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Health care is a serious subject and I have a somewhat serious solution to providing coverage to every American while not bankrupting the country.

When Anthony Weiner, literally, got caught with his pants down, America lost its most compelling voice for a single-payer health care system. I watched him on the various talk shows providing a strong argument for the efficiencies of a system that most Republicans speak about as if it would ruin America. He would say that our current health care system has approximately 30 percent overhead costs while a system like Medicare has about 4 percent overhead. No one seemed to argue with him on this.

It had me thinking. So, as I have done often, I have come up with a another solution to a seemingly unsolvable problem that is, as always, based on common sense. FreddyCare has two primary components.

1. A low-end, single-payer, governmentbased coverage for every American. (It’s lousy coverage, but it will be available to all.)

2. If you want a better plan, and you will, you’ll need to pay for it.

Now, that’s a pretty simple solution! The coverage-for-all component of FreddyCare will guarantee that no one will get turned away. But your expectations must be low.

Features of the system include being at the back of the line at emergency rooms, doctors’ offices, organ transplants, etc. I often describe it as 50-bed wards, including bunk beds, rotary telephones, no choice of doctors, etc. The intent is that everyone understands that this care is better than nothing but not very good.

Marketing will clearly state that the government does not want you to rely on this and makes no apologies for lack of conveniences.

Some might complain that every American deserves great health care; I don’t think that America can afford that. Individuals and charities could choose to support the basic system with subsidies, donations and grants to help improve upon the coverage. Businesses may choose to fund local hospitals to get naming rights, like they do for sports stadiums.

Beyond the stripped-down basics of this system, most Americans will choose to pay for various upgrades through insurance providers. Do you want the Chevy plan, the Lexus plan or the Rolls Royce plan? The more you are willing to pay, the better coverage you will get. But this low-end approach will not bankrupt the American taxpayer.

It’s a pretty simple system. While I framed it in a way to keep your interest, don’t be surprised to hear something similar to this as a solution to our health care challenges. FreddyCare, the health care system of the future.

Fred Bramante is the past chairman and member of the NH State Board of Education.

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ON THE COVER 12 MOO HAMPSHIRE Cows have played a major role in New Hampshire’s history — but did you know that they are relative newcomers, brought in for farming? We looked at their history in the state, as well as the impact that eight other notable animals have had in the Granite State, like wolves, which are no longer in New Hampshire, and turkeys, which have made quite the comeback. Photo on the cover: A cow at Lull Farm in 2016.

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ALSO ON THE COVER, A&E Coffee and Tea hosts a Coffee Boot Camp series in Manchester, p. 36. Harken back to old times at the Renaissance Faire, p. 26, or visit the Deerfield Fairgrounds for the New Hampshire Sheep & Wool Festival, where you can learn about the state’s fiber industry and things like how to shear a sheep, p. 31.

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NEWS & NOTES Mental health

As the legislature appears poised to authorize an overhaul of the state’s mental health and child protective services systems, the governor has shaken up the state mental hospital by firing the CEO over its keeping with the terms of its staffing contract.

Gov. Chris Sununu’s office asked New Hampshire Hospital CEO Bob MacLeod to step down on May 3, because the hospital’s staffing levels were below those stipulated in the contract with Dartmouth-Hitchcock, according to the governor’s office. There were 10 psychiatrists on the roster when the contract calls for 12. Those positions became vacant when two people were promoted to management positions and their previous roles were not filled.

Regular reports on staffing levels were given to executive councilors but they reportedly reflected 10 to be the benchmark. Dartmouth-Hitchcock says it was fully transparent about staffing levels and, in a letter sent to state Health Commissioner Jeffrey Meyers, Dartmouth claims the state has made hiring and retaining staff impossible because of public statements made by Sununu and others threatening to re-bid the contract and calling into question Dartmouth’s trustworthiness. The state hired Donald Shumway, the former CEO of Crotched Mountain and the former head of the state Division of Mental Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, to lead the hospital on an interim basis.

Sununu has decried the struggling mental health system in recent weeks, calling for more beds at the mental hospital and working with lawmakers to introduce a bill that would order DHHS to develop a 10-year plan for mental health programs. A Senate committee approved the bill unanimously and the full Senate is expected to vote on it Thursday, May 11.

Correction In the story “Eggs named before they hatch” on p. 7 of the May 4 edition of the Hippo, it should have stated that the New Hampshire Audubon believes the mating falcon pair living in the Brady Sullivan Tower nest in Manchester is the same pair that was seen there last year.

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Administrative services

Gov. Chris Sununu has named his top budget-writer, Charlie Arlinghaus, to lead the Department of Administrative Services, according to a press release from the governor’s office. Sununu made the official nomination at the Executive Council meeting on May 3.

“Charlie has a deep knowledge and understanding of the budget and state agencies,” Sununu said in the release. The current commissioner of the department, Vicki Quiram, is leaving for a job in California.

Lewandowski

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Windham resident Corey Lewandowski, recently quit the lobbying firm he helped found in Washington, D.C., amid concerns that he was lobbying while not registered as a lobbyist.

At a recent visit to New Hampshire, a day after leaving his firm, Lewandowski told reporters that his partner at the firm, Barry Bennett, was promising Lewandowski could get people meetings with President Trump, NHPR reported.

Lewandowski said such promises were baseless. A watchdog group recently asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Lewandowski for breaking the law by not registering as a lobbyist, according to NHPR.

Tom Price

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is coming to New Hampshire to discuss the opioid crisis. The AP reported Secretary Tom Price was expected in the state on Wednesday, May 10. The visit comes soon after a House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a different system that gives states more flexibility on certain provisions such as minimum coverage standards and the ability of insurers to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

Both Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan called the move “disastrous” to efforts to curb the ongoing opioid epidemic. Both senators held a press conference on the issue at Riverbend Community Mental Health in Concord on Monday, May 8, to discuss how they believe the repeal would undermine state efforts to combat the epidemic, according to a press release.

Cancer cluster

Public health officials have yet to find any environmental link between several patients diagnosed with rare pediatric cancers in the Seacoast area, according to a new report from the state Department of Health and Human Services. In recent years, an unusual number of cases of pleuropulmonary blastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma have cropped up in Seacoast communities, prompting a multi-stakeholder investigation. The DHHS survey was part of that investigation, but it failed to find any significant connections between the diagnosed individuals who filled out the questionnaires and their exposures to potential environmental causes.

Only seven people of the 26 who were given questionnaires submitted responses, according to the report’s findings.

Needle exchange

The House passed a bill legalizing needle exchanges without debate, according to NHPR. The bill would enable nonprofits and health centers to operate the exchanges, which provide clean syringes to individuals who submit used syringes. Proponents say it would curb the spread of serious diseases like HIV from needle sharing among opioid addicts. The bill changes the possession of a trace amount of drugs on a needle from a felony to a misdemeanor and exempts those enrolled in a needle exchange. The Senate passed a similar bill. The two bodies must reconcile the differences between the bills before sending it to the governor.

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The Quality Cash Market in Concord, a longstanding convenience store, butcher and bakery, is set to be sold to the highest bidder at a foreclosure auction this month. The Concord Monitor reported the business has been struggling financially and owes overdue property taxes.

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Dana Abbott, who served in the Bow fire department for 50 years, 27 as its chief, has retired. The Concord Monitor reported Abbott recently celebrated his retirement at the Baker Free Library. Mitchell Harrington takes over as Abbott’s successor.

Goffstown

A performing arts theater in downtown Nashua is being considered by economic development officials in the city as well as outside consultants. The TelegraphBedford of Nashua reported the former Alec’s Shoes building was Amherst identified as a prime location for such a theater and the city is in talks with the Milford owner about purchasing it.

Huddleston retiring

University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston is retiring in 2018, according to a press release from UNH. Huddleston, 66, will be the longest-serving president of the school in the history of UNH. He became president in 2007, and in 2011 oversaw the management of the largest state funding cut for a single year in

New Hampshire deer are so far spared of chronic wasting disease, a widespread problem in western states, though it has cropped up in some areas of the East Coast. According to the a press release, the Fish and Game Department said data gathered during the 2016 hunting season found no cases of CWD in deer. CWD is a form of mad cow disease that is fatal to white-tailed deer, moose, mule deer, elk and other animals in the deer family.

Since the program began in 2002, 5,817 New Hampshire deer have been tested for the neurological disease. Natural urine-based lures may carry the disease, so Fish and Game is asking hunters not to use them.

MANCHESTER

The Manchester Historical Society is expanding the research services available to its members and the Derry public at its research center Merrimack at 129 Amherst St., according to a press release.

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public higher education history, according to the announcement.

Huddleston earned nearly half a million in the 2013-2014 school year. According to public data, his base pay was $385,000 plus $94,710 in bonus pay. The Chronicle of Higher Education places his compensation above that of nearly two-thirds of other public university presidents.

OLD MAN TRAIL

A plan to build a trail at the Old Man of the Mountain viewing site in Franconia Notch has been stalled by environmental concerns.

The Caledonian Record reported residents expressed concern about how the trail as it’s currently proposed might affect the ecosystem of Profile Lake and its shoreline. The trail would connect Old Man of the Mountain Profile Plaza, where an installation shows viewers where the rocky profile once existed before it collapsed in 2003, to a boat launch. The plan would also include building a boardwalk.

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The Manchester school district is asking for bidders who would audit the district and submit a report on demographics and facilities so officials can move forward with a plan for redistricting.

Superintendent Bolgen Vargas said in a phone interview that he released the request for proposal May 8, and he hopes the process will move quickly now. He would like to select a third-party reviewer right away and obtain a final report later this year with proposals workshopped and voted on by the school board by the end of the year.

“My hope is we can finish this entire project by December,” Vargas said.

The Board of School Committee debated various strategies for redistricting last year, but according to committee member Leslie Want, it wasn’t going anywhere.

“There were so many opinions and we were a mile wide and an inch deep,” Want said.

Then, last spring, the board created a special committee on redistricting, of which Want is the chair, but it also failed to arrive at a solid plan.

“There were 12 different plans, we got it down to four different plans. Of those plans, three of them had to do with changing grade configurations, which seemed to be very unfavorable when we listened to the principals,” Want said.

While some plans dealt with moving fifth-graders to middle schools and eighth-graders to high schools, other plans would have closed school buildings.

Ultimately, Want said, the work done by the five-member subcommittee proved fruitless because they didn’t have enough information upon which to base a strategy. So they agreed to have Vargas hire an auditor to get the much-needed data and defer somewhat to the superintendent’s broader vision.

While some on the school board, as well as former city aldermen, have floated the closure of Central High School, Vargas said he thinks that can be avoided.

“Everything should be [on] the table, but my vision is larger than that,” Vargas said.

While everything hinges on the findings of the audit, most expect the reviewers to find a surplus of space in the high schools, despite some class sizes’ being too big. Vargas said that surplus space could be used in more innovative ways that would serve as an alternative to closing facilities.

One idea is having a local business or higher ed or community education institution lease space in the buildings. A bank or a biotech lab could open a branch in a school and students might benefit from learning about the business by observing or even working there, Vargas said.

He said this is a spinoff of his proposal to locate the central district offices at West High so they can sell the millyard offices.

The district is in a time of consolidation as it deals with the loss of students from multiple sending communities — compounding a statewide trend of declining enrollment — and a budget deficit.

Vargas said some solutions might be figured out on a case-by-case basis and may not even require the redrawing of district lines.

“We have 22 [buildings] but we don’t have an issue with every building,” Vargas said.

But if the goal is to reduce class sizes and overcrowding, Vargas said, there’s no way to do that without spending more.

“It’s useless to get into an effort if you want to reduce class size and you don’t discuss investing or where the money is going to come from to do so,” Vargas said.

Want agrees that the district will have to hire more teachers and the board will need to come to terms with the cost of that.

“We estimate every classroom teacher costs the district about $50,000. So if you add 20 teachers when you redistrict, that’s $1 million,” Want said. “To me, that’s the biggest issue with redistricting.”

The board already approved the first step in this redistricting process by changing the feeder system for students in certain grade schools to know more predictably which middle and high schools they will end up in. Want said that was the low-hanging fruit.

Vargas thinks the success of getting that system changed was due largely to robust community engagement, and he said any redistricting plan needs to go through the same process.

As for how the larger board will stand on any strategies moving forward, Want thinks it will depend on what the community says at a series of public meetings that will be held around them.

“So the board by that time will have a pretty good idea about how the community feels about it. And then, whether or not it gains support from the board I think will largely depend on those community meetings,” Want said.

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Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia has adopted a new technology that will help protect newborns from abduction by using the same high-resolution imaging that’s used for fingerprinting to scan their feet.

“This is relatively very new. Traditionally, nurses in hospitals have used ink to ink a baby’s foot and must make a mirror footprint on a piece of paper that is primarily used as a keepsake for the mother,” said Bill Losefsky, the chief of security services at LRGH. He said the ink prints or inkless paper methods don’t provide law enforcement with any identifying features. But the CertaScan can be used with the same reliability as fingerprints.

“It was determined that a baby’s footprint has ridges and loops and arches and whorls just like a fingerprint does and is unique to that individual,” Losefsky said.

In fact, the footprint’s identifying characteristics remain the same throughout the lifespan of the individual. So the scanned footprint may prove useful for cases even 80 years after a baby is born, according to Maureen Cassidy, the director of the family birthplace at LRGH. Cassidy said a foot scan taken at birth can be used to locate a senior with dementia who wandered off, for example.

LRGH is the first and only hospital in the state to use this technology, according to Losefsky. Spokespeople at Catholic Medical Center and Elliot Hospital in Manchester say they have not looked into the biometric scanning method yet.

Lauren Collins-Cline at CMC said the team at Mom’s Place is always on the lookout for new ways to ensure the health and safety of its patients.

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nity services at CMC, said in an email that evidence has shown that ink prints have proven inadequate for identification, and they’re looking into the new scanning technology.

“We are excited about the new technology that may be available to us in the near future,” Pendenza said.

Cassidy said she hopes other hospitals adopt this technology.

“If we can start here, at Lakes Region … a small little hospital, and put these things in place and show other hospitals this is what you should be doing, then that is our obligation to our patients and to the community,” Cassidy said.

For now, foot scanning at LRGH is only available to infants born in their maternity unit.

At first, Cassidy said, she was concerned about patient privacy and making sure the hospital complies with federal health care privacy laws, but she was convinced that the encryption in the company’s cloud server makes the biometric data and identifying information safe from hacking.

“The failsafes that they have in place [to] ensure for us the safety of our patients, it’s just top notch,” Cassidy said.

Losefsky said LRGH is also the only hospital in the state with a Wi-Fi tracking system for new mothers and babies.

In most American hospitals, when a baby is abducted from its birthing unit, the building goes into a sort of lockdown mode called Code Pink. Staff throughout the hospital stand at every possible exit in the hopes of catching a would-be abductor.

“Once the baby leaves the unit, it’s a controlled Easter egg hunt,” Losefsky said.

LRGH can go beyond that by using shortrange Wi-Fi transponders in the baby’s and mother’s wrist bands that can pinpoint their locations even as far as the parking lot.

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Circumnavigating NH Local man bikes to fight cystic fibrosis

Brian Hand of Manchester is circumnavigating the state to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Find his donation webpage by going to fightcf.cff.org, clicking on “Find a Ride or Team” and search “CF Champions” under teams. Hand starts his ride on Sept. 16.

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Can you tell me a little bit How did you come up with the idea? about yourself and your background? Did you grow up in My brother, he had cystic fibrosis and I New Hampshire? remember as a kid he Yes, I grew up in Manchester and went through the local schools and went to would ride his bike … what is now MCC [Manchester Commu[because it was] easinity College] for building construction ... er to breathe for him. I then went out to Kansas to get a bachremember that I wantCourtesy photo. elor’s degree in business education. [I] ed to go with him but I came back when my child was born and was too young. He would go off and ride his [have] been living in New Hampshire bike around town, come back an hour latsince 2000. er, and I just wanted to be with him. So this is my way of being with him. … I had two Can you tell me about what you plan brothers. My first brother that passed away, on doing to raise money for this cause? I didn’t really know him because he passed I’m going to be circumnavigating New when I was only 3 years old. And my other Hampshire … and it comes to just under brother, the one that I talked about, he died 600 miles. So starting at Hampton Beach when I was a sophomore in high school.

[I will] go up the east border and then down the west border and across the botHow much money do you hope to raise tom. [I’m] going to do it in 12 days, so in doing this?

I’ll average about 50 miles a day for raisMy goal that I have on my website for team ing funds for cystic fibrosis. goal is $10,000. But when I hit the $10,000 mark, I’m going to raise that up to $20,000.

How is that going to work logistically? So I’m hoping for $20,000 this year. I’d like Are you going to have any support peo- to do this as an annual ride to raise money ple nearby? for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Yes ... I’ll have some other people Have you seen any promising research that will join me in small segments and they’ll just do a partial ride for that day. that’s pointing to a cure?

I don’t know of any per se, right now, but And I will also have family members that [are] going to be in a vehicle behind me back in 1989, they found the gene that CF … or in front of me to keep me safe and comes from. So the medication and the qualmake sure I don’t make any wrong turns. ity of life that they’re giving the patients has improved. Like the average age right now is Are you going to make accommoda- 37, that’s their survival rate. Back when my tions at area hotels or are you camping? brother passed away back in the mid-80s, I’m actually in the process of contact- it was about 18 years old, 19 years old. So, ing hotels for the towns that I’ll be staying they are living longer and longer. in and hoping that they’ll donate a room If there’s a genetic component, can the for the cause or … discounted rates. gene be detected in any of your offspring?

Yes. You can … take a test and they will What kind of bike are you using?

