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Opportunity knocks Even though the Great Recession technically ended in 2009, the memory and effects linger to such an extent that it continues to be an issue in the presidential race. One effect that doesn’t get a lot of attention is that American companies are hoarding cash. Reporting earlier this year in the New York Times found that American companies are sitting on $1.9 trillion.

That’s a lot of cabbage.

Explanations range from these companies not wanting to pay American corporate income taxes on some of the money to companies looking to buy other companies to companies saving their money for a rainy day to companies saving their money for the next huge technological advancement.

When you add the large cash pile with historically low interest rates to borrow money, the larger question to me is, why aren’t these companies expanding? From a resources standpoint, companies either have money or have access to money to grow if they want to. They’re all set.

But we as a people have rarely been all set.

We as a culture have continued to push forward because we want more, for better or worse. That’s where our entrepreneurial spirit has come into play. If the big guys don’t want to grow, we’ll open small businesses and grow ourselves.

But as with larger companies, entrepreneurial activity has been down lately. There’s talk that millennials, those born between 1980 and 1999, have been so stung by the Great Recession that they are risk-averse and are starting or buying companies at a far lower rate than previous generations. According to a Washington Post article from February 2015, millennials are starting far fewer businesses than baby boomers did at the same age. During Hippo’s entrepreneurial boot camps, few of the participants were under 30. The few we had wanted to start apps. That’s a bit like the kids I talk to in the fifth grade who all want to play pro ball. It’s a good living if you can make it, but the odds are long. You know what business does really well and isn’t a long shot? A plumbing company, or trucking.

This isn’t an issue we need government help on, though regulations could be more thoughtful.

It’s a personal choice to take more control over your life and to risk something for a greater reward.

If the big companies don’t want to continue to grow, the small guys should take advantage of that. And starting a business doesn’t need to be something technological. It could be something as bricks and mortar as a day care center or a lawn care company. There is opportunity on the street.

As a wise man told me recently, “Get off the computer and get onto the street.” Opportunity knocks.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 Losing steam; new plans for Exits 6 and 7 on I-293; PLUS News in Brief.

9 Q&A 10 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 12 SPORTS THIS WEEK 20 THE ARTS: 22 THEATER She Kills Monsters.

24 ART Listings for events around town.

25 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 27 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

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NEWS & NOTES Sentinel event The state will investigate the suicide of a 63-year-old woman who was released from New Hampshire Hospital, the state mental hospital, just hours before.

The suicide is a high-profile “sentinel event,” which are incidents rising to the level of seriousness where state law mandates a rapid review lest the hospital lose its license to operate, the Union Leader reported.

Any suicide of a patient while receiving care or within 72 hours of discharge triggers a sentinel event. The investigation must begin within 45 days of the incident. The woman, whose identity the state is keeping under wraps, jumped to her death from the third story of a building on Main Street in Nashua on July 27, according to the Union Leader.

The tragedy comes at a precarious time for the hospital, which saw a group of 11 doctors and nurse practitioners walk away from their jobs over a new staffing contract they said would cut their compensation and benefits.

Meanwhile, psychiatric units are closing in the state due to the difficulty in hiring psychiatrists.

In reaction to the suicide, Manchester mayor and gubernatorial candidate Ted Gatsas called on Gov. Maggie Hassan to delay the Aug. 24 Executive Council vote on the staffing contract until after the investigation is complete.

The contract would shift staffing responsibilities from Dartmouth College to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Hassan pledged to incorporate a “public component” to the investigation while maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the patient. Her spokesperson said, in a written statement, that Hassan does not believe staffing issues are connected to the decision to discharge the woman.

Correction Last week, we published a story about the legal requirement in New Hampshire state law for every resident to report suspected child abuse. Some readers have reached out to us asking for the phone number to call. If you suspect child abuse call Child Protective Services at 271-6562 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

A Red Arrow Diner is in the works in Concord at the site of a Loudon Road gas station. The Concord Monitor reported the diner would be 3,300 square feet and combined with a Mobil Mart. It would be the third offshoot of the popular Manchester diner, following Milford and Londonderry.

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While stumping in New Hampshire for Donald Trump, Trump’s VP nominee Indiana Gov. Mike Pence sought to dispel concerns that the campaign is struggling and remind voters that it was here Trump won his first victory.

NHPR reported Pence was quick to criticize the press as biased against Trump but relied on a CNN interview with Gov. Maggie Hassan, which he played for his audience in Manchester, to drive home a point about Hillary Clinton not being trustworthy.

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As Concord Steam, the company that provided steam heating to government facilities and other area buildings in Concord, prepares to cease operations as early as next spring, proponents of biomass (usually plant matter burned as fuel) say it will have negative impacts on the local economy. But those who switch from steam will be paying half the price for heat from natural gas.

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Steam heat in Concord is created by fueling a boiler plant, mostly with wood, and piping the evaporated water through underground conduits directly to nearby buildings serviced by the plant which are outfitted with internal steam pipes.

There are a number of advantages to burning wood. It’s friendlier on the environment compared to fossil fuels and it’s a cheaper fuel on the wholesale market. But to Concord Steam president Peter Bloomfield, the main thing is helping out the local logging industry.

“The benefit [of] a project like ours is the money that’s put into the local economy,” Bloomfield said.

Bloomfield said he spends about $1.5 million each year on local wood.

That’s money local logging companies won’t be getting from Concord Steam after next year.

That would be the likely outcome, Bloomfield said, of the sale of Concord Steam to Liberty Utilities for $1.9 million pending approval from state regulators. Under the deal, Concord Steam would shut down by as soon as May 2017.

He said shuttering the steam plant and transitioning everything to natural gasfueled heating would send dollars out of state to import the gas, whereas the biomass from lumber waste is purchased from loggers in New Hampshire.

For loggers closer to central New Hampshire, they’ll need to adapt to losing Concord Steam as a customer by spending more money on diesel fuel and personnel to haul the biomass to plants 40 to 50 miles away, according to Hunter Carbee of North Country Procurement.

Most of the biomass burning plants are up north; the closest are Eversource’s Schiller Station in Newington and the Bridgewater Power facility in Bridgewater.

There’s also an opportunity cost to this as loggers who used to be able to make a couple trips in a day may not be able to make both trips in the same day.

And Carbee says this is just yet another setback in an already contracting industry reeling from the loss of New England paper mills over the past decade.

Some of those changes have been in just the past year or two as paper mills in Maine have either shut down, cut their capacity in half or stopped using biomass to fuel their factories, according to New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association director Jasen Stock.

That makes it a particular bad time to lose a customer and Stock said it will have immediate impacts.

“What that means is … maybe I slow down producing, I shrink the size of my crew, I scramble and try to find some place else to sell my chips to,” Stock said.

And it may have an impact on forest management as well, since this low grade wood stock will either get cut down and left behind as loggers try to get access to higher quality wood, or they’ll drive past the unwanted trees.

“It’s like weeding your garden and … pulling out all your nice plants and leaving the weeds behind,” Stock said.

Consumer prices

Even though wood chips were cheaper than the natural gas Concord Steam would purchase, usually to bolster their output on the coldest days of winter, consumer bills will go down by 50 percent under the new natural gas system, according to Liberty Utilities spokesperson John Shore.

“It’s a pretty significant savings that will help to offset any upfront costs that those customers are going to have to come up with to make the conversion,” Shore said.

After the change pays for itself, those savings continue with no apparent end in sight, thanks to very low natural gas prices.

“So that’s going to be a budget windfall for all of those customers,” Shore said.

But if wood was cheaper than natural gas on the wholesale market, why are consumers paying twice as much for it from Concord Steam?

Bloomfield said that on a BTU-basis (British thermal units), wood produces the same heat as natural gas for a fraction of the cost.

The problems that drove up consumer prices have to do with an aging and inefficient delivery system and the costs associated with maintaining the 78-year-old facility.

“Nevertheless, it made [more] sense for us to continue to burn wood here than it did to burn gas because the raw cost of the wood chip that we burn ... was less expensive than the natural gas,” Bloomfield said.

Upgrade costs

Bloomfield had hoped the state would take up a plan to invest in the steam plant through a $20 million 20-year lease that would pay for the boiler and delivery system upgrades needed to make Concord Steam more efficient and subsequently offer prices competitive to natural gas. In addition, under this plan, Concord Steam would have doubled how much wood they’d buy from loggers, which would have injected $3 million annually into the local timber industry.

But the state passed on the proposal and began plans to switch everything to natural gas by 2019. At that point, Concord Steam would lose 40 percent of its customer base in one fell swoop and would be effectively out of business.

Department of Administrative Services Commissioner Vicki Quiram said the state made a financial analysis, which considered Bloomfield’s efficiency upgrades.

“The financial analysis has shown for many years that we can save a lot of money by switching to natural gas,” Quiram said.

But Quiram said the impact on the local logging industry was not specifically considered in the analysis. She said the state values biofuel energy and points to the new woodfired steam boiler at the Health Department building that’s been running for three months now. The state contracted with a single wood provider and is using more efficient “bowl chips” instead of lumber waste.

The sale of Concord Steam to Liberty reportedly caught the state off guard, Quiram said, and the estimated cost for the state to upgrade all its government buildings for the switch to gas is about the same, up front, as it would have cost to do Bloomfield’s lease plan. But the current state capital budget didn’t set that money aside, which has left officials scrambling.

“We are working on how to pay for it,” Quiram said.

The state still has to get engineers to review each building and come up with a plan of action.

“They’ll have a couple of different options,” Shore said.

Shore said the internal pipework is old and inefficient so while the state may choose to continue heating with steam, but with boilers fired by gas, they might get more bang for their buck if they upgrade to something like forced hot water or forced hot air.

Michael Connors, the deputy commissioner of Administrative Services, says most buildings will likely continue with steam pipes or switch to forced hot water. But in a few smaller buildings, like garages, laundry facilities and a wood shop, forced hot air may be more appropriate.

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If you regularly drive through Manchester on Interstate 293, you probably dread the traffic, particularly during rush hour.

The stretch of highway that snakes along the Merrimack River is notoriously dangerous, especially near Exit 6, and officials say it’s due for an update. Recently, the first public information meeting was held to discuss some of the early findings of a study into the area’s traffic, accidents and sensitive environmental and cultural resources.

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As part of the first phase of planning, VHB surveyed the project area for any environmental resources, like rare plants, and contracted archaeologists and historians to locate any cultural resources.

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After surveying the area and compiling all the needed information, VHB representatives presented their findings and some ways to improve the exits.

“We’ve collected all the data. … Now we look at the potential corridors, the potential alignments of roads. We’ve got to see what those impacts are and make good decisions to minimize those impacts,” VHB principal Marty Kennedy said.

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Highway planners with consulting firm VHB were contracted by the Department of Transportation to oversee the redesign of I-293. They studied accident statistics on the highway from the curve north of Exit 5 to just past Exit 7 between 2012 and 2015.

There were more than 300 car accidents, 51 of which resulted in injuries. When plotted on a map, they found that most of the accidents and most of the injurious accidents occurred in and around Exit 6.

“There’s a whole pocket of … injury accidents as well as vehicle damage crashes in the area of the northbound off ramp and southbound on ramp area of Exit 6,” said Keith Cota, the DOT project manager for the 293 project. “It’s quite evident that the geometry of 293 in conjunction with the old geometry of the roundabout design of the interchange at Amoskeag inhibits traffic and exhibits quite a bit of crash history there.”

Cota said the interchange was designed in 1954 and worked fine for a while but as traffic increased, it became increasingly risky to navigate.

VHB studied how many cars were traveling I-293 at different times and found that cars numbered near 3,000 at the peak morning hour of 7 a.m. and about 2,500 during the peak evening hour of 5 p.m. Fridays were the busiest days for northbound traffic, and overall traffic in July and August saw the most vehicles — around 54,000 — in 2015.

Based on these statistics, planners determined that the highway needs to be a lane wider on both sides, which would increase it to three lanes, at least up to Exit 7.

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An architectural historian catalogued every structure in the area more than 50 years old and a team from Independent Archaeological Consulting in Portsmouth dug about 400 test pits to see if they could find any artifacts. They found artifacts in about 60 of those pits, Kathy Wheeler of IAC said in an email.

Those artifacts were found in five separate sites after digging within most of the 16 zones identified as being likely sensitive.

Wheeler said the Merrimack River was long used as a major travel artery for Native Americans and had many fishing stations along its shores. Some of the pre-contact native artifacts discovered by archaeologists include some fragments of tools such as a drill and the stone chips produced by producing stone tools, known as “lithic debitage.”

Surveyors also found the remnants of an old mill foundation, believed to be built in the 19th century.

Depending on what routes planners wish to use, Wheeler and her team will do more intensive research on any potentially affected sites to determine whether they might contain new knowledge of the past, which would necessitate an alternative route to avoid damaging the site.

Environmental researchers, meanwhile, mapped out the area wetlands, floodplains, farmland, groundwater resources, wildlife and hazardous waste sites.

One key finding was the presence of licorice goldenrod, a plant on the state’s endangered species list, at a narrow passage of Black Brook, a nearby tributary to the Merrimack River. Peter Walker with VHB said the goldenrod happens to be in a location ideal for a bridge that’s part of a proposed change to the Exit 7 area. Its presence doesn’t exclude the possibility of building the bridge, but there might need to be some environmental mitigation to offset the damage. Ironically, those plants were previously placed there by humans for a similar mitigation.

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7 highway into a bridge, under which an X-shaped interchange of north- and southbound exits would converge with traffic lights. A second design, known as a “diamond interchange,” would spread the ramps farther apart and add traffic lights, and a similar “offset diamond interchange” would eliminate the second bridge south of Amoskeag and force all southbound on-ramp traffic west of the highway and would require a ramp that would go over a section of Eddy Road.

The design that had the most people at the meeting scratching their heads was known as a diverging diamond interchange, or DDI. It looks like a Celtic knot of roads with some sections directing motorists to drive on the left side before winding back to the right. Kennedy explained the movements with a video animation and said the interchange would be the most efficient design.

The challenge would be getting motorists used to it. Kennedy said that while this is a fairly common design in the Midwest, there are no interchanges like this in all of New England.

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Perhaps the most popular proposal presented at the public information meeting, which was attended by about 50 people (including some Manchester aldermen, the head of Manchester Police Department’s traffic division and 23 members of a condo association), was moving Exit 7 farther north just past Manchester Community College.

This would involve adding a roadway to connect Front Street westward to Dunbarton Road, which planners predict would not only increase access to the Hacket Hill area, but also reduce traffic on Goffstown Road, a major connector between Man-

chester and Goffstown.

Planners also showed that if they went a step further and connected Dunbarton Road with a new road that crosses Black Brook to Goffstown Road, it would reduce traffic on Goffstown Road even more — as much as 34 percent.

But perhaps even more significant than the traffic reduction is increased access to Goffstown’s industrial zoned land, which is ripe for development.

Either way, planners said improving Exit 7 at its current location and adding a northbound on-ramp there would be problematic given its proximity to Exit 6.

Next steps

There was some concern expressed at the meeting by members of the public about the new roads connecting Manchester and Goffstown potentially impacting deer, vernal pools and wetlands; others were worried that the DDI design for Exit 6 would cause confusion and accidents.

Mike Gardener, who spoke on behalf of the Point at Riverfront condo association, said he and his members were concerned about noise and whether the trees currently between their condo and the highway would be cut down.

“In general, people are often most concerned about noise effects,” Walker said.

But Keith Cota with the DOT said that while trees would likely be cut, they will look into putting up sound barriers if needed.

The project now enters Part B, which involves refining the options with a greater level of environmental and cost detail, some preliminary engineering and a public hearing next May. From that, planners hope to narrow down their choice into a single preferred action plan.

NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Cultural Resources

State librarian fills big shoes as DCR commissioner Michael York of Goffstown is continuing his role as the state librarian while he steps in as acting commissioner of the Department of Cultural Resources. The previous commissioner, Van McLeod, died on July 18.

What does the state librarian do?

The responsibility of the state library ... has been to make sure that all of the materials that support state government ... are available and easily accessible to the citizens ... and obviously to the legislators as they do their work. … In addition to that, our mission is to make sure that every citizen in the state has the best possible library services we can provide.

What additional responsibilities will you be taking on as acting commissioner?

I have an assistant who will be taking over a lot of the [state librarian duties]. … The library is the largest division in the Department of Cultural Resources. [It’s] substantially larger than the other three divisions — the arts council, the Division of Historical Resources and the film commission. … It will be my job to help [the division directors] do their job and make sure the public knows about … all the work we do. … We’re going right now through the budget process. … Our Division of Historical Resources … does have regulatory authority and any state agency that has [that] means that you’re going to have to make decisions that are not going to be accepted by all of the citizens and those are the types of things where certainly the commissioner has to step in and … has to make decisions on which direction we’re going in.

What was it like working with your predecessor, Van McLeod?

He was exactly the kind of right type of boss that I think most people would want. He certainly didn’t micro-manage. … He was more than a manager — he was a real leader. … He worked tirelessly with the staff to make sure they understood what we were doing for the citizens of the state and he respected and was proud of the department. He said so on almost every occasion that he had the opportunity. … He was just a wonderful person. He had a great sense of humor.

at what they need and … in all of our communities we have people who are interested in heritage and history and historic preservation. …

And obviously with the [New Hampshire State Council on the Courtesy photo.

Arts] we have lots of people all around the state doing all kinds of things that relate to the arts; the graphic arts, the performing arts, etc. What we want to do is to tap into all that interest and expertise of all these people and provide … resources through our funding ... to help those people further the cause of culture.

What do you think is the common thread of New Hampshire’s artistic tradition?

It was first recognized by John Winant, who was governor in the late ’20s, early ’30s.

He recognized the importance of what was known as the craftsman guild, I believe, at the time but eventually became the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. One of the things that is happening with the arts — not just the performing arts but the graphic arts — is there is an emphasis now on what’s known as the “creative economy.” … There’s not the same amount of information about how much they contribute to the economy of the state.

What’s your favorite thing about New Hampshire’s history?

I have arguments with my peers — the people who are running state libraries around the country — and I always make it clear that New Hampshire has the first public library in the United States. Nobody else can legitimately make that claim. Peterborough is the oldest public library and we define that by saying that at town meeting in 1887, the people of Peterborough said we want to use tax money to support a library that anybody can use. …

People in Massachusetts will tell you that the What do you think is the most important Boston Public Library is the oldest. It’s not, cultural resource in the state? because it was a subscription library before it This is going to sound trite, but it is the peo- was finally a public library. ple in New Hampshire. Because … in all of Do you think the acting commissioner role our communities we have libraries with highly trained librarians who can help people get will become a permanent position for you?

At this point I haven’t really made a deciWHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO sion on that. I’m still in good health and I RIGHT NOW? have the experience and expertise to be helpI have been plowing through a lot of ful. … Right now I’m just … trying to make heavy tomes. … I am addicted now to the sure we put together a good budget.

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Due to the unseasonably warm winter combined with a late freeze, a number of fruit crops suffered what some farmers called a “Valentine’s Day massacre.” But federal relief funds are now coming to farmers in eight New Hampshire counties who apply for assistance, the Union Leader reported. The money would go toward covering those losses, which included almost the entire peach crop.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Even farmers in the two unlisted counties, Carroll and Coos, are eligible for relief since those counties abut those listed in the disaster declaration.

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It’s been five months straight of unusually dry conditions and the latest information from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows the worst of it crawling north into part of southern New Hampshire. The AP reported the updated map of the Northeast region shows a pocket of eastern Hillsborough County and southwest Rockingham County in an “extreme drought” along with a swath of eastern Massachusetts just south of the border and along the coastline. Because of this, folks are likely to see smaller apples when they go apple picking this fall. The Union Leader reported growers are already seeing apples at about 60 to 70 percent their normal size due to the lack of water.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Extreme drought conditions may heighten forest fire risks and result in more calls for water conservation.

After months and months of shrinking unemployment numbers, the New Hampshire unemployment rate grew a tiny bit in July to 2.9 percent, as reported by the Associated Press, up a tenth of a percentage from June at 2.8 percent. According to state estimates, 732,860 people were employed in New Hampshire last month.

QOL Score: 0 (because 2.9 percent is still below the July 2016 national unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, and the New Hampshire July 2015 rate of 3.4 percent) Comment: QOL is bummed to see the negative trend end, but happy to see it only went up a tenth of a point.

