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Contents 40

First Things

50

November 2020

61

603 Navigator

603 Informer

10 Food & Drink

22 Culture

603 Living

4 Editor’s Note 6 Contributors Page 8 Feedback

Features 38 Transcript

Meet hypnotherapist Brandie Wells.

by David Mendelsohn

40 What’s on the Menu

for Local Eateries?

Restauranting in the time of COVID-19 presents a series of challenges never seen before.

by Anders Morley photos by Jared Charney

50 It’s Snow Time!

Ski areas and resorts around the state are ready to open with new COVID-19 protocols and strategies designed to keep you safe — and on the trails — all winter long.

Here’s what to expect.

by Brion O’Connor

61 Best Lawyers

Each fall, professional polling firm Woodward/White produces “The Best Lawyers in America.” We’ve published the New Hampshire portion of the list, which includes more than 600 of the top legal minds. photos by Kendal J. Bush

Toscana italian chophouse in portsmouth

by Emily Heidt

14 Our Town Washington

by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers

18 Top Events

event roundup

the new hampshire tartan

by Anders Morley

27 Artistian

Gretchen Hill Woodman

by Susan Laughlin

and Service

by Emily Heidt

thanksgiving with the tuttles

by Emily Heidt

by Rebecca Tuttle

20 Sips

30 Blips

by Michael Hauptly-Pierce

by Casey McDermott

local drink news

90 Thirty Years of Stuffing

28 First Person

94 Health

delirium in hospital patients

by Karen A. Jamrog

nh in the news

96 Ayuh

32 Politics

peering into the future

by James Pindell

Thanksgiving on MArs

by Bill Burke

34 Good Cause

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by Bill Burke

36 What Do You Know? the dancing ladies

by Marshall Hudson

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eterans Day began on November 11, 1918, as Armistice Day to commemorate the official end of the Great War. We now call it World War I, but, at the time, it must have seemed like something so bloody, terrible and costly could never happen again. That thought was embedded in the longer version of its name: “The War to End All Wars.”

It’s such a hopeful and inaccurate title, but I don’t think people were naïve back then and I sure pray they aren’t now. Focusing the holiday on the veterans who have served in all our wars — hot, cold, swift or protracted — rather than on a specific armistice was a wise way to make sure that this day wouldn’t disappear into a historical memory hole. And the recognition of Veterans Day is a good way to support the brave souls who currently serve, and who will be the first to face any new conflicts that might ignite in our global tinderbox.

Situating the holiday after Halloween — our peculiar national celebration of horror and death (OK, and candy) — and before Thanksgiving — our official salute to the blessings of home — seems weirdly appropriate. During war, a well-trained and -equipped military is all that keeps its horror away from the homeland. Sadly, the horrors of war often return home anyway, in the damaged bodies and afflicted memories of our soldiers.

Thankfully, there are people who are helping to keep Veterans Day as a living event, not merely a parade of figures in uniforms of the past.

Child psychologist and Hollis resident Laura Landerman-Garber took a cue from an old magazine story she found that encouraged sending cards with a handwritten note to military members stationed away from home. She got her family

and friends involved, using Veterans Day as a focal point to get the cards out in time for the holiday season. They had hit their annual stride when a family friend joined the Navy and they decided to collect cards for him and his shipmates. “We had no idea there were 5,000 sailors on that aircraft carrier,” says Landerman-Garber, “and 5,000 more on its support ships.”

She knew this would require a lot of scaling up of the kitchen-table project, but that year they collected and mailed 17,000.

The next year the number jumped to 50,000 and last year 175,000. Their efforts have been celebrated in national media, and Sen. Maggie Hassan read a tribute to Landerman-Garber’s work into the Congressional Record. Hassan and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen have since tapped her to create a year-round card program for vets who currently reside in VA hospitals.

The impact of the project is illustrated by the touching, often heartrending responses she’s received from soldiers over the years, but also by the reactions of those who participate. She cites one card from a local 8-year-old from Hollis named Ashley that reads, “Dear Warrior, I am very lonely, but when someone loves me I feel better.

How about I love you?”

“And there’s the card that arrived from “someone way up north,” says Landerman-Garber. “It had a dollar in it and a note that said, ‘It’s not much but it may help.’ That’s so New Hampshire,” she says.

With many schools working remotely now, she expects output to drop this year, but anyone wanting to help can learn more at militaryholidaycardchallenge.com and send cards to her at PO Box 103, Hollis, NH 03049.

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Contributors Anders Morley, who wrote the feature story “What’s on the Menu for Local Eateries?” and “Informer,” is a freelance writer and translator from New Hampshire. He divides his time between the Granite State and Canada, the latter of which is the subject of his first book, “This Land of Snow: A Journey Across the North in Winter.” Now available, it tells the story of a winter spent traveling alone on skis across northwestern Canada.

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Photographer Kendal J. Bush took the photos for “Best Lawyers” and “Informer.” You can see more of her work at kendaljbush.com.

Writer and outdoor sports expert Brion O’Connor (pictured with his wife Lauri) wrote this month’s cover story “It’s Snow Time.”

New Hampshire Magazine contributing editor Bill Burke wrote “Ayuh” and “Good Cause.” He’s also the author of Disney World travel books.

Jared Charney’s work has appeared in numerous publications. He took the photos for “What’s on the Menu for Local Eateries?” and “Living.”

Local beer and spirits aficionado Michael Hauptly-Pierce is our regular “Sips” contributor and the cofounder of Lithermans Limited Brewery.

Author Rebecca Tuttle, who wrote “First Person,” grew up on “America’s Oldest Family Farm” in Dover. See more at rebeccatuttleauthor.com.

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I recently came across a very beautiful story in your magazine about Alex Ray [of The Common Man Restaurants] written by Jack Kenny in 2019 [“The Common Man,” March 2019]. It was about his life and impressive accomplishments. The story fits right in with a project I am working on: a book about people who succeed in life after finding their strength and courage. I had wanted Ray to be one of my subjects, and after reading the article, I had all the information I needed. Thanks to you for letting me use it, and to Alex Ray as a student at the Culinary Institute of America Jack Kenny for in New Haven, Connecticut, writing it. when he was around 19.

I am a retired high school English teacher who never thought of this project until my two oldest grandchildren began to have doubts about college and careers. I don’t want them to go through what I’d gone through in my early years, so I’m collecting stories of people who struggled and worked hard to achieve their goals. The people I’ve interviewed are fascinating and have unusual ideas that have helped them along the way, allowing them to make it where many others would have failed.

For example, Ray was a handful in school, He was punished for his poor behavior and kept repeating his poor conduct until he finally matured. He struggled as an alcoholic and eventually worked his way out of that.

His personality is unique, and he is willing to change when needed. I hope his story and the others I’ve collected can inspire this kind of change in many lives. I plan to donate copies to local high schools upon completion.

Thank you for publishing Alex Ray’s wonderful story. It is quite special.

Bobbie Lattig Manchester Editor’s Note: Send us a copy of your book when it’s complete. We’d love to see some of the other stories you found.

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Strength and Courage

Moose on the Loose

Above are photos I took this morning (September 24) on our tree farm on Mt. Cube of a large bull following a cow; the rutting season has begun. They both looked like they are in excellent condition. Feel free to share with your readers.

Tom Thomson, Orford And two, you made me cry. I was happily reading “Wanted: Incredible Heroes” [“First Person,” September 2020] when suddenly I burst into tears. It was such an unexpected emotional response to a deeply touching story. Thank you for shining a light on hope and for giving me reason to believe that every generation is full of superheroes who are standing ready to bravely fight for what’s right: humanity.

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Thank you, the vase arrived today and it’s lovelier than I expected. This was the first time I’ve ever entered, although I look for the newt each month, so I was very surprised to be the winner.

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Two things, one, we’re in the process of converting Ernest Thompson’s “Write On Golden Pond” scriptwriting workshop to a virtual experience and are aiming for a November weekend workshop. Please pass this along to your readers if you can.

Editor’s Note: We passed your comments along to the author, Dan Szczesny. Full disclosure to readers, our editor attended Thompson’s workshop some years back and wrote a one-act play over the course of a weekend that was “almost” made into a movie. He remembers the experience as one of his most rewarding challenges. If you’re up for it, below are some details and info on how you might participate.

Got a story to tell? Write it with an Oscar winner. Unlike other master classes, where you listen to legendary artists talk about their craft, at Ernest Thompson’s hands-on, total-immersion weekend writing workshop, you’ll create your own masterpiece, online this year. The Academy Award-winning author of the iconic film “On Golden Pond,” Thompson has encouraged hundreds of writers to finesse their storytelling skills. Now it’s your turn. Workshops take place November 6-8. ernestthompson.us/ workshops/writing.

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Spot the Newt c/o New Hampshire Magazine 150 Dow St., Manchester, NH 03101 Email them to newt@nhmagazine.com or fax them to (603) 624-1310.

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Old Meets New Tuscan Brands opens Toscana Italian Chophouse & Wine Bar in downtown Portsmouth

by Emily Heidt

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Artist rendering of the new Toscana Italian Chophouse & Wine Bar

arket Square in Portsmouth may look a little different these days, and a new restaurant is coming to change it once more. Tuscan Brands will open their new steakhouse concept, Toscana Italian Chophouse & Wine Bar, in the old Bank of New Hampshire building this month. Located within this historic building in the city’s charming Market Square neighborhood, the new restaurant will be a few doors down from its Tuscan Market location, which has been serving up handcrafted Italian specialties and house-roasted coffee to downtown guests since July 2019.

“Portsmouth doesn’t have a modern steakhouse,” says Joe Farro, founder of Tuscan Brands. “The idea for us was all about being approachable and fun, and being able to offer a steakhouse concept that will be built around signature chops, incredible sides and, of course, many of the Italian favorites that our customers have come to expect from us.”

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a few different housemade breads. Additionally, as this is, after all, a steakhouse, the menu will feature the high-quality steaks, including the signature 38-ounce tomahawk bone-in ribeye and more. “Great Italian is simply fresh ingredients, delicious flavor and time-honored scratch preparation, which will all be reflected in our menu,” says Farro. Guests can also expect a craft cocktail list, an expansive collection of bourbons and whiskeys, and wines from Italy, California and France.

Part of what draws people to Portsmouth is its rich history, and in keeping with a sense of place, the new restaurant isn’t exactly all new. “The vibe inside the space is 1910-meets-2020,” says Farro. “We preserved as much of the original interior as we could with the exposed brick, palladium copper-trimmed windows, and the most exciting part, which is the two bank vaults that we turned into a wine cellar and dry aging room.”

The space will feature an impressive island bar made of stone from a quarry in Italy, two private dining rooms, an open-concept kitchen and a prominently placed wood grill.

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“Whether you’re looking to indulge in one of our wood fired steaks or mix and match a meal that caters to your tastes, you will be thrilled to find that our restaurant provides that one-of-a-kind dining experience that reflects the festive, historic vibe that Portsmouth is known for,” says Farro. NH

Guests can expect meals at Toscana Italian Chophouse & Wine Bar that are similar to the one from Tuscan Market pictured here.

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Tuscan Village The Tuscan Brand includes restaurants and markets in a variety of locations around New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and one of the other newest brand endeavors is Tuscan Village.

The Village is a 170-acre, 3-million-square-foot mixed-used project that is being designed to create a hub for the community surrounding Salem, New Hampshire. The central theme is inspired

by Old World urban development and traditional surroundings including lush landscaping and pocket parks.

The first phase of the North Village portion of the project was completed in 2019, and features a 80,000-square-foot Market Basket grocery store, Homesense and luxury residential space.

L.L.Bean, Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Chipotle Grill, more luxury apartments and a new Mass General Hospital location will all be opening in 2021, along with local brands Drive Custom Fit, Pressed Café and Tuscan Market. Upon the completion of construction in 2022, the megacenter will be home to dozens of retail, bar, restaurant and lifestyle choices, as well as a fitness facility and live entertainment options all created for you to be able to “Live. Stay. Work. Play.”

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Wonderful Washington

Don’t miss out on the town’s history and artisty

By Barbara Radcliffe Rogers / Photos by stillman rogers

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ur fascination with New Hampshire stones is not limited to those boulders dropped by the glaciers or worn by eons of tumbling mountain streams. We’re quite inclusive in our tastes, which extend to stone monuments, especially those of an unusual nature. It was an unusual, but manmade set of stones that took us to the town of Washington.

A milelong trail winds through the woods and across streams, punctuated by 40 engraved granite monuments that tell the story of the Sabbath, the foundation for the beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventists. At the highest point, the Ten Commandments are engraved on two large stones. Benches at each site provide a place to contemplate or just enjoy the surrounding forest and wildflowers that bloom beside the trail.

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Completed in 1998, the Sabbath Trail was the vision of the small congregation of Seventh-day Adventists, whose meetinghouse sits at the beginning of the trail.

Washington is considered the birthplace of Seventh-day Adventism.

Their story begins with a religious movement in the mid-1800s led by preacher William Miller, who proclaimed that Jesus Christ would return to Earth on October 22, 1844.

In anticipation of this, his followers, who were especially numerous in New England, gave away their earthly possessions and gathered on hillsides and meadows on that evening to await the Advent. The result — or nonresult — was thereafter known as The Great Disappointment, and his disappointed followers disbanded into various groups,

The Washington Common, Town Hall, Old School and Congregational Church

some of which evolved into new religions.

One of these became the Seventh-day Adventist Church, combining the beliefs of the Millerites with the practice of Saturday worship. Washington, although not the first Adventist congregation, was the place where the keeping of the Sabbath on Saturday was first practiced by an Adventist congregation.

Their Meetinghouse stands today on remote King Street, a seasonal unpaved road.

Changed very little from its appearance when it was built in 1842, the simple one-room building has large windows low enough for a look inside. Over the backs of the wooden bench pews are colorful quilts and crocheted afghans for chill mornings, a homey note to the historic building that’s still in seasonal use.

On our route to King Street, along Faxon Hill Road from the center of town, we passed the Old

The milelong Sabbath Trail is dotted with 40 monuments that tell the story of the Seventh-day Adventists.

Cemetery, where we found another unusual stone, dated 1804. Capt. Samuel Jones Jr., after losing his leg in a construction accident, held a burial service for the leg, which is in a grave marked by a slate stone. History doesn’t record where the rest of Jones was laid to final rest.

In Washington’s town center, alongside Route 31, is a classic ensemble of white clapboard public buildings facing a small green. The 1787 meetinghouse is still in use as the Town Hall; until the Washington Congregational Church was built in 1840, the meetinghouse also served as the community’s

church. The third building, between the two, was a schoolhouse.

A tablet on the green reminds us of another Washington first — it is the first town incorporated under the name of George Washington, in 1776, while he was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

The town has some other distinctions as well — the first Civil War monument in New Hampshire, and the highest town center in the state at 1,538.667 feet.

Follow the street past the church to find two charming little museums, the Washington Historical Society and, next to it, the Barn Museum. Three 19th-century rooms are recreated, including a kitchen complete with household gadgets of the day, and in the historical society building is a huge loom, which Gwen Gaskell might demonstrate.

Gaskell has a wealth of information about the other exhibits too, so don’t hesitate to ask about anything that piques your curiosity.

We learned a bit more about Washington at Gibson Pewter, in a large barn in the village center. Jonathan Gibson is the second-generation pewter artist, and the beautiful traditional and contemporary pieces he creates range from tankards and goblets

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Washington Museum of the Washington Historical Society on Half Moon Pond Road

to full tea sets. Smaller gift items, also in lead-free pewter, include charms, key rings and Christmas tree ornaments. The Gibson fruit bowl and woodgrain beaker are the only 20th-century pewter included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Gibson spent part of June building a larger show room so that shoppers can browse with plenty of social distancing. In the process he created not only more space to display the

pewter, but also gallery space for art by his wife Camille and other local artists. Visitors can watch him at work in his open workshop at one side of the gallery.

He told us that the barn had been behind a set of carriage barns for a large hotel that once stood between his brick house and the Town Hall. Evidently, Washington was once a thriving destination for summer tourists with the hotel and several guest houses. The

brick house was a store, and on the back wall of his shop are old photographs of the store and the hotel.

Until our recent visit, our only trips to Washington had been to camp at Pillsbury State Park, one of our favorites for kayaking.

Especially in August, when juicy ripe blueberries surround its shores within reach of our kayaks. Campsites are roomy and well-spaced throughout a large lightly forested area. Other shaded campsites are along the lake shore.

Several trails web through the park.

Our favorite — no surprises here — is the Balance Rock Trail, a 1-mile gradual ascent to a glacial erratic perched on top of a larger boulder. NH

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This photo by Ernest Withers is part of the “Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement” exhibit at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester.

This month brings a variety of events, from fall fun on a farm and a 5K to a compelling civil rights exhibit and a chance to fill your Thanksgiving table with local products.