It’s a Trek, a Series 1 Trek. A beginning tell you if you are a carrier. In order to get CF, bike, pretty much. I’ve been cycling for both parents have to be a carrier of it. So if one parent is not a carrier, their offspring would about one year now. not have CF, but it’s possible that they’ll still be a carrier. … I didn’t have it checked. … I just knew that my parents had that gene. I’m WHAT ARE YOU REALLY INTO just assuming that I had that gene. My chilRIGHT NOW? dren do not have CF but I keep telling them I like to hike, so every chance I get I’m — because one’s graduating high school this either on the bike training for this ride year — and I keep telling them that you nevor I’m out in the woods trying to get a er know. You need to get checked before you nice view of the state of New Hampshire. have your kids and you need to make that Right now, I’m working on the 52 with decision if you want to have kids or if you a view. That’s a list of 52 mountains that want to adopt. — Ryan Lessard have a view.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Goodbye to the Rochester Fair

The Rochester Fair is set to close this year, ending the 142-year tradition. The announcement came after weeks of trying to save the annual event — staffers gave up their salaries in efforts to help — but it wasn’t enough for the fair, which has a $400,000 mortgage, to continue. According to the Union Leader, the closure is due to debt and necessary capital improvements the board can’t afford; some farmers didn’t want to keep their livestock in the fairgrounds’ buildings due to unsafe conditions. It’s possible the fairgrounds will be sold and used for other purposes. According to Foster’s, the last planned event there is the July 4 fireworks display.

QOL Score: -2 Comment: The 10-day fair brought thousands of people to Rochester. QOL personally knows many who used to travel miles and miles to attend and who will miss the fair very much.

Lots of rescues

On average, New Hampshire Fish and Game makes 180 rescues each year throughout the state, the majority of which involve hikers, but according to a recent NHPR report, the state’s already close to hitting that mark — and the two busiest months of the year for the department are yet to come. Wacky weather could be to blame; in the story, Colonel Kevin Jordan said many rescue missions had to do with thin ice caused by fluctuating temperatures.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: Last year there were 173 wilderness rescues in New Hampshire, and the previous year, there were 164, according to the story.

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Economic cost to drug crisis

While a price cannot be put on the hundreds of deaths caused by the opioid addiction epidemic, a recent economic analysis of the crisis shows that there are significant and far-reaching impacts on the state.

According to a press release, a report produced by New Futures in partnership with PolEcon Research found that the annual cost of the opioid crisis amounts to $2.36 billion. More than $600 million of that is related to premature deaths caused by the powerful drugs.

QOL Score: -2 Comment: The report also pointed to improvements in access to treatment services since the last economic impact report released in 2012.

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All four falcon eggs in the monitored nest at the top of the Brady Sullivan tower in Manchester hatched over the past weekend. The first baby falcon, known as an eyas, hatched in the early morning hours of May 5. The second hatched on May 6 and the last two hatched on May 7. All four eyasses were named informally by a fourth-grade class at Hooksett Memorial School, in order of hatching: Amos, Penny, Sunny and Winni.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S LONGSHOTS

Which is better: tournament or playoffs?

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As I write this the Celtics are tied two games to two with the Washington Wizards, though after a no-show on Thursday and a thirdquarter meltdown Sunday, when a 53-52 lead turned into a giant 70-53 hole in a blink of an eye, it feels like they’re down five games instead. Especially after taking a 2-0 lead behind the best basketball played in the Brad Stevens era during a third-quarter run to grab their first lead after starting Game 1 down 0-16 and a brilliant performance by (the good) Isaiah Thomas in a thrilling overtime win in Game 2.

Now if a college hoop fan were on the psychiatrist’s couch, they’d say such wild swings are why the NCAA Basketball Tournament is so much better than the NBA playoffs. But, if I’m on it, I’d say that’s the beauty of the playoffs, where a few stinkers can be undone by the emotional ebb and flow that has you feeling great about a team now and not so much a week later.

Particularly when said green team returns to their incredibly annoying habit of blowing double-digit leads behind taking — is it ill-timed, or downright stupid?

— long-range shots as the other guys are in a comeback spurt. In this case, it was two brain-dead threes from Kelly Olynyk and one from (of course) Jae Crowder that turned a 42-29 second-quarter lead into a 46-46 halftime tie. Something that happened again as the game turned amid a flurry of turnovers in the third quarter. Now, as gripe for smart basketball fans everywhere, you say three-point shooting is their game, and I’d agree. But at some point you need to know when you need to take better (read: closer to the basket) shots and/or get to the line to stop said momentum, instead of mindlessly firing away from deep when misses produce long rebounds that lead to momentum-fueling fast breaks the other way. Somehow that seems to elude their

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thing, but doing it on the C’s as he did in Game 2 against a team of grown men with four superior perimeter defenders — that, my friends, is a whole different kettle of enchiladas.

This is not a back-in-the-day rant. If you’re too young to remember how great a college player Laettner was, you only know what you see. Which makes now great for them. Nor am I berating the college game for one and done. Who could blame any kid for taking the money, or guys like Coach Cal, working a system imposed on them by the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement? That’s just the way it is. Though the hypocrisy of “academically elite” Duke doing one-and-done for the bucks makes me want to vomit. But I will say that’s nothing compared to slimeball coaches or the recruiting and academic cheating scandals the college game regularly provides. But I digress, yet again.

The playoffs offer the brilliance of LeBron James making his case vs. Michael Jordan for best all-time since Bill Russell.

There’s also the game-changing smallball Warriors on a collision course to meet Cleveland in the finals again. Last year’s series was a dog for four games, but thanks to the building drama and animosity seven-game series can produce, it turned on a bonehead/dirty Draymond Green play in Game 5 leading to a Game 7 for the ages.

Finally, best of all, playoff games are on home court or behind enemy lines in front of vocal, hostile crowds. At the Final Four the crowd is polite. I’ve been to six and, trust me, none came close to rocking like the Garden did in Sunday’s deafening third quarter. Such environments can dramatically influence a game. Polite clapping from people who don’t care who wins doesn’t.

All that is why I’ll take the NBA playoffs over the tournament any day. And it’s not even close.

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coach, even after happening what has to be at least 20 times this season.

But my aggravation over that is actually my actual point. Instead of a one-game high, or low, a series is an emotional rollercoaster reeling you in as it evolves. In the tournament, it’s one and done for 32 teams and by Sunday 16 more are gone. And the emotion is real, not artificially induced by gambling or an office pool bracket going down the drain.

Now it’s a to-each-his-own-world, so if you like college basketball better than pro basketball that’s fine with me. Just don’t tell me the basketball is better, because the gap between the NBA and college basketball is a solar system apart and, like ours, expanding.

When I watch the tournament, I see 19-year-old “stars” who still don’t have the damage caused by the AAU machine wrung out of their blood stream. Teenagers, like third-overall pick Jaylen Brown, who after trading in their college eligibility and “stardom” for the bucks barely play in the playoffs because the level of play is so superior. And if you want to see it in practice, you will next year if the C’s get the draft’s top pick, because, with the way Terry Rozier is playing now, projected top pick Markelle Fultz will be their fifth-best guard and may never get off the bench in games that matter for two years.

Stardom, by the way, only there because the really good players don’t stay around to be seniors, like Patrick Ewing, Larry Bird, Christian Laettner and Grant Hill did when the tournament actually was great. It’s not that the games aren’t exciting. It’s just 19-year-olds aren’t as good as they’ll be at 22. Thus, the level of play isn’t as good. Or as Washington star John Wall now is at 27. He was once one of those guys, the NBA’s top draft pick after a oneand-done season at Kentucky, and it took him six long years to finally be a dominant star again. Dropping 40 on Alabama is one

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF

Honoring student athletes

The Numbers

0 – hits allowed by Owen Batchelder and Alec Burns in a combined no-no while striking out 10 in Souhegan’s 5-1 win over Hanover.

4 – RBI on three hits for Cooper Anibal to lead Bed-

while also getting three hits and scoring three times in a 15-3 win over Newmarket.

Comeback Win of the Week: To the now 7-0 Bedford laxsters, who saw their undefeated season in peril when they trailed Londonderry by three goals in the early going before going on a burst of four goals in 62 seconds leading to a 12-7 win over the Lancers when Hannah McCarthy led the Bulldogs with four scores.

Touch Them All Award: No, it’s not given for hitting a homer, but for something much more difficult than that — hitting for the cycle, as Goffstown’s Kara Lendry did in leading G-town to a 17-2 thumping of Trinity.

Sports 101 Answer: The six vagabond NBA Hall of Famers: Dennis Rodman, Bernard King and Gary Payton each played on five teams, Dikembe Mutombo played on six, and it was seven for Adrian Dantley and Moses Malone, who also played on two ABA teams.

On This Date – May 11: 1972 – San Francisco coldly trades Willie Mays to Mets for journeyman Charlie Williams and cash, while the Bruins win the Stanley Cup in six games over the hated Rangers. 1977 – Goofball Atlanta owner Ted Turner takes over as manager before the commissioner forces him out after one game. 1980 – 39-year-old Pete Rose steals second, third and home in one inning for the Phillies.

ford in their 12-1 runaway over Trinity.

5 – hits in five AB’s for Abby Amato to go along with a homer, three RBI and three runs scored to lead Pinkerton to a 13-12 win over Keene.

15 – goals scored by lax-

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The Big Story: The top high school student-athletes of the year will be honored at the Apple Therapy Student-Athlete of the Year Banquet on May 25. It’s the final step in a year-long program by Apple Therapy and ESPN New Hampshire that has named a girls and boys winner each month culminating with a male and female high school senior each being awarded a $2,500 scholarship. The Safe Sports Network Perseverance Award and ESPN-NH’s Friday Night Lights awards will also be presented at the ceremony, which will be held at the Derryfield Country Club Restaurant. The ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m. with tickets available at the door. It’s presented by Apple Therapy, in conjunction with ESPN New Hampshire Radio, the Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Centers (BASC), and The Safe Sports Network.

Sports 101: Name the five future Hall of Famers to play for a whopping six or more NBA teams in their careers.

Hot Ticket: After disposing of the Brampton Beast in six games, it’s on to the Eastern Conference finals for your Manchester Monarchs. The face the South Carolina Stingrays in a weird seven-game series with the first three games played down south this week.

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Babe Ruth Award: To Derryfield hurler Emily Moll, who allowed five hits and struck out eight in a five-inning stint for the Cougars

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33 – SNHU coaching seasons for Stan Spirou after announcing last week he’ll be back for another year as Penmen coach.

Larry Bird: Stayed at Indiana State for his senior year despite being drafted by Boston as a junior eligible and then led the Sycamores to a national title game showdown with Magic Johnson and Michigan State in a thoroughly boring but highly rated TV affair. Before that he averaged 28.6 points and 14.9 rebounds a game leading ISU into the final at 33-0.

Christian Laettner: While the pro career didn’t quite match his Duke days, he’s still among the 10 greatest college basketball players of all time. That’s after leading Duke to two NCAA titles and four Final Fours and being the Tournament’s all-time leading scorer. He also had four game-winning shots, including the most famous in tourney history, the top-of-the-key turnaround jumper off the full court pass with two seconds left to beat Kentucky in the 1992 East Regional.

Grant Hill: The guy who threw that full court pass to Laettner for the dagger that slew Kentucky.

Patrick Ewing: Legendary player from the Hoya Paranoia days of the 1980s when Georgetown went to three Final games in his four years. He won in a 1984 showdown with Hakeem Olajuwon and Houston, while losing to UNC on a last-second Michael Jordan in 1982 and again in 1985 when Villanova shot 78.6 from the field to upset GT 66-64. Also, a better collegian than a pro where he morphed from a savage defender and rebounder at into a post-up fall-away jump shooter with the Knicks. Boooo.

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When you think of New Hampshire history, you might think of General John Stark or the rise of the mills. You might not think sea lampreys, turkeys and cows.

New Hampshire’s rich history includes not just notable people and events but also notable animals. There are the native animals whose numbers decreased as the number of people in the state increased and then there are the newcomer animals brought in for farming. Some of the state’s native animals have seen populations bounce back with conservation efforts and some, like wolves, are gone completely.

We take a look at nine of these animals that have left their foot (or hoof or paw) prints on Granite State history.

A cow at Lull Farm in 2016. Photo by Sid Ceaser Photography.

Old Timers Moose

Before European settlers arrived in New Hampshire, there were more moose in the state than there were deer, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game. In the 1700s and 1800s, the moose population began to suffer at the hands of the settlers and Native Americans, who killed moose to use for food and clothing. By the mid-1800s, the population had dropped below 15 moose.

“There was no such thing as Fish & Game laws back then. It was unrestricted,” said Kristine Rines, wildlife biologist and Moose Project leader for New Hampshire Fish and Game. “They killed moose at high levels, and that caused them to decline.”

In 1901, legislation was passed by Fish & Game to close moose hunting permanently, and it wasn’t until the early 1970s that the moose population started to make a significant comeback. By the time New Hampshire held its first regulated moose hunt in 1988, there were over 4,100 moose. This year, 51 moose hunting permits will be issued by Fish & Game via a lottery (applications due May 26), allowing hunters nine consecutive days to hunt starting the third Saturday in October.

The average weight of a moose in New Hampshire is 1,000 pounds, making it the

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largest mammal in the state. New Hampshire’s climate and forests, particularly in the northern part of the state, provide an ideal environment for the moose to live.

“It evolved in the north and is perfectly adapted for the cold and the snow,” Rines said.

Moose are herbivores and feed on fresh growing leaves, twigs, tree buds and shrubs.

They avoid mature forests and fields and reside mostly in forests with clear-cutting or forest fires, where young plant growth is most prevalent.

“As far as their environmental impact,

moose keep forests in a young state, which is great for many kinds of birds which like the younger forests as opposed to old forests,” Rines said.

After the first moose hunt, the moose population in New Hampshire continued to grow, reaching between 7,000 and 7,500 moose in the late 1990s. The current population, however, is declining again due to a new threat.

“Our climate is changing and our habitats are changing and because moose are a northern species, they’re the ones that feel the change the most,” Rines said, adding that the warmer weather also supports new parasites that the moose aren’t equipped to handle.

“The best thing we can do for them is reduce our carbon footprint,” she said.

— Angie Sykeny

Sea lamprey

With a long, snake-like body and circular mouth filled with rows of cartilage teeth, the sea lamprey isn’t as scary as its appearance suggests, says Helen Dalbeck, executive director at Amoskeag Fishways Learning Center in Manchester.

“They are not a well-loved fish, mostly because they’re misunderstood,” she said.

“Many people don’t like to see them because they think they prey [on] sports fish, but they actually don’t kill any fish.”

Sea lamprey at Amoskeag Fishways in Manchester.

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New Hampshire’s cold waters are perfect for the sea lamprey, which is born in rivers and migrates to the ocean where it spends its adult life, then returns to the rivers to spawn.

The lamprey’s contribution to New Hampshire river habitat is unique because it carries marine nutrients from the ocean that aren’t typically found in freshwater and releases them into the rivers when it dies, where other plants and animals can pick them up.

Native Americans and early settlers in southern New Hampshire used to eat the

sea lamprey, which was known at that time as the “Derryfield Beef.”

“They were considered a staple for people who lived in this area,” Dalbeck said.

“They would especially feed them to children because there were no bones in them.”

They’re no longer eaten in North America, she said, but are still considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, such as Portugal.

Lampreys use the rocky river bottom to build their horseshoe-shaped nests, which protect their eggs from being swept away.

They release tens of thousands of eggs after which point they die.

Baby lampreys, which look like tiny worms, find a sandy bottom of the river after they hatch and bury themselves. They use a unique feeding method in which they pop up their heads and filter nutrient particles out of the water as it flows by.

Lampreys stay in this state for up to seven years before reaching adulthood and migrating to the ocean, where they can reach three feet in length. As adults, they are parasitic eaters.

“They suction-cup their mouth to the side of a fish and drink its blood and body fluids,” Dalbeck said, “and that’s their source of food, but they don’t kill it.”

Part of the lamprey’s value for us today, she said, is that it’s a cool animal to study and claim as part of New Hampshire’s wildlife.

“Their feeding adaptation and life cycle are so unique in nature. There’s really nothing like the lamprey,” she said. “They have our respect, for sure.”

— Angie Sykeny

Deer

White-tailed deer are native to New Hampshire, and to most of the country, residing in almost every state except Utah, Nevada and California, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game website.

Even before colonists came over, they were important resources for Native Americans, providing food, clothing and tools (made from antlers). The animals are tan to reddish-brown during the summer, grayish brown during the winter, and earned their name by showing the white underside of their tails as a danger warning.

Dan Bergeron, deer project leader with New Hampshire Fish and Game, said the state has been tracking populations since the 1920’s. Numbers began to decrease in the 1940’s due to unregulated hunting and predator abundance but were at their lowest in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, which is when New Hampshire Fish and Game obtained authority to manage numbers, mostly through hunting licenses. It was designated the state animal in 1983.

Bergeron said you’re more likely to see white-tailed deer in the fall during breeding season, when they’re most active and

Photographed by Daniel Bergeron.

looking for mates. Today, they’re most densely populated in southern New Hampshire’s suburban counties, where hunters are scarce, gardens are plentiful and winters are milder — generally.

“A large part of that has to do with, when you have more development, it’s harder to get people to hunt [in that area] to bring deer densities down,” Bergeron said. “When you have these suburban areas, there’s still a decent amount of forested landscape. You also have these areas where there are gardens and ornamental plants. Deer eat just about everything. Often, what’s planted in yards is also more nutritious than what you’ll find in the woods.”

Numbers in the Granite State are low compared to the estimated 30 million nationwide, but historically, they’re up in New Hampshire, with about 100,000 or 13 per square mile. Bergeron said most residents enjoy seeing deer, which are capable of living about 15 years — so long as they’re off the highway and out of the gardens.

“Overall, [the relationship] is pretty positive, and that’s because we have a healthy number of deer throughout the state,” Bergeron said.

The species is important to the state’s economy. People travel to hunt deer — which means they’re purchasing gas, lodging, food and items at local sporting goods stores. In 2011, it was estimated hunting contributes $60 million to the state’s economy. For many families, venison remains a staple meat.

Want to learn more about the sea lamprey?

