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Young Inventors Club

A heated hat . . . removable sports cleats . . . sheets that hold your pillows on the bed – these are just a few of the amazing inventions that K-8 Cornerstone students and their friends devised to solve the problems that they face in their daily lives. This 5-week program involved students in every step of the process from defining the problem, creating a solution, researching feasibility, collaborating with peers, developing a prototype, and presenting it to a judge. Those inventors whose inventions received the highest scores are invited to present at the Regional Convention in March.

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Cornerstone Christian Academy recently announced a new sliding scale tuition policy for students entering kindergarten-8th grade in 2016-17. In addition, the 30 year-old independent school offers a series of early bird incentives that decrease tuition significantly. The first and most generous of those discounts was available until March 1st; however, the incentives continue.

Starting in September 2016, full tuition for a student whose family has Adjusted Gross Income of $43,000 is $3,440. If that family registers by April 1st, that tuition will be further discounted to $3,096. The family saves $344.

In addition, families with more than one student at Cornerstone will receive discounts ranging from 20-50% per additional student.

The Cornerstone Board has announced the new Variable Tuition policy with early registration and multi-child discounts as a response to the school community’s desire to make a Cornerstone education accessible to all.

Families will pay tuition in proportion to their financial resources. For instance, a family with income below $20,000 pays a maximum of $999; up to $39,999, $2,400; and $79,999, $4,200.

Cornerstone Christian Academy is a 30 year-old independent, non-denominational school set on 192 acres on Route 28 in Ossipee. It serves kindergarten to 8th grade and includes Early Childhood Education for infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Families come from Wakefield, Ossipee, Conway, Parsonsfield, ME, Tuftonboro, Wolfeboro, Alton and points in between. Graduates thrive at Brewster Academy, homeschool, Kennett, Kingswood, Lexington Christian Academy, Prospect Mountain, and Tri-City Christian. Learn more by visiting www.cornerstoneca.net.

Parents and students are invited to visit to learn more. Please call the school office at 603.539.8636, or email info@cornerstoneca.net.

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Cornerstone students are involved in sports, drama, dance and social activities in their communities. David played football at Kingswood Middle School. Zoe and Lizzy performed in Scrooge the Musical. Emma, Polly and Maggie were featured in The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Rilyn and Brayden were in The Nutcracker. Most of our 7th and 8th Graders participated in Deep Freeze and all are looking forward to their class trip to Washington, DC in May. Dance. Karate. Basketball.

Baseball. Horseback riding. We are so blessed to have so many opportunities available to our students through their public schools and communities. Our schedules, supportive teachers and families carpooling accommodate participation.

Enrichment and Project-based Learning

Trade and Transportation is the theme of this year’s American Perspectives. All Middle School students work individually and in groups to develop a concept around this theme from at least two divergent positions. Over the course of the year, students will do in-depth research, prepare both written and oral presentations, and plan and host an event to share their insights.

Dr. Susan Dobbs and the 5th grade are having fun on Fridays thinking! Dr. Dobbs is the master of interesting activities that develop our brain power.

Elementary students are preparing for Science Discovery Day – every student contributing to the knowledge of the group and then sharing with us.

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Riding the Magic Carpet lift at King Pine.

Learning to ski is a New Hampshire tradition not lost at Cornerstone.

Fridays in January were spent at King Pine Ski Resort in Madison learning to ski and board – K-8 – beginners to confident.

Lessons and free ski/ boarding are all part of the winter fun. Other students chose to learn to ice skate at Pop Whalen instead. We appreciate winter activities including sledding, snow shoeing and cross country skiing on our school grounds.

We would like to thank our many volunteers and great staff at King Pine and Pop Whalen who helped make our 2016 winter another success. Come join us for next year.

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Celebrate Maple Weekend on March 19 and 20

By Sarah Wright The month of March is well known as maple syrup time, with one special weekend set aside to celebrate all things maple. This year, the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association will host its 21st annual Maple Weekend on March 19 and 20. Sugar makers statewide will open their doors, and invite the public to learn about the centuries-old craft of maple sugaring.

Discover how maple syrup and other maple products are made and enjoy free samples.

Maple production in North America has a long history. It began with the earliest settlers, the Native American tribes of southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Back then, sugar makers used wooden buckets to gather sap and large iron kettles over open fires to reduce the sap to sugar.

Many improvements have been made since then to improve production.

Metal buckets and storage containers replaced the wooden ones and large flat pans took the place of the kettles.

Shelters were built for the boiling process and given the “sugarhouse” title.

However, production was still slow. In 1884, an evaporator pan was patented, which greatly helped to speed up the process.

Other improvements through the years have included the use of tubing for sap collection, first metal then plastic; improvements in spiles to preserve the health of the trees; and, most recently, the creation of Reverse-osmosis technology—a process of concentrat-

ing the sugar content in sap by removing 75 percent of the water before boiling. This allows the producer to spend less time boiling, and less fuel.

This year, maple producers will be required to follow a new grading system that complies with the industry’s international grading system.

To simplify things, Grade B has been dropped. The new grades are as follows: Grade A Golden, Grade A Amber, Grade A Dark, and Grade A Very Dark. Obviously, the darker the syrup is, the stronger the flavor. The following is a list of some local sugarhouses along Route 16 who will be celebrating Maple Weekend.

Tim Robinson and Kate Stanley run Turkey Street Maples in Chocorua, and it’s certainly been a lifelong passion for Tim. He started tapping trees at age 10, helping a neighbor make syrup for years. Now with his own maple sugaring business and 1,000 trees tapped, Turkey Street Maples sells golden, am-

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ber, and dark syrup to happy customers. Tim says the biggest challenge for anyone who taps trees is the weather.

The balance of warm days and freezing nights isn’t always easy to come by, and sap flow can vary greatly from day to day. (The drop in temperature is necessary to create pressure inside the trees, which makes the sap flow.)

“Depending on the weather, maple season can run anywhere from 15 to 49 days,” says Tim. “In our best year, we produced 180 gallons of syrup, while we had just 57 gallons in our worst year.”

Turkey Street Maples will be open every weekend through maple syrup season, offering tours of the sugarhouse. Call ahead and you’ll be able to participate in the process, collecting sap buckets from the trees and seeing firsthand how the syrup is made. On Maple Weekend, the sugarhouse will be open from 10 am to 4 pm, both days.

Try some maple-flavored cotton candy,

have some syrup on ice cream, or enjoy a maple cupcake from the White Mountain Cupcakery. The sugarhouse is located at 673 Turkey Street in Chocorua and can be reached at 323-9320.

Nate Williams at Stonywall Sugarhouse in Wakefield is a fourth-generation sugar maker. With about 1,600 trees tapped, sap is collected in the morning every weekend during maple season, and then boiled in the afternoon. The family passion is timeconsuming, but it’s well worth it to see eager customers enjoying their syrup.

Stonywall Sugarhouse is open every weekend through March to celebrate the season, often serving pancakes or French toast to customers. Pints and half gallons of golden and amber syrup are currently available. Darker syrup is available later in the season and at Stonywall Sugarhouse’s farm stand in the summertime (along with baked goods).

