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Living a Life by Design~ Life Coach

By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper Ask anyone you meet or know what they want from their life, and surely, buried deep within the answers, is the desire to be happy and live a fulfilling life. Being happy means something different for everyone, and many find it hard to attain. Jobs, commitments, money, time and many other obstacles seem to stand in the way of living the lives we truly want.

It is at that juncture life coach Emily Clement goes to work to help clients define what would make them happy and then help them make changes.

Succinctly put, she believes in shifting from problems to solutions. What do you want from your life, she might ask.

And most importantly, how can you get there?

If that sounds simplistic and maybe even a bit Pollyana-ish, it isn’t meant to. Like most things you desire, it’s important to focus your attention on your intentions.

As a life coach, Emily works with individuals and groups that want to make any number of changes. They want to achieve goals big and small, but sometimes they just don’t know how to get started or proceed. Perhaps they are stuck in a job they don’t like; they have a business that is stagnant or they may have been through a divorce or the death of a partner and need some help defining where to go from that point.

With a background as a counselor, Emily was well used to helping people work through problems, but her job

Emily Clement, life coach, offers all sorts of classes and workshops to make positive changes in your life. (Kate Criscone photo)

often necessitated helping clients tell their back stories. While helpful in identifying and examining the past, in life coaching Emily enjoys “meeting clients where they are right now. It isn’t

about retelling old stories but rather deciding what a person wants and what is getting in the way of achieving those goals.”

Working from her home in Laconia,

Emily fashions workshops around the issues her clients face. She is in tune with the needs of people who want to make changes in their lives and outlooks, whether the person is 25 or 75, married, single, a career person or retired.

When it comes to trying new things to find a way to happiness, Emily is a case in point. “I grew up in Laconia and went on to Wheaton College in Massachusetts. While at college, I went on a new adventure each summer.

I worked in a health food store in Petersburg, Alaska, and then I was a camp counselor in Istanbul, Turkey, and finally a waitress on Cape Cod. Following graduation, with a teaching certificate in my back pocket, I taught English for a year in the Czech Republic. Wanting more adventure, I continued to teach and travel. I taught study skills to 5th-12th grade students in Blairstown, New Jersey; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Beirut, Lebanon, and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. I also tutored for a summer in Greece.”

Returning to New Hampshire, Emily taught, coached and dorm parented for three years at Cardigan Mountain School, an all-boys junior boarding school. “After I earned my M. Ed in school counseling at Plymouth State, I explored a few career paths before reconnecting with my childhood church. For five years (2005 to 2009) I was the Director of Christian Education • Life by Design Continued on page 4

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• Life by Design Continued from page 3 at the Congregational Church of Laconia, United Church of Christ.

I organized and facilitated Sunday school, confirmation, youth groups, service trips, summer camp, and adult programming. My job title quickly became Spiritual Party Planner. The five years that followed (2009 to 2014) I was a high school guidance counselor helping students with college planning, scheduling, and plenty of adolescent joys and concerns!”

It was at this time that Emily became interested in life coaching. “I became a certified coach through the Life Mastery Institute in 2014 and I loved it.

By June, I was winding down my job at the school where I was a counselor and getting ready to start my life coaching business.”

It was a gutsy move, because it would mean stepping into the unknown.

Would she be able to generate clients?

Would she be able to make a living?

On the questions went, but at the core,

Emily knew she was making a change that would be enriching.

She started her new life coaching business by working with individual clients and small groups in her home.

“It was by word-of-mouth,” she recalls.

“I didn’t have a social media or web presence at first. I crafted workshops around topics that interested me. And I sent out an email survey asking people what their fears and frustrations were and what they wanted to do about it.”

When the answers came back via email, Emily combed through each reply and crafted a five-week program that focused on how a person could make changes and achieve goals.

Weekly topics included Defining Your Dream, Identifying Values, Befriending Fear, Sitting in Silence and Practicing Gratitude.

The course became very popular (it is now available as a digital [online] course), as did Emily’s life coaching business, attracting people of all ages and professions. “I may have felt vulnerable when I started, but now I look at my business as a service, versus

something I have to sell or justify.”

The number-one thing people want to get out of a course? Emily explains, “Generally, people want to do something different in their lives, but they think they have no time for themselves.

They may feel stuck, but don’t know what they really want. Or they have identified what they want for themselves, but they don’t know how to get there.”

One way clients can learn more about what they want and how to get there is via Emily’s fun 26-card pack called Be the Best You! Deck of Dreams. Created to complement her online coaching program titled Be the Best You, the cards are micro-invitations to uncover your greatest desires and let yourself shine through. The mindset/attitude altering cards ask clients to do such tasks as creating art as a meditation for 20 minutes; considering your dreamcome-true image of your health, career and relationships, to name but a few.

Pervasively, Emily feels people can be unhappy because we are so caught up in comparing ourselves to others.

Our neighbors, friends or relatives have a bigger car, a better vacation, a boat or career. Add to this such things as social media, which allows us to look into the lives and to communicate with those all over the world, and there is always someone who appears to have it better than us. “What people don’t realize is that happiness is an inside job!” Emily comments. “Yes, some people are born with a pre-disposition to be happy or unhappy, but it is much more than that.”

One avenue to being happy with your life is defining what you want versus feeling stuck in the past. Emily likens it to listening to a record and the record player’s needle getting stuck on one song. With her life coaching skills, she can help clients pick up the needle and move to the next song.

One area Emily covers is living bydefault versus by design. In other words, a life by default is one where yesterday looks much like tomorrow, without change or passion. Living by design means you know what you want from your work, your relationships and

your daily routine, because you know how to craft your life.

All this indeed sounds great, but like any change, is it hard to stick to a plan?

“It’s not about willpower,” says Emily, “but about increasing your sense of deserving. You deserve to be happy, and you need to look at the fears that are keeping you stuck, figure out a plan to changing things and also to forgive yourself for past mistakes.”

It is easy to procrastinate when it comes to making changes, because we are comfortable with the familiar, even if it is not making us happy.

Not one to settle for the familiar in her own life, Emily began her life coaching business by a huge leap of faith. After all, she started her business as the Great Recession was kicking in and everything, everywhere seemed uncertain. Her story is a good example of living by design versus by default.

The future is full of new avenues for her life coaching business, with plans to increase momentum with her website; Emily is well aware that she can reach more people and offer more services via her online presence.

“I love public speaking,” she adds, “and I will be leading workshops and retreats this spring, such as speaking with a local bank’s management team and facilitating a strategic planning meeting for the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors.”

As well as her many commitments, Emily also volunteers for Camp Resilience, serves as a trustee for the Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation and volunteer teaches an Alternatives to Violence course at the men’s jail in Laconia.

Many who have taken Emily’s courses have made positive changes in their lives. Career goals have shifted, relationships have become more positive and lives have been enriched.

Reflects Emily, “Everyone deserves to be happy, to be comfortable and confident while living a life they love.”

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Crimes of the Heart: How the Production is Created at Village Players Theater

By Barbara Wilson It’s a cold early December night, and a small group meets at Village Players Theater in Wolfeboro. Originally built to serve as a church in 1888, the building has a century-long history as a venue for theater productions. This particular evening, Carol Bense and Bob Tuttle are holding auditions for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. The Village Players will present the show April 13 to 15.

They don’t expect huge crowds of actors to come this December night. It takes a special kind of thespian to leave a warm home willingly for rehearsal in the dark of winter and the talent pool is always smaller after seasonal residents and college students return to other areas in September. And this play is demanding. Just six actors are onstage and there are no small characters (are there ever?) or throwaway lines.

Why take on the challenge of Crimes of the Heart then? Telling the story of three adult sisters reunited by family crisis at their childhood home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the play has been on director Bense’s mind for more than a year now. She says that after reading it the first time, “I was very excited to bring it to Wolfeboro. This was a script with some real ‘meat’ in it, a challenge to me as a director and the actors…it is a great play with moments of humor, despair, wonder, excitement, love, joy…”

A script with such depth, however, demands much from director and actors

The 1960s-era kitchen, designed by Russ Ellis for the Village Players’ production of Crimes of the Heart, becomes as much a character in the play as the chainsmoking singer Meg McGrath (Melissa Perkins) and the Harvard-educated lawyer Barnette Lloyd (Ben Dudley). Crimes of the Heart will be performed April 13 to 15. (Cathy Fraser photo) director Bob Tuttle want to give the alike. Bense continues, “The most cast plenty of time to learn their lines, challenging part of this production so effort can then be put into the nuance for me is to, as always, get the most of bringing the characters to life. realistic and believable performance In Crimes of the Heart, the audience from the actors as it is possible for meets the McGrath sisters in 1974: them to give without crushing them,” Lenny, unmarried and resigned to and it is for that reason that auditions living a life serving her family; Meg, are occurring four months before the a musician unsure of her talent; and production opens. Carol and assistant

Babe, the well-heeled and unhappy wife of a popular politician. Facing the family patriarch’s ill health and a crisis of Babe’s making, they hash through family history and the audience is reminded that shared experience does not necessarily mean shared understanding.

In mid-December, Carol contacts those who have auditioned. She, Bob and other members of the production team have put their heads together to create the production’s McGrath family, their cousin Chick and friend “Doc” Porter, and town newcomer and lawyer Barnette Lloyd. Together, they have looked not only at how the actors inhabited the character in the audition, but also the “look” of the company and chemistry among characters.

They are ready to offer roles but must first consider alternative casting in case an actor is no longer available for a role they would like to have him or her play.

