucina Toscana

The Bedford Village Inn H

Rhum Caribbean Cuisine & Rum Bar

ITALIAN 1 E. Broadway, Derry; (603) 432-7999; sabatinosnorth.com; $$–$$$ L D (lunch Thurs-Sat)

INDIAN 396 S. Broadway, Salem; (603) 898-3455; kashmirindianfood. com; $-$$ L D

GASTROPUB 40 Nashua St., Milford; (603) 249-5327; Facebook; $$–$$$ D

AMERICAN 11 Depot St., Concord; (603) 715-5723; revivalkitchennh. com; $$–$$$ D (

MEDITERRANEAN/LEBANESE 355 S. Broadway, Salem; (603) 870-0045; jocelynsrestaurant.com; $–$$ L D

GASTROPUB 99 Hanover St., Manchester; (603) 218-3132; thecrownonhanover.com; $$ L D b

THAI 2626 Brown Ave., Manchester; (603) 232-0699; dawkunthai.com; $-$$ L D (

Bar One

The Oaks, Henniker; (603) 428-3281 colbyhillinn.com; $$–$$$$ D (

RAMEN/ASIAN 968 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 836-5878; Facebook; $-$$ L D

North End Bistro

BBQ 278 Route 101, Amherst; (603) 249-5734; smokehausbbq. com; $–$$ L D

Stella Blu

TAPAS 70 East Pearl St., Nashua; (603) 578-5557; stellablu-nh.com; $$–$$$ D

Surf Restaurant H

SEAFOOD 207 Main St., Nashua; (603) 595-9293; 99 Bow St., Portsmouth; (603) 334-9855; surfseafood. com; $$–$$$$ D b

Taj India/New Taj India H

INDIAN 967 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 606-2677; tajindia.co; 47 E. Pearl St., Nashua; (603) 864-8586; newtajindia.com; $-$$ L D (

Tostao's Tapas Bar

TAPAS 170 Main St., Nashua; (603) 577-1111; Facebook; $$-$$$ L D

Trattoria Amalfi

ITALIAN 385 S Broadway, Salem; (603) 893-5773; tamalfi.com; $–$$ D(

Tuckaway Tavern H

AMERICAN/TAVERN 58 Rte. 27, Raymond; (603) 244-2431; thetuckaway.com; $–$$ L D

Tuscan Kitchen

ITALIAN 67 Main St., Salem; (603) 952-4875; 581 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth; (603) 570-3600; tuscan-kitchen.com; $$–$$$ L D b

Villaggio Ristorante

ITALIAN 677 Hooksett Rd., Manchester; (603) 627-2424; villaggionh.com; $–$$ L D (

SEACOAST Atlantic Grill

ITALIAN 1361 Elm St., Manchester; (603) 232-3527; north-end-bistro. business.site; $$–$$$ L D (

SEAFOOD 5 Pioneer Rd., Rye; (603) 433-3000; theatlanticgrill.com; $$-$$$ L D

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STEAKHOUSE/SEAFOOD 11 South Main St., Concord; (603) 856-7925; 62 Doris Ray Court, Lakeport; (603)

MEXICAN/TACOS 319 Vaughn St., Portsmouth; (603) 380-9081; barrio-tacos.com; $–$$ L D (lunch Fri-Sun)

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SEAFOOD 99 Bow St., Portsmouth; (603) 334-9855; surfseafood.com; $$–$$$$ D

Botanica Restaurant & Gin Bar

Martingale Wharf

Tasya’s Kitchen

CAVA

TAPAS 10 Commercial Alley, Portsmouth; (603) 319-1575; cavatapasandwinebar.com; $–$$$ L D

Chapel+Main

NEW AMERICAN 83 Main St., Dover; (603) 842-5170; chapelandmain.com; $$–$$$ D (

Cornerstone Artisanal Pizza & Craft Beer

PIZZERIA 110 Brewery Ln., Portsmouth; (603) 294-0965; cornerstonepizzaandbeer.com; $–$$ L D

CR’s the Restaurant

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NEW AMERICAN 287 Exeter Rd., Hampton; (603) 929-7972; crstherestaurant.com;. $$-$$$ L Db(

