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Top: Inside Webster Cottage. Photo by Lars Blackmore.
Bottom: Hikers at a shelter lean-to, Velvet Rocks, New Hampshire. Photo by Lisa Ballard.
On the cover: Three brothers and coaches Dick, Tom, and John Dodds at James W. Campion III Rink. Photo by Lars Blackmore.
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Dartmouth graduate Lisa Ballard, a longtime regular contributor, gives us the scoop on the Dartmouth Outing Club (page 34), and Sam Kaas and the staff of the Norwich Bookstore share their favorite new reads for fall (page 30).
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Local sports fans are sure to enjoy our visit with the Dodds brothers— Dick, Tom, and John—all three of whom are coaches at Hanover High School (page 50). Residents of the area can thank them for many victories and state championships. We can hardly wait to see what happens this year!Wherever your adventures take you this season, keep up with local news and events at www.greateruppervalley.com.
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One of the first signs of fall is the Norwich Antiques Show (page 45), set for September 17 this year. The event benefits the Norwich Historical Society, so be sure to come out and join the fun. You also don’t want to miss touring the Webster Cottage Museum, home of the Hanover Historical Society (page 62). Many thanks to Cyndy Bittinger for her expertise and to Morgan Swan, who was an invaluable guide in obtain ing permission to use historic photos from Rauner Library for our timeline, courtesy of Dartmouth College, of course.
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Amazing Autumn Shorter, cooler days signal the start of a new school year, football and soccer games, and the return of brilliant fall foliage through out New England. Our thoughts turn to apples, pumpkins, and turkey dinners—and delicious casseroles. Some old favorites are being discovered by a new generation, as you’ll see in Susan Nye’s recipe offerings beginning on page 78.
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Another development in Rosemary’s work started when she was on vacation in California and saw a class in glass fusing. This art involves working with glass in a kiln, shap ing the glass with the kiln's heat. “It attracted me because of the color,” she says. “I fell in love with that the same way I did with Metalsmithingmetal.”and glass fusing comprise the two main elements of her work. She recently added an annex for glass fusing to her home studio that is located in a garage. Rosemary finds her studio environment “meditative.” It is close to her house but separated just enough to give the space special meaning.
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Rosemary Orgren: Jewelry Artist and More R osemary Orgren of Norwich draws on a deep well of playfulness and a maker’s sensibilities to create beautiful jewelry. “I was always interested in craft artistry,” she says. “Since childhood I have been interested in making things. My dad was a tool and die maker.” She learned steadily, attending classes at camps and at school.
Twenty-five years ago, she began working in a metal studio that was part of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s facility in Hanover and ultimately became a League juried metalsmith. Today she works at her home studio, A Lucky Girl Studio. “I love tools,” she says. “My studio is evidence of Overthat.”time, Rosemary’s artistry as a jeweler has evolved with new talents and skills. “I took a beginner class in metalsmithing,” she says. “I was enchanted by the precision and intricacy. I had to problem solve and think ahead in the creation of 3D objects.” She learned to cut, hammer, and solder, and how to carve in wax to be cast in metal.
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Right: Earrings made of wood and resin.
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“I have also just discovered on my own the casting of metal over organic material. I melt silver in a crucible with a jeweler’s torch and pour it over rock salt and turn the results into pendants,” sheAnothersays.
exciting element of Rosemary’s artistry is the dropout glass vessel. She places a flat piece of glass on a ceramic ring and places that on stilts. The assembly is heated in a kiln to make the glass fall through the hole to make a vase—a process that takes patience and precision.
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A glass dropout vase.
A new technique for Rosemary is anticlastic raising, an art of shaping metal with a hammer.
Most of Rosemary’s work is sold at Long River Gallery at 49 Main Street in White River Junc tion, Vermont. She does some teaching through CraftStudies and is on the organization’s board. Once located in the same building as the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s store in Hanover, it will be relocating to its own building in White River Junction since the League’s store has closed. For more information about Rosemary, visit aluckygirl studio.com. H
If you are in need of food and can’t get to the pantry on Saturday mornings, want to volunteer, or wish to make a monetary donation, please contact callfoodpantry@gmail.comhanovercommunityor(802)356-0629.
The Hanover Community Food Pantry began its service assisting people with food insecurity during the pandemic. Volunteers gave out food from the back of their cars in the driveway of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College (40 College Street, Hanover) in November 2020. An Upper Valley Strong grant paid for a pop-up tent, which they used until November 2021 when they moved into the church. The food pantry is open every Saturday from 10:30am to 12:30pm, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
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“During COVID-19, concerned citizens approached the church to see if there was available space for a food pantry,” says Cinny Bensen, chair of the church’s board of outreach and an active food pantry volunteer. The church became the host and fiscal agent for the Hanover Community Food Pantry, with a core group of committed volunteers not all connected to the church. This group includes graduate, undergraduate, high school, and middle school students who enjoy being part of a broad community effort. “It is a wonderful opportunity for volunteers to feel like they are making a difference,” she says.
Above right: Steadfast volunteers and well-stocked shelves await Saturday morning pantry shoppers.
Hanover Community Food Pantry
Above: Shoppers at the Hanover Co-op Food Store generously supported Boy Scout Troop 45's two-day food drive.
The Hanover Community Food Pantry is located in the church but has its own entrance located to the right of the main lower entrance via a staircase. There is also elevator access.
The food pantry partners with the Upper Valley Haven for weekly orders of food. A memorial bequest enabled the purchase of a refrigerator to stock frozen meat and dairy products. Produce is an important item.
The community of Hanover is very supportive of the food pantry, which accommodates an average of 20 shoppers per week, serving approximately 40 individuals. Summer Park Residences, a local Eagle Scout, high school student groups, Geisel School of Medicine students, King Arthur Baking Company, the Co-op, and many others have done food drives or made individual donations. There is a shopping cart in the Church of Christ lobby where members of the congregation regularly leave nonperishable donations. An especially generous volunteer makes popular homemade soup and other goodies using the week’s leftovers. Cash donations allow for the purchase of highly sought-after personal care and household cleaning items. The food pantry partners with the Upper Valley Humane Society for deliveries of pet food.
“We try to rely on a diversity of food sources,” Cinny says. “For the first year and a half, the Upper Valley Haven was the main source. A major milestone was being approved by the New Hampshire Food Bank as a full affiliate.” In addition to free food from the New Hampshire Food Bank, they can order deeply discounted foods such as sugar, juice, and laundry detergent.
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“The food pantry is a huge responsibility but incredibly meaningful,” Cinny says. “If we can do one thing to help relieve food insecurity in the Upper Valley, that’s good. Our pantry is definitely growing steadily. More shoppers are coming with friends, passing on the word to neighbors. People think of Hanover as a wealthy community, but times are tough.”
If you are in need of food and can’t get to the pantry on Saturday mornings, want to volunteer, or wish to make a monetary donation, please contact hanovercommunity foodpantry@gmail.com or call (802) 356-0629. H
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Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra (August 2)
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Fall might just be my favorite time of year. There’s the changing of the seasons, the wonders of harvest time, and, of course, the natural beauty of New England. But fall is also perhaps the best time of the year for new books. While excellent books come out all year long, the greatest concentration of them appears between late August and the first week of November. Here are just a few of the books we’re excited about this fall at the Norwich Bookstore. For all the rest of them, well, you’ll just have to come see us at the shop.
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Fall Guy by Archer Mayor (September 27) If you know, you know—and the mystery fans of Vermont know that Archer Mayor has been turning out excellent novels set right here in northern New England for many years. Fall Guy, the 33rd Joe Gunther mystery, finds Joe called to the scene when a body is found in a stolen car in Vermont. Turns out the crime may have been committed in New Hampshire. It’s sure to be a wild ride, through a landscape that local readers will recognize and love.
The long-awaited new novel from Anthony Marra (author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno) takes us to Hollywood in the 1930s and ’40s, where an enclave of immigrants on the run from rising fascism in Europe produce films for American audiences. On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria, a producer who fled Italy as a young woman, encounters someone from her past in this sweeping epic.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
King Arthur Baking School: Lessons and Recipes for Every Baker (October 11) Have you ever found yourself wishing that all the brilliant tips and techniques you’ve learned from the King Arthur Baking School were cataloged, within easy reach, in a beauti fully designed and well-organized book? Of course you have. Here you are, then.
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff (October 25)
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (September 13) Two estranged siblings are called together to receive a surprise inheritance, which turns out to be a sentient house on chicken legs. So begins Thistlefoot, the masterful and beguiling debut novel from Vermont poet and folklorist GennaRose Nethercott. As Bellatine and Isaac take their new home on the road, they are followed by sinister forces and headed for a col lision of past and future, myth and memory.
Don’t miss GennaRose Nethercott when she visits the Norwich Bookstore on Wednesday, September 14!
Surrender by Bono (November 1)
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff (The Witches and Cleopatra) is both one of the finest popular historians of our time and one of the most com pelling writers. Here, she turns her eye back to colonial New England, examining the life and legacy of a sometimes overlooked founder.
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Fans have been waiting a long, long time for a memoir from U2 front man Bono. This fall he delivers with Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (each of the book’s 40 chapters are named for U2 songs, and Bono has created 40 accompa nying illustrations, which are exclusive to the book). As a musician and a philanthropist, Bono has been a global cultural force for decades, and whether you’re a fan or know one, you should snag your copy of Surrender early!
