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In New Hampshire, we are in the midst of a mid-summer drought.

The ground is dry and firm, my grass cracks when I walk on it, and my rain barrel has more ants in it than water. It’s clear our hot summer and lack of a few good soaking rains have taken a real toll on the yards in my neighborhood.

The other day I did a damage assessment around my property, and most of the yard looked OK except for one area. It was really struggling — drier than the rest, on the verge of long-term, sustained damage.

At the roots, all my grass is the same, though each individual blade brings its own unique quality to make up the landscape of the entire yard. Yet it was clear to me that particular areas can be more exposed to difficult conditions that can affect growth and development. As I looked over my yard, I couldn’t help but think about the “Black Lives Matter” movement and how we, too, are struggling to address our nation’s harsher climates. Unfortunately, we are facing this reality through a message that only resonates with some.

When we choose to water the areas of our lawn that are impacted by drought-like conditions, we aren’t saying that this grass matters more than the rest of the grass.

Instead, we are recognizing that a little bit of time and resources will result in a more beautiful landscape in the long-run. Why can’t we use that same logic when addressing the issues around the BLM movement?

Our cultural landscape is made up of so many beautiful colors, a diverse land filled with beauty and uniqueness. Certain parts of our culture can be more exposed to harsher climates and, much like my grass, can show that distress in many different ways.

Choosing to ignore the issue certainly would be easier in the short term, but it wouldn’t make the problem go away. In fact, that part of my landscape could be forever damaged, therefore impacting my entire property and requiring more resources in the future. If I gave the sun-damaged area a little more water and attention, I would be using up some precious resources (remember the dried up rain bucket?!) but it could positively impact the overall aesthetic of my yard for many more years to come.

We all can play a role in addressing some of the racial inequities that exist in our culture. What will your role be? Will you turn away and allow the issue to grow? Or will you help to set up the water sprinkler and make our landscape thrive?

Allyson Ryder is associate director of Leadership New Hampshire. She can be reached at Allyson.ryder@leadershipnh. org,

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NEWS & NOTES Dem convention

At the DNC Convention in Philadelphia, New Hampshire delegates and residents spoke on stage, criticized Donald Trump and united behind Hillary Clinton after she won the nomination. Meanwhile, folks attending the convention had mixed feelings about New Hampshire holding the first-in-the-nation primary spot on the electoral calendar. NHPR reporters spoke with folks on the convention floor from places like Texas, American Samoa and Alabama who said they would like to see it changed so other states could step in. The common criticism against the first primary taking place in the Granite State is that it is “not reflective of the population” at large. Others, like folks from West Virginia and California, were in favor of keeping the tradition alive.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen spoke at the convention about the drug crisis in New Hampshire and criticized Republican nominee Donald Trump for not having a plan to combat it and for seeming to not care about it. Pam Livengood of Keene spoke about her experience taking care of her grandson because of his parents’ drug addiction. Retired Navy Rear Admiral John Hutson, who served as the dean of the UNH School of Law for 10 years, said Trump wasn’t fit to “polish John McCain’s boots,” referring to comments Trump made in the past questioning whether McCain was a war hero.

In the end, New Hampshire’s 32 delegates were split down the middle in voting for Clinton versus Bernie Sanders, though Sanders beat Clinton in New Hampshire by 22 points in February. Clinton made up the difference with superdelegates. After the nomination, the Bernie delegates pledged to unite behind Clinton, including his one superdelegate, state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark.

endorsement of the conservative group the 603 Alliance, called out Sununu for voting to approve the Planned Parenthood contract, saying it was not a conservative vote.

Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas and state Sen. Jeanie Forrester took Sununu to task for comments he made in June about what he called a “lack of leadership” in addressing the drug crisis. Gatsas accused Sununu of playing political games and Forrester called on him to take back his comments. The next Democratic gubernatorial debate is scheduled for Aug. 10. The primaries are on Sept. 13.

Background checks

The courts are in a holding pattern after the recent order by Attorney General Joseph Foster to begin submitting the names of those adjudicated mentally ill or involuntarily committed to the federal background check database was challenged by legal advocates. With the names submitted, licensed gun dealers will be able to flag and cease potential sales to those individuals as required by federal law. Right now, New Hampshire remains one of the few states that doesn’t submit such a list, making the background check process incomplete. The Union Leader reported the standoff between the legislative, executive and court branches began when the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire and the Disabilities Rights Center took issue with the order, saying it would further stigmatize people with mental illness.

This challenge took place days after Chief Justice Linda Dalianis agreed to comply with the AG’s office. But after the challenge, the court’s general counsel said the names would not be submitted yet. At issue is Foster’s interpretation of a phrase written into the Medicaid expansion reauthorization statute, which lawmakers behind the drafting of the language say was intended to prevent the very thing Foster is using Guber debate Another debate between the it to do.

Republican contenders for the New Hampshire corner office took place Landfill tests last week on WGIR-AM radio, Recent lab results of residential NHPR reported. Following the water in an area near the Coakpattern of the first debate in Wind- ley landfill in the Seacaost found ham, most of the candidates took that perfluorochemicals tested well aim at Executive Councilor Chris below the state standard of 70 parts Sununu. Frank Edelblut, a state rep per trillion. NHPR reported the fedfrom Wilton who recently won the eral Superfund site had earlier tests HIPPO | AUGUST 4 - 10, 2016 | PAGE 4

with levels significantly higher than the standard found in monitoring wells. The more encouraging tests were done at 16 residential wells. Further tests results are due back soon for the site’s other monitoring wells. Investigators of a pediatric cancer cluster in the Seacoast have been eyeing the landfill as a possible environmental factor.

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Plans to improve and continue the revitalization of the Manchester millyard are moving forward as stakeholders meet to weigh their options. The Union Leader reported a recent community meeting aired a number of ideas and people were curious about the cost of the project and the available funding sources. Alderman Pat Long suggested the point of the meetings was to first establish a plan and that funding and costs would follow. While some ideas like a trolley or a gondola might be a stretch, according to Long, other ideas like a fountain and a large sign that would read “MHT” were possibly doable.

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Farnum North, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility in Franklin, has expanded. NHPR reported the facility added 42 inpatient beds and it will be able to offer services to the uninsured thanks to help from donations. Farnum North had 21 beds before the expansion and a waiting list of 40 people seeking treatment. Gov. Maggie Hassan attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. There were 439 drug overdose deaths last year and 161 so far this year. The Med-

The loss of steam power in Concord, following the expected closure of Concord Steam Corp.’s plant in May 2017, will have ripple effects for some state industries.

The Concord Monitor reported the logging industry in particular will lose one of the last remaining nearby customers for low-quality wood chips for burning.

ical Examiner’s office projects the year will end with an estimated 494 overdose deaths, another record-breaker.

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Dartmouth researchers who first mapped a cluster of ALS patients around New Hampshire lakes known to suffer toxic cyanobacterial blooms in the warmer months are partnering with a local tech

Madison man Andrew Drummond, 35, climbed unsupported up and over all of the state’s 48 4,000-foot peaks in just six days, making White Mountains history. The Union Leader reported his epic trek took place between July 24 and July 30, starting at Beaver Brook Trail in Woodstock going up Mount Moosilauke. Drummond finished with Mount Cabot in Berlin. Other than frequently running low on water, being awakened by the cold at night and a few blisters, he says the hike went well. An avid outdoorsman, environmental consultant and co-founder of an organic fertilizer company, Drummond got into extreme hiking in 2012. Later this month, he will be heading to France to participate in a 55-kilometer race in the Alps.

company to improve their search for the links between Lou Gehrig’s disease and blue-green algae. The Union Leader reported Dr. Elijah Stommel, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock clinician who specializes in neuromuscular disease and published the early lake map findings, is working with Applied GeoSolutions of Newmarket to collect better data on algae blooms using remote sensing satellite technology.

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About $10,000 in damages was the result of a car accident with Manchester’s chief of police behind the wheel. The Union Leader reported that Chief Nick Willard admitted to being briefly distracted by the console gadgets in his police SUV when he drove it off the road and into his Goffstown neighbor’s granite mailbox post.

Willard said he gave $330 for the mailbox damage. The vehicle damage cost $9,800 to repair.

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The latest U.S. monthly job numbers are due out this Friday, and while one month’s data shouldn’t be taken as proof of any larger trends, some economists say that if there were fewer than about 150,000 jobs created in July, then we might be able to add that to a small pile of clues that job growth rates are starting to slow in the nation and the state, marking the end of a protracted recovery from the Great Recession and revealing the limits of the state’s available labor pool.

Economist Brian Gottlob, principal of PolEcon Research, thinks we may be already starting to see the early signs of this cooldown in New Hampshire and that job growth may be further restricted in the Granite State by the lingering “skills gap” and the forces of regional labor competition.

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We aren’t seeing dramatic declines in job growth. As Gottlob put it, the airplane is preparing for a slow descent, not a nosedive.

In fact, we’re still seeing growth — but it’s mediocre growth compared to recent quarters, and it could be a sign that the economy is settling down.

For the U.S. economy as a whole, privatesector job growth appeared relatively high for much of the past recovery period.

“New Hampshire was different. We were worried for … several years about how slow

our job growth was compared to the U.S. and other New England states as well,” Gottlob said.

But for the past year and a half or so, New Hampshire’s private-sector job growth shot up — largely unnoticed because public-sector job declines masked it in overall growth numbers — from just shy of 1 percent to a high of about 2.4 percent. But in some of the most recent months, growth numbers in the state and nation are looking like the start of a decline.

“Now, it’s been almost a year, you see it’s beginning a downward descent very slowly from what appears to be a peak of about 2.5 percent [nationally],” Gottlob said. “But it really seems like we peaked here in New Hampshire as well.”

Gottlob characterizes the state’s job growth numbers in April as unremarkable; in May the seasonally adjusted growth figures showed a one-month decline — the first one-month private-sector job loss since the decline caused by the Market Basket strike in 2014; and June’s numbers showed strong growth. In April, 200 jobs were added, in May we lost 2,200 and in June we added about 4,000. Taking the three months together as a rolling average, Gottlob says New Hampshire added about 1,000 jobs, which is about two thirds of that “peak” we’ve seen in several previous quarters.

While June seemed positive, Gottlob noticed a few caveats hidden in the details.

For example, manufacturing — a key sector for economic health — saw no jobs added or subtracted.

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“We’ve got a labor force issue [and] we’re at extremely low levels of unemployment,” Gottlob said.

Very low unemployment is often a sign of a labor shortage, and not only has New Hampshire’s fallen to among the lowest levels in the nation, its decline has happened at the same time we saw a spike in private-sector job growth. Gottlob says that suggests there’s already a very tight supply of labor.

“We were absorbing whatever available labor there was,” Gottlob said.

The state’s labor constraints may have played a role in the post-recession lag time for private sector rebound before last year.

“One of the things that make us different is … New Hampshire dealt with the … labor constraint probably sooner,” Gottlob said.

Massachusetts, conversely, did not experience such a delay in job growth over that period.

“The industries that were growing during that time period [nationwide] were ones that employed higher-skilled individuals and I just don’t think we really had that many, enough of them … in comparison to a state like Massachusetts,” Gottlob said.

In recent months, since there have been no significant increases in unemployment benefits claims, the apparent slowdown in growth is not coinciding with an increase in layoffs, which would be more troubling than the natural leveling off from a recovery period.

Given historical trends, Gottlob said, the state and country should expect to see the end of the recovery period soon. In fact, we’ve been expanding for seven years since the official end of the recession, longer than the typical five- to six-year recovery period.

While recovery trends are uneven from state to state, the leveling-off period is shared and correlates with nationwide trends. Gottlob said that since private-sector job growth seems to be sloping downward in New Hampshire almost parallel to U.S. rates, this could be the earliest inkling of that phenomenon.

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tors like transportation and energy showed encouraging growth. Construction saw 800 jobs added, one of the largest areas of growth.

Nielsen cautioned against using just a few months as any indication of longer-term trends, though she concedes a slowdown is inevitable given the finite labor pool.

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Whether fewer companies are expanding or much of the post-recession expansion has already played out is anyone’s best guess. But another sign that we may be approaching a

slowdown in job growth in New Hampshire is a decline in help wanted ads.

“The demand looks like it’s starting to decline based on help wanted ads,” Gottlob said.

For individual sectors, this can be a somewhat imperfect bellwether, but it can be useful in gauging larger employment trends.

According to Gottlob’s data, help wanted ads peaked in the state around the fall of 2014 with around 30,000 ads. That’s since declined to about 24,000, and ads nationwide have seen parallel declines.

Furthermore, as companies fail to find the workers they need, they may develop consolidated strategies that require fewer people.

No more proverbial bricks

Policy wonks and lawmakers have been talking about the “skills gap” in New Hampshire for years, and while rosy unemployment numbers seemed to drown out much of that talk over the past couple years, Gottlob said, it’s increasingly evident how that issue played out over the state’s recovery period and how more competitive labor markets in a certain state to the south may have played a larger role than some care to admit.

In short, New Hampshire may have run out of the proverbial bricks needed to continue bridging that gap. Take the need for STEM jobs, for example. The lauded growth in the professional and business services sector in June — where the greatest share of growth occurred — doesn’t tell the whole story.

Gottlob said it includes two levels — one lower level with categories like waste management, administrative support, security, cleaning and temp help, and a higher level of “professional, scientific and technical” categories that include a lot of the specialized STEM jobs.

“Often times those categories get lumped together and people make it sound like it’s all high-end jobs. It’s not. It’s really bifurcated,” Gottlob said.

In June, only 100 of the 1,600 jobs added in that sector were in those high-end fields.

So the overall growth in this sector belies a relatively weak growth on the high end of it.

“If that starts to slow, that’s a key sign of the demand for high-skilled labor in New Hampshire,” Gottlob said.

This is particularly troubling to some economists as it may be a sign that demand isn’t just slowing, but the state may be approaching the limits of its ability to fill those jobs.

“I think we probably have been reaching that for a while,” Gottlob said.

But Nielsen said it’s not just the relative split of the professional and business services sector’s subcategories we should be looking at. The high end is traditionally smaller than the low end since it includes less laborintensive fields. But the historical trends tell a bigger story.

In May, when we saw job losses overall, that high end category saw no change over April. Yet in April it grew by 800, in March it

lost 200 jobs (another overall job-loss month) and in February it added 400.

Looking at just one job category isn’t proof of anything, especially since it can be muddled with the inclusion of non-technical jobs like lawyers and accountants, Gottlob said, but it’s noteworthy that this high-end category saw such relatively small growth in June in an otherwise strong month of overall growth.

And while it may be too soon to call that a sign of our inability to close the skills gap further, there is already some evidence showing why that skills gap isn’t getting filled.

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“I see a big discrepancy between the number of people who have those skills in this state and the number of people who are actually employed in those occupations and in those industries in our state,” Gottlob said.

In other words, many live here with skills we need but don’t work here. Gottlob speculates that many of them are likely commuting to Massachusetts, where pay is generally higher and cost of living is now commensurate to New Hampshire’s.

Looking at the adult workforce age 25 and older, Gottlob noted that about 38 percent of them have bachelor’s degrees but only 31 percent of that age group employed in New Hampshire-based industries have a bachelor’s.

According to Gottlob, this should have policy makers rethinking their strategy for solving workforce shortages and closing skills gaps solely with things like education and training initiatives, especially in STEM fields, and soft appeals for retention through non-profit organizations like Stay, Work, Play. Gottlob believes fixing the workforce pipeline is critical for solving some of the labor supply issues, but if we fail to consider neighboring competition, that pipeline might flow right over the border.

“We could be undertaking this huge effort to produce more people with the science, technical, engineering and mathematical skills and just be producing more to work in Massachusetts,” Gottlob said.

If a larger slowdown is indeed happening, it should be no cause for alarm as recovery period growth rates are unsustainable indefinitely. But given the more pressing labor issues New Hampshire faces, which this staggered recovery has shed some light on, Gottlob thinks it may be time to face and address the siphoning of our workforce out-of-state.

And if New Hampshire continues to fail to attract talent to move in from out of state, Nielsen said, it could have big ramifications in the longer term.

“In our long-term projections … [older demographics] are going to be a limitation,” Nielsen said. “If we assume … nobody else is going to come into the state, then 10 years out, there’s a lot of people retiring and you’ll likely have a hard time growing and expanding.”

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First of all, can you tell me about your personal experience with breast cancer?

It came as a shock at the age of 45, considering that I was getting regular mammograms since the age of 40. [As] a wife and mother of two young daughters, you an imagine my surprise when something seemed amiss, and I self-diagnosed initially something with my right breast. …

They found a tumor the size of a golf ball that didn’t show up on the mammograms and it was in four lymph nodes. And ‘Oh and by the way, you probably have about three years to live.’ … I had very aggressive chemotherapy ... and I tried to go about life as normal as possible. … I learned that when there’s no hope coming from any other source in this world, you have to dig real deep and find it within yourself, and I did. … I had [my second, peace-of-mind mastectomy] in 2012 and I have no regrets. It was the best decision I’ve ever made.

Where in Denmark are you going and what will you be doing there? Paint a picture for us.

I do need to preface it by saying I was going to graduate school before breast cancer for my master’s degree in literature and I was studying the great epics of Western culture. Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno, Beowulf, etc. … My favorite epic of all time is Beowulf and it happened in Denmark. So this is my second chapter in my epic series, and I am calling it “SheWulf.” … Denmark has the highest cancer rates in the world, including breast cancer for women. The archeologist Tom Christiansen found the actual mead hall alluded to in Beowulf, so it’s going to be extra special that I can stand tin n Dus on that hallowed ground … and metaphorilee h t a yK cally, it’s important to me because cancer … is a monster, and to think that I can represent women or… anyone who’s had cancer, dead or alive, and represent them slaying that monster as I have through my own experience will be a supreme honor. … I’m going by myself … [and walking] about 32 miles from Copenhagen to Lejre. I’ll be doing it WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO RIGHT NOW?

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A tiny museum dedicated to the ancient Danish traditions including Beowulf will be in the town.

They know I’m coming and I will be presenting a check to board members of the Danish Breast Courtesy photo.

Cancer Organization … [and] I’ll be reciting the final battle scene … where Beowulf slaughters Grendel.

What’s the significance in changing the gender of the character of Beowulf?

Going through all that [aggressive chemotherapy] and having just read all these heroic epics of the male species going through these battles and not a hint of the feminine view, I’m like, ‘Oh, these guys don’t know what it’s like to go through a battle like cancer.

These are fairy tales compared to fighting cancer.’ And as soon as I realized the dichotomy, and having two daughters, I decided I wanted to rewrite a modern epic through the feminine lens as a legacy for my daughters.

I didn’t know yet if I was going to live, but that was the aim. As luck would have it, my own life became the epic.

This isn’t the first time you modeled a trip to Europe after a literary myth, is it?