Actors, too, must be willing sometimes to cast aside pride of self. Emails like this are sent out, “Hi __. We would like to cast you as ‘X.’ As you are aware, you are somewhat beyond the age of this character, so you would need to color your hair or wear a wig, and we would need to do whatever else we can to make you look young….If you accept the role, I will send you a script so you can start learning your lines. We will have our first meeting Jan. 3.”

Holidays over, work on Crimes of the Heart begins in earnest. “This is • Village Players Continued on page 6

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• Village Players Continued from page 5 not an easy play to do!” says Amanda Dickinson, who plays Chick, the McGrath’s cousin. A newcomer to The Village Players, she was drawn to the production by the quality of the playwright’s dialogue and the universal truth of its message. To do the play justice, though, she recognizes there is much work to be done. “There’s so much more to doing a play than memorizing lines and remembering where to stand…we have to think about how our characters walk, how they talk, how they stand, how they gesture, their facial expressions... and then, we have to figure out how these things all change as the characters’ emotions are going up and down throughout the play.”

For the next three months, actors work lines at home and rehearse together twice a week, and continue to work day jobs such as speech pathologist, dance teacher, visual effects artist, and content strategist.

And the production team gathers props, measures costumes, designs the set, and plans publicity, while employed in such roles as reporter, editor, media specialist, snowmaker, non-profit manager and teacher.

Progress is interrupted by snowstorms and family deaths, planned vacations, and unexpected work commitments, but progress is made.

There’s a point reached in every production, where people look around and say, “What did I get myself into?” or “How can I possibly measure up?”

It’s a moment when lines just aren’t sticking in the brain, or that thing one must do just seem too awkward to do in front of an audience of 200, or

when none of the costumes seems to be ready in time for the photo shoot…and it happens around mid-March. Actors beg for extra rehearsals and the director wonders if anyone actually works on lines when they are at home and the third coat of paint on the set wall STILL isn’t the proper shade of avocado for 1974 and the show’s young lawyer (Ben Dudley) wonders if he really has to grow his sideburns and wear those platform shoes the costumers are so proud of finding, and that’s when trust comes in. Everyone takes a big breath and steps forward, trusting that others won’t let them down, and that their own strength won’t let them fail the others, either.

It’s around this time that a new set of individuals becomes part of Crimes of the Heart: the audience. Hearing public service announcements on local radio station WASR, reading articles published in area papers, seeing posts on social media, they begin to wonder what the buzz is about this new production at The Village Players Theater. It’s not a musical, and it’s not a comedy. Should they go?

The answer is yes, for Crimes of the Heart, like all good writing, takes you beyond yourself and allows you to look at life through fresh eyes. It will entertain you and may even evoke laughter at your own expense. You see, there’s a bit of McGrath in every one of us. Why not celebrate it?

Crimes of the Heart plays at Village Players Theater on Glendon Street in Wolfeboro, April 13 and 14 at 8 pm and on April 15 at 2 pm. Tickets are available at Black’s Gift Shop & Paper Store on Main Street in Wolfeboro, at www.village-players.com, or if not sold out, at the theater box office 30 minutes prior show time.

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Marionettes and Comedy at the Capitol Center Unmatched in artistry, grace and refinement of movement, the internationally-acclaimed Cashore Marionettes redefine the art of puppetry.

Performances by Joseph Cashore have astounded audiences in Europe, the Far East, across North America, and now, on April 10 at 7 pm, at the Capitol Center for the Arts (CCA) in Concord.

The presentation is one of several free William H. Gile Concert Series performances during the CCA’s 201718 season.

“Simple Gifts” is a series of touching portrayals and poignant scenes from everyday life set to stunning music by such composers as Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven and Copland. Through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, beautiful music, theatrical illusion, and artistic insight, the original vignettes presented in “Simple Gifts” provide an entertaining and sensitive vision of what it is to be human. The performance explores a range of emotions with characters and actions that are amazingly convincing. The marionettes are engineering marvels and the quality of movement is extraordinary. Joseph Cashore has been designing and performing his remarkable marionettes for more than 30 years. receiving numerous awards for his artistry, including a Pew Fellowship for Performance Art, a Henson Foundation Grant, and a Citation of Excellence from the UNIMA-USA, the highest honor an American puppeteer can receive.

Tickets for the free April 10 Cashore Marionettes performance are limited to four per patron. Call the Capitol Center for the Arts at 603-225-1111 or online at ccanh.com. Tickets may also be obtained at the Center’s box office at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH, which is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11 am to 6 pm and Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm.

The amazing work of Joseph Cashore and his marionettes will entertain at the Capitol Center for the Arts on April 10.

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Juston McKinney, one of New Hampshire’s favorite sons, brings his stand-up show to the CCA on Saturday, April 28 at 8 pm. When New Hampshire Magazine named Juston one of the “Best of New Hampshire”, they wrote, “The Granite State may have more famous comedians than you can shake a stick at (Seth Meyers, Sarah Silverman and Adam Sandler to name a few). But no one really ‘gets’ New Hampshire humor like Juston McKinney.”

Juston has been using the state as his comic muse since he was humoring perps as a deputy sheriff on the NH/ ME border in the 1990s. He has two Comedy Central specials (including his own one-hour special Juston McKinney-A Middle-Class Hole) and multiple appearances on the Tonight Show. He was part of the Blue Collar Comedy Next Generation Tour, with Bill Engvall. Juston’s YouTube channel has millions of views, including those for “Live Freeze Then Die!” and several New England Patriots-related videos.

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Meet Dudley Laufman, Dance Caller, Musician, and Poet

By Sarah Wright Have you ever been to a contra dance? It’s family-friendly fun for all ages, and you don’t even need a partner.

Just picture the dancing scene from A Christmas Carol, where the dancers form two lines, facing each other. They dance across, moving from partner to partner, to the sounds of the festive fiddle. This English country dancing came to America with the colonists back in the 17th and 18th centuries.

However, during the Revolutionary War, Americans began creating their own dances which were favored over the traditional British dances.

The name contra dance was adapted from the French name “contredanse,” probably because France assisted us in the war against Britain.

All these years later, contra dancing is still alive and well in the Lakes Region and Dudley Laufman is a major reason for its staying power. Dudley has been calling contra and square dances for 68 years, also playing fiddle for much of that time. He has the rare ability to call a dance while playing an instrument. Now older, Dudley seldom plays the fiddle, but he plays melodeon and sometimes harmonica. He is well known throughout New England, not only for his calling, but for his group of musicians formed in the 1970s called the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra. There’s certainly nothing quite like a traditional contra dance to liven up an evening. It all started with one dance many years ago, and Dudley was hooked.

Dudley was living and working at Mistwold dairy farm in Fremont, New Hampshire in the late 1940s. This is where his love of old-time country dancing began. The farm was owned by the Quimbys. “I attended my first kitchen junket, which was what the dances were called in those days, when I was about 14 or 15 years old,” says Dudley. “Bucky played the fiddle and his wife, Betty, was the caller. There was the smell of the wood smoke, the firelight gleaming in the girls’ hair, and the sound of the fiddle. That was all it took.”

Dudley, who was interested in farming, enrolled in Norfolk County Agricultural High School in Walpole, Massachusetts. While there, he played ice hockey and took a dance class, attending the dance festival that was held at the end of the year. Dudley noticed that the dance teachers had trained some students to call dances, and those callers got a lot of female attention. The following winter when there wasn’t any ice for hockey, Dudley learned how to be a caller, and called the dances at that year’s festival.

Dudley went on to college and attended the Stockbridge School of Agriculture in Amherst, Massachusetts, intending to be a dairy farmer. As his popularity as a dance caller began to grow, he spent a great deal of time in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire and was influenced by both the • Laufman Continued on page 10

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• Laufman Continued from page 9 well-known dance caller Ralph Page and the fiddling style of local fiddler Dick Richardson. By that time, Dudley had taught himself to play the harmonica, piano, accordion, melodeon, concertina, and the fiddle. He learned to play in the traditional way, sitting in at dances and learning the tunes by ear.

In 1957, Dudley bought some land in Canterbury, New Hampshire and built himself a small house, got married, and eventually had five kids. (Dudley’s

kids still enjoy contra dances; in fact, his daughter Heidi is a Morris dancer in Massachusetts, and is learning how to play the fiddle.)

Over the years, Dudley has played at town halls, farmer’s markets, folk festivals, weddings, barn dances, kitchen junkets, and for the Canterbury Morris dance team. He also spent years teaching local kids to dance at elementary schools, and still does on occasion.

Dudley’s dances became so popular in the 1960s and 70s that they became known as “Dudley Dances.” His influence and popularity created a wave of

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Musk, but other popular dances include Dudley has a long-standing tradition of the Chorus Jig, Hull’s Victory, Lady of welcoming local musicians to play at the Lake, Brandy, and of course the his public dances, giving many beginVirginia Reel. If you haven’t tried conners their start on stage. Lots of them tra dancing before, it’s never too late have gone on to have life-long passions to start. With Dudley doing the calling, for old-time dances and music. it’ll be easy to join in the fun!

Dudley is a regularly featured callThe Canterbury Country Dance er at the Tamworth town hall dances, Orchestra, Dudley’s loosely-formed which take place once a month on a group of some of the finest traditional Saturday night, year-round (see http:// New England dance musicians, protamworthoutingclub.org/dances.html duced five recordings over the years. for details). Dudley also encourages The most recent recording was “Welpeople to attend the contra dances orcome Here Again” in 2016. There have ganized by G.A.L.A. at the Wolfeboro also been two documentaries produced Town Hall. (For more information, visabout Dudley’s life and work: The Othit www.galacommunity.org.) If you’d er Way Back (David Millstone, 2009) like to attend one of Dudley’s dances, and Welcome Here Again (Accompany, please visit www.dudleylaufman.com www.thelaker.com 2017). A play written about Dudley (by for the latest dance schedule. (There is Guide Where-To-Go, YourNew Larry Siegel of Westmoreland, a listing of What-To-Do his books and CDs online as Region Lakes Hampshire) was premiered in Septem- forwell.)