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A new family moves into the neighborhood, prompt ing a warm welcome—and a celebration of the diver sity and connections that make a community special. This new picture book from the team that created All Are Welcome is a joyful read for neighbors of all ages. H
Front Country by Sara St. Antoine (September 20)
A farmhouse stands through seasons and generations in this beautiful picture book, whimsically illustrated by staff favorite Sophie Blackall. All Are Neighbors by Alexandra Penfold (August 23)
Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall (September 13)
Anxious and overwhelmed by the looming threats of climate change and mass extinction, eighth-grader Ginny Shepard is not feeling okay. She was excited to spend the summer before high school hiking in Montana—but now she’s learned that her trip, set up by her parents, is part of a camp for struggling kids. And to make matters worse, she’s the only girl in her backcountry group. But, as she gets to know her trail mates and the world she feels powerless to save, Ginny starts to understand how she can make a difference in this gentle and genuine young-adult novel. Perhaps she’s not powerless after all.
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artmouth College’s location in Hanover, next to the Connecticut River and wedged between New Hampshire’s White Mountains and Vermont’s Green Mountains, sets it apart from other Ivy League universities and similar institutes of higher education. It attracts students, faculty, and administrators from around the globe who want to balance academic excellence with skiing, paddling, mountaineering, shooting sports, fishing, rock climbing, and just about any other mountain- or water-based activity. When outdoorsy high achievers contemplate where to apply to college, Dartmouth is typically a top choice, but that wasn’t always so.
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In 1769, when Eleazar Wheelock founded the college, the surrounding peaks and the Connecticut River were largely unexplored, not sources of recreation. Winters were long, cold, and snowy. Hiking and canoeing were not extracurricular activities. They were merely a means of getting from point A to point B in the rugged north country.Bythe early 1900s, undergraduates had more time and interest in recreational pursuits. One of those students was Fred Harris, class of 1911, from Brattleboro, Vermont. Harris was keenly interested in skiing, particularly ski jumping, a huge spectator sport at the time, and “down the mountain” skiing, which would become modern alpine skiing. He founded the Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) in 1909 to promote skiing at the college and to give everyone something to do outdoors during theWithinwinter.a few decades, the DOC had a year-round roster of outdoor pursuits, trips, service projects, and outdoor leadership training. Today, around 25 percent of the college’s student body (about 1,500 students), plus another 1,500 or so alumni, faculty, and others, are members of the student-run DOC. It’s considered the first and largest collegiate outing club in the country.Interestingly, not everyone in the DOC arrives in Hanover with a hankering to get outside. Many people who work or study at Above: Fred Harris, class of 1911, from Brattleboro, Vermont, founded the Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) in 1909 to promote skiing at the college and to give everyone something to do outdoors during the winter. Top Right: Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, late 1920s.
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People of Color Outdoors Club (POCO): Provides opportunities to get outdoors for underrepresented groups. Trips are led by people of color. Encourages people who are new to the outdoors to have experiences in a welcoming, comfortable way.
Winter Sports Club: Organizes and runs competitive intra and intercolle giate activities. Also the go-to club for backcountry skiing.
Club Snowboarding Team: Practices and competition for both racing and freestyle disciplines of snowboarding.
Viva Hardigg Outdoors Club: Named for the first woman president of the DOC, it provides a supportive environment for the development of outdoor skills, confidence, and leadership. Organizes introductory trips and seminars for people of marginalized gender identities.
Students gather at the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge similar to the old days, with crazy outfits still worn by the kitchen crew. Luckily some traditions continue.
Timber Team: Competes in intercollegiate lumberjack sports using a variety of traditional logging skills.
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Nordic Ski Club: For Nordic skiers who wish to practice and compete but at a more casual level than the varsity ski team.
Surfing Club: Takes periodic trips to the New Hampshire coast to catch sweet waves in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mountaineering Club: Regular weekend climbing trips in the White Mountains, Catskills, and Adirondacks. Expeditions throughout the world. Operates the Daniels Climbing Gym, including climbing lessons.
Organic Farm: Teaches and practices organic farming at the student-run farm, including soil preparation, seeding, transplanting, and harvesting during the growing season. Hosts workshops, an organic food festival, and attends organic farming conferences during the off-season.
Big Green Bus: Grassroots advocacy group promoting alternative energy, conservation, and environmental awareness.
Ski Patrol: Educates and certifies students in ski patrolling and mountain rescue, primarily at the Dartmouth Skiway. Learned skills include toboggan handling, chairlift evacuation, and technical rope rescues.
Biathlon: Practices and competitions in the sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
Mountain Biking Club: Organizes rides on local trails and weekend trips to mountain biking locations throughout New England. Assists with bicycle maintenance.
Alpine Ski Racing Club: For alpine skiers who wish to practice and compete against other college teams, but at a more casual level than the varsity ski team.
Bait and Bullet: Organizes hunting and fishing trips around the region; practices and workshops at its shooting range for small arms, skeet, and trap shooting; and a hunter safety course in the fall.
Archery Team: Offers practice and competition in target shooting with bows and arrows.
Source: Dartmouth Outing Club
Environmental Stewardship Division: Educates and supports activism for healthy ecosystems, including energy use and recycling. Hosts speakers and conferences for members and the Dartmouth community as a whole.
The Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) is an umbrella organization for 20 different student-run groups, each of which offer specific opportunities to get outside.
Cabin and Trail: Maintains hiking trails between Hanover and Mount Moosi lauke and the DOC’s 12-plus cabins. Also offers hiking trips throughout the White Mountains and Green Mountains, and education in wilderness skills and stewardship.
Climbing Team: Practices and competitions in intercollegiate climbing disciplines.
Ledyard Canoe Club: Canoeing and kayaking trips throughout New Eng land (and sometimes much farther from campus). Canoe and kayak rentals and lessons. Practices and competitions in various paddle sports.
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FALL 2022 • HERE IN HANOVER 39 the college or who come to Hanover for other reasons don’t have any expe rience in the mountains or on rivers, yet they are surrounded by outdoor opportunities. Some are curious but don’t know where to start. Others feel intimidated by what seems wild and risky. Most don’t have the right gear or even know what to get. For these folks, the DOC provides a gateway into the woods.
Leading the Way Take Scarlette Flores, the 2022–23 student-president of the DOC. A city gal from Houston, Texas, Scarlette was not outdoorsy when she arrived in Hanover. She had never hiked up a hill, let alone a 4,000-footer in the Whites. She has now, thanks to the DOC. When Scarlette matriculated at Dartmouth, the world was in the throes of the COVID pandemic. The college was locked down, with mask mandates and social distancing in place. No gatherings were allowed, except for small groups outdoors. 65 Dartmouth College Highway, Lyme, New Hampshire 03768
Two years ago, the DOC added another club called Diversity, Inclusivity, Justice, and Equity (DIJE) to address issues related to inclusivity within the DOC. Scarlette added DIJE to her outdoor resume and proudly points to some of its accomplishments. For example, DIJE created standardized norms at Dartmouth’s climbing gym that benefit beginners and has brought athlete speakers to the college from
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Scarlette, who is Mexican, soon joined a DOC group called People of Color Outdoors (POCO), where she met other Latin students like herself who were first-timers on hiking trails. The DOC became a social outlet in addition to being a source of fresh air and new but doable challenges.
“My friends and I would sign up for a canoe trip,” says Scarlette. “I had been in a canoe before, on a couple of manmade lakes in Texas, so I felt comfortable with that. Plus, all of the DOC’s programs are student-run. Everyone is welcoming. I figured if they can do it, so can I.”
“My first year, we were stuck in our dorms,” recalls Scarlette. “The outdoors was the only thing available in person and not on Zoom. The DOC offered some local trips, like hiking up Gile Mountain or to Velvet Rocks. I was nervous at first, but the DOC made it easy. I could go on a mountain right outside my door.” And climb mountains she did, sometimes in her sneakers and other times using rental gear from the DOC, which students can borrow for free.
At first, Scarlette mainly signed up for outings offered by POCO. Then she tried a climbing trip through the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club (DMC), which is also part of the DOC. The experience was life changing to the point that Scarlette now identifies herself as a climber. Last spring, she went to Arizona with other members of the mountaineering club to test her mettle on more rock.
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While the DOC is first and foremost a college program, its scope goes beyond Dartmouth, benefiting resi dents of the Upper Valley. At Led yard Canoe Club, anyone can rent a canoe or kayak and get out on the Connecticut River. During the fall, if you want to tune up your shooting skills before hunting, Dartmouth’s shooting range, located beside its organic farm, is open to the public by reservation. During the winter, you can rent cross-country skis, snowshoes, and sleds for use on the trails maintained by the DOC on the former golf course and at Oak Hill. When there’s no snow on the ground, many of those ski trails become mountain biking trails, to which the DOC provides passes. The DOC also supports ice skating on Occom Pond during the winter and invites the community to listen to guest speakers who appear periodically at the DOC Year-round,House.ifyou climb any mountains between Hanover and Mount Moosilauke, you’ll trod on trails maintained by the DOC. The DOC keeps up 50 miles of the Appalachian Trail between Ledyard Bridge in Hanover and Route 112 in Woodstock, and a number of side trails. The DOC also maintains and
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“My vision as DOC president is to make the DOC inclusive to everyone,” says Scarlette. “Take me. I went from no experience to running the DOC. I want others to have that path. I also want people to realize not only the physical but also the mental health benefits of getting outdoors and en sure there are scholarships and gear available to those who need it. Mainly, my goal is to get people outside.”
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“The mission of the DOC is to allow as many people as possible to enjoy the outdoors,” says Scarlette. “We have the Connecticut River right here. We share it and teach others about it. It’s hard work to maintain trails, but it allows us to share those spaces and engage in the outdoors together in whatever capacity we can.”
