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Over the past year, I had an opportunity to work with NH Listens, the Carsey School for Public Service and dozens of agencies and bureaus across the state to test the potential for an intergenerational service year program in New Hampshire.

The planning group held meetings across the state with younger and older adults alike, and the findings, though interesting, were not surprising.

Young people were anxious for an opportunity to explore ways to offset the cost of higher education while also gaining critical experience. Older adults were excited to think of ways to mentor these younger folks while also having someone available to them so they can age in place more comfortably.

As election season ramps up, New Hampshire will be hearing from more and more candidates on their ideas and platforms. There are many issues that need to be a part of those discussions and we will all need to work through each of them given the massive size of this field. There is one policy, I believe, with the most potential for bipartisan support and it is a service year program.

There are many reasons why this program can offer our younger adults so many opportunities including tuition assistance, an opportunity to gain critical professional experience, and a chance to travel and experience new places. The data for a service year program is clear: • 63 percent of Americans support the establishment of a universal national service system • 1 in 4 young Americans would definitely serve • 75 percent of Americans support national service as a strategy to address unmet needs in our communities and empower the individuals serving Serve America Together is working on building a campaign to encourage candidates to discuss the importance of a national service system by challenging all 2020 presidential candidates to commit to make national service a priority in their first 100 days in office and publicly release their national service plans on social media. Their campaign is unique in both its leadership and who they’re recruiting to participate in a service year program — public, military, civilian and faith-based organizations.

As I learned earlier this year, our younger people are often thrust into the world of higher education without fully knowing what path they would like to pursue. Several high school students acknowledged this in our meetings with them while others noted they were foregoing college altogether. This was because they needed a chance to determine what they wanted, and needed to work to save up money to pay for their educations.

This model presents not only an alternative to the new standards in America but also an opportunity to serve our communities and our country.

Allyson Ryder serves in numerous capacities for statewide nonprofits. She can be reached at almaryder@outlook.com.

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NEWS & NOTES 4 A look at the state’s maple syrup production this year; debt relief for former ITT Tech students; PLUS News in Brief.

8 Q&A 9 QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX 10 SPORTS THIS WEEK 22 THE ARTS: 22 THEATER Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven, Curtain Call; listings for events around town.

23 ART Local Color; listings for events around town.

24 CLASSICAL Curtain Call; listings for events around town.

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

28 GARDENING GUY Henry Homeyer offers advice on your outdoors.

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

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Statehouse finals

The New Hampshire House and Senate will meet on June 27 to take final votes on the new two-year state budget for 2019-2021 and other bills reported out of the committee of conference last week.

If passed, the bills will head to the desk of Gov. Chris Sununu. At press time, Sununu had not definitively said whether he would sign or veto the budget, which would go into effect July 1. However, Senate Republican Leader Chuck Morse (R-Salem) said he expects a veto, according to a report in the Union Leader.

In the event of a veto, state agencies would continue at their current funding levels until political agreement is reached. Sununu has repeatedly said he would veto bills that “raise taxes” in his view, which includes revoking reductions in business taxes approved for 2019, which would bring in an additional $90 million, according to a story in the Union Leader.

In addition, Sununu has said he is not happy with the negative $93 million balance at the end of fiscal year 2021 in the conference budget. Democrats would account for that by carrying over surpluses earned over the past two years, but Sununu does not want to do that, the Union Leader story said.

One of the other bills would set the minimum wage at $10 per hour next year, and $12 per hour in 2022. (The current minimum wage is at the federal level of $7.25 an hour.) According to a press release from the bill’s prime sponsor, Senator Donna Soucy (D-Manchester), the base rate for tipped employees would be not less than 45 percent of the main minimum wage, and employers would have to make up

any shortfall to ensure employees receive at least the main minimum wage between tips and wages.

Another bill, HB 564, would require gun-free zones on school property, except for on-duty law enforcement or military officers.

The restriction would also not apply to people dropping off or picking up students as long as the firearm remains in the vehicle.

Merger

New England College and the New Hampshire Institute of Art will complete their merger on July 1 and move some programs to Manchester, according to reports in Manchester Ink Link and the Union Leader. New England College will rebrand the former NHIA as the Institute of Art and Design at New England College. NEC will move its Master of Arts in Public Policy program to Manchester along with its graduate program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. The college will also sell three of its buildings in Manchester: Concord Hall, used for offices; the former St. Anne Church, site of a hoped-for arts program for city kids that never happened; and Fuller Hall at Pine and Hanover streets, also known as the old Indian Head Bank building, according to the Union Leader’s story. The Institute’s library and photography studio there will be relocated to other buildings.

Juneteenth

Gov. Chris Sununu issued a proclamation and signed bill SB174, offically marking June 19 as “Juneteenth” commemorating the end of slavery after the Civil War. New Hampshire had been one of five states that had not offi-

cially acknowledged the day. The date of June 19 refers to when slaves in Galveston, Texas, were informed the war was over and they were free. Since then, the date has been observed in the black community as the end of slavery.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, but the war was still ongoing at that time. “It is an honor to be a part of sharing with and educating people about Juneteenth because this is not solely the history of African Americans but our shared American history,” said the bill’s prime sponsor, Sen. Melanie Levesque (D-Brookline), in a press release. The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire held a daylong celebration of African American culture for its annual celebration of Juneteenth on the previous Sunday, June 15, according to a story in Seacoast Online.

Electric cars

You can charge an electric car in several places in New Hampshire, and a coalition of state government and private companies wants you to know about it. The PR campaign, called Destination Electric, launched with three towns: Nashua, Dover and Portsmouth. In Nashua, three participating businesses are listed as being close to charging stations: The City Room Cafe, Graffiti Paintbar and Riverwalk Cafe and Music Bar. Also participating are the city’s Environment and Energy Committee and its Great American Downtown brand. Overall more than 40 businesses across the state are participating in the campaign to promote electric vehicles, according to a news release. Asked why larger cities such as Manchester

Politics This Week • Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Senator from Vermont (D) will be in New Hampshire on Saturday, June 29, with stops including the Nashua Pride Parade at 1:30 p.m., the opening of the Greater Nashua field office (77 Derry Road in Hudson) at 4:30 p.m. and the Hillsborough County Grassroots Awards Dinner at 5 p.m. at the Alpine Grove Banquet Facility in Hollis, according to a campaign press release. See berniesanders.com.

• Mike Pence: WMUR reported on June 21 that Vice President Mike Pence (R) is expected to come to the Granite State Tuesday, July 2. See

donaldjtrump.com for Trump campaign events.

• John Delaney: The former congressman from Maryland (D) plans several events over the next week, according to the state Democratic Party website. On Tuesday, July 2, at noon, Delaney is expected to attend a town hall event at Temple Beth Abraham in Nashua. In the evening he is scheduled to attend a meet-andgreet in at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, July 3, Delaney is scheduled to attend a pancake breakfast from 8 to 9 a.m. at Sunflowers Cafe & Catering in Jaffrey. At 5:30 p.m. that day

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he is expected to attend the Durham Climate Forum, at the Durham Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Delaney will celebrate Independence Day at barbecues in Brentwood at noon and in Manchester at 2:30 p.m.

See johndelaney.com.

Find out where to see the 2020 presidential primary candidates — as well as maybe-candidates, former candidates and people who want to talk about candidates — each week in this, our new Politics This Week listing. If you know of a candidate meet-up or other event, let us know at politics@hippopress.com.

State police are still investigating a deadly motorcycle crash in Randolph that killed seven people — including four from New Hampshire — and injured three others June 21. According to state officials, Volodoymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, of West Springfield, was driving west on Route 2 around 6:30 p.m. in a 2016 Dodge 2500 with an attached trailer, and collided with 10 motorcycles traveling east. Zhukovskyy was arrested on June 24 in Massachusetts on a fugitive from justice charge, and has also been charged with seven counts of negligent homicide, according to a news release from the state attorney general’s office.

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Bedford The Merrimack Planning Board delayed voting on an occupation permit for a gun repair and Amherst cleaning business, according to a story in the UnionMilford Leader. The board seeks more information about the plan, which the applicant said is a small business that does not involve discharging firearms on the property.

and Concord were not included, Jessica Wilcox, the grants manager for the state Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) — one of the partners — said that only two or three communities in each state were selected for the launch to ensure the campaign got off to a good start. “Nashua, Portsmouth and Dover fit the criteria for launch and we anticipate the program to grow and expand beyond the initial launch destinations,” she said. Destination Electric is part of a larger national initiative launched last year by the electric auto industry called “Drive Change. Drive

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SPREADING THE LOVE

The New Hampshire Food Bank is soliciting donations of peanut butter, almond butter and other nut butters until Aug. 2, according to an Associated Press report in the Concord Monitor. The public can make donations of nut butters at certain auto dealerships around the state. This food drive to feed hungry kids started last year, when it collected 4,495 pounds of peanut butter.

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Weather or not

Getting the sap to run requires precise weather conditions with chilly nights followed by warm, sunny days. The opening date this year in New Hampshire, according to the USDA report, was March 10, whereas it had been Feb. 24 for each of the previous two seasons. The closing date was April 7 or April 8 in earlier years; this year it was April 10. Add to that New Hampshire’s unique geography and you have some variation across the state, Kosco said.

“The northern part of the state obviously finishes last...and the southern part, the seacoast probably starts first. I think those dates [from the report] are pretty accurate. From what I heard our northern folks had a better season than the year before, and there are some pockets of the seacoast that did really well, but the majority of the state did average or below,” he said.

“The sugar content in the sap was extremely high, so we have less sap to process...it should have made people more profitable,” he said.

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While the syrup produced during 2019’s sugaring season in New Hampshire was less than in recent years, many local producers call the season about average.

New Hampshire maple producers bottled 148,000 gallons of syrup in 2019, the least in three years, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Last year’s production was 163,000 gallons.The yield per tap was 0.274 gallons, down a little from last year’s 0.291.

Nick Kosco, president of the New Hampshire Maple Producers, said it was an average season.

“The season was a little shorter...most producers in New Hampshire, the comment was average to slightly below. And I think the numbers match what I am hearing from the producers,” he said.

One example is Mapletree Farm in Concord, a producer with a little over 1,000 taps. “It was a good season,” said Dean Wilbur, one of the owners. “No complaints. I would say a good average yield.”

At Folsom’s Sugar House in Chester, owner Brian Folsom said 2019 was a better year than 2018.

“Our season was actually 20 percent, 30 percent better than the previous year,” he said.

“Duration about the same; we had better sugar content, better runs.”

In Hudson, Phil Perron of LMP Maple had his very first year producing maple syrup in New Hampshire after a lifetime of sugaring with his family in northern Vermont.

“It was a good season for me, as far as what I thought I would produce and what I ended up producing, it was good. Other people I talked to said it was about average,” Perron said.

Ten former New Hampshire students of the failed ITT Technical Institute will have their loan debt wiped out, after the state agreed to receive its share of a nationwide settlement against the company that made the loans.

The total New Hampshire settlement is more than $117,000, and will be used for debt relief for the 10 students involved, said Senior Assistant Attorney General Brandon Garod in a phone interview.

ITT Tech was a for-profit, nationwide college that filed for bankruptcy in 2016 amid investigations by state attorneys general, and following action by the U.S. Department of Education to restrict ITT Tech’s access to federal student aid.

Students attending ITT Tech who were not able to cover the tuition after federal student aid were offered financing called “temporary credit, “which had to be repaid before the student’s next academic year.

When the temporary credit became due, however, ITT Tech allegedly pressured and coerced students into accepting loans from

an outfit called Student CU Connect CUSO, LLC (CUSO), which for many students carried high interest rates, far above rates for federal loans, according to a press release from the state attorney general’s office. ITT Tech used pressure tactics that included threatening to expel students if they did not accept the loan terms.

“Neither ITT nor CUSO made students aware of what the true cost of repayment for the [temporary credit] would be until after the credit was converted to a loan,” the statement from the state attorney general’s office said. The consolidated case ultimately involved 43 states.

“Typically when companies are investigated and they are perpetrating some sort of … illegal action in multiple states, these things form.

Rather than every single state bringing their own charges against these people, states will team up,” Garod said.

CUSO has agreed as part of the settlement that it will forego collection of the outstanding loans and go out of business. The settlement is also contingent on federal court approval of a related settlement between the CUSO and the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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NEWS & NOTES Q&A

Helping children

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How and why did you create the New Road Project?

First of all, I’m a social worker, I have a master’s degree from UNH that I got in 2014. So I’ve always been passionate about social justice issues and have had awareness of the child protection system. And then it became personal for me two years ago when I had a young relative of mine become involved in the system. And then I’ve been trying to help my family try to navigate...making it through the system. …I’ve learned firsthand the kind of horror stories that you hear about child protection in New Hampshire, and I’m not somebody who can just realize that an injustice is happening to a lot of people and keep quiet about it, especially since I work for the Department of Health and Human Services … DCYF [Division for Children, Youth and Families] is a sister agency to my agency.

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Yes I am, not directly as an employee, because there is not quite an avenue for me to do that, but definitely as a private citizen.

Who else is working with you?

So I have a board of directors…I have some mental health professionals along with myself, and one of them is also a foster parent...Rep. Pat Long, who is [a] representative for Manchester, who is also on the DCYF Advisory Board, and the Children and Family Committee in the House, is on it. I have another woman that runs her own nonprofit for children with disabilities who is on it, and some medical professionals as well, in addition to other parents... .

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larger than DCYF, and when I say changing child protection I see DCYF as the hub...in the wheel, but it is certainly not the only thing that needs to be looked at and changed. …I think, first of all, that as everyone knows and talks about, the caseworker ratio is insane and nobody, regardless of their experience or how efficient they are, would be able to appropriately manage the amount of cases that caseworkers currently have, and I feel like they are set up to fail. But I also think education needs to be questioned. What many people don’t realize is that just because someone is a CPSW, which stands for “Child Protection Service Worker” and not “social worker,” it does not mean they are a social worker, and the majority of them are not. I don’t think the public realizes that. So for DCYF, in order to get a job as a caseworker, you have to have 36 credit hours, which basically amounts to a minor, in degrees that have really nothing to do with the work that is social work and child protection work … So, essentially, DCYF takes people with bachelor’s degrees off the streets and gives them a few months of in-service training...I do think that increasing the amount of education required of caseworkers, it’s good for families and it’s good for caseworkers.

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QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX

Manchester lawyers

Manchester was ranked as the No. 4 small city for lawyers, according to a study from AdvisorSmith, a business insurance advice company. The nationwide study broke out cities into small (population less than 150,000), medium (population 150,000 to 500,000) and large (population above 500,000) sizes to highlight different lifestyles that are available for lawyers. Manchester had 14 percent more jobs for lawyers on a per-capita basis than the national average, according to the study, and local lawyers earned an average annual salary of $125,050.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: In case you were wondering, the No. 1 city overall for lawyers was Washington, D.C.

Tourism up

The state’s business and economic affairs office, which handles tourism outreach, projects more than 3.6 million overnight visitors in New Hampshire this summer, with spending nearing $1.9 billion. That would be a 2.7-percent increase in visitation and spending year-over-year, according to the officie’s press release.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: In addition to New Hampshire’s strategic marketing and advertising initiatives, the release stated, lower gas prices and high consumer confidence are strong indicators of a successful summer season.

First in the nation, baby!

New Hampshire is the most patriotic state in the nation, so says WalletHub in its ranking of states based on factors including military enlistment, Peace Corps volunteers per capita, civics education requirement (where the state ranked No. 1), volunteer hours per resident and percent of adults who voted in the 2016 election (we come in fourth in that category nationwide, according to WalletHub).

New Hampshire ranks 26th in the nation for “average number of military enlistees per 1,000 adults”; seventh for Peace Corps volunteers per capita; 10th for veterans per 1,000 civilian adults and 14th for volunteer hours per resident, the report said.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

New hotel

Duprey Hospitality announced it will open the Tru by Hilton, a midscale hotel brand, in the spring of 2020 at 406 S. Main St. in Concord, according to a press release. The four-story hotel will have 85 rooms, the release said. The location will also feature the state’s sixth T-Bones restaurant, which is slated to open in the winter of 2020. The 275-seat restaurant will also have a 35-seat patio, the release said.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: The project could create 100 jobs at the Concord T-Bones, the release said.

Climate worries

Half of New Hampshire residents believe climate change is putting their communities at risk, according to the analysis of a university study by New Hampshire Public Radio. The report took a look at a recent report by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, which has been surveying Americans for years about their climate change beliefs. The latest poll by the program says just over half of people in Grafton, Sullivan and Cheshire counties believe global warming is harming their community. That’s on par with the national average.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: The poll also says more than half of New Hampshire residents also believe fossil fuel companies are responsible for impacts of global warming, and should pay to fix them, said the NHPR report.

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Not sure if it’s the four titles won this century or that the Nation knows that on the day of the famed A-Rod–Jason Varitek home plate brawl that sparked their run to end 86 years of frustration they were the same eight games out they were as I wrote this. But something has tamed the beast. Regardless, if they don’t want to wind up like those Celtics, they have their work cut out if they’re to turn it around as they did in 2004. Conveniently, they can do something about it this weekend when they meet the first-place Yankees during their ridiculous two-game set in London.

So, let’s see where the Sox stand as they get ready to play across the pond.

Speaking of ridiculous: How about the lamebrained idea put forth by Pete Abraham on Monday to blow things up by selling off the pieces to restock the farm system? He says do it if they remain in the vicinity of eight games behind the Yankees as the trade deadline arrives, because winning the wild card isn’t worth it. That somehow makes more sense than fortifying the bullpen of a still together bunch that was/is capable of winning 108 games just 80 games ago.

Apparently, the nine prospects given up to get Chris Sale, Craig Kimbrell and Drew Pomeranz were a big blow to the team’s development even though exactly zero of them would get any playing time if they were on the roster today.

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are for. Keep the best ones like Rafael Devers, and over-hype the rest to enhance their trade value. Like Yoan Moncada, who after being traded for Sale in 2016 is finally having a decent season in Year 4 with Chicago. The most ridiculous was suggesting trades of Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez if they reject extension offers so they can get something back.

The nicest thing I can say about that column is it’s the single dumbest thing I’ve ever read in the Boston Globe, a paper that once employed Ron Borges and has had Dan Shaughnessy on staff for 30 years, so that’s saying something. Defeatist, quitter, loser also come to mind. Good thing he wasn’t England’s prime minister when British troops were trapped on the beach at Dunkirk instead of Winston Churchill.

Not to mention GM of the Celtics after their rough week.

The biggest difference between in 2018 and 2019? Last year the Sox owned teams at Fenway when they were 33 games over .500 at 57-24. This year they’re just playing .500 ball there with 18 wins and 18 losses.

Xander Bogaerts gets mid-year MVP. He’s been very solid defensively, while hitting .299 and leading the majors in runs scored with 59. He’s also already had 46 walks compared to last year’s paltry 55. The power numbers project to 50 doubles, 30 homers and 100 runs batted in. Nice numbers for a shortstop.

Guess I’ll put my prediction Devers would be a first baseman in 2020 on ice. He’s really turned around his fielding at third after a rough start. Combined with hitting .309 with 12 homers and 48 RBI he’s MVP runner-up.

Biggest disappointment is Mookie. For a second time he’s weirdly following up a primo season with a .260 average (12 homers and 35 RBI) clunker. One improvement, his 59 walks have him on pace for a career high 120. Not sure if it’s better plate discipline or they’re giving him less to hit.