Scammers abound Eversource business and residential customers across New Hampshire continue to report receiving unsolicited phone calls and home visits from individuals selling discounted power and claiming to be representatives or partners of Eversource, according to an Eagle Tribune report. But the company has been warning customers these individuals are not affiliated with Eversource and are most likely scammers or third-party suppliers choosing to use deceptive marketing tactics. In fact, Eversource rarely makes unsolicited phone calls and would never solicit door-to-door on behalf of a competitive supplier, according to the story.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Liberty Utilities recently sent out a press release saying they are dealing with the same kind of scam.

QOL score: 74 Net change: -1 QOL this week: 73 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire? Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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Random sports thoughts and pronouncements Time to clean out a variety of thoughts that have been collecting dust in this cluttered sports mind as NBA playoffs, the final act of Deflate-gate, the up and down Red Sox and the Olympics have dominated center stage over the last several months.

I’m guessing Ryan Lochte’s job in the real world after the Olympics isn’t going to be as a rocket scientist.

But the good news is, while his knucklehead move makes Manti Te’o seem like Honest Abe Lincoln, thanks to ex-Trumpster Paul Manafort having to take back his “I did not have sex with that Ukrainian lobbyist” or whatever it was he first denied and then was forced to admit he did, Lochte is off the hook as the biggest celebutant liar of the week.

Incidentally, who wants to bet Lochte’s publicist, or one from the USOC, wrote the lengthy apology on his FB page? The only thing I hate worse than lying is when someone else does the apologizing for them to make that a lie as well.

It’s kind of like me as a little kid making up bad stuff to tell the priest in confession, because with my parents making me go every Saturday I didn’t have time to actually do anything bad on my own. Which means I was lying to be absolved by the priest for things I didn’t do while never mentioning lying to him, which I actually did need to be absolved of.

My favorite Olympic moments outside of family-related ones were Insane Bolt sprinting to his third straight triple gold Olympics, the women’s basketball team dominating the field in the way the men should have done as well, and Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller diving at the exact right time to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the 400-meter run. If she does it too early or too late U.S.A.’s Allyson Felix gets the gold. It was an athlete thinking quickly and doing what it took to win legally.

Miller’s move kinda sorta brought to mind

The SiTe of

Dave Wottle’s dramatic 800-meter win at Munich in 1972 when Soviet world record holder Yevgeniy Arzhanov gave a last ditch dive/stumble/trip as Wottle caught him at the tape with an incredible kick after being so far back it didn’t seem possible he could win.

I sports-hated Jonathan Papelbon when he was good, so you can image how I feel about the prospect of bringing him back after all three of his previous teams were happy to see the ultimate me-first player leave.

Loved hearing Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred saying he’s willing to consider radical changes like adopting a pitcher’s clock and limiting the number of pitching changes per game to quicken and liven up baseball.

Here’s my suggestion — bring back PEDs. I loved the action from all those homers and the McGwire-Sosa-Maris 1998 homer race was one of my favorite seasons ever.

Can someone please tell me who anointed the 21st century’s answer to Howard Cosell, Steven A. Smith, as the voice, conscience and protector of the sports world? I mean Charles Barkley is an incredible blow-hard too, but at least he’s funny and actually did something once.

Danny, please pull the trigger on that rumored three-way deal sending Amir Johnson to Minnesota and James Young to Philly, who also gets point guard Ricky Rubio, while Boston gets Nerlens Noel, the young, athletic inside defensive anchor they need to let others overplay 3-point shooters on the wings.

There’s also chatter about DeMarcus Cousins coming here. But since I’m not a fan of his act, how about this instead: The Celtics give Sacramento Jaylon Brown, Amir Johnson and Marcus Smart and send the 2019 first-round pick from Memphis they own to New Orleans, who also gets Demented DeMarcus, while the Celtics get Anthony Davis.

Finally, do you think Larry Bird would do a Jae Crowder, the Nets’ probable Top Five pick in the stacked 2017 draft and

either James Young or RJ Harris for Paul George? Tyler Zeller also goes for salary cap reasons, unless Danny has a trade exemption laying around he can use.

My money goes on San Francisco over Chicago in the NL playoffs. First because that team knows how to win in the big moment and has baseball’s best game manager. Second, they are the Cubs after all. Something will go wrong.

The Red Sox’ mid-summer bullpen meltdown traces to when they got D-Back closer Brad Siegler. So I’m calling it the Curse of (gulp) Byung-hyun Kim, who’s the last closer they got from Arizona.

I might also attribute that curse to having to deal with the post-career drivel coming from Curt Schilling, who they also got from Arizona. Although in her A+ “Put a bloody sock in it, Curt Schilling” Sunday Globe column Yvonne Abraham attributed it to the price Red Sox Nation paid for ending the Curse of the Bambino. Yes the on-field stuff worked great. But now the big blowhard says he’s going to run for the Senate. Just what a country with a $19 trillion deficit needs, a “small government” proponent who nonetheless thought it OK to take $75 million in government-backed loan guarantees and then incompetently bumbled his way through it in just two years before declaring bankruptcy. I will give him this, though: He’s still five Chapter 11’s behind Donald “Let’s Make America Great Again” Trump.

I have evidence of me saying Mookie Betts would be the AL MVP via a text to my friend Gary Parson on opening day and I’m sticking with it. But I was waaaaay off on the starting pitching. I had David Price winning 18, Clay Buchholz going to the DL in June and Rick Porcello “around .500 – no more.”

I know, no Patriots stuff. I’ll get to them soon enough. For now I’ll just say I’m all in 103159 on Jimmy G and the defense is going to be a bear.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

Great Events in Manchester

August 2008 - North Goes South In Splendid Little League Run

It was August of 2008 and Manny Ramirez had just been shipped out of Boston to Mannywood in a trade deadline deal while NE Regional host Tom Woodlock All-Stars came up a game short of the Babe Ruth World Series after losing to Westbrook, Maine. But the biggest story was NH Champion North Little League going south to New Britain, CT to play for a chance to go to the Little League World Series. North got off great with an 8-1 win over Maine behind Carmen Giampetruzzi’s 5 inning, 8th strike out effort and Tres (bumble) Beeson’s astonishing 8th homer in All-Star play to that point. Collin Duffley picked it up where they left off with a masterful 2-1 win over Massachusetts in Game 2. A surprising 6-4 loss to Vermont sent North to the loser’s bracket, but they got back on track with a gritty 7-4 win over Rhode Island. The big blow was Nick Levesque’s two out, pinch hit, two run 4th inning homer that gave them the lead for good as Giampetruzzi won again. Then came the series gem when Duffley shrugged off 2 Massachusetts first inning runs to strike out 14 of the last 19 batters he faced while striking out the side in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th inning as the 4-2 from a Nick Makris 2-run homer stood up.

Sadly, it came to an end when Connecticut erased a 1-0 sixth inning championship game lead with two homers to bring the curtain down one inning from Williamsport. A shocking ending to be sure, but given North Little League’s heroics over the entire month, it was certainly a great event for Manchester as well.

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Big summer for baseballers The Big Story: It’s been a pretty exciting summer for baseballers Grant Lavigne of Bedford and Bryce Reagan of Amherst.

First the Bedford and Souhegan juniorsto-be spent early August at East Coast Professional Showcase, where the best prep players in the East perform in front of MLB scouts in a spring training-like camp. Now word comes they’ve been selected to play in the prestigious Summer Rivalry Classic at Fenway Park on Sept. 3. The showcase event for the top high school players in the Northeast is a 14-inning affair between teams wearing real Yankees and Red Sox uniforms. Pretty cool, especially if players get to pick which team and uniform they’ll represent!

Sports 101: On this date in history this man became baseball’s youngest 20-game winner ever. Name him.

Hot Ticket: Firefighters and Police will square off Sunday, Aug. 28, in a baseball “Battle of the Badges” hosted by the Fisher Cats at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium to support the efforts of Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). Tickets are $10, while children 10 and under get tickets free at CHaDBaseball.org or at the gate

The Numbers

1:01:47 – time in hours and minutes it took Nashua’s Alec Babal to pedal to the top of Mount Washington when he finished eighth in the Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb on Saturday won by Eneas Freyre of Norwalk, Conn., in 52:10.

2:17 – miniscule amount of time in hours and minutes it took the F-Cats to beat Binghamton 4-1 at the start of the

on Sunday.

Big Game of the Week: That was the NH Junior Wildcats on the field at Gillette Stadium at halftime of the Patriots-Bears game as they scored two TDs and gave up none against a team from Easton, Mass.

Coming and Going: The Saint Anselm men’s soccer team has a new head coach after hiring Bruno Victal last week. Topically he is from Brazil and a former member of its national team. He’s the sixth head coach in program history.

Sports 101 Answer: On this day in 1985 Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest pitcher to win 20 games in a season at 20 years, 9 months and 9 days old.

On This Date – Aug. 25: 1922 – The Cubs beat the Phillies 26-23 in the highest-scoring major-league game. 1967 – Twins hurler Dean Chance pitches his second no-hitter of month in beating Cleveland 2-1. 1968 – Strong-armed Yankees outfielder Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 emergency innings and winds up beating the Tigers 6-5, then in the twin bill’s second game he plays right field and homers.

week when all-name teamer Wilmer Font picked up the win after throwing 7 innings of shutout ball. Somebody please send this to MLB to show them games don’t have to take forever to be played.

16 – team-leading number of homers by the F-Cats’ Rowdy Tellez to go along with his team-best 67 RBI. 144 – two-day score carded by Tara Watts in winning the Women’s Club Champi-

onship at Derryfield CC. 319 – career homers Texas first baseman Prince Fielder had when he retired last week, which Fox Sports baseball writer Ken Rosenthal pointed out was the same number his father Cecil had when he hung them up.

11 – consecutive years the NH Fisher Cats will have kept season tickets at $682 dollars after announcing it will be that again in 2017.

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Sports Glossary

Honest Abe Lincoln: Owner of a moniker it’s likely no politician will ever get again.

Took the unusual path to run for president in 1860 as a private citizen who had not held elected office since leaving the House of Representatives after one term in 1849 and having just lost the 1858 Illinois Senate race to pro-slavery opponent Stephen Douglas. Yet he beat Douglas for president in an election that mirrors the presidential race of today with two candidates from the same home state, but in reverse, where candidate Trump calls opponents names like “Lyin’ Ted Cruz” and “Crooked Hillary” while lying himself 70 percent of the time according to nonpartisan fact-checkers.

Dave Wottle at the Munich Games: Unheralded Bowling Green middle-distance runner who burst on the national and worldwide stage at the 1972 Games when in the 800-meter semi-final and again in the final he came from impossibly waaay back to just win at the tape in what were the two most excitingly tense sports moments I’ve ever witnessed. Google it and judge for yourself.

Insane Bolt: Name I gave Jamaican 100- and 200-meter dash sprinter Usain Bolt in the 2012 Olympics because he’s so insanely fast and insanely good.

Howard Cosell: Opinionated, egotistical, vain, loudmouth 1960s-1970s ABC Sports commentator un-afflicted by self-doubt mainly because he had a much higher opinion of himself than the rest of us did.

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Feast your eyes on candy apples, corn dogs, cotton candy and more

Dough and doughnuts, pickles and Twinkies

down, cooking it the whole way to a turntable at the end,” Calkins said.

One day, seeing the long lines and no easy way to speed up the process, she decided to make it easier for people to peek behind the curtain and spend their time waiting mesmerized by the Willy Wonka-esque contraptions.

So she set up plexiglass windows all around and even placed bales of hay that small children can climb upon so they can see.

“I think it’s really important to maintain that entertainment level for the folks to be able to actually see the doughnut machine and see them being made,” Calkins said.

By Ryan Lessard

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If there’s one place you can count on to find all kinds of deep fried, greasy delights, it’s a New Hampshire fair.

Fried dough

A staple fair food, the lumpy, sugar-coated disc of bread is recognizable to almost any American nowadays. While Midwesterners know it as an elephant ear and Canadians call it a beaver tail, New Englanders know it simply as fried dough.

The tasty — and heavy in calories — snack is made by dropping risen yeast dough into a deep fryer. It emerges warm, bubbly and toasty brown and is often served with powdered sugar or other sweet toppings.

Edward “Bucky” Cofferin, a fried foods vendor at several New Hampshire fairs, thinks fried dough is the most quintessential fried food at fairs.

“There’s so many fried dough stands everywhere. It’s been around for years,” Cofferin said.

How it entered the dietary requirements of state fairs is unclear, but its history is said to go back to the Navajo natives after they were forced by the federal government to relocate from their reservation in Arizona to eastern New Mexico in 1864, according to the Smithsonian. One of the consequences of the “Long Walk of the Navajo” was that HIPPO | AUGUST 25 - 31, 2016 | PAGE 14

they couldn’t grow their traditional crops in the new land, so the government gave them white flour, processed sugar and lard — the basic ingredients in what the Navajo call frybread.

Cider doughnuts

Another type of fried dough is the doughnut. But it wouldn’t be a New England fall fair without incorporating apples in some way. Enter the cider doughnut.

“I think it’s just a fall-time favorite. You think of fall, you think of warm apple cider, apple crisp, apple picking,” said Pat’s Cider Donuts co-owner Danielle Calkins.

Calkins and her brother Daryl Houle are part of an apple-fair-foods dynasty following in the footsteps of their parents’ Pat’s Apple Crisp business, which sets up shop at the

Hopkinton Fair and beyond.

The siblings opened Pat’s Cider Donuts in 2007 with a permanent booth at the Deerfield Fair and later a mobile concession trailer at other fairs in the years that followed.

Today their doughnuts can be found at the Hillsborough County Fair, Sandwich Fair and fairs in neighboring states like Maine.

Calkins said they use antique doughnutmaking machines from the 1950s and 1970s that they recover from old New England barns and restore.

She said half the fun of ordering a cider doughnut at her stand is watching the machines in action.

“It drops the doughnut into the grease, it sends it down — it’s almost like a conveyor belt — sends it down, actually flips the doughnut over itself and sends it completely

Pickles?

The selection of fried fair foods doesn’t begin and end with bread, of course. Cofferin operates a booth called Bucky’s Famous Fried Pickles, named for one of the more offthe-wall yet tasty fried foods he sells. He was at the recent Cheshire County Fair and will be at Hopkinton, Hillsborough County and Sandwich.

He sells fried meats like chicken tenders and chicken on a stick, wrapped in bacon.

But he is also known for his fried vegetables. He sells deep-fried squash and zucchini chips, and his fried green beans are eaten like french fries.

“The green beans are fresh out of the garden, washed and then cooked,” Cofferin said.

His fried pickles are like the small sandwich chips with the wavy ruffles one can buy at the grocery store.

Novelty fads

Deep-frying foods is nothing new, so it can be difficult to invent a fried snack that’s unique — “Because you can get a fried whatever at every corner,” Calkins said.

Still, there’s no shortage of people trying to come up with the newest fried novelty.

“At the Texas state fair, you go down there and everything’s deep fried,” Cofferin said.

“They deep fry everything; apple pies, strawberry shortcake, whatever.”

He’s seen deep-fried butter, which is made by coating cold balls of butter with batter and breading.

“It’s not something I’d eat every day,” Cofferin said.

In New Hampshire, Cofferin has seen vendors selling deep-fried Twinkies and candy bars.

Calkins recalls some years ago when she heard about someone selling deep-fried Kool-Aid. She had to check it out. But when she did, she was disappointed to learn it was just fried dough with Kool-Aid powder packets mixed into the dough.

“So all it was was Kool-Aid-flavored fried dough pieces,” Calkins said.

While they may not always be healthy, deep-fried foods appear to be here to stay, and New Hampshire fairs promise a heartstopping selection.

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Featuring a chili cook-off, a beer and wine When: Saturday, Sept. 17, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. tent, a pie eating contest, a children’s bike Where: Donati Park, 35 Main St., Hooksett parade, and the first ever bed races.

Cost: Free admission When: Friday, Sept. 9, and Saturday, Sept. 10, Visit: hooksettoldhomeday.org 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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“My daughter [invented them] probably 17 years ago just messing around at a fair,” Cofferin said.

After a few more experiments, he later improved the recipe.

“I mix some other stuff with the dry batter and it changes the whole taste to the dill pickle. It has its own unique taste,” Cofferin said.

But since it’s taken off in popularity, Cofferin said others have tried to duplicate his success and he’s sometimes selling fried pickles right next to another vendor selling fried pickles.

“When I started it, nobody was selling them at the fairs up here. Then all of a sudden everybody started,” Cofferin said.

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You can’t miss Syd’s Big Apple, based in Merrimack, which participates in the Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair this year. (It also is a regular at the Londonderry Flea Market and will stop by Weare and Hooksett Old Home Days, Aug. 27 and Sept. 17, respectively.)

Business owners Dawn Hermann and Laurae English sell their products — candy and caramel apples, plain or with coconut, chocolate, sprinkles or candy toppings, plus apple crisp — out of a food truck shaped and colored like a giant red apple, which is often decorated with seasonal details and sits on a bed of grass.

The duo founded the company about six years ago while in search of new careers; they were thinking food trucks, because English likes to cook, and Hermann found this blazing red apple truck on Craigslist.

“I saw this, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s it! That’s going to be our king picker,’” Hermann said via phone. “My brother and Laurae actually thought I was crazy. …

It’s definitely a conversation piece, to say the least. I’ve had so many people come up and take pictures of this apple. People will come and stand in front of it with the whole family.”

They named the business after their Maltese puppy, Sydney, and make the caramel and candy apples with Granny Smiths, the apple crisp with a mix of Granny Smiths and Galas. Their season starts in April and ends in October.

“Six years later and we’re doing OK. People know who we are,” Hermann said.

“We have people now who come back to us specifically at our events for our apple crisp. Sometimes people come back for two, three servings.”

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During fair season, Ben’s Sugar Shack of Temple is all about maple cotton candy, and the company makes trips to Hillsborough, Lancaster and Deerfield fairs this fall.

Owner Ben Fisk started attending the fairs as a kid. He thinks a lot of people go to them for the food specifically.

Syd’s Big Apple. Courtesy photo.

“There are a ton of people who go to the fair just to go out. There are people there who go to the same fair for years, who have a whole route planned out,” he said. “The idea of cotton candy — it’s the fair aspect.

It’s like, you get pumped to go to the fair for fried dough and cotton candy.”

Sometimes he’s even able to get doubters to buy a bag.

“There are a lot of older people who always say, ‘I don’t like cotton candy,’ but I talk them into trying it, and they always end up buying a bag. [We] sell more to older generations than we do to younger crowds,” Fisk said via phone. “We use maple sugar — with no food coloring, it’s made from natural sugar. It’s not as fibery as cotton candy. It’s smoother, and it doesn’t turn your lips blue or pink.”

Fair fudge

Nelson’s Candies based in Wilton is another fair regular, and this year it will hit the Sandwich and Deerfield fairs to sell its 24 flavors of homemade fudge. The most popular flavor is Belgian chocolate, said Shannon Griffiths, Nelson’s Candies manager, with chocolate peanut butter coming in at a close second.

But there are quirkier flavors too — like Scottish whiskey (made with Johnnie Walker Red), Cabin Fever (made with Cabin Fever maple whiskey), Bailey’s Irish Cream (made with, yes, Bailey’s Irish Cream) and pumpkin pie fudge, which will be made this fall with real pumpkin. All contain all-natural ingredients.

Griffiths said the fairs are always really exciting. They also plan on bringing products to the New Hampshire Highland Games & Festival this fall.

“Some people go to fairs specifically for [the food],” Griffiths said via phone. “And I think the fair’s a good way to introduce people to our products.”

For a full fair meal, try barbecue Mac ’n’ cheese and more

By Matt Ingersoll

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Fairs have all kinds of unique sweet, frozen and fried treats to offer each year, but barbecue and home-cooked meals are special in that they’re often “one-stop food shops” for families, whether it’s a pulled pork sandwich, grilled chicken wings or delicious side dishes.

Smokin’!

The Smoke Shack Southern Barbecue in Boscawen will be returning to the Deerfield Fair for its 10th year. Unlike most of the vendors visiting the fair with a concession trailer or a tent, the Smoke Shack owns a self-contained building on the fair's grounds that is only open during the fair's four days each year. Private seating is available for fair patrons.

“I think having those home-cooked meals and comfort foods are what a lot of families look forward to,” said Josh Davis of the Smoke Shack.

The Smoke Shack offers everything on the barbecue from beef and pulled pork to smoked ribs and half chickens. Every dish is made from scratch and applewood smoked.

