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Becoming a grandfather for the first time can lead to many new adventures, but never would I have imagined I would become co-author of a children’s book.

As an old professor, I am interested in how people learn, including, therefore, how my 18-month-old grandson who lives in a small village in Wales was learning to speak. While babysitting one afternoon as he sat playing with his stuffed giraffe, I kept hearing him say what sounded like the Welsh word “Araf,” which means “slow.”

As he continued to say the word, an idea took shape for a children’s story. While he played, I began to sketch out the story line on my iPad. It was not long before the plot took shape: An African giraffe, living in a region beset by drought, falls gravely ill owing to lack of food and water. He is found by some animal rescue folks and taken for medical treatment, where, at length, it’s decided he should go to a zoo in England. So off he goes on a ship, and in time he is lodged in a zoo. However, he is unhappy living in captivity and so is removed to a small Welsh village to live on a lush, green farm. A little boy who lives in the village sees this strange creature and is afraid of such a tall, imposing animal. One day the giraffe escapes the farmyard and is running along a road, where he is saved from a collision with a speeding car by the same little boy, who points to the word “Araf” — “slow” — painted on the pavement, explaining what it means. Thereafter they become friends and take walks together regularly.

Knowing my grandson’s other grandfather, a retired engineer who lives nearby in the U.K., is skilled at making illustrations, I proposed we engage in a joint venture and produce a book for our grandson. He readily agreed, and thus Araf the Giraffe was born. His illustrations — all hand-drawn and watercolored — were beyond my expectations. And when the printer’s proofs of the book arrived, he and I were almost as excited as when our grandson was born.

Araf the Giraffe is now making his debut both here in New Hampshire and in Wales and the English border counties. While it will give us great satisfaction will be when we sit down and read Araf to our grandson, even greater will come when he reads it himself. Who knows; maybe someday he will read it to his child.

It is unlikely either grandfather will start a new career from this project, but the joy it has brought already is unmatched.

Stephen Reno is the executive director of Leadership New Hampshire and former chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire. His email is stepreno@gmail. com.

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ON THE COVER 12 PATH TO ADVENTURE You can find well-maintained rail trails throughout New Hampshire, for recreational activities like biking, walking and running. Most feature natural elements like ponds, rivers and Photo by Matt Ingersoll. forests where you can catch glimpses of wildlife. Find out more about the state’s rail trails, including how to access them and what you might expect to see along the way.

ALSO ON THE COVER, take a road trip to Peterborough for the arts extravaganza Thing in the Spring, p. 20. Flex your green thumb and take part in Plant Something NH Weekend, p. 23. Or try all kinds of Gate City eats during Taste of Downtown Nashua, p. 30.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK NEWS & NOTES 4 News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 18 THE ARTS: 20 ART The Thing in the Spring.

22 THEATER Curtain Call; listings for events around town.

22 CLASSICAL Listings for events around town.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: 24 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

25 KIDDIE POOL Family fun events this weekend.

25 TREASURE HUNT There’s gold in your attic.

26 CAR TALK Automotive advice.

CAREERS: 28 ON THE JOB What it’s like to be a...

FOOD: 30 TASTE OF DOWNTOWN NASHUA Shoppers Pub & Eatery at Indian Head; In the Kitchen; Weekly Dish; Wine; Perishables.

POP CULTURE: 35 REVIEWS CDs, books, TV and more. Amy Diaz’s brain continues to play back “Prince Ali” through Aladdin, Booksmart and Brightburn.

NITE: 40 BANDS, CLUBS, NIGHTLIFE Alli Beaudry; Nightlife, music & comedy listings and more.

41 ROCK AND ROLL CROSSWORD A puzzle for the music-lover.

42 MUSIC THIS WEEK Live music at your favorite bars and restaurants.

ODDS & ENDS: 48 CROSSWORD 49 SIGNS OF LIFE 49 SUDOKU 50 NEWS OF THE WEIRD 50 THIS MODERN WORLD

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Lawmakers are considering a bill to study the costs of a train line connecting Nashua and Manchester with Massachusetts, according to NHPR. Similar to a bill that was proposed last year, SB 241 would allow the state to use existing federal funds to complete a development study of the project. A poll from the Saint Anselm College Survey Center found that 75.5 percent of residents are in support of expanding passenger rail from Boston to Nashua and Manchester, with only 14.5 percent opposed and 10 percent with no opinion, according to a news release from the pro-rail organization NH Business for Rail Expansion.

New appointments

The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen chose a new school board member last Tuesday, according to Manchester Ink Link. The board unanimously approved Kathleen Arnold as the Ward 2

school board representative, replacing David Scannell who resigned earlier this year after moving out of the ward. The board also confirmed the mayor’s nominee for central fleet manager, Jonathan Hopkins, a retired Manchester police captain, the report said.

School money

Manchester will receive nearly $907,000 for special education from the NH Department of Education, according to a news release from the agency, as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the state to keep $10.3 million in unspent federal special education money. According to the statement from NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut’s office, the agreement allows the state to redistribute the funds, which have accumulated over the past decade, to districts. The agreement also adjusts how the state calculates school population figures to account for children

that go to private school, the release said.

Fishways

The Amoskeag Fishways (4 Fletcher St. in Manchester) is open for spring fish migrating through July. During the fish season, the center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. and is staffed by interns, according to Todd Wynn, the CEO of Central Rivers Power, which now owns the Fishways. Eversource sold the Fishways when it sold Amoskeag Dam last August, ending its contract with New Hampshire Audubon, which had supported the programs at Amoskeag Fishways, an education center about the Merrimack River that features the fish ladder used by migrating fish. The center ended its year-round programs earlier this year. Wynn said that during the school year, tours may be available with prior arrangement.

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• Joe Biden: According to WMUR’s NH Primary Source column on May 24, former Vice President Joe Biden is planning to head to the state on June 4 (see joebiden.com

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Why do you think that is?

Well, it’s just the time of year. There’s a lot of pollen in the air. Everything is blooming, the trees and grasses and weeds are in full gear, full bloom. We’re just getting a lot of that stuff in the air, in the environment.

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I do not know the specifics, in terms of different types of trees and grasses and things like that, but for the most part those two general categories are kind of the big players with allergies right now.

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Just anecdotally, do you think there are more allergy complaints this spring, relative to last year at this time?

I actually would say no. Subjectively, and also just taking a quick look at weather.com, looking at the pollen counts from May of 2018 to May of 2019, overall I would say that this year is a little less, has a little less pollen ... than last year. However, [on May 21 and 22] there [were] very high pollen index counts where we didn’t see any in May of last year. So in the short term, you could make a case for it being acutely worse than it was last year, but over the course of the last 30 days I would say that last year was definitely worse.

If a person is suffering from hay fever or other allergies, what would you recommend they do?

The first and foremost thing that I think everyone needs to keep in mind is prevention.

You can kind of treat symptoms, but treating symptoms is throwing a Band-Aid on a cut that just keeps getting cut. It’s going to kind of help you get through it, but really what you want to do is reduce your exposure to the allergen. For a lot of people, the thing I think they can control the most in their environment is their home. So to have a home that is as pollen-free as possible is probably the best way to attack this. You can do that through a number of ways. The first is to keep all the doors and windows closed. This just helps prevent the pollen from entering the house. Also, if you have trees or things that you know you are allergic to while you are working in the yard, a good thing a lot of people can do is have gardening or yard work clothes that

they put on in the garage or the yard and they take off as soon as get to the door, so they are not tracking in all that pollen that is on your shoes and clothes throughout the house. Another thing that people Dr. Jason Albrecht. Courtesy photo. don’t realize is that the pollen really gets stuck in your hair. So a good thing for people to do, especially if they have long hair, is to tie it back, wear a hat — and take that hat off before you get in the house.

Another thing is making sure that the clothes are washed, just so that everything stays clean and to not dry [clothes] outside, so that you are not taking clean clothes and throwing pollen all over it. And make sure that your bedding stays clean, so that you are not sitting for hours each day in a bed of pollen. Those are the main preventative things.

Now, in terms of treatment, I think the best thing that you can do is using a steroid nasal spray, which is like Flonase. The thing you have to be careful with nasal sprays is, you want it to be a steroid, because decongestant nasal sprays can actually make the problem worse. Because what they are doing is vasoconstricting, or shrinking the blood vessels that are responsible for the congestion and runny eyes, runny nose. And those blood vessels can kind of become dependent on that. So as you use those sprays like Afrin and things like that, and use them more often, and then stop using them, there is no longer the vasoconstriction and the blood vessels open wide open … you have a rebound effect. So I would be careful with the decongestant nasal sprays.

Other things you can do are sinus flushing, things like neti pots, stuff like that. You can also use a Clartin, a Sudafed, a Benadryl, as long as you are not driving or working.

Sometimes Benadryl can give you a kind of sedating effect. It’s important to keep that in mind. It’s just going to be a play of the prevention and the best treatment methods.

When should someone see their doctor or other health care provider?

I would say if it is starting to impact your daily life. It’s one thing, I think, if you just have ... annoying itchy eyes, runny nose and you’re still able to function. But if it is at the point it is affecting your sleep, your work productivity, then that is when I would make the appointment. — Jeff Epstein

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX NH good for military retirees

According to the personal-finance website WalletHub, New Hampshire is fourth from the top as a state preferable for military retirees to settle. Fifty states and the District of Columbia were evaluated against 29 metrics in three groups: “economic environment,” “quality of life” and “health care.” The overall rankings placed New Hampshire just behind Virginia, Florida and Maine overall. The report also found New Hampshire fourth in the percentage of veteran-owned businesses, and fifth in veterans per capita.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Maine was first in health care, Massachusetts was second, and NH ranked 20th.

Twitter survey shows #mixed results

New Hampshire appears to be the angriest state in the nation, according to a new report from Byte, a dental company. The study looked at Twitter usage in each state, and the volume of tweets of particular hashtags. New Hampshire posted the most tweets including the hashtag #angry, which was 105.5 percent relative to “what was expected” on Twitter. However, New Hampshire was fourth in using the hashtag #happy. Only Nebraska, West Virginia and Michigan placed higher.

QOL: 0 Comment: The report also said the Granite State was also the third most #sad, coming behind West Virginia and Maine.

State House news both parties can cheer

The New Hampshire State House Bicentennial Commission has a week’s worth of celebrations planned from Sunday, June 2, through Saturday, June 8.

On Sunday, in addition to regular tours, a special bicentennial opening ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m., according to the official schedule. Then, on the hour from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., visitors can view reenactments of what a legislative session would have looked like in the year 1819. Monday is Governors’ Day, with a Governors’s Roundtable at 10 a.m. and an Executive Councilors Roundtable at 1 p.m. The Supreme Court gets its turn Tuesday, with oral arguments presented at 10 a.m. in Representatives Hall, and a State House Press Corps Roundtable at 1 p.m. Wednesday is Cultural Heritage and Arts Day on the State House plaza from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. At noon, a ceremony is schedule for State House Students Mixed Media Awards. Thursday is Legislators Homecoming Day, with a joint convention at 10 a.m. and a picnic at noon. Friday will see a New Hampshire Made street market on Capitol Street from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturday, tours of the state house will be offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

QOL: +1 Comment: The State House, which is billed as the oldest in the nation, opened on June 2, 1819, according to nhstatehouse200.com.

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QOL Score: +1 Comment: Remember to lift those boxes of dragonglass with your legs.

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As we enter June we have neglected majorleague baseball in this space during the season’s first two months. So with the weather finally warm enough to make me interested in baseball, it’s time to catch up with what’s been happening around the majors since the season got underway.

First, given their amazing run of injuries that has their injured list more overcrowded with key players than Storrow Drive before a Sox game, I’d have to say along with the Twins, the Yankees are the biggest surprise in baseball. Yes, they were supposed to be playoff-bound. But with 13 players, including three starting pitchers, two shortstops, five regulars overall, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge among them, you’ve got to give the first-place Yankees their props for hanging in.

Along that line, Domingo German, who only left the bullpen in desperation over their raft of injuries, is such a surprise to ESPN.com that the short stat summary page they have on every player still has the three reliever stats — saves, ERA and SO — on his page instead of starter stats with a winloss record that would show he has the most wins in baseball.

Sports 101: Only four pitchers with more strikeouts than innings pitched have been elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Name those four pitchers.

I know this is a “get off my lawn” grouchy old man comment, but the Yanks and Sox playing on AstroTurf (another term that shows my age) when they play in London in a few weeks? Really? Boooooo!

Hip, hip to Oakland manager Bob Melvin for actually allowing Mike Fiers to finish off his no-hitter vs. Cincy despite passing the almighty 100 pitch count. It took 131 to get his second career no-hitter. The best news is his arm didn’t fall off from throwing that many pitches, much to the surprise of all the

’fraidy-cat managers throughout baseball.

Sports 101 Answer: The four Hall of Fame pitchers who struck out more batters than innings they pitched are, no surprise, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez.

Nice first month for Dodger Cody Bellinger. The .431 he hit wasn’t cheesy either.

He had 132 plate appearances and led the majors in OBP (.508), runs (32), homers (14) and RBI (37). No one stays that hot for a whole season, but when you project that, it’s 192 runs, 84 homers and 222 RBI. As I write this he’s now “only” hitting .394, having fallen under .400 on May 24. Think Ted Williams is safe?

Baseball 102: As any baseball fan with a pulse knows, Ted Williams is the last bigleaguer to hit .400. But who was the last in the National League to do that?

Do you have to be good or bad to play for a record 14 different major-league teams?

That’s the question for righthander Edwin Jackson, whose recent trade to Toronto set that mark. Are you being wanted or dumped?

Probably a bit of both.

I know this is shocking, but Clay Buchholz is on the DL again. This time in Toronto.

That’s one of the reasons the Jays traded for Jackson.

In case you missed this: When Texas masher Joey Gallo hit a 447-foot bomb into Pittsburgh’s Allegheny River earlier this month he became the first player ever with 100 career homers before he had 100 singles.

The previous closest was Russell Branyan, whose 173 singles was nearly double Gallo’s 93. While he’s not quite as crazy as his ’60s NYC mobster namesake Crazy Joe, Gallo also set the AL record for reaching 100 homers in the fewest games at 377 to pass Mark McGwire’s 393 and become second-best overall to Ryan Howard, who hit 100 in just 325 games.

Think Mookie Betts likes hitting against Baltimore? Well, what about emerging Yankee star Gleyber Torres? He already has hit 10 homers in 11 games against Baltimore

pitching. As John Davidson and Cathy Lee Crosby used to say in another “I’m old” comment, that’s incredible.

The O’s pitching surrendered 105 bombs in their first 49 games. That’s a pace for 347.

Headed to the Dumb Naming Rights Stadium Names Hall of Fame, where it joins the Poulan-Weedeater Bowl and Charmin Toilet Bowl, are the White Sox for now calling the old “new Comiskey Park” Guaranteed Rate Field. Tip of the cap to the Sox and Yanks brass for foregoing the money to not go that route. Ditto to TD Bank for bringing the Garden back to Boston.

Told you about ex-F Cat Vlad Guerrero Jr.’s two-run homer day last week in San Francisco. But it soon became part of a seven-day period that saw the 20-year-old slugger named AL Player of the Week.

The end is likely in sight for King Felix Hernandez. So it seems strange that after all we heard from the stat geeks about how good he was, he’s not going to come even close to winning 180 games. Not that he didn’t have great stuff. Six straight 200-K seasons tell you that. But I always thought he was overrated and over-appreciated by the stat geeks, like when he ridiculously won the 2010 CY with just 13 wins because he had a good WHIP. For my money, he never reached what he should have been because he didn’t translate that stuff into enough big-win seasons.