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The Jimi Hendrix of the Ukulele The Flying Monkey Performance Center on Main Street in Plymouth presents Jake Shimabukuro on Friday, April 13 at 7:30 pm. Jake is known as one of the most innovative ukulele players in the history of the instrument.

Jake Shimabukuro still vividly remembers the first time he held a ukulele, at age four. It was an encounter that would shape his destiny and give the world one of the most exceptional and innovative uke players in the history of the instrument—an artist who has drawn comparisons to musical titans such as Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis.

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Heifetz on Tour Returns to Celebrate “April in Paris” The Wolfeboro Friends of Music is pleased to announce that an ensemble of artists from the renowned Heifetz International Music Institute will be back in Wolfeboro for the sixth annual Heifetz On Tour concert at Anderson Hall on the campus of Brewster Academy on Saturday, April 14. This is the seventh in a series of eight concerts presented by the Wolfeboro Friends of Music.

The concert will feature a trio of outstanding Heifetz performers: violinist June Lee, cellist Noémie Raymond-Friset, and faculty pianist Carlos Avila. All were participants in the 2017 Heifetz Institute, the highly regarded string instruction program and accompanying festival located on the campus of Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia.

Founded by virtuoso soloist and pedagogue Daniel Heifetz, the Institute is known for its Heifetz Performance and Communication Training, a unique approach to music training, education, and presentation. Before moving to Virginia in 2012, the Heifetz Institute established deep roots and experienced exponential growth in the Wolfeboro community with its summer program located at Brewster Academy.

The concert has special meaning for violinist June Lee, who will be returning

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Born in Seoul, South Korea, June Lee began studying piano at the age of four with her pianist mother. She soon found a new interest in cello and started exploring the instrument. When June turned eight, she found her voice on violin and began vigorous study at the Korea National University of Arts PreCollege Division. She expanded her music education and artistry in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Korea, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States through schools and festivals.

She has given concerts as a soloist in venues including Carnegie’s Weill Hall and Symphony Space in New York City, and as an orchestral musician in Carnegie Stern Hall, David Geffen (old Avery Fisher) Hall, and Alice Tully Hall under the batons of renowned conductors. June completed her undergraduate degree from the Julliard School and is currently pursuing her Doctorate degree in Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music.

Cellist Noemié Raymond-Friset has

been called one of the most promising Canadian cellists of her generation.

Noemié is a passionate musician, praised for her sensitive and refined playing. She began playing the violin at age 4 and switched to cello at 7. She has a master’s degree from the Université de Montreal and is currently studying with Heifetz Institute faculty member Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music. Her acclaimed performances include a Yo-Yo Ma master class to an audience of 800, the Saint-Saens and Dvorak Cello concertos with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Vivaldi’s concerto for four violins and cello with Pinchas Zukerman. As a laureate of the 2015 Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank, Noemie plays on a Joannes Guillami cello dating from 1769, on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Hailed for his “beautiful command of tone and mood…and unruffleable savoir-faire” (San Francisco Chronicle), his “layers of emotional expression” (The Examiner) and his “level of artistry that seem far beyond his years” (Contra Costa Times), Heifetz faculty pianist Carlos Avila is one of the most in-demand pianists on the classical scene. Carlos has been a guest at festivals such as SchleswigHolstein, Tanglewood, Sarasota, Aspen, Banff, Music Academy of the West, Pianofest, and Holland, where he had the opportunity to work and study with the late Isaac Stern and others. He was also recently showcased on New York’s WQXR as one of the winners of the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition.

In 2018 he became the new pianist of the Boreal Trio. A proud FilipinoAmerican, Carlos is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal and did prior studies at Yale with Peter Frankl and Clause Frank. He currently resides in New York City.

Tickets are available for $20 at the door, Black’s Paper Store and Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; at Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith, by calling 5692151, or visiting www.friendsofmusic. org. High school students with ID will be admitted free of charge and any child accompanied by an adult ticket purchaser will be admitted free of charge.

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By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper I like a good day trip adventure, full of unexplored back roads in little towns where, sooner or later, I come upon a rustic shop full of antiques, junk or second-hand treasures. Throw in a good comfort food lunch at a diner or a who-cares-about-dieting ice cream shop and I am in day-trip heaven.

But it’s currently early spring and the ice cream shops are mostly still closed at this time of year and a lot of back roads offer more pot holes and frost heaves than scenic views. Rustic little shops are closed up tight as well until warmer weather. That might seem to put an end to my day-trip options, but I have never been one to give up without a good fight when looking for weekend treks.

Thus, I decided to head to downtown Laconia for my entertainment, if only to prove to myself it’s worth looking at the familiar with new eyes. On a Saturday in early April, I had to be in Laconia to return some books to the Laconia Public Library at 695 Main Street and decided to start my local adventure at that point.

Whether you are a library card holder at the Laconia Library or not, it is well

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worth visiting. The building is…well… hulking. It seems to stretch on and up at its street corner location and there is really no other word to describe it except “hulking”. But in this case, it’s

beautifully hulking. Gracefully large would be another apt description.

The building is old and it was built to last, which it has done since opening its doors in 1903. Historically, at an 1878

town meeting, Laconia’s voters raised $1,500 to establish a public library.

The library opened in 1879 in a rented room in Laconia’s Folsom Block. It later was relocated to the Laconia National Bank Building; then to the basement of the Unitarian Church until the present building was constructed.

Napoleon Bonaparte Gale was a local banker and known as a generous citizen. When he died in 1894, he left the bulk of his fortune to the City of Laconia for a park and a public library building. Land was purchased and construction of the library began.

Because it was a large building, and in keeping with the style of the times, full of beautiful touches such as woodwork and stained-glass windows, it took until 1903 to complete.

According to information at www. laconianh.gov/377/Laconia-PublicLibrary, the Gale Memorial Building houses the Laconia Public Library and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The main library building is an example of Romanesque Revival style, emphasizing weight and mass through rock-faced masonry, • Nearby Discoveries Continued on page 18

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A CCEPTING R ESERVATIONS April 9, A Walk Back in Time: Secret of Cellar Holes, speaker Adair Mulligan explores rich history of the area using cellar holes as clues, 7 pm, Moultonboro Public Library, 4 Holland St., 476-8895.

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April 10, Textile Artist Talk, 7 pm, program presented by textile artist Sara Goodman, Doris Benz Center, Heard Rd., Center Sandwich, (a program of Sandwich Home Industries), doors open at 6:45 pm, light refreshments served, RSVP: sandwithcraftgallery@gmail.com.

April 10-13, Certified Interpretive Guide Training, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness, contact Certified Interpretive Trainer Audrey Eisenhauer at Audrey.eisenhauer@nhnature.org for information.

April 11, Animal Tracking program, 7-8 pm, Squam Lakes Assoc., Rt. 3, Holderness, guest speaker tracker George Leoniak, 986-7336.

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April 12, Eric Grant performs, 7 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

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April 12-15, A Dream Play, 7 pm, Silver Hall, Studio Theater, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, tickets/info: 535-2787. April 12-14: 7 pm; April 14 & 15: 1 pm.

April 13, Dueling Pianos, Jim Tyrell vs. Gardner Berry, 8:30 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 13, Friday Fireside Gathering, 7 pm, share stories around the campfire, free, Remick Museum, Tamworth, 323-7591.

April 13, Ice Out Celebration, 6 pm, Inn on Main St., Wolfeboro, fundraiser for NH Boat Museum, hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, silent auction items, buffet dinner at 7 pm, tickets/info: 569-4554, www.nhbm.org.

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April 13-15, Crimes of the Heart, Village Players Theatre, Glendon St., Wolfeboro, tickets: www.village-players.com, or at Black’s Paper Store, Main St., Wolfeboro.

Showtimes: 4/13 & 14 at 8 pm; 4/15 at 2 pm.

April 14, All About Mammals, 10-11:30 am, families and kids age 6 and up, get to meet live mammal ambassadors, outdoor fun games, etc., Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness, info/register: 968-7194.

April 14, Artimus Pyle Band concert, 7:30 pm, Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center, Plymouth, tickets/info: 536-2551, www.flyingmonkeynh.com.

April 14, Back to the 70s, Don Bartenstein, 8:30 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 14, Basket Weaving with Ray Lagasse, 9 am-4 pm, League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery, DW Highway, Meredith, pre-registration/info: 279-7920.

April 14, Guitarist Ken Bonfield concert, 7:30 pm, Art Center at 12 Main St., Center Sandwich, tickets/info: 284-7115.

April 14, Heifetz on Tour, 7:30 pm, Anderson Hall, Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, tickets/info: 569-2151, Wolfeboro Friends of Music.

April 14, How to Treat Textiles, 10 am-noon, curator Faithe McCreery shares info on how to care for old textiles, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, tickets/info: 323-7591.

April 14, Our Big Backyard: Birds of Prey, 10-11:30 am, family program, Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Rd., Laconia, info: 366-5695.

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April 14-15, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Winnipesaukee Playhouse Community Theatre, Meredith, (Sat. at 7:30 pm; Sun. at 2 pm), www.winnipesaukeeplayhouse.org.

April 15, Dancing with the Community Stars, 2 pm, Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center, Plymouth, tickets/info: 536-2551, www.flyingmonkeynh. com.

April 15, How a Bill Becomes a Law, 2 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, 172 Pleasant St., Laconia, free, 524-6488.