The DOC is an old club that’s been around for 140 years, but it’s an adaptable one, keeping some of its timehonored traditions while discarding others based on what outdoor desires are at the forefront. Ski jumping, which founder Fred Harris so loved, disappeared during the early 1980s, yet the club has maintained the same 50-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail since the 1930s. And as Dartmouth has become more diverse and inclusive, so has the DOC with programs like POCO and DIJE. In 1849, the French writer JeanBaptiste Alphonse Karr coined the phrase “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That’s certainly true about the DOC. While the club has changed, it still offers myriad ways to enjoy the outdoors.
MORE INFO To learn more about the DOC, go to outdoors.dartmouth.edu.Tobrowseupcomingtrips and programs, go to the DOC’s Trailhead portal: doc.dartmouth.edu. Note: Many listings are open to the public. For more info on a specific outing, contact the DOC directly at (603) 646-2429.
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D espite the pandemic—or perhaps because of it—the Norwich Antiques Show has actually grown over the past two years. Sarah Rooker, director of the Norwich Historical Society, expects a strong turnout again this fall. “So many other shows were canceled during COVID, but we were still able to hold ours because of our outdoor space. And it’s grown; we have more dealers and a lot more people coming to it,” Sarah says.
Above: Andrew Katz of Windham Antiques Appraisal Services appraises items. Inset: Live music adds to the charm of the show.
The 18th Annual Norwich Antiques Show takes place on the Norwich Historical Society grounds, inside the white picket fence and wrapping around the Lewis House, on Saturday, September 17, from 10am to 3pm. About 25 juried dealers are scheduled to attend, hand-picked based on the quality of their antiques, which by definition means items 100 years or older. Midday, Andrew Katz will appraise up to three items per person in a presentation format similar to Antiques Roadshow. There will be food, music, a booth run by conservators advising how to care for family heirlooms, and antique businesses from all over the northeast. Instead of a large tent, dealers now set up under individual ones, which allows more room for inventory and is more COVID-friendly. BY Kelly Sennott Steve Lajoie COURTESYOFNORWICHHISTORICALSOCIETY
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“I’m sitting in my living room now, and I’m looking at my rug, and I wonder how many other rooms it sat in. How many other families played on it,” Lori says. “It had a life before you, and it’s going to have a life after you.”
Gail Torkelson, event founder and organizer, says at this point the show runs itself. The dealers are like family, their homes decorated with antiques purchased from one another. Gail has an oriental rug in her dining room she bought from Lori Frandino of Frandino Antique Oriental Rugs. Lori, in turn, has a pine corner cupboard from Gail dating back to the 1600s. The show is a time to catch up and trade and bond over the thing they all have in common: their love for antiques.
“I’m sitting in my living room now, and I’m looking at my rug, and I wonder how many other rooms it sat in. How many other families played on it,” Lori says. “It had a life before you, and it’s going to have a life after you.”
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Toni Prince, owner of the Horse and the Bear, says she and her husband will bring as much that will fit in their eight-foot pickup truck, including antique toys, furniture, and decorative items, the more primitive the better. “It’s hard physical work. We’re 82, and we’re finding it more and more difficult to do big items, so we usually stick with small cupboards, small tables—things we can manage a little more easily,” Toni says. “But Gail’s remarkable. She’s been able to create something so special that the dealers really want to come to. Everyone’s really enthusiastic, and everyone sells well here.”
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People used to say antiques were a dying breed, but Lori says there’s been a resurgence. “It’s the ultimate green purchase. All antiques are,” Lori says. “That’s appealing to younger folks—how friendly it is for the environment to purchase things that were made 200 years ago. I find a lot more younger people at shows than 10 years ago.”
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Lori fell in love with antique oriental rugs for their colors, patterns, history, and durability. She’s been collecting for 45 years, but it’s only her fifth show in Norwich. While not as large as other New England shows, this is one of her favorites for its oldfashioned, relaxed vibe. “A lot of shows can be very hectic. People are barging in. Buyers have to make up their minds quickly,” Lori explains. “With 25 different dealers, there’s plenty of time for people to look around at what they’re interested in.”
The antiques show is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Norwich Historical Society, with proceeds directly supporting society activities including exhibits, educational programming, and the preservation of Norwich’s historic artifacts—photographs, documents, diaries, clothing, all stored in acid-free boxes and cataloged in databases—plus the Lewis House, which dates back to 1807 and acts as a depository, community museum, and meeting place.
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For Sarah Rooker, the show is a quintessential New England fall moment. “I’m not an antiques dealer,” Sarah says. “For me, it’s not fall until I’ve wandered around an antique show with a hot cup of coffee and had my moment exploring the booths.”
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The Legendary Dodds Brothers Hanover High is well-known across New Hampshire for its successful hockey and ski jumping programs. The odds are in their favor any given year to make it to the State Finals, and even for this smallest of Division I schools, to take home a State Championship. The common denominator for these powerhouse teams in recent memory is a Dodds brother as head coach.
Youngest brother (and manager of the Storrs Pond Recreation Area in Hanover) Dick Dodds credits his parents for the three brothers’ dedication to the Hanover sports community. “Both of them were extremely active, and as a family, we were active together,” Dick says. “It was a tremendous childhood. On a typical weekend day, we would all play youth hockey in the morning, and then load up and spend the afternoon skiing. In the summertime, we’d play baseball, and we played golf once or twice a week as a family. My parents were great role models.” Middle brother Tom says they all tried just about every sport when they were younger, but Dick and his brother John went on to focus on hockey in high school, while Tom was a high school and college Nordic combined (cross-country and ski jumping) skier, and all three later returned to Hanover High as coaches.
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The Dodds brothers (from left Dick, Tom, and John) at the James W. CampionIIIRink.
Respect for one another and respect for the officials are priorities. Dick works to forge a team identity. He says, “Every year it’s a little different. The players will each talk about the best traits of the sports teams they have been on—what made that experience good. We then create a roadmap to follow with that information as the season progresses. For example, how we want to be remembered—on and off the ice.”
Dick’s first goal each year for his team is “to create a positive culture of inclusion.” He notes that for many athletes, high school is the first time they will experience a potential four-year age gap between players. “It’s important that everybody feels comfortable,” he says. He wants “every player to be able to stand up on the last day of the season, look each of the other players in the eye, and say ‘Thanks. You are the greatest teammate possible.’”
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Dick’s coaching philosophy is “improvement every day” or IED. He says to the players, “It doesn’t matter if it’s a day we aren’t meeting as a team, do something that makes you a better person, a better community member, or a better family member each day.” When on the ice, Dick tells them, “Enter the game a gentleman and leave it the same way.” He cultivates an awareness in
The 2022–2023 season will be the 40th that Dick Dodds has coached the Hanover High boys’ hockey team. When people praise him for ranking first of all-time in New Hampshire high school hockey team wins, he jokes that it’s only because he’s been around the longest. The Bears have won six D-I Championships with Dick at the helm, and he has been voted Coach of the Year eight times. In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious John Mariucci Award for secondary school coaching. “Of course I’m proud of it all,” he says, “but that’s not at all on my radar when I start a new season.”
DICK DODDS, coach, Hanover High boys' hockey.
Other challenges include dealing with questionable referee calls. One of Dick’s proudest memories as a coach was also one of the most difficult. It was a State Championship game in Manchester and Hanover was top seeded to win. They were in overtime, and their goalie blocked a shot from the other team, only to have the puck slide a little behind him. The officials then called the goal and game for the other team, but after they all shook hands and left the ice, the Channel 9 News team showed Dick video footage that proved that the puck had never gone over the goal line.
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Dick has had the great joy of coaching his actual family as well. His sons Trevor, Patrick, and Alex, as well as his nephew Cody, have all played on his teams, and Alex is currently serving as an assistant coach. The hockey season can be demanding in a lot of ways, both physically and mentally. One of the toughest things for teenagers to adjust to is a practice that starts at 5:45am. Dick says that he tries to “romanticize it, telling the kids that they are the only team that is up at this time.”
Dick’s first goal each year for his team is “to create a posi tive culture of inclusion.” He notes that for many athletes, high school is the first time they will experience a poten tial four-year age gap between players. “It’s important that everybody feels comfortable,” he says. He wants “every player to be able to stand up on the last day of the season, look each of the other players in the eye, and say ‘Thanks. You are the greatest teammate possible.’” his players that they represent their hockey family in everything they do.
The officials said it was too late to change the game outcome. Dick was overwhelmed by emotion; he felt he had let his team down, and it took the words of 18-year-old Captain Jamie Kerrigan to settle him down. Jamie said, “The legacy of our team is really going to depend on how we react to this.” The young man was focused not on the loss, but on preventing something like this from ever happening again. Jamie went on to write a letter to the NHIAA with suggestions for electronic goal judges and extra referees for these games, which they implemented the next year, and Dick couldn’t have been prouder.
John, the Hanover High School girls' ice hockey coach, and Dick, the Hanover boys' team ice hockey coach, spend many hours at the Campion ice rink.
John tells his teams at the beginning of each season that his goal for each of them is that they become better people. A current high scorer, junior Maeve Lee praises her coach for being very supportive of everyone on the team. She says, “He works hard to help bring up the level of play for the least experienced players, and he doesn’t just focus on the best players.”
John says the second ingredient to success is that their “team identity is built around strong work habits and competitive play. The girls are challenged with skill development and pushed to compete in a practice as if it were an important game. It accelerates improvement both in dividually and collectively.”
John says the second ingredient to success is that their “team identity is built around strong work habits and competitive play. The girls are challenged with skill development and pushed to compete in a practice as if it were an important game. It accelerates improvement both individually and collectively.”