Who had Sale at 3-7 with 3.59 ERA? Injuries have played a role, as did Cora’s

knucklehead move to not have the starters go till the end of spring training to save their arms. Though given his well-documented second-half issues it was understandable in Sale’s case.

First-half team stat: 12 guys who’ve pitched out of the bullpen incredibly are over the John Wasdin 5.00 ERA line! Though in full disclosure, Eduardo Nunez racked up a 9.00 in his one “we surrender” inning in May. The two lowest bullpen ERAs go to Ryan Brasier and Matt Barnes at 3.45 and 3.82. Way too high for key guys.

Earth to Dave Dombrowski: What in the name of Bob Stanley are you doing? Those numbers say the season is slipping away and you’ve got to add not one but two bullpen arms who can get people out. And it would be preferable if at least one were signed past the end of the year.

Though after deals for Carson Palmer and Tyler Thornburg admittedly Dumbo’s trading record for reliefers isn’t exactly stellar. In fact, with a plus-7.00 ERA during his current AAA rehab assignment and with work in Boston to date, Thornburg is the Allan Craig of relief pitching. A lot of money spent for a total on-field disaster. And that doesn’t even take into account the cost to get him was Travis Shaw.

Incidentally, if you want to hang DD out to dry for letting Joe Kelly walk after his stellar postseason, don’t. In fact be happy the price tag was too high. He’s his inconsistent self in L.A., where the ERA is 6.97 with 30 hits allowed, 13 walks and 31 K’s in just 25.1 innings.

Finally, the first half’s Yogi Berra-esqe moment was Alex Cora explaining why he intentionally walked pinch hitter Rowdy Tellez in the 10th inning on Friday to put a second Blue Jay aboard with red hot Eric Sogard coming up, “Well, he has four hits, it’s hard to get five.”

Not sure which side the stat geeks come down on with that decision.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

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SPORTS DAVE LONG’S PEOPLE, PLACES & OTHER STUFF

Hughes news at NHL draft The Big Story - We Are Family Award: With Jack Hughes going first overall in the NHL draft to the New York Rangers, not one but two ex-New Hampshire hockey players had a hand in it. The family spent three years in town when dad Jim Hughes was first an assistant and later head coach of the Manchester Monarchs in the early days. Mom Ellen Weinberg-Hughes was a Hall of Fame goalie at UNH and for USA hockey. Not bad for someone hailing from Dallas, Texas. That might make Jack the afterthought here, except for him being the first (semi) local to go first overall in any professional draft ever. Older brother Quinn was also Vancouver’s 2018 firstround pick, while younger brother Luke is headed to play for Michigan in the fall.

Sports 101: Name the five players who played in the major leagues in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Hint: Two played for the Red Sox during their careers and one pitched a no-hitter on this day in 1980.

Hot Ticket: It’s the CHaD EastWest NH All-Star Football game at 6 p.m. Saturday at UNH. Proceeds benefit Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth.

F-Cats at Mid-Year: After a stellar 2018 season at Delta Dental Stadium things have not gone swimmingly for your New Hampshire Fisher Cats to this point in 2019. In the wake of all their key players

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3 – hits in 14 at-bats for ex-Fisher Cats star Vlad Guerrero Jr. in his first visit to Fenway over the weekend to leave his batting at .245.

4 – goals by Bedford’s Hannah McCarthy to go along with two assists in leading New Hampshire

from last year’s Eastern League champions moving up to AAA (at least) they found themselves nine games behind the East Division-leading Trenton Thunder as the EL hit the mid-way point last week.

Community Help Award: Help the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester make a difference. They are currently in contention to win a $10,000 IMPACT grant from the Red Sox Foundation. So they need your vote. You can do that today at www.redsox.com/IMPACT. Sports 101 Answer: The first three four-decade players between the 1960s and 1990s are Yankees/Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey and Red Sox Carlton Fisk and Bill Buckner, while the no-hitter clue was a back door clue to our fourth member, who else, Nolan Ryan. Though none of his seven no-nos came on this day in 1980, as fifth member Jerry Reuss’ did against the Giants.

On This Day – June 27: 1956 – After blowing a lead to make the Soup Nazi say “no food for you,” the Orioles end up 12-11 losers to Cleveland in 11 innings after leading 9-1. 1988 – Scared stiff light heavyweight Michael Spinks is KO’ed 91 seconds into the fight as Iron Mike Tyson retains his heavyweight crown. 1993 – Mets pitcher Anthony Young loses for an all-time record 24th straight time.

over Vermont 23-8 in the Lions Byrne Twin State Lacrosse game Saturday.

82 – age in human years of the pitching coach hired by the dysfunctional New York Mets to replace Dave Eiland, where the last time we heard from Phil (the Vulture) Reagan was his 14-1 with a 1.62 ERA out

of the bullpen 1966 season for the NL pennant-winning L.A. Dodgers.

212 – three-day score carded by Nicholas Pandelena of Atkinson to be the low New Hampshire finisher at the New Hampshire Open event held at Brentwood North and Keene CC last week.

Sports Glossary Soup Nazi: “No soup for you”-spouting, overly temperamental soup stand chef/server on Seinfeld who banned Elaine Benis from his stand for “one year!” for violating the ordering protocol, a short while after yanking back George Castanza’s order with a resounding “No food for you!” after George meekly asked for the bread he was supposed to receive.

Allan Craig in Boston: In two major-league seasons after his acquisition from St. Louis he hit .128 and .152 with two homers and five RBI before being banished to AAA for two more years.

Tyler Thornburg in Boston: Acquired from Milwaukee in 2017 for four players, most notably Travis Shaw and minor-league shortstop Marcus Dubon. Missed the first year and a half due to surgery. In 41 games since, in 42.2 innings he’s given up 49 hits and 10 homers while walking 25 with a 6.54 ERA. Marcus Dubon: Now hitting .303 for AAA San Antonio in AAA after hitting .340 in AA in 2018.

Travis Shaw in Milwaukee: In his first two seasons with the Brewers he had back-to-back 30 (32 and 31) home run seasons while knocking in 101 and 80 runs. Though with just five homers and 12 RBI in 200 at-bats when the batting average is – yikes – just .165, 2019 is not proving to be very good. Although, even if you go by the horrid 2019 numbers alone, the Sox still lost the Thornburgh deal.

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Every book must come to an end, but when it’s a book that you’ve fallen in love with, the post-read blues can hit hard. While it may feel like you’ll never find another book to fill the void, try to keep an open mind.

In this year’s Hippo summer reading guide, we asked local library staff and indie booksellers to recommend books published since June 2018 that they believe are the perfect follow-up books to some of their older favorites. They came up with nearly 50 titles, from a futuristic retelling of King Arthur in space to a self-help book about how to declutter your life and everything in between. And check out the list of upcoming literary events where you can discover new HIPPO | JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 2019 | PAGE 12

books and meet the authors, and if you’re looking for the perfect outdoor reading spot, we’ve got some suggestions for that, too.

Fiction — Contemporary

If you liked A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2010) try The Overstory by Richard Powers.

Published: April 2019 Plot: Nine Americans with diverse backgrounds come together to address the destruction of forests.

Recommended by: Tom Holbrook, manager at RiverRun Bookstore. “A nuanced look at the role of trees in our life and our history. It sounds dry, but is anything but.”

If you liked An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (2018), try On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.

Published: June 2019 Plot: The narrator, Little Dog, now in his late 20s, crafts a letter to his illiterate Vietnamese refugee mother detailing a family history rooted in trauma, healing and forgiveness.

Recommended by: Kelso McNaught, bookseller at Gibson’s Bookstore. “The prose is beautifully written. The characters are unforgettable, and every page packs a little punch to your gut. Heartbreaking and tender, this is one novel that should be on every literary awards shortlist next year.”

If you liked Modern Lovers by Emma Straub (2016), try Normal People

by Sally Rooney.

Published: April 2019 Plot: A coming-ofage story that follows the relationship between two college students in Dublin.

Recommended by: Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson’s Bookstore. “An entertaining psychological novel.”

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by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013), try Patsy

by Nicole Dennis-Benn.

Published: June 2019 Plot: The story of a woman who leaves her young

daughter behind in Jamaica to live as an undocumented immigrant in America, and of the daughter’s coming-of-age in Jamaica without a mother.

Recommended by: Emily Weiss, Head of Reference Services at Bedford Public Library. “You’ll be compelled to follow [the characters] through their linked journeys, and you’ll keep thinking about them after you’ve turned the final page.”

If you liked Testimony

by Anita Shreve (2008), try All We Ever Wanted

by Emily Giffin.

Published: June 2018 Plot: One photograph taken at a party has a ripple effect, changing the lives of many characters, and forcing them to confront their values.

Recommended by: Amy Lapointe, Library Director at Amherst Town Library. “You will love how the story unfolds from the perspective of three different characters.”

Fiction — Fantasy

If you liked A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab (2015), The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (2017) and Grimm’s Fairy Tales, try Spinning Silver

by Naomi Novik.

Published: July 2018 Plot: A moneylender’s daughter from a poor and starving family discovers she has the power to transform silver into gold.

Recommended by: Susan Harmon, librarian at Manchester City Library, and Ryan Clark, bookseller at Gibson’s Bookstore. “This is a twist on the Rumpelstiltskin tale with vicious fairies and delectable magic and descriptions that will send shivers down your spine,” Clark said. “Beautifully written with a strong cast of characters and an intricately woven storyline,” Harmon added.

If you like Circe by Madeline Miller (2018), try Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey.

Published: June 2019 Plot: Hardboiled detective Ivy Gramble is tasked to investigate a murder within the halls of Osthorne Academy for Young Mages, where her estranged magical twin sister works as a teacher.

Recommended by: Kelso McNaught, bookseller at Gibson’s Bookstore. “It’s everything you wanted from the Harry Potter series, except this time, the rambunctious magical students drink actual beer, and instead of house elves, there’s a ton of hazing.”

Fiction — Historical

If you liked Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty (2016), try Summer of ’69

by Elin Hilderbrand.

Published: June 2019 Plot: A family goes through changes on Nantucket Island during the tumultuous summer of 1969.

Recommended by: Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson’s Bookstore. “Sometimes you want your summer reading to be simply light and enjoyable, but you also want it to be of good literary quality, well written. Elin Hilderbrand hits both of those marks [with] Summer of ’69.”

If you liked Atonement

by Ian McEwan (2001) or Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017), try The Guest Book

by Sarah Blake.

Published: May 2019 Plot: A privileged American family copes with a tragedy in this intergenerational tale of love, money, betrayal and loss that starts in 1935.

Recommended by: Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson’s Bookstore. “Sometimes you know from the first page that you’re in the hands of an extremely talented writer, and you just can’t wait to see where she takes you. This is one of those times.”

If you liked The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (2018), try Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

Published: August 2018 Plot: In 1969 North Carolina, a popular young man is found dead. The locals suspect the infamous “Marsh Girl,” a recluse who lives in the town’s secluded marshes.

Recommended by: Nicole Schulze, Adult Services and Outreach Coordinator at Concord Public Library. “I love this book for the precise and beautiful descriptions of the marsh environment where [“Marsh Girl”] struggles with a particularly unique and lonely coming of age after being abandoned by her entire family.”

If you liked The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott (2012), try The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White.

Published: September 2018 Plot: In contemporary times, a historian struggling to find an idea for her next book stumbles on a trunk that once belonged to her grandfather who died aboard the Lusitania. Alternating chapters tell the story of two women aboard the Lusitania, each facing personal struggles.

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If you liked The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict (2016), try The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor.

Published: October 2018 Plot: Set in 1800s United Kingdom Farne Islands, this novel is based on true events in the life of Grace Darling, a courageous lighthouse savior, as well as another rescuer’s parallel story 100 years later.

Recommended by: Heidi Deacon, Director at Smyth Public Library. “This page-turning tale reveals two heroines overcoming great trials with fearless strength in the midst of a male-dominated society that is encouraging to behold and inspiring for young and old to replicate in our time these centuries later.”

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Published: August 2019 Plot: Set in Quebec, it follows a detective who helps a man looking for his lost daughter while flood waters rise across the province.

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by Lionel Shriver (2003), Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012) and The Omen by David

Seltzer (1976), try Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage.

Published: July 2018 Plot: A chronically ill woman fights to protect her family from her psychopathic young daughter’s manipulative schemes.

Recommended by: Rebecca Berezin, MLIS Assistant Librarian at Rodgers Memorial Library. “Baby Teeth is unnerving and impossible to put down. I loved it because of how dark and twisty the plot was and [for] the use of multiple narrators. It will keep you up all night.”

If you liked American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991) and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (2018), try My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

Published: November 2018 Plot: Korede’s sister has a habit of killing her boyfriends, and Korede is forced to make a difficult decision when a handsome doctor asks her for her sister’s number.

Recommended by: Rebecca Berezin, MLIS Assistant Librarian at Rodgers Memorial Library. “I recommend this book for readers who like fast-paced, darkly comic humor. This book made me cringe, laugh and scream, ‘Girl, why would you do that?’”

If you liked Still Life by Louise Penny (2005) try Unto Us A Son is Given by Donna Leon.

Published: March 2019 Plot: Detective Guido Brunetti finds more mystery in Venice when his father-in-law asks him to investigate a wealthy friend who wishes to adopt a much younger man as his son.

Recommended by: Robbin Baily, reference librarian at Concord Public Library.

“This mystery has a wonderful sense of place. You feel like you are there, having a glass of white wine in a little bar in Venice.”

Fiction — Romance

If you liked Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (2012), try Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes.

Published: June 2019 Plot: A widow lost in grief and guilt rents her house out to a baseball player with whom she shares an instant connection.

Recommended by: Stef Schmidt, manager at Water Street Bookstore. “This book is sweet, romantic and hysterically funny.

Just like with Bernadette, I found myself laughing out loud and wondering what the characters were doing after the book ended.”

If you liked The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion (2013), try The Unhoneymooners, by Christina Lauren.

Published: May 2019 Plot: After her twin sister falls ill on her wedding day, a woman finds herself on a free “honeymoon” to Maui with one of her archenemies, but during the trip their feelings for each other change.

Recommended by: Sarah St. Martin, Head of Technical Services at Manchester City Library. “This is a romantic comedy, filled with laughs during awkward scenes that transform into heartwarming prospects. … I loved this light read, as the story grabbed me from the beginning and kept my hopes up throughout.”

If you liked My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella (2017), try The Accidental Beauty Queen

by Teri Wilson.

Published: December 2018 Plot: When a beauty pageant contestant has a face-altering allergic reaction on the eve of a qualification

round, she persuades her no-frills-librarian twin sister to take her place.

Recommended by: Amy Lapointe, Library Director at Amherst Town Library.

“This fun romantic comedy is a perfect beach read.”

If you liked The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (2013), try The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang.

Published: June 2018 Plot: An autistc woman will try anything to overcome her fear of intimacy.

Recommended by: Alexa Moore, Circulation and Reader Services Librarian at Amherst Town Library. “While there is explicit content, this heartwarming and humorous romance will have you rooting for the main character, Stella, as she realizes her own strengths.”

Fiction — Science

If you liked Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (2016), try The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.

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Recommended by: Angela Sylvia, library technician, and Patricia Kline-Millard, reference librarian, both of Bedford Public Library.

“The novel is a fascinating and well-researched look at the science of the time as well as our society’s sometimes myopic understanding of gender and race,” Kline-Millard said. “The plot is fascinating on its own, but what’s really captivating is the character of Elma York, an anxious but determined woman who aches to do the right thing, overcome her mistakes and flaws and achieve her dream of seeing the stars from space,” Sylvia added.

If you liked Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014 ), try Severance by Ling Ma. Published: August 2018 Plot: After a plague of apocalyptic proportions sweeps across New York, a woman photographs and blogs about the abandoned city while struggling to survive.

Recommended by: Tammy Gross, library assistant at Goffstown Public Library. “This book isn’t just about an apocalyptic disaster; it’s about memory, relationships, an immigrant experience and how people deal with catastrophes.”

Nonfiction — Memoir

If you liked Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (2013), try Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey.

Published: March 2019 Plot: Profiles of more than 150 women writers, painters, filmmakers and other kinds of artists, focusing on their daily obstacles and rituals.

Recommended by: Caitlin Loving, Head of Circulation at Bedford Public Library.

“I found it difficult to put down. It is full of inspiration and satisfies that voyeuristic inclination to learn how other people spend their days.”

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If you liked Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012), try She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild by Gail Straub.

Published: March 2019 Plot: Stories of 40 diverse women and their journeys in nature.

Recommended by: Sarah St. Martin,

Head of Technical Services at Manchester City Library. “I loved the combination of stunning photographs of people and landscapes with short essays on travel, expanding your comfort zone and self-discovery. If you’re looking for inspiration to get outdoors or travel, this compilation by a New Hampshire author will get you there.”

If you like the television shows Parks and Recreation (NBC, 2009 - 2015) and Will and Grace (NBC, 1998 - present), try The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman.

Published: October 2018 Plot: The epic romance story of actors Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman.

Recommended by: Alexa Moore, Circulation and Reader Services Librarian at Amherst Town Library. “This book is surprisingly funny and will make you fall in love with these actors while also showing you their personal and professional struggles.”

Nonfiction — Selected topics

If you liked The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

by Denise Kiernan (2013), try Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien.

Published: August 2018 Plot: The true story of a group of five female pilots and friends who fought for their place in the male-dominated sport of airplane racing during the 1920s and 1930s.

Recommended by: Sarah St. Martin, Head of Technical Services at Manchester City Library. “Even though there were a lot of characters, this New Hampshire author did an excellent job telling their personal stories while interweaving the whole flying scene into one captivating narrative.”

If you liked A People’s History of the United States

by Howard Zinn (2005) try These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lapore.

Published: September 2018 Plot: A look at the intertwined histories of American politics, law, journalism and technology and how they have given rise to a divided nation.

Recommended by: Tom Holbrook, manager at RiverRun Bookstore. “You’ll be blown away by Lapore’s amazing retelling of American political history, which focuses relentlessly on how our inability to deal with race and inequality has hampered our progress as a country, right from the very beginning.”

Nonfiction — Self help

If you liked The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo (2011), try Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin.

Published: March 2019 Plot: More than 100 ideas and tips for creating order and organization to live a happier, healthier and more productive life.

Recommended by: Caitlin Loving, Head of Circulation at Bedford Public Library. “This is a fast read with lots of helpful tips.”

If you like Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster (2013), try Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster.

Published: April 2019 Plot: A look at research data regarding early parenting decisions reveals some surprising facts.

Recommended by: Caitlin Loving,

Head of Circulation at Bedford Public Library. “Oster also shares several funny anecdotes from her own parenthood journey and the best parenting advice she’s ever gotten from her pediatrician.”

Young Adult

If you liked The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017), try On the Come Up by Angie Thomas.

Published: February 2019 Plot: Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time, but her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons.

Recommended by: Rebecca Berezin, MLIS Assistant Librarian at Rodgers Memorial Library. “I actually enjoyed this book much more than [Angie Thomas’] debut The Hate U Give. It had an engaging plot, realistic characters, and I liked Bri… . She had so much fire in her, but she has a lot to learn.”

If you liked Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011), try Wildcard by Marie Lu. Published: September 2018 Plot: Teenage hacker Emika Chen tries to find her place in a world integrated with technology of the future.

Recommended by: Alexa Moore, Circulation and Reader Services Librarian at Amherst Town Library. “This fun and quick read will have you questioning the role of technology and the importance of gaming in today’s culture.”

the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

Recommended by: Ryan Clark, bookseller at Gibson’s Bookstore.