Baseball 102 Answer: The last .400 National League hitter is a forgotten feat, and wasn’t made all that big a deal when Bill Terry did it, hitting .401 with 23 homers and 129 RBI for the New York Giants in 1930.

I’ll close with a story by way of Phil Mushnick of the New York Post. It’s from Dave Righetti’s Yankee career. He pitched a July 4 no-hitter vs. the Sox in 1983. After getting to the mound to yank him after a long homer, Lou Piniella put out his hand for the ball and Righetti said, “Lou, I don’t have the ball, the guy just hit it over the fence.”

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D-field lax back on track The Big Story — Winning Streak of the Week: Nice to see the Derryfield lacrosse team get back up on the horse after their 64-game winning streak came to an end last week. They started a new one with a 20-2 win over Coe-Brown when Jonny MacLean had a game-high five goals while Matt Weimer added four more.

Sports 101: Thanks to doofus ballot-stuffing fans in Cincinnati, for the first time since 1956 All-Star voting finally returns to the fans on this day in 1970.

Name the player left off that ballot who still wound up starting in left field thanks to write-in votes by astute baseball-loving fans.

Threes Are Wild Award: To Londonderry’s Sean Cavanaugh for going 3-for-3 with three RBIs as the hitting star in a 6-2 win over Memorial in NHIAA baseball action.

Knick of Tyme Award: To not the ESPN broadcaster Sean McDonough for knocking in Concord’s only run with a sixth-inning single plating Trevor Smith to back a solid four-hit six-inning pitching effort by Ryan Merchant as the Crim-

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5 – runs batted in by Londonderry’s Reece Manor, with the final two coming on a double that knocked in the tying and winning runs during a 3-5 day in leading the Lancers to a 13-12 comeback win vs. Salem.

7 – consecutive lacrosse wins for Bishop Guertin after a 16-11 win over Duxbury, Mass., when Dawson Clarke and Bennett Abladin each had four goals.

13 – strikeouts in a stellar three-hit complete-game

son moved to 14-2 with a 1-0 win over Portsmouth.

Sports 101 Answer: The Milwaukee Braves’ Rico Carty was rightly named the NL’s 1970 All-Star starter via a write-in campaign because fans felt he had earned the honor since he was the runaway batting average leader at the time of the vote.

He went on to blow away the field in that race by hitting .366 to runner-up Joe Torre’s .325.

On This Day May 30: 1927 – The great Washington Senators hurler Walter Johnson records his record 113th and last career shutout. 1935 – In his final game, Boston Brave Babe Ruth goes hitless against the Phillies. 1937 – In the second-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history of 61,756 fans see the Dodgers end Giants hurler Carl Hubbell’s record-breaking 24-game winning streak. 1956 – Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle misses being the first to hit a fair ball out of mammoth Yankee Stadium by a mere 18 inches. 1964 – A. J. Foyt becomes the first three-time Indianapolis 500 winner in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 35 seconds.

effort by Trevor Anibal as 11-6 Bedford downed Winnacunnet 2-0.

20 – career home runs for Shannon Gifford after drilling a three-run shot to power the Goffstown softballers to a 9-6 win over Merrimack.

219 – three-day score carded by Hooksett’s Matt Paradis at West Virginia’s Resort at Glade Springs in leading SNHU Golf to a best-ever 15th-place finish in the National NCAA Golf Championships when he placed 35th overall in the

individual competition.

100 – career hits for Concord’s senior Abby Rochette, which came in a 6-0 win over Portsmouth when Alice Rosenberg picked up a complete-game shutout as she allowed just three hits and struck out seven.

215,000 – incredible amount in dollars made annually by University of Iowa women’s volleyball coach Bond Shymansky before being put for leave alleged serious recruiting violations.

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That’s Incredible: Goofball 1980s TV show starring bad actor John Davidson, retired NFL Famer Fran Tarkenton and eye candy for the IQ challenged audience Cathy Lee Crosby. Showed people with weird talents (like speed talking) leading the trio to say in unison, “That’s incredible!” It was so bad it made Celebrity Apprentice seem like Citizen Kane.

Citizen Kane: Revered motion picture directed, co-written and starring Hollywood boy wonder Orson Welles. It came on the heels of Welles scaring the be-jeepers out of the country with his sensational Halloween 1938 radio broadcast War of the Worlds. Despite winning just one Oscar (original screenplay) it’s often called the greatest movie ever. It gets points for film-making innovation and having the stones to take on the real Charles Foster Kane, media magnate William Randolph Hearst. But with outdated acting, writing that’s actually not that good and a story that doesn’t stand up, it’s the most over-rated movie in history. Beyond that, I loved it.

Crazy Joe Gallo: Off the rails gangster rubbed out in 1972 while celebrating his 43rd birthday at Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy, where the mortally wounded thug staggered onto a Manhattan street with guns blazing before going down for the count, igniting a mob war lasting three years.

Bill Terry: Oddly un-remembered and better than you think 1920s-’30s New York Giants great and last NL .400 hitter. The .341 lifetime average was better than Lou Gehrig (.340) and Stan Musial (.330) and just three points less than Ted W’s .344.

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ew Hampshire has hundreds of miles of trails that have been converted from abandoned railroad tracks, some dating as far back as the 1830s.

These rail trails, many of which continue to be paved today, are now popular avenues for walkers and cyclists. “[Rail trails are] a real nice way to get out bicycling or walking … without worrying about traffic,” said Charles Martin, founder of the New Hampshire Rail Trails Coalition and author of the book New Hampshire Rail Trails, its revised and most recent second edition released in 2016. “It’s also a great way to get some exercise without having to climb Mt. Washington.”

Martin’s book is considered one of the definitive resources on the state’s rail trails, detailing the length and proximity of each and even including a few historical anecdotes for some. He said he started the coalition as a way for multiple rail trail groups across the state to work together on foundation and preservation projects.

Here’s a look at some of the rail trails in our area, including the massive Granite State Rail Trail, which starts at the Massachusetts border and runs all the way through Lebanon.

lie E. Roberts Drive, Belmont).

Whether you’re looking for easy access to downtown Laconia or a scenic route with views of the lakes, the WOW Trail has it all.

WOW stands for lakes Winnipesaukee, Opechee and Winnisquam, which the trail runs by. According to Bob Champlin, executive director of the WOW Trail Committee, the first section of the trail was opened in 2010 and connects Lakeport to downtown Laconia. The second section was opened in 2016 and connects the trail from downtown Laconia to the Belmont town line, where it merges with Belmont’s Winnisquam Scenic Trail. The trail is 2.7 miles, 10 feet wide, paved and mostly flat.

The first section of the trail starts at Lakeport and runs alongside Lake Opechee before heading into downtown Laconia, where access points lead to the Laconia Public Library and various shops and restaurants.

From there, it runs next to Lake Winnisquam, with access points to Bartlett Beach in Laconia and Leslie E. Roberts Beach &

WOW Trail

Length: 2.7 miles Surface: Paved Access points: Parking is available near the WOW Trail trailhead in Lakeport at the Lake Opechee Inn & Spa (62 Doris Ray Court, Laconia), at Bartlett Beach (88 Winnisquam Ave., Laconia) and at Leslie E. Roberts Beach & Recreation Area (43 LesHIPPO | MAY 30 - JUNE 5, 2019 | PAGE 12

Recreation Area in Belmont. At Leslie E. Roberts Beach, the trail transitions into the Winnisquam Scenic Trail.

“You have all these other trails where you don’t see anything but nature, but the WOW Trail is unique because you’re walking next to the lakes, which is a beautiful scenic area, but you also have all these access points into downtown, so you’re really seeing all the different parts of Laconia,” Champlin said.

The trail is used by walkers, runners, bicyclists, dog walkers, families and kids in strollers. The trail is also used by people who are commuting to work in downtown Laconia.

“It’s a great bypass of Route 3, which is a very busy road,” Champlin said. “Even in the city’s master plan, the WOW Trail is shown as the ultimate route for active transportation by walking or biking.”

Every spring, the WOW Trail holds the WOW Ball at Gunstock Mountain Resort, a gala to raise funds for trail maintenance.

In the fall, during the NH Pumpkin Festival in Laconia, the trail hosts the Runaway Pumpkin 10K & 5K Walk/Run. Various other walks, runs and events also utilize the trail throughout the year.

“We are thrilled when people use our trail for their events,” Champlin said.

— Angie Sykeny

Winnisquam Scenic Trail

WOW Trail. Courtesy photo.

Length: 1.8 miles Surface: Paved Access points: Parking is available at Leslie E. Roberts Beach & Recreation Area (43 Leslie E. Roberts Drive, Belmont) and

Osborne’s Agway (304 Daniel Webster Highway, Belmont).

Belmont’s Winnisquam Scenic Trail, also known as the Winni Trail, connects with the WOW Trail in Laconia at Leslie E. Roberts Beach and Recreation Area on Lake Winnisquam, near the town line. According to the trail brochure on the Town of Belmont website, the 1.8-mile paved trail, opened in 2016, immediately veers off into some wooded conservation land, then meets back up with the Lake Winnisquam coastline, ending at Osborne’s Agway near Daniel Webster Highway and a bridge the locals call Mosquito Bridge, which overlooks the Winnisquam Sandbar.

At Leslie E. Roberts Beach and Recreation Area, people can have a picnic, go for a swim and go fishing. On the trail, Champlin said, there are “some rolling hills through the wooded areas and a lot of scenic stuff along Lake Winnisquam.” The trail is used by walkers, runners and bicyclists, and for snowshoeing and cross-country skiing during the winter, according to the website.

The plan is to eventually connect the Winnisquam Scenic Trail to the Winnipesaukee River Trail, which runs through Franklin and Tilton. The Winnisquam Scenic Trail, the WOW Trail and the Winnipesaukee River Trail would total around nine miles of continuous trail.

“It’s something we [the trail leaders] are all talking about, and it’s in the process,” Champlin said. “Our mission is to create a destination trail that will bring more people into the area, which will be great, especially from an economic standpoint.”

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The Goffstown Rail Trail Information Kiosk at the Mast Road Parking Area was constructed by two Girl Scouts, Victoria and Jillian, from Goffstown Troop 20841. Courtesy photo.

Winnipesaukee River Trail

The first segment of 1½ miles runs from the Hillsborough County Youth Center to Lang Station, which opened in August 2015, according to Louise Robie, chair of the nonprofit New Boston Rail Trail group that is building and maintaining the path. About a quarter-mile of the next section from Lang Station to the Parker Road trail head has been finished.

Last November the group won a federal grant to finish the rail trail all the way to its planned terminus at the border with Goffstown, Robie said. It won’t be a direct link because Route 114 is in the way, but the plan is to end the trail at a location near a wide shoulder of the busy street, which Goffstown may wish to turn into a bike path over to where the Goffstown Rail Trail begins. “[If that happens] it will be a 16-mile oneway [path] from New Boston to Fisher Cats Stadium [in Manchester],” Robie said. “That would be beautiful.”

— Jeff Epstein

Length: 5 miles Surface: Mostly hardpack and dirt Access points: Trestle View Park on Central Street in Franklin; Cross Mill Road in Northfield; Park Street in Northfield, across the street from the library; and the Tilton Police Station on East Main Street in Tilton.

Built in 1999, the 5-mile Winnipesaukee River Trail connects Tilton, Northfield and Franklin as a biking and pedestrian alternative to travel on routes 3 and 1, according to the trail’s website.

The trailhead is at Trestle View Park in Franklin, home to a 15-foot-in-diameter mill wheel that served as part of a steam engine that powered Franklin textile mill. The trail runs along the river, where travelers can experience scenic views of the water and a variety of nature like belted kingfishers, tree swallows, wood ducks and other waterfowl, cattail wetlands and evidence of beaver, raccoon and mink activity, the website says. There are also a number of historic and cultural sites along the way, including an old railroad trestle, the Sulphite Bridge and old paper mill ruins.

The trail has two additional access points in Northfield before ending in Tilton. Eventually, the trail will connect to the Winnisquam Scenic Trail in Belmont.

There are occasionally trail cleanup days.

The next one is on Saturday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to noon, and meets at Surrette Park behind the train station in Northfield. Bring shovels, rakes and gloves. — Angie Sykeny

New Boston Rail Trail

Length: 1.75 miles Surface: Unpaved Access Points: Parking lots at Gregg Mill Road/Lang Station trailhead; Parker Road.

This right-of-way was once owned by the New Boston Railroad Co., which closed in 1937. Today the Town of New Boston owns it and opened this new rail trail in 2015. It has plans to extend it all the way to Goffstown. Right now, though, only a little more than one section has been completed. It runs roughly along the Piscataquog River in New Boston, and parallels River Road on the opposite bank, so there are nice views in some places. A footbridge, built in 2000, carries the trail over the Middle Branch River.

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Goffstown Rail Trail

Length: 7.5 miles Surface: Unpaved Access Points: Parking is available at the Goffstown Parks and Recreation Center, 155 S. Mast St., Goffstown; Hillsborough County Offices complex on Mast Road; a small paved area on Danis Park Road; a small paved parking area on the east side of Moose Club Park Road; and a parking lot at the Sarette Recreation Complex at 2 Louis St. in Manchester, which is behind the trail.

The Goffstown Rail Trail, which dates to 2008, is unpaved and runs for 7.5 miles between Goffstown and Manchester. The original rail bed dates to 1953, when railroad service ended. The state took over the right-of-way, and eventually Goffstown purchased it. The Friends of the Goffstown Rail Trail describe it on their website as a quiet, healthy, safe walking and bike path connecting Pinardville, Grasmere and Goffstown Village. Walking, running, bicycling, skiing and snowshoeing are allowed. Pets are required to be leashed while on the trail.

Unlike some rail trails, motorized vehicles (including OHRVs and snowmobiles), inline skates, scooters and horses are not allowed.

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Drive. The nearest parking lot is at South Depot Road in Nashua. Parking is also available at Hollis Street in Massachusetts, just south of Groton Road in New Hampshire at the state line; Station Avenue in Groton Center, Mass.; and Sand Hill Road in Groton, Mass. The parking lot at Ayer is closed for construction.

The Nashua Rail Trail runs for 11 miles along the former rail corridor of the Hollis Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad, where the last freight line to run on the rails was in 1982. The rail trail still connects to the Massachusetts towns of Pepperell, Groton and Ayer, according to Roger Houston, Nashua’s planning director.

“It’s used by a lot of people,” Houston said. “I know a few people commute to Pepperell on it, when it’s passable.”

The route begins at Gilson Road at Country Side Drive. This is a residential area near a small pond. From there, the rail trail heads south into forest for about a mile until crossing over the state border. The town of Pepperell, Mass., is then a little over three miles farther south. The rail trail is completely paved, so it’s good for bikers and walkers. Motorized vehicles are prohibited, but cross-country skiers use it in winter, and rollerbladers use it in the summer.

“If you want a good workout and a good bike ride it’s a great trail,” Houston said.

— Jeff Epstein

Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail (Portsmouth Branch)

Length: 27.4 miles Surface: Partially paved Access points: From the west, this trail begins from Page Street in Manchester to Lake Massabesic, and while Charles Martin notes in his 2016 book New Hampshire Rail Trails that street parking near Page Street can be difficult, the large parking lot at the lake is one of the best access points from that end of the trail.

