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A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 28, NO. 35
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Wake Boats Making All Sorts Of Waves by Dan Seufert
Weirs Times Correspondent
A speed boat is going fast and pulling a skier or surfer behind it, when suddenly the person being pulled drops the rope, and yet the surfer or skier continues right along in the boat’s trail. That scene is becoming more and more frequent with each year on New Hampshire’s lakes because of very popular new recreation called wake boating, in which a trailing enthusiast finds that the boat, which has extra weight or “ballast”
in the tail to create a larger wake, can maintain the experience because there’s a lot more wake being generated. With a 4 to 6 foot wake, a wake boat can easily keep the trailing person behind because the he or she is towed in the wake. Most often, wake boards are used and a person can surf. Though there have been complaints about the activity, it is presently legal on all state waters. “It’s a lot of fun,” said Gunnar Stecher of Shep Brown’s Boat Basin in Meredith, who said his See WAKE on 36
“From Here to Eternity” In Wolfeboro
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Tuesday, September 3 at 1pm, The Wright Museum in Wolfeboro will screen “From Here to Eternity” in their Movie Theater as the final film in thr Museum’s Donna Reed Film Festival. The 1953 film, directed by Fred Zimmerman, follows a lone-wolf private and boxing champion in Hawaii who is punished for refusing to box on his unit’s team just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The film features Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Cliff, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, and Donna Reed. “This classic war film showcases what life was
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AUGUST Through September Dinosaurs Alive! Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Holderness. Visitors to the Science Center can see life-size dinosaurs like the way they lived during prehistoric times. The temporary exhibit features five life-size dinosaurs. They look, move, and sound like the real thing! One even spits! The exhibit is open daily from 9:30am-5pm (last trail admission at 3:30pm) and is included in regular trail admission. www. NHNature.org or 968-7194 Through September 2nd
Lakes Region Art Association Members Annual Exhibit
Lakes Region Art Gallery, Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. Gallery hours are extended during the month of August, Tuesday – Sunday 10am-6pm. Closed Mondays (except Labor Day, Sept. 2nd). Come see all the new artwork and celebrate the awards and recognition
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Neil Simon’s “California Suite” Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 33 Footlight Circle, Meredith. The walls of the posh Beverly Hills hotel speak volumes! California Suite combines four stor ies of what goes on in one set of toney hotel rooms, told by four actors. www. WinnipesaukeePlayhouse.org or 279-0333
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Barnstormers Present – Katherine DiSavino’s “Things My Mother Taught Me” Barnstormers Theatre, 104 Main Street, Tamworth. The Barnstormers present the most love-affirming play you are likely to see in a long while. Funny, poignant, and full of heart, this one’s a new Barnstormers c l a s s i c . 3 2 3 - 8 5 0 0 o r w w w.
a half hours. Explore Lost River by the light of lanterns and headlamps. Following the tour, enjoy s’mores around the campfire. All reservations must be made in advance as space is limited. Multiple dates available through October. 745-8031 or www.
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Dueling Pianos – Gardner Berry vs Jim Tyrrell Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. www.PatricksPub.com or 293-0841
Gunstock Arts & Craft Festival Gunstock Mountain Resor t, 719 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford. 10am5pm each day. Fabulous exhibitors including Alpaca Exhibit, amazing quilts, decorative metal wall art, hand painted slates and lots more! Rain or shine, under canopies. www. JoycesCraftShows.com or 528-4014 Saturday 31st
Guided Evening Lantern Tour at Lost River Lost River Gorge & Boulder Caves, 1712 Lost River Road, Route 112W, North Woodstock. Guided evening tours begin at dusk and last 1 and a half hours. Explore Lost River by the light of lanterns and headlamps. Following the tour, enjoy s’mores around the campfire. All reservations must be made in advance as space is limited. Multiple dates available through October. 745-8031 or www.
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Sweetbloods: Phil & Janet – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8pm. www.PatricksPub.com or 293-0841
New Hampton Farmers Market
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Thursday 29th Plymouth Farmers Market
Plymouth Regional Senior Center Outside Plaza, Garden Street, Plymouth. 3pm-6pm. Rain or shine! 536-5030
Don Bartenstein – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. www.PatricksPub.com or 293-0841 Friday 30th
Guided Evening Lantern Tour at Lost River Lost River Gorge & Boulder Caves, 1712 Lost River Road, Route 112W, North Woodstock. Guided evening tours begin at dusk and last 1 and
Triple Header of a Capella Groups Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. Evening kicks off at 6pm with an ice cream social, then the performances start at 7pm. The performers include Ball in the House, [Mix]tape, and Tuckermans at 9. Tickets are $25/adult or $80/family of four or more. www.GarrisonPlayers.
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Townhouse Road, New Hampton. 9am-noon. Maple syrup, cheeses, yogurt, baked goods, farm fresh eggs, organic and certified beef and chicken, wood crafts and so much more! Every Saturday through Columbus Day. 968-7995
Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. Moonlight and magic, and wistful love are the stuff of America’s longest-running musical, ever – The Fantasticks opens August 22nd and is the fourth of their five-show professional summer season. www. JeansPlayhouse.com or 745-2141
sliced ham and 3 kinds of slow-baked beans, cole slaw, rolls, beverages and homemade pie. $9/adults, $5/kids. 755-3107
New Hampshire Farm Museum, 1305 White Mountain Highway, Milton. 12pm-2pm. Pig on the spit with all the sides, come get stuffed! Live music and farm attractions. $25/adult, $10/ child. To reserve your spot (required) call 652-7840
10th Annual “Run your Buns Off” – 4.2 Miler
Sat. 31st – Sept. 2nd Advice to the Players 4th Annual Rummage Sale Fundraiser A r t s C e n t e r, 1 2 M a i n S t r e e t , Sandwich. 10am-4pm on the lawn. Stop by Labor Day weekend to show your support for ATTP and bring home some treasures at excellent prices. All proceeds from the rummage sale go towards supporting Advice to the Players and The Arts Center. If you’d like to participate in the sale email
jessie@advicetotheplayers.org 986-7827
Craft Fair at the Bay Alton Bay Community House & Waterfront, Route 11, Alton. Sat. 10am-6pm, Sun. 10am-5pm, Mon. 10am-4pm. Shop/browse fine jewelry, floral design, photography, sea glass, hair accessories, candles, art, clay, lamps, specialty foods and much much more. www.CastleberryFairs.
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SEPTEMBER Sunday 1st Yoga in the Woods Lost River Gorge & Boulder Caves, 1712 Lost River Road, Route 112W, North Woodstock. 8am. Join local fitness guru, Margarita Defrense, for a 1-hour Gentle-Flow Yoga session at Lost River’s Treehouse and take in the peaceful sounds of Lost River and the nature around you. Mats will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own. Session is $25pp and includes admission to the Gorge following the class. Please plan to arrive 10 minutes early. Preregistration is required. 745-8031 or
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The start and finish are at Basic Ingredients Bakery, Route 3A, Bristol. Registration begins at 7:45am and the race begins at 9am for the professionally timed run/walk. The reward for the runners and walkers at the finish line is a homemade sticky bun! Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 male and female runners, as well as the fastest team. Everyone will have chances to win one of the many great raffle prizes! Cost is $22pp/advance, or $25pp/day of. www.LightBoxReg.
Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Road, Route 171, Moultonborough. 8am. Register online, by phone or at the door. $20/adults, $6/ ages 5-17. www.CastleintheClouds.org or 476-5900
Ham & Bean Supper
Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Road, Route 171, Moultonborough. 8pm. Stargaze at the Castle with the NH Astronomical Society! This
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American Legion, 8 Steeple Street, Milton. 5pm-6pm. Featuring hand-
Labor Day Fun Run/Walk at the Castle
Registration For Curling Leagues Underway Lakes Region curling registration is under way Registration is now open for Lakes Region Curling Association’s Fall 2019 season. The league will mark the start of the association’s fifth year of bringing Olympic sport to the region. Running from midOctober to mid-December, the Fall season offers eight weekly curling matches at Pop Whalen Ice Arena in Wolfeboro. Matches take place from 5:15 to 7:15 pm on Sunday evenings. A pre-season learn-to-curl session will be scheduled for early October for new curlers. For men and women of all ages and fitness levels, curling is a sport that combines skill, teamwork, and strategy. With that in mind, LRCA matches put a premium on friendly competition, sportsmanship, and fun. Players can register singly, with a partner, or as full teams of four to six players. LRCA organizers will find teams for players who are not already affiliated. No previous experience is needed, and the association provides all necessary equipment. The $195 registration fee defrays the cost of ice time, equipment, and insurance. For information about the sport of curling in general and the LRCA in particular, visit the association’s web site at lakescurlingnh.org. To register, simply download and complete both a registration form and a waiver form at lakescurlingnh.org/membership. For more information about the upcoming curling league, send a message to info@lakescurlingnh.org.
Introduction to Pencil Drawing Teaching you how to see and draw, is how you greatly improve your drawing skills. This is what highly acclaimed professional artist Thomas Hitchcock’s drawing course is all about. This 6 class course begins Wed. Sept. 4th, and continues every consecutive Wed. and Sat. until Sept. 21, from 10:00 AM- 12 noon. Every student gets personal instruction, critiques on their work, and an instruction book on this course from a professional artist. This course is designed for all different ages and levels of artists. His classes will be held at the Lakes Region Art Association Gallery, Tanger Outlet Mall, Suite 132, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton, NH. Classes are open to the public and sign-ups accepted on a first come-first served basis. To register, discuss costs and on what materials you’ll need, call Tom Hitchcock 603-496-6768 or visit the LRAA Art Gallery on Thur. Fri. Sat. or Sun. 10am – 5pm.
Tilton Flea Market On Saturday, September 14th there will be a Flea Market at Tilton-Northfield United Methodist Church, 400 West Main Street, Tilton from 9am to 2pm. It will be held rain or shin and ne Early Birds allowed. There will be collectibles, antiques, crafts, baked goods and books as well as Household and Children’s items. Donated items are accepted (Please no clothes, TVs or tires). Table space is also available. Call 603-731-6247 for more information.
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Democrats’ Promises To the Editor: Considering the promises, the last Democrat Presidential Primary debates should have been in Disney’s Fantasyland. No entity in American history has been more harmful to poor and middle income, especially black, Americans than Democrats. Democrats supported slavery, created the KKK and protected it, made former KKK leaders honored Congressional leaders, passed and enforced Jim Crow laws and segregation, President Wilson re-segregated government employment, passed minimum wage and the Davis-Bacon acts to reduce black work opportunities, and set dogs on peaceful civilrights protestors. Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Democrats opposed Republican President Eisenhower’s Civil Rights Act of 1957, and a smaller percent of Democrats than Republicans voted for the Civil Rights and Voting Acts of the 1960s. Democrat Welfare laws have destroyed poor, and especially black, families. Out-of-wedlock births have skyrocketed from 5% overall and 25% in the black community in the 1960s to over 40% overall, and almost 80% in the black community. Children in households without fathers are often poor and prone to prob-
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lems. Democrats do little to nothing to help poor and middle income people prosper so they can earn the money they need to support themselves and their family, live as they want, put their children through college, save for retirement, and have pride in their own accomplishments. Education is key to success; but public education, which is Democrat controlled, fails millions of students annually despite continuous funding (by increased taxes) increases. E.g., Baltimore had 13 high schools (2017) without a single student doing math at grade level (https://tinyurl.com/y6ae9zlb)! A private business with such a track record would be bankrupt, but Democrats protect failing schools. Democrats fight efforts to allow school competition/choice so students can escape failing and dangerous schools. Democrats sacrifice the lives of students for teacher’s union contributions. Democrat policies drive businesses out of cities. This reduces good job availability without costly commutes and extra hours away from families. Democrat open borders and high immigration policies provides higher profits and cheap labor for their rich donors, but harms (with job competition, lower wages, crime, drugs, increased housing
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costs, degraded schools, burdened hospitals, etc.) poor and middle income Americans. Democrat support of unions benefit Democrat politicians, union officials, and some union members but most workers and taxpayers suffer from lost jobs, higher taxes, and higher cost of living. Future letters will address other Democrat promises. What Democrats deliver for poor and m i ddl e i n c o m e A m e r icans are revealed by Democrat-run cities; they are characterized by crime, drugs, high taxes, and a huge income gap between the rich and poor. Don Ewing Meredith, NH
Right to Free Speech To The Editor: Thursday night, around 9:30 p.m., after the Trump rally in Manchester, I was dropping off a friend at a parking garage near Vine St, where she had left her car. As she was getting out of my car, we heard loud women’s voices yelling obscenities. I know we were their target because I happen to have a couple of Trump stickers on the back of my car, and we were the only ones there. The women, three of them, though they had a small child See MAIL BOAT on 42
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I’ve written about my dad before, how he received a Bronze Star during World War II, how he never talked about it, how I never got the opportunity to ask him since we were both so young when he died. I’ve often thought about it since. I can’t help it. Years ago, when my mom was still alive, she gave me the American Flag that was placed on my father’s casket before he was buried. It is now in a beautiful case and hangs upon our wall. Years later, mom gave me some paperwork she had about my dad’s Bronze Star since I was so curious about it. A couple of years ago my wife, Kim, framed a picture of my dad receiving the Bronze Star along with a citation that explained what is was for. That hangs on our wall as well. Mom passed away two years ago. She had spent her last few months in a nursing home after living with my sister and her family who sacrificed so much to make mom’s last years happy ones. At the hotel we all gathered at for the funeral, my niece gave me one of my mom’s precious keepsakes. She wanted me to have it. It was a framed memorial to my father and his Bronze Star. It had the same photo I had of it being pinned on his chest along with a letter signed by President
Reagan after my Dad had passed, and, most importantly, it contained the Bronze Star itself. I realize that getting a Bronze Star wasn’t rare, quite a few soldiers received them during World War II and since. Some had a “V” on them which indicated valor. My father’s star did not. Still, he was recognized for some things he did during the war. Part of what was on the citation reads as follows: ….for meritorious achievement in connection with military operations in North Africa and Italy from 12 May 1943 to 22 April 1945. As Chief Clerk in the Adjutant General’s Section, Headquarters 8th Port of Embarkation, Warrant Officer Smith (then Master Sergeant), with untiring zeal and devotion to duty that was an inspiration to the men working with him, was instrumental in the successful accomplishment of the mission of the 8th Port Headquarters during the launching of the Sicilian and Salerno invasions, the operation of the Anzio Port in support of the 5th Army, and the invasion of Southern France. His administrative ability, technical skill, and his willingness to assume an abnormal amount of responsibility reflects a great credit upon himself in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Forces. I have read the citation many times, trying to imagine what exactly it was that my father had done during the war. Was he involved in “Operation Dragoon” a military operation in Southern France that took place a few months after D-Day? What part did he play in the Sicilian and Salerno invasions? These were questions I would never have real answers for.
The other day I realized, maybe just knowing what I know, which isn’t much, is enough. Another of my nieces, who lives in South Carolina, contacted me the other day. She needed some information. Her thirteen-year-old son was going to do a school project. He had decided, after studying other ideas, that he wanted to do a project on his great-grandfather, whom he never met, and the Bronze Star he received during World War II. I was more than happy to send him the photographs of what I had: the picture of my dad receiving his Bronze Star, the citation that came with it and, of course, a photo of the Bronze Star. I didn’t know what other planning my great-nephew planned to do for his project. Would he try to investigate more what his great-grandfather did during the war? Would he try to find out what these vague descriptions on the citation were actually about? I asked my niece what his plans were for the project. She told me he thought he would do it because his great-grandfather, my father, was “the only person he could think of in our family who helped change history”. My niece said she got a little choked up when he told her that. I did the same when she told me. After all my years of thinking about the Bronze Star and what my dad might have done to earn it, I never looked at it that way. It really was as simple and as complicated as that. I guess that really is enough.