“This story is adventurous, exciting, heartwarming, romantic, funny and also at times very bittersweet and sad. It’s very well-written and a lot of fun to read.”

If you liked Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda

by Brigida Ruri (2015), try Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by L.C. Rosen.

Published: October 2018 Plot: An out-and-proud gay kid who runs an advice column has to make a diffcult decision after creepy notes from a stalker start appearing in his locker.

Recommended by: Alice Ahn, bookseller at Water Street Bookstore. “Jack doesn’t just connect with the reader through his identity, but through the honest-to-god great advice he gives to the teens who need his help figuring things out.”

If you liked Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011), try An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.

Published: September 2018 Plot: A college student makes a viral video that leads to humanity’s first contact with aliens.

Recommended by: Ryan Clark, bookseller at Gibson’s Bookstore. “My favorite book of 2018. … An exciting read with touches of humor, sweetness, frustration and a ton of adventure.”

Children’s — Middle grade

If you liked The Once and Future King

by T.H. White (1958), try Once & Future

by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy.

Published: March 2019 Plot: A futuristic retelling of King Arthur set in space with characters from all over

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Discover more new books, meet authors from Madbury Road, Durham) on Tuesday, July 16, New Hampshire and beyond and get your book at 6:30 p.m. Visit durhampubliclibrary.org. signed at these upcoming literary events.

• Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St., Manchester) welcomes Igor Volsky, author of Guns • Isa Leshko presents Allowed to Grow Down, on Wednesday, July 17, at 6 p.m. Visit Old at Water Street Bookstore (125 Water St., bookerymht.com. Volsky will also be at GibExeter) on Thursday, June 27, at 7 p.m. Visit son’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on waterstreetbooks.com.

Tuesday, July 16, at 6 p.m. Visit gibsonsbook• Jay Philbrick visits Gibson’s Bookstore store.com.

(45 S. Main St., Concord) on Friday, June 28, • The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress at 6 p.m. to present his book The Mount Wash- St., Portsmouth) will host Liza Wieland on ington Cog Railway, White Mountains, New Wednesday, July 17, at 7 p.m., as part of its Hampshire. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

Writers in the Loft Series. She will present her • Ricky Baruch and Deb Habib present book Paris, 7 A.M. Tickets cost $41 and include Making Love While Farming at the Toadstool a copy of the book. Visit themusichall.org.

Bookshop (12 Depot Square, Peterborough) on • Spencer Quinn visits Gibson’s Bookstore Saturday, June 29, at 11 a.m. Visit toadbooks. (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Thursday, July 18, com. at 6 p.m., to present his book Heart of Barkness.

• Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St., Man- Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. chester) welcomes Brian Belanger, Derrick • Luis Tiant and Saul Wisnia present Son of Belanger Havana: A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the and Will Murray, contributing writers for Big Leagues and Back at Gibson’s Bookstore The Irregular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Tuesday, July 23, Anthology, on Saturday, June 29, at 7 p.m. Visit at 6 p.m. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. bookerymht.com.

• Bethanee R. Syversen presents Mus• Barnes & Noble (125 S. Broadway, Salem) tard Seed Faith: A Journey through Infertility, will have Chris Vasiliadis, author of Ignition: Miscarriages, Adoption, and Faith at BookA Professional Woman’s Guide to Energized, ery Manchester (844 Elm St., Manchester) on Burnout-Proof Living, on Saturday, June 29, at Wednesday, July 24, at 6 p.m. noon. Visit barnesandnoble.com.

• David Mahood presents One Green Deed • Karen Coulters presents Hope from Daf- Spawns Another: Tales of Inspiration on the fodils at the Toadstool Bookshop (614 Nashua Quest for Sustainability on Wednesday, July 24, St., Milford) on Sunday, June 30, at 1 p.m. Vis- at 6 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., it toadbooks.com.

Concord). Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• Rob Azevedo presents Notes From the Last • Madeleine Henry presents Breathe In, Breath Farm: A Music Junkie’s Quest to be Cash Out at Water Street Bookstore (125 Water Heard at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., St., Exeter) on Thursday, July 25, at 7 p.m. Visit Concord) on Tuesday, July 2, at 6 p.m. Visit gib- waterstreetbooks.com. sonsbookstore.com.

• Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Con• Poet Andrew Merton presents his col- cord) welcomes Thomas Reed on Tuesday, lection of poetry, Final Exam, at Gibson’s July 30, at 6 p.m., as he presents his book SeekBookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Tues- ing Hyde. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. day, July 9, at 6 p.m. Visit gibsonsbookstore.

• The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress St., com.

Portsmouth) welcomes Inna Khazan on Thurs• Megan Griswold presents The Book of day, Aug. 1, at 7 p.m. She will present her book Help: A Memoir in Remedies at Gibson’s Book- Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life. store (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Wednesday, Tickets cost $37 and include a copy of the book.

July 10, at 6 p.m. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com. Visit themusichall.org.

• Poet Rachel Hadas will visit Robert Frost • Miciah Bay Gault presents Goodnight Farm (122 Rockingham Road, Derry) as part of Stranger on Thursday, Aug. 1, at 6 p.m. at Gibits 2019 Hyla Brook Reading Series on Thurs- son’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord). Visit day, July 11, at 6:30 p.m. Visit frostfarmpoetry. gibsonsbookstore.com. org/reading-series.

• Kate Allen presents The Line Tender at • The Tory Hill Author Series showcases Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) locally and nationally known authors as they on Friday, Aug. 2, at 6 p.m. Visit gibsonsbookdiscuss their books and personal experiences. store.com.

The events take place on select Saturdays at 7 • Poet Rodger Martin will visit Robert Frost p.m. This year’s author lineup includes Diane Farm (122 Rockingham Road, Derry) as part of Les Becquets on July 13, Andrew Dubus III on its 2019 Hyla Brook Reading Series on ThursJuly 27, John Porter on Aug. 10, and Peter Mill- day, Aug. 8, at 6:30 p.m. Visit frostfarmpoetry. er on Aug. 24. Tickets cost $10 per event or $32 org/reading-series. for all four events. Visit toryhillauthorsseries.

• Bruce Robert Coffin, author of Detective com.

Byron Mysteries, will be at the Nashua Public • Erin Bowman presents Immunity and A.C. Library (2 Court St., Nashua) on Thursday, Aug. Gaughen presents Reign the Earth and Impris- 15, at 7 p.m. Visit nashualibrary.org. on the Sky at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main • The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress St., St., Concord) on Sunday, July 14, at 3 p.m. Vis- Portsmouth) will host Meg Mitchell Moore on it gibsonsbookstore.com.

Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. as part of its Writers • Keith O’Brien presents Fly Girls: How in the Loft Series. She will present her book The Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Islanders. Tickets cost $41 and include a copy Aviation History at Durham Public Library (49 of the book. Visit themusichall.org.

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a chilling story and winds up on a school field trip to the farm where the book’s events took place.

Recommended by: Rose DeNucci, children’s librarian at Manchester City Library. “A book with great themes for middle schoolers to discuss with their parents and peers. Grief, bullying and friendship are explored beside creepy scarecrows and a haunted farmhouse.”

If you liked the television show The Goldbergs (ABC, 2013 - present), try Short & Skinny by Mark Tatulli.

Published: October 2018 Plot: The graphic novel follows a short and skinny seventh-grader trying to get the attention of his dream girl.

Recommended by: Rose DeNucci, children’s librarian at Manchester City Library. “[It] will crack you up.”

If you liked The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (2008), try Mr. Lemoncello’s All-Star Breakout Game by Chris Grabenstein.

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Published: May 2019 Plot: Kids compete in a completely immersive, live-action breakout game in which they are the playing pieces.

Recommended by: Karyn Isleb, Head of Services at Manchester City

If you liked Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011), try One Word Kill

by Mark Lawrence.

Published: May 2019 Plot: An eclectic group of teenage friends become entangled in a life-anddeath struggle that seems to mirror their Dungeons & Dragons gaming events.

Recommended by: Mat Bose, Assistant Library Director at Concord Public Library. “Get ready for a wild ride of sci-fi, suspense and obligatory ’80s references.”

If you liked El Deafo by Cece Bell (2014), try Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly.

Published: February 2019 Plot: A deaf student

connects with a whale that sings at a higher tone than its fellow whales can hear.

Recommended by: Alice Ahn, bookseller at Water Street Bookstore. “A wonderfully nuanced portrayal of the complications and varieties of experiences and people within the deaf community.”

If you liked One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (2012), try Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.

Published: May 2019 Plot: A girl who lives with her grandmother ventures around Cape Cod on a quest to define what family and friendship mean to her.

Recommended by: Marcia Strykowski, library assistant at Hampstead Public Library. “A fun summer read with strong messages about loss, love and what’s really important.”

Children’s — Picture book

If you like Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows (2006), try Best Friends in the Universe by Stephanie Watson.

Published: October 2018 Plot: Rough-and-tum-

ble boys learn the value of having a good friend.

Recommended by: Rose DeNucci, children’s librarian at Manchester City Library. “The illustrations are as spot-on as the text.”

If you liked The Book of Mistakes, by Corinna Luyken (2017), try Drawn Together by Minh Le. Published: June 2018 Plot: A boy and his grandfather cross language and cultural barriers through their shared love of art, storytelling and fantasy.

Recommended by: Karyn Isleb, Head of Youth Services at Manchester City Library.

If you liked Don’t Blink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2018), try High Five by Adam Rubin.

Published: April 2019 Plot: Animals present hand-slapping skills to readers, just in time for the annual high-five contest.

Recommended by: Karyn Isleb, Head of Youth Services at Manchester City Library.

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On Saturday, June 29, it’s the CHaD NH EastWest High School All-Star Football Game featuring high school football players from across the state at UNH’s Wildcat Stadium (155 Main St. in Durham) on Saturday, June 29, at 6 p.m. General admission tickets cost $10, with proceeds benefiting programs at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). See chadallstarfootball.org.

On Sunday, June 30, the New Hampshire Roller Derby (nhrollerderby.com) will play a doubleheader at JFK Memorial Coliseum (303 Beech St. in Manchester). At 3 p.m. it’s “Pink the Rink,” an all-gender mixed scrimmage to benefit Dana Farber Cancer Institute. At 5 p.m. the travel team will take on the Bay State Brawler Roller Derby’s Brawlin’ Broads.

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EAT: Dinner with local brews

Saturday, June 29

The Canterbury Shaker Village’s Traditional Craft Days runs today and tomorrow (June 30) from 10 to 4 p.m. (288 Shaker Road in Canterbury; shakers.org/traditional-craft-days, 783-9511).

More than 24 artisans and craftspeople will display their works and demonstrate their skills including basket-making, blacksmithing, jewelry-making, woodblock printing, spinning and more. Admission costs $12 for adults, $6 for children and free for children under 5.

Homestead Restaurant & Tavern (641 DW Highway in Merrimack; homesteadnh.com, 429-2022) will offer a six-course beer dinner will feature pairings from local breweries, like Great North Aleworks of Manchester and Able Ebenezer Brewing Co. of Merrimack on Monday, July 15. Seatings begin at 5 p.m. and the cost is $75 per person.

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Saturday, June 29

The Nashua Pride Festival runs today from 2 to 5 p.m. in the parking lot of the Nashua Public Library (2 Court St. in Nashua, nashualibrary.org, 589-4600). A parade starts at 2 p.m. and will run from Elm Street Middle School to the library. The festival will also feature music, entertainment, a drag show, speakers, activities and more, according to the website. The library is also holding a screening of Pride Day films throughout the day: Love, Simon (PG-13, 2018) will screen at 11 a.m., Pride (R, 2014) will screen at 1 p.m. and Kinky Boots (PG-13, 2005) will screen at 3 p.m.

DRINK: Local brews with history

The Kingston Bonfire & Beerfest will celebrate the town’s 325th anniversary and feature offerings from more than 20 breweries as well as family activities, fireworks and a bonfire and more, starting at 11 a.m. in the center of Kingston. Tickets cost $35 online in advance, $47 at the door. See “Kingston Brew Fest 2019” on Facebook.

Wednesday, July 3

Start your July Fourth celebration with some laughs tonight at the Wednesday comedy night at the Shaskeen Irish Pub & Restaurant (909 Elm St. in Manchester; theshaskeenpub.com) from 8 p.m. to midnight. Find more area comedy offerings in our Comedy This Week listing on page 52. Find live music at area bars and restaurants in our Music This Week listing, which starts on page 50.

BE MERRY: With wildflowers

The NE Wildflower Society Walk at Ponemah Bog in Amherst runs Sunday, June 30, from 1 to 5 p.m. Identify wetland species with instructor Roland “Boot” Bootwell, according to the NH Audubon (nhaudubon.org). Registration costs $46 per person and is required in advance. Bring a lunch and a hand lens, the website said.

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ARTS A range on stage

The Peterborough Players kick off their summer season

comes to realize that his home and family are the greatest treasures of all.

“The popular children’s book is musicalized beautifully,” Kaikkonen said.

The other Second Company production, Cindy Reilly, which opens in August, is a modern, musical retelling of Cinderella.

Whether it’s “just for entertainment” or “deals with serious issues and has something to say,” Kaikkonen said every show provides the audience with “a rich experience.”

“We pour a lot into that two hours.,” he said. “If we do it right, those two hours will stick with [the audience] for 50 hours afterward.”

By Angie Sykeny

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The Peterborough Players’ summer season is underway with Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven, which continues its run June 27 through June 30.

The play, by Chesterfield playwright Russell Davis, follows a young American painter, Thomas, who is going to visit his mother at her island home when he happens upon an Iranian college student, Mahida, who is stranded after she has an argument with her brother and the ferry she is waiting for will not come until the next day.

Thomas invites Mahida to stay at his mother’s house for the night, but his straightlaced mother does not respond well to having a Muslim women in her home. Not only that, but Thomas and Mahida also seem to share an instant connection.

“They like each other a lot. They come from different places, but their minds go together really well,” director Gus Kaikkonen said. “Of course the mother is completely terrified that her son is interested in this young Iranian woman, head scarf and all.”

The first time Kaikkonen read the script all the way through, he was immediately drawn to it for its balance of drama and comedy and for its pertinence in today’s American culture.

“It moved me, and it made me laugh a lot,” he said. “With the clash of cultures and expectations [in the play, the play] really encapsulates what’s happening in the world right now, and it’s unusual to find [a play] that is so relevant but also so funny and well-written.”

Kaikkonen’s focus as a director, he said, is to make sure the actors’ behavior on stage is, “in a very real sense, based on [the behavior of] real people.”

“Unless an audience [member] knows or

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Peterborough Players summer season

Steven Michael Walters and Aliah Whitmore in Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven, 2019. Scenic Design, Charles Morgan.

Lighting Design, Kevin Frazier. Costume Design, Bethany Mullins. Photo courtesy of Lipofskyphoto.com

recognizes [one of the actors], they need something that’s going to connect them to what’s going on onstage,” he said. “If you can say, ‘That character is just like my mother,’ or ‘just like my brother,’ you get emotionally hooked into the play, and having good actors can do that.”

Mahida’s is the first production in the Peterborough Players’ summer season, which continues through Sept. 15 with showtimes every week. It features seven mainstage shows — six plays and one musical — and two children’s musicals performed by the Players’ Second Company, composed of youth actors. Three of the shows were written by playwrights with ties to New Hampshire.

Kaikkonen said he chose nine “completely different shows” so that the season has

Includes listings, shows, auditions, workshops and more.

To get listed, e-mail arts@hippopress.com.

something for everyone.

“There will always be someone who finds something to complain about. If they didn’t like one play, they may find the play happening the following week thoroughly enjoyable,” he said. “We owe it to the audience to give them the full breadth of the theater.”

That includes a romance (Gertrude Stein and a Companion), an American comedy about the Midwest (Morning’s at Seven), a traditional musical (She Loves Me), a play inspired by an opera (Dumas’ Camille) and more.

The Second Company’s first children’s show, How I Became a Pirate, is running now through July 20. It follows a young boy who joins a crew of pirates on their search for the perfect spot to bury their treasure but

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Mainstage Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven - June 27 through June 30 Gertrude Stein and a Companion - July 3 through July 14 Morning’s at Seven - July 17 through July 28 She Loves Me - July 31 through Aug. 11 Dumas’ Camille - Aug. 14 through Aug. 25 A Doll’s House, Part 2 - Aug. 28 through Sept. 8 Rose - Sept. 11 through Sept. 15 Second Company How I Became a Pirate - June 28 through July 20 Cindy Reilly - Aug. 17 through Aug. 24

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The Peterborough Players theater is located at 55 Hadley Road in Peterborough. Visit peterboroughplayers.org for showtimes and to purchase tickets. Tickets for mainstage shows cost $43 to $47. Tickets for Second Company shows cost $11 for adults and $9 for children. Season subscriptions are also available for four, six or seven shows.

ILLUSTRATIONS EXHIBIT” It features New England illustrators and book artists working in a variety of media. On view now through July 7. There will be a gallery talk, “A Celebration of Books and Their History,” by featured artist Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord on Saturday, June 15, at 1 p.m. Twiggs Gallery, 254 King St., Boscawen.

Visit twiggsgallery.wordpress.com or call 975-0015.

• “NATURE’S REPOSE” The work of New Hampshire Art Association artists Judy Schubert and Lorwen “Connie” Nagle will

be featured. The peacefulness of nature is celebrated in the artists’ oil paintings. On view now through July 14. Church Landing at Mill Falls, 281 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. Call 224-2508 or visit nhartassociation.org.

• “HELLO, DEAR ENEMY! PICTURE BOOKS FOR PEACE AND HUMANITY” The collection of 65 picture books and more than 40 posters with illustrations and quotes explores children’s books from around the world that deal with the trauma of war, displacement, prejudice

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• Play within a play: The Winnipesaukee Playhouse (33 Footlight Circle, Meredith) presents Moon Over Buffalo Now through July 6, with showtimes Monday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (no show on July 4), plus 2 p.m. matinees on Thursday, June 27, and Monday, July 1. The comedy by Ken Ludwig is set in the 1950s and follows husband and wife actors George and Charlotte Hay, whose world is turned upside down after a family crisis and rumors that a Hollywood director is coming to look for talent for his new remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Tickets cost $18 to $37. Visit winnipesaukeeplayhouse.org.

• A month of classical: The New Hampshire Music Festival is a classical music series featuring chamber and orchestra concerts performed by world-class musicians, held July 2 through Aug. 1. Highlights include a Chamber Series on Tuesdays and an Orchestra Series on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Silver Center for the Arts (114 Main St., Plymouth), and other special events like a classical discussion and lecture series, classical coffee hours, a classical hike and more. Tickets for the concerts range from $15 to $75. Series passes are also available. Visit nhmf.org.

•​ Beauty at the park: The Prescott Park Arts Festival (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast now through Aug. 17, with shows on most days Thursday through Sunday. It tells the story of

and other forms of oppression.

On view now through Sept. 15.

Mariposa Museum, 26 Main St., Peterborough. Visit mariposamuseum.org or call 924-4555.

• DARYL D. JOHNSON Artist of the month during June.

The solo exhibition, “Tidelands: Where the Water Greets the Sky,” includes Johnson’s gestural oil paintings that showcase the beauty of nature in the region.

Through June. Exeter Fine Crafts (61 Water St., Exeter). Visit exeterfinecrafts.com.

• “FACTORY MADE” features multidisciplinary artist Michael Hambouz, who uses hand-cut \ paper stock to create vibrant, abstracted scenes of the 140-yearold American paper mill where the paper was produced. June 7 through July 14. 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth).

Visit 3sarts.org.