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Finally, he says, “we try to play the toughest schedule possible. We play some of the best teams in New England every winter, and we embrace the adversity that comes with these games. We aren’t afraid to lose. It is one way to grow.”
JOHN DODDS, coach, Hanover High girls' hockey.
John says that the success record of his teams over the years comes from a number of factors. “First the girls are expected to have fun,” he says. “We work hard to have efficient, challenging practices, but having fun is important too. We have been fortunate to have very dedicated players who have helped build a team culture that is open, welcoming, and friendly. Our teams are usually very close and feel like a family.” John also credits his assistant coaches for being great role models who connect with the players.
JOHN DODDS Not to be outdone by the boys’ team, the Hanover girls have won 12 State Championships with oldest brother John Dodds at the helm, including the 2021–2022 season. John began coaching Hanover youth hockey in 1994, and after multiple state youth tournament wins, he joined the high school girls’ team coaching staff in 2003 and took over as head coach in 2006. Notably, girls’ teams were first able to compete for a state title starting in 2008, and since then, when they haven’t won, the Hanover girls have played in the quarter or semifinals.
Like his brother Dick, John has been inducted into the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame, and John was also the 2014–2015 Coach of the Year. Both brothers have seen their players go on to play D-1 college hockey, including Mattie Hartman at Northeastern, and Mark Turco and Dan Peraza, who both went on to play at Yale.
However, John also treasures memories of the players who improved the most. One such player, Pepper Joseph (2020) had never played hockey when she contacted him freshmen year about trying out for the team. “We had never taken a player that was so inexperienced,” John says, “but I was impressed with her positive attitude and athleticism. We decided to take a chance with her, and it turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made! Pepper just loved hockey. If we had a 5:30am practice, she was on the ice just after I opened the rink at 5am, using the extra time to work on her skating and skill development.” Although Pepper rarely played in a game her first year, “she improved quickly and her work ethic was a great example for her teammates.” She and her line mates cheered on the other players. They brought “a loud and positive energy to our bench. It made a difference to all of our players.”
By her senior year, Pepper earned “a regular shift” during games. “She was fast and tenacious. Her competitive spirit compensated for her lack of experience. As a coach, Pepper’s success and love for the game made me proud. I think stories like Pepper’s are one reason I continue to coach.” Recently, Pepper emailed John saying she just wanted to let him know how much she missed playing hockey for Hanover.
TOM DODDS Tom Dodds, who unlike his brothers picked snow over ice, says one of his areas of focus as a coach is on his athletes’ emotional growth, which, for the challenging sport of ski jumping, includes confronting the fears and anxiety “associated with sitting on the start bar at the top of the hill.”“As jumpers advance, they take on progressively bigger hills,” Tom explains. “The coach is there halfway down the hill, but that first jump on a bigger hill can feel very lonely. One of the beauties of coaching ski jumping is helping them deal with that fear. These strategies become applicable in other aspects of their lives as well.”
TOM DODDS, coach, Hanover High ski jumping team.
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Tom encourages his athletes to understand how fear mani fests in their bodies, which can provide “a unique win dow into their mindsets.” He lets them know that fear is okay and normal, and that they can work through it.
“I worry if they don’t have those emotions. The people who say they aren’t afraid may actually be hiding something that will impede their performance,” Tom says
Tom encourages his athletes to understand how fear manifests in their bodies, which can provide “a unique window into their mindsets.” He lets them know that fear is okay and normal, and that they can work through it. “I worry if they don’t have those emotions. The people who say they aren’t afraid may actually be hiding something that will impede their per formance,” Tom says. “I also enjoy helping the kids cope with the stress of competition.” Without strategies to cope with the stress of perfor mance, he notes that “some athletes never quite execute in competition as well as they do at practices.” As a retired DHMC anesthesiology chair, Tom has valuable experience in the stress response of the human body. He teaches some athletes breathing exercises to help them deal with the increased adrenaline.
John, Dick, and Tom relax at the foot of the Roger Burt Memorial Ski Jump at Oak HIll. Tom coaches the Hanover High School ski jumping team.
One thing that Tom has found gratifying over the years is working with dedicated athletes who stay late after practice to improve their skills, or who came in their free time to help him work on the hills,
The brothers all feel that fam ily is the most important part of their lives. Dick says that “family is so helpful in developing who we are.” He also credits the town of Hanover. “It’s fairly unique that all three of us came back after col lege to stay in Hanover,” he says. “It speaks volumes about our commu nity and our family and what a great place it is to raise kids and a great place to grow up.” H
Tom directed and coached the Ford Sayre ski jumping program for nine years before serving as a coach for the Hanover High ski jumping team so far for 12 seasons, during which time they have won the championship five times and been runners up another five times. He was inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame in 2021. Some of his athletes have gone on to compete for the East at the Junior Nationals, and Tom’s son Cooper Dodds was also a US Junior World team member. For the past two years, Cooper has joined Tom as an assistant coach for the team, which Tom says is “a partnership that works re ally well.” He credits Cooper with “doing a great job connecting with young athletes and helping them understand the feeling of flying.”
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“I have vivid memories of Sam aspiring to jump a bigger jump than is typical for the high school circuit, so I took him over to the 50-meter jump in Lebanon,” Tom says. “Un fortunately, the conditions at the top of the hill were not safe, but Sam was not going to be denied. He and I put in several hours of work, and, ultimately, we both got the treat of flying that hill!”
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Then and now: Webster Cottage in 1954 and today. The plaque outside the cottage reads “In this house Daniel Webster of the class of 1801 lived during a part of his student days in Dartmouth College. Here also was born February 20, 1822 Henry Fowle Durant Founder of Wellesley College” Opposite page: Wentworth Street at North College Street, where Rauner Library now sits on the corner, undated. Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library. 1954 2022Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library.
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For many outsiders—and residents, too—it’s very difficult to think of Hanover without thinking of Dartmouth College. But, while the lives of the town and college are truly intertwined, they are still separate entities and anything but twins. For one thing, the township of Hanover is older than Dartmouth College (which almost wound up in Haverhill, New Hampshire, instead). And, though Dartmouth has acquired more fame and many famous alumni, Hanover’s history has many high points and successful residents of its own.
Webster Cottage is an example of how famous names can overshadow people who were just as interesting. Daniel Webster lived in the building only during his senior year at Dartmouth (1800–01). The house itself was built on land that Eleazar Wheelock gave to his daughter Abigail in 1774 for her dowry. She lived there all-told for 14 years, raising a family on a working farm, carrying on after her minister husband’s early death in a sleighing accident, and finally taking on boarders to make ends meet. This resilient woman was Webster’s landlady.
No one is more aware of this bifurcated history than the members of the Hanover Historical Society, whose museum is the venerable Webster Cottage (located on the Dartmouth campus) but whose purview is the story of the entire town, including the thousands of years of preColonial history when this region was home solely to Native Americans. For the past several years, under the guidance of President Cyndy Bittinger, the society has been fleshing out the combined historical record by focusing on less well-known residents and those groups who have historically been disregarded: women, Native Americans, and Blacks.
Top: Members of the board of the Hanover Historical Society include (from left) Betsy Gonnerman, Cyndy Bittinger, Susan Boyle, Alan Callaway, and Christine Eickelman. Missing from the photo are Bob Keene and Teresa Oden.
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In the 19th century, there was a series of tenants and owners in the cottage, which in one period was known as Mrs. Smith’s Tavern (she was also a widow) and in another as Miss McMurphy’s Boarding House. In fact, there were two Miss McMurphys, aunt and niece, who owned the cottage and boarded students from 1853 until 1900. The college purchased the 120-yearold house shortly after the younger Miss McMurphy died and rented it in 1902 to Professor Prescott Orde Skinner and his wife, Alice Van Leer Carrick. During their 50-year-plus tenancy, the college moved the cottage (and them) across the road and a little farther north. Sometime during that period it acquired the name
Center: Tourists take in the Sanborn parlor. A cradle-settee is featured with stenciling and vase slates.
Bottom: The kitchen features a pine dry sink with a copper dipper, wooden mortar and pestle, dough bowl, and wooden spoon. At the top of the photo is a map of Hanover, circa 1855.
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Clockwise from top: The kitchen with the bicentennial quilt of 1961 made by members of the Hanover Center Women’s Fellowship. At the fireplace is a musket, “Brown Bess,” a wooden wagon jack, an early 19th century footwarmer, a large iron kettle, and a large iron bucket. The fireplace holds a small steel yard scale and mid 19th century iron “fire dogs.” A double bull’s-eye whale oil lamp. The Webster library holds Daniel Webster’s desk as Secretary of State with a bronze toga-clad figure holding a writing tablet with two bronze urns on top of the desk, a wooden sander, an iron ink stand, and a small framed engraving and autograph of Daniel Webster. In the North Bedchamber are a yarn winder with weasel counter, a small stained pine trunk with a domed top, a spinning wheel, a two-door stained secretary, and a white birch ladder-back chair. The Durant Bedchamber houses a baby’s cradle of stained pine, a chest of drawers from 1840, a mahogany bed with unusual sleigh sideboards, a pre-1847 double tapestry bedspread of linen and wool in lover’s knot pattern, and an oriental rug.
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Webster cottage is only one facet of the Hanover Historical Society’s activities. They also publish several historical booklets, including a history of the cottage’s residents and a selfguided walking tour of Hanover’s remaining 18th- and early 19th-century houses. They are an annual presence
1973 Hanover residents vote to assume responsibility for the operating budget of the Howe Library. A new library is built on town property. 1984 Advance Transit is founded to offer free transportation services to the Upper Valley communities.CourtesyofDartmouthCollegeLibrary.