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Triggering The Google Social Credit System I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project by Michelle Malkin Veritas, that Syndicated Columnist my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist. Thank goodness the Big Tech giant hasn’t taken over the newspaper syndication business yet. Twenty years of column writing have allowed me to break news and disseminate my opinions without the tyranny of social justice algorithms downgrading or whitewashing my words. But given the toxic metastasis of social media in every aspect of our lives, especially for those who make their living exercising the First Amendment, it may only be a matter of time before this column somehow falls prey to the Google Ministry of Truth, too. Armed with internal memos and emails, former Google software engineer Zachary Vorhies exposed how MichelleMalkin.com (online since 1999) was placed on a news blacklist banning my content from appearing on newsfeeds accessed through Android Google products. I do not advocate violence, publish porn or indulge in vulgarity or profanity (other than my occasional references to Beltway crapweasels). But I triggered the Google Social Credit System and there’s no going back. My apparent sin: Independently growing a large organic following of readers on the internet who share my mainstream conserva-
tive views on immigration, jihad, education, social issues, economic policy, faith and more. Other conservative victims of the Google ban hammer include: Twitchy (a Twitter aggregation site I founded in 2012), FrontPage Magazine (founded by prolific conservative author and journalist David Horowitz), the Daily Caller (founded by Fox News host and journalist Tucker Carlson), Legal Insurrection (founded by Cornell University law professor and investigative blogger William Jacobson), NewsBusters (founded by Media Research Center in 2005), The Gateway Pundit (founded by grassroots social media pioneer Jim Hoft in 2004), the American Thinker (another of the veteran conservative blogs founded in 2003 by Thomas Lifson), LifeNews.com (an independent, pro-life news site founded in 1992 by Steven Ertelt), the Catholic News Agency and The Christian Post. I suspect, because so many of the blacklisted sites belong to the original generation of conservative bloggers, that Google’s ideology-based censorship significantly predates the timeframe of the documents that Vorhies (who worked at Google for eight years) shared with Project Veritas. Indeed, my first substantiated censorship by Google/ YouTube, which was covered by The New York Times, occurred 13 years ago in 2006. Around that time, it also became clear to me that humans, not algorithms, were manipulating Google Images to prioritize unspeakably crude photoshopped images of me disseminated by left-wing misogynists. And not long after, my heavily trafficked blog posts started dropping off the search
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The Media’s Intersectional Embrace of Anti-Semitism Imagine two sitting Republican Congresspeople planned a trip to a foreign country in conjunction with a nongovernmental by Ben Shapiro organization. Syndicated Columnist Imagine that particular NGO had a long history of Jew hatred: It had run a piece on its website quoting anti-Semitic myths about Jews imbibing Christian blood, republished a neo-Nazi article decrying the “Jew-controlled entertainment media” and suggested that “honor” was the proper response to a terrorist who murdered 38 Israelis, including 13 children. Imagine that these two Congresspeople tweeted a cartoon from a cartoonist so anti-Semitic he won second prize at Iran’s Holocaust denial cartoon contest. Imagine that these Congresspeople had themselves engaged in anti-Semitic slurs, ranging from a suggestion that
Israel supporters in America suffer from dual loyalty, to the accusation that Israel “hypnotized the world,” to the suggestion that Jewish money lies behind America’s support for Israel (“it’s all about the Benjamins”). Imagine that these Congresspeople had expressed support for terrorist Rasmea Odeh. Imagine also that both Congresspeople had a long history of associations with open anti-Semites. Finally, imagine that both members were supporters of the anti-Semitic boycott, divest and sanctions (BDS) movement directed against Israel -- a movement so obviously anti-Semitic that a bipartisan coterie ranging from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-T., to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had declared it so. Now imagine that these two Republican Congresspeople were barred from entering Israel under Israel’s law that prevents propagandizing designed to destroy the state of Israel. Would the media report on Israel’s reaction or on the Republican
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Trump’s Promise President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. by John Stossel “We’re going to Syndicated Columnist cancel every needless job-killing regulation!” Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things done. But would he keep his deregulation promise? I was skeptical. Republicans often talk deregulation but then add rules. People called President George W. Bush an “anti-regulator.” But once he was president, he hired 90,000 new regulators! Trump has been different. When he took office, he hired regulation skeptics. He told government agencies: Get rid of two regulations for every new one you add. I think his anti-regulation attitude is why stock prices rose and unemployment dropped. Trump sent a message to business: Government will no longer try to crush you. Businesses then started hiring. Of course, the media wasn’t happy. Reporters love regulation. They call Trump’s moves “an attack on the environment” and on
“workers’ health.” The New York would dominate the internet. Times ran the headline “Donald Bernie Sanders even tweeted that Trump Is Trying to Kill You!” repeal would mean “the end of What the media don’t get is that the internet as we know it.” regulations have unintended side Of course, none of those things effects that often outweigh the happened. Or as Norquist puts it: good they’re intended to do. “None of it! None of it!” Cars built smaller to comply with President Obama’s rules that require doubling of gas mileage cause increased deaths because smaller cars provide less protection. At the risk of “Should the government tell outing myself you what kind of car to buy?” as a philistine, I asks Grover Norquist of Amerimust admit that cans for Tax Reform in my new I’m not a fan of video about Trump. poetry. After the Norquist says that Trump has forced march largely kept his deregulation through haiku promise, and that’s been great in middle school for America. and learning the For example, Trump repealed Ken Gorrell naughty delights the Obama-era plan to classify by Contributing Columnist of dirty limerfranchise businesses like McDonald’s as one single business. icks, I never developed an appreciation for the poetic form. As with Why? “The trial lawyers want to be ballet and pop-art, I recognize it able to sue all of McDonald’s, not takes talent to create it, but it just just the local McDonald’s, if they doesn’t do much for me. Great prose – with non-fiction spill coffee on themselves,” says Norquist. “And the labor unions ranked above fiction – is to me want to unionize all McDonald’s, the pinnacle of the language arts. not just the one store. That would Writers who can clearly, succinctly, and engagingly communihave been a disaster. Trump’s FCC repealed Obama’s cate fact and opinion are the true “net neutrality” rule, which would masters of communication. Every generalization has excephave limited internet providers’ freedom to charge different tions. While not a fan of poetry, I do value certain poems. One prices. Democrats and other regu- such was referenced in a recent lation-lovers predicted repeal essay at American Thinker. In would mean that rich people Blowback and Mass Shootings (August 8th), Taylor Lewis quoted W.H. Auden’s September 1, 1939. Auden wrote of the day Germany invaded Poland, setting in motion the Second World War. As we near the eightieth anniversary of that terrible time, we should study the poet’s search for causation. We might find insights applicable to our time. Auden’s exploration of the event focuses on the psychological state of the German people that brought them to choose war: “Accurate scholarship can / Unearth the whole offence / From Luther until now / That has driven a culture mad, / Find what occurred at Linz, / What huge imago made / A psychopathic god:” And then comes this warning that we must hear today: “I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom
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September 1, 1939 evil is done / Do evil in return.” In today’s politicized culture, “accurate scholarship” is hard to come by. But divining some truths doesn’t require a PhD. Just as nations that are disconnected from the community of nations can burn with rage at perceived injustices, people disconnected from the community of their fellow citizens can lash out brutally, unpredictably. That, I think, is at the heart of America’s gun violence. We are growing in miniature our own “psychopathic gods.” What evil was done to young men that turned them into shocking headlines from El Paso, Dayton, Parkland, Sandy Hook, Columbine, that they would do such evil in return? What evil propels the non-headline-grabbing violence that has become the background noise of our inner cities (yet claiming far more lives than mass shootings)? No matter who they are or what weapons they chose, the most common thread connecting these killers – besides being men – is their detachment from society. Such have always been in our midst, but today we seem to be growing more men who suffer from nihilistic, violent social detachment. What is “the whole offense” behind this trend? That question should be answered with another question: What else should we have expected when we detached children from the moral laws and traditions that guided mankind for millennia? A century-old Progressive movement has been trying to replace the foundational truths of human behavior with something artificial and alien. In a social experiment of unparalleled scope and destruction, Progressives have sought to change human nature by force rather than channeling