• “LEAPTWISTTURN” features painter and installation artist Adria Arch, who creates hybrid paintings on lightweight plastic comprised of cut out abstract

The New Hampshire Music Festival. Courtesy photo.

a young woman named Belle, and the Beast, a young prince trapped in a beast’s body under the spell of a wicked enchantress. Only when the Beast can learn to love and be loved will he be free of the spell and transformed back into his human form. Based on the animated Disney classic, the musical features songs from the film as well as new songs by Alan Menken and Tim Rice. Tickets cost $49 to $99. Visit prescottpark.org.

• More on the seacoast stage: Ya Bird?

Productions presents Wilderness at the Players’ Ring Theatre (105 Marcy St., Portsmouth) now through June 30, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m., and Sunday at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $12 to $14. Visit playersring.org.

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical is at the Rochester Opera House (31 Wakefield St., Rochester) now through June 30, with showtimes on Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $18 to $22. Visit rochesteroperahouse.com.

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elements inhabiting space. June 7 through July 14. 3S Artspace (319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth).

Visit 3sarts.org.

• “THE RAFT” a video installation by Bill Viola. The video is a reflection on the range of human responses to crisis. June 8 through Sept. 8. Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester).

Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

• SPRING STUDENT EXHIBITION June 13 through July 22. Kimball Jenkins Estate (266 N. Main St., Concord). Visit kimballjenkins.com.

• MEDIEVAL TO METAL: THE ART AND EVOLUTION OF THE GUITAR The exhibition explores the history, evolution and design of the guitar through photographs and illustrations. June 29 through Sept. 22.

Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester). Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

• CHERYL Z. MILLER Artist of the month during July.

The solo exhibition, “Tidelands: Where the Water Greets the

Sky,” includes Johnson’s gestural oil paintings that showcase the beauty of nature in the region.

Through June. Exeter Fine Crafts (61 Water St., Exeter). Visit exeterfinecrafts.com.

• “BETWEEN PROCESS AND PRODUCT” Features a series of altered art journals created by 12 NHIA alumni and faculty that illustrate the artist’s personal creative process. On view through July.

NHIA Vault Gallery, 156 Hanover St., Manchester. Visit nhia.edu.

• BARBARA ALBERT Acrylic paintings on display. June 5 through June 30. Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

• “CURRENTS” New Hampshire Art Association presents its summer exhibition, featuring plein air paintings and photographs of the river done in collaboration with Gundalow’s Piscataqua River Festival. June 5 through June 30.

Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, 136 State St., Portsmouth. Visit nhartassociation.org.

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• A look at the guitar: The Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester) “Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar,” from June 29 through Sept. 22. The exhibition explores the history, evolution and design of the guitar, from the Middle Ages to modern popular culture.

It features 40 distinct instruments as well as dozens of photographs and illustrations depicting significant musicians and instruments from the last century. Visit currier.org or call 669-6144.

• Summer at the museum: The Currier is offering Summertime Mini-Memberships, museum memberships that are active now through Sept. 2, for $50 to not-yet members. memberships include free general admission for two adults and all family members under age 18, invitations to members-only events and access to special programs, such as the Teen Talks and Art Walks program, happening Thursdays, June 27 and July 11, at 1 p.m., where teens will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on summer reading books, enjoy light refreshments and learn about art pieces Visit currier.org.

• Abstract land and sea: New Hampshire Art Association painter Barbara Albert shows her work at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce (49 S. Main St., Suite 104, Concord) now through Sept. 19.

The exhibition, “Water’s Edge,” features abstract paintings of skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes that explore how people and urban industries have changed New England’s natural setting with habitats, harbors and bridges. “I believe there is beauty in both the natural and the man-made,” she said in a press release. “By painting abstractly, I create visual ‘puzzles’ that engage viewers to discover the unintended images that speak to them. I find familiar ‘places’ in the colors, textures and shapes my palette knives create League of NH Craftsmen presents a guest exhibition that celebrates the work of the White Mountain Woolen Magic Rughooking Guild. June 28 through Sept. 13.

League of NH Craftsmen headquarters (49 S. Main St., Concord). Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit nhcrafts.org.

• “JAMES APONOVICH: OUT OF THE STUDIO, RECENT DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS” The show will feature the artist’s still lifes and landscapes, along with a new series of allegorical portraits exploring darker themes of mortality. June 6 through June 28.

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and let them tell their own stories.” Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 224-2508 or visit nhartassociation.org.

• Rug hooking exhibition: The League of NH Craftsmen presents a guest exhibition at its headquarters (49 S. Main St., Concord) from June 28 through Sept. 13. “From Our Hands” celebrates the work of the White Mountain Woolen Magic Rughooking Guild.

“By working together to showcase amazing talent and creative skills, the League and the White Mountain Woolen Magic Rughooking Guild can continue to reach new audiences with our work,” Miriam Carter, Executive Director of the League of NH Craftsmen, said in a press release. “At this exhibition, visitors will be amazed at what patience and nimble fingers can create with thin strips of wool. The work is absolutely incredible.”

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit nhcrafts.org.

• Artists of the month: Exeter Fine Crafts (61 Water St., Exeter) features Daryl D. Johnson as its artist of the month during June. The solo exhibition, “Tidelands: Where the Water Greets the Sky,” includes Johnson’s gestural oil paintings that showcase the beauty of nature in the region. Cheryl Z. Miller will be the artist of the month during July. Miller is a textile artist who creates fabric collages using hand-dyed cotton, batiks, vintage fabrics and paper elements stitched by machine. Visit exeterfinecrafts.com.

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Kelley Stelling Contemporary, 221 Hanover St., Manchester.

Visit kelleystellingcontemporary. com or call 345-1779.

• LISA MCMANUS AND ETHAN LIMA The work of New Hampshire Art Association artists will be featured. June 25 through Sept. 19. 2 Pillsbury St. , Concord.

Visit nhartassociation.org.

Classical Music Events • NEW HAMPSHIRE MASTER CHORALE Concerts commemorate the 20th anniversary of American’s most famous hate crime - Matthew Shepard - and anti-hate activism. Sat., June 29, 7:30 p.m., First Church Congre-

gational, 115 S. Main St, Wolfeboro, as part of the Great Waters Music Festival; Sun., June 30, 4 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 4 Post Office Square, Plymouth. $35, free for students.

Visit nhmasterchorale.org.

• HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL A series of chamber music performances. “Fairy Tales” on Wed., June 26; “Vienna in Portsmouth” on Thurs., June 27; “The End of Time - and Back Again” on Fri., June 28; and “Transformations” on Sat., June 29. Tickets cost $25 per show. Package deals include three concerts for $65, four for $88, five for $100, six for $130 and all seven for $150. Visit halcyonmusicfestival.org.

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New Boston 4th of July Celebration takes place on Thursday, July 4, starting with a parade that steps off at 10 a.m., followed by family fun activities at the Hillsborough County Youth Center and Fairgrounds (15 Hilldale Lane) starting at 11:30 a.m. ($5 admission fee for adults, free for kids under age 12), including food, mud volleyball, music, kids’ games, karaoke and more. There will be fireworks at dusk. Visit newboston4thofjuly. org.

the town hall (11 Main St.), with festivities starting at 3 p.m., including field games, midway games, a musical talent contest and Find parades, fireworks, food, live enter- live music. It ends with fireworks at dusk. tainment, family activities and more at these Fourth of July celebrations.

Hopkinton July 4 Celebration takes place on Thursday, July 4, beginning at the Amherst Fourth of July Celebration Slusser Center (164 Houston Drive, Contoobegins Wednesday, July 3, at 6 p.m., at cook) with a 5K race at 8 a.m. and a pancake Souhegan High School (412 Boston Post breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. There will be a Road) with food, hot air balloon rides, face canoe and kayak race ($15) at the end of Rivpainting, rides on the Roaming Railroad, a erside Drive at 11 a.m., a kids’ parade at the juggler, Emerald the Singer, Amherst Town gazebo (Main Street) at 11:30 a.m., a parade Band. Fireworks will be held at 9 p.m. (rain at Hopkinton High School (297 Park Ave.) date is Saturday, July 6). On Thursday, July at noon and family fun activities at Houston 4, parades will step off at 10 a.m. From 9 Park (41 Houston Drive) starting at 12:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the village green there will p.m., including food, live music and games. be an art show, traditional crafts, children’s The Pledge of Allegiance and the national activities, clowns and balloons, animals, an anthem will be held at the Slusser Center at antique auto show and more. Visit facebook. 12:45 p.m. Visit hopkintonrec.com. com/amherstnhjuly4thcommittee.

Manchester Independence Day celebraBig Island Pond (Atkinson, Derry and tion will take place on Wednesday, July 3, Hampstead) will have fireworks on Wednes- with live music and festivities at Arms Park day, July 3, (rain date is Saturday, July 5) at (10 Arms St.) starting at 7 p.m., followed by 9:15 p.m. Visit bigislandpond.org. fireworks. Visit manchesternh.gov.

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Canobie Lake Park (85 N. Policy St., Merrimack Fourth of July festivities Salem) will have fireworks on Thursday, will begin with a concert of patriotic music July 4, at 9:15 p.m. Visit canobie.com. on Wednesday, July 3, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Abbie Griffin Park (6 Baboosic Lake Road).

Concord Fourth of July celebration will On Thursday, July 4, there’s a pancake take place on Thursday, July 4, at Memori- breakfast at Merrimack High School (38 al Field (70 S. Fruit St., Concord) with live McElwain St.) from 8 to 11 a.m.; the Sparmusic and food vendors starting at 6 p.m., kler 5K Road Race (sparkler5k.com) at 8 and fireworks starting at 9:15 p.m. Rain date a.m. at the Merrimack YMCA (6 Henry Clay is Friday, July 5. Visit concordnh.gov.

Drive); family fun activities at Merrimack High School starting at 11 a.m.; the parade Derry fireworks will be held on Thurs- starting at 1 p.m. and going from Comday, July 4, at 9 p.m. The best viewing areas mons Shopping Plaza (515 Daniel Webster are along Tsienneto Road, Hood Commons Highway) to Merrimack High School; and and Crystal Avenue. Visit derrynh.org. fireworks at Merrimack High School at 9:15 p.m. Visit merrimack4th.com.

Hampstead Independence Celebration will be held on Saturday, June 29 (rain date Milford Family Fun Day and fireworks Sunday, June 30), on the town green behind takes place on Thursday, July 4, (rain date 27 Kiddie pool Family activities this week.

Children & Teens Children events • “SPREAD YOUR WINGS” DAYS AT PETALS IN THE PINES Spend a day of discovery time and unstructured day at Petals in the Pines. Thursdays, now through Sept. 26, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (except for July 4, Aug. 22 and Sept. 5). Petals in the Pines, 126 Baptist Road, Canterbury. $10 per adult and one child, $5 for each additional child, or $20 maximum per family (infants are free). Visit petalsinthepines.com or call 7830220.

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Clubs Garden • HOOKSETT GARDEN CLUB JULY MEETING The meeting will include a program by Real Fallu on hostas and companion plants. After the program, plants will be available for sale. Refreshments will also be provided. Wed., July 10, 6 to 8 p.m. Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett. Free and open to the public. Visit hooksettnhgardenclub.org.

Crafts Fairs • CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE’S TRADITIONAL CRAFT DAYS More than two dozen fine artisans and craftspeople will be sharing their skills.

Featured craft demonstrations throughout the weekend will be basket making, blacksmithing, leatherworking, jewelry making, woodblock printing and more.

Sat., June 29, and Sun., June 30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury. $12 for adults, $6

New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, 1 Line Drive, Manchester) will have a large fireworks show following their game on July 4 against the Portland Sea Dogs at 7 p.m.

Visit nhfishercats.com.

Amherst Fourth of July Celebration. Courtesy photo.

Pelham Independence Day Celebration will be on Saturday, June 29, (rain date Sunday, June 30) at Pelham Elementary School (61 Marsh Road) with food, live music, games, face painting, and more starting at 6 p.m., ending with fireworks. Visit pelhamcommunityspirit.org.

Friday, July 5) at Keyes Memorial Park (Elm Street), starting with a kids’ 1K Blast at 9 a.m., and the Star Spangled 5K Run/Walk at 9:30 a.m., a patriotic bike parade and contest at noon, field activities from noon to 2 p.m., and live music from 8 to 9:30 p.m., followed by fireworks. Visit milford.nh.gov.

Raymond 4th of July Celebration will be held on Thursday, July 4, starting with a parade that steps off from Epping Street at 9:30 a.m. The celebration starts at 11 a.m. on the common, with a patriotic ceremony, music, food, antique cars, horses, clowns and more. Visit raymondareanews.com.

Nashua Summer Fun July 4 festivities will take place on Thursday, July 4, starting at Holman Stadium (67 Amherst St.) at 10 a.m., with family fun, including carnival games, a caricaturist, face painting, a bounce house and relay races, until 1 p.m. There will be live music starting at 5:30 p.m., and fireworks at dusk (rain date for fireworks is Friday, July 5). Visit nashuanh.gov.

Salem’s Fourth of July fun will be held on Thursday, July 4, at Salem High School (44 Geremonty Drive) and Woodbury Middle School ball fields (206 Main St.), with food, music, dancing and other activities from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., patriotic music and the national anthem at 8:30 p.m., and fireworks at 9:30 p.m. (fireworks rain date is Friday, July 5).

29 Treasure Hunt There’s gold in your attic. for children and free for children under 5. Visit shakers.org/traditional-craft-days.

• CRAFT FAIR AT THE BAY More than 75 juried artisans are expected to attend. 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.

30 Car Talk Ray gives you car advice. will feature Tod Whittemore calling with the Sugar River Band.

Sat., July 6, 8 p.m. Peterborough Town House, 1 Grove St., Peterborough. $10 general admission, and $7 for students and seniors.

Visit monadnockfolk.org or call 762-0235.

Hampshire Farm Museum, 1305 White Mountain Highway, Milton. Admission is $10 for adults, $7.50 for seniors over 65, $5 for children ages 4 to 17, free for children under 4, active military service members and Farm Museum members, and $25 maximum per family of two adults and their Festivals & Fairs children or grandchildren. Visit • FOURTH ON THE FARM nhfarmmuseum.org.

The event will feature historical Dance reenactments, a reading of the Expos Special folk dances Declaration of Independence, a • NEW ENGLAND REPTILE • FIRST SATURDAY CONTRA farm parade, strawberry shortcake, EXPO Thousands of reptiles will DANCE Presented by the Monad- wagon rides and more. Thurs., be on display and for sale as pets. nock Folklore Society, this dance July 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. New Vendors will also be selling cages, HIPPO | JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 2019 | PAGE 25

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NH Maker and Food Fest returns to Dover

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For Wayne Moulton, a balloon artist, performer and owner of Sages Entertainment, no creative endeavor is off the table.

From being a STEM educator and coaching a high school robotics team to participating in a Ghostbusters cosplay group to making intricate balloon sculptures, Moulton has channelled his interests into a variety of fun avenues. The annual New Hampshire Maker and Food Fest is something Moulton looks forward to every year.

“A lot of the time when I’m walking around the makers fest, I’m looking for people that like the same things that I do and speak the same language that I do, that you might not find in an everyday situation,” Moulton said. “I think it’s really quite cool to have a place where people can show off what they’re doing, no matter how complicated or how not complicated it might be.”

This year marks the seventh annual New Hampshire Maker and Food Fest, happening on Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover. The museum website calls the event the “Greatest Show & Tell (& Taste) on Earth,” featuring an abundance of “makers,” exhibits for attendees to observe and interact with and a number of food trucks that will be stationed in the museum’s parking lot.

Moulton is just one of the many makers and creators who will be at the event, which Neva Cole, the Communications Director of the Children’s Museum, called “a really kind of weird but amazing mixture of hands-on experiences.”

“It’s not like your typical New England fair where there’s Ferris wheels to ride and cotton candy,” Cole said, “but the cool thing about it is that when you come, you get to try your hand at a huge, huge variety of different things, and it changes every year.”

“This year we have a 12-year-old from the Dover Middle School who actually went on the Steve Harvey show with her invention of water-dissolvable plastic bags,” she said.

This is the first year the museum will be holding the event in June (instead of August, as with the six previous fests). Cole said this may raise attendance. In the past the event has brought in a crowd of around 1,600 people.

According to Cole, the idea for a Maker and Food Fest came about when the museum’s president, Jane Bard, caught wind of a Maker Faire kit, courtesy of Make Magazine, that allowed readers to start their own maker faire and license the copyright. That spawned the Dover Mini Maker Faire, which was the name of the event until last year, when the museum decided to break off from the Maker Faire chain and create its own festival so that it could have more creative control to coordinate the event in whatever fashion it pleased.

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Although the event is held at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Cole emphasized that the Maker Fest is not only for children, although all of the makers and exhibits are family-friendly.

“We get asked a lot, ‘Is this appropriate for just me and my boyfriend to come?’” Cole said.

“The answer is yes, you do not need kids to come to the New Hampshire Maker and Food Fest. … There really is something for every age level.”

One of the features of the annual event that Cole believes drives in people of all ages is the food trucks, which tally up into the double digits. Food trucks this year will include Boogalows Island BBQ, Kona Ice, Curb Appeal Meals, Sub-Zero Ice Cream, South Patrol BBQ and Grill, Auntie Nae’s, Bloomin’ Cow Ice Cream, Royal We Bakery, Clyde’s Cupcakes, Pressed For Time Mobile Cafe and more. People can access the food trucks without having to pay for admission to the event.

This year Moulton will try something he has never tried before at the Maker Fest: a balloon art show presented with his wife Kali.

“We’re creating some really intricate pieces that we’ve done,” Moulton said. “It’s something new and exciting that people haven’t seen.”

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NH Maker & Food Fest When: Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Children’s Museum of NH (the museum’s normal exhibits will be closed during the event), 6 Washington St. in Dover, and throughout downtown dover Admission: $10 per person in advance; $12 on the day of the event (free for children ages 5 and younger). Bring money for the food trucks.

More info: childrens-museum.org.

Duck Derby: The second annual Dover Ducky Derby will take place at 1 p.m. at the Washington Street bridge. Rubber duckies can be adopted for $5 to participate in the derby, which is free to watch. See museum website for details.

Family fun for the weekend

Fun in downtown Concord

It’s Kids’ Day at the Concord Farmers Market this Saturday, June 29, from 8:30 a.m. to noon (the market takes place on Capitol Street next to the NH Statehouse).

Kids can touch a tractor, play games and win prizes, get their faces painted and more. See concordfarmersmarket.com.

Starting Monday, July 1, Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St. in Concord; gibsonsbookstore.com, 224-0562) is hosting Find Waldo 2019 in 25 businesses in downtown Concord. Pick up a passport and collect stamps at participating businesses to get a button and enter into a drawing for prizes, according to the website. The program runs through Wednesday, July 31.

Fun in downtown Nashua

Catch 1996’s Space Jam (rated PG, starring Michael Jordan and Looney Tunes such as Bugs Bunny) on Friday, June 28, at dusk as part of the Pics in the Park series at Greeley Park (100 Concord St. in Nashua) at the bandshell. See nashuanh.gov.

Stories

Bookery (848 Elm St. in Manchester; bookerymht.com, 836-6600) will host Drag Queen Storytime and Craft on Saturday, June 29, at 11:15 a.m. with guest reader Chi Chi Marvel, who will select a book to read to celebrate Pride Month, according to the website.

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they’re creating gets to keep it. A balloon game show will have attendees answering trivia questions to win balloon sculptures and will feature various magic tricks and balloon games.