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Nashua Rail trail. Courtesy photo.

through Candia and into Raymond, and this is where Martin said the best scenery lies, noting its lakes, ponds, woods, wetlands, and even the restored Raymond Depot by the Raymond Historical Society.

Following the town of Raymond, the eastern half of the Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail’s Portsmouth Branch goes through Epping and Newfields. In Epping is where you’ll find the junction connecting the Rail Trail’s Portsmouth Branch with the Fremont Branch. You also pass near New England Dragway in Epping, but Martin said the scenery of the trail improves upon reaching the final four miles in the town of Newfields. It ends at Rockingham Junction, on Ash Swamp Road.

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Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail (Fremont Branch)

Length: 18.5 miles Surface: Unpaved Access points: Limited parking is available where this branch of the Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail begins at Windham Depot (Depot Road in Windham; see entry on Windham Rail Trail). Other access points include Route 28 and Warner Hill Road in Derry; Sandown Depot; and Route 107 in Fremont.

Because of several miles of heavy sand along this trail, Martin notes in his book that this is not the easiest trail in the state to walk or bike on; it is, however, one of the most scenic, passing along several ponds, wetlands and swamps. Most of this trail is also open to off-highway recreational vehicles like ATVs and mountain bikes. From Windham, the trail goes northeast, through Sandown, a tiny corner of the town of Danville, and into the town of Fremont. You’ll pass the renovated Sandown Depot and a shallow lake called Ballard Pond on the way. Eventually, the trail reaches Epping (near Main Street), where it connects with the Portsmouth Branch.

— Matt Ingersoll

Granite State Rail Trail

One of the most ambitious ongoing initiatives is the creation of the Granite State Rail Trail. When finished, it would connect many of the state’s rail trails to create one long path for walking or cycling, stretching around 120 miles from the Massachusetts border all the way up through the Vermont border in western Lebanon.

According to Martin, the idea to connect trails from two abandoned railroad lines was first proposed during an NHRTC meeting around the year 2009, by Dick Lemieux, President of the Merrimack River Greenway Trail. Its southern end is along what used to be the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad (and now contains the Salem, Windham, Derry, Londonderry and

South Manchester rail trails). This would ultimately connect with the Northern Rail Trail, which starts in South Boscawen and continues through Lebanon to the Mascoma River Greenway. There have been proposals to connect the two in Hooksett, Pembroke and Concord.

“There is a lot that is built in the northern end, and some great stuff built in the southern end,” Martin said. “[Lemieux] proposed a concept where we would have everything linked together.”

While the pathway will consist of existing rail trails wherever possible, Martin writes in his book that some road connections are necessary. In general, more urban areas of the path will be paved, while rural areas have either dirt or hardpack surfaces.

“Hardpack is essentially crushed granite that you see on dirt roads,” he said. “It has the advantage of being relatively inexpensive compared to asphalt.”

He estimated that around 75 to 80 of the project’s proposed 120 miles have already been built. Here is each major part of the Granite State Rail Trail broken down, from south to north.

Salem Bike-Ped Corridor

Length: 5.1 miles Surface: Partially paved; a few parts are still under construction Access points: From the north, parking is available off Route 28, just over the Windham town line. From the south there is room at the Hampshire Road crossing, where the trail meets the state line into Methuen, Mass.

Parking is also available mid-trail, near Tuscan Kitchen (67 Main St.).

According to Martin, the Salem BikePed Corridor runs parallel to Route 28, about five miles from where the Methuen Rail Trail ends at the Massachusetts state line to Range Road in Windham. He said that while it’s not the most scenic experience, work is currently being done to give easy access to walkers and bikers along the entire route.

“The idea is to have a way that people can walk or bike around some of the really congested business sections of Salem,” he said.

He said the section between Main Street and Rockingham Park Boulevard, for example, is currently under construction.

The owners of the nearby Tuscan Kitchen on Main Street in Salem also had a hand in the funding of a small paved section that goes up to the Salem Depot.

The trail continues through Range Road near the Salem and Windham line.

Windham Rail Trail

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Depot Road, near the Kitchen & Country Store at Windham Junction) but it fills up fast. Another parking area is on the southern end of the trail at Route 28, just north of Range Road, near the Salem town line.

The Windham Rail Trail is, Martin said, one of the most scenic and widely used rail trails in the state. The paved trail passes through wetlands, rocky waterfalls and even an old stone arch bridge over an abandoned road that is well-hidden (Martin provides special instructions on how to find the bridge in his book, saying that it’s about a third of a mile north of Roulston Road). Mark Samsel of the Windham Rail Trail Alliance, himself a town resident, led the effort in the construction of the trail, according to Martin.

“He decided that he was going to make something out of it, since he lived right there by the corridor,” he said, “and he did a fan-

Derry Rail Trail. Photo courtesy of Charles Martin.

tastic job of getting the corridor made into a beautiful paved trail.”

The Windham Rail Trail is also the site of an annual run, the Flat ’n Fast 5K, which will return for its 12th year on Sunday, June 9.

The trail connects with the Derry Rail Trail, on North Lowell Road on the Derry and Windham line.

Derry Rail Trail

Length: 3.2 miles Surface: Paved Access points: From the north, parking is available at Hood Park or in Derry’s town center. From the south, use the parking lot at Windham Depot, just over the Windham town line (see the Windham Rail Trail listing).

Like the Windham Rail Trail, the Derry Rail Trail is one of the more established sections on the southern side of the Gran-

Londonderry Rail Trail. Photo courtesy of Charles Martin.

ite State Rail Trail, featuring a paved path through town.

Martin even said the two trails between the towns are popular routes for walkers or cyclists to take together.

The trail hugs the northbound lane of Interstate 93 for a short time before passing the former site of the town’s renovated railroad depot on East Broadway (now Sabatino’s Italian Restaurant).

It continues north up to Hood Park and will eventually link up with the beginning of the Londonderry Rail Trail. Because the stretch is owned by a private developer and contains a brook, a gap of a little less than a mile currently exists between the Derry and Londonderry rail trails.

Londonderry Rail Trail

Length: 4.5 miles Surface: Partially paved Access points: For access to both directions of the trail, unlimited parking is located at the Interstate 93 Exit 5 Park & Ride (4 Symmes Drive, Londonderry).

A majority of the Londonderry Rail Trail has been completed, and Martin noted in his book the level of progress the Town of Londonderry and Londonderry Trailways have achieved in recent years. While the southeastern end of the trail has yet to be connected near the Derry town line, the area from Liberty

Map courtesy of Charles Martin, founder of the New Hampshire Rail Trails Coalition.

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Road near the Manchester Airport, the goal is to have the entire trail paved, from the airport down to the Derry line. There will also eventually be an extension on Perimeter Road in Manchester, connecting the Londonderry Rail Trail with the South Manchester Trailway, a project likely to be delayed for several years, Martin said.

“There is kind of a joint effort between Manchester and Londonderry to get around the airport area,” Martin said.

“That’s where it’s tough, because the airport extended a runway that goes over where the railroad grade was, and getting around that jut out of the runway is going to be a substantial project.”

South Manchester Trailway

Length: 2.2 miles Surface: Partially paved Access points: The parking lot of the former Shaw’s Supermarket (off Beech Street in Manchester).

For now, Martin said, one of the best ways to access this trail is through its northern end, which is located off Beech Street adjacent to the parking lot of the now-closed Shaw’s Supermarket. The South Manchester Trailway is paved from there to Gold Street and is a nice scenic walk or bike ride containing a few wetlands. From Gold Street to Perimeter Road is where Martin said the rest of the trail will eventually be complete — that stretch includes the Cohas Brook trestle bridge, once part of the now abandoned railroad line that connected Manchester to Lawrence, Mass., which was originally built in 1848.

Martin writes in his book that passenger service was continued along this bridge until 1953, and it was used for freight service into the 1980s. Today, however, almost all of the rails are gone.

“The project to extend the trailway … will actually go right over that bridge, and what a fantastic site that is going to be,” Martin said.

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Length: 12.7 miles (proposed) Surface: Unpaved Access points: TBA Once you get beyond southern Manchester and into the city’s Millyard area, Martin said, that is where most of the uncertainty lies with the Granite State Rail Trail.

“Getting [the trail to go] between Concord and Manchester is tough for a number of reasons,” he said. “It’s very tough, for example, to get past the Millyard. …

There are questions like whether it should cross the river like the railroad used to, and where in Concord it should continue.”

He said a rail trail that would run through Hooksett and Pembroke has been

Riding the gravel Northern rail trail in Andover. Courtesy Charles Martin of the NH Rail Trail Coalition.

proposed but is in its very early stages. In Concord a trail known as the Merrimack River Greenway Trail may be built where Pan Am Railways, which owns the line that starts near Horseshoe Pond, recently filed for abandonment. Much of the land that is proposed to become the Merrimack River Greenway Trail, however, is still private property and considered trespassing.

If approved, that trail would start at the Pembroke line and continue into southern Boscawen, where the already complete Northern Rail Trail picks up. “[The line] is up for sale, but the state or the city have to buy it, and it’s not clear yet how that’s going to happen,” Martin said.

Northern Rail Trail

Length: 57.6 miles (34.2 miles in Merrimack County, and 23.4 miles in Grafton County) Surface: Hardpacked dirt surface Access points: There are several access points along the trail due to its length. The best access from its southern end is at the Hannah Dustin Park & Ride (U.S. Route 4 in Boscawen).

This is the longest individual rail trail in New Hampshire, and also the part of the Granite State Rail Trail that is the most complete. It begins in south Boscawen and crosses nearly a dozen towns across two counties. The trail is rich in woods and river streams, and also contains several historical artifacts that make it unique, according to Martin, like telltales.

“In the early days of railroads, before air brakes, somebody had to climb up over the car to … set the brake,” Martin said.

“A telltale was this dangly thing that hangs over the trail … that warned the brakeman that a bridge was coming. … Amazingly enough, we still have over 20 telltales still remaining [on the trail].”

The Northern Rail Trail ends in Lebanon, where it connects with the Mascoma River Greenway, the last leg of the Granite State Rail Trail before reaching the Connecticut River.

— Matt Ingersoll

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The Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter’s 13th annual Plant Sale and Raffle runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the shelter (490 Dunbarton Road in Manchester; 628-3544, manchesteranimalshelter.org).

The Hooksett Garden Club’s (hooksettnhgardenclub.org) plant sale will run today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at R & R Public Wholesalers (1371 Hooksett Road in Hooksett).

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The 6th Annual Goffstown Rotary Club Car Show runs today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Parsons Field (2 Parsons Drive in Goffstown). The event is free to attend ($20 to have a vehicle in the show) and the day will feature food, raffles and People’s Choice and Kid’s Choice awards. See goffstownrotary.org.

Kick off berry season with a strawberry festival Saturday, June 1. The Friends of the Library of Windham (flowwindham. org) will hold their festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Windham High School (64 London Bridge Road) with food, games, raffles and more. The festival will also be the setting of the final day of the library’s book sale (there will be a fill-a-bag-for-$5 special during the last hour of the sale, according to the website). Hampstead Congregational Church (61 Main St.; hampsteaducc. org, 329-6985) will hold its strawberry festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with homemade strawberry shortcake and other baked goods, a plant stable, children’s activities and games.

Saturday, June 1

The Concord Arts Market, featuring fine art and artisan pieces, returns for a new season starting today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1 Bicentennial Square in Concord. (The Concord Farmers Market runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Capitol Street next to the Statehouse so you can make a morning of it.)

See concordartsmarket.net.

DRINK: Tea in the afternoon The Cozy Tea Cart (104 Route 13 in Brookline; thecozyteacart.com, 249-9111) will have a “Garden Afternoon Tea” on Sunday, June 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. Enjoy tea breads, savories and pastries with a pot of tea for $34.95 per person. Call for reservations.

Looking for more stuff to do this week? Check out Hippo Scout, available at hipposcout.com.

Today is one of New Hampshire’s two annual Free Fishing Days, when inland water-body fishing doesn’t require a license. See wildlife.state.nh.us. For advice on how to get started, check out Jeff Mucciarone’s story in the April 11 issue of the Hippo. Go to hippopress.com and click on “Read the Entire Paper,” where you’ll find complete issues that can be read on any device. The story is on page 12.

BE MERRY: With music The Nashua Chamber Orchestra will present “Sound the Trumpet,” featuring Sarah Heimberg at Nashua Community College (505 Amherst St. in Nashua) on Saturday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m., and at the Milford Town Hall (1 Union Square in Milford) on Sunday, June 2, at 7:30 p.m. See nco-music.org for tickets. The Strafford Wind Symphony performs at the Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St. in Rochester; rochesteroperahouse.com) on Sunday, June 2, at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $7 to $12. The First Music Concert Series at The First Church (1 Concord St., Nashua) presents “Fin de Siecle,” a period instrument string quartet, on Sunday, June 2, at 4 p.m. Admission is free. Visit first-music.org.

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Arts and music festival returns to Peterborough

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

For five days, Peterborough will be a hub for the arts as The Thing in the Spring returns Wednesday, June 5, through Sunday, June 9.

Now in its 12th year, the festival will feature numerous musical performances, art exhibitions and sales, film screenings and author readings at various venues downtown.

The Thing in the Spring was co-founded

by Eric Gagne, who runs Toadstool Sounds, a music store located inside the Toadstool Bookshop in Depot Square.

“I started curating some concerts and always thought it’d be fun to do something like the old Fillmore and Woodstock concerts in Peterborough … [and] at the same time, my wife and [co-founder] Ryan were putting together ideas for an affordable arts fair,” he said. “Then we thought, what about doing a weekend with an art fair at the center and concerts going on around it?”

The “Broke: Affordable Arts Fair,” happening all day Saturday at the Town Hall, is one of the highlights of the festival. It features more than 50 juried artists from around New England who will be selling their art for under $50, including paintings, textiles, jewelry, ceramics and more.

“The idea is that art should be accessible to everyone,” Gagne said. “[Artists] deserve to get paid for their work, and we’re not trying to devalue that, but it’s nice to be able to go into an art fair and look at all the different stuff and know that you’ll be able to find something that you can afford.”

There will be three art exhibitions: one at Launch Art Gallery on Thursday, featuring prints by Colleen Kinsella; one at the Sharon Arts Center on Friday, featuring drawings by Anna Von Mertens and Shaina Gates; and one at the UU Church on Saturday, featuring sculpture by Shepherd Ndudzo and a sound installation by Dave Seidel.

Forty-four bands and musicians will per-

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historian and journalist Doug Valentine and arts writer and film reviewer Ed Symkus on Saturday; and poet and educator Rage Hezekiah and award-winning poet Iliana Rocha on Sunday.

Finally, the Peterborough Community Theatre will screen some classic films, including late night screenings of The Thing (R, 1982) on Friday, and The Dark Crystal (PG, 1982) on Saturday, and a Sunday afternoon screening of The Neverending Story (PG, 1984).

“We’re doing [the late night movies] while the evening shows are happening at Broke: the Affordable Arts Fair at The Thing in the Spring. Courtesy photo. the bars, so kids and teens can still hang out downtown and do something without having form at this year’s festival, with daytime and Arielle Greenberg on Friday; Adar Cohen, to be 21,” Gagne said. “Again, our mission evening concerts held each day at the UU an advocate for conflict resolution, youth is accessibility and doing activities that are Church, Harlow’s Pub, Cooper’s Hill Public empowerment and nonviolent social change, accessible for everyone.”