April 15, NH Fiddle Ensemble concert, 2 pm, Franklin Opera House, Central St., Franklin, tickets/info: 934-1901, www.franklinoperahouse.org.

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April 16, Marena Harris program and film, 7:30 pm, tales of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Art Center at 12 Main St., Center Sandwich, info: 284-7115.

April 16, Robert Rogers of the Rangers, 7 pm, program at Campton Historical Society, 529 NH Rt. 175, Campton, 536-3982.

April 16, Vagabond Quakers by Trish Morrill, 3 pm, Bistro at Meredith Bay Colony Club, Meredith, 279-1500.

April 17, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, 7 pm, presented by Steve Taylor, Gilman Library, 100 Main St., Alton, 569-3745.

April 18, NH Music Festival Presents Heifetz on Tour, 7:30 pm, Smith Recital Hall, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, tickets/info: 535-2787.

April 18, Wolfeboro’s Annual Members Mingle, 5-8 pm, The Barn at the Inn on Main St., Wolfeboro, food, fun, socializing, public welcome, info: 569-2200.

April 19, Eric Grant performs, 7 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 19-21, PSU Playwright’s Showcase 2018, Smith Recital Hall, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, tickets/info: 535-2787. April 19-21: 7 pm; also April 21 at 2 pm.

April 20, Carbon Leaf concert, 7:30 pm, Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center, Plymouth, tickets/info: 536-2551, www.flyingmonkeynh.com.

April 20, Draper & Maynard Sporting Goods Company, talk by Louise Samaha McCormack, tracing history of the once-famous manufacturer of sporting goods equipment, 10:30 am, Moultonboro Public Library, 4 Holland St., 476-8895.

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April 20, Dueling Pianos, Jon Lorentz vs. Matt Langley, 8:30 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 21, Cultivating Edible Mushrooms, 10 am-noon, adult program, Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Rd., Laconia, info: 366-5695.

April 21, Devon Allman Project Feat Duane Betts concert, 7:30 pm, Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center, Plymouth, tickets/info: 536-2551, www. flyingmonkeynh.com.

April 21, Discover WILD New Hampshire Day, 10 am-3 pm, Fish and Game Dept., Hazen Drive, Concord, www.wildlife.state.nh.us.

April 21, Hearthside Dinner, 4-8 pm, costumed staff share info about 19th-century food prep while creating seasonal farm meal, guests help prepare the meal, ages 16 & up, shared meal, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, tickets/info: 323-7591.

April 21, Oral History Workshop with Jo Radner, 9 am, Meredith Public Library, 91 Main St., Meredith, 279-4303.

April 21, The Wild Foods of Spring, 1-3 pm, adult program, Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Rd., Laconia, info: 366-5695.

April 21, Tribute to Old School Hip-Hop, Jared Steer and Chris White, 8:30 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 22, Don Smith, country gospel singer, concert at 6 pm, Bristol Baptist Church, 30 Summer Street in Bristol, light refreshments following the concert. Info: 744-3885.

April 22, From the Mountains to the Sea, Plymouth State University Symphonic Band in Concert with Seacoast Wind Ensemble, 3 pm, Hanaway Theater, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, tickets/info: 535-2787.

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April 22, Sign Painting with Shirley Glines, 12:30-3:30 pm, League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery, DW Highway, Meredith, pre-registration/info: 279-7920.

April 23, Understanding Inflammation and Auto Immunity, by Dr. Trish Murray, Meredith Bay Colony Club, Meredith, 279-1500.

April 23, Winter Bird Banding, 10 am-noon, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness, info: 968-7194, www.nhnature.org.

April 23-27, WildQuest Spring Camp, ages 5-12, 9 am-4 pm, Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Rd., Laconia, register/info: 366-5695.

April 25-29, Same Time, Next Year, Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Meredith, www. winnipesaukeeplayhouse.org.

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April 26, Andrew Silver, variety artist, 10 am, Franklin Opera House, Central St., Franklin, 934-April 27, Tim Hazelton & David Young perform, 934-1901.

April 26, Eric Grant performs, 7 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 27, Dueling Pianos, Jim Tyrell vs. Jon Lorentz, 8:30 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

April 27, Tim Hazelton & David Young perform, 7 pm, The Corner House Inn, Main

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April 27-28, Contemporary Dance Ensemble and University Choral, 7 pm, Hanaway Theatre, Silver Hall, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, tickets/info: 535-2787.

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April 28, Our Big Backyard: Amazing Vernal Pools, 10 am-11:30 am, family program, Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Rd., Laconia, info: 366-5695.

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April 28, Spring Soap Making, 1-3 pm, adult program, Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Rd., Laconia, info: 366-5695.

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April 28, Spring on the Farm, 11 am-3 pm, celebrate spring, see baby animals, crafts, gardening, Remick Museum, Tamworth, 323-7591.

April 28, Tribute to Pink Floyd, Bill Noland Duo, 8:30 pm, Patrick’s Pub, 18 Weirs Rd., Gilford, 293-9841, www.patrickspub.com.

May 1, Origins of Meredith - The Masonian Proprietors, Range Townships and Early Settlement, 7 pm, Meredith Historical Society, program held at Meredith Community Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith, 279-1190.

May 1-June 17, Memories of WWII, Photos from the Associated Press Archives, Wright Museum of WWII, Center St., Wolfeboro, 569-1212.

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May 2, Master Fiddler Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki performs Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, 7 pm, Moultonboro Public Library, 4 Holland St., 476-8895.

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ONGOING: Belknap Mill, programs and self-guided tours of the Power House, 1823 historic former textile mill. Hours/information: 524-8813. The Mill Plaza, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia.

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Belknap Range Conservation Coalition Meetings, 3rd Thurs. of the month, email info@belknaprange.org for meeting time and place.

Benz Center Senior Meals, Sandwich, each Wednesday at noon. Well-balanced meal.

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Book Sale, first Saturday of each month, Cook Memorial Library, Tamworth, 10 amnoon, 323-8510.

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Contra Dance, beginner lesson at 7:30 pm, dance starts at 8 pm, Old Town Hall, Rt. 140, Gilmanton, takes place second Sat. of each month, $8 admission, https://www. facebook.com/groups/ Contra Dance, 7 pm, Wolfeboro Town Hall, 84 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, takes place the 4th Sat. of the month, www.galacommunity.org.

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Fiber Friends, Mondays, 10 am-12:30 pm, drop-in fiber arts group, work on rug hooking, needlecrafts, knitting, etc. No formal instruction, participants offer support, free, new members always welcome, or drop by to view fiber projects, Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Rd., Gilford, 524-6042.

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Forgotten Arts: Fiber Arts Group, meets every other Tues., 9:30 am-noon. Fiber artists and/or interested onlookers welcome to join Happy Weavers & Friends group to learn the historic art of weaving, spinning, sewing, quilting, and more. Bring a project to work on, if desired. Group meets monthly on every other Tuesday schedule at Remick Museum & Farm, Tamworth Village. Free. (Does not include Museum admission.) 323-7591.

In the Round, thought-provoking discussion, held at Benz Center Sunday mornings at 8:45 am. All are welcome to discuss wide range of topics. Info: 284-7532.

Iron Furnace Interpretive Center, Octagonal “Stone Stack,” the only Blast Furnace standing in NH, view any time. Scenic picnic area by Gayle River, Main St., Franconia Village, Rt. 18 junction of Rt. 117 by Sugar Hill bridge.

Irish Music Session, 7 pm, takes place weekly on Fridays, Kathleen’s Cottage, 90 Lake St., Bristol, 7 pm, 744-6336.

Lakes Region Genealogy Interest Group, meets last Thursday of the month; weekly morning classes on Wednesday from 10-11:30 am at Wolfeboro Public Library, for information call Cindy Scott: 569-2428.

Lunch Box to Paint Box, noon-1 pm, first Tues. of each month artist Larry Frates demonstrates drawing and painting, free, public welcome, Belknap Mill, 25 Beacon St. East, Laconia, 524-8813, www.belknapmill.org.

Masonic Breakfast, first Sun. of each month, 7-11:30 am, 35 Trotting Track Road, Wolfeboro. Fresh fruit, omelets made to order, scrambled eggs, hash browns, cereal, etc.

Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, dawn-dusk, 928 White Oaks Rd., Laconia. Historic farm with 160 acres offers 3 miles of hiking trails, bird and wildlife viewing plus barn. Events and programs throughout the year. Call 366-5695, www. prescottfarm.org.

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Saturday Writer’s Group, 10 am-noon, join fellow aspiring writers and meet authors for informal weekly roundtable, all ages and genres welcome, Tuftonboro Library, 221 Middle Road, Center Tuftonboro, www.tuftonborolibrary.org., 569-4256.

Sculpture Walk Tours, self-guided, but get info by calling: 279-9015. Sponsored by Greater Meredith Program, free, open to public, www.greatermeredithprogram.com.

SnowCoach Trips, adventure trips to Mt. Washington’s summit, www. mountwashington.org, 356-2137.

Storytelling Dinners, Corner House Inn, Sandwich, Thursdays at 6:30 pm, 603-2846219, info@cornerhouseinn.com.

Tamworth Writer’s Group, meets second Tues. of each month, 5 pm, Cook Memorial Library, downtown Tamworth. Led by Ed Martinez, aboutwritingtamworth@gmail. com.

Wednesday Night Music, Corner House Pub, Sandwich, Roger Sorlein and Doug Hazard are joined by other musicians from Dec.-May. Wolfeboro Rotary Club Meeting, Mondays, 5:30 pm, 1812 Room at Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, light dinner, guest speaker on various topics of interest, for more info: www.wolfebororotary.org.