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“Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement” Through December, Manchester

Drawn from the museum’s collection, these photographs were made in the course of the civil rights protests in the 1950s and 1960s. The passion, tragedy and essential humanity of the civil rights movement emerge in these images. Photographer Ernest Withers (1922-2007) captured some of the most compelling images of the American civil rights movement. In particular, his photographs of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike of 1968 brought nationwide attention to the plight of African Americans trying to succeed in a systemically racist political and cultural system. currier.org

Fall Family Farm Day November 11, Troy

Get up bright and early to spend a morning milking a cow (or goat) with your kids. Then your little ones can take a pony ride, and maybe even hop on the wagon or enjoy making arts and crafts. The Best of NH award-winning Inn at East Hill Farm is a picturesque spot to learn about farming while having a great family time. east-hill-farm.com

Fisher Cats Thanksgiving 5K

Seacoast Holiday Craft & Artisan Show

The Fisher Cats are sponsors of this fun event, and this year you can run the race in person or virtually. The 3.1-mile course heads out of the stadium to Commercial Street and incorporates a loop through Manchester’s historic millyard, returning to finish back at center field in the stadium. millenniumrunning.com

Talented craftsmen and artisans will be offering their handmade wares of the finest quality in a safe environment in Hampton. There will be pottery, home décor, wood sculptures, wall art, linens, candles and more. gnecraftartisanshows.com

November 26, Manchester

Stonewall Farm Thanksgiving Farm Fare November 20-21, Keene

Make Thanksgiving prep fun (and local) with the annual Farm Fare. Your table (and tummies) will be delighted with items like meat, produce, breads, wine and beer, and other goodies from local farms. Vendors will also sell handmade crafts and gifts, a great opportunity to get a jump on your holiday shopping list. stonewallfarm.org

November 21-22, Hampton

Comedian Juston McKinney November 28, Plymouth

New Hampshire’s own police-officer-turned comedian Juston McKinney is no longer just a local favorite — he’s appeared on national shows such as the “Tonight Show” and “Conan O’Brien.” Still, expect this Best of NH award-winner to touch on familiar New Hampshire icons, plus New England life in general in a socially distanced show that you won’t want to miss. flyingmonkeynh.com

1. Stonewall Farm Thanksgiving Farm Fare, Keene 2. Fall Family Farm Day, Troy 3. “Photographs From the Civil Rights Movement,” Manchester 4. Fisher Cats Thanksgiving 5K, Manchester

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Sips

Local beverage news and reviews by Michael Hauptly-Pierce

Peacock Tails Lounge in Manchester

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illiam Blake wrote “To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour” — a reminder to remain aware of hidden possibilities. In a year of memes asking “Who had boat-sinking killer whales for November?” this is an important mindset, and it can be found without question in the world of professional hospitality.

But to quote Axl Rose, which I am loathe to do but it is apropos, “Where do we go now?” Tables are too far apart to pass the butter, servers are hard to hear through masks, and doors of restaurants and gin joints are still being locked up every day. So where do we go now? Someplace different seems to be the resounding answer, but let’s dive in with some specificity.

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for The New. Cheddar & Rye opened a few years ago with likely the best collection of brown spirits in New Hampshire. It has a vibe soaked in dark wood and tradition, and a front door just far enough off of Elm Street to maintain the mystique while also bringing in some evening ambulators. Its sister storefront, actually situated on Elm, has had a few identities over the last few years, but also sort of an ongoing identity crisis. Every endeavor was unique, but lacked “stickiness.”

Enter Peacock Tails Lounge. When I was summoned from my couch and PJs (it was wifey night) to their soft opening by co-owner Seth Simonian, I had to circle the block a gazillion (three) times just to park the Lithervan, and then I couldn’t find the door because it had been moved like the proverbial carrot. But I walked in to find a beautifully lit space that in no way

Seeking the Philosopher’s Stone: Jeremy Hart and Dan Haggerty are prominent figures in my craft cocktail mythos — they introduced me to many flavors I would now group as my favorites. When I think of my first shot of Fernet, my first Luxardo cherry, my first The Last Word cocktail — these two

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reminded me of any of its previous incarnations. Co-owners Chaz Mitchell, who I knew from commercial real estate explorations, and Liu Vaine, who I knew because everyone knows Liu, were circulating the room telling tales and pouring drinks. My friends Marcia and Megan were sitting at the bar, as was Seth, and I felt immediate comfort and desire to hang out for a while, despite the fact that 15 minutes earlier I had been in Al Bundy mode with my mind on my mattress and my mattress on my mind. My habanero Margarita was perfect and simple and on point, as was the sequel, and then, with a smile, I drove into the moonset to unite my mattress and my mind once again.

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Dan Haggerty (right) and Jeremy Hart are proud owners of Industry East on Hanover Street.

guys are in all of those mental photographs.

So, instead of driving home, wander with me just a few hundred feet down Hanover Street to Industry East.

Jeremy is the kind of bartender who will create a drink for you based on his memory of what you enjoyed in the past, and what he has that is new. This is the Philosopher’s Stone for the flavor-seeker, and he plans to continue this time-consuming and mostly lost art in an even more intimate setting than the last time he made you a drink. With only 18 seats, attention to detail will be para-

mount. Dan is one of the warmest humans you could ever meet, wonderful at assessing needs unsaid, silent in passing unless the situation dictates that he should sit down at your table to discuss shoes and ships and sealing wax. He is the very model of a server’s server. The menu will be elevated bar food, from flatbread pizza and local charcuterie to gorgonzola treats and braised duck popovers. They are hoping to have the doors open by the time you read this.

A Phoenix is rising on South Willow Street across town from the ashes of the

artist formerly known as the British Beer Company. With an outside shell known as The Flight Center Manchester, and a speakeasy inside called The Lost Luggage, this one-two punch of a concept is looking to “give Manchester something different than what they have right now,” says Seth.

The FCM side will offer 36 rotating craft beer taps, similar to their Bedford location.

The menu will have standards like burgers and hand-tossed pizza, but will also offer specialties such as prosciutto risotto and pad Thai. If you should lose your luggage and meander to the other side, you will be greeted by a bar specializing in New Hampshire spirits and you. Yes, you. Although there will be a menu of classic and house-designed cocktails, the experience, which is key, will center around your preferences and dislikes, based upon your conversation with your bartender.

In a time when so many interactions are being dumbed down to transactions, this is a breath of fresh air. With a team that knows craft-casual, but is also on top of their speakeasy game, it is sure to be a pleasant flight, so look for their takeoff in early spring 2021.

Until we meet again, at a bar or in my backyard, keep your glass full. NH

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603 Informer “Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.”

— Winston Churchill

New Hampshire Magazine sales representative Josh Auger models the New Hampshire tartan while his son Julian practices his moves.

Julian is learning both Scottish and Irish step dancing. The Auger family attends the New Hampshire Highland Games each year, as Josh is on the board of NHSCOT, the state’s Scottish cultural organization and host of the games.

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The Granite State Tartan A piece of NH’s cultural history comes home again

By Anders Morley

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ou men of northern Vermont and northern New Hampshire,” said one-time British Ambassador to the United States James Bryce, “have had hearts full of love of freedom which exists in mountain people ... [and] the indomitable spirit and the unconquerable will which we always associate with the lake and mountain lands of the Alps and Scotland.”

The rocky brown summits of the Presidential Range in summertime, when cloud-filtered sunlight greens them up and tinges the atmosphere with violet, are weirdly reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands.

Yet New Hampshire resembles Scotland even more in the way the inhabitants of both places derive their sense of geographical identity primarily from their mountainous areas. A certain rustic nobility attaches to Lowland Scots and Rockingham County Flatlanders alike by virtue of their living north of a political line that happens also to encompass rough places. These lowlanders tend, rather unfairly, to look down on the lowlanders living south of that line. Meanwhile, England and Massachusetts both feel a mixture of horror and charm on contemplating the ragged lands to their north. nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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603 informer / NH Tartan An Englishman once told me, after I mentioned I’d lived in Scotland for a couple of years, that it was “a drunken land of misery.”

Emerson famously said, “The God who made New Hampshire taunted the lofty land with little men.” Yet Bostonians subscribe to Yankee Magazine and suit up in L.L.Bean to strike out for the huts of the AMC, while the posher sectors of English society have long been enamored of tartan, single malt and hillwalking.

I doubt whether very many Scots get together to ride Harley-Davidsons or sport T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Live Free or Die” (although what was it Mel Gibson told his array warriors, who looked like they’d fit in at Bike Week?). But every September some 30,000 people — many without a trace of Gaelic DNA — gather in New Hampshire’s White Mountains to have fun pretending they’re Scottish. They don kilts, listen to bagpipes and fiddles, dance and drink whisky, and — if they’re half as brave as William Wallace — eat haggis.

And, of course, the New Hampshire Highland Games are always awash in a sea of clashing tartan.

With fellow NHSCOT board member Andrew Richardson, Josh Auger recently procured the rights to the state tartan.

Auger’s kilt belonged to Ralf Hartwell who, along with his wife Marguerite, created the tartan in the ’90s to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Highland Games.

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We imagine tartan originating as a symbol of clan (or extended-family) membership, but historians say this is a fiction created in the 19th century as a bizarre blend of marketing, romanticism, and a sort of nonthreatening, tail-tucking nationalism (which we could do with more of in these hackle-raising days). Myths condition reality more often than we like to admit, but in the case of tartan the process is refreshingly transparent. But myths beget rules all the same, and the world of tartan is full of them. And wherever there are unimportant rules, human beings divide themselves into two basic types: the stuffy pedants, who rely on do’s and don’ts for their sense of order and stability; and the fun-loving ironists, for whom rules merely presuppose a game to be played. People either take tartan very seriously, or not at all. The Scots themselves are inclined to tolerate either attitude, as long as the orders keep rolling in.

Did you know that New Hampshire has had a tartan all its own for over 25 years?

It’s not unusual for US states, as well as Canadian provinces and territories, to have official tartans. Such a regional use of the woven patterns is actually in closer keeping with the original spirit of tartan than the contrived clan use. Because of the locally sourced materials they were made from, tartans in pre-19th-century Scotland said more about the wearer’s place of origin than about his bloodline.

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weaving together threads the color of New Hampshire’s own highlands to create a wearable textile symbol. (Maybe it’s a step too far to see our state’s textile history as a hidden layer in the symbolism.) It’s a notion that guided Ralf and Marguerite Hartwell, two expert weavers who lived in Newton, when they set out to design a Scotlandinspired symbol for the Granite State in the early 1990s to commemorate the 20th annual Highland Games. Newton’s location, smack against the Massachusetts border, makes for a nice analogy with the fact that tartan’s keenest Scottish promoters have often been lowlanders, despite tartan’s roots firmly in the craggy north. The Hartwells chose purple and green as the most conspicuous colors for the New Hampshire tartan — purple for the finch and lilac (state bird and flower) and green for our shady forests.

There are also threads of black for the granite of the mountains, white for the snow, and red for the blood of fallen heroes. Never one to swoon for tartan, I confess I find it very pretty. If you ask me, it would make a much nicer outfit than the increasingly ubiquitous combat clothing I see in our once-friendly woods — and probably disguise you better than Tactical Assault Camouflage too!

Marguerite Hartwell died before the tartan took on a life of its own, but Ralf lived to see it officially adopted by the New Hampshire General Court in 1995. The New Hampshire tartan was initially produced by the now-defunct Pecora Wools,

Where to Buy Starting in late fall, you can purchase New Hampshire tartan products through NHSCOT. They plan to have the retail portion of their website up and running in November.

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Due to COVID-19, this year NHSCOT canceled the live New Hampshire Highland Games, instead hosting Rocks, Hammers and Trees, an amateur heavy athletics training and competition that a few socially distanced spectators could watch at Loon Mountain. The usual event, which draws thousands of people from across the US and abroad, is currently planned for September 2021. It will be the 46th games.

Ltd., in Laconia, and later by Lochcarron of Scotland. Profits from tartan sales proceeded into scholarship funds administered by the New Hampshire Gathering of the Scottish Clans and the St. Andrew’s Society of New Hampshire. Ralf Hartwell eventually conceded the rights to the St. Andrew’s Society on condition that it would never use profits for anything but scholarship funding.

But the Society’s membership eventually dwindled to a point at which it was unable to fund further tartan production — and the tartan itself fell into near-oblivion.

But last year, Josh Auger and Andrew Richardson of NHSCOT, the state’s Scottish cultural organization and host of the New Hampshire Highland Games, managed to procure the rights to the pattern. Since then, production through Lochcarron of Scotland has recommenced, and yardage is expected to be available beginning in October.

NHSCOT is developing a retail website and hopes to begin selling tartan accessories through the Statehouse and New Hampshire Made outlets. They are also in discussion with Vermont Flannel, exploring the possible manufacture of shirts and pyjama pants.

A portion of all proceeds will continue to go to NHSCOT’s fund for scholarships and grants. NH

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Drawn to Nature

Capturing the magic of wildlife with pencil dust

By Susan Laughlin / art by Gretchen Woodman

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ew Hampshire is packed with wildlife. It’s just that deer, bears and moose are too elusive to spot easily. But sure enough, your garden is gone in the morning or the bird feeder is upended — their transgressions can be frustrating.

But who is really the transgressor? Humans and animals can end up sharing the same territory, making it a tough call. Gretchen Woodman of Nottingham tends to side with the animals, saying, “We are living in their world.” She started her studies in biology, but went back to art school, where she honed techniques to render wildlife in all their beauty and, maybe more importantly, their vulnerability.

Borrowing a technique often used in medical illustration, she first makes dust of graphite pencils, colored pencils and pastel sticks. She then uses a brush to “paint” the powder on a smooth papered surface, often building up to 20 layers. Yes, it is time-consuming, she says. But the effect of softness,

extreme detail and subtle transitions is what she is looking to capture.

Woodman’s wry take on the battleground between people and nature is on exhibit at the Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown. In a series of smaller works, a deer may be rendered with a furniture leg instead of a hoof or a plumb bob is added to further the statement. In the work shown here, human influence — fancy woodwork designs — is superimposed upon a deer leaping to escape, but the beauty of the animal reigns supreme. Deer are her favorite subject. She loves their agility, grace and soulful eyes.

Woodman has a subset of work that focuses on the ephemeral aspect of wildlife, next revealed in an upcoming show at the Orlando Science Center. She is drawing large animals on translucent silk cloth set in motion with small fans. The aim is to offer the viewer a feeling for the fragility of life for wild animals.

Small nature studies range from $300 and up.

Woodman has exhibited widely in group shows throughout the US. For the month of November, she is participating in a two-person show at the Wren Gallery in Bethlehem with 8-inch square drawings that are drawn to distill the magic of nature — its beauty, its intangibility. Also, find a portfolio of her work online via her website and Instagram.

It’s always a thrill to spot wildlife, in the wild or captured on paper. NH

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Tuttle High Holy Day If this old stove could talk ...

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n early November of last year, I had lunch with my sister’s ex-husband Thomas.

The conversation turned to Thanksgiving, which I said I’d be spending at my sister’s house with extended family. Thomas responded with a smirk and a trace of familiar bitterness. “Of course. Thanksgiving is High Holy Day for you Tuttles.”

Thomas, like my late husband Bob, had always harbored a mix of awe and resentment for our family and our traditions. It seemed to irritate both of them that their children, half-Tuttle as they were, considered Thanksgiving at the Tuttle farm their favorite holiday of the year.

The farm, on the seacoast of New Hampshire, had been in our family since the 1630s.

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The three-story Colonial farmhouse with its huge center chimney was built by our ancestors during the Revolutionary War, behind the site of the original chestnut log cabin built by the first Tuttles four generations earlier.

From the time Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday in 1863, my Tuttle ancestors celebrated it in that house. The vegetables served that day would have been grown on the same land that British-born John Tuttle and his sons had cleared 200 years before.

I have a notebook of my grandfather’s in which he described how, in 1915, he and his soon-to-be-bride, my future grandmother, were modernizing the old farmhouse with

Top: One of the author’s grandparents’ wedding gifts in 1917 was a brand-new, cast-iron Kalamazoo wood-burning cookstove, which for generations was used to prepare the Thanksgiving feast.

Above, a catalog from the same year, which claimed to have “the largest oven, the quickest oven, the most controllable and efficient fire, the oven that baked bread most uniformly.”

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By Rebecca Tuttle

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central heat, electricity and running water.

He wrote about buying a round gate-legged Queen Anne walnut dining table with eight matching rush-seated chairs for $30 at an antique shop up near the White Mountains, and how he and my grandmother had refinished the entire set over the course of many evenings, after the farm work was done.

When they married in 1917, one of my grandparents’ wedding gifts was a brandnew cast-iron Kalamazoo wood-burning cookstove, complete with ornate nickel trim, curved legs, an oven with a thermometer and, above the cooktop, a warming oven with a curved blue steel sliding door. My grandfather built a woodbox and kept it filled with firewood he’d cut and split himself on the farm and hauled to the house with his team of horses.

That Kalamazoo stove, a blazing hardwood fire under its round iron lids, a fat tom turkey roasting in its oven, pots of potatoes and squash and onions and turnips simmering on its surface, and homemade pies waiting in its warming oven, was the heart of the old kitchen and the essence of Thanksgiving to me.

My aunts and uncles and cousins would drive from their homes in Connecticut and Massachusetts for the long weekend; my family lived across the road and only had to walk down our long dirt driveway to join the rest of the clan. All six bedrooms in the old farmhouse would be full, with cots in the third-floor playroom for all the cousins.

There were 10 of us grandchildren, the eleventh generation of Tuttles on that same New Hampshire farm.

Tuttle Thanksgiving in the 1960s with the author’s uncle Mark Tuttle digging in and grandfather Penn Tuttle carving the bird

As the family grew, my grandfather built a larger false top for the gate-legged dining room table so it could accommodate more of us. There was always room, and always too much food, and always the old family stories told by my grandfather and later by my father and aunt and uncle.

In 2013 the farm was sold, along with the farmhouse. My sister and brother and cousins and I are now the elders. We still gather every Thanksgiving at my sister’s house, which overlooks the farm that holds our family’s history. We can see the old house, owned by strangers now, across the field from her porch. We still have room at the table for our children and our cousins and their children. There is still plenty of laughter, and too much food. This year, on

The Tuttle family was already a historic “institution” in New Hampshire when The Country Gentleman magazine published this story on them in the 1950s.

what I have now dubbed Tuttle High Holy Day, we will tell the children the family stories our grandparents and parents told.

And I’ll add this one.

Author’s note: I wrote this piece in the prepandemic world of December 2019, while visiting one of the cousins I spent many childhood Thanksgivings with.

It seems clear that this year, courtesy of COVID-19, we won’t be gathering for our much-anticipated family ritual. My sister won’t be poring through recipes to jazz up the traditional menu, and I won’t be rolling out pie crusts at midnight the night before.

My nephew won’t be roasting a 30-pound turkey (something he’s been in charge of since he was 15). My other nephew won’t be mixing up massive batches of Tuttle Punch, a rum-based concoction my grandfather and his brothers-in-law invented for my Aunt Barbie’s wedding in 1951 and which has been served at every family gathering since. We won’t be secretly pouring a little Tuttle Punch into the gravy to thin it out when we’ve run out of chicken stock. I won’t get to meet my cousin Elizabeth’s newest grandchild, nor will she get to meet mine.

