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friend from away recently asked, “Isn’t summer in New England one of the most beautiful in the world?” What else could I say? “Of course it is.”

I grew up outside of Philadelphia, where my brother and I couldn’t wait for our vacation in August to visit friends in Chocorua. We left a world of humidity, buzzing cicadas, and nights so tropically hot and moist that even the huge, 1950s-era fan that sounded like the propeller of an airplane couldn’t cool us down enough to sleep.

Our parents, of course, were the complete opposite. Like tomatoes, they thrived in hot, humid weather. To say the least, they couldn’t understand our summer malaise and rolled their eyes when told, “We aren’t lazy.

We’re just tired!”

We were a little lazy.

But as we drove north on or near the first of August, we felt the air coming through the open car windows begin to dry a little bit and then cool a little bit as we reached our friends’ house that evening. There was the sleeping porch, plenty of Moxie, four other boys — I remember their mother having an utter breakdown because we’d all left our shoes scattered around the house for the hundredth time — Lake Chocorua, and cool, blessed rivers for swimming and fly-fishing.

I remember one summer, later in August, walking outside to see northern lights pulsing across the sky. They looked like ghosts dashing to-and-fro, and I was young enough to be unnerved by them. I didn’t go inside or look away, they were too mystical not to experience, but we simply didn’t have such things in Philadelphia. Getting yelled at by some crazy guy shuffling down the street, sure. But ghostly emanations trembling across the sky? You gotta be kidding.

I was maybe 10 that summer. Each day was a year, but the two weeks were zephyrlike in how they melted away and then carried us back to Philadelphia.

I am in my 50s now and two of our crew of six boys have died over the past 40 years.

I miss them terribly. And their mother has passed, and I miss her terribly, too. Their father, tough and amusing as ever, is still with us, as are my parents.

This summer, I’ll return to that house with my additions — wife and kids of my own — and my friends’ additions. I will feel modestly grown up, but mostly as free and loved and happy as I did when I was 10.

This summer issue, as are all of our summer issues, is dedicated to being out in the most beautiful summer in the world. I hope you enjoy it as much as we will.

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MARK AIKEN

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Mark Aiken is a ski instructor at Stowe, Vermont. In the winter he can be found skiing everywhere, from the Vermont backcountry to the Carpet lift with his three-year-old. In the summer he can be found running the trails with his endurance athlete wife or at his writing desk at their home in Richmond, Vermont.

Caitlin Andrews covers the city of Concord and beyond for the Concord Monitor. Born and bred in New Hampshire, she’s been reporting on a variety of topics for more than three years. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2014 with an English/journalism degree and a minor in anthropology.

An award-winning writer and photographer, Lisa Ballard has spent her career outdoors. She is the author of seven books including Ski Faster! Guide to Racing and High Performance Skiing, Hiking the White Mountains, and Best Hikes with Dogs: New Hampshire & Vermont. See more of Lisa's work at www.LisaBallardOutdoors.com.

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John Benford is a commercial photographer based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A visual storyteller, he creates powerful architectural images and honest, authentic portrait and lifestyle images for commercial and editorial clients of all sizes. See more of John's work online at www. johnbenfordphoto.com.

Shanti Douglas is a mindfulness and lovestyle coach, corporate trainer, and the owner of 8 limbs Holistic Health, LLC in Concord. Her practice is centered on integrating beauty and peace throughout your day so that it becomes part of you, helping you feel empowered, confident, secure, and grounded. She offers individual coaching, mindfulness classes, and experiential workshops. Learn more at www.8limbsholistichealth.com.

Kathleen Fortin is a law firm consultant in Bedford, New Hampshire. She received a Master of Arts in liberal studies from Dartmouth College and is a published nonfiction author. Her essays, articles, and book reviews have been published in magazines, an anthology, and journals including the Bellevue Literary Review. She has completed a book manuscript about Italian-American immigration.

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PERSONAL ESSAY |

BY JOHN GFROERER

Summertimin’ LET THE WARMTH ETCH YOUR SMILE A BIT DEEPER

Does responsibility still have a grip in summer? I’ve wondered about that for a while, because when compared to the other seasons, slacking back always seems to have a stronger call in warmer months. Maybe it is just the life I live.

Somewhere in June I seem to round a corner and let off the gas, let myself coast for a bit. For moments, I might even just turn the engine off completely and park.

Don’t tell anyone about this, can’t let the word spread that I might have a slacker streak that takes over when the temperature goes up.

Weather, no doubt, is part of the attitude. Cold feels like a burden. It holds you down with blankets and bulky clothing and boots and gloves that cover your

hands, so you can’t even get the keys out of your pocket to get into a warm house without making an extra effort.

Warmth outside liberates us from such burdens, even to the point of maybe taking a day off from work on a Tuesday and canoeing on the Merrimack. Or just staying home and doing a bit of writing on the back deck.

It makes me think of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof. “If I were rich I’d have the time that I like to sit in the synagogue and pray.” In summer you don’t really need to be rich to take time off and enjoy the green splendor of the season. You just heed the call and put your feet up.

You know, I blame the Beach Boys for this cavalier attitude that takes hold in the summer months.

Think about it. Here is a music group that is, at base, just one big promotion for summer and easy living. Everything about them is worshiping warm weather. Someone once told me you couldn’t get into one of their concerts unless you were in a bathing suit and smelled like sunscreen.

Remember, it’s more enjoyable to stay cool than to worry about how to get warm.

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Even their name and songs project a vision of summer utopia. “Surfin’ Safari,” “Surfer Girl,” “Surfin’ USA,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” and the title of the first Beach Boys album I ever bought was All Summer Long.

With these songs and the memories they call forth comes the image of a little deuce coupe cruising on summer nights up at Arnie’s Place. This just doesn’t happen when there is snow on the ground.

So, when spring relents to summer, open the windows. Put on the screens.

Water the garden. Bike to one of Concord’s neighborhood pools. Stay cool — that is the word. Remember, it’s more enjoyable to stay cool than to worry about how to get warm. In the evening, downtown restaurants set up tables on the sidewalk, a sure call to linger over a burger or frozen yogurt as people wander by.

In summer we emerge from our rooms to become a community under the sun.

Market Days, baseball at White Park, Red River showing movies outside, the CHS graduation, and the Fourth of July at Memorial Field are all summertime affirmations of why we choose to live in Concord.

Sometimes I measure the season by produce. Summer starts with strawberries and ends with apples. Between them is when corn tastes the best. In fact, August is the only time I eat corn that doesn’t come in a can. Of course, that may just be a symptom of emptiness in my own life rather than a statement about summer. Let’s not go there.

More important is to embrace the moments of summer. Living is easier from June to August, no question about it. But that doesn’t necessarily mean all is well in the world. People still suffer, burdens still oppress.

A break doesn’t make it all go away. It just provides a bit of time to recharge and etch a little more depth in a smile. Your smile. My smile. Our collective smile.

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THE DUNN FAMILY LEGACY OF JOYOUS BIRDS AND BIRDERS

The two most popular hobbies in America are closely related.

They take place outdoors and at your home. Any guesses?

It makes perfect sense: Gardening is number one and backyard bird feeding is number two. This information comes from two experts on bird feeding, Mike Dunn and Shelby Kimball, owners of Duncraft Wild Bird Superstore in Concord. Mike, former CEO and now chairman of the board, and his daughter, Shelby Kimball, the company’s new CEO, share a passion for this 66-year-old family business.

It’s immediately clear how well Mike and Shelby get along.

When asked what it’s like working together (father and daughter as business associates might be an interesting challenge), Mike’s quick answer is, “Delightful.” As Shelby says, they love what they do. They find joy in creating, designing, problem solving, and educating their customers. Mike and Shelby are both eager to get to the office every day and race to see who

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Mike and Shelby are both eager to get to the office every day and race to see who gets there first. gets there first. They both know that when they walk in the door, “Something exciting is going to happen,” Shelby says.

Shelby is a mother of three who has been the company’s CEO for the last several months. How did she learn the skills to be a CEO and to manage a staff of nearly 40? “I am very lucky,” she says. She gives credit to her father, who gave her the direction she needed. She also had on-the-job training. She grew up in the business, listening to her parents discussing issues as well as helping in the store and working in different areas of the company. Shelby also admits, “I am obsessed with this business.”

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THE NATURALIST INVENTOR Duncraft began in 1952 with Mike’s father, Gil Dunn. Born in Harlem, New York, in 1910, he served in World War II as an airplane mechanic and was sent to Europe, Africa, India, and China. After marrying Dr. Gladys Ward, they had Sharon and Mike. The family moved from New York to New Hampshire when Gladys obtained a position as a psychiatric director at the New Hampshire State Hospital.

New Hampshire is where Gil’s love of nature flourished, including fishing and canoeing. He also loved inventing and designing, which led to the design of a window-sill bird feeder that offered the pleasure of an up-close view of the birds.

In the 1950s there were few manufacturers of bird feeders, and his idea was an original one. The Flight Deck Window Sill Feeding Station featured dispensers for food, water, and peanut butter.

Mike’s father began production in the basement of his home. His approach to sales was to forego the typical tradeshow route and instead write his own advertisements, which he had published in The New Yorker and Yankee magazines.

He developed a logo for Duncraft, which came from the elongated “D” that he liked on the Dunhill cigarette box.

Six patents and 18 years later, Gil remained a one-man show, doing everything from building the feeders to typing the shipping labels. He earned a living for his family doing something he loved; it never occurred to him that he was building a business that his son and daughter would take over and grow, or that his granddaughter Shelby would later run. The family business has also employed many of his 10 grandchildren.