House and Toadstool Bookshop. Some are free while others require tickets purchased in Schedule advance or at the door. Gagne said there will be “an eclectic mix of heavy stuff, mellow Wednesday, June 5 Saturday, June 8 • Music - 6 to 8:30 p.m., UU Church, 25 Main St. • Broke: The Affordable Arts Fair - 10 a.m. to 4 stuff and everything in between,” with indie p.m., Town Hall, 1 Grove St. rock, folk, experimental, jazz and many othThursday, June 6 • Reading: Adar Cohen, Ed Symkus and Doug er genres represented.

Valentine - 11 a.m., Toadstool Bookshop, 12 • Art exhibition: Colleen Kinsella - 5 to 7 p.m., “We bring in some pretty renowned [musiLaunch Art Gallery, 28 Grove St., above Nonie’s Depot Square cians], and people can’t believe one of their • Art exhibit: Shepherd Ndudzo and Dave Seidel restaurant favorite bands is playing right in Peterbor1 to 6 p.m., UU Church, 25 Main St. • Music 6 to 8:30 p.m., UU Church, 25 Main St. ough,” he said. “It’s cool to be able to give • Music - 1 to 8:30 p.m., UU Church, 25 Main St. • Music - 9:30 to 10:30 p.m., Harlow’s Pub, 1 that to people, and to provide an avenue for • Music - 9:30 to 11 p.m., Harlow’s Pub, 1 School School St. people to discover stuff that they’ve never St. heard before.”

• Music - 9:30 p.m., Cooper’s Hill Public House, Friday, June 7 A reading series held at the Toadstool • Reading: Mary Ruefle and Arielle Greenberg - 4 6 School St. Bookshop will feature poets and authors • Film: The Dark Crystal, 10 p.m., Peterborough p.m., Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square associated with or recommended by the Community Theatre, 6 School St. • Art exhibition: Anna Von Mertens and Shaina MacDowell Colony, including feminist Gates - 5 to 7 p.m., Sharon Arts Center, 30 Grove poet Mary Ruefle and award-winning poet Sunday, June 9 St. The Thing in the Spring Where: Downtown Peterborough When: Wednesday, June 5, through Sunday, June 9 Cost: Varies by event Visit: thethinginthespring.com

• Music - 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., UU Church, 25 Main St. • Music - 9:30 to 11 p.m., Harlow’s Pub, 1 School St. • Music - 9:30 p.m., Cooper’s Hill Public House, 6 School St. • Film: The Thing - 10 p.m., Peterborough Community Theatre, 6 School St.

• Music - 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Cooper’s Hill Public House, 6 School St. • Reading: Iliana Rocha and Rage Hezekiah - 11 a.m., Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square • Film: The Neverending Story - noon, Peterborough Community Theatre, 6 School St. • Music - 1 to 3:45 p.m., Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square

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• Sculptures are finished: The Nashua International Sculpture Symposium comes to a close on Thursday, May 30, with a closing ceremony on Saturday, June 1, at 1 p.m.

Three sculptors from around the world have spent the last three weeks in Nashua working on sculptures that will be permanently placed around the city. During that time, the public was invited to visit the work site at The Picker Artists studios and watch the sculptors create their pieces and interact with the sculptors during their breaks.

At the closing ceremony, trolleys will take people from City Hall (229 Main St., Nashua) to see the sculptures unveiled at their permanent sites. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

• Arts market opening day: The Concord Arts Market opens for the season on Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Bicentennial Square. The juried, outdoor market features a variety of art and crafts by local artists and craftspeople. It will continue weekly through September. There’s an online application for those interested in becoming market vendors. Visit concordartsmarket.net.

• Still lifes, landscapes and portraits: Kelley Stelling Contemporary (221 Hanover St., Manchester) presents “James Aponovich: Out of the Studio, Recent Drawings and Paintings,” June 6 through June 28, with an opening reception on Thursday, June 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The solo exhibition is the world renowned artist’s first exhibition in New Hampshire in nearly 15 years. It features his new work, including still lifes and landscapes, along with a new series of allegorical portraits exploring darker themes of mortality. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary. com or call 345-1779.

Art Events • 12TH ANNUAL NASHUA INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM Three international sculptors will be spending three weeks at The Picker Artists, each creating a large granite or metal outdoor sculpture to be given to the City and installed in a public place for all to enjoy. May 13 through May 30. 3 Pine St. , Nashua. Visit nashuasculpturesymposium.org.

Fairs • ANTIQUES AND ART SHOW AND SALE It will feature work by nine Manchester teachers and artists, including ceramics, dyed silk, felted animals, block prints, photography, soft sculpture and more. Sat., June 8, 9 a.m. to 2

Alan Shulman art. Courtesy photo.

• Final days for NHAA exhibitions: The New Hampshire Art Association has three exhibitions on view now through June 2 at its Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery (136 State St., Portsmouth).

“Ree Katrak: New Work” focuses on asemic writing, an expressive form of writing that can only be interpreted by the viewer through instinct, empathy, intuition and emotion.

The “Body of Work: Series I” exhibition features work by nine artists, including graphite pieces, photography, oils, pastels, acrylics, fiber arts and watercolor. NHAA holds several “Body of Work” exhibitions throughout the year to give members an opportunity to share a group of their works as opposed to just one piece in a group show.

Finally, there is an exhibition featuring the acrylic paintings of Alan Shulman, who said in a press release that his art is intended to make the viewer think and ask questions. “Strong colors bring my visions to life; compositions that catch the eye through perspective distortion draw attention to the painting’s subject,” he said. “My work usually begins with observed reality, which I may change using memory, fantasy and dream.”

Call 224-2508 or visit nhartassociation.org.

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• CRAFT FAIR AT THE BAY More than 75 juried artisans will be there. Sat., July 13, and Sun., July 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Community House and Waterfront , 24 Mount Major Highway, Alton Bay. Visit castleberryfairs.com.

In the Galleries • “TANGIBLE ASSETS” Featuring more than 30 New England artists of all media who submitted to an open call, asking them to explore the questions, “How do you consider your work to be important or beneficial, and to have a connection with the viewer? How does their interaction with your art become a tangible asset in their consciousness — something they can take away and ‘own,’ either

physically through purchase, or by the impression it imprints on their minds?” On view through May 31. Kelley Stelling Contemporary, 221 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit kelleystellingcontemporary.com or call 345-1779.

• “THE NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE: WORKS FROM THE 19TH - 21ST CENTURIES” New Hampshire Antique Co-op presents an exhibit and sale of paintings spanning more than 200 years of artists’ interpretations of the timeless and iconic views unique to New England. On view through Sept. 10. Tower Gallery, 323 Elm St., Milford. Visit nhantiquecoop.com.

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• A new twist on Little Shop: Dive-In Productions and Theaterography present Little Shop of Horrors at the Hatbox Theatre (270 Loudon Road, Concord) May 31 through June 16, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The horror-comedy rock musical follows a hapless orphan named Seymour who, while working at a run-down floral shop on Skid Row, pricks his finger on a mysterious Venus flytrap-like plant named Audrey II and awakens its taste for blood. This production puts a new spin on the musical with gender-bent casting, shadow work and a new look at Audrey II. “I think this production is going to be so special because just tweaking one thing, the assumed gender of Audrey II, changes the dynamics between the plant and everyone she interacts with,” Laura Millar, who has taken on the expanded role of Audrey II, said in a press release. “It’s a totally unique telling.” Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for seniors and students. Visit hatboxnh.com or call 715-2315.

• Rock ’n’ roll musical: The Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St., Manchester) presents Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story May 31 through June 23, with showtimes on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and an additional

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May 9 through June 1, with showtimes on Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. 125 Bow St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $16 to $44. Visit seacoastrep.org.

• THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Thurs., May 30, at 7 p.m., Fri., May 31, at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., and Sat., June 1, at 2 p.m. Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester. Tickets cost $5.

Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Dive-In Productions and Theaterography present. May 31 through June 16, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road,

Pippin at Players’ Ring Theatre. Courtesy photo

show on Thursday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m. The musical tells the story of 1950s rock ’n’ roll star Buddy Holly, from his rise to fame to his tragic death less than two years later. It features more than 20 of Buddy Holly’s greatest hits, including “Peggy Sue,” “Everyday” and “Not Fade Away.” Tickets cost $39 to $46 for adults and $25 for children ages 6 through 12. Visit palacetheatre.org or call 668-5588.

• A prince’s tale: Ferrill-Chylde Productions presents Pippin at Players’ Ring Theatre (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) May 31 through June 16, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The musical, based on the book by Roger O. Hirson, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, is the story of a young prince searching for meaning in his life, as told by a traveling theater troupe led by the mysterious Leading Player. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for seniors and students.

Visit playersring.org or call 436-8123.

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Concord. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. Visit hatboxnh.com.

• BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY May 31 through June 23, with showtimes on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and an additional show on Thursday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets cost $39 to $46 for adults and $25 for children ages 6 through 12.

Visit palacetheatre.org.

• PIPPIN Ferrill-Chylde Productions presents. May 31 through June 16, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Players’ Ring Theatre, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for seniors and students.

Visit playersring.org.

• SHREK THE MUSICAL JR. Tues., June 4, and Wed., June 5, 7:30 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for kids. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• PUTTING IT TOGETHER: NEW WORKS New World Theatre presents. Sun., Oct. 14, Dec. 9, Feb. 10, April 7, June 9 and Aug. 4, 6:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre,

270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. Visit hatboxnh.com.

• INTO THE WOODS JR. Wed., June 12, Thurs., June 13, Tues., June 18, and Wed., June 19, 7 p.m. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets cost $14 for adults and $11 for kids. Visit palacetheatre.org.

Classical Music Events • WIND DEPARTMENT RECITAL Thurs., May 30, 7 p.m. Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St., Concord. Free admission. Visit ccmusicschool.org.

• “SOUND THE TRUMPET” The Nashua Chamber Orchestra presents. Sat., June 1, 7:30 p.m., in Nashua, and Sun., June 2, 7:30 p.m., in Milford. Nashua Community College, 505 Amherst St., Nashua. Milford Town Hall, 1 Union Square, Milford. Visit nco-music.org.

• “FIN DE SIECLE” The First Music Concert Series presents a period instrument string quartet. Sun., June 2, 4 p.m. The First Church, 1 Concord St., Nashua.

Admission is free. Visit first-music. org.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE Go and grow

New Hampshire celebrates Plant Something weekend

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

If you’ve been thinking about adding some flowers or shrubs to your landscape or starting an indoor container garden for veggies, herbs or flowers, there is no better time to do it than during Plant Something NH Weekend, happening Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2.

Plant Something is a national campaign that raises awareness about the benefits of gardening and encourages people to support local garden businesses and plant more plants. In 2016, New Hampshire became the 23rd state to join the movement.

“Prior to Plant Something, the horticulture and agriculture industries didn’t have a marketing campaign that encompassed the entire industry under one umbrella,” Felicia LaBranche, Plant Something NH program manager, said.

“This allows us to have a single voice across the industry.”

On that weekend, participating garden centers, greenhouses, nurseries, florists and related organizations across New Hampshire will independently host special events, activities and promotions, including presentations, DIY workshops, discounts, plant sales and more.

“The activities give people a reason and inspiration to get out and plant something,” LaBranche said.

There are currently 15 businesses participating, but more usually join at the last minute, LaBranche said.

“The businesses believe in the mission of the program.” she said. “They want to support Plant Something NH as an educational program, and it’s also an opportunity for them to engage with their customer base and share information that people may not receive on a typical visit.”

Plant Something NH Weekend When: Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2 Where: Statewide More info: plantsomethingnh.org

Studley’s Flower Gardens in Rochester has participated in Plant Something NH Weekend since its inception. They will have an area in their greenhouse where customers can buy or bring their own container, buy a plant and pot it onsite, with staff there to assist them in choosing and potting their plants. There will be a variety of vegetable and herb plants and flowers to choose from.

“We are very community-focused, and by participating in a program like Plant Something, we can demonstrate that, and promote our business to a wider audience and bring more people into the store,” general manager Molly Meulenbroek said.

Plant Something NH strives to share information that is “relevant to New Hampshire climate and planting season and the local community,” LaBranche said, and to promote the benefits of growing plants, such as the physical and mental health benefits of gardening outside, the environmental benefits of planting native and pollinator plants, and the aesthetic benefits of incorporating flowers and shrubs into your property’s landscape.

“Anything you plant makes an impact,” LaBranche said.

Studley Flower Gardens. Courtesy photo.

Participating businesses • Bagley Pond Perennials (648 Pumpkin Hill Road, Warner, find them on Facebook). The new garden center will celebrate its grand opening, with a 10 percent discount.

• Bedrock Gardens (19 High Road, Lee, 6592993, bedrockgardens.org) • Black Forest Nursery (209 King St., Boscawen, 796-2756, blackforestnursery.com) ​• Blooming Newmarket (facebook.com/groups/ bloomingnewmarket) will host its annual Book and Plant Sale at the Newmarket Public Library (1 Elm St., Newmarket) on Saturday, June 1, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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• Pellettieri Associates (169 Kearsarge Mountain Road, Warner, 888-826-2275, pellettieriassoc. com) • Rolling Green Nursery (64 Breakfast Hill Road, Greenland, 436-2732, rollinggreennursery. com) Heather Poire of Bailey Nurseries will give

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• Spring Ledge Farm (37 Main St., New London, 526-6253, springledgefarm.com) • StoneFalls Gardens (184 Stonefalls Road, Henniker, 428-6161, stonefallsgardens.com). They will be celebrating native plants.

• Studley’s Flower Gardens (82 Wakefield St., Rochester, 332-4565, studleys.com). They will have a DIY planting bar where customers can buyv or bring their own containers, shop for plants and pot them onsite.

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Depending on where you live — a cold hollow, a hilltop, or near a large body of water — you may be ready to start planting the vegetable garden. But there is much to do before your plants go in the ground. Here are some tips to consider.

In my opinion, there is not much point in planting seeds or seedlings until the soil has warmed up sufficiently. A soil thermometer will tell you when it hits 60 degrees a few inches below the soil surface; 60 degrees is good even for cold-weather crops like spinach and peas, although you can plant them into cooler soil. Cold, wet soil may rot seeds and discourage seedlings.

Last fall I covered my garden with leaves and straw; I start work in the vegetable garden by raking those off. This will allow the soil to absorb the sun’s heat directly. If I’m in a hurry, sometimes I will cover a few rows with clear plastic and seal the edges with soil or mulch so the heat will build up.

On a sunny day it will get up over 100 degrees under clear plastic, which will also cook and kill many germinating weed seeds.

It won’t kill perennial weeds or grasses, as the roots will survive even the hottest of days under plastic. Black plastic also holds in the heat, but is slightly less effective in heating the soil.

I don’t believe in rototilling, except perhaps when mixing in a thick layer of compost to a new bed, and even then I recommend a shallow tilling. Rototilling makes the garden look good, but it is not good at killing weeds. It just cuts up those perennial roots and spreads them around. Instead of having a hundred weeds, you can have a thousand. Soil organisms each have found the perfect place to live; stirring up the soil only disrupts their habitat.

After raking off the mulch into the walkways, I weed. Yes, I weeded last fall. But I will have missed plenty of little ones, and others have germinated from seed by now. I like the CobraHead weeder best. This curved tool gets under weeds, loosens the roots, and lets me get the plant and its entire root system easily. Of course, you probably have a favorite tool and whatever works best for you is the right tool.

CobraHead makes a long-handled version, but I don’t mind bending over to weed.