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Healthy Tip From Dr. Fink —A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA—
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Revolution – A sudden radical or complete change according to Webster. If you’re like many of us your days are full and getting it all done can be mind boggling. You want to live and eat healthy, but get overwhelmed with where to start and how to work it into your life. Whole food eating plans require shopping and meal planning and new ways of cooking. You need to acquaint yourself with these foods that may be unfamiliar and figure out ways to incorporate them into your diet. Next, comes exercise, which is best for me? Jog? Join a gym? Yoga? How about Karate? What will I stick with? Several years ago a gal I know signed up for a Jazzercise class. They were running a special and the instructor asked if she was sure she wanted to pay for the entire 6 week trial or would she like to try it first and decide? She said “Oh I’m going to do this, I’ll pay for it all now. She described the hour long class as totally humiliating. When they went left I went right, when they went forward, I went back. I tripped, bumped, and stumbled my way through, but stuck it
out. When it was over I couldn’t get out of there fast enough! Her next attempt was line dancing….need I say more? Today she’s a dedicated walker and says so far she has no problem with it. Find what works for you. If it means you have to get up a ½ hour earlier, do it. The reward will be well worth the sacrifice. If you can inspire an exercise buddy all the better. Here’s a thought, one day you’ll be facing old age and though there are some things you can do at that point to improve your health, etc. If you start while you’re younger, not only will you be healthier throughout your days, you more than likely will be a much
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By Martha Swats, Owner/Administrator Comfort Keepers One of the greatest fears many people have of growing older is losing their mental acuity. While there are some diseases and conditions of the brain over which we have no control, there are some that are preventable with certain lifestyle changes. The good news is that these changes can be implemented no matter what the person’s age is. Researchers have identified a number of characteristics that seem to help keep people mentally sharp well into their senior years. Learning and mentally exercising: While there is some debate as to whether doing puzzles and other mind games has any significant impact on staving off cognitive decline, there is strong evidence that learning for the long term keeps the brain elastic. Research has shown that the process of learning helps keep the brain sharp when that which is learned is retained, or remembered. In other words, by this definition, learning is the process of memorization. Thus, learning something for the short term, such as following a recipe, then forgetting it later, does not have any lasting impact. However, learning how to play an instrument or fix a car, and perhaps even teaching others, requires memorization and strengthens the brain’s
circuits. Having more years of formal education: People who have more years of formal education face a reduced risk of cognitive decline than those with fewer years of formal schooling. Formal education works the brain through the learning process, and creates stronger connections in the brain circuit. This can help compensate as the brain changes with age. Additionally, those with greater formal education tend to have lifestyles that are healthier for the brain in general. For seniors who never had the chance to continue their formal education, retirement may just be the opportune time to do so. Many colleges and universities offer courses at low cost or for free to seniors. Interacting socially: Seniors who interact regularly with friends, family, and community are less likely to experience cognitive decline and can experience a better sense of overall wellbeing. This may be due to the fact that social engagement allows people to deal with stress more productively and seniors who are more socially engaged
tend to be more physically active. Seniors who are unable to drive can enlist the help of family and friends to get to social engagements, or seek the assistance of professional caregivers. Professional caregivers can help seniors get to events and engagements when family and friends are unavailable. Physical activity: You have heard the experts tout exercise as a remedy for most of what ails the general populace today, and it turns out that exercise is also a great way to help keep the mind sharp. Seniors who have not been physically active should consult with a physician before beginning an exercise program. Good nutrition: Certain forms of dementia, such as some types of Alzheimer’s disease, can be averted, or at least the risk can be significantly decreased, with a diet that is made up primarily of vegetables, legumes, fish, and whole grains. Before making changes to diet, though, it is important that seniors first discuss any changes with their doctors. Seniors who need See TIPS on 13
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Your Health is in Your Hands by Dr. Graham Moneysmith, DC. Contributing Writer
Unless you’re Scrooge McDuck, the Monopoly guy, or Jeff Bezos you’ve probably have had moments where you are concerned about your finances. Captain Obvious moment here, but everything continues to get more and more expensive. Whether it’s at the fuel pump, the grocery store, or tuition costs….. it all keeps going up. It is what it is, I suppose. And frankly, you have to eat and drive and keep your house warm. So we do what we have to do. So much of this is out of our control. One place the cost of doing business continues to rise is healthcare even with health insurance. CBS news released a story this week, using analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation, stating that in 2018 a family of four spent $7,726 on healthcare which is up from $4,617 ten years ago. The analysis goes on to say that despite this significant jump in costs treatment outcomes have not gotten better. So basically, when it comes to healthcare, we are spending a whole lot more money and we are not getting anything in return. Obviously, this is a dismal picture. When you spend, I think most of us believe “you get what you pay for.’’ In our current healthcare system, it appears this is not the case, unfortunately. Now, the cool thing here versus heating oil or a grocery bill is that when it comes to healthcare, we can actually control the cost more than we think. Not only can we
do it for our individual budgets, but collectively if we make some changes we can benefit our national healthcare costs, as well! The thing is, these changes are more simple than you’d expect and also pretty obvious too, when you really think about it.
1. Exercise: Ok, movement improves everything. Full stop. Seriously, it increases life span, decreases disease risk, manages weight, improves mood, and even makes you more intelligent. It’s pretty amazing. It also can save a bunch of money. This is from the American Heart Association: in 2012 researchers looked at a survey of 26,000 Americans. Those who already had cardiovascular disorders and then met the recommended exercise guidelines saved $2500/ year in healthcare costs versus those who didn’t meet the guideline standards. For those who didn’t already have cardiovascular disease, if they met the exercise guidelines, they’d save $500/year over their non exercising counterparts. 2. Sleep: 7 to 9 hours. Make it happen! Researchers at the nonprofit RAND Europe group looked at sleep deprivation and the results are startling. From a personal health perspective the researchers found that those who slept less than 6 hours per night had a 13% higher mortality rate risk then people who slept 7-9 hours. But it doesn’t stop there. Sleep actually plays a major role in economics. Sleep deprivation leads to an estimated loss of 1.2 million work days per year. This lack of sleep is costing us around $411 billion according to the researchers. That’s a staggering number. 3. Healthy Eating: we all know that whole
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CHINESE OLYMPICS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION “To say that politics are not a part of sports is not realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for The Germans won the most medals at the 1936 Olympics, my country.” - Tanzaalthough Jesse Owens won four track and field golds for nian track star Filbert the USA. Bayi Bayi once held the record for fastest mile. But he missed out on the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal because Tanzania boycotted those games due to New Zealand’s participation. New Zealand’s sin was that its rugby team played in South Africa, then a pariah due to apartheid. Bayi DID compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics— which the USA boycotted due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then the Soviet bloc boycotted the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. So how much should politics influence international sports? Were the above boycotts justified? Politics are ubiquitous. To utterly separate the political from the athletic is impossible. Did Hitler exploit the 1936 Berlin Olympics to demonstrate Nazi-Aryan superiority? Of course. (The Germans won 89 medals to the USA’s 56.) Did the Soviet bloc exploit subsequent Olympics to demonstrate the superiority of the Communist system? Of course.