Side dishes that are offered include home-

The Smoke Wagon in Weare. Courtesy photo.

made macaroni and cheese, baked beans, sweet potato salad, coleslaw and sweet potato and cajun french fries. Four flavors of dipping sauce are available, including a sweet barbecue sauce, a vinegar-based Carolina-style sauce, a mustard-based sauce and a chipotle barbecue sauce with smoked jalapeno peppers.

“It's kind of like cafeteria style,” Davis said. “You just come in and tell us what you

would like on your plate and you can make your own combos up or order them as we have them.”

Normal prices include $12 for a main dish with two sides, plus $3 for a drink.

The Smoke Shack will be offering a special senior discount that will consist of a half chicken dinner with two side dishes and a drink for just $8.

For the first time this year, Messy Mike's in Derry will be making an appearance at the Deerfield Fair. The company moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts two months ago and will be bringing a special smoked bacon mac and cheese recipe to this year's festivities.

“It's always a huge hit wherever we go,” Mike Massiglia of Messy Mike's said. “We use a Sam Adams lager with it that makes it a unique blend.”

Messy Mike's will also be selling St. Louis smoked ribs, briskets and homemade side dishes like smoked barbecue beans, a southern potato salad and a vinegar-based coleslaw. This will be the company's only Granite State fair this year.

“I'm going to bring the smoker, and everything is going to be fresh onsite,” Massiglia said.

Hungry for homey?

Gary Shreve of The Smoke Wagon Barbecue in Weare said barbecue foods are unique at the fair because they offer a “homey” feeling as well as something for everybody.

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Shreve started The Smoke Wagon three years ago. He uses pellet smokers to cook everything onsite, and makes his own rubs and sauces for everything.

The Smoke Wagon will be among the vendors at this year's Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair.

Shreve said he will be set up in a trailer with a tent in front of it to serve from.

“We'll have pulled pork, dry rubbed baby back ribs and steak and cheese,” he said. “Nothing is prepared ahead of time. … I wish I could do [our whole menu] at the fair, but we'll hopefully be expanding next year and doing at least three or four of them.”

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The oldest family vendors that will be appearing at both the Deerfield and Hopkinton fairs, Chesley's has been in the same family for six generations. The company appears at each fair in the form of a 40-foot trailer.

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Carolyn Dudley of Dudley’s Ice Cream in Loudon has been bringing her Carolyn’s Creamee trailer to New Hampshire fairs for years, selling soft-serve ice cream,

shakes and frappes, slush, root beer floats and ice cream sundaes.

“I think that whenever you get an ice cream or something like this, it’s a treat,” Dudley said. “Once you eat dinner at the fair and you come across it, you want it, and it’s not just the kids, but the adults, too.”

Her soft-serve ice cream is available in chocolate, vanilla and chocolate-and-vanilla twist, as well as other “flavor bursts” like strawberry, black raspberry, coffee, creamsicle and a cotton candy flavor called Blue Goo, which Dudley said is a favor-

ite among the younger crowd. At some fairs, Carolyn’s Creamee is joined by Dudley’s Ice Cream, which adds hard ice cream to the menu, but the root beer floats and soft-serve ice cream cones are usually the biggest sellers.

“People love the traditional old-fashioned root beer float. It brings back the kid in everyone,” Dudley said. “Ice cream cones are definitely the most popular, though. It’s something cold on a hot day, and it’s something easy for a child to hold on to as they’re walking along and enjoying the fair.”

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Another frozen treat to look for this fair season is Kona Ice. Sharon Sweeney of Surry has been serving the tropical shaved ice at New Hampshire fairs since 2009, when she and her husband became the first Kona Ice franchise owners in the state.

“Kona gives us the opportunity to do all kinds of things … and being at the fairs has always been a part of what we do,” Sweeney said. “The Kona Ice experience has a lot to do with the happy atmosphere it brings, and the atmosphere of a fair lends itself to fun and excitement, so I think that’s why Kona fits in there so well.”

Not to be confused with a snow cone, Kona Ice is finely shaved ice with a wide selection of flavor options. The 10 most popular flavors, like blue raspberry, pina colada and tiger’s blood (strawberry and coconut), make up the Flavor Wave, an interactive panel on the side of the truck that allows people to flavor their own ice and create their own flavor combinations. If someone wants a flavor that isn’t on the Flavor Wave, there are additional, more unique flavors inside the truck, such as root beer, wedding cake, bubble gum and cotton candy.

“Kona Ice is unique because it’s really more like real snow,” Sweeney said. “Since the ice is finely shaved, it holds the flavor more than a snow cone, which is hard and crunchy and the flavor just falls off of it.”

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While the companies that bring the amusement rides to the fair often bring their own food booths with snow cones and other standard treats, Sweeney said many people are drawn to the vendors that are local and familiar to them.

“It’s amazing for us to be at the fair and have people come up and say, ‘You came to my school!’ or ‘You came to my work!’” she said. “Even if it wasn’t us, people from all over the state have seen Kona in their hometowns, and there’s an instant recognition with the brand.”

Dudley said she also has many customers at the fair who buy her treats because they’ve been customers at Dudley’s Ice Cream.

“There’s a lot of local businesses that go to the fairs, and that’s nice for people,” she said. “People like to seek them out because that’s who they’re familiar with.”

You can find Carolyn’s Creamee trailer at the upcoming Hopkinton State Fair, Deerfield Fair and Sandwich Fair, and Sweeney’s Kona Ice truck at Hopkinton State Fair, Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair and Deerfield Fair.

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ARTS First-time directors Teens take on She Kills Monsters

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This weekend in Milford, a couple of teens celebrate their directorial debut with She Kills Monsters at the Amato Center for the Arts.

Milford High School 16-year-olds Grace Bonner, director, and Kalli Bogdzewic, assistant director, put their “blood, sweat and tears” into this play, having spent late nights blocking, making costumes, designing sets and laying out their vision. Showtimes span Aug. 25 through Aug. 27.

There aren’t a lot of local theaters where teens are allowed to direct plays, which is one of the reasons Robin LaCroix, Boys & Girls Club director of theater arts, likes to offer those opportunities. Sometimes a student-directed play is a great success.

Sometimes it isn’t.

“But you can’t learn unless you’ve made mistakes, and these guys are really open to learning and listening,” LaCroix said.

Bonner had been wanting to direct a show herself for a while and was inspired by one produced by the Granite State Arts Academy in Derry — She Kills Monsters See She Kills Monsters Where: Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon Road, Milford When: Thursday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 27, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.

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Grace Bonner and Kalli Bogdzewic. Kelly Sennott photo.

by Qui Nguyen, which hit Off-Broadway in 2011.

Bonner told Bogdzewic about the idea during an a cappella rehearsal for a student-run group, Vocally Yours, at the Boys & Girls Club last fall. Then they told LaCroix. To their surprise — because it’s a pretty mature show — she loved the idea. “[The play] deals with a lot of issues that are common to teens living right now.

It’s a really relevant piece, and it takes place within the realm of Dungeons & Dragons,” LaCroix said.

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her nerdy younger sister, Tilly, so when she stumbles upon a Dungeons & Dragons quest while looking through her sister’s things, she uses it as a way to get to know her better. The result is like opening a diary; she learns about Tilly’s friendships, conflicts, sexuality and feelings about her family.

The show is aimed at teens and adults, and the duo did some light editing to make it more suitable for the Boys & Girls Club.

Directing has resulted in a roller coaster of emotions for Bogdzewic and Bonner.

The cast is made up of 22 teens, and it’s been difficult at times, getting people to respect their vision.

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because we’re student directors,” Bogdzewic said.

But they said it’s been coming together, piece by piece. The little moments make it worth it.

“It’s crazy hard work, but then you come to rehearsal and you watch people laughing, or you watch them finally getting that note,” Bonner said.

“Or finally finding the emotion in their monologue,” Bogdzewic added. “I don’t think they get how important they are to us.”

Difficulty also stems from their miniscule budget and the fact that She Kills Monsters isn’t done a lot. They’re making props and costumes with the help of a hot glue gun, cardboard and fabric dye, plus frequent trips to Goodwill and Mother & Child. Their take, they said, is interpretive but full of ’90s flashbacks. The set will be covered with posters of Seinfeld, Friends and MC Hammer.

“We went around to all of our teachers at school and asked what they remember about the ’90s. We got people’s perspectives of what the clothes were like and TV shows they watched,” Bonner said.

Both Bonner and Bogdzewic hope to continue with theater after high school.

“I think theater is really important and a little overlooked. There’s singing and dancing and acting — you have to have so many skills to do it,” Bonner said. “It’s the culmination of every art form. … And it sends a lot of important messages.”

It takes a certain amount of bravery, too.

“Going up onstage in front of hundreds of people isn’t easy. Even for professionals. It’s still nerve-racking and scary. But being up onstage — it’s just the best feeling ever,” Bogdzewic said.

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Theater Auditions/open calls • NH THEATRE PROJECT YOUTH REPERTORY AUDITIONS Mon., Sept. 12, 4-8 p.m.; Tues., Sept. 13, 4-8 p.m. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth.

Visit nhtheatreproject.org. Call 431-6644, ext. 2.

Productions • SHE KILLS MONSTERS Thurs., Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 2:30 & 7:30 p.m. Tickets

$12. Amato Center for the Performing Arts. 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. Visit svbgc.org.

• THE LADIES MAN Peterborough Players production. Aug. 17 through Aug. 28. Tues.-Fri. at 7:30 p.m.; Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sun. at 4 p.m. Peterborough Players Theater, 55 Haldey Road, Peterborough. $39. Visit peterboroughplayers.org. Call 924-9344.

• SHERLOCK Peterborough Players production. Fri., Aug. 26, at 2 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 2 p.m. Peterborough Players Theater, 55 Hadley Road, Peter-

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borough. $8 for children, $10 adults. Visit peterboroughplayers.org. Call 924-7585.

• ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Palace Theatre Summer Children's Series production. Thurs., Aug. 25, at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $9. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• CIRQUE DU SOLEIL OVO Thurs., Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 4 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun.,

Aug. 28, at 1:30 & 5 p.m. Verizon Arena, 555 Elm St., Manchester. Prices vary. Visit verizon.arenamanchester.com.

• DORKS IN DUNGEONS Improv show inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. Fri., Aug. 26, at 8 p.m. 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth. $12.

Visit dorksindungeons.com.

• BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL Actorsingers Fringe Project performance. Fri., Aug. 26, at 8 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St.,

Nashua. $20. Visit actorsingers. org.

• THE SPITFIRE GRILL ACT ONE production. Fri., Aug. 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 2, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 3, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $20. Visit actonenh.org.

• IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR Rochester Opera House production, starring Tony Sands.

Musical journey through the life and times of late Frank Sinatra.

Sat., Aug. 27, at 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. $25. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com. Call 335-1992.

• DIMENSIONS IN DANCE:THE MERMAID AND THE MAGIC COMB Free performance by youth company. Sat., Aug. 27, at 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., during Intown Manchester Free Family Festival which is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Veterans Park, 889 Elm St., Manchester. Visit intownmanchester.com.

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Notes from the theater scene

• Legacy tour: The Celtic Thunder: Legacy Tour stops at the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord, this Friday, Aug. 26, at 8 p.m. The show celebrates the influence of Irish and Celtic music around the world and stars a recently revised cast, made up of Damian McGinty, Ryan Kelly, Neil Byrne, Emmet Cahill and new member Michael O’Dwyer, according to the venue website. Included in the program are songs like “A Place in the Choir,” “Galway Girl,” “Danny Boy” and “Raggle Taggle Gypsy.” The vocalists will be backed by the eight-piece Celtic Thunder Band on strings, guitars, percussion, whistles, pipes and more and is led by musical director David Munro, who also plays keyboards in the show. Tickets are $48 to $88. Visit ccanh. com or call 225-1111. See story on 52.

• Actorsingers Fringe Project: For the second consecutive summer, the Actorsingers Fringe Project produces an unconventional production — Bat Boy: The Musical, a musical comedy/horror that tells the story of the Weekly World News legend. The show, which occurs Friday, Aug. 26, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 27, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. at the Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua, follows a half-boy, half-bat, who was found in a cave as a kid and adopted by the “seemingly loving” Park• MOONGLOW Play reading of work by Lowell playwright Jack Neary. Thurs., Sept. 1, at 6:30 p.m. Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell.

Free.

• TALES TOLD: AUTHENTIC VOICES SHARING TRUE TALES OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE Tues., Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit getyourtaleon.com.

• SISTER ACT Palace Theatre production. Sept. 9 through Oct. 1. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25-$45. Visit palacetheatre.org. Call 6685588.

• OCCUPANT theatre KAPOW reading of Edward Albee play.

Sun., Sept. 11, at 2 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Free with museum admission. Visit tkapow.com.

• PORTSMOUTH UNDERBELLY Walking tour chronicling underbelly of Portsmouth, telling scandalous stories usually swept under the rug. Monday and Saturday evenings at 6 p.m.

Celtic Thunder performs at the Cap Center this Friday.

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er family, as described in the press release.

But the community rejects him, even as he tries to adapt to their norms, and he’s blamed for a number of mysterious cow deaths that occur throughout Hope Falls, West Virginia.

The show is for mature audiences. Tickets are $20. Visit actorsingers.org.

• Audition for youth ensemble: The Manchester Community Music School holds auditions for the New Hampshire Youth Ensemble — the largest youth ensemble program north of Boston — at the beginning of September. The ensemble is open for every age and playing ability, according to a press release, comprising three orchestras, a concert band, a wind ensemble and two jazz ensembles. All ensembles perform together twice a year, with additional performances scheduled for individual ensembles throughout the year.

Visit mcmusicschool.org or call 644-4548 for information about specific dates and audition requirements. The music school is also scheduling fall lessons, offered on most instruments. — Kelly Sennott

Corner of State and Pleasant St., Portsmouth. $15. Call 978-6837745. Reservations recommended. Visit underbellyports.net.

Art Events • RICK LIBBEY Wildlife photographer presents work. Thurs., Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. Andover Elementary School, 20 School St., Andover. Free. Email andovercommunity03216@gmail.com.

• PLEIN AIR IN THE PARK Sat., Aug. 27, 1-4 p.m. Prescott Park, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. Visit nhcreativec.ub.org.

• THE HUMAN CONDITION LLC Gallery of arts and tattoos.

Grand-opening get-together.

Featuring live music by The Troublesome Tuba, words by Haiku Gerry and Friends. Sat., Aug. 27, at 5 p.m. The Human Conditions LLC, 102 Main St. , Pembroke. Call 270-2131.

• 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.

• CURRIER AFTER HOURS: COCKTAILS AND COLOR Coloring books, food, cocktails, live music. Thurs., Sept. 1, 6-9 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Free with museum admission. Visit currier.org. Call 669-6144, ext.

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• ART BE-CAUSE One-night only event, featuring four local artists to support Northeastern Ballet Theatre. Courtney Sanborn, Sean Ware, Liz Wilson, Monica Nagle. Fri., Sept. 2, 6-8 p.m. Flight Coffee Co., 478 Central Ave. , Dover. Visit northeasternballet.org. Call 834-8834.

• ANDRES INSTITUTE OF ART IRON MELT Make scratch iron mold. Sat., Sept. 3, at 1 p.m. Andres Institute of Art, 98 Route 13, Brookline. $35.

Visit andresinstitute.org.

• PAINT THE TOWN ART AUCTION Art auction to benefit Kimball Jenkins School of Art. Silent auction, cocktails, wine raffle. Thurs., Sept. 8,

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• Art classes for vets: Amherst artist Elaine Farmer is offering free art classes for veterans at the Manchester VA Medical Center (718 Smyth Road, Manchester) starting Sept. 12 and ending around Veterans Day. She said via phone the classes will occur Mondays, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and tackle a variety of topics, depending on what the vets want, from drawing lessons to colored pencil art. Farmer said she’d been teaching these classes since March and had gotten positive feedback from vets who, she said, thought it was relaxing. At the end of the session of classes, she plans on organizing an art show. To register, call Debra Krinsky at 624-4366, ext. 6419.

• Cool escapes and garden tours: The Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, is a cool place to be this weekend; it hosts a tour Saturday, Aug. 27, at 11:30 a.m., themed “Cool Escapes in the Currier Collection Tour,” which is free with museum admission. Regular admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $9 for students and $5 for youth. This weekend, there’s also a themed tour at the Zimmerman House, “Landscaping a Usonian: The Zimmerman House Garden Tour,” on Sunday, Aug. 28, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Zimmerman House tours start at the museum, and admission for those is $20 for adults, $19 for seniors, $16 for students and $8 for kids ages 7 to 17. Call 669-6144 or visit currier.org.

5:30-8 p.m. Kimball Jenkins School of Art, 266 N. Main St., Concord. $35. Visit kimballjenkins.com.

• JOHN PAUL JONES FALL JUBILEE AND SILENT AUCTION Featuring jazz by dry Martini, auction, wine raffle, hors d'oeuvres. Thurs., Sept. 8, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Discover Portsmouth, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth. $30 suggested donation. Visit portsmouthhistory.org. Visit facebook.com/ portsmouthistory.

• DOWNTOWN ARTS FESTIVAL Presented by Positive Street Art. Sat., Sept. 18, noon-6 p.m. Le Parc De Notre Renaissance Francaise, Nashua. Visit positivestreetart.org.

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Fairs • APPLE COUNTY CRAFT FAIR More than 50 juried craftsmen displayed. Sat., Sept.

10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 3 Peabody Row, Londonderry. Call 494-3246.

Paintings by Robert Weinstein are up at the RiverSea Gallery this month. Courtesy image.

• Robert Weinstein at RiverSea: The RiverSea Gallery (Washington Street Mills, One Washington St., Suite 310, Dover) features paintings by Robert Weinstein now through Sept. 30, with an artist’s reception on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 6 to 9 p.m. Weinstein has produced and directed television entertainment specials and has been nominated three times for an Emmy Award. He’s a New York University grad and served as an adjunct professor at Emerson College.

He has exhibited across the United States and Canada, with pieces in collections in England, Poland and Israel. Call 7670431 or visit the gallery’s Facebook page for more information.

— Kelly Sennott

Openings • 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 nationalartsprogram.org.

• MOTHER-DAUGHTER ART EXHIBITION Featuring work by Elizabeth Hamilton Thayer Huntington and Betty Huntington. On view Aug. 27 through Oct. 23. Reception Sun., Aug. 28, at 5:30 p.m. Castle in the Clouds, Route 171, Moultonborough. Visit castleintheclouds. org. Call 476-5900.

• MYRTLE STREET GALLERY OPENING Wed., Aug. 31, 6-9 p.m. Alleyway next to Dover Parking Garage, Corner of Chestnut and Myrtle St., Dover. Free.

• SEGUN OLORUNFEMI Art exhibit of Nigerian-born artist from Manchester. Presentation about his life and work Thurs.,

Sept. 1, at 7 p.m. Mariposa Museum, 26 Main St., Peterborough. $6. Visit mariposamuseum.org. Call 924-4555.

• "BORN TO FLY" On view Sept. 2 through Oct. 16. Artist reception Fri., Sept. 2, 6-8 p.m.

Aviation Museum, 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry. Call 6694820.

In the Galleries • "IMAGINARY FRIENDS" Created by local fiber artist Mindy Sue Wittock. On view Aug. 4-Aug. 26. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com. Call 232-5597.

• "7 POINTS OF VIEW: 7 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. Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Call 431-4230.

Email vanloon42@gmail.com.

• "URBAN LANDSCAPES:

ANOTHER MERMAID STORY This Saturday, Aug. 27, part of Intown Manchester’s Free Family Festival, Dimensions in Dance of Manchester performs a new ballet, The Mermaid and the Magic Comb, on the Veterans Park stage, 889 Elm St., Manchester. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., offering activities for kids, games, food and music, and the dance performances occur at 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. The ballet tells of a trapped mermaid who’s set free by a young girl, and in return, the mermaid gives the girl a magic comb. Dance company director Amy Fortier wrote the story and choreographed the 20-minute ballet to tie in with the “Under the Sea” festival theme.

Twenty dancers will perform as mermaids, angel fish, seals, jellyfish and sharks.

The event’s free to attend. Visit intownmanchester.com or dimensionsindance. com. Courtesy photo.

MANCHESTER AND THE MODERN AMERICAN CITY" On view now through Aug. 29. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

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

• "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.

• 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. 2. Art 3 Gallery,

44 W. Brook St., Manchester.

Call 668-6650. Visit art3gallery. com.

• "EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN" Featuring art depicting families exploring and enjoying outdoor activities.

On view June 4 through Sept.