The first time was 2014, when I backpacked across Santorini, Greece. I called it my “flat-packing” adventure, for obvious reasons. … I had that mastectomy in 2012 and I bought a prosthetic bra. … One day…

I looked in the mirror and I said, ‘Why do I have to wear this damn bra? Does it make me any less of a woman not to have it on?’ … I had to find out for myself, really like Odysseus finding himself all those years ago in that tale. So when I went to Greece, it was to find myself and embrace me and come back knowing that me in this new body, I could claim her and love her and be who I wanted to be without shame or embarrassment.

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NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Unclaimed bodies mount

As the death toll from New Hampshire’s drug crisis rises, so too does the number of unclaimed bodies being kept in the morgue. The Union Leader reported the chief forensic investigator for the state Medical Examiner’s office, Kim Fallon, first noticed the trend two years ago and started tracking it. Over that period, more than 60 bodies went unclaimed for weeks or months. There are now typically about five unclaimed bodies in the morgue in any given week. Fallon estimated that about half of those are from the drug epidemic. In most cases the deceased are estranged from their families and in other cases, families don’t have the money to claim a body.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: One family created a GoFundMe page to raise the funds needed to bury Bradley Beistel, a young man who died of an apparent drug overdose in Manchester. They’ve raised $400 of the $2,000 needed so far.

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Logistics companies are starting to take off in the Granite State, according to the state Department of Resources and Economic Development.

The Union Leader reported that the “logistics and distribution” sector hasn’t seen this kind of growth historically but as the economy appears to be turning a corner, more of these companies are locating in the state.

Last year, a 600,000-square-foot UPS/Pratt & Whitney distribution facility in Londonderry opened up and a collective 500,000 square feet of distribution space for U.S. Foods opened in Seabrook. A new central distribution facility for F.W. Webb is slated to open in fall of 2017.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Officials say that for many of these companies their first choice is the Boston metro market but given the cost and real estate required, they see southern New Hampshire as the best of both worlds.

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I love trades, partly because they’re a mental duel with a chance to swindle someone. Plus they provide opportunity to argue, when they take a few years to get a read on, when they’re the kind of deals involving a contender getting established players for prospects going to teams that have thrown in the towel on their season, like generally happen at the trade deadline that comes about five hours after I file this column.

I particularly like arguing with the right partner. Like my intractable (Yankees fan) friend Kenner Holland, whom I once fought with through an ECAC Holiday Festival triple-header at Madison Square Garden about the merits of a trade the Yankees made earlier in the day. He didn’t want to let one-time 19-game winner Doc Medich go and I liked getting Pittsburgh’s top prospect Willie Randolph to fill a gigantic hole at second base along with two other starters Doc Ellis and another Kenner, Brett. That one got so insane we barely noticed as St. John came oh-so-close to knocking off Bobby Knight and Indiana as they were on their way to being D-I’s last undefeated men’s team in college basketball. But, suffice it to say, it was worth it since I won that one in a knockout.

I bring it up because GMs don’t have the luxury of 20-20 hindsight. They’re making deals in real time. Some turn about to be slam dunks, even if they didn’t quite feel like it when they happened, like trading Nomar Garciaparra in 2004. Others involve players of lesser reputation but work right away, as with Brian Sabean (of the Concord Sabeans) after getting players who caught fire at just the right time like exRed Sox relievers Javier Lopez (1.47 ERA in 27 games) and Ramon Ramirez (0.67 ERA in 25 games) in 2010 after being stiffs

in Boston, Marco Scutaro and Hunter Pence in 2012 or contributors to the cause as Jack Peavey was in 2014, as teams that didn’t seem that good wound up winning all three years. Some have no impact or go bust. But the most intriguing are the ones that get the job done but may not actually have been worth it in the overall scheme of things. Here’s a look at a few of those for you to make the call on whether they were worth it or not.

1987 – Tigers Get Doyle Alexander: Detroit was in the thick of it and needed a starter. So they sent a guy who was 4-11 with a 5.73 ERA in A-ball to Atlanta for Alexander, who led the Tigers to the division title by going 9-0 with a 1.53 ERA in 11 starts. But they got beat by Minnesota in the ALCS as Alexander got rocked twice. The cost: a former second-round pick named John Smoltz, who with starters Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine formed Atlanta’s backbone as they went to the playoffs 14 straight years. So what would you rather have, one AL East title and 88 wins the next year before being downright awful for a decade, or 213 wins and 154 saves in 21 seasons from Smoltz?

1988 – Boston Gets Mike Boddicker: They needed a solid No. 2 behind Roger Clemens and by winning 7 of 10 decisions as they won the division, 15 in 1989 and 17 when they won again in 1990 it worked to perfection. But the Orioles got 15-year pro Brady Anderson, who hit 50 homers as the opening salvo to the steroid era in 1996, and a young lad named Curt Schilling, who after a slow career start elsewhere eventually had some huge post-season moments you may recall. A deal that worked for both sides? Or something else?

1990 – Sox Get Larry Anderson: Lou Gorman literally took flak for this one to his grave. Lou got the free-agent-to-be Anderson to fortify the bullpen as he tried to lock down the 1990 AL East. But Lou

goofed, though not in getting Anderson, who had a 1.23 an ERA in 15 September appearances. It was deciding Scott Cooper in AAA was his third baseman of the future over Jeff Bagwell in AA, where with Mo Vaughn in the system too moving to first wasn’t an option. Plus, after hitting just 4 homers in New Britain’s giant stadium, Bagwell didn’t look like a candidate to hit the 449 homers he did in Houston. But the miss was obvious immediately after Cooper remained in the minors, while Bags skipped AAA to be 1991 Rookie of the Year after hitting .294 with 15 homers and 82 RBI. So was sending him away worth the threegame playoff sweep everyone knew would happen vs. mighty Oakland?

2014 – Sox Trade Andrew Miller: Baltimore was in first place and needed relief help and gave Boston top pitching prospect Eduardo Rodriguez. And while Miller delivered, the O’s were one and done in the ALDS and he left two months later. E-Rod has struggled this year so the jury is still out. But with the struggles due mainly to a spring injury that appear to be straightening out after a trip to AAA, on the heels of a rookie year comparable to Roger Clemens’ in 1983, if you’re a Baltimore fan what would you rather have, a frustrating ALDS loss or E-Rod for seven more years?

2014 – Sox Trade Jon Lester: People are still yakking about this, but they were in last with him having a great year anyway, so what’s the big deal? Especially after Oakland blew a 10-game lead and he got ripped in the one-and-done wild card game. The uncooperative Yoenis Cespedes was a bad fit, but they flipped him to Detroit for Rick Porcello, who was awful in Year 1. But with him now 14-2 and costing $100 million less, the question in retrospect is did they actually come out ahead on the deal?

Let the debates begin.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress.com.

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Berberian holds head high The Big Story: Despite not making the cut at the PGA, nice effort from Windham CC Assistant Pro Rich Berberian, who shot a 5 over par 145 (72-73) on the famed Lower Course at Baltusrol in New Jersey. While I’m sure he would have liked to make the cut, since he outshot playing partner Rocco Mediate (2008 U.S. Open runner-up), Rory McIlroy (two-time PGA champ) and Dustin Johnson (reigning U.S. Open champ) he acquitted himself pretty well. And it’s an improvement on his own play in majors after shooting a Round 1 83 in the 2015 U.S. Open.

Sports 101: Of these golfers to be in the Top 10 of most wins at golf majors, two were prevented from winning all four legs of the Grand Slam by never winning the PGAv— which two?: Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson Jr., Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd, Tom Watson and Phil Mickelson.

Honors: As usual it was a terrific three days for the Ryan Ryan CYO tournament at Derryfield CC last week. The winners of the 59th annual event were Manchester Memorial grad Garret Olivar, who took the Intermediate Division title with a 3 and 1 win over T.J. Barber of Cornish; Bedford’s C.J. Ladue in the Junior Divi-

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5 – spot occupied by the UNH football team in the preseason coaches poll taken at the annual Colonial Athletic Conference media day last week.

13 – place where Atkinson’s Joe Leavitt finished

sion, with a decisive 5 and 4 win over Nicholas Edgeworth of Merrimack to make it wins in three straight years at the Ryan; and Owen Cook of Manchester in the Mite Division, a 5 and 3 winner over Nashua’s Bryce Zimmerman.

Sports 101 Answer: The PGA-less slam contenders are Palmer and Watson, who won 15 grand slam events between them. Sarazen is a grand slam winner; Snead, Nelson and Mickelson won three legs of the slam including the PGA, but not the U.S. Open; Trevino won three, but not the Masters, and Floyd never won the British Open or PGA. On This Date – Aug. 4: 1936 – German Chancellor Adolf Hitler opens the Olympic Games to welcome many of the same countries sending athletes to compete in Berlin that summer that he would attack three years later while initiating War World II. 1941 – NY Yankees all-time hurler Lefty Gomez walks 11 batters and still somehow manages to shut out the St. Louis Browns in a 9-0 win. 1975 – Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as Yankees manager pairing him with owner George Steinbrenner to usher in the era of Evil Empire in the Big Apple. 1978 – Pete Rose’s NL-record 44-game hitting streak is stopped by Atlanta.

after shooting five under par at Owl’s Nest to be the only Granite State golfer in the Top 20 at in the 2016 NH Open.

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Doc Medich: Decent righty who won 19 and 16 games for the Yanks in the early ’70s, though never quite the same after being traded to Pittsburgh in 1976 leading an 11-year career at 124 up and 105 down.

Doc Ellis: ’70s Pirates and Yankees hurler who lays claim to two “he’s the only one to do it” history facts. He shares the first with the aforementioned Medich in being part of the only time two baseball Doctors were in the same trade. The second is being the only one to claim he pitched a no-hitter while tripping on LSD, which came on June 12, 1970.

Doyle Alexander: Journeyman hurler who went 194-174 with seven different teams in 19 big-league seasons, and one of the few players ever traded for two Hall of Famers as he went from L.A. to Baltimore for Frank Robinson in 1971 and John Smoltz in 1987.

Curt Schilling: Nitwit ex-hurler with less self-control for passing on political commentary as trouble lurks than Donald Trump. Started slowly in Boston, Baltimore and Houston, but once he got it in gear he won 20-plus three times, 216 overall while compiling an 11-2 in the post season while leading the Phillies, Arizona and Boston to the World Series.

The Nomar Trade: The signature maneuver of the Theo Epstein era in Boston that shipped fan fave Nomar Garciaparra out of town and brought back Orlando Cabrera and Doug Mankewich, which solidified the defense and was huge in ending the curse. Seems like a no-brainer today, but few remember he was hitting .321 at the time of the deal and close to a slam dunk Hall of Fame candidate.

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By Kelly Sennott

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You don’t have to be an “artist” to enjoy making art.

The proof is in the popularity of paint nights, where participants sip wine and eat munchies while receiving step-by-step instructions on how to slap paint on their canvases, and in adult coloring books, which can be found at local bookstores and library adult coloring clubs.

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And yet, many adults struggle moving past these social, non-threatening art endeavors and into the realm of creating fine art.

“The older we get, the more we’re trained in certain conventions to say, ‘I can’t paint, I can’t draw,’” local artist and instructor Carla Roy said via phone.

Theresa Caulkins, who teaches at Studio 550, said she sees the same problem among many of her beginner adult students.

“I think a lot of people think, if they

aren’t actively being creative all the time, they feel like they’re not creative at all.

They come into the studio, some of them, feeling like they’re not going to amount to very much in our class,” Caulkins said.

“But most people are more creative than they give themselves for. If you have an interest and want to learn what we have to show you, that’s all that’s necessary in learning art.”

To get you started, local artists expert in five media — drawing, painting, glass art,

ceramics and paper arts — talked about what each entails and how you can begin.

A strong foundation in drawing will be helpful in most any media you want to delve into — painting, printmaking, glass art, ceramics, fashion, photography, even digital media.

Gail Smuda, who taught art and art

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history at Southern New Hampshire University for a decade — she’s now a Twiggs Gallery instructor — said some of her students have been surprised at the crossover.

Many of these same students were studying computer game design, only taking the beginner drawing class as a requirement.

“The assumption is the computer can do it all. But no, you have to put something into the computer! It’s always interesting.

They’re sort of grumbly at the beginning of the semester, and at the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, now I get it! Oh, now I see!’ It’s fun to watch the evolution, to watch them learn what drawing is all about,” Smuda said. “[Drawing] is the basis for just about everything.”

Roy, who’s taught all over the state, from the Currier Art Center to the Kimball Jenkins Estate, agreed.

“If you don’t have any experience in drawing, it will be harder for you to paint something because you will be drawing, initially, for the painting,” Roy said, noting that many of her watercolor students went back to take a drawing class because they realized those skills were lacking. “If you can draw or if you have a grasp of different drawing techniques, it will carry over into oil, watercolor, even sculpture.”

But the thing beginner drawing students struggle most with, several instructors said, is not the physical act of drawing — it’s the act of looking, of seeing.

“The major thing I tell people is, draw what you see, not what you think you see,” Roy said. “It’s sort of about training your brain to really look, instead of just assuming you know what something looks like.”

The more you learn to draw what you see, the more realistic your work will be, she said.

Other people might be distracted by details and forget about the context of those details.

“We’re learning how to change our perspectives so we can’t get caught in those traps. But they’re very easy to fall into, especially if you’re looking at something from a weird angle,” Caulkins said.

These traps are the inspiration for the drawing class Caulkins teaches this fall, “Learning to See.” Most of her beginner drawing students are either self-taught or are returning to the art world after years of dormancy since high school art class. Roy said the demographic of her beginner art class is similar, except she’ll also get teens who are considering pursuing art after high school.

Starting with drawing is also the most obvious first step of your immersion into the art world because it’s naturally the most accessible medium in terms of required materials. All you really need is a pencil and drawing paper — though if you want to get fancier, most classes require graphite pencils of varying levels of intensity (the softer the pencil, the darker the mark), plus LOCAL ARTS CENTERS Beck’s Arts Express, 89 Amherst St., Nashua, 781-910-3438, artsexpressnh.com Currier Art Center, 180 Pearl St., Manchester, 669-6144, currier.org/art-center/ programs (museum is at 150 Ash St., Manchester) Kimball Jenkins Estate, 266 N. Main St., Concord, 225-3932, kimballjenkins.com League of New Hampshire Craftsmen The Craft Center, 49 S. Main St., Suite 100, Concord, 224-3375, and its Nashua Gallery, 98 Main St., Nashua, 595-8233, nhcrafts.org New Hampshire Institute of Art, 148 Concord St., Manchester, 623-0313, nhia. edu, and Sharon Arts Center, 457 Route 123, Peterborough, 836-2550 The Place Studio & Gallery, 9 N. Main St., Concord, 227-6148, theplaceconcord. wixsite.com/the-place StudioVerne, 81 Hanover St., Manchester, 490-4321, studioverne.com Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen, 796-2899, twiggsgallery.wordpress.com Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis, 465-9453, wildsalamander.com

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charcoal and a kneaded eraser. No colored pencils yet.

“With color, it gets complicated,” Roy said. “In drawing, you only have to worry about the value, and the light and the dark placement, and about composition.”

During beginner classes, students will learn basic art principles — composition, value, shape, light, form, point of view, perspective, texture, space, proportion, etc.

— while using tried and true exercises. Roy said she often incorporates contour line drawings in her beginner classes, which involve drawing the outline of something without lifting a pencil or glancing at the paper. Other workshops might feature still-

life drawing or, later in the semester, figure drawing.

Caulkins said she’s known students who, once they learn all the tricks, practice drawing everywhere — during their breaks at work or in a cafe while sipping coffee.

“It’s like any skill — once you learn the foundation of it, the best way to improve is to just keep drawing,” Caulkins said.

And once you have this foundation, you can do whatever you want.

“You can break all the rules, but you need to know what they are first. It’s like with music,” Smuda said.

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After drawing, painting is the next obvious step into the fine art world; it’s where you learn how to use colors to your advantage.

It’s a little messier and requires more technique, especially if you’re going to tackle less forgiving paint styles, like watercolor.

“What amuses me is that lots of people think watercolor is where they should start. But it’s the hardest one,” Smuda said.

“It’s very immediate and it’s very fast. It’s also very approachable in many ways, but there’s no forgiveness whatsoever.”

For this reason, Roy suggests beginners start with water-based oils or acrylics.

If you mess up at first — and, if you’re a beginner painter, you probably will — you can just paint over it.

“It dries faster. And there are a lot more materials you need for oil paint. And there’s the toxic issue of oil paint,” Roy said.

Beginners will need basic paints and brushes of different sizes and shapes (rounded, flat, angled), plus an artist palette, rags or paper towels, a cup or jar of water, and maybe a palette knife or scraping tools. Roy said many of her beginner workshop paintings are black and white still lifes because it’s a more natural step after drawing; they’re more used to working with value, not color.

Roy, who has also worked at the Canvas Roadshow, said the demographic of a paint night is different from that of a beginner art lesson. It’s because her students come in for a different reason: to learn and get better.

Her beginner painting courses also involve critique. “[During class] I’ll move around, asking

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questions and giving suggestions. A big part of it is critique, both in drawing and in painting,” Roy said. “The other thing is stepping back. … The idea is to [paint] what you see, not what you think you see, and it pretty much always looks better when you step back. It gives you a better perspective, after you’ve been a foot away from it for an hour.”

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• Glass Fusing for Beginners at NHIA Sharon campus, Sat., Sept. 24, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 15, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 19, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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pet or favorite place — and she’ll help artists determine color and composition as they work. The important thing to remember, she said, is you’re taking a beginner class. You shouldn’t know what you’re doing yet.

“And you don’t have to get it perfect,” Roy said.

Verne Orlosk, who teaches glass fusion at StudioVerne in Manchester, said glass art is often categorized by temperature.

Hot glass usually refers to glassblowing, which involves inflating molten glass into a bubble with help of a blowpipe. The nature of the medium means you have to move quickly and there’s little room for error. Few art centers have the necessary equipment; in southern New Hampshire, Caulkins pointed to the Hot Glass Art Center in Marlborough and Terrapin Glassblowing Studio in Jaffrey.

“If you have a good instructor, anyone can do it, but [glassblowing] is probably more intimidating because you’re working with hot material,” Caulkins said.

Warm glass, a little more accessible, usually refers to fused glass art, Orlosk’s specialty, which involves using a kiln. She hosts project-based workshops regularly at her studio. Most of her students are new to the art and are looking for a good time, not unlike paint-night crowds.

“But they’re looking for an experience different from painting,” Orlosk said. “I think the experience is also geared toward people just looking for a place to relax and chill out. It’s not unlike the popularity of yoga classes or hiking.”

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sica Goodhue, liked it so much she built her own studio at home. (She had also coincidentally taken a fused art class taught by Orlosk at the Currier.)

“I’d always liked [stained glass] and thought it was beautiful, and my dad collects it. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if I could make him something like that?” Goodhue said. “I just jumped right into it. Theresa was there to answer questions, to give the demonstration, but she’s really good at letting you work at your own pace.”

Orlosk said she likes the versatility of the medium. It can be fine art or decor, a wind chime or a window. It even morphs when the artist’s done.

“When light passes through it — that’s what really amazes people. It changes all the time, with different kinds of light,” Orlosk said.