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• Nearby Discoveries Continued from page 13 heavy arches, and broad roofs. Built

by E. Noyes Whitcomb and Company of Boston, the library building features Deer Island granite, New Brunswick granite, oak paneling, and stained-glass windows. Later, a two-story wing was added that consisted of the Children’s Room, a workspace area, and the Martha Prescott Auditorium.

If you love gracious old buildings, you won’t want to miss a chance to browse through the library. The stained glass alone is enough to warrant a visit, as are the tall ceilings, light fixtures and overall air of refined elegance.

On the day I visited, I was delighted to see a poster advertising a new exhibit in the upper level rotunda space. Exhibits are created in the space by the Laconia Historical and Museum Society, and when a new display goes up, it’s always a treat. The Society staff really know how to put on an exhibit, and if you like looking at old photos, memorabilia and now and then, things such as old wooden skis or a knitting machine, you’ve come to the right place!

The current exhibit is titled A Virtual Tour of Main Street 1870 to 1965 and focuses on manufacturing, hospitality and healthcare in the Laconia area.

Now, if you are thinking that sounds a bit dry, remember these topics look back at what life was like many,

many years ago when streetcars and stockings were made in the city and Laconia boasted a large opera house.

I began my tour of the exhibit with the largest object, a sort of you-can’tmiss-it theatre curtain that is a thing of great beauty. The Grand Drape is from the once thriving Moulton Opera House, which took up the second and third floors of the circa 1886 building in downtown Laconia. Although the theatre building was demolished in the early 1970s, the curtain wasn’t destroyed. Luckily, it was stored in a barn until the Laconia Historical and Museum Society acquired it.

We can thank whoever saw fit to save it, because today it has been restored to its original glory by the Curtains Without Borders organization. Its title, Morning on the Nile, seems quite fitting. The huge drape takes up a large portion of one wall, with a glorious sunrise in pink and turquoise, bathing the Nile and riverbanks.

The next display covers what local business leaders did to unite in the 1930s when the Great Depression hit. One business affected by the economic downturn was the Laconia Car Company; local businessmen and community leaders came together to revitalize economic activity in the city at that time. They felt the former car company’s industrial complex could provide a spot for industry in the future. Thus, was born the Laconia Industrial Development Corporation,

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Old photos of businessmen, buildings and maps tell the story of how the local economy was bolstered and how wellknown businesses were born and grew.

While I have certainly heard of local mills manufacturing stockings and street cars, to name but a few, I was unaware of some other products made in Laconia. The exhibit features information on the Northland Ski Manufacturing Company, founded in Minnesota in around 1911. The company opened a second factory in Laconia in 1938, producing skis, boots, poles, snowshoes, bindings, toboggans, hockey sticks and water skis. It was, at one time, the nation’s biggest producer of winter sporting equipment.

Other products made in Laconia were shoes (Laconia Shoe Company, which ran from 1937 to 1987); Allen-Rogers Corporation (making turned wood products), and Scott and Williams to name but a few.

I was fascinated with information on a woman who lived not far away; Margaret Knight was a factory worker in the cotton mill in Manchester where she witnessed, at the age of just 12, a terrible workplace accident. A coworker was stabbed by a steel-tipped shuttle that shot out of a mechanical loom. The accident deeply affected Knight, who within weeks, invented a safety device for the loom. While popular, the device was never patented.

Knight must have realized her error, because she later became one of the first women in the country to be awarded a patent. She surely had an inventor’s spirit, and came up with the idea for such products as the flatbottomed paper bag!

The exhibit is chock-full of old photos, factory memorabilia and even a few early socks made at the Belknap Mill. The display will be on view during library open hours; call 603524-4775 for information.

After visiting the library, I parked on Main Street and indulged in a comfort food lunch at the Soda Shoppe. I warmed up on the cold spring day with their corn chowder (always a favorite) and a simple grilled cheese sandwich while listening to the conversations between the other customers at the counter and the waitresses. While I didn’t find a funky diner as I sometimes do on a day tripping adventure, this downtown Laconia restaurant is always a good bet.

With the afternoon before me, I sauntered into the Laconia Antique Center. Located in the former Bloom’s Variety (years ago it was J.J Newberry’s, a five and dime type store), I knew I was in for a treat.

The shop is huge, taking up the main floor, as well as the upstairs area. Booths are rented by individual antiques dealers, and there is always something interesting in the shop. On this particular day, I found two beautiful late 1800s landscape paintings that were wonderful mysteries. One was not signed and the other had the signature of an artist I never heard of, but it didn’t really matter. Both were a joy to view.

The shop was busy, being a Saturday afternoon, and it was fun to listen to customers laugh and share remembrances with one another when finding treasures they used in their youth, such as vintage toys and books.

After my downtown Laconia adventure, I realized a good day trip doesn’t necessarily have to be a newto-me location with oddity shops and comfort food. Sometimes there is a lot to see right in the area, such as a beautiful library with ornate woodwork and incredible stained-glass windows, and a really fun exhibit, as well as all sorts of antiques.

Certainly, the upcoming summer months will hold their share of quirky day trip adventures for me, but for now, my Saturday meanderings right in the local area more than suffice.

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April Programs and Events at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center Certified Interpretive Guide Training will take place on April 10 to 13, each day from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

Interpreters are storytellers. They are tour guides, museum docents, zoo docents, park rangers, naturalists, and more. In this four-day course offered

by Squam Lakes Natural Science Center and the National Association for Interpretation, participants will learn techniques to make connections with an audience, give meaningful and enjoyable presentations, and create thought-provoking and relevant interpretive programs. Visit interpnet. com to register or contact Certified Interpretive Trainer Audrey Eisenhauer at Audrey.eisenhauer@nhnature.org for more information.

Nature Play Time will take place on Wednesday, April 11 from 11 am to noon. The nature program is geared for children ages 2 and 3. A naturalist will join kids to explore the natural world; participants will investigate the outdoors with their five senses. The program is held outdoors; please dress for the weather. Adults get to play too!

Youngsters love the many interactive exhibits and programs at the Science Center.

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An adult must participate with children at no additional cost. Pre-register at www.nhnature.org or call 603-9687194.

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All About Mammals will take place on Saturday, April 14 from 10 to 11:30 am. The program is for families with children ages 6 and up about a diverse group of animals. Kids will get a chance to get up close and personal with some live mammal ambassadors, and gain an understanding of how different species interact through some fun outdoor games. Dress for the weather with warm layers and snow/mud boots.

The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center is located on Route 113 in Holderness, an easy drive from exit 24 off I-93, and is open daily from May 1 through November 1. The Science Center is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and is the only AZA-accredited institution in northern New England. For further information about the Science Center, call 603-968-7194 or visit www. nhnature.org.

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Living in Paradise - Working the World

By Barbara Neville Wilson For years now, some folks in New Hampshire have taken special interest in the Oscar awards. They feel a particular affinity, almost a pride of ownership, when the awards are announced, for they know someone “in the business,” someone who has been part of major film productions for several decades.

No, it’s not a seasonal resident like 1968 Best Supporting Actress Estelle Parsons. No, this is someone who has been part of award-nominated Visual Effects Teams, and he does his work right here from Clearcut FX studios in his year-round home in Wolfeboro.

Christian Boudman left Hollywood to work for Hollywood so he could enjoy life in his own slice of paradise.

Nearly 10 years ago, Christian and his family moved to Wolfeboro to live a more balanced lifestyle and in the doing, joined a growing population of people who work remotely.

According to a 2017 report from CNN, telecommuting has risen 115 percent in the past decade and now constitutes three percent of the U.S. workforce.

The rate is particularly high in New England, and now that high speed Internet is more common, it is likely to rise at an even faster clip.

Some folks who work remotely are like Lanette Burrows, a manager of Project Balance out of Austin, Texas.

Lanette and her husband, Matthew, both work from home, in offices on separate floors so they don’t interrupt one another’s concentration. With time and money saved in commuting, Matthew has been able to start a business, Lake Life Brand, while still balancing home life and the couple’s two children. In the July 2017 “Working from Home is Really Having a Moment,” on cnn.com, Kathryn Vasel reported, “Telecommuting full time brings in more than $4,000 in savings each year thanks to reduced expenses

Scenes such as this make living and working in New Hampshire appealing.

on things like gas, parking and public transit costs and dry cleaning.”

The 21st century explosion in the remote workforce is impressive, considering that the Internet was born a scant 27 years ago and broad access to it occurred even more recently. Like the mid-19th century arrival of the railroad, and the mid-20th century arrival of the modern highway and electrification to eastern and central New Hampshire, it’s changing how our region thinks of work.

While some remote workers, like Lanette and Matthew, are employed by a company, and others, like Christian, contract their services to others, still

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others make their living by creating a product to fill a niche.

Sally and Jonathan Walpole have long enjoyed the natural beauty and resources of the Lakes Region and sought to create a business that would leave them free to pursue their love of art—Sally is a renowned potter— and the outdoors. They converted the ell of their Colonial farmhouse into a commercial kitchen and began handcrafting chocolate bars redolent of place with names like “Mount Major,” and “Sap House Cove” a luxurious concoction of “sumptuous” dark chocolate and locally-source maple butter crunch. Although Sally and Jonathan did have a storefront in Wolfeboro for several years, they have chosen more recently to wholesale their candy to stores throughout New England and sell directly through their website, http:// winnipesaukeechocolates.com. Presto they are free to visit family who live far away.

For some, working remotely is the obvious and rewarding next step in a career. Christa Capello of Milton first built a business by importing jewelry and fine handcrafts from the Middle East. After several successful years, she acted on her love of art and antiques and joined the prestigious Master’s program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, where she interned with top antiques dealers and became a leading expert in Americana.