In the grand scheme, of course, we are incredibly lucky that most of us are alive and healthy and that we can (perhaps) look forward to next year. It’ll take more than the loss of a family farm and a family homestead and a pandemic to break our Tuttle High Holy Day tradition. NH nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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Blips

Monitoring appearances of the 603 on the media radar since 2006 Canobie Lake Park, which has been rated one of the country’s best small amusemenrt parks, is one reason Salem has been named one of the 50 Best Places to Live in America.

Salem Is Tops in Best Places to Live A mix of New England charm and attractions boosts the border town’s appeal Donna Hammett Morris grew up in Epping and migrated with her husband across the border to Cambridge after college. But when it came time to put roots down back in New Hampshire, one place was the clear choice.

“I think Salem is New Hampshire’s bestkept secret,” says Hammett Morris, who’s now among its biggest cheerleaders as director of the Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce.

What the border community lacks in mountains, lakes, beaches or even industrial millyards, she says, it more than makes up for in sprawling farmland, quaint cul de sacs and plenty of tax-free shopping — plus the knowledge that those

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lakes, mountains, beaches and bustling cities are only a quick drive away in any direction.

Suffice it to say, Salem’s secret is out.

MONEY magazine recently saw fit to recognize its charms with a spot on its annual roundup of the 50 Best Places to Live in America. It was the only New Hampshire town to get a nod this year, and one of only a handful in New England.

Lest others worry that Salem’s pulling away all of the spotlight: Rest assured, plenty of other New Hampshire communities (including Nashua, Bedford, Merrimack and Windham) have been recognized on the same list in the past.

So why Salem? MONEY singles out

attractions — such as Canobie Lake Park and America’s Stonehenge — and plenty of “New England charm.”

While those in even smaller New Hampshire hamlets might quibble with MONEY’s definition of Salem — with its 30,000 or so residents — as a “small town,” Hammett Morris says the magazine was spot-on about its tight-knit feel.

“It’s the biggest small town you’re going to find,” she says.

And MONEY also aptly noted Salem’s status as a draw for “Bostonians looking for fresh air and the great outdoors” — or those more interested in retail therapy at Rockingham Park Mall, a “sprawling shopping mecca that draws

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By Casey McDermott

Centuries-old treatment aids in modern-day health problem:

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Salem’s close proximity to Massachusetts attracts thousands who want to go tax-free shopping.

hundreds of Massachusetts visitors daily.”

Scheduling shopping trips during offpeak hours is yet another secret of life in Salem, Hammett Morris says: “We all learn to shop on a Tuesday.”

While Salem’s great for Morris and plenty of others, she acknowledges it’s not for everyone. And that’s OK. The nice thing about New Hampshire, she says, is that each community has its own character.

“If I had my way, I think the top 100 would all be New Hampshire communities,” she says. (Then again, some other Granite Staters might prefer to keep their best-kept local secrets quiet for now.) NH

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In order to meet COVID-19 requirements, Republic Café recently moved a few doors down, and is cohabitating with its sister restaurant Campo Enoteca at 969 Elm St. Both menus are now available under one roof.

Make that to-go: If you’re ordering lots of takeout these days, you’re not alone. While we can’t vouch for its methodology, one new analysis from move.org (which, as you might imagine, specializes in the moving process) finds that the most sought-after takeout in New Hampshire is Republic Café’s. (Then again, that’s likely no surprise to readers of this magazine, who have repeatedly named the Manchester restaurant as having the best locally sourced menu in the Best of NH Readers’ Poll.)

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Sea Change

Rising oceans may mean rising — or new — taxes

by James Pindell / illustration by peter noonan

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t the moment, the state and the nation are deeply consumed with the 2020 elections — and rightly so. However, a look into New Hampshire’s political future, if projections are accurate, is head-spinning.

For example, in 2070 it is logical to conclude New Hampshire will have a statewide income tax or sales tax (or both), while at the same time being a rock-ribbed Republican state.

Such predictions are based on assumptions from exhaustive research conducted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit journalism outlet Pro-Publica and The New York Times. They combined climate and insurance data with modeling of peoples’ movements in nations where climate change has already caused migrations, and concluded the United States is about to undergo the largest internal migration in North American history. For all the wildfires, hurricanes and flooding the nation has experienced lately, the story of the next half-century will be an America that’s growing hotter and drier. Living south of South Carolina and west of the Mississippi may someday be largely out of the comfortable range for humans.

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In this formulation, New Hampshire is positioned to become much more popular and wealthy.

Some American cities would not survive a rise in sea level and other climate changes.

New York and Boston will likely invest in climate mitigation efforts because they can afford it, and can’t afford not to — and preserving Boston would be very good news for New Hampshire. In other nations, climate migration has meant a move to cities, where people can find resources to live. At the same time, this will mean more resources need to be provided in both cities and suburbs, straining the tax base.

Consider Windham, which already experienced huge growth in the last two decades.

A crush of new people moving to the town due to its proximity to Boston means that real estate values will go up, and more taxes will be needed to fund infrastructure upgrades and schooling. This puts the squeeze on older residents who are cash-poor with property-rich homes, and who are now seeing the largest property bills of their lives.

The thing about this group: They vote, and may demand a change in their taxes.

But Windham has it a lot better than

Manchester and Nashua, the state’s largest cities, which could simply be overwhelmed.

For a decade or so, as these cities swell in population, redistricting could skew to help Democrats gain seats in urban cores that cannot fund essential services adequately from property taxes.

The scenario is ripe for a broad-based tax, especially if Democrats are in charge.

Whether it took the form of an income tax or sales tax (or both), there could be a generations-long reaction: Republican control from a conservative rally against the Democrat-instituted broad-based tax. Demographers note that Americans are increasingly moving to areas that are politically aligned with them, and on the East Coast, there are only a few places like New Hampshire, where Republicans and Libertarians can find like-minded neighbors (and, most likely, no seat belt or helmet laws even by 2070).

Some will argue there is no way New Hampshire could ever have an income tax, or note how the state is actually becoming more Democratic — not Republican. But those trends are nothing compared to what might happen in a changed climate where, after a brief mud season, New Hampshire had an actual spring. NH

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603 informer / good cause

In unprecedented times, Monadnock United Way tackles fundraising challenges

by Bill Burke

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year ago, the Monadnock United Way and its partner agencies were working to help vulnerable individuals and families through hardships and challenges. Then a global pandemic introduced a host of unforeseen complexities — affecting every aspect of work from relief efforts to fundraising.

The challenge for the Monadnock United Way (MUW) then: Adapt, get creative and continue to offer assistance.

“Certainly, I cannot, and neither can our partner agencies, make a 100% causal link in the ramp-up of homelessness and domestic violence to COVID-19, but anecdotally, because of people losing their jobs, additional unemployment funds have ceased, because COVID-19 interrupted pretty much everything, we’re seeing it,” says Monadnock United Way resource development director Katie Gardella. “What we’ve been hearing from our 34

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partner agencies is that homelessness is spiking, and domestic violence is spiking.

Those are just a few of the issues that have been exacerbated due to COVID-19.”

Fundraising, a key component in the MUW’s relief efforts, has also been affected. Workplace campaigns, typically an important element in fundraising, have been interrupted or put on hold by virus-related workplace shutdowns and remote-working arrangements.

“Our workplace campaigns — we depend on them to be dynamic, for there to be speakers, for there to be a lot of buy-in and enthusiasm,” Gardella says. “And in many places this year, in many instances, there isn’t anybody. No one is at the office. People are working from home or have staggered shifts. Some of our corporate partners have a no-visitors policy. We’re working as hard as we can to adapt.”

Many corporate partners say they aren’t in the position to put more stresses on workers. Some have declined fundraising campaigns or are reluctant to ask more of a workforce already stretched thin, while some have agreed to honor pledges made last year, though those commitments are contingent on workers being currently employed. “There are a range of issues

“What we’ve been hearing is that homelessness is spiking, domestic violence is spiking, and child abuse is spiking.

— Katie Gardella, Monadnock United Way resource development director

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Working to Adapt

Despite unforeseen challenges, Monadnock United Way is still showing up to serve our communities.

we’re dealing with.” Gardella says.

The overarching message, Gardella says, is that the agency has objectives that need to be met. The MUW’s annual Better Together campaign has a goal of $1.277 million — a number that Gardella says is “crucial” to achieve this year. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Monadnock Region had the third-highest rate of child abuse and neglect in the state, according to United Way statistics. Additionally, the region’s children scored lower than the rest of the state in English and math, and one-quarter of its residents were low-income — compared to one in five throughout the rest of New Hampshire.

Now, those challenges have intensified.

“Post-COVID, what we’re hearing from our partner agencies is that these statistics are likely to get worse,” Gardella says.

“Things got much worse for people in our community who were vulnerable anyway.”

The MUW was able to create virtual materials, including online pledges, but the results of those efforts haven’t been measured yet.

“We don’t know how it’s going to affect us,” Gardella says. “That is a worry.”

The MUW is also in need of volunteers with diverse areas of expertise, such as marketing, fundraising, grant writing, finance and IT. “If there are people with those skill sets — retirees or anyone looking for a way to give back to the community — get in touch with us and we’ll plug you in with our agencies,” Gardella says.

Despite forecasted shortfalls, unexpected obstacles and virus-related challenges, there have been bright moments in recent months. MUW partner agencies were forced to be creative: • The Cheshire Country Emergency Housing Collaborative ensured that 65 households were provided with direct client assistance to avoid a housing crisis.

were involved in face-to-face camp activities.

“The good news is that we were able to launch a COVID-19 relief fund effort that raised over $200,000 — and that money went directly into the hands of our partner agencies,” Gardella says. “Those agencies took a very bad situation and rose to the occasion. They’re adaptable, they’re strong, they’ve got their ear to the ground, and they were able to work together for the people who needed it.

“There were people stepping up and giving to our COVID-19 relief fund two to three times. We live in a generous community.” NH Note: New Hampshire Magazine is a media sponsor of the Better Together campaign.

• Monadnock Home Visiting Alliance received 255 referrals for home visits, a 28% increase from the same period in 2019. A total of 421 families were served during this time frame.

How to help

• With help from the Monadnock Region Afterschool Collective, 335 youth per week were provided supplies for virtual summer activities. One hundred children per week

• Send a check to: Monadnock United Way, 23 Center St., Keene, NH, 03431.

• Text MUW to 4144.

• Visit muw.org and click on the “donate now” button.

• Email katecote@muw.org to learn about volunteer opportunities.

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603 informer / what do you know?

The Dancing Ladies A delicate dance produces big power story and photos by Marshall Hudson

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hey look like dancing ladies. I’m driving west on the Tenney Mountain Highway headed for Rumney, and off in the distance I can’t help but notice the line of windmills perched atop the Groton ridgeline. The blades of the windmills are turning at a mesmerizing pace, neither fast nor slow, and they capture my attention as they likely do with everyone who drives this stretch of road with their eyes open. When the wind speed and direction is right, the blades of adjoining windmills fall into a rhythm and rotate in a seemingly synchronized pattern. As the road and the ridgeline twist and turn, con-

verging and diverging, two or three of the windmills momentarily fall into a straightline alignment with my location.

This straight-line alignment, coupled with the synchronized pattern of blades disappearing below the ridgeline and reappearing a moment later, resembles the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes or the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders as they perform their linkedarm, long-line, high-kicking routine. Viewed individually, each tri-blade propeller perhaps resembles a white-clad ballerina doing a graceful leap while extending an arm above her head. In an apparent compliment to these wind turbines, some of the locals

Human scale

The windmills, from the concrete base to the tip of the blade at peak rotation, are 400 feet tall.

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Dubbed “The Dancing Ladies,” these windmills are located on a ridgeline in Groton.

have dubbed them “The Dancing Ladies.”

The windmills all look alike, and they vanish and reappear as you progress down the road, creating an optical illusion as to the number of windmills there really are up on the ridge. I’m focusing on driving and can’t readily determine whether the one that just appeared is a new one, or one I’ve already counted. I’m wondering how many there are. Another optical illusion is the size of the windmills. As seen from the distant highway, they appear only inches tall. Judging by surrounding trees, I’m guessing their height at 40 to 60 feet or the approximate height of a five-story building, I’m also noticing that while most of the blades are rotating in this long line of windmills, there are one or maybe two that are stopped and motionless. Is the wind up there intermittent, or spotty and gusting from different directions? Why are some spinning and some aren’t? I decided I needed to find out. I know a guy and gave him a call.

The wind towers are owned and operated

by Avangrid Renewables, which is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, but the towers are situated on privately owned property.

Avangrid Renewables pays a lease fee to the landowner for the privilege of placing their windmills on the landowner’s property. Avangrid also makes a payment in lieu of taxes to the town of Groton so that the landowner is not assessed for the windmills in their property tax bill. Some of the landowners allow nonmotorized activity on their property

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such as hunting, hiking, or cross-country skiing, and my contact arranged permission to bring me onto the site for an up-close introduction to the dancing ladies.

I learned that there are 24 wind turbine towers situated on two adjoining ridges.

The combined 24 towers produce an average of 48 megawatts, or enough electricity to power 20,000 New Hampshire homes. At peak production, this wind farm can generate enough electricity for approximately 58,000 homes. I also learned that the turbines and propeller sit atop a 256-foot-tall tower. Each blade in the propeller is 139 feet long from tip to nose. This gives a total height of almost 400 feet from the base of the concrete foundation to the extreme end of the blade at the peak of its rotation. About 10 times greater than the 40 feet that I had guessed. While they may appear only inches tall from the highway, up close, they are jaw-dropping tall.

The propeller blades are designed to face

into the prevailing wind to maximize energy production, and the windmill head has a drive motor and gear system allowing it to rotate some 200 degrees to maximize the best wind direction. A velocity sensor measures wind speed and direction, and reports the data to an electronic controller in Portland, Oregon, who then turns the head of the windmill back in Groton. To extract the maximum energy from the wind, the individual blades must also be positioned at the correct angle. The blades can be adjusted individually to grab a bigger bite out of the air when wind conditions are slow, or less bite when the wind is really humming. Too much wind will trigger a shutdown so as not to damage the blades or turbine.

When the wind is gusting from an irregular direction, one tower might steal the wind of another, causing the follow-on windmill to shut down due to inadequate air flow. So stolen wind, too much wind or a planned

The 24 windmills generate an average of 48 megawatts, enough to power 20,000 homes.

maintenance shutdown could explain the odd appearance seen from the highway of most windmills rotating but one that isn’t.

Proponents of this wind farm, or windmills in general, say that we need to diversify our energy production away from fossil fuel-burning energy production plants, and that wind power is a safe, nonpolluting, readily available energy source that needs to be part of the solution to wean off nonrenewable or polluting forms of energy production. Opponents point out that, when the wind isn’t blowing, we still need to fall back on conventional fossil fuel-burning plants, so wind farms create a duplication in infrastructure while not eliminating any coal-burning plants.

Opponents of these windmills have also suggested that they are noisy and have a negative impact on wildlife, particularly migrating birds or bats. A wildlife impact study by Stantec Consulting of Maine was conducted here, and no signs of bird or bat kills were observed. They did see an increase in wildlife that prefer the habitat created by the gravel service roads. Deer, moose, black bear, turkeys, coyotes, birds of prey, etc., have expanded in the area. On the day I visited the site, a bobcat, unconcerned by my presence, strolled across the road in front of me, and a hawk playing in the thermal currents drifted between the rotating blades. Perhaps I was there on a quiet day, but the wind noise created by the windmills was quieter than traffic noise on any moderately busy road.

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Ms. Mesmer Photo and interview by David Mendelsohn Hypnosis. If you want to watch someone scratch like a hen, this is not the right coop. You’ll need to go to a far off-Strip casino for that. Closer to home meet Brandie Wells, a certified hypnotherapist. If you are serious about knocking down a bad habit, reducing pain, losing some poundage, or simply living a positive life, this is your person. Couple that with clairvoyance and you might even time travel to one of your past lives. She will guide you through those mysterious portals of your own subconscious.

All with compassion and in groups or one-on-one: in person or on Zoom.

Yep, the old eyelids are becoming heavy now. You’re getting sleepy. Very sleepy.

Hypnosis is a deep relaxation of the subconscious mind.

Once relaxed, one can speak directly to the subconscious and essentially reprogram it.

It takes trust in the practitioner and a calming environment to be truly effective.

In the hypnotic state, you are highly suggestible. When the hypnotist tells you do something, you’ll most likely embrace the idea completely. Although not my style, this is what makes stage hypnotist shows so entertaining.

I have achieved a lot of awareness in my self-hypnosis, especially in journey work through past lives.

In one of my past lives, I was born in the ’30s and was in my 20s in the 1950s and I can still identify with this life.

In fact, I have embodied a lot of my being in this lifetime related to that past life.

A hypnotist can’t get you to do anything you don’t want to do. Even then, you are entering at your own free will.

Hypnotism can be dangerous if not performed in a safe environment with a trusted practitioner.

My sessions always include scripts of empowerment, self-esteem and positive mindset. What makes my work unique is I integrate my telepathic mind with my hypnosis. Therefore, I often see what my client is seeing.

I typically work with adults, but occasionally I help children as well. Anyone at any age can be hypnotized.

I do not use the word trance because it comes with a negative and fear-driven connotation. I send the message that hypnosis is a free-will experience with a willing participant who wants to bring positive changes to their life.

On Zoom a session is about 40 minutes when tailored to the client. Sessions are recorded for personal use.

Affirmations are self-hypnosis. Anytime we are “convincing ourselves” or “creating a new mindset,” we are retraining our subconscious mind. That is self-hypnosis!

I have been self-hypnotizing for many years. Thoughts are things and what you think becomes your reality.

I would love to hypnotize my 16-year-old to clean his room, but he wont let me!

While people have been experiencing hypnotic-type trances for thousands of years, modern hypnosis found its origin in the work of Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), who believed that the phenomenon employed something called animal magnetism, or fluidum — an invisible substance that flows between the subject and the therapist. The movement his theory inspired was named after him: Mesmerism. Mesmer was gifted and well known in the upper echelons of Viennese society, becoming friends with Mozart and Haydn. Although he had many adherents and patients in Vienna and Paris, he was eventually denounced as a fraud and, by the time of his death, his practices and theories were largely dismissed. Within a matter of years after Mesmer’s death, the practice revived to play a role in medicine, though largely without the metaphysical constructs of Mesmer. It continues to fascinate both scientists and laypersons and anyone who happens upon a watch on a chain.