Shelby describes the many changes and decisions her father made that she now appreciates as CEO. “He was not afraid of change,” she says, recalling the day he walked into the house carrying his first Mac computer.

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A NEW ERA FOR THE BUSINESS Mike was 25 when he took over his dad’s business. He learned what he could from bedside tutorials as his father lay ill, but there was much more to learn. Starting out with his father’s Royal typewriter, three-by-five customer cards, and a 10-key adding machine, Mike figured that all he could do was dig in.

Obviously, he inherited some of his father’s ingenuity. One of the first things he did was join trade organizations. Mike and Sharon started the biannual mail-order catalog in black and white. It offered 30 products. Shelby says customers liked the family picture they included in every issue. Mike later became president of the prestigious New England Mail Order Association.

The Duncraft mail-order catalog is still a mainstay of the company, even though their online presence is huge (they are the largest online retailer of bird feeding supplies). A long hallway in their offices displays the beautiful covers of nearly every catalog ever published. Today, Duncraft offers around 2,500 items of which 900 are built by their own detail-oriented craftsmen who strive for perfection in every piece.

Shelby says, “We receive calls from everywhere pitching the latest and greatest inventions. We love supporting other companies.” With so many possibilities, each item goes through a careful vetting process. It may be a good idea, but the quality of products weighs heavily on the final decision.

THE JOY OF AT TRACTING BIRDS Mike’s father could never have imagined what the bird feeding industry has become. One popular invention is a solar bird-

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bath feature that stirs the water. “Birds are attracted to moving water,” Mike says. Speaking of birdbaths, this past winter a mourning dove would sit on the edge of our birdbath for long periods of time. I wondered what made her stay and whether it could have been the heat rising from the small heater. “Steam heat,” Shelby says. “She must have loved that.”

I realized the rare joy of attracting birds and how every effort can create interesting results, and this is also what drives new innovations at Duncraft. Customers call or walk in to tell them about certain interests or challenges, like wanting only bluebirds to nest in a birdhouse or asking which seeds attract certain varieties of woodpeckers. Shelby says they can work on an idea in the morning and have it in production that afternoon.

Their research and design are as swift and nimble as their feathered friends.

For example, Mike showed me a bluebird house with a swinging perch that will allow only a bluebird’s shape and size to enter the round doorway. A sparrow cannot fit through it. He also showed me a picture of a birdhouse with two natural branches placed into the roof — landing and resting spots for tenants.

There is a lot to understand about birding and no shortage of new ideas, which continues to excite Mike and Shelby.

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many businesses, until 10 years ago when Mike decided to return to their core mission. It is two-fold: to create bird feeding products that enhance the customer’s experience, and to keep making their products in their own workshop. Deciding to stay true to their roots and to stay local is something both Mike and Shelby know in their collective gut is the right direction. “We did it with the best interests of our customers in mind,” Shelby says. “We are very, very blessed to be on the path we are on.”

The company’s success has also allowed Mike to give back to the community, which he has done through the Capital City Sunrise Rotary, the New Hampshire Hospital Cemetery Preservation Project, and the Duncraft Bird Feed Wreath Fundraiser.

From talking to Mike and Shelby, it is easy to appreciate what makes attracting birds such a popular hobby. Their enthusiasm is the same as that of their customers.

The activity of nurturing birds and caring about them by providing food, water, and safe places for them to live and nest is at the heart of it. The hobby is easy, fun, and deeply gratifying.

A person can start with one small bird feeder. When they see the birds come due to their providing for them, they soon become hooked. Watching these birds not only survive but thrive turns into a major pastime. “It can also become addictive,” Shelby says. “Customers begin to think about what more they can do. How can they get the scarlet tanager to return? What berry-producing trees or plants will attract indigo buntings or cedar waxwings?”

People’s daily routines soon include filling their feeders each morning and watching the birds come. Then they watch them drink from a birdbath or take a cool bath in summer, or observe a young bluebird fledge from a birdhouse. I swear our hummingbirds know when I have just filled the

feeder; moments after I enter the house they’re feeding in front of my kitchen window. “Of course they know,” Mike says.

“Some people ring a bell or whistle to let the birds know it’s time.” Maybe it’s the unfolding of my rickety metal stool that calls to them.

The family’s decision to change course and bring the company back to what it had been for many years was an important one.

Mike says he has watched the progress of about 40 different companies through the years; that 38 of those businesses no longer exist, were lost through bankruptcy, or were sold says a lot about the talent of the once young, naive business owner. That Duncraft remains in our New Hampshire backyard says even more.

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Feast

CREATE A RITUAL AROUND EATING AND SAVOR THE SUMMER Cookouts, birthday parties, outdoor weddings, picnics at the lake, snacks at the beach, a trip to the ice cream stand, festivals, and the Fourth of July. Summer brings many a celebration, and with each of these moments to connect with those we love, mark a milestone, or simply revel in each other’s company comes a table laden with a thoughtfully and lovingly prepared meal.

Food is central to nearly every gathering throughout the year, and even more so during the summer months when harvests are plentiful and we can be outdoors as evening turns to a warm, starlit night. With such fresh fare, good company, and beautiful surroundings, it’s easy to lose track of your yummy consumptions. Conversations are lively and engaging and there’s a variety of tantalizing treats that make up the festive spread: recipes passed down from one genera-

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tion to the next, tried and true favorites, and newer dishes to investigate.

“Oh, you must try this,” encourages your neighbor, even before you spot the trays of dessert or notice that someone’s brought the ice cream from the freezer. Before you know it, your belly feels stretched and those shorts you worked so hard over winter and spring to fit into are getting a tad snug.

What to do? The thought of not getting together is off the table. How can you enjoy the gathering without feeling out of control, bad, or deprived? Mindful eating is the secret ingredient. Focus your attention on savoring and fully enjoying your food. It is eating with intention and joy; sharing the conviviality of the moment by taking the time to enjoy the meal.

Mindful eating is not trying to squeeze in lunch as you watch Johnny kick a ball or sustain a deep, respectful conversation with Sally about a conflict with her in-laws. Nor is it finishing your kid’s potato salad as you clear her plate, or scraping the last few morsels at the bottom of a serving bowl onto your plate instead of into a storage container.

When you eat, focus on being present for each bite and strengthening the bonds with family and friends.

With mindful eating, you’ll notice every aspect of eating.

How fast are you trying to move through the meal? Is there

It is possible to participate in the party, eat what you want, enjoy it immensely, and still fit into those favorite shorts.

a sense of urgency to get to the next bite without fully completing the one you have in your mouth? Are you anticipating the creamy lusciousness of Aunt Joy’s banana cream pie as you finish the second half of your burger, now no longer the object of your craving?

Like many other activities in life, it seems we rush from one bite to the next, never really experiencing or enjoying what we’re all the flavors, scents, textures, and colors consuming in the moment. After the first that come alive as freshly harvested foods few bites, taste and flavor come from a difbecome available. Experience each sweet ferent, future menu, dreamed up by the kernel of corn, remind yourself of how insatiable mind. long it took for this food to grow, and recall Think about the following at your next its place in your life, from childhood summeal: mer evenings to sharing it with your own Purposely slow down. Savor the beauchildren. tiful and amazing food that’s in front of Chew each mouthful 20 times. Notice you. Even if you or your host threw the the change in flavor intensity and the strucbarbecue together at the last minute, acture of the food. Chewing food into smaller knowledge the work and preparation. pieces improves digestion.

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eat and talk when you talk. It’s only polite not to talk with your mouth full, anyway.

Also, set your utensils on the plate as you enjoy what you’re eating. Doing this will help ease the temptation to mindlessly shovel in the next bite.

All this slowing down gives you one of the best waistline benefits: eating less without feeling deprived. With the 20-minute brain-to-belly fullness meter at your disposal — the time it takes for the brain to register fullness — a practice of pausing to verify your physical hunger can help distinguish when mental hunger is driving the desire. Putting the brakes on before you’re overfull lets you mindfully and joyfully delight in all there is at the celebration table.

It is possible to participate in the party, eat what you want, enjoy it immensely, and still fit into those favorite shorts. With a few changes to your routine, you’ve made a completely different meal of health and happiness.

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Booters, Burgers, and

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BY CAITLIN ANDREWS

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here’s a revival underway at Highland Park in Northfield. Locals with an excessively long memory might recall the scrappy little ski area that got its start in the late 1930s as a single-trail testament to traditional New England hike-up-and-ski-down skiing.

Those with slightly more contemporary memories probably remember watching the area grow to 22 trails, two T-bars, a rope tow, and a triple chair in the late 1960s and 1970s. The mountain continued to thrive into the 1980s, but by 1995 it was no more, done in by lean snow years and larger mountains with modern snowmaking capabilities.

Those folks lucky enough to live in Northfield know that Highland Park’s fate has changed. The silent mountain with fading ski trails was raised from the dead in 2006 to enjoy a second life as a mountain bike park. Its once snowbound slopes are now carved and molded into jumps and bumps with names such as Easy Rider and Bone Saw. With this tire-inspired revival has come a second, food-based revival at the Highland Pub located inside the former base lodge at Highland Mountain Bike Park.

For those willing to brave the rutted dirt access road — much better suited to knobby bike tires than cars — you’ll find a pub experience rooted in bike culture but accessible to all.