Meanwhile, I have been hardening off my vegetable starts, and will continue to do so. Just as you would not put a baby in the sun without sunscreen, I won’t put my baby tomatoes out in the garden without preparation.

I start by putting out the flats of seedlings on a deck that only gets morning sun for a few days. Then I give them morning sun and a couple of hours of afternoon sun. After a few days of this, they are ready for all-day sun. The stems have gotten stronger, the leaves are used

to wind and sun, and they are ready to plant.

When do I plant? I planted spinach seedlings around May 8 or May 10. Lettuce and kale seedlings are growing in my cold frame that warms up the soil and keeps them cozy at night. But my tomatoes? I wait well past the last chance for frost to plant. I also know that they will sulk — and stop growing — if the soil is too cold or if the nights too chilly. I have been carrying them inside at night during the hardening off process.

Plants that do well in cooler temperatures include the following: arugula, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, leeks, onions, parsley, peas, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach and Swiss chard. All the rest, especially sweet potatoes, tomatoes and all the vine crops, can be seriously set back by chilly nights and killed by frost.

Now is a good time to plant some vine crops in small pots inside. I have a terrible time with the striped cucumber beetle. If I plant seeds outdoors, the beetles miraculously appear the night the seeds germinate and eat those first two little leaves. That kills the plant. But if I get vines 6 inches long with a few real leaves, the beetles can chew on the leaves, but won’t kill them. Cukes, squash, watermelon and pumpkins all are attractive to those nasty critters.

Another way of protecting crops from marauding insects and furry critters is to cover them with a thin agricultural fabric called row cover. This stuff will let sun through, as well as moisture and air. You can drape it right over the plants, or stretch it over wire hoops that are sold for the purpose. It comes in 5-foot-wide rolls, which is perfect for a wide raised bed.

You need to buy earth staples to pin it down.

It comes in varying thickness; thick ones will keep things warmer, but allow less light to come through.

Later, when your cukes and squash start to flower, you need to take off the covers as insects pollinate the plants. Peppers and eggplants benefit from the extra heat contained by the row covers, and are wind pollinated. Generally they do fine under row cover.

One last piece of advice: ask at the greenhouse if the seedlings you are buying have been hardened off. Being inside a greenhouse is much less stressful than being outside directly in the sun. Leaves can actually get sunburned if not hardened off outside. They will recover, but slowly. So you may need to harden them off before planting.

Memorial Day weekend is the traditional day for planting warm-weather crops in my area. But I never hesitate to wait a bit longer.

The plants will always catch up.

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Family fun for the weekend

Fairs and fun

Saturday, June 1, and $12 at the door.

• The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill (174 Joppa Hill Road in Bedford; theeducationalfarm.org) will hold its spring fair on Sunday, June 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. The afternoon will include pony rides, games, children’s activities and food.

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• The Derry Police Department is holding a family event featuring emergency and other vehicles for kids to check out, food trucks, a kids’ muster and a BMX stunt show promoting helmet safety on Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at West Running Brook Middle School (1 W. Running Brook Lane in Derry). Call 432-6111 for info.

• The New Hampshire Soap Box Derby Annual Local Championship Race is Sunday, June 2, with track set up starting at 8 a.m. and racing beginning at 9:30 a.m. (finishing at about 3 p.m.) at the BAE Systems parking lot (121 Canal St. in Nashua). For registration and more information, see soapboxderby.org/new-hampshire.

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Dear Donna, We recently purchased these boat oars at a flea market. My husband and I want to use them as railings for our stairway to the second floor of our home. Our question is, would this ruin the value of them by mounting brackets on them? Is there a value to them?

Claire from Manchester

value usually runs in the $20 to $50 range for a pair.

Note: One thing you want to do on old painted items is seal them with a varnish so it will stop the lead (or any old paint) from chipping if the item has it, or completely remove the paint Dear Claire, I love the idea of using the oars for a hand- to be safe.

Donna Welch has spent rail. Looks to me that the value on yours is based on their decorativeness, unless they more than 30 years in are signed or attributed to something in his- the antiques and collecttory. Some oars can bring a higher value if ibles field, appraising and made by a specific person or company. But instructing, and recently Courtesy photo. in general the value in old antique oars is just closed the physical location of From Out Of The what you see in them.

Woods Antique Center (fromoutofthewoodsanThey are great decorating pieces and tiques.com) but is still doing some buying and even better if they can become useful again selling. She is a member of The New Hampshire in another form. So my opinion is to make Antiques Dealer Association. If you have questhem into rails as long as they are safe from tions about an antique or collectible send a clear breakage, cracks, chipping paint and any photo and information to Donna at footwdw@ chance of slivers from the old wood. aol.com, or call her at 391-6550 or 624-8668.

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• Preschool in the Village is hosting a Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Amherst Village Green (2 Main St. in Amherst; preschoolinthevillage. org/family-fun-day). The event will feature a touch-a-truck, pony rides, face painting, a petting zoo, field games, crafts and more.

• MainStreet Warner will host a Summer Kickoff Block Party all day on Saturday, June 1, at Jim Mitchell Community Park (16 E. Main St.). The day will feature a used book sale (from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.), storytelling, cartoons, food, musical and other performances, raffles and more. See mainstreetwarnerinc.org or call 456-3745.

• The Bedford PTG will hold its Color Blast Run/Walk on Sunday, June 2, with same-day registration starting at 8 a.m. ($35 for adults, $10 for kids 10 and under). Wear white and get blasted with color powder along the two-mile course with a post-race “Finish Festival,” according to the website. See bedfordptg.org.

• Kimball Jenkins School of Art (266 N. Main St. in Concord; kimballjenkins.com, 225-3932) will hold a Fairy, Wizard and Dragon Festival on Sunday, June 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dress up in your wings and wands for a day that includes a puppet show, arts and crafts, fairy houses, a dance party and more. Tickets cost $10 per person until

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Those nuts didn’t tighten my lug nuts! when you check and find out you were one lug nut away from a major accident.

Normally, when we install tires, we’ll start by tightening the lug nuts in a crisscross pattern. Then we’ll go around once clockwise to make sure they’re all tight.

It’s a simple job, really. It’s something shops do many times a day. But doing it wrong can be deadly; it’s important to have safety systems in place so no one drives out of your shop with loose lug nuts. That’s auto mechanics 101.

Who knows what happened in the shop that day? Maybe the mechanic’s battery powered wrench was low on power? Maybe the roach coach arrived, and he had a sudden urge for a tofu burrito and forgot which wheels he’d already tightened.

In any case, I’d let this shop know that, having spoken to other mechanics, you are quite certain they neglected to tighten your lug nuts properly, and it created a very dangerous situation for you. Tell them you hope they will be putting better systems in place with their employees to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

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So, a test is in order. We start by cleaning the whole area because it’s always an oil-soaked mess. Then we insert a fluorescent dye into the oil. After running the car for a few hours, we shine a black light on the areas that we suspect are leaking. That usually tells us exactly where the leak is coming from.

If you’re lucky, and you’ve lived a good, clean life, it’ll be a valve gasket or two. I’ve never seen so much oil leak that it shorted out a sensor. So, if you’ve got dashboard lights coming on, those may be unrelated to the oil leak.

Start by figuring out what’s leaking.

Then your mechanic can scan the computer and figure out which sensor needs to be replaced.

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You can fix it by pulling out your credit card, putting a pleading look on your face and handing the card to your mechanic, Mitch.

In our experience, the most common oil leaks on low-to-moderate mileage Foresters come from the valve cover gaskets. The oil leaks down from there onto the front exhaust pipe, which gets very hot. The instant a drop of oil hits that exhaust pipe, it starts to burn, and produces a very strong smell.

That smell wafts into the nearby fresh air vent at the bottom of your windshield, and from there, right into the passenger compartment and up your nostrils, where it causes you to feel lightheaded and seek out brochures for 2019 Subarus. It doesn’t take much oil at all to make a lot of smell.

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I had seasonal tires changed at

By Ray Magliozzi a service location, and about a month later, six lug nuts were missing (four on the right rear and two on the left rear).

The service center is stating that it is unlikely that they are responsible. However, I am hearing and reading otherwise from other sources. — Barbara

Oh, it’s very likely that they are responsible. Someone forgot to tighten your lug nuts or didn’t tighten them enough. And that’s exactly what will happen.

Over time, they’ll slowly work their way loose. Every time you hit a pothole or a bump, they’ll get a little looser.

Until finally, one falls off. Of course, you won’t notice that. Then, a few days or a week later, another one falls off. Eventually (if you’re lucky), the car will start shaking, and the wheel will make banging noises as it wobbles around. That’s

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From musicians in the studio, travelI wish that I knew how much I was ing to band gigs, with PA systems and going to enjoy it. I would have begun gear everywhere, I grew very familiar this career a lot sooner in life than I did. with musical performers and how they are presented. I began working for my What is your typical at-work uniform? parents’ audio company, New England I can work from anywhere so it can be Mobile Audio, as Director of Sales in professional, PJs and even a bathing suit.

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FOOD Gate city flavors

Taste of Downtown Nashua returns

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New and veteran dining establishments offering a variety of cuisines will take you on a culinary trip through the Gate City, as Taste of Downtown Nashua returns on Wednesday, June 5, featuring nearly 30 participating locations in the downtown area Now in its 25th year, the event is the longest-running downtown tasting tour of its kind and continues to grow each year, according to Paul Shea, executive director of Great American Downtown. Restaurants, breweries and other food and beverage businesses serve up specialty samples at partnering retail establishments — and you never know what new tastes you might discover.

“We have an exploding dining scene here in downtown Nashua,” Shea said, “so if someone has never been to this event or hasn’t gone even in a couple of years, there will be many, many new restaurants to experience. I would say that probably half of all the [participating] restaurants have opened within the last five years.”

Among the newcomers to the Taste of Downtown, Shea said, will be Tostao’s Tapas – Bar on Main Street, Picanha’s Brazilian Grill on Elm Street, and Liquid Therapy on Court Street. Tostao’s Tapas – Bar, which opened last month, offers authentic Spanish tapas and cocktails, borrowing styles from Europe and across multiple Latin Ameri-

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• Food trucks roll in: Don’t miss Food Trucks for CASA as it returns for its third year, for the first time taking place at Southern New Hampshire University (2500 N. River Road, Manchester). Featured trucks will include Lunch Lady Food Truck of Concord, Empanada Dada of Lowell, Mass., and Clyde’s Cupcakes of Exeter among others. Festival hours are Friday, May 31, from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday, June 1, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, June 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. General admission is $5 but packages that include beers and event T-shirts are also available. Admission is free for children ages 12 and under. All proceeds benefit CASA of New Hampshire. Visit foodtrucksforcasa.com.

• In other food truck news: Another previously scheduled food truck festival for this weekend, Food Trucks for Veterans Count, will not be held, according to a May 22 post on the event’s official Facebook page. “Due to our summer plans to open The Hill Bar & Grille at McIntyre [Ski Area] being completed remarkably faster than anticipated,” the post read, “we regret to announce that Food Trucks for Veterans Count will be cancelled.” Visit facebook.com/ftfvc.

• Season of strawberries: Several events due to take place this week in New Hampshire will feature strawberries. The Friends of the Library of Windham will hold their annual strawberry festival at Windham High School (64 London Bridge Road) on Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will feature food, games, raffles and a dunk tank in addition to some strawberry-flavored treats. Visit flowwindham.org.

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Taste of Downtown Nashua When: Wednesday, June 5, 6 to 8:30 p.m.

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can nations. The menu features bruschettas, empanadas, clams, mussels and fried plantains with a variety of filling options.

In February, Picanha’s Brazilian Grill opened in the former spot of Gauchos, featuring a selection of several hand-cut grilled meats, an open market table of homemade Brazilian dishes, a salad bar, and assorted cocktails. And late last year, Liquid Therapy opened, with a lineup of craft beers and made-from-scratch comfort options like pizzas, nachos and beer-infused ice creams.

But Shea added that several “old favorites” are participating as well, like Riverside Barbeque Co., Surf, MT’s Local Kitchen & Wine Bar, Fratello’s Italian Grille and Stella Blu. From sweet to savory, most of the restaurants will bring at least a few different bites to sample that will usually combine signature menu items with new or specialty options prepared for the tasting.

Additionally, there will be wine tastings at WineNot Boutique and Cava de Vino, and beer tastings at The Peddler’s Daughter and The Flight Center Beer Cafe for the duration of the event, plus live music performers across several areas of Main Street.

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Your event ticket includes a map of where each participating eatery is located. According to Shea, you likely won’t get to taste from every single one (most tasters are stuffed after about 15 stops), so the best approach is to look at your map and prioritize which restaurants you want to visit first.

“We’re expecting … a sizable crowd, but there’s a lot going on, so folks can expect very little [time] waiting in line,” Shea said.

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When Kyle York’s parents retired as owners of the Indian Head Athletics sporting goods store in Manchester last summer, he knew exactly what he wanted to do with the space. In fact, Shopper’s Pub + Eatery at Indian Head, a sports-themed restaurant and pub on track to open in the coming weeks, has actually been in talks for 15 years.

After the shop closed, York called up his longtime friend and former college football teammate, Joey LaCava, to come take a look at the space.

Joey and his siblings, Michael and Lauren, are fourth-generation co-owners of Shopper’s Cafe in Waltham, Mass.

“Ever since college, I’ve said to [Joey] that someday, when my parents retire, this place would be a great spot for a potential second Shopper’s location,” York said. “Shopper’s is a very modern sports bar and grille with excellent food, and something we thought would be great for Manchester. It’s as much of a family restaurant as it is a sports bar.”

Joey LaCava said the eatery’s menu is in the process of being finalized, but visitors can expect items like pizzas, steak tips, burgers, wings, chicken Parmesan, soups, chowders and salads, some of which utilize his great-grandmother’s original recipes from the early days of Shopper’s Cafe. He said the menu will be similar, but not exactly the same, to its Waltham counterpart, with minimal changes and omissions.

“We want everything we put on our menu that we can stand behind, so we’re making all of our own soups, we make our own pizza sauce, our own chicken breast to fry, things like that,” LaCava said. “The pizzas and the steak tips are going to be a few things we’ll really be pushing that we’re proud of.”

A few appetizer staples will include wings with your choice of flavor (Buffalo, honey barbecue, teriyaki, Cajun and more), plus bacon Brussels sprouts, fried mozzarella wedges in a marinara sauce, and baked fries with bacon and blue cheese that are served in a skillet. There is also an extensive menu of pizzas and burgers (each with specialty or build-your-own options); sandwiches and wraps with your choice of fries, onion rings or coleslaw as a side; and specialty entrees, like steak tips with house marinades, chicken tips with a sweet bourbon glaze, and a house fish and chips dish with beer battered haddock.

The drink menu, LaCava said, will consist of a 20-tap system, ranging from domestic to local craft beers, plus a small selection of house cocktails.

The new restaurant will feature aesthetics unique to the space. For example, the overhead sign and the silhouette sports figures that once adorned the outside of Indian Head Athletics are now on display on the inside, as you walk in and also along the back of the dining area. If you’ve passed by the space across the street from the

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SNHU Arena recently, chances are that you’ve noticed big changes taking place outside too, including the installation of a brick facade.

It’s the combination of those features with a variety of made-from-scratch food options and nearly two dozen taps that will make Shopper’s Pub + Eatery a unique spot marrying the legacies of two families — York’s parents owned Indian Head Athletics from 1980 until their retirement last year, while Shopper’s Cafe has been owned and operated by the LaCava family since 1937.