Cure

NEW AMERICAN 189 State St., Portsmouth; (603) 427-8258; curerestaurantportsmouth.com; $$-$$$ L D (

Durbar Square

NEPALESE/HIMALAYAN 10 Market St., Portsmouth; (603) 294-0107; durbarsquarerestaurant.com $-$$ L D (

Ember Wood Fired Grill

AMERICAN 1 Orchard St., Dover; (603) 343-1830; emberwfg.com; $$-$$$ D b (

Franklin Oyster House

SEAFOOD 148 Fleet St., Portsmouth; (603) 373-8500; franklinoysterhouse.com; $-$$$ D

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Mombo

AMERICAN 17 Newmarket Rd., Durham; (603) 868-7800; threechimneysinn.com; $$–$$$ LDb(

INTERNATIONAL 66 Marcy St., Portsmouth; (603) 433-2340; momborestaurant.com; $$–$$$ LD(

Moxy

TAPAS 106 Penhallow St., Portsmouth; (603) 319-8178; moxyrestaurant.com; $$–$$$ D (

Mr. Kim's

KOREAN 107 State St., Portsmouth; (603) 373-6000; mrkimsrestaurant.com; $$–$$$ L D

Native Coffee + Kitchen H

CAFÉ 25 Sagamore Rd., Rye; (603) 501-0436; nativenh.com; $–$$ B L D

Oak House

AMERICAN 110 Main St., Newmarket; (603) 292-5893; oakhousenewmarket.com; $–$$ LDb

OBA Noodle Bar

Three Chimneys Inn

Tinos Greek Kitchen

GREEK 325 Lafayette Rd., Hampton; (603) 926-5489; galleyhatch.com; $$–$$$ L D

Tuscan Kitchen

ITALIAN 67 Main St., Salem; (603) 952-4875; 581 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth; (603) 570-3600; tuscan-kitchen.com; $$–$$$ L D b

Vida Cantina

MEXICAN 2456 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth; (603) 501-0648; vidacantinanh.com; $–$$ L D

Vino e Vino

ITALIAN 163 Water St., Exeter; (603) 580-4268; vinoevivo.com; $$–$$$ D (

ASIAN 69 Water St., Exeter; (603) 693-6264; obanoodlebar. com; $–$$ L D

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Ohana Kitchen

PUB 83 Main St., Plymouth; (603) 536-3354; biedermansdeli.com; $-$$ L D

HAWAIIAN 800 Islington St., Portsmouth; (603) 319-8234; 75 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter; (603) 580-2485; ohana.kitchen; $–$$ L D

Otis

NEW AMERICAN 4 Front St., Exeter; (603) 580-1705; otisrestaurant.com; $$–$$$ D (

Paty B's H

Biederman’s Deli & Pub

Burnt Timber Tavern

BREWPUB/TAVERN 96 Lehner St., Wolfeboro; (603) 630-4186; burnttimbertavern.com; $–$$ L D

Canoe Restaurant and Tavern

AMERICAN 232 Whittier Hwy., Center Harbor; (603) 2534762; 216 S. River Rd., Bedford; 935-8070; magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com/canoe-restaurant-and-tavern; $$-$$$ L D (

Holy Grail Restaurant & Pub

NEW AMERICAN 67 State St.,Portsmouth; (603) 4278459; raleighwinebar.com; $$–$$$ D b (

MEXICAN 276 Main St., Tilton; (603) 729-0062; Facebook; $–$$ L D

Ristorante Massimo

Cielito

IRISH PUB 64 Main St., Epping; (603) 679-9559; holygrailrestaurantandpub.com; $–$$ L D

Hop + grind H

BURGERS 17 Madbury Rd., Durham; (603) 244-2431; hopandgrind.com; $–$$ L D

Joinery

NEW AMERICAN 55 Main St., Newmarket; (603) 292-0110; joineryrestaurant.com; $$$–$$$$ D(

Library Restaurant

STEAKHOUSE 401 State St., Portsmouth; (603) 431-5202; libraryrestaurant.com $$$–$$$$ Db( TAPAS/SEAFOOD 100 Market St., Portsmouth; (603) 3730535; lureportsmouth.com; $$–$$$ D

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INDONESIAN 230 High St., Somersworth; (603) 841-7182; Facebook; $-$$ L D