So when should sports boycotts occur? Consider China and the 2022 Winter Olympics slated for greater Beijing. Recent Chinese actions collectively cause great concern—from the crackdown in Hong Kong to military expansion in the South China Sea to economic warfare against the west. Ponder what the Chinese did to Tibet. China is the world’s worst polluter. The authoritarian Communist government in China threatens global well-being. Then there are the Uyghurs. An oppressed minority in China’s Xinjiang Province, the Uyghers have long been targeted by Beijing for cultural extermination—or worse. Around a million have been rounded up and placed in concentration camps, where many have perished. So should western nations threaten a Chinese Olympic boycott if Chinese behavior remains unchanged? Yes. But this should be done quietly, through “diplomacy.” Loud and public threatening is counter-
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All fish have a place and time that they bite best. It could be a particular profile that triggers them that day, or maybe a color. How they bite is dependent on many factors such as water temperature, clarity, and time of day. When one of these factors changes, so does the way fish behave toward prey items, like your lure. These abrupt changes in fish behavior can be frustrating, especially when your favorite lure isn’t working. Sometimes the most subtle change to your lure will turn things around. Have you ever fished your favorite spot, with your favorite lure, yet still can’t get a bite? I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve cycled through lure after lure, trying to make fish bite on days when they were finicky. I have also had days when I missed most of the fish that bit, yet never changed how I fished the lure I was using. Here are some tips that might help on days like these. Northern pike are one of the best examples of moody fish. There are days when they will hit a pearl Whisperer from Daddy Mac Lures on an offset hook with a vengeance, but let the water cool down a few degrees in a short period of time, and they won’t touch it. These are the days when many anglers begin cycling through different lures, trying in vain to trigger a response from wary fish. Well, this is when I break out a red permanent marker and color the sides of the Whisperer with it. White spinnerbaits are great for pike, but they also have days when the fish won’t hit them and the red marker often
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Wicked BREW Review
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New Hampshire craft beers are alive and well and are vigorously surviving amongst the encroaching New England state’s competition. Although there are major contenders trying to take away our status as producers of fine liquid refreshment, we continue to produce fabulous offerings of terrific tasting beers. One such victor has continuously produced inviting concoctions for us to sample. Their evolving products are gaining notoriety among the NH beer world and deserve a look at what they are producing. So today we look at one of New Hampshire’s premier providers of craft excellence, Shilling. Shilling Brewing Company, from Littleton, NH, is the collaboration of four brothers and a dad who took a gander at the craft brewing industry back in 2013. They converted an 18th century grist mill on the Ammonoosuc River into the initial brewery and eatery. Around 2015, they developed plans for a major expansion footsteps from the gristmill. This growth would help provide the vitality they sought to bring bigger and more varied Euro-American recipes to market. They have focused on being a BelgianInspired ale brewery. With much larger abilities and the addition of a canning line, they developed Resilience Brewing which is now making product available outside of the their brewery and is selfdistributed locally in 16 oz cans. Find out more about them at ShillingBeer.com
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Erastus Dry Hopped Abbey-Style Tripel
SHILLING BREWING CO. Littleton NH
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Shilling beer takes many forms but their most successful concoction is their Erastus Abbey-style Tripel Ale produced for its favorable mixture of plentiful grains and hops in true European ingredients. Inspired by Trappist tradition, they selected German Hallertau and West Coast Citra hop blends which together make this beer so delicious. A golden hue with a slight hazy clarity and white fizzy head greet you as it makes its way into your pint glass. Notes of citrus, melon, pear and beautiful spices find their way into your senses. This 9% ABV beer delivers all of the expected taste and remarkable flavors one could expect from a tripel beer. Personality, it is one of the finer beers I’ve had
in the last year or more. Though you know me to be attracted to Double IPA’s and imperials, this one works right into my scope of interest. BeerAdvocate.com has rated Shillings Erastus Dry-Hopped with a 4.+ out of 5.0, rating it ‘Very Good’ while others on Untapdd.com give it even higher accolades. You can find Erastus Dry Hopped Abbey-Style Tripel along with their cousins (original, pineapple, and mango) at Case-n-Keg in Meredith and other fine craft beer providers. Thanks to Shillings efforts, we can enjoy the fruits of their labors wherever we go!
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WRIGHT MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II
NOW OPEN FOR ITS 25 SEASON !! TH
Yankee Magazine’s “Best 20th Century History Museum in New England” Among the over 14,000 items in our collection, see WWII military vehicles & weapons; a 1939-1945 Time Tunnel; a real Victory Garden, Movie Theater & Army barracks; as well as period toys, books, music, clothing… and MORE. THE
RON GOODGAME & DONNA CANNEY
EDUCATION PROGRAM SERIES TUESDAYS FROM MAY THROUGH OCTOBER
Tuesday, September 3 at 1:00 p.m. Film Presentation: From Here to Eternity, 1953, 118 minutes, directed by Fred Zimmerman Wright Museum Movie Theater
Tuesday, September 24, from 7 – 8 p.m. Songs and Stories Honoring American Veterans Presented by Curt Kessette and Jenne Kurtz
Tuesday, October 1, from 7 – Tuesday, Sept 3, from 7-8:30 pm 8 p.m. “Rally ‘Round the Flag: A Surviving D-Day Century of Folk Songs from A documentary film telling the American Civil War” the epic story of the 12-hour Back by popular demand, The battle for Omaha Beach Hardtacks return with music and stories Tuesday, September 10, from 7 – p.m. Tuesday, October 29, from 7 When and Where? Stalin, – 8 p.m. Churchill, Roosevelt and The Three Stooges Take on the Politics of the D-Day the Axis Powers Invasion Presented by Dan Schroeder A lecture by Professor Kurk Dorsey, UNH History Department
Admission $8 per person; $3 for Wright Museum members. Reservations recommended, call 603-569-1212 for more info. Doors open 1 hour before the program begins. Visit www.wrightmuseum.org for details on the entire series
SPECIAL EXHIBITS FOR 2019 EXHIBIT N! O CLOSING SO
ESQUIRE MAGAZINE: The World War II Years
On exhibit July 14 to September 8, 2019
THE LAST GOOD WAR: C The Faces and Voices OMING SOON! of World War II On exhibit Sept. 15 - Oct. 31, 2019
Visit WrightMuseum.org for a complete list of events & exhibits!
MUSEUM OPEN DAILY May 1st thru Oct. 31st
Ask A Our Anbout Monday – Saturday, 10am-4pm • Sunday, Noon-4pm Memb nual Museum Members Free | Adults $10.00 Show AAA card for ADMISSION Gift M erships & ember 10% discount on RATES: Children (5-17) $6.00 / (4 and under) Free ships adult admission fees. All Military and Seniors (60 and over) $8.00 603-569-1212 • www.WrightMuseum.org • 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, NH
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As a part of the 2019 Wright Museum Lecture Series, the museum will be hosting a documentary film “Surviving D-Day”. It is described as well-developed and deeply moving. The showing will be on Tuesday September 3rd at 7pm at the museum.
Wright Museum Presents “Epic” D-Day Documentary Film
- On Tuesday, September 3 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Wright Museum will present “Surviving D-Day,” a 2012 History/Military Channel documentary film that tells the story of the twelve-hour battle on Omaha Beach during WWII. According to Museum Executive Director Mike Culver, the film tells the “epic” story of the battle that changed the course of WWII. “This is well-developed film that shows D-Day as an intense battle that combined skill, leadership and bravery in a WOLFEBORO
short period of time,” he said. “I expect it will be very educational and moving for visitors.” The film will discuss some surprising factors of the battle, such as conventional weapons used alongside “outlandish inventions” like floating tanks and exploding paratroopers along with spies sending paintings with hidden messages. The 138 minute film presentation is part of Wright Museum’s 2019 Lecture Series, sponsored by Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney The series takes place
every Tuesday through the end of Wright Museum’s season, which concludes Oct. 31. The region’s leading resource for educators and learners of all ages on World War II, the Wright Museum features more than 14,000 items in its collection that are representative of both the homefront and battlefield. For more information about the 2019 Lecture Series, or the museum, visit www.wrightmuseum.org.