On Saturday, May 27, the Amoskeag Fishways Learning Center (4 Fletcher St., Manchester) will host its annual Sea Lamprey Appreciation Day, where you can hold a live three-foot-long lamprey and learn about its unique appearance and lifecycle. The cost is $3 per person or $6 per family, and no registration is required. Call 626-3474 or visit amoskeagfishways.org for more information.

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“Some people still rely on wild game for a good portion of their food,” Bergeron said.

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ber wolf and the eastern coyote, Tate said, the reason why there are only coyotes here and not wolves has to do with each animal’s adaptabilities.

“Coyotes can take advantage of many different types of prey species and habitat types, even in city environments,” he said.

“Wolves on the other hand don’t have the ability to do that because they tend to pack more in groups.”

While coyotes don’t prefer to hunt domestic animals or even to attack humans, Tate said, it’s a good idea for owners of small dogs not to let their pets have free range outdoors during its peak breeding season, which is normally from January to March.

“It’s a species that prefers natural food resources,” he said. “We don’t recommend trying to feed them either because of the risk of attracting other unwanted wildlife like bears in the summer months or bobcats in the winter months.” — Matt Ingersoll

Wolves

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According to Patrick Tate, a furbearer biologist with New Hampshire Fish & Game, there has actually not been a confirmed sighting of a wolf in the Granite State since 1895, though two cases have been documented in northern Maine over the last 25 years. Still, he said, northern New Hampshire’s heavily forested terrain does serve as an environment that could support a species of wolves.

“As the colonization of European settlers occurred throughout the Northeast, [the wolves] that were here were pushed back mostly through habitat change … and the animals retreated farther north to where humans were less dense,” Tate said.

“They moved north eventually up to Canada through population migration. … It was not a conscious decision for them, it was just that the habitat was not favorable for them and reproduction was not favorable on a colonized landscape.”

Today, your best shot at seeing a wild eastern timber wolf is north of the St. Lawrence River in the area of Quebec City, Canada. But Tate said that eastern timberwolves did exist in the Granite State during colonial times. Gray wolves, which are smaller in stature, are also found in Canada but did historically occupy New Hampshire.

“Currently, we haven’t had any physical evidence [in New Hampshire] to absolutely say a wolf has been here, but we do receive pictures from people asking if it’s a wolf or a coyote and having our biologists look at the characteristics of it,” Tate said.

If you’ve ever spotted a wild dog in your neighborhood, you might have asked yourself whether it was a wolf or a coyote.

Coyotes are slightly smaller than wolves on average, with a pointier snout, smaller feet and shorter legs.

Although there is a genetic overlap due to interbreeding between the eastern tim-

Workers Sheep

A period of sheep mania in the early 19th century caused sudden and long-lasting changes to the New Hampshire landscape and helped to shape its early commercial agricultural heritage.

Tom Wessels, a historian with Antioch University of New England, said it all started when a diplomat from Vermont named William Jarvis smuggled a few thousand sheep from Spain during the chaos of the Napoleonic wars. These sheep were a special breed called merino that up until that point had been monopolized by the Spaniards.

The merinos were highly productive and their wool wasn’t scratchy and managed moisture better. Wessels said introducing them to the New England area was a huge economic boost in the early 1800s.

“That period of time … it was huge.

It was the first sort of large scale market farming opportunity,” Wessels said.

Before sheep, farms in New Hampshire were just self-sustaining. After, they could grow a lot of a valuable commodity and sell it for top dollar.

A few things helped kick off the sheep market around this time. Tariffs were set up for wool imports, making it easier for local producers to compete, and new woolweaving machines were invented to make textiles on a large scale.

The wool textile industry had its ups and downs over the years that followed, mostly due to shifting tariff laws. While the early wool industry may not have been as large economically as what the dairy industry would become after the Civil War thanks to the advent of railroads, Wessels said, it had the most important impact on New Hampshire’s landscape.

Without sheep, New Hampshire would

not have experienced the first major deforestation effort of the 1800s, which turned the land south of the notches into 80 percent agricultural land by the middle 1840s, mostly for sheep pasturage.

And because the wood from the forests was burned, farmers didn’t have enough wood to maintain wooden fences. That led to the creation of stone fences.

“Farmers [would] go back to stone dumps, pick out the rocks and start replacing wooden fences with stone fences,” Wessels said.

Many of those stone fences remain today. Wessels said that there’s now about 125,000 miles of stone fences between New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

That’s enough to wrap around the earth’s equator five times, reach halfway to the moon in a straight line or pile up to mounds six or seven times as massive as all the Egyptian pyramids, according to Wessels.

The sheep industry turned a corner in the middle of the 19th century when the cotton gin made cotton textiles more competitive and overgrazing in New England made soils degrade and productivity decline.

Ultimately, the industry moved westward with much of commercial agriculture.

But over the past 20 or 30 years, Wessels said, small specialty farms in New Hampshire have made a comeback. Today, some farms have sheep that they grow and sell for meat to restaurants. Even sheep milk has been used for specialty products like cheeses amid the locavore movement.

— Ryan Lessard

Cows

Cows have an enormous role in New Hampshire’s economy, culture and landscape — even though they’re relatively new to the Granite State, having first come over with early settlers.

In fact, until 150 years ago, most of our farms were sheep farms, supplying wool to nearby textile mills, from Manchester to Lowell, Mass., said Carl Majewski, food and agriculture UNH Cooperative Extension field specialist. When the textile industry moved south, New Hampshire farmers turned to dairy production instead, capital-

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izing on recent technological advancements in bottling and transporting milk.

New Hampshire farmers also turned to dairy because the climate is good for growing grass for cows to eat — fruit and vegetables, not so much.

“A lot of the state has rocky, hilly soil, and we’ve got a somewhat limited growing season. That makes it hard to grow some crops on a large scale. That’s why there are millions of acres of vegetables in California and not here,” Majewski said via phone.

“But we do grow a lot of grass. And while it’s a pain to go harvesting grass on some of these rocky, hilly soils, you can have cattle out there grazing and it’s just fine.”

Cows can live as long as 12 years depending on their breed and prefer moderate temperatures, between 50 and 60 degrees.

New Hampshire’s not the most cow-dense state in New England — both Vermont and Maine have us beat — but cows and other farm animals are to credit for a great deal of the state’s pastoral landscape.

“Dairy and beef farms are what give a lot of the state its rural character. Of all the different types of farming that go on in the state, anything to do with animals takes up more land than anything else. There are a lot of hay fields, a lot of pastures and corn fields,” Majewski said.

Majewski estimates peak cattle populations were in 1900, with around 115,000 milking cows. Today, cow population numbers have dwindled, with the last census conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture counting 33,392 New Hampshire cows on 1,091 farms in 2012.

Of those, 13,474 were active milking cows (mostly Holsteins), 4,075 beef, the rest calves or inactive milking cows (a variety of breeds). Majewski said the industry con-

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For about a century, New Hampshire didn’t have any wild turkeys to speak of.

But thanks to restoration efforts, they’re now more populous than they were estimated to be before the colonial period.

Ted Walski, who has led the turkey restoration effort at New Hampshire Fish and Game for the past 40 years, said there were an estimated 5,000 wild turkeys in the state during the pre-colonial era. They were hunted for food by Native Americans but with the advent of European settlers and more advanced firearms, the birds were over-hunted and eventually extirpated, after much of their habitat had been destroyed by farmers clearing away huge sections of forest.

The last turkey was spotted in Weare in 1854.

After more than a century, the state decided to take steps to bring the fowl back.

Walski said turkeys were a true native to New England and hunting them was part of the culture here.

“It’s been a huntable species in so many states. … It was almost our national emblem or symbol instead of the eagle. And it was a valuable food source … used by the Indians and the early settlers here,” Walski said.

And hunting turkeys takes a great deal of skill, according to Walski. Hunters have to get up extremely early and it teaches them how to call turkeys and be patient.

“You have to be pretty close to be able to get a turkey so it makes overall better hunters,” Walski said.

The first stab at bringing turkeys back to

the state was in 1969, when New Hampshire traded 26 fishers for 26 turkeys from West Virginia.

That plan failed for a few reasons. Walski said the fowl from West Virginia were not a particularly hardy species and two severe winters in a row killed most of them off. In addition to that, the birds were released in Pawtuckaway State Park, which didn’t have the kinds of farmland and hayfields that turkeys thrive in.

Turkeys eat a lot of protein. In the spring they like to eat a lot of grasshoppers found in fields, then they eat more berries in the summer and nuts and seeds in the fall. Grasshoppers are usually found in open fields and farmland.

The second attempt to transplant wild turkeys was successful. They obtained a donation of 25 turkeys from Allegany State Park in New York and relocated them in Cheshire County along the Connecticut River in 1975.

After only three years, Walski was able to start trapping dozens of turkeys at a time and moving them more eastward. He did this about 15 times over the next several years.

Because turkeys are polygamous and lay about 12 eggs at a time, they multiply their population exponentially.

There are now an estimated 40,000 turkeys in the state.

Last year, 3,882 turkeys were taken in the hunting season. This year’s season started on May 3 and goes through May 31.

— Ryan Lessard

Loons

Where there are lakes in New Hampshire, there are usually some common loons. In fact, whenever you do see these aquatic birds on the water, it means the water quality of the lake is high.

“Loons are great indicators of the overall environmental health … of our lakes and ponds,” said Harry Vogel, executive director and senior biologist for the Loon Preservation Committee in Moultonborough.

“If you have them on a lake, you’re doing something right.”

Loons in New Hampshire are considered

Loons. Photo by Kittie Wilson.

a threatened species, with only about 300 pairs recorded by the committee statewide last year. A lake in Canada, by comparison, has about three times as many loons as in any given area of water in New Hampshire of the same size, Vogel said.

“In the early days [of the committee] during the late 1970s, some pretty extensive interviews were done with some longtime residents living on or near our lakes about the abundance of loons,” he said. “Through these types of interviews, we’ve learned that loons were actually much more common in the past than today.”

Since then, the committee has been leading the efforts to recover the state population of loons back to where it should be. Vogel said a major factor contributing to the decline in population of loons in the state has to do with lead poisoning caused by fishing equipment. According to New Hampshire Fish & Game, a state law was passed last year banning the sale and freshwater use of lead fishing hooks weighing one ounce or less.

“Loons should be found statewide … [and] there are a lot of different things we can do, but two big ones are to give them space and to not use lead fishing sinkers or jigs,” Vogel said. “The problem is that people always want to get up close to get a picture of them, but you’re always at risk of forcing a loon to abandon its nest if you do that.”

The common loon is one of five different species of the bird worldwide but is the only one that resides in the Granite State.

Most of the other species, like the red-throated loon and the yellow-billed loon, are often found in more arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

“There is some evidence that loons are more cold-adapted, and that if they get too warm, they get a little heat-stressed,” said Pamela Hunt, senior biologist in avian conservation for New Hampshire Audubon.

Vogel recommends remaining at least 150 feet away from the birds, and using a good pair of binoculars or a telephoto camera lens if you have one.

If you want to learn more about loons, you can visit the committee’s headquarters, which has various taxidermy displays and a gift shop. The McLane Audubon Center and the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center are also good resources. — Matt Ingersoll

Whales

Prior to the 1970s, there was little expert knowledge of whales — in fact, they were thought of as monstrous creatures among the locals, according to Mary DeBerry of Discover Portsmouth, which is part of the Portsmouth Marine Society.

“There were no aquariums or places around back then that were preserving and educating people about whales as a part of marine life,” she said. “It probably wasn’t until the ‘80s or so that there was more of this public consciousness about them and

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how they are friendly mammals to the environment.”

Rebeca Murillo, program and volunteer coordinator for the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation in Portsmouth, said the most common species of whales you will see in the Gulf of Maine are of the baleen family — minke, humpback and fin whales. Currently, there is a northern Atlantic population of about 11,500 humpback whales and less than 3,000 minke and fin whales.

“Baleen whales don’t have teeth but instead have a kind of filter feeder system on their mouths,” she said. “Minke whales are one of the smallest and only grow about 30 feet long, while humpback whales can grow between 30 and 40 feet and fin whales can reach lengths of up to 70 feet.”

Murillo said humpback whales, the most well studied of the three, were just taken off of the endangered species list last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, due to a gradual increase in population.

A large population of whales along New Hampshire’s Seacoast is a good indicator of the health of the ocean, and ways to improve the population of whales involve limiting the amount of trash produced in the water.

Murillo said the presence of these whales helps create a stable food chain for other ocean wildlife. The waste of most whale species helps to promote the growth of different phytoplankton in the ocean, which in turn removes carbon from the atmosphere and helps certain fish and other marine species that depend on that phytoplankton for survival.

Pete Reynolds, captain and owner of Granite State Whale Watch in Rye Harbor, began doing recreational whale watches along the Gulf of Maine in the mid-’80s.

“Our main area where we go is Jeffreys Ledge; it’s basically an underwater mountain chain from Cape Ann to about 20 miles offshore from Portland, Maine,” Reynolds said.

Murillo said the chances to see whales varies as they follow sources of food.

“Certain things to look for [out on whale watches] are water blows in the distances or different kinds of disturbances in the water,” she said. — Matt Ingersoll

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Join AARP New Hampshire for Job Search in the Digital Age, a free workshop designed to help people discover the best websites and apps to connect to job resources. Learn important tips for how to network online and how to get noticed by hiring managers. The workshop will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel (700 Elm St., Manchester). Visit aarp.cvent.com or call 866-7407588 to register.

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The Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications (749 E. Industrial Park Drive, Manchester) will hold a nature art photography workshop from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will include a trip to the nearby Audubon Center and Massabesic Lake to take photos, before returning to the school to display and edit images. Students should bring digital cameras. The cost is $50 and includes lunch. Visit loebschool.org or call 627-0005.

EAT: spaghetti Don’t miss the sixth annual spaghetti supper to benefit Holy Cross Family Learning Center (357 Island Pond Road, Manchester), its largest annual fundraising event. The supper will be held on Thursday, May 11, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15. Visit hcflcspaghettisupper2017.eventbrite.com.

Relive an evening of classic hits with Under the Streetlamp, as they appear at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) at 7:30 p.m. The quartet will deliver a myriad of doo-wop, Motown and old time rock and roll hits from musical greats such as The Drifters, The Beach Boys, The Beatles and much more. Tickets start at $50.50. Additional fees apply for tickets that include a meet and greet with the band prior to the show. Visit palacetheatre. org or call 668-5588.

DRINK: local brews The next NH Beer Club meeting will be held at New England’s Tap House Grille (1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett) on Monday, May 15, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and will feature selections from Litherman’s Limited Brewery in Concord. Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month and offer opportunities to meet a featured local brewer and sample select beers. Tickets are $30 to each meeting. Visit nhbeerclub.com.

Tuesday, May 16

Author J. Courtney Sullivan will appear at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) at 5:30 p.m. to present her new novel Saints for All Occasions.

The novel follows the journey of two young sisters from Ireland to Boston. Admission is free. Visit gibsonsbookstore. com or call 224-0562.

BE MERRY: with crafts, face painting and more The Brittany Roche Foundation will hold its annual Spring Fling flea market and craft fair on Saturday, May 13, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Milford Community Lawn (5 Union St.). The fair will feature dozens of assorted arts and crafts tables, face painting, food, wine tastings and more. Visit brittanyrochefoundation.org.

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Nashua Actorsingers cast all aside for Singin’ in the Rain

By Kelly Sennott

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Passion goes a long way for the Nashua Actorsingers, whose cast and crew dealt with leg injuries, half marathons and cancer to present Singin’ in the Rain this weekend at the Janice B. Streeter Theater.

“When they approached me to be in the show, initially I thought, oh, I don’t know. I was trying to get healthy,” said Seraphim D’Andrea, who plays Lina Lamont and recently finished chemotherapy for breast cancer. “But being in a show feeds your soul. You can get kind of lost being sick. But I’ve been a performer since I was 5, and I was missing that. So I said, OK, I need something to kind of make me have a purpose. To fight through, you need that.”

Singin’ in the Rain Where: Edmund Keefe Auditorium, 117 Elm St., Nashua When: Friday, May 12, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, May 13, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, May 14, at 2 p.m.

Admission: $18 to $20 Contact: actorsingers.org

Don Smith-Weiss with Mia Berardi, Sarah Wenrich, Patrice Doherty, Gabby Lavoie, Samantha Kowalski, Elise Wulff and Alyssa Gillin. Isaac Mishkit photo.

Singin’ in the Rain is a musical based on the 1952 film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds, with book by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics

by Arthur Freed. It was first produced on London’s West End stage in 1983 and is set in the 1920s during Hollywood’s waning days of the silent screen era.

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The show presents many technical challenges, from onstage rain to movie projections, and rehearsals have been noisy and full of activity, said the show’s director, Kathy Lovering, during a recent rehearsal at the Actorsingers Studio. That night, cast members were glammed up for press photoshoots, and tap shoes could be heard throughout the building.

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But Singin’ in the Rain is known for its tunes and iconic dance numbers, so dancers had to work extra hard when the show’s choreographer, Lara Hyde, suffered a leg injury a month into rehearsals.

They had to learn the steps with her in a chair, leg propped up, but they powered through using some of the choreography videos she proactively filmed before rehearsals even began.

“Losing Lara was really hard, but we all kind of rallied behind each other and supported each other any way we could,” said Samantha Kowalski, who that day was feeling the effects of running her first-ever half marathon the weekend before.

The eldest dancer of the group is Alice Pascucci, who vowed to be tapping onstage by her 80th birthday, but Lovering said both cast and crew include multiple people over 80, plus a couple of teens.

All are performing not for money, but for the love of what they’re doing.

“When you do community theater, the community is just as important as the theater. You come here and you have a good time. This is a lot of work; I work full time, and I’m getting old, but you come here after a long day, and it’s fun,” she said.

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Theater Productions • THE TRUTH WILL SPRING YUH World premiere of fulllength play by Donald Tongue.

April 28-May 14, Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m. Tickets $16.50. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Visit hatboxnh.com or call 715-2315.

• ROCK OF AGES May 5-May 28. Seacoast Repertory Theatre, 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. Visit seacoastrep.org. Tickets $20-$50.