Also in attendance at the Maker Fest will be Michael Roundy, director of Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race, and Yvonne Marston, inventor and owner of Knō-Bü brand products.

Sculpture racing, according to Roundy, is an activity that combines engineering, art and physical activity, as participants in the yearly Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race have to create a vehicle that can travel through land, mud and water, is aesthetically pleasing and is pedaled like a bicycle. Meanwhile, Knō-Bü products are the brainchild of Marston, who set out to create a fashionable accessory that can be placed over the buttons of coats, cabinet and door knobs and more to spice things up and change their design and color. This is Roundy’s “third or fourth year” at the Maker

lar Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an anthology of new YA Sherlock Holmes stories, according to the website.

Area Barnes & Noble stores (in Manchester at 1741 S. Willow St., 668-5557; in The Irregular Adventures of Nashua at 235 Sherlock Holmes. Courtesy Daniel Webphoto. ster Highway, 888-0533; in Salem at 125 S. Broadway, 898-1930, and in Newington at 45 Gosling Road, 422-7733) will hold a special Pride Storytime on Saturday, June 29, at 11 a.m. featuring the books Prince & Knight (by Daniel Haack), Maiden & Princess (by Daniel Haack) and Red: A Crayon’s Story (by Michael Hall).

All four stores will also hold Game On! at 2 p.m., an event highlighting gaming guide books (there will be no devices at the event, though gamers are invited to bring personal devices and hang out to play after the event), according to the website.

Also at 2 p.m., the Nashua Barnes & Noble will host YA author Kate McGovern and her book Fear of Missing Out. All four stores will also hold their weekly Baby & Me storytime on Sunday, June 30, at 11 a.m. featuring Hello, World!

Solar System by Jill McDonald.

At stores in Manchester and Salem, Friday Funday Storytime for younger book lovers will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 28. Manchester will hold its Pajamarama storytime on Friday, June 28, at 6:30 p.m. Kids are invited to wear their pjs for storytime and activities, according to the website.

Fest, and Marston’s first.

Roundy said that while attendees won’t be able to build their own kinetic race sculpture, they will be able to see “The Lobster Roll,” a kinetic race sculpture made for the Lowell Race’s 50th annual event. Marston said she plans to “beta test” her cabinetry knob cover line and “build a community of believers.”

“It really only took one festival before I realized it’s something that’s extremely unique,” Cole said. “My daughter and my husband come every year and I have so many pictures of her just beaming beyond happy because she gets to try to figure out how to create something that will squish a grape, or some kind of contraption that will safely transport an egg off the roof of the museum in the egg drop challenge, or she gets to help decorate a fairy house or talk to a pirate. I really get to see it from the perspective of a parent watching her kid explore these really amazing, random, creative things, and I have learned a lot from a lot of really cool, inventive people.”

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If you’re like me, by now you have your garden planted, both vegetables and flowers. It seems like a good time to take a deep breath, pour a cold glass of your favorite beverage and watch the flowers perform.

I have set up chairs by my Japanese primroses for viewing, and have invited friends to come see them and relax. But wait!

There is still a lot to do, and you can make your life easier with some work now. Here are seven garden activities I recommend.

1. Weed. Weeds in the vegetable garden are little now, and easy to pull. Take 20 minutes a day — or twice a day — and just weed. All my weed-free beds are sprouting weeds, but the roots are small. It’s important to loosen the soil a little before pulling weeds. If you don’t do that and you hear a snap, you have broken a root. I like a CobraHead weeder for loosening the soil because it has a single tine and is very precise.

If you are weeding in a bed with small seedlings — lettuce, for example — you may end up pulling up seedlings, too.

Re-plant immediately and water. I use an anti-stress liquid called Super Thrive, just a quarter teaspoon in a gallon of water, after weeding. It helps plants recover from having their roots disturbed. It has plant hormones and seaweed extracts, and I find it very effective.

2. Mulch. I like to mulch after weeding and after the soil is nice and warm. If the soil is still cool and wet, wait for a few days of hot sun before mulching. Roots like to be warm.

My preferred method of mulching is to put down several layers of newspapers around big plants like tomatoes and in walkways.

Then I cover it with straw, leaves I saved last fall, or even mulch hay. Mulch hay has seeds, but the newspaper keeps the seeds out of the soil pretty well. Leaves are the best but always in short supply.

3. Protect your tomatoes. Put tomato cages around them. They need to be kept upright but will flop if you don’t support them. Get the 54-inch cages with four legs, not three legs. Tomato diseases are generally soil-borne, so mulch the soil with grass clippings, leaves or straw to prevent splash-up.

This year I am trying an experiment with a biological control for blight on tomatoes.

There is a bacterium, Bacterium subtilis, that feeds on fungi. It is now available as a commercial spray called Serenade. I have sprayed half my tomato plants with Serenade and marked them with labels.

According to the directions, I will need to spray once a week. I will report back if I

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see a marked difference.

4. Find space. Find and utilize unused spaces, both in the vegetable garden and flower beds. If you planted a few nice perennials this year, you probably left space for them when they get big. Instead of depending on mulch to fill the space, plant some annuals.

The same works in the vegetable garden: Tomato plants won’t be big for another four to six weeks. Grow lettuce around them, and eat the lettuce before they get shaded out. Spinach and radishes are good candidates for those spaces, too.

5. Watch for shade. Think about cutting off branches of trees that are now shading out your gardens. Or remove trees altogether. I love my trees, but find they are interfering with my flowers and veggies that like full sun. I removed several large branches from a pear tree this winter because it was shading my peonies. You can do that now, too.

Weed trees like box elder and poplars should be the first to be removed. They pop up and get big before you know it.

Elms will grow for 25 years or so, then die from Dutch elm disease, so I cut or yank those any time I find them on the property.

6. Thin root crops. Carrots, beets, rutabagas and parsnips — by the Fourth of July all those should be one to two inches apart. Carrots will compete with their brothers and sisters just like they do with weeds — and suffer.

7. Get a gardening buddy. I don’t want to sound like Ann Landers, but get a gardening partner to help in the garden. It works for me! My life partner and sweetie, Cindy Heath, has lived six miles away for the past 10 years. But now she has moved in so we garden together here, instead of having two gardens. If you already have a husband or wife, some re-training may be needed. Pavlov had it right: Make brownies or give back rubs as a reward for help in the garden. Soon there will be no more weeds!

Henry lives and gardens in Cornish Flat, N.H. He is the author of four gardening books. Read his blog posts at www.dailyUV. com by looking for the gardening guy.

INSIDE/OUTSIDE TREASURE HUNT

Dear Donna, I received this old metal service bar from my 92-year-old neighbor. He didn’t recall the history behind it and I was wondering if you could help. It is on casters and has a revolving storage area in the back.

Thanks for your help!

Jo-Ann Dear Jo-Ann, Thank you for sharing the bar with us. I bet there were a lot of fun times with this piece.

It’s a tough call, Jo-Ann, because it has an Art Deco look to it but looking at the photos it seems newer to me. Maybe it’s from the 1970s period? I am really not sure. The wheels are plastic and the foot rest appears to be aluminum. It’s very common to reproduce old pieces for nostalgic reasons for today’s decor. But I think even if it is from the 1970s era I would give it in the $200 range, because it is in good shape and still has a use today.

I wish I could tell you for certain, Jo-Ann. It can be tough, as I said, with so many new pieces made today to look like yesterday. I can say this for sure: It looks like a fun piece.

supplies, frozen feeder rodents, feeder bugs and many other reptile-related items at discounted prices. Sun., July 7, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown, 700 Elm St., Manchester. $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages 7 to 12 and free for kids under 7. Visit reptileexpo.com.

Museums & Tours History & museum events • AT YOUR SERVICE: THE ROLE OF SERVICE ANIMALS The Medaglia-Brown family will show how their service dog was trained and how they communicate with their handler. Fri., June 28, 7 p.m. New Hampshire Telephone Museum, 1 Depot St., Warner. $5 suggested donation. Visit nhtelephonemuseum.org or call 456-2234.

• GALILEO GALILEI, THE STARRY MESSENGER Dressed in 17th-century costume, Galileo (portrayed by Michael Francis) will present a lecture on recent discoveries he has made using his newly devised spyglass. Audience members will be actively involved in his experiments and demonstrations.

Tues., July 9, 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

Free. Visit nashualibrary.org.

Nature & Gardening Astronomy • NH ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY SKYWATCHES Fridays, July 5, and Aug. 2, 7 to 10 p.m. McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive,

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Donna Welch has spent more than 30 years in the antiques and collectibles field, appraising and instructing, and recently closed the physical location of From Out Of The Woods Antique Center (fromoutofthewoodsantiques. com) but is still doing some buying and selling. She is a member of The New Hampshire Antiques Dealer Association. If you have questions about an antique or collectible send a clear photo and information to Donna at footwdw@aol.com, or call her at 391-6550 or 624-8668.

Concord. Free admission. Visit nhastro.com.

• THE SPUTNIK YEARS Presenter Kelly Beatty will talk about Russian rocket Sputnik 1, which launched into orbit in October 1957. She’ll explore the events leading up to Sputnik’s launch, the political fallout that led to America’s response, the formation of NASA, and the crucial role that amateur astronomers played in tracking the first satellites. Wed., July 17, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Amherst Town Library, 14 Main St., Amherst. Free. Visit amherstlibrary.org or call 6732288.

Science • KEARSARGE AREA ROCKET SOCIETY MODEL ROCKET LAUNCH Bring your rockets or just come to spectate. In the event of bad weather, the launch will possibly be moved the following Sunday. Sat., July 20, 1 to 3:30 p.m. Schoodac Road, Warner. Visit karsnh.org.

Sports & Recreation Golf events • “ON COURSE FORE KIDS” GOLF CLASSIC Proceeds benefit the Scott McGilvray Children’s Fund. Thurs., July 25, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Canterbury Woods Country Club, 15 West Road, Canterbury. Registration starts at $150; includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, a golf goodie bag and access to the awards luncheon. Visit smcfnh.org.

Spectator sports • CHAD EAST-WEST NH HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME The game will pit seniors from high schools across the state in an East vs.

West battle while also teaching them about community service, philanthropy and humility. Sat., June 29, 6 p.m. Wildcat Stadium at UNH, 155 Main St., Durham. $10 general admission, $30 for the Tuckaway Tavern tailgate BBQ and $50 for the all-you-caneat buffet in the stadium club.

All proceeds benefit programs of Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Visit chadallstarfootball.org.

• ECFL GRANITE STATE DESTROYERS FOOTBALL The Granite State Destroyers are an adult men’s football league and a nonprofit approved amateur sports competition organization. Home games are played at St. Anselm College, Grappone Stadium, Saturdays at 6 p.m, June 29, July 27, Aug. 3 and Aug. 10. Email granitestatedestroyers@yahoo.com.

Yoga Events/workshops • YOGA TEACHER TRAINING INFO SESSIONS These free workshops will be held for anyone considering becoming a yoga instructor. Attendees will also be able to learn about the studio’s 2019/2020 program. Sat., July 20, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. YogaBalance Yoga Studio, 135 Hooksett Road, Manchester. Visit yogabalance.info or call 625-4000.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE CAR TALK

How much is my Honda CR-V worth?

Dear Car Talk: First, let me start off by saying that I am 72 going on 62. I have a 2014 Honda CR-V with over 34,000 miles on it.

I am thinking that I want a new OdysBy Ray Magliozzi sey because I have had them in the past and because of new safety features, like blind spot warning and all the other stuff you guys always recommend.

My question would be, what is my CR-V worth in a trade-in? Whatever help you can give me would be much appreciated.

Thank you. — Dorothy

Well, there are several ways to figure out the value of your car, Dorothy.

My brother figured out the value of his cars by leaving them unlocked with the keys in the ignition. When no one stole them in a week, he had a pretty good idea of the value.

What you should do is start by going to a website like kbb.com. Click on “Get Trade In Value” and fill in your information. That’ll give you a guess as to what it’s worth.

While you’re there, have a look at the “trade in value” vs. the “private sale val-

ue.” You’ll notice that you’ll get about 15 to 20 percent more for your car by selling it yourself. You might want to consider that.

A better way to value your car for private sale is to see what similar cars are selling for in the real world. How do you do that? Try a couple of websites. First, try Craigslist. That’s where you’ll find people selling their own cars. Look for 2013-2015 CR-Vs with mileage similar to yours. My guess is you’ll find that they’re selling for $13,000-$15,000.

Next, check out used CR-Vs at cars.com.

You’ll find mostly ads from dealers there, so the prices will be higher than in a private sale. But again, it’ll help you figure out what similar cars are selling for, and what your competition is. For instance, if you see a similar CR-V selling for $17,000 from a dealer, you know that if you list yours for $15,500, it’ll look like a good deal to buyers.

Once you’ve done your research, you can also ask the dealer what he’ll give you for a trade-in and compare that to what you’d get in a private sale. If the difference is 2,000 to 3,000 bucks, you might decide it’s worth the trouble to sell it yourself. Or commission a grandkid to do it for you.

Now, about the Odyssey. You’re absolutely right that we recommend forward

collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring and cross traffic alert for everybody. Especially 72-year-olds going on 62 like you, Dorothy. But you don’t have to get an Odyssey in order to get all that stuff. You can buy a new CR-V with that safety equipment if you like your current car.

If you love the Odyssey, and you want to tote around six grandkids, some 4-by-8 sheets of plywood and a couple of refrigerators, by all means, get the van. But it’s a big vehicle, and if you don’t need something that large, you can get the safety equipment you need on almost any vehicle now. So don’t feel limited.

Dear Car Talk: I am retired, but I work part time as a transporter for Hertz Rental Car at our local airport.

As I drive the cars, moving them around, I’ve noticed that almost all the cars have black interiors. Is this for cost savings for the car companies, or do rental companies just buy cars with black interiors?

Thanks. — Arnie.

It’s to cover up the latte stains, Arnie.

Or whatever other stains rental car cus-

tomers leave behind.

While cloth interiors are certainly cheaper than other options, the black cloth is probably no cheaper than, say, gray or tan cloth. But when you’ve got families with kids renting cars for the weekend, and little Freddie eats too many jelly beans at Grandma’s and tries to read “Where’s Waldo” in a moving car and ...

Well, you get the idea.

Being able to hide stains is something rental car companies figured out was important pretty quickly. That’s why Rent-A-White-Interior Rental Cars went out of business years ago, Arnie.

By the way, this is a good time to remind all of our readers to check with your credit card company before renting a car.

Most major credit cards provide insurance coverage for any rental car you pay for with that card. More often than not, you can decline the “supplemental insurance” that the rental car companies offer, which is expensive, and in most cases, unnecessary.

You’ll still have to hit those black cloth seats pretty hard with Febreze after the “Where’s Waldo” incident, but you’ll save a good chunk of money on the rental fee.

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How did you find your current job?

I had all this entertainment experience from the band, and the experience training with him [my mentor]...when I came home from Pittsburgh and went to my friend’s wedding it all kind of hit me.

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What is the best piece of work-related advice anyone has ever given you?

If you can help other people, other people are going to want to help you.

Greg owns his own mobile entertainment business, NRG Entertainment, in Tilton. He Just give back to others and help others, provides music and other entertainment for parties. be there for other people.

Disc Jockey and Event Entertainer

Can you explain what your current job is?

My current job is providing entertainment services for weddings, private parties, things like that. I provide a photo booth too.

While I was out there I met a guy who does mobile entertainment and he was a trainer for the Florida Academy of Mobile Entertainers. So I started training with him, under his wing. Then … I wound up moving back to New Hampshire. I was actually at a friend’s wedding and I kind of had a moment of clarity, and I said I should be doing this How long have you worked there?

I have just celebrated my 10-year anni- for myself. versary. I started the company in 2009.

What kind of education or training How did you get interested in this did you need for this job?

A lot of it was shadowing, and a lot field?

Basically, I was in a band, and for a of it is growing up around the music long time we were traveling all over the industry. I don’t know that you need forcountry, and through that opportunity I mal training …I think it’s hard to learn [moved to] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. music, and hard to teach performing on

What do you wish you had known at Greg Kassapis. Courtesy photo. the beginning of your career?

How difficult being an entrepreneur and stylish and keep it entertaining but and chasing your goals and your dreams not over the top. Definitely professional. was going to be, probably. I think a lot of people just get into that, they get a What was the first job you ever had? paycheck kind of mentality and get kind The first job I ever had was at Bob of complacent with it. I think that was Nadeau’s House of Subs. something I never was happy with. So — Jeff Epstein just that motivation of keeping forward and working for yourself.

What is your typical at-work uniform?

It depends on if its a wedding or a casual event. If it’s a wedding, I’m pretty snazzed up. I don’t try to outdo the couple, but I like to wear something fresh

What are you into right now?

I like to be outside, I like to work out ...just anything adventurous really. I just got back from Arizona and did a lot of hiking out there.

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• Summer menu at Copper Door: The Copper Door Restaurant (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford; 41 S. Broadway, Salem) recently unveiled its new summer menu, available now at both locations, according to a press release. Summer specials include watermelon and burrata salad with basil, pistachio, arugula and charred lemon vinaigrette; chicken caprese salad bowl with fresh mozzarella, garlic, avocado and grilled chicken; and grilled flat iron with chipotle orange marinade, maple syrup drizzle, creamy corn salad, sauteed snap peas and scallion. Visit copperdoor.com.

• A new home for 603 Brewery: Londonderry’s 603 Brewery Beer Hall is now open as of June 15, the brewery confirmed in a recent Facebook post. In April, 603 Brewery announced the relocation of all of its operations from Liberty Drive to the new space in the Woodmont Commons development at 42 Main St., about four miles away. The new beer hall seats more than 100 people, with additional seating available in a private function room and an outdoor beer garden, and features a full food menu, beers on tap and a few Citizen cider options as well. Visit 603brewery.com.

• Southern eats and whiskeys: Join the Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford) for its Woodford Reserve and craft beer party, scheduled for Friday, June 28, at 6 p.m. in its Overlook room. The event will feature an exclusive southern-style buffet prepared by executive chef Tina Verville, with items such as grilled barbecue chicken thighs, pork butt, corn and edamame succotash and cornbread, plus smoked beef brisket carved to order with assorted condiments. These will be complemented with a variety of craft beer and whiskey tastings available for the duration of the event. The event is 21+ only and tickets must be purchased in advance. The cost 38

For Manchester Chef Joe Grella, who started the dessert catering business Custom Eats & Sweets about three years ago, figuring out the concept of his new restaurant space was easy — he simply looked to his family’s Italian roots.

That was how he said Presto Pasta, on track to open on the Queen City’s West Side in the coming weeks, was born.

Pasta dishes and sandwiches served on Italian baguettes will be the stars of the menu, all made with homemade sauces, meatballs, breads and salads.

“We must have eaten pasta … at least four or five days a week when I was growing up,” Grella said. “It’s reliable, it’s hearty, it has so many different applications, and even the pickiest eaters love it. So it’s a common ground for a lot of people and we kind of just pulled together what we were going to do with what our family knows.”

Earlier this year Grella found the former space of Skinny’s Pizzeria on Amory Street and, with the help of his wife, parents, grandparents and other family members, gave it a complete makeover with the installation of new kitchen equipment, wallboards and custom-built countertops of various pasta shapes beneath glass that you’ll see immediately as you walk in.

While there are a few dine-in seats, Grella said that Presto Pasta will largely be focused on takeout meals, in addition to some prepared items you can take home and cook yourself.