For several years she enjoyed building world class collections for discerning clients from her home in New York

City, but she was easily wooed when love led her to New Hampshire. She now lives in and works from one of the original Plumer Homesteads in Milton and builds private collections for prized clients around the world. She is “living my dream,” she says, in a period house where her own treasures are perfectly at home.

However, not all remote businesses have the luxury of a long lead time before launch in New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. As a young man, Michael Anderson of Wolfegang’s Collectibles in Brookfield had dreamed that when he retired he might start an antiques business. A sudden closing of the sound studio where he was employed in Milton forced him to quickly consider his next steps. Should he uproot his family and take one of the many jobs offered him in a metropolitan area? Or should he reconsider and try to build his “retirement” job today?

If he were to open that antiques shop, what should be its focus? Ultimately, it was the quality of life in Brookfield that trumped all else, and with a selfimposed three-month limit, he and wife Kelly dove into the antiques business. Frontline auction research led them to focus on early machinery, particularly sewing machines. They endured the consequences of mistakes and took time to learn from the wisdom of others, and suddenly, three months turned into a career, mostly to the credit of online relationships.

Mike says, “My wife Kelly and I used to be in group shops. We’ve kicked around the idea of having a store front, but in the end, the Internet makes the world our store front... so why would we pay rent, and have all of the associated costs with a traditional store? Over the years I have kept a large database of clients who are all serious collectors. I simply asked each client for a wish list of antique machines they would like to own, and as I find them...

I sell them to the appropriate people!”

He reports that in the past 17 years, Wolfegang’s Collectibles has sold more than 30 major sewing machine collections from Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, and, of course, the United States. Nearly every sale was instigated and completed online.

Although working remotely isn’t for everyone, it does allow more and more people to live here, in a little slice of paradise, and still have global impact.

Says Michael, “I feel blessed. Blessed to be able to live in NH, and to make a living doing what I love.”

For more information about starting, financing, and building a successful business in the region, contact Wentworth Economic Development Corporation (www.wedco-nh.org) and the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center (www.nhsbdc. org).

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Guitarist Ken Bonfield to Perform in Center Sandwich Acoustic guitarist Ken Bonfield will make his first appearance at The Arts Center at 12 Main Street, Center Sandwich, on Saturday, April 14. The concert starts at 7:30 pm and doors open at 7 pm. Bonfield will also be offering two 90-minute workshops for intermediate and advanced guitarists: The Secrets of Alternate Tunings Revealed at 1 pm, and The Zen of Performance: How to take your playing from the Living Room to the Stage at 3 pm.

In his workshop, The Secrets of Alternate Tunings Revealed, Bonfield will take you through the maze of possible tunings and share a system by which you will learn to take advantage of the myriad possibilities alternate tunings create.

The Zen of Performance: How to take your playing from the Living Room to the Concert Stage, Bonfield will share strategies to get you on the guitar and on stage with a smile on your face, and provide confidence in your ability to perform.

Bonfield, a self-taught classical guitarist who plays the folk, steel string acoustic guitar, has been a New Hampshire favorite since the late 1990s when he moved to New England from western North Carolina. Bonfield is known for his quick wit, his hummable melodies, his array of custom guitars and his relaxed stage presence.

Bonfield has performed throughout the United States for more than 25 years.

Based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Bonfield is a regular at guitar festivals and has released seven albums. His lat-

thousand miles and six months later she made it to the other end of the Appalachian Trail in one piece. The adventure still continues, though, even months after returning home. Marena will be at the Arts Center at 12 Main in Center Sandwich on Monday, April 16 at 7:30 pm. Her film (approximately 50 minutes) will be shown and she will talk about her adventures, ranging from bear encounters to Giardia, from 6,000-foot summits to mud puddles; and learn how the trail has changed her forever.

To learn more about the Bonfield workshops, the concert or the Marena Harris evening, call Advice To The Players at 284-7115.

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Two new plays at Winnipesaukee Playhouse in April The Winnipesaukee Playhouse Education Department and the Winnipesaukee Players Community Theatre will present a special staged reading of I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti on April 14 and 15 at the Playhouse in Meredith. The beautiful and deeply moving one-act play is based on the poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague.

The Winnipesaukee Players annual staged reading is in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day and was prepared in collaboration with the Winnipesaukee Playhouse Education Department.

Over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, and only about 100 were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. One of the survivors, Raja, having lived through it all, teaching the children when there were no supplies to teach with, helping to give hope when there was little enough reason for hope, creating a little world of laughter, flowers, and butterflies behind the barbed wire, tells the true story of the children. There were no butterflies at Terezin, of course, but for the children, butterflies became a symbol of defiance, making it possible for them to live on and play happily while waiting to be transported.

The staged reading of I Never Saw Another Butterfly is read by local artists and will feature discussions led by community leaders of faith. Tickets are

$10 and available at www.winnipesaukeeplayhouse.org or by phone at 603279-0333. Show times are 7:30 pm on April 14 and 2 pm on April 15.

Also presented in April, Same Time, Next Year is a humorous, yet touching comedy about lasting love. Doris and George love each other. Incidentally, they are both married to other people.

Over the course of several decades they maintain their once-a-year weekends together, proving that true love comes in many different packages.

The two-person story is performed by Molly Parker Myers as Doris and Mikey LoBalsamo as George. Audiences will appreciate the true-to-life honesty of the performances delivered by both Myers and LoBalsamo.

Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade is presented in arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. and runs from April 25 to 29. Tickets are $16-$27.

Show times are 7:30 pm on April 25, April 26, April 27 and April 28; 2 pm on April 28 and 5 pm on April 29.

The Winnipesaukee Playhouse a year-round theatre, is a 501(c)3 organization supported in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Steinwachs Family Foundation, and by contributions from members of this community. The theatre is located at 33 Footlight Circle in Meredith, NH. For tickets and information, call 603-2790333.

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The New The Boat Museum’s IceHampshire Boat Out Committee Museum invites wishes to thank the anyone who is many vendors and “Waiting for individuals who Summer” to have contributed help kick off the to the auction to 2018 season at date: Bill Quayle, the annual IceCaptain F. John Out celebration.

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by Maxfield Real Duff & Jeannie Estate, will take place on Friday, Lewis, Gary McGloin, The April 13 at The Barn at the Inn on The Boat Museum’s Ice-Out invitation Kalled Gallery, BurnettMain in Wolfeboro. featuring a Peter Ferber print titled Waiting Karen Reserve your for Summer.

Kurie, Keith Lion, Kingswood Golf tickets ($60 for Course, Len Finethy, Mal Cook, Museum members and $63 for not-yetmembers) at www.nhbm.org.

Mark Whitehead, Melvin Village The celebration festivities begin at 6 Marina, Mills Falls at the Lake, The pm with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.

New Woodshed Restaurant, Proctor’s Lakehouse Cottages, The Art Place, Guests can browse the silent auction items; old favorites and noteworthy White Lake Pizza, Winnipesaukee new items will be offered, including Playhouse, Wolfeboro Car Wash & vintage boat rides, themed gift baskets, Executive Detail, Wolfeboro Inn, and one-of-a-kind pieces by local artisans, the Wright Museum.

The Boat Museum will open for and gift certificates from area shops the season on Saturday, May 26. The and restaurants.

Museum is a not-for-profit institution After a delicious buffet dinner at 7 focusing on New Hampshire’s boating pm, try to outbid your fellow boating and fresh water heritage. It is located enthusiasts on an array of exciting items at 399 Center Street, Wolfeboro Falls, and experiences in the live auction. two miles from downtown Wolfeboro Guest auctioneer Jaime Laurent will in the former Allen “A” Resort dance lead spirited bidding on items such hall. as a private airplane ride over Lake For further information, contact Winnipesaukee, a limited-edition Peter the Museum at 603-569-4554, Ferber print, and getaways to Proctor’s museum@nhbm.org, www.nhbm.org Lakehouse Cottages, Mills Falls at or via Facebook. The New Hampshire the Lake, and Goose Rocks Beach in Boat Museum is a member of the Kennebunkport. All funds raised at the “Experience New Hampshire Heritage: event will support museum operations, The Portsmouth to Plymouth Museum as well as the calendar of fun and Trail.” To learn more about the Trail, educational programs throughout the visit nhmuseumtrail.org.

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Over There! Music of World War I at Clearlakes Chorale Take a trip back to the World War I time period with a great concert featuring songs of long ago. Two performances of 2018 Clearlakes Chorale’s spring program, “Over There! Music of the World War I Era”, will take place, with the first on Saturday, May 5 at 7:30 pm, and the second on Sunday, May 6 at 2 pm. The 60-voice Chorale is directed by Andy Campbell, Director of Music in the Art Department, Brewster Academy, with accompanist Nancy Farris, Organist/Choir Director at Christ Church Episcopal in North Conway.

Because this is the centennial year of the first Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, programing for the spring concert has been designed to elicit a spectrum of human emotions, from grief and remembrance of loved ones lost, to patriotism, all the way to the hopefulness and the boost in morale that was encouraged by popular songs of that era.

The audience will recognize many of the show tunes on the program that were written by composers who lived and worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of them are still heard today: In the Good Old Summer Time, Roses of Picardy, and It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, for example. And the finale of Leonard Bernstein’s (1918 to 1972) operetta, Candide, too, will be familiar; it is a song of renewal and

hope for the future, titled Make Our Garden Grow.