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OUT on the TOWN Great Food, Libations & Good Times!
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NIGHTLYS SPECIAL
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Surviving D-Day – Documentary Film Showing The Wright Museum, Center Street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. The Wr ight Museum presents “Surviving D-Day”, a 2012 History/Military Channel documentary film that tells the story of the twelve-hour battle on Omaha Beach during WWII. www.WrightMuseum.
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Center Harbor Soup Kitchen – Free Community Meal
Revolutionary Story Time American Independence Museum’s Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, Exeter. 2pm4pm. Designed for kids ages 3 to 5, and their families, this free series features storytelling, live music and playtime! Due to the historical nature of the Tavern, strollers are not encouraged. R e s e r va t i o n s a c c e p t e d , bu t n o t r e q u i r e d . www.
IndependenceMuseum.org
bringing people together who love the outdoors and learning and caring for the natural world. Held on Fridays for 12-weeks, the course offers you handson experiences exploring NH’s natural resources from neighborhood parks to native woodlands. Program is open to all, but space is very limited. There is a $295 registration fee, but scholarships are available. Apply now online at NHStewards.org. 641-6060
Thursday 5th
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Saturday 7th
Plymouth Farmers Market
Become a Natural Resources Steward – 12 Week Course
Center Harbor Congregational Church, 52 Main Street, Center Harbor. 5pm – 6pm. Join the Soup Kitchen, located in the rear of the Church, every Tuesday night at 5:30pm, to meet new friends and enjoy a meal together at no cost. D o n a t i o n s a r e gra t e f u l l y accepted and will be used to fund future dinners.
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Beginning September 6 th at Canterbury Shaker Village a new discovery course begins,
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Earring Making Class with Joy Raskin
Sandwich Home Industries, 32 Main Street, Sandwich. 10am-4pm. Students will make French ear wires, dangles, hoops and much more! This class is appropriate for those 16 and up. All skill levels welcome. No metalsmithing experience is required. Tuition is $90pp with a $25 materials fee. 284-6831
Carroll Show
County
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NH Farm Museum, 1305 White Mountain Highway, Milton. 10am-3pm. See everything linen compressed in one day. Demonstrations of plowing by oxen, sowing, pulling, stoking, rippling, and retting. Then watch and join as they take their harvested flax and bring it through breaking, hackling, scutching, spinning, reeling, a n d f i n a l l y we av i n g i n t o amazing linen fabric. 652-7840
Sunday 8th Black Heritage Hancock Tour
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Trail’s
T h e H a n c o c k To u r i s scheduled for 10am and will explore the forgotten stories of the quaint village of Hancock, NH. Tour guests will learn about the anti-slavery riot that occurred in Hancock and
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hear the tale of Jack Ware, a former enslaved man, and member of the Due family on this walking part of the driving tour. As the tour explores the cellar holes of the homes these residents left behind, it is aptly entitled “Asserting Freedom: A Tour of the Cellar Hole & Sites in Hancock, NH”. The cost of the tour is $25pp and registration is available at
www.BlackHeritageTrailNH. org space is limited to 25
people, so pre-registration is recommended.
Beginner Stained Panel Class
Glass
League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. 9am5pm. This high paced class will have you cutting, copper foiling, soldering and framing a stained-glass panel in one
day. Choose your own design from patterns supplied or you can use another source, as long as it is constructed of 13 pieces of glass or less. Tuition is $48pp with a $40 materials fee. Pre-registration is required. 279-7920
Tuesday 10th Center Harbor Soup Kitchen – Free Community Meal
Center Harbor Congregational Church, 52 Main Street, Center Harbor. 5pm – 6pm. Join the Soup Kitchen, located in the rear of the Church, every Tuesday night at 5:30pm, to meet new friends and enjoy a meal together at no cost. D o n a t i o n s a r e gra t e f u l l y accepted and will be used to fund future dinners.
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Summer Fun! The Best Summer Ever Starts Right Here!
Fun Summer Events At Prescott Farm The Harvest Festival and The Big Tree Tour are coming to Prescott Farm in Laconia Harvest Festival On Saturday, September 14 from 10am to 4pm, the 10th Annual Harvest Festival will be held at Prescott Farm. There will be horsedrawn wagon rides, field games, hay jump, crafts, food, music, a petting farm, local food vendors, and, of course, the Raise Heck Tug O’ War. Admission is Free to the public. The Raise Heck Tug O’War raises money for the Fledglings Nature-Based Preschool and WildQuest Camps Scholarship Funds. Participants are encouraged to roll up their sleeves (or their keyboards and
smart devices!) and ask their network of friends, family, and co-workers to support their efforts. Three different competitions so everyone can get in on the fun. Raise Heck Tug O’ War – Adult teams (age 18+) of 8 compete in a traditional “Tug O’ War” tournament Snowshoe Hay Hurdle Relay Race – New in 2019! – Youth teams (age 8 – 17)
of 4 race through fields wearing snowshoes (there won’t be snow… it WILL be hilarious!) and ‘jump’ over hay bales Toboggan Pumpkin Pull – New in 2019! – Younger children (age 0 – 7) compete by age group as individuals pulling a toboggan with increasing number of pumpkins over a 10-yard distance. See PRESCOTT on 30
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There will be an alpaca exhibit all weekend at the Labor Day Weekend Fair at Gunstock, Friday through Sunday 10am to 5pm.
Labor Day Weekend Craft Fair at Gunstock Come and enjoy the fabulous arts and crafts at the Labor Day Weekend Craft Fair at Gunstock Mountain Resort, 719 Cherry Valley Rd., Gilford, Friday through Sunday, August 30-Sept 1. 10am to 5pm all 3 days. Special features will include chainsaw wood carving demos by Elise Ford on Saturday & Sunday, alpaca exhibit all weekend and live music with North River on Saturday and
Sunday. Some of the arts and crafts will include beautiful pressed floral art, amazing chainsaw carved bears/ owls/eagles, handsome wooden bowls, handpainted feathers, handpainted slate and wood, wildlife photography on metal & ceramics, alpaca items, homemade fudge, amazing quilts, handwoven basketry, soy candles, delicious caramels, purses, CBD oils, quilted table de-
cor, cedar wood furniture, glass art, knits & crochet items, and more. Rain or Shine Under Canopies. Friendly, Leashed Pets Welcome. Always Free Adm. & Free Parking. Info Joyce (603) 5284014 www.joycescraftshows.com.
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Summer Fun!
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Gilford Cinema 8 CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY! All Tickets All Day Tuesdays $6
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FOR MOVIES & SHOWTIMES
Museum Loop guests aboard The Millie B.