The transition from sporting goods store to sports bar required a number of interior changes, like a brand new kitchen space in the back of the building, new countertops for the bar, numerous televisions along the walls, and a prep room in the basement with a few large walk-in coolers.

The eatery’s name is a nod to the burgeoning shopping scene that took place on Moody Street in Waltham in the years following Prohibition in the 1930s, starting with Grover Cronin’s department store.

“That was kind of one of the blueprints for today’s shopping mall,” LaCava said, “and from that, a lot of mom-and-pop shops popped up and families from all over New England in those days traveled to that area to shop as a family.”

Shopper’s Pub + Eatery will be open for both lunch and dinner, in an area LaCava said he hopes will attract both a busy lunch crowd during workdays and a dinner crowd on evenings and weekends, especially due to their proximity to the SNHU Arena.

“I see Manchester as kind of like a bigger Waltham,” he said. “We’re really excited to be able to become part of the community, and to just cater to everybody that walks in the door.”

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I always find it very confusing to eat during this time of year. Should I grill or should I be slow roasting things in the oven?

It changes daily!

My mom made soup the other day that felt perfectly in between. Its blend of spicy sausage and summer vegetables made it absolutely fitting for the blustery spring day we were having. As I stare out at another day just like it, I’m wishing I were eating this soup right now.

The chorizo sausage is what makes this soup amazing. When I was younger, my family lived in Madrid for a few years. Because of that, we’re all about the chorizo, which is Spanish sausage of pork, mixed up with garlic and often spicy pimentón. Pimentón is paprika and apparently it can be sweet

Italian Chorizo Soup. Photo by Allison Willson Dudas.

or spicy. I like a mix of both, I find! Finding good chorizo in New Hampshire can be tricky. Some are too dry or not flavorful enough, so it’s best to try a variety and see what you think. Traditional Spanish chorizo is dried and cured in casing, so you can eat it as is — or, of course, throw it into a paella or soup.

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Italian Chorizo Soup 12 ounces chorizo sausage, sliced 3 cups low sodium chicken broth ½ cup uncooked small seashell pasta 2 cups chopped zucchini (about 2 small) 1 14.5-ounce can stewed tomatoes, undrained 1 teaspoon dried basil 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 15-ounce can kidney beans 1/3 cup shredded Asiago cheese

Food & Drink Author events/lectures • BOOK SIGNING & AUTHOR TALK: “MOXIE”

BY MERRILL LEWIS Local author Merrill Lewis will discuss his newly released book on Moxie, the popular soda drink that was originally known as Moxie Nerve Food, a patent medicine designed to cure nervous exhaustion and a host of associated ailments. The book chronicles Moxie’s rich history (it was first bottled in 1885). Sat., June 8, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford St., Manchester. Included with admission to the Millyard Museum ($8 for adults, $6 for seniors ages 62 and up and for college students, $4 for children ages 12 and up and free for children under 12. Visit manchesterhistoric.org.

Beer, wine & liquor festivals & special events • SHAKE & STIR COCKTAIL CONFERENCE & COMPETITION This inaugural cocktail

Pour broth and pasta into large saucepan, bringing to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 4 minutes. Add zucchini and tomatoes, returning to a boil. Then, reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Add spices and beans, continuing to simmer for about 3 minutes. Toss in chorizo (again, it’s cooked.

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Sat., June 1, noon to 5 p.m., and Sun., June 2, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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• 6TH ANNUAL KICKOFF TO SUMMER The brewery’s annual event will feature food trucks, games, live music, local vendors and beer specials. Sat., June 15, noon to 5 p.m. Henniker Brewing Co., 129 Centervale Road, Henniker. No admission charge; everything is pay as you go. Visit hennikerbrewing.com or call 428-3579.

Rochester-area restaurants. Live music will also be featured. The event is 21+ only. Wed., June 5, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Studley’s Flower Gardens, 82 Wakefield St., Rochester. $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Visit rochestermainstreet.org or call 330-3208.

• BEER, WINE & FOOD TASTING Sample some beer and wine from local vendors while enjoying food from the market’s catering menu. Featured vendors will include Rockingham Brewing Co., 603 Brewery, Tuckerman Brewing Co., Moonlight Meadery, Zorvino Vineyards and more.

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Andrea Golen of Hooksett has been hand-harvesting chaga mushrooms from New Hampshire for about 10 years. It was during a trip to the White Mountains for a wild edibles workshop that she first learned of the mushroom and its health benefits, when an instructor pointed them out during the talk. That was her original inspiration for creating her business, Chaga Grove (chagagrove.com), which offers chaga mushroom chunks and two types of extracts. The chunks can be used to make hot and cold chaga tea, which can then be used as a base for smoothies, or cooked with foods like pasta or oatmeal. The extracts can also be added to any drink or food you choose — there is an alcoholic extract with organic vodka, and an alcohol-free extract with vegetable glycerin as the base. Golen said the chaga mushroom, which has very subtle undertones of vanilla and caramel, offers several health benefits such as strengthening the immune system and fighting the common cold. It typically only grows in colder climates like in northern New Hampshire, which is why she and her husband William travel to the White Mountains a few times a month for an eight to 10-hour hike to harvest them. On a good day, she said, they will return with around 10 to 20 pounds of chaga mushrooms. Chaga Grove will be a featured vendor every other week at the Concord Farmers Market on Capitol Street on Saturdays, and at the Salem Farmers Market at Salem Marketplace (224 N. Broadway) on Sundays.

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because I put a lot of time and energy into making it. I have another full-time job, and if I don’t have time in the morning to make my chaga coffee, the extract is right there in a bottle on the counter. It’s like my medicine for the day.

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I personally love my chaga extract, — Matt Ingersoll Chaga lemonade Courtesy of Andrea Golen of Chaga Grove 3 cups cold chaga tea 2 fresh squeezed lemons 2 tablespoons of your choice of maple syrup, honey, agave, stevia or sugar

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Church (61 Main St., Hampstead). That event will feature homemade strawberry shortcake, plus baked goods, a plants table, raffles, children’s activities and games. Visit hampsteaducc. org or call 329-6985.

Local Baskit (10 Ferry St., Suite 120A, Concord) will host a strawberries and beer pairing event on Wednesday, June 5, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Attendees will get to pair chocolate-covered strawberries with beers from six different local craft breweries and vote on their favorite pairing.

Featured breweries include Henniker Brewing Co., Concord Craft Brewing Co., Branch and

Blade Brewing of Keene and others. Visit localbaskit.com or call 219-0882.

• Blueberry brews: The next split-a-batch brewing event at Incredibrew (112 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua) is happening on Wednesday, June 5, at 6 p.m., and will feature a blueberry wheat beer with mild hops, sourced from the Czech Republic. The cost to attend the brewing class is $30 for returning brewers who bring their own bottles, and $40 for new brewers.

Bottles will be provided to new brewers; no prior brewing experience is necessary. Visit incredibrew.com or call 891-2477.

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Those reviews do tend to write themselves, and you can almost always lay 1 to 1 odds that nothing will be new or innovative (Gary Numan, Pet Shop Boys and Wire are some of the rare exceptions). I won’t claim that this LP is an eye-opening departure for this UK dinosaur, but it does present hope that some of the 70-year-old arena-rockers have plenty of gas left in the tank.

Parsons is most notably responsible for the horrible dentist-office standard “Eye in the Sky,” and even in current-year, he continues to produce poppy fluff-prog for mass consumption (the new single “Miracle,” for starters, sung by new crony Jason Mraz, a dead ringer for John Waite).

But Parsons does love him some theater; he’s a magic hobbyist, like, he’s a member of The Magic Castle in Los Angeles, and to drive home the point, this album starts off with an orchestral version of Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (no, not some dumb metal version, he used the CMG Music Recording Orchestra of L.A.).

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Did I feel like an idiot? No, I’m way past that, having won a couple of awards and such, and besides, there’s always Lil Wayne’s Twitter feed if you can weed through all the pointless beefing and nonsense until you start seeing his string of 900 tweets about his upcoming albums. So, if you think Beyonce might be putting out an album, check Twitter, if your brain can withstand it, and meanwhile, may I present the last two members of Scottish band Golden Grrrls who could still stand the sight of each other well enough to form a two-girl band, called Sacred Paws, whose new album, Run Around The Sun, is coming to you post haste! They were into Tumblr, but now the drummer has an Instagram with 350 followers, but they still have no Wikipedia page, so we’ll see what this is about I suppose. Huh, the single “The Conversation” is awesome, a chillpunk thing that sounds like a cross between Cure, Joy Division and the Go Gos. I hope this band becomes very popular, which of course means it won’t.

• Now this guy’s interesting, if you like off-the-wall stuff, Sudanborn fusion producer and multi-instrumentalist Sinkane. He’s the singer and director of a supergroup called the Atomic Bomb Band, whose ranks include David Byrne of Talking Heads, Beastie Boy Money Mark, and the main dude from Hot Chip; their thing focuses on the music of enigmatic Nigerian funk-player William Onyeabor, who was active in the ’70s and ’80s. Anyway, this guy here dabbles in everything from krautrock to African to prog, but “Mad Alchemy,” the lead single off his new album, Dépaysé, is pure ’60s psychedelic-rawk, built around one of those endless Iron Butterfly-style guitar solos that just makes you want to sit in a field and think about why God didn’t make pinkie toes a little longer. There’s a pretty epic part toward the end.

• Canadian soundscaper Sarah Davachi likes to tinker with vintage analog synthesizers and acoustic instruments, and has been described as a drone artist, which her supporters crawl all over themselves to deny, but I’ll be the judge of that. She’s put out a ton of stuff since 2016, some on cassette (that’s right, Gen Xers, they’re baaaack, you cannot escape), and her new album, Pale Bloom, is on the way for May 31! OK, let’s go see if it’s drone, that’s all I care about at this point. Hmph, I wouldn’t say the song “Perfumes III” is drone, just a depressing, slow-layered soundtrack bit for some annoying indie film about a slow descent into madness. All set with this.

• J. Robbins was leader of DC indie-punkers Jawbox, which still might be a band if they can ever make up their minds. His first solo LP, Un-becoming, includes a jangle-punk tune called “Soldier On” that’s got cool grunge attitude I suppose. — Eric W. Saeger

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The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Crown, 383 pages) No one argues that Henri Skinner, a former war correspondent, is a hero in the truest sense of the word. With clarity that only comes from self-work, after years of being an absent father Henri has decided to return home and reach out to his 13-year-old son Sam, whom he hasn’t seen in years. On the way to reconnect with Sam, Henri helps save a drowning girl and is hit by a car immediately after. He goes into a long-term coma.

Not what he expected on his journey home.

Sam, even though his mother has always told him what a lousy father Henri is, feels compelled to visit his comatose father daily in the hospital — the man who hadn’t been there before and who still is not there as long as he resides on the “veg floor.”

The Book of Dreams, written by Nina George, who also wrote The Little Paris Bookshop, is in its truest essence a story about mortality, memories, relationships, and what makes us who we are. We are shown Henri’s dreams and thoughts. We have insight into Sam’s thinking and his ability to interpret information differently (he sees numbers, letters and emotions as colors). Different perspectives on the same situation: “If waking and sleeping and coma aren’t states but places, then my father is currently on a journey between those places. Or worlds. Or zones that get darker and darker, the closer they are to death.”

Of course, as if things weren’t messy enough, Henri’s ex-lover, Edwina, also visits the hospital trying to rekindle and express her eternal love to Henri even though she is currently in another relationship. Edwina and Sam create a relationship united in grief over what could have been for Henri and for themselves. And then there is Madelyn, a young coma patient who is also on the same hospital floor. It is a complex cast of characters, but it works.

Using hypnotic language, George weaves all these lives together. At times we are privy to dreams and subconscious impressions leaving us a in place that is not quite of this earth. In his coma Henri replays important moments in his life, but this time he takes a different path than the one he originally took. It’s a story about imagining do-overs and being able to know now what you didn’t know then.

Except that none of it really matters, because when you’re in a coma there are no do-overs. Your life is how you lived your life the first and only time around — just like all of us have done.

After reading this book, you will never be able to see or hear about a person in a coma again without thinking about this story. In The Book of Dreams we are taught about the different stages of coma and we also learn that you never know which stage a patient is in. Can you they hear you? Do your actions

reach through their deep sleep? Do they remember who they are? And perhaps most importantly, do they remember who you are?

“I learn to call Henri by his name, repeatedly, because a person’s name is the ‘longest fishing line,’ as Nurse Marion puts it, to reel them back from whichever depths they’re swimming in.”

Ultimately The Book of Dreams is a breathtakingly melancholy story about missed and lost chances, but it is also a story of hope. It’s a story about what really makes a family and how people can reach out and affect each other’s lives. You will want to read this book slowly; it’s that profound. You’ll want to reflect on each of the characters’ lives and the decisions they made and continue to make. I guarantee that you will recognize some of life’s missed chances in your own life. This book will make you reflect.

Bottom line: Should you read this book?

Yes. Feel the life regrets on a visceral level. Think about how decisions made can change a life’s trajectory. And then after you finish the book, recommend it to another who can then recommend it to yet another. I promise you, this book will generate thoughts and discussions on what life means and how actions, like them or not, define who we are.

As a final note on this review, I would suggest that you read the postscript by the author before you begin the book. In the postscript George talks about her experiences with the sudden death of her father.

It puts much of The Book of Dreams into context and gives the reader a better understanding of how the story came to be. No matter how old we are, the death of a parent forever throws us into a deep pool of what ifs.

A gorgeous, stunning, intelligent and impactful book. Highly recommended.

A — Wendy E. N. Thomas

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• A tragic novel: The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress St., Portsmouth) will host bestselling author Mary Beth Keane on Wednesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. as part of its Writers in the Loft Series. She will present her new novel Ask Again, Yes, which tells the story of a tragedy between two neighboring families that tests relationships and the power of forgiveness over four decades. “We’re delighted to welcome Mary Beth, a writer whose skill with language is matched by her generous insight into the human heart,” Brittany Wason, The Music Hall’s literary coordinator and the night’s moderator, said in a press release. Tickets cost $41 and include a hardcover copy of the book and one bar beverage. Visit themusichall.org or call 436-2400.

• Antique books: The Northern New England Bookfair takes place on Sunday, June 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Everett Arena (15 Loudon Road, Concord). You’ll find antiquarian books, prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts and ephemera. Visit apassion4books.com.

• Navigating middle school: Exeter author Lisa Bunker presents Zenobia July at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Tuesday, June 4, at 6 p.m. The young adult novel tells the story of Zenobia, a transgender computer hacker who tries to find out who has been posting hateful memes on her middle school’s website while also wrestling the challenges of being at a new school and living openly as a girl for the first time. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

Bunker will also be at Exeter Public Library (4 Chestnut St., Exeter) on Wednesday, June 19, at 4:30 p.m. Visit exeternh. gov/library.

• Outdoor adventures: Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St., Manchester) welcomes Nancy Ann Feren with her book Not Your Average Travelers on Wednesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. The book chronicles 40 years of Feren’s memorable adventures exploring National Parks with her husband. Call 836-6600 or visit bookerymht.com.

— Angie Sykeny Books Author Events • MARY BETH STEVENS Author presents Tippy Finds a Home. Sat., June 1, 11 a.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• LISA BUNKER Author presents Zenobia July. Tues., June 4, 6 p.m.

Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• NANCY ANN FEREN Author presents Not Your Average Travelers Wed., June 5, 7 p.m. Bookery, 844 Elm St., Manchester. Visit bookerymht.com.