4. Children's Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover. Free for gallery only.

Visit childrens-museum.org.

Call 742-2002.

• "SUMMER EXHIBIT" Featuring sculptor Ronnie Gould, printmaker Catherine Kernan,

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and painters Sean Beavers, Ilene Richard, Patrick McCay, and David Wells, according to the website. On view July 1 through Sept. 5. Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord. Call 2252046. Visit themillbrookgallery. com.

• "EASY LIVING, SUMMER HEAT" Hollis Arts Society exhibit of paintings, photos, jewelry. On view through Sept.

12. Community Council Building, 100 W. Pearl St., Nashua.

Visit hollisartssocietynh.com.

• "GLOOSCAP/KLUSKAP OF THE WABANAKI" Contemporary Art Gallery show.

Maliseet artist Dozay portrayed the adventures of the Wabanaki hero Kuslap in series of paintings. On view through Sept. 30.

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Road, Warner.

Visit indianmuseum.org. Email info@indianmuseum.org. Call 465-2600.

• GRETCHEN WARSEN Abstract art show. Aug. 20 through Oct. 1. Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom. Visit epsomlibrary.com.

• ANNUAL OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXHIBIT Outdoor sculpture garden. On view May 27-Oct. 23. Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord.

Visit themillbrookgallery.com.

• "THE ART OF CONVERSATION" Art exhibition themed on communications. On view May 1 through Oct. 31.

NH Telephone Museum, One Depot St., Warner. $5 admission to the museum. Call 456-2234.

Visit nhtelephonemuseum.org.

Workshops/classes • HANNAH DUSTIN QUILTERS GUILD INC. MEETING Mon., Aug. 29, at 9 a.m.

Community Center, Lions Ave., Hudson. Call 883-0569.

• 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.

Classical Music Events • MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL FREE CONCERT SERIES Free concerts. Thurs., Aug. 25, at 6 p.m. Stark Park, Manchester. Call 644-4548. Visit mcmusicschool.org.

• CELTIC THUNDER Celebration of influence of Irish and Celtic music around the world.

Fri., Aug. 26, at 8 p.m. Capitol

Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $48-$88. Visit ccanh.com. Call 225-1111.

• "FROM TRAGEDY TO TRANSCENDENCE: BACK, CASALS, AND THE SIX SUITES" By guitarist Steven Hancoff. Thurs., Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m. Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell.

Free. Call 978-452-7641. Visit whislerhouse.org.

• “FROM TRAGEDY TO TRANSCENDENCE: BACH, CASALS AND THE SIX SUITES” By Steven Hancoff.

Sat., Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $28. Call 431-6644, ext. 5.

• 36TH ANNUAL BANJO AND FIDDLE CONTEST Sat., Sept. 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Boarding House Park, 40 French St., Lowell. Free. Call 9705000. Visit nps.gov.

Open calls/workshops • NH GAY MEN'S CHORUS: OPEN AUDITIONS Seeking men older than 18 who are gay or gay-supportive or adults who identify as male and enjoy singing four-part men's TTBB harmony.

Tues., Sept. 6, at 6:30 p.m.; Tues., Sept. 13, at 6:30 p.m.; Tues., Sept.

20, at 6:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 508 Union St., Manchester. Visit nhgmc.com, facebook.com/nhgmc.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE Farmer flashbacks

Tractor Expo offers antiques on display, demos and games

By Matt Ingersoll

mingersoll@hippopress.com

Learn about the evolution of tractors and farming at this year’s Classic Tractor Expo in New Boston, featuring three days of special events at the Hillsborough County 4-H Youth Center. Now in its seventh year, the expo is hosted by the Northeast Two-Cylinder Tractor Club and will offer tractor demonstrations and parades, an antique tractor display, raffles and auctions, kids’ games and more. It will run from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, and Saturday, Aug. 27, and from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28.

The last expo in 2014 saw about 800 visitors throughout the weekend and was also the first year it expanded beyond just John Deere tractors.

The club started 26 years ago when John Deere tractor enthusiasts wanted a venue where they could get together to restore old tractors, according to expo organizer Ginny Bowden.

“The first expo they had was in 2005, and it was started by a gentleman by the name of Tom Miller, who is a member of the club,” Bowden said. “He got some of the club members together to come up with what was then called the John Deere Tractor Expo.”

Classic Tractor Expo When: Friday, Aug. 26, through Sunday, Aug. 28 Where: Hillsborough County 4-H Youth Center, Route 13 and Hilldale Lane, New Boston Cost: $5 general admission; free for kids under 12 Visit: twocylinderclub.org

Festivals & Fairs • SUTTON FARM DAYS CELEBRATION This event's festivities include hayrides, a kiddie tractor pull, and many demonstrations of traditional farming skills and crafts. Antique tractors will be on display all weekend.

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The Classic Tractor Expo used to feature only John Deere tractors, but this year will be the first that has all kinds of makes, models and colors.

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A second expo was held the following year after the first one drew a lot of interest from the town and its surrounding communities, but Bowden said the event has since been held every two years when club members realized the magnitude of time and effort it takes to put into its planning.

“The event just started to grow overtime until we had tractors coming in from Florida, from Canada and from all over the place,” Bowden said. “This year will be the first year we’ll have tractors coming in all kinds of colors.”

Club members and tractor owners will be on hand for live demonstrations to show how they were actually used by farmers from back in the day, a feature Bowden said has often been a crowd favorite.

“There will also be seminars about things like how to dismount a tire, how to restore a tractor, and things

p.m. Visitors to Farm Days are encouraged to explore all the farm buildings and enjoy the 250 acres of gardens, farm and forest land. Sat., Aug. 27 and Sun., Aug. 28, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Muster Field Farm Museum, Harvey Road, Sutton. $5 general admission; free for members and kids under 6. Call 927-4276 or visit musterfieldfarm.com.

• WEARE OLD HOME DAY This event is organized by the

like that,” she said. “The seminars are usually different every year.”

Tractor games and pulling activities for kids are also planned throughout the weekend, including at a kids’ “fun spot,” where there will be everything from a small petting zoo to a sand pile complete with toy tractors, trucks, buckets and shovels.

“One of the other things that’s been a big hit, especially with the younger kids, is a tractor parade every day,” Bowden said. “The parade just goes all the way around the outside of the grounds, and the announcer talks about the different kinds of tractors and where they came from.”

As another fun way for the youngsters to get involved in the festivities, Bowden said the expo will also have a kids’ pedal tractor pulling race.

A chicken barbecue is planned for

Weare Historical Society and will feature more than 50 crafters and vendors, a presentation by the Squam Lakes Center, a magic show, a cake walk, and much more. Sat., Aug. 27, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Weare Center, Weare. Free.

Email info@wearehistoricalsociety.org.

• GREEKFEST This annual festival is held in celebration of the parish's Aug. 15 Feast Day, and will feature live Greek music,

noon on Saturday, and plenty of additional food options will be available from several vendors that will be at the expo each of the three days.

“There are enough live demos and games and other things going on that it’s sort of an educational trip too, and that’s probably what’s most important,” Bowden said.

“For anyone who might not give it much thought as to where their bread or their milk comes from, it’s interesting to learn about how and where the farmers use the tractors.”

The club is a nonprofit and has four meetings and several other tractor-themed fundraisers and events throughout the year. All proceeds from the expo are split to benefit the Hillsborough County Youth Center, the planning of the next expo and the promotion of the annual Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair during Columbus Day weekend.

ethnic jewelry and gift vendors, a multi-prize raffle, a penny sale, children's activities, and tours of the church. Sat., Aug. 27, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 28, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 111 Island Pond Road, Manchester. Free.

Call 623-2045.

• END OF SUMMER BLOCK AND POOL PARTY This event will feature raffles from community partners and businesses,

freebie giveaways, music, food and free guest passes. Visit the partner businesses booths to try samples, get information about wellness, and more. Bring a swimsuit and enter the Envy oasis indoor pool and cabanas, take a tour of the sports club and learn more joining the gym. Sat., Aug. 27, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Envy Sports Club & Cafe, 298 Queen City Ave., Manchester.

Free. Call 703-5303.

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Check out the 4th annual Dover Mini Maker Faire from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, in downtown Dover.

Hosted by the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, the event will feature several displays, talks, presentations, interactive demonstrations, and performances and makers of all ages and crafts. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Kids under the age of 6 get in free. Call 7422002 or visit childrens-museum.org for more details.

55 So. Commercial St. Manchester, NH (next to the FisherCats Stadium) www.LOFTFIFTY5.com 603.232.4555

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Join wolf expert Chris Schadler from 7 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, for an informative presentation on the Eastern Coyote, as part of the Massabesic Audubon Center’s (26 Audubon Way, Auburn) Nature Cafe series.

Schadler is also an instructor at the University of New Hampshire and is working on a book titled Becoming Wolf: The Eastern Coyote in New England. Tickets are $5. Call 668-2045 or visit nhaudubon.org.

Family fun and festivities

Be sure to check out the fourth annual TD Bank Family Fest, a free festival held in downtown Manchester from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27. The event will be at Veterans Park (889 Elm St.) and all families with children of all ages are welcome. This year’s theme is “Under the Sea” and will feature activities, crafts, healthy snacks and more from local businesses and organizations.

There will also be on-stage performances all day long. Call 645-6285 or visit intownmanchester.com for more details.

Weare’s Old Home Day returns to Weare Center (East Street and Flanders Memorial Road, Weare) on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is organized by Health & Wellness Exercise & fitness • TAI CHI IN THE PARK Thurs., Aug. 25, 3 to 3:45 p.m.

Victory Park , Manchester. Free.

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Wellness workshop • HERBAL SALVES & SCRUBS WORKSHOP Learn to make herbal skin salves to soften your skin, using comfrey or lavender. Wed., Sept. 7, 9 to 11 a.m. Beaver Brook Maple Hill Farm, 117 Ridge Road, Hollis. $20 ($18 for members). Call 465-7787.

the Weare Historical Society and will feature more than 50 crafters and vendors, a presentation by the Squam Lakes Science Center, a magic show, a cakewalk, and many more family-friendly events. Admission is free. Visit wearehistoricalsociety.org for more information.

Join the Refrigerator Door art center (7 Chestnut Drive, Bedford) for their Family Friday event from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 26. Parents and kids are invited to the center for a day of singing, dancing, crafts and more. The cost is $15 per family and includes all materials to be provided by the center. Dress accordingly, as the art projects can get messy. Call 781-8944 or visit refrigeratordoor.org for more information.

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Admission is free. Call 654-2581 or visit wiltonlibrarynh.org for more details.

Marketing & Business Personal finance workshops • IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP RIGHT FOR YOU? This workshop is designed to help decide if starting your own business is right for you. The workshop will explore the process and learn about its risks and rewards, as well as provide an overview of various resources to help move forward with succeeding with a business idea. Wed., Sept. 7, 6 p.m. Derry Public Library, 64 E. Broadway, Derry. Free. Call 432-6140.

Miscellaneous Religion-related events • A PRIEST AND A RABBI...

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.

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8, Thurs., Sept. 22, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Coffeeberries, Apple Tree Mall, 4 Orchard View Drive, Londonderry. Free. Call 4320004.

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It’s been a hot dry summer and many gardeners are lamenting the lack of color in their flower gardens. While it’s true that this is a quiet period for many perennials, there are plenty of flowers that are blooming — and plenty more on the way.

First, there are the annuals. Annuals are flowers that only get one chance to continue their genetic line. If they don’t make seeds and get them in the ground, they will die out.

Of course, those silly flowers don’t realize that all the big seed companies have plenty more seeds with similar or identical genetic material, and will be selling seeds for flowers just like them next year. But, not knowing that, annuals keep on blooming in hopes of perpetuating their genetic line.

Some annuals need to be dead-headed in order to keep blooming. We have to play the role of the deer or woodchuck or cow that might nip off the blossoms, signaling a need to produce more flowers and eventually seeds. If you don’t cut off the spent blossoms, the flowers will think they have done their job.

Annuals that need to be deadheaded include, but are not limited to the following: bachelor buttons, cosmos, gaura, gazanias, geraniums, marigolds, osteospurmum, pansies of all types, pincushion flower, salvias, snapdragons, sunflowers, verbenas and zinnias.

Some of those, like marigolds and zinnias, will bloom for long periods of time even if you don’t cut off the spent flowers. Many will branch and produce greater numbers of flowers after deadheading — cut off one snapdragon stem, get six more, for example.

Other annuals have been bred so that they are “self-cleaning.” That means that spent blossoms fall off and are replaced by new ones. Most impatiens are like that, along with some petunias. I have one petunia called Night Sky from Burpee that has been blooming constantly since early June and all I have ever done is water it occasionally. What else?

Angelonia, Supertunias, Superbenas, Million Bells, portulaca, dragon wing begonias, lantana, nemesia, torenia and oxalis.

Two of my favorite self-cleaning annuals are trademarked varieties (Proven Winners) and are not available in six-packs or by seed, only in pricier 4-inch pots. But they are worth it. First is Senorita Rosalita cleome. Unlike the generic cleome, it has no spiky thornlike appendages and no cat-pee odor. It is a multi-stemmed beauty about 24 to 36 inches tall with 4-inch wide clusters of frilly pink flowers. A knockout. Another is a euphorbia called Diamond Frost. This has a mass of tiny white flowers, a bit like baby’s breath, that

Cleome Senorita Rosalita. Courtesy photo.

keeps blooming forever. I have grown it in pots and brought them inside for the winter, and it keeps on blooming! Fabulous.

Then there are the perennials. Yes, June has passed and the peonies and primroses and iris have all finished blooming. But there are nice things now: purple cone flowers, blackeyed Susans, phlox and cardinal flowers are all blooming for me now. They are easy, sunloving flowers that do well in a vase, too.

A few words of advice about the perennials above: In general, the old standards fare better than many of the “new, improved” varieties.

And I say that not as an old curmudgeon who doesn’t like change, but as one who has tested many kinds.

So, for example, I have planted hybrid cardinal flower only to have them die after the first winter, even when the pure species plants I had did not. That said, I‘ve had even my best cardinal flower plants die out after a few years.

It is not a long-lived plant. It needs moist soil – it is found along the banks of the Connecticut River and I saw a huge patch alongside an abandoned beaver dam this week.

Similarly, I’ve had much better luck with standard varieties of purple cone flower than the new hybrid colors such as peach, or yellow. I’ll stick with the old-fashioned pinky-purple ones, thank you very much.

Phlox is an old-fashioned plant, but many of the new named cultivars really are better.

They’ve been bred to resist mildew, which makes so many of the old varieties ugly with spotted brown leaves. David is a white one that I grow that is very nice.

I love a black-eyed Susan called Prairie Sun. It rarely over-winters for me, but I accept that flaw because it blooms profusely from July until October. I generally purchase some every year. It is not a hybrid, so sometimes the plants will self-sow, providing free plants. Right now mine are gorgeous.

In order to have blooms all the time — which I do from March to November — you have to keep on buying plants, trying plants, replacing plants. There is no “quick fix.” So visit your garden center and ask what they have to brighten up your garden now.

Read Henry’s blog twice weekly at dailyuv.com/ gardeningguy. Henry gardens in Cornish Flat. He is the author of four gardening books.

IN/OUT TREASURE HUNT

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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).

Museums & Tours Tours • SANKOFA TOUR: PORT OF ENTRY Visit local wharves and auction sites related to the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Sat., Sept. 3. 10 Middle St., Portsmouth. Visit portsmouthhistory.org.

Nature & Gardening Kayaking • CANOE/KAYAK TRIP Easy level trip to help pick up trash in the Merrimack River.

Sat., Sept. 3, 9:30 a.m. Greeley Park boat launch , Nashua.

Visit souheganriver.org for more information.

Sports & Recreation Golf events • 19TH ANNUAL YOUTH MENTORING GOLF TOURNAMENT This annual golf tournament will benefit the Concord Country Club's youth mentoring program.

Founded in 1975, the program provides boys and girls ages 6 to 17 from Merrimack County with a mentor who serves as a positive role model and a supportive advocate. Mon., Sept.

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Runs/walks/races • NEW HAMPSHIRE 10 MILER 1,600 athletes will compete for prize money on this challenging 10 mile course that encircles Massabesic Lake. Earlier this year, the race was selected as the 10 Mile Championship in the 2016 USATF-NE Grand Prix Series. Nearly 400 of those athletes will be representing some of New England's USATF clubs like the B.A.A., Greater Boston Track Club, Central Mass Striders, Springfield Harriers and more. Sat., Aug. 27, 9 a.m. Massabesic Lake, Auburn. $45 registration. Call 512-1976.

• ST. CHARLES CHILDREN'S HOME LABOR DAY ROAD RACE This race will benefit the programs of the St. Charles Children's Home in Portsmouth. The USTAF certified course takes participants around the Pease International Tradeport and runners who set a personal best time will be given custom made keychains to mark the occasion. The event will also include pre-race raffles, games, arts and crafts and post-race food from Applebee's. Mon., Sept. 5, 9 a.m. Pease International Tradeport, 36 Airline Ave., Portsmouth. $20 per runner after Sept. 1; $30 on race day. Call 647-8606.

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• RAKSHABANDHAN This event features an evening of reflection and spiritual sharing to experience the essence and beauty of the sacred festival Rakshabandhan. Sun., Aug. 28, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center, 575 S. Willow St., Suite 209, Manchester. Free. Call 6225500.

• ETZ HAYIM SYNAGOGUE OPEN HOUSE Etz Hayim Synagogue of Derry hosts an open house for new and prospective members, featuring a tour, Q&A, bagels and coffee. Visitors may also speak with Rabbi Peter Levy, the education director, and other members of the community. Sun., Aug. 28, 10 a.m. to noon. Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1 1/2 Hood Road, Derry. Free. Call 432-0004.

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Dear Diane, What you have is a sweet white alabaster bust from 1918. Alabaster is a soft white stone that has been used for years for carvings of bust, lamps, boxes, etc.

Busts were very popular during the Victorian era but you can still get them today. A lot came from other countries such as Italy and France, and I think yours is from Belgium. That what I think the HAEGHEN translates into.

Alabaster busts have a wide range for values. It depends on age and who made it, as well as the subject, detail and condition. Because alabaster is such a soft stone many items have sustained damage over the years. Yours looks to be in nice condition. So I would say the value is in the $200+ range to a collector.

Note: Because alabaster is a soft stone, keeping it clean is important. I recommend no fluid and just a clean dry cloth to remove

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IN/OUT CAR TALK

Don’t dismiss old workhorse before getting it checked out

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Hi, Ray: I bought a ‘95 Chrysler Town and Country from my brother last year for $1,500. He had recently bought new tires and struts and some other part, so I basically reimbursed him for the recent work he had done and got the car for free. Since I have owned it, I have spent about $1,300 for new rear brakes, a new battery, a new belt and something else.

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dle to replace the failing transmission, and I cannot decide if it is worth it. The car has only 120,000 miles, and I drive it about 4,000 miles a year. I kind of hate to part with it, because the back is plastered with my Bernie bumper stickers, because it is great for hauling my frequently dirty dog and 50-pound bags of horse feed, and because it is the hippie van I never had in the ‘70s. My other car is a 2012 Beetle, and I am trying to keep it nice, so my dog is not welcome in it, and its hauling capacity is rather limited. My question: Is this old-timer worth repairing for the above reasons? Thanks.

— Barb It might be. Start by having your mechanic do an oil-pressure test on the engine. That’ll tell you a lot. If the engine’s oil pressure is marginal, then you can just go ahead and put a “Do Not Resuscitate” order on the Town and Country’s health-care proxy.

For instance, if the oil pressure is supposed to be between 35-55 psi at idle, and the test shows it’s at 36, I’d say drive it until it drops, then remove the plates and the dog and leave the van by the side of the road.

If it passes the oil-pressure test, then

ask the mechanic to look over the rest of the car to determine what other key parts are about to — in terms your horse would understand — buy the farm. He can check the water pump, the tie rods, the front brakes, the rack and pinion, etc.

Because on a car with 120,000 miles, any or all of that stuff could be ready to go.

If the car checks out reasonably well, then I’d say keep it, and put a rebuilt transmission in it. It’ll probably cost you about $2,500. But what other car are you going to get that meets your needs for $2,500? With a rebuilt transmission, no less!

And at 4,000 miles a year, you might get another five years out of it. And then, if you want to preserve your Bernie stickers, you can hacksaw off the rear bumper and weld it onto your next vehicle.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2003 Kia Sedona. The front brakes hang up on both sides. They don’t lock up, but they stay engaged, as if my foot is still on the brake. If the car sits for five or 10 minutes, they go back to normal. I had the calipers and hoses replaced. What think ye? — Claude I think ye didn’t need the calipers or

the hoses, Claude. I think you probably need a power-brake booster, or a brake master cylinder.