Boat & Trolley Ride Highlight Museum Loop in Wolfeboro - There are many ways to experience Wolfeboro, but perhaps none more unique than The Museum Loop, highlighted by a boat or trolley ride. On the tour, featuring three museums on the N H He r i t a g e Museu m Trail, visitors ride to or from The Libby Museum in New Hampshire Boat Museum’s antique “Millie B.” Visitors then ride back in a trolley in the opposite direction. A day loop pass is valid for 1 day in August and includes a boat ride, return trolley ride and entry to New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) and The Libby Museum. A summer loop pass includes the aforementioned plus admission to Wright Museum of World War II and nonTrail member The Clarke WOLFEBORO
House Museum. “As summer comes to an end, individuals are anxious to pack in as many activities as possible,” said Wright Museum Executive Director Mike Culver when discussing the popularity of The Museum Loop. “This is a fun way to do that.” NHBM Executive Director Martha Cummings agreed and added, “This is a unique way to experience Wolfeboro and multiple types of history in one day.” The tour takes place every Thursday and Friday (weather permitting) at 9:30 a.m. through the end of August. For more information, visit nhbm. org, or call (603) 9983286. The NH Heritage Museum Trail is made up of 17 museums with stops in Canterbury, Concord,
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Mon-Fri 9-5:30 • Sat 9-5
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Big Tree Tour Bigger isn’t always better, but let’s face it - bigger is definitely noteworthy. And while the staff members at Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center love all of the trees on the 160-acre property, they are particularly excited about one specific birch tree. The Betula papyrifera (Paper Birch) of note stands 83 feet tall with a circumference of 59 inches. These impressive stats were gathered by volunteers with the New Hampshire Register of Big Trees and mark the tree as the largest reported specimen of its species growing in Belknap County. The New Hampshire Register of Big Trees issued a certificate of appreciation to Prescott Farm in June 2018. With that honor and the importance of steward-
“These trees are quite magnificent to behold,” Dyer said. “But even more fascinating is what they have ‘seen’ over the course of their lives. Guests will definitely want to be ready to take pictures!” Another Champion Big Tree, a 70foot tall Black Walnut, will be a featured stop and talking point. The tour will cover approximately one mile over the trails and fields so sturdy footwear is recommended. Dyer will lead a discussion about trees, ecology, history and how ing all of the flora and fau- the land has changed over na on the property in mind, the years. Prescott Farm is pleased to For more information present “The Big Tree Tour” about events or to register on Saturday, September 7 for “The Big Tree Tour” visit from 1-2pm. prescottfarm.org or call Visitors will be led by 603-366-5695. Prescott Farm EnvironPrescott Farm is located mental Educator Alex Dyer at 98 White Oaks Road, on an hour-long tour fea- Laconia. turing the newly crowned birch and other huge, old trees along the trails.
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business has not heard anything but positive reviews from wake boat buyers, who are buying the boats in large numbers, he said. Wake boats can cost $20,000-$100,000 more than regular speed boats, he said. Travis Williams of Meredith Marina agrees. His marina has sold 20 or so wake boats this season, he said, mostly to families. “It’s a newer sport that families love, moms and dads and even grandparents can do this, and most of the wake boats we sell are to people in the 40-60 age group,” he said. Jodi Grimbilas, a representative of the Water Sports Industry Association in Concord, said wake boats “cater to the active boating family are growing in popularity across the country and in New Hampshire.” “Families today are interested in a boat that allows them to explore and
Gunnar Stecher of Shep Brown’s Boat Basin in Meredith stands in his store’s showroom DAN SEUFERT PHOTO next to a brand new wake boarding boat. recreate on the waterways in a number of different ways – from cruising the lake with friends and family, to waterskiing, tubing, and various wake sports,” she said, adding
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surfing on our lakes,” she said. But wake boaters are drawing complaints, said Tom O’Brien, president of the New Hampshire Lakes Association, whose mission is to protect the state’s lakes. Property owners and boaters have called the lakes association with worries about shoreline and lake bottom erosion, particularly on smaller lakes, he said. The association is also worried that the ballast tanks may spread aquatic invasive species like milfoil between water bodies, he said. The Lakes Association is behind House Bill 137, which is asking the state, through the bill, to study the impacts of wake boats, and to see if the state should act to regulate them in some way, as is done in other states. “This is a nationwide issue and a growing one with their greater popularity,” O’Brien said of the bill before the Legislature. The state is holding hearings on the bill with state safety officials, state legislators and representatives of groups in favor of wake boarding and some who are interested in regulating them. Wake boards are currently legal on any water body in the state, but the Lakes Association and
others are seeking information on possible regulations, particularly on smaller lakes, he said. The committee holds its first meeting on September 23 at 1 p.m. in Room 305 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord. “We don’t want to arbitrarily hinder someone’s recreation on a lake, we aren’t looking for a ban,” he said. “We aren’t suggesting anybody has done anything wrong. But they seem to be growing in popularity, along with their rise in use have come a corresponding number of complaints.” Wake boats have been growing in popularity on state lakes, especially during the past five years. Traditional water skiing requires the smallest, flattest wakes possible, but wakeboarders use ballast tanks to sink the tail of a boat, which allows one or more people to be pulled in a boat’s wake. Inboard motor boats are now made with ballast tanks, and older boats are being retrofitted with wake- and wave-enhancing devices to provide deeper wakes. O’Brien said the lakes association has received “universal complaints from other boaters, people who have moored boats against docks, along shorelines, and lakefront property owners with shoreline erosion.” Dozens of the state’s lakes are less than 300 acres in size and less than 20 feet in depth, and wake boats on those lakes “are literally churning up the bottom of the lakes, and displacing plants and sediments,” he said. “There are certainly lakes, because of their size and depth, that this type of boat seems to be damaging,” he said. “It only takes one (wake boat). Those folks have been calling regularly for the past few years. They aren’t necessarily big boats, not particularly fast boats, but by design with the ballast tanks they just operate much differently.” Boaters have complained about impacts as well. “A 4-6 foot wave has See WAKE on 37
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should take appropriate measures to make sure they don’t contribute to the problem,” she said. “A boat with live wells, a boat with ballasts or the universal bilge pump in boats, any boat – motorized or not – has the capacity to transport aquatic invasive species.” The complaints about wake boats or “tow boats” “are of concern to us and the many New Hampshire families that enjoy watersport activities on the lake. The issue isn’t the watercraft itself, but in most cases, the operator. Efforts to increase boater education are important to solving the issues being raised,” she said. “The boating industry, from the manufacturers and dealers to the users of towboats are committed to working to find
solutions to the issues that will be discussed (at the state’s meetings),” she said. “While we will oppose efforts to ban towboats, we believe that there are opportunities to find common ground.” Travis Williams of Meredith Marina agreed. “Regulation is always a slippery slope, but certainly there is a real concern in the boating industry,” he said. “Education may be the solution to much of it, but it all comes down to the responsibility of the individual boater. Fortunately, because these are expensive boats, we tend to have older buyers and users.”
