Around Concord Fall 2019

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Get more 16 The places to pick 50 The Best of Concord 60 Calendar 68 Poetry 70 History 72 Scene in Concord

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Neighborhood Profile

Discovery Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jeanne Gerulskis is always looking up

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Inside Bank of N.H. Stage

A visual tour of Concordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new music venue

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First ladies on Bridges House

Susan Lynch and Valerie Sununu share their stories

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The spooky city of Concord

No place has more creepy tales than the public library

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The wines of New Hampshire We take you to two area wineries, including Coffin Cellars, above, and a cider maker

On the cover: A view from inside Coffin Cellars. By Geoff Forester

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FROM THE EDITOR

Geoff Forester

The season, uncorked Much of our nation’s history, and many of our traditions, are rooted in the bounties of the Northeast. Here, each autumn, you can go to a farmers market and pick through root vegetables, hearty greens and even a late tomato or two. Or you can make your yearly pilgrimage to our region’s pick-your-own stands, where you’ll roam the apple orchards and learn the difference between a Macoun and a Honey Crisp.

New Hampshire is now fusing those long-treasured autumn traditions with an industry dominated by the warmer climates of California and France. Yes, New Hampshire vintners are producing some very good wines, and they’re doing so by tapping into the region’s harvest. They’re growing Marquette grapes at Mermaid Hill Vineyards in Concord to create a varietal that stands up to a merlot or a pinot noir. At Coffin Cellars in Webster, they’re putting a New Hampshire spin on wine by turning raspberries, black currants and peaches into a product that’s far drier than you’d expect. And atop Gould Hill in Hopkinton, Contoocook Cider Company is finely crafting a hard beverage that’s in the tradition of the region’s revered heirloom apples.

In this issue, we give you a tour of all three of these growing local establishments. But we won’t stop at wine.

You’ll also read about downtown fashion, the historic Bridges House, and best places in Concord to buy everything from a burger to a bouquet of flowers.

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FALL READING LIST

Off the shelf School is back in session and leaves are losing their green hues for bright reds, oranges and yellows. And while the weather is telling migrating birds to head south, it also indicates it’s time to wrap up those summer beach reads. If you’re looking to restock that stack of books on your bedside table, we have some suggestions of a few of the newer releases by New England authors to cozy up with this fall. Members of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project offered suggestions of these books and others.

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“Chances Are” By Richard Russo The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s most recent novel catches up with three college friends 40 years after a mystery that has haunted them. In 1971, Jacy Rockafellow, a woman each of them had loved, disappeared from Martha’s Vineyard. Lincoln is now a commercial real estate broker.

Teddy is a small-run press publisher. Mickey is a musician. They are all as different from each other as they were in their college days, but they have at least one thing in common: their secrets.

“The Nine”

By Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

“Holding on to Nothing”

By Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne

When Hannah Webber finally gives birth to her son, Sam, she devotes herself to him at the detriment of her marriage. And it seems like her efforts have paid off when, at 14, Sam is accepted into an elite New Hampshire boarding school.

Neither is prepared, however, when Sam stumbles on what appears to be evidence of sexual misconduct.

In Shelburne’s first novel, the Atlantic Monthly writer looks to her Tennessee roots. Lucy Kilgore is ready to leave her rural life behind, but a drunken night will forever tether her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, the father of her child. Lucy and Jeptha work to form a family with the odds stacked against them.

“The Oracle Files: Escape”

By Masheri Chappelle In the prequel to her first novel, The Oracle Files: Deliverance, Elizabeth Beeson Chase rises from slave to Quaker to a white-passing socialite in the harsh world of 1850s New York. Fantasy blends with history as Elizabeth navigates black and white worlds, neither that she quite fits into, amid ghosts and Gypsy secrets.

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“Given Latitude”

By Adam Hlasny Already an avid traveler, Adam Hlasny geeked out a bit when he discovered the new house he and his wife purchased in Manchester was precisely on the 43rd parallel latitude. That got the wheels of his mind turning, resulting in an eight-day crosscountry trek with his dad, Robert.