The way we diagnose these is we take the car on a drive and use the brakes a lot to get them to hang up. Then, once they misbehave for us, we hop out of the car and unbolt the master cylinder from the power-brake booster.

It’s just two bolts, and you don’t even have to remove them completely. You just want to create some separation between the master cylinder and the booster. A half-inch will do it. That removes the booster from the braking equation.

So if removing the booster causes the brakes to free up, we know that the booster is bad. And if the brakes don’t release, then we know it’s the master cylinder. Nine times out of 10, it’s the booster.

It sounds like you like to gamble on auto parts, Claude, so if you want to take a chance on wasting a few hundred more dollars, just throw a new booster in there.

But if you’d rather approach it scientifically, take a wrench with you and do that test first.

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

Lots of hands-on as well as inthe-classroom with anatomy and physiology. Lots of it. And you have your hygiene and pathology. … It’s just a certification and then you go to the boards and get a license. It’s at the school, which is actually right around the corner on Bridge Street in Manchester … [the] North EastAlycia Nason of Salem is a licensed massage therapist at Not So Plain Jane’s ern Institute of Whole Health.

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

There are some points during the year that aren’t super consistent. … Sometimes it can be slow and tough as far as bills and all that stuff. …

It varies, I would say, mostly in the summertime here and there.

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[We] ask [clients] what their problem is, areas that are bothering them and treat them [at] whatever body part is achy. … We do deep tissue, we do Swedish, which is relaxation. Most people want deep tissue these days. [It’s] a 60-minute massage or it’s a 90-minute massage.

We also do hot stone and prenatal. It’s basically to make our clients feel relaxed, feel comfortable. … I like to make people feel good at the end of the day. … Most people are … overworking themselves and that’s why their muscles hurt because they’re just so overworked.

How long have you been in your career?

Ten years.

How did you get interested in this field?

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She said ‘What about massage therapy?’ …

I took her up on the offer, went to school and I’m very thankful that she offered it to me because it’s something that I absolutely love.

What is your typical at-work uniform?

We are required to wear black pants How did you find your current job? and a professional top. And nice flat The last job I was unhappy at and I was shoes that aren’t like high heels. They’re just looking for ... a nice salon spa with a comfortable. nice clientele that had a great work environment with great employees, which is What was the first job you ever had? actually hard to find. I’ve only been here I was actually at a physical therapy office a short time and I’m extremely happy. I as a receptionist and also a physical therafound them on Craigslist and met one of the py aide. owners … and was hired that day, and I’ve — Ryan Lessard been happy since.

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What’s the best piece of work-related advice anyone’s ever given you?

To make sure you [maintain] eye contact with the client, listen to their every need and make sure that they know that you’re engaged with them and you’re paying full attention to what they want for that session.

WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU’RE REALLY INTO RIGHT NOW? I’m getting married in four weeks and my fiancé is absolutely my best friend so we do absolutely everything together, even if it’s just watching TV, lounging or walking the dog.

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Police and fire department members from across the Granite State will renew their rivalry at the sixth annual Battle of the Badges Baseball Classic on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 1:35 p.m. at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester.

The game is held each year to raise money for Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock through a combination of ticket purchases, sponsorships and charitable donations. More than $62,000 was raised for CHaD from last year’s game alone, and around $256,000 has been raised since the game’s inception.

“We like to stress that this is more than just a baseball game. … There are going to be so many family fun activities as well,” said Tom Gauthier, CHaD’s community relations and event coordinator. “Much like a Fisher Cats game, we have great community partners to make it a successful day, so we’ll have a mascot race contest, a teddy bear clinic, the kids’ zone will be open … and we’ll have different activities for kids and a lot of other things going on in the stands to keep them into the game.”

Forty-five police officers and firefighters hailing from 35 different New Hampshire departments make up this year’s Team Police and Team Fire.

The idea for the game was first conceived

by Bill Shea, now a firefighter with the Nashua Fire Department and a returning captain and manager of “Team Fire,” after CHaD had been holding a similar event at the Verizon Wireless Arena — a Battle of the Badges hockey game. “[Bill] wanted to get involved in CHaD, and he thought it’d be a great way to add to the franchise as well as to give back and get involved in something,” Gauthier said. “So he brought the idea to CHaD and they thought it was a great idea, and of course the Fisher Cats organization has been great to work with for letting us use their park.”

Preparation for this game has been months in the making, according to Chris Davis of the New Hampshire Liquor Commission’s Division of Enforcement and this year’s captain and manager of Team Police.

“We had tryouts starting back in May, before Memorial Day,” Davis said. “We kick off the first meeting around the first week in June and we’ve been practicing every other week since then. Team Police have been practicing at the field at Memorial High School [in Manchester] while the fire teams have been at Piscataquog River Park.”

Davis said this year’s teams will feature lots of new players as well as one of the largest turnouts of officers who tried out for the team.

The Black & Cherry Bench

A past Battle. Photo courtesy of Benton Photography.

“I had approximately 35 guys that tried out and unfortunately I had to cut it back,” he said.

“It wasn’t for any other reason than that we had more bodies than positions to play. This year will probably be challenging, but it’s all mathematical. We have 23 players and we try to guarantee each guy at least one time to get up and bat. Everybody will get to play, as a rule.”

In the game’s history, Team Fire has won twice and Team Police has won three times, including on a game-winning walk-off base hit in last year’s game. Off the field, Team Fire has been the leading fundraising team in four out of the five years, gathering almost $27,000 as a team last year.

Individual players commit to raising at least $1,000 each year leading up to the game.

Between the nine hockey games and five baseball games that have been played under the Battle of the Badges franchise, about $1.7 million has been raised.

“Everything is done for CHaD,” Gauthier said, “so [the players] might own a company on the side or they might do community service work, and they seek sponsorships for themselves and sell tickets, and their coworkers might also chip in.”

Gauthier said in addition to the players’ fundraising efforts, many of them meet with CHaD patients as special ambassadors.

“Some of our patients get involved in the game and they get to hang out with the players,” he said. “It’s just a great way to allow the players to develop a relationship with our patients.”

CHaD Battle of the Badges Baseball Classic When: Sunday, Aug. 28, 1:35 p.m.

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Greekfest returns with lamb, lasagna and other favorites

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News from the local food scene

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Five thousand stuffed grape leaves, 400 pounds of gyro and 1,000 pounds of barbecue lamb are some of the Greek specialties you’ll find at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church’s annual Greekfest, happening Saturday, Aug. 27, and Sunday, Aug. 28, in Manchester.

The festival, now in its 25th year, attracts about 8,000 people over the course of the weekend with its tried-and-true selection of authentic Greek dishes and pastries.

“We started in the beginning with a limited menu, and over the years we expanded it,” Costas Georgopoulos, festival chairman, said. “When we finally figured out the right menu with items that work well, we decided to stick with it and keep it the same.”

The menu includes Greek spiced chicken, rotisserie-cooked gyros spiced to order, homemade Greek meatballs, a spinach dish called spanakopita, traditional Greek rice, stuffed grape leaves and more.

If you’re new to Greek cuisine, Georgopoulos recommends the popular barbecue lamb or pastitsio.

“Pastitsio definitely is one of the most popular items,” he said. “It’s Greek lasagna, but there’s no red sauce to it. It’s ground beef and Greek noodles layered with a white cream sauce called bechamel.”

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• Patio dining: The T-Bones restaurant in Hudson (77 Lowell Road, 882-6677, t-bones.com/hudson.html) has unveiled a new outdoor dining patio with eight tables that can seat up to 10 guests. The patio features a pergola and gated area with scenic landscaping and a perennial garden. “We have outdoor dining areas at our other locations which are very popular,” Denis Brunelle, Hudson T-Bones general manager, said in a press release.

“I couldn’t be more pleased that we were able to build this great addition. I think everyone will appreciate the impact of this improvement to the plaza.” The patio is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., weather permitting.

• Brewery birthday: Great North Aleworks (1050 Holt Ave, Unit No. 14, Manchester, 858-5789, greatnorthaleworks.com) is having its first birthday bash on Saturday, Aug. 27, from noon to 6 p.m., at its brewery and tasting room. The celebration will include a toast by Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas at 12:30 p.m., the release of the brewery’s new double IPA Tragically Hopped, a New England Brewers portrait exhibit by photographer Michael Penney, Dueling Chefs Smoken-Grille food truck, Robust Vanilla Porter birthday cake, live music by Two Jigs and a Reel (1 to 3 p.m.) and Downtown Dave (4 to 6 p.m.) and a performance by magician Andrew Pinard (4:30 to 5:30 p.m.).

• Zen sips: Enjoy a relaxing evening of yoga and spirits at Banyan Tree Yoga (5 Pine St. Ext., Unit 2A, Nashua, 8891121, banyantreeyoganh.com) on Friday, Aug. 26, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Participants will take part in an all-levels class with Stacey Gagnon and Ashley Peck, then head over to Codex Bar (112 W. Pearl St.) for post-yoga drinks and socializing.

The cost is $15 and includes a $5 voucher for drinks and food at the bar. Pre-register online to reserve your spot.

• Winning winery: LaBelle Winery received 13 awards at the 2016 Big E Northeast Gold Wine Competition, including Best Winery and Best New Hampshire Wine for its 2014 sparkling cranberry wine. The competition judges wineries from across New England and New York. LaBelle also 40

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Greekfest When: Saturday, Aug. 27, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 28, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 111 Island Pond Road, Manchester Cost: Free admission and parking Visit: assumptionnh.org

Food & Drink Chef events/special meals • SETTLER'S JUBILEE A farm to table dinner and party featuring meats, produce, and flowers grown, raised, and produced in the town of Lee to celebrate Lee's 250th anniversary year. Thurs., Aug. 25, 6 to 10 p.m. Flag Hill Distillery & Winery , 297 N. River Road, Lee. Visit flaghill.com.

• ANNUAL CIGAR DINNER Enjoy a summer evening under the tent with food, wines and spirits, cigars and entertainment. Thurs., Aug. 25, 6 p.m. Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford. $125

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Greekfest also features classic Greek pastries, including baklava, a phyllo dough and custard pastry called galaktoboureko and fried dough, made from homemade batter and fried on the spot, then served with a honey syrup, cinnamon and powdered sugar.

While many food festivals of this size have cooks preparing and freezing meals weeks or even months in advance, cooking operations for Greekfest don’t begin until the Sunday before the festival. Georgopoulos said the fresh, never-frozen food is, to many people, one of the most appealing aspects of Greekfest, along with the authentic selections that aren’t typically available in the area.

“Some of the unique items, you can’t get very often except at Greek festivals,” he said. “There are some Greek restau-

plus tax and gratuity. Reservations required. Visit bedfordvillageinn. com.

• ANNUAL BIANCO WINE DINNER Enjoy dinner under the stars in your best white attire. Thurs., Aug. 25, 6 to 9 p.m. Lago, 1 US Route 25, Meredith. Call 279-2253 or visit thecman.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. 28, Sept. 4, from 9 a.m. to noon. Moulton Farm, 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. Cost is $16.99 per

rants around here that serve the traditional Greek lamb and baklava and gyros, but other than that, it’s really hard to find this kind of food.”

All festival activity is held outdoors under one large tent to create a festive and communal atmosphere. People can eat on site at the designated dining area, or they can take their food to go. However, most people stay to enjoy the other festival features such as live Greek music, a market with fine jewelry and other Greek items for sale and a kids’ corner with ice cream, popcorn and fun activities.

“I think people enjoy the overall culture,“ Georgopoulos said. “We’re showcasing our traditional foods and pastries so we can show people a little bit of Greek tradition and culture and have them experience it during the couple days of the festival.”

adult, $9.99 for children 10 and under. Visit moultonfarm.com.

• 2ND ANNUAL WHITE DINNER Wear your best white attire for this sophisticated dinner on the garden terrace. Wed., Aug. 31, 6 p.m. Copper Door Restaurant, 15 Leavy Drive, Bedford. $95 per person. Space is limited. Reservations are required.

To register, call Sandy at 488-2677 ext. 3, or email her at sandy.rozek@ copperdoorrestaurant.com.

• FIREHOUSE BREAKFAST Proceeds benefit the Firemen's Relief Fund. Sun., Sept. 11, Oct. 9, from 7:30 to 11 a.m. Milford Fire Department, 39 School St., Milford. Cost is

$6 per person, children under age 5 are free.

• TEA BY THE SEA Enjoy tea fare and teas in a cool room casually decorated with a seaside theme.

Sun., Sept. 18, 1 to 3 p.m. The Cozy Tea Cart, 104 Route 13, Brookline. $34.95. Call 249-9111 to reserve your spot.

• MAIN STREET FARMERS DINNER Farm-to-table event highlights local food and cooking. Main Street will be closed to traffic and festively decorated for 200 people to enjoy a multi-course dinner created by downtown chefs using locally sourced ingredients. There will be musical

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“We did that on purpose, to create a different kind of experience for people,” BVI President Jack Carnevale said. “Our regular dining rooms are more formal, the Tavern is more historic, Corks [Wine Bar] is urbanchic, but the Lobby is a more relaxed version of all of those. … It feels like a family room in a private home.”

The Lobby Bar opened in June as part of BVI’s new boutique hotel, The Grand, and is open to both hotel guests and the general public. Between the leather couches and chairs and the U-shaped wooden bar, it can accommodate about 50 guests, plus an additional 30 guests on its adjoining patio when weather permits.

The menu consists of inventive small plates like the bahn mi lettuce wrap made with roast chicken, kimchi, pickled vegetables and sesame; duck confit poutine, made with slow-cooked duck, Vermont cheddar curds and roasted garlic foie gras gravy; and grilled housemade bacon with a local maple bourbon glaze. There are also more traditional options like shrimp cocktail, oysters on the half shell and mini burgers.

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“We wanted to set a distinction for the Lobby Bar in terms of the culinary side of things,” Carnevale said. “It’s not a place to have a sitdown meal with one course after another. It’s more of a fun menu. It’s fun to go through the selections and put things together and experience different tastes.”

In addition to the small plates, the menu has a modest selection of chowders, salads and sandwiches, as well as desserts like the chocolate bag, made with white and dark chocolate mousses and an assortment of berries and chambord sponge cake. Diners can also request a dessert from the inn’s more expansive bakery menu.

The Lobby Bar features its own selection of cocktails, wines and draft beers which were carefully chosen to complement the food, atmosphere and clientele.

Its assemblage of wines is displayed in a wooden cabinet nestled next to the bar, while turquoise pillows and accessories add a pop of color to the wood and leather furnishings.

On chilly nights, the stone fireplace adds an additional level of warmth to the space.

Carnevale, who designed much of the Lobby Bar himself, said his inspiration came from a 1930s Vietnamese buffet chest. With its weathered yet vibrant turquoise paint, the piece stands as a focal point in the evening and is put to use in the mornings for the continental breakfast buffet offered to hotel guests.

“That’s how the Lobby Bar evolved,” he said. “The color scheme and the whole feel of it was created with the buffet piece in mind.”

But unlike some of the newer urban lobby bars with “funky art, hard seating and whatever the designer wants to showcase,” Carnevale said the primary focus of BVI’s Lobby Bar is the comfort of the guests.

“In a more intimate setting, people are more inclined to talk to one another, and I think there was a need for a place [like the lobby],” he said. “It’s very warm and cozy, and you can actually hear your conversations. I think that’s what people really enjoy about it.”

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“We just worked from a basic waffle recipe, then came up with different mixtures and ingredients and tried them on my parents’ waffle iron at home first,” Hoppe said.

“It’s broken now. There was a lot of trial and error.”

The Little Creperie uses locally sourced ingredients like berries from Apple Hill Farm in Concord, maple syrup from Ben’s Sugar Shack in Temple and milk from Contoocook Creamery at Bohanan Farm. With only eight kinds of crepes and six kinds of waffles, Ambargis said that keeping the menu small is part of the design; it makes things simpler for customers so they aren’t overwhelmed with too many choices, and it makes things simpler for the creperie as they source their ingredients.

“We want to be mindful of our ingredients, and I think the more you expand the menu, the harder it is to get all of the best ingredients,” she said.

The drink selection is also simple: locally roasted and cold-brew coffee, hot and iced tea and mimosas on the weekends.

Hoppe and Ambargis said that eventually they may look into branching out with more locations of The Little Creperie, but for now they’re focused on getting to know their customers and listening to their feedback.

“We’re really grateful that people have been coming in and that we have so many regulars already,” Hoppe said. “That’s the best part.”

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“We just opened our doors and all these people came in, and we thought, ‘Oh, my god, what’s happening?’” Hoppe said.

“There was so much business that we sold out of crepe batter and had to close early.”

Prior to The Little Creperie, Hoppe and Ambargis met and worked together at an office job on Main Street. At lunchtime, they often struggled to find a place that served quality food during the work day, so when the opportunity came, they decided to start their own restaurant serving breakfast and lunch.

The simple yet versatile nature of crepes, and Hoppe’s and Ambargis’ shared affinity for them, made a creperie the natural choice.

“You can fill a crepe with something sweet or savory, which is what appealed to us,” Ambargis said. “And it’s something different. It’s different from what’s usually offered around here, but just enough so that it’s still accessible to everybody.”

The menu features savory crepes like the Local Ham (ham, baby Swiss cheese and maple Dijonnaise) and the popular Fancy Pig (bacon, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, arugula and pesto) and sweet crepes like blueberry, strawberry and the Favorite (Nutella and banana).

While crepes are the main draw, Hoppe and Ambargis know that not everyone is a fan. That’s why they also added a waffle selection to the menu with inventive options like a blue corn waffle topped with candied bacon, a Funfetti waffle with vanilla glaze and the popular waffled mac ’n’ cheese — real macaroni and cheese crisped in a waffle iron and served with buffalo ranch sauce.

“Our menu is basically things that are familiar to people, but a little different,” Hoppe said. “We take something everyone has had, like macaroni and cheese or the Funfetti for kids, and we reinvent it and make it more interesting.”

Developing the menu took Hoppe and Ambargis countless hours of researching, brainstorming and ordering and analysing the crepes and waffles at other restaurants, plus lots of recipe testing. Some of the recipes they use are traditional or borrowed — there’s even a crepe made from Ambargis’s mother’s recipe — but the original creations required more experimentation.

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Local. People are very much into using a lot more local products, now more than What is your favorite local restaurant? ever. You see it say on menus quite often There’s so many. For breakfast, it’s Chez Vachon … and their crepes. For where they’re sourcing their meat and lunch, Bridge Cafe. … For dinner, I’ve vegetables from, and I think the customfound the Bedford Village Inn to be very ers dining at those restaurants choose good recently. The patio has a great menu them for a reason. and a good atmosphere.

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• ARTISAN BREADS II Learn the basics of bread baking while making the classic French baguette, hearty country loaf and herb focaccia. Wed., Sept. 7, 6 to 9:30 p.m. at Finesse Pastries, 968 Elm St., Manchester. Cost is $75. Visit finessepastries.com.

• THE WINEMAKER'S KITCHEN COOKING SERIES: MARINADES & DRESSINGS Class line-up includes making wine vinaigrettes, making marinades and understanding the theory behind using them and covering the basis for creating successful salads. Wed., Sept. 14, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. Cost $25.

Call 672-9898 or visit labellewineryevents.com.

Summer farmers markets • PENACOOK Mon., June 6, through Aug. 29, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. 1834 Rolfe House, 11 Penacook St., Penacook. SNAP/ EBT accepted at the market.

Visit penacook.org.

• BEDFORD Tues., June 14 through Oct. 4, from 3 to 6 p.m.

St. Elizabeth Seton Parish, 190 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford.

Free admission; bring cash for purchases. SNAP/EBT accepted. Visit facebook.com/BedfordFarmersMarketNH. • MERRIMACK Wed., June 15, through Oct. 12, from 3 to 6 p.m. 526 Daniel Webster Hwy.,

White Sangria that’s a blend of Seyval Blanc and Chardonnay with lime, orange and lemon, and a Red Sangria that’s a Chambourcin with real fruit,” she said in a press release. “They’re light, wonderfully drinkable, and both should be in the bottle in the next month or two.”

Merrimack. See merrimacknh. gov/farmers-market. Held rain or shine.