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a very different effect on the kayak or canoe than a normal power boat,” he said. But the issue of most importance to the lakes association is the potential spread of damaging plant and animal life, called invasive species. Those species originally came to the state from other water bodies across the continent, and wake boats’ ballast tanks are filled and refilled, sometimes being filled on one water body and emptied on another. That can help spread milfoil and other species from one state to another, he said. The state spends millions of dollars to stop the spread of such species each year, O’Brien said, and people volunteer to help monitor and inspect boats for invasive species as they enter and depart from state water bodies. Invasive species have caused millions of dollars in damage to state water bodies, experts say. Ballast water has been the primary means by which invasive plants have entered the U.S., he said, as the species are believed to have come from the ocean and the St. Lawrence Seaway into the states. “These boats have a dark wet (ballast) compartment on which invasive plants can remain viable. And once an infestation occurs on a lake, they have to deal with it forever.” There is research being done across the country to see the effect of wake boats, O’Brien said. Some areas are promoting voluntary education of boaters, while some are in favor of mandatory education. Some places have increased the standard mandatory distance boaters must stay away from structures and other boaters from 150 feet to as much as 300 feet, he said. “We want to look at the science, the data and the facts, and we want to hear from people see what other people have done in other places,” he said. “We hear that they’re fun and they are profitable, but so
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of twenty-four feet in length with a width of eight feet. The four inside rooms consisted of a living room, which took up most of the space on the first floor, what Kate called a dressing-room with sanitary plumbing, an open area upstairs
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with room enough for a bed and bureau, and a “sleeping- room” with two large closets. A hall-way on the first floor had room for a range, drawers, and cupboards necessary for house-keeping. Kate said that land was inexpensive and estimated the total cost of her Camp Comfort
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on five acres of land was no more than eighteen hundred dollars. A spring above the camp provided her with water and coal was her choice of fuel when warmth needed to be provided. So what did Kate Kimball do to make her summer one to give a tired woman rest? First, she enjoyed the view from sunrise to sunset and beyond as she took in the night sky. Sunrise was important to her, as was the river she could view from her porch. “” My river” she called it, because “we own what we love.” There were hills and meadows and farm build-
ings in the distance and even a glimpse of the Green Mountains. She wrote letters to her friends. She took long walks among the hills, but declared that the terrain was too difficult for women to be cycling except for short distances. Driving, on the other hand, was good. The driving was with horses, and Kate was somewhat reluctant at first to engage in this activity. Any fear was replaced with delight when she was assured that the horses “are educated so that the fear of trains and motorcars has been eliminated.” She became acquainted with the plants around her camp and in her first year found over a hundred different kinds. She gathered flowers. There were times when she spent a whole day in the woods. She wrote: “I like to lie on the ground doing nothing at all- and enjoying it.” Whether in the woods, the meadows, near the brook, or just on her porch, she became acquainted with the birds and came to know them by name and to recognize their voices. Then there were times spent with a book or magazine, not just for learning, but for enjoyment. But this “solitary woman” was not completely See SMITH on 39
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a loner, for she would sometimes invite a friend to stay with her or have a neighbor come to eat a meal with her. She indicated that she liked a good visit, but preferred to see people one or two at a time. Kate Kimball had one lament concerning her solution to bring rest to a tired woman – that it didn’t last forever. She said “There is so much to enjoy that I long to be immortal here and now. It grieves me that life in this beautiful world will ever end. Must I sometime close my eyes on this fair green earth and never open them again?” It interests me that Kate also wrote in her quest for rest that “I take no thought for the inspiration of the scriptures.”
Not fully understanding what she meant by that statement, but as one who believes that the Bible answers the questions about the meaning of life, I wonder if Kate might have found comfort at Camp Comfort concerning her one big regret had she included the Scriptures in her vacation reading. Her comments reminded me of this Bible verse. “For whatever things were
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lowing phrases: --Abortion is barbaric. --Abortion is wrong. --Abortion is murdering. --Abortion is a crime. “Do vaccines cause autism,” “climate change hoax,” and “Girl speaks about the danger in Germany due to rape refugees” were also all redflagged as dangerously “fringe” by the Google P.C. police. So was President Donald Trump’s factual statement that immigration chaos has led to “people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they’re coming into this country,” which one open borders employee complained was “explicit bias” that “we should take a stand on.” So they’re for foreign killers and rapists coming into this country? Noted. Internal staff complaints catalyze search engine manipulation, so political agitation among Google employees is a harbinger of speech clampdowns to come. Just last week, more than 1,000 Google employees lobbied the company to shun any contract work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Given that Google works with the hate racket and
smear machine known as the Southern Poverty Law Center, you bet I’m worried that my immigration blog and column archives (not to mention all my reporting on the treasonous Silicon Valley CEOs in my upcoming book, “Open Borders Inc.”) will trip the Google Social Credit wire. With Google’s homegrown menaces squelching our freedom of expression, damaging our reputations and livelihoods through slimy and secretive blacklists, and hampering our ability to do honest research -- not to mention mining student data in schools by tethering children to Google apps/email/Chromebooks and holding their academic progress hostage to Google’s high-tech leash -- who needs foreign enemies? China ain’t got nuthin’ on America’s “Don’t Be Evil” thought control freaks.
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with them, were not at all shy about throwing the F bomb around and hurling insults at President Trump and his supporters. My friend and I parked outside the parking garage and walked inside to insure our other friend would get safely to her car. The women continued to badmouth the President as they walked away holding the child. I did not respond to the insults, but walked away very sad, thinking about the young child being exposed to filthy language and bad behavior at such a tender age. I also wonder how these women can justify yelling obscenities at a total stranger simply because I happen to exercise my First Amendment Right to Free Speech by showing my support for the candidate of my choice. Jenny Wilson Barrington, NH.
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Congresspeople’s associations, actions and statements? Would the narrative surround Israel’s supposed free speech crackdown, or would it center on the obvious Jew hatred of the Republican Congresspeople? And yet. Simply switch out the word “Republican” for “Democrat” and the media coverage shifts 180 degrees. Suddenly, the Congresspeople become put-upon heroes, victimized by the evils of the nefarious Jewish state. Suddenly, a media blackout arises with regard to the NGO sponsoring the visit; the Washington Post calls the organization “a nonprofit organization headed by PalJohn Stossel is author estinian lawmaker and of “No They Can’t! Why longtime peace negotiaGovernment Fails -- But tor Hanan Ashrawi”; The Individuals Succeed.” For New York Times praisother Creators Syndicate es the group for raising writers and cartoonists, “global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian visit www.creators.com. realities.” The statements of the Congresspeople become mere conversation starters; The New York Times praises one for starting a vital conversation about Israel. The BDS position becomes worthy of debate, rather than a symptom of anti-Semitism. Our major media are driven by narrative, not by fact. And the narrative depends on the players. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., aren’t hiding their antiVIP Hour 12-1PM Semitism. They revel in it. And why not? The General Admission 1-4PM media celebrate them as “The Squad.” Pelosi cowers before them. And The Veterans Count their anti-Semitic propaLakes Region Chapter will be ganda receives kid-glove hosting a craft beer and treatment. wine festival with live music, And Omar and Tlaib aren’t new. Media covfood, FREE car show, raffles, erage of Israel has long auction, and local vendors! been skewed in favor of Israel’s enemies. How VIP Admission is $40 much coverage, for examGeneral Admission is $25 ple, has the mainstream Admission includes commemorative mug, media given to the Palwhile supplies last estinian Authority’s announcement -- this week All proceeds benefit Veterans Count -- that an LGBTQ group would be banned in its For tickets: vetscount.org/nh territories, since the PA’s values are in conflict with those of the group?
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The answer: virtually none. As of this writing, hardly any pieces have appeared in a non-Jewish or non-conservative publication. Jews simply aren’t part of the intersectional narrative, unless they are targeted by those perceived as higher on the scale of privilege. It’s that simple and that despicable. It’s the reason Rev. Al Sharpton has a show on MSNBC, the reason Democratic politicians continue to play footsie with Louis Farrakhan, the reason The New York Times ignores hate crimes in its own city, the reason Omar and Tlaib are treated as victims rather than pariahs. All of which underscores just why Israel seeks to protect itself so strongly from those who seek to destroy her: There are plenty of people out there who want to, and our media watchdogs are too busy drooling over them to remember that their job is to report the news. Ben Shapiro, 35, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side Of History.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.
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There are a large number of calls this time of year from compassionate people who see thin cats outside in the summer, and suddenly realize that it is going to be winter soon. They call SAFER, or Those Cat Rescue People, or Friends of the Feral in New Hampshire, and expect us to be able to catch the cat, get it spayed or neutered, up to date on shots, and Gone From Their Property. Unfortunately, it takes a village to save these Kitties. We need reliable people to host colonies, people who will call us when they see a new cat without a tipped ear, who will notice when a cat is injured, and we need places to hold these animals when there is no place for them to go. Even someone who just wants someone to talk to in the house, but doesn’t want a cat on their lap. We need places for these cats to go. And of course we always need money to put gas in the car to run up 50 miles to trap, to buy traps, to pay for vet bills, to feed cats, to buy kitty litter. We also place shelters on the property of people who feed ferals, but don’t have suitable barns. The best of these shelters costs about $150 each, so we don’t have a lot of them. If you would like to help with this situation, think about donating to any of these organizations, or to Funds4Paws with the note that the money is to support feral cats. For more information contact Vera at ThoseCatRescuePeople@gmail.com. We are all volunteers, so give us a little time to get back to you.
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