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If you want to take a more artistic route, there’s room to flex your creative muscles; Orlosk has a background in fine art and often uses her expertise in drawing and painting while designing for her own pieces, which are more complex than those projects she teaches in her workshops.

“With fused glass — there’s a lot of science to it,” Orlosk said. “But I joke about the fact it’s very addictive.”

Cold glass usually refers to stained glass.

With this style of glass art, students generally have an opportunity to be more independent.

“As long as you can hold a pencil upright, you can learn how to use the tools,” said Caulkins, who also teaches stained glass at Studio 550.

Caulkins said she typically starts beginner students with star-shaped suncatchers the first class — complicated enough to fill a three-hour lesson, easy enough so students move through the entire process in one session, from scoring, breaking and grinding the glass to foiling and soldering it. Her following meetings during the 10-week semester are more free-form. Some students will make multiple suncatchers or turn to pattern books for inspiration. Others go big.

“The skills they learn in the first lesson — the actual process of cutting and breaking everything, from start to finish — you can apply that to more advanced projects, from 3-D shapes to boxes and lamp shades,” Caulkins said.

If you want to go beyond the basics of stained glass, drawing foundations help here too.

“When I was learning [stained glass], it was structured as a formal art class. You had to design everything. You couldn’t take things from a pattern book from the internet or anything like that,” Caulkins said. “Everything I did, I drew out and recreated on glass.”

Cold glass art is also the most feasible if you want to take the medium outside a classroom setting because it involves fewer expensive materials than warm or hot. One of Studio 550’s students in the medium, Jes-

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Leap started the community art center in 2012 with beginner artists in mind.

A select few first-time students are intermediate ceramicists who’ve taken classes elsewhere, but most are complete novices, ranging in age from 3 to 60-plus.

One of her regulars is Gary Young, a 63-year-old retired musician who started with clay a year ago. He said via email he was able to turn out what resembled a bowl fairly quickly.

Leap said success is all about following directions and developing hand sensitivity to clay, which comes with practice. Some people pick it up faster than others; massage therapists and wood turners, for instance, seem to adapt quickly.

“Once you get a handle on wedging and centering the clay — the foundation of all wheel throwing — the possibilities expand

quickly. Some people are more selective in what they keep. Others want to keep everything they make,” she said.

As with glass art, beginner ceramicists will want to learn in a studio because the art requires lots of materials — clay, wheels, kilns, plus expert advice. Leap said firsttime students can learn to make cups, bowls, plates, mugs and a variety of decoration and glazing techniques. More advanced pupils will learn to make jars with lids, casserole dishes, teapots, table centerpieces, vases and large items, like serving bowls and plates.

Young said he’s liked the relaxed vibe of the class, and the excitement of firing at the end. After a year of classes, he has pottery all throughout his home.

“People say it is calming, therapeutic, peaceful. Others say it is a wonderful material because it can really become anything you want it to become,” Leap said.

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“I enjoy it when somebody comes in and says, ‘I have all these materials, and I don’t know what to do with them,’” Smuda said.

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“Everybody looks at everything on an iPad, but having read books on the iPad, it’s not the same as having a work of art you can look through,” Smuda said.

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Smuda taught drawing and art history for years, but her own art is focused in paper and book arts. The art form, she said, traces back to the ‘50s and initially consisted of limited-edition texts made by artists. Today the medium is whatever you want it to be.

“It became a self-defining genre,” Smuda said. “If I say it’s a book, it’s a book. It doesn’t necessarily have to have pages. If you go online and look up ‘artist books,’ you’ll see unbelievable things.”

She teaches beginning workshops at Twiggs Gallery. She said early lessons involve creating tiny books folded from a single sheet of paper.

“So people can see it’s just a matter of folding and cutting — no stitching, no gluing. It’s simple, but you still get a book format out of it,” Smuda said.

Because bookmaking is a self-defining genre, there are so many different ways to go about it; you can use different types of paper, bindings (folded, stitched, glued), pages (popout or pocket pages) or formats. Some of her books don’t even look like books. At Twiggs, she plans to teach a tunnel book workshop this fall, in which you look through a book instead of flipping pages. Another technique involves taking a book that already exists and revamping it.

“With altered books, you can rewrite them, cross out work,group pages together or cut things out. If you go online, you’ll see an unbelievable amount of ingenuity,” Smuda said.

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The Ervin Dhimo Trio perform a show at the Riverwalk Cafe and Music Bar (35 Railroad Square, Nashua) at 8 p.m.

Featuring bass player Ervin Dhimo, Berklee College of Music professor and keyboardist Steve Hunt and percussionist Steve Michaud, the group is known for a unique blend of jazz rhythms with electric guitar riffs and pop harmonies.

Tickets are $7. Call 578-0200 or visit riverwalknashua.com.

Saturday, Aug. 6

Check out the Goffstown Main Street Program’s 8th annual Uncommon Art on the Common Festival, held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Goffstown Village on Main Street. More than 30 local artists and fine craftspeople have created outstanding pieces for your home and office or to be given as gifts. A wide range of media including oils, acrylics, watercolors, prints, photographs, jewelry, and more will be presented. Call 4979933 for more details.

EAT: A farmers dinner The Farmers Dinner and High Mowing School (22 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton) will host a farm-to-table to dinner on Saturday, Aug. 6, to fund the Temple Wilton Community Farm’s “Purchase the Four Corner’s Farm” project. Chefs will prepare a multi-course meal using ingredients grown on the farm. Between courses, farmers will speak on the history of the farm and the reasons purchasing it is so important to the future of the community. A farm tour starts at 3 p.m. and dinner starts at 5 p.m. Tickets are $85. Visit thefarmersdinner.com.

Sunday, Aug. 7

Author Yona Zeldis McDonough will present and sign copies of her new historical fiction novel The House on Primrose Pond at the Milford Toadstool Bookshop (Lorden Plaza, 614 Nashua St.). at 1 p.m. Although the novel is set in present-day New Hampshire, its main character is researching and writing about an actual murder that happened in the Granite State back in 1768. Admission is free. Call 673-1734 or visit toadbooks. com for more information.

DRINK: with clydesdales Join the Anheuser-Busch Brewery (221 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack) from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6 for Clydesdale Camera Day. Visitors can bring their cameras and have their pictures taken with the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdale, while enjoying a brewery tour, browsing the gift shop, and enjoying an ice-cold beer in the new Biergarten. Admission is free. Call 5951202 or visit budweisertours.com.

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The Manchester Community Health Center (145 Hollis St.) will hold a Family Fun Day and Health Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be music, food, face painting, games, raffles, bike activities, health information and screenings and much more. Admission is free and open to the public to drop by and learn about healthy living.

Call 626-9500 or visit mchcnh.org for more information.

BE MERRY: at Barnful of Blues The Granite State Blues Society presents the 14th annual Barnful of Blues festival from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 15 Hill Dale Lane in New Boston. The all-day, rain or shine music event is family oriented and will feature the best blues and R&B bands New England has to offer. Profits donated with benefit the Webster House of New Hampshire. Admission is $25 at the gate and free for children ages 12 and under. Visit granitestateblues.org for more information.

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ARTS Busy at work

MacInnis on turtles and the League fair

By Kelly Sennott

ksennott@hippopress.com

If you want to find Glen MacInnis at the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair this week, look for his ceramic turtles, which will be all over his booth — after 15 years, his clients still haven’t tired of them, and neither has he.

“But don’t buy me any turtle paperweights or knicknacks!” he said, laughing, during an interview at the studio weeks before the fair. “I don’t need anymore!”

MacInnis spent many long spring and summer days crafting the turtles in his Auburn workshop, which is located on a hill that looks down on Lake Massabesic.

“I’m not much of an indoorsman,” he said, gesturing to his shady outdoor studio space, and down at the lake, where his six kayaks sit on the shore. “So I get a lot more done in the summertime when I’m out here.”

MacInnis goes out on the water or through the trails near his house whenever he needs a break or inspiration. His recently painted turtle sculpture, nicknamed Speedy, is a depiction of a real-life one he found nearby.

At the time of the interview, he was finishing the last of his commissions before the show. There was still a lot of work to do

Artwork by Glen MacInnis, a potter participating in the League fair this week. Glen MacInnis photo.

— but that’s standard among League artists in the weeks leading up to the fair.

“I’ve been driven to the absolute brink of insanity,” he said. “It’s a long show — nine days. Most people don’t realize how brutal it is. It takes a year to get ready for it.”

MacInnis grew up in Manchester and picked up pottery at Notre Dame College (though he suspects he’s the only potter who came out of the program). After par-

ticipating in the fair for more than 20 years now, it’s become a “big, tribal gathering.”

“Because I grew up in the area, it’s this big combination of a family reunion, a class reunion, a wedding and a funeral. Everyone I know uses it as an excuse to come visit. It’s absolutely mind-boggling how many people I end up talking to. There are thousands! Every client I’ve ever had. It’s really quite an event for me,” MacInnis said.

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Children’s Day at the Fair: Wednesday, Aug. 10, featuring singalongs with musician Amy Connelly, a mime and face painting Tasting Tent: Food and drink for sample from Fuller’s Sugarhouse, Cabot Cheese, LaBelle Winery and King Arthur Flour Lunch & Learn: Lunch with a master craftsman Live music: All week long The Artist’s Gift: Starting this year, a percentage of purchased gifts will be donated to the League’s Annual Fund and League’s Emergency Relief Fund, which supports craftspeople in need

When: Saturday, Aug. 6, through Sunday, Aug. 14, daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission: $12 Contact: nhcrafts.org What: The event regularly draws more than 25,000 guests and features more than 350 represented in the form of pottery, jewelry, glass, prints, clothes, furniture, etc. There are also daily craft demonstrations, workshops and fine craft exhibitions like “Living with Craft,” displaying pieces arranged in The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair kicks cohesive room displays, and “CraftWear,” off this weekend. Courtesy photo. which offers traditional and avant-garde Where: Mount Sunapee Resort, 1398 Route jewelry and hand-crafted wearables. There’s 103, Newbury also an outdoor sculpture garden.

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Most of what he’ll have the day of the fair will be turtles. His first designs were simpler, inspired by the snapping turtles he used to find while wandering New Hampshire and a viral National Geographic photo of a baby turtle sticking its tongue out. Those first pieces sold well enough, but he was at first uncertain if there was a market for more.

“One summer, after my wife had quit her job, we said, let’s just sit around making turtles,” MacInnis said. “We went up to the [League] show and sold all of them the first day. Talk about intense! ... So I have just been making turtles ever since.”

Fifteen years later, his designs are now covered with intricacies involving lots of glaze and detail work. At first glance, they might pass as the real thing. A few sat on his work table sporting multi-colored shells and textured skin and had just come out of the kiln. MacInnis was happy with the result; this point in the process is “like Christmas,” he said.

“It’s kind of like breeding puppies.

Everything is handmade, so there’s no way it’s going to come out exactly the same,” he said. “You just hope for the best.”

MacInnis doesn’t participate in as many shows as he used to — most of the time, he’s responding to commissions and sending artwork to clients directly. Often it’s just as expensive to ship the work as it is to deliver it in person, so the critters have also provided plentiful travel opportunities.

“I’ll just bring the [sculpture] on as a carry-on. I went to Austin a couple summers ago. I’ve been out west. I go everywhere delivering turtles,” he said. (He often meets people in unassuming parking lots and exchanges the turtles, wrapped up in brown paper packages, for cash; he suspects this activity looks suspicious on security cameras.)

The League show is his main event.

“It’s really the only place where you could see that amount of work. Normally I make them, and people pick them up as soon as they’re done,” he said.

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Art Events • CURRIER AFTER HOURS: CELEBRATE MANCHESTER John Clayton discusses history of millyards and their effect on Manchester, celebra-

tion of Becky Fields' photos of immigrants and refugees who are Inti Academy students.

Music by Alli Beaudry. tour of "Urban Landscapes: Manchester and the Modern American City."

Thurs., Aug. 4, 6-9 p.m. Cur-

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rier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Included with museum admission. Visit currier.org. Call 669-6144, ext. 108.

• CONCORD ARTS MARKET Featuring locally-made arts, crafts, pottery, jewelry,

clothing, etc. June 4 through Sept. 24, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bicentennial Square, Concord. Visit concordartsmarket.net. Email kitty@concordartsmarket.net.

• LEAGUE OF NH CRAFTS-

MEN’S FAIR Mount Sunapee Resort, 1398 Route 103, Newbury. Aug.6-Aug. 14. Admission is $10. Visit nhcrafts.org.

• UNCOMMON ART ON THE COMMON Featuring 30 area artists and artisans with

booths along the length of Main Street, plus in local businesses.

Sat., Aug. 6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Main St., Goffstown. Free. Visit goffstownmainstreet.org.

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• Just hug-able: The next art exhibition at Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester, is “Imaginary Friends” by Mindy Sue Wittock, on view Aug. 4 through Aug. 26.

The show is open to the public but kids are especially invited to attend the reception on Friday, Aug. 5, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Visitors can come in and hug and take selfies with the pieces, and during the opening, there will be materials for guests to create their own imaginary friends. Call 232-5597 or visit 550arts.com.

• Uncommon art: Goffstown Main Street hosts its annual Uncommon Art on the Common Saturday, Aug. 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., which features 30 area artists showing and selling their work in booths along Main Street and inside local galleries, shops, cafes and area businesses (painters, photographers, woodturners, fiber and glass artists, and potters). In addition, there will be a demonstration where guests can show off their own talents. The event sees hundreds of patrons each year.

General admission is free, and so is parking. Artists are encouraged to bring projects to work on while at the festival so that guests may see the process up close. Visit goffstownmainstreet.org or email info@ People with Alzheimer’s and dementia—along with their loved ones and caregivers—to enjoy art and good company in a safe space. Wed., Aug. 10, 2-4 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Free.

Visit currier.org.

• ARTISANS ON THE GREEN Art and craft festival featuring more than 50 artisans.

Thurs., Aug. 11, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sandwich Green, Sandwich. Free.

• 2016 PAINT-OUT Come during open hours, bring lunch, join Pastel Society of NH in painting area. Sat., Aug. 13, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, 365 Little Harbor Road, Portsmouth. Visit nhstateparks.org.

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• LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ART SHOW Featuring original oil painting by Litchfield native Louisa McElwain and restored Naumkeag Grange Hall Theater curtain. Sat., Aug. 13, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Griffin Memorial School, 229 Charles Bancroft Highway, Litchfield. Free.

• SECOND SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Sun., Aug. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Currier Museum of

The next show at Studio 550 is “Imaginary Friends.”

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• New place for The Place: The Place Studio and Gallery moves from Main Street to the Concord Community Arts Center at the end of August, according to a story in the Monitor. Downtown rent was the primary reason for the change — the business was unable to make ends meet in order to be financially sustainable, despite discounted rent from the landlord and loyal customers. Owner Christa Zuber said in the story the new rent would be three times less than that at the Main Street lease. The CCA is located in the old Rumford School and also opened about two years ago — while it initially struggled to take hold, it now holds 15 businesses that are renting classrooms in the building. Visit theplaceconcord.wixsite. com/the-place, or visit its Facebook page, Facebook.com/ThePlaceConcord, or call 227-6148.

— Kelly Sennott

Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

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• GREELEY PARK ART SHOW Greeley Park, 100 Concord St., Nashua, Sat., Aug. 20, and Sun., Aug. 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is an art show and competition that represents a Nashua tradition for more than 60 years now. Visit nashuaareaartistsassoc.org.

Fairs • SUMMER FUN CRAFT FAIR Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton, is Sat., Aug. 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring exhibitors selling crafts, quilts, decor, glass art, floral arrangements, etc.

Visit joycescraftshows.com.

• LINCOLN SUMMER CRAFT FESTIVAL Sat., Aug. 13, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Village Shops and Town Green on Main Street in Lincoln. Visit casteleberryfairs. com.

Open calls • CALL FOR ART Seeking regional submissions for 2016 Spring/Summer 100, open jur-

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No theme. Deadline for submission Aug. 11 at noon. Drop-off Aug. 20, pick-up Nov. 19. No nude figures. Gallery at 100, 100 Market St., Portsmouth. Email maskmakernh@aol.com.

• PAINT A PIG CONTEST Fundraiser for Meals on Wheels.

Paint life-sized plywood pig cutout to paint. Finished pieces will be on display during Alton's Home Week Celebration. Finished pigs returned to Profile Bank by Aug. 15. Profile Bank, 31 Mooney St., Alton. Call 5693745.

Openings • "WENDY TURNER: ISLAND LIGHT" Art exhibition. On view through Sept.

30. Lecture, "Senses of Place: Winter Life on a Small Island" with Alexandra de Steigeur.

Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle Road, Portsmouth. Visit portsmouthhistory.org. Call 4368433.

• KATHLEEN BUCHANAN Featured artist/reception. Fri., Aug. 5, 5-8 p.m. Valeries Gallery, 117 Market St., Portsmouth.

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Little Women, big heart

Seacoast Rep’s next production brings iconic novel to the stage

By Kelly Sennott

ksennott@hippopress.com

The Seacoast Repertory Theatre team needed something classic and old-school to contrast with its June and July production of Reefer Madness, so members asked audiences to choose the August show from a few choices: Carousel, The Secret Garden, Oklahoma or Little Women.

They chose the iconic Louisa May Alcott musical, to director Danielle Howard’s delight, and will perform it Aug. 5 through Aug. 28.

“It’s been a season of trying to offer things people may not have seen or heard of yet,” Rep Artistic Director Miles Burns said via phone. “[Little Women] is a familiar story. There’s so much Americana to it.

And it has a beautiful score.”

The musical, based on Alcott’s semiautobiographical 1869 novel of the same name, follows four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — as they grow from teens into women during the Civil War in Concord, Massachusetts. It centers particularly on Jo March, an independent thinker, inspired by the author herself. The musical, with music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and book by Allan Knee, hit Broadway in 2005.

“It’s a story about family and living your dreams. That made it attractive, and the fact that it has not been done a great deal in the area also made it buzzy,” Howard said via phone. “And it also features See Little Women Where: Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth When: Aug. 5 through Aug. 28, with shows Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Contact: seacoastrep.org, 433-4472 Admission: $14-$38, depending on the night

ARTISTS" NHAA August show. Featuring Joe Flaherty, Sandra Keller, Kristin Burchsted, Bruce Parsons and Norm Ramsey and Rosalind RevilockFrost and Wen Redmond. On view Aug. 3-Aug. 27. Opening Fri., Aug. 5, 5-8 p.m. Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Call 431-4230.

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• "IMAGINARY FRIENDS" Created by local fiber artist Mindy Sue Wittock. On view Aug. 4-Aug. 26. Opening Fri.,

The Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents Little Women this August. Ben Bagley photo.

six women. … Of course, it’s a tour de force for the role of Jo March, but the other five women in the show have featured roles, and that is so rare, to come across a musical and to have female roles for an array of ages.”