• HOOKSETT Wed., 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., through Sept. 14. Robie’s Country Store, 9 Riverside St., Hooksett. Visit facebook. com/hooksettfarmersmarket.

• PELHAM Wed., 3 to 7 p.m., through fall. Village Green , 6 Village Green , Pelham. Visit pelhamcommunityspirit.org.

• CANTERBURY COMMUNITY Wed., June 8, through Oct. 5, from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

Elkins Library parking area and field, 9 Center Road, Canterbury. Free admission; bring cash for purchases. SNAP/EBT accepted. See ccfma.net. Held rain or shine.

• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MARKET Thurs., June 16, through Oct. 20, from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Victory Park, Concord St., Manchester. SNAP/EBT accepted. Visit mcmnh.weebly. com. Held rain or shine.

• WEARE Fri., 3 to 6 p.m., through Oct. 14. at the gazebo on the Center Park green, Weare.

Find them on Facebook.

• PORTSMOUTH Sat. through Nov. 5, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

City Hall, 1 Junkins Ave, Portsmouth . Free admission. SNAP/ EBT and debit cards accepted.

See seacoastgrowers.org. Held rain or shine.

• LACONIA Sat., June 18, through Sept. 24, from 8 a.m. to noon. Laconia City Hall parking lot, Beacon Street East, Laconia. SNAP/EBT and credit cards accepted. See laconiafarmersmarket.com.

• CONCORD Sat., through Oct. from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Downtown Concord, next to the State House, Capitol Street, Concord.

Free admission. Credit/debit and SNAP/EBT accepted. See concordfarmersmarket.com. Held rain or shine.

• CONTOOCOOK Sat., June 4, through Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. to noon. Contoocook Train Depot, 896 Main St., Contoocook. See facebook.com/ContoocookFarmersMarket. Held rain or shine.

• MILFORD Sat., June 18, through Oct. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Granite Town Plaza, 191 Elm

St., Milford. SNAP/EBT accepted at individual vendors. See milfordnhfarmersmarket.com.

• NEW BOSTON Vendors offer organic locally grown produce, jams and jellies, soaps, honey, cookies, breads, farmstead cheese, yogurt, jewelry and more. Sat., 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., June 11 through Oct. 22. Town Commons, New Boston . Visit facebook.com/NewBostonFarmersMarket.

• SEACOAST COMMUNITY MARKETPLACE Sat., June 11, through Oct., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Scamman Farm, 69 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham. Find them on Facebook. Held rain or shine.

• SALEM Summer market through Sun., Oct. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Salem Market Place, 224 North Broadway, Salem. Mary Fisk School, 14 Main St., Salem. Bring cash or purchase tokens at the information booth. SNAP/EBT accepted at the market. Visit salemnhfarmersmarket.org. Held rain or shine.

• NASHUA Sun., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., through October. Main Street Bridge, Nashua. Visit facebook.com/nashuafarmersmarket.

Weekly/monthly tastings • TUSCAN KITCHEN Wine tastings Tues. includes four wines and history lesson. Complimentary wine tasting Sat. Tues. from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sat. from noon to 3 p.m. 67 Main St., Salem.

Wed. tasting $20, Sat. tasting free. See tuscanbrands.com. Call 912-5467.

• WINENOT BOUTIQUE Taste 5 to 8 wines, cheese and specialty foods. Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. 170 Main St., Nashua.

See winenotboutique.com.

• WINE SENSE Thurs. from 6-8 p.m. 166 N. Main St., Andover.

Call 978-749-9464. Visit winesense.net.

• WINE STEWARD Thurs.

5-7 p.m., and Sat. 12-5 p.m. 201 Route 111, Hampstead. Call 3294634. Visit thewinestewardnh. com.

• LUCIAS BODEGA Taste craft beer on Fridays and fine wines on Thursdays and Saturdays. Details at luciasbodega.com.

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Zucchini alfredo Recipe courtesy of Damn Delicious 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided 1 pound (3 medium-sized) zucchini, spiralized 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups 2% milk, or more, as needed 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 1/4 cup half and half 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

Add zucchini and cook, stirring occa-

butter in a saucepan and tossed the noodles in for about three to five minutes. I set the noodles aside and then started on the alfredo sauce.

The sauce was simple and delicious.

Thyme, oregano, garlic and Parmesan cheese, of course, combine to make this delicate and tasty dish.

Substituting zucchini noodles not only sneaks some much-needed veggies to my kitchen table, but also allows me to indulge in a traditionally high-calorie dish without the guilt.

Plus, this recipe uses milk and halfand-half instead of the heavy cream found in most traditional alfredo recipes.

This dish packs all of the flavor of decadent and creamy alfredo. But using the zucchini noodles keeps it on the lighter side overall.

Topped with an extra sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, this zucchini alfredo was a hit in my house, and anything that has my 2-year-old eating veggies is a win in my book.

— Lauren Mifsud sionally, until tender and heated through, about 3 to 5 minutes; set aside.

To the sauce pan add the remaining 2 tablespoons butter.

Add garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1 to 2 minutes.

Whisk in flour until lightly browned, about 1 minute.

Gradually whisk in milk, followed by thyme and oregano.

Cook, whisking constantly, until incorporated, about 1 to 2 minutes.

Stir in half-and-half and Parmesan until slightly thickened, about 1 to 2 minutes.

If the mixture is too thick, add more milk as needed; season with salt and pepper to taste.

Lastly, stir in zucchini and gently toss to combine.

Garnish with parsley, if desired, and serve immediately.

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I’ve bought cookbooks filled with recipes of dishes suited for hiding nutrients, and every recipe immediately gets a “yucky” review after one bite.

So when I made zucchini noodles with alfredo sauce the other night, my hopes weren’t high for my daughter to clean her plate.

But she did, and even asked for more.

Whether it was the creamy, cheesy sauce or the texture similar to ordinary pasta, I’m not sure. But whatever enabled my daughter to eat two full servings of zucchini will be rotating into my weekly meal plan in the future.

The first step in making this dish was to gather the right tools.

I’d been meaning to buy a spiralizer for a while, and this presented the perfect opportunity.

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Here in New Hampshire we are lucky to have some great wineries. While many people think you cannot grow grapes in our climate, our Granite State winemakers are proving them wrong.

The winery that first tested that theory is Jewell Towne Vineyards in South Hampton. I have visited several times and I always enjoy it and learn, or taste, something new. While visiting, guests can take a tour of the winemaking operations, check out the vineyard and taste up to five wines from that day’s menu. This means that during some visits you may get to try a wine that wasn’t open the last time you visited.

Peter and Brenda Oldak started out with six grapevines 34 years ago and now have 26 varieties in their vineyard, which spans the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border. Peter, a retired ER physician, also has a chemistry background and learned about wine while doing his residency. Both of them also enjoyed gardening. After testing out which grapes grew best in New Hampshire, they began making wine, going commercial in 1994. Four years later, they built the barn where their tasting room sits today, surrounded by rows of grapes.

The Oldaks discovered that their location on the seacoast, as well as the proximity to the Powwow River, was ideal for grape growing. They focused on cold-hardy grapes that could withstand New Hampshire winters, like maréchal foch, Cayuga and other hybrids. They have had continued success, having won hundreds of medals over the years at the 2016 Big E Northeast Gold Medal competition. This year their maréchal foch was named “best New Hampshire grown wine.”

There are now more than 30 wineries in New Hampshire, and many belong to the New Hampshire Winery Association.

Peter was the organization’s longtime first president, helping not only to create the association, but mentor other winemakers as well.

One of the things I enjoy most is hearing the passion in Brenda’s voice as she discusses their history, winemaking techniques and their wine. She said they put emphasis on the enjoyment of wine, and want customers to be able to relax and ask questions during tasting their visit.

While I have visited Jewell Towne a few times already, I was able to speak with Brenda while I was tasting wine on my most recent visit. I am already a fan

Jewell Towne grapes. Courtesy photo.

of many of their wines, including Seyval, Cayuga White, River’s Edge Red and South Hampton Red. During this visit, I tried the Maréchal Foch 2014, comparing it with the Maréchal Foch Traditional. These wines are made from the same grape but are very different. The 2014 is medium-bodied with more weight, with flavors of eucalyptus and cherry. The Traditional is slightly lighter in color, which is noticeable in the glass. It is off-dry and more approachable for non-red wine drinkers or those who like a slightly “lighter” red wine. It has smooth cherry and berry flavors and I found it to have a slight effervescence as well. The 2014 would be a wine I would have with food, like a red sauce Italian dish for example, while I would sip the Traditional on its own or with a meal.

Another wine I sampled was their 2015 Chancellor, a dry red wine with some notes of strawberry, cassis and vanilla. Dry red wine drinkers will enjoy this one. I got a very herbaceous nose but nice berry flavors and tannins on the finish.

Finally, I tried their 2014 Port. Unlike some ports, this product is made with grapes only; it contains no brandy. The result is a wine that has intense flavors of red currants, red cherries and cocoa. I found it to be smoother than other ports I have tried and less alcoholic. Winemakers outside of Portugal can no longer use the port name for their products, but Brenda said they are grandfathered in because they have been making it so long.

Jewell Towne Vineyards is located at 183 Whitehall Road in South Hampton. They are open year round for tastings, Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Visit jewelltownevineyards.com.

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I’m not one for fedora-hat bar-rock, that’s for sure, but Amos Lee has been and still is an exception. Not one to be pigeonholed, he does appear to get bored with genres after an album or two — witness the shift from gliding, po-faced Americana to muddy pickand-grin bluegrass from the Mission Bell album to his most recent record Mountains of Sorrow Rivers of Song.

Here again, he changes things up on album opener “New Love,” nicking either Gnarls or Smoky Robinson depending on your point of reference, ghouling up, among other things, the sound of a 1970s horn section and soulful falsetto lines to die for, all quite reminiscent of the track “Indonesia” from Mountains. “Running Out of Time” goes even deeper, matching Baptist-choir parts with Ryan Adams-style middle-of-the-raod stuff and yes, more horns, this time a la “Love Train” (one of Lee’s gifts is the ability to sound like a 60-yearold, and you get plenty of that on this track). A little bit of synth-cheese doesn’t spoil the breezy, Dave Matthews-ish-but-much-better “Lost Child,” and then there’s “Hurt Me,” a hypnotic, Rhodes-lined torch tune with a slashing snare sound. Guy’s got it going on, I have to admit. A+ — Eric W. Saeger Noname, Telefone (self-released)

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Either way, there’s a reason Chance the Rapper is helping his fellow Chicagoan along (she had a few lines on “Lost” on Chance’s Acid Rap mixtape), and I don’t mean the fact that they first met while participating in an artist-youth networking program — she does seem to be one of the good ones. A — Eric W. Saeger

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PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases

• Holy cats, it’s Babs! No, not Biebs, Babs! Yeah, Barbra Streisand, with her 35th album, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway! Let’s think about that title for a second. No, put down your latte, finish off that text, and think about it. “Movie Partners Sing Broadway.” Given that ridiculous excuse for an album title, and knowing what Babs actually is, wouldn’t you think she’d be singing Broadway songs with Kris Kristofferson or any of those other partner-style people who were in movies with her, like maybe Elliot Gould or Herb Adelman, you know, random non-singers, or maybe real former co-star singers like Mandy Patinkin? Nope!

Your brain is wrong again! No, these are duets not with actual “movie partners” of Babs but with random A-listers who weren’t even in movies with her, like bug-eyed scarecrow girl Anne Hathaway, who “assists” Babs on one of the songs from Chorus Line. No, don’t bother, I already consulted the Oracle of Bacon, and Babs has an Anne Hathaway factor of TWO, the linking actress being Norma Atallah, in other words, Anne Hathaway was never in a movie with Babs! Doesn’t your brain hurt now? And why didn’t this twice-Razzie-nominated Sta-Puft Marshmallow Ego call her new album Duets With a Bunch of Hopefully Hip Actor-Twits? Cripes, Alec Baldwin is on here? Melissa McCarthy? Where’s Carrot Top? “Movie partners” indeed. Barf barf barf. Whew, OK, you can pick up your latte now, in preparation for my next gut-wrenching tale of musical terror. Don’t read this stuff alone!

• Agh, ack, gahh, barf, it’s Céline Dion, here to finish me off, once and for all! Look at that vacant mannequin stare on her face while she warble-screams for the five blue-haired ladies who still buy her albums! Know how she gets that way? Dough-flavored croissants dipped in flavorless butter, that’s how! Wait, this new album has a French title, Encore un soir, or has she done that shtick already, the French words? Oh, that’s what she was doing before she ruined our musical tastes with that Titanic song and whatnot. Anyway, this album is her first French album since 2005. This is my “I totally care” face. And we’re only half done — there’s more in this week’s revolting rotbucket of reviews!

Read on if you dare! Gahh!

• Hmm, maybe this English indie band Glass Animals won’t make me barf. Their forthcoming album is called How to Be a Human Being. Millions of people liked listening to this band on Spotify, or so they claim, without producing a full data printout.

Hmph, the beat to the single “Life Itself” is cool, kind of neo1980s, rubbery, tribal, wait, it’s getting weird and stupid. Now one of them is singing in an INXS voice. It’s a cross between INXS and MGMT. It’s not horrible. Next.

• Hmph, speaking of English indie bands, it’s The Veils, with Total Depravity, their first album in three years. The single “Axolotl” sounds kind of like Bowie doing old-school soul with a retro David Essex-ish noise beat. Trippy but boring. — Eric W. Saeger

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Howard Mansfield’s literary agent Christina Ward saw lots of promise in a chapter devoted to sheds in his book Dwelling in Possibility: Searching for the Soul of Shelter, published in 2013.

“She pointed out, wouldn’t it be great if we could see these in pictures?” Mansfield said via phone.

Ward died suddenly in 2012 before the book was published, but Mansfield’s publisher, Bauhan Publishing, thought Ward had been on to something. They brought in photographer Joanna Eldredge Morrissey, who spent the past two years taking shed photos in and around the region. The result, Sheds, was released Aug. 15.

For the most part, the text of Sheds is the same as in the Dwelling in Possibility chapter devoted to them. A shed, in Mansfield’s definition, is flexible and fragile — strong enough to bend but easily fixed. They’re temporary, yet they last, and they evolve or devolve as needed. They’re part shelter, part tool, and they’re permeable.

The buildings splashed on the book’s pages are characterized by this definition, taking the form of covered bridges, barns, workspaces, tea houses, saunas and summer homes, even rusty old vacated buses and Lake Winnipesaukee bob houses.

“I’ve always loved bob houses. They’re just informal.

There are no rules about them,” Mansfield said. “You can essentially build whatever you want.

It’s the last unregulated building around, and people have made some witty, charming buildings.”

Morrissey, also The MacDowell Colony staff photographer, needed no convincing to join the project. She loves old structures and comes from a family of architects.

Her favorites to photograph were the falling down buildings, what she calls “dead sheds,” full of history and texture.

“There’s one particular barn in the book that was shot in New Ipswich which probably has like six different sidings. It’s amazing, what New Englanders will do to patch a building together, to uphold it and keep it up for another generation,” she said.

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Morrissey took an estimated 10,000 photos via car rides, by herself or with Mansfield, through the Monadnock and Lakes regions and during road trips to Bar Harbor in Maine and New York State. Most that made the cut are from New Hampshire.

Mansfield lives with his wife, writer Sy Montgomery, in a 130-year-old house in Peterborough. His intent in writing Dwelling in Possibility was to figure out what’s lacking in modern-day houses.

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“In 30 seconds, you know if you’re going to buy or rent a place. It’s a feeling,” Mansfield said. “And yet when it comes time to creating newer places, we have a hard time doing that. … Sheds are happy, simple buildings. … I want people to see if they can look at their surroundings with fresh eyes and appreciate the flexibility of common buildings, their grace and the way they adapt decade after decade. New England in particular is still full of these wonderful common buildings.”

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A new poetry book by Barbara Bald & Beth Fox! The book is filled with poems based on working with assisted living residents at the Sugar Hill Community in Wolfeboro. Poems were used to stir the residents’ memories. Don’t miss this artistic work of local personal histories!

Thursday, Sept. 8th • 7:00pm Nathan Hill

A Nix, can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.

Wednesday, Sept. 14th • 5:30pm Katrina Makris

Katrina Makris’ latest book shows us how to attune to the innate healing gifts we all bear.

Instead of being fragmented and dependent on outside sources such as drugs and doctors, the tools Makris offers teach us how to mend ourselves--because when we are whole, we are well.

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The Poetry Society of New Hampshire meets on the third Wednesday of every month.

This month’s headliners are Donald Wellman and Betsy Snider. An open mic follows their readings. All are welcome, newcomers are encouraged!

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Jennifer Vaughn visits Gibson’s Bookstore to present her new thriller, Throw Away Girls! Hard-charging, insightful, and ambitious, Jaycee Wilder wants to take her TV news career to the next level.

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by Ryan North (Riverhead, 400 pages) Four years after setting a Kickstarter record for To Be or Not To Be: That is the Adventure, Ryan North is back with another choose-your-own Shakespeare story, this one brought to us by a forreal big-time publishing company, in Romeo and/ or Juliet, where you play as either of the main characters or a few minor ones.

It makes perfect sense that Ryan North would be the guy to adventurize a well-known story. He’s a writer of comics, in particular his own online Dinosaur Comics but also the very adventure-y The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series from Marvel and the first 35 issues of Adventure Time comics from Boom! Studios.

He does the words; others do the pictures.

Romeo and/or Juliet is mainly a book of words, lots of words, but it does include some drawings — there’s one for each of the more than 100 storyline endings — supplied by top-tier talent. Noelle Stevenson (Lumberjanes, Nimona), Chip Zdarsky (Jughead, Howard the Duck), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Jon Klassen (I Want My Hat Back, This is Not My Hat and the forthcoming We Found a Hat picture books) and many others contribute.

Ryan North as Shakespearean narrator and story travel guide sounds something like Adventure Time’s Jake the Dog, a classic comrade in arms, playful yet sympathetic, loyal and honest. And this version of Verona is flavored with classic Ryan Northisms. Kissing is called “smooching.” There’s a horse named DJ Muscles McGlutes. There are fanciful descriptions of fights that sound dreamed up by a very bright eight-year-old: “I guess imagine that a tornado tore through a fist warehouse and scooped up a bunch of fists, and then the tornado parked right beside your head so all the fists kept hitting you in insanely rap-

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• ROSS ALAN BACHELDER Book launch, Happy Dawg Walks the Sad Man. Sat., Aug. 27, 4 to 6 p.m. Baldface Books, 505 Central Ave., Dover. Call 749-2300.

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id succession.” Or maybe it’s how the eight-yearold’s big brother-type companion explains the world to him.

Obviously you don’t read a comedy-toned choose-your-own story for great depth of character development. The joy of Romeo and/or Juliet is in wandering around and discovering small delights. Even the fine print on the title page has been turned into a bit of fun, and there are mini choose-your-owns within the whole — a mini Macbeth story, a mini Midsummer Night’s Choice, and one storyline that mimics a 1980s PC adventure game (“look around,” “go north,” “give message to Romeo”).

Shakespeare being Shakespeare, this is a PG-13 offering. There is a choose-yourown-sex-scene but it’s more humorous than anything else, and there are lots of graphically if cartoonishly described death scenes, with a preponderance of stabbing of self and others. There are a few happy endings but more unhappy ones.

It’s not exactly a must-read for Shakespeare scholars (though it wouldn’t hurt?), but neither is Romeo and/or Juliet an empty read — in fact it’s probably about as serious as you want to make it; there’s plenty of fodder for seminar discussions, if that’s your thing. It does have its gripping moments, like the version of A Midsummer Night’s Choice where you’re reading that story under pain of death if you make a choice that kills you therein. To the extent Romeo and/or Juliet carries a message at all (beyond Shakespeare’s, whatever you deem that to be), it’s probably about the value of thinking for yourself. After delivering the rose-by-any-other-name thing, North can’t resist: “I want to mention calling them ‘Grossweed Stankblossoms’ here, but that’ll kill the mood, so let’s just proceed.” B+ — Lisa Parsons

• MARJORIE MACPHERSON Author talks about Soul Mates. Sat., Aug. 27, at 1 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, 1741 S. Willow St., Manchester, 668-5557.

• JENNIFER VAUGHN Author discusses new book, Throw Away Girls. Sat., Aug. 27, 1-3 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford.

Second event Sat., Sept. 24, at 3 p.m. Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

• CHRIS GRABENSTEIN Author of Escape from Mr. Lem-

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• POLLY COTE Author signs memoir They Called Her Cate.