TAPPING INTO PUB CULTURE The pub still maintains a ski-lodge feel. When you walk in you’re confronted with a wide dining room, a fireplace nestled to one side, and bay windows opening onto a porch affording you a clear view of the mountain’s face. When the park is open, it’s not uncommon to hear the distant whoops and yelps of bikers as they ride by or roll up, dusty and spent.

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But then you take a seat at the bar or a high top, and it’s all classical pub experience from there.

That’s how David Ritz, food and beverage director for Highland, wanted it. “This whole building used to be a café before I was hired last fall,” he says, menus fanned out in front of him. “It didn’t used to have burgers . . . or a fryer or a grill in the whole building.”

The menu, David says, didn’t even include french fries. French fries! How can you run a pub without fries? You can’t, David says. He’ll tell you that tapping into pub culture was just as important as catering to their biking clientele.

You can start your meal with a beer-battered fried pickle and then move on to a signature Angus beef burger. For those into spice and adventure on and off the trail, try the Hellion, a srirachamayo/jalapeno/bacon/cheddar cheese concoction named after a black-diamond trail known for its jump-filled track. Wash it all down with a locally sourced beer.

EXPANDING THEIR OFFERINGS The menu overhaul has helped widen Highland’s appeal, David says. So has

the Mug Club, a membership program where $100 nets you a full calendar year of half-off apps every Friday, discounted 22-ounce beers, a free brake bleed, and a birthday gift. The program has already sold out for this year, and there’s a waiting list for next year. “I would say about 13 or 14 people from the local community bought into this,” David says.

David is also working on how to make the pub viable after the biking season ends in late fall.

He sees a future looping in snowmobilers. This past winter, he offered a 25 percent discount to

anyone who could prove they came to the pub on a snowmobile.

But at the end of the day, it’s still about the bikers and getting them the protein they need to carve trails and hit jumps. David says the menu’s portions were designed with them in mind. “To me, the question was what kind of pub food has proteins that taste delicious,” he says. “We want to bring things in as much as we can, and if they don’t work, we change them.”

It’s hard to argue with an afternoon and evening riding some of the Northeast’s premier biking trails and then indulging in ice-cold craft beer — Quest Double IPA, Fat Tire (of course), and Rhyme & Reason, to name a few — and umami-laden pub fare.

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FOOD & SPIRITS

An

Ethereal

Confection

BY HILLARY NELSON

FLOURLESS WHITE CHOCOLATECOCONUT-CITRUS CAKE 1 cup unrefined coconut oil, plus a little more to grease the pan 16 ounces white chocolate, chopped 2 lemons 1 clementine 1 Cara Cara orange 1 cup sugar, divided 6 ounces unsweetened grated coconut (about 2N cups) 9 eggs, separated Pinch of cream of tartar 1. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the bottom of the cake pan and another piece (you may have to use two pieces) to line the sides of the pan. Use coconut oil to grease the pan, then line the pan with the prepared parchment. Finally, grease the parchment with coconut oil. Set the pan aside.

2. Place the chopped white chocolate in a microwaveable bowl and microwave on high for one minute. Remove from the microwave and stir well until all the pieces of chocolate have melted. If necessary, microwave again, but don’t let the chocolate burn. Add the coconut oil to the chocolate and stir until the oil melts into the chocolate. If necessary, microwave again for a few seconds to melt the coconut oil.

Set the mixture aside to cool.

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3. Wash all the pieces of citrus with unscented dish soap and rinse well. Use a microplane or grater to remove the rind from all the citrus (just the brightly colored exterior skin, not the white pith) and place in a small bowl. Add three-quarters cup of the sugar to the rind; toss and mix the rind and sugar with your fingers so that the rind releases its oil and color into the sugar. Set aside.

4. Squeeze the juice from the citrus, combine it, and strain out any seeds.

You should have about a cup of juice.

Pour the juice over the coconut in a small bowl, mix well, and set aside.

5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place the egg yolks into a large bowl and whisk well. Add the sugar-rind mixture to the yolks and whisk for about a minute to get a bit of air into the yolks. Whisk in the juice-coconut mixture. Set aside.

6. Put the egg whites into the bowl of an electric mixer, add a pinch of cream of tartar, and turn the mixer on low. After a minute or so, pour the remaining quarter cup of sugar into the whites and mix on low for another minute. Turn the mixer up to medium-high and continue whipping the whites until they have become white and fluffy and hold glossy, soft peaks. It’s better to under-whip a little than to wind up with dry, overwhipped whites.

7. Fold one-third of the whites into the egg yolk-juice-sugar mixture, gently mixing with a spatula or whisk until barely incorporated.

Next, pour half of the melted white chocolate-coconut oil mixture into the bowl and fold well. Add another third of the whites to the mixture and fold it in. Add the remainder of the white chocolate-coconut oil mix to the bowl and fold well. Finally, add the last third of the egg whites to the mixture and fold in well.

8. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and place the pan in the center of the preheated oven. Bake for about one hour, turning once so it bakes evenly until the cake is golden brown and set in the center. Remove from the oven and allow the cake to cool in its pan.

9. When completely cool, remove the springform sides from the cake. Invert the cake onto a plate or cutting board, remove the parchment paper from the bottom, and then flip it over again onto a serving plate.

10. When thoroughly cool, this cake can be cut very thin. You can easily get 32 small servings from it, or fewer, more generous servings. Best of all, it keeps well and tastes better a day after baking, when the coconut has absorbed some moisture and softened.

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y spring and early-summer calendar is always studded with potluck events — graduations, wedding rehearsal dinners, baby showers, and family birthdays. Because I love to bake, I am usually assigned the sweet spot. Which means if I don’t want to bore my friends and family, I need to come up with something new from time to time.

One recipe I have used one too many times is a flourless chocolate cake recipe I learned 30 years ago. It’s a genius, dead-easy recipe that is gluten free and tastes great, which left me wondering if it might be possible to keep the structure of the cake — eggs, butter, sugar, chocolate — and swap in new flavors for something completely different.

I decided to use white chocolate instead of dark chocolate, traded the butter for unrefined coconut oil (which is solid at cool room temperature), added grated dry coconut for structure and flavor, and layered in some citrus rind and juice to balance all that unctuous cocoa butter and coconut oil. The result is absolutely delicious, an ethereally light confection with the texture, almost, of cheesecake (except for the crunch of coconut), brightened with oranges and lemon.

Feel free to mess around with the citrus; I used seasonal varieties readily available at any grocery store. Blood oranges, Meyer lemons, tangerines, navels, any will do. But whatever you use, be sure to wash it well to remove pesticides and waxes before grating the rind.

As for the white chocolate, read the label carefully and make sure it says white chocolate.

There are lots of tricky look-alikes around that are mostly hydrogenated vegetable fat with flavoring added. Do not use these as substitutes for the real thing. And if you are particular about the gluten-free bit, make sure the chocolate you buy is guaranteed to be gluten free.

The cake is yummy on its own, but fresh, whole raspberries, with some pureed into a sauce, are a great addition, as are a side of any kind of fresh berries.

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THE ARTS

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ART IN THE GARDENS EVERY THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH BEDROCK GARDENS, LEE

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Revel in a Wealth of Art, Music, and Theater

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERY TASTE AND EVERY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

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hen summer arrives, longer days and languid nights urge us to shed the drab and dreary by celebrating beauty and artistry. It is the time for evening music festivals and concerts, to meet authors and read books, to sample summer theater, browse farmers’ markets, and take scenic drives in the countryside.

Here is small sample of the cultural bounty provided by the area’s finest creatives.

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THE WINNIPESAUKEE PLAYHOUSE JUNE–SEPTEMBER MEREDITH

MARKET DAYS FESTIVAL JUNE 21–23 DOWNTOWN CONCORD

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IN THE LIME LIGHTS — SUMMER THEATER

THE WINNIPESAUKEE PLAYHOUSE

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THE BARNSTORMERS THEATRE

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104 Main Street, Tamworth (603) 323-8500 WWW.BARNSTORMERSTHEATRE.ORG

Founded in 2004 by siblings Lesley Pankhurst and Bryan Halperin and their respective spouses, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse is dedicated to bringing quality arts and arts education to the Lakes Region. The summer season begins with Miss Julie June 13 to 23, Boeing Boeing June 27 to July 7, Charley’s Aunt July 11 to 21, Mama Mia! July 26 to August 11, and Ghost the Musical August 16 to September 1.

Richard II, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play

by Gary Locke, will run from June 15 through July 1. Enjoy the funny, insightful drama 1776 July 6 through July 15. It’s Academic, a collection of four short plays, begins July 27 and ends August 5. The comedy Best Enemies starts on August 17 and runs through August 26.

This historic theater in the classic New England village of Tamworth is the oldest professional ongoing summer theater in the U.S. It will present its 88th season beginning with Mel Brooks’ The Producers on June 28 through July 7. Next is We Have Always Lived in the Castle on July 12 through 15 and July 17 through 21, which is an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel full of suspense, horror, and humor. Then comes the comedy Laughing Stock July 26 to August 4 followed by Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None August 9 to 18. The season’s final production is Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (Abridged) August 23 to September 1.

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THE ARTS THE BEST OF LOCAL FESTIVALS

MARKET DAYS FESTIVAL Downtown Concord (603) 226-2150 INTOWNCONCORD.ORG On June 21 to 23 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., more than a half-mile of Main Street and side streets will be closed to vehicle traffic, transforming Concord’s North and South Main Streets into a pedestrian boulevard lined with 170-plus vendors offering a vast array of food, shopping, and activities for all ages. The festival is produced by Intown Concord.