Enjoy some French toast and pancakes with your syrup on Maple Weekend and purchase some maple sugar candy to take home. Stonywall Sugarhouse is located at 4775 Route 16 in Wakefield. Check their Facebook page for updates or call 986-0319 with any questions.

Spring Harvest Maple Farm can be found off Route 16 in Barrington, at 761 Franklin Pierce Highway. This is Lisa and Josh Bouchard’s seventh year harvesting sap to make maple syrup and this year’s season is right on schedule,

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•Maple Weekend Continued from page 3 weather-wise. With three young kids in the house, the Bouchard’s are thankful to have family and friends volunteer their time to help with the harvest.

Spring Harvest Maple Farm produces many delicious maple products, including maple cream, maple sugar, maple candy, maple lollipops, and a maple spice rub for meats. Lisa loves to experiment with maple in the kitchen and has made maple pudding, maple popcorn and maple-seasoned meatballs in the past to celebrate Maple Weekend. Expect something new this year when you visit on the March 19 and 20, and enjoy samples and tastings of their various products. (They also make their own honey.) There will be a tapping demonstration and raffle prizes, too. The fire department across the street is hosting a pancake breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, using the syrup from Spring Harvest Maple Farm. For further information, call the farm at 664-2401.

Of course, the Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm in Tamworth will be celebrating Maple Weekend, as they do every year. On Saturday, March 19, the farmstead’s sugarhouse will be open for tours and demonstrations from 10 am to 2 pm. Sample some of the farm’s syrup while you learn about historic methods of producing syrup before the invention of the modern evaporator. Farmhouse Kitchen goods

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will also be available for purchase while they last. Be sure to visit with the farm animals and see the newborn lambs. Admission is free for this event as the main museum will be closed.

Remick Farm is located at 58 Cleveland Hill Road in Tamworth and can be reached at 323-7591.

Other maple producers in the area who will be open for Maple Weekend include Forty to One at 35 Russell Lane in Farmington. Customers can also visit their website at www.fortytoone.com to place an order and view some delicious recipes. For further information, call 859-1929.

Purity Lane Farm at 612 Ballads Ridge Road in East Wakefield is another local maple producer. Follow them on Facebook for updates on this year’s maple season or call 603-978-7960 for more information.

Olkkola Sap House in Ossipee has been producing maple syrup for 30 years and will celebrate Maple Weekend on March 19 from 10 am to 4 pm with syrup-making demonstrations.

Enjoy syrup on ice cream and sample coffee made with maple sap. Olkkola Sap House is at 30 Walker Hill Road in Ossipee, and can be reached at 5394072. Visit their website at www.olkkolafarm.com for more information, including some tasty recipe ideas.

Support local syrup producers by participating in Maple Weekend and treat your taste buds to some delicious maple goodness!

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Who Was Dolly Copp?

By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper Dolly Copp. It is a charming name, evoking an image of a little girl or perhaps a child’s doll.

The story of the real Dolly Copp was that of a woman who lived many years ago in a remote part of New Hampshire. Because Dolly lived in the 1800s in the very rural White Mountains, one must search a bit to find recorded information about her life.

Dolly was, however, famous in her own right, and enough so that a campground, the Dolly Copp Campground in the Gorham, NH area was named for her.

Imagine the White Mountains in the early 1800s. The area was remote in the extreme. Roads were crude, there were few people and if you wanted to live in the area, you had to be prepared to live alone for long periods of time, no matter what the season or weather.

It was to this rugged landscape that Hayes Copp (1807-1891) came in the 1820s. Reports of Mr. Copp’s personality seem to point to a perfect match between him and the remote White Mountain area where he settled. According to Behold the White Mountains by Eleanor Early, Hayes Dodiford Copp was “one of those strong, silent men” who worked from morning to night. And hard work was what was required to settle the forest at that time.

Dolly Emery lived in Bartlett, NH and likely knew the reality of her situation: she lived in a sparsely populated area of the state and her prospects of finding a husband must have been limited. How she came to meet Hayes is not known, but when he proposed, she accepted.

At age 23, Dolly was sliding into spinsterhood and the marriage would have been seen as a natural and good thing. The couple married in Dolly’s father’s home. According to Behold the White Mountains by Eleanor Early, Dolly traveled to her new home on the back of a sturdy horse; the horse was a wedding gift from the Emery family. With her Dolly brought her trousseau and a few household items. Hayes walked beside the horse and did some

necessary game hunting on the way home.

It seemed that from the start, the marriage was practical but whether there was deep romance, one can only guess.

Dolly rolled up her sleeves and got to work at her new home, a log cabin that would today seem quite crude. Hayes was clearing land and acquiring animals for the farm he envisioned running on his property and Dolly worked to help her husband.

Marrying Dolly was a good thing for Hayes; she helped clear land, planted crops, tended to the animals and sheared their sheep, carded the wool and spun it into cloth. Added to this, before long, Dolly discovered she was pregnant.

These were the days when adventurous hikers and travelers made their way to the White Mountains. The White Mountain painters, the group of city artists who spent summers capturing the wilderness beauty on canvas, made city folks aware of the northern NH region. Soon stagecoaches brought vacationers who wanted to rough it and spend time in the forests, to the White Mountains. The travelers needed a place to stay, and many made their way to the Copp homestead where they could pay for meals and lodging.

Loggers were moving into the White Mountains as well, as land was cleared to make way for the eventual advent of the Grand Hotels. These men needed a place to stay with an evening meal; the Copp homestead was a perfect establishment to provide a bed and board at a reasonable price.

Dolly entertained travelers for “a shilling all around” – 25 cents for a meal, another 25 for a bed and an additional charge for feeding and boarding a horse.

Saving the money earned by lodging guests, in a few years the Copps had the funds to build a farmstead to replace the simple log cabin. As well as the house, the couple built a barn for their animals.

One cannot help but admire the hardworking Dolly. Today she would likely

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Ham Night … and a Penny Sale!

The Center Ossipee Firemen’s Association will host its annual Ham Night Penny Sale on S a t u r d a y, March 19 at the Ossipee Town Hall. There will be hundreds of prizes and gift cards at the sale. Some of the prizes include: a gas grill, 3 bicycles, and 100 gallons of fuel oil.

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be a shrewd and successful businesswoman. At that time, she had foresight and a business sense; she found apple seeds in the woods and planted them on the Copp farm. They would spring up into an orchard in time, which added to the farm holdings.

Birth control was unheard of in those days, and the Copp family grew in those first years to include sons and a daughter.

There are no accounts of the state of the Copp marriage. But on their 50th wedding anniversary, an aging Dolly calmly told her husband, “Hayes, you are well enough. But fifty years is too long for a woman to live with any man.”

It seems Hayes did not fight her on the separation and the couple peacefully divided their savings. They left the homestead, the orchards and gardens to live apart. This was certainly a strange thing to do in an era when divorce was scandalous. On top of this, the work of a lifetime in tilling the soil and creating the homestead was given up as well.