For more information on Brandie Wells’s hypnotherapy, visit brandiewells.com Franz Anton Mesmer (above) says, “Don’t stare at me. I dare you.”

Thanks to Cynthia H. Sapier for her photo assistance and Julianne Gadoury, director of Concord’s Kimball Jenkins Estate, for allowing access to their amazing location.

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What’s on the

menu for local eateries?

Restauranting in the time of COVID-19 presents a series of challenges never seen before. Here’s how some Granite State establishments are dealing with the situation.

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ean McKenna remembers that fateful day in March. A town officer came into the Coffee Pot Restaurant, which she and her husband run on

Main Street in Littleton, and ordered her to stop serving food inside at once. From that minute on, everything had to be carried out. Customers would wait outside in the cold. If she didn’t comply immediately, he would call the state police. “I knew the man personally,” McKenna says, “and was kind of upset that he took such a mean tone.” McKenna wears a pin on her shirt that reads, “Make America Kind Again.”

Jean McKenna of the Coffee Pot

By Anders Morley Restaurant in Lincoln

Photography by Jared Charney

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“Getting going again was a learning process for everyone. Simple things you’d never have thought about have to be done carefully now.”

— Jean McKenna, the Coffee Pot Restaurant

The McKennas pose outside their Littleton eatery, the Coffee Pot Restaurant.

The restaurant shifted to takeout, but after a few days it proved unprofitable. “I said, ‘You know what, gang? We’re closing,’” McKenna recalls. The restaurant closed for three months. The McKennas made the most of it by tidying up inside — attending to things they’d been wanting to do for years, such as installing new lights and repainting.

Their staff went on unemployment, but by then the McKennas had already applied for a PPP loan of $25,000. Because of a rule mandating that 75% of the loan be used within eight weeks to fund payroll, McKenna knew it was useless, now that they were closed. She returned the money.

They then qualified for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan and a grant from the New Hampshire Main Street Relief Fund. “It was like going through a Harry Potter maze,” she says. “Poor Harry, trying to make his way through when all the trees kept growing in around him.”

Rent, gas, electric bills, insurance and taxes all still had to be paid. Landlord Jack Eames owns the spaces out of which several downtown businesses are run. “He is remarkable,” says McKenna. He sent notifications to all his tenants explaining that he was monitoring the situation and intended to pass along to his tenants every benefit that was offered to him as a landlord.

“And my kids were with me,” McKenna says, referring to her staff. When they reopened in mid-June, the whole staff came back. “Getting going again was a learning process for everyone,” she recalls.

“Simple things you’d never have thought about have to be done carefully now. We used to just pass a ketchup bottle from one table to another if someone needed it. Now someone has to grab it, walk it over to the work area, clean it, and walk it to the other table. Everything hangs on sanitation and disinfecting.” Shower curtains separate the booths, which cannot be moved 6 feet apart.

“Customers are learning that they have to wait for tables to be entirely sanitized and bussed before they can approach.”

The Coffee Pot’s employees love being back, McKenna says. The kitchen staff is a little overwhelmed, since takeout service has continued — but she’s not complaining. It helps make up for losses elsewhere. The café now closes at 2 p.m. instead of 4. Wearing masks for so long was hard on the workers.

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says. “A group came in this morning and I told them, ‘You know, you get what you get.

And that’s me.’”

Diners and cafés like the Coffee Pot play the role once played by the taverns that dotted the lonely highways of early New Hampshire. “The tavern barroom often served as a community bulletin board,” write James and Donna-Belle Garvin in “On the Road North of Boston,” their history of New Hampshire turnpikes and taverns. A community bulletin board flanks the entrance to the Coffee Pot today.

It’s not just whim that makes McKenna talk about her staff and customers as her “family.” In small-town or neighborhood coffee shops, customers are often regulars; there is an almost sibling dynamic between staff and clientele; and meals become part of customers’ daily routines. On a recent Friday morning, six or eight unconnected guests sat around the Coffee Pot’s horseshoe-shaped counter and gabbed like cousins at a Thanksgiving table. This family dynamic, too, links coffee shops to the taverns of yore. “With few exceptions,” write the Garvins, “tavern guests ate their meals with the innkeeper’s family, just as if they were friends rather than strangers.”

Another family business sits up the street from the Coffee Pot. Steve Bromley and his daughter Jillian Sartorelli own the Littleton Freehouse Taproom & Eatery. Different businesses face different challenges in the time of COVID-19, and the Littleton Freehouse’s challenge is that it opened its doors in December 2018, a little over a year before the pandemic hit, forcing it to close. Bromley and Sartorelli applied for various federal

Tom Boucher, owner and CEO of Great New Hampshire Restaurants (also next page), at the September grand opening of the Concord T-Bones location. This is the sixth T-Bones in the state.

“People have always used restaurants as places to socialize, but it’s who we socialize with that is changing.”

— Tom Boucher, Great New Hampshire Restaurants

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“The idea is to have a restaurant-quality meal at home in 30 minutes for a good price. It’s one way we’re filling a need.”

— Sean Brown, COO of Common Man Family of Restaurants

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loans, secured a payroll loan, and were able to keep their full staff employed to run the takeout business. Everyone had to learn the new health protocols.

The Freehouse opened its frontside patio in May with the help of outdoor heaters.

Last summer, they added additional patio seating at the back. Now they are glad they did, even though managing this spread-out dining area involves lots of hustling and close attention to sanitary guidelines.

When they were greenlighted to open inside, they removed half the seats to comply with physical-distancing norms. They converted their function room to normal seating. Despite the decreased capacity, they did pretty well, because the patio business kept going.

The public had to be trained too. There was some vocal pushback to masks, but Bromley says a majority were understanding of the situation.

“We’re lucky to be in the North Country,” he says. “People come up here and feel very safe. It’s an opportunity to go for a trip and feel normal. I’ve talked to restaurant owners in southern areas who didn’t have the luxury of opening up. But here there were lots of hikers and day-trippers who would just come up, take a walk along Main Street, eat and drive home.” The flipside is that the outdoor dining season in the North Country is shorter than in southern New Hampshire.

“We have a great local following too,” Bromley says. Even in a relatively small community, he insists, this amounts to something. With many students learning remotely, he suspects that more families will be living under the same roof this winter and that they will be among his regular customers. Bromley calls himself optimistic, and predicts that the restaurant will do about 75% of the business it did last year. It’s an outcome he says he can only be happy with. “It’s hard to hope for a return to normal before the discovery of a vaccine.”

Meanwhile, south of the notches, the economic stakes are high for the kinds of multiple-outlet restaurant groups on whose success hundreds of people depend for their livelihoods. Conventional wisdom says they are the ones mostly likely to come through COVID-19 alive.

Still, Tom Boucher, owner and CEO of Great New Hampshire Restaurants — which includes T-Bones, Cactus Jack’s, and The Copper Door — is worried. “Since the start of COVID-19, business has been kind of a mix,” he says. “July was very good,

August not quite as good, and September has fallen off.” Outdoor dining now represents 25-30% of the group’s volume, but Boucher is unsure whether his customers are eating outside because of health concerns or because the weather has been nice. At T-Bones in Hudson, he has brought in a heatable tent as a prewinter experiment. “But it’s obviously done at great expense,” he says.

“In business your worst nightmare is uncertainty,” Boucher explains. “I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s grim. It’s going to be a very lean winter.”

Boucher and his team have been brainstorming promotions to draw as many customers as they can safely accommodate.

They paid Saint Anselm College to do an official poll that asked potential customers: “Would you dine out more often if you were offered a discount during slower periods?”

Two-thirds of respondents said they would.

Now Boucher and company are designing a promotion aimed at bringing guests in during the afternoon lull. Another promotion now underway at T-Bones is the Fair Menu. “It’s inspired by New England’s fall fairs,” Boucher says, “all of which have of course been canceled.”

The National Restaurant Association recently reported that one in six US restaurants have closed since March. Many will never reopen. Restaurants that have remained open are often operating with reduced staff and higher-than-normal operating costs. “The public grossly underestimates how hard it is for restaurants to keep operating,” Boucher says. “In normal times, a restaurant makes something like 4 to 6 cents on the dollar. It’s a slim profit margin.”

The number of closed restaurants is likely only to rise over the winter.

“If there’s one thing I’d like the general public to be aware of,” he says, “it’s the ripple effect caused by restaurant closures and volume reductions. Meals and rental tax, business profits tax, business enterprise tax, property tax — we produce so much in taxes for the state of New Hampshire. And then there is the business generated to suppliers, from farms producing food to general food lines and basic restaurant supplies.”

He says more relief funding is needed to avert disaster.

But even Boucher sees a bright spot.

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someone outside your family group.” He’s noticed, though, that when people go out these days, it’s often with their families. And he thinks that’s good.

Compared to Tom Boucher, Sean Brown is upbeat. Brown is COO of the Common Man Family of Restaurants, another big player.

He says things for the Common Man are better than anticipated. They’ve had a good summer and a loyal clientele. Brown expects an overall falloff with the arrival of cold weather, but there are no plans to extend the outdoor-eating season artificially.

The Common Man has adapted in the same ways as other restaurants. On any given week, takeout represents about 20% of sales. According to Brown, however, much of the group’s success depends on their presence across the lower two-thirds of the state. “Different pockets are busy at different times,” he says. “The Lakes Region is busy in the summertime, while after Labor Day business in the southern tier starts to pick back up again. This year in the Lakes Region and Lincoln, we’ve have seen a lot of our southern-tier regulars with second homes take up residence and become regulars farther north.”

Like Boucher’s group, the Common Man has also been exploring product innovation.

One direct response to the pandemic is take-and-bake meals, geared towards families with kids studying from home or other people under more stress than normal.

“The idea is to have a restaurant-quality meal at home in 30 minutes for a good price,” Brown says. “It’s one way we’re filling a need.”

I am surprised to learn that no staff has been let go in the Common Man restaurants. “We are actively hiring for all positions in our restaurants,” Brown says, and seems almost surprised at my surprise.

Carol Lawrence is one of three owners of another New Hampshire minichain, the Red Arrow Diner, which was bold enough to open a new location during the pandemic.

“It was extremely challenging,” she tells me.

The Nashua diner opened a few months later than the planned spring date in a way that was informed by lessons learned in the other three locations. “We just found out what was required and did whatever we needed to do to conform,” says Lawrence.

All Red Arrow restaurants are usually open 24 hours, but at the moment only Manchester is functioning around the clock all week long. The reason is a staff shortage.

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“Online ordering has been off the wall. We need an employee just to answer the phones in all our locations.”

— Carol Lawrence, co-owner of the Red Arrow Diners

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he breakfast place is the heart of every community.

It’s the little, locally owned, mom-and-pop restaurant that’s only open for lunch and dinner, where the coffee is good and it’s poured for you by a friendly face that knows your name.

There’s nothing better, is there?

I’ve been thinking about those places after hearing that a few of my favorite places, like Young’s Restaurant in Durham, have closed for good. In my hometown of Somersworth, it was The

Poultry Shop. Every town has one. They’re places that aren’t just restaurants, they’re institutions. And losing them feels like time is chipping away pieces of our collective heart.

The breakfast place is where the town news circulated before the local newspaper even hit the stands. It’s the place where yesterday (or last night’s) high school games get dissected, and where all the latest gossip got discussed in hushed tones while hiding their lips behind coffee cups. And at any minute, the empty chair at the table could suddenly be occupied by an old high school friend or former neighbor. You got the city news, which covered everything from road work to politics to real estate transactions. If you sat down at the breakfast place, you learned stuff. It’s heartbeat of a town.

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didn’t have to be great for you to love it. It had to be close to what you’d make at home — which most often isn’t extravagant. What made it special was the feeling that you were a part of something. You could call the server by name and maybe they even knew what you would order without even having to ask. In the breakfast place, you always felt like you belonged.

I know I’m sounding like an old man, reminiscing about the good old days, and I guess that’s true. But with the closing of places like this, we’re losing our gathering places, our communal rallying points. It’s not just here in my town — it’s everywhere. Sure, there are great restaurants that serve amazing breakfasts and stellar coffee. But they aren’t “the breakfast place.” Those places are special in a different kind of way. Their position is not gifted to it the moment the doors open, it’s earned over time.

Anointed by the locals.

And if nurtured, can last generations.

I will miss places like Young’s Restaurant, and The Poultry Shop. I’ve been going to them my whole life, just like you’ve been to those special places in your town. The staffs were friendly, the food was good, the coffee hit the table as soon as you sat down, and best of all: It felt like home.

What more can you ask for?

These last several months have been hard on the restaurant industry, especially the locally owned places like these, and as a result some have closed for good. It’s sad because I think we need the breakfast place more than ever. To those places that have closed, we thank you. You brightened many days and created lifelong memories. The pulse of those towns could be felt every morning when you opened the doors for the early risers. God bless you all for that.

This isn’t a farewell to the breakfast place however. It’s more of a changing of the guard. It’s time for new family-owned places to step up and carry the mantle. And they will. Someone always does. Because we all need a place to belong. NH — Greg Kretschmar

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An Ode to the Breakfast Joint

“Many employees prefer to collect unemployment,” Lawrence says. “This is just beginning to change. I say ‘kudos’ to our loyal Red Arrow family who stuck with us and kept on working.”

Fortunately, the business has discovered new revenue streams likely to persist beyond COVID-19. “Online ordering has been off the wall. We need an employee just to answer the phones in all our locations,” Lawrence says. Outside seating will also likely become a permanent seasonal fixture.

Thanks to this diversification, things have been going pretty well. Lawrence estimates total sales in Manchester are up by 8-9% over last year, while Londonderry sales are slightly down, and Concord is about the same.

If she could go back to March and talk to herself as she was then, Lawrence says she would tell herself “to have more faith day to day. I’d say, ‘Be more confident in yourselves. Be more positive.’ I’d say, ‘You know, we got used to masks. It’s actually OK.’” She admits that she’s nervous about winter, but ends with a sober statement of fact: “Lots of restaurants have closed. Things happen in the world.”

When the prognosticators say it’s the large restaurants that are most likely to come through this crisis, of course they’re right.

But it’s easy to state the obvious: It’s survival of the fittest out there.

Fortunately, fittest doesn’t just mean biggest. It may mean biggest, fastest, most convenient — or it may mean most flexible, most devoted to high-quality food or to providing customers with a unique dining experience. A fit restaurant may simply be one that makes its customers feel at home. One key to a restaurant’s fitness is its understanding of its role in the complex hospitality ecosystem. There’s room for generalists, and there’s also room for all kinds of specialists.

Before COVID-19 made every restaurant into a takeout, if you wanted to eat at home but didn’t want to cook, you called for Chinese or pizza. Even so, Sean Chi, kitchen manager at Kim Lai Chinese Restaurant in Portsmouth, says that March, April and May were hard for everyone. “Three people quit at the same time in March,” he says. He had to pick up the slack and sometimes found himself alone in the kitchen at 2 a.m.

“The food cost was very high then too,” he says. “It nearly doubled because there were problems with the supply. Some customers said, ‘You should raise your prices, at least

10%.’ But we said no. We’ve been here 20 years, and we have a very good relationship with our customers.”

Since March, Kim Lai has operated exclusively on a takeout and delivery model.

When I ask whether the total volume of business has fallen off, Chi says, “We think about the risks more than the business.

We have no dining in because it makes our customers feel more safe. All our employees have their temperature taken every morning. Some takeout customers say, ‘I feel safer getting takeout here because there are no diners inside.’” Many of his regular dine-in customers have become regular takeout customers.

“We’ve got to learn to get by with a little less money, but we’ve been fortunate. ...

This is the new normal.

We all have to adapt.”

— Hank Letarte, White Gates Farm Pizza Kim Lai Restaurant is focused on the present. As long as there is a risk to their customers, they will run things the way they run them now. They will worry about the future when the future looks clearer.

There’s no doubt a similar niche for pizza joints, but that’s not the role of White Gates Farm Pizza in Tamworth, which isn’t exactly a restaurant either. In normal times, Hank and Heather Letarte host twice-weekly summer pizza nights on their farm, where guests sit at picnic tables, listen to live music, and enjoy a view over the Ossipee Range and the hills of the Lakes Region. In winter, for the last two years, the event has been held once a month inside a heated greenhouse.

When COVID-19 hit, the Letartes were between seasons. They hired a company to set up a website that would manage the flow of guests coming through for dinner. They decided they would allow 35-40% fewer people than they normally expected. “We started with a number we thought would work and then upped it a bit,” says Hank Letarte. Pizzas had to be limited to a few preselected types. Guests were assigned halfhour increments during which their pizzas

could be picked up. Waste was no longer recycled. All this was done to eliminate lines and close contact.

“We wanted it to be comfortably safe and manageable,” says Letarte. “We had zero people complaints. Everyone said, ‘Thank you so much for creating a safe and beautiful space for us to enjoy a meal.’” The Letartes’ priority is keeping their staff and customers safe. “We don’t want to end up in the news,” Letarte says.

There will be no winter pizza nights this year. “We’ve got to learn to get by with a little less money, but we’ve been fortunate. The winter pizza nights are a side business for us.

A lot of people are really suffering though.”

He says he has no right to complain. “This is the new normal. We all have to adapt.”

After talking for hours with restaurateurs throughout the state, what surprised me most was that nearly all of them remarked on a newfound sense of closeness and familiarity among guests and staff in their establishments. Perhaps it’s only the wishful thinking, but I can’t help but wonder whether COVID-19, after all the harm and havoc it has wrought, might somehow point toward a future in which the old spirit of the tavern is partly revived — a spirit like the one that, after a shutdown of three months, I saw almost completely brought back to life at the Coffee Pot in Littleton.