Also included in the concert are works by poets and composers who, because their lives overlapped those war years, wrote heart-felt lyrics and music about their experiences. Among these are a patriotic poem, I Vow to Thee, My Country, written by an Edwardian diplomat and set to music

by Gustav Holst (1874 to 1934), and a poem written in 1915 by a Canadian physician and Lt. Col, John McCrae (1872 to 1918), after presiding over the funeral of a friend and fellow soldier who had died in Flanders. Because red poppies thrived in the broken ground of the battlefield, he included them in his poem, In Flanders Fields, as symbols of the fallen soldiers buried there. In 1998, this poem was set to music by a young Canadian composer, Paul Aitken (1970 - ) who had grown up in the small Canadian town where Dr. McCrae himself had been born nearly 100 years earlier.

Both concerts will be held at First Congregational Church Wolfeboro, UCC, 115 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. Tickets are $20, $10 for students, and can be purchased online by clicking the “Purchase Tickets” link found at http://clearlakeschorale.org/ tickets.html, in Wolfeboro at Black’s Paper Store, and at the door.

Things Get Lively with NH Fiddle Ensemble at Franklin Opera House!

Now in its eighth year, the NH Fiddle Ensemble is much more than a community orchestra – it’s a group of over 60 people ranging in age from 5 to 85, playing fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, harp, cello and more.

It’s more than just fiddle tunes. With kids playing fiddles behind their backs and hula-hooping while they play, a 75year old woman stepping up to rip up a bluegrass fiddle tune solo, a 50-year old teetotaler who can belt out a great Irish drinking song, a yodeling upright bass player, a group of teenage girls singing a Cajun song, and so much more, it is a lively and entertaining group.

On Sunday, April 15, the NH Fiddle Ensemble will perform in a benefit concert (all the Ensemble’s performances are benefits) at the

historic Franklin Opera House on Central Street in downtown Franklin, NH, to benefit the Opera House. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students, and $6 for children under 14.

Reserved seating is available online at www.FranklinOperaHouse.org, or call 603-934-1901.

Check out the NH Fiddle Ensemble web site for further information: http:// www.fiddleheadscamp.com/ Franklin Opera House is the resource for community arts and entertainment in Franklin, NH and the surrounding area. Since 2001 it has provided a wide variety of performance and entertainment events. Franklin Opera House Restoration Committee, Inc. is a registered 501(3)c charitable organization.

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Yester year Old Time Lake Fun and Facts

By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper The Lakes Region has drawn vacationers to its beautiful shores for decades. While tourists enjoy the days sunbathing and boating, they may be unaware that the area is full of interesting, sometimes hidden facts and tales. Just a few old-time lake facts follow.

If you vacationed in the Sandwich, NH area in the 1890s, you had to be

prepared to rough it a bit more than if you were vacationing in a big-city hotel.

For those who were in Sandwich at that time, Alphonso Smith was the goto guy. He owned the first mechanical boat (it could have been steam driven) and he operated from Chalmer’s Point in Sandwich. According to A Little History of the Squam Lakes by Catherine Hartshorn Campbell, Smith was fondly dubbed Phon and he was sought after for his ability to deliver

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April, 2018 • Yesteryear Continued from page 24 of the Squam Lake area. John George Nicolay was the personal secretary to President Lincoln and Marshall of the Supreme Court. He also was a prolific writer and according to A Little History of the Squam Lakes, he penned a 10-volume set titled Life of Lincoln.

Nicolay’s daughter, Helen, was a Lakes Region summer resident for 60 years. She resided at a cottage on Shephard Hill in the Holderness area.

Her cottage was built in the 1890s and it had a beautiful view of Red Hill.

Perhaps the view inspired Helen to start painting; she painted and drew and photographed the area and was known as a skilled artist. Helen also wrote over 20 biographies.

Long forgotten silent movie stars and stage actors were once the thrill of everyone from farm hands in rural locations to city moviegoers. One such popular silent actor was Pedro de Cordoba Jr. It is unknown how or why de Cordoba made his way to the Lakes Region, but from 1903 to 1905, he stayed at a Squam Lakes cottage known as High Haith. According to A Little History of Squam, he directed plays at the site for entertainment of the cottage owners. He brought with him various theatre friends, which meant that a full cast for his plays was easy to assemble.

A charming little lighthouse on Newfound Lake has stood as an icon of the area for many years. According to local resident David Powden, his great grandfather Walter Braley was asked by a cottage owner to construct

a lighthouse near the water. Made of stone with a metal top, the lighthouse had a light inside and while probably not used for boat navigation, it was a unique conversation piece. Braley also built a fireplace and chimney for the cottage. The lighthouse still stands today and makes a wonderful and unusual piece of architecture enjoyed by locals and summer vacationers.

There is nothing so inspiring as attending a church service near nature, whether on the shores of the lake or on an island. Two such unusual church service locations exist in the Lakes Region to this day and offer vacationers and others some memorable options for worship.

Bear Island is one of Winnipesaukee’s larger islands, and has a good-sized summer population. The Bear Island Association some years ago published a book called Bear Island Reflections that chronicles the history of the people and homes upon the island.

The island is home to a beautiful church called St. John’s Churchon-the-Lake. It is the site of weekly summer services with a series of guest preachers. However, there was not always a church on the island and early vacationers rowed to attend Sunday services on Meredith Neck. Islanders, however, wanted a solid place of worship, and set about constructing something permanent on Bear Island.

According to Bear Island Reflections, two ministers had a dream of such a church for the island. Reverend Edward Melville Parker, who was the Bishop of the Diocese of NH, and the Reverend Kenneth Ripley Forbes of Connecticut and Birch Island saw the need for a

summer chapel on Bear Island. They a soldier could hope to find himself. wanted a chapel to be built upon the While the area and the region further highest point on Bear Island. north in the White Mts. was becoming a At the spot where they foresaw a destination for the wealthy in the grand chapel, a big observation tower already hotel era, the Weirs area welcomed existed. It was built about 1900 and others as well. offered beautiful views of the lake and Weirs Beach became a haven of rest surrounding area. It was the perfect and brotherhood for the veterans who location for an island church. fought during the War Between the In 1926, a piece of land was States, as well as for the vacationers purchased on Bear Island for the who spent summers near the lake.

Episcopal Diocese of NH. It was the The New Hampshire Veteran’s spot of the tower, which was repaired Association started a campground area and enclosed, with a sanctuary built of for meetings on land near the shores of local stone erected around the tower.

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Islanders donated funds to help cover As outlined in the in-depth book on the $4,000 cost of building the chapel. the subject: Images of America - The On July 31, 1927, the new chapel Weirs by Warren D. Huse, the Veteran’s was dedicated in memory of Bishop Association overlooked the Weirs area, Edward Parker, who had died before with about 17 buildings on Lakeside the realization of his dream.

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A floral interpretation from a favorite book. The Books in Bloom event will be held at the Gilford Public Library in April with florals by the Opechee Garden Club members.

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Northeastern Ballet Theatre (NBT), New Hampshire’s premier ballet company and training school, will be offering the ever-popular Prince and Princess Camp this summer. Don’t miss this opportunity to have your preschooler be a part of the special camp.

The camp runs June 25 to 28 from 10 am to 12 noon in both of the ballet studios (Dover at the McConnell Center, Suite 239, and Wolfeboro at 26 Glendon Street, across from Rite Aid). Featuring a short performance by a different NBT Princess Ballerina each day, the mini camp is designed to accelerate the young student’s technical level and knowledge about ballet.

The ballet camp is for ages 3 to 5 and is not an arts and crafts camp. For information or to register, please call 603-834-8834.

A tale of adventure and romance on the high seas will delight audiences this spring, when the original Edra Toth ballet, The Pirate and the Gypsy captures the imagination of the public in both the Lakes Region and Seacoast areas of New Hampshire.

Complete with swashbuckling pirates and real swordplay, a treasure map, beautiful gypsies, a pirate ship, and an underwater scene, the ballet is not to be missed! Appropriate for all ages, the action-packed production is full of family fun. Performances will be held on Saturday, May 5 at 7 pm and Sunday, May 6 at 2 pm at Oyster River High School in Durham, NH and on Thursday, August 9 at the Kingswood Arts Center in Wolfeboro, NH. Tickets are available for all shows at www. northeasternballet.org/performances.

Books in Bloom at the Gilford Public Library The Opechee Garden Club will present the third edition of the popular springtime floral exhibit, the “Books in Bloom” Flower Show at the Gilford Public Library, located at 31 Potter Hill Road in Gilford, from April 12 to 14.

The event is a fun way to usher in spring and gardening in the Lakes Region. It blends beautiful floral displays with chosen books, offering a unique glimpse at various club members’ interpretation of a book and flowers.

Books in Bloom is chaired by Opechee Garden Club member Linda Belcher, and coincides with the celebration of National Library Week, which runs from April 8 to 14 at the Gilford Library.

Any Opechee Garden Club member may participate by selecting a favorite or memorable book, and designing a floral arrangement based on the plot of the story, the title, an illustration, the characters, the book jacket, or the “feeling(s)” evoked in the reader.

The floral designs, and the books that inspired them, will be on display throughout the library on Thursday, April 12 from 9 am to 8 pm; on Friday, April 13 from 9 am to 6 pm, and on Saturday, April 14 from 10 am to 12 noon. The event is free and open to the public.

For further information on the Books in Bloom event or the Opechee Garden Club, call 603-524-7290.

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Record number of properties added to NH State Register of Historic Places The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources is pleased to announce that the State Historical Resources Council has added nine properties to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places.

The State Register has helped to promote the significance of many historic properties across New Hampshire. Benefits of being listed on the State Register include: 1. Acknowledgment of a property’s historical significance in the community.