His newly released book chronicles 43 stops in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and California.

“Secret Life of Mary White”

By Lenaye Marsten In the Piscataqua region in the 1600s, it was dangerous for a woman to have too much healing knowledge and risk being hung for witchcraft. For Mary White, that means concealing natural gifts even while trying to save lives in a novel inspired by a true story. But, Mary can’t seem to avoid the events happening around her.

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Bread and Chocolate Their whole wheat sourdough is on point, as are their grab-and-go sandwiches.

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FROM THE FARM

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This is prime season for the pickiest among us. Around these parts, apples usually dominate the calendar, and for good reason. But as the season turns, there will be all types of gourds awaiting your discerning eye. A sampling: Applecrest Farm Orchards: 133 Exeter Road, Hampton Falls. applecrest.com. Stop by the animal barnyard.

Beans and Greens Farm: 245 Intervale Road, Gilford. 2932853. beansandgreensfar.com.

Beech Hill Farm: 10 Beech Hill Road, Hopkinton. 223-0828. beechhillfarm.com. Stop by the corn mazes and nature trails.

Brookdale Fruit Farm: 38 Broad St., Hollis. brookdalefarms.com. Hayrides offered in September and October.

Carter Hill Orchard: 73 Carter Hill Road, Concord. 225-2625. carterhillapples.com.

Dimond Hill Farm: 314 Hopkinton Road, Concord.

496-8218. dimondhillfarm.com.

Gould Hill Farm: 656 Gould Hill Road, Hopkinton. 746-3811. gouldhillfarm.com. Hayrides and entertainment, too.

Kimball Fruit: Route 122, Hollis. (978) 433-9751. kimballfruitfarm.com.

Lavoie’s Farm: 12 Nartoff Road, Hollis. 882-0072. lavoiesfarm.com.

Hayrides, corn maze and fresh cider.

Rosaly ’s Garden and Farmstand: 63 Elm Hill Road, Peterborough.

924-7774. rosalysgarden.com.

Marshall Pumpkin Farm: 169 N. Main St., Boscawen. 545-7794. marshallpumpkinfarm.com.

Rossview Farm: 85 District 5 Road, Concord. 228-4872. rossviewfarm.com.

Moulton Farm: 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. 279-3915. moultonfarm.com.

Sunnycrest Farm: 59 High Range Road, Londonderry. sunnycrestfarmnh.com.

Open until Thanksgiving.

Park Family Farm: 360 Upper City Road, Pittsfield. 731-0901.

Patch Orchards: 88 Churchill Way, Lebanon. 448-4130. patchorchards@gmail.com.

Riverview Farm: 141 River Road, Plainfield. 298-8519. riverviewnh.com.

Wilson Farm Stand: 144 Charles Bancroft Highway, Litchfield.

Washburn’s Windy Hill Orchard: 66 Mason Road, Greenville.

878-2101.

Windy Ridge Orchard: 1775 Benton Road, North Haverhill.

787-6377. windyridgeorchard.com.

Look for the Concord Monitor’s annual Harvest Guide, with details about farms across N.H.

Quite a lift T.C. Evans of Concord tries to pick up a white pumpkin – sometimes called a Ghost Pumpkin – at Dimond Hill Farm in Concord last October.

“I could make an incredible White Bean Pumpkin soup from this but I don’t want to injure myself making it,” said Evans, so he decided he would come back for pumpkins another time.

Evans makes the soup and then freezes it in quart bags and has it all winter. White pumpkins are just as edible as any pumpkin. For a recipe for White Bean Pumpkin soup, go to: oldwayspt.org /recipes/pumpkin-andwhite-bean-soup

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NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILE

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Discovery Center’s longtime director Jeanne Gerulskis is always looking up

EYE in the SKY

By ETHAN DeWITT

There’s a whooshing sensation to entering the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center – the darkened entranceway, the solemn, close-quarter hallway, and then, all at once, the massive bright atrium with aircraft and space artifacts aplenty. The effect is not unlike taking flight itself.