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• LUKE REYNOLDS Author discusses Surviving Middle School. Sun., Aug. 28, at 1 p.m.

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• JOHN PERKINS Author talks about/signs upcoming book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Sat., Sept. 17, at 2 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford. Visit toadbooks.com. Call 673-1734.

• JOE SMIGA Author talks about Blackest of Fridays. Tues., Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester.

• ROB CHIRICO Author signs new memoir Not My Mother's Kitchen. Sat., Sept. 24, at 2 p.m.

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Poetry events • FROST FARM HYLA BROOK READING SERIES: JOHNNY LONGFELLOW Poetry reading followed by open mike. Thurs., Sept. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Robert Frost Farm, 122 Rockingham Road, Derry. Free.

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• POETRY READING: MIDGE GOLDBERG Preceded by short Havdalah service, followed by open mike. Author of Snowman's Code. Sat., Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1 1/2 Hood Road, Derry. Free.

• NEW HAMPSHIRE POETRY FESTIVAL Workshops, panels, speakers. Sat., Sept. 24, 8 a.m. -6 p.m. New Hampshire Institute of Art, 148 Concord St., Manchester. $120. Visit poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org.

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• JAMES WALLER Author discusses Confronting Evil. Wed., Aug. 31, at 1 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford. Visit toadbooks.com.

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• BARBARA BALD, BETH FOX Discussion of Other Voices/ Other Lives. Thurs., Sept. 1, at 5:30 p.m. Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. Call 2240562.

• NATHAN HILL Author talks about The Nix. Thurs., Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• PETER C. LANGELLA Author and discusses the A Warrior's Heart: Battle for the Ancient City. Sat., Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. The Toadstool Bookshop - Lorden Plaza, 614 Nashua St., Milford. Call 673-1734 or visit toadbooks.com.

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Book sales • BOOK SALE Thousands of items — books, CDs, audiobooks, DVDs — on sale. Mon., Aug. 29, through Sat., Sept. 3, during normal library hours. Hampstead Public Library, 9 Mary E. Clark Drive, Hampstead. Visit hampsteadlibrary.org.

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• BOOK SALE AND CRAFT FAIR 50 cents to $5. The craft fair, to be held on the library lawn, will feature the wares of a number of talented artisans. Sat., Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hampton Falls Free Library, 7 Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls. Free admission; varying prices for items sold. Call 926-3682.

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The book is the result of six years of research and interviews done by Karen Beaudin, whose sister Kathy Lynn Gloddy was murdered in November 1971. She gathered information from law enforcement, forensics, medical professionals and classmates. The text illustrates how, just because police investigations end, it doesn’t mean family investigations do. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562, or visit Beaudin’s website, karenbeaudin.com.

• Learn to write: The New Hampshire Institute of Art recently announced its fall lineup of community education classes, and a handful of them focus on writing. Courses include “Discovering Poetry,” “Beginning to Write” and “Creative Writing II: Next Steps,” and they start at the end of September. Classes are in Manchester and Peterborough and span 6 to 12 weeks, priced between $149 and $289. Visit nhia.edu.

• Big book sale: The Hampstead Public Library (9 Mary E. Clark Drive, Hampstead) hosts a big annual book sale Aug. 29 through Sept. 3 during regular library business hours, with thousands of items, including books, music CDs, audiobooks and DVDs for children and adults, which will be sold at low prices, ranging from 25 cents to $2. The sale is open to the public. Call 329-6411. — Kelly Sennott

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• COLSON WHITEHEAD, BEN WINTERS Authors talk about new books, The Underground Railroad and Underground Airlines. Includes Virginia Prescott interview. Sun., Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $39. Call 225-1111.

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG)

and Chris Butler and a story by Shannon Tindle and Marc Haimes, Kubo and the Two Strings is an hour and 41 minutes long and distributed by Focus Features.

A boy goes on an adventure with a monkey, a beetle and a family legacy of powerful magic in Kubo and the Two Strings, a beautiful stopmotion animation film from Laika, the studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls.

It was a difficult start to life for young Kubo. We first see infant Kubo and his mother washed ashore after a violent storm. Kubo is missing an eye, stolen by his grandfather. Years later, 11-ish-yearold Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson, the kid from Game of Thrones we were all yelling “serpentine! serpentine!” at a few months back) lives in a cozy cave in the mountain above the beach where he and his mother first washed up. Kubo still has his mother, but she is getting weaker, able to tell him stories about his brave father, Hanzo, but then frequently lost in a haze.

Telling stories is something of a family tradition; Kubo earns money for himself and his mother by telling fantastic stories in the nearby town square of brave warriors and terrible foes. He tells them by playing a guitar while he talks and a pile of paper origamis itself into the warrior or a fire-breathing chicken (a foe he throws in because a friend tells him to mix in a bit of comedy). The stories gain huge audiences who are left begging for the conclusion when he has to stop his stories to run home before dark. It’s one of his mother’s rules and on the day he breaks it we find out why: when he’s under a night sky, his witchy aunts (Rooney Mara) and his evil grandfather (Ralph Fiennes), the Moon King, can find him and will come for his other eye.

When the witches appear, Kubo is able to just make it away — but he does so alone.

When he wakes up, in a strange snowy land, he’s joined by Monkey (Charlize Theron), who is a product of his mother’s magic and is sent to protect him. She joins him on a quest to find a magical sword, armor and helmet that will protect him from the Moon King. Kubo’s magic grows stronger and allows him to create things like a boat, to help them cross a large body of water. A dream where he wishes for his

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A Judean prince in Roman-occupied Jerusalem does the whole important guy to slave to vengeance-seeker arc in Ben-Hur, a movie about chariot-racing and early Christianity or something.

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father also creates a tiny, sentient origami version of him, little Hanzo, who points the way forward. And, as they journey, Kubo and Monkey also meet Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), a large samurai-sized beetle, or beetle-shaped samurai. Beetle has lost his memory but believes Hanzo was once his master and as such he pledges to help young Kubo.

So you’ve got your quest story — and it’s a good one, with a young boy looking for his place in the world and missing his family but surrounded by friends. Moments of sadness, bravery, joy, all that. And there’s good voice work — even the famous voices of McConaughey and Theron don’t get in the way of their characters. All around an above average children’s tale, probably for older kids (8 or 9 and up? what with the dead parent, terrifying villains and missing eye and all).

And then there’s the visual component, which is awe-inspiring.

Origami creatures and things created by paper play a big role in this story. In a world where things look real but still fantastical the paper stands out as papery, thin but with the grainy, fabricy look of paper, while still fitting with the storybook look of the overall environment. Watching the paper fold itself into a chicken or a warrior or a Moon King is a small detail but a delight-

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ful one. So too is the quality of Kubo’s hair and the way it flops over his eye patch.

The fur on the monkey and the way small changes in her face denote emotion are fascinating, and the beetle-y aspects of Beetle are well used, often for comic effect. (He is the dash of humor that Kubo’s village friend suggested.) The particular creepiness of the witches, the way landscapes can look lonesome or smaller settings can seem warm and cozy — the way the people and scenes are built here are not just lovely but keep you pulled into the story. “If you must blink, do it now,” Kubo says before he tells his stories — it’s an instruction to the audience as well, blink and you’ll miss the beautifully rendered details of this animated movie so unlike the bright cartoons we’re used to. I remember having that same “walking around a story book” feeling with The Boxtrolls too. It’s like a collection of exquisite paintings where every element is there not just to look good but to fill in the story you’re seeing.

Kubo and the Two Strings is not an allages animated tale; there really are some dark and scary moments both visually and thematically. But for kids who are old enough, it’s a fun adventure, wonderfully told. A Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, action and peril. Directed by Travis Knight with a screenplay by Marc Haimes

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Emphasis on the “or something”!

Because I don’t think this movie knows what it’s about any more than I do.

I should admit right up front that even though it is totally my kind of fun — golden age of Hollywood swords and sandals, the acting stylings of Charlton Heston, Bible-era fiction — I have never seen the 1959 Ben-Hur. So I am judging this on its own, ha, merits.

Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) is a happygo-lucky rich dude in “who’s that carpenter with all the fishes and loaves”-era Jerusalem. We first see him racing horses with Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell), his adopted Roman brother who saves his life by dragging him home after Judah is thrown by his horse. Their mom, Naomi (Ayelet Zurer), is grateful, probably, but she also comes at Messala with a lot of “what did you do” and, added with the side-eye she throws any time Messala and her daughter Tirzah (Sofia Black-D’Elia) hang out, we get the sense that she sees Messala as more of a Ben-Hur junior associate than a full family member. (At least, this is how the movie seems to play it for a while, then it seems to decide that she loved both her sons always.)

Messala also gets this sense, so he decides to leave the Ben-Hur household and join the Roman Legion, hoping to earn glory, gold and enough respectability that Naomi might let him marry Tirzah.

(Who, OK, is not his blood relative but still with all the “you’re my brother” stuff from Judah, they did grow up together so it’s at least a mild “ew.”)

Skip forward a few years. With help from some Judah-voice-over letter exposition, we learn that Judah has married a

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In fact, the movie ends with a sort of “well, all that happened; moving on” approach to all its main characters that is baffling, made all the more so by their changing-with-theplot’s-needs feelings toward each other. The final wrap-up is completely unearned and makes the characters seem devoid of normal human reactions. I realize the book from which this and all other movie adaptions spring weaves in moments of Jesus’ life and Christian themes, but this movie completely loses that aspect of the story in translation.

The characters get lost in the movie’s religious message and the religious message gets lost because it’s never really integrated into the story or articulated much at all.

Oh, but all this isn’t the movie’s only, or even biggest, problem. All the dialogue is universally terrible. Setting aside Morgan Freeman, who is doing Morgan Freeman Character™, there is not a single bit of natural acting in this movie. The wigs, robes and Roman army get-ups do most of the performing here. And about those wigs: I happened to see the movie in completely unnecessary 3-D. Let me suggest that instead of wasting money on that, the movie should have directed those funds to the wig department, maybe trade up on a few of the wigs where it looked like felt played a major role. And throwing some dollars at the beard people wouldn’t have been a bad idea either.

I’ve seen Ben-Hur called one of the biggest flops of the summer — or, as Vulture. com put it, potentially the “biggest flop in a summer of flops.” These headlines are really speaking to box office, at which the movie performed horribly. But the movie is also a complete mess, offering nothing of substance to someone looking for a story about faith and even less to someone who is a fan of the hail Caesar genre. D Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and disturbing images. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov with a screenplay by Keith R. Clarke & John Ridley, Ben-Hur is two hours and five minutes long and distributed

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girl named Esther (Nazanin Boniadi) and that the Roman presence in Jerusalem has become even more oppressive. We see Messala with the Roman army, fighting Germanic hordes and others, and narration from Morgan Freeman (which is the masking tape keeping all this together) also lets us know that Messala quickly rises in the ranks of the army, impressing one Pontius Pilate (Pilou Asbæk).

A few years later, the following happens at roughly the same time: (1) While walking down the street talking about the ideas of the Zealots waging an insurgency against the Romans versus Judah’s preference for peace, Judah and Esther are interrupted by a man who just happens to be carpentering something on the side of the road, Elvis-at-ForrestGump’s-house style. All you need is love, or something vague, says this Mysterious Carpenter — oh, who could it be! The way it’s filmed — and the accompanying bland nothingness that is the dialogue (with all biblical finesse ironed out of it) — make it seem like Esther, who gets all dazzle-eyed at Mysterious Carpenter (Rodrigo Santoro), is more checking out the hot craftsman than having a religious awakening. Also, carpentering on the side of the street in Jerusalem?

(2) Tirzah is now friends with the Zealots and ends up bringing them to the family’s stables when one boy (one very poorlywigged boy) is injured. Because Judah is a stern but caring prince, he scolds the Zealots for causing trouble and dragging Tirzah into it, and kicks them out but tends the boy’s wounds and lets him recuperate at the family home.

(3) Messala returns. He’s in charge of making sure Pilate’s big parade through the city is trouble-free and he wants Judah to help tamp down and root out any of the more rebellious elements. Judah, however, is more of an establishment guy. So he’s got all the mainstream power players on board but he’s not so sure he wants to start naming names among the insurgent groups. Also, Messala and Tirzah flirt.

All of those things converge, leading to a totally foreseeable disaster for Judah and the family Ben-Hur. Messala, trying to show his ability to lead to his bosses, sentences the ladies of the family to death (except Esther, who escapes) and sentences Judah to be a slave in a Roman galley ship.

Judah spends five years rowing next to dozens of other sweaty dudes until his ship is smashed apart in battle and he escapes.

He washes up on shore near the camp of Ilderim (Morgan Freeman; he’s not just the narrator, he’s a plot device!). Ilderim is planning to race his horses in an upcoming chariot race at the Romans’ new circus.

When Judah shows himself to be good with horses, Ilderim agrees to let him race, which Judah badly wants to do as it will give him a shot at killing Messala.

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• Florence Foster Jenkins (PG13, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 25, at 2:05, 5:35 & 8 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 26, at 1, 3:25, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 1, 3:25, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 1, 3:25 & 5:50 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 29, at 5:35 & 8 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 30, at 2:05, 5:35 & 8 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 31, at 5:35 p.m.; & Thurs., Sept. 1, at 2:05, 5:35 & 8 p.m.

• Indignation (R, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 25, at 2:10, 5:30 & 7:50 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 26, at 1:15, 3:30, 5:45 & 8:05 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 1:15, 3:30, 5:45 & 8:05 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 1:15, 3:30 & 5:45 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 29, at 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 30, at 2:10, 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 31, at 8:05 p.m.; Thurs., Sept. 1, at 2:10, 5:25 & 7:45 p.m.

• Southside With You (PG-13, 2016) Fri., Aug. 26, at 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 2, 4 & 6 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 29, at 8:05 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 30, at 2, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 31, at 8:05 p.m.; Thurs., Sept. 1, at 2, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.

• Of the Sea Wed., Aug. 31, at 6:30 p.m., part of the Future of Nature Film Series WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) Thurs., Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.

• Captain Fantastic (R, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.

• Indignation (R, 2016) Fri., Aug. 26, through Thurs., Sept. 1, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., Aug. 28, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• Absolutely Fabulous (R, 2016) Fri., Aug. 26, through Thurs., Sept. 1, at 7:30 p.m.

Additional screening Sun., Aug. 28, at 2 p.m.

• A Face in the Crowd (1957) Sat., Aug. 27, at 4:30 p.m.

• Battling Butler (1926) Sun., Aug. 28, at 4:30 p.m., with

musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK 889 Elm St., Manchester, intownmanchester.com • The Goonies (PG, 1985) Thurs., Aug. 25, at 8 p.m.

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us • The Last Laugh (1924) Tues., Sept. 6, at 6 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis • Bridges of Madison County (PG-13, 1995) Wed., Sept. 7, at 1 p.m.

• In the Heart of the Sea (PG13, 2015) Wed., Sept. 14, at 1 p.m.

DOWNTOWN NASHUA 70 E. Pearl St., Nashua • 2016 Downtown Dinner & Movie Series The School of Rock (PG-13, 2003) Wed., Aug. 31, at 7 p.m., nashuamovies.com RODGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 194 Derry Road, Route 102, Hudson, rodgerslibrary.org. 8866030 • Cinema Celebration second Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

JAFFREY PARK THEATRE 19 Main St., Jaffrey, 532-8888, theparktheatre.org; Free Movie Festival films start at 7 p.m.

• Wag the Dog (R, 1997) Thurs., Aug. 25 • Armageddon (PG-13, 1998) Sat., Sept. 10 • The Mask of Zorro (PG-13, 1998) Sat., Oct. 1 • The Great Escape (1963) Sat., Nov. 12 PETERBOROUGH COMMUNITY THEATRE 6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, pctmovies.com, movies@ pctmovies.com • Florence Foster Jenkins (PG13, 2016) Aug. 26 through Sept.

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PRESCOTT PARK 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth, prescottpark.org, films start at 8 p.m.

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THE MUSIC HALL 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org, Some films are screened at Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth • Microbe and Gasoline (R, 2015) Thurs., Aug. 25, at 7 p.m.

• Wiener-Dog (R, 2016) Fri., Aug. 26, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 27, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 7 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 30, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 31, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Sept. 1, at 7 p.m.

• Swiss Army Man (R, 2016) Sat., Aug. 27, at 7 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 28, at 3 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 30, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 31, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Sept. 1, at 7 p.m.

• Our Kind of Traitor (R, 2016) Fri., Sept. 2, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Sept.

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• Back home: After spending time polishing his craft in Nashville, singer-songwriter Andrew Merzi is back in New Hampshire.

He’s playing shows and working on new music, with plans to make a video this fall. The Music City influence shows through on “Can’t Get Enough,” a slow-burning ballad about lost love that Merzi released last year that has a tasty Brantley Gilbert vibe on it. Go Thursday, Aug. 25, at 6 p.m. at The Common Man, 1 Gulf St., Concord. See andrewmerzi.com.

• Jerry’s kids: Boston-based DeadBeat recreates the songs of the Grateful Dead, along with music by other bands from the San Francisco group’s 1960s heyday. The six-piece group features tight three-part harmonies and improvisational interplay; sets include everything from “Scarlet Begonias” to “Iko Iko,” with an occasional Jefferson Airplane or early Rolling Stones tune tossed in. Go Friday, Aug. 26, at 9 p.m. at Country Strong (Pasta Loft), 241 Union Square, Milford. See bostondeadbeat.com.

• Two tone: A shared love of ’90s ska revival bands brought The New Limits together. The Boston band does a killer version of The Planet Smashers’ rocksteady rave-up “Life of the Party” and hits a bullseye covering “Nite Klub” by standard bearers The Specials. Their originals are impressive, check out the four-song EP Pressure Up, available on SoundCloud. The title cut and “Compass” are highlights. Go Saturday, Aug. 27, at 9 p.m. at Bernie’s Beach Bar, 73 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. See thenewlimits.net.

• Old West: A veteran of Prairie Home Companion and NPR’s Folk Show, Skip Gorman performs a program of authentic folk music, the kind played around campfires by 19th-century pioneers. Called Cowboy Ballads & Fiddle Tunes, it includes a scholarly take on the music’s roots in Celtic, Spanish and Afro-American traditions. Go Sunday, Aug. 28, at 5 p.m at Old Meeting House, 1 New Boston Road, Francestown. Kids in cowboy gear are free; otherwise, it’s $15 for adults and $5 for those under 15.

• Liquid fun: The weekly Reggae on the River boat party stars Roots, Rhythm & Dub. A Caribbean theme prevails into the twilight, and the 2.5-hour ride offers sightseeing, dance music and refreshments. Boarding is 7 p.m. and the M.V. Thomas Leighton departs at 7:30 p.m (21+) Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Isles of Shoals Steamship Co., 315 Market St., Portsmouth. Tickets $15 at islesofshoals.com.

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Celtic Thunder returns to Concord

By Michael Witthaus

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Ireland’s music is embraced by the world, and the fresh-faced members of Celtic Thunder are among its most ardent emissaries. Since 2007, the group has circled the globe performing songs of their home country on a multimedia stage. Renditions of traditional favorites like “Galway Girl” and “Caledonia” mix with contemporary selections, each given a unique stamp.

Celtic Thunder’s Legacy Tour comes to Concord Friday, Aug. 26, on the heels of a March PBS special and a new album of the same name. The lineup of the group is different from the one that appeared at Capitol Center two weeks after St. Patrick’s Day 2015. Current members are Damian McGinty, Ryan Kelly, Neil Byrne, Emmet Cahill and newest addition Michael O’Dwyer.

Though he wasn’t with Celtic Thunder during their last New Hampshire visit, Cahill isn’t a new member. He left in December 2013 to concentrate on solo work, then came back briefly after tragedy struck in March 2014. Founding member George Donaldson died unexpectedly, and Cahill filled in for a tour of Australia that became a tribute to the Scottish singer.

Cahill first joined Celtic Thunder in 2010, replacing founding member Paul Byron. He announced plans to rejoin last December and was back in time to sing “Ireland’s Call” on St. Patrick’s Day on The Today Show. In May, another member departed, this time for an opera career.

Cahill stressed in a recent phone interview that although the cast is ever shifting, the power of Celtic Thunder’s show remains.

“There are always people coming in and out, but the show is very much the same,” he said. “It’s great to be able to do my own stuff but then come back in; it’s like coming home to your family.”

This is O’Dwyer’s first American tour; he came on board for a few Australian shows in April. “I feel sympathy with him. ... I was sort of the first new member after the original guys,” Cahill said. “I have an idea of how daunting it can be at times, so we’ll be kind to him for the first week.”