For the Fox Tavern at the Hancock Inn, COVID-19 ushered in changes that were waiting in the wings. Marcia and Jarvis Coffin had been contemplating a shift to an owner-chef model for some time. Circumstances tipped the scales, and now Jarvis runs the kitchen. Their son, furloughed from his hospitality job, came home to help. He now handles the garde manger and dessert stations. “We’ve leaned heavily on family — both immediate and our extended family of employees,” says Marcia Coffin.

“Our front-of-house manager has dived right in and is now waiting tables and tending bar as well.”

Since theirs is a small, family-run business, many customers know the Coffins personally, and there is an element of trust, of confidence in their doing things right that you might not find in a bigger place. She exhibits an “optimism” suited to our times: “If you recalibrate your expectations so that 50% is the new 100%, then it’s been okay.”

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Statewide ski areas and resorts are ready for you to enjoy winter fun, with COVID-19 safety protocols in place for the “new normal”

By Brion O’Connor

Photo by Tyler Walker / Waterville Valley Resorts

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hortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, experts encouraged people to get outside, into nature’s open spaces. They emphasized the myriad benefits of fresh air and sunshine for our mental, emotional and physical well-being. Normally, skiing — both alpine and Nordic — would seem to check off all those boxes. But COVID-19 is having a negative impact on the skiing experience, in the lodges, in the lift lines, and on the lifts themselves.

Of course, New Hampshire’s ski areas and resorts, large and small, are no strangers to negative impacts.

“Rightly or wrongly, we are total optimists in this business,” says Kris Blomback, general manager at Pats Peak for the past quarter century. “You have to be. Running a ski area 60 miles from the Atlantic Ocean has never been for the faint of heart.”

Years of unpredictable weather and fluctuating energy costs have cultivated generations of resilient ski area managers who have combined Yankee ingenuity and dogged determination to deliver a great experience, on the slopes or on the trails. And they’ll need that combination of skills once again.

“We’ve had ski seasons that have been gangbusters, and we have had seasons where we had to fight and claw our way through the entire season,” says Blomback. “We have had to reinvent how we do business on the fly. In the past, we were charged with filling the place up with people, and now we have to reimagine how we do business and still raise the critical amount of revenue that is needed to support the operation.”

The same approach applies to the state’s Nordic ski areas.

“We really are an industry of problemsolvers, and adaptation is our greatest strength,” says Ian Cullison, director of Waterville Valley’s Adventure Center. “I feel that we’re in an excellent position to make the most out of this situation and provide the public with a much-needed commodity — fun.”

That said, ski area managers acknowledge that the current pandemic, which Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, anticipates impacting the country through 2021, is unlike any impediment they’ve faced before.

Outside après-ski, like this scene at Bretton Woods, may be this year’s new normal.

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“The ski industry is fortunate in the sense that we have so much open space for our guests to spread out,” says Brian Norton, vice president of operations at Loon Mountain.

Among Loon’s plans are opening terrain in a different sequence and opening more terrain and lodges at a faster rate.

❆ The Balsams

Statewide Guide to NH Ski Areas Wildcat ❆

❆ Great Glen Trails

Bretton ❆ Woods Black Mountain ❆

Cannon ❆ Loon ❆

❆ Attitash Cranmore ❆

Waterville Valley ❆

King Pine ❆

❆ Dartmouth Skiway

Ragged Mountain ❆

❆ Gunstock

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❆ Mount Sunapee Concord ❆ Pats Peak Manchester ❆ McIntyre ❆ Granite Gorge Keene

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At Pats Peak, the actual skiing part is “the least of our concerns,” says general manager Kris Blomback. While people can stay apart on the slopes, the challenge becomes what to do about things like food or ticket sales.

Likewise, Jackson’s Chandler says Nordic areas have natural spacing allowing participants to play free of crowds. Yet these areas do tend to promote gatherings.

“Cross-country skiing is usually a wonderful combination of social distancing — just you and your glide out in nature — and face-to-face socializing and learning with like-minded individuals, from in-depth discussions with instructors, guest service staff, rental shop staff and fellow skiers,” she says.

“We’ve still got as much glide as you want,

and experienced skiers will be OK for a year on their own,” she adds.

“What’s more challenging is how to provide positive introductory experiences for new skiers, and we’re working on that,” says Chandler. “We’re going to provide them with as much one-on-one as we can, but face-to-face will include some video, online, more on-phone and 6-feet-back spacing.”

According to Pats Peak’s Blomback, “The skiing component is the least of our concerns,” he says.

At Cranmore Mountain Resort, changing to block time period sales (as opposed to showing up whenever you want) has helped maintain social distancing. They will continue this practice at their popular tubing park, says resort president Benjamin Wilcox.

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“The challenges are different in that they’re new,” says Ellen Chandler, executive director of Jackson Ski Touring Foundation. “We’re accustomed to having bad weather and economic downturns, and we have plans in the toolbox for counteracting them. But the pandemic interferes with our strongest asset — our ability to interact with people.”

Which begs the question: Exactly how are New Hampshire ski areas responding to the pandemic, especially during the upcoming winter, when The Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a banner snowfall? In short, both alpine and Nordic areas have embraced the many benefits of getting into the great outdoors, while identifying all the areas where congestion creates concerns.

“The ski industry is fortunate in the sense that we have so much open space for our guests to spread out,” says Brian Norton, vice president of operations at Loon Mountain. “Imagine a movie theater that had 1,000 acres to spread their guests out on while still being able to see the movie.

“We plan to use our exterior space to our advantage,” says Norton. “We will likely open terrain in a different sequence. We will have an increased focus on getting more terrain and lodges open faster than ever before.

We’re set up for success here with our team, and our continued snowmaking upgrades allows us to maximize our efficiency.”

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“If you look at what has happened to cycling, hiking, running and paddling, we anticipate a similar increase in our business from those looking to get outside in a low-hassle, socially distanced activity,” says Reese Brown, executive director of the Cross Country Ski Areas Association. “We feel our numbers will be up significantly this winter due to restrictions the pandemic have placed on people. Although we’ll see a bump as a result of the challenges alpine skiing will face, our largest group will be those individuals and families that have been restrictive in their normal activities and looking for something that’s fun.”

Cross-country skiing might be the ultimate socially distanced winter activity. There are devoted Nordic centers, like Jackson Ski Touring Foundation, and many ski areas and resorts offer cross-country skiing, including Gunstock Mountain Resort, pictured here.

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“We have to pay real attention to what I call the funnel effect,” Blomback adds.

“You can have thousands of people spread out over your terrain, but eventually those folks need to go to the bathroom, eat lunch, interact with guest relations. It’s those areas that we have had to mitigate.”

Those mitigation efforts include increasing bathroom capacity, including placing additional temporary outhouses in parking lots (“We are encouraging people to use their car as a ‘personal base lodge,’” says Blomback), increasing outdoor seating at every dining facility and including togo windows, and streamlining the ticket purchase process, including an emphasis on online options and hands-free kiosks.

“We’re looking at adding additional food areas and food trucks, and we’re are trying to improve the ‘tailgate’ experience as much as possible,” says Blomback. “We’re also looking into the possibility of maybe renting out portable pop-up tents, fire pits, et cetera.”

At the state’s Vail Resort properties — Mount Sunapee, Wildcat, Attitash and Crotched Mountain — Vail CEO Rob Katz told season passholders that face coverings will be required to access the slopes and “in all parts of our operations, including in lift lines, and while loading, unloading and riding in lifts and gondolas,” he wrote.

“To allow for physical distancing, we will be managing access to our mountains through a reservation system and limiting lift ticket sales in order to prioritize our passholders,” added Katz. “For the vast majority of days, we will be able to accommodate everyone who wants to visit. But this helps us ensure we can keep guests safe no matter when they come.”

Areas and resorts are also doubling down

Mount Washington Valley Ski Touring & Snowshoe Foundation maintains a large network of trails —from easy rolling hills to more challenging backcountry terrain — for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and fat biking.

on staff training to make sure all their employees are on the same page.

“It starts with safety for the staff, and you need to look at your overall operation through that lens,” says Blomback. “If your employees don’t feel safe, then the rest of the business plan is a nonstarter. Safe to say we have had massive buy-in from our team in how we operate the facility.”

Similarly, Benjamin Wilcox, president of Cranmore Mountain Resort, says, “We are adapting our fall training to address operating during a pandemic. Priority number one is to put protocols in place so your staff feels safe.”

Many ski areas shuttered operations early last spring due to the pandemic’s sudden arrival. However, during the summer season, skis areas, especially those that offer lift-serviced mountain biking and sightseeing, such as Cranmore and Loon, have been able to conduct programs as a dry run to prepare the staff for the winter season.

“What happened last spring happened so fast,” says Loon’s Norton. “We certainly learned some things at the time, but where we have really gained the most knowledge is by operating this summer. After opening for summer operations, we were having nightly meetings to tweak and adjust operations, lift lines, traffic flows, based on what we learned that day,” he says. “It was incredible to see how fast our team was able to adapt and change based on the lessons we were learning hourly. That mantra has stuck with us.”

Similarly, Cranmore’s Wilcox says that

“changing our products from ‘show up whenever you like’ to ‘block time period selling’ has helped us spread out people and assure social distancing.”

He adds that they’ll continue to use block-style selling at their popular tubing park in winter. “For skiing,” he says, “we know lodge traffic will be our biggest challenge. We’ve entertained the idea of reservations for food and beverage access.”

At Waterville Valley’s Adventure Center, Cullison says, “The biggest lesson we’ve learned this summer is that it’s important to establish clear expectations with guests.

We’ve produced some creative signage to help all our visitors understand how to move through our spaces and participate in activities safely.”

Ski areas have also found a willing and motivated partner at the state capital in Gov. Chris Sununu, the former CEO at Waterville Valley Resort, who still has an ownership interest in Waterville Valley Holdings.

Wilcox served on the governor’s Office of Emergency Relief and Recovery Stakeholder Committee this past spring and summer.

“Most of our work was to identify sectors that were greatly impacted by COVID-19,” Wilcox says. “Governor Sununu has done a great job handling this crisis, and it’s nice having a governor that understands the ski and tourism industry.”

Blomback says he’s buoyed by Sununu’s can-do attitude.

“Governor Sununu is an optimist, and that’s what we love about him,” he says. “His

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The harsh reality of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it’s pervasive, due in large part to one of the virus’s most frightening traits — a high transmission rate. The virus goes where people go. It doesn’t recognize town lines, county lines or state lines. It is ubiquitous, which means ski areas and resorts need help from local communities and visitors to combat the pandemic effectively.

That’s a key reason why ski hills and Nordic tracks are working closely with area businesses — retailers, restaurants, lodging accommodations — as well as visitors and government officials, is to ensure the measures they’re implemented on the snow are mirrored throughout the state.

The bottom line is that everyone is in this together.

“The Mount Washington Valley is a resilient community,” says Marti Mayne, public relations manager for the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce (MWVCC). “We’ve gotten through the past six months [as of September] and are adjusting to the challenges via messaging and working in partnership with northern New England chambers, Ski NH and White Mountains

Attractions. Together, we’ll remain vigilant to keep our communities the safe haven they’ve been so far,” says Mayne.

North Country residents, officials, businesses and visitors all saw the “ripple effect” of the pandemic firsthand. Ski areas closed abruptly, and restaurants, bars and many retail outlets shuttered. When the initial springtime “lockdown” recommendation was lifted, people rushed outside, often ignoring precautions such as mask use and appropriate distancing. The MWVCC’s “Mind Your Manners” campaign was launched last summer in response to the subsequent “bad behavior” by residents and visitors.

In an official MWVCC release, officials wrote: “From parking lots to recreation areas, overcrowding is resulting in an abundance of trash, a disregard for parking regulations and social distancing requests, plus a lack of mask wearing and a general disregard for the community that has worked so hard to remain a safe refuge for its residents and avid outdoor adventurers that have traditionally come to recreate here.” Several popular spots, such as Diana’s Bath, were

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overwhelmed with illegally parked cars.

“Once the cars leave, a trail of trash and refuse remains,” officials wrote. “And this kind of situation is repeated in parking lots, roadsides and attractions throughout the Mount Washington Valley.”

With air travel limited, and accessible outdoor recreation destinations throughout New England in high demand, the pandemic resulted in more firsttimers to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

“We carefully crafted our way through a phased opening here in Mount Washington Valley,” says Janice Crawford, executive director of Mount Washington Valley.

“The chamber took great care to be the best resource possible for the community and the visitors who come here.

“We’ve created signage reminding people to wear masks and placed signs throughout the valley reminding visitors to maintain a 6-foot social distance, and to respect our community,” says Crawford. “Yet, we continue to see and hear stories at the chamber about the general disregard for ‘good old American manners.’

It’s taken us all by surprise.”

Mayne says the “first-timer” trend is expected to continue this winter, so education is an important component to any approach to the pandemic.

“We’ll see a younger traveler, and probably more people trying skiing for the first time. With homeschooling and remote working continuing, people are eager to get out of the house and into the mountains,” says Mayne. “If they’re not already skiers, snowboarders, crosscountry skiers, snowmobilers, or outdoor hikers, they may just consider trying it for the first time. This could be a boon for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing — the perfect socialdistance activities.”

Those numbers will rely on the ability of local businesses to remain open and profitable. Crawford and other North Country officials, including the Conway-based Ski NH association (which represents 33 downhill and Nordic ski areas) and the Cross Country Ski Areas Association, have engaged state officials to guarantee a true statewide effort to keep all businesses afloat.

“We are currently working with members of the administration and the Department of Public Health to develop opening guidance for ski areas,” says Jessyca Keeler, Ski NH’s executive director.

Keeler says Gov. Chris Sununu’s ski area management background helps, as does Department of Business and Economic Affairs Commissioner Taylor Caswell, an avid skier “who understands where the potential pinch points are at ski areas and can work with us on coming up with solutions,” she says.

Those solutions, at a minimum, will likely be developed using state-issued guidelines and precautions as parameters. Caswell, a key member of Gov. Sununu’s Reopening Task Force, announced a “business help portal” (businesshelp.nheconomy.com) developed by the Department of Business and Economic Affairs last May to keep everyone up to speed.

“Ensuring consistent and timely answers to questions from the business community, municipalities and all Granite Staters is very important,” says Caswell. “Our business help portal is a great tool to get clarity and further information on state-issued industry guidance. Governor Sununu has made a strong commitment to work collaboratively with the business community and municipalities to ensure that industries are able to reopen in a safe manner, and this is a tool to give them confidence to do so.”

Photo by Lori Butcher

Regional businesses feeling the same crunch as ski areas

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Mount Sunapee is a part of the state’s Vail Resort properties. Vail CEO Rob Katz says face coverings will be required, and ticket sales (by reservation) will be limited to prioritize season passholders.

family was very bullish on Waterville Valley and you can see the effort, care and capital that is being poured into the place,” says Blomback.

“His office has been very proactive and careful in reopening parts of the economy,” he adds. “Since skiing is a predominately an outdoor sport, he was bullish that it can be offered safely.”

Loon’s Norton reserved special praise for his colleagues in the industry, and the Ski NH association (which represents 33 alpine and cross-country areas), with taking an “all boats rise with the tide” approach to tackling the pandemic.

“Ski NH and the partner resorts have been a huge asset,” he says. “We can bounce ideas off each other and provide feedback on failures and successes along the way. This group has been in frequent contact with the state officials and has helped put the guidance in place for our summer operations.”

Moreover, Jessyca Keeler, Ski NH’s executive director, says “the industry is tight across the country, and we’ve had the privi-

lege of working with the National Ski Areas Association and other state associations to share and learn from each other and our resort members.”

In addition to the physical adjustments being made by ski areas, public awareness and cooperation will be enormous factors in keeping those areas open and operating safely, says Peter Disch, general manager of Mount Sunapee Resort.

“The biggest challenge for everyone is going to be maintaining a high level of focus on safety and not to become complacent about it, especially as the situation improves,” says Disch. “We will all need to remain vigilant to ensure we continue an upward trajectory.”

To accomplish that goal, areas are getting the message out via a number of avenues, including social media campaigns and increased signage.

“We will have to use every communication tool in our kit this winter — email, mobile apps, signs, the Health & Safety page on our website, in-person conversation

— whatever it takes,” says Norton. “We will be spreading our message with everything we have.”

Cullison says the Waterville Valley staff has created signs, featuring the resort’s moose mascot, reminding guests of the importance of wearing masks, washing their hands, social distancing, practicing “safe sneeze and cough etiquette,” and staying home if they’re not feeling well.

“We believe that the success of this season will rely on all of us being patient, kind and respectful to one another,” he says. “If we all do our part now by wearing masks and following recommended guidelines, the better chance we’ll have for a successful winter season.”

Even though snow has yet to fall (at least as of press time), Cullison’s staff was busy getting the message out. “To alert our guests, the marketing team has been making regular updates to our website, social media pages, and sending email campaigns as new information becomes available,” says Cullison. “We also have signage up resortwide to help set the tone for what visitors can expect during their time in the valley.”

Across the Kancamagus Highway to the east, the Mount Washington Valley has launched a “Mind Your Manners” communication campaign (see sidebar on page 58) “after crowds of people descended on the mountains this summer,” says Marti Mayne, public relations manager for the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce.

“This kind of messaging will continue through initiatives in partnership with the six chambers in New Hampshire’s North Country,” says Mayne.

The overwhelming majority of medical experts and scientific researchers agree with Dr. Fauci that the battle against COVID-19 is a marathon, not a sprint. It may be years before life returns to some semblance of normalcy. Ultimately, the reality of whether ski areas stay open, or are forced to shutter operations, rests with the very people who hope to enjoy these activities.

“I would just ask that skiers and riders — whether they’re veterans of the sport or new to it this year — be patient with our ski areas and staff and respectful of the changes we’ve had to make in order to be open,” says Ski NH’s Keeler. “No one wanted to have to make the kinds of changes that are being made, but more importantly, we do want to have a ski season. As such, we’re all going to have to make some sacrifices in order to make that happen.” NH nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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Best Lawyers in the Granite State

Every year the national polling firm Woodward/White performs its exhaustive search for the country’s top attorneys and publishes the results in one comprehensive volume:

“The Best Lawyers in America.”