And it’s by design, says Jeanne Gerulskis, the executive director of the Concord center.

But it wasn’t always like that. Twenty-one years ago when Gerulskis first visited, the center was fairly barebones – a low-lit walkway focused entirely around one feature: the planetarium.

“I came in from the day I was interviewed, and it was dark,” she said. “And the lights were all broken on the walk-

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Discovery Center visitors are greeted by a 92-foot-tall Mercury-Redstone rocket and an XF8U-2 Crusader Jet.

“I realized we're going to have to brighten it up.

And so we did. We added exhibits all over the place and posters, but there just wasn’t that much room.

So we had exhibits on the walls, on the floor and the ceiling, and everywhere we could fit them. But it just wasn’t adequate for what we needed to do.” way. And we walked in and it was all these blues and grays and a really somber feel to it.”

It’s come a long way. Over two decades, the Discovery Center has grown into a force in central New Hampshire, with a major expansion of space and exhibits, and artifacts added by the year. And Gerulskis has been there at every step.

Gerulskis, a Massachusetts native, attended Williams College. Initially attracted to biology, she eventually switched to economics. But her path was not quite linear. She took three years off before graduating to work at a food education center in Northampton, a position that taught her skills in marketing and communications.

And along the way, she found adventure. A road trip to Alaska with a friend opened her mind. After college, she was back, planting her feet in 1979 in a small town 130 miles south of An2 0 a ro u n d c o n c o rd . c o m

chorage. The weather was frightful, but the lifestyle proved irresistible.

Getting by in small-town Alaska requires no small amount of resourcefulness. “You kind of had to do whatever you could find to do,” Gerulskis said. She tried it all: bartender, rock musician, cab driver, log scaler for timber en route to Japan.

One day, work took her to the Alaska Marine Highway, the ferry system connecting some 3,100 miles of coastline that roads often cannot.

That job brought her south to Ketchikan, an island town near the southernmost tip of the state, population 7,200.

She bought a floating house, got married, had a son. She spent her days wrestling with lines for ferries “as big as a cruise ship.” She never had intended to stay.

“I think after all those years of intellectual pursuits, I kind of had

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something to prove,” Gerulskis said.

“Like I wanted to be the tough person who could do all this.”

Somewhere in Ketchikan was a museum. Two of them, in fact.

For Gerulskis, it was a career choice years in the making. She’d spent years of her childhood not avoiding museums but seeking them.

Her father, an artist tied to the family soft drink business, had kindled an appreciation for paintings. But Gerulskis leaned toward science and history, and Alaska offered plenty.

From working with native artists to designing a canoe-building workshop, Gerulskis worked her way up the ladder, gaining experience and eventually vaulting to the senior curator of programs for the two museums. One leap of faith and a 3,600-mile road trip later, she found herself in Concord’s darkened planetarium, in 1998, deliberating what to do next. She already had a few ideas.

“I realized we’re going to have to brighten it up. And so we did. We added exhibits all over the place and posters, but there just wasn’t that much room. So we had exhibits on the walls, on the floor and the ceiling, and everywhere we could fit them.

But it just wasn’t adequate for what we needed to do.”

Gerulskis knew she wanted to expand the space from a school trip planetarium to a museum of science and space. Getting there was as winding a bureaucratic tale as NASA itself.

With the blessing of Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Sen. John E. Sununu, through earmarks and funding matches and blueprints designed and redesigned, the center finally opened, 10 years later.

Then, as the recession hit, Gerulskis had to keep inventing through a wave of budget cuts.

Gerulskis has learned something through her childhood and decades in the museum business: The successful exhibits aren’t always the ones with the priciest items. More important is that they build an environment to whisk away the kids.

“I think you really need to make a personal connection to want to learn more,” Gerulskis said.

Knowing the details of Alan Shepard’s childhood in Derry or Christa McAuliffe’s wonder at the moon landing is one thing. Putting yourself in their shoes and seeing a path to follow them is something else entirely.