• AMY MAKECHNIE Author presents The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair. Thurs., June 6, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• SUSAN CARLTON Author presents In the Neighborhood of True.

Thurs., June 6, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• TOMIE DEPAOLA Author and illustrator of more than 260 children’s books visits. Sat., June 8,

Poetry events • POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MEETING Headliners are Gloria Monaghan and Jeffrey Zygmont. Wed., June 19, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• SLAM FREE OR DIE Weekly poetry open mike and slam. Thursday, 8 p.m. Stark Brewing Co., 500 N. Commercial St., Manchester. $3.

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Book discussion groups • ANIME & MANGA CLUB A new club seeks members to join.

Will involve book discussions, anime viewings, and workshops.

No set date. Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson.

Free. Visit rodgerslibrary.org. Call 886-6030.

• BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP Second Thurs., 7 p.m. Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester. Visit manchester.lib.nh.us.

• BOOKENDS BOOK GROUP Monthly discussion group. First Sun., 4 to 5 p.m. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Visit mainstreetbookends.com.

• BROWN BAG BOOK CLUB Book discussion group. Last Tuesday, 12:15 p.m. Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St., Manchester.

Visit manchester.lib.nh.us.

• GIBSON’S BOOK CLUB Monthly book discussion group.

First Monday, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• MORNING BOOK GROUP Second Thursday, 11 a.m. to noon.

Candia Smith Public Library, 55 High St., Candia. Call 483-8245.

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• MORNING BOOK GROUP Monthly discussion. Fourth Wed., 10 a.m. to noon. Kimball Library, 5 Academy Ave., Atkinson. Visit kimballlibrary.com.

• NASHUA NOVEL READERS 11:30 a.m. Bookery, 844 Elm St., Monthly book discussion. Second Manchester. Visit bookerymht.com. Thursday, 7 p.m. Nashua Public • BOOK SIGNING & AUTHOR Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit TALK: “MOXIE” BY MER- nashualibrary.org.

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Booksmart (R)

the top of the list of these Disney live-action versions of old animated movies. Go for the Genie and you won’t be disappointed by the rest of it. B+ Rated PG for some action/peril, according to the MPAA. Directed by Guy Ritchie with a screenplay by John August and Guy Ritchie, Aladdin is two hours and eight minutes long and distributed by Walt Disney.

High school seniors spend their last night before graduation catching up on the partying they eschewed during the previous four years in Booksmart, a fun version of the “last gasp of high school” comedy.

Molly (Beanie Feldstein, who should probably always be referred to as “national treasure Beanie Feldstein”) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) have spent their high school years involved in academic pursuits and being the best of friends but otherwise not terribly social. Molly was fine with this; after all, it got her into Yale, far away from what she views as her intellectually inferior classmates. But then she learns that these goofballs who partied and didn’t appear to care about school are also going to Yale, Stanford or a six-figure salary at Google.

This information somewhat breaks Molly and, when she regains the ability to speak, she tells Amy that they are going to party on this last night before graduation. The girls can make their social mark and Amy can talk to Ryan (Victoria Ruesga), the girl she’s been crushing on from, mostly, afar.

Eventually, we learn that Molly also has a crush object: the charming and popular Nick (Mason Gooding), who just happens to be hosting a big party.

Along the way, the girls also have run-ins with Gigi (Billie Lourd), a high-strung maybe-rich girl, and her friend/unpaid personal assistant Jared (Skyler Gisondo), a try-hard who acts like he’s auditioning for an x-treme soda commercial. Lisa Kudrow and Will Forte also show up playing Amy’s parents and Jessica Williams plays a teacher. Director Olivia Wilde has assembled a lot of talent for her first feature-length film — and she makes great use of them.

Booksmart perfectly captures how awful everybody can be at this age. Everybody, to include our hero Molly — and even to some degree the quieter Amy — is a mass of fear, anxieties and personal humiliations that they hide with affectations and defensive meanness. They are awful to each other but also sweet, surprisingly kind and optimism-inspiring.

Though there are elements of “the last chance to tell X how you feel” in this onebig-night tale, the true love story at the center of Booksmart is the friendship between Molly and Amy and how it’s going to change as the girls enter this new stage of their lives apart. Their relationship keeps this winning, broad but, yes, smart comedy grounded even when it has moments of the heightened outrageousness. A Rated R for strong sexual content and language throughout, drug use and drinking — all involving teens. Directed by Olivia Wilde with a screenplay by Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman, Booksmart is an hour and 42 minutes long and distributed by United Artists.

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Brightburn (R)

A childless Kansas couple finds a baby in a spacecraft that crashlands on their farm in Brightburn.

Booksmart

Aladdin (PG)

The street thief, the princess he loves and, most of all, Genie return in Aladdin, a live-action remake of the 1992 Disney animated film.

Story-wise, the bones of this Aladdin is similar to that Aladdin: a petty thief, late-teen/young twentysomething Aladdin (Mena Massoud), meets the similarly aged Jasmine (Naomi Scott) roaming the city. Only later does he learn that the girl he runs from a peddler with (she gave bread to hungry children but didn’t have cash to pay for it) is actually the princess, who spends her days locked away in the castle meeting the goober-princes who are vying for her hand in marriage.

When he breaks into the palace to return a bracelet to her, Aladdin has a run-in with Jafar (Marwan Kenzari), the Sultan’s (Navid Negahban) advisor/evil wizard guy. Jafar wants to get a genie-containing lamp out of the Cave of Wonders but only a worthy candidate, a “diamond in the rough,” will be allowed to enter. He makes Aladdin go in for it but the cave collapses. Thus does Aladdin inadvertently meet Genie (Will Smith), who will grant him three wishes. For his first wish, Aladdin makes himself into Prince Ali, a more suitable candidate to marry the princess. But Jafar finds something suspicious about this new prince from a country he’s never heard of and Jasmine’s true goals for the future are less marriage-focused and more about convincing her father that she is the best candidate to inherit the role of sultan of Agrabah.

Jasmine even gets some extra plot time devoted to both her fitness for rule (unlike Jafar or the random princes, she cares about the well-being of the people) and her struggle to be heard. I support this character update and the general retconning of older Disney princesses. As presented now, the princesses have skills, interests beyond romance and adventure-ish natures — especially if you

expand the field to include Frozen’s Elsa and Anna, Wreck It Ralph’s Vanellope von Schweetz and such TV princesses as Sophia the First and Elena of Avalor. The only problem with this plot thread in this movie is that Jasmine’s struggle to be recognized as a legitimate future ruler feels like the fourth thing on the list of stuff this movie is trying to do and occasionally gets a little lost.

Number 1 on the list is Genie, who is the best, biggest, brightest element of the film and Smith is an excellent choice for the role. I forgot how great Smith can be at comedy and how solid the onetime Fresh Prince is at handling the musical element. Genie’s big numbers — “Friend Like Me” and “Prince Ali” — aren’t just the movie’s best songs but I would argue that they’re the best parts of the film overall. (And both have been stuck in my head since I saw this movie.) They are joyfully staged and, in this colorful and energetic movie (both in visuals and in the way the action plays out), they are especially bright and glittery.

Other nice things: the set and costume design are great. The pacing is solid for this just over two-hour movie. “A Whole New World,” a standout duet, is well performed and staged. The magic carpet is on par with Dr. Strange’s cape in terms of entertaining should-be-inanimate object characters.

Less exciting: While I liked the duet, the actual couple of Jasmine and Aladdin (and Jasmine and Aladdin separately) was only medium-interesting. They’re fine but they can’t quite stand up to Smith and Genie — the energy level of the movie drops when he’s not on screen.

Jafar is an even less interesting villain; it made me wonder if everything fun about him was actually related to Gilbert Gottfried and Iago and now that the parrot is more of a standard issue bird Jafar loses some of his oomph.

Aladdin takes its place for me toward

Like the Kents of Smallville, Kyle (David Denman) and Tori Breyer (Elizabeth Banks) of the town of Brightburn hide the spacecraft in their barn and “adopt” the baby. As he grows up, Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn) is a smart, quiet kid whom Tori calls sweet-natured. But at 12 he seems to be developing a defiant streak — and an interest in entrails. Kyle and Tori find interior anatomy sketches and photographs among the images of ladies in bikinis stuffed under his bed.

Kyle attempts to have “the talk” with Brandon, but doesn’t realize that when he clumsily attempts to explain Brandon’s new urges are OK that Brandon is increasingly under the sway of voices emanating from the spacecraft and that with those voices also come newfound powers, such as flight, strength and laser eyes.

What if Superman turned out to be evil? Specifically, this movie asks what if Superman were evil and the first four scenes of his origin story were spread out over 90 minutes? Brightburn, which is more horror than action with a nice shot of dark comedy, has a lot of interesting ideas and fun riffs on the familiar story.

But this movie feels like maybe the first three episodes of a TV series. Brightburn takes a while to get where we know it’s going and then stops right as the story revs up. The voices tell Brandon to “take the world,” a not unachievable goal for someone with his skillset but not inevitable yet either. The movie doesn’t have time to play with the idea of a nearly-invincible supervillain who still a young teenager, with a young teen’s emotions and understanding.

The idea of a dark superheroes cinematic universe could be fun; a hybrid of superhero and horror films is a solid premise. This movie (and any future movies) needs to do more than just set up the idea. C+ Rated R for horror violence/bloody images and language, according to the MPAA. Directed by David Yarovesky with a screenplay by Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, Brightburn is an hour and 31 minutes long and distributed by Sony Pictures.

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Films for change

Students tackle big issues at youth film fest

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

Seacoast-area students are making a difference through film at the Granite Youth Film Festival, happening Sunday, June 2, and Monday, June 3, at O’Neil Cinemas at Brickyard Square in Epping.

The seventh annual film fest is put on by the Granite Youth Alliance, a network of youth groups in eastern Rockingham County headed by the Greater Seacoast United Way. This year, there will be 11 films written, directed and produced by teams of middle and high school students.

Students were challenged to create short films, targeted at teens, parents of teens and people who work with teens, that provide information or advocate for change in regards to issues affecting their peers and communities.

Topics include cyberbullying, mental health, marijuana, addiction and recovery, social isolation, vaping, prescription drug misuse and more.

“Every year, the topics change,” said Rachel Prest, director of development for the Greater Seacoast United Way. “When the festival started, vaping and e-cigarettes was never a subject that came up, but now it’s a very popular one.

It’s interesting to get a sense of what teens nowadays are facing out there and what are the Granite Youth Film Festival When: Sunday, June 2, and Monday, June 3, at 5 p.m.

Where: O’Neil Cinemas at Brickyard Square, 24 Calef Highway, Epping Cost: $5 Visit: oneilcinemas.com for tickets and uwgs.org/films for more information about the films

biggest issues they see in their communities.”

Half of the films will be shown on Sunday, and the other half will be shown on Monday.

At the festival, the students will have a chance to walk the red carpet, take photos and participate in interviews after their films are shown.

“They’ll come down and take the microphone, and we ask them different things like how they came up with their topic and how they plan to continue spreading their message,” Prest said. “It’s a great opportunity for them to practice their public speaking skills, and for the public to hear from these inspiring youth who are doing so much to create change.”

Students could choose between four film formats: a 3- to 5-minute fictional narrative; a 3- to 5-minute documentary using authentic footage of events, interviews and other forms of research; a 1-minute short media message, an abbreviated fictional narrative or documentary with high impact; and a PSA, a short media message that is only 30 seconds long.

In late February, to receive funding for their films, the teams had to pitch their films to a panel of adult community members, subject matter experts and film experts. The pitches gave an overview of the film topic, storyboards, a production timeline and a proposed budget, as well as the students’ plans for the film outside of the festival.

“It’s our goal that they go on to share these films on social media and in schools to continue spreading the word about the issues and create a splash in their community,” Prest said.

Once the pitches were over, the panelists gave the teams feedback and informed them if funding for their film was approved. All of the teams that pitched this year received funding.

Caitlin Temple, a senior at Newmarket Junior-Senior High School, has been partic-

Granite Youth Film Festival. Courtesy photo.

ipating in the film festival since she was in seventh grade. This year, her final year, she is a team leader and the oldest and longest-standing student on the team. Her team’s film, Stop the Stigma, is a 5-minute documentary about the stigma surrounding addiction recovery.

“We’re asking for help all the time, whether it’s with homework assignments or athletic training, but when it comes to asking for help in recovery, there is a stigma,” she said. “[In the film] we’re looking at why there is a stigma and bringing attention to it, providing resources for people who might be struggling and showing people who know others who are struggling how they can help.”

Temple said the festival is an opportunity for students who are advocating for change to learn how to spread their message more effectively.

“There are so many media skills and things you don’t think about when you’re just trying to get your message out there,” she said.

“Doing it through film adds a whole new layer and takes a lot of thought.”

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MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY Main Branch, 405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550; West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 624-6560, manchester.lib.nh.us • Green Book (PG-13, 2018) Wed., June 5, 1 p.m. (main) • American Graffiti (PG, 1973) Wed., June 12, 1 p.m. (main) • Newsies (PG, 1992) Wed., June 19, 1 p.m. (main) THE MUSIC HALL Historic Theater, 28 Chestnut

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NITE Hometown girl

Alli Beaudry performs original music at Jupiter Hall

Local music news & events

By Michael Witthaus

By Michael Witthaus

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• Texas song: While traveling in San Miguel, Mexico, Peter More had a chance encounter with Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, who invited him to sit in at one of his shows there. Fagen produced More’s 2018 album Beautiful Despair and a new EP, Shoulder, with a title cut that’s a hummable beauty about finding permanence in life, and the challenges of making a connection. Thursday, May 30, 8 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. Tickets $10 at ticketfly.com – 21+.

• Let’s eat: The third annual Food Trucks For CASA event runs through the weekend, and in addition to a wide array of delicacies offers some great music. Party rockers Shark Martin start things off Friday, followed the next day by bluegrass stalwarts Bow Junction, funk and soul from Mica’s Groove Train and improvisational blues band DC Blue. Sunday, Queen City Soul closes it out. Starting Friday, May 31, 4 p.m., SNHU, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. See foodtrucksforcasa.com.

• Jam on: With a unique style it calls Big Sky Music, Way Up South is an inventive septet in the tradition of the Allman Brothers, Phish, and Tedeschi Trucks Band. A new album, Set Yourself Free, is due in August, with a preview song, “River of Soul,” just out. Next month they’re opening for Deadbeat and Mark Karan (Ratdog, The Other Ones) at a show in Somerville. Go Saturday, June 1, 9 p.m., Dolly Shakers Bar & Grill, 38 E. Hollis St., Nashua.

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• Hand carved: A benefit show has barbershop quartet music from Lakes Region Chordsmen and the Seacoast Men of Harmony to support a new Whispering Giant Statue in Opechee Park. One of a series created by artist Peter Toth, the 36-foot-tall likeness of an Abenaki chief was carved from red oak in 1985 and is nearly rotted away; funds raised go to recreating it. Go Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m., Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem St., Laconia. Admission by donation – see pitmansfreightroom.com.

If Alli Beaudry ever got a tattoo, it would say something positive about her hometown. The singer-songwriter loves Manchester and never misses a chance to boost its image, whether it’s performing at area venues, leading open-mic nights or hosting craft beer tours with her husband, Bill Seney.

When she’s not doing that, she’s supporting other efforts to bolster the city.