• VENUS IN FUR Rolling Die Productions. The Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. May 12-May 28. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.

Tickets $15. Visit playersring. org. Call 436-8123.

• MY 80-YEAR-OLD BOYFRIEND Merrimack Repertory Theatre production. April 26-May 21. Nancy L. Donahue Theatre, 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell. $26-$70. Visit mrt.org, call 978-654-4678.

• MY FAIR LADY Majestic The-

atre teens show. Fri., May 12, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 13, at 7 p.m.; Sun., May 14, at 2 p.m. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. $18. Visit majestictheatre.net. Call 669-7469.

• GREASE Nashua Actorsingers production. Fri., May 12, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 13, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Sun., May 14, at 2 p.m.; Fri., May 19, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 20, at 2 & 7 p.m.; Sun., May 21, at 2 p.m. Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua. Tickets $10-$17. Visit peacockplayers.org. Call 8867000.

• SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Nashua Actorsingers production. Fri., May 12, at 8 p.m.; Sat., May 13, at 8 p.m.; Sun., May 14, at 2 p.m. Edmund Keefe Auditorium, 117 Elm St., Nashua. Tickets $18-$20.

• GUIDE TO NEW ENGLAND Featuring Yankee humorist Fred Marple. Sat., May 13, at 7:30 p.m. Franklin Opera House, 316 Central St., Franklin. Played by

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Ken Sheldon. Tickets $10-$14.

Visit franklinoperahouse.org or call 934-1901.

• LET’S DANCE 2017 Presented by Belinda Bridgeman Academy of Dance. Sat., May 20, at 1 & 6 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester, Tickets $25. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN Romantic comedy. Sat., May 20, at 8 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord.

Tickets $45. Call 225-1111, visit ccanh.com.

• GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! Produced by The Community Players of Concord.

Sat., May 20, at at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 21, at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Visit hatboxnh.com.

Tickets $16.50.

• TAPE FACE Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking, drama with no acting. As seen on America’s Got Talent. Sun., May 21, at 7 p.m. Capitol Cen-

ter for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $25-$35. Visit ccanh. com. Call 225-1111.

• PATSY CLINE REMEMBERED AMIT Orchestra and Liz Saunders pay tribute to classics like “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy” and more. Call 4968969. Sun., May 21, at 4 p.m.

Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Visit ccanh. com. $28-$38.

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Kids Coop Theatre production.

Fri., May 26, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 27, at 1 and 7 p.m. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. $14. Visit kids-coop-theatre.org.

• ALADDIN Dimensions in Dance performance. Sat., May 27, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets $18. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Palace Theatre production.

June 2-June 25. 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit palacetheatre.

org. Call 668-5588, ext. 127.

Tickets $25-$45.

Workshops/other • GETTING PAID TO TALK Learn how to become a professional voiceover artist. Tues., May 9, 6:30-9 p.m. Bedford Town Hall, Bedford. $35. Visit voicecoaches.com.

• CHARITY WINE TASTING To Benefit Rochester Performance & Arts Center. Thurs., May 25, 6-9 p.m. Castle on Charles, 19 Charles St., Rochester. Tickets $45. Call 335-1992.

Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

• TRIPLE THREAT BOOT CAMP Peacock Players. For ages 8 to 18. June 5 through June 9, 6-9 p.m. each day. Janice B. Streeter Theatre, 14 Court St., Nashua. Visit peacockplayers.org.

Auditions/open calls • AUDITIONS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Presented by NH Theatre Factory. Mon., May 29, 6-7 p.m. youth audi-

tions, 6:30-9:30 p.m., adult auditions. Concord City Auditorium. And Tues., May 30, 6-7 p.m. youth auditions, 6:30-9:30 p.m. adult auditions, at Derry Opera House. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry. Visit nhtheatrefactory.org.

• AUDITIONS: CHILDREN’S THEATRE PROJECT’S THE WIZARD OF OZ Appointments only. Sun., June 4, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Mon., June 5, 4-8 p.m. The Community Players of Concord, NH Studio, 435 Josiah Bartlett Road, Concord. Visit communityplayersofconcord.org for details.

• OPEN AUDITIONS:WILLY WONKA Leddy Center production. Looking for kids and adults. Sat., June 10. Leddy Center for the Performing Arts, 38C Ladd’s Lane, Epping. Visit leddycenter.org, email info@ leddycenter.org to schedule audition appointment.

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• Greased lightning: The Peacock Players’ big spring production is Grease, and they perform it at the Janice B. Streeter Theater, 14 Court St., Nashua, on Friday, May 12, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 13, at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday, May 14, at 2 p.m.; Friday, May 19, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 20, at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, May 21, at 2 p.m. The show takes place in the ’50s and features a score that includes “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’,” “We Go Together” and “You’re the One That I Want.” Tickets are $10 to $17, available at peacockplayers.org. Call 886-7000.

• Another teen show: The Majestic Theatre teens present My Fair Lady, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music

by Frederick Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, at the Derry Opera House, 29 W. Broadway, Derry, Friday, May 12, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 13, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, May 14, at 2 p.m.

It follows Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who, upon encountering cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, declares to his friend Colonel Pickering that in three months he could transform her into a duchess. Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors 65 and older and $12 for youth 17 and younger. Call 669-7469 or visit majestictheatre.net.

• Award-winner: Manchester resident Dr. Alan Kaplan is receiving an award from the American Association of Community Theatre, which will be presented during an awards ceremony at the AACT nation-

Art Events • NASHUA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Three international sculptors visit Nashua and create large granite or metal outdoor sculpture to give to the city.

Theme is “Together.” Opening reception Thurs., May 11, 6-8 p.m. Nashua Airport, Hanger 81, 81 Perimeter Road, Nashua.

Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org. Tickets $15.

• FREE NEW HAMPSHIRE SECOND SATURDAY Currier Museum of Art. 150 Ash St., Manchester. Sat., May 13, 10 a.m.-noon. Visit currier.org.

• FOCUS TOUR: WOMEN IN ART Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, Sat., May 13, 10 a.m.-noon. Tour focused on work by female artists and featuring strong women.

Pictured, Mac Galinson as Danny and Gabrielle Robinson as Sandy at Joey’s Diner in Amherst. Both perform in Grease this weekend. Courtesy of Greenleaf Photography.

al festival in Rochester, Minnesota, June 26 through July 1. The AACT Distinguished Merit Award is presented to individuals and organizations in recognition of contributions made to promote and develop the highest standards for community theater, according to a release. Kaplan is founder of the Manchester Community Theatre Players and has been associated with community theater for 62 years as a performer, make-up artist, technical director, set and lighting designer, choreographer and stage director. He is also the recipient of the 2014 New Hampshire Good Samaritan Award for his theater work with adults and children.

• New theater? According to a story in the Union Leader, Nashua aldermen are considering a plan proposed by Bruner/Cott Architects and Webb Management Services to turn the former Alec’s Shoes building on Main Street into a $15.5 million downtown performing arts center, with two stories, 500 seats and a first-level lobby, plus a restaurant and retail area. To put it all together, the project would require a capital financing campaign and privatesector donations.

— Kelly Sennott

Visit currier.org.

• LANDSCAPING A USONIAN: THE ZIMMERMAN HOUSE GARDEN TOUR Sun., May 14, 3:30-5 p.m. Starts at the Currier Museum of Art. 150 Ash St., Manchester. $20.

Visit currier.org.

• WRONG BRAIN SPRING BIZARRE: ALTERNATIVE CRAFT FAIR Sat., May 13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Newmarket Millspace, 55 Main St., Newmarket. $1 donation requested at the door.

Handmade, vintage, and recycled goods by 30 different vendors.

• ART IN ACTION 25 artists/ artisans will demonstrate painting, fiber art, jewelry making, woodworking, pottery. Sat., May 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., May 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mack’s Apples Farm, 230 Mammoth Road, Londonderry. Free. Call 434-4799.

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• POSITIVE STREET ART PAINT SOCIAL “May Rain.”

Fundraiser for Positive Street Art. Tues., May 23, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WineNot Boutique, 170 Main St., Nashua. $25. Visit positivestreetart.org.

Open calls • CALL FOR ART For upcoming Studio 550 shows, which change every month and are at the Studio 550 Art Center, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com for details on upcoming shows and how to submit pieces or call 232-5597.

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The three bird sculptures that are part of Concord’s Big Bicycle Project were designed by preschoolers. They stand on metal rods and sport gear eyeballs, tire bellies and kickstand feathers.

Jen Ensign, executive director of Emerson School for Preschoolers, is used to being surprised by the capabilities of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds, but she knows not everyone is. It’s one of the reasons she wanted to get her kids involved with the city’s public art project, headed by the Kimball Jenkins School of Art and sponsored by the Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden.

“I’ve been thinking about ways to have our school involved with the community. We’re deeply involved with art at the school, and I thought it would be an exciting opportunity for kids to create something that would be on display downtown,” Ensign said via phone. “We are constantly inspired to see what children bring to us on a daily basis, and giving them an opportunity like this would allow others to have insight into their capabilities.”

Their project is one of a dozen created with bicycle parts by community members that will be placed in spots designated for outdoor art within the newly designed Concord streetscape. Submissions were due

by April 1, and bikes were dropped off by May 3. Kimball Jenkins Executive Director Ryan Linehan plans to install soon, so that sculptures decorate downtown mid-May through October.

The idea for the Big Bicycle Project started with Pam Tarbell, owner of the Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, who’d seen something similar executed in Chicago during a visit years ago. She thought the concept of the sculptures seemed relatable — almost everyone can remember riding a bike — and so she shared the thought with Linehan a year ago.

“Concord already has some public art, and some historic art, but this is another art form that people can enjoy, and it’s recognizable,” Tarbell said via phone.

At the time, Linehan was wrapping up the school’s first public art installation, the Haley Rae Martin Mural, which decorates Big Bicycle Project

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Learn more at kimballjenkins.com/bigbicycle-project, where there will soon be details and a map on where to find the sculptures.

Sculptures made by the kids at Emerson School for Preschoolers. Kelly Sennott photo.

the side of the Main Street CVS. Reception for that mural has been enormously positive, and so he jumped on this idea too.

Most of the pieces dropped off at Kimball Jenkins still resembled bicycles. One was painted sky blue and sported a bouquet of flowers in its front basket. Another held a wire sculpture of a rider with long, flowing hair, and a license plate labeled “PHANTOM BICYCLE COMMUTER.” The littlest bike was painted gold.

Inside one of the buildings was a project Kimball Jenkins staff had been working on — a bicycle-riding, glove-wearing Tyrannosaurus rex pool toy towing a basket full of smaller dinosaurs. (“They had the hardest time getting its arms to reach. Have you ever seen a T. Rex with long arms?” Linehan said.)

The goal was to make this a community-wide initiative, and to an extent, it’s happened; Ensign said her staff used the opportunity to incorporate the sculpture into their curriculum, which this spring has been all about birds. Kids created the pieces by assembling bicycle parts, courtesy of Kimball Jenkins, on classroom tables and all 51 voted on the final designs, which were then melded together by one student’s dad. Red River Theatres was planning a bicycle-themed screening, details still in the works.

At the time of his interview, Linehan was still waiting for the final approval from the city, but he was hopeful and happy with how Concord has come around to the idea of public art. He has students working on another mural that will soon decorate the Ralph Pill building, visible from the highway.

“I think Concord’s ready to embrace some more public art,” Linehan said.

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• New Hampshire Artist Laureate: The New Hampshire Executive Council confirmed Gov. Chris Sununu’s nomination of Gary Samson of Concord as the next New Hampshire artist laureate. Samson, a Manchester native and lifelong New Hampshire resident who works as photography chair at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. He developed his love of photography while working at the Manchester Historic Association, according to the press release; there, he made contact prints from the many glass negatives documenting the history of Manchester and the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. His work appears in private and public collections, including the Currier Museum of Art, the University of New Hampshire and the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and he’s received two visual artist fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. “Photography is one of our most accessible arts, because it captures reality while also interpreting it,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a press release. “As artist laureate, Gary Samson’s skill and passion will be of great service to those of us who love New Hampshire, helping us learn more about how photography can illuminate both what took place in the past and how today’s actions will reverberate across time.”

• CALL FOR ART Regional and state invitational and juried/ curated exhibition at The Gallery at 100 in Portsmouth. No theme. Deadline for submission May 12 at 9 a.m. Email maskmakernh@aol.com.

Openings •”CELEBRATING FLIGHT” Paper airplane exhibit. On view May 13-May 28. Aviation Museum of NH, 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry. Visit aviationmuseumofnh.org. Call 6694820.

• “PERSISTENCE OF IDENTITY” Featuring work by Lynn Murphy of Vermont. Opening Sun., May 14, at 2 p.m. Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highwan Road, Wartner, Call 456-2600, visit indianmuseum. org.

• NHIA BFA ANNUAL EXHIBITION On view May 19-May 27. Opening Fri., May 19, 5-7 p.m. Emma B. French Gallery, 148 Concord St., Manchester.

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Gary Samson. Courtesy photo.

• Four elements: Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen, hosts an upcoming show, “Elements,” on view May 20 through July 1, with an opening reception Thursday, May 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition’s name refers to the four elements — earth, air, fire and water — which inspired four New Hampshire artists, Russet Jennings, Ann Saunderson, Melissa Hinebauch and Sheryl Kamman, respectively. They explore those topics through a variety of media, including drawing, ink, paintings and photography. Call 975-0015 or visit twiggsgallery.wordpress.com.

• Art for music-lovers: The Sharon Arts Center, 30 Grove St., Peterborough, hosts “Playing in the Band: The Grateful Dead and Their Culture,” May 12 through June 18, with an opening reception on Friday, May 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. The show contains selections from the archives of a Monadnock-area collector, from classic posters to Grateful Dead collectables and memorabilia. The event’s free to attend. Visit nhia.edu or email exhibitions@nhia.edu.

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• “INDY 500 AND BEYOND” Student art show. On view May 5-June 5. Opening Thurs., May 25, 5-7:30 p.m. Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter, 20 Main St., Exeter. Call 777-3461.

• JOE FLAHERTY Painting show. On view May 26-June 30.

Opening Fri., May 26, 4-6 p.m.

VIBE Art Gallery, 67 High St. , Somersworth.

• “20TH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPES” Showcasing work from private collection of Stan Fry. On view June 3-July 21. Opening Sat., June 3, 2-4 p.m. Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell. Call 978-452-7641.

Visit whistlerhouse.org.

• ANDRE BERTOLINO Art show featuring 15 never-beforeseen works. On view June 1-June 30. Dos Amigos Burritos, 26 N. Main St., Concord. Visit aerosoloncanvas.blogspot.com.

In the Galleries • “A LITTLE ABSTRACT-

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On view April 1 through May 13. Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen. Visit twiggsgallery.wordpress.com. Call 9750015.

• “HIGHLIGHTS FROM NHIA’S PERMANENT COLLECTION” On view April 14-May 13. NHIA, Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu. Call 623-0313.

• “MARGINAL: WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY ART” All-women group exhibition, exploring conversations on equality in the art world. On view April 21-May 13. Emma B. French Gallery, 148 Concord St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

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Rolling Die Productions presents David Ives’ Venus in Fur at The Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth, for the next several weekends. The show, directed by Todd Hunter, follows a playwright/director (played by Tomer Oz) desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale, Venus in Fur — and into his empty audition room walks a vulgar and equally desperate actress (played by Jessica Miller) who exhibits a strange command of the material. As the two work through the script, they blur the lines between play and reality and enter into a increasingly serious game of submission and domination, as described in the press release, that only one can win. Showtimes are May 12 through May 28, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. Visit playersring.org. Call 436-8123. Photo by Jasmin Hunter.

• “KNOCK ON WOOD” Art

by Scott Chasse, Kenley Darling, Thomas Dupere, Damion Silver.

3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth. On view through May 20. Visit 3sarts.org.

• “DEEP CUTS: CONTEMPORARY PAPER CUTTING” Showcasing work by contemporary artists who reconsider, redefine and subvert practice of paper cutting. On view Feb. 25 through May 21. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Visit currier.org.

• “AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM: HARBOR SCENES” On view at the Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen St., Lowell. April 1-May 26. Visit whistlerhouse. org, call 978-452-7641.

• “PERFECT EXPOSURE” Art show by Ash Street Group.

On view through May 31.

Hooksett Library, 31 Mount St. Mary’s Way, Hooksett.

• REBECCA FESSENDEN Artist of the month with Nashua Area Artists Association. Art show at the mayor’s office. On view through May 31. Office of the Mayor, 229 Main St., Nashua. Visit nashuaareaartists.org.

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• “COLOR PLAY: NEW WORKS BY NATALIE BLAKE, CATHY CHIN & AMY GOODWIN” On view May 2-June 2. McGowan Fine Art, 10 Hills Ave., Concord.

Visit mcgowanfineart.com. Call 225-2515.

• “CONTEMPORARY VISIONS OF GREECE’S GOLDEN AGE” Art inspired by artistic ideals and achievements of the classical and Hellenistic periods of Greek history.

On view April 22-June 8. Brush Art Gallery and Studios, 256 Market St., Lowell, Mass. Visit thebrush.org.

• “STORIED BOOKS” Currier Library and Archives exhibition showcasing volumes from rare book collection. On view Feb. 6 through June 9. Currier Museum

of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Visit currier.org.

• “DIFFERENT ROOTS, COMMON DREAMS” Photos of cultural diversity, by Becky Field. On view April 28 through June 10. Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom. Visit epsomlibrary.com, call 7369920.

• “PUSHING THE LIMITS” On view at League of NH Craftsmen Gallery, 49 S. Main St., Concord. April 7 through June 23. Visit nhcrafts.org.

• “SPRING INTO SUMMER” Collection of watercolor paintings by Susan Peterson. On view May 2-June 29. Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, 49 S. Main St., Concord.

• “PETER SANDBACK AND CHRIS MYOTT: TWO NEW HAMPSHIRE ARTISTS AND THEIR MODERNIST VISIONS” Exhibition at NH Antique Co-op, 323 Elm St., Milford. Call 673-8499.