It’s a truth driven home by her experience living with an artistically driven father, one who would encourage his children to draw on the walls when replacing wallpaper.

“When we would see the art in the museums, we felt like it was part of us – we all thought we were artists, too,” she said.

Science is different than art, Gerulskis says. The exhibits must be tactile and immediate. Simple concepts can be difficult to grasp. Basic activities and big visuals are a must.

For that, the center is well equipped. Kids have an 81-squarefoot puzzle of the moon, a tire of a space shuttle to climb, display cases

Jeanne Gerulskis has helped lead the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center through a period of innovation.

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Gerulskis feels the legacy of the center’s namesakes – Derry’s Alan Shepard and Concord’s Christa McAuliffe – every time she walks into work.

“I hope she would love it,” she said of Christa.

“Her mother said she would.” of toothpaste and hairbrushes, a space toilet and a new “moon colony” exhibit – launched in July to commemorate the 50th Apollo 11 anniversary.

They can climb into a simulated space shuttle cockpit, remotely control a set of robotics on the moon, and run their fingers across a 3D printout of the craters of the moon.

Or they can sit back and let the planetarium take over, upgraded from the days of slide projectors.

Of course, then there are the legacies of the center’s namesakes. Near the entrance is a wall of chrome, adorned with descriptions of Shepard, the first American in space, and McAuliffe, the teacher chosen among 11,000 applicants for the Challenger trip.

Inside lit cubbies are mementos of

the two: a flight book, a magazine.

There are quotes from the two for inspiration. But there’s no mention of the tragedy that claimed McAuliffe’s life, and rocked a city.

That’s intentional, Gerulskis says.

The center is there to boost the imagination, not burden it. And Christa led her life to lift the next generation. “I touch the future; I teach,” reads her quote on the wall.

Still, Gerulskis feels the legacy of the two every time she walks into work. Especially when she thinks about the place in their honor. “I hope she would love it,” she said of Christa.

“Her mother said she would.”

As she speaks, a family wanders by on the way to the atrium, pausing at McAuliffe’s gleaming smile.

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PHOTO TOUR The old Concord Theatre sat in disrepair for years before a new vision arose, turning the venerable movie house on South Main Street into the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest music venue. Owned by the Capitol Center for the Arts, which still draws some of the biggest acts in the state, the Bank of New Hampshire Stage will do smaller, more intimate shows with bands touring the region and country. It can fit 400 people on the open floor or 260 seated when retractable seats are pulled out. The summer of 2019 was considered a soft launch for the new Bank of N.H. Stage, but the live music is set to turn up to full volume this fall with a packed lineup. Around Concord sent Geoff Forester to capture the scene.

The expansive dance floor and lighting made for a packed dance party during an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s-themed event.

ENCORE in CONCORD

The marquee at the new Bank of New Hampshire Stage lights up downtown Concordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Main Street.

Geoff Forester

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To understand the change, you first have to see the old Concord Theatre as many remember it. To the left is a photo from 1991, and to the right is an interior image long after the theater was abandoned.

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Trumpet player Michael Fatum of The Rad Trads plays at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage. The Brooklyn-based band was on a nationwide tour that stretched from Anchorage to Nashville and beyond when it stopped in Concord in August.

Bass player and singer Michael Harlen of The Rad Trads checks his phone in the green room backstage before going out to perform.

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A full house was decked out in their best vintage gear for a nostalgic celebration at the Rewind â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s Party.

John Fatum of The Rad Trads warms up in the dressing room backstage.

This couple arrived to The Rad Trads show early to look around the new venue, and then took the opportunity for a slow dance on the empty floor.

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RESTORING HISTORY

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Clockwise from left: A section of a mural decorates the interior of the Bridges House; historic photos and artwork line the walls throughout the home; windows look out onto a porch from the kitchen; relaxing in the Mount Washington Room.