Green Elephant H

Lure Bar and Kitchen

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AMERICAN/SEAFOOD 99 Bow St., Portsmouth; (603) 4310901; martingalewharf.com; $$–$$$ L D

ITALIAN 34 Dover Point Rd., Dover; (603) 749-4181; pattybs. com; $–$$$ L D

VEGETARIAN 35 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth; (603) 427-8344; greenelephantnh.com; $–$$ L D

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Surf Seafood H

MEXICAN 122 Lafayette Rd., North Hampton; (855) 623-7675; eatmadpork.com; $-$$ L D

NEW AMERICAN 110 Brewery Ln., Ste. 5, Portsmouth; (603) 3730979; Facebook; $$-$$$$ D

Take Pride in N.H.

Mad Pork

FRENCH 29 Ceres St., Portsmouth; (603) 431-0887; blacktrumpetbistro.com; $$–$$$$ D (

Raleigh Wine Bar + Eatery H

ITALIAN 59 Penhallow St., Portsmouth; (603) 436-4000; ristorantemassimo.com; $$-$$$ D(

Roost

NEW AMERICAN 50 Pointe Place, Dover; (603) 742-6100; roostdover.com; $$-$$$ L D b (

Row 34

SEAFOOD 5 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth; (603) 319-5011; row34nh.com; $-$$$ L D b (

Casamigos

MEXICAN 50 S. Main St., Bristol; (603) 744-2044; cielitomexicanrestaurant.com; $–$$ L D

Corner House Inn

AMERICAN 22 Main St., Center Sandwich; (603) 284-6219; cornerhouseinn.com; $$ L D b (

Crystal Quail

AMERICAN 202 Pitman Rd., Center Barnstead; (603) 269-4151; crystalquail.com; $$$–$$$$ D (

Garwood’s

Sonny’s Tavern

NEW AMERICAN 328 Central Ave., Dover; (603) 343-4332; sonnystaverndover.com; $–$$ D b

AMERICAN 6 North Main St., Wolfeboro; (603) 569-7788; garwoodsrestaurant.com; $–$$ LD(

Sue's Korean Kitchen

Hart’s Turkey Farm

KOREAN 74 Portsmouth Ave., Somersworth; (603) 777-7604; sueskoreankitchen.com; $–$$ L D

AMERICAN 233 Daniel Webster Hwy., Meredith; (603) 279-6212; hartsturkeyfarm.com $–$$ L D

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Hermit Woods Winery

DELI 72 Main St., Meredith; (603) 253-7968; hermitwoods.com; $–$$ L

Hobbs Tavern & Brewing Co.

BREWPUB 2415 White Mountain Hwy., West Ossipee; (603) 5392000; hobbstavern.com; $–$$ L D

Inn Kitchen + Bar

AMERICAN/FARM-TO-TABLE 28 Shepard Hill Rd., Holderness; (603) 968-4417; innkitchen.com; $–$$$ D (

Kathleen's Irish Pub

IRISH PUB 90 Lake St., Bristol; (603) 744-6336; kathleensirishpub.com; $–$$ L D

Kettlehead Brewing H

BREWPUB 407 West Main St., Tilton; (603) 286-8100; kettleheadbrewing. com; $–$$ L D

Lemongrass

ASIAN 64 Whittier Hwy., Moultonborough; (603) 253-8100; lemongrassnh.net; $–$$ L D

Local Eatery

FARM-TO-TABLE 17 Veterans Square, Laconia; (603) 527-8007; laconialocaleatery.com; $$–$$$ D (

Mise en Place

ITALIAN/AMERICAN 96 Lehner St., Wolfeboro; (603) 569-5788; miseenplacenh.com; $$-$$$$ L D (

The New Woodshed

AMERICAN 128 Lee Rd., Moultonborough; (603) 476-2700; newwoodshed.com; $–$$$ D

O Bistro at the Inn on Main

Bantam Grill

The Hungry Diner

AMERICAN 200 North Main St., Wolfeboro; (603) 515-1003; innnewhampshire.com/our-bistro; $$–$$$ D

ITALIAN 1 Jaffrey Rd., Peterborough; (603) 924-6633; bantam-peterborough.com; $$–$$$ D (