The company found actors through New England Theater Conference auditions in March aimed at summer stock companies — including Liz Erardi, the Rep’s Jo March — and at local Seacoast auditions held at Portsmouth Public Media. All the casted March women are new to the Rep. “We had a local callback and had 100 actors come, 90 percent of whom were auditioning for the women’s roles,” Howard said. “I think, definitely, Jo March is a dream role for many women. … She’s fierce and independent, and there’s something that I think is really interesting about that character, and exciting about that character. … I remember saying to my husband and colleague, John Berst, that at

Aug. 5, 5:30-7 p.m. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com. Call 232-5597.

• DOUG JOHNSON Exeter Fine Crafts show. On view through August. Demonstrations Fri., Aug. 5, 4-7 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 13, noon-3 p.m. Exeter Fine Crafts, 61 Water St., Exeter. Call 778-8282.

• "PORTRAIT OF A NEW ENGLAND PORT: 25 YEARS IN PORTSMOUTH" Art show of woodcut prints and drawings, 1991-2016 by Don Gorvett. On

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view Aug. 7 through Oct. 11.

Reception Sun., Aug. 7, 4-6 p.m. Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth.

Visit strawberybanke.org. Call 433-1107.

• SUE LANDSMAN Hollis Arts Society, mixed media artist presentation and demonstration. Wed., Aug. 10, at 7 p.m.

Lawrence Barn, 28 Depot Road, Hollis. Free. Visit hollisartssocietynh.com.

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the end of the day, we really should have been exhausted, but we were invigorated.”

Burns said the company has been holding regular auditions for all mainstage shows and only recently began recruiting at NETC. It’s more work, as opposed to giving roles away or holding one audition for multiple productions, but it offers more choice.

“It’s important, I think, as an arts organization to give equal opportunity.

Everything can’t go to the same five people,” Burns said. “We’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback about the talent we’ve had coming in.”

Howard recommended the play’s 10 actors read the book beforehand, and in the midst of rehearsals, cast and crew went on a targeted tour of the Concord house where the March girls lived to flesh out Alcott’s world.

“The story of Little Women is highly autobiographical,” Howard said. “So [the

MODERN AMERICAN CITY" On view now through Aug. 29. Tour Sat., Aug. 13, at 11:30 a.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Visit currier.org. Call 669-6144, ext. 108.

• CITY EMPLOYEE & FAMILY ART SHOW Featuring artwork by city employees and their families. On view through Aug. 30. Reception/awards ceremony Thurs., Aug. 25, 5-6 p.m.

Manchester City Hall, 1 City Hall Plaza, Manchester. Visit

tour] was very inspiring. … It was like a 3-D immersion into the world.”

The visit inspired the design for the March parlor, courtesy of Szu-Feng Chen, which is where the heart of the story takes place, and the long, traditional gowns designed by James Weeden, who created the pieces specially for the show and has worked on productions like The Lion King and Phantom of the Opera. Some other props and costumes will help tell Jo’s stories, which pop off the page and take audiences into her imagination.

Burns said that when he saw the first run-through, he told the cast, “I’m leaving here feeling like I can do anything!”

Howard thinks it’s moving as well.

“There’s an incredible heart and fire to this production, to this story. You get a fierce heroine and an unconventional love story, heartache and joy, and you’ll ultimately leave feeling uplifted and maybe even a little fearless,” Howard said.

nationalartsprogram.org.

Workshops/classes/ demonstrations • AMANDA SISK Artist-inresidence sculpture workshop.

Saturdays, Aug. 6, 20 and 27 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Gov. John Langdon House, 143 Pleasant St., Portsmouth. $5 materials fee. Visit historicnewengland.org.

Call 436-3205.

• COMMUNITY EMPTY BOWLS Make clay bowls to donate to Manchester Empty

Bowls event to benefit New Horizons. First Friday of the month 3-6 p.m. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Free; beginners and advanced artists welcome. Visit 550arts.com.

Call 232-5597.

In the Galleries • "FAMOUS FACES: PORTRAITS BY NANCY ELLEN CRAIG" 26 paintings of social, intellectual and political elite of 20th century. On view June 29 through Aug. 6. Whistler House

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Notes from the theater scene

• Summer theater: The Milford Area Players presents a summer production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford, this August, with shows on Friday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 13, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 20, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m. The story follows Randle P. McMurphy, a rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in a mental institution instead of prison and turns the place inside out. The play’s directed by Joe Pelonzi. General admission tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. Visit milfordareaplayers.org.

• Audition alert: The Palace Theatre hosts local auditions for its upcoming productions of Sister Act, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and A Christmas Carol on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 2 p.m., at the theater, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. The auditions are for professional actors ages 16 and older (these are not the auditions for the youth ensemble of A Christmas Carol). The dancer call will begin at 2 p.m. Those auditioning should also bring 16 bars that best show off vocal ability in the event they’re called back to sing, and dance clothes in the event they’re asked to stay and dance. All shows begin rehearsal two weeks before

Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell. Call 978-452-7641.

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• "FIRST SUMMER EXHIBITION" New paintings by Brian Dubina, launch of exhibition, "Farm/Field/Port."

Reception Sat., May 21, noon-8 p.m. On view through Aug. 12. Honeyhole, 121 Water St., Exeter.

Email honeyholeshop@gmail. com. Visit facebook.com/honeyholeshop. Call 617-257-5298.

• "TWICE-SEEN IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS" Exhibit of Richard Moore's composite photographs of iconic White Mountain locations. On view July 2 through Aug. 13.

Epsom Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom. Visit epsomlibrary. com. Call 936-9920.

• "THEMELESS SUMMER 2016" Featuring works by more than 2 dozen NH, Maine and Mass. artists. On view July 1 through Aug. 19. The Gallery, 100 Market St., Portsmouth. Call 436-4559.

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opening night. Visit palacetheatre.org or email Megan Quinn, company manager, at meganquinn@palacetheatre.org.

• Music from around the world: This weekend, Village Harmony — the teen world music ensemble based in Vermont — stops in New Hampshire and performs at the First Church, 16 Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaffrey, 532-7979, on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m.; at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Concord, 274 Pleasant St., Concord, 2240291, on Sunday, Aug. 7, at 7:30 p.m.; and at Orchard Hill Breadworks Pizza Night, 21 Old Settlers Road, Alstead, 835-7845, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 7:30 p.m. The program includes a wide range of harmony and singing from voices that come from around the world, from Caucasus Georgia to Cape Town, South Africa. The singers of Village Harmony summer camps have been traveling and performing heartfelt renditions of folk music from around the world in New England since 1990. Suggested admission at the door is $10. Visit villageharmony.org for more on the group. — Kelly Sennott

exhibition of fresh work. On view July 5 through Aug. 19.

McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord. Visit mcgowanfineart.com. Call 225-2515.

• "KALEIDOSCOPE: STUDENT ART FROM NH UNIVERSITIES" On view July 19 through Aug. 22. Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Road, Moultonborough. Visit castleintheclouds.org. Call 476-5900.

• "SURVEYING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE" Art exhibition featuring urban environment qualities; covering more than 100 years. On view June 11-Aug. 29.

Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org.

• HANNAH COLE DAHAR, BETHANY COLE RYMES Art show featuring artwork by two sisters. On view May 31 through Aug. 29. LaBelle Winery, 345 New Hampshire 101, Amherst.

• "THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART OF COLEMAN ROGERS" On view June 21-Aug. 30.

TreMonte Pizzeria, 112 Middle St., Lowell. Email mjhart206@ gmail.com.

• KEN TALBOT Loon photography show. On view July 1 through Aug. 31. McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord. Visit ghostflowers.com or seacoastart.org.

• CHRISTOPHER POLSON ART EXHIBITION On view July 1-Aug. 31. Mandarin Asian Bistro, 24 Market St., Lowell.

• "CAPTURED MOMENTS" Photographers from Ash Street Group show. 16 artists, 50 photos. Opening reception Thurs., May 12, at 6:30 p.m. On view through Aug. 31. Hooksett Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary's Way, Hooksett. Visit ashstreetgroup.com.

• JEAN TALLMAN Artist's last exhibition of work in NH. On view through Aug. 31. Framers Market, 1301 Elm St., Manchester. Visit framersmarketnh.com.

Call 668-6989.

• "SUNLIGHT SEDUCTION" Art show featuring more than 75 artists. On view July 18-Sept.

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Theater Productions • ALADDIN Part of the 2016 Summer Children’s Series. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org, Thurs., Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $9.

• THE LITTLE MERMAID The Prescott Park Arts Festival mainstage outdoor musical. Happening regularly June 24 through Aug. 21. Visit prescottpark.org.

Suggested donation at the gate.

• PYGMALION Peterborough Players production. Aug. 3-Aug. 14. Tues.-Fri. at 7:30 p.m. Sat. at 8 p.m. Sun. at 4 p.m. Peterborough Players Theatre, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough. $39. Visit peterboroughplayers.org. Call 924-7585.

• THE ALMOST TRUE AND TRULY REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL POTTER, AMERICA'S PATRIOT World premiere play.

Aug. 3-Aug. 13. Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 50 Reservoir Road, Meredith. $18-$31. Call 2790333. Visit winniplayhouse.org.

• KISS THE MOON, KISS THE SUN Part of ACT ONE Festival. Thurs., Aug. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 5, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 6, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7, at 2 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 12, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 13, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $20.

Visit actonenh.org. Call 3002986.

• INTO THE WOODS Production by Riverbend Alumni Company. Thurs., Aug. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon Road, Milford. $12. Visit amatocenter.org.

• CHILDREN OF EDEN Derryfield School production. Fri., Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m. The Derryfield School, 2108 River Road, Man-

chester. $15.

• RELEASED Canterbury Shaker Village Village Sunset Dance Performance. Curated by Lorraine Chapman. Fri., Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m. Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury. $45. Visit shakers.org.

• PLAYING BO PEEP Andy's Summer Playhouse performance. Tues., Aug. 9, at 2 p.m.

Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary. org. Call 589-4631.

• THE LITTLE MERMAID Impact Children’s Theatre.

Tues., Aug. 9, at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., at the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord, 225-1111, ccanh.com.

Tickets are $7.50.

• SAMANTHA RAI Aug. 11 through Aug. 20 at Andy’s Summer Playhouse, 582 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton, 654-2613, andyssummerplayhosue.org.

Call for ticket prices.

• THE VIEW FROM HE'AH VARIETY SHOW Featuring Susan Poulin. Thurs., Aug. 11, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $20. Visit actonenh.org.

• ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Milford Area Players production.

Aug.12-Aug. 21. Shows Fri. and Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.

Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. $15. Visit milfordareaplayers.org.

• CINDERELLA Part of the 2016 Summer Children’s Series.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org. Tues., Aug. 16; Wednesday, Aug. 17, and Thursday, Aug. 18, at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $9.

Auditions • AUDITIONS: THE PALACE THEATRE For Sister Act, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and A Christmas Carol.

For professional actors 16 and older. Sat., Aug. 6, at 2 p.m.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit palacetheatre. org. Email meganquinn@palacetheatre.org.

Classical Music Events • SHANNACHIE Concert of Irish songs and stories. Thurs., Aug. 4, at 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

Free. Visit nashualibrary.org.

Call 589-4610.

• SULLIVAN VILLAGE CONCERT Featuring Orazio Vecchi's "The Night Games of Siena" Le veglie di Siena (1604). Sullivan Congregational Church, 4 Church St., Sullivan.

Free Email mm@monadnockmusic.org. Thurs., Aug. 4, at 7:30 p.m.

• HARRISVILLE VILLAGE CONCERT Featuring music

by Frank Bridge, Karol Szymanowski, George Rochberg, and the Monadnock Music String Quartet. Harrisville Community Church, 13 Canal St., Harrisville. Free Email mm@ monadnockmusic.org. Sat., Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m.

• VILLAGE HARMONY Teen World Music Ensemble concert.

Sat., Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m. First Church, Jaffrey Center, Jaffrey. $10. Call 532-7979. And Sun., Aug. 7, at 7:30 p.m., Concord NH Unitarian Church, 274 Pleasant St., Concord. $10.

• TEMPLE VILLAGE CONCERT Music by Frank Bridge, Charles Ives, John Tavener, Franz Haydn, Gabriel Faure, and the Monadnock Music String Quartet. Congregational Church of Temple, 17 Main St., Temple.

Free Email mm@monadnockmusic.org. Sun., Aug. 7, at 3 p.m.

• SUMMER SING Nashua Choral Society event. Philip Lauriat conducts Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Choral Fantasy. Participatory. Mon., Aug. 8, at 7 p.m. Church of Christ, Scientist, 115 Concord St., Nashua. $10. Call 998-0443.

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LISTINGS 31 Children & Teens Games, clubs, fun...

32 Continued

INSIDE/OUTSIDE Connecting with history

Shaker Village unveils new contemporary exhibit

Education Classes, seminars, lectures...

32 Health & Wellness Workshops, exercises...

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36 Museums & Tours Exhibits, events...

36 Nature & Gardening Hikes, animal events...

36 Sports & Rec. Spectator sports, runs...

FEATURES 31 Kiddie pool Family activities this week.

32 The Gardening Guy Advice on your outdoors.

33 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic.

34 Car Talk Click and Clack give you car advice.

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The Shakers’ beliefs in sustainable living and working smart rather than hard will be honored during Village Rising at Canterbury Shaker Village on Saturday, Aug. 6.

The day-long event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will feature the unveiling of several new exhibits, in addition to guided tours and walks and other special events throughout the day.

Most of the active Shaker communities in the Granite State and beyond have long since closed or turned into museums, but the Shakers’ ideas, values and lifestyles continue to live on and have a strong impression in our daily lives, according to Funi Burdick, Canterbury Shaker Village’s executive director.

“What I really love that makes us stand out is that we have never altered the buildings or the landscape,” Burdick said. “One of the interesting things about our Shaker Village that’s different from others is that this site never closed. It was envisioned as a museum by the last remaining Shakers.”

Burdick said doing just that involves observing the most basic ideas of what the Shakers believed in. “[The Shakers] really believed in community and connecting, and they invited people to understand how they were receiving the word of God through art forms like dancing and spirit drawings and paintings,” she said. “They created an interesting environment that was sympathetic to both worship and to human interaction.”

It was through these ideas that Burdick created Shaker Traditions: Contemporary Translations, an Village Rising When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury Cost: Included with the cost of admission ($17 for adults, $8 for kids ages 6 to 17, free for kids ages 5 and under) Visit: shakers.org

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The Canterbury Shaker Village is unique in that it has never been closed down or renovated and contains all of the original structures from its days as an operational Shaker community. Courtesy photo.

exhibit that will be unveiled at the start of Saturday’s event and will be open to the public at the Village through Dec. 10.

“The idea behind [the exhibit] was to sort of make a call out to people who have visited the Village and ask them if it’s inspired them to create something on your own, whether it’s a piece of artwork or a piece of music or a poem,” she said.

“And we asked people that if they would like to submit them to us, then we would try to showcase that along with Shakers’ works to show that pieces the Shakers created connect with your own contemporary creation … so it’s kind of cool in that it showcases our commonality with the Shakers and how their values have manifested themselves in our lives.”

Burdick said the most interesting thing about each exhibit submission was the wide variety of media from both professional and amateur artists, artisans and writers.

“What often happened when people submitted pieces was that the themes became intertwined and had almost a sort of holistic inspiration,” she said. “So I asked people to not only submit a piece but write something about it to give more insight into what they are representing.”

One of the items they received was a tilted top table built by Greg Brown of Bedford called “Devil’s Embrace.”

“He took a walnut slab and sculpted it into a beautiful functioning table,” she said. “He wrote that the Shakers believed that it was important that something built be both

necessary and useful, and at the same time to not hesitate to make it beautiful. So that was what he was reacting to.”

A “knitted beehive” spun out of yarn by Sharon Cheeseman will also be on display. Burdick said it showcases how important cultivating bees was and pays homage to the way the Shakers fed their animals.

Photographer Paul Cary Goldberg submitted a photo of cupped hands holding a handful of seeds to express the beauty of hands at work. And architect Brian Healy submitted two paintings he felt embrace the quality of light that plays off the landscape and buildings of the Shaker Village.

“There’s always this practical and beautiful quality to what people are interpreting,” Burdick said.

“It’s such a fun way also to get to know our members and visitors better, and to get to see what resonates with them.”

Burdick said visitors will get a chance to respond to and participate in the exhibit’s opening. She will be giving a gallery talk, followed by an open meet-and-greet reception with the artists at 3 p.m.

Other highlights of the day will include a guided tour of special places that the Shakers loved to photograph, a poetry workshop led by poet Kelley Jean White, wagon rides, and art activities for kids and families.

A special new feature to this year’s Village Rising is a commemoration of Hiroshima Day called “1,000 Paper Cranes for Peace.”

The day falls on the 71st anniversary

of when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during the final stages of World War II, killing more than 90,000 people. An additional 39,000 at least were killed just three days later in a second bombing on the city of Nagasaki.

“I didn’t exactly pick the date for Village Rising for that reason, but we do like to try to participate in national ideas,” Burdick said. “The Shakers were pacifists, and I thought that it would be a beautiful expression to do at the village, which is such a peaceful site.”

The night before Village Rising opens, on Aug. 5, the Shaker Village will host a large dance performance called “Released” featuring dancer Lorraine Chapman. Burdick said Chapman has assembled an extensive roster of choreographers performing work inspired by original Shaker dances. Tickets to this event are $45 general admission and $15 for students and children, and include admission to Village Rising the following day. A similar series of dance performances called “Rising and Rotating” by emerging choreographers and student groups will also be featured throughout the day.

“There’s certainly a lot of different things going on, but the idea is that people will expand their thinking and make a connection,” Burdick said. “I think that history museums have a challenge to try to engage with the public and not stay isolated.

But I’m so lucky because I believe that these ideas that the Shakers promoted really do have resonance with the general public today.”

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Proudly presenting our 2016 SUMMER SEASON Family fun for the weekend

Ballooning it Up

Save the dates for the 35th annual Suncook Valley Rotary Hot Air Balloon Rally at Drake’s Field (Route 28, Pittsfield), for a whole weekend of festivities beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, with midway carnival rides and a balloon liftoff.

Other activities will include live music, a pancake breakfast, and the annual Frank H. Donovan 5K Road Race and a Cow Chip Contest on Sunday, Aug. 7. Admission is Courtesy photo. free. Visit suncookvalleyrotary.org or facebook.com/pittsfieldrotaryballoonrally for the weekend. There will also be several contests, including corn shucking and pie more details. eating, as well as an opportunity to participate in raffles. Prices vary depending on Monster Mayhem which activities you participate in. Call By 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, Studio (978) 815-3214 or visit kingstondays.org 550 Art Center (550 Elm St., Manchesfor more information. ter) will release 100 little clay monsters into downtown Manchester throughout the day. The purpose of this activity is to have Campfire tales Join the Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletchfun while encouraging kids to slow down, er St., Manchester) on Friday, Aug. 5, for play and walk their city in search of the outa Family Fun Night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. of-the-ordinary. Those who find a monster Participate in traditional Native American not only get to keep it, but if they show it tales, play games and enjoy a campfire on at Studio 550, they can pull from a jar of the banks of the Merrimack River. Please prizes ranging from studio merchandise to dress appropriately for weather and insects. free pottery, with the grand prize being a free 10-week class. Call 232-5597 or visit Cost is $8 per family. Call 626-3474 or visit amoskeagfishways.org.