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BRIDGES HOUSE

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Former New Hampshire first lady Susan Lynch, right, laughs as first lady Valerie Sununu hugs her son, Leo, in front of the fireplace in the Mount Washington Room in the Bridges House in Concord during the summer of 2017.

Former first lady Susan Lynch and current first lady Valerie Sununu each write about the Governor â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mansion, gifted to N.H. a half-century ago

By SUSAN LYNCH It was early in 2005, not long after John had won his very first election and was about to be sworn in as governor of New Hampshire. The kids and John and I had our first opportunity to visit and briefly tour Bridges House.

To say it was in disrepair was an understatement, especially considering this home was gifted

to the state of New Hampshire in 1969 by the family of former governor and senator Styles Bridges to be protected and cared for as a place for special events and gatherings by the first family. So here we are, walking through a home that had an odor of mildew and everything seemed dirty. We had all three of our children with us walking through Bridges House for the first time.

I remember John turning to our son and two

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The Bridges House in Concord was donated to the state 50 years ago.

daughters, telling them they would be able to have a sleepover here soon. I was slightly horrified by the thought and recall saying, “It is a health hazard right now.” I flashed my husband a look and the conversation went no further. However, it served as an inspiration to make some serious and immediate changes.

Not long after, I worked with some terrific people in the private sector and connected to state government and helped create Friends of Bridges House, a nonprofit board of directors tasked with renovating Bridges House and restoring it to its former glory. I specifically recall hearing stories of the contributions of other former first ladies, so I wanted to honor the efforts of my predecessors while taking steps to repair and renovate the property. For example, first lady Nancy Sununu gardened and would add plants on the property; she has a green thumb. Mrs. Sununu also did stenciling and painting in the home during her husband’s terms in office. First lady Kathy Gregg launched a nonprofit, but the recession of the 1980s limited her ability to tackle any big tasks. First lady Gale Thomson and her husband, Gov. Mel Thomson, were the first and only fulltime residents of the home. They renovated the kitchen in the late 1960s with harvest gold appliances and dark wooden cabinets.

Following years of neglect, the great room had become an outdated, moldy, largely uninhabitable

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Our redesigned kitchen was created by local designer Sue Booth.

When planning the renovation, consideration was given to make it function both for a first family as well as for the capacity to cater special events.

room. We removed the old stone fireplace and giant moose head and created a beautiful new room, which we now use for special events.

Known as the North Country Room, as a way to honor the major donors to the renovation, the room features two dramatic landscape mural paintings by local artist Lisa Nelthropp – one of Mount Chocorua and Mount Washington.

Our redesigned kitchen was created by local designer Sue Booth. When planning the renovation, consideration was given to make it function both for a first family as well as for the capacity to cater special events. Today, it features specially carved wood panels created by furniture master Jeffrey Cooper, which include scenes of Mount Washington, Saint Gaudens, Canterbury Shaker Village, Manchester’s textile mills, the Portsmouth seacoast and the Old Man of the Mountain. Other features include various historic china on display in the dining room, some of the original furniture on display in the family’s living room, a collection of children’s books by New Hampshire authors on display in the upstairs nursery, and one or two ghost stories that are focused largely on the master bedroom. The Bridges House library features a collection of New Hampshire authors and was recently updated and reorganized with help from the State Library. We now host N.H. author events twice a year.

Gov. Chris Sununu, right, and former Gov. John Lynch talk during a membership picnic at the Bridges House in 2017.

By VALERIE SUNUNU As first lady, our state’s children are my primary focus. It is a privilege to oversee the management of Bridges House. I view this as a unique space for diverse thoughts, where politics is left at the door, and people can come and connect for a greater good. We are, in essence, building bridges and erasing the silos that can keep us apart. During my time here, I have hosted teachers, community leaders, professors, deans, superintendents, researchers, philanthropists, state legislators, moms, kids, students and a governor twice a year since 2017 to talk about Littles, as I affectionately call 0- to 8-year-olds. Littles!!