“We’re deeming it a ‘craft kitchen and carry out’ concept,” he said. “We’re hoping to be almost be a sort of liaison for people … to not have to go for the frozen meals at the grocery store or hit the drive-thru on the way home.”

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Grella constructed the menu to feature a half dozen in-house pastas for you to choose from — linguini, penne, spaghetti, cavatappi, cheese ravioli and tortellini – as specialty dishes like chicken Parmesan, puttanesca, tortellini al forno, chicken cacciatore, carbonara with grilled chicken and bacon, shrimp scampi, Cajun chicken alfredo and several others, all of which can be ordered as single or family-sized portions. But you can also customize a pasta dish to your liking, by substituting your favorite pasta or protein, or even ordering stuffed pastas. Grella added that he’s working on implementing options to accommodate people with dietary restrictions.

Other menu staples will include a few salads, with add-on options like grilled chicken, shrimp or steak tips; appetizer “bites” like arancini, hand-cut fries, garlic bread, meatballs and chicken cutlets; and quarter, half or full-sized “sticks,” or sandwiches served on Italian baguettes, with options like chicken cutlet, chicken Parmesan, eggplant Parmesan, steak bomb and chicken BLT. “We’ll make all the sauces from scratch, our meatballs and proteins will be processed here, and everything will be sourced as fresh as we can get it,” Grella said. “We wanted to offer both single and family sizes, so that way you have the option of something that will feed one to two people, versus a whole family of four to six.”

For larger portions, Presto Pasta will also be offering its full menu in larger portions to feed 15 to 20 people, or even bigger party trays that would feed 30 to 40 people. Those would be available on a call-ahead basis at least 48 hours in advance.

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“It’s known as a functional beverage, which is basically any beverage that has numerous health benefits,” he said. “Similar to yogurt, it’s got a lot of probiotics that are good for your gut, and it also helps with digestive aid.”

According to Mazur, there are two fermentation cycles of kombucha, one before and one after you apply the scoby. The longer you let it ferment, the stronger its taste will be, but he said he likes it to be a minimum of 16 days or so. For home brewers, the fluctuating temperatures of one’s home may also accelerate or slow down the fermentation process.

Mazur led a similar workshop on May 18 that was such a success, more planned events are likely on the way if you can’t make this one. As for Glen Lake Libations, he’s still building his business plan to possibly have a shared kitchen space or a commercial kitchen built in his home, to brew not only kombucha but other fermented beverages like jun or kvass.

“Kombucha is really not a well-known beverage. I do think, however, that there’s a trend when it comes to our overall health, that people are journeying to find alternatives to sugary sodas,” he said. “So I want [the workshop] to be engaging and conversational, and to hopefully sort of build a social community around kombucha.”

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If you’ve heard about kombucha but don’t quite know what it is, or you want to try your hand at making kombucha in your home, you can learn all the basics of this fermented drink at a free workshop this weekend at Piper’s Cove in Goffstown.

On Saturday, June 29, at 1 p.m., veteran kombucha home brewer Brian Mazur of Goffstown will lead a workshop about the drink’s health benefits and flavor versatility and will also discuss the fermentation process.

Kombucha is a fizzy beverage usually made with either black or green tea, plus water, sugar and a scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast). Mazur said he first tried the drink, which originated somewhere in northern Tibet or China, after picking it up at a local grocery store about 10 years ago.

“I fell in love with it, and over the past three years, I really started to entertain myself with the different flavor profiles you can make with it,” he said. “That’s really the beauty of it, that you’re only limited by your imagination when it comes to the many combinations of flavoring.”

In fact, Mazur is also in the process of launching Glen Lake Libations, a new business that would be one of the first New Hampshire-based kombucha brewers.

During the workshop he will be providing tasting samples of several kombucha flavors he’s made himself, like cherry basil, ginger lime and mango habanero.

He’ll also be going over what kombucha is and any misconceptions people may have about it.

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I always come back to eggs. Really, they’re the perfect food all in a great little package. As I’ve written before in this column, not all eggs are created equal. Eggs that come from pastured hens are more nutritious. You can tell by looking at the yolk! A yolk from a properly pastured hen’s egg is bright orange. Truly, the color may surprise you. These days it’s fairly easy to get pastured eggs. Your local grocery store may have them, your farmers market too and, if you’re lucky, maybe your neighbor has them. Even here in Portsmouth, where I live, there are a few people who have chickens on their property. We’ve thought about housing some in our backyard but I honestly get a little scared of grown birds; it’s kind of embarrassing!

One of the many benefits of having chickens is the built-in pest control. With the mild winter and wet spring, ticks are at a high. There’s a lot of anxiety in New England and, sadly, it seems to be merited.

Chickens actually eat ticks and can help reduce the population. So, in addition to having your own eggs (that are more nutritious as they’ll come from pastured hens), you can rest a little easier knowing you have fewer ticks in your yard. Win-win!

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When considering white wine, most are inclined to select a chardonnay or pinot grigio or sauvignon blanc. However, there are a number of other varietals worth considering — wines that are frequently passed by, mostly for unknown reasons. Can it simply be the strength of marketing? France, Italy, Spain and the United States produce white wines, but many do not think of Germany or Austria as producing white wines. Everyone has heard of Oktoberfest and thinks of these countries as producing excellent beers.

These countries also produce excellent wines that are a distinct departure from most wines we are familiar with.

North Central Europe has cold winters.

The vines that are cultivated here must be winterized. The location of the vineyards, the orientation to the sun and exposure to hot summer days and cooling breezes at night are all critical in the cultivation of these vineyards. This imparts a “lightness” and crisp nuances to the wines. The eastern portions of Austria, along the Danube River, and the southern Palatine regions of Germany along the Rhine River, have long been known for producing excellent wines.

Austrian wines may come from one of the several regions of the eastern part of the country, along and near the Danube River.

The Höpler winery is located in Burgenland, one of these regions, just 45 minutes from Vienna. It is on the banks of Lake Neusiedl.

The Höpler Gruner Veltliner, 2017, priced at $15.99, comes from this district. (Both wines this week’s wines are distributed by Perfecta Wine Company, which gave me some samples to try.)

According to the winery’s website, this region was “settled by Cistercian monks, after they rocked out the vineyards in Burgundy. … this area has a long winemaking tradition and shares some similarities with that place in France.” The soils range from gravel with some clay to rich, fertile well-draining silt. Cold winters allow the vines to go dormant, but hot summers with substantial sunshine and humidity rising from the nearby lake allow the grapes to develop balance between fruit, flavor and great acidity. The color is straw with a strong overtone of green. The green results from the selection of greener grapes, producing a wine that is more aromatic than the grapes that are more yellow. To the nose the wine has notes of lime and a minerality of greens and some white pepper spice. This wine falls between sauvignon blanc (acid and green grassy notes) and riesling (tropical and mineral notes). To the taste, this wine has tropical fruit — pineapple with lemon-lime

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acidity. This is an ideal wine to cool and just sip, or pair with a salad — Yes! A wine to pair with a green salad! This wine will also pair with asparagus, oysters, sushi or pasta with a light “white” sauce.

The riesling profiled for this column is Prinz Salm Two Princes Riesling, 2017.

Priced at $16.99, this wine comes from the Rhineland Palatinate. This area, home of many if not most German wines, dates to the Holy Roman Empire. According to their website, the Prinz Salm winery dates back to the year 1200. The vineyards are planted on steep, south-facing slopes with an excellent microclimate. Schloss Wallhausen (castle/ manor house, constructed in 1565) is the seat for 32 generations of uninterrupted viticulture and family tradition. Four generations of the family now reside at Schloss Wallhausen to share their knowledge and experience to pass on to future generations. The family is long steeped in the history of viticulture and production of wine and has taken a leading and active role in the German Prädikat Wine Estates. They have opted for organic viticulture since 1988, one of the first German estates to do so. The wine has a nose of melon to light citric fruit. To taste, it combines pear/quince and apricot, with a mineral streak. It coats the tongue with a silky, very slightly sweet feel. This wine will pair well with a creamy seafood dish, but can bridge to a great complementary dessert wine.

Instead of selecting a pinot grigio or chardonnay, the next time you want a cool white wine to sip, or to pair with a meal, expand your palate and try one of these wines. Look to the subtleties and versatility of these Austrian and German wines. They go with an array of foods from cheeses to salads to seafood to desserts. They are worth your consideration.

Fred Matuszewski is a local architect and a foodie and wine geek, interested in the cultivation of the multiple strains and varieties of grapes and the industry of wine production and sales. Chief among his travels is an annual trip to the wine-producing areas of California.

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• The June 28 record release date is headlined by Let’s Rock, the new album from wealthy college dropouts The Black Keys, the Akron, Ohio,-based duo famous for the awesome, buzzed-up, punk-a-go-go tune “Lonely Boy.” You know, while we’re at it, the two-person-band thing is a great approach for musicians who have serious trouble finding third and fourth members to jam with you and your best buddy; there’s something very organic about it. It’s something to consider for you local guys when the pickings are slim, especially in these days of pure DIY music-making. Just go for it, who cares? In fact, a lot of people care about these two guys, and their output has been pretty cool so far, so it’s time to go see if their new single, “Eagle Birds,” makes me barf. Wow, it’s a retro stomper, something that might have ended up as a throwaway hard-rock B-side for The Eagles or someone like that.

Actually it sounds like mid-career Nazareth blues-metal with Glenn Frey singing, if you want to get more accurate, so you see, if you’re struggling with your hard rock band, just fire your bass player and lead guitarist and you should be set up nicely for fame and inevitable horrific downfall.

• Well, well, well, it’s ’80s New-Wave band The Alarm, that bunch of annoying Welshmen who were always on MTV, trying to make up their mind which band they wanted to rip off, be it the Cure or U2 or Simple Minds, etc. They were always last on the list of most-desired influences in “Band Members Wanted” ads posted by goth-punk bands, because they couldn’t stick to one approach. That wouldn’t be all bad, but they were boring, and thus ends our history of The Alarm, who nowadays are still run by original singer Mike Peters, who recently re-did most of their early songs with the intention of appealing to the new millennial zeitgeist. You can obviously see how little success that idea wrought, so, what the heck, it’s a new Alarm album, called Sigma, and now we have to talk about it, because that’s what this page is for.

OK, the single, “Brighter than the Sun,” sort of recalls The Cult’s Love album, which means there is indeed awesomeness afoot, but here we go again, its epic-ness is reduced by mediocrity. I never hated this band back in the day, mind you; they were OK if there was literally nothing else to listen to if you were partying at the local weird kid’s house, put it that way.

• Oh look, it’s Chase Atlantic, an Australian alternative-pop band I’ve never heard of, with their second full-length, titled Phases! If I were 23 again, I suppose I’d join a band called Chase Atlantic, and then quickly move to change the name, because it sounds like a type of credit card, but let’s proceed with this credit-card-named band and their single, “STUCKINMYBRAIN.” Wait, am I in the right place, because this sounds like Chris Brown. I am? OK, goodbye, credit-card-named Australian band, I must go.

• Good old 311, ha ha, you know? They have a new album called Voyager, and the single, “Don’t You Worry,” goes from a one-drop reggae beat to Mars Volta-style hard-rock. Do I know anyone personally who would want that? No, not that that should influence the people reading this. —Eric W. Saeger

We discussed this innovative, egalitarian, Harlem-based record label back in April, about how it does business in as green a way as you could get, spotlighting artists who are both wildly talented and environmentally conscious. Here, upright bassist/leader Oh has assembled eight players – four on strings, along with a pianist, sax player, a guy on drums/vibraphone, and, on four tracks, a vocal ensemble – to concoct a stew of modern jazz and improvisational stuff. Yes, there’s that word again, improv, a style I fell into reviewing 15 years ago mostly just because it was there and no one else wanted to review it; I quickly found that a lot of it was hampered by stuffy expressionism put forth by people I wouldn’t want to get trapped next to on a party couch. The lawd smiled upon me this time, though; the title track is a fascinating swirl of mercurialism, landing with an unsettling bit of There Will Be Blood-soundtrack-reminiscent string accounting, then settling into pure sweetness, pieces that will make you think of The Wizard of Oz, put simply.

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Beth Bombara, Evergreen (Lemp Electric Records)

From our soccer-mom-indie-pop desk comes the sixth album from this Missouri-based songwriter, a rather hard-touring lady whose forte to date has been said to be vintage folk and roots rock. In this instance I’d be more inclined to reach for AOR country-pop references like Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow, really, which in this case isn’t the predictable collection of pickpocketed KT Tunstall ideas I seem to get in here. No, she’s more like a low-slung Natalie Merchant, generally sticking to the mid-tempo range, a slightly more aggressive Aimee Mann if you will. I suspect that she’s a bit wary of going off into catchy choruses the way Mann and Tunstall do; unless I missed something the tunes stick to the unadventurous sort of safe sports-bar ambiance that’s been the norm since the Brooklyn hipster crowd decreed that big choruses are verboten (I do plan to write a piece about that in Medium.com someday, whenever I get around to it, which at this point seems like it’ll happen right after I learn to fly an F-14). I mean, it’s fine and all, placid vibes you can bounce your baby to, if that helps.

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Norma Murphy was an elementary school teacher with a passion for writing but no plans to write a novel until around 15 years ago, when she had a startling dream in which she had kidnapped a young girl.

“I woke up with these real feelings of panic and terror. I didn’t mean to take her, but I had [kept] her for a time, and it was too late to give her back,” Murphy said.

“It was all so clear and vivid. I had to get up and write it all down.”

Murphy, who is now retired, living in Newbury, N.H., and Lowell, Mass., and is a member of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, recently self-published her debut novel inspired by the dream, A Better Life. It is available online and at select bookstores. The novel follows Jenny, a woman who “does things without thinking, then thinks later,” Murphy said. One summer morning Jenny impulsively kidnaps a young girl from the back seat of a car with the belief that she is saving her.

After learning that the girl was a foster child and that her foster parents refrained from reporting her missing so that they could keep collecting the money, Jenny decides to raise the girl, whom she names Margaret, as her own, with her boyfriend Gene. “[Jenny] thought she could make a better life for [Margaret],” Murphy said.

“She kidnapped her, yes, but it was to give her a better home than the one she came from, and [Jenny] does her best to be a good mother to Margaret under the circumstances.”

The story is told in the first person by Jenny and Margaret. Margaret’s narrative begins at age 15, when she learns about her abduction and leaves home to find answers about her origins.

Murphy’s dream was “the seed” for the novel, she said. At first she planned on writing a short story, but as the characters developed so did the story.

“For me, writing is all about the characters, and I got so involved with these characters. They became so real to me,” Murphy said. “They trusted me enough to open themselves up to me and allow me to tell their story.”

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Murphy said she sees a reflection of herself in Jenny and Margaret, plus “some surprises along the way.”

“Growing up, I was a good little girl like Margaret, always trying to please and make things better in the family,” she said, “but there’s a little of Jenny in me, too, being too trusting of people and wanting a family more than anything.”

Shortly after A Better Life was released, Murphy launched a blog that documents her journey from writing to self-publishing and marketing.

She’s currently working on a new book, she said, that has “very different characters” and is “full of NORMA MURPHY secrets and lies.”

For her third book Murphy plans on writing a sequel to A Better Life. “[The ending] is not cut and dry, but you have a good sense of what is going to happen with [the characters].” she said. “I didn’t think of it as ending on a cliffhanger, but it seems that many of the people who read it feel like it did, so I will continue the story.”

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You might not want to have sex with a robot. You might be perfectly happy canoodling with another human being, despite our irritating tendency to tire, sweat and wrinkle.

But if given the opportunity to acquire a “synthetic human” — a beautiful, brainy robot so life-like that people couldn’t distinguish it from real humans on the street — and if it would do your dishes and laundry, cut your grass and dress itself, who could resist?

Charlie, the protagonist in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me, acquires his synthetic human, appropriately named “Adam,” after his mother dies, leaving him a tidy inheritance. Ordinarily, Charlie would not have had the money. Adam cost more than $100,000, and Charlie is an unambitious millennial who ekes out a living in London by trading stocks online. He concedes that it was a reckless purchase, but justified it by noting that Alan Turing, “war hero and presiding genius of the digital age,” had bought one too.

Charlie envisions Adam both as a companion and household help, and he enlists a beguiling neighbor, Amanda, to help him select the personality traits that Adam will have. You could program Adam to be outgoing or shy, talkative or withdrawn, boastful or modest, for example.

Adam can converse, has a pulse and the appearance of breathing, can charge himself on command and tie his own shoes. He also can do anything you ask, from opening a bottle of wine, to cleaning windows.

He also processes information faster than Google. Which is why, when Adam tells Charlie something disturbing about Amanda that he has gleaned from court records, things get complicated quickly.

Although Amanda and Charlie have become lovers, she hasn’t been forthcoming about her life and has been going through the motions of a relationship even as Charlie is falling in love. One night the two have an argument about the Falklands invasion and Charlie walks out, leaving Adam in Amanda’s apartment overnight.

Since he lives below her, he can hear what transpires, leading to another argument the next day, about whether sex with a robot can be considered infidelity.

The complexity of the moral issues presented by a rapidly changing plot makes Machines Like Me both a satisfying read and a challenging one.

Adding to the complexity is the upsidedown universe in which Charlie and Amanda dwell. The early mention of Turing, the computer scientist who died in 1954, is a clue that Charlie’s world is not the same as ours even though the Drudge Report keeps promising that life-sized sex robots will be on Walmart shelves any day.

Charlie lives in the 1980s, but it’s the 1980s in which the Beatles have reunited, Joseph Heller wrote Catch-18, and Britain lost the Falklands War, badly, among other contradictions.

It’s a clever construction that allows for sly jokes that will be lost on some readers; for example, Turing’s devotion to opensource publication, McEwan writes, led to “the collapse of the journals Nature and Science” — both very much still alive.

But as strange as this universe is, it is the setup for McEwan’s profound point that “The present is the frailest of improbable constructs.” But for almost imperceptible twists and turns of life, everything could be different in ways both small and enormous.

“How easy to conjure worlds in which my toenail had not turned against me,” Charlie muses as he gets an ingrown toenail treated, “in which I was rich, living north of the Thames after one of my schemes succeeded; in which Shakespeare had died in childhood and no one missed him….”

The robots are here. They’re not yet physically indistinguishable from humans, but some have already passed the famous “Turing Test” by being indistinguishable in how they “think” and behave. And some people believe that there’s little difference from our own predictable patterns of behavior and the AI that we create; “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, for example, has long called people “moist robots.”

Machines Like Me envisions the unintended consequences of our obsession with making AI stronger, faster, smarter and more beautiful. As Charlie says early on, “Tragedy was a possibility, but not boredom.” It’s a compelling book from one of Britain’s literary masters.

A —Jennifer Graham

POP CULTURE BOOKS

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• Hopeful novel: Karen Coulters presents Hope from Daffodils at the Toadstool Bookshop (614 Nashua St., Milford) on Sunday, June 30, at 1 p.m.

The novel follows a widow after her husband’s unexpected death, who opens her own bridal banquet business and meets an attorney from New York. Visit toadbooks.com.

• Sherlock Holmes writers: Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St., Manchester) welcomes three contributing authors for The Irregular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! — Brian Belanger (The MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes Adventures), Derrick Belanger (A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural) and Will Murray (The Destroyer and Mars Attacks) — on Saturday, June 29, at 7 p.m. The book is an anthology of young adult Sherlock Holmes stories written by new young adult authors. Visit bookerymht.com.