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Kings of the Weekend

Don’t miss the annual Kingston Days Celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the weekend of Aug. 5 through Aug. 7 at 1 Main St. in Kingston. Events typically include a children’s parade, an all-vehicle car show, a lobster bake, a motorcycle show and more. Live entertainment and food vendors will be on hand throughout

Children & Teens Art classes & programs • CARTOONING FOR KIDS WORKSHOP This half-day workshop is designed for students ages 15 and younger. Artist, illustrator, cartoonist and art instructor Ron Plante will offer tips and hands-on learning skills for creating cartoons or illustrations. Students will be required to bring some drawing supplies, including a sketchpad, pencils, a marker and eraser. Sat., Aug. 6, 9 a.m. to noon. Nancy S. Loeb School of Communications, 749 E. Industrial Park Drive, Manchester. $30. Call 627-0005 or visit loebschool.org.

Live free or die

Join Intown Manchester in celebrating the second annual Livin’ Free Fest at Veterans Memorial Park (889 Elm St.) from 4 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. The event will feature live music from The Adam Ezra Group, Monterosa and more, as well as local food and craft vendors in the park.

This is a free, family-friendly event. Call 645-6285 or visit intownmanchester.com.

Children events • POKEMON GO NIGHT Players can enter a raffle to win great prizes, create light-up Poke Projects in "Professor Oak's PokeLab" (formerly known as the STEAM Innovation Lab), play Pokemon Stadium on the big screen and even be silly with props and take pictures in our photo booth. Players can even craft a Poke Ball and grab some snacks to keep them fortified on the hunt. Only two of the museum's exhibits will be open during the evening: the iconic Yellow Submarine and "Build It, Fly It," where guests craft their best flying machine and then crank it to the top of the museum

and launch it into the air to see how well it flies. Thurs., Aug. 4, 7 to 9 p.m. Children's Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover. $5 (no registration required). Call 742-2002.

• CAMPFIRE TALES Participate in traditional Native American tales, play games and enjoy a campfire on the banks of the Merrimack River. Dress appropriately for weather and insects.

Fri., Aug. 5, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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IN/OUT THE GARDENING GUY

For the birds?

Keep blueberries safe from birds

By Henry Homeyer

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I gave a lecture and slide show recently about good plants that support our feathered friends. I talked about good habitat for nesting and safe places to rest while avoiding cats. But when I showed plants birds like to eat, some gardeners were surprised when I showed blueberries; they didn’t want to share. Many of those same people buy black oil sunflower seeds in 50-pound bags every month all winter. But share the blueberries? No way. If you don’t want to share, let’s look at the options.

Years ago when I was in the category of “blueberries are for me, not the birds” I developed an easy netting system that kept the birds off, but I no longer use it. Netting allows the birds to see those ripe berries, taunting them if you will, and some will get caught in the netting trying to get in. A friend recently reported finding three dead and rotting birds in the blueberry netting of a friend who was away. I haven’t used nets in years.

But let’s assume you want to net and are willing to check the nets frequently for caught birds. I suggest using tall plastic hoops that will allow you to drape wide swaths of netting over the bushes and easily slide it off to pick.

Buy 10-foot lengths of PVC pipe that is ¾ inch in diameter. For smaller bushes, cut some pipes in half and glue them to full-length pieces to produce 15-foot-long pipes. For large mature bushes, use two full lengths. Every 10 feet of a row of blueberries needs a hoop. Just bend the pipe to make a hoop and push into the soil. I kept join museum staff and volunteers for a "doctor's visit." The event helps educate kids about what happens at the doctor's office, and maybe takes a bit of the fear away for when it's their turn for a check-up. Fri., Aug. 5, 10 a.m. to noon. Children's Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover. Free with museum admission. Call 742-2002.

• WIZARDING WEEK A variety of events in honor of the release of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," including a wand and hat emporium, a scavenger hunt, a coloring night, and more.

Mon., Aug. 8 through Thurs., Aug. 11 (times vary). Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free. Call 432-6140.

• MONDAY MOVIE MADNESS The Exeter Public Library will show some of the latest films recently released on DVD in its Summer Monday

Row cover over blueberries. Photo by Henry Homeyer.

the netting in place with hair clips, the kind with two rows of teeth and a spring. On the ground I used landscape staples to hold the netting down and keep birds out.

I called my buddy Chris Dye of Noda’s Blueberry Farm in Meriden. He said they bought a noise maker to keep the birds at bay. It’s called a Bird Gard Pro. It makes random bird distress and predator sounds to keep birds away, protecting about an acre of berries. He has a 12-volt car battery to power it, and it sits up 10 feet or more in the air. Aside from the sounds of distressed birds, which would make me loony in no time, the cost would prevent me from getting one: $229.95. Of course, blueberries

Movie Madness series. Mon. Aug. 8, 1 p.m. Exeter Public Library, 4 Chestnut St., Exeter.

Free. Call 772-3101.

• ACTIVATED STORY THEATRE: TALES AFOOT Multicultural folktales in action!

They'll perform "The Troll and Their Shoes" (a girl outwits a troll who has challenged her to a foot race) and "Old Stormalong Races the Steamship" (a John Henry type story that takes place at sea). Up to 12 children may participate in a pre-show acting workshop where they will learn parts of the play in the show.

They will then dress as pirates and sailors, joining the professional actors on stage. Mon., Aug. 8. 11 a.m. Lawrence Barn Community Center, 28 Depot Road, Hollis. Free. Call 4657721.

• AUTHOR STORYTIME Self-published children's book author John Curtin will read his

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book Rhio Saves the Big Day! Rhio is a lovable rhinoceros, who along with his three best friends Liam the Lion, Joey the Bear and Carrot the Rabbit, go from one fun-filled adventure to another. Tues., Aug. 9, 10:30 a.m. Hollis Public Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis. Free.

Call 465-7721.

• SUMMER READING PROGRAM ICE CREAM FINALE Celebrate all the minutes you've read! Pat yourself on the back and enjoy some ice cream with all the fixings. Wed., Aug. 10, 4 p.m. Lawrence Barn Community Center, 28 Depot Road, Hollis. Free. Call 465-7721.

• MOVIE AND MUNCHIES PROGRAM The library shows a popular teen film served up with coordinating moviethemed snacks. This program is open to teen members of the library entering grades 6 and up.

Thurs., Aug. 11, 2 p.m. Exeter

are his business, so he has to protect the 2 acres of berries they grow.

Then I called Riverview Farm in Plainfield and talked to Nancy Franklin. She and her husband have a huge fruit operation: apples, blueberries, raspberries, pumpkins and more. Nancy said that their berries are mostly late-season varieties; by the time they are ripe, many of the bird culprits are getting ready to migrate and have changed their feeding habits, so they are less of a problem. Birds evolved to avoid large predatory birds like owls and hawks. So you can buy a plastic owl and put it out in your blueberry patch, but birds aren’t stupid. Unless you are going to move it from tree to tree,

Public Library, 4 Chestnut St., Exeter. Free. Call 772-3101.

• HAMPTON BEACH CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL Enjoy magic shows with BJ Hickman, puppets, storytellers, contests and the Giant Costume Parade down Ocean Boulevard. Mon., Aug. 15, to Fri., Aug. 19. Hampton Beach, Hampton. See hamptonbeach.org.

• VEGGIE HUNTS With their parents or grandparents accompanying them, children will go into the farm's fields with a member of the farm's staff to learn about how each vegetable grows before beginning their "hunt." The event is a fun way to encourage children to eat more vegetables and develop healthy eating habits. Wed., Aug. 17, 9:30 a.m. Moulton Farm, 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. $12 for the first child in a family group, $10 for additional child. Call 279-3915.

they’ll figure out it’s not real.

Birds don’t like shiny things, either. I’ve known gardeners to hang old music CDs they no longer enjoy in the bushes. The wind blows them, and they shine light at the birds.

I also have some Nite Guard Repellent tape. This is shiny tape designed to scare birds with movement, noise and light.. At $15 for a 100-foot roll, it is affordable and probably helps.

I have a bumper crop of blueberries ripening up now on my seven bushes. I attribute that to the fact that I have been spreading agricultural sulfur around the bushes for a few years, getting the soil very acidic.

Soil pH is very important, and you can add sulfur any time. But don’t add acidic fertilizer now (Holly-Tone, for example), as that should be done in early June. Fertilizer now would stimulate new growth which could easily be damaged in winter.

This year I decided to put Reemay or “row cover” over my bushes. It’s a lightweight agricultural fabric designed to keep bugs off crops. I keep it in place with ordinary wooden clothespins. It only cover the top of the bushes, or a little of the sides, but birds flying over won’t see it. And if my resident robins want to go on the ground and pick up berries, why not? There is nothing to harm the birds, and it is an inexpensive, quick–to-install solution.

So put me in the category of “willing to share — a little — with the birds.”

See Henry’s blog at dailyuv.com/ gardeningguy. He is the author of four gardening books and a lifetime UNH Master Gardener.

• CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG The MEFA U. Fund Start U. Reading Series will feature Clifford the Big Red Dog at Pollard Memorial Library. Children are invited to participate in an engaging story time and related activities with their favorite big red dog. Parents are encouraged to bring their cameras for photos of their children with Clifford. Wed., Aug. 17, 10:30 a.m.

Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St., Lowell. Free.

Call (617) 224-4813.

Music • TOE JAM PUPPET BAND This backyard bash will celebrate the end of the Derry Public Library's 2016 Summer Reading Program. Full of activity, The Toe Jam Puppet Band encourages kids and adults to sing and dance along with the them as they play music, tell stories, use puppets, and more. Fri., Aug.

12, 3 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free.

Call 432-6140.

Continuing Education Adult education • ADULT COLORING: SPECIAL HARRY POTTER THEME Whether you like to bring your own pencils and books, or just your creativity, join your fellow artists for a magical night. Non-Harry Potter books will also be available.

Wed., Aug. 10, 6:30 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free. Call 432-6140.

Health & Wellness Exercise & fitness • INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION: METTA BHAVANA This workshop is an intensive introduction to the Metta Bhavana (lovingkindness) meditation practice.

Sat., Aug. 13, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Can you give me any information about this antique dining room set and buffet?

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Dear Liz, What I can tell you about your walnut dining room set is that it is from the 1930s to 1940s era. Dining room sets were very popular and done by several different furniture manufacturers during this period of time.

Because they were used strictly for family occasions, they lasted well through time and are easily found in good condition today. The downside is that there is not much of a demand in today’s decor. In some cases this could be regional, and sets like this might bring more money in an area of the country where styles are different.

Your set has the table, which usually had several leaves to extend for a large family event. You also have the sideboard (or buffet) that would store all dining room needs, like linens, flatware etc. There may have been a china cabinet and a small server as well; it depends on how much space they had in the room and their needs at the time.

Sometime the pieces got separated.

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• 3RD ANNUAL GRANNY D. MEMORIAL WALK Supporters of clean election reform will participate in the Third Annual Granny D Memorial Walk from Dublin to Peterborough. Walkers will depart from the corner of Cobb Meadow and East Harrisville Roads, near Granny D's home, for a 6-mile walk ending in Depot Square in Peterborough. At the conclusion, food and music by Tattoo, Fred Simmons and Leslie Vogel, will be provided. Speakers will be invited to share poems, stories and memories of Granny D. Sat., Aug. 13, 9:30 a.m. Near Granny D's Home, Cobb Meadow and East Harrisville Roads, Dublin.

Free. Call 715-8197.

• KICKBOXING IN THE PARK Thurs., Aug. 18, 3 to 3:45 p.m. Victory Park , Manchester. Free. Visit intownmanchester.com.

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Sat., Aug. 20, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The value on these sets is tough around here. Dining room styles have changed so much. You can find sets like yours out in the market for under $200. Sometimes you can get more by splitting it up. The hardest pieces to find homes for are the sideboards because they are so big. The easiest is a china cabinet, if there is one.

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Donna Welch has spent more than 20 years in the antiques and collectibles field and owns From Out Of The Woods Antique Center in Goffstown (fromoutofthewoodsantiques.com).

She is an antiques appraiser and instructor.

To find out about your antique or collectible, send a clear photo of the object and information about it to Donna Welch, From Out Of The Woods Antique Center, 465 Mast Road, Goffstown, N.H., 03045. Or email her at footwdw@ aol.com. Or drop by the shop (call first, 6248668).

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Nutrition workshops & seminars • HERBS FOR STRONG LUNGS We often take our ability to breathe for granted, but when chronic or acute illness prevents our lungs from functioning properly, it can be very scary. Clinical herbalist and author Maria Noel Groves will share herbs that can support the lungs in a variety of conditions, including asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, and stubborn colds from the pages of her book Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Historic Self Care. Wed., Aug. 10, 6 to 9 p.m. Wintergreen Botanicals, Deerfield Road, Allenstown. $40. Call 340-5161 or visit wintergreenbotanicals. com.

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You'll come to understand how closely linked your skin is with the health of your digestive system, liver, nervous system, and general lifestyle. Clinical herbalist and author Maria Noel Groves will share remedies that provide quick relief as well as healthy lifestyle tips. Everyone will also get to make a specially crafted exfoliant for the skin to bring home. Wed., Aug. 17, 6 to 9 p.m. Wintergreen Botanicals, Deerfield Road, Allenstown. $40. Call 340-5161 or visit wintergreenbotanicals.com.

Miscellaneous Festivals & Fairs • ALTON BAY BOAT SHOW All “woodies” are welcome, no registration required. Informal, non-judged boat show lets visitors vote for their favorites. Sat., Aug. 13. Wooden boats arrive at 9 a.m. Alton Town Docks, Alton Bay. See nhbm.org.

Expos • MILITARY FAMILY EXPO Attendees will connect with military resources, stories, employers, and each other. A delicious lunch, ample snacks and refreshments will be offered throughout the day. Scheduled family-friendly activities include a story corner with free books, a

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How to get reality checks on mechanic pricing Dear Car Talk: Is there a place on the internet where I can look up what a repair should cost? I need an alternative to calling you. — Bill Ah, so you’re the one

By Ray Magliozzi who’s been calling at 3 a.m., asking for a price on a brake job for a 2003 Focus.

There are a couple of sites on the internet that can give you an idea of what a repair should cost, but they do have limitations.

First of all, you have to know what repair you need. That’s easy if it’s a 60,000-mile service, or if you’ve already been to a shop and gotten a diagnosis. In that case, you fill in your year, make and model, and get the price range.

We tried that in our area for a brake job on a 2003 Ford Focus. Since labor rates fluctuate around the country between ridiculous and exorbitant, estimates vary by location.

Repair Pal (repairpal.com) gave us a range of $340-$493 for new front pads and rotors.

Open Bay (openbay.com) asked for a little more useful information, like the trim level of our Focus, and whether we wanted only original Ford parts, or were open to after-

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market parts (we said yes). Open Bay’s price range for the repair came back at $284-$347.

But here’s why it can be tricky. Let’s say you’re hearing a noise from your brakes but you don’t know what it is. How do you get an accurate estimate online? You don’t. Or imagine that you have symptoms but have absolutely no idea what’s wrong with your car. That’s easy for me to imagine, because I find myself in that situation every half-hour.

For instance, your check engine light comes on. Or your car is stalling. Or you hear a noise from under the hood. In these cases, a repair estimator is no help at all. But if you do know what’s wrong, and what service or repair you need, you certainly can use these services to get a “reality check” and see if the quote you’ve been given is within reason. And both of these sites will refer you to someone on their list of local shops, who will then pay the site a referral fee. That’s how they make money.

Another option is to get the names of several highly reputable shops first. You can do that by going to www.mechanicsfiles.com and entering your ZIP code. You’ll get a list of shops personally recommended by other readers and listeners of ours. Then you can call a couple of those shops and ask for a price.

You’ll not only get a more-specific price (instead of a wide range), but you’ll know that those shops will be likely to do the work correctly and stand by it. Remember, price is only part of the equation.

And most shops won’t mind giving you a quote. We get calls like that all the time.

Some people try to disguise what they’re doing. But when someone says, “How much is it to replace a right lower ball joint on a 2011 Chevy Malibu, and do you want me to give you the GM part number?” we know they’re shopping around for a price or getting a reality check on a price they’ve already been given.

And that’s fine. A reputable shop will give you an estimate upfront. True, it’s not as easy as going online, Bill. But, rest assured, as long as you don’t use FaceTime, you can do it in your underwear.

Dear Car Talk: I recently bought new tires for my 1991 Toyota Corolla station wagon. I had never heard of “siping,” but at only $13 per tire and a special “Buy 3, get the 4th free,” it was hard to pass up; I bought the siping. The car certainly felt better on the slick streets on my way home from the store, but almost anything would have given better traction than

the worn-out tires that I’d had. Do you think there is an actual benefit to siping? And, if so, why don’t tire manufacturers do it? — Jim That’s exactly the right question, Jim. Tire manufacturers go to great lengths to research rubber compounds and tread designs. They can make their tires with any tread design they want. Don’t you think they’d sipe the tires at the factory if it was beneficial overall?

Well, they do. Winter tires often come with sipes manufactured right into them, and on ice or certain types of snow, those sipes can be helpful. But on summer tires, they’re pretty useless — unless you’re driving on a racetrack in the rain.

There’s even some evidence that on normal roads, they lengthen your stopping distance on both wet and dry pavement.

And keep this in mind: Having your tires siped also can void your manufacturer’s warranty. Michelin, for instance, says “altering a tire outside of its original design immediately voids the warranty.”

So our advice would be to get a goodquality set of tires from a good manufacturer, and keep knives as far away from them as possible.

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Charmingfare Farm in Candia is known more for its cute petting zoo animals than for scaly, possibly slimey things, but on Saturday, Aug. 6, more than 20 different reptilian species from around the world will be stealing the show.

The green and scaly animals will take center stage at 1 p.m. for an educational demonstration courtesy of NERD, the Plaistow-based New England Reptile Distributors.

“This is the fifth or sixth year that [NERD] will come out, and it’s always a popular day for the farm,” Linda Ellis of Charmingfare Farm said. “A lot of our members and employees even come to the show to watch. It’s a very fun photo opportunity for the kids.”

NERD founder and reptile expert Kevin McCurley will be bringing a variety of different species of snakes, lizards and other reptiles to the farm for an onstage presentation followed by a hands-on demonstration on the farm’s lawn, in which volunteers from the audience will get a chance to touch and even hold some of the animals.

McCurley will also answer any questions people may have about where the reptiles come from, as well as what they eat and where they create their habitats.

“People will get to handle the animals on their own and get to know them on a personal level,” said Alana Hess of NERD, who presented the reptiles at Charmingfare Farm last year. “We like to show people that they can be handleable and friendly, and that they are not always these monsters that movies or the media may make them out to be.”

NERD first started as a pet store called Zoo Creatures in McCurley’s apartment

more than 30 years ago and has since evolved into a two-floor dual business of sorts, with a pet store downstairs and a much more specialized breeding facility upstairs. The store ships to customers all over the world.