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Ms. Carrick-Skinner was also the final tenant, staying on almost a decade after Professor Skinner’s death in 1950. She eventually moved away to live with relatives and died in 1961. That year, the college decided the cottage should be a museum.Atourof the cottage is something like a curated step back in time. Volunteer docents, all members of the historical society, greet you at the door and take you around or provide an artifact list for a self-guided tour. The ell is gone, but the cottage retains much of its 18thcentury interior design and many of the antiques Carrick-Skinner collected, along with maps, documents, samplers, portraits, old photos, and artifacts from other donors with some connection to the college or town. Most recently, the Dunfee family donated a striking portrait of Daniel Webster painted by French artist Joseph-Désiré Court (1797–1865). The Rauner Library serves as archive for the society, and about half of the HHS artifacts are technically “on loan from the Hood Museum.”
1900 Howe Library opens on West Wheelock Street in the former home of Wheelock.Eleazar 1922 incorporatesImprovementHanoverAssociationandopensHanover’sfirstandonlymovietheater.
of Webster Cottage, along with the bronze plaque that says so. Meanwhile, Alice Skinner became a self-taught expert in American antiques, furnished the cottage with them, and published seven books about antiquing under her maiden name, including The Next to Nothing House, describing the cottage and its contents. She traveled throughout the country giving lectures. By coincidence, she was landlady to the cottage’s final boarders, which included another Daniel Webster (of no relation to the famous one).
1931 The original Church of Christ at Dartmouth burns to the ground in a spectacular fire.
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HANOVER Approx. 11,000 BC Paleoindians arrive in what will become the Connecticut River valley.
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1991 Dartmouth Medical School and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital open a new facility on land in Lebanon. The main part of the old hospital is imploded in 1995. 2001 After a long construction period, the new Ledyard Bridge opens amidst much controversy over the decorative “bridge balls.”
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2022 Hanover Historical Society reopens Webster Cottage to visitors. Entry is free. 1791 All residents of Hanover are required to have a bucket of water inside by 9pm in case of fire. 1800
1854 The unpopular old toll Norwich“mysteriously”bridgeburns,leavingHanover-trafficdependentonferriesagain. 1836 It is the custom for local animals to graze out of town during the day and then be brought into town for the night and kept on the Green. “unpleasantnessdislikeStudentstheunderfoot.”
1944 The Nugget Theater explodes and burns to the ground. The replacement, built on its current location, opens in 1951. 1959 Rail service to Hanover and Norwich ends. 1961
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1962 First traffic light comes to Hanover at the corner of Wheelock and Main Street. 1966 The backmovescollegeWebsterCottageasecondtime,acrossthestreetandstillfarthernorth.
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During the COVID period, the society was forced to close the cottage and host all of its presentations on Zoom. Topics ranged from the 100-year history of the New Hampshire primary (asking, is it still as important as it was?) to the extensive archaeology of the long-term presence of the Abenaki and a history of the women’s suffrage movement.TheCOVID shutdowns also proved a good time to research local stories— the history of Keene’s Lodge in Etna— and also the histories of Hanover women, including Grace Hill, who brought classes in movement, fitness, and dance for women to the Upper Valley, and Jean Lande Hennessey, whose many achievements in public
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The society hosts an annual visit to Webster Cottage by the fourthgraders from the district’s schools (always including a round of “Guess what this artifact is for?”), and since 2018 has presented an annual $1,000 Senior Award for Excellence in Social Studies to a graduating student chosen by the Social Studies faculty at Hanover High School. The award is funded by donations and fees charged for some of the events. (The society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.)
in Hanover’s Fourth of July parade, and every year collaborate with the Howe and Etna libraries to mount exhibits and present several programs about local history and people. They also co-host an annual event at the Norwich Historical Society. A few years ago, they began partnering with CATV to record all of the presentations and make them available online. Past presentations included the histories of the Nugget Theater, Storrs Pond, and the Skating Club at Dartmouth; a viewing of Websterrelated items in Rauner’s special collections; and a tour of midcentury modern homes in Hanover, which filled quickly with eager members.
FALL 2022 • HERE IN HANOVER 69 service were described by her daughter Martha. The society also managed to hold one in-person event: a tour of the Hanover cemetery.TheHanover Historical Society’s most important COVID project, however, was the creation of its website, hanoverhistory.org, funded by its first-ever federal grant through New Hampshire Humanities.Amongthe site’s many educational offerings are a historical timeline of the town and college, brief bios of historical residents, an archive of past presentations, and a virtual tour of Webster Cottage. Much of the text was prepared by Hanover High student Katie Stannard, and the virtual tour was created by alumna LizPost-pandemic,Rooker. the society is restarting in-person presentations, combined with Zoom and recorded for the website archive by CATV. The Hanover Historical Society has a completely volunteer staff and a small but dedicated membership. According to President Cyndy Bittinger, the biggest benefit of membership is advance notice of the many presentations; the tours in particular fill up quickly. It’s also a good way for people interested in local history to learn more while supporting a worthwhile organization. The membership fee, purposefully kept low to encourage others to join, is only $10 per year. In Daniel Webster’s senior year, $10 would have been about 30 cents. Given the rich, interwoven history of the town and the college, it’s a real bargain in any era. H Hanover Historical Society PO Box hanoverhistory.orgHanover,142NH
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Not in New England anymore: Alison, Gunnar, and Ingrid Aiken gaze down at the Colorado from Shafer Canyon Overlook, Dead Horse Point State Park.
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Clockwise from top: Delicate Arch and the Lasal Mountains at sunrise, Gunnar observes a new day dawning. Ingrid knows how to stay cool in the desert. The panel of petraglyphs at Wolfe Ranch on the Delicate Arch trail shows bighorn sheep and riders on horseback.
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WILL HOME STILL BE BEAUTIFUL? Our reasoning behind the predawn hike is threefold. One, it’s consistent with our “new experiences” theme. Two, we want to see an iconic American landmark minus the crowds. And three, many of the nation’s national parks, Arches included, have shifted to a timed entry reservation system. (The resulting lines at the park entry—20 to 40 minutes on average—are an improvement over the hourslong waits that were occurring prior to the new system.) Reservations aren’t required, however, if you arrive before the park opens at 6am, and the lines then are nonexistent. Sunrise at Delicate sounds great, we decided. Near the end of the trail, a sheer red butte rises, hiding Delicate. We round the corner, and Gun nar stops short; Alison draws in a breath. Before us, the 46-foot Delicate Arch rises a hundred feet away surrounded by a smooth, sheer, natural red rock amphitheater with the snowcapped La Sal Mountains in the distance. Behind us, the sun peeks above the desert horizon in the east. Gunnar takes my hand, genuine concern on his face. “I’m afraid I won’t think home is beautiful anymore,” he says. Home for Gunnar is Vermont—in my opinion, one of Earth’s most beautiful places. But I get his gist: the scene in front of us—the barren and rocky expanses, the rugged landscape, the color palettes—is like nothing he has witnessed in his almost decade-long life. Rather than answering, I let him process what his sensory receptors are taking in.
The trail to Delicate Arch, located in Arches Na tional Park, isn’t remote; in a few hours, throngs of camera-toting, water-bottle-sipping, sunhatwearing tourists will hike the three-mile round trip trail marked every hundred or so feet with rock cairns. For now, however, it’s just us and the stars, and it takes a moment—and a bit of concen tration—to find the next cairn. “Are we lost?” Gunnar and Ingrid say again.
So when my wife Alison and I pause to make sure we’re still on course, they assume the worst. Gunnar and Ingrid are as experienced as any nine- and six-year-old hikers. But they’re New England hikers, and well-worn forested paths in the daytime along streams or stone walls are different from barren Utah slickrock by headlamp. In airports, in our camper van—pretty much until now—the kids’ excitement for this trip has manifested in the form of singing songs with made-up lyrics. Those joyful sounds have stopped. As their disquiet moves toward panic, Alison and I remember: we’re on a Southwest camping and hiking odyssey to expose our family to new experiences. Slickrock, night hiking, not to mention the idea that parents don’t have every answer instantly, are all new to our kids. The Aiken family in Utah.
“Are we lost?” My kids have never hiked in the dark before, let alone in the Utah desert.
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Clockwise from top left: Gunnar navigates the slot at Little Wild Horse Canyon. Goofy hikers begin to feel more at home in the desert. Alison makes coffee behind the van on a chillymorning,desert Opposite: Ingrid explores the campsitesurroundingdesertanearMoab. 74 FIND HERE IN HANOVER AT WWW.GREATERUPPERVALLEY.COM
A TWO-YEAR DELAY
“I’m going to touch the Arch,” Gunnar declares. “Let’s go,” I say, and we make our way across the amphitheater.
Our trip was supposed to happen in 2020. As both of our employers shut down and public schools closed in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, we clung to our reservations and flights. Camper van life might jive well during a pandemic (espe cially with no school to miss)—or so we thought. Just three weeks before our departure, Arches closed in the face of crushing crowds of similarly thinking people. (Of the National Park Service’s 419 parks, monuments, and landmarks, 224 closed completely during the pandemic.) Utah would have to wait; outdoor exploration would be con fined to our own neighborhood. I had been particularly enthusiastic for the Utah desert trip; a lifelong Vermonter, I lived for nine years in the Southwest. As Gunnar digests the landscape, I recall spending my twenties (an other impressionable age) roaming the Southwest as an environmental educator, wilderness and whitewater guide, and ski instructor. It had been my first independent experience away from home, and my first real exposure to the idea that the world lacks simple, straightforward solutions as I learned about issues around water rights, land access, conservation, ranching, agriculture, and ancestral lands, all central in the American West. The sun rises, and my family exhales. For a moment, it’s just us experiencing a magical place. I wish everything were always that simple. For now, our biggest issue was Gunnar’s: the idea that there may be places on earth bigger, wilder, more mysterious, and possibly (depending on one’s per spective) more beautiful than home. It takes a few minutes, and then the sun illuminates Delicate.