• Music-lover’s memoir: Rob Azevedo presents his debut memoir, Notes From the Last Breath Farm: A Music Junkie’s Quest to be Heard, at Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) on Tuesday, July 2, at 6 p.m. Azevedo hosts Granite State of Mind, a weekly radio show aired on 95.3 WMNH, Manchester’s Downtown Radio Station, that features interviews and live studio performances with local musicians. He has also written music-related columns and articles for the Concord Monitor, the Boston Globe and other publications, and has written six short films that were featured at the SNOB Film Festival in Concord. “I’m doing the things I’ve always wanted to do — a local radio show, shooting short films, writing columns, and [writing a book], which is an accomplishment I never thought I’d reach, but it happened — and I have an audience,” Azevedo told the Hippo last month. “I feel like I’ve fulfilled my goal of being heard.”

To read the full Q&A with Azevedo, visit hippopress.com and click on “past issues,” then click on the May 23 issue pdf and look for the story on p. 63.

— Angie Sykeny

Books Author Events • BRIAN BELANGER, DERRICK BELANGER AND WILL MURRAY Authors present The Irregular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! Sat., June 29, 2 p.m.

Bookery, 844 Elm St., Manchester. Visit bookerymht.com.

• MEGAN GRISWOLD Author presents The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. Wed., July 10, 6 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord). Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• TORY HILL AUTHOR SERIES Showcases locally and nationally known authors as they discuss their books and personal experiences. The events take place on select Saturdays at 7 p.m.

This year’s author lineup includes Diane Les Becquets on July 13, Andrew Dubus III on July 27, John Porter on Aug. 10, and Peter Miller on Aug. 24. Tickets cost $10 per event or $32 for all four events. Visit toryhillauthorsseries. com.

• IGOR VOLSKY Author of Guns Down visits. Wed., July 17, 6 p.m., at Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St., Manchester). Visit bookerymht.com. Tues., July 16, 6 p.m., Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord). Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• LIZA WIELAND Author presents Paris, 7 A.M. Wed., July 17, at 7 p.m. The Music Hall Loft (131 Congress St., Portsmouth). Tickets cost $41 and include a copy of the book. Visit themusichall.org.

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. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

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

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

Visit smythpl.org.

• MORNING BOOK GROUP Meets monthly. First Thurs., 10 a.m.

Dover Public Library, 73 Locust St., Dover. Visit pinterest.com/doverpl/ book-group-morning-dpl/.

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

• MORNING BOOK GROUP Book discussion group. Second Thursday, 11 a.m. to noon. Smyth Public Library, 55 High St., Candia. Visit smythpl.org.

• NASHUA NOVEL READERS Monthly book discussion. Second Thursday, 7 p.m. Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua. Visit nashualibrary.org.

Writers groups • PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE Cue Zero Theatre Company hosts a monthly Playwright’s Circle for local playwrights looking to improve their craft. Playwrights of all ages and experience levels are invited to bring 10 pages of an original work, which the circle will read aloud and offer feedback on while discussing the process and philosophy of playwriting. Bring at least one copy of your scene for every character. Every third Sunday, Poetry events 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jupiter Hall, 89 • SLAM FREE OR DIE Week- Hanover St., Manchester. Visit facely poetry open mike and slam. book.com/CZTheatre.

Thursday, 8 p.m. Stark Brewing Co., 500 N. Commercial St., Manchester. $3. Visit facebook.com/ slamfreeordie.

• RACHEL HADAS 2019 Hyla Brook Reading Series. Thurs., Looking for more book, July 11, 6:30 p.m. Robert Frost film and pop culture Farm (122 Rockingham Road, events?

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Toy Story 4 (G)

The Dead Don’t Die (R)

Woody must protect a self-destructive new toy called “Forky” in Toy Story 4, Pixar’s latest offering in the animated film series that started in 1995.

Forky (voice of Tony Hale) is a spork with pipe-cleaner arms and popsicle stick feet who was created by a scared, lonely Bonnie (voice of Madeleine McGraw) on her first day in kindergarten. He’s also a little bit the creation of Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), still one of Bonnie’s many toys but no longer leader in Bonnie’s room the way he was in Andy’s (now he’s frequently getting left in the closet with the toddler toys). His old pals like Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), Rex the dinosaur (voice of Wallace Shawn) and Jessie (voice of Joan Cusack) try to help him keep his spirits up and Woody puts on a brave face but he is desperate to be relevant. When a reluctant Bonnie heads to her new school, he sneaks a ride in her backpack and helps to cheer her up by surreptitiously getting her art supplies.

Hence Forky.

Woody is shocked when Forky comes alive, proving himself a real toy, and is determined to keep him safe for Bonnie, who clings to Forky as the toy she needs to get herself through kindergarten. This is easier said than done; Forky is certain he’s meant to be trash and keeps throwing himself away. Woody keeps digging, knocking or throwing him out of trash cans. This kind of care-taking doesgive Woody a longed-for purpose but while the family is on vacation Forky jumps out of the RV window and Woody, determined to protect Forky and provide this service to Bonnie, jumps after.

As they make their way to the RV park where Bonnie’s family is staying, Woody sees a familiar light in an antique store window — the lamp he remembers as the base for his dear friend Bo Peep (voice of Annie Potts). He goes into the shop looking for Bo but instead meets Gabby Gabby (voice of Christina Hendricks), a 1950s baby doll who, like Woody, has a pull-string voice box. Only hers was defective, keeping her from being given to and played with by a child. When she sees Woody, and his mint-condition pull-string, she calls in her suit-wearing henchmen, a bunch of ventriloquist dummies.

As Bonnie’s family and the RV spend some time at the park and a nearby carnival, Woody and others from the regular gang work to get Forky free from Gabby Gabby. Along the way, Woody does indeed see Bo Peep again, now enjoying her life as a frequently-played-with lost toy.

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Adam Driver and Bill Murray are police officers in a small town with a zombie problem in The Dead Don’t Die, a film from director Jim Jarmusch.

Toy Story 4

the Toy Story shorts many times with my kids. The shorts are buoyant and fun with bright, cheery animation, lovely but still in the realm of cartooniness, and little stories that blend kid-friendly situations with smart details. From this spot, it’s somewhat shocking to see the movie version of these characters who have developed along the same line as the Pixar approach to elements such as water. Details have become so expertly photorealistic that they offer a kind of visual artistry that ruminates on the nature of the thing — how water looks when it ebbs or when a drop creates a ripple. Here, the toys themselves are presented in this way. At least in the IMAX screening where I saw the movie, Woody looks like a fully three-dimensional real-world cowboy toy in a real place. The human people are the cartoon-iest things about the movie.

I feel like all of this physicality should bowl me over with its artistry. And occasionally it does. But it was also distracting and occasionally even a little unpleasant. It left me feeling kind of a low-level unsettled throughout the movie.

Add to that the unsettled nature of the movie’s themes, which include figuring out what to do with yourself when a “life’s purpose” has been resolved, letting go of an old identity and finding a new place in the world, moving on when a child has grown up and no longer needs you. These issues remind me of some of the middle-life crisis-y things that Lightning McQueen wrestled with in the last Cars movie. (Is someone at Pixar dealing with some stuff?) These are all interesting ideas to build a story on, narratively and emotionally rich places to take a wellknown character. And, hey, maybe empty nest worries and second careers are the talk of the playground. But I suspect not and this movie is not adequately wacky around the periphery of these grand themes to feel as all-ages approachable as I expected.

I’m also a little surprised the movie

got a G rating. Gabby Gabby’s dummy henchmen are creepy and menacing and there’s a lot of Bonnie crying because she’s missing her toy and just general free-floating fear throughout this movie.

Maybe there’s no objectionable content, but I don’t know that I’d take little kids to this movie. I’m not sure who I’d take to this movie.

And here, for me, is the problem with Toy Story 4. This movie is a solid character arc for Woody and gets at a lot of scary life stuff beautifully. It has some really amazing visuals and does some fun things with how toys move and their scale in the human world — particularly with the Evel Knievel-ish Duke Caboom (voice of Keanu Reeves) and his motorcycle. And there are stretches of action adventure and clever use of toys of various sizes and abilities and well-thought-out “rules” to the various new environments. This is a well-crafted, well-rounded film that will totally deserve its inevitable spot in the Best Animated Feature Oscar category.

And I didn’t really enjoy it.

There isn’t enough Buzz or Rex or Jessie. There isn’t enough toy goofiness.

There isn’t much in the way of joy. (You could argue that Toy Story 3 was more bittersweet than joyful but it was, to my memory, joyfully told, joyful in the visuals and the way the elements were used.)

Again, I am willing to accept that I have a skewed vision of what has always been kind of an emotionally fraught series because the shorts, my most recent contact with these characters, are so frothy.

So perhaps it’s just me, perhaps you’ll go and your kids will cheer and you’ll be enchanted. Perhaps I’m the only one having a B- time at what is probably a B+ movie.

Rated G by the MPAA. Directed by Josh Cooley with a screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom, Toy Story 4 is an hour and 40 minutes long and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios.

I feel like if “Jim Jarmusch makes a zombie movie” has already sold you, then you will probably enjoy this movie. I’ll admit that my most significant Jarmusch exposure was 2005’s Broken Flowers, which, like this movie, featured Bill Murray. That movie had, to my memory, a slow-and-low vibe, as does this one. I feel like it worked better there. Or maybe that was 14 years ago and what floated my cinematic boat has changed.

Here, Hermit Bob (Tom Waits) watches and narrates while Centerville is slowly overrun by zombies. Police Chief Cliff Robertson (Murray) and officers Ronnie Peterson (Driver) and Mindy Morrison (Chloe Sevigny) respond to what at first appears to be a wild animal attack. We also see the rest of the small town adjust to the new reality, including angry farmer Frank (Steve Buscemi), hardware store owner Hank (Danny Glover) and gas station/ convenience store/comic book shop attendant Bobby (Caleb Landry Jones). Tilda Swinton also shows up playing a character that is both superweird, by normal character standards, and not so strange for Tilda Swinton characters.

The dead rising is only one of the strange happenings: due to “polar fracking” the Earth is off its axis, the moon is creating “toxic vibrations” and time and daylight are no longer in sync.

Huh, cute, was my thinking. Zombie movies often have social criticism tucked inside the head-taps and moans of “braaaaaains.” (Here, as a character points out, the zombies don’t seem particular about brains and just eat any old body parts. And their moans tend to be related to some primal need from their living days, hence moans of “Xaaaaanax” and “Siiiiii-ri.”) The polar fracking and the officialdom that reassures people that it’s safe and good makes for a nice bit of commentary.

For me, though, the movie is too low, too slow, too simmer-y for too long. Even its meta impulses feel dulled from how flatly those jokes are delivered. Take any element out of this roadside curio cabinet of self-conscious oddities for a quick examination and it’s fine, clever-ish even. But all together and for an hour and 44 minutes, it feels like a whole lot of not much happening. C+ Rated R for zombie violence/gore and for language, according to the MPAA. Written and directed by Jim Jarmush, The Dead Don’t Die is an hour and 44 minutes long and is distributed by Focus Features.

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O’Neil Cinema 12 Apple Tree Mall, Londonderry, 434-8633 Regal Concord 282 Loudon Road, Concord, 226-3800 Regal Hooksett 8 100 Technology Drive, Hooksett Showcase Cinemas Lowell 32 Reiss Ave., Lowell, Mass., 978-551-0055

MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX ​ ED RIVER THEATRES R 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • The Dead Don’t Die (R, 2018) Thurs., June 27, 2:05, 5:40 and 8 p.m.; Fri., June 28, and Sat., June 29, 7:55 p.m.; Sun., June 30, 5:30 p.m.; and Mon., June 1, through Thurs., June 4, 7:55 p.m.

• Pavarotti (PG-13, 2019) Thurs., June 27, 2 and 5:30 p.m.; Fri., June 28, and Sat., June 29, 12:40, 3:05 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun., June 30, 12:40 and 3:05 p.m.; and Mon., June 1, through Thurs., June 4, 2 and 5:30 p.m.

• Carmine Street Guitars (NR, 2019) Thurs., June 27, 2:10 and 5:25 p.m.; Fri., June 28, and Sat., June 29, 12:30, 4:10 and 8 p.m.; Sun., June 30, 12:30 and 4:10 p.m.; and Mon., June 1, through Thurs., June 4, 7:20 p.m.

• The Biggest Little Farm (PG, 2019) Thurs., June 27, 7:10 p.m.; Fri., June 28, through Sun., June 30, 2:15 and 5:55 p.m.; and Mon., June 1, through Thurs., June 4, 2:10 and 5:25 p.m.

• Jimi Hendrix Electric Church (NR, 2019) Tues., July 2, 7 p.m.

• Inspired to Ride Thurs., July 11, 6 p.m.

• Sing Away the Pain (NR, 2019) Thurs., July 25, 7 p.m.

• 1969 (R, 2019) Thurs., Aug. 22, 7 p.m.

• Booksmart (R, 2019) Fri., June 28, and Sat., June 29, 1, 3:15, 5:35 and 7:50 p.m.; Sun., June 30, 1, 3:15 and 5:35 p.m.; Mon., June 1, Wed., June 3, and Thurs., June 4, 2:05, 5:35 and 7:50 p.m.; and Tues., June 2, 2:05 p.m.

• Castle in the Sky (PG, 1986) Thurs., Aug. 1, 7 p.m.

• Apollo 13 (PG, 1995) Thurs., Aug. 8, 8:30 p.m.

• Your Name (PG, 2016) Thurs., Aug. 15, 7 p.m.

• Mirai (PG, 2018) Thurs., Sept.

12, 7 p.m.

• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (PG, 1984) Thurs., Oct. 3, 7 p.m.

7:30 p.m.; plus Sun., June 30, 2 and 4:30 p.m.

• A Night at the Opera (1935) Sat., June 29, 4:30 p.m.

WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Late Night (R, 2019) Thurs., June 27, through Wed., July 3, 7:30 p.m., plus Sun., June 30, 2 and 4:30 p.m.

• Long Shot (R, 2019) Thurs., June 27, 7:30 p.m.

• Pavarotti (PG-13, 2019) Fri., June 28, through Wed., July 3,

MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY Main Branch, 405 Pine St., Manchester, 624-6550; West Branch, 76 Main St., Manchester, 6246560, manchester.lib.nh.us • God Bless the Broken Road (PG, 2018) Wed., July 3, 1 p.m. (main) • Bernie the Dolphin (G, 2018) Wed., July 10, 1 p.m. (main)

SUNSET CINEMA SERIES South Main Stage, Main Street, Concord, 224-4600, redrivertheatres.org • Shrek (PG, 2001) Wed., July 17, 9 p.m.

CINEMAGIC 1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 644-4629; 11 Executive Park Drive, Merrimack, 423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com • Kinky Boots the Musical (PG) Sat., June 29, 12:55 p.m.

• Whisper of the Heart (G) Mon., July 1, 7 p.m.

• Sound! Euphonium: Oath’s Finale (PG) Thurs., July 11, 7 p.m.

• Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (PG-13) Thurs., July 18, 7:30 p.m. (Hooksett only) • Killer Klowns from Outer Space (PG-13, 1988) Thurs., July 11, 8 p.m. (Hooksett only) • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (PG, 1975) Thurs., Aug. 15, 8 p.m. (Merrimack only) CHUNKY’S CINEMA 707 Huse Road, Manchester, 206-3888; 150 Bridge St., Pelham, 635-7499; 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua, 880-8055, chunkys.com • Curious George (G, 2006) Wed., July 17, 11:30 a.m.

• Summer Rental (1985) Thurs., July 18, 11:30 a.m.

• Jaws (PG, 1975) Wed., July 31, 7 p.m., and Thurs., Aug. 1, through Sat., Aug. 3, 7 and 8 p.m.

• The Princess Bride (PG, 1987) Thurs., Aug. 8, 7 p.m.

• Labyrinth (PG, 1986) Thurs., Aug. 15, 7 p.m.

• The Goonies (PG, 1985) Thurs., Aug. 22, 7 and 8 p.m.

• Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark Thurs., Aug. 29, 7 p.m.

THE MUSIC HALL Historic Theater, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth; Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org • The Biggest Little Farm (PG, 2019) Thurs., June 27, 7 p.m. (loft) • 2001: A Space Odyssey (G, 1968) Thurs., June 27, 8 p.m. (theater) • Echo in the Canyon (PG-13, 2018) Fri., June 28, 3 p.m.; Sun., June 30, 4 p.m.; and Tues., July 2, and Wed., July 3, 7 p.m. (theater) • Romeo et Juliette (The Met) Sat., June 29, 1 p.m. (theater) • International Ocean Film Tour Sat., June 29, 7 p.m. (theater) • Shadow (R, 2019) Sat., June 29, Tues., July 2, Fri., July 5, and Sat., July 6, 7 p.m. (loft) 3S ARTSPACE 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, 766-3330, 3sarts.org • Sundance Shorts Tour 2019 Thurs., July 18, 7:30 p.m.

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THE STRAND BALLROOM 20 Third St., Dover, 343-1899, thestrandballroom.com • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Sun., July 7, 2 p.m.

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NITE Aussie Americana Local music news & events By

Michael Witthaus

mwitthaus@hippopress.com

• Throwback: The fifth annual Pin-up Party happens with music from Lowell-based rockabilly quartet The Imposers, a vintage auto show and, naturally, styles inspired by Bettie Page, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and other starlets of the era. Bring the Brylcreem and enjoy a throwback evening of music, cars and girls. Go Thursday, June 27, 7:30 p.m., Central Ale House, 23 Central St., Manchester.

More at bit.ly/2KABRzF. • Bacharachian: Berklee College of Music Professor David “Doc” Vose started Deep Blue C Studio Orchestra primarily as a tribute to the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, but also to honor John Williams, John Lennon and others from the ’60s pop era. The 17-member ensemble authentically recreates hits of Dusty Springfield to Dionne Warwick. Go Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m., Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road (Steeplegate Mall), Concord. Tickets $17 at hatboxnh.com.

• Changing hands: The sale of Wild Rover Pub to the owner of McGarvey’s is marked with music from Royal Furs. A post on the venue’s Facebook page read, “We know we are leaving it in good hands to Robert Scribner and all the awesome employees. This is Bitter Sweet as we will miss all the staff and customers that have been such a big part of our lives but we are ready to say Goodbye and start our next adventure.” Go Saturday, June 29, 9 p.m., Wild Rover, 21 Kosciuszko St., Manchester.

• Metallic KO: NorCal black metal band Vale has members of Ghoul, Ulthar, Atrament, Abstracter, Lycus, Void Omnia and Mutilation Rites. One critic called their new album Burden of Sight an “uncompromising, pummeling vision of a world tricked, plundered, ravaged and left for dead.” A local show includes Boston’s Dim and Fasad, based in Maine. Go Tuesday, July 2, 6:30 p.m., Ohmen Productions, 836 Candia Road, Manchester. More at facebook.com/ ohmenproductions.

Jordie Lane performs at new Concord venue

By Michael Witthaus

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The list of male-and-female duos inspired by the late Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris is long, but Jordie Lane took it to another level when he came from Australia to the United States for the first time almost a decade ago.

With partner and producer Clare Reynolds he arrived in Los Angeles and proceeded to the Joshua Tree Inn, where Parsons died in 1974.

They stayed in Room 8, the exact spot where the musician some call the Father of Americana overdosed. “That’s actually why I booked my ticket, to go out there and soak it up,” Lane said in a recent phone interview. He tracked half the songs on his 2011 album Blood Thinner “in that motel. It’s completely owed to Gram and to my best mate who introduced me to his music — to actually getting me over here in the first place.”