FARM-TO-TABLE 9 Edwards Ln., Walpole; (603) 756-3444; hungrydinerwalpole.com; $–$$ B L D

O Steaks & Seafood

Bellows Walpole Inn Pub

Kristin’s Bistro & Bakery H

STEAKHOUSE/SEAFOOD 11 South Main St., Concord; (603) 856-7925; 62 Doris Ray Court, Lakeport; (603) 524-9373; magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com; $$–$$$ L D

Osteria Poggio

ITALIAN 18 Main St., Center Harbor; (603) 250-8007; osteriapoggio.com; $$–$$$ D (

Pasquaney Restaurant

AMERICAN Inn on New Found Lake, 1030 Mayhew Turnpike, Bridgewater; (603) 744-9111; newfoundlake.com/ restaurant-tavern; $$–$$$ D (

Rubbin’ Butts BBQ

BBQ 313 Whittier Hwy., Center Harbor; (603) 253-4953; rubbinbuttsbbqnh.com; $–$$ L D

Tavern 27

TAPAS/PIZZA 2075 Parade Rd., Laconia; (603) 528-3057; tavern27. com; $–$$ L D (

Wolfe’s Tavern

NEW ENGLAND TAVERN 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro; (603) 569-3016; wolfestavern.com; $$–$$$ B L D b (

MONADNOCK

Alberto’s Restaurant

ITALIAN 79 Antrim Rd., Bennington; (603) 588-6512; albertosnh.com; $–$$ D (

NEW AMERICAN 297 Main St., Walpole; (603) 756-3320; bellowswalpoleinn.com; $$ L D (

CAFÉ 28 Washington St., Keene; (603) 352-5700; kristinsbistroandbakery.com; $–$$ B L

Chesterfield Inn

Lee & Mt. Fuji

AMERICAN 20 Cross Rd., West Chesterfield; (603) 256-3211; chesterfieldinn.com; $$-$$$ D (

Cooper’s Hill Public House

PUB 6 School St., Peterborough; (603) 371-9036; coopershillpublichouse.com; $-$$$ L D

Del Rossi’s Trattoria

ITALIAN Rte. 137, Dublin; (603) 5637195; delrossis.com $$–$$$ D (

Fireworks

PIZZA 22 Main St., Keene; (603) 903-1410; fireworksrestaurant.net; $–$$ D (

ASIAN 50 Jaffrey Rd., Peterborough; (603) 626-7773; leeandmtfujiatboilerhouse.com; 314 Main St., Marlborough; (603) 876-3388; leeandmtfuji. com; $–$$ L D (

Luca’s Mediterranean Café

MEDITERRANEAN 10 Central Sq., Keene; (603) 358-3335; lucascafe. com; $$–$$$ L D (

Nicola’s Trattoria H

ITALIAN 51 Railroad St., Keene; (603) 355-5242; Facebook; $$$–$$$$ D

The Old Courthouse

Fritz the Place To Eat

NEW AMERICAN 30 Main St., Newport; (603) 863-8360; eatatthecourthouse.com; $$–$$$ L D b (

The Grove

ITALIAN/MEDITERRANEAN 9 Monadnock Hwy., Keene; (603) 3529400; papagallos.com; $–$$ L D (

AMERICAN 45 Main St., Keene; (603) 357-6393; fritztheplacetoeat. com; $–$$ L D AMERICAN 247 Woodbound Rd., Rindge; (603) 532-4949; woodbound.com; $$–$$$ B L D b (

The Hancock Inn

AMERICAN 33 Main St., Hancock; (603) 525-3318; hancockinn.com; Prix fixe, $48.; $$–$$$$ D (

Papagallos Restaurant

Pearl Restaurant & Oyster Bar

ASIAN 1 Jaffrey Rd., Peterbrough; (603) 924-5225; pearl-peterborough.com $$–$$$ D (

Pickity Place

FARM-TO-TABLE 248 Nutting Hill Rd., Mason; (603) 878-1151; pickity-

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place.com — A historic place to lunch in the 1786 red cottage used as inspiration for "Little Red Riding Hood" illustrations. Fresh, local ingredients are used, including herbs grown onsite. Three seatings, reservations are required. $$ L (