On view through June 30. Visit nhantiquecoop.com.

Classical Music Events • JAZZ INFLUENCES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Concert featuring faculty jazz quartet, part of Bach’s Lunch Lectures. Thurs., May 11, 12:10-12:50 p.m. Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. Call 2281196. Free.

• CONCERT FOR CAREGIVERS Produced by Massabesic Audubon Center and AARP. 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. Fri., May 12, at 3 p.m.

Folk ensemble from Manchester Community Music School. $5 donation. Call 668-2045.

• LAKES REGION SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA POPS CONCERT Concert features Frank Sinatra tunes. Sat., May 13, at 7:30 p.m. Inter-Lakes Auditorium, Route 25, Meredith. $15.

• GLENN MILLER

ORCHESTRA Concert. Sat., May 13, at 7:30 p.m. Dana Center for the Humanities, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. $33.75. Visit anselm.edu.

• BERNSTEIN AND GABRIELI Concert featuring Symphony NH Brass Quintet. Wed., May 17, at 7 p.m. Hunt Memorial Building, 6 Main St., Nashua. Free, RSVP required. Visit symphonynh.org.

• SPRING TRIOS Last “Music’s on the Menu” free concert of the season. Wed., May 17, at 12:10 p.m. Grace Episcopal Church, 106 Lowell St., Manchester. Free. Visit mcmusicschool.org. Call 6444548.

• SUNCOOK VALLEY CHORALE Concert. Fri., May 19, at 7 p.m., and Sat., May 20, at 7 p.m. Wesley United Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St., Concord. Tickets $15. Visit facebook/suncookvalleychorale.

• NH GAY MEN’S CHORUS SPRING CONCERT SERIES “New Love, Lost Love, Old Love, True Love.” Sat., May 20, at 7:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church of Portsmouth, 1035 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth; and Sun., May 21, at 4 p.m., at Derryfield School, 2018 River Road, Manchester. $20. Visit nhgmc.com.

• THE WANDERKOOK PROJECT Wanderkook Field Notes on Music. Fri., May 19. at 7:30 p.m. Portsmouth Music and Art Center, 973 Islington St., Portsmouth. $12. Visit circulusarts.com.

• FREDERICK MOYER Concert. Sat., May 20, at 7:30 p.m. Brewster Academy, 205 S. Main St., Wolfeboro. Call 569-2151. Tickets $25. Visit wfriendsofmusic.org.

• HINDEMITH NH Philharmonic concert with Pinkerton Choirs. Sat., May 20, at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 21, at 2 p.m.

Stockbridge Theatre, Pinkerton Academy, Derry. Tickets $12 to $50. Visit nhphilharmonic.org.

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29 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic.

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For the next two weekends, Marghi Bean’s property in Kingston will be transformed into a medieval village, with jousting knights, costumed performers and merchant vendors.

The 13th annual New Hampshire Renaissance Faire — happening Saturday, May 13, Sunday, May 14, and Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — is a celebration of medieval times with theatrical performances and artistic exhibitors. It’s also a fundraiser for local food charities like the New Hampshire Food Bank and Rockingham County’s Meals on Wheels program.

“We make it a big deal of being a family fair, and it’s cool because there’s so much to see and you never know what kinds of medieval costumes people are going to be showing up in,” Bean, a board member of the Three Maples Renaissance Corporation and fair organizer, said. “We even have families who come the first weekend with their moms to celebrate Mother’s Day.” This is the first fair in which free parking will be available at the Kingston Town Common, about a mile and a half from the grounds, with free shuttle buses to take you there.

New Hampshire Renaissance Faire When: Saturdays, May 13 and May 20, and Sundays, May 14 and May 21, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: 9 Thorne Road, Kingston (free parking is available at 138 Main St., Kingston) Cost: $15 for adults, $10 for kids, seniors and veterans, free for kids 4 and under Visit: nhrenfaire.com

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The 35-acre fairgrounds is dubbed “The Shire of the Three Maples” during each year’s fair.

Bean said when visitors enter the gate, they will be given a map and schedule of all there is to see.

“We’ll have everything from jousting knights with live steel combat, to vendors selling original products, and even some demonstrations and a children’s area showing off different things that kids can do, so it really runs the whole gamut,” she said.

More than 65 New England-based vendors are expected to appear at this fair, including several from the Granite State, like Zoo Creatures Pet Store out of Plaistow presenting some of its exotic animals.

Others will include Healing Touch Pottery of Brentwood, showcasing its handmade ceramic cups and mugs.

“There’s a stone in each handle [of the mug], as the handle joins at the top, and I’ve learned as the fair has gone on about how different stones were believed to have different powers for calming or for

which Portsmouth Garden Club members will use for inspiration for creative floral arrangements.

Thurs., May 18, and Fri., May 19. Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth.

Free and open to the public. Visit portsmouthgardenclub.com.

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strength,” Bean said. “So that’s an example of how our vendors try to fit into the theme of the fair.”

A full list of the vendors is available online. Bean said most will be appearing during both weekends, with the exception of a few vendor tents that may get swapped out between each one.

“I would say about 95 percent of all the stuff they will be selling is handcrafted … and it’s everything from clothing to soaps, jewelry, spices and even toys for the kids,” she said.

Costumes are not required, but you might see fairgoers dressed up as all kinds of medieval characters, and sometimes the merchants even dress up too.

Live entertainers will include bands, a cappella singers, comedy acts, magic shows and more. Bean said the showtimes of the performances are spread out, so you can enjoy other ongoing activities like the knight jousting.

The Misfits of Avalon, a group based in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.,

knowledgeable club members and master gardeners, choose from a wide variety of perennials. Local nurseries will be selling flowering annuals and hanging plants.

Sat., May 20, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Milford Community House Lawn, Union and Elm streets, Milford.

Free. Visit wadleighlibrary.org or call 249-0645.

will make the trip to the Granite State to perform traditional and contemporary Celtic songs on harps, guitars and even hand dulcimers, staying true to the times.

There will also be a few New England fantasy authors coming to the fair to present their books, like Maine author Mary Lawrence. She has penned the the Bianca Goddard mystery series, which takes place during the 1540s in London.

Even the food merchants are local and try to fit into the fair’s theme in their own ways. Vendors will include the Smoke Shack’s mobile concession stand from Lee, Kensington Kettlecorn and Happy Pappy’s Country Store of Rochester, among others. Members of the Kingston Fire Department will also be there serving up barbecue. “[The grounds] really is the perfect area for a fair like this, because we’re surrounded by woods and trees, and there are no commercial buildings in sight,” Bean said. “You really do get the feel of a medieval village here.”

• MONADNOCK GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE Sat., May 20, 9 to 11 a.m. The Wyman Tavern, 339 Main St., Keene. Free.

Call 532-6924.

• CANDIA GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE There will be a large variety of annuals, vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets and more, as well as many hardy

perennials dug from members’ gardens that will flourish in your own garden. A raffle table will be available with many garden and non-garden related items offered. Sat., May 20, 9 a.m. to noon. Masonic Hall, 12 South Road, Candia. Free admission. Email akhmun@ gmail.com.

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Family fun for the weekend

A slam dunk

Granite State Independent Living will host its sixth annual Hoops on Wheels wheelchair basketball tournament on Saturday, May 13, at Rundlett Middle School (144 South St., Concord). Starting at 8 a.m., games will be held all throughout the day. The public is invited to come watch free of charge as players with and without disabilities compete in wheelchairs for a championship title. The tournament is sponsored by PiF Technologies and New Hampshire Healthy Families, who have both entered teams. Each team raises $1,000 for entry registration and all funds directly support GSIL. Visit gsil.org/hoops or call 228-9680 for more information.

Storytime with Mom

their journey between their summer and winter homes, like tree swallows, yellow warblers, Baltimore orioles and ospreys.

The Center will celebrate with games, music, crafts and more. Admission is free and no registration is required. Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474 for more details.

Join any of the four Barnes & Noble stores in southern New Hampshire (235 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua; 125 S. Broadway, Salem; 1741 S. Willow St., Manchester; or 45 Gosling Road, Newington) for a Mother’s Day-themed storytime Saturday, May 13, at 11 a.m. featuring the children’s book How to Raise a Mom. The events will feature crafts and other fun activities to follow. Admission is free. Visit stores.barnesandnoble.com or call your local store for details.

Tea time

Fly high

Do you love building and creating with Legos? Join the Sandown Public Library (305 Main St.) for the next meeting of its Brickbusters Lego Club on Saturday, May 13, from 1 to 2 p.m. to show off your building skills. Admission is free and light snacks will be provided. Visit sandownlibrary.us or call 887-3428.

Join the Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center (4 Fletcher St., Manchester) in celebrating International Migratory Bird Day on Saturday, May 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Held during the second weekend in May every year, the day focuses on the lives of migratory birds and

• 58TH ANNUAL HAMPTON GARDEN CLUB PLANT & BAKE SALE This plant and bake sale will feature annuals, perennials, baked goods and a silent auction of Rain Barrels.

Sat., May 20, 9 a.m. to noon.

Hampton Town Hall, 100 Winnacunnet Road, Hampton. Free admission. Email Janet Parks at janet.a.parks@gmail.com.

• WEARE GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE Affordable locally grown plants will be sold to benefit the club’s scholarship fund. In the event of heavy or prolonged rain, the rain date is June 3. Sat., May 20, 9 a.m. to noon. Legion Post 65, North Stark Highway, Weare. Free. Email wearegardenclub@gmail.com.

Kimball Jenkins Estate (266 N. Main St., Concord) will host an Alice in Wonderland tea party on Sunday, May 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. Participants can enjoy storytimes, refreshments, and an assortment of flavored tea. Costumes are encouraged and all children must be accompanied by a participating adult. Tickets are $10 and pre-registration is required. Visit kimballjenkins.com or call 225-3932.

Busy builders

Women’s • SHARING OUR LIVES As women of all ages and from different walks of life, there’s much to talk about, such as who are we, and where are we in our lives? This is a time to mull over with each other the issues and questions that come up for us in daily life, getting a chance to share and hear the wisdom from within ourselves and each other. Thursdays, May 11, May 18, May 25, June 8 and July 27, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Women Supporting Women Center, 111 Water St., Exeter. $10 for members or $15 for non-members.

Visit wswcenter.wordpress.com/ register or call 772-0799.

Continuing Education Open houses • BECK’S ART EXPRESS OPEN HOUSE Join Beck’s for a craft, a snack and to see some artwork. Get 20 percent off summer programs when you register.

Thurs., May 18, 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Beck’s Art Express, 89 Amherst St., Nashua. Free. Visit artsexpressnh.com or call 566-1393.

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I’m ready to start growing — and eating — fresh veggies. Most years I wait until the soil warms up, but this year I planted lettuce, cabbage and spinach in April. I did it in a cold frame, and so far my plants are doing fine despite some nights in the 30s.

A cold frame is a simple box with a clear slanted top that allows sunshine to come in and warm the soil and plants. The clear top on mine consists of two Plexiglas panels on hinges that allow me to open the box on hot sunny days. You can build your own or buy one; mine came from Gardener’s Supply and I was able to assemble it in less than an hour.

My cold frame is eight feet long and two feet wide. The opening lids are lightweight and easy to open. My grandfather had one and he used old wood and glass storm windows.

They worked fine, but the glass was susceptible to breakage.

A cold frame should face south or east for maximum solar gain. The cedar panel at the front of mine is 8 inches tall, the back is 15 inches tall. That allows morning sun to get in through the slanted top.

Seeds are designed by Mother Nature to succeed. That means they have safeguards against starting to grow during the January thaw or too early in the spring. Pumpkin seeds in the compost pile, for example, seem to “know” that they shouldn’t start growing until after the danger of frost has passed. They know this because they have a temperature “switch” that prevents germination until the soil warms up so much that frost is unlikely.

So one of the things a cold frame does is warm up the soil. Prior to planting I kept the lids of mine closed, even on hot, sunny days.

It is easy to get the air temperature up in the 90s. Once my seeds started growing, I opened the lids to allow air to circulate and the temperatures to moderate.

I keep a thermometer in my cold frame that sends a radio signal to a device I keep on the kitchen counter that tells me the current temperature. If I see the temperature approaching 90 degrees, I open the lids. It’s possible to cook tender seedlings if it gets too hot.

Plants grow through series of complex chemical reactions involving energy from the sun, carbon dioxide, oxygen and water.

In school you learned that this is called photosynthesis. Other reactions combine amino acids and soil minerals to build proteins and complex carbohydrates.

All these reactions are accelerated by increasing the temperature. Think of a box of tennis balls. The harder you shake the box, the more often they bump into each other.

Likewise, warming up molecules makes them

Lettuce, cabbage in a cold frame. Henry Homeyer photo.

move faster and react more quickly, allowing a plant to grow faster.

On a cool, cloudy day my cold frame will heat up 10 or 15 degrees above the ambient temperature outside it. On a chilly night at 40, the temperature inside the box will be close to the temperature outside by morning. If I were to leave the cold frame closed on a sunny day, it might get 30+ degrees warmer inside.

One of the uses of my cold frame is to start seeds. My cabbage is up and growing inside mine, but I will move most of them outside before they get too large. Cabbage is relatively cold-hardy, even surviving frost. But they need to be 12 to 18 inches apart as they mature. I sprinkled seed in a row inside the box and will thin them to 2 to 3 inches apart now. When they are 2 to 3 inches tall I will move all but one or two outside the box. I’ll have plenty, enough to give some away.

Another protection against cold nights is a layer of Reemay or row cover placed over the seedlings. Reemay and Agribon are trad names of agricultural cloth that breathes and allows sun and moisture to pass through.

They can prevent frost from forming on plants down to temperatures of 25 or so, inside the box, and can be used to keep striped cucumber beetles or other pests off plants.

Last year, my first with this cold frame, used it as a “hot box.” I dug a pit 18 inches deep the size of my cold frame and put a 12-inch layer of fermenting horse manure in the bottom. Then I placed a 6-inch layer of top soil. As the manure fermented it generated heat, warming the soil and keeping the cold frame warm, even on cold nights.

I also lined the hot box pit with 2-inchthick pieces of Styrofoam insulation. That keeps the cold soil from cooling down the manure so much that it stops fermenting. That happened to me decade ago with an earlier version, and I had to dig out the manure and start over. It is important to get horse manure that is from a pile that is already hot and fermenting. Too much sawdust or straw will inhibit fermenting.

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Maps can be very collectible to many people. Age, where it is from and condition all play a part in the value. I am amazed at how many have made it through time.

Your map looks to be from the early 1900s. It is in good condition and the size is also desirable to a collector. Some of the larger ones can bring a higher value but can be harder to sell.

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Bad head gasket can lead to ‘SOBS’ Dear Car Talk: I have a 2003 BMW 325 with 158,000 miles that suffers from SOBS (sudden-onset billows of smoke). It happens only maybe once a month or so, but is very exciting.

By Ray Magliozzi Imagine a James Bond car-chase scene, with a huge cloud of white smoke emerging from the tailpipe. After a short interval (less than a minute), the problem resolves. It can happen at startup, but more often it’s in the middle of a short commute or a long trip. When it happens, there is a noticeable loss of power. When the SOBS is not happening, there is no smoke at all from the tailpipe, and it will pass all emissions tests. I took it to my favorite hippie-Eurocar mechanic, and he drove it to lunch and back for a few days but, of course, could not replicate the SOBS event. Can you help? — Art The first thing he needs to do is actually test for a bad head gasket. That takes more effort than driving the car to lunch a few times and giving you back the keys. What he should do is keep your car overnight. And before he goes home, he should put a pressure tester on your cooling system and run the car so it gets good and hot, and then shut it down.

Then pump the pressure up to 20 pounds per square inch, and leave it overnight.

If you have a bad head gasket or, even worse, a crack in the cylinder head, pressurizing the cooling system often will force coolant through the breach and into the cylinders. Sometimes you can smell the coolant; other times, it’ll combust and produce something you’re familiar with, Art: sudden-onset billows of smoke.

If the pressure test is inconclusive, there are other tests he can do. He can carefully monitor your coolant for a very slow leak. Or he can do a dye test that looks for combustion gases in the coolant. I’d say a bad head gasket is the most likely cause of your SOBS. But if your mechanic really investigates it, and concludes that the head gasket and cylinder head are fine, then you go on to weirder explanations, like the brakes. I’m sure you’re wondering, “How the heck can my brakes send voluminous plumes of white smoke out my tailpipe?” I’m wondering that myself.

Actually, what we’ve seen happen in rare instances is that the brake master cylinder can leak, and brake fluid can drip into the power-brake booster. The power-brake booster is vacuum-operated. The vacuum comes from a hose that’s connected to the engine’s intake manifold. So if you get enough brake

fluid in the power-brake booster, some of it can get sucked up into the manifold and sent into the cylinders. Maybe you go over a bump, or make a turn or stop, and a couple of thimblefuls of the fluid get sucked into that vacuum hose and delivered to the cylinders.

That would create plumes of white smoke, diminished performance and possibly even a desperate letter to some idiot car columnist.

Your mechanic can check for that by pulling the master cylinder away from the power-brake booster and seeing if it’s wet back there. If there’s moisture back there, your master cylinder is leaking. And for a few hundred bucks, you could get a new master cylinder and be back in business. But unfortunately, it’s more likely to be the head gasket that’s starting to fail. And when you find out what that costs to fix, you might decide to just order personalized “J-BOND” license plates and embrace the smoke.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2016 Ford Escape 1.6-liter EcoBoost. When started (with the engine cold), I hear a noise coming from the back center of the engine near the firewall that lasts for 15 to 20 seconds. It sounds like a fan belt or an alternator bearing noise, but the dealer says it isn’t. The dealer thinks it could be the

EcoBoost. The car has only 4,700 miles on it. Any ideas would be helpful. — Mary Lou “EcoBoost” is the name of the engine family, not a specific part. It’s a collection of technologies that Ford calls EcoBoost for advertising purposes. So if your dealer thinks it’s your EcoBoost, he thinks it’s your engine.