Hess said the reptiles include some of the more rare species of reptiles that hail mostly from regions in South America, Africa and Indonesia. Among those expected to make an appearance at the farm is a reticulated python named “Miss Piggy.” At more than 18 feet long, the southeast Asian reticulated python is among the longest species of snake in the world, according to Hess.

McCurley will also be bringing lizard species like a South American apex predator called a tegu, as well as a five-foot-long Asian water monitor from Indonesia, the world’s leading breeder of that particular animal. Hess said the world’s first captively bred albino water monitor ever to be hatched — named “Gadzookie,” or “Zooks” for short — will be among those making an appearance.

The Charmingfare Farm show is one of several other events and tours that NERD hosts each year. Hess said tours are held at the NERD’s upstairs breeding facility every Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. She is also one of two NERD employees who brings the reptiles for shows at elementary schools, boy scout camps, and even birthday parties.

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Additional vehicles may continue to register through Aug. 6. Call 5893360 or email wheelsandwings.nashua@gmail.com for more details. climbing wall, obstacle courses, a family dance party, a photo booth, art for all ages, family yoga, and building projects, with state certified childcare available throughout the day.

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Rabbi Peter Levy of Etz Hayim Synagogue in Derry and Reverend Ray Bonin of the Church of the Transfiguration in Derry will provide a comfortable place for respectful discussion with people in the community. They promise: no agenda, no proselytizing, no converting. They also promise: an opportunity to gain an understanding of a variety of viewpoints by talking and listening to each other, all while drinking your favorite hot or cold beverage. Thurs., Aug. 11, Thurs., Aug. 25, Thurs., Sept. 8, Thurs., Sept. 22, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Coffeeberries, Apple Tree Mall, 4 Orchard View Drive, Londonderry. Free. Call 432-0004.

Workshops • DON'T BE THE NEXT VICTIM: WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR NEXT EGG Officials from the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation will provide attendees with the top 10 self-defense tips specifically developed to help individuals and their families protect their retirement nest egg. Workshop topics include services provided by the NH Securities Bureau, recent psychological studies on the tendencies of older inventors; questions to ask and how to select/evaluation salespeople and the red flags that scam artists use to lure you into trouble.

Mon., Aug. 8., 1 p.m. Nashua Senior Activity Center, 70 Temple St., Nashua. Free. Call 8893440 x132.

Yard sales/fundraisers/ auctions • INDOOR/OUTDOOR YARD & BAKE SALE This yard sale will feature many quality items of all sorts, including clothing, household items, furniture, toys, books and much more, as well as a bake sale. A $3 bag sale starts at 11 a.m. This event will be held rain or shine. Sat., Aug. 6, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. East Congregational Church, 51 Mountain Road, Concord. Free admission.

Call 224-9242.

Museums & Tours Tours • SANKOFA TOUR: LET FREEDOM RING Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to local the slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and antiabolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century, the legacy of that early history was reflected in news about de facto segregation in housing and public places. This tour includes many of those historic landmarks. Sat., Aug. 6., 2 p.m.

10 Middle St., Portsmouth. Visit portsmouthhistory.org.

Nature & Gardening Animals/insects • BLACK BEAR HAPPENINGS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Hear the story of the Black Bear, the only bear native to New Hampshire, and learn about its comeback after its population dwindled to 500. All ages welcome. Wed., Aug. 24, 6:30 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Call 4326140.

Beekeeping events • HONEY AND BEES A honey tasting with representatives from the Moonlight Meadery, and a program on bees, beekeeping and emerging challenges. Wed., Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry.

Call 432-6140.

Other outdoors • SUMMIT SALUTE: A CELEBRATION OF SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES All service members, veterans and military families are invited to this event to share stories, play outdoors, eat great food and enjoy a Mt. Washington sunset.

The schedule of events includes: outdoor fun at 2:30 p.m., stories of service at 4 p.m., and a grilled BBQ dinner at 5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 6, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center, 1 Mount Washington Auto Road, Gorham. Free. Call 568-5780.

• NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE CREATION OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS New Hampshire's White Mountains played a leading role in events leading to the Weeks Act - the law that created the eastern national forests. Focusing on Concord's Joseph B. Walker and the Forest Society's Philip Ayres, Marcia Schmidt Blaine explores the relationship between our mountains and the economic, environmental and aesthetic questions posed by the individuals involved in the creation of the National Forest.

Mon., Aug. 15, 2 p.m. Taylor Community's Woodside Building, 435 Union Ave., Laconia.

Free. Call 366-1400.

Sports & Recreation Golf events • COMEDY SCRAMBLE TO BENEFIT BRIDGES This first annual event will feature comedians Mike Koutrobis, Chad Zingales and friends entertaining the field with their wit and humor during the round. A shotgun start will be at 8:30 a.m.

Players choose their own 2 to 4 player scramble teams. Thurs., Aug. 11, 8:30 a.m. Amherst Country Club, 72 Ponemah Road, Amherst. $35 for country club members, $65 for nonmembers (includes cart, lunch, prizes, and 18 holes) Call 6739908.

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make a band sound so good. … I thought I could work with all of these great bands and singers and go anywhere in the world …[but] that all came crashing down when I saw the economy change in the late ‘80s. All the major recording companies were firing and laying off thousands of people. … I ended up going back to Concord, and I worked at Pitchfork as a store manager.

John Benedict Record shop owner

John Benedict of Concord had more than 25 years of experience working in record stores when he bought (along with best friend Kevin Swope) Music Connection in September 2015, which has been at 1711 S. Willow St. in Manchester since 1990. is.

Explain what your current job

I sell new and used vinyl and CDs, as well as cassettes, gently used stereo equipment, accessories, posters. … I also offer a repair service for amplifiers, turntables and other equipment.

How long have you been in your career?

I’ve been in music stores literally almost my entire life. … The first time I worked part-time at a record store was at Pitchfork Records [in Concord] when I was 16. … I also had a small ownership at a record store called About Music in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

How did you get interested in this field?

I always wanted to work at a radio station, to be on the radio and to play records … and to get records you had to go to the record store. I thought I was going to be a radio DJ, but I got disillusioned pretty fast, because you mostly realize you didn’t have a lot of input, you were kind of dictated what to play.

are the ones paying your bills and putting money into your register. … There has to be some sort of customer engagement.

What do you wish you’d known at the beginning of your career?

I thought everyone was always going to be into music no matter Courtesy photo. where it came from. … I didn’t think that [record stores] would be abandoned.

How did you find your current job?

It was while working [at Pitchfork] that What is your typical at-work uniform?

Richard Gesner, the owner of Music ConnecIt’s a pretty sweet job because I don’t have tion at the time, sent out a letter to a majority to wear a suit or anything. … You get to basiof record stores in the area saying he was sell- cally wear your regular clothes. ing. … I was really aggressive. I told him that I wanted to keep the store right where it is, What was the first job you ever had? and so we closed the deal last September. …

I worked in the dairy department at Market Richard was in poor health; he was 83 years Basket in Concord, rotating stock, cleaning, old when he sold the store to me … [and] pricing. … I worked there and I spent my he passed away just three months later. … I money on records at Pitchfork … and when don’t think his family was interested in keep- the opportunity came up, I left Market Basket ing the store, so if he didn’t find a buyer, this to go work at Pitchfork in high school. place wouldn’t be here.

— Matt Ingersoll

What kind of education or training did you need for this job?

I went to the University of Hartford. …

What’s the best piece of work-related They had an electrical engineering program advice anyone’s ever given you? that I was enrolled in. … I wanted to work You don’t have to be someone’s friend, but in a recording studio, and I was amazed at you should acknowledge to [customers] that what the recording engineer crew did to they are doing you a service, because they

WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU’RE REALLY INTO RIGHT NOW? I’ve always loved to cook. … I like to either find a recipe or make something up on the spot, so that’s my downtime.

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Local startup launches two-step portable grill

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By Angie Sykeny

Grilling on the go just got easier with a portable, ready-to-light charcoal grill created by a new Manchester-based startup.

The grill, called 1-2-BBQ, is made of a carbon steel bucket and chrome plated grill.

It comes with a 1.2-pound pouch of hardwood lump charcoal and a lighting device made of paper and wax — everything needed to get a grill going. Just bring a lighter, grilling tongs and some food to throw on.

“Right now, there is no grill on the market [like 1-2-BBQ],” the startup’s CEO Peter Chivers said. “Ninety-nine out of 100 grills don’t have the charcoal included, and there’s almost nothing out there that has zero assembly required and is also reusable.”

Prior to the development and launch of 1-2-BBQ, Chivers and two of his friends — now business partners — had enjoyed tinkering around and inventing new contraptions, and they were always on the hunt for an original business idea. The concept for the 1-2-BBQ came about incidentally while Chivers was maple sugaring in Bradford.

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• Gas Light Co. returns: Eight months after it was forced to close due to damage from a four-alarm fire, Portsmouth Gas Light Co. (64 Market St., Portsmouth, 4308582, portsmouthgaslight.com) is expected to reopen its deck and basement pizza pub on Wednesday, Aug. 3, according to the Union Leader. The street-level restaurant and third-floor nightclub will remain closed until further notice. Live music on the deck is tentatively scheduled to restart on Friday, Aug. 5. All gift cards and customer loyalty cards will be honored. More updates will be posted at facebook.com/gaslightco.

• From the farm, for the farm: The Farmers Dinner and High Mowing School will host a farm-to-table dinner on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 5 p.m. at the school’s Frye Field (22 Isaac Frye Hwy., Wilton) to help fund the Temple Wilton Community Farm’s “Purchase The Four Corner’s Farm” project. Chef Patrick Soucy, former executive chef of Applecrest Bistro, and Chef Keith Sarasin, founder of The Farmers Dinner, will prepare a multi-course meal using ingredients grown on Temple Wilton Community Farm. Between courses, the farmers will speak about the history of the farm and the purpose of the project. A farm tour will be held at 3 p.m. for attendees to learn more about the farm and see it in practice.

Tickets cost $85 and can be purchased at thefarmersdinner.com/events.

• Tavern in the Square proposal: The Nashua City Planning Board will meet on Thursday, Aug. 4, to discuss a proposal by the John J. Flatley Co. for a new large restaurant to be built in the center of Nashua Technology Park, according to the Union Leader. The proposed restaurant, Tavern in the Square, would be 7,500 square feet, include an outdoor patio to seat nearly 500 people and require at least 150 parking spaces. If approved by the planning board, the proposal will also need approval from the city’s conservation commission and zoning board.

• Restaurant recognition: Blue Moon Evolution (8 Clifford St., Exeter, 778-6850, bluemoonevolution.com), a farm-to-table restaurant with local and organic fare, has taken fourth place in the Best Overall Restaurants of Boston/New England category of Open Table’s Diner’s Choice Awards.

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1-2-BBQ The suggested retail price is $19.99 to $24.99 for the 1-2-BBQ grill and $3 for the 1-2-BBQ Refill Packs. For more information on the product and a full list of stores that carry it, visit 1-2-bbq. com. You can also find them at instagram.com/12barbecue and facebook. com/12BBQ.

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kept it with me in my truck and kept using it again and again.”

The 1-2-BBQ is made entirely of recycled and recyclable materials and uses hardwood lump charcoal, which produces less ash and is all-natural as opposed to charcoal briquettes, which often contain chemical additives. The grill weighs just 4.5 pounds and measures 10 inches high and 12 inches in diameter with 112 square inches of grilling area. While its primary use is grilling food, you can also use it like a portable campfire for warming up and entertaining.

“You can really take it everywhere because it takes up so little space,” Chivers said. “It’s perfect for people who like the outdoors, like to go camping, are adventurous and like to be on the go.”

The product name was inspired by the grill’s simplicity. It takes only two steps to get it going: after you set the grill on an outdoor, sturdy and non-combustible surface, just peel off the label and light a flame into the holes at the bottom of the bucket

for three to 20 seconds. Once it ignites, the charcoal takes about 15 minutes to warm up. There is enough charcoal included to grill at 350 to 450 degrees Fahrenheit for up to 45 minutes.

The grill can be reused with a charcoal or wood of your choice or with the 1-2-BBQ Refill Packs, which contain the premium hardwood charcoal and the easy-to-light paper and wax lighting device. Refilling is also a simple, two-step process: after you unwrap the pack, put the lighting device at the bottom of the bucket and the charcoal on top of it, then follow the same grilling instructions for the pre-made 1-2-BBQ. Currently, you can find 1-2-BBQ products at 25 convenience and general stores, hardware stores and food markets around New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

“We’re going to keep it as local as we possibly can,” Chivers said. “Right now, we just want people to start trying them and give us feedback on the ones we have out there so we can make a better product and hopefully expand to more stores.”

In the can

Enjoy local produce all year long with canning

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With bustling farmers markets, colorful farm stands and CSA programs in full swing, there are plenty of opportunities to eat local this time of year. But during the colder months, it can be a challenge to find fresh local produce.

That’s why Anna Kovalcik of the Sea-

coast Permaculture Group is teaching a water bath canning workshop as part of New Hampshire Eat Local Month, a statewide series of programs held throughout August to celebrate local food and farming. The workshop will take place on Saturday, Aug. 6, from 1 to 4 p.m., at her home in Barrington.

“A big part of [canning] is about supporting local farms, because the only way to keep those resources around is to buy the

things they have,” she said. “If you only buy what you’re going to use in a week, that’s still nice, but canning is a way to take advantage of what we have around us right now so that you can eat local throughout more of the year.”

Kovalcik learned the art of canning at a young age from her mother and grandmother. She said she cans as much as time and produce availability allow, with some help from two of her daughters who share 42

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With the water bath method, processing means submerging the jars in a large pot of boiling water. The suggested “enjoy by” date for water bath canned goods is one to two years after canning, but this can vary depending on the type of produce and the consumer’s personal preference.

Participants do not need to have any previous experience with canning to attend the workshop, but they should bring their own paring knife and wear an apron or clothes they don’t mind getting dirty. All materials, including the proANNA KOVALCIK duce, jars, jar lids and rings and canning equipment, will be provided at the workshop.

Participants will take home two completed jars of canned produce. The featured produce is dependent on availability and yet to be finalized, but Kovalcik said she’s aiming for one can of a fruit or jam and the other of a tomato sauce or salsa.

“It’s all about what we can get from the farms at that time, so it’s hard to plan ahead,” she said. “But that’s part of the whole thing, especially if you want to use a local source. You have to go with the flow.”

Kovalcik will also talk briefly about pressure canning, which is “the next step up” from water bath canning, she said, and if there is enough interest, she may host a follow-up workshop on pressure canning in the future.

“There are crops of all sorts of wonderful things in August and into September, and canning lets you capture that.” she said. “Then, when winter comes, you can have a little taste of summer, and there’s nothing like the taste of something that came from the field or off the trees.”

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40 her passion. They will be assisting in teaching the upcoming workshop as well.

“I don’t know if we’ll be teaching people anything they can’t learn from reading online or watching a video, but for a lot of people, it’s important to have a hands-on experience,” Kovalcik said. “I think it will give them confidence to come do it themselves and see that if my 15-yearold daughter can do it, they can do it, too.”

There are various kinds of canning methods, but water bath canning is considered the easiest and the best introductory method for beginners. It’s ideal for preserving highacid foods like fruits, pickles, jellies and jams, sauces and salsas.

At the workshop, Kovalcik will walk participants step by step through the canning process, which entails sterilizing the glass canning jars, filling them with the prepared foods, sealing and processing them.

When: Saturday, Aug. 6, from 1 to 4 p.m.; registration required by Friday, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m.

Where: Anna Kovalcik’s residence in Barrington (address will be shared upon registering) Cost: $25 to $40, sliding scale, with a nonrefundable $10 deposit to be paid online with registration, and the remaining amount due at the class.

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Those interested in recreational homebrewing can learn how to brew their own stout at a new three-session workshop series offered by Lakes Region Community College.

The sessions will take place on Sunday, Aug. 7, Monday, Aug. 15, and Monday, Aug. 22, at the Canterbury Shaker Village, where participants will have the hands-on experience of completing every step of the brewing process from start to finish. The series will also include some lecture and discussion about the history, art and science of all-grain brewing.

The workshop instructor, Jon Shackett, is the owner of Shackett’s Brewing Company in Bristol and a high school biology teacher of 24 years. He said that when the college approached him and asked if he would teach the class, he couldn’t pass up the unique opportunity to merge his two professions.

“I love teaching and I love brewing, so it’s a nice way to combine my passions,” he said. “Brewing is a combination of many disciplines, but the biology of it is where the fermentation happens, and there’s a lot of chemistry involved as well, so there’s definitely some overlap between brewing and the biology I teach.”

The workshop is intended for people who are interested in brewing on an amateur level as opposed to commercial brewing, so participants will be working with equipment and methods designed for small-scale homebrewing. While the easiest kind of homebrewing involves mixing

a premade malt extract with water, the workshop will be slightly more advanced; participants will pick the barley, mash it and produce the extract themselves from scratch.

The first session, the longest of the three, will be spent brewing.

“That takes five or six hours,” Shackett said. “There’s a lot of wait time while you’re heating the liquid to temperature and allowing the enzymes to do their thing, so that’s when I want our time to be driven by the interest of the participants.

They’ll have a chance to ask me questions about anything they want to know about brewing.”

The second session will be about preparing the brew for bottling and transferring it from primary to secondary fermentation.

The final session is reserved for bottling.

Shackett will teach a few PowerPoint lectures in between on things like water chemistry and how to prepare the yeast for brewing.

“The brewing in this workshop is a relatively simple process. You don’t need any experience,” he said. “Curiosity and a desire to learn about brewing beer, those are the two main things you need.”

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The soups and the stews. They’re just atmosphere. so good for the soul and good for you.

What is the biggest food trend you’ve They’re my favorite, and I think if you have a passion for a certain type of food, noticed in New Hampshire right now? you put that passion into the recipes, also.

Without a doubt, it’s the healthy eating, gluten-free, clean eating, that whole What celebrity would you like to see thing. Most of my customers are very educated and aware about what they put eating at your restaurant?

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• FARM TO TABLE CHARITY DINNER The Farmers Dinner and High Mowing School host a farm to table dinner to fund the Temple Wilton Community Farm's “Purchase The Four Corner's Farm” project. Chef Patrick Soucy former executive chef of Applecrest Bistro and Chef Keith Sarasin founder of The Farmers Din-

ner will prepare a multi course meal using ingredients grown on Temple Wilton Community Farm. Between courses, farmers from Temple Wilton Community Farm will speak on the history of the farm, and the reasons purchasing it is so important to the future of the community. In addition, a farm tour will allow attendees to learn more about the farm and see the practices. Sat., Aug. 6, tours start at 3 p.m., dinner starts at 5 p.m. Frye Field at High Mowing School, 22 Isaac Frye Hwy., Wilton. $85. Visit thefarmersdinner.com.