(603) 643-2007; basecampcafenh. com; $-$$ L D

Piedra Fina

Candela Tapas Lounge

Bistro Nouveau

AMERICAN 6 Clubhouse Ln., Grantham; (603) 863-8000; bistronouveau.com; $–$$$$ L D (

London; (603) 877-0196; Facebook; $–$$ L D

(603) 843-8998; magicfoodsrestaurantgroup.com; $$–$$$ D (

Market Table

Taverne on the Square

FARM-TO-TABLE 44 Main St., Hanover; (603) 676-7996; markettablenh.com; $–$$ B L D b

Millstone at 74 Main

AMERICAN 2 Pleasant St., Claremont; (603) 287-4416; claremonttaverne. com; $–$$$ L D

LATIN 288 Main St., Marlborough; (603) 876-5012; piedrafina.com; $–$$ L D (

TAPAS 15 Lebanon St., Hanover; (603) 277-9094; candelatapas.com; $$-$$$ D (

AMERICAN 74 Newport Rd., New London; (603) 526-4201; 74mainrestaurant.com; $–$$ L D b

NORTH COUNTRY

Restaurant at Burdick’s

Canoe Club Bistro

Oak & Grain H

CAFÉ 27 Seavey St., North Conway; (603) 730-5318; 27northnh.com; $-$$ B L b

FRENCH 47 Main Street, Walpole; (603) 756-9058; burdickchocolate. com; $–$$$ L D b (

The Stage H

AMERICAN 30 Central Sq., Keene; (603) 357-8389; thestagerestaurant. com; $-$$ L D

Thorndike’s & Parson’s Pub

AMERICAN 379 Main St., Jaffrey; (603) 532-7800; monadnockinn. com; $–$$$ D (

Waterhouse

AMERICAN 18 Water St., Peterborough; (603) 924-4001; waterhousenh.com; $-$$$ L D b (

DARTMOUTH/ LAKE SUNAPEE Appleseed Restaurant

AMERICAN 27 South Main St., Hanover; (603) 643-9660; canoeclub.us; $–$$ L D (

PRIX FIXE, 853 Pleasant St., New London; (603) 526-6271; innatpleasantlake.com; D (

Coach House

The Old Courthouse

AMERICAN 353 Main St., New London; (603) 526-2791; thenewlondoninn.com/the-coach-houserestaurant;$ $–$$$$ D (

AMERICAN 30 Main St., Newport; (603) 863-8360; eatatthecourthouse.com; $-$$$ L D b (

Farmer’s Table Café

AMERICAN/TAVERN 195 Main St., New London; (603) 526-2964; peterchristiansnh.com; $-$$ L D

FARM-TO-TABLE 249 Rte. 10, Grantham; (603) 863-9355; farmerstablecafe.com; $–$$ L D

Flying Goose Brew Pub H

BREW PUB 40 Andover Rd., New London; (603) 526-6899; flyinggoose.com — Choose from the many creative beer options made onsite to pair with items from the varied pub menu that offers something for every taste. $–$$ L D

Latham House Tavern

Peter Christian's Tavern

PINE at the Hanover Inn

AMERICAN 2 South Main St., Hanover; (603) 643-4300; hanoverinn.com/dining.aspx; $$$–$$$$ B L Db(

The Refinery

NEW AMERICAN 4 Mill Rd., Andover; refinerynh.com; 977-0194; $–$$$ L

Revolution Cantina

AMERICAN 63 High St., Bradford; (603) 938-2100; appleseedrestaurant.com $-$$ D

TAVERN 9 Main St., Lyme; (603) 795-9995; lathamhousetavern.com; $–$$ L D

CUBAN AND MEXICAN 38 Opera House Square, Claremont; (603) 504-6310; Facebook; $-$$ L D b

Base Camp Café

Little Brother Burger Co.