So it’s not surprising that her first fullband show since becoming a mother three years ago will offer a little bit of everything. She’ll play original songs — and a few well-chosen covers — at downtown art gallery Jupiter Hall on May 31, with admission including artisan food, gourmet coffee and a specially created IPA. “My life has pretty much revolved around collaboration, like minds and people that become a part of your community,” she said in a recent interview. “I think what Jupiter Hall represents is community, making art accessible to all ages, really supporting Manchester artists and showing that you can showcase and represent the things that you really are. It’s just a very special place.”

She and her husband worked with Candia Road Brewing Co. on the session IPA that will accompany tapas offerings from Madear’s, which catered the first Jupiter Hall Presents Live event in March, and coffee brewed by Café La Reine on Elm Street, where she’s hosted the monthly all original Java Jams for the past six years.

“Some of the people I’ve met there have become lifelong friends, bandmates, and totally changed my universe thanks to music,” she said. “I met Paul Nelson through Java Jams and he’s going to be featuring a few of his original tunes at the evening as well.”

Later, Nelson will sit in for some of Beaudry’s set.

Her band for the evening is the same one that made Beaudry’s last album, The Voice From Within — bassist Nick Phaneuf, Charlie Chronopoulos on guitar and drummer Max Weinstein. It will be their first time playing together since a Tupelo Music Hall release show in 2015.

“Nick and I have known each other since I was 15; he went to West High and I went to Central, but we were friends musically and now our children are super good friends — it’s just mind-boggling and gorgeous all at the same time,” she said.

“Charlie and I have been friends for probably a decade. So it’s literally like playing with your brothers when it comes to those two.”

She met Weinstein at Berklee College of Music, where she graduated and now teaches.

“I love his playing and his energy and it would feel incomplete if I didn’t have him,” Beaudry said. “I feel lucky I could get us all. We’re musicians who are gigging like crazy and have children and living in different areas, it’s legit at this point in life one of the most difficult and tricky things to do is to try and get the crew together, but, you know, the universe agreed with us.”

Along with selections from her last album, the set will include new material inspired by her new life as a mother to 3-year-old daughter Alton.

“One of the tunes I recorded in Nashville with my good friend Johnny Duke; I haven’t played it with the boys,” she said.

“It’s a really special song too, for Alton and motherhood.”

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An Evening With Alli Beaudry & Friends is an all-ages show, with special ticket prices for youngsters, something the ever ebullient performer is also excited about.

“Many of my students in the area and friends who have kids haven’t heard me in a full band setting, so I think that’s pretty special,” she said. “It’s gonna be a colorful, eclectic, unique, phenomenal, amazing night. Just get ready to have your ears be so happy and your bellies be so full with craft food and beer and coffee and taking the vibes in.”

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Meredith Giuseppe’s: Open Stage with Lou Portsmouth Porrazzo Dolphin Striker: Old School Earth Eagle Brewings: Jon Ross Milford Portsmouth Ri Ra: Oran Mor Pasta Loft: Rich & Bobby Cafe Nostimo: Freddy Dame Jr. Cisco Brewers: Tails ‘n Ales Tuesday, June 4 Nashua Clipper Tavern: Sharon Jones Concord Portsmouth Book & Bar: The Pig Tale: Soulful Sunday Hermanos: Dan Weiner Wolff Sisters w/ Charlie Marie Portsmouth Gaslight: Mark North Hampton Dover Lapointe/Brad Bosse/Paul War- Barley House Seacoast: Great Fury’s Publick House: Tim Bay Sailor nick/Pat Foley Band Theriault and Friends Press Room: Jim Dozet w/Max Sonny’s: Soggy Po’ Boys Northwood Grazier Umami: Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gilford The Goat: Nick Drouin Thirsty Moose: Under Cover Cecil Abels Patrick’s: Paul Luff hosts Band Peterborough Manchester Harlow’s: Mykal Rose / Sly & Derryfield: Jodee Frawlee Rochester Lilac City Grille: Red Sky Mary Robbie Fratello’s: Amanda Cote Murphy’s Taproom: Clint Portsmouth Salem Lapointe Beara Irish Brewing: Irish Music Shaskeen: James Keyes Sayde’s: Nurse Martin Portsmouth Gaslight: Jodee Strange Brew: David Rousseau Frawlee/Dapper Gents Seabrook Whiskey’s 20: Sammy Smoove & Press Room: Anglo-Celtic ses- DJ Gera Chop Shop: Doubleshot Boston sion + Jazz w/Arnie Krakowsky & Jeff Stout Weare Meredith Stark House Tavern: Ken Budka Ri Ra: Irish Sessions Giuseppe’s: Michael Bourgeois Rudi’s: Jazz Brunch The Goat: Rob Pagnano Sunday, June 2 Merrimack Ashland Homestead: Justin Cohn Common Man: Chris White Solo Rochester Lilac City Grille: Brunch Music Nashua Acoustic Fratello’s Italian Grille: Kim Salem Auburn Riley Copper Door: Craig Fahey/Brad Auburn Tavern: Todd Trusty Bosse Newmarket Bedford Stone Church: Rootin’ Tootin’ Copper Door: Nate Comp / Chad Seabrook Acoustic Hoot hosted by Eli Elkus Chop Shop: Jazz Jam Lamarsh North Hampton Monday, June 3 Concord Barley House Seacoast: TradiConcord tional Irish Session Cheers: Chris Lester Hermanos: Paul Bourgelais Hermanos: Michael Alberici Peterborough Penuche’s Ale House: Open w/ Hampton Harlow’s: Celtic Music Jam Steve Naylor Sea Ketch: Ray Zerkle/Triana Wilson-N Portsmouth Dover Cara: Irish Session w/ Frank Press Room: Hoot Night w/Bob Manchester Halperin + Larry Garland Jazz Landford Central Ale House: Jonny Friday Jam w/River City Jazz Sonny’s: Sonny’s Jazz Duo The Goat: Isaiah Bennett Derryfield: Jonny Friday Goffstown Wednesday, June 5 Village Trestle: Wan-tu Blues Fratello’s: Rob Wolfe or Phil Jacques Concord Band & Jam Murphy’s Taproom: Tom Hermanos: Joel Cage Paquette Hampton Dover CR’s: Jazz Brunch Meredith 603 Bar & Lounge: Rock the Mic Giuseppe’s: Lou Porrazzo w/ DJ Coach Hudson Cara: Dirty Double Crossers River’s Pub: Acoustic Jam Merrimack Fury’s Publick House: Ferret Able Ebenezer: Ale Room Music Brothers Manchester Homestead: Doug Thompson Derryfield: Online Dou Dublin Murphy’s Taproom: Triana WilNashua DelRossi’s Trattoria: Celtic and son/April Cushman Duo Shaskeen: Rap night, Industry Fratello’s Italian Grille: Clint Old Timey Jam Session Lapointe night Strange Brew: Jam Peterborough Harlow’s: Midnight Players

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Londonderry Coach Stop: Sean Coleman Harold Square: Houdana the Magician (Tableside Magic)

Merrimack Homestead: Tom Rosseau

Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Thank You Scientist w/ Bent Knee Clipper Tavern: Jon Hollywood Ri Ra: Erin’s Guild The Goat: Beneath The Sheets

Nashua Country Tavern: Charlie Chronopoulos Fratello’s Italian Grille: Phil Jacques

Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tim Theriault - Ladies Night Revolution Taproom: Hump Day Blues w/ Jeff Hayford

Manchester Derryfield: Chris Lester Fratello’s: Jeff Mrozek

NITE CONCERTS Capitol Center for the Performing Arts & Spotlight Cafe 44 S. Main St., Concord 225-1111, ccanh.com The Colonial Theatre 95 Main St., Keene 352-2033, thecolonial.org Dana Humanities Center 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester 641-7700, anselm.edu/dana The Flying Monkey 39 S. Main St., Plymouth Original Wailers Thursday, May 30, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Ghost of Paul Revere Thursday, May 30, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Lynyrd Skynyrd/Hank Williams, Jr. Friday, May 31, 8 p.m.

Bank of NH Pavilion Jay Leno (sold out) Friday, May 31, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Live on Mars (David Bowie tribute) Saturday, June 1, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Arlo Guthrie Saturday, June 1, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Brothers Osborne Sunday, June 2, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom O.A.R. w/ American Authors Wednesday, June 5, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Zac Brown Band/:Lukas Nelson (also 6/8) Friday, June 7, 8 p.m.

Bank of NH Pavilion Brian Wilson Saturday, June 8, 8 p.m. Cap Center Collective Soul/Gin Blossoms Saturday, June 8, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Trace Adkins/Clint Black Sunday, June 9, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Pavilion Robert Cray/Marc Cohn/Shem-

536-2551, flyingmonkeynh.com Franklin Opera House 316 Central St., Franklin 934-1901, franklinoperahouse.org The Music Hall 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth 436-2400, themusichall.org The Music Hall Loft 131 Congress St., Portsmouth 436-2400, themusichall.org Palace Theatre 80 Hanover St., Manchester 668-5588, palacetheatre.org

Rochester Opera House 31 Wakefield St., Rochester 335-1992, rochesteroperahouse.com SNHU Arena 555 Elm St., Manchester 644-5000, snhuarena.com Stockbridge Theatre Pinkerton Academy, Route 28, Derry 437-5210, stockbridgetheatre.com Tupelo Music Hall 10 A St., Derry 437-5100, tupelomusichall.com

ekia Copeland Sunday, June 9, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Popa Chubby Sunday, June 9, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Bush/Live Thursday, June 13, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Pavilion Slightly Stoopid/Matisyahu Friday, June 14, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Pavilion Allman Betts Band Friday, June 14, 8 p.m. Boarding House Park Al DiMeola Friday, June 14, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Luke Combs Saturday, June 15, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Pavilion Into The Mystic (Van Morrison Tribute) Saturday, June 15, 8 p.m.

Tupelo Derry Thunder From Down Under Tuesday, June 18, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Buddy Guy/Kenny Wayne Shepherd Thursday, June 20, 8 p.m.

Casino Ballroom Aaron Neville Thursday, June 20, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Roomful of Blues Friday, June 21, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Chicago Saturday, June 22, 8 p.m.

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p.m. Bank of NH Stage Boz Scaggs Saturday, June 22, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Geoff Tate’s Operation Mindcrime Saturday, June 22, 8 p.m.

Tupelo Derry Happy Together Tour Sunday, June 23, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Edgar Winter Sunday, June 23, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Michael McDonald Wednesday, June 26, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Josh Turner Thursday, June 27, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Rodrigo Amarante w/ Cornelia Murr Friday, June 28, 8 p.m.

Bank of NH Stage #MomSoHard Friday, June 28, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Jordie Lane Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Stage Badfish - Tribute to Sublime Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Dionne Warwick Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m. Tupelo Derry Terry Fator Sunday, June 30, 8 p.m. Casino Ballroom Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers Sunday, June 30, 8 p.m.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Persistence

Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, is nothing if not persistent. On April 22, Hernandez walked through the vehicle gate at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where she was stopped by a police officer. She explained that she had an interview in the complex, but the officer discovered she had no official business there and told her to leave. On May 1, Military Times reported, Hernandez returned, this time in a Lyft vehicle, again asking to see her recruiter. She was issued a written warning and directed to leave. On May 2, she was back (in an Uber this time), telling officers she returned because the recruiter’s “phone was off.” On that day, officers inadvertently kept her North Carolina ID card, so on May 3, she came back to pick it up, and also asked if she could speak to “Agent Penis.” Promising to leave by bus, Hernandez ultimately refused, telling an officer, “Do you really think I’m going to leave?” And that’s when they’d had enough. Hernandez was arrested and charged with trespassing.

The continuing crisis

An employee of Candyland Park in Longwood, Florida, was surprised on the evening of May 12 when he spotted a man shooting hoops without a stitch of clothing on. Police responded to the 911 call and found Jordon Anderson, 29, who said he was working on his game and “feels playing naked enhances his skill level,” according to The Smoking Gun. Officers asked Anderson to put his clothes back on, which he did, but he was still charged with indecent exposure.

Unconventional weapons

• We don’t know what brought 29-yearold Coffii Castellion of Largo, Florida, to the Mease Dunedin Hospital emergency room on May 13, but we know where she went afterward: the Pinellas County jail. According to The Smoking Gun, Castellion first caused a stir when she nicked seven bathing cloths and 10 pairs of hospital slippers, valued at a combined $10.79, earning her a felony charge because of her two previous theft convictions.

But her most grievous crime that evening was “taking a [used] feminine pad from underneath her pants” and throwing it at a health care provider, striking her in the stomach. For that, Castellion was charged with battery and held on $7,000 bond.

• Shonta Bolds, 36, was arrested on May 11 and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after she threw a coconut at a man who was sitting on the porch of the VIP Gentleman’s Club in Key West, Florida. The man had started filming Bolds, which upset her, leading her to yell at him and call him names. Fox News reported that Bolds admitted to throwing the coconut but noted “it did not hit him.” Police explained to Bolds that since she was outside of the club, she could have no expectation of privacy.

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Georgia Michelle Zowacki of West Newton Borough, Pennsylvania, celebrated her 55th birthday on May 15 by drinking vodka all day, according to her boyfriend, David Rae. They also went out to dinner to mark the occasion, but after they returned home, Zowacki became angry that there were no gifts or cards or a cake. “Next thing you know, I’m getting stabbed,” Rae told KDKA. He told Westmoreland County Police Zowacki came at him with a box cutter: “She went to my neck, she says, ‘I’m going to kill you.’” She ended up cutting his arm. Then she “destroyed” his bedroom, throwing his TV to the floor and breaking his bed. She was charged with aggravated assault and spent the rest of her birthday in jail.

Precocious

A preschool student at St. Cyprian Children’s Center in Philadelphia arrived at school on May 14 with a little something extra in his pocket: a baggie containing 22 purple plastic bags of crack cocaine. Fox29 News reported that a teacher’s aide noticed the bulge in the 5-year-old’s pocket and asked him to take the item out. He told her the person who had handed him the bag had asked him to hide it.

Philadelphia police are investigating.

Unclear on the concept

• Jesse Barner-Walton, 39, of Webster, Massachusetts, got a free ride from police after refusing to leave the Cadillac Ranch bar in Southington, Connecticut, on May 5.

But as he sat in the back seat, he repeatedly called 911, according to WTIC. Finally the officers pulled over to make him stop, but he

became uncooperative when officers tried to put handcuffs on. Barner-Walton was charged with misuse of the 911 system and interfering with an officer.

• Leonard Olsen, 70, was arrested in Lakeland, Florida, on May 10 for reckless driving after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy filmed him sitting on his sunroof while his Cadillac motored down the road at about 40 mph.

When Florida Highway Patrol troopers asked him about riding on his sunroof, Olsen said he “didn’t know about that” but later admitted that the car was on cruise control. “The car drives itself and has a gigantic computer in it,” he said, according to WTSP. “I thought it would be a nice way to praise God for a minute ... and that’s what I did.” After his arrest, Olsen told officers he would rather be taken to jail than back to his wife, who “treats [him] like a servant.”

What’s in a name?

Dog owners in China are advised to take great care when naming their pets, as was demonstrated by the case of a man from Anhui Province. The man, a dog breeder named Ban, was summoned by police on May 13 after posting on social media that he had two new dogs named Chengguan and Xieguan — titles given to law enforcement personnel dealing with petty crimes and traffic issues, the BBC reports. He was sentenced to 10 days in a detention center in Xiangyang.

One police officer said Ban had “caused great harm to the nation and the city’s urban management, in terms of their feelings.” For his part, Ban said he “didn’t know this was illegal.”

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