IT’S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT
We rented a Dodge Ram Promaster camper van— dubbed “IndyVANa Jones” by Native Camper vans, the rental outfit we used—in Salt Lake City. Equipped with a camp stove, a Yeti cooler, a roof top tent, and a bed inside for the kids, Indy served as our home on wheels as we stayed in dispersed campsites on BLM land (that’s Bureau of Land Management) and at state parks like Dead Horse Point and Goblin Valley.
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“It’s going to be different,” Alison had warned me, noting that I lived in Utah 20 years ago. “What hasn’t changed?” I wondered. Back then I drove a 1986 Chevy, I lived mostly on Ramen noodles, and my only instruction manual was a battered Edward Abbey paperback. She wasn’t talking about me, however; she meant the Southwest and everything I remembered about it. In many ways, she was right; for example, it seemed the whole world had camper vans like our rental, and everyone was heading for the hills. The world has discovered the value of outdoor adventure, and this brings its own issues and challenges. We camp the last night in a side can yon in Goblin Valley on the outskirts of the San Rafael Swell, a 130,000 squaremile BLM-managed tract of buttes, mesas, pinnacles, abandoned mines, slot canyons, and four-wheel roads.
Gunnar and Ingrid immediately leave to explore hoodoos and towers of red dish-brown dirt while we cook dinner on the stove behind Indy. The menu for the night: chana masala and rice. While Alison and I cook, we hear the kids as they explore and voice imaginary friends. Occasionally, they sing. The next morning we explore Little Wild Horse Canyon. It’s been a long week, and the kids are quiet as we
FALL 2022 • HERE IN HANOVER 77 start down a dry wash. The creek bed descends into the earth until the walls tower a hundred feet on either side of a shoulder-width canyon. Reinvigorated, the voices of the imaginary friends rejoin us as the kids run back and forth through the slot. The characters and voices are the same as those we typically hear in our own living room among the LEGOs and Magna-Tiles toys. Our kids feel at home here. Our goals when we first imagined this trip, before the pandemic delayed us, and before we finally rebooked two years later, had been to expose our family to unfamiliar territory. To show our kids that they can thrive outside their usual element. To leave computers, toys, and (some) conveniences behind. Ingrid bursts past me at a full gallop singing one of her songs at the top of her lungs. “Peace and love and prosperity and nature!” she sings. I look at Alison and laugh. Mission accomplished. H Alison roadsidedinnerpreparesinherkitchen.
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Families across the country, in bustling big cities and quaint small towns, sat down to a casserole at least once a week. Make that twice—one of the best things about a casserole is that it’s good for at least two dinners.
BY Susan Nye
If you are of a certain age or maybe any age, the casserole was one of your mom’s favorite answers to “what’s for supper?”
Anyway, midcentury casseroles were a favorite way to reinvent leftovers. They were also a way to make hearty, inexpensive dinners with a pound of ground meat or a can of tuna, a cup or two of vegetables, and, more often than not, some rice, potatoes, or pasta. In most cases, a can of Campbell’s condensed soup and some cheese held it all However,together.casseroles were around long before the Campbell Test Kitchen invented Tuna Wiggle and introduced a can of onion rings to some frozen green beans. For centuries, cassoulet has been bubbling in French kitchens, Italian nonas have been making lasagna, and Greek cooks have been layering eggplant into moussaka. All three of these well-loved dishes fall in our top 10 favorite fall comfort foods—but all of them take a lot of time and effort. This fall, for a midweek supper or a gang over the holiday weekend, think hearty, quick, and easy. Get out your favorite casserole dish, toss together your pick of ingredients, and bake until bubbling and golden.
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5. Cook the pasta according to package directions, less 1 minute, and drain.
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4. Meanwhile, lightly coat a skillet with olive oil, add the onion and mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until the onion is translucent. Add the garlic and sauté for about 2 minutes more.
1. Preheat the oven to 375°. Lightly butter a large casserole dish. 2. Make the Béchamel Sauce. Whisking frequently, cool the sauce in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes. 3. Put the sour cream, white wine, and 1½ teaspoons Italian herbs in a large bowl and whisk to combine. A little at a time, whisk the Béchamel Sauce into the sour cream. Add 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and whisk to combine.
¼tspKoshernutmegsalt and freshly ground pepper Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add the flour and cook, whisking continuously, for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the milk. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, whisking often, until the sauce thickens slightly, about 5 minutes. Whisk in the nutmeg and add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Add the turkey, sautéed vegetables, peas, and pasta to the sauce and toss to combine. Transfer everything to the prepared baking
TURKEY TETRAZZINI
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1 cup sour cream ½ cup dry white wine 2 tsp dried Italian herbs 4 oz (2 cups) freshly grated ParmigianoReggiano cheese, divided Olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 1 lb mushrooms, trimmed and chopped Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper 2 cloves garlic, minced 12–16 oz spaghetti 4 cups bite-sized pieces cooked turkey 2 cups frozen peas ½ cup panko breadcrumbs
A great way to use up some of the leftover Thanksgiving turkey. By the way and for the record, my mother would have used a can of condensed mushroom soup with some milk instead of Béchamel Sauce. Feel free to make the Servesswap.8Béchamel Sauce or 2 cans condensed mushroom soup mixed with 1 can whole milk
7.dish.Put the breadcrumbs and remaining Parmigiano-Reggiano and herbs in a bowl, season with salt and pepper, and whisk to combine. Drizzle with a little olive oil and whisk again. Sprinkle the casserole with the cheesy breadcrumbs. Can be made ahead to this point, covered, and refrigerated. Bring to room temperature before 8.baking.Bake the casserole at 375° until piping hot and golden, about 45 minutes. If it browns too quickly, lightly cover with aluminum foil.
3 Tbsp butter
4½ Tbsp all-purpose flour
Béchamel Sauce
3 cups whole milk
3. Cook the pasta according to package directions, less 2 minutes. Saving a little pasta water, drain the pasta and then rinse under cold water. Drain well and return to the pot.
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1½ lb ground beef 1 quart marinara sauce, homemade or your favorite store-bought 1½ lb frozen chopped spinach 1 cup sour cream Butter 1 lb short pasta: cavatappi, penne, or rigatoni 12 oz ricotta cheese 12 oz mozzarella, shredded 4 oz Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
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2. Preheat the oven to 375°. Lightly butter a large casserole.
5. Transfer the pasta to the prepared casserole dish. You can make ahead to this point, cover, and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before baking.
6. Cover and bake the casserole at 375° for 30 minutes. Uncover, sprinkle with the remaining cheeses, and continue baking for 15 minutes more or until piping hot and golden. Homemade Marinara Makes about 1 quart Olive oil ½ large onion, finely chopped 2 tsp dried Italian herbs Pinch or to taste crushed red pepper (optional) Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 3 cloves garlic, minced ½ cup dry red wine 3 cups (28-oz can) crushed tomatoes 1 bay leaf 1. Put a little olive oil in a saucepan and heat over medium. Add the onion, sprinkle with Italian herbs and pepper flakes, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until translucent. Add the garlic and sauté 2 minutes more. Add the wine and simmer until reduced by half.
2. Add the crushed tomatoes and bay leaf and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 30 to 45 minutes. Cool to room temperature and remove the bay leaf.
1. Heat a large saucepan over mediumhigh heat. Add the ground beef and, breaking the meat up into bite-sized pieces, cook until nicely browned. Add the marinara sauce and spinach and stir to combine. Remove from the heat and cool to room temperature. Add the sour cream and stir to combine.
POVERTY CASSEROLE
This dish is perfect for feeding a horde of hungry hikers or skiers. My brother dubbed it Poverty Casserole in honor of every young couple juggling kids and jobs with that first mortgage, student loans, utility bills, and everything else.
4. Add the meat and spinach sauce and ricotta to the pasta and toss to combine. If the pasta seems dry, add some pasta water. Sprinkle the pasta with about M of each cheese and toss again.
Olive oil
1 cup sour cream
½ Tbsp fresh thyme leaves
1 Tbsp fresh chopped rosemary
8 oz (2 cups) freshly grated cheddar cheese
8. Add the sauce to the chicken and broccoli and toss to combine. Transfer everything to the prepared baking dish. You can make ahead to this point, cover, and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before 9.baking.Cover and bake the casserole at 375° for 30 minutes. Uncover and sprinkle with the
3. If necessary, add a little more olive oil to the skillet. Add the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until golden. Add the mushrooms to the chicken and onion, toss to combine, and cool to room 4.temperature.Putthebroccoli and 1 cup water in the pan, cover, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and steam for 5 minutes if using fresh broccoli and 3 minutes for frozen. Drain the broccoli, add it to the bowl with the chicken, and toss to combine.
2 lb fresh or frozen broccoli, cut in bite-sized florets Classic Velouté Sauce or 1 can condensed chicken or mushroom soup mixed with ¾–1 can chicken broth
2. Add a little more olive oil to the skillet if needed and heat over medium. Add the onion, season with salt and pepper, and sauté until translucent. Add the garlic and sauté 1 to 2 minutes more. Add the onion and garlic to the chicken.
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6. Put the sour cream, sherry, and herbs in a bowl and whisk to combine. Add M of the cheeses and whisk again. A little at a time, whisk the Velouté Sauce into the cheesy sour cream and set aside.