The 27th edition, for 2021, has just been completed. Here is the New Hampshire contingent, plus we asked nine “Lawyers of the Year” to share a favorite quotation and to tell us why they love what they do.

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The List

LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY specialty and attorney’s name

Names highlighted in red were selected by Woodward/White as “Lawyers of the Year.”

Administrative/ Regulatory Law Donald J. Pfundstein Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

George W. Roussos Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Gregory H. Smith McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Appellate Practice William L. Chapman Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Doreen F. Connor Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Michael A. Delaney McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Andrew D. Dunn Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Samantha Elliott Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Bruce W. Felmly McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Wilbur A. Glahn McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Jon Meyer Backus, Meyer & Branch

Manchester / (603) 244-3282

W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Mary Elizabeth Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

William A. Mulvey Mulvey, Cornell & Mulvey

Portsmouth / (603) 431-1333

Banking and Finance Law Denise J. Deschenes Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Littleton / (603) 444-4008

Camille Holton DiCroce Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Christopher M. Dube McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

W. John Funk Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Curtis Little Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Donald J. Pfundstein Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

James F. Raymond Upton & Hatfield

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Peter B. Rotch McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Henry B. Stebbins Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken Manchester / (603) 627-3700

David P. Van Der Beken Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken Manchester / (603) 627-3700

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law Joseph A. Foster McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Charles P. Bauer Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

William S. Gannon William S. Gannon

John Burwell Garvey University of New Hampshire School of Law Concord / (603) 228-1541 nhmagazine.com | November 2020

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Arbitration Concord / (603) 228-1181

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Margaret R. Kerouac Orr & Reno

Manchester / (603) 769-4756

Steven M. Notinger Notinger Law

Nashua / (603) 417-2158

• 2021 Daniel W. Sklar Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

John M. Sullivan Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios

Concord / (603) 410-1500

Bet-the-Company Litigation Doreen F. Connor Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

“We all have a responsibility to create a just society.”

— Bryan Stevenson

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Bruce W. Felmly McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Wilbur A. Glahn McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Steven M. Gordon Shaheen & Gordon

Concord / (603) 819-4231

Cathy J. Green Shaheen & Gordon

Concord / (603) 819-4231

Jack B. Middleton McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Arnold Rosenblatt Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

James Q. Shirley Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

James C. Wheat Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Peter Cline Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Scott W. Ellison Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

David K. Fries Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Dodd S. Griffith Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Colleen Lyons Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Martha Van Oot Jackson Lewis Portsmouth Labor Law — Management “Despite the anomaly of being a lawyer at a time when the courthouse doors are just beginning to reopen, I still love what I do at Jackson Lewis. Workplace law is all about working with clients who really work so hard to make their workplaces fair and safe under ever more challenging conditions. It is a privilege to be a lawyer, and an even greater privilege to practice in New Hampshire.” nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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• 2021 James F. Raymond Upton & Hatfield

Concord / (603) 716-9777

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time is now.”

— Chinese Proverb

Jeffrey J. Zellers Annis & Zellers

Concord / (603) 224-5800

Civil Rights Law Jon Meyer Backus, Meyer & Branch

Manchester / (603) 244-3282

Kirk C. Simoneau Nixon, Vogelman, Slawsky, & Simoneau

Manchester / (603) 669-7070

Lawrence A. Vogelman Shaheen & Gordon Dover / (603) 871-4144

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law Matthew H. Benson Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Steve Cohen Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

James G. Cook Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Scott W. Ellison Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

David K. Fries Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Colleen Lyons Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Angela B. Martin Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Jon B. Sparkman Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Collaborative Law — Family Law Tracey Goyette Cote Shaheen & Gordon

Tina L. Annis Annis & Zellers Concord Elder Law I enjoy practicing in the area of elder law because it allows me to help families. It is a proactive legal practice, and my clients are focused on ensuring that their loved ones are well cared for.

I find it very rewarding to help give peace of mind, whether to an adult child who is concerned about an elderly parent, or to a parent who wishes to leave a legacy to the next generation.

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Concord / (603) 819-4231

Margaret R. Kerouac Orr & Reno Concord / (603) 224-2381

Debbie Martin-Demers Rousseau Law and Mediation Pembroke / (603) 715-2824

Kimberly Weibrecht Weibrecht Law Dover / (603) 842-5525

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Commercial Finance Law Martin J. Baroff Baroff & Craven

Manchester / (603) 647-4200

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

Timothy E. Britain Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Peter F. Burger Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

— Winston Churchill

Peter Cline Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Camille Holton DiCroce Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Dodd S. Griffith Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Curtis Little Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Margaret E. Probish Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Commercial Litigation Gary M. Burt Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Peter G. Callaghan Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Robert S. Carey Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Christopher Cole Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Peter S. Cowan Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Steven Notinger

Daniel Deane Nixon Peabody

Notinger Law Nashua Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Michael A. Delaney McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Daniel M. Deschenes Hinckley Allen

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

Andrew D. Dunn Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Steven J. Dutton McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

“The greatest enjoyment in what I do is to see a company (or individual) — that was struggling, and that has lost direction — resolve issues either in or out of bankruptcy, and emerge as a stronger entity, saving jobs, equity and its future. Many times [representatives of a] company or individuals come to see me, and they are overwhelmed, or are pursued on multiple fronts by various creditors, and I can help prioritize what needs to be done so a company or individual can focus on its core needs to survive, or shut down in an orderly fashion if it cannot be saved. Bankruptcy is not a remedy for creditor problems, but a tool (of many tools) to consider when in financial distress. It must be looked at as a process to get from A to B — it is not a solution itself. The business or individual must have a plan to survive. Many debtors file to get the benefit of the automatic suspension of collection efforts and a discharge, but that is not enough. You must have a plan to survive as a business or an individual. Those that have a plan going into bankruptcy are usually the most successful. That is why, if bankruptcy is looked at as a tool and not an answer, the creditor is likely to have the greatest chance of success.” nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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• 2021 Samantha Elliott Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Concord / (603) 228-1181

Bruce W. Felmly McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Kevin M. Fitzgerald Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Wilbur A. Glahn McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Jamie N. Hage Hage Hodes

Manchester / (603) 668-2222

Scott H. Harris McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

James P. Harris Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Russell F. Hilliard Upton & Hatfield

Portsmouth / (603) 436-7046

Ralph F. Holmes McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Ovide M. Lamontagne Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Robert R. Lucic Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Daniel P. Luker Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Kathleen M. Mahan Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Marc W. McDonald Ford, McDonald, McPartlin & Borden Portsmouth / (603) 373-1600

David W. McGrath Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Pamela A. Peterson Devine Millimet & Branch Manchester Family Law “In my practice area of family law, many of my clients are facing one of the most challenging times in their lives: the breakup of a relationship or a family. There is not only a profound sadness in what they are experiencing, but a hard reality requiring them to move forward with difficult decisions that impact their future. My role is to advise them and guide them through the turbulent times. Issues and obstacles, which appear insurmountable at first, can many times be resolved without court intervention. If that is not possible, I stand with my clients in court to achieve a litigated result. I enjoy family law as every day is different, but more importantly, I help people through a difficult phase in their lives.”

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Jack B. Middleton McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Robert H. Miller Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Gregory A. Moffett Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Names highlighted in red were selected by Woodward/White as “Lawyers of the Year.”

• 2021 W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

James F. Ogorchock Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Thomas J. Pappas Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Jennifer L. Parent McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Michael A. Pignatelli Rath Young Pignatelli Nashua / (603) 889-9952

David W. Rayment Cleveland, Waters and Bass

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; it is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

— Author unknown

Concord / (603) 224-7761

Arnold Rosenblatt Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Mark C. Rouvalis McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Jonathan M. Shirley CullenCollimore

Nashua / (603) 881-5500

James Q. Shirley Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Donald Lee Smith Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Frank P. Spinella Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Robert A. Stein The Stein Law Firm

Concord / (603) 228-1109

Mary Elizabeth Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

Andru H. Volinsky Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Jeremy T. Walker McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

James C. Wheat Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Jack S. White Welts, White & Fontaine Nashua / (603) 883-0797

David Wolowitz McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Mark E. Beliveau Pierce Atwood Portsmouth Environmental Law “Working with clients to find sensible solutions to challenging environmental problems is one of the most gratifying aspects of my law practice. Environmental issues are ubiquitous; they are frequent front-page news and affect all parts of our society. The dynamic nature of environmental law keeps my work interesting and challenging. In the end, the appreciation I receive from my clients for helping them achieve their objectives is what makes the long hours and hard work worthwhile.” nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

Commercial Transactions/UCC Law Timothy E. Britain Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Charles F. Cleary Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Peter Cline Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Camille Holton DiCroce Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Scott W. Ellison Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Edmond J. Ford Ford, McDonald, McPartlin & Borden Portsmouth / (603) 373-1600

David K. Fries Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

James D. Kerouac Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Construction Law Daniel M. Deschenes Hinckley Allen

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

Kelly J. Gagliuso Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Richard C. Gagliuso Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Matthew R. Johnson Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Bruce J. Marshall Bruce Marshall Law

Bow / (603) 715-8720

Thomas J. Pappas Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Linda S. Johnson McLane Middleton Manchester Education Law My practice focuses primarily on understanding and serving the needs of independent schools, largely on the K-12 level with some work for colleges and universities. I consult with schools in New Hampshire, New England, nationally and internationally on prevention and responses to all types of student and campus safety issues, boundary awareness, educator sexual misconduct, risk avoidance, crisis response, employment law and independent school law issues. It is very rewarding to work for clients who are focused on doing the right thing, the right way.

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Kenneth E. Rubinstein Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Frank P. Spinella Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Jeremy T. Walker McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Consumer Protection Law Christine M. Craig Shaheen & Gordon

Dover / (603) 871-4144

• 2021

Copyright Law Daniel J. Bourque Bourque & Associates

Manchester / (603) 623-5111

Michael J. Bujold Davis & Bujold

Concord / (603) 226-7490

James G. Cook Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Mark A. Wright McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Corporate Compliance Law Michael A. Delaney McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Corporate Law Erik T. Barstow Integral Business Counsel

“Real boats rock.”

— Frank Herbert, author of “The Dune” series

Portsmouth / (603) 766-0408

John P. Beals Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Matthew H. Benson Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

John Bentas McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Peter F. Burger Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Steven M. Burke McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Christopher M. Candon Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Patrick C. Closson McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Steve Cohen Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

James G. Cook Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Anthony Delyani McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Joseph A. DiBrigida Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Michael J. Drooff Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Anthony Sculimbrene Gill and Sculimbrene Nashua Criminal Defense — General Practice “As for the work I do, I am mainly a criminal defense lawyer that also does civil rights cases. I feel like this work allows me to do three things that I find valuable all at the same time. First, it represents a constant intellectual challenge. Second, it allows me to push back on a criminal justice system in dire need of reform. And finally, it allows me to serve others. People come to me at the lowest point in their lives, and helping them dig out and rebuild is enormously satisfying.” nhmagazine.com | November 2020

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• 2021 Christopher M. Dube McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Scott W. Ellison Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Joseph A. Foster McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

David K. Fries Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

“In life there are leaders and there are followers. Be a leader.”

— Author unknown

Benjamin F. Gayman Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Dodd S. Griffith Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Jamie N. Hage Hage Hodes

Manchester / (603) 668-2222

Dennis J. Haley McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Susan B. Hollinger Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Mary Susan Leahy McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Simon C. Leeming Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Curtis Little Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Daniel P. Luker Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Colleen Lyons Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

J. Daniel Marr Hamblett & Kerrigan

Nashua / (603) 883-5501

Angela B. Martin Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Robert J. Lanney Sulloway & Hollis Concord Personal Injury Litigation — Defendants

Mark S. McCue Hinckley Allen

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

John R. Monson Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer Manchester / (603) 626-3300

I have been fortunate to practice law at Sulloway & Hollis for over 36 years. What I enjoy most is working with a team of talented professionals dedicated to providing our clients with the highest quality legal services. From attorneys to paralegals, legal assistants to firm administrators, librarians to receptionists, the Sulloway team has provided me the opportunity to serve my clients and community in a meaningful way. I am proud to call my Sulloway colleagues friends.

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Daniel J. Norris McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Lyndsee D. Paskalis Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken Manchester / (603) 627-3700

• 2021 Scott E. Pueschel Pierce Atwood

Portsmouth / (603) 433-6300

Cathy J. Green Shaheen & Gordon

Alan L. Reische Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Timothy M. Harrington Shaheen & Gordon

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Michael D. Ruedig Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Richard A. Samuels McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Daniel W. Sklar Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Jon B. Sparkman Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Henry B. Stebbins Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken

Manchester / (603) 627-3700

John M. Sullivan Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios

Concord / (603) 819-4231

Dover / (603) 871-4144

Michael J. Iacopino Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Christine C. List Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Jaye L. Rancourt Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

James D. Rosenberg Shaheen & Gordon Concord / (603) 819-4231

Anthony Sculimbrene Gill and Sculimbrene Nashua / (855) 645-2971

Concord / (603) 410-1500

Mark L. Sisti Sisti Law Offices

Kara N. Sweeney Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios

Criminal Defense — White-Collar

Concord / (603) 410-1500

Philip B. Taub Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Michael B. Tule McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

David P. Van Der Beken Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken Manchester / (603) 627-3700

Kenneth A. Viscarello Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Chichester / (603) 224-4220

Peter D. Anderson McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

William E. Brennan Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Donna J. Brown Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Robert S. Carey Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Alan J. Cronheim Sisti Law Offices

Criminal Defense — Portsmouth / (603) 433-7117 General Practice Steven M. Gordon William E. Brennan Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Shaheen & Gordon

Donna J. Brown Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Concord / (603) 819-4231

Robert S. Carey Orr & Reno

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Alan J. Cronheim Sisti Law Offices

Portsmouth / (603) 433-7117

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Concord / (603) 819-4231

Cathy J. Green Shaheen & Gordon

W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Patrick J. Queenan Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

• 2021 Brian M. Quirk Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

James D. Rosenberg Shaheen & Gordon Concord / (603) 819-4231

Anthony Sculimbrene Gill and Sculimbrene Nashua / 855-645-2971

Mark L. Sisti Sisti Law Offices

Chichester / (603) 224-4220

Andru H. Volinsky Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Phil Waystack Waystack Frizzell

Colebrook / (603) 237-8322

DUI/DWI Defense George T. Campbell George Campbell, Attorney at Law Manchester / (603) 787-5364

Theodore Lothstein Lothstein Guerriero Concord / (603) 513-1919

James D. Rosenberg Shaheen & Gordon

Ryan Russman Russman Law

Elder Law

Exeter / (603) 772-3433

Christine S. Anderson Ansell & Anderson

Education Law

Bedford / (603) 644-8211

Dean B. Eggert Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Tina L. Annis Annis & Zellers

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Concord / (603) 224-5800

Linda S. Johnson McLane Middleton

Judith L. Bomster Butenhof & Bomster

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 296-0428

Kathleen C. Peahl Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Ann N. Butenhof Butenhof & Bomster

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Manchester / (603) 296-0428

John F. Teague Upton & Hatfield

David R. Craig David R. Craig & Associates

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Andru H. Volinsky Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson

Manchester / (603) 623-8700

David Wolowitz McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Gerald M. Zelin Drummond Woodsum

Portsmouth / (603) 433-3317

New Boston / (603) 487-3915

Ann Meissner Flood Flood, Sheehan & Tobin Concord / (603) 415-4200

Jan P. Myskowski Myskowski & Matthews Concord / (603) 227-6342

Andrea L. Sennott Robinson, Boesch, Sennott and Daly PA

Portsmouth / (603) 427-5380

Virginia Symmes Sheehan Flood, Sheehan & Tobin Concord / (603) 415-4200

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Patricia M. McGrath Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

John E. Rich McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Employment Law — Individuals

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Edward M. Kaplan Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

C. Kevin Leonard Douglas, Leonard & Garvey Concord / (603) 224-1988

Jon Meyer Backus, Meyer & Branch

Manchester / (603) 244-3282

Richard E. Molan Molan Law Office

Manchester / (603) 206-5470

Francis G. Murphy Shaheen & Gordon

Heather M. Burns Upton & Hatfield

Manchester / (603) 635-4099

Christopher Cole Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Concord / (603) 369-4769

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Kathleen M. Robinson Robinson, Boesch, Sennott and Daly PA

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Portsmouth / (603) 427-5380

Manchester / (603) 668-2222

Kathleen A. Davidson Hage Hodes

Concord / (603) 819-4231

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Manchester / (603) 623-8700

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“There is nothing like the death of a moneyed member of the family to show persons as they really are, virtuous or conniving, generous or grasping. ...

Each case is a drama in human relationships.”

— Jesse Dukeminier & Stanley Johanson “Family Wealth Transactions” (1972)

Employment Law — Management Elizabeth A. Bailey Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Mark T. Broth Drummond Woodsum

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

Andrea G. Chatfield Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Thomas M. Closson Jackson Lewis

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Anna B. Cole Drummond Woodsum

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

Christopher Cole Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Beth A. Deragon Pastori Krans

Concord / (603) 369-4769

Debra Weiss Ford Jackson Lewis

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Lauren S. Irwin Upton & Hatfield

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Linda S. Johnson McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Edward M. Kaplan Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

David W. McGrath Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Jennifer Shea Moeckel Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Benjamin Siracusa Hillman Shaheen & Gordon Concord Litigation — Trusts and Estates Being an estate planner and probate litigator means that I am working with individual clients all day on some of their deepest felt and most fraught challenges. Clients rely on me for both emotional support in difficult times and knowledge in a variety of interrelated areas — estate planning, litigation, tax planning, guardianships, trust administration, and Medicaid, Social Security and other benefits — as we work together to create plans and resolve disputes when the plans have gone awry or were never created in the first place. The work is intellectually and emotionally challenging, and rarely easy, but there is no better reward than seeing the sense of fulfillment and relief clients have when they achieve resolution and can move on to the business of living.