MUSIC ON THE MOUNTAIN

NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL

SUNDAYS, MONDAYS, FRIDAYS VARIOUS OUTDOOR LOCATIONS

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Enjoy orchestra and chamber concerts in Wolfeboro’s Kingswood Regional Performing Arts Center and First Congregational Church as well as Plymouth State University’s Silver Center for the Arts from July 1 through August 11. Concerts include Metamorphoses, A Tribute: Bernstein at 100, chamber concerts, and a finale featuring Stravinsky, Sibelius, and Rachmaninov.

Inspired by the Appalachian Trail Hut Concerts of the 1970s, the festival also presents Music on the Mountain. This is a series of free classical concerts, from soloists, duets, string quarters, brass quintets, and a chamber music ensemble — 60 professional musicians in all — at a variety of

outdoor settings, including cafés, mountaintops, and nature trails. The concerts are generally held on Sundays, Mondays, and Fridays throughout the season.

The New Hampshire Music Festival also partners with Great Waters Music Festival to present Chanticleer, the internationally renowned male chorus, in Plymouth on July 23 and in Alton on July 24.

Check dates, times, and locations for these many events at nhmf.org.

LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CRAFTSMEN FAIR AUGUST 4–12 NEWBURY

84TH ANNUAL LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CRAFTSMEN FAIR Mount Sunapee Resort, Newbury WWW.NHCRAFTS.ORG Browse the arts and crafts of hundreds of artisans, admire exhibits, watch demonstrations, and engage in a range of DIY exhibitions August 4 through 12, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. There will also be live music, New Hampshire craft beers, and a wine garden.

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MAINSTREET WARNER BLUEGRASS & FOLK FEST 16 East Main Street, Warner WWW.MAINSTREETWARNERINC.ORG Visit the MainStreet Warner Stage on August 11 from 3 to 10 p.m. for free live music and fun for the whole family. This festival features several music acts on a timber-framed amphitheater with a terraced grass lawn for audience seating. It is located within the nonprofit Jim Mitchell Community Park, a public community space in downtown Warner. The stage and park are located behind MainStreet Bookends.

CANTERBURY ARTISAN FESTIVAL 288 Shaker Road, Canterbury (603) 783-9511 WWW.SHAKERS.ORG On September 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Canterbury Shaker Village will present a juried craft fair, farmers’ market, historic arts, and agricultural demonstrations.

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This series features John Prine on June 16 at 8 p.m., Gordon Lightfoot on June 22 at 8 p.m., the Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio albumrelease concert for Live at Cedar House on July 7 at 8 p.m., and Patty Griffin on July 22 at 7:30 p.m.

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Suite 1161 at Steeplegate Mall 270 Loudon Road, Concord (603) 715-2315 HATBOXNH.COM Relax and enjoy Ryan Ordway in this intimate space on July 19 and then the Santa Grace Family on August 9. The Hatbox also has a full slate of theater offerings running through the summer and into the fall.

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A FEAST FOR THE EYES – ART EXHIBITS

MILL BROOK GALLERY & SCULPTURE GARDEN’S SPRING AND SUMMER EXHIBIT AND OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXHIBIT 236 Hopkinton Road, Concord (603) 226-2046 WWW.THEMILLBROOKGALLERY.COM Now through October, the works of painters Mike Howat, Debbie Kinson, Patrick McCay, Alice Spencer, and Gretchen Hill Woodman will be on display as well as pieces by sculptor Michael Alfano.

DISCOVER ART ARTISAN WALK JULY 26 DOWNTOWN CONCORD

BEDROCK GARDENS’ ART IN THE GARDENS 45 High Road, Lee (603) 659-2993 WWW.BEDROCKGARDENS.ORG Take a free tour through a vast array and variety of botanicals, landscapes, and art. Open Days are at 1 p.m. every third Sunday of the month. Free tours of the gardens on Open Days are at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Self-guided and private tours are also available. Special events include live music and a performance of the play Immigrant Gardens on July 7 and 8 at 4:30 p.m. (a ticketed event). There will also be ballroom dancing on July 22 and August 19. Superb boxed lunches are available to preorder.

ART IN THE GARDENS EVERY THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH BEDROCK GARDENS, LEE

DISCOVER ART ARTISAN WALK Downtown Concord (603) 226-2150 INTOWNCONCORD.ORG On July 26, 5 to 9 p.m., merchants and venues along North and South Main Streets will host live demonstrations, exhibits, and talks showcasing creative Concord at its best.

MCGOWAN FINE ART PRESENTS JOHN BONNER’S STREET WISE 2 Phenix

Avenue, Concord

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This highly regarded British-born artist will display a series of streetscape paintings through July 27. In his artist’s note, he writes, “Close up, all paintings are abstract; step back, and the brain imposes a pattern. It’s the rhythm of the process of creating a painting itself. Lean in, step back. There is also something shamanistic going on, particularly in the communal activity of an exhibition, a sharing of the transcendent in everyday life.”

JP NELSON PHOTOGRAPHY

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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS WHITE MOUNTAINS IN THE PARLOR: THE ART OF BRINGING NATURE INDOORS 30 Park Street, Concord (603) 228-6688 WWW.NHHISTORY.ORG This 36-piece exhibition is on view in the new Governor John McLane gallery and selected from the Historical Society’s extensive collection of landscape paintings gathered since the early 1900s.

Experience the 200-year legacy of the Canterbury Shakers

Discover peaceful simplicity. Tour 25 original buildings, visit with craft demonstrators, shop the Museum Store, and lunch at our Concord Food Co-op CafĂŠ. Gardens, nature trails, and special events throughout the season. Open Tues.-Sun. until Labor Day, then 7 days through October 28 and weekends from Nov. 3 to Dec. 2

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THE ARTS WORDS, WORDS, WORDS – READINGS & LITERARY EVENTS

THE WORD BARN 66 Newfields Road, Exeter WWW.THEWORDBARN.COM Hosts Sarah and Ben Anderson present the Silo Series celebrating the written and spoken work as well as their live music series, painting classes, poetry, food talks, workshops, and special events such as workshops on writing college essays.

Fresh eggs and honey available too!

GIBSON’S BOOKSTORE 45 South Main Street, Concord (603) 224-0562 GIBSONSBOOKSTORE.COM

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SPECIAL SIGHTS – MUSEUMS

MAINSTREET BOOKENDS

CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE’S ARTS WEEK

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288 Shaker Road, Canterbury (603) 783-9511 WWW.SHAKERS.ORG

So many book and author events in Warner. Philip McFarland, author of John Hay, Friend of Giants will meet readers on June 22 at 3 p.m. Concord Monitor columnist Robert Azzi will present Ask a Muslim Anything on June 24 at 2 p.m., a talk about being American-Arab-Muslim. On July 15, they will host children’s author Mark Hoffman at 2 p.m.

And then there is the ninth annual Tory Hill Author Series at Warner Town Hall (a collaboration with the Warner Historical Society) with Joyce Maynard on July 14 at 7 p.m., children’s author and illustrator Thatcher Hurd on July 28 at 7 p.m., a tribute to Howard Frank Mosher on August 11 at 7 p.m., and Vermont author Stephen Kiernan on August 25 at 7 p.m.

A gathering of art, dance, music, painting, and photography runs from July 17 to 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday and then Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a performance at 5:30 p.m. Enjoy more than 600 acres of forests, fields, gardens, nature trails, and buildings at this nonprofit National Historic Landmark founded in 1969 to preserve the 200-year legacy of the Canterbury Shakers.

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This venerable Concord institution will host its Meet the Authors and book club gatherings, among other summer events made for the dedicated reader. A kids’ section, indie book lists for adults and children, and the True Blue Café cap the experience.

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RENOWNED OUTDOOR GEAR WITH A LOCAL STORY The Granite State may rank only 45th in the United States in terms of landmass, but it’s huge when it comes to recreational opportunities. Its stats are enough to make any outdoorsy person ecstatic:  33 ALPINE AND CROSS-COUNTRY SKI AREAS.  48 MOUNTAINS OVER 4,000 FEET.  10,874 MILES OF RIVERS.  944 LAKES AND IMPOUNDMENTS.  5.7 MILLION ACRES OF FORESTED LAND (85 PERCENT OF ITS TOTAL LANDMASS), OF WHICH 138,407 ACRES ARE DESIGNATED WILDERNESS. If you like to play here, it’s no surprise that some of the gear you love is based here too. It’s also not surprising that many of the people who founded these companies and products had their aha moment while enjoying the state’s wild places. The result was a solution to a problem of comfort and/or safety that more often than not has set a standard for quality and craftsmanship nationally and worldwide. Here’s a sampling of the outdoor brands that base camp about an hour or so’s drive of Concord.

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Master boot builder Peter Limmer handcrafts hiking boots in his Intervale workshop, just as his grandfather did in the 1920s in the Bavarian Alps.

PETER LIMMER & SONS PRODUCTS: HIK ING FO OTWEA R

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f you’re a serious hiker and have owned only one pair of hiking boots in your life, it’s probably a custom pair made by Limmer.

Widely regarded as makers of some of the finest handcrafted leather boots in the world, the company was founded by Peter Limmer Sr.’s grandfather in the Bavarian Alps during the 1920s. After Peter Sr. took over, he moved his bootery first to the Boston area (1925) and then to the White Mountains (1950) because they reminded him of Bavaria.