Hayes returned to Maine and Dolly moved in with her married daughter in Auburn, Maine. Some say the couple saw each other from time to time; other accounts say they never conversed after the parting, although they split amicably.

An old sepia photograph of the homestead as it appeared many years ago shows boarded up windows and a home in need of paint and repair. However, it holds a country charm, with a dirt road running near the front door and a view of beautiful mountains rising in the distance. Why the Copps left the home, rather than one staying on to farm the land, remains a mystery.

By the early 1900s, hiking and camping were becoming very popular in the White Mountains. People were setting up tents all over the area and the Copp

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Spring Public Camp Ground was born, and would later become the Dolly Copp Forest Camp. By 1911, according to information at www.dollycopp. com, the creation of the White Mountain National Forest created public land status to a lot of land in the area.

Former farm properties became part of the federal forest preserve; such was the case with the Copp homestead.

The name Dolly Copp was popular, although many had no idea who she was. By 1915 the Dolly Copp Forest Camp was laid out. At one time, there was a movement to sell off some of the land for summer homes, but nothing came of the plan.

By the 1920s, campers were using the property for vacationing and tents were placed randomly. Avid return campers came to the rural campground year after year and were known as “Dolly Coppers.”

During the Depression years, camping did not dwindle in popularity because it was an affordable means of vacationing. Upgrades to the campground over the years expanded services and made the area ever more popular.

Would Dolly and Hayes have approved of the campground that sprang up on land they cleared so long ago?

While we might surmise that these intrepid and hard working mountain people would have been unhappy to have campers and tents on their land, it must be remembered that Dolly was pragmatic and something of a businesswoman. She knew people needed a place to stay when traveling. She provided bed and board for travelers, so she would probably have approved of seeing her land put to good use.

As for the fact that her charming name, Dolly Copp, lives on in the campgrounds’ title, that would surely have pleased hardworking Dolly as well.

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Cherished Tappans in Sandwich

by Barbara Neville Wilson Photo Courtesy Sean Hurley It was through the Historical Society that Sandwich’s Adam Nudd-Homeyer was first introduced to Tappan Chairs.

And it was at a Christmas party that he was wooed.

You see, Tappan Chairs are members of the family in Sandwich. They are recognized for subtle characteristics, admired for their sturdiness, and protectively passed from one generation to another. It’s been like that since 1819.

That’s the year Abraham Tappan, a first settler of Sandwich, began making chairs at his home in Lower Corner. It’s not known why the veteran cabinetmaker shifted his interest to chairs at the age of 51. The town was nearly at its peak population, said by some 20th century historians to have been larger than Manchester at the time. There were other furniture and cabinet makers working in town.

Perhaps there was extreme need for chairs, perhaps the furniture field was too crowded, or perhaps, having hit a fairly old age for the time, Abraham just needed a change.

Whatever his motive, Abraham began making simple ladder back chairs from local maple and ash. Sometimes with two or five, but most often three, slats in the back, he carefully selected woods to ensure strong joints, hand-turned the rungs and hand-set the slats.

In 1850, Abraham’s son, Daniel, took over the business. Daniel and his 15 children produced chairs from as

many as 14 templates. Though never fancy, the chairs became more refined over time, with tapered legs and rungs, varied finials and for a short time around the Civil War, some were made with sloped, or “canted,” backs. A beam lathe and a pattern lathe were added to the shop’s equipment in the mid- to late-19th century. Almost miraculously, those same machines still do much of the heavy work in today’s Tappan Chair workshop.

Daniel Tappan’s only retail outlet outside Sandwich was an Ashland store, but since its distance required considerable effort, especially in winter and mud seasons, most of the chairs were sold directly from the Tappan home on Bennett Loop in Whiteface.

The final generation of Tappans to

produce the chairs was Daniel’s son, Walter, who took up chair making again after his own retirement from storekeeping and mail delivery in 1927. He produced chairs using the old templates and machinery for a dozen years before selling to Al Hoag and Dr. Robert Quinby in 1939.

The two carried the business through World War II, selling it to Sandwich native Cy Blumberg when he returned from overseas service in 1946. He brought the Tappan Chair operation into his shop where he also built and refinished furniture…and cut hair.

Perhaps diversification did not have its advantages for Cy. Some say the chairs he built were not as stable as those from other generations, even going so far as calling his product, “Tippin-

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Tappans.” Cy continued making chairs almost until his death in 1964.

At that point, no interest was raised to continue the Tappan Chair tradition.

Loath to let the nearly 150 year-old craft leave the village, Sandwich resident Charles Gregson bought the templates and some of the machinery at Cy’s estate auction and stored them, waiting for the right person to revive the tradition. That person came in the 1980’s when furniture maker, Gunnar Berg, returned to his ancestral home.

A descendant of Sandwich’s McCrillis family, Gunnar re-introduced steam-bending techniques to the chairmaking process and successfully ran the business for a number of years. Making a career move to technology, he sold his cabinetmaking shop to Sandwich resident, Rich Benton, who agreed to house the Tappan equipment until the next Tappan Chair successor could be found. Gunnar received offers from the West Coast and from hobbyists, but refused them, determined that the right Sandwich craftsman would come eventually.

Months turned to years and then turned to a decade while Gunnar and Tappan Chairs waited.

Enter Adam Nudd-Homeyer and wife, Tracey. After years of working in industry and teaching at schools far from home, they settled in Sandwich in 2009 in search of a quieter, more craftsman-centered lifestyle. A fine welder and experienced industrial arts • Tappan Chairs Continued on page 11

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March 16, Boreal Birds of the North Country, Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Albany, 7:30 am, meets at Grants Supermarket, Glen, NH, then head north to explore the Trudeau Road area of Bethlehem, NH, on the prowl for black-backed woodpeckers, boreal chickadees, and other birds of the North Country. Bring a lunch and binoculars. Register: 447-6991.

March 17, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Brian Hastings performs, reservations: 284-6219, www.cornerhouseinn.com.

March 17, St. Patrick’s Day Country Dinner, Historic Foodways at Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, 5:30-7 pm, pre-register by March 11 (spaces fill up fast), 323-7591.

March 18, Becoming Wolf: Eastern Coyote in New England, program by ecologist Christine Schadler, Effingham Historical Society, Rt. 153, 1014 Province Lake Rd., Effingham, 7 pm, free, public welcome, refreshments, monthly business meeting following program, info: 539-4071.

March 18, Connie Dover with Skip Gorman St. Patrick’s Day concert, Wolfeboro Town Hall, 7:30 pm, presented by Great Waters Music Festival, tickets: 569-7710, www.greatwaters.org.

March 18, Moondance, Van Morrison Tribute Concert, 8 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

March 18-19, Cynthia’s Challenge, 24-hour ski-a-thon, benefit, King Pine Ski Area, E. Madison Rd., Madison, info: 367-8896.

March 19, Dance Northeast, Sole City Dance, 2 and 7 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

March 19, Ham Night Penny Sale, ticket sales: 2-6:30 pm; drawing of prizes begins at 6:30 pm. Ossipee Town Hall, Ossipee, info: Bob Freeman, Ctr. Ossipee Firemen’s Assoc. President, 539-4401 ext. 0.