Suna

NEPALESE 3 Lebanon St., Hanover;

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BURGERS 420 Main St., New

AMERICAN 6 Brook Rd., Sunapee;

27 North

Barley & Salt Tap House

GASTROPUB/INTERNATIONAL 1699 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 307-1037; barleyandsalt.com; $-$$$ L D

The Beal House Inn

PUB 2 W. Main St., Littleton; (603) 444-2661; thebealhouseinn. com; $$-$$$ D

Black Cap Grill

PUB 1498 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 356-2225; blackcapgrille.com; $-$$ L D

The Burg H

PIZZA 8 Back Lake Rd,. Pittsburg; (603) 538-7400; Facebook; $-$$ D

Cabin Fever Restaurant

AMERICAN 1395 Route 302, Bartlett; (603) 374-9104; cabinfeverrestaurant.com; $-$$ L D

Chang Thai Café

THAI 77 Main St., Littleton; (603) 444-8810; changthaicafe.com; $-$$ LD

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NEW AMERICAN 2724 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 3564747; chefsbistronh.com; $-$$ L D

Contoocook Covered Bridge Restaurant

NEW AMERICAN 16 Cedar St., Contoocook; (603) 746-5191; coveredbridgerestaurant.com; $-$$ L D

Deacon Street Martini & Whiskey Bar

Littleton; (603) 575-5410; littletonfreehouse.com; $-$$$ L D

Luchador Tacos

MEXICAN 1833 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 7305429; Facebook; $ L D

Margarita Grill

MEXICAN Rte. 302, Glen; (603) 3836556; margaritagrillnh.com; $–$$ L D

May Kelly’s Cottage

AMERICAN 32 Seavey St., Conway; (603) 356-9231; deaconst.com; $$–$$$ D

IRISH PUB 3002 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 3567005; Julykellys.com; $–$$ L D (

Delaney’s Hole in the Wall

Moat Mountain Smokehouse H

AMERICAN/ASIAN 2966 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 356-7776; delaneys.com; $–$$ L D

BREW PUB 3378 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 356-6381; moatmountain.com; $–$$ L D (

Gypsy Café

Ore Mill Bar & Grille

INTERNATIONAL 111 Main St., Lincoln; (603) 745-4395; gypsycaferestaurant.com; $–$$ L D

AMERICAN 17 Lake Tarleton Rd., Warren; (603) 764-6069; oremill17. com; $–$$ D

Horsefeathers

Rainbow Grille & Tavern H

AMERICAN 2679 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 3562687; horsefeathers.com; $–$$ L D

Jonathon’s Seafood

SEAFOOD/AMERICAN 280 East Side Rd., North Conway; (603) 447-3838; jonathonsseafood.com; $–$$$ L D (

AMERICAN/TAVERN 609 Beach Rd., Pittsburg; (603) 538-9556; rainbowgrille.com — Offering a variety of comfort food from seafood to ribs. The tavern serves appetizers, hearth-baked pizzas and more. A famil-friendly restaurant. $–$$ D (

Libby’s Bistro & SAaLT Pub

Red Fox Bar & Grille

NEW AMERICAN 115 Main Street on Rte. 2, Gorham; (603) 466-5330; libbysbistro.org; $$–$$$ L D (

PUB 49 Route 16, Jackson; (603) 3834949; redfoxbarandgrille.com; $–$$ D

Littleton Freehouse Taproom & Eatery

STEAKHOUSE 3 Station St., Glen; (603) 383-4344; redparkapub.com; $–$$ L D

NEW AMERICAN 28 Cottage St.,

Red Parka Steakhouse

Rek'•lis Brewing

BREWPUB 2085 Main St., Bethlehem; (603) 869-9696; redparkapub. com; $–$$ L D

Rustic River

AMERICAN 5 Main St., North Woodstock; (603) 745-2110; rusticriverrestaurant.com; $-$$ L D

Schilling Beer Co.

BREW PUB/PIZZERIA 18 Mill St., Littleton; (603) 444-4800; (603) 4444800; schillingbeer.com; $-$$ L D

Hill; (603) 823-7244; thesunsethillhouse.com; $$–$$$ D (

Thompson House Eatery

FARM-TO-TABLE 139 Main St., Jackson; (603) 383-9341; thompsonhouseatery.com; $$-$$$ L D (

Tony’s Italian Grille

ITALIAN 3674 Rte. 3, Thornton; (603) 745-3133; $$ L D (

Tuckerman's Restaurant & Tavern

Shannon Door Pub

PUB Rte. 16 and 16A, Jackson; (603) 383-4211; shannondoor.com; $-$$ L D

TAVERN 336 Route 16A, Intervale; (603) 356-5541; tuckermansrestaurant.com; $-$$ D