• FARM TO TABLE BRUNCH BUFFET Outdoor brunch buffet features seasonal fruit, baked goods, egg and breakfast meat prepared by farm kitchen and bakery staff. Sun., Aug. 7, Aug. 14, Aug. 21, Aug. 28, Sept. 4, from 9 a.m. to noon. Moulton Farm, 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. Cost is $16.99 per adult, $9.99 for children 10 and under.

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Chris Jason and the Sinatra Live Orchestra perform. Sun., Aug. 7. Fulchino Vineyard, 187 Pine Hill Road, Hollis. $140. Call 438-5984 or visit fulchinovineyard.com.

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This week, I’m writing about cucumbers. While they’re not the most exciting vegetable, I’ve committed to loving them this season. My girls devour them with hummus and I often put them in my salads, but I just wanted more from them.

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Spiralizing is all the rage. There is something about turning vegetables into noodles that feels utterly exotic, or even fancy. I could make the same exact dish with chopped cucumbers and it would not be as tasty. Is this a mental thing or something about the increased surface area of the cucumber that allows for it to take on more of the flavors of the sauce? I don’t know what the reason is, but I will take them spiralized. Cucumbers, you have my heart.

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As someone who is interested in wine and learning about it, I constantly have questions and am always trying to learn something new. This week I looked at the difference between pinot grigio, pinot gris and pinot blanc. I have had a few people ask me this question, and now I finally have some answers.

Pinot grigio is probably the most wellknown of the three, as it is a common go-to white wine and typically found on the list of house wines at any restaurant.

Pinot gris is not as common and is typically more expensive. Finally, pinot blanc isn’t that well-known at all; I cannot say that I remember ever trying it. According to VinePair, there are some genetic similarities between these grapes, but also some significant differences.

If you haven’t guessed yet, all of these grapes are related to each other. They are also related to pinot noir. But here’s where it gets interesting: They are all color mutations of pinot noir, which of course is a red wine, while the other three are drunk white.

According to a VinePair article about these three pinots, pinot grigio and pinot gris are the “middle mutations,” as pinot noir has active anthocyanins, which contribute to color. Pinot blanc has the least of the four grapes.

This being said, pinot grigio and pinot gris are basically the same grape and grow grayish-purple on the vine, not white like you may think. The only difference in the name is the Italian “grigio” versus the “gris.” However, even though the grapes are identical, the wine will differ depending on where they come from, and how it is made, as climate, terroir and other variables all have an effect.

VinePair points out that one of the major differences between pinot grigio and pinot gris wines lies in their production. Pinot grigio is typically made to be the acidic, citrusy wine that is common, while pinot gris is typically made to be a bit rounder and is often barrel-aged to give the wine different qualities. Pinot grigio is actually a low-acid grape, according to VinePair, but when it’s mass produced and/or steel tank aged, the acid in the grape is preserved to give it this freshness and acidity. Pinot gris that goes through the aging process tends to cost more, hence the difference there.

The pinot grigio and gris grapes have traveled around the world, starting in Burgundy in the 14th century as “gris.” When it made its way to Italy, it became “grigio.” It

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is now produced all over the world in places like Germany, Austria and Oregon.

Pinot blanc is different in that it looks like a white grape on the vine and has a “rounder expression,” with less acidity and structure than the other pinots. It can sometimes be smoky, or oaked to bring out more richness. The Italian version is known as pinot bianco and is sometimes blended with other grapes like chardonnay. It is used in a variety of wines, including still, sweet and sparkling, and used in Franciacorta in northwestern Italy. This wine is an Italian sparkling wine made using the Champenoise method, which differs from the well-known sparkling Italian wine prosecco.

One of my favorite pinot gris wines is Firesteed’s version from Oregon. The grapes come from the Willamette Valley and Rogue Valley, creating a wine that is slightly acidic, yet pleasantly smooth to drink. Oregon is producing a lot of great pinots — pinot noir and pinot gris included, so if you are a fan and haven’t tried one yet, I highly encourage it. Other selections include A to Z and Erath, both from Oregon. Yes, you may pay a few dollars more, but I think it is worth it (or grab these wines when you see them on sale, as happens from time to time).

I will definitely be trying a pinot blanc soon. A quick survey of the New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlet inventory shows that they carry a selection of them, all priced around $15 to $20. I’ll report my findings in a future column.

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Even if the world wrongly continues to turn up its nose at this Barcelona, Spainbased alternative-dance band’s approach, there are some good stories for the band members to tell their grand-kids, like the one about getting kidnapped in Mexico City (they were eventually rescued by the cops). I didn’t personally dislike the band’s third album, Subiza, even if its MGMT-beholden, trance-inspired understatements got a bit repetitive; there was plenty of accessible stuff for remixers to work with. Next came the Apar album, its more pronounced vocals and fractals lending a feel of 1980s-jacked nu-rave for grown-ups. This brings us to Muzik, which initially feels like a return to the ghostly feel of Subiza, going by opening track “Epic,” a hybrid of prog-house and modulated-vocal-powered “Halcyon and On”era Orbital. What I’m trying to say is that it’s very pretty and very summery, as is the Pet Shop Boys-ish title track. It’s all awesome as far as I’m concerned, but as I alluded to earlier, the house-remix community have to get hip to it, which will require proaction on the band’s part. B- — Eric W. Saeger Black Tape for a Blue Girl, These Fleeting Moments (Metropolis Records)

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Boy, it’s been a while since we dared venture into the faithless, crimson, forlorn, etc. depths of the goth scene, hasn’t it? And we’re sort of lucky to be doing this now, as this is the 11th album from recent Oregon transplant Sam Rosenthal, who heads up this Black Tape project, which counts among its fans the creme de la creme of Wingnutland, including David Lynch, Poppy Z. Brite and porn star-turned-wannabe-artiste Sasha Grey.

Although the hashtags associated with this band (which now includes Dresden Dolls’ Brian Viglione, apparently whenever he feels like it) pointed to fuzzy-jackboot darkwave (the girl from Cruxshadows was once involved in this), I was nonetheless expecting Bauhaus, and wasn’t disappointed, upon opening track “The Vastness of Life,” whose 17-count-‘em minutes begin with some dreary soliloquy about alienation, then shift into Swans-ambient mode, then some string-powered weirdness that made me think of that J-Lo movie The Cell, then some 1970s synths straight out of Rush underneath more whining and pining. I’ll stop now, except to say that it’d be great soundtracking for a Poppy Brite-written movie directed by David Lynch, starring Sasha Grey, in other words something I wouldn’t be able to stomach for five minutes. B- — Eric W. Saeger

PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases • I tried to get into loop-back guitar wonk Nels Cline’s last jazz album with the Nels Cline Singers, I really did. I forget the name of the album — wait, it was Macroscope. It was weird and I didn’t like it. So, in order to reward me for having this opinion, he will release a new LP, Lovers. It’s just under Nels Cline, not with the Singers.

The first released track is “Beautiful Love (Visualizer).” Since he’s putting this out through the serious Blue Note record label, it’s only goofy up to a point, like it starts out oom-pah-pah/French café, but then becomes basic dinner chill. Thus this style should be called “weird-normal-weird” in order to help out critics who have no genre label to slap on it. Is this helpful to readers who only listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd anyway? Those opposed? The measure is passed, next case.

• Chicago metal trio Russian Circles are supposed to be somewhat important, I don’t know. Have you heard of them? No, I haven’t either, and I know about a lot of bands. Let’s read some internet nonsense about them, like there’s not enough nonsense on the internet.

Hmm, yadda yadda, lots of guitar effects and samples, like Nels Cline, probably, except singing about goat demons or whatnot. Their Guidance album includes the song “Vorel,” which I’m listening to now. The snare drum has a cool popping sound to it, like when your brother hits you on the head. Swirly weirdness, but fierce, like a tornado of baby dinosaurs tumbling toward you, sort of like Glassjaw, if you know of them. Shreddy doom. No singing. Wait, no singing?

What? How am I supposed to know which of the seventh circle cacodemons I’m supposed to chant to? Bogus!

• Bloody well right, Wild Beasts is a band of four chaps from England, eh wot, Bob’s your uncle. Boy King, their fifth album, is a Domino Records product, thus we must salute the Queen and say it’s cool. Or do we? Let’s find out; let’s see if this band would be good to listen to while eating “fish and chips” down at the “pub,” eh wot, you lot? Wow, YouTube has no idea what I’m talking about; they think I want to watch some interpretive dance clowns making weird movements to some old Wild Beasts song. Can’t this stupid thing give me what I want? Wait, no, this is dancing to the new single, “Get My Bang.” It’s like Prince, but not something you’d want to hear more than once, lots of distortion trying to disguise the fact that it’s phoned-in funk without a soul. The dancing is, um, cool, though, um, I guess!

• Yikes, what a hopeless, hapless, worthless bunch this week … but wait, wait a bloody moment, ya bloomin’ onions, who is this awesome band Cheena, who’ve come to save the day? Spend The Night With is their new album, and you have to go check this out. This singer sounds like Stiv Bators, what a rotten little punk! Listen to the messy hooks on the song “Car.” What a glorious mess; it’s like the Monkees meet Iggy while getting beaten by jocks. Exquisite, a bravura performance from these dreadful little scamps!

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or five years ago. Every year, he’d ask me, ‘Are you doing it? Are you doing it?’” Robert Daniel said. “He was excited that I wanted it to be super local and that the film festival I was producing was going to be a voice for Manchester.”

But they wanted to be careful with this first run and were strategic in how they released submission information.

“A lot of people are under the belief that the more you put out in social media, the better. That’s yes and no. If it’s incoherent, then it’s just more static,” Robert Daniel said. “The first stuff we received was literally from all over the world. We started receiving content within the hour of putting it up.”

It’s a lot of work, and everything is coming from their own time and wallets for this first year. The festival will be small, but they hope it will grow, with local theaters, schools and businesses getting involved in the future.

They envision it becoming a week-long spectacle with food, music and screenings all over the city, from auditoriums to Veterans Park.

“I just believe there are so many artists here that people just don’t know about. People keep feeling they have to leave, they have to move. They have to be somewhere else.

But literally, we have all the tools right here,” Robert Daniel said.

Live Free or Die Film Festival Where: Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester When: Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13, from noon to 8 p.m. both days Admission: $25 for a day pass, $40 for a weekend pass Contact: filmfreeway.com/festival/LiveFreeOrDieFilmFestival, palacetheatre. org, 668-5588

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The married team is producing the first Live Free or Die Film Festival, taking place at The Palace Theatre with screenings Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13.

“We saw Manchester as an amazing city that has all sorts of attributes, and we just couldn’t believe there wasn’t a festival yet, with the airport here and the culture here,” said Dorothea Daniel, festival director.

Her husband agreed.

“We have really great hotels. We have all these super cool restaurants. We have a huge art scene,” said Robert Daniel, festival founder and executive producer. “We couldn’t believe that component was missing. And we wanted to really bring everybody in and show how cool Manchester is and what can happen here.”

The festival features 22 films, 15 of which have New Hampshire roots. They represent a variety of styles, lengths and genres, from music videos and minute-long snippets to documentaries and animation movies, all of which speak to the “Live Free or Die” heart of the festival.

They chose pieces based on an internal scoring system looking at composition, sound, length, narrative, editing, special effects, etc.

Awards will be crafted by Manchester furniture maker and winner of HGTV’s Ellen’s Design Challenge Vivian Beer.

The Daniels admitted that they didn’t give themselves a lot of time to put the event together. They made the decision in April, released submission information April 12 and asked filmmakers to send flicks by July 1. At the time of their interviews at The Annex, a production space they manage in the mills, they’d only announced the lineup days before.

They were still looking for more sponsors and volunteers.

The couple met in the Hollywood film industry but moved to New Hampshire to raise their kids. Today they also manage an equipment rental house, Glass and Gear, and have been involved with small- and big-name productions, including Sundance Film Festival, the Dubai International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. Locally, Robert Daniel is a member of the New Hampshire Film and Television Commission.

They said Department of Cultural Resources Commissioner Van McLeod, who died in July, was very passionate about the idea.

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Esther the Wonder Pig, by the smiling mound of pork

by Steve Jenkins and Derek sleeping in their bed. Esther, it Walter with Caprice Crane turned out, was not unlike their (Grand Central Publishing, dogs. She played with toys. She 212 pages) cuddled. She showed affection Steve Jenkins and Derand wanted attention. ek Walter were living in a “The more we saw her with 1,000-square-foot house with the rest of our furry family, the a roommate, two dogs and two more she started to ‘look’ like cats when they acquired a pig. them. Not in a physical way, Clarification: It was Jenkins but in a personality and characwho acquired the pig. Walter ter kind of way. And that hit us had the pig thrust upon him, deep in our cores. like an earlier cat.

“What made pigs different? Why were That the couple’s relationship survived they bred for food and held in captivity, is as much of a wonder as Esther, the while dogs and cats were welcomed into our 600-pound sow at the heart of what British home and treated like family?” comedian Ricky Gervais called “the greatest Had Jenkins and Walter explored the love story ever told between two men and questions they posed, Esther the Wonder their pig.”

Pig would have been a vastly better book.

It began when Jenkins got a Facebook Unfortunately, this is what happened: “We’d message from an old acquaintance who said ponder such things many times over the she was trying to find a home for a “mini years, but really, most of the time we were pig” that didn’t get along with her dogs. just happy to have our sweet, loving, oinkNow, there are pot-bellied pigs and teacup ing girl join our family.” pigs, but even though she measured only 8 And that pretty much sums up the book, inches long, this wasn’t one of them. which promises tenderloin but delivers holBut Jenkins, an animal-loving suburbanite low cracklins. (That was a test. If you know who worked as a real-estate agent in Canada, a cracklin is a crunchy pork rind, you were didn’t know that and succumbed. “A mini probably born in the South.) pig? That sounds adorable? Who wouldn’t To be fair, Jenkins and Walter are pretwant a mini pig?” he thought. ty busy these days, managing Esther’s Well, Jenkins’ partner, that’s who. social-media empire. She’s on Instagram, But after a rocky initiation period, he, too, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, where she became enamored of the pig they named has amassed more than a million followEsther because she seemed like “a wise old ers, many of whom, like Jenkins and Walter, soul, and ‘Esther’ felt right.” have gone vegan, living lifestyles that are Their story might have ended there had “Esther approved.” the wise young Esther been a micro pig as Jenkins and Walter are also busy with the promised. Instead, her rapid growth alarmed animal sanctuary that a $400,000 Indiegoboth the couple and their veterinarian, who go campaign helped them buy, so there’s not soon broke the news that little Esther, with a lot of time for thinking deeply about the her pink hoof polish and sequined collar, philosophy of meat-eating, or, for that matwas, in fact, the sort of pig usually destined ter, writing a book. Hence, the book’s chief for a future as maple bacon or barbecue. A problems: “commercial pig,” as it were.

It’s a collaboration of three people, and we Oh, and she had not been spayed, like her all know from movie credits that the more previous owner had said. writers are involved, the worse the product.

Reasonable people might have rehomed Having a collaborator, Caprice Crane, isn’t Esther to a farm at this point, hoping a liter- unusual, but having two authors for a firstate spider might win her pardon, as Charlotte person book is just wrong. Own it, Jenkins. did Wilbur’s. But dwelling in the la-la land There is way too much moaning about of irrational love, Jenkins convinced him- how difficult it is to move to a wonderful self and his partner that Esther might grow farm largely paid for by strangers. to about the size of a large dog, something Six words: “There was never a dull they could handle. moment.”

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• Native tales: Saturday, Aug. 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., is the 25th anniversary celebration of A Day of Native Tales, which happens at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Road, Warner, and is presented in part by the New Hampshire Storytelling Alliance. The stories are free to listen to. Visit nhstorytelling.org. For more information, visit indianmuseum.org, call 4562600 or email info@indianmuseum.org.

• New Hampshire’s Runaway: Gilmanton writer Bill Donahue recently released a 10,000-word nonfiction e-book about Ona Judge, a slave who worked in the home of President George Washington and then escaped in 1796 to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she lived for the rest of her life. Donahue has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper’s. Visit billdonahue.net. — Kelly Sennott

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• BOB DEMAREE, BARBARA BALD Poetry Society of NH presentation. Followed by open mike. Wed., Aug. 17, at 7 p.m.

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• SHERRIE FLICK Author talks about Whiskey, Etc., at RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St., Portsmouth, Fri., Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. Visit riverrunbookstore.com.

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• JOE SMIGA Author talks about Blackest of Fridays. Wed., Aug. 24, at 6:30 p.m. Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester.

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Bad Moms (R)

A harried mom decides to ditch bake sales and trade in elaborate hot breakfasts for cereal in Bad Moms, a cute comedy aimed squarely at anybody who has ever spent an evening working on an unnecessary-seeming school project.

Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) has two kids, a part-time job that actually seems to be more full time, a dog with vertigo and a husband, Mike (David Walton), who she learns has been carrying on an affair, of sorts, via the internet. She doesn’t need the static directed at her by Gwendolyn James (Christina Applegate), the head mean-girl mom at her kids’ school who is also head of the all-powerful PTA. At a meeting where Gwendolyn explains that the treats at the upcoming bake sale must be homemade and free of all possible allergens and chemicals, Amy snaps and says she’s out.

She heads to a neighboring (to the school?) bar, where she meets Carla (Kathryn Hahn), a fellow single mom who has never gone in for school participation.

The two start a round of drinks when Kiki (Kristen Bell) runs in to fan-girl at Amy for how much she liked her inspiring, stickit-to-the-alpha-moms speech. After much drinking, the women (or, most relevantly, Amy) decide to stop with the helicoptering and the over-involvement and be “bad moms.”

Because this decision to lighten up on the momming threatens Gwendolyn’s autocratic hold on the PTA, she decides to take Amy down (as only people in movies would ever bother to do), even going so far as to interfere in one of Amy’s kid’s after-school activities. When Amy decides messing with her kids is a step too far, she resolves to run against Gwendolyn in the upcoming PTA elections. And when the women throw competing parties, we all learn that even Martha Stewart-made hors d’oeuvres can’t beat cheap wine, pizza and

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loud music played to the crack of 11 p.m.

Because even when moms cut loose, they still gotta get to bed early.

“Moms cutting loose” is, of course, the source of the humor for this medium effort movie. And, sure, it’s kinda cutesy, with its scenes of Amy wackily arriving late to everything and Kiki and Carla bemoaning her sad attempts at sexy clothes. But it also has some good moments of goofiness, usually due to the just-a-bit-weird delivery of Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell. Bell in particular makes her stay-at-home mom Kiki enough of an oddball that she isn’t just some meek sad lady with Cheerios in her hair.

With her fantasies about getting into a car accident (nothing too bad, just bad enough that she has to spend two weeks in the hospital, she says) and the prisoner-on-furlough vibe she gives off when she gets to leave her house, she manages to create a character with a bit of layers. Hahn also keeps her character from just being “the trampy one” and Kunis does a good job of delivering realish-person reactions to the somewhat overly contrived things happening around her.

with standout vocal work Ice Age: Collision Course from DeGeneres in the lead. (PG) B+ Ray Romano, Simon Pegg.