March 19, Hatful of Fun with Dr. Seuss, 10 am-Noon, celebrate the doctor’s birthday! Guest reader, book walk, birthday cake and more. Wakefield Opera House, presented by Gafney Library, 14 High St., Sanbornville, 522-3401.

March 19, March Maple Madness, participants visit NH sugar houses and learn about how maple syrup is made, as well as visit other maple partners who have a selection of maple themed goodies and inns all in the White Mountains.

March 19, Maple Sugaring at Sap Hound Sugarbush, 9 am-4 pm, come smell the sweet sap boiling down at the Sap Hound Sugarbush! Tin Mountain Naturalist Corrie Blodgett, will introduce her new sugaring operation located in Brownfield, Maine. Learn about systems to efficiently boil down sap, trek throughout the sugarbush to look at the tubing system, and participate in a delicious syrup tasting. The terrain is somewhat steep. If there’s snow bring snowshoes or borrow ours by calling 447-6991.

March 19, NE Irish Harp Orchestra, 7 pm, Wakefield Opera House, 2 High St., Sanbornville, tickets: 522-0126.

March 19, Spring Skating Spectacular, MWV Skating Club, Ham Arena, Conway, 5-6:30 pm, www.mwvsc.org, 662-5672.

March 20, Cold River Radio Show, with author Diane Les Becquets, 7 pm, White Birch Books, Conway, 356-3200.

March 21, Land Design with Nature in Mind, Carol Jowdy of Jowdy Landscape Design will be the speaker, 9:30 am, hosted by Mountain Garden Club, Salyard Center for the Arts, Conway, 383-9466.

March 23, 24, 26, 29 30, Tamworth’s 250th Anniversary Mural Building Project, come help build the mural, KA Brett School, Tamworth, with muralist David Fichter, free, public welcome, www.artstamworth.org for times.

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March 23, Rhythm in the Night – Irish Dance Spectacular, 7:30 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

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March 23, Tin Mountain Nature Program Birds of the World: Colombia, A Birder’s Paradise, 7 pm, Tin Mountain Nature Learning Center, Albany, lifelong birders Dana and Bob Fox share their experiences birding in the mountains of Colombia, known to be one of the most bird rich countries in the world with over 1,900 species of birds, 700 of which they sighted. 447-6991.

March 24, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Marion Posner and Kate Vachon perform, reservations: 284-6219, www.cornerhouseinn.com.

March 24, Picture Night, Benz Center, Center Sandwich, 7 pm, free, public welcome, showing and discussion of vintage photos of places in Sandwich area, 284-6269.

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March 25, Small Farmer’s Club, Sugar Snow, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, 10-11 am, ages 2-6, pre-register by Feb. 25, 3237591.

March 26, Community Contra Dances by G.A.L.A. (Global Awareness Local Action), taking place at Wolfeboro Town Hall, 84 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, 7 pm, all ages welcome. Info: 539-6460, www.galacommunity.org.

March 26, Easter on the Green, decorate an egg and enjoy other Easter crafts during our annual Easter on the Green, N. Conway. Select stores will have Easter candy and treats available. Details at www.settlersgreen.com.

March 26, Tin Mountain Nature Program, Build Your Own Bird Box, 9 amnoon, Nature Learning Center, Albany, learn to build a bird box, kits available for building bluebird, kestrel, wood duck, and owl boxes. Materials fees vary for each type of box. 447-6991.

March 26, Tom Chapin & Livingston Taylor concert, 8 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

March 30, Old NH Graveyard Assoc. program: Why Does Tamworth Have Over 20 Burial Sites? 7 pm, Cook Memorial Library, Tamworth, info: 323-8510.

March 31, Author Talk, Dr. Will White of Summit Achievement, author of Stories from the Field: A History of Wilderness Therapy, White Birch Books, N. Conway, 5 pm, 356-3200, www.whitebirchbooks.com.

March 31, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Simon Brooks performs, reservations: 284-6219, www.cornerhouseinn.com.

March 31, Paint Night, 6-9 pm, Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016, www.wolfeboroinn.com.

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April 1, Hooking Up With the Second City, comedy, 8 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

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April 6, Family Stories – How and Why to Remember and Tell Them, Cook Memorial Library, Tamworth, free, open to public, 7 pm, 323-8510.

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April 6, Grafting Workshop, location/info: TBA, GALA Community, info: www.galacommunity.org, 539-6460.

April 7, Ramblin’ Richard, WWII music, presented by Wright Museum, takes place at Wolfeboro Town Hall Buiilding, Main St., Wolfeboro, 7-8 pm, info: 569-1212.

April 9, Heifetz on Tour concert, 7:30 pm, presented by Wolfeboro Friends of Music, Anderson Hall, Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, tickets/info: 569-2151, www.wfriendsofmusic.org.

April 14, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Debra Ballou performs, reservations: 284-6219, www.cornerhouseinn.com.

April 15, The Hit Men, featuring former stars of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, 8 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

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March 31-April 10, The Miracle Worker, story of Helen Keller, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info/tickets/performance times:: www. rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

April 7, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Bonnie Marshall performs, reservations: 284-6219, www. cornerhouseinn.com.

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April 15, Spring Fling, fundraiser for NH Boat Museum, takes place at the Barn at the Inn on Main St., Wolfeboro, cocktails, dinner, auction, 6 pm, tickets/info.: 569-4554.

April 15-17, TABLESCAPES, Wolfeboro Inn, presented by Governor Wentworth Arts Council, info: www.wolfeboroarts.org.

April 18, Gardening is...Murder! Neal Sanders, 11:30 am, noted mystery author spaks at Mountain Garden Club Lunch & Learn to hear a “husband’s point of view of gardening.” Good horticultural advice is dispensed, bad advice is debunked. Advance reservations necessary; contact Carolyn Minton at 3836668. Red Fox Grille Restaurant, Route 16, Jackson, www.mountaingardenclub. org.

April 21, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Shelley Hersey performs, reservations: 284-6219, www.cornerhouseinn.com.

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April 22, Lottery Cocktail Party, fundraiser, 5:30 pm, Rochester Opera House, Rochester, info: www.rochesteroperahouse.com, 335-1992.

April 23, Community Contra Dances by G.A.L.A. (Global Awareness Local Action), taking place at Wolfeboro Town Hall, 84 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, 7 pm, all ages welcome. Info: 539-6460, www.galacommunity.org.

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Benz Center Senior Meals, Sandwich, each Wednesday at noon. Well-balanced and delicious meal. Ages 60 and older are targeted, small donation requested, 284-7211, www.benzcommunitycenter.webs.com.

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

Concerts at 12 Main, Arts Center at 12 Main, Sandwich village, 7:30 pm, select Concerts in the winter. Info: 284-7115, contact@advicetotheplayers.org.