Peter Sr.’s grandson, also named Peter, is now the company’s master boot builder. And though it might take a while to get a pair — the waiting list has been as long as three years but is currently 18 months — you won’t care. They will be meticulously measured and handcrafted to match the unique size and contours of each foot, and with proper care, will still be your favorite pair of boots in 40 years.

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NEMO EQUIPMENT PRODUCTS: T E NTS, SHE LTERS, S LEEP ING BAGS,

S L E EPING PADS, CAM P PILLOWS, A ND CA MP CHA IRS Dover, New Hampshire WWW.NEMOEQUIPMENT.COM

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ounder Cam Brensinger designed NEMO’s first tent after a spending a wet night on Mount Washington. The company’s moniker stands for New England Mountain Outfitters. But it also honors Captain Nemo, the charismatic submarine captain in the Jules Verne classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, whom the company admires as “an adventurer, moral crusader, and engineer.”

NEMO, the company, is committed to all three of these traits. It encourages its employees to pursue their outdoor passions and to do it together, not only to test the gear they create but also as an internal team-building strategy.

Now in its 15th year, this outdoor company has a well-deserved reputation for quality and innovation among campers and backpackers, thanks, in part, to its belief that intelligently designed gear is critical to one’s ability to embrace outdoor adventure. This desire to innovate and attention to detail has earned the company wide recognition, which includes winning Backpacker Editors’ Choice, National Geographic Adventure’s Gear of the Year, and Gear Junkie’s Outdoor Retailer Best of Show.

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ALL TERRAIN PRODUCTS: SUNSCR E E N, INS ECT

R E PE LLE NT, FIR ST AID P RODUCTS, S OAPS, SANIT IZE R S, LIP BA LMS, AND PE T HE ALT H PR ODUCTS Newport, New Hampshire WWW.ALLTERRAINCO.COM

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ll Terrain was conceived in 1996 when its founder, Todd Hakanson, was hiking in Costa Rica and a bottle of DEET-based insect repellent leaked in his backpack. It melted the keys on a calculator and ate through the pack.

After returning home, he was even more disturbed when he learned what the potential side effects of DEET can be when applied to human skin. He formulated an all-natural, time-released insect repellent called Herbal Armor Insect Repellent out of essential oils.

Since then, All Terrain has developed several products for people and their pets who like to spend time outside — both in the backcountry and in their backyards — safely and without risk to their skin and health.

WHY NEW HAMPSHIRE? David Kulow, president of All Terrain, sums up why All Terrain is in New Hampshire, sentiments echoed by other outdoororiented brands in the state: • Access to and economic emphasis on great outdoor recreation.

• Favorable work environment.

• Quality of the workers as people and professionals.

• State and local support.

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NEMO Equipment headquarters in Dover features a "rain room" testing facility and handmade desks recycled from former warehouse shelving.

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BAILEYWORKS PRODUCTS: M E SSE NG E R BAGS, BACKPACKS,

TOTE S, AND POUCHE S Newmarket, New Hampshire WWW.BAILEYWORKS.COM

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he common messenger bag, which slings across the body keeping its contents well-supported and close to a bicycle rider, initially exploded in popularity on San Francisco’s crowded, hilly streets. But the first one was made and sold in Portsmouth.

In 1993, John Bailey conceived and sewed the first messenger bag. Though this functional carrier has since been copied by numerous bag-makers from fashion designers to outdoor outfitters, BaileyWorks bags remain the standard and are still made here in New Hampshire.

Like no other, they help professional and everyday pedalers tote up to 60 pounds on their two-wheelers. They are also favored by students and others who travel on foot for their simplicity and durability.

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JETBOIL PRODUCTS:

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etboil is the backpacking standard for lightweight, compact cooking systems. Second cousins Dwight Aspinwall and Perry Dowst conceived its unique propane-isobutane burner and neoprene-insulated mug-like pot in 2001 on a backcountry trip in the White Mountains. Their first prototype boiled water in just 60 seconds, turning heads at trade shows.

Today Jetboil boasts multiple models, all with fast boil times even in extremely cold weather and better heat adjustability compared to most competitors. The brand is distributed worldwide and has grown to over $19 million in annual net income.

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SKI SOCKS BENEFIT BODE MILLER’S TURTLE RIDGE FOUNDATION While the sock brand Farm to Feet is not based in New Hampshire, sales of its ski socks directly benefit New Hampshire native and Olympic ski champion Bode Miller and his family’s Turtle Ridge Foundation (TRF).

Located in Franconia, TRF supports a variety of adaptive and youth sports programs in the state with help from Farm to Feet, which donates a portion of its sales of its Franconia socks to TRF. In addition, the sock company promotes TRF on its website and through social media, provides socks for various TRF fundraisers including the annual BodeFest ski event and the BodeBash golf and tennis tournament, and has a picture of Cameron Shaw-Doran, TRF’s director of development and Miller’s friend, on the Franconia socks’ packaging.

An aspiring ski racer, Shaw-Doran was paralyzed in a car accident in 1997. Undeterred, he continues to compete in adaptive skiing events using a state-of-the-art monoski that he created in conjunction with TRF and engineers at MIT to give those with similar disabilities greater access to the slopes.

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by BaileyWorks comes to life in their manfacturing and showroom facility in Newmarket.

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STURM, RUGER & CO. PRODUCTS: HUNT ING R IFL ES A ND OTHER FIREA RMS

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hough its corporate headquarters are in Connecticut, Sturm, Ruger & Co., more commonly called Ruger, has maintained production and testing facilities in Newport for several decades. The company was founded in 1949 by Alexander M. Sturm and William B. Ruger, a remarkable achievement considering they had only $50,000 in start-up funds, and it was post World War II, a period when the firearms market was declining. However, thanks to Yankee ingenuity and determination — and a reputation for quality and value — Ruger grew into one of the country’s largest firearms manufacturers, respected by outdoorsmen and women who hunt and target shooters alike.

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H OOK-AND - LOOP ADHERERS A ND FAST E NE R S Manchester, New Hampshire WWW.VELCRO.COM

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hile VELCRO Brand fasteners are not outdoor gear per se, they probably hold shut the flaps on your favorite weather-resistant jacket, tent fly, cross-country ski boots, duffel bag, and numerous other outdoor products. Like BAND-AID bandages, most people don’t realize VELCRO is a brand name (the generic term is hook and loop). A Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, invented it in 1941 after observing how burdock stuck to his dog’s fur when they hiked together. He based the brand name, VELCRO, on the French words velour (velvet) and crochet (to hook), as his invention is made from hundreds of tiny nylon hooks on the rougher side of a strip that grab onto the many loops on the softer side.

Today, de Mestral’s ingenious biomimicry is the basis for Velcro Company’s 35,000 products.

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THE SKI INDUSTRY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire skiers were among the earliest skiers in the United States, gliding across the state’s rolling, snowcovered meadows and exploring the White Mountains at a time when skis were wood, boots were made of leather, and cars were Model Ts. In fact, one popular ski run relied on a rope tow powered by a Model T engine. These skiers — men and women — were as known for their innovations with their gear, lifts, and technique as the risks they took on the state’s steep, narrow, and icy trails. After all, these are the people who practically invented Tuckerman’s Ravine and named the Lunch Rocks.

Naturally, more innovators to clothing and gear followed.

Though some of those early brands like Profile skiwear and Dartmouth skis are long gone, New Hampshire remains home to the largest concentration of big-name snow sports brands in the country. These include Elan, Alpina, Völkl Ski, Marker, Dalbello, Nordica, Blizzard, Tecnica, Fischer, and Holmenkol.

The parent companies of these brands are based in Europe, but their U.S. operations influence the design and look of their products, particularly gear targeted for the North American market. “New Hampshire is an important hub of ski companies,” says Gary Fleming, president of Elan USA, which has been in Lebanon since 2002. “There is ski talent in the area, but just as importantly, there are so many skiers on the East Coast, and day skiing is so important to the sport that being here makes great business sense. And we don’t count on feet of snow. Just a few inches gets us out!”

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Canoeing the Connecticut River MAKING MEMORIES ON THIS TREASURED WATERWAY STORY AND PHOTOS

BY LISA BALLARD

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here are few rivers anywhere that can boast as many recreational opportunities as the Connecticut River. This 410-mile waterway begins near the Canadian border then flows south, creating the border between New Hampshire and Vermont before traversing Massachusetts and Connecticut en route to its mouth at Old Saybrook on Long Island Sound. It’s the longest river in New England.

My introduction to the Connecticut River came as a freshman at Dartmouth College during the fall of 1979. Where the river passes by Hanover, it seems a long, narrow lake rather than a flowing river. The first time I laid eyes on its deep, dark waters, the wind blew from the south, rolling the waves up the river. With only a hazy idea about northern New England hydrology, I figured the river probably drained into the St. Lawrence Seaway until a couple of upperclassmen laughed at me when I referred to downriver as upriver. Despite my initial directional challenges regarding the river’s flow, the more I got to know it, the more I treasured it.

LEGENDARY JOHN LEDYARD Dartmouth’s riverfront was a busy place from May through September. Crew teams stroked their long, skinny shells up and down the river each morning and evening. The swim-

ming area teamed with students pausing from their term papers to take a dip in the cool water or to watch a couple of fraternity brothers jump illegally off Ledyard Bridge on a dare.

The Ledyard Canoe Club was also a big draw, bustling with students wishing to rent canoes, roll kayaks, or fill their bellies at one of the club’s friendly feeds cookouts. A lifelong paddler, I was quickly sucked into the group, where I learned about John Ledyard.