Margaret A. O’Brien Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

James A. O’Shaughnessy Drummond Woodsum

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

Jennifer L. Parent McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Terri Pastori Pastori Krans

Concord / (603) 369-4769

Kathleen C. Peahl Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

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• 2021 Christopher J. Pyles Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Elizabeth K. Rattigan Downs Rachlin Martin Lebanon / (603) 448-2211

James P. Reidy Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Daniel P. Schwarz Jackson Lewis

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Donald Lee Smith Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Energy Law Robert P. Cheney Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Energy Regulatory Law

Mark W. Dean Mark Dean

Thomas B. Getz McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 230-9955

Susan S. Geiger Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Thomas B. Getz McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Barry Needleman McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Martha Van Oot Jackson Lewis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Andru H. Volinsky Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson

Manchester / (603) 623-8700

David Wolowitz McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Concord / (603) 223-2020

Charla Bizios Stevens McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

M. Curtis Whittaker Rath Young Pignatelli

Margaret H. Nelson Sulloway & Hollis Douglas L. Patch Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Donald J. Pfundstein Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

Richard A. Samuels McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Concord / (603) 226-0400

M. Curtis Whittaker Rath Young Pignatelli

Gregory H. Smith McLane Middleton

R. David Depuy McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Sherilyn Burnett Young Rath Young Pignatelli

Judith A. Fairclough Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Mitchell M. Simon Devine Millimet & Branch

Environmental Law

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Mark E. Beliveau Pierce Atwood

Family Law

Portsmouth / (603) 433-6300

Robert P. Cheney Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Concord / (603) 223-2020

Barry Needleman McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Michael J. Quinn McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Stephen H. Roberts Hoefle, Phoenix, Gormley & Roberts

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Concord / (603) 225-5252

Carolyn S. Garvey Douglas, Leonard & Garvey Concord / (603) 224-1988

Jaime I. Gillis Integral Business Counsel

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Ronald J. Caron Devine Millimet & Branch

Sara B. Crisp The Crisp Law Firm

Manchester / (603) 836-5400

William F. Gramer Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Concord / (603) 819-4231

James V. Ferro Ferro Law & Mediation Group

Portsmouth / (603) 766-0408

William E. Brennan Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Tracey Goyette Cote Shaheen & Gordon

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Kathleen A. Hickey Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Ellen M. Joseph Ellen Joseph Law

Manchester / (603) 836-5200

Margaret R. Kerouac Orr & Reno Concord / (603) 224-2381

Portsmouth / (603) 436-0666

EXCELLENCE RECOGNIZED

BY OUR PEERS Congratulations to our twelve colleagues for once again being listed among The Best Lawyers in America®.

Additionally we would like to congratulate Robert S. Carey for being selected as “Lawyer of the Year”.

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• 2021 Heather E. Krans Pastori Krans

Catherine E. Shanelaris Shanelaris & Schirch

Concord / (603) 369-4769

Nashua / (603) 594-8300

Crystal M. Maldonado Devine Millimet & Branch

Patrick J. Sheehan Sheehan Law Office

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Concord / (603) 715-2560

Debbie Martin-Demers Rousseau Law and Mediation

Robert A. Stein The Stein Law Firm

Pembroke / (603) 715-2824

Concord / (603) 228-1109

Katherine Morneau Law Office of Katherine J. Morneau

James J. Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Nashua / (603) 943-5647

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

James F. Ogorchock Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Mary Elizabeth Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Pamela A. Peterson Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

William J. Quinn Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Kevin Rauseo Hamblett & Kerrigan

Nashua / (603) 883-5501

L. Jonathan Ross Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

Stephen L. Tober Tober Law Offices

Portsmouth / (603) 431-1003

Kimberly Weibrecht Weibrecht Law Dover / (603) 842-5525

Ronna F. Wise Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Anna Goulet Zimmerman Law Office of Manning & Zimmerman Manchester / (603) 671-3156

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Richard A. Samuels McLane Middleton

Donald J. Pfundstein Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

Henry B. Stebbins Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken

Thomas D. Rath Rath Young Pignatelli

Manchester / (603) 627-3700

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

David P. Van Der Beken Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken

George W. Roussos Orr & Reno

James V. Ferro Ferro Law & Mediation Group

Manchester / (603) 627-3700

Concord / (603) 224-2381

First Amendment Law

Mark C. Rouvalis McLane Middleton

Family Law Arbitration James V. Ferro Ferro Law & Mediation Group Manchester / (603) 836-5400

R. David Depuy McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 836-5400

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

William L. Chapman Orr & Reno

Margaret R. Kerouac Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Jon Meyer Backus, Meyer & Branch

James J. Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

Financial Services Regulation Law Denise J. Deschenes Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

W. John Funk Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

Gregory H. Smith McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Health Care Law

David Wolowitz McLane Middleton

Patrick C. Closson McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Franchise Law

Jason D. Gregoire Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Concord / (603) 228-1181

Government Relations Practice

Donald J. Pfundstein Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

James V. Hatem Nixon Peabody

Concord / (603) 228-1181

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 244-3282

Daniel Deane Nixon Peabody

Littleton / (603) 444-4008

Concord / (603) 228-1181

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Katherine M. Hanna Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Lucy J. Karl Shaheen & Gordon

Concord / (603) 819-4231

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Congratulations to our colleagues who were chosen by their peers to appear in The Best Lawyers in America 2021. ©

“Lawyers of the Year”

Recognized by Best Laywers®

Thomas D. Rath

Michael A. Pignatelli

Christopher J. Sullivan

Sherilyn Burnett Young

M. Curtis Whittaker

William F. J. Ardinger

Steven J. Lauwers

Adam B. Pignatelli

Kathryn H. Michaelis

Lawrence S. Smith

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• 2021 Jonathan A. Lax Devine Millimet & Branch

Robert C. Dewhirst Devine Millimet & Branch

Margaret H. Nelson Sulloway & Hollis

Jennifer L. Parent McLane Middleton

Mark S. McCue Hinckley Allen

Andrew D. Dunn Devine Millimet & Branch

Donald J. Pfundstein Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

Kathleen C. Peahl Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Immigration Law

Gregory Eaton Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Stephen H. Roberts Hoefle, Phoenix, Gormley & Roberts

James P. Reidy Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

George W. Roussos Orr & Reno

Cameron G. Shilling McLane Middleton

Labor Law — Management

Charla Bizios Stevens McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

Susan T. Goff GoffWilson

Manchester / (603) 228-1277

Thomas W. Hildreth McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Mona T. Movafaghi Drummond Woodsum

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

John R. Wilson GoffWilson

Manchester / (603) 228-1277

Insurance Law

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Charles W. Grau Upton & Hatfield James V. Hatem Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

Gary M. Burt Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Doreen F. Connor Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Adam R. Mordecai Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Sarah S. Murdough Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Mark T. Broth Drummond Woodsum

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

Portsmouth / (603) 436-7046

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Mark T. Broth Drummond Woodsum

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Steven J. Lauwers Rath Young Pignatelli

Concord / (603) 228-1181

Portsmouth / (603) 436-0666

Littleton / (603) 444-4008

Russell F. Hilliard Upton & Hatfield

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Christopher Cole Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Debra Weiss Ford Jackson Lewis

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Edward M. Kaplan Sulloway & Hollis

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Martha Van Oot Jackson Lewis

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Andru H. Volinsky Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Labor Law — Union Richard E. Molan Molan Law Office

Andrew Bauer Gottesman & Hollis

Nashua / (603) 889-5959

Mark E. Beliveau Pierce Atwood

Portsmouth / (603) 433-6300

Timothy E. Britain Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Suzanne Brunelle Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Raymond P. D’Amante D’Amante Couser Pellerin & Associates Concord / (603) 224-6777

Philip M. Hastings Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Thomas W. Hildreth McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 206-5470

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Land Use and Zoning Law

Morgan Hollis Gottesman & Hollis

Nashua / (603) 889-5959

David W. McGrath Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Morneau Law

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30 Temple St., Suite 503, Nashua (603) 943-5647 • www.morneaulaw.com

orneau Law is a boutique law firm in southern New Hampshire helping individuals with estate planning, probate and family law. We are celebrating Kate Morneau’s selection as a 2020 Best Lawyer for family law.

The Morneau Law team handles a variety of matters, including, divorces, estate planning, adoptions, stepparent and grandparent rights, Medicaid applications, estate administration and trust administration.

Your privacy and integrity will be protected from the first moment you contact the firm. Your case will be handled professionally and in the most efficient manner possible. Come experience the Morneau Law difference, where you get the attention of a small firm, but the support of having a large experienced legal team.

We are located in beautiful downtown Nashua representing individuals in southern New Hampshire and estate planning clients in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

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• 2021 Peter J. Loughlin Law Office of Peter J. Loughlin Portsmouth / (603) 431-6466

Gregory Michael Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Ari B. Pollack Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

John H. Sokul Jr. Hinckley Allen

Henry B. Stebbins Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken Manchester / (603) 627-3700

William C. Tucker Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Legal Malpractice Law — Defendants Richard C. Nelson Devine Millimet & Branch

William C. Saturley Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios Concord / (603) 410-1500

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

Litigation — Environmental

Adam B. Pignatelli Rath Young Pignatelli

Daniel M. Deschenes Hinckley Allen

Michael J. Quinn McLane Middleton

Kevin M. Fitzgerald Nixon Peabody

Ronald D. Ciotti Hinckley Allen

W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

Arnold Rosenblatt Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Kelly J. Gagliuso Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Jeremy T. Walker McLane Middleton

Christopher D. Hawkins Devine Millimet & Branch

Litigation Bankruptcy

Matthew R. Johnson Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

William S. Gannon William S. Gannon

Manchester / (603) 769-4756

Steven M. Notinger Notinger Law

Nashua / (603) 417-2158

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Litigation — Construction

Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

James C. Wheat Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Litigation — Banking and Finance

Thomas J. Pappas Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Daniel W. Sklar Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Ovide M. Lamontagne Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Bruce J. Marshall Bruce Marshall Law

Lisa Snow Wade Orr & Reno

Sherilyn Burnett Young Rath Young Pignatelli

Litigation — Insurance

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Jeremy T. Walker McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Mark T. Broth Drummond Woodsum

Litigation — First Amendment

Manchester / (603) 716-2895

Gary M. Burt Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

William L. Chapman Orr & Reno

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Richard C. Gagliuso Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson Manchester / (603) 623-8700

Steven M. Gordon Shaheen & Gordon

Litigation — Health Care

Frank P. Spinella Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Concord / (603) 819-4231

Bow / (603) 715-8720

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Mark D. Attori Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Doreen F. Connor Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Robert C. Dewhirst Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Gregory Eaton Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Littleton / (603) 444-4008

Jonathan M. Eck Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Hinckley Allen attorneys recognized

by Best Lawyers in America 2021®

Daniel M. Deschenes

John H. Sokul, Jr.

Lawyer of the Year

Lawyer of the Year

Litigation – Construction

Michael J. Connolly

Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Land Use and Zoning Law

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Ronald D. Ciotti

Mark S. McCue

Best Lawyer

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Ones to Watch

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• 2021 Charles W. Grau Upton & Hatfield

Jamie N. Hage Hage Hodes

Debra Weiss Ford Jackson Lewis

Elizabeth K. Rattigan Downs Rachlin Martin

Morgan Hollis Gottesman & Hollis

Melissa M. Hanlon Sulloway & Hollis

Arnold Rosenblatt Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Charles W. Grau Upton & Hatfield

Arnold Rosenblatt Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Gregory Michael Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson

Russell F. Hilliard Upton & Hatfield

Jonathan M. Shirley CullenCollimore

Lauren S. Irwin Upton & Hatfield

Nashua / (603) 881-5500

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Daniel P. Schwarz Jackson Lewis

Jack B. Middleton McLane Middleton

Adam R. Mordecai Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Mark A. Wright McLane Middleton

James F. Laboe Orr & Reno

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Cameron G. Shilling McLane Middleton

Robert H. Miller Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Litigation — Labor and Employment

Jack B. Middleton McLane Middleton

Charla Bizios Stevens McLane Middleton

Jennifer L. Parent McLane Middleton

Martha Van Oot Jackson Lewis

Ari B. Pollack Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

David Wolowitz McLane Middleton

Thomas Quarles Devine Millimet & Branch

Litigation — Land Use and Zoning

John H. Sokul Hinckley Allen

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Manchester / (603) 668-2222

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Portsmouth / (603) 436-7046

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Adam B. Pignatelli Rath Young Pignatelli

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Donald Lee Smith Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Litigation — Intellectual Property

Portsmouth / (603) 559-2700

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Elizabeth A. Bailey Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Adam R. Mordecai Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Heather M. Burns Upton & Hatfield

Thomas J. Pappas Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Daniel J. Bourque Bourque & Associates

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

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Manchester / (603) 669-1000

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Manchester / (603) 669-4140

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Medical Malpractice Law — Plaintiffs Mark A. Abramson Abramson, Brown & Dugan

Manchester / (603) 627-1819

Eva H. Bleich Abramson, Brown & Dugan

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Heather M. Burns Upton & Hatfield

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Concord / (603) 856-8441

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Manchester / (603) 669-1000

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Manchester / (603) 622-8456

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Manchester / (603) 668-0300

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Gary M. Burt Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Robert S. Carey Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Robert C. Dewhirst Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Dennis T. Ducharme Ducharme Resolutions

Manchester / (603) 935-7292

Daniel Duckett The Law Office of Daniel Duckett

Manchester / (603) 836-5800

Andrew D. Dunn Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

John Edward Durkin Burns, Bryant, Cox, Rockefeller & Durkin Dover / (603) 742-2332

Gregory Eaton Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Littleton / (603) 444-4008

John Burwell Garvey University of New Hampshire School of Law Concord / (603) 228-1541

Todd J. Hathaway Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

David W. Johnston Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Ronald J. Lajoie Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Robert J. Lanney Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Michael P. Lehman Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

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Concord / (603) 223-2800

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Concord / (603) 856-8441

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Jared R. Green Abramson, Brown & Dugan

Donald Lee Smith Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Product Liability Litigation — Plaintiffs

Beth H. Davis Hamblett & Kerrigan

Pete W. Mosseau Devine Millimet & Branch

Holly B. Haines Abramson, Brown & Dugan

Robert A. Stein The Stein Law Firm

Jared R. Green Abramson, Brown & Dugan

Benjamin F. Gayman Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 627-1819

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Michael A. Pignatelli Rath Young Pignatelli

Scott H. Harris McLane Middleton

James J. Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Robert A. Stein The Stein Law Firm

Rolf E. Goodwin McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 228-1109

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Professional Malpractice Law — Defendants

John F. Griffin Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Christopher D. Hawkins Devine Millimet & Branch

Philip M. Hastings Cleveland, Waters and Bass

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Nashua / (603) 889-9952

Gordon A. Rehnborg McDowell & Osburn

Manchester / (603) 623-9300

Marc R. Scheer Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Lawrence S. Smith Rath Young Pignatelli

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Lisa Snow Wade Orr & Reno

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs Mark A. Abramson Abramson, Brown & Dugan

Manchester / (603) 627-1819

Matthew B. Cox Burns, Bryant, Cox, Rockefeller & Durkin

Dover / (603) 742-2332

Christine M. Craig Shaheen & Gordon

Dover / (603) 871-4144

Thomas E. Craig Thomas Craig

Manchester / (603) 622-1900

Paul M. DeCarolis Gottesman & Hollis

Nashua / (603) 889-5959

R. David Depuy McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

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Kevin F. Dugan Abramson, Brown & Dugan

Manchester / (603) 627-1819

Manchester / (603) 627-1819

Manchester / (603) 627-1819

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Concord / (603) 228-1109

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

Ralph F. Holmes McLane Middleton

John J. Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Michael J. Iacopino Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey

Mary Elizabeth Tenn Tenn And Tenn

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 734-5461

Edward M. Kaplan Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Maureen Raiche Manning Law Office of Manning & Zimmerman Manchester / (603) 671-3156

Joseph F. McDowell McDowell & Osburn

Manchester / (603) 623-9300

Michael S. McGrath Upton & Hatfield

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Jack B. Middleton McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

Manchester / (603) 624-3700

Phil Waystack Waystack Frizzell

Colebrook / (603) 237-8322

Peter G. Webb Winer and Bennett

Nashua / (603) 882-5157

Jack S. White Welts, White & Fontaine Nashua / (603) 883-0797

Nicholas Wright Bouchard, Kleinman & Wright

Concord / (603) 856-8441

D. Michael Noonan Shaheen & Gordon Dover / (603) 871-4144

Jennifer L. Parent McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Michael P. Rainboth Coughlin, Rainboth, Murphy & Lown

Cameron G. Shilling McLane Middleton Manchester / (603) 625-646

Private Funds/ Hedge Funds Law John P. Beals Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Portsmouth / (603) 431-1993

Richard E. Fradette Beliveau, Fradette & Gallant

Christine M. Rockefeller Burns, Bryant, Cox, Rockefeller & Durkin

Michael P. Lehman Sulloway & Hollis

Manchester / (603) 623-1234

Littleton / (603) 444-4008

Dover / (603) 742-2332

Concord / (603) 223-2800

William H. Shaheen Shaheen & Gordon

W. Scott O’Connell Nixon Peabody

Concord / (603) 228-1541

Dover / (603) 871-4144

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

David M. Gottesman Gottesman & Hollis

John P. Sherman Sherman Law

William A. Staar Morrison Mahoney

John Burwell Garvey University of New Hampshire School of Law

Nashua / (603) 889-5959

Portsmouth / (603) 570-4837

Concord / (603) 224-7761

Edmund S. Hibbard Wescott Law

Portsmouth / (603) 433-5385

Laconia / (603) 524-2166

Concord / (603) 410-1500

Morgan Hollis Gottesman & Hollis

Pete W. Mosseau Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Nashua / (603) 889-5959

Peter F. Imse Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Real Estate Law

James D. Kerouac Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson

Manchester / (603) 623-8700

R. Carl Anderson Sulloway & Hollis

Simon C. Leeming Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Martin J. Baroff Baroff & Craven

Concord / (603) 410-1500

Manchester / (603) 647-4200

Andrew Bauer Gottesman & Hollis

Susan A. Manchester Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Gregory Michael Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson

Nashua / (603) 889-5959

Alexandra T. Breed McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 623-8700

James E. Morris Orr & Reno

Product Liability Litigation — Defendants Timothy E. Britain Andrew D. Dunn Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 626-3300