Celtic Thunder When: Friday, Aug. 26, 8 p.m.

Where: Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord Tickets: $48-$88 at ccanh.com

Celtic Thunder. Courtesy photo.

On Aug. 12, the group released the second of two news CD, Legacy Volume Two. It includes a bracing version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and “Streets of New York.” The latter is a new song for the band, but not by traditional Irish standards.

“It’s only 40 years old,” Cahill said with a laugh. “Many of our songs are as old as Ireland. ... There’s an Irish war song we do that’s a thousand years old.”

More recent is “Falling Slowly,” from the movie and Broadway musical Once.

Though modern, it’s of a piece with the rest of the group’s catalog.

“The song is from an Irish musical set in Dublin ... it won the Oscar,” Cahill said.

“With Celtic Thunder, people know those songs, and we put our stamp on it — set them in a different way, and pull them into our show.”

Before he joined Celtic Thunder, Cahill was on a different musical path. Born in Mullingar in County Westmeath, he’d learned piano by the time he was 5.

“My parents were both musicians, but it was mostly classical, and a lot of church music as well,” he said. “I never had a huge ambition to be in a band, but it just somehow fell that way. I was studying opera in college. ... I auditioned for this Irish show, and I didn’t know a whole lot about it; here we are today.”

Music is Ireland’s top export, and shows like Celtic Thunder are enormously successful in the U.S. Cahill said fans have told him that seeing his band perform was the spark of a search for their own Irish roots.

“Every American you meet is fifth generation Irish,” he said. “But they haven’t really done their homework or really gone back and looked for their family history.

Irish music may be the first step, and people often say to us, ‘We heard your music and decided we want to go to Ireland.’”

The reach of Ireland’s mid-19th-century diaspora is powerful — more expatriates live outside the country than in. Cahill said Irish music “appeals not only to Irish people but ... has quite an impact on people that have come over to find a new life and land of opportunity and all that. I think that was why it succeeded so well.”

A song from the Legacy tour, “Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears,” tells the story of the first Irish immigrant to arrive at Ellis Island.

“It’s the story of millions of Irish people, really,” Cahill said, then offered a brief observation on current mores. “Not to be too political, but immigration has been the story of America; it’s made it what it is ... the land of opportunity.”

“Hopefully,” he added, “it will continue to welcome the Irish.”

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Derryfield Country Club Claremont 267-7778 Exeter 366-4341 625 Mammoth Rd New Socials Shooters Tavern Pimentos Hanover Paradise Beach Club 623-2880 Rt. 3 DW Hwy 528-2444 2 Pleasant St. 287-4416 69 Water St. 583-4501 Salt Hill Pub Whiskey 20 Shooter’s Pub 7 Lebanon St. 676-7855 322 Lakeside Ave. 366-2665 20 Old Granite St. Deerfield Boscawen 6 Columbus Ave. Canoe Club 641-2583 Nine Lions Tavern Alan’s 772-3856 27 S. Main St. 643-9660 Patio Garden Lakeside Ave. Fratello’s 133 N. Main St. 753-6631 4 North Rd 463-7374 Pitman’s Freight Room 155 Dow St. 624-2022 Francestown Henniker 94 New Salem St. Ignite Bar & Grille Derry Bow Toll Booth Tavern Country Spirit 100 Hanover St. 494-6225 Drae Chen Yang Li 740 2nd NH Tpke 262 Maple St. 428-7007 527-0043 Tower Hill Tavern Imago Dei 520 South St. 228-8508 14 E Broadway #A 588-1800 Pat’s Peak Sled Pub 264 Lakeside Ave. 123 Hanove St. 216-2713 24 Flander’s Road 366-9100 Jewel Halligan Tavern Bristol Gilford 888-728-7732 Weirs Beach Lobster 61 Canal St. 819-9336 Back Room at the Mill 32 W. Broadway Ellacoya Barn & Grille Pound Karma Hookah & 965-3490 2 Central St. 744-0405 2667 Lakeshore Road Hillsborough 72 Endicott St. 366-2255 Cigar Bar Purple Pit 293-8700 Mama McDonough’s 1077 Elm St. 647-6653 28 Central Sq. 744-7800 Dover Patrick’s 5 Depot St. 680-4148 Lebanon KC’s Rib Shack 7th Settlement Brewery 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 Tooky Mills Rumor Mill Salt Hill Pub 837 Second St. 627-RIBS 50 S Main St, 217-0971 47 Washington St. 9 Depot St. 2 West Park St. 448-4532 Midnight Rodeo (Yard) 373-1001 Goffstown 464-6700 1211 S. Mammoth Rd Asia Concord Village Trestle Turismo 623-3545 42 Third St. 742-9816 Barley House 25 Main St. 497-8230 55 Henniker St. 680-4440 Londonderry Coach Stop Tavern Milly’s Tavern Cara Irish Pub 132 N. Main 228-6363 176 Mammoth Rd 500 Commercial St. 11 Fourth St. 343-4390 Hampton CC Tomatoes Hooksett 437-2022 625-4444 Dover Brick House 209 Fisherville Rd Ashworth By The Sea Asian Breeze Stumble Inn Modern Gypsy 2 Orchard St. 749-3838 295 Ocean Blvd.

753-4450 1328 Hooksett Rd 20 Rockingham Rd 383 Chestnut st.

Fury’s Publick House Cheers 926-6762 621-9298 432-3210 Murphy’s Taproom 1 Washington St. 17 Depot St. 228-0180 Bernie’s Beach Bar New England’s Tap Whippersnappers 494 Elm St. 644-3535 617-3633 Granite 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 House Grille 44 Nashua Rd 434-2660 N’awlins Grille 96 Pleasant St. 227-9000 Sonny’s Tavern Boardwalk Inn & Cafe 1292 Hooksett Rd 860 Elm St. 606-2488 83 Washington St. Hermanos 139 Ocean Blvd. 929-7400 782-5137 Loudon Penuche’s 742-4226 11 Hills Ave. 224-5669 Breakers at Ashworth Hungry Buffalo 96 Hanover St. 626-9830 Top of the Chop Makris 295 Ocean Blvd. 926-6762 Hudson 58 Rte 129 798-3737 Portland Pie Company 1 Orchard St. 740-0006 Breakers By the Sea 354 Sheep Davis Road AJ’s Sports Bar 786 Elm St. 622-7437 225-7665 409 Ocean Blvd 926-7702 11 Tracy Lane 718-1102

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

Nashua 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Sq. 943-7443 5 Dragons 29 Railroad Sq. 578-0702 Arena 53 High St. 881-9060 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd.

943-5630 Burton’s Grill 310 Daniel Webster Highway 888-4880 Country Tavern 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers 38 East Hollis St. 577-1718 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Fratello’s Italian Grille Mason 194 Main St. Marty’s Driving Range 889-2022 96 Old Turnpike Rd Haluwa Lounge 878-1324 Nashua Mall 883-6662 Killarney’s Irish Pub Meredith 9 Northeastern Blvd.

Giuseppe’s Ristorante 888-1551 312 DW Hwy 279-3313 O’Shea’s 449 Amherst St. 943-7089 Merrimack Peddler’s Daughter Homestead 48 Main St. 821-7535 641 DW Hwy 429-2022 Portland Pie Company Jade Dragon 14 Railroad Sq 882-7437 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 Riverwalk Pacific Fusion 35 Railroad Sq 578-0200 356 DW Hwy 424-6320 Shorty’s Tortilla Flat 48 Gusabel Ave. 882-4070 594 Daniel Webster Stella Blu Hwy 262-1693 70 E. Pearl St. 578-5557 Thirsty Turtle Milford 8 Temple St. 402-4136 J’s Tavern 63 Union Square 554-1433 New Boston Lefty’s Lanes Molly’s Tavern 244 Elm St. 554-8300 35 Mont Vernon Rd Pasta Loft 487-2011 241 Union Square 672-2270 Newbury Shaka’s Bar & Grill Goosefeathers Pub 11 Wilton Rd 554-1224 Mt. Sunapee 763-3500 Tiebreakers at Salt Hill Pub Hampshire Hills 1407 Rt 103 763-2667 50 Emerson Rd 673-7123 Union Coffee Co. New Castle 42 South St. 554-8879 Wentworth By The Sea 588 Wentworth Rd Moultonborough 422-7322 Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road New London 478-5900 Flying Goose 40 Andover Road 526-6899

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Nashua Dolly Shakers: Monday's Muse w Lisa Guyer Fratello's: Amanda Cote

Newmarket Stone Church: Blues Jam w/ Wild Eagles Blues Band Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Old School Gaslight: Dave Gerard Press Room: Ervin Dhimo Trio Ri Ra: Oran Mor Tuesday, Aug. 30 Concord Hermanos: Dan Weiner

Dover Fury's: Tim Theriault and Friends Sonny's: Soggy Po' Boys Gilford Patrick's: Jon Lorentz hosts Hampton Bernie's: Brett Wilson

Get the crowds at your gig Want to get your show listed in the Music This Week? Let us know all about your upcoming show, comedy show, open mike night or multi-band event by sending all the information to music@hippopress.com. Send information by 9 a.m. on Friday to have the event considered for the next Thursday’s paper.

NITE MUSIC THIS WEEK Boardwalk: Amanda McCarthy Sea Ketch: Leo Co/Michael Mazola The Goat: American Ride Duo Hanover Canoe Club: Bruce Gregori Manchester Derryfield: Deck-Brad Bosse Fratello's: Kim Riley Murphy's: Ryan Williamson Strange Brew: Ken Budka Whiskey's 20: Sammy Smoove & DJ Gera Merrimack Homestead: Paul Luff Nashua Fratello's: Phil Jacques Newmarket Stone Church: SpeakEazy: Church Street Jazz Band / Bluegrass Jam Late North Hampton Barley House: Traditional Irish Session Peterborough Harlow's: Celtic Music Jam

Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Don Severance Portsmouth Gaslight: Sean Coleman Press Room: Jazz Jam w/ Larry Garland & Friends Seabrook Chop Shop: Bare Bones Wednesday, Aug. 31 Bedford T-Bones: Triana Wilson Concord Hermanos: George Robinson Dover Fury's: Freestones Gilford Patrick's: Cody James - Ladies Night Goffstown Village Trestle: Acoustic Night Hampton Ashworth Breakers: DJ Dan Ashworth by the Sea: Black Agnes Bernie's: Six One Seven Boardwalk Café: Ed Antonelli Sea Ketch: Leo Co/JD Ingalls

Hillsborough Turismo: Blues jam, Jerry Paquette & the Runaway Bluesmen Manchester Derryfield: Steve Haidaichuk Fratello's: Kelsie Hinds Murphy's Taproom: Brandon Lepere Merrimack Homestead: Ted Solovicos Nashua Fratello's: Clint Lapointe Plaistow Racks: DJ Sensations Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Chris Lester Portsmouth Gaslight: Peter Higgins Press Room: Seasmoke Trio Red Door: Red On Red w/ Evaredy (Ladies Night) Ri Ra: Erin's Guild Rudi's: Dimitri Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tim Theriault Ladies Night Radloff's: Tony Santesse - Ladies Night

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“Running on Empty” — F at the top to E at the bottom Across 1 Change cities, in realty-speak 5 Some Volkswagens 11 Blackberry byproduct, maybe 14 “Pictures ___ didn’t happen!”

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25 Setting for many movies, for short 26 Rapper/actor ___ Def 28 Adjusted letter spacing, in printing 32 Bubble tea thickener 36 Rio Grande stuff 38 Auto dealership offer 39 Dosage unit 40 Flippant 41 Pumpkin spiced beverage, usually 42 Noteworthy times 43 “Take ___ Church” (Hozier song) 44 “___ Witch” (2016 horror sequel) 45 Muse’s instrument 46 Geometry class calculation 47 Never-before-seen 49 Striped blue ball 50 Risque 52 “Huh??”

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69 Jeer from the crowd 70 Had to have 71 Appear (to be)

13 Psychobilly rocker ___ Nixon 21 Albanian currency 23 Put to rest, as a rumor 25 Hyatt alternative 26 Igneous rock’s source 27 Lascivious looker 29 Kay, if you do the math?

30 “Is that so?”

31 Birth-related 33 Ethereal author of “Honor Thy Father”?

34 Piercing look 35 Mary-Kate or Ashley 37 On a cruise liner, e.g.

48 Hulk Hogan’s ‘80s-’90s org.

51 “Fanfare for the Common Man” Down composer Copland 1 Le Corbusier contemporary Mies van 53 Places that are all abuzz 54 GM’s Swedish subsidiary der ___ 55 ___ Cooler (“Ghostbusters”-themed 2 “Change the World” singer Clapton 3 Honeymoon quarters that lets the sun Hi-C flavor) 56 ___ : 2003 :: Dory : 2016 in?

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4 Last check box, often 58 Part of the theater industry?

5 Bossa nova legend ___ Gilberto 59 ___ off (annoyed) 6 Sister network of ABC 60 Friend, in Fremantle 7 Counting by ___ 61 Poetry competition 8 Jazz guitarist ___ Farlow 64 157.5 degrees from N 9 Permit tractor pioneer John?

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to [Destroyer] today, it’s one of our most consistent rock records ... but there were violins, so for some people that was a problem. Try an unusual combination.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) I had always seen the band as a means to an end — in my mind, making music was only part of the plan.

The master plan was to create a cultural institution that was as iconic as Disney. From the very beginning, we were at the forefront of rock and roll merchandising…. Be on the lookout for sales tactics.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) The studio work went quickly. KISS worked then the way KISS has always worked: the rhythm tracks went down first, and then later on we added vocals. A good basic rhythm is your foundation for a new project.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) ...when we went to Japan, the reporters there wondered if our makeup was indebted to the Japanese kabuki style. Actually mine was taken from the Bat Wings of Black Bolt, a character in the Marvel comic The Inhumans. You will find inspiration in an unlikely place.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) The early and mid-1980s were a troubling time for me in some respects. ... I didn’t know how I was supposed to act, because the no-makeup version of the band was an entirely new idea.

You might need some time to find yourself.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) … I ended up getting a job at Glamour magazine, and within a few weeks I became indispensable, not only because I could type ninety words a minute but because I knew how to fix the hectograph and mimeograph machines. Find what needs doing and figure out how to do it.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Initially everybody thought these ideas were cheesy. But now, no matter who you are, you remember your first KISS lunchbox. Many people still have theirs. It may be time for some new ideas.

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All quotes are from KISS and Make-Up, by Gene Simmons, born Aug. 25, 1949.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Thirty years before, there was no KISS. There was only Gene Simmons, an aspiring rock musician in New York City. Ten years before that, there was no Gene Simmons — only Gene Klein, a Jewish kid who lived in Queens with his single mother.

And ten years before that, there wasn’t even a Gene Klein — only Chaim Witz, a poor boy growing up in Haifa, Israel. All those people, of course, were me, and I was all those people.

This could be a week of self-discovery.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) In Israel, they had these huge Old Testament beetles. The beetles here in America are nothing compared to them. These Israeli beetles were the size of small dinosaurs, maybe two inches long. Nature is interesting, isn’t it?

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Being polite backstage, though, didn’t mean that we weren’t going to tear the roof off the place when we finally got onstage. Be polite everywhere.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) That whole first tour was a blur. We were making seventy-five dollars a week, which was nothing, although it seemed like all the money in the world since we were making it playing music.

Do what you love and the money might not follow but you’ll have a good time anyway.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) When we started to design the mature version of KISS, we were doing things that no one had ever done in rock and roll. For example, the idea of having a big sign with the band’s name on the stage, which later became a cliche with almost all heavy-metal bands, started with KISS. … Other bands would come out, and the audience wouldn’t know who they were.

There were no signs. Sometimes they’d put their name on the drum set, but even that was fairly low key. You don’t need a big sign.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) If you listen

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India has supposedly outlawed the “babytossing” religious test popular among Hindus and Muslims in rural villages in Maharashtra and Karnataka states, but a July New York Times report suggested that parents were still allowing surrogates to drop their newborn infants from 30 feet up and awaiting the gods’ blessing for a prosperous, healthy life.

In all cases, according to the report, the gods come through, and a bedsheet appears below to catch the unharmed baby.

Government in action

• More federal civilian employees have “arrest and firearms authority” than the total number of active-duty U.S. Marines, according to a June report by the organization Open The Books, which claims to have tallied lineby-line expenditures across the government.

Several agencies (including the IRS and EPA) purchase assault weapons and other militarygrade equipment (camouflage, night-vision goggles, 30-round magazines) for their agents, and even the Small Business Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Department of Education buy their agents guns and ammo.

• San Diego Padres outfielder Melvin Upton Jr. was traded on July 23 to the Toronto Blue Jays in the middle of a series between the Padres and the Blue Jays in Toronto. Normally, such a player would merely gather his belongings and walk down the hall to the other team’s locker room. However, while Canada treats Blue Jays’ opponents as “visitors,” Blue Jays players, themselves, are Canadian employees, and if not residents must have work permits. Upton had to leave the stadium and drive to Lewiston, New York, which is the closest place he could find to apply to re-enter Canada properly. (He made it back by game time.)

Leading economic indicators

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• Shrewd Tourism Campaigns: Since Bulgaria, on Romania’s southern border, lies close to Romania’s iconic Transylvania region, Bulgarian tourism officials have begun marketing their own vampire tourism industry stepped up following a 2014 archaeological find of a 4th-century “graveyard” of adolescents with iron stakes through their chests.

• Paid to Go Away: Sports Illustrated noted in May that some universities are still paying out millions of dollars to failed coaches who had managed to secure big contracts in more optimistic times. Notre Dame’s largest athletic payout in 2014 was the $2.05 million to ex-football coach Charlie Weis five years after he had been fired. That ended Weis’s Notre Dame contract (which paid him $15 million post-dismissal), but he is still drawing several million dollars from the University of Kansas despite having been let go there, also.

For good measure

(1) Rhys Holman pleaded guilty to a firearms charge in Melbourne, Australia, in July for shooting 53 bullets into his brother’s Xbox. (2) Mauricio Morales-Caceres, 24, was sentenced to life in prison by a Montgomery County, Maryland, judge in July following his April conviction for fatally stabbing a “friend” 89 times.

Boldface names!

• Police in Southampton, New York, confirmed a July altercation in which model Christie Brinkley water-hosed a woman she had spotted urinating on her beachfront property. Erica Remkus, 36, said her need was urgent after watching a July 4 fireworks show, but Brinkley shouted, “How dare you!” and “I walk on these rocks (where Remkus had relieved herself).”

• Also in July, actor Brooke Shields made the news when she, as a curator of an art show in Southampton, New York, managed to rescue a piece that custodians had inadvertently tossed into the garbage. (The cleanup crew had made an understandable mistake, as the statue was a raccoon standing next to a trash can, ready to rummage.)

Redneck chronicles

(1) Knoxville, Tennessee, firefighters were called to a home in July when a woman tried to barbecue brisket in her bathroom and, in addition to losing control of the flame, melted her fiberglass bathtub. Firefighters limited the damage by turning on the shower. (2) One day earlier, in Union, South Carolina, a 33-year-old woman called police to her home, claiming that she had fallen asleep

on her couch with her “upper plate” in her mouth, but that when she awoke, it was gone and that she suspects a teeth-napping intruder.

How to tell if you’re drunk

The owner of the Howl At The Moon Bar in Gold Coast, Australia, released surveillance video of a July break-in (later inspiring the perpetrator to turn himself in). The man is seen trying to enter the locked bar at 3 a.m., then tossing a beer keg at a glass door three times, finally creating a hole large enough to climb through, acrobatically, and fall to the floor (lit cigarette remaining firmly between his lips). Once inside, he stood at the bar, apparently waiting for someone to take his order. When no one came, he meekly left through the same door. The owner said nothing was taken, and nothing else was damaged.

Recurring themes

Too Many Toilet-Themed Restaurants: The first one, in Taiwan, made News of the Weird in 2006, but recently two more opened their doors. One, in Semarang, Indonesia (on Java island), serves only one dish brown meatballs floating in thick soup, arrayed in a toilet-shaped pan. The owner’s secondary agenda is to inspire people to install toilets in their homes. In Toronto’s Koreatown, a dessert-themed one was scheduled to open in August with patron seating on you-know-whats and a variety of brown sweets such as swirly-stool-shaped chocolate ice cream. Potty-themed restaurants have opened in Russia, South Korea, the Philippines, China, Japan and Los Angeles.

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