This would be adventure *Ghostbusters (PG-13) number five for our plucky Melissa McCarthy, Krisband of prehistoric animals, ten Wiig. who here are attempting to Also starring Leslie Jones stop a world-ending asteroid and Kate McKinnon, this strike. Way too many charremake of the 1980s clasacters and not nearly enough sic is totally fun. Even if silly fun make this movie an it doesn’t quite reach the unappealing bit of kid enterheights of previous Paul tainment. C *Finding Dory (PG) Feig-directed outings such Voices of Ellen DeGeneres, as Bridesmaids or The Heat The Infiltrator (R) Ed O’Neill. it nonetheless has a joyful Bryan Cranston, John Not as deep or as dark as “let’s play Ghostbusters” Leguizamo. the original, this sequel is feel. B+ A customs agent helps take nonetheless light, sweet fun on the drug cartels by going

none other than Steven Spielberg in the director’s Coming soon chair. This story about a litOpens Aug. 5: Suicide Squad tle girl who befriends a kind (PG-13) The long-awaited giant and must save Brit(and fun? might it be fun?) ain from not-so-kind giants DC Comics property hits would be merely OK were screens starring Will Smith, it not for the standout perMargot Robbie, Jared Leto formance of Mark Rylance, and Viola Davis; Nine Lives who conveys half this mov(PG) It’s the Kevin Spaceyie’s emotion through eye turns-into-a-cat movie! crinkles alone. BIn theaters now: The BFG (PG) Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill.

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This movie might not be the sharpest comedy but it’s smart and sharp enough to be enjoyable. I’d have liked the movie even more if not for two story beats that rang false. In the first, Amy’s daughter Jane (Oona Laurence) yells at her, calling her selfish (among other things) because Amy’s fight with Gwendolyn led to Jane’s getting in serious trouble (in a scene which the movie treats as a prank — ha ha! — but in real life would lead to Gwendolyn at least getting arrested). The movie seems to endorse the view that Amy’s decision to occasionally have fun and stop doing her children’s homework for them is somehow a step too negligent. In reality, Jane’s troubles come not from her mother’s insistence that the kids learn to fix their own cereal instead of expecting a Sunday brunch every day but from another adult planting evidence of a crime. That a teenage girl (or in this case, tweenage girl) screams at her mother for ruining her life is totally normal; that the movie somewhat endorses her is silly and actually counter to what seems to be the movie’s own point of view.

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(The movie’s real-est moments about parenthood actually come during the credits, which are funny and sweet and worth staying around for. The movie’s main actresses, including Jada Pinkett Smith and Annie Mumolo, who play Gwendolyn’s momcrew, sit around talking about mothers and daughters with their own moms. It includes more harrowing moments of parenthood and more mom-to-kid, kid-to-mom appreciation than anything in the movie.)

The second off-key moment comes when Kiki and Carla motivate Amy to get back in the fray saying moms don’t quit, to which Kiki responds something like “yeah, quitting is for dads.” And, OK, again, ha-ha to this 1980s sitcom joke, but the movie is actually pretty light on dad-related commentary and would have been smarter if it included men who were portrayed as humans. We see a perfect dad in hot-widow-dad Jesse (Jay Hernandez) and a couple of jerk-dads in Amy and Kiki’s husbands (Lyle Brocato), but no dads with any real depth of personality.

But considering that there aren’t a lot of movies made about middle-aged (even if “middle-aged” here is 32) ladies getting tipsy or partying mightily (while still keeping track of their mom bags!), I can forgive the movie for not going deeper or being more pointed in its commentary. And, as it is, the movie does something commendable, which is acknowledging that parenting can be difficult thankless work that exhausts you even as it is also the source of some of life’s greatest joy. Allowing motherhood to be those two things at once and laughing about it makes Bad Moms a bit of goofy light-hearted fun. BRated R for sexual material, full frontal nudity, language throughout, and drug and alcohol content. Written and directed

by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, Bad Moms is an hour and 40 minutes long and distributed by STX Entertainment.

after their money-launderers in this based-on-a-true-story drama. Cranston does a solid job as a man who not only infiltrates increasingly powerful and dangerous levels of organized crime but also finds his undercover assignment bleeding into his personality. B The Legend of Tarzan (PG-13) Alexander Skarsgard, Christoph Waltz.

This dull adventure movie reminds you of all the things The Jungle Book did well with CGI animals and animalhuman interaction by doing

them all wrong. Not only do the animal-human scenes seem awkward and soundstagy, the human-human scenes don’t work terribly well either. Also, the confused sociopolitical of this movie falls somewhere between “problematic” and “ew.” Only Skarsgard’s abs bump it up to a C-. *Star Trek Beyond (PG-13) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto.

This third movie in the rebooted series offers space adventure, well-staged battles and zingy energy all around.

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MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • The Yankee Clipper (1927) Fri., Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis • Cafe Society (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 4, at 2:05, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 5, at 1:05, 3:20, 5:40 & 8 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 6, at 1:05, 3:20, 5:40 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7, at 1:05, 3:20 & 5:40 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 8, at 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 9, at 2:05, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 10, at 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 11, at 2:05, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.

• Captain Fantastic (R, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 4, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 5, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 6, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7, at 1, 3:30 & 6 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 8, at 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 9, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 10, at 5:25 & 8 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 11, at 2, 5:25 & 8 p.m.

• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 4, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:40 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 5, at 1:15, 3:25, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 6, at 1:15, 3:25, 5:30 & 7:45 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7, at 1:15, 3:25 & 5:30 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 8, at 7:40 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 9, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:40 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 10, at 5:35 & 7:40 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 11, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:40 p.m.

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• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 4, through Thurs., Aug. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., Aug. 7, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• Top Hat (1935) Sat., Aug. 6, at 4:30 p.m.

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• Screen 1: Suicide Squad (PG13, 2016) & Lights Out (PG-13, 2016) • Screen 2: The Secret Life of Pets (PG, 2016) Jason Bourne (PG-13, 2016) MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER 2 Institute Drive, Concord, 2717827, starhop.com • THX 1138 (R, 1971) Fri., Aug. 5, at 6:30 p.m., George Lucas’s first film PALACE THEATRE 80 Hanover St., Manchester, 668-5588, palacetheatre.org • Live Free Or Die Film Festival Fri., Aug. 12, and Sat., Aug. 13, all day, livefreeordiefilmfestival.com O’NEIL CINEMAS 24 Calef Highway, Epping, oneilcinemas.com, 679-3529 • Summer Kids Series June 20-Aug. 10, every Monday & Wednesday at 10 a.m.; Surf’s Up Aug. 8-10.

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GREELEY PARK 100 Concord St., Nashua • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG-13, 2015) Fri., Aug. 5, at dusk JAFFREY PARK THEATRE 19 Main St., Jaffrey, 532-8888, theparktheatre.org; Free Movie Festival films in the summer are Thursdays and start at 7 p.m., films Sept. through Nov. are Saturdays at 7 p.m.

• The Manchurian Candidate (R, 2004) Thurs., Aug. 4 • State of the Union (1948) Thurs., Aug. 11 PETERBOROUGH COMMUNITY THEATRE 6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, pctmovies.com, movies@ pctmovies.com • The Secret Life of Pets (PG,

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• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG-13, 2013) Mon., Aug. 8

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• The Music of Strangers (PG13, 2015) Fri., Aug. 5, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7, at 7 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 9, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 10, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 11, at 7 p.m.

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NITE Blues detour Local music news & events

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• Spirited: Three days of Christian music and faith workshops, Soulfest kicks off with Skillet, Building 429, Colton Dixon and others. Friday has Switchfoot topping the bill, with support from Matthew West and Matt Maher. On Saturday, it’s Michael W. Smith; a second stage has alt bands like P.O.D. and Ana Sapphira. NEMA nominee Epic Season plays with others on the smaller Mercy Street stage.

Starts Thursday, Aug. 4, at Gunstock Ski Area, Gilford. Full details at thesoulfest.com.

• Rootsy: Multiple Grammy winner Kathy Mattea brings her Acoustic Living Room show to town. The singer mixes country, folk and Celtic elements; her No. 1 country hits include “Goin’ Gone,” “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses,” and Burnin’ Old Memories.”

Her two most recent albums, Coal and Calling Me Home, each reached the top of the bluegrass chart. Go Friday, Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at The Flying Monkey, 39 Main St., Plymouth.

Tickets start at $35. See flyingmonkeynh.com.

• Downtown: The TD Bank Livin’ Free Fest is a no-cost, family-friendly event packing plenty of star power, with headliner Adam Ezra Group, MoteRosa — led by deSol front man Albie Monterrosa — and American Idol veteran Alex Preston. Along with four hours of free music at the event, there will be food and craft vendors and information booths staffed by local social service groups. Go Saturday, Aug. 6, at 3 p.m. at Veterans Park, Elm Street in downtown Manchester. See intownmanchester.com.

• Vocalizing: A free outdoor show by a capella group Tuckermans at 9 — called T9 by fans — moves indoors to a nearby church if it rains. T9’s unique brand of “rock capella” includes interpretations of “With a Little Help From My Friends” done Joe Cocker style, Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away” and Motown classics. There’s even a medley of hits from indie band fun. Go Sunday, Aug 7, at 4 p.m. at New Castle Community Gazebo, 65 Main St., New Castle. For more, go to tuckermansat9.com.

• Throwback: Summer al fresco music isn’t just for weekends, as Hickory Horned Devils perform a free twilight show. The sixmember local band is old-timey with modern polish, playing fiddle and banjo hill country music with foot-stomping fervor. Occasionally, they’ll break out a pop cover, but they’re best with traditional fare like “Sourwood Mountain” and “Hoppin’ John.” Go Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 6 p.m. at Town Gazebo, 9 Meetinghouse Hill Road, New Boston. See hickoryhorneddevils.net.

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Popa Chubby returns to Tupelo

By Michael Witthaus

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With a massive frame, shaved head, tattoos and a biker goatee, Popa Chubby’s looks are deceiving, but his searing, note-bending guitar skills remove all doubt that he can play the blues, with a unique fury.

“Rock On Bluesman” is a representative song for the guitarist, singer and occasional drummer.

With a menacing beat punctuated by fast and furious solos, a midtune sampling of David Essex’s 1970s hit “Rock On” provides a clue to his origins. Born Theodore Joseph “Ted” Horowitz, Popa Chubby wasn’t always a disciple of Freddie King and Howlin’ Wolf, but somehow his musical compass always pointed in that direction. It just took a while for him to find his way.

He grew up on the R&B records played on the jukebox of his parents’ Bronx candy store. He began on drums, first learning “Wipeout,” then became infatuated with guitar after his dad took him to an oldies concert while he was still in grade school. Soon, he was playing every day until his fingers bled.

Relaxing backstage after the first of two sets at this year’s Montreal International Jazz Festival, Popa Chubby talked about his musical journey.

“I’m a drummer at heart, they were my first passion,” he said. “Seeing Chuck Berry when I was 10 years old really made me want to play guitar — Johnny B. Goode, you know? I just picked up the guitar, it made sense. “ Stirred into the mix of Stax and Motown songs, his father’s jazz 78s and 1950s rock and roll hits were dominant bands of his teenage years like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.

“When I started listening to rock, it was all blues,” he said.

The first concert he went to by himself was a Johnny Winter/Mahogany Rush double bill at the Felt Forum.

Still, when Popa Chubby began playing out, it was in the midst of the burgeoning punk rock scene. An offbeat Japanese performance artist named Screaming Mad Popa Chubby When: Friday, Aug. 5, 8 p.m.

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Popa Chubby. Courtesy photo.

George hired him for a gig at CBGB, which led to a world tour with a rebooted version of Richard Hell & the Voidoids.

He played in a variety of bands throughout the 1980s, most notably with singer-songwriter Pierce Turner; the two shared a love of Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix.

By decade’s end, however, Popa Chubby grew weary of the rock scene.

“I got sick of being in, quote unquote, original bands, where you’d play 20 minutes,” he said. “I started doing bar gigs that went all night, because I just wanted to play. They were blues gigs, and it opened up a whole new world for me.”

He found his performing moniker in 1990, via founding Parliament/Funkadelic member Bernie Worrell.

“God rest his soul,” he said. “A friend of mine named Dougie wanted me to audition with Jack Bruce. So I did. I played ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ with him. Highlight of my life, and Jack was the nicest guy; he loved me, but I didn’t get the gig.

But the same day, Dougie told me Bernie Worrell was recording — did I want to come by? And Bernie was recording a song called ‘Popa Chubby’ and I went, ‘That’s a great name for a band.’ That’s where it came from — one of the funkiest men alive.”

Popa Chubby quickly made a name for himself, and in 1994 Sony Music recruit-

ed him for a revived O-Keh label. At first reluctant, he agreed when Tom Dowd was offered as producer for his first album, Booty and the Beast.

“The only reason I did it was because he was the producer,” he said. “He and I hit it off famously; it was really one of the best experiences of my life. He was a great guy. ... He taught me a lot about what’s important about music.”

The best dividend of success is the opportunities it’s provided to work with his musical heroes.

“Sitting in with Johnny was one of the high points,” he said. “Any time I get to encounter one of the main guys, it’s great.

Getting to know Bo Diddley real well and Hubert Sumlin — there’s something you get from being with them one on one that you can’t get anywhere else.”

He’s not intrigued by the idea of paying it forward himself.

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Salona Bar & Grill 128 Maple St. 624-4020 Shaskeen 909 Elm St. 625-0246 Shorty’s 1050 Bicentennial Drive 625-1730 South Side Tavern 1279 S Willow St. 935-9947 Strange Brew Tavern 88 Market St. 666-4292 Thrifty’s Soundstage 1015 Candia Road 603-518-5413 Tin Roof Tavern 333 Valley St. 792-1110 Wild Rover 21 Kosciuszko St. 669-7722

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Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) It had been a tremendous week — colossal. Its reverberations around him hardly yet slept — his slightest motion or thought made a vast symphony of them, like a breeze in a forest of bells. Get ready for a colossal week.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) He had had to forage in the dark kitchen by himself, attended only by Squidge, the cat; hunting among innumerable unlabeled cans for the coffee, spilling the sugar, and in general allowing himself the luxury of feeling pretty annoyed. To avoid future annoyance, label the coffee cans.

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Gemini (May 21 – June 20) The horse waited patiently, was absolutely still, didn’t even stamp a foot. He looked as if he were thinking about the rain. Or perhaps, dismayed by the senseless noise of all the traffic about him, he was simply thinking about his stall, wherever it was. Or more likely, not thinking about anything at all. He just stood. A horse is a horse.

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Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Other people were anxious about being too late — he was anxious about being too early. Don’t worry, you probably won’t be too early.

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It’s a jungle out there

A conservation biologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales said in July that his team was headed to Botswana to paint eyeballs on cows’ rear ends. It’s a solution to the problem of farmers who are now forced to kill endangered lions to keep them away from their cows. However, the researchers hypothesize, since lions hunt by stealth and tend to pass up kills if the prey spots them, painting on eyeballs might trick the lions to choose other prey.

(For the same reason, woodcutters in India wear masks painted with faces backward for protection against tigers.)

Suspicions confirmed

Many website and app users are suspected of “agreeing” to privacy policies and “terms of service” without comprehending them (or even reading them), though most judges routinely assume the user to have consented to be bound by them. In a controlled-test report released in July, researchers from York University and University of Connecticut found that 74 percent skipped the privacy policy altogether, but, of the “readers,” the average time spent was 73 seconds (for wordage that should have taken 30 minutes), and time “reading” terms of service was 51 seconds when it should have taken 16 minutes.

(If users had read closely, they might have noticed that they had agreed to share all Can’t possibly be true • A Government Program That Actually their personal data with the National SecuriWorks: A motorist in Regina, Saskatch- ty Agency and that terms of service included ewan, was issued a $175 traffic ticket on giving up their first-born child.)

June 8 after he pulled over to ask if he could assist a homeless beggar on the side- Leading economic indicators walk. According to the police report cited • Update: News of the Weird reported in

by CTV News, the “beggar” was actually 2007 and 2014 that, despite the abundant a cop on stakeout looking for drivers not desert, Middle East developers were buying wearing seat belts (who would thus pay the plenty of beach sand from around the world city $175). Driver Dane Rusk said he had (because the massive concrete construction in unbuckled his belt to lean over in the seat Dubai and Saudi Arabia, among other places, to give the “beggar” $3 and moments later, requires coarser sand than the desert grains the cop’s partner stopped Rusk (thus earn- tempered for centuries by sun and wind). The ing Regina a total of $178!). need has now grown such that London’s The • One of America’s major concerns, Independent reported in June that black maraccording to a U.S. congressman, should be ket gangs, some violent, are stealing beach the risk that if an apocalyptic event occurs sand and that two dozen entire islands in and we are forced to abandon Earth with Indonesia have virtually disappeared since only a few species to provide for humanity’s 2005 because of sand-mining. survival, NASA might unwisely popu• Farmers high in Nepal’s Himalayas are late the space “ark” with same-sex couples heavily dependent on harvesting a fungus instead of procreative male-female pairs. which, when consumed by humans, supposThis warning was conveyed during the U.S. edly produces effects similar to Viagra’s but House session on May 26 by Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (who seemed not to be aware that gay males might contribute sperm to lesbians for species-continuation).

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• In May, the Times of India reported the death of a man known only as Urjaram, in Rajasthan, India, when, while hosting a party, he forgot that while he was enjoying himself, he had left his camel in the sun all day (during a historic heat wave) with its legs tied together. When Urjaram finally went outside, the enraged camel “lifted him by the neck,” “threw him to the ground” and “chewed on his body,” severing his head.

• The thief who ransacked a community greenhouse in County Durham, England, in July got away, but, according to residents, among his bounty was a bottle of rum that is usually offered only as a constipation remedy, in that it contained a heavy dose of the aggressive laxative “lactulose.” Said one resident, “Maybe (the thief has) left a trail” for the police.

the region’s rising temperatures and diminished rainfall (thought to result from global climate change) threaten the output, according to a June New York Times dispatch.

Wealthy Chinese men in Hong Kong and Shanghai may pay the equivalent of $50,000 a pound for the “caterpillar fungus,” and about a million Nepalese are involved in the industry, producing about 135 tons a year.

People with issues

Joshua Long, 26, was arrested in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in June for possession of a suspected-stolen human brain (which he allegedly kept in a shopping bag under the porch at his aunt’s trailer home). Police believe that the brain had been a medical teaching aid, but that Long was lacing his marijuana with the brain’s embalming fluid. (Long and a former resident of the trailer home called the brain “Freddy.”)

The passing parade

(1) Large-schnozzed people from all over Europe squared off in June for the World Nose Championship in Langenbruck, Germany (held every five years since 1961).

After judges applied precision calipers (adding length plus width), Hans Roest was declared the winner. (Also reported: Contestants believe snuff tobacco and beer to be size-enhancing substances.) (2) An unnamed man, 55, and woman, 40, were arrested near Joplin, Missouri, in July, after being spotted riding a stolen lawn mower at 8:45 a.m. naked. They told police that someone had stolen their clothes while they were skinnydipping and that the mower was their best option to make it home.

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