It’s hard for me to know what it is without actually hearing it and trying to pinpoint it.

It could be lifters or a timing-chain tensioner that is slow to get full oil pressure. It could be that there’s a space where the exhaust manifold meets the exhaust pipe that quickly heats up and expands then quiets down. Or it could be something else entirely.

My first suggestion is to leave the car at the dealership overnight. Then, in the morning, go back and have the service manager and a mechanic listen to it when you start it up. If they hear the noise and say, “They all do that,” ask the dealer to go out to the lot with you and start a few other brand-new Escapes with the 1.6-liter engine.

If none of the other Escapes makes the noise, then they have to look harder and figure out what’s wrong with yours and fix it. If the other Escapes all make the noise, too, you can start a public campaign to try to force them to change the name to “EcoNoise.”

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Almost every exhibitor is from the New England area, with a majority from New Hampshire, like Purgatory Falls Alpaca Farm of Lyndeborough, The Yarn and Fiber Company of Derry, Smiling Sheep Farm of Milton and several others. Great Bay Woolworks, Walker’s company that produces yarn from Liberty Hill Farm in Durham, will also be at the festival both days.

“There are a lot of seasoned shepherds here who will be sharing their knowledge of sheep shearing and showTHERESA WALKER ing off what they love to do,” Walker said. “Many of them sell fiber products that come from their own animals.”

Other staples of the festival will include several workshops to be offered both days, in areas like spindling, beginner’s crocheting and more. The cost to participate in most of the workshops ranges from $45 to $50 and includes admission to the festival.

There will be a used equipment sale under a tent at the festival, featuring fiber panels and other basic barn equipment. A 10-percent commission from items sold at the sale will be paid to the festival’s planning committee.

New to this year’s festival will be a screening of the 2016 documentary film Yarn: The Movie, on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. inside the Concessions 2 building on the fairgrounds. Tickets to attend the screening are $5 for adults and $2 for kids 12 and under.

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This year’s festival will be held on Saturday, May 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, May 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Deerfield Fairgrounds. A variety of demonstrations, information booths and workshops are planned for both days. The event is hosted by the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Growers Association.

“The association was established … to educate the public about raising sheep,” said Theresa Walker, a volunteer for the festival’s planning committee, “and the festival started sort of both as an educational outreach program and a celebration of sheep in general.”

The festival has grown into a popular weekend event for families, even those who don’t own a farm or sheep of their own, according to Walker.

“The shepherds that were coming together [to put on the festival] started realizing there was a public interest in backyard farming,” she said. “We’ve always got families coming out and activities for kids to make all kinds of things.”

Saturday’s festivities kick off with the annual sheep youth show at 9:30 a.m., when young shepherds will present their sheep.

“It’s sort of going to be like an introduction for the local 4-H club to show their sheep on a larger scale,” Walker said.

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and seven other employees to basically facilitate the customer experience and to help make sure the place runs smoothly and efficiently.

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Pamela Provencher of New Boston is the owner of Granite State Escape in Manchester, the first interactive escape room to be introduced in New Hampshire.

Explain what your current job is.

We have several interactive games in a themed room, and people have 60 minutes to solve their way through puzzles and clues to escape out of a locked door. … We have a lot of families that come through, but our largest groups are usually for corporate events that use [the rooms] as team-building exercises.

and had an interest in puzzles in general. … I was new to the escape room craze and started to see it take off in other parts of the country and recognized how others were different from each other. … I also wanted to create this space because I grew up in Manchester and wanted to have [the city] have something new and fun to do.

What kind of education or training did How long have you been in your you need for this job? career?

I’ve learned of the enormous importance of customer service and building a great We opened about two years ago. network of people … to reach out to and How did you get interested in this field? ask questions you don’t know the answer I’ve always been creatively minded to. … We have two full-time managers here

How did you find your current job?

Renting space was actually very difficult at first, because nobody was aware of what this was. … My husband and I had a connection with a property manager who knew us personally and gave Courtesy photo. us a chance … and now we’ve more than doubled our space since. … If we can build [props] ourselves, we will, with a few exceptions … and we develop the games and puzzles in house as well.

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

I bagged groceries at Stop & Shop when To “fake it till you make it.” That’s I was 15. — Matt Ingersoll something my mother-in-law said to me What’s something you’re really years ago. … There are a lot of logistics into right now? to starting your own business … [and] it’s important to stay confident and believe in I’m an avid reader. … I read a little bit of everything, I like novels, true crime, comyour mission. ic books and business related books.

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If you’re curious about coffee trends like cold brew and latte art, or if you just want to know the secret to making a good cup of coffee, the new Coffee Boot Camp series at A&E Coffee & Tea’s Manchester cafe has you covered.

The series includes four classes, each on a different coffee-related topic, and will be held monthly, May through August, starting with the “How to Make the Perfect Cup of Coffee” class on Wednesday, May 17.

A&E has offered drop-in educational programs sporadically in the past, but Coffee Boot Camp is the cafe’s first formal class series.

“Coffee shouldn’t be a mystery, especially here in New England where everyone drinks it,” A&E owner Emeran Langmaid said. “But a lot of people who drink it and enjoy it still don’t understand it, so these classes will help to demystify coffee for them.”

The May class will begin with a general discussion of what coffee is; coffee’s history and origins; the steps required to get coffee from the bean to the cup, and the different types of processes that are used; and the

• Around the world in food: Nashua Community College and One Greater Nashua will host their annual Around the World Dinner on Friday, May 12, at 6 p.m. at the college (505 Amherst St., Nashua).

The buffet-style meal will feature a variety of cuisines from around the world, including Brazilian, Chinese, Colombian, Dominican, Indian, Greek, Russian, Bolivian, Lebanese and Puerto Rican dishes. After dinner, there will be multicultural entertainment provided by city residents and college students. Tickets for the dinner and show cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information, contact Prof. Elizabeth Berry at eberry@ccsnh.edu or 578-6912.

• Beautiful recipes: Chef, gardener and cooking instructor Liz Barbour of The Creative Feast will be at The Cozy Tea Cart (104 Route 13, Brookline, 249-9111, thecozyteacart.com) to sign and sell copies of her new cookbook, Beautifully Delicious, on Saturday, May 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The book features recipes for more than 60 nutritious and visually stunning dishes highlighting herbs and edible flowers that can be easily grown at home or found at a local grocery store. Visit thecreativefeast. com/cookbook for more information about the book.

• Plan your dream kitchen: The Music Hall will present its 26th annual Kitchen Tour in Portsmouth’s Little Harbour neighborhood on Saturday, May 13, starting at 10 a.m. The self-guided walking tour features a dozen dream kitchens rep- 42 Looking for more food and drink fun? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and hipposcout.com.

Coffee Boot Camp Where: A&E Coffee & Tea cafe, 1000 Elm St., Manchester When: Classes held one evening a month, May through August Cost: $45 per class. Deadline to register is the Monday before the class. Buy two tickets and get $20 back at the door. A discount will also be applied for buying tickets to all four events in the series.

More info: Call 578-3338 or see event listings at facebook.com/aeroastery. Tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.com.

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science behind brewing coffee. Then, using what they learned about the components of coffee and how it’s made, participants will go through the process of making and tasting their own coffee. They’ll experiment with various measurements and techniques to find out what makes a good cup of coffee and what makes a bad one, and what creates different styles of coffee, from lightly flavored to strongly flavored coffee.

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“I really wanted to start the series with showing people how they can make a great cup of coffee at home,” Langmaid said.

“Even if you make coffee every day, you may not pay attention to what goes into it, so [at the class] we’ll be diving into why we go through these steps and how important they are in the [coffee-making] process.”

The class will end with a coffee and chocolate pairing session, featuring chocolates from La Cascade du Chocolates of Hooksett, which supplies A&E with the dark chocolate sauce used in its mochas and other specialty drinks.

“That part is just for fun,” Langmaid said. “It’s fun to taste how different coffees react and relate to different chocolates.”

The June class is “How to Make the Perfect Cold Brew,” which will cover the basics of cold brew coffee, the various methods of making it and what kinds of coffees work best as cold brew, followed by a tasting to compare methods, blends and single origins.

July’s class is “Super Simple Espresso,” which will teach the basics of espresso, the relationship between its components and how to make it, and the final class, in August, is “Latte Art Maestro,” about the science of milk steaming and how to use it to create latte art.

In addition to the Coffee Boot Camp series, A&E plans to host new standalone classes on other topics including coffee roasting and demystifying tea.

Langmaid said the classes are an opportunity for people who don’t work in the coffee industry to learn some of the same curriculum that is taught to A&E staff during training.

“We’re taking this material that professionals use and we’re making it more inclusive and approachable,” she said. “You don’t have to be a coffee guru to appreciate this.”

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For Martin Philip, head bread baker at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont, baking isn’t just a job — it’s an art.

“I would see pictures of beautiful bread, and it did something to me. It was like this physical reaction,” he said. “That was one of the main drivers that got me into baking, and I still find myself in that place today.”

On Saturday, May 20, at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, Philip will give the first of what he hopes will be a series of author talks surrounding his new book Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes, set to be released this fall. The book is a cross between a memoir and a cookbook, exploring baking as a craft done out of love, and using recipes to narrate Philip’s journey from his childhood home to creating a home of his own.

“I wanted to show the value of hand crafts and trades. We as a society have moved away from that,” Philip said. “I use my own story as an example of how movement in that direction can be valuable and rewarding. ... I moved away from it, but I wanted to get back to it, so I threw myself into this thing that I saw as a craft, which was baking.”

Recipes in the book are tied to different events and time periods in Philip’s life: pancakes and biscuits his parents made when he was growing up, bagels he made while living in New York City, complex artisan breads he made while competing in Rimini, Italy, for the SIGEP Golden Cup of Bread.

Philip said the collection is split between “walk up and bake” recipes, which anyone can make simply by following the instructions, and “aspirational” recipes, which utilize more advanced baking methods and usually require some practice to get them right.

“Like with any trade or craft, there’s an arc to it. There is no [point] as a baker when you make something and say, ‘That was perfect. I’m an awesome baker!,’” he said. “The more you learn about the craft, the more you see that you can always do better.”

Between recipes, the book will also include tutorials for techniques used in the bread-making process, including fermentation, shaping, mixing and baking.

For his event at the Capitol Center, Philip will read excerpts and show pictures from Breaking Bread and facilitate a discussion with the audience about some of the book’s themes, such as the merit of craft. The event is part of the venue’s Salon Series, created to bring artists and audiences together for intimate performances and discussions.

CCANH Salon Series: Martin Philip When: Saturday, May 20, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Kimball House at Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord Cost: $25; buy tickets online More info: Visit ccanh.com/events/salonseries-martin-philip or call the venue at 225-1111. For more information about Martin Philip and his book, visit breadwright.com.

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Learn how to make Italian dishes like lasagna and ricotta gnocchi during the spring session of Scuola Culinaria, a cooking class series hosted by Tuscan Market in Salem.

There will be three classes in May and three in June, starting with a class on mozzarella on Wednesday, May 17. Others include the popular pizza classes, a class on ricotta gnocchi and two new ones: a mother-daughter lasagna class and one on black summer truffle risotto.

“People realize that Italian cooking is really simple,” Tuscan Brands Director of Sales Edwin Santana said. “You can create these beautiful, delicious dishes that taste complex like something that you’ve been in the kitchen preparing all day and night, and it doesn’t take 50 different steps and 40 different ingredients to do it. I think that’s why it’s so popular.”

Mozzarella class (with wine tasting), Wednesday, May 17, 6 p.m., $65 Mother-daughter lasagna class, Tuesday, May 23, 6 p.m., $85 Pizza class, Tuesday, May 30, 5:30 p.m., or 7:30 p.m., $65 Black summer truffle risotto (with full course dinner), Wednesday, June 7, 6:30 p.m., $125 Ricotta Gnocchi (with wine tasting), Tuesday, June 13, 6:30 p.m., $85 Pizza class, Friday, June 30, 5:30 p.m., or 7:30 p.m., $65

At the beginning of each class, participants can enjoy prosecco and antipasti while the instructors, who are Tuscan Brands chefs, introduce the dish they’ll be making.

They’ll talk about the dish’s origins, variations, ingredients and where people can buy those ingredients locally after the class.

Then, the group will head into the kitchen where, for the next 45 minutes to an hour, they can continue to enjoy wine and appetizers as they follow step-by-step instructions to create a dish from start to finish. There will be time at the end for participants to sit down and eat the food they prepared, and some classes also include a wine pairing or a full-course dinner with other dishes prepared by the chef instructors. Everyone will leave the class with a gift bag containing Tuscan Market Italian cookies and a recipe card for the featured dish.

“It’s exciting because it’s hands-on, not just sitting down and listening to a lecture and watching someone else prepare something,” Santana said. “There’s the whole aspect of working directly with a chef, and having the wine and snacks while you cook makes it more interesting.”

The series covers not only how to make certain dishes, but also tips for cooking methods often used in Italian cuisine, such as making pasta by hand, and general techniques like chopping, cutting and dicing ingredients.

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• Mother’s Day at the vineyard: On Sunday, May 14, Zorvino Vineyards (226 Main St., Sandown, 887-8463, zorvino. com) will serve a Mother’s Day brunch starting at 11 a.m., featuring breakfast items like strawberry crepes, eggs Benedict, sweet potato hash and more; an omelet station, a

carving station, entrees including chicken picatta, butternut squash ravioli, baked lemon pepper haddock and more; chicken fingers and fries for kids and a dessert station. The cost is $40 for adults and $18 for kids ages 5 through 12. Reservations are required.

Birch Wood Vineyards (199 Rockingham Road, Derry, 965-7359, birchwoodvineyards.com) will serve Mother’s Day brunch with seatings at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. The menu will include a breakfast station, salad station, live carving station, entree station with dishes like chicken Toscana, orecchiette pasta primavera and prosciutto-wrapped haddock; desserts and a cash bar with mimosas, bellinis and bloody marys. The cost is $42 for adults and $18 for children (free for age 4 and under). Reservations are required.

To see the full list of Mother’s Day meals that ran in the Hippo, visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the May 4 pdf and look for the story on p. 40.

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Thurs., May 18, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Black Water Grill, 43 Pelham Road, Salem. $10. Tickets available on eventbrite.com.

• BEER AND WINE TASTING Thurs., May 25, 5 to 7 p.m. Greg & Jane’s Beer & Wine, 63 Main St., Epping. Call 679-5007.

Chef events/special meals • TASTE OF CABBONAY Enjoy a sampling of wines from MS Walker Spirits and taste a preview of the spring menu at the new Cabonnay restaurant in Manchester. Petite versions of appetiz-

ers and entrees will be prepared by award-winning Chef de Cuisine Chris Viaud and Pastry Chef Aurelian Blick. Thurs., May 25, 6 to 9 p.m. Cabonnay, 55 Bridge St. , Manchester. $70. Visit symphonynh.org/events/may25.

• MAY FARM-TO-TABLE DINNER Five-course farm-totable dinner. Sat., May 27, 6 to 8 p.m. The Farm at Eastman’s Corner, 244 Amesbury Road, Kensington. $70. Visit eastmanscorner.com.

• FARM-TO-TABLE DINNER CLUB Monthly four-course dinners prepared with local food and paired with wine or beer samplings from local wineries and breweries. Monthly, last Thursday, 6 p.m. Roots Cafe at Robie’s Country Store, 9 Riverside St., Hooksett. $40. Call 485-7761, or visit rootsatrobies.com.

Church & charity suppers/ bake sales • SPAGHETTI DINNER Thurs., May 11, 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Holy Cross Family Learning Center, 357 Island Pond Road, Manchester. Visit hcflcspaghettisupper2017.eventbrite.com.

Classes/workshops • DANDELION DELIGHTS Learn how to make dandelion wine, soda, salad, tea, a coffee alternative, and fritters. Look in depth at the medicinal properties of this common weed. Thurs., May 11, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Beaver Brook Association, 117 Ridge Road, Hollis. $20. Visit beaverbrook.org.

• MOTHER’S DAY CAKE CLASS Surprise Mom with a cake or bring her along and make a cake together. Start with a 6” vanilla cake learning the umbre technique with butter cream in pink or blue with white roses.

Sat., May 13, 6 to 8 p.m. Jump N Joy , 477 Province Road, # 3, Laconia. $45 per person or $75 per pair. Call 527-8020 or visit ooolalacreativecakes.com.

• GLOBAL COOKING WITH LOCAL INGREDIENTS Classes include hands-on cooking instruction, monogrammed apron, take-home recipes and a three-course dinner party with wine pairings. Mon., 5:30 p.m., Dec. 12, Jan. 16, Feb. 6, March 6, April 10, June 12, July 10, Aug. 7 and Sept. 11; and Sun., May 14, 3 p.m. Colby Hill Inn , 33 The Oaks St., Henniker. $115 for first class, $95 for additional classes. Registration is required.

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• FAVORITES FROM COLOMBIAN/LATINO CUISINE Part of the Winemaker’s Kitchen Cooking Class Series. Learn to prepare a meal with dishes paired or prepared with LaBelle wines. The menu includes empanadas with aji (paired with Granite State Red), mini Cuban sandwiches (with riseling) with fried plantains, savory with aji, and beans and rice. Wed., May 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. LaBelle Winery, 345 Route 101, Amherst. $25. Call 672-9898 or visit labellewineryevents.com.

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Coconut Cashew “Alfredo” Sauce I’m always intrigued by new eating plans and diets. For one, I love food and tend to be a busybody about it. I love to know what people are eating and why (or what they’re not eating and why). When Whole30 came on the scene, I had to investigate.

Like many of the eating plans out there right now, Whole30 emphasizes eating real, unprocessed foods. While this can be challenging in our fast food and easy dinner culture, I think it’s an incredible movement. For one, we get more in touch with our food. We can see the earthly packaging it comes in rather than the plastic wrappers that fill our landfill. For another, we end up avoiding all extra stuff added to our food to keep it lasting long on the shelves.