Fiber Gatherings, first Thursday of the month and third Wednesday of the month, 7-9 pm, fiber enthusiasts gather at Benz Center, Sandwich village. Knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, needle felting, embroidery, crewel, rug hooking, quilting, sewing - no formal lessons provided but if you need help with a project, there is sure to be someone who can give you some pointers. Monthly suggested donation of $5 per participant requested by the Benz Center to help defray the cost of heat and lights. Drop your donation in the donation box at the end of the night. Info/questions: Jen Elliott at lupineblossoms@gmail.com.

Forgotten Arts: Fiber Arts Group. Meets every other Tuesday, 9:30 amnoon. 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 an every other Tuesday schedule at Remick Museum & Farm, Tamworth Village. Free. (Does not include access to the Museum.) 323-7591.

Crafty Kninjas, meets Friday afternoons, 3:30-5 pm, Milton Free Public Library, 13 Main St., Milton Mills, 473-8535. Knitters and crafty people gather.

Learn to Skate, four wk. sessions, info/pre-register: Rochester Parks and Recreation, 332-4120.

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

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Movie Night, Rochester Public Library, Wednesdays at 6 pm, 65 S. Main St., Rochester, public welcome, www.rpl.lib.nh.us, 332-1428.

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Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Rd., Tamworth Village. Activities and tours, exhibits, workshops, Capt. Enoch Remick House and farm stand. Call for hours 323-7591 or 800-686-6117, www.remickmuseum.org.

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Tamworth Winter Market, (March 12, 26, April 9 & 23), Tamworth Town House, Main St., Tamworth, 9 am-1 pm, info: wwwtamworthfarmersmarket. org.

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The Grainery’s Farmers and Artisans Market, The Mountain Grainery, 755 Route 16, Ossipee. Weekly farmers and crafters market. Saturdays 10 am – 2 pm. Now Thru March. Meats, veggies, raw dairy, honey, crafts, baked goods, herbals, gluten free goodies and more.

Winter Film Series, March 13 & 20, Freedom Public Library, 38 Old Portland Rd., Freedom, Sundays at 4 pm, simple supper served after the movie during movie discussion. 539-5176. Free, public welcome.

Wolfeboro Indoor Farmer’s Market, takes place the second and fourth Saturday of each month through April 9. First Congregational Church, 115 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, 10 am-2 pm, info: www.wolfeboroareafarmersmarket. com.

Wolfeboro Inn Special Events, Sushi Night, every Tues., 4-9 pm; every other Thur. Date Night with free babysitting, 5-9 pm; Sun. Brunch, every Sun. 10 am-2 pm; Wolfe’s Tavern, Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 5693016, www.wolfeboroinn.com.

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Learn about the Eastern Coyote in New England

Skip Gorman and Connie Dover will bring a St. Patrick’s concert to Wolfeboro.

Wolfeboro Town Hall Concert in Time for St. Patrick’s Day Great Waters Music Festival will start its 2016 season with its first performance on Fri., March 18 at the newly renovated Great Hall upstairs at the Wolfeboro Town Hall. A St. Patrick’s Day celebration will feature Connie Dover performing with Skip Gorman. Acclaimed by the Boston Globe as “the finest folk ballad singer America has produced since Joan Baez,” Connie Dover is a singer, poet and Emmy Award-winning producer and composer. Her soaring, crystalclear voice and inspired arrangements of the music of Scotland, Ireland and early America display a depth and breadth of range that have established her as one of the world’s pre-eminent traditional singers.

Connie performs in concert, on radio and television around the world, and she has been a featured guest on NPR’s Weekend Edition, A Prairie Home Companion, and the Thistle and Shamrock. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums, and her music can be heard on many

soundtracks and recordings of folk and world music. She is a recipient of the Speakeasy Prize in Poetry and the Yellowstone and Teton Song Contest Grand Prize.

Connie was born in Arkansas and raised in Missouri. She studied at Oxford University, and she has researched music from Edinburgh, Scotland to Miles City, Montana.

Connie spends her summers cooking on a ranch in northwest Wyoming, and she is a cook and guide at a remote winter camp in Yellowstone National Park.

The Wolfeboro performance will start at 7:30 pm. All tickets are general admission at $25.

Information and tickets are now on sale at www.greatwaters.org or call the box office at 569-7710.

(The Great Waters Music Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing outstanding musical performances to people living in and visiting the Lakes Region of New Hampshire.)

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he arranged a deal that was very “doable,” Adam says. The two proceeded, and Adam financed some necessary upgrades through a Kickstarter campaign supported, mainly, by Sandwich residents.

Through the generations, each Tappan Chair maker has worked from the same templates, but has referenced and evolved the historic patterns and designs. While Gunnar is always available for consultation, Adam has worked hard to get to know every millimeter of the chairs of yesteryear himself and shapes his new chairs to the use they’ll get today.

Because the chair’s strength comes from the natural joining of green and dried woods, Adam has the pleasure of sourcing his woods from local properties. In response to customer

teacher, Adam had been involved in the restoration of the statue of Niobe standing on the Great Wall of Sandwich early in his residence. He had become curious about Tappan Chairs while working part-time as director of the Sandwich Historical Society.

At a Christmas party in 2012, master luthier, Tom Thiel, mentioned to Adam that Gunnar Berg was no longer making Tappan Chairs, but was looking for just the right person to keep the business in Sandwich. Adam’s dream leapt at the idea, but almost as quickly, he talked it back down. He was sure the cost, whatever it was, would be out of his price range.

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her teaching career within the UNH system at Granite State College, giving presentations on wolves and coyotes, authoring a column for InDepthNH.org called Howling From the Mountain, and working on her book, Becoming Wolf, about the Eastern Coyote. A recipient of multiple teaching excellence and student recognition awards during her time teaching at UNH, when not presenting, Chris can be found in northern New Hampshire, researching coyote feeding patterns amongst the farms and woodlots there.

The program is free and open to the public; a question-and-answer period, refreshments, and the EHS monthly business meeting will follow the presentation.

(The EHS presents a humanitiesrelated program on the third Friday of each month, at 7 pm unless otherwise announced, followed by refreshments and the business meeting. Programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. The EHS Museum is open prior to each month’s meeting and by appointment. For more information on programs, call Sheila T. Jones, EHS Vice President, at 539-4071. For all other inquiries, call Paul D. Potter, President, at 300-2224.)

interest, he has added cherry, birch and other woods to traditional ash and maple. Instead of using stain to make woods look uniform, he celebrates the natural variations by using natural, earth-friendly waxes and oils for finishes.

Three years afterward, the newest marriage of Tappan Chair and craftsman appears remarkably successful. Adam builds chairs that find homes in Sandwich, across New Hampshire and across the nation. He displays his chairs on his website, www.tappanchairs. com, at the League of NH Craftsmen Shop in Center Sandwich, and on the sales floors of Chilton Furniture stores

in Maine.

Adam’s annual output is about 200 chairs, based on techniques and the length of process required for each custom-built chair. Already in March, he has orders for 75.

The history of Tappan Chairs is welldocumented through the Sandwich Historical Society’s Excursions publications. This article is particularly indebted to the 20th (1939) and 72nd (1991) editions, as well as Hands That Built New Hampshire: The Story of Granite State Craftsmen, Past and Present (Stephen Dave Press, Brattleboro, VT, 1940).