Prior to that, he and Reynolds portrayed Gram and Emmylou in an Australian stage production based on their lives. Now, although Lane’s name is on marquees, they’re a performing duo with similar chemistry, though unlike Parsons and Harris, they’re also a couple in real life.

Coming to America meant leaving behind a successful singer-songwriter career Down Under. Melbourne Magazine named Lane in its 100 Most Influential People list, and he won Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Double J Radio’s Tower of Song award. But Lane, the son of performers, has a strong sense of wanderlust.

“As soon as I finished high school I kind of got the travel bug,” he said, first heading to Southeast Asia, then Europe and finally the U.S. “I just fell in love with the whole place; the nostalgia and history in terms of the music.

It inspired me, so I wanted to be closer to that…. I got tired of coming back and forth all the time, and so just made the move.”

He and Reynolds settled in Glassell Park, a neighborhood near Dodger Stadium. The 2018 album Glasselland came from the experience.

Its centerpiece song, “America, Make My Dreams Come True,” is “satirical but it’s also completely sincere,” Lane said.

Jordie Lane. Courtesy photo.

“That’s the great thing about this country,” he continued. “Americans too are brought up to believe that they can go for whatever they want, and then of course there are so many people who want to do that and sometimes do not get the chance to. So all of that kind of is rolled into that song.”

The two have since moved to Nashville, a more central hub for touring, and also home to many of their inspirations.

They regularly attend Honky Tonk Tuesday, a weekly event at an American Legion post that’s a magnet for the city’s biggest names. Recently, Emmylou Harris turned up, allowing one dream to come true for Lane and Reynolds.

“All of a sudden Emmylou is up on stage singing ‘Love Hurts’ with Rodney Crowell,” Lane said. “It was one of those crazy moments for Clare and I … this big full circle of meeting, and learning how to sing together in American through Gram and Emmylou and then being like six feet away from them singing this song, with the spirit of Gram there too.”

On June 6, Lane released a new EP, Lost.

He’ll play selections from it at an upcoming concert at the newly opened Bank of NH Stage in Concord. It’s his first trip to New Hampshire, and of course he and Reynolds won’t be flying.

“It’s a decent drive to Concord, but we are going to drive there because it’s possible,” he said. “You can play a lot of regional shows in Australia and drive the whole way, but it’s not very common for most touring artists.

They’ll fly to one city, drive for a bit, then fly to another. Nashville is so great because we’re driving everywhere to shows – to Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis and across to the East Coast. It’s awesome.”

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Londonderry Coach Stop: Johnny Angel Stumble Inn: Radio Roulette

Northwood Umami: Joe Fortin

Peterborough Loudon Harlow’s: Michael McCarthy Hungry Buffalo: Jennifer Mitchell Band Portsmouth 3S Artspace: Evening with Percy Manchester Hill Backyard Brewery: Brien Sweet British Beer: Stacey Kelleher Bonfire: Walkin’ The Line Clipper Tavern: Jon Hollywood Club ManchVegas: Gone by Sun- Dolphin Striker: Rhythm Method rise Portsmouth Book & Bar: Lunch Derryfield: Chris Lester/Swipe at The Dump Right Portsmouth Gaslight: Rick WatFoundry: Steven Chagnon son/Brad Bosse/Songs w/Molly Fratello’s: Tom Rousseau Press Room: The Minus Scale And KC’s Rib Shack: Mark Huzar The Sheila Divine W/Ultra Major Murphy’s Taproom: Malcolm Ri Ra: Jimmy’s Down Rudi’s: Duke Salls/Sunday Ave Penuche’s: Penuche’s Sunday The Goat: Paige Davis Block Party Thirsty Moose: The Ultra Shaskeen: Lamont Smooth Strange Brew: Silvertone/Ms. G Rochester & Company Governors Inn: Bad Penny Whiskey’s 20: DJ Hizzy/Shawn ReFresh Lounge: Wingate White Seabrook Wild Rover: Royal Furs Chop Shop: Blackheart Meredith Weare Giuseppe’s: Andre Balazs Stark House Tavern: Walker Merrimack Smith Able Ebenezer: Summer Drive-In Big Kahuna’s Cafe: Garret Par- Wilton Local’s Café: Stone Hill Station tridge Acoustic Duo Homestead: Stephen Decuire Sunday, June 30 Jade Dragon: Victim of CircumAshland stance/DJ Laura Common Man: Chris White Solo Acoustic Milford J’s Tavern: Jared Rocco Bedford Pasta Loft: Radio Star Union Coffee: Gentle Temper / Copper Door: Nate Comp / Brad Low Ceilings / Happy Just to See Bosse Murphy’s: Jonny Friday You

doin Sea Ketch: Ray Zerkle/Ross McGinnes The Goat: Nick Drouin Hudson River’s Pub: Acoustic Jam Manchester Bungalow: High Command/Video Filth/Ambush/Proglottid Derryfield: Swipe Right KC’s Rib Shack: Chris Lester Murphy’s: Ty Openshaw/Champagne & Whiskey Penuche’s Mike MacDonald (Strange Machines) Shaskeen: Rap night Strange Brew: Jam Meredith Giuseppe’s: open stage with Lou Porrazzo Nashua Penuche’s Ale House: Reggae Sunday w/ Dis and Dat Band & DJ Zion Nashua Pig Tale: Soulful Sunday North Hampton Barley House Seacoast: Great Bay Sailor Northwood Umami: Bluegrass Brunch w/ Cecil Abels

Portsmouth Cisco Brewers: Poachella - Draw The Line (Aerosmith Tribute) & Capricorn (Allman Brothers Tribute) Portsmouth Gaslight: Jodee Frawlee/Rockspring Press Room: Anglo-Celtic tradiConcord tional folk/roots session + Mdou Cheers: Clint Lapointe Moctar W/Minibeast Hermanos: Paul Bourgelais Penuche’s Ale House: Open w/ Ri Ra: Irish Sessions Rudi’s: Jazz Brunch w/Barbara Steve Naylor London The Goat: Rob Pagnano Dover Cara: Irish Session w/ Frank Rochester Landford 110 Grill: Ben Laine Sonny’s: Sonny’s Jazz Governors Inn: Bitter Pill Lilac City Grille: Brunch Music Epping w/ Double Take Telly’s: Toby on Steel Drums

Nashua 110 Grill: Mark Dionne CodeX B.A.R.: Piano Phil DeVille Country Tavern: Joe McDonald Dolly Shakers: Sonic Blitz Fody’s: DJ Rich Padula Fratello’s Italian Grille: Ty Openshaw Liquid Therapy: Jeff Mrozek Millyard Brewery: Randy McGravy Peddler’s Daughter: Down a Fifth R’evolution: Savage Night w/ Jay Samurai Riverwalk Café: Shamarr Allen w. Farmington Hawg’s Pen: Leaving Eden Savoir Faire Stella Blu: Doug Thompson Goffstown Village Trestle: Wan-tu Blues New Boston Molly’s: Shelf Life/John Choui- Band & Jam nard Hampton Bernie’s: Vere Hill Newmarket Stone Church: Barnstormers Boardwalk Cafe: Dave Bailin/ Max Sullivan Band Music & Arts Festival CR’s: jazz brunch w/Gerry Beau-

Salem Copper Door SAL: Steve Aubert/ Max Sullivan Seabrook Castaways: Barry Brearley Chop Shop: Jazz Jam Warner Schoodacs: Dirty Double Crossers

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Hampton Bernie’s: MB Padfield Sea Ketch: Ray Zerkle/Tim Theriault The Goat: Shawn Theriault Laconia Boardwalk Bar & Grill: Byron Conway Manchester Central Ale House: Jonny Friday Duo Derryfield: Brad Bosse Fratello’s: Rob Wolfe or Phil Jacques Murphy’s: Jonny Friday Meredith Giuseppe’s: Lou Porrazzo Merrimack Able Ebenezer: Andrew Polakow Homestead: Doug Thompson Nashua Fratello’s Justin Cohn Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Old School Earth Eagle Brewings: Matt from Matt & the Skeleton Crew Portsmouth Gaslight: Clint Lapointe Ri Ra: Oran Mor Tuesday, July 2 Ashland Common Man Ashland: Don Bartenstein Bedford Murphy’s: April Cushman Dover Fury’s Publick House: Tim Theriault and Friends Sonny’s: Soggy Po’ Boys Gilford Patrick’s: Paul Luff hosts

Hampton Bernie’s: G. Love Sea Ketch: Ricky Lauria/Michael Mazola The Goat: Maddi Ryan Manchester Derryfield: Jodee Frawlee Fratello’s: Chris Gardner Murphy’s: Clint Lapointe Shaskeen: James Keyes Strange Brew: David Rousseau Whiskey’s 20: Sammy Smoove & DJ Gera Meredith Giuseppe’s: Michael Bourgeois Merrimack Homestead: Justin Cohn Nashua Fratello’s: Stacey Kelleher Newmarket Stone Church: Rootin’ Tootin’ Acoustic Hoot hosted by Eli Elkus North Hampton Barley House Seacoast: Traditional Irish Session Peterborough Harlow’s: Celtic Music Jam Portsmouth Portsmouth Book & Bar: Buck Meek Portsmouth Gaslight: Amanda Cote Press Room: Hoot Night W/Dave Talmage + Jazz Jam w/ River City Jazz The Goat: Isaiah Bennett Wednesday, July 3 Bedford Murphy’s: Clint Lapointe T-Bones: Grace Rapetti Dover 603: Rock the Mic w/ DJ Coach Cara: Justin Cohn

Dublin DelRossi’s Trattoria: Celtic and Old Timey Jam Session Hampton Bernie’s: Adam Lufkin Boardwalk Cafe: Party w/Ed Sea Ketch: Leo & Co./Triana Wilson The Goat: Ellis Falls Hillsborough Turismo: Blues Jam w Jerry Paquette & the Runaway Bluesmen Laconia Boardwalk Bar & Grill: Maven Jazz Londonderry Coach Stop: Brad Bosse Harold Square: Houdana the Magician (Tableside Magic) Manchester Derryfield: Gabby Martin Fratello’s: Stephen Decuire Murphy’s Taproom: Jodee Frawlee Strange Brew: Jesse’s Open Extravaganza Merrimack Homestead: Justin Jordan Nashua Country Tavern: Charlie Chronopoulos Fratello’s Italian Grille: Phil Jacques Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Pete Peterson w/ Ben B & Brian P Portsmouth Gaslight: Ty Openshaw/Conniption Fits Press Room: The Juan Maclean (DJ Set) Ri Ra: Erin’s Guild The Goat: Beneath The Sheets Rochester Lilac City Grille: Tim Theriault Revolution Taproom: Hump Day Blues w/ Jeff Hayford

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 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 Jesse Terry Friday, June 28, 8 p.m. Music Hall Loft Jordie Lane Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Stage Badfish - Tribute to Sublime

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

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Tupelo Derry Shinedown/Badflower Wednesday, July 3, 8 p.m. Bank of NH Pavilion Foghat Wednesday, July 3, 8 p.m.

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Across 16 Bambi’s aunt (in the book) 1 Success story focus, maybe 17 She played Edith Bunker in 12 Catered to?

2019 15 Stat that may figure into a 18 Music game with a floor pad, walking itinerary for short

19 “48___” (Nick Nolte film) 20 Like the works of Sappho 22 Brazilian jiu-___ 26 Gregarious beginning?

27 Most down 33 “Passages” author Sheehy 34 Charlotte or Gabrielle, in Broadway’s “Cinderella” 35 Radius neighbor 36 Aunt, in Asuncion 37 First option 38 Is down with 39 Measuring cup marks, for short 41 Frilly underskirts 44 She played Romy 45 Conned person’s revelation

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All quotes are from Brand Failures: The able to find in their hometown. You could make Truth About the 100 Biggest Branding Mis- your own ferret hammock. takes of All Time, by Matt Haig, born July 3, Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) In 2001, the 1975. company [Levi’s] paid out US $46,532 for the oldest pair of Levi’s blue jeans in existence, Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Everything about named the Nevada Jeans, when they were adver[the 1998 Sony film Godzilla] had been big — tised on eBay. A few months later the company the star, the special effects, the marketing budget, launched a limited edition of 500 replicas, which the brand tie-ins — but it hadn’t been enough. were sold almost as soon as they appeared in speIronically, the slogan for the film was ‘Size mat- cial Levi’s concept stores. Stick to the classics. ters.’ In this case, it clearly didn’t. It might or it Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Although it may might not. have been seen like a logical brand extension Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Launched in 1979, Frito-Lay Lemonade bombed. After all, FriClairol’s yoghurt-based shampoo failed to attract to-Lay was a brand which made people thirsty, customers largely because nobody liked the idea and therefore is the exact opposite of lemonade. of washing their hair with yoghurt. Simple.

Also lemonade doesn’t go that well with Fritos.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) … in Taiwan PepAries (March 21 – April 19) If you tell the si’s advertising slogan ‘Come alive with the world you have the ‘real thing’ you cannot then Pepsi generation’ was translated as ‘Pepsi will come up with a ‘new real thing.’ This contrabring your ancestors back from the dead.’ Watch dictory marketing message was accentuated by out for translation errors. the fact that, since 1982, Coke’s strap line had Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Don’t compete been ‘Coke is it.’ Now it was telling customers with irrelevant rivals. Tommy Hilfiger attempt- that they had got it wrong, as if they had discoving to compete with successful European high ered Coke wasn’t it, but rather New Coke was fashion brands such as Gucci and Prada on their instead. Which is it? own terms was a mistake which even Hilfiger Taurus (April 20 – May 20) … most of the himself has acknowledged. Some competitions brands which boast successful extensions have don’t need to be entered. moved into related categories. Coca-Cola had Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Brands are for a global hit when it launched Diet Coke. It was winners. Going into IKEA, TJ Maxx or Primark less successful however when it introduced its for example, although the whole atmosphere own range of clothing. If you want to branch out, says ‘this is cheap’ you feel good about yourself keep your expectations realistic. and sense you are getting a bargain. There are Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Procter & Gammany different ways to feel good about yourself. ble’s brand strategy in the 1980s seemed to Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) At the most be: why launch one product, when 50 will do? basic level, your brand is your name. … If the Indeed, at one point there were 52 versions of name conjures up images of weasels and pretzels Crest on the market. The belief was: the highit might be a good time to scrap it. Unless you’re er number of sub-brands the higher number of a weasel pretzel company. sales. … However, increased choice equalled Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) After all, increased confusion. … Procter & Gamble had dog food is dog food, and there clearly weren’t seen the same thing happen with its Head & enough people searching for ferret hammocks Shoulders brand. Did consumers really need 31 and other rare pet items that they wouldn’t be varieties of anti-dandruff shampoo? No. NITE SUDOKU

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Niche Marketing

Say you have a new baby. Say you’re overwhelmed with love and sleep deprivation, and say you’ve been auditioning names for months, to no avail. Future Perfect, a web startup, will happily accept your $350 fee to “email you a customized list of names” to choose from, plus 15 minutes of phone time with one of its consultants.

“Working your way through thousands of alphabetized names can be a useful exercise for some,” the website explains, “but the lists we provide are personalized, hyper-curated and unique to each client’s specific criteria.” They’ll even help you name your pets! WABC reports that Future Perfect offers less-expensive packages as well, such as a $100 “namestorming session.”

Oops!

As members of New Life Baptist Church in Advance, North Carolina, prepared to merge with a nearby congregation, they removed the handmade steeple from their building, intending to return it to church member Mike Brewer, who made it. But a passerby who saw the steeple at the curb on June 5 thought it was intended for garbage pickup and took it home, sparking a different kind of steeplechase, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Church pastor Matthew Pope called it a clear misunderstanding: “The person assumed we were throwing it out. She ... didn’t want it to go to the dump.” The unwitting steeple thief saw a post about the missing structure on Facebook from Pope’s wife and returned the steeple five days after its disappearance.

Awesome!

• In Saint Petersburg, Russia, motor enthusiast Konstantin Zarutskiy unveiled his newest creation in early May: a Bentley Continental GT sedan refitted with heavy-duty rubber tank treads instead of regular tires. He calls the resulting vehicle “Ultratank” and is hoping to get permission from the local government to drive the car on city streets. Zarutskiy tells EuroNews his Ultratank is very easy to drive, although creating it took him seven months as he faced a number of technical challenges.

We’d like to see him parallel park it.

• Hundreds of divers set a Guinness World Record on June 15 at Deerfield Beach, Florida, where they met to perform an underwater cleanup. Fox35 reported that 633 divers collected 9,000 pieces of debris on the ocean floor during the event, which was organized by Dixie Divers. The previous record, 615 divers, was set in the Red Sea of Egypt in 2015.

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Francesco Galdelli, 58, and Vanya Goffi, 45 — otherwise known as the Italian Bonnie and Clyde — were arrested on June 15 at a luxury villa in Pattaya, Thailand,

after years of avoiding Italian authorities for various scams and frauds. The Telegraph reported that Galdelli had confessed to posing as George Clooney and opening an online clothing business “to trick people into sending money.” The two would also sell fake Rolex watches online, sometimes sending packets of salt to their customers instead of wristwatches. Clooney testified against the couple in 2010, but they fled Italy before being arrested there. Galdelli was arrested in Thailand in 2014, but soon escaped after bribing prison guards. The pair will be returned to Italy for trial.

Last Wishes

Laurence Pilgeram, who died in 2015 in California, paid Alcor Life Extension Foundation $120,000 to preserve his body indefinitely at minus 196 degrees Celsius in the hope of being brought back to life in the future. But a month after his death, his son, Kurt Pilgeram of Dutton, Montana, received a box containing his father’s ashes. The company sent all but the elder Pilgeram’s head, which is stored in liquid nitrogen at its facility in Arizona. “They chopped his head off, burned his body, put it in a box and sent it to my house,” Kurt told the Great Falls Tribune. He is suing Alcor for $1 million in damages and an apology —plus the return of his father’s head. “I want people to know what’s going on,” he said. For its part, Alcor says its contract was with Laurence Pilgeram and that it met that agreement. The company contends Kurt is trying to get the life insurance money that paid for Alcor’s services. The trial is expected to begin in 2020 in California.

Chutzpah

German Instagram “influencers” Catalin Onc and Elena Engelhardt have faced a digital dressing-down after they set up a GoFundMe page requesting donations for a bike trip to Africa. They want to raise about 10,000 euros for the jaunt, but some people aren’t on board.

Onc and Engelhardt live with Onc’s mother, who supports them by working at two jobs, the Independent reported. They posted on their Instagram page: “Some will just tell us to get jobs, like everyone else and stop begging. But when you have the impact we do on others’ life (sic), getting a job is not an option. A normal job at this point would be detrimental.” Commenters let loose on the couple: “Get a job and treat your mum, she shouldn’t be funding her grown son to wander the world like a lost boy.”

And, “You’re not impacting anyone’s life, you are just a couple of freeloaders trying to get holidays paid for by mugs.”

Bright Ideas

A Domino’s pizza delivery driver in London was the unwitting victim of a prank on June 6 when he tried to deliver four large cheeseburger pizzas to Buckingham Palace, for “Elizabeth.”

At the security gate, he was stopped by two armed police officers, who checked to make sure the queen had not, indeed, ordered the pies. “The next thing the copper said was, ‘Sorry, sir, Elizabeth is the name of the queen — and she lives at Buckingham Palace. I think someone is winding you up,” a source told The Sun. The original phone order had promised cash payment at delivery. Store manager Zsuzsanna Queiser said the “pizzas seemed to go down pretty well with the police officers on duty. Next time, Your Majesty.”

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