2. Special consideration and relief from some building codes and regulations; and designation of a property as historical, which is a pre-qualification for many grant programs, including Conservation License Plate grants and New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) grants.

The following are the most recent additions to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places:

Simple in design, St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Bartlett served primarily French-Canadian families who came to the area to work in the railroad and logging industries. It was integral to social and religious life in the community from the time it was built in 1891 until it was closed in 1999.

Built in 1881, the Gilsum Engine Company No. 1 Engine House is part of the town’s long history of investing in fire protection. Unusually large in relation to Gilsum’s population, it doubled as a hearse house in early years and remained in use until a modern fire station was built in 1965.

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The Lee Toolshed was built in 1915 behind the town hall as a centralized storage facility for the town’s increasingly larger road maintenance equipment. From 1923 through the mid-1940s, it also provided townsponsored overnight accommodations for transients passing through town, becoming locally known as a “tramp room.”

From the time it was built in 1846, the Lee Town Hall has served a variety of functions, including as the town’s government center, library and school.

Architecturally, it is significant as an example of a mid-nineteenth century brick Greek Revival style building with a granite foundation.

Meriden Grange is simple in design, but has several features unusual for a grange building, including a gambrel roof and a fire escape chute that was repurposed from a nearby elementary school. It has served as a social gathering place for the village from the time it was built in 1910.

The large Classical Revival Nashua YMCA was built in 19121913 specifically to provide social, recreational, religious and residential

services in New Hampshire’s second largest city. After its establishment in 1868, the growth of the YMCA corresponded to the growing number of young men moving to Nashua to work in the city’s industries.

The Gothic Revival style St. Matthew’s Church in Sugar Hill was constructed for the village’s summer community in 1893. It was designed by nationally prominent architect Frederick C. Withers, whose only other known New Hampshire commission is St. Thomas Church in Hanover.

A landmark for more than two centuries in Swanzey’s Westport Village, Rixford Place has been home to a wheelwright, mill owner, farmers and cattle dealers. The center chimney post and beam Cape with attached ell and carriage shed was a tourist home from 1930-1943.

Anyone wishing to nominate a property to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places must research the history of the nominated property and document it on an individual inventory form from the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. Having a property listed in the Register does not impose restrictions on property owners. For more information, visit nh.gov/nhdhr.

New Hampshire’s Division of Historical Resources, the State Historic Preservation Office, was established in 1974. The historical, archaeological, architectural and cultural resources of New Hampshire are among its most important environmental assets.

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Enjoy the Newfound Lake Area and the Mill Stream Park

If you have visited the Newfound Lake area in the past, you may recall the Mill Stream Ice Cream stand just north of Bristol on the way to the lake.

Did you ever park across from the Bristol Spring to walk or ride your bike over the Newfound River pedestrian bridge? If so, then you have been at the site of the future Mill Stream Park, an area of great beauty, rich local history, and easy public access that is owned by the Town of Bristol.

This very special place is also the future location of a new welcome and information kiosk, a project spearheaded by the Newfound Lake Region Association (NLRA).

Inspired by a long-time member’s vision of greater public awareness for the NLRA, a joint project with the Town of Bristol was proposed to build a welcoming stop for people looking for things to do around Newfound. A January 2018 presentation to the Select Board yielded enthusiastic support for the idea, which was then embraced by the Planning Board and Town Planner

Liz Kelley.

NLRA communications partner Sullivan Creative prepared a draft concept sketch of the kiosk and welcome sign (pictured here) that was presented to the Select Board at their March 1, 2018 meeting. The Select Board’s approval and subsequent discussion of additional, new ideas

energized the room, and Bristol’s Economic Development Committee and Historical Society volunteered to serve on the project team.

The new kiosk is one of several possible steps to improve the Mill Stream Park.

Other possibilities include moving the information booth from Church Corner to the Park; landscaping

to control storm water runoff; and a “permaculture”, or low-impact, approach to site development. People can stop at the park to sit by the river, walk or bike to Newfound Lake along the pedestrian pathway, and learn about the town and the natural wonders of Newfound. With the seasonal Farmer’s Market and food trucks already part of the park, a little bit of work will go a long way.

The NLRA Board of Directors committed $3,000 to start the project, and the Town has promised labor and materials for site preparation. A grant from the NH Charitable Foundation to fund design and printing costs is being applied for, and an effort is being made to reach out to local contractors and building suppliers to donate labor and materials.

The goal is to have the kiosk ready by Memorial Day, although it may take a bit longer. If you are interested in being part of this project, please email NLRA Executive Director Boyd Smith at NLRA.Boyd@metrocast.net.

Aquatic Resource Mitigation 2018 Grant Announcement contribution.

The ARM Fund Program has been a successful option for permit applicants and has resulted in the funding of many significant wetland preservation and restoration projects across the state. Projects that have been awarded funds include those that provide significant wetlands restoration or land conservation and are focused on areas of important and/or vulnerable wetlands with regional significance. In the past eight grant rounds, the ARM Fund has funded 80 projects that include preservation and habitat restoration as well as stream passage improvement projects. These projects have resulted in approximately 16,000 acres of land conservation, 100 acres of restoration/enhancement, and over

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund is now accepting pre-proposals for the 2018 Grant Round. The ARM Fund Program provides wetlands permit applicants with the option to contribute payments to this fund in lieu of implementation of several other possible and more traditional compensatory mitigation alternatives. These other mitigation options might include restoration of existing impaired wetlands, land acquisition and preservation, or construction of new wetlands. In many circumstances, these other options may be costlier, time consuming or complex to implement for the wetlands permit holder as compared with an ARM Fund

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NHDES accounts for ARM Fund payments on a major watershed basis.

The ARM Fund is currently soliciting grant proposals for $6 million, which is available in the nine watersheds throughout the state.

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Full applications are due August 31, 2018. For more information, please contact Lori Sommer, NHDES Wetland Mitigation Coordinator at lori.sommer@des.nh.gov or 603-2714059.

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2018 Natural and Cultural Resources’ ‘Moose Plate’ Grant round opens The New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) is now accepting letters of intent for its three 2018 Conservation License Plate Grant Programs.

DNCR “Moose Plate” grants support the restoration, preservation and/ or conservation of publicly owned items significant to New Hampshire’s cultural heritage.

Letters of intent are due April 27 and must provide both a brief description of the project – 250 words or fewer – and acknowledge that the resource seeking funding is publicly owned.

Organizations whose letters are approved will be invited to submit a full application by June 15.

Each year, the DNCR receives a percentage of funds raised from the

sales of Moose Plates. The Department designates some of this funding for conservation of cultural resources in New Hampshire as a way of helping preserve the state’s cultural heritage.

Three of the DNCR’s divisions support grant programs through Moose Plate funding: the State Library, the State Council on the Arts and the Division of Historical Resources. Each division’s grant program has specific requirements and applicants may only apply to one grant program in a given year.

Among the 20 projects receiving DNCR grant funding in 2017 were the rehabilitation of the Roller Shed in Freedom, the restoration of the Lebanon Opera House’s historic lighting fixtures and the conservation

of Strafford County’s farm and prisoner records from the first half of the 20th century.

More information about each division’s specific grant program is available at nh.gov/nhculture/grants. htm.

Funds received by the DNCR also support its Division of Forests and Lands’ Natural Heritage Bureau and its Division of Parks and Recreation’s Historic Sites Bureau.

New Hampshire’s Conservation License Plates help conserve our state’s natural, historical and cultural heritage.

Since 2001, the Moose Plate program has raised more than $20 million, that have directly contributed to the ongoing success of projects around New Hampshire. All funds raised

through the purchase of Moose Plates are used for the promotion, protection and investment in New Hampshire’s natural, cultural and historic resources.

For more information about the Moose Plate Program, including how to purchase a Moose Plate, visit mooseplate.com.

New Hampshire’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources’ six divisions are dedicated to protecting, promoting and managing a wide variety of New Hampshire’s natural, recreational and cultural resources.

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The New Hampshire Boat Museum Announces New Executive Director The Board of Her background Trustees of the New includes a Master Hampshire Boat of Arts degree Museum (NHBM) in in historic presWolfeboro announcervation from es the appointment of Plymouth State Martha Cummings as University and its new executive diprofessional exrector. perience as an asCummings comes sistant manager of to the Boat Museum historic houses at from Bridgton, Maine, Longyear Museum where she has been the in Chestnut Hill, director of the Rufus Massachusetts.

Porter Museum. In Ms. Cummings The new executive director of the addition to traditional says, “It’s a pivNew Hampshire Boat Museum is museum management otal time for the Martha Cummings. activities, Cummings NHBM as it looks led a revision of to expand its acmuseum finances, developed a fortive-learning programs for all ages, ward-looking strategic plan, upgraded while raising funds for a new museum. the use of current technology, and deI am so excited to be a part of this dysigned permanent exhibits. She executnamic and growing museum.” ed a capital campaign, which allowed “The NHBM is entering a new chapthe museum to relocate to a new and ter in its life and we are looking forhighly visible location on Main Street ward to have an exceptional, dynamic in Bridgton. museum professional on our leadership

team,” stated Joe DeChairo, chairperson of the Board of Trustees.

Martha will begin full time as executive director on May 2. She and her husband are avid hikers and know the mountains of New Hampshire very well. They also enjoy time on the lake. They will be relocating to the Wolfeboro area.

Please come to NHBM’s Ice-Out celebration and welcome Cummings to the Lakes Region. The fundraising event, sponsored by Maxfield Real Estate, will take place on Friday, April 13 at The Barn at the Inn on Main in Wolfeboro. Reserve your tickets online at www.nhbm.org or by calling 603569-4554.

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