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Join the Effingham Historical Society (EHS) at its main building located at 1014 Province Lake Road (Route 153) in Center Effingham on Friday, March 18 at 7 pm, for a presentation by Christine Schadler entitled, Becoming Wolf: Eastern Coyote in New England. In addition to a discussion about the ecology and behavior of the animal, Ms. Schadler will focus on the interactions between coyotes and humans and the rapid evolution of the coyote towards a more wolf-like creature.

Chris Schadler is a Wild Canid Ecologist who holds an M.S. in Conservation Biology from the Graduate School at Antioch University, whose thesis and early work focused on the natural recovery of the Eastern Timber Wolf in Michigan. After moving to New England with her sheep and herding dogs and the discovery that her farm had become the focus of a pack of coyotes that relied on lamb as a food source in the spring, her attention shifted to the Eastern Coyote. Using her own farm as a long-term experiment, Chris was able to wean the local coyotes off sheep and bring about a period of zero predation lasting more than 20 years, utilizing sound livestock management and vigorous hazing practices.

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Rochester Chamber Presents 2016 Chamber Community Expo The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce is presenting the Community Expo, underwritten by Service Credit Union, on Thursday, May 12, from 5 to 7 pm at the Rochester Ice Arena, located at 63 Lowell Street in Rochester.

Businesses are given the opportunity to meet, discuss and showcase their products and services to the local business community and to the general public in a trade show format. Booth

space is $150 for Chamber members and $200 for non-member businesses.

Booth space includes an eight-foot space with a six-foot draped table.

Exhibitor space at this popular event is limited and sells out quickly.

Approximately 70 businesses showcase their products and services at the event in a trade show format. Event co-sponsors as of press time include Amcomm Wireless, Convenient MD Urgent Care, Cornerstone VNA,

MetroCast, Minuteman Health, Inc., Rochester Recreation & Arena, St. Thomas Aquinas High School/St. Elizabeth Seton School, Unitil, Waste Management and Wentworth Home.

A “Taste of the Chamber,” featuring complimentary hors d’oeuvres and food items, will be provided by member restaurants and caterers to those in attendance.

The Community Expo is open to the public and admission is free. Those who

attend the event will also be eligible for several raffle prizes throughout the evening. There will also be a cash grand prize raffle, co-sponsored by Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics and Bank of New Hampshire.

Businesses wishing to exhibit at the event should contact the Chamber or visit www.rochesternh.org to download the Community Expo exhibitor form.

For more information, contact the Chamber at 332-5080.

Victorian Girls - the Reprise!

It is not too early to start planning activities for your children for the upcoming summer vacation. One unique offering for young girls is the Victorian camp in Tamworth, presented by the Tamworth Learning Circles.

In information from the organization, written tongue-in-cheek in the flowery verbiage of the Victorian era, it is explained: The Tamworth Learning Circles is an educational charity devoted in part to the nurture and cultivation of young ladies of a tender age susceptible to uplifting education and good moral influence, once again invites a select number of suitable candidates to a week of living the fascinating and often privileged life of their peers and forebears in the Victorian Age. Accompanied, as they were last year, by teachers, mentors and chaperones of impeccable character, they will enjoy a varied program of visits and activities among the communities and sublime scenery of the White Mountains and Lakes Region, to their general delight and edification. Some of last year’s program will be repeated and enhanced, and there will be new elements, the exact details will be published later. (Last year in a very

full week campers ventured into the wilds with sketch book, watercolor sets and journals in hand, wore authentic costumes and were photographed with the equipment and in the style of the 19th century, visited period houses and a classic hotel of the era of the grand vacations, read and wrote uplifting verses and prose in the very heart of Nature, tried some of the arts and crafts of the period, traveled by steam train up Mount Washington and played Victorian games and pastimes, as well as learning about the lot and daily life of women and girls of different classes and of some of the inspiring individual writers and activists of the Women’s Emancipation movement.)

Says information from the camp, “We have many more ideas up our beautifully sewn sleeves! We promise that the week will be full of interest and variety, with planning in exquisite taste and a sense of decorum.”

The dates of the 2016 day camp will be July 10-14, Monday to Friday.

The number of places will be limited as they were last year, and early reservations are encouraged. The camp is open to girls ages 9-15. For further details and to reserve a place, please contact Marion and Richard

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Come Build Tamworth’s 250th Mosaic Join the Arts Council of Tamworth and mural artist David Fichter at the K. A. Brett School in Tamworth during the last two weeks of March to build Tamworth’s 250th Mosaic Mural.

Building a mosaic is fun, creative, skill-building, communal and relaxing, and offers a chance to visit with neighbors while making history. Stop by for an hour, a whole session, or every session to build the beautiful permanent artwork in celebration of Tamworth’s 250th. No special skills are needed—David will teach participants.

Bring friends and relations, bring all the generations, so that many hands can share in the creation—and you don’t have to be from Tamworth to participate.

Public sessions are Wednesday, March 23 from 6 to 8 pm; Thursday, March 24 from 3:15 to 5 pm; Saturday, March 26 from 9 am to 1 pm; Tuesday, March 29 from 6 to 8 pm and Wednesday, March 30, 3:15 to 5pm.

What is the Tamworth 250th Mosaic Mural? In honor of Tamworth’s 250th anniversary, Arts Council of Tamworth is working with mural artist David Fichter on the creation of two large glass mosaics celebrating the attributes— historical, cultural, ecological—that

make Tamworth special to those who live and spend time there.

Students and community members have designed and contributed elements for Fichter to incorporate into a mural template. The murals will be installed on the left-hand front of the Brett School, a town-owned building and a location that will be visible to everyone passing by.

Artist David Fichter has been creating community murals and mosaics for over 30 years, working all over the United States and in other countries, including Armenia, Georgia and Nicaragua. He has worked with youth of all ages on over 200 permanent murals, in addition to another 70 commissioned projects.

Season sponsors are The Other Store and Mosaic Sponsor BEAM Construction Associates, Inc. The project is supported in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Tamworth PTA. The Tamworth Foundation provided a generous grant in support of this project.

To donate in support of the mosaic, visit crowdrise.com/ tamworths250thmosaic. For further information, visit artstamworth.org, or call 323-0104.

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The Muse Still Lives on Wentworth Hill Story & Photos by Barbara Neville Wilson In a 2001 interview, Malcolm “Tink” Taylor remembered the view from his childhood bedroom. From the third floor room “under the north side ridgepole,” of the Isaac Adams Homestead, he saw the Sandwich Mountains and, “craning his neck to the west,” the Squam Range.

Were these first memories responsible for his lifelong leadership in New England nature conservation? If so, it’s not the only time the Muse of Wentworth Hill spurred invention in an inhabitant.

Wentworth Hill is the site of Sandwich, NH’s first settlement in 1763.

Near its crest today, you will be struck by crisp construction signs, freshly-set stonewalls, Tyvekked buildings and a bright red windmill sans arms.