While so much about Whole30 is intuitive, some of it feels quite restrictive. There is no dairy, soy, grains, alcohol, sugar or legumes. Probably why it’s a 30-day program! People on the program report less inflammation, weight loss and increased energy, to name just a few of the benefits.

But even if the eating plan isn’t for you, Coconut Cashew “Alfredo” Sauce 6 ounces raw cashews, about 1¼ cup 1/2 can full-fat coconut milk ¾ cup vegetable stock Juice of ¾ of a lemon Dash of salt 1 tablespoon minced garlic

• HANDS-ON TRUFFLE CLASS Learn the art of truffle making from chocolatier Jack Michael Pisciotta and leave with take-home supplies.

Every third Sat., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Van Otis Chocolates, 341 Elm St., Manchester. $95. Reservations are required. Class runs with a minimum of four participants. Call 627-1611 or visit vanotischocolates.com.

Fairs/festivals/expos • TOAST TO THE COAST Sample a variety of local wines, beers and spirits, and food from the seacoast’s best restaurants. Thurs., May 11, 5:30 to 9 p.m. Ashworth by the

there are a million recipes online that people swear by as part of this diet. I decided to try one today.

I’m always on the lookout for good sauces to pour on noodles. Whether we are going with zoodles or spaghetti, the formula of sauce and noodles pleases everyone in our family. While it’s easy to grab jars of tomato or Alfredo sauce, it’s always nice to find a recipe for something easy. I tried this coconut cashew one made with fresh lemon and liked it very much. But, here’s the thing: it’s not “Alfredo” sauce. Other than looking like the real thing, this is a completely different experience. It’s coconutty, for one, and lacks cheese. Yet it’s really good! I played with the proportions a little bit to get it just right for me. I suggest you do the same. I planned to serve it with chicken, broccoli and fettuccine, but it would have been better with cooked shrimp and rice noodles, I think. Throw in some shredded carrots for an added vegetable boost. Enjoy!

— Allison Willson Dudas Soak cashews in water for about an hour and then rinse thoroughly. Throw ingredients in blender and blend well. Depending on your blender, this will take between 2 and 5 minutes. Pour over your choice of noodles (zucchini, carrot, whole wheat, rice) and serve with a cooked protein (I recommend shrimp or tofu).

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Food tours • 26TH ANNUAL KITCHEN TOUR Get a peek inside the contemporary or traditional homes of a historic Seacoast town and get ideas for your

own kitchen. Sat., May 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Little Harbour Neighborhood, Portsmouth. $27 in advance; $25 for members; $30 day of event. Visit themusichall.org.

Kids cooking classes & workshops • MOTHER’S DAY GIFTS FROM THE KITCHEN Kids will make a sweet treat and pampering product for their mothers. Open to age 8 and up. Fri., May 12, 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Culinary Playground, 16 Manning Street, Suite 105, Derry. $32. Visit culinary-playground.com.

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Mother’s Day is this weekend, so hopefully you have made plans with the moms in your life. If you know moms who are wine enthusiasts, I have a few ideas for you.

Last year, my family enjoyed a delicious brunch at Gilmanton Winery, so I can personally recommend this. According to their website, they are filling up quickly so reservations should be made as soon as possible and are required. This brunch runs from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and is a five-course meal served family style.

Every course was excellent and I left there stuffed to the brim. The ambience is very cozy as well. Visit gilmantonwinery.com for more information. If you cannot make it for Mother’s Day, head there on another Sunday, as they hold brunch each week.

Many New Hampshire wineries hold special events for Mother’s Day. Jewell Towne Vineyards in South Hampton is holding its annual wine and chocolate tasting featuring Lindt Chocolate. No reservations are needed for this event; just show up between noon and 4 p.m. and taste some wines paired with chocolates that complement them.

Fulchino Vineyard in Hollis is holding a Mother’s Day wine tasting and luncheon at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are already going fast, so visit fulchinovineyard.com if interested. The event includes a complimentary wine tasting and an Italian-themed lunch, complete with cannoli.

LaBelle Winery in Amherst is offering a couple different Mother’s Day options.

There will be a grand buffet in their Great Room from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Additionally, there will be a Mother’s Day-inspired brunch menu in the Bistro during the same hours and then a Bistro specials menu from 2 to 5 p.m. Reservations are required. Visit labellewinery.com for more information.

Dry versus tannin

I was at a tasting at Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown recently and Nancy had some good reminders for us. Often, we confuse dry wines and tannic wines, but these are two separate things.

Dry wines are those that are not sweet because they do not contain any sugar. Red and white wines can be dry, depending on the style and how they have been made.

Tannins come from the grape skins and give red wines their color. Because red grapes typically sit on the skins, the tannins are present in the wine. Tannins are what

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give that cottony feeling in your mouth when you drink wine and are especially present on the finish. Most wine drinkers either like or hate tannic wines — there isn’t a lot of in between. Figuring out which you like will help guide your wine choices.

For example, Chianti and sangiovese wines from Italy are tannic but are great food wines because the tannins seem less overwhelming when paired with food. Other red wines are much less tannic. It is important to note, however, that one tannic wine like a cabernet does not automatically mean that every cabernet you drink will be as tannic. Sometimes wines can change depending on how they are made, whether they are aged in an oak barrel, and how old they are, as wines mellow with age.

These differences make the case for trying a variety of wines and finding out what you like while also being open to trying new things.

What I’m pouring this week

Pinot noir is one of my current favorites, so this week I was poured 2014 Angeline Reserve Pinot Noir from California.

I discovered this wine at the Barley House in Concord while meeting up with a friend. There were two pinots on the menu and I believe while this was the cheaper of the two by the glass, it was my favorite.

This medium-bodied wine has a nice ruby hue with aromas of strawberry, raspberry and a hint of vanilla. Its aromas extend to the palate, and it has a rich yet smooth finish. Anyone who likes red wines with fairly subtle tannin will enjoy this wine.

This wine is priced around $18, but sometimes you can find it on sale in New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlets. There is also an Angeline Pinot Noir that is not reserve. I have not tried that one yet. If you are looking for this specific wine, make sure it says “reserve” on the label.

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Third full-length from this New York jazz trombonist, continuing his dual approach of post-bop and lounge with one half-lidded eye toward prog.

Dedicated to his recently deceased best friend, it’s nonetheless an upbeat jaunt, beginning with the herky-jerky, slightly cartoonish head-bonking bop of “Tight Rope,” which, if it wasn’t so tight, could have sounded like a scrapped Marty Cook outtake. That’s part of the rub with trombone jazz anyway, that “no, it’s not quite a sax” eeriness, which, while we’re here, is assuaged by returning sax player Jon Irabagon, whose shadowing of Yao’s trombone naturally expands the melodies, making some parts sound almost big-band, a nice changeup from the sleepier parts. The title track is of course melancholic in spots, talkative in others, all along displaying Yao’s dexterity with the instrument for which he abandoned piano. The actual ode to his friend, “M Howard,” is eight minutes of complicated sadness that Yao imparts like a champ. A — Eric W. Saeger Fast Romantics, American Love (Postwar Recordings)

The third LP from this Toronto hayloft-rock sextet is, like their last album (2013’s Afterlife Blues), steeped in fascination with love found at the wrong times. But where ALB went over a topic that’s been tired for decades (trying to make friendship into something more), this time the band’s seized the opportunity to sift romantic love through the bulky screen of the last U.S. election (which dominated Canadian society as much as anyplace else’s), all in order to make a (mellowed out) Born to Run for the Certifiably Nuts Age. Toward this end, Matthew Angus’s off-therack Jarvis Cocker-ish baritone wants to be Springsteen, or at least make the poor-man’s-off-Broadway of opener “Everybody’s Trying to Steal Your Heart” into something magically electric, and it does come close, but not the way “Why We Fight” does (maybe because it’s faster and thus more akin to “Born to Run”). In the end, this stuff is valiant but not majestic, falling midway between Decemberists and Bruce at its best (which, come to think of it, is certainly workable in a way). A— Eric W. Saeger

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• Haha, it’s thrash-metal nerd Danzig, with Black Laden Crown, his new album! You remember back when this fellow used to do his makeup like Sting, the WCW wrestler, and the album covers looked like they were done by a 7th-grader during study hall. Why do you remember this? Because the memories of those days you used to draw an anarchy symbol in Sharpie on your cheek won’t let you rest until you repent, that’s why. Let’s pretend this all never happened by checking in with creepy old Uncle Internet to get the skinny. Hmph, Uncle Internet has nothing to report on the matter, just some info-spam regarding a multi-band tour they’ll be doing later this year. Surely this new material will be variations on the Jim Morrison thing, but with Black Sabbath chords, just like always. If I’m wrong, I’ll stand on Elm Street in Manchester wearing nothing but a trash can for 24 hours — that’s my level of confidence in this.

• Los Angeles folk-punk duo Girlpool will drop their new album Powerplant on May 12. One of them looks like Chelsea Clinton. I didn’t really look at the other one. They look like they spend a lot of time bobbing for daisies in sunshine-unicorn pools and reading ironic poetry to butterflies. The new single is “123,” which consists of an unplugged, Softies-like twee part that leads into a grunge part. It’s all borderline off-key. Your little sister and her Monster High friend could do better. Thus it’s awesome.

• Country artistes Zac Brown Band have a new LP, Welcome Home, coming out directly. As far as I recall, they’re sort of cool, if you like actual bluegrass instead of dunderheaded NASCARrock. Yep, I was right, going by the new single “My Old Man,” a weepy cowpoke ballad. This guy is wicked OG, for country rock.

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Three years have passed since Alice Fogel was appointed New Hampshire poet laureate, and she’s far from slowing down.

Fogel spent the past month conducting poet laureate duties, from hosting workshops and readings to setting new initiatives, and she released her latest poetry collection, A Doubtful House, April 4.

Unlike much of her other writing, these pieces aren’t inspired by nature, but by four walls and a roof. They start with a quote from Aladdin: “Phenomenal cosmic power! Itty bitty living space.”

“It’s about people who live together for a long time in a house, and how challenging that is,” Fogel said during a recent phone interview. “I try to look at all aspects of intimate relationships. I think readers will be able to find themselves in these poems.”

Also new for Fogel is the poems’ structure; the lines are set against left and right margins, lining both sides of the page like walls of a room. Woven in the text are elements of realism and fantasy. She likes coming up with new approaches to poetry with each collection she writes.

Fogel recently helped establish the state’s first youth poet laureate position with Andrew Fersch, founder of The Penn (an alternative high school), and just announced the appointment of Portsmouth High School student Emma McGrail to hold it from now through August. The program will be supported by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the New Hampshire Poetry Society. Fogel plans to perform a reading with McGrail at The Word Barn in Exeter in July.

“It’s a way to honor young people,” Fogel said. “Someone like Ella is a perfect candidate for this to start it off. She is so articulate and creative in such a variety of ways. She stands as a representative for youth and can talk to them in a different way than I could, or any other adult.”

Fogel has also been collaborating with Portsmouth poet laureate Mike Nelson in formulating an ongoing writing workshop with local refugees at the International Institute of New England. At the first meeting in early April, about 10 showed up, with representation from five continents. Their goals are to provoke creative expression and offer refugees an outlet to write about experiences and improve their English in a low-pressure environment.

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They’ve been through a lot of losses. To be part of their experience of belonging and becoming Americans is incredible.

I think everybody in the room felt that connection.”

Her next big venture is what she calls the New Hampshire Raining Poetry project, in which she’ll stencil poems by Granite State poets on local sidewalks with superhydrophobic paint, which repels water. Dry, the words are invisible, only revealing themselves when it rains.

Fogel went through a long process of obtaining permission from selectmen and town businesses in order to install the first poems by Patricia Fargnoli and Henry Walters in front of the Walpole Town Library. At the time of the interview, she was waiting for a few dry days to get painting and had conversed with many New Hampshire poets interested in getting the program running in their towns.

But this May and June, she’s taking a break from laureate duties to delve into one of her other passions, hiking. Fogel, who has tackled about half the Appalachian Trail in patches, plans to explore the trails in Glacier National Park and various parks in Utah.

She frequently finds inspiration during these hikes, jotting things down at night for when she returns to her desk at home. “[Hiking] does seem to be a common trait amongst writers. There’s something about the rhythm of walking that sits with the rhythm of language. There’s also beauty in connecting to the earth and everything we live here with. And poetry is about connecting,” Fogel said.

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For Christopher Knight, the hermit who established a rough camp in the Maine woods at age 20 and stayed there until he was arrested for burglary 27 years later, a Wikipedia page about him should have been punishment enough.

A book approaches the standard of cruel and unusual.

But Michael Finkel’s The Stranger in the Woods is so compelling a story that we can cast aside all voyeuristic concerns for the pleasure of learning more about the strange tale that made headlines in 2013. The hermit, a discriminating and obsessive reader himself, surely would forgive us that.

The author is a formerly disgraced journalist who lives in western Montana. He came across this story like most everyone else: He read about it in the news. He read how Maine police had arrested a reclusive man suspected in more than 1,000 burglaries over nearly three decades, and how they had followed him to the boulder-encircled clearing where he lived alone for so long, avoiding detection by being wary of footprints and by painting many of his belongings green and brown.

Knight had been dubbed “the North Pond Hermit” by the Maine residents whose food, clothing and propane tanks he stole, and by the law officers who had sought him. He claimed to have not spoken more than a few words in 27 years, he was not in touch with even his family, and he showed an astonishing ability to withstand the physical suffering of frigid winters and buggy summers in order to satisfy his desire to be alone, engage his mind and cloak his life in peace.

But, as Finkel found out through a cautious correspondence he initiated once Knight was in jail, the “hermit” was a cacophony of contradictions, living so close to other people that he could sometimes hear their conversations, watching TV and listening to talk radio via battery-powered electronics that he stole.

If a Baby Boomer sets up camp in a forest and nobody’s around to see him play video games, is he really a hermit? And why, if you haven’t been near humans in 27 years, would you bother shaving and applying deodorant?

The Stranger in the Woods is full of such existential questions, and Finkel, a veteran journalist, is a polished narrator who leads us deftly through the thicket of questions that Knight’s strange story poses. People who are familiar with the author might wonder if he’s a reliable narrator. A former correspondent for The New York Times, Finkel was dismissed in 2002 after it was discovered that he had created a composite character out of interviews with African children and presented what amounted to fiction as news. The reaction was swift and brutal, and the lesson apparently learned.

“America might be the land of second chances, but it ain’t the land of third chances,” he told a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. “I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it’s going to be the cleanest story you’ve ever read.”

Finkel faces his past, not only with the readers of The Stranger in the Woods, but also with Knight; in fact, he speculates that it may be one reason he won something resembling the hermit’s confidence. “Maybe the admission that I was a sinner within my profession, while Knight was a confessed thief, unable to live in solitude without pilfering from others, would engender a sense of connection — both of us striving, and failing, to achieve lofty ideals.”

At first through letters, and then through visits that began when Finkel flew to Augusta and turned up at the jail (without advance warning or an invitation), the author forged an arm’s-length relationship that enabled him to get often terse but sometimes elegant responses from a man who abhors human encounters. (Knight did, however, form a long and surprisingly touching relationship with a mushroom that grew near his camp.)

Two portraits emerge: one of a talented writer who is unable to outrun a mistake and dives into a new story with a zeal that at times seems vaguely abnormal. (He spends a night in Knight’s camp and apparently sifts through his buried trash; later, he briefly mulls buying Knight a dilapidated cabin.) The other, a puzzle dressed in stolen clothes and human skin, a kind-hearted recluse with a formidable intellect, who felt deep shame about stealing goods and food, but kept at it for 27 years.

This is the kind of writer that Finkel is: He describes a mild day as “a couple of ticks above freezing.” How can you not love a writer like that? You love him completely, until you reach the acknowledgments and learn that his “longtime researcher, Jeanne Harper” is the person who excavated the fascinating nuggets of information about famous hermits in history. (Apparently, wealthy Englishmen in the 18th century hired “ornamental hermits” to give their estates some gravitas.

Who knew?) Hooray for Harper, but does a veteran journalist in the age of Google really need a researcher to write a 200-page book?

That disappointment dismissed, The Stranger in the Woods is an engrossing book, as fluid as the Maine lake where Christopher Knight would float naked and look at the stars on oppressively hot nights when the surrounding camps were empty. Was the North Pond hermit, who disdained Thoreau and Frost but loved The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Lynyrd Skynyrd, a hero or criminal? It’s a conversation you will want to have with friends, so buy an extra copy. A — Jennifer Graham

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (PG-13)

The misfit gang of accidental universe-savers returns in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 , a very effortful attempt at recapturing the magic of the 2014 original.

I mean, this movie is working, breaking a sweat, using all its time to clean/never taking time to lean. It’s exhausting.

Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (David Bautista), Rocket (voice of Bradley Cooper) and a tiny Groot (voice of Vin Diesel) are still together, still rocking out to the hits of the 1970s. They work as galaxy-savers for hire, and when the movie opens they are attempting to protect some high-powered batteries from a ferocious thing that we’ll never see again.

The batteries, however, will figure into their adventures since Rocket steals a few small ones from this planet full of gold-plated, very persnickety people led by Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki). She sends her fleet after them once she notices the theft, but our heroes are saved by Ego (Kurt Russell).

After Quill’s damaged ship has crash-landed (but is out of danger) Ego explains that he is Peter’s long-lost father and has been looking for Peter in all the years since his mother died back on Earth.

As you’ll recall, Peter was abducted by Yondu (Michael Rooker), who raised him, teaching him to fight and steal. Yondu and, to a greater extent, his crew are still mad about whatever happened between him and Peter in the last movie (I forget, that was so much Marvel universe ago). When Ayesha comes to him to get his help in tracking down the Guardians and the batteries, Yon-

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du agrees to search for him.

For a chunk of the movie, the gang is separated. Peter, Gamora and Drax follow Ego and Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Ego’s empath/one-woman-entourage, back to Ego’s planet while Rocket, Groot and Gamora’s sister Nebula (Karen Gillan), who is being held prisoner, stay with the ship. Yondu and crew show up looking for Peter and capture the ship-based chunk of the Guardians. But a mutiny by some in the crew soon has Yondu and Rocket working together.