Edmund S. Hibbard Wescott Law

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Gregory Eaton Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer

Bruce W. Felmly McLane Middleton

Gregory A. Moffett Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios

Daniel W. Sklar Nixon Peabody

Privacy and Data Security Law

Neil Nicholson Nicholson Law Firm

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Anna Goulet Zimmerman Law Office of Manning & Zimmerman

Richard C. Moquin Moquin & Daley

Manchester / (603) 623-9300

Jeffrey H. Karlin Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Project Finance Law

Manchester / (603) 671-3156

Mark D. Morrissette McDowell & Osburn

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Manchester / (603) 623-7222

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 669-9400

Nashua / (603) 883-5501

Cleveland, Waters and Bass

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Suzanne Brunelle Devine Millimet & Branch

Lyndsee D. Paskalis Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken

Concord / (603) 224-7761

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Manchester / (603) 627-3700

Peter F. Burger Orr & Reno

Bryan L. Pellerin D’Amante Couser Pellerin & Associates

Concord / (603) 224-2381

Charles F. Cleary Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Concord / (603) 224-6777

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Ari B. Pollack Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell

Raymond P. D’Amante D’Amante Couser Pellerin & Associates

Denise A. Poulos Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella

Concord / (603) 224-6777

Concord / (603) 228-1181

Portsmouth / (603) 766-1686

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Manchester / (603) 668-0300

James F. Raymond Upton & Hatfield

Concord / (603) 716-9777

Denis O. Robinson Pierce Atwood

Portsmouth / (603) 433-6300

Peter B. Rotch McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Michael D. Ruedig Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Concord / (603) 228-1181

John H. Sokul Hinckley Allen

Manchester / (603) 225-4334

Henry B. Stebbins Stebbins, Lazos & Van Der Beken

Manchester / (603) 627-3700

William C. Tucker Wadleigh, Starr and Peters

Manchester / (603) 669-4140

Kenneth A. Viscarello Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

J. Bradford Westgate Winer and Bennett Nashua / (603) 882-5157

Securities/ Capital Markets Law

Peter T. Beach Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green

James G. Cook Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Mary Susan Leahy McLane Middleton

Cynthia L. Worthen Pierce Atwood

Steven M. Burke McLane Middleton

Mark A. Wright McLane Middleton

Thomas N. Masland Ransmeier & Spellman

Jeffrey J. Zellers Annis & Zellers

Trusts and Estates

Joseph F. McDonald McDonald & Kanyuk

William V.A. Zorn McLane Middleton

Willemien Dingemans Miller Downs Rachlin Martin

Venture Capital Law

Marcia Hennelly Moran Flood, Sheehan & Tobin

Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Steve Cohen Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Scott W. Ellison Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Amy K. Kanyuk McDonald & Kanyuk

Concord / (603) 228-9900

Kathryn H. Michaelis Rath Young Pignatelli

Concord / (603) 226-2600

Margaret H. Nelson Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Christopher R. Paul McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Elise H. Salek Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Jon B. Sparkman Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Christopher J. Sullivan Rath Young Pignatelli Concord / (603) 226-2600

Jeffrey J. Zellers Annis & Zellers

Curtis Little Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson

Concord / (603) 224-5800

Scott E. Pueschel Pierce Atwood

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Portsmouth / (603) 433-6300

Richard A. Samuels McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Securities Regulation Richard A. Samuels McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Securitization and Structured Finance Law Curtis Little Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

Tax Law William F. J. Ardinger Rath Young Pignatelli Concord / (603) 226-2600

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Technology Law Matthew H. Benson Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Manchester / (603) 621-7100

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Manchester / (603) 623-5111

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Christine S. Anderson Ansell & Anderson Bedford / (603) 644-8211

Tina L. Annis Annis & Zellers

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Michelle M. Arruda Devine Millimet & Branch

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Judith L. Bomster Butenhof & Bomster

Manchester / (603) 296-0428

Alexandra T. Breed McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 226-0400

Timothy W. Caldwell Caldwell Law Lebanon / (603) 643-7577

Steve Cohen Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Bradford E. Cook Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

Thomas C. Csatari Downs Rachlin Martin

Lebanon / (603) 448-2211

Denis P. Dillon McLane Middleton

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Ann Meissner Flood Flood, Sheehan & Tobin

Concord / (603) 415-4200

Nicholas D.N. Harvey Stebbins Bradley Hanover / (603) 643-3737

John E. Hughes McLane Middleton

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Newington / (603) 436-2818

Concord / (603) 290-5104

Concord / (603) 228-9900

Lebanon / (603) 448-2211

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David Mulhern Mulhern & Scott

Portsmouth / (603) 436-1211

Sally Mulhern Mulhern & Scott

Portsmouth / (603) 436-1211

Anu R. Mullikin Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Jan P. Myskowski Myskowski & Matthews

Concord / (603) 227-6342

Colleen D. O’Connell Barradale, O’Connell, Newkirk & Dwyer

Bedford / (603) 644-0275

Michael P. Panebianco Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green Manchester / (603) 668-0300

John C. Ransmeier Ransmeier & Spellman

Concord / (603) 290-5104

Nelson A. Raust Ransmeier & Spellman

Concord / (603) 290-5104

Kathleen M. Robinson Robinson, Boesch, Sennott and Daly PA

Portsmouth / (603) 427-5380

Elise H. Salek Sulloway & Hollis

Concord / (603) 223-2800

Andrea L. Sennott Robinson, Boesch, Sennott and Daly PA

Portsmouth / (603) 427-5380

Amy K. Kanyuk McDonald & Kanyuk

Virginia Symmes Sheehan Flood, Sheehan & Tobin

John S. Kitchen John Kitchen Law Offices

Laura E. Tobin Flood, Sheehan & Tobin

Megan C. Knox McDonald & Kanyuk

Robert A. Wells McLane Middleton

Concord / (603) 228-9900

Auburn / (603) 669-6541

Concord / (603) 228-9900

Concord / (603) 415-4200

Concord / (603) 415-4200

Manchester / (603) 625-6464

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Manchester / (603) 625-6464

Matthew H. Benson Cook, Little, Rosenblatt & Manson Philip B. Taub Nixon Peabody

Manchester / (603) 628-4000

Workers’ Compensation Law — Claimants Timothy Beaupre Beaupre Law

Dover / (877) 734-0777

Terrence J. Daley Moquin & Daley

Manchester / (603) 669-9400

Benjamin T. King Douglas, Leonard & Garvey Concord / (603) 224-1988

Maureen Raiche Manning Law Office of Manning & Zimmerman Manchester / (603) 671-3156

Richard C. Moquin Moquin & Daley

Manchester / (603) 669-9400

Francis G. Murphy Shaheen & Gordon

Manchester / (603) 635-4099

A. Gerard O’Neil Normandin, Cheney & O’Neil Laconia / (603) 524-4380

Mark D. Wiseman Cleveland, Waters and Bass Concord / (603) 224-7761

Workers’ Compensation Law — Employers Eric G. Falkenham Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Charles T. Giacopelli Devine Millimet & Branch

Manchester / (603) 669-1000

Paul R. Kfoury Trombley Kfoury

Bedford / (603) 935-7566

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Concord / (603) 226-1000

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A specialist in DWI law, Attorney Russman is board certified by the National College of DUI Defense (NCDD), the only ABA-accredited organization to boardcertify DUI attorneys. Attorney Russman is also an NCDD Sustaining Member as well as a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Trial Lawyers Association.

Russman is one of the best-trained DWI Attorneys in

the state. For example, he is certified in practical gas chromatography, and is a field sobriety test instructor and practitioner, as well as an evidentiary breath alcohol technician, to name a few training highlights.

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Kosmas Smirnioudis (left) and his oldest brother George are continuing their father Louie’s 30-year tradition of giving out free Thanksgiving meals.

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30 Years of Stuffing and Service

Amid the pandemic, a local restaurant continues to serve free Thanksgiving meals

By Emily Heidt

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hanksgiving at the Windmill Family Restaurant in Concord may look different this year, but COVID-19 won’t stop owner Kosmas Smirnioudis and his restaurant family from serving turkey dinners to his community in need.

“People won’t be able to come, sit down and enjoy a meal with us inside, but they can still pick up and take out a Thanksgiving dinner,” says Smirnioudis. “For us, this tradition has and always will be about the importance of giving back to the community, and I could think of no better time to safely adapt and continue that tradition than during a year like this.”

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603 living / community Smirnioudis’ father, Louie, started the tradition when he opened the restaurant in 1990. The first year, he started with a couple of volunteers from the Friendly Kitchen and served about 30 meals. The tradition has now grown so large that Smirnioudis served 1,200 meals in 2019, and he isn’t planning on slowing down this year. “Last year, we did over 300 pounds of mashed potatoes and squash, 72 turkeys and pies ranging from pumpkin to blueberry to chocolate cream,” says Smirnioudis. “We didn’t have much left over after, which showed just how much people were in need. It was a tough decision, but we are looking forward to showing up and serving again this year.”

While Smirnioudis is grateful to give back, he is just as grateful for the extra help from family and friends that makes the day possible. “I have a group of ladies who bake and donate homemade pies to us every year,

George and Kosmas Smirnioudis (right) outside The Windmill Family Restaurant in Concord

Other businesses looking for Thanksgiving volunteers, donations or donated meals: The Friendly Kitchen 2 South Commercial St., Concord (603) 224-7678 / thefriendlykitchen.org

New Horizons NH 199 Manchester St., Manchester (603) 641-9441 / newhorizonsnh.org

Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter 2 Quincy St., Nashua (603) 889-7770 / nsks.org

Sonshine Soup Kitchen 6 Crystal Ave., Derry (603) 437-2833 / sonshinesoupkitchen.org

The Community Kitchen 37 Mechanic St., Keene (603) 352-3200 / thecommunitykitchen.org

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families come with their kids to donate their time, and fellow members of my business community come help too,” says Smirnioudis.

“We’re one team. They aren’t my community, they are my family. It’s all about being able to come together one day a year to think about someone else instead of yourself, and even though it will look different due to pandemic restrictions, the heart of it is still the same.”

Meals will be offered between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on November 26, and all you need to do is show up if you need a meal. Depending on weather, there may be chairs outside, but expect tables at both entrances of the restaurant stocked high with hot turkey dinner togo containers with mashed potatoes, squash, turkey gravy, pies, rolls, cranberry sauce and

vegetables. Whether you are volunteering your pies, volunteering your time, donating rolls or making a cash donation, the day is all about making a difference in whatever way you can. “My dad started this so people would follow his generous lead in making a change,” says Smirnioudis. “He realized that they only way to inspire difference is to do different, which is what we are here to do every Thanksgiving.” NH

Find It Windmill Family Restaurant 172 Loudon Rd., Concord (603) 225-0600 windmillfamilyrestaurantinc.com

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Delirium in Hospital Patients It’s more common than you might think

by Karen A. Jamrog / illustration by gloria dilanni

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nyone who has checked into a hospital for longer than a day or two can imagine how quickly

disorientation (or worse) might set in. Away from home, bed-ridden or close to it for a prolonged period, it can be difficult to distinguish one day from another.

In fact, actual delirium in hospital patients is common, and it can be dangerous. Its cause is not as simple as being confined to bed or stuck in a hospital room day after day though. It can be triggered by an array of factors, such as a severe medical condition, dehydration, insufficient sleep, infection, medication, substance intoxication or withdrawal, or a combination of circumstances.

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“Delirium is a condition that’s basically a disturbance in attention and awareness,” says Dana Bisson, M.S.N., R.N., a delirium specialist who is also a process improvement specialist in Operational Excellence at Concord Hospital. In essence, she says, delirium is acute brain failure, the extent of which can vary in those who experience it.

There are three main classifications of delirium. Typically, patients who experience hypoactive delirium are sleepy and lethargic and might appear unmotivated. In contrast, those who develop hyperactive delirium often are agitated and might hallucinate. They might try to yank out their hospital tubes, refuse to stay in bed, or act aggressively toward hospital staff. Other patients who become delirious vacillate between hypoactive and hyperactive states. In all types, symptoms usually are not continuous but come and go.

Delirium is most commonly seen in the elderly, “but severity of illness is certainly one of the biggest risk factors, and that is independent of age,” says Jennifer L. Duprey, D.O., M.P.H., medical director of the ICU at Elliot Hospital and Southern NH Medical Center.

Other risk factors include the presence of underlying cognitive problems such as dementia, the length of the patient’s hospital stay, and whether the patient has surgery.

For sure, although older adults are at higher risk for delirium, young adults and even children who are hospitalized can develop it too. “The thing that brings a young person in [to the hospital] can make them really susceptible” because younger people often are admitted to the hospital only if something fairly serious is wrong, Bisson explains, and “delirium can result from any acute medical injury or illness that is so severe to that person that it causes the brain to kind of go into failure mode. ... It really can affect everybody.”

Delirium incidence numbers vary, but Bisson says that delirium affects about 20-30% of regular medical surgical patients, and up to 80% of intensive care patients, including patients in pediatric ICUs. That’s a lot of patients, and the implications of delirium can be serious. Delirium might last for hours, days, or weeks, but many patients experience cognitive defects

“Patients, when they’re delirious, are not aware of their behavior, and [later] have no recollection of it.”

— Jennifer L. Duprey, D.O., M.P.H.

Dealing with delirium in hospitals Hospitals employ a variety of measures to try to prevent delirium in patients and to quickly detect it and minimize it when it does occur. For example, many hospitals screen patients every 12 hours to lessen the chance that delirium is overlooked. Although hospitals are 24/7 operations that care for and monitor patients around the clock, hospital staff members promote a normal sleep-wake cycle in patients by turning on lights in patient rooms during the day and keeping them off as much as possible during the night. “We know that when patients don’t sleep, that is a risk factor for delirium, so we try not to disturb patients during normal hours of sleep,” says Jennifer L. Duprey, D.O., M.P.H., medical director of the ICU at Elliot Hospital and Southern NH Medical Center.

In addition, Duprey says, “if we know that patients are hard of hearing or need glasses, we try to make sure that they have those assistive devices.” Giving patients access to familiar things, such as their favorite music, can also help. One of the goals, Duprey says, is to try “to keep signs of normalcy around them.”

For more information, see the website of the American Delirium Society, which offers guidance for patients and families: americandeliriumsociety.org/what-delirium for months, and in some, symptoms linger for a year or more. Typically, “most patients

regain their prior cognitive functioning.

Delirium also affects families, possibly

eventually return to their former baseline

foisting post-hospital-discharge caregiving

cognitive state,” Duprey says. But some,

responsibilities on a family member, for

especially patients who had underlying

example, plus “delirium is very distressing

cognitive problems to begin with, never

to families,” Duprey says. “Patients, when

they’re delirious, are not aware of their behavior, and [later] have no recollection of it. But it is very distressing to families to see a loved one agitated, potentially violent at times, needing to be sedated, hallucinating. So there is some degree of emotional distress.”

Delirious patients are five times more likely to fall in the hospital, Bisson says, and delirium has been linked with a poorer prognosis, a longer hospital stay, and medical complications. Delirious patients are also more likely to die in the hospital.

Hospitals have implemented numerous strategies to prevent and minimize delirium in patients (see sidebar). “Anyone who interacts with the patient,” from doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and food service workers to visiting therapeutic musicians or artists, has a role to play, Bisson says. “It’s a real team effort. You use the resources you have to do anything you can.”

Indeed, “delirium complicates a lot of hospital courses for a lot of patients,” Duprey says, “and there can be serious implications.

It’s one of those things that we need to learn so much more about.” NH

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Thanksgiving on Mars

We are from here, so when we moved there, things got weird — especially around the holidays

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n the late ’70s, our family was very much a New England unit — we lived and breathed the Boston Bruins, ate brown bread and baked beans on Saturday nights, and watched Uncle Gus on TV. Then we moved to Mars.

My father worked as a cement finisher.

The economy had turned sour for those who pursued the concrete arts, so following a job offer, my parents piled four kids and a dog into our light green AMC Hornet, scientifically proven to be the most ’70s of cars, and relocated us to a place called Sutherland in western Nebraska. Both I-80 and the Platte River snaked by just to the south of this (quite literally) one-road town, and the coal-burning plant under construction — and the reason for the town’s recent and ultimately temporary population increase — lay just beyond.

There are romantic stories of the untamed, open prairie — a place of unlimited possibility and adventure. This was most definitely the prairie, but instead of wild horses and wagon trains, it was mostly full of sand spurs and prickers that embedded into the cuffs of our Toughskins

and kids from other parts of the country who thought we were speaking another language entirely.

In my short life to that point, I had never thought any place so completely foreign could exist. The people from the land of the Pilgrims and tonic had been transplanted to the land of the Oglala and the Pony Express.

One day my brother and I were skating on a pond near the road. It literally stopped traffic. When they opened the first McDonald’s in Omaha — more than three hours east — it made the nightly news.

People were fascinated by our accents.

One woman told me we sounded “just like the Kennedys,” which wasn’t true because no one really sounds like that.

Everything normal felt very far away, especially since we were just sitting around not playing hockey, watching the Sha Na Na variety show because that’s all that was on, and waiting around for someone to invent the internet and cell phones.

So when Thanksgiving arrived, the urge to go back home was never more intense.

The move was meant to be temporary, so we only had what we could fit into the Hornet

and a tow-behind UHaul. We had to make the best with what we had — which, in retrospect, actually added to the charm of our situation. At the time, however, it was a scramble to assemble something resembling a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. That meant our first year out west, we’d be having ring-necked turkey.

Pheasant sounds like an exotic alternative to a holiday gobbler. Only ours wasn’t served under glass. Or with crostini and goat cheese crumbles. Or good. Even now, with nearly four decades separating us from the arid poultry, my palate weeps.

I don’t blame the chef, who was as much a frontier mom as Caroline Ingalls. Besides, it wasn’t so much about the meal, but the fact we were strangers in a strange land, together.

Since then, the world has gotten a lot smaller, Bowzer has become a politician, and every year in late November we talk about Nebraska turkey. The bird was dusty, the potatoes were runny, and the Burkes were far, far from home, but it was a time none of us would trade for any canned brown bread. NH

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