This windmill, restored just last fall, was built in 1885 to pump water to the Isaac Adams Homestead’s innovative indoor plumbing. Perhaps it is also the water that feeds the Muse, for by and large, the land’s inhabitants have been creative: visionaries, inventors, innovators and preservationists.

The Lower Corner village was thriving with craftsmen and tradespeople when young Isaac Adams arrived as a journeyman cabinetmaker to resident Benjamin Jewett in 1820. He performed well and apparently liked the town, but set out for more lucrative pastures four years later. It is said that as he left, he vowed to a local farmer that he would return to Sandwich so successful that he would be “able to purchase your farm, if not all the farms in Sandwich.”

And successful he was. Within 12 years, he had entered the printing business in Boston where he conceived, invented and patented the world’s first automated book press. Its huge success enabled him to send his 10-year-old son Isaac Jr. to school at the Sandwich Academy, established in 1837.

The Sandwich Academy was housed just below the crest of Wentworth Hill, and young Isaac boarded with the Jewetts as his father had done 20 years before. Progressive for the time, the Academy served boarders and day students, both male and female.

Although he stayed just two years at the school, Isaac Jr. was apparently a good pupil with natural aptitude for the sciences. He later graduated from university and medical school at Harvard and completed additional medical study in England, where he developed an interest in the production of scientific and medical instruments. Although he practiced medicine for a time, he preferred scientific research and went on to discover and patent nickel plating processes still used today. Isaac Jr. amassed his own fortune through tech-

The Isaac Adams Homestead, Sandwich. nological achievements, and like his father, sought technological innovation the rest of his life.

Making good on his promise of 1824, Isaac Sr. began accumulating Sandwich real estate. In 1852 he bought the property formerly held by the then-defunct Sandwich Academy.

Some reports say he moved two other buildings and added them to a house already standing on the site, giving it its unique shape. One of those additions is said to be the old Sandwich Academy building that had stood where the red windmill is now. (Other accounts say the building formerly on the site of the windmill was moved to 331 Wentworth Hill Road.) The architectural style of the house, fronted by a threestory tower is unusually Victorian in a town full of colonial and Federal-style homes.

In 1856, Isaac Sr. sold the patent on his printing press, took his fortune, and became a full-time resident of his “Homestead” in Sandwich.

Isaac retired from business life, but by no means did he retire from the business of life when he moved to Sandwich. Over the next 28 years, he amassed 2,600 acres, particularly seeking land adjacent to his homestead. He built barns, outbuildings, and a stone wall reputed to be wide enough for a carriage to ride atop. He raised sheep and swine and fed his cattle in fields running nearly to Center Sandwich.

He designed elaborate gardens and installed classical statuary brought home from expeditions to Europe. The statues were so profuse that the road to Little Pond was given the name “Image

Road” by residents.

Progressive even in his personal affairs, Isaac paid higher than market price for real estate, and paid wages higher than the going rate to employees and contractors.

Despite his ingenuity and generosity, however, his life also took unlikely turns.

He considered building a canal from his homestead to Lake Winnipesaukee, a distance of two to three miles.

He bought up properties and tore down buildings or let them rot for lack of maintenance. He dreamed of fresh lobster and seafood and imported sleds of salt from nearby Meredith, intending to make Little Pond a saltwater sea. He sought redress on behalf of the families Civil War soldiers from a neighbor and elected official who, he claimed, had misappropriated funds. And when citizens re-elected the man nonetheless, he started a neighborhood feud. He set a soulful Niobe statue to menace over the other man’s home. His son, Durward, took pot shots at the man’s house.

When Isaac died in 1883, his son, Aquila, inherited the property, and it was apparently under his watch that the current windmill was completed,

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for markings on original shingles note the date of completion as September 22, 1885.

It was in the early 1900’s that Tink Taylor’s family bought the Adams’ Homestead from Aquila, renaming it Chestnut Manor. Tink’s grandmother, Alice Blanchard Moorhouse, had grown up in Lower Corner. She learned typesetting from her brother who ran a newspaper, and like Isaac Adams Sr., she went to Boston to make her fortune. In an era when it was rare, she set up her own printing company and became a prosperous businesswoman.

Alice bought the property as a summer home and used it as a base for many philanthropic and social activities. Tink remembered July 4th holidays for children from Bearcamp, and his grandmother’s collection of “American patterned glass…pewter, delicate tea sets…silver spoons and embossed dinnerware. Proudly displayed inside…what came to be known as ‘Fifth Avenue,’ a long hallway running the length of the backside of the house.”

Time takes its toll, however, and when Alice died in 1943, the house was largely unrenovated from its 19th century origins. The nation was in the midst of World War II, and building materials were in short supply for nonmilitary use. The Muse looked favorably on Isaac Adams’ beloved Homestead, however, for neighbor Katherine (Flett) Bryer White, who was known for her “unerring instinct for the finest of antiques” and ran the successful “Olde House” antique shop in Lower Corner, bought the property.

Katherine put in the home’s first central heat and added indoor plumbing.

Later, owner Denley Emerson recalled in 1998, “It has a slew of bathrooms.

They were put in during the war when no one else in the world could get anything except Catherine [sic] White…

Plumbed that place and heated it. Don’t know what she had for an inside track during the war, but she did have one.”

Another strong businessperson with vision, Katherine’s “Olde House” brought buyers from all over New England who would visit her home’s rooms, carefully appointed with antiques meant to be bought in entirety, a full room at a time. Katherine planned • Wentworth Hill Continued on page 14

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he left behind the Homestead with restrictions for development. In 2013, John Dolan, who grew up in Center Harbor and is now a businessman in New York City, bought it. John and his girlfriend, Fran Borden, are in the process of renovating the Isaac Adams Homestead as a bed and breakfast.

Next time you cross Wentworth Hill, slow down. Look carefully at the meticulous construction taking place at the Isaac Adams Homestead. For generations, the Muse has smiled upon the visionaries, inventors, innovators and preservationists of this land.

She smiles still.

(The Isaac Adams Homestead is on Route 109 in Sandwich, NH. Great thanks is due the resources consulted for this article: The Inventor & the Inventor’s Son: The Two Isaac Adams

by Anthony Marolda; Sandwich, NH 1763-1990, “A Little World by Itself,” edited by Patricia Heard and Shirley Elder Lyons; Sandwich NH Bicentennial 1763-1963 pamphlet, and numerous editions of Excursions from the Sandwich Historical Society. Special thanks to Adam Nudd-Homeyer, a modern Renaissance man: welder, Tappan chair maker, past head of the Sandwich Historical Society, and keeper, with his neighbors, of the Lower Corner flame.)

• Wentworth Hill Continued from page 13 to set similar rooms at Isaac Adams’ Homestead but did not realize her dream fully before bad health interfered. She died in 1962, and in 1964 Denley Emerson bought it from her family’s trust.

Denley had first seen Sandwich when camping nearby in summer. Just a child then, he determined it would someday be his home. He opened a real estate and insurance office in 1940. For the next 68 years, he bought hundreds of acres in town, seeking to limit development of the Sandwich he loved so well.