Also, Sylvester Stallone shows up in one of those cameo roles that I’ll have to go to the internet to learn the significance of, there’s some Thanos talk (I forget, is he still a thing?) and a certain duck makes another appearance. There’s also a bunch of stuff that happens in the mid- and post-

Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Luke Owen, Charlize Theron and, for no particular reason other than it’s kind of entertaining, Helen Mirren. Is this a good Coming soon: movie? No. Is it a fun movFriday, May 12: King ie? That probably depends Arthur: Legend of the Sword on whether you think flam(PG-13) Guy Ritchie directs ing cars racing backward, this take on the Arthurian a submarine chasing a legend starring Charlie Hun- car, Statham and Johnson nam and Jude Law. Snatched exchanging insults and a (R) Amy Schumer and Gold- character being called “Little ie Hawn star in this movie Nobody” is fun. (The correct written by Katie Dippold, answer, by the way, is yes, who wrote on Parks and yes these things are fun.) BRecreation and also wrote The Heat. *The Boss Baby (PG) Voices of Alec Baldwin, Out now: Tobey Maguire. *The Fate of the Furious Those missing 30 Rock’s (PG-13) Jack Donaghy can find him Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson. in the voice of a suit-wearAlso Jason Statham, ing, promotion-seeking baby HIPPO | MAY 11 - 17, 2017 | PAGE 50

in this sweet movie about an imaginative boy upset and scared by the upheaval in his family since the arrival of his baby brother. The boy’s fable ― that this “baby” is actually an executive from Baby Corp. looking to sabotage the product launch of Puppy Co., a competitor in the love market ― fits together nicely with the real feelings that accompany the way a family changes when a new baby arrives. The adventure is funny, Baldwin is well-used and the visuals do a good job of fitting the boy’s perspective. B

credits sequences — some of which are cute moments related to this movie; some of which, like, man, life is too short.

Ah, what a Marvel movie through and through — from quips to Easter eggs.

What’s the opposite of starting strong but not sticking the landing? What if you can consistently stick the landing after stumbling through the preceding 80 percent of movie? Whatever that’s called, Marvel is frequently pretty good at that. I liked the last, say, 30 minutes of this movie but I wish I could have had some of the good will I ended with during the first hour and 45 minutes.

Though I tried mightily to avoid any early reviews of this movie, I did see a headline on Vulture.com that mentioned “Marvel bloat.” This feels pretty accurate; there is a lot of (do we even need “bloat,” isn’t that

“tale as old as time” is much lighter on the charmer and needlessly heavier on darkness. Though the visual grace and humor of come-to-life teapots and candlesticks is dialed down from the Disney original, the CGIed inanimate objects are the most fun, most emotionally resonant elements of this movie.

The romance between Belle and somewhat-digital-probably Beast and the human actors in general are not so great. B-

just redundant?) Marvel-ing happening in this movie. There’s backstory (some of which I think I’m supposed to remember, some of which may be new), about 30 percent more characters that I can really keep interested in, a central villain whose goal and plan I don’t entirely get (I think it boils down to boredom?), a secondary villain I kept forgetting about and, of course, a lot of quipping and PG-13/middle-school-level insults. I almost feel it’s unfair for me to complain about the quipping, since one of my big problems with DC’s movies (and, indeed, a lot of action movies in general) is how grim and humorless they are. And yet here it feels like “remember how funny the first movie was? We’ve got even more funny in this one! Check out all the funny!”

The movie confuses snappy dialogue with joy, and the first movie had a lot of silly joy.

Gleeful is how I remember the first movie. Dutiful is how I’ll think about this one.

Which isn’t to say that none of the humor works — there are funny moments. There are moments of cool action. The end is actually kind of stunning for how it pulled together and even made me care and feel feelings despite the fact that an hour earlier I was already losing interest in the movie.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 tries way too hard to recapture the loose, “B-level characters just goofing” feel of the original but does have its moments of, if not greatness, goodness. B Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence, language and brief suggestive content. Written and directed by James Gunn (based on Marvel comics and characters), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is distributed by Walt Disney Studios and is two hours and 15 minutes long.

life. Tom Hanks is a good villain. C Going in Style (PG-13) Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine.

This comedy about three seniors who decide to rob the bank they feel has robbed them isn’t as sharp in its humor, its commentary or its heist-planning as it would need to be to make the material work. All three leads feel like they’re slumming it. C-

Smurfs: The Lost Village The Circle (PG-13) (PG) Emma Watson, Tom Hanks. Voices of Demi Lovato, Get freaked out by every part Rainn Wilson.

Beauty and the Beast (PG) of your online existence by Smurfette and friends set out Emma Watson, Dan Stevens. this middling thriller about to find a heretofore unknown A fairly faithful reproduction an evil social media compa- village of Smurfs in this fully of the 1991 animated movie, ny and the earnest sap who animated movie that is much, this live-action version of the allows them to take over her much better than the previ-

ous animated-and-live-action blends. The story won’t stick with you long but it won’t hurt to sit through. BThe Lost City of Z (PG-13) Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson.

Based on the real-life exploits (and book about) explorer Percy Fawcett, this movie about his Amazonian expeditions starts strong and sort of fizzles out. C+ Unforgettable (R) Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl.

Heigl seems to be having lots of fun as the loony toons ex-wife of Dawson’s fiance. This thriller is silly and not as smart as it could have been but it’s still a good time C+

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• Their Finest (R, 2017) Fri., May 12, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sat., May 13, at 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.; Sun., May 14, at 1, 3:30 & 6 p.m.; Mon., May 15, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Tues., May 16, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Wed., May 17, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.; Thur.s, May 18, at 2, 5:30 & 8 p.m.

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• Colossal (R, 2017) Fri., May 12, at 5:50 p.m.; Sat., May 13, at 1:35 & 6:10 p.m.; Sun., May 14, at 5:50 p.m.; Mon., May 15, at 5:25 p.m.; Tues., May 16, at 5:25 p.m.; Wed., May 17, at 5:25 p.m.; & Thurs., May 18, at 5:25 p.m.

• The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism (NR, 2017) Sun., May 14, at 1 p.m.

• New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival Sat., May 20, at noon

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• Stella Davis (1937) Sat., May 13, at 4:30 p.m.

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• Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent (R, 2016) Thurs., May 11, at 7 p.m.

• Personal Shopper (R, 2016) Fri., May 12, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 13, at 7 p.m.; Sun., May 14, at 4 p.m.; Tues., May 16, at 7 p.m.; Wed., May 17, at 7 p.m.

• Forty Guns (1957) Tues., May 16, at 7 p.m.

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• Wilson (R, 2017) Fri., May 19, at 7 p.m.; Sat., May 20, at 7 p.m.; Sun., May 21, at 4 p.m.; Tues., May 23, at 7 p.m.; Wed., May 24, at 7 p.m.

WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • The Lost City of Z (PG-13, 2017) Thurs., May 11, at 7:30 p.m.

• A Quiet Passion (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., May 11, through Thurs., May 18, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., May 14, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• Their Finest (R, 2017) Fri.,

PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS THEATER 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough, 924-9344, peterboroughplayers. org • Der Rosenkavalier (Met in HD) Sat., May 13, at 12:30 p.m.

NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • The Book of Life (PG, 2014) Sat., May 13, at 2 p.m.

• Hidden Figures (PG, 2016) Tues., May 16, at 7 p.m.

• The Parent Trap (PG, 1998) Sat., May 20, at 2 p.m.

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band plays Manchester

Local music news & events

By Michael Witthaus

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• Rescheduled: It’s anyone’s guess if comedian Jim Breuer will riff on the chicken pox that forced him to cancel a show last October. The SNL veteran, known for his Goat Boy character and Joe Pesci impression, released a heavy metal album with his band The Loud & Rowdy. Songs from the Garage had guest appearances from AC/DC singer Brian Johnson and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax. Go Friday, May 12, 7:30 p.m., Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets $35.50 and up at palacetheatre.org.

• Boss-tones: Local musicians gather for a Tribute to Bruce Springsteen, emceed

by Granite State of Mind host Rob Azevedo. The still growing lineup includes Rippin’ E Brakes, The Opined Few, Will Kindler, Kim Riley, Don Bartenstein, Erik Ray, Steve Lamb, Keith Sanders and Miketon Grafton, reprising hits — e.g. “Born in the USA” and “Hungry Heart” — along with nuggets like “Lost in the Flood.” Go Saturday, May 13, 5 p.m., New England College, 62 Main St., Concord. See facebook.com/GSMwithRobAzevedo.

• Throwback: A speakeasy-themed whiskey bar in the former Birdseye Lounge space welcomes Mica-Sev Project and will have live music three nights a week.

Latchkey offers small plates, sandwiches, and cocktails with modern twists like habanero firewater bitters. There are plans for stand-up comedy, burlesque and Prohibition-themed events like a Great Gatsby Party. Go Thursday, May 11, 8 p.m., Latchkey Bar, 41 Vaughan Mall, Portsmouth. See facebook.com/yourlatchkeybar.

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Over a 50-year career, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band made its mark with hits from “Mr. Bojangles” to “Voila (An American Dream).” Beyond that, the Southern California band helped others find audiences, first by recording early songs by important songwriters. Later, they introduced a generation of rock fans to the music that inspired them via the seminal 1971 album, Will The Circle Be Unbroken. The three-record set featured a who’s who of Americana music — before it was given the name. Two more volumes followed in the ensuing decades. In 2015, the group celebrated its 50th anniversary with a starstudded PBS special.

Founding member Jimmie Fadden shared some of his memories in a recent phone interview.

The mid-1960s were a momentous time in Southern California music.

It felt like things were very creative, that there was a lot of music being played by a lot of people that was very interesting and it had a life that was different from other things go on. … We had the Seeds and Steppenwolf and the Byrds, there were a lot of cool rock bands in L.A., but there was a lot of variety and I think everybody was having a lot of fun with it. There was a lot of hanging out and camaraderie; not exactly what you would call a cafe scene, but it was like that.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band When: Thursday, May 18, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester Tickets: $35.50-$107.50 at palacetheatre.org

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The wealth of creativity upped everyone’s game.

Absolutely! It’s like when you were skiing, you were following somebody down the hill — you had to do better or you’re out running and trying to tag along with somebody to keep up.

Band member John McEuen and his brother Bill’s love of bluegrass led to a landmark album.

Bill was a huge fan of the Grand Ole Opry and John being a banjo player becomes that, and is ultimately fascinated with the life of Earl Scruggs and every great banjo player that ever was. He translates that enthusiasm into our group. Bill comes up with the idea that maybe we could make a record. There are steps along the way that need explaining. It’s kind of complex and everybody has their own remembrances of it, but as it was, we opened a show for Merle Travis at the Ash Grove ... then Earl Scruggs was playing at Tulagi’s in Boulder, Colorado. John went to see him and asked him about the idea of maybe playing on one of our records, and then this thing grew and grew.

Earl Scruggs and his wife/manager Louise Scruggs helped recruit other legends to the project.

Earl and Louise managed to generate enthusiasm [and] everybody was excited about the idea of us and them. Randy and Gary and Stevie Scruggs had a lot to do with the interface to us. Earl listened to his sons and embraced the interest in newer music that they had. He saw there may be some reason to do this ... there are some obvious rootsy little bookmarks in our music that the Scruggs boys really got a hold of and showed Earl. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand it, but they more or less said “Dad, this is cool, we really like this,” and Earl said, “Yeah, OK!” Steve Martin was briefly a member of the group.

Steve and John worked together early on; Steve is the really funny banjo player and John’s the great banjo player that is pretty funny. … We used to goof on him. He had this Chinese Bogota Mystery Box of the Dead, this cheap magic trick thing, and he would keep stuff in there to juggle like oranges. Some nights we would put honey on the oranges just to mess with him. We put pizza dough in there one night. He pulled it out and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to do an impression of myself,” and smashed it on his face. He had a quick wit.

The NGDB 50th anniversary show had many ‘best moments.’

It’s great to have the people that are a part of this family. ... We’re like a school of fish, sometimes swimming together, but sometimes apart; never together but close sometimes. So it’s really nice to have those musical moments; there’s something warm and fuzzy about them. It’s like “Wow, if this gets any better, I’m going to fall off the stage.”

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Tupelo Derry The B-52s Monday, June 5, 7 p.m. Casino Ballroom Zach Williams Tuesday, June 6, 7 p.m. Music Hall Loft Riverdance 20 Years: The Anniversary Wednesday, June 7, 7 p.m. SNHU Arena Albert Cummings Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Strafford Wind Symphony Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Rochester Opera House Trombone Shorty Saturday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. Boarding House Park Another Tequila Sunrise: Tribute to the Eagles Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre Everclear w/ Vertical Horizon and Fastball Saturday, June 10, 7 p.m. Casino Ballroom America Sunday, June 11, 7 p.m.

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Music Hall Joan Osborne Thursday, June 15, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Four Voices - Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Indigo Girls Friday, June 16, 7 p.m.

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Macbeth 15 Dizzying images 16 Set your sights 17 Bialik of “The Big Bang Theory” 18 Highly important cloak?

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26 Freezer bag brand 27 Draw 29 Novelist Turgenev 31 180° from WSW 32 Salad dressing with a light, woody taste?

35 Singles, in Spain 36 Shirt that’s seen better days 37 “My Way” lyricist Paul 41 Business course that draws heavily on Julius Caesar?

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61 Samurai without a master 64 Chaney of “The Wolf Man” 65 “That ain’t gonna work” 66 “Einstein on the Beach,” for one 67 ___-Caps (theater candy) 68 Representative Devin in 2017 news 69 Fix a friend’s listing in a Facebook photo, e.g.

Down 1 Hit with force 2 Flight stat 3 Greet someone 4 “Death of a Salesman” director Kazan 5 Paint in a kindergarten classroom 6 Ledger role, with “The” 7 Unwrap 8 Bill-killing votes 9 Biceps site 10 Durability 11 Stampede members 12 Load up with 13 Punish by fine 19 Crash for a few 21 Beforehand, for short 23 “Forbidden” fragrance brand

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48 Largest inland city in California 52 Either T in “Aristotle” 53 Sail poles 56 Read a QR code, e.g.

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SIGNS OF LIFE Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) It’s unlikely that any other sport, with the exception of golf, demands its athletes spend so much time alone thinking about what they’re doing and where they’re headed. Don’t overthink.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) [The judges] might believe they see perfection in the first skater, but they can’t give out a 6.0 and 6.0 because that would mean they have determined the winner after only one skater has performed. The only person who needs to judge your performance is you.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) When they put the silver medal around her neck, [Rosalynn] Sumners was about to embark on a journey through athletic purgatory that only an American woman who loses the gold medal will ever know. … She joined Disney’s World on Ice, signed for $250,000 a year — and became almost instantly miserable.

There she was, the Olympic silver medalist, now relegated to being Donald Duck’s fiftieth birthday present. Go for the gold.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) For two minutes in the ladies long program, [Nicole] Bobek was headed for the world title. She had landed the most difficult triple-triple combination jump a woman had ever tried, the triple lutz-triple toe; she was successful on two other triples; she was skating beautifully and she looked unbeatable. Unfortunately for Bobek, the program was four minutes long. Pace yourself.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Figure skaters exult or suffer alone. They are out there by themselves for four minutes or more; even hockey players take a break after two minutes. You’re on your own but not alone.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) I’ve skated my whole life — on our frozen patio or in public sessions at local rinks — and when I try to skate backward, I feel as if I’m going to fall over at any moment. Backward is not your best direction.

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Quotes are from Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating, by Christine Brennan, born May 14, 1958.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) I have two conflicting emotions when I watch figure skating. It takes my breath away. And it cracks me up. Conflicting emotions are likely.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Years later, each American still viewed the outcome not so much as [Katarina] Witt’s victory but as her own loss. That’s what losing to Katarina did to you. She won, but you thought you lost.

Don’t let them mess with your head.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) The sound of dueling triple axels is a muffled, scrunchy thud, followed by another thud, equally muffled and scrunchy-sounding. It’s a noise that’s rarely heard. During a program, music drowns out the sound made when a 150-pound man turns three and a half times in the air and lands on the narrow outside edge of the blade of a figure skate. Consider what you’re not hearing.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) It’s an unwritten rule in skating practices that when your music is on, you own the ice. Other skaters practice their jumps and spins and footwork around you, but the skater whose music is playing has the right-of-way. Skate to your music.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) [Rosalynn] Sumners, thirty-one, and [Katarina] Witt, twenty-nine, are great pals backstage. You would think they had grown up as friends. You can’t say that, but you can say this: they did grow up together. Friendship isn’t everything.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Picking a winner in figure skating is more like choosing a sorority sister than crowning a sports champion. ... Whom you know, whom you like, and who smiles at whom makes a difference.

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A San Francisco startup recently introduced a countertop gadget to squeeze fruit and vegetables for you so that your hands don’t get sore. However, the Juicero (a) requires that the fruit and veggies be pre-sliced in precise sections conveniently available for purchase from the Juicero company, (b) has, for some reason, a Wi-Fi connection, and (c) sells for $399. (Bonus: Creator Jeff Dunn originally priced it at $699, but had to discount it after brutal shopper feedback. Double Bonus: Venture capitalists actually invested $120 million to develop the Juicero, anticipating frenzied consumer love.)

• Though complete details were not available in news reports of the case, it is nonetheless clear that magistrates in Llandudno, Wales, had ordered several punishments in April for David Roberts, 50, including probation, a curfew, paying court costs, and, in the magistrates’ words, that Roberts attend a “thinking skills” course. Roberts had overreacted to a speeding motorcyclist on a footpath by later installing a chest-high, barbed-wire line across the path that almost slashed another cyclist. (A search did not turn up “thinking skills” courses in Wales or in America, where they are certainly badly needed, even though successful classes of that type would surely make News of the Weird’s job harder.)

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