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academic offerings, he dug out a canoe from a large white pine tree the following spring and paddled away, becoming the first white man to travel the river from Hanover to the Atlantic Ocean.

Beginning in the 1920s, Dartmouth students have retraced Ledyard’s voyage on the college’s annual Trip to the Sea. As a member of his namesake canoe club, I led this 210-mile, weeklong canoe trip during my senior spring, the first of many canoe trips I’ve made on the Connecticut River between its source at the Connecticut Lakes and its mouth at Old Saybrook.

CANOE CAMPING VERSUS BACKPACKING After college, I lived on the Connecticut River between Hanover and Lyme for 20-plus years, where afternoons on its calm waters offered solace after a hectic workday. I fished for pike along its shallow, weedy bays near Piermont, skinnydipped off my dock on steamy summer nights, and listened

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to the geese honk their goodbyes as they soared south in the fall. When my son Parker turned 10 years old and was finally strong enough and skilled enough to go canoe camping, I introduced him to his first overnighter on the Connecticut River.

It sure beat backpacking! For starters, Parker was at an age when he was still too small to carry a heavy pack, yet his stuff was bulky enough that the effort for me to lug most of our camping gear and food into the mountains had become less appealing. On a canoe-camping trip, if we chose a route without portages, we would not only have nothing to carry but we could also bring a few extra creature comforts. Plus we could go swimming and fishing.

We planned a three-day trip along a 20-mile section of the Connecticut River from North Stratford to Guildhall. This segment of the upper river is part of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, a designated water trail with primitive campsites that are available first come, first served.

Pairing up with another family from Franconia, we launched our small flotilla just after sunrise on the first day.

Paddler Safety Planning a canoe-camping trip?

Here are a few tips to help you and your family have a safer, more enjoyable trip from put in to take out.

Bring a bottle of hand sanitizer.

Most sickness that occurs on a camping trip is transmitted not from tainted water but from dirty hands.

Bring extra paddles.

You never know when one might get lost or break.

Wear PFDs (personal flotation devices) on the water.

Safety is key for you and your children.

Sharpen your skills before you put in.

Make sure everyone knows basic paddling strokes and can control a boat in small waves and a light current before you go.

Avoid strainers.

Trees overhanging the water or in the water can capsize canoes and trap paddlers.

When in doubt, scout.

If you are unsure about a stretch of water, look at it from shore before you paddle it.

Watch the weather.

While the weather promised to be fair, an eerie mist curled around us, adding a touch of mystery to the start of our adventure. The two sets of parents manned the fully laden canoes. The kids — Parker, Carolyn, and Ron — were in the kayaks.

The fog muted the morning’s sounds, making me acutely aware of each swish of my paddle. Though the adults in the canoes were strong paddlers, the kids in the kayaks were faster. The parents pulled hard to keep up with the children, who seemed to glide effortlessly downstream in the gentle current. Within minutes, the kids were out of sight ahead of us.

Rounding a riverbend, I noticed Parker’s boat abandoned on a sandbar. He was

Pay attention to not just the predicted precipitation and temperatures but also the wind. Wind makes waves that can turn an easy, flatwater paddle into an epic battle with Mother Nature.

Keep the mileage to a reasonable amount per day.

The river’s current helps move you along, but more slowly the farther south you go.

Respect the sun.

Most people know to outfit their family with protective clothing, sunglasses, and a widebrim hat, and to slather on lots of sunscreen.

Don’t forget to give everyone at least two water bottles to sip all day. You may be on water, but it’s easy to get dehydrated from the exercise and the elements.

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sneaking up on something. At the same time, Ron had ceased to paddle his kayak and appeared to be stalking something by water. Suddenly, a gaggle of Canada geese burst from the sandbar and dispersed raucously, some taking flight and others splashing into the river. It would be the first of several memorable wildlife encounters on our trip.

THE MICE The second encounter happened shortly after we finished dinner at our first campsite. As we relaxed around our campfire, I noticed a wooden box on a pole at the end of the small clearing. “Parker, would you sign us in?” I asked, pointing to the box.

All campsites along this part of the river have a register that paddlers are supposed to sign. If there’s an emergency or if someone is missing, it helps searchers figure out where they might be. In addition, it helps monitor the use of the water trail.

Parker walked over to the sign-in box and lifted the top. “Mom!” he shouted, a touch of panic mixed with the excitement over his discovery. He quickly let the lid drop back into place.

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Connecticut River Through the Years 12,000 years ago – The first Paleo-Indians settle on the banks of the river as the continental ice sheets, which carved the Connecticut River Valley, recede.

Early 1600s – European settlers begin farming and establishing settlements along the Connecticut River. The influx of people, timbering, and agriculture transforms the watershed from 80 percent forest to 20 percent forest.

1866 – The toll bridge connecting Cornish, New Hampshire, to Windsor, Vermont, is rebuilt for the third time, this time as a covered bridge. With its 449.5 feet, it remains the longest covered wooden bridge in the United States. Today cars pass over it for free.

Late 1800s – During the Industrial Revolution, numerous hydropower dams begin to appear along the river, blocking migratory fish. Massive amounts of pollutants and untreated human waste accumulate in the waterway.

Mid-1900s – The woodlands begin to regrow shortly after World War II, but chemicals continue to wash or get dump into the river. By 1960, the river is unaffectionately nicknamed the world’s bestlandscaped sewer.

1972 – Congress passes the Clean Water Act and then the Endangered Species Act (1973). The river cleans up over the next 20 years. Migratory fish return thanks to the construction of fish ladders around dams.

1989 – The first bald eagle pair nests by the river, an indicator that the river has recovered.

1995 – The Connecticut River watershed becomes the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge emphasizing conservation partnerships and limiting the use of land purchases to preserve wildlife habitats.

1998 – Congress names the Connecticut River an American Heritage River, one of only 14 rivers nationwide to receive the designation.

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box and peered inside, expecting to see a large snake.

Instead, a half-dozen newborn field mice cuddled with their mother. The camping logbook was an indiscernible jumble of shredded paper, providing a cozy nest for the baby mice. “Don’t let them out!” said my son, urgently closing the box again.

“I don’t think they want to come out,” I said. “They’re too small.”

We returned to the campfire, which had mellowed to glowing embers. After the kids used the bailing buckets from the canoes to douse the remains of the fire, everyone retired to their tents.

About an hour later, I heard a twig snap. “Shhh!” Giggle. The kids were up to something. I cracked open my tent flap to see the three of them tiptoeing toward the sign-in box. Parker lifted the lid, proudly showing the mice to the others with his flashlight.

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“Mom, I think you’ve got one!” shouted Parker from his kayak as my rod bumped the gunnel a few times. “Could be dinner!” I shouted back as I grabbed my rod to play the fish, but Parker didn’t hear me. He had hooked one, too.

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to stow his kayak paddle. The task was impossible for a 10-year-old who had limited experience in such a tippy watercraft. As his rod bent, he dropped his paddle into the water, needing both hands to control his fishing rod. The feisty fish began to pull the kayak to starboard. “I’m waterskiing!” he giggled as the fish and the current continued to move him toward the riverbank.

I brought my fish to net, a nice 2-pound smallmouth bass, then my husband and I paddled over to Parker. My husband maneuvered us close to our son and then grasped the back of his kayak to steady it. From the bow of our boat, I was close enough to get a net under the fish and scoop it up.

It was a beauty! Fifty percent bigger than mine. That evening we cooked both of our catches over our campfire. Parker proudly served up pieces of fish to everyone.

That night, Parker knocked at my tent flap, then crawled in between his dad and me. “That was a fun day,” he said, from amidst the red and green sleeping bag clouds that surrounded him. “I like canoe trips. I don’t want to go home tomorrow.” As his eyelids drooped, I promised him another canoe trip for our next family getaway and looked forward to it as much as he did.

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ristofer Henry’s ideal business client is someone for whom biking plays a significant role in life.

“Someone who’s been riding for 15 or 20 years,” he says. “And has owned 10 or 15 bikes.” He pauses and laughs. “Someone whose ideal number of bikes to own is N plus one: N being the number of bikes currently owned.”

You guessed it. Kris sells bikes. But not just any bikes.

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“My Trapper Keeper was filled with sketches of bikes.”

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“Biking for me has always been a pathway to more elbow room, space, and freedom.”

The owner and founder of a company called 44 Bikes based in Lyndeboro, Kris sells custom-built bicycles; generally, bikes whose primary purpose is to ride on dirt. And not just any cyclist seeks out a custom-built bicycle frame. The biking community is small, yet vast. Tight-knit, yet far-reaching. The cyclists that find Kris are like Randy “Shoogs” Larrison of Long Island.

Shoogs, an avid cyclist, met Kris at the Hampshire 100 (now the Crotched Mountain Hundred) where Kris brought tools and a pop-up tent (and of course a few bikes) to support riders at the event.

“He handed me a beer,” says Kris. “We talked forever.” And now Shoogs rides 44 Bikes.

“Kris cares about bikes,” says Shoogs. “He cares about the client/builder relationship.” Every 44 Bike comes with purpose, care, and thought. All 44 Bikes are designed, built, tested — and loved — by Kris.

DEVELOPMENT OF A BIKE BUILDER Kris got interested in cycling at the ripe old age of four and it wasn’t something he needed to think much about. “I just took off,” he says, adding, “I remember telephone poles.” That is, his parents would allow him to ride or play as far as the nearest telephone pole on his brick-house-lined street in East Greenville, Pennsylvania. As he grew and matured, they would extend the boundary by another pole and then another. “I’ll always remember my first solo bike trip around the block,” he says.