2 lb boneless, skinless chicken Kosherbreast salt and freshly ground pepper 1 onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 lb mushrooms, thinly sliced CHICKEN DIVAN Chicken, broccoli, and cheese come together for a classic casserole. Again, my mom would have used a can of condensed mushroom or chicken soup with a little milk instead of Velouté Sauce. Feel free to make the swap.
5. Make the Velouté Sauce.
1 oz (½ cup) freshly grated ParmigianoReggiano cheese
7. Preheat the oven to 375°. Lightly butter a large casserole.
1. Heat a little olive oil in a skillet over medium-high. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and add it to the skillet. Reduce the temperature to medium and cook for 4 to 5 minutes. Turn the chicken and cook for 4 to 5 minutes more. Remove from the heat, cool to room temperature, and cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Place the chicken in a large bowl and reserve.
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¼cup dry sherry
Velouté Sauce
2 Tbsp butter
GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE
1. Preheat the oven to 350°. Stir the soup, milk, soy sauce, beans, and M cup onions in a 1½ -quart casserole. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.
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1 can (10½ oz) Campbell’s Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup ½ cup milk 1 tsp soy sauce 4 cups cooked cut green beans 1 L cups French’s French Fried Onions, divided Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
2. Bake for 25 minutes or until hot. Stir the bean mixture. Sprinkle with the remaining M cup onions.
3. Bake for another 5 minutes or until the onions are golden brown.
Classic Green Bean Casserole
2½ Tbsp all-purpose flour 2 cups chicken broth ¼tspKoshernutmegsalt and freshly ground pepper Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add the flour and cook, whisking continuously, for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the broth and bring to a simmer over mediumhigh heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, whisking often, until the sauce thickens slightly, about 5 minutes. Whisk in the nutmeg and add salt and pepper to taste.
Dorcas Reilly invented the Green Bean Casserole in 1955 in the Campbell Test Kitchen in Camden, New Jersey. One of the first employees in the company’s Home Economics Department, she dubbed her creation the Green BeanWhileBake.itwas created for every day, the Green Bean Casserole soon became a holiday favorite. Thanks to Dorcas, roughly 50 percent of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup sales occur in the final few months of the year. You can find this well-loved side dish on around 20 million Thanksgiving tables.Along with the light bulb, telephone, airplane, and microprocessor, you can find Dorcas’ original Green Bean Bake recipe card in the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio. And by the way, the recipe works with almost any vegetable. Try swapping out the beans for broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, or carrots.
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BY Katherine P. Cox
“Fillers are basically products that are injected into tissue to restore the volume that is lost as we age,” says Dr. Andre Berger, cosmetic dermatologist and founder of Rejuvalife Vitality Center of Beverly Hills. “As we age, a number of things hap pen to us. Our skin gets thinner, we lose some of the fat below the skin, our mus cles atrophy, and our bones shrink. Fillers restore youthfulness in appearance or correct asymmetry in appearance, which also enhances attractiveness.”
A Nonsurgical Refresh THE PROS AND CONS OF FILLERS
FILLERS VERSUS INJECTABLES
Fillers are used by people of all ages, not just those who are older. “Younger people want to do something that will make them feel better about themselves or make them feel more attractive. That comes from social media and peer influence. Our whole concept of beauty and attractiveness is evolving and changing because the infor mation is changing,” Dr. Berger says. “Fillers are different from Botox. Botox is not a filler. Some other injectables like IN OUR EFFORTS TO SCALE BACK THE EFFECTS OF TIME ON OUR APPEARANCE, we have many tools that can make us look and feel younger. It’s important, however, to understand procedures and products and the pros and cons of aesthetic treatments beforehand. Fillers are one popular way to turn back time without surgery or other invasive procedures.
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• There can be a little bit of bruising and swelling.
Fillers are not going to fix everything. If a patient has very thin, lax skin, fillers may not get them to where they want to be, Dr. Berger says.
“Rule of thumb is that as you age, you’ll need more product because you’re losing more volume. When you’re young, a little will go a long way,” Dr. Berger says. “Patients have to understand that they should not treat fillers as a commodity. Fillers are products that have to be used a certain way by a skilled practitioner to get them an appearance that they desire.”
• It can take time to take effect.
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• Results are temporary, and some products last longer than others.
They generally all stimulate collagen. It’s a nonsurgical procedure. They create a youthful appearance and enhance attractiveness.
• It can be a significant investment. Costs vary but range from $450 to $850 for each syringe, and depending on age, issue, procedure, and product, could require several syringes of filler. It depends on how much volume needs to be restored, Dr. Berger says.
GETTING THE RIGHT RESULTS
• It’s fast and painless.
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The longest lasting hyaluronic acid fillers will last between one and a half and two years, Dr. Berger says. Others last for up to one year.
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He advises people to look in the mirror and examine what it is about their appearance that bothers them. What is
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• It’s not always a one-time procedure; it could take a few attempts to get the result you want.
Things to Consider Sculptra are not fillers, but rather bio stimulators. Injectables include either neurotoxins like Botox or true fillers like hyaluronic acid fillers such as Restylane and Juvederm.” Fillers have a lot in common, he says, but can differ in their specific properties. Using a car anal ogy, Dr. Berger says each model car offers something different to the driver. Likewise, each brand of fillers has differentRestalyneproperties.isnowa whole family of hyaluronic products: Restylane Refyne, Defyne, Lyft, Silk, Contour, and Kyss, Dr. Berger says. Juvederm also has a variety of hyaluronic fillers: Ultra Volbella, Voluma, and more. There are other types of fillers that contain different materials such as Radiesse and Bellalfill, which is long lasting and is collagen based.
• It can make your skin-care routine more effective.
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Bellafill, on the other hand, could last three to five years.
Benefits can go beyond aesthetics; it can improve your mental state if you feel good about your appearance.
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LIVING WELL it they don’t like? What we see in the mirror is different than how others perceive us, Dr. Berger says, and we focus on all the things we don’t like.
When consulting with a professional, consider what the doctor identifies as being obstacles to a youthful appearance; what has aging done that detracts? “We’re not trying to make a 60-year-old look like a 20-year-old. We just want to get people refreshed, to look better and not to look ‘done,’” Dr. Berger says. Fillers can be used from head to toe, he says, but the face is the more popular place to replace volume and fix symmetry—forehead, temple, cheeks, eyebrows. Proportions should be equal and that includes the chin area. “Improving the chin is huge in terms of appearance. As we age our jawlines lose definition and we want to show a good transition between the jaw and the neck.”
Patients should discuss that with the injector,” Dr. Berger says. “Remember, less is more and you always can add and adjust things. It’s like a sculptor who starts with a slab and works a little, takes a look, works a little more, and eventually he comes up with a masterpiece.”
There’s a lot that can be done with fillers, “but you have to select the right filler with the right properties for the right area to get the right result,” Dr. Berger says, and finding a trained, knowledgeable injector is important.
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“The best treatment is one where you don’t look done; it’s a natural result that does not make you look like a different person or a caricature. You want people to come up to you and say, ‘you look so rested and refreshed’ as opposed to ‘what did you have done?’
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Bolas de Fuego: Culture and Conflict in Central America draws from the Hood Museum’s limited collections to tell stories of communities from the following countries: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama.
September 24–March 19, 2023 Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined Ink Reimagined is a groundbreaking solo exhibition of contemporary Korean ink painter Park Dae Sung’s Octoberworks.1–December 17 Femme Is Fierce: Femme Queer Gender Performance in Photography This exhibition celebrates various ways that femme performance is depicted in photography.
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October 1–December 17 Embodied: Artist as Medium By dressing, posing, and digitally manipulating their bodies in specific ways, the artists in this exhibition comment on issues ranging from objectification and societal expectations to racial violence and the ethnographic gaze.
Through September 25, 2022 Bolas de Fuego: Culture and Conflict in Central America
September 3–December 4 Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala Madayin, the first major exhibition of Aboriginal bark paintings to tour the United States, presents one of Australia’s most unique contributions to global contemporary art.
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Through April 30, 2023 Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design This exhibit draws from the Hood Museum’s permanent collections to create dialogue between historical, modern, and contemporary works made by Indigenous North American artists. Park Dae Sung painting Mount Geumgang in Winter, 2018, at his studio in Gyeong, Korea. Image courtesy Gana Foundation for Arts and Culture. The Hood Museum of Art is free and open to all. Public programs are free unless otherwise Hours:noted.
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Yolnu artists discuss the practice of bark painting and the significance of sharing their artistic and cultural practices with audiences in the United States. Gilman Auditorium, 2–4pm September 28 Conversations and Connections: Madayin
24 Family Day: Kinship in Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting Join this drop-in program to learn about how the Yolnu people in northern Australia express the power and beauty of their culture through the medium of eucalyptus bark painting. No registration required for this free program.
September 22 Introductory Tour: Madayin
Join us for the official opening ceremony of our latest exhibition, Madayin, led by a delegation of Yolnu artists and cultural ambassadors from Yirrkala, NT, Australia.
24 Artists in Conversation: Madayin
September4:30–6pm
September1–4pm
October12:30–1:30pm1,29, November 16 Hood Highlight Tours
Join us for in-person tours of the museum galleries. Meet in the Russo Atrium five minutes before the start time. No registration necessary.