Shovel Handle Pub

Vito Marcello’s Italian Bistro

PUB 357 Black Mountain Rd., Jackson; (603) 383-8916; shovelhandlepub.com; $-$$ L D

ITALIAN 45 Seavey St., North Conway; (603) 356-7000; vitomarcellositalianbistro.com; $$-$$$ D

Six Burner Bistro

The Wayside Inn

AMERICAN 13 South Main St., Plymouth; (603) 536-9099; sixburnerbistro.com; $-$$ L D

Table + Tonic

EUROPEAN 3738 Main St., Bethlehem; (603) 869-3364; thewaysideinn.com; $$–$$$ D (

White Mountain Cider Co.

NEW AMERICAN/FARM-TO-TALBE 3358 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway; (603) 356-6068; tableandtonic.com; $-$$$ B L D (

AMERICAN 207 Route 302, Glen; (603) 383-9061; ciderconh.com; $-$$ D (

The Tap House

Woodstock Inn Brewery H

AMERICAN In the Grand Summit Hotel, 104 Grand Summit Rd., Bartlett; (603) 374-6700; grandsummitattitash.com; $-$$ B L D (

BREW PUB Rte. 3, North Woodstock; (603) 745-3951; woodstockinnnh. com; $–$$ L

Tavern at the Sunset Hill House

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TAVERN 231 Sunset Hill Rd., Sugar

Food. Beer. People. Music.

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Mr. Ambassador

The Granite State needs a new welcoming face

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nyone want to talk about New Hampshire? Because when I travel, I don’t encounter many that do.

I find myself in airports fairly regularly, and on those occasions I love talking to people and learning about where they’re from, what life is like there and what they love best about their home states. That curiosity is not always reciprocal.

I was recently traveling with a friend from slightly south of Salem. We engaged a few people standing near us, and the conversation eventually came around to, “Where are you from?”

When my friend said, “Boston,” they immediately started reminiscing about visits to Quincy Market, haranguing us about the Patriots and discussing some of the universities around the city.

Then it was my turn to brag about my home state.

“New Hampshire,” I told them.

Silence. Blank stares. Somewhere, someone coughed.

“Oh.” No matter where I go, it seems very few people have much to say about the Granite State. The closest I’ve come was when some-

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one told me they fell down the Casino stairs after a Phish show in the early ’90s.

I attribute such awkward nonstarters to a lack of knowledge about our region.

As the quiet cousin, New Hampshire will tell you how different it is from Vermont while tipping its orange-blaze cap toward Maine, judging Massachusetts and ignoring Connecticut.

People just don’t know about our deep forests, stately mountains, our active (and admittedly abbreviated) shoreline, the bucolic Lakes Region or our many tattoo and fireworks options. Yet they could know, if the right person was available to impart such knowledge.

To that end, I’d like to announce my willingness to stand as ambassador from New Hampshire. My bona fides include such notable accomplishments as “my wife had an awesome radio show on WUNH,” and “the lady at the Over Easy Diner in Hampstead knows my usual order.” I’m perfect for the position because I am of New Hampshire — I wear shorts in February and I don’t know my neighbors across the street even though we’ve lived in our house for 23 years.

I can certainly do the job, but since it’s a largely ceremonial position, there will be a few modest requirements. Here’s a list of my demands: I’ll need an embassy. My house is fine, but establishing a headquarters closer to vital centers of commerce would be helpful. Like maybe near the Music Mill or that new noodle restaurant on Elm Street.

Man doesn’t live by fried clams alone.

Mostly, but not entirely.

I’m going to need a sash. It will announce my position and lend an air of importance to my newly appointed station. Just keep the wording on it simple, with something along the lines of “Ask Me About My Home State” or “King of New Hampshire” or something.

A monocle wouldn’t hurt either.

A small marketing budget. We need a new slogan. “Live Free or Die” is classic, but “Iced Coffee Year-Round” or “Hoodies Aplenty” is slightly more inclusive.

Just a bit of bureaucratic leeway. I’d likely stop short of declaring war on Massachusetts, but perhaps annexing everything north of, say, Kelly’s Roast Beef would be my first act. It’d certainly be a conversation starter. NH

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