“Biking for me has always been a pathway to more elbow room, space, and freedom.”

Family played a central role in the development of his interests and talents. His parents encouraged him to build and draw (“My Trapper Keeper was filled with sketches of bikes,” he says). His maternal grandmother lived locally on former farmland, and there he developed an interest in riding on dirt.

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“Many of the artists I studied had mixed backgrounds."

Meanwhile, he never really knew his maternal grandfather, but they shared a bond. “He passed away when I was young,” Kris says. His grandfather was a self-employed TIG welder who kept a meticulous workshop in his garage. At family gatherings, the young Kris inevitably gravitated from the crowd to the workshop where he explored his grandfather’s tools. “My connection to him is through his tools and his workshop and stories from my grandmother,” he says.

As Kris grew, his grandmother and others began to observe characteristics in Kris that he shared with his grandfather. Kris became a TIG welder. He works for himself. He likes to do things a certain way. “He liked things in order,” says Kris, who doesn’t know how people can stand messy workspaces. “A clean shop is a friendly shop.”

Maybe it was with his grandfather in mind that Kris, originally enrolled at Pennsylvania State University as a declared biology major, also signed up for a freshman course in jewelry and light metals. (He eventually earned his degree in the latter.) As an undergrad, he says, “I asked the question ‘Who am I?’” Part of that answer was that he was deeply inquisitive and introspective, and he continued to explore his interests.

He interned with a goldsmith. He learned to TIG weld at a machine shop near campus. In his course research he discovered Peter Skubic, a German jeweler with a scope of skills and practice that went way beyond jewelry. “Many of the artists I studied had mixed backgrounds,” he says.

This led to another discovery: His true field of interest was industrial design. Unfortunately, it wasn’t offered at Penn State. So, he graduated with his undergraduate degree, but 200 (unanswered) cover letters and resumes later, he decided to enroll at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence as an undergrad transfer student. “I needed the redo at RISD to finally get down to honing my skills,” he says of his second bachelor’s degree.

DEEP THOUGHTS Kris puts great thought into everything he does. He came out of RISD and landed jobs designing shoes at Reebok and then Converse. “RISD was so hands on — sketch, design, refine, build, rebuild, TIG welders — and I went straight to sitting in front of a computer all day,” he says. He decided to quit the corporate life and strike out on his own by starting a graphic design

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“Bike clients are coming to me with genuine interest and a shared passion."

company. The goal of his design firm? To one day be able to build bikes.

This might sound funny: Dive into one career in order to start another. “DIY is strong in my generation,” Kris says, referring to Generation X’s proclivity to do things oneself and on one’s own terms.

Kris didn’t want to be beholden to an investor to get started. He had worked in bike shops, and he didn’t want to work in another. He was trained in welding, design, and metals. Graphic design had a low front-end investment, it was gratifying-enough work, and he had some skills. He wanted to build a business and be his own boss. And at the same time, he wanted to experiment with bike designs on the side.

A side story (although Kris probably considers it a central story!) is that he met his future wife Lynn while at RISD. “We landed in New Hampshire by sheer luck,” he says. Lynn’s twin sister landed a job in New Hampshire.

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marry both twins?” he asks. Wanting to live near her sister, Lynn and Kris relocated to Lyndeboro to a house on a dirt road with land, a dilapidated horse barn in back, and close proximity to a network of bike trails.

As his design business began to flourish, Kris’ thoughts turned toward bike building. New England is home to some pioneers in the custom frame industry and many of them stem from the same few companies. Fat City dissolved to spawn Merlin Bikes, Independent Fabrication, and others; meanwhile legendary bike builder Richard Sachs served as a mentor and inspiration to many custom builders.

Kris decided to seek out another guru, Ted Wojcik of Plaistow (not far from Lyndeboro), and they worked a trade. “I did some graphic design and rebranding work for him,” Kris explains. “He let me come to his shop on Fridays and ask questions.” Ted, who has been building bikes for over three decades, was generous with advice and tips. He was impressed with Kris’ abilities and finally

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“I want to see things through and do it my way, even if I have to fail the first time through."

gave him a final piece of advice: “He told me I really ought to start up my own shop,” Kris says.

ONE HUNDRED 44 BIKES L ATER At that point, Kris had been building bikes for a few years.

He had a name for his shop: The 44 in 44 Bikes comes from the number on his high school football jersey, the same number his father wore playing on the same team at the same school. Now, with all he had learned, he only needed one thing to start a shop. And that was a shop.

He set his sights on a colossal do-it-yourself project: the horse barn in his yard. By himself, he mucked out the barn; added windows, walls, and doors; and started working on 44 Bikes. As he went, he continued building out the shop as he figured out how it should flow.

Richard Sachs once said it takes 100 bikes for a custom builder to truly get a firm grasp on his craft. “Sure enough, at around my 97th bike, light bulbs started going off,” Kris says. “My body and brain had done things enough that they started acting intuitively.” Just as an old high school football coach made him practice football situations over and over (and over and over) to facilitate reacting without thinking, suddenly he found his hands moving instinctually. He had arrived.

These days, Kris gets up and does a couple hours of graphic design work for the small number of longtime clients he’s held on to. Then it’s out to the shop to design, refine, build, and detail.

Although bike building is a solitary activity, Kris in-

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volves his clients. “There was so much communication,” says Shoogs, who owns two of Kris’ bikes, a Marauder (“A classic New England hardtail mountain bike,” says Kris) and a Huntsman (“A do-everything road bike”). “There are horror stories about dealing with custom builders. Kris really cares about involving the client and answering all their stupid questions.”

Bottom line: Kris Henry of 44 Bikes cares. He cares about who he is, how he lives, and how he works. The means is as important as the result. “Bike clients are coming to me with genuine interest and a shared passion,” he says. He uses local products and U.S.-manufactured parts whenever possible. “It’s important to give back to your community and ask if we can do it here. I value being proud of your country and origin without being nationalistic.”

Although he didn’t come up through one of the traditional New England custom bike bloodlines, he is proud to be part of the community of New England custom builders. “We have a certain determination and stick-toit-iveness,” he says. “I want to see things through and do it my way, even if I have to fail the first time through.”

Fortunately for Kris, and for passionate cyclists in frames custom built for them, 44 Bikes is sticking to it.

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August 10–11

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June 15

Exhibit Opening: Lucknow Revealed: Research, Restoration, and Mystery at Castle in the Clouds

Castle in the Clouds WWW.CASTLEINTHECLOUDS.ORG June 15–17, 22–24, 29–July 1

Operated by George Georgopoulos and family, Veano’s II offers all the traditional Italian favorites you love plus seafood, pizza, and more. Serving lunch and dinner, and now breakfast from Mon–Fri 7am–11am, Sat–Sun 7am–noon. Stop in for superb customer service, great food, and a warm friendly atmosphere— and don’t forget to check out our daily dinner specials!

Richard II The leader of the most powerful country on earth is unfit for the job. His actions are irrational, his decisions are dangerous, and the people he most relies upon do not trust him.

What, then, is to be done?

Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Fri & Sat; 2 p.m. Sun HATBOXNH.COM June 16

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CALENDAR June 17

Father’s Day: Dads Tour Free

June 22

Castle in the Clouds WWW.CASTLEINTHECLOUDS.ORG

Gordon Lightfoot Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

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June 17

Dance Inspirations Audi, 2 p.m.

WWW.CONCORDCITYAUDITORIUM.ORG June 20

A Summer Celebration: Annual Dinner and Auction Canterbury Shaker Village, 5 p.m.

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Ryanhood June 21–23

Capitol Center for the Arts: South Stage Market Days Join us outdoors at the South Main Stage during Concord’s Market Days!

June 22 Ryanhood, 6 p.m.

Front Country, 7 p.m.

Jack Broadbent, 8 p.m.

The Huntress and Holder of Hands, 9 p.m.

June 23 Heather Maloney, 6 p.m.

Matt Nakoa, 7 p.m.

All Our Exes Live in Texas, 8 p.m.

The Sea the Sea, 9 p.m.

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June 24

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Capitol Center for the Arts, 1 & 4 p.m.

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June 22

June 25–August 23, Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays

Brigade Lecture Series: The White Family of Concord Pierce Manse, 7 p.m.

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June 25

Birding with Bob Ridgeley Castle in the Clouds, 8:30 a.m.

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Music Night Castle in the Clouds, 5:30 p.m.

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June 23

Miss Robin’s Dance Etc. Audi, 2 p.m.

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The Bolshoi Ballet in HD: Coppelia Capitol Center for the Arts, 6 p.m.

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June 24

Dancesteps Etc. Audi, 1 p.m.

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Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains Castle in the Clouds, 7 p.m.

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June 27–July 7

Boeing Boeing It’s the 1960s and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn’t be happier: a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay, and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his careful planning. Soon all three stewardesses are in town simultaneously, and timid Robert is forgetting which lies to tell to whom, and catastrophe looms.

The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Mon–Sat; 2 p.m. June 28 & July 2 (no performance July 4) WWW.WINNIPESAUKEEPLAYHOUSE.ORG

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Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Fri & Sat; 2 p.m. Sun (except July 14, 2 & 7:30 p.m.)

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Granite Restaurant & Bar 96 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH (603) 227-9000 www.graniterestaurant.com A popular dining and socializing spot among Concord locals, our awardwinning Granite Restaurant & Bar is a beautifully styled, modern eatery.