September7–8pmdetails! 23 Opening Ceremony and Reception
September12:30–1:30pm22 Livestreamed Lecture: “Yolnu at Heart: A Model for Intercultural Collaboration” Visit the Hood’s website for streaming
October 1 & 29, 2pm; November 16, 12:30pm FALL EVENTS
A Space for Dialogue: Nothing Gold Can Stay
HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm September 23–24 Camille A. Brown & Dancers
FALL EVENTS
The Dr. Allen W. Root Contemporary Art Distinguished Lectureship Join contemporary Korean ink painter Park Dae Sung for a facilitated discussion of the artist’s inspiring career and groundbreaking works. Livestream available. See our website for details! Gilman Auditorium, 5–6pm November 4 Korea Foundation Conference: International Symposium on Contemporary Korean Art Three panels will explore the topics of Korean art movements from the 1980s to the present, Korean feminist art and work of Nam June Paik, Korean media art, and the history of Korean design. Gilman Auditorium, 1–5pm November 9 Virtual Conversations and Connections: Artist Nomusa Makhubu
Join artist Nomusa Makhubu and Isadora Italia, curator of the exhibition Embodied: Artist as Medium, as they discuss Makhubu’s Self Portrait Project (2007/2013), the truthfulness of images, and the power of performative photography.
An Evening with Anthony Borowitz Laugh and cry as the razor-sharp satirist takes us on an uproarious examination
Manchester Collective “Sirocco” Featuring Abel Selaocoe & Chesaba Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm October 11
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12:30–1:30 pm October 19 Gallery Talk: Femme Is Fierce 12:30–1:30 pm October 26 Exhibition Tour: Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined Join Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming for an introduction to the exhibition. No registration required.
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Gutman Gallery, 4–4:45pm September 16–17 The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist Responding to the murder of Eric Garner, this meditative and immersive work interweaves music, text, visuals, and movement, gathering us together as co-conspirers—to breathe and keep breathing any way we can.
The Moore Theater, 7:30pm October 1
Brentano String Quartet and Dawn Upshaw: Dido Reimagined Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm October 6
Showcasing the range of experiences undergone while grieving, this exhibition underscores how differently we grieve while emphasizing the various ways loss connects us all. Also livestreaming on the museum’s Facebook page.
For information, tickets, or pricing information, call (603) 646-2422 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. The Hop Box Office is open Tuesday through Friday, 10am–5pm.
October 6, 5:30–7pm (in-person); 27, 5:30–7pm (virtual) October 12 Exhibition Tour: Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala Join Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art, Hood Museum of Art, for an introduction to the exhibition. No registration required.
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October 5 A Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: Journeys Beyond: Faces and Forms of Pilgrimage Gutman Gallery, 4–4:45pm October 6, 27 Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing This workshop fuses explorations of works of art with fun and meaningful expressive writing exercises. No writing experience required. Visit the Hood Museum’s online calendar of events to register!
FALL 2022 • HERE IN HANOVER 91 of American politics in celebration of his newest book in this moderated Spauldingdiscussion.Auditorium, 7:30pm October 15 Nicole Mitchell and Black Earth SWAY The innovative flutist and champion of new music returns to the Hop alongside her ensemble with a dazzling Spauldingperformance.Auditorium, 7:30pm October 19–21 Midori & Jean-Yves Thibaudet Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm October 23 Dartmouth College Glee Club Church of Christ at Dartmouth, 2pm October 25 Intimo Farruquito Fiery flamenco in its purest form. Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm October 27 Coast Jazz Orchestra Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm November 1 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble Featuring Pacho Flores, Leo Rondon & Luis Miguel Sanchez Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm November 4–13 Dartmouth Department of Theater: Pippin The Moore Theater, 8pm except Sun, November2pm 8 Apple Hill String Quartet with Sally Pinkas Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm November 12 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm November 15 Handel Society of Dartmouth College Spaulding Auditorium, 7:30pm November 15 Dance Showcase Hosted by the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble The Moore Theater, 8pm
Exhibit: Air Works Air Works, featuring a dazzling array of interactive exhibits, helps to flex engineering muscles, strengthen the understanding of core scientific concepts, and spark the imaginations of all ages.
Exhibit: Selections from Making Music: The Science of Musical Instruments Selections from Making Music: The Science of Musical Instruments highlights select experiences from this classic Montshire exhibition and explores how musical instruments are created and played.
Exhibit: Life in Local Waters See fish, frogs, and turtles native to the New England region. Each aquarium is
Exhibit: Wonder Woods Wonder Woods is specially designed to ignite the curiosity and support the development of the museum’s youngest visitors—children ages 5 and under.
Exhibit: Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion Through Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion, Montshire visitors will have the chance to see the early forms of da Vinci’s machines up close, touch them, and set them in motion during this renowned international exhibition’s first visit to Northern New England.
Exhibit: Give It a Whirl: Exploring Motion From the flow of water and the path of planets to the spinning of tops and the rotation of balls, objects move in unique and interesting ways! Learn about the science behind movement.
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Created based on designs, materials, and tools as specified by Leonardo da Vinci, Machines in Motion allows visitors to examine and put in motion life-sized mechanisms. Montshire Museum of Science One Montshire Road Norwich, VT (802) montshire.org649-2200
Exhibit: Discovering the Natural World Featuring real tools of scientific research, Discovering the Natural World makes learning about living plants and animals an interactive process that will surprise and delight.
Exhibit: Bubbles:Science in Soap Delight in experimenting with surface tension, concocting new ways to create a bubble, crafting a foam sculpture, and injecting a bubble with mist.
FALL 2022 HERE IN HANOVER 93 representative of a different freshwater habitat. Family Science Activities Every day is different! You may get to hold a fossil or make a parachute, build an electric circuit, or use a microscope! Visit montshire.org for dates and times. 11am & 2pm September 2–5 Make a Leonardo DaVinci Device Build and test a mini machine based on the Machines in Motion exhibit. 3pm September 14 GennaRose Nethercott: Thistlefoot 7pm September 15 Christopher M. Finan, in Conversation with Oren Teicher: How Free Speech Saved Democracy 7pm The Norwich Bookstore 291 Main Street, Norwich, VT (802) norwichbookstore.com649-1114 Download full directions for your own self-guided hike around Hanover— where to go, what you’ll see, plus a glimpse into the backstory. Visit Hanover Conservancy’s hanoverconservancy.org/hike-of-the-website,month,formoreinformation. September Huntington Hill North Loop 1.3 miles round-trip Old Highway 38 & Hudson Farm 2.6 miles round-trip Paine Road in the Trescott Lands 2 miles round-trip Slade Brook Watershed Trails 1.1 miles Trescott/Paine/ATround-tripLoop,3.4 miles October Camp Brook Valley Loop, 2 miles General’s Trail, 2.3 miles round-trip New Trails and Old Names at Balch Hill 1.1-mile loop Old & New Etna Loop, 4.5 miles November Brook/River/Garden Loop 2.2 miles Kendal Riverfront Park and Rinker-Steele Natural Area, 1.2-mile loop Oak Hill: Up, Down, Roundabout 3 miles Rinker-Steeleround-tripNaturalArea2milesround-trip Hikes for MonthEvery of the Year! September 29 Susan Barba & Leanne AAmericanShapton:Wildflowers:LiteraryFieldGuide 7pm October 4 Nancy Marie Brown: Looking for the Hidden Folk 7pm
September 17 Twill Bread Tray Workshop Enfield Shaker Museum, 10:30am shakermuseum.org September 24 Turkey Wing Whisk Broom Workshop Enfield Shaker Museum, 1pm shakermuseum.org
September 17 Norwich Antiques Show Norwich History Center, 10am–3pm norwichhistory.org
October 8 Feast from the Farms Join us by bicycle or car for a tour through some of Norwich’s most scenic Norwichlandscapes.History norwichhistory.orgCenter by Patty Smith
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I think if you heard me play you might instead call me “someone who once sort of played drums.” Although Green Day was early learning material, my friends and I used to play a lot of classic rock. More recently, I’ve been slowly learning guitar and elec tronic production, kind of more in a Brian Eno or Hans Zimmer type direction. One goal is to produce the soundscape/track to an audiobook version of the sci-fi novel I’m writing. H
Lastsummeryoutookfourmonthstoexplorethecountry.HowwillthatexperiencehelpyougovernasHanover’snewtownmanager?
YouweremayorinSouthOrange,NewJersey.Whatmadeyouwanttomovehereandtakethetownmanager’sposition? That’s true. It was a lucky community to have grown up (and served) in. In some ways, it’s unique in New Jersey, for example, a state with such in credibly strong and pervasive partisan machine politics. South Orange’s nonpartisan elections were an oasis of collaboration once we addressed a few issues in our local civics. I instantly felt a connection when I came to Hanover. There are a few family members and friends who can attest to receiving phone calls as I left town on the Friday after my final interview: “If they make a good offer, this is the place for me.” It was a big move out of New Jersey, but almost every item on my checklist was met, so it was an easy yes!
Hanover's new town manager BY Mike Morin
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Morethan500concernshavebeenvoicedbyHanoverresidents.Asyoudiginasnewtownmanager,giveusthebigitemsonyouragenda. Only 500? Just kidding. Some of the areas that will be a major focus will be land use/housing/ transportation, public information/technology/ community engagement, and sustainability. And there’s more, especially budget related. Wehearyouareadrummer.Forwhichrockbandwouldyouliketodrum?
In such an increasingly taxing world, it’s important to periodically “step out of the stream” (sometimes by stepping in a stream!). Unplugging with inten tional “nothing” time, being in nature, and seeing friends while on this sabbatical gave me space to reflect on my most important values, such as a renewed commitment to our planet and not feel ing pressure to compromise on the community engagement work I find so important. Although I’ve done a lot of this, talking with people from all walks of life helped add to my perspective on how to reconcile diverse expectations and perspectives.