In mid-century, he bought the Federal style Wentworth House just beyond Isaac Adams’ Homestead, and when the Homestead became available, he said, he wanted it for the 300 acres that came with it. “I was just compelled by my idiosyncracies [sic] to buy anything that abuts me, if I can. That eventually led to my being able to put together that conservation easement on the land, which pleases me much.”

He was never able to make use of the house, however, because of problems he had bringing a water supply to it. “…so I finally just abandoned any effort to use that. It just sits there, going down hill [sic] very fast,” he said in a 1998 interview.

When Emerson passed away in 2008,

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Pieces of April, one of the many table designs from last year’s TABLESCAPES.

TABLESCAPES Is Coming!

The Governor Wentworth Arts Council is pleased to announce its spring arts fun’raiser TABLESCAPES “Creative Settings”®, a community-wide event.

TABLESCAPES is a chance for local community members to create a tabletop setting, which tells a story that is imaginative, playful, out-of-the-box wondrous and fun. The goal is to raise funds to bring arts programming to local schools and libraries and promote the arts in the community.

Participation is open to creative individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and teams – there is no charge to participate in designing a table. New this year will be a full-color program guide, which will include the Table Story from each participant, photos from last year’s winning entries and support from sponsors.

The event is scheduled for April 15 to 17, 2016 at the ballroom in the

Wolfeboro Inn, Main St. Wolfeboro.

The event is open to the public to tour from 10 am to 4 pm daily with a small $5 admission fee. Portions of the table display settings will also be for sale by the artists.

Local artists will be demonstrating their crafts during the touring dates as well.

For more details, contact event chair Jeannette D’Onofrio: j@ virgodesignstudio.com or call 5690078 or visit www.wolfeboroarts.org.

The Governor Wentworth Arts Council wishes to thank the Wolfeboro Inn for graciously providing the venue once again this year. Event sponsors include Maxfield Real Estate, Clark Plaza Storage, The Art Place, JC Signs and Lindt Chocolates.

For more information on the Governor Wentworth Arts Council, visit www.wolfeboroarts.org.

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Coffee Break Puzzles

Across 1. Gulf war missile 5. To sow again 10. Sylvester, to Tweety 13. French door part 14. Park place?

15. Female sheep 16. Impossible to avoid 18. “Dig in!”

19. Short novel 20. Dusk, to Donne 21. Health agency 22. Loss of ability to read 23. Bug 25. PC linkup 26. Chic-___ Mountains in Quebec 28. Avid 29. Church 31. Fourposter, e.g.

32. An ancestor 35. Charge 36. Indian tribes 37. Perfume 39. Game on horseback 40. Harvest goddess 43. Those residing in Haiti 46. Flatfish 48. Baseball’s Master Melvin 49. Couple 50. Word in the Second Amendment 51. Morgue, for one 52. Stringently enforced

54. Ashes holder 55. Fine fur 56. In ___ of 57. Undertake, with “out” 58. Query before “Here goes!”

59. Aims

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45. Actress Shearer 47. M-1, for one 50. A bunch of 53. “___ not!”

Down 1. Kind of column 2. Kind of oil 3. Odd 4. Fix 5. To plunder or pillage 6. Victorian, for one 7. Cavalry weapon 8. One who stares 9. Twerp 10. Highschooler 11. Kept ready for 12. Tie up 14. Knight in shining armor 17. Overused expression 23. Polar covers 24. Ban 27. Airy 29. Colgate rival 30. Rotating to the left, shortened 32. Feeling remorse for one’s sins 33. Soup cracker 34. Common auxiliary verb 35. Distinct parts of the face 37. To perfume with incense

CryptoQuiz Each of the following cryptograms is a clue to the identity of a distinguished playwright. Using the hints H=A and C=M, decipher the clues to name the playwright.

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2 DHCAQP ________________________________

3 SJXCEAQ ________________________________

4 KAWUCH ________________________________

5 CUCEXP ________________________________

This playwright wrote over 25 plays, two novels and several short stories and poems: ____________________________________

Admit Apostrophe Ashes Between Bore Busy Cattle Caves Closest Cups Dare Deed Deny Discuss Divided Door Drum Dump Eggs Escape Eyed Fatter Field File Flies Grant Hear Hence Hotel Kite Knee Leaf Maps Math Omit Ours Pulp Raid Reading Roast Sale Sell Shots

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Answers: 1) America, 2) Family, 3) Turmoil, 4) Cinema, 5) Memory, Tennessee Williams

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Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm Announces New Executive Director The Board of Directors of the Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm in Tamworth has announced the appointment of Cara Sutherland as Executive Director of the museum. After a national search, Ms. Sutherland’s appointment was unanimously approved at a special meeting of the Board of Directors on January 29, 2016. Sutherland, an experienced museum director, will join the Remick Museum on April 1, 2016.

Sutherland is currently the Executive Director of Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and she brings a wide range of experience at history museums, large and small, encompassing 14 years of experience as a museum director. She previously directed a regional maritime museum, the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum in rural Virginia from 2002–2004. Earlier, Ms. Sutherland worked in New York City for the Freedom Forum as Consulting Curator of the First Amendment Center from 2000–2002 and as Curator and Exhibit Developer at the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia from 1996–2000.

She began her curatorial career at the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts as Curator of Exhibitions from 1990–1995.

A native of New York’s Champlain Valley near the Québec border, Ms. Sutherland wanted to be closer to family in a more northern and rural environment, and found Tamworth a location that felt like home. Her interest in historic textiles led her into the museum field and her current passion is traditional foodways. She enjoys artisanal canning and food preservation, winning numerous ribbons at county and regional fairs, most recently at the 2016 Pennsylvania Farm Show.

Prior to her work in Lexington, Ms. Sutherland pursued doctoral studies at SUNY Binghamton and has a special interest in medical history. She holds an M.A. in American Social & Cultural History from the University of Delaware where she was a Hagley Fellow, 1982-1984. She completed her B.A. in English Literature at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1981. Ms. Sutherland is a published author, has taught college-level

courses in Public History, and has presented at many East Coast professional conferences.

Board chair Harold Cook said, “We are delighted to attract a museum director of Cara Sutherland’s stature and credentials to the Remick. The board is excited about her ideas and her experience in all aspects of running a museum, including strong administrative and fundraising experience, and her passion for history museums and interest in expanding her knowledge of historical agriculture. Cara can take the Remick Museum to the next level of programming and expand its resources.”

“I am honored and delighted to lead the Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm and to come to New Hampshire and Tamworth,” Ms. Sutherland said. “I look forward to working with the Board, staff, volunteers, members, and the broader community to further advance and make better known this unique museum, and to becoming a part of the Lakes Region community.”

(The Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm is located at 58 Cleveland

Hill Road, Tamworth Village. The Museum’s mission is to educate a broad and diverse public to the value and significance of the medical practice and agricultural way of life of the country doctor, and to preserve and interpret the Remick property and collections for the benefit of the public. Current Museum hours are Monday–Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, closed Saturday and Sunday during the Fall/Winter/ Spring. For information and directions, visit www.remickmuseum.org or call 323-7591.)

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