Our talented culinary team brings creative sensibility to a sleek dining space enhanced with contemporary spirit and warm service. Using locally sourced ingredients at every opportunity, Chef Daniel Dionne infuses New American cuisine with French, Mediterranean, and Asian influences.

June 28

July 8, August 16

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Audi, 7:30 p.m.

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Capitol Center for the Arts, July 8, 3:30 p.m.; August 16, 11 a.m.

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June 29, July 13, 27, August 3

Open Air Landscape Art Castle in the Clouds, 10 a.m.

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July 17–21

Arts Week Canterbury Shaker Village, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

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July 7

Castle Car Show Castle in the Clouds, 10 a.m.

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Jordan TW Trio Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

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The Immigrant Garden This captivating story takes place in 1910. Young Cecily Barnes is passionate about having a flower garden. She finds a catalogue from Mrs. Beauchamp’s Mystical Flower Seed and Herb Emporium and sends off to England for seeds.

Thus begins a joyous exchange of letters between Cecily and Louise Beauchamp that blossoms into a friendship transcending time and oceans.

Bedrock Gardens, 4 p.m.

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July 2–August 27, Mondays

Solar Gazing Marc Stowebridge from the New Hampshire Astronomical Society will be in our field on Mondays to teach you all about the sun.

Castle in the Clouds, 1 p.m.

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July 11–21

Charley’s Aunt Widely regarded as one of the most sensational and entertaining farces of all time, Charley’s Aunt centers on two Oxford undergraduates in search of a chaperone for a proper visit from their girlfriends. Jack and Charley manage to persuade fellow undergraduate Fancourt “Babbs” Babberley to impersonate a millionaire aunt in this hilarious tale of young love and preposterous deception.

The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Mon– Sat; 2 p.m. July 12 & 16 WWW.WINNIPESAUKEEPLAYHOUSE.ORG

Constantly Pizza 39 S. Main Street, Concord, NH (603) 224-9366 www.constantlypizza.net @ConstantlyPizza Great food at great prices and a selection that can’t be beat!

We specialize in catering – office parties, rehearsal dinners, showers, anniversaries, retirements, special events, and more.

Check out our website for our full menu.

Open Mon–Thu & Sat 11am–10pm, Fri 11am–11pm; Sun Noon–9pm

Dining Out In & Around Concord

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Alan’s of Boscawen

Veano’s II Italian Kitchen

133 N. Main Street, Rte. 3, Boscawen, NH (603) 753-6631 www.alansofboscawen.com

30 Manchester Street, Unit 1, Concord, NH (603) 715-1695

Alan’s of Boscawen, a family-owned restaurant, has been a local favorite in the Concord area for over 25 years providing great food, catering, and dining experiences.

Featuring live entertainment Fri & Sat 8:30pm–12am.

Open daily, including breakfast Sat & Sun.

Revival Kitchen & Bar 11 Depot Street, Concord, NH (603) 715-5723 www.revivalkitchennh.com @revivalkitchennh Casual upscale dining with farm-to-table influence. Reviving Old World classic dishes using local meats, produce, and dairy. Unique and classic cocktails and every wine available by the glass.

Open Tue–Thu 4–9pm, Fri–Sat 4–10pm; closed Sun & Mon.

El Rodeo Mexican Restaurant 22 Loudon Road, Concord, NH (603) 224-9600 www.el-rodeo-nh.com Enjoy authentic Mexican food at our Concord, NH restaurant.

Our friendly staff will greet you with a smile and our cooks will prepare your food with care.

Sun–Thu 11am–10pm, Fri & Sat 11am–11pm

Operated by George Georgopoulos and family, Veano’s II offers all the traditional Italian favorites you love plus seafood, pizza, and more.

Serving lunch and dinner, and now breakfast from Mon–Fri 7am–11am, Sat & Sun 7am–noon. Stop in for superb customer service, great food, and a warm, friendly atmosphere—and don’t forget to check out our daily dinner specials!

Makris Lobster & Steak House Route 106, Concord, NH (603) 225-7665 www.eatalobster.com

Ichiban Japanese Steakhouse/Sushi Bar & Lounge 118 Manchester Street, Concord, NH (603) 223-3301 www.ichibanconcord.com Ichiban features 12 hibachi grills where meals are prepared in front of you, a Japanese sushi bar, and the Koi Lounge with HD TVs. Happy Hour is Sun–Thu 4–6pm with $2 drafts, half-price appetizers, and cocktails!

Vibes Gourmet Burgers 25 S. Main Street, Concord, NH (603) 856-8671 www.vibesgourmetburgers.com

An experience you wont forget! Enjoy fresh seafood and steak at an affordable price. Comfortable setting for all ages.

Banquets and catering available!

Open Tue–Sun, 11am–9pm (8pm on Sun)

Our handcrafted burgers start with Open Prairie Natural Angus®.

Raised on ranches and 100% vegetarian fed, this fresh, premiumquality beef contains no added hormones, antibiotics, or artificial ingredients. Our signature brioche buns are baked fresh daily.

Mon–Thu 11:30am–8pm, Fri 11:30am–10pm, Sat 12–10pm, Sun 12–6pm

Barous' Family Restaurant

Arnie's Place

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Homemade Ice Cream, Burgers & Bar-B-Que

From the family who owned the Cat N Fiddle Restaurant comes Barous' Family Restaurant.

Sun–Thu 7am–8pm, Fri & Sat 7am–9pm

164 Loudon Road, Concord, NH Arnie's has the largest selection of award-winning homemade ice cream! We also strive to make our mouthwatering Bar-B-Que even more mouthwatering every day in our in-house smoker!

Join us for a Tuesday evening Cruise Night and find out why we are the local fun spot!

Sun–Thu 11am–8:30pm, Fri & Sat 11am–9pm Our hours may change, please call for closing hours for that day!

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A Pembroke, New Hampshire Montessori school for students age 3 to 15 ~ Since 1976 ~

CALENDAR July 26–August 11

Mamma Mia! The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 7:30 p.m.; July 30, August 2, August 6, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; August 9, 2 p.m.

WWW.WINNIPESAUKEEPLAYHOUSE.ORG July 27–29, August 3–5

July 28

Open House & Ice Cream Social Enjoy a concert on the lawn with music by the 39th US Army Band–NH Army National Guard. Bring a chair.

Pierce Manse, 5:30 p.m. (concert at 7 p.m.)

WWW.PIERCEMANSE.ORG A Montessori Learning Center

Montessori offers a unique curriculum for students, along with Special programs & Family Events Preschool Summer Programs

New World Theatre presents a collection of four new works, all based on an academic theme and written by four regional playwrights.

Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Fri & Sat; 2 p.m. Sun HATBOXNH.COM August 9

Music Out of the ’Box: Santa Croce July 19

Music Out of the ’Box: Ryan Ordway Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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After School Programs July 22

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Patty Griffin Capitol Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m.

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Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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Theater Sports Improv Two teams are given parameters and one minute to huddle before they present their scene. At the end of two scenes, the audience votes.

Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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113 Storrs Street, Concord, NH (603) 715-2009 Consignment by appointment only Mon–Thu 11am–6pm, Fri & Sat 11am–7pm

Caring Gifts When the presentation is as important as the present! Our magic goes into every order we fill! Custom-made gift baskets, corporate gifts, candy, wedding gifts, and more!

249 Loudon Road, Concord, NH (603) 225-8080 www.artplusnh.com Mon–Fri 11:30am–6pm, Sat 10am–4pm

What’s In Your Closet Resale Boutique Name brand, new and gently loved clothing for women, including vintage styles, jewelry, designer handbags, and accessories.

Tue–Fri 10am–5:30pm Sat 10am–4pm, Closed Sun & Mon

Marketplace New England 7 North Main Street, Concord, NH (603) 227-6297 www.marketplacenewengland.com Mon–Wed 9:30am–6pm Thu–Fri 9:30am–7pm Sat 9:30am–6pm, Sun 11am–4pm

18 North Main Street, Concord, NH (800) 585-8382 caringgifts.com

9 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH (603) 224-2722

Joe King’s Shoe Shop

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ReChic Boutique

45 North Main Street, Concord, NH (603) 225-6012 www.joekings.com

Artisan Olive Oils & Balsamic Vinegars 8 North Main Street, Concord, NH (603) 225-3866

ReChic Boutique and ReChic Baby offer high-quality new and resale clothing and accessories for women and children.

Mon–Thu 9am–7pm, Fri 9am–8pm Sat 9am–6pm, Sun 10am–5pm

Tue–Thu 11am–5pm, Fri 11am–6pm Sat 10am–3pm, Closed Sun & Mon

Mon & Fri 10am–3pm, Tue–Thu 10am–7pm Sat 10am–4:30pm, Closed Sun

10 North State Street, Concord, NH (603) 227-6101 www.ReChicB.com

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The Cornish-Windsor Bridge spans the Connecticut River connecting the towns of Cornish, New Hampshire, and Windsor, Vermont.

Not Just Another Covered Bridge 1.

The Cornish-Windsor covered bridge is the longest covered bridge still standing in New England (it is 450 feet long).

2. It is the fourth bridge built at this site across the Connecticut River.

3. It was built by Bela J. Fletcher (1811– 1877) of Claremont and James F. Tasker (1826–1903) of Cornish.

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4. The current bridge was built in 1866 and rebuilt in 1988.

5. It was originally constructed as a toll bridge at a cost of $9,000.

6. It uses a lattice truss design patented by architect Ithiel Town in 1820 and 1835.

7. It was purchased by the state of New Hampshire in 1936 and made toll-free in 1943.

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