They are the future. They are our reason for being. To me, they are everything. Bridges House gives us a special and unique backdrop for our ongoing work on behalf of Littles and their well-being. I’m a school teacher, so to me, everything around us can provide a lesson of some sort. Through Bridges House, I have learned about the result of dedication and devotion to preserving our history. I am so appreciative of the efforts of Susan Lynch and so many others to restore this beautiful home to its former glory. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the donation of this gorgeous property to the state of New Hampshire, it is important to rededicate ourselves to its upkeep and original mission as envisioned by the family of Styles Bridges.

The concept behind the generous donation was to ensure this property continues to be meaningfully

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As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the donation of this gorgeous property to the state of New Hampshire, it is important to rededicate ourselves to its upkeep and original mission as envisioned by the family of Styles Bridges.

used in some capacity. That is my goal as well.

For example, working with the awesome volunteer group Granite State Ambassadors, we are opening the doors of Bridges House to school groups and young visitors. I wanted this home to be an inspiration for young minds, so I developed a day-long lesson plan for visiting students, focused on learning the home’s history, but also to discuss our democracy and the importance of respect, good listening and learning how to discuss tough issues.

Soon, we are installing a free lending library at the entrance to the Bridges House property. This is a small way of saying thank you to our East Concord neighbors who always keep a watchful eye on the home. And look, I’m a teacher. If I can help inspire anyone to read, that’s a win!

Friends of Bridges House is also working toward making the property “greener” through the recent addition of four beehives that are managed by volunteers from the Concord Area Beekeepers Association, and we treat nearby fields with pollinatorfriendly materials that work well for the environment. We hope to reduce the long-term carbon footprint of Bridges House and use some of these small projects as a learning tool for all who visit the property.

There’s much more to come. The next 50 years will include new steps to preserve this incredible property. Our collective legacy is ensuring this elegant brick home remains for future generations to enjoy, to visit and to use as a way to celebrate New Hampshire. ◆

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The Cesarini family – Caitlin, Tony and Stella, 11 months – helped us display Concord-themed outfits during a recent photo shoot in Bicentennial Square.

Photography by Geoff Forester

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FALL FASHION Hers Gondwana Caitlin already had an outfit picked out when she saw this dress at Gondwana, and just like that, our fashion shoot was in expansion mode. Nothing says fall like this leaf-patterned cotton/spandex by Effie’s Heart for $110.

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L.L. Bean and Joe King’s It’s flannel season, and Tony’s rocking this extra-cozy lined cotton Hurricane plaid like a backwoodsman, all for $79. And he turned to the shoe king – Joe King’s – for the Mountain Khakis Teton Twill pants for $85.

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FALL FASHION Hers Fabulous Looks Boutique and Indigo Blues This royal blue three-quarter sleeves shirt by Ruby Rd. at Fabulous Looks was built for equal parts comfort and style. It sells for $69, and it pairs with a coral wristlet/shoulder bag for $39. The Ethyl Clothing jeans are from Indigo Blues, a Hopkinton boutique that recently opened a location in Concord. They go for $90.

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L.L. Bean We went back to L.L. Bean for a flannel/vest combo to pair with his khakis. The $59 Mountain Classic vest covers an Indigo Denim plaid that goes for $50. These are sticker prices, so they can often be had for less at the L.L. Bean outlet.

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The Granite State’s rolling hills, once reserved for pastures and orchards, are starting to come alive with vineyards flush with grapes resilient enough to withstand the harsh climate of the Northeast. But when it comes to winemaking, orchards have their place, too, in New Hampshire’s small but growing wine industry. We’ll take you to three operations in and around Concord. You’ll meet the owners of the city’s new vineyard, you’ll tour an old Webster family’s fruit-based winery, and you’ll go in the press room of a high-end cider house in Contoocook. Cheers.

Mermaid Hill Vineyard Concord

By CAITLIN ANDREWS The road to Mermaid Hill Vineyard winds off Currier Road in Concord like a vine up a trellis.

Your first payoff for making the trek is visual. The driveway rolls past thousands of vines marching up the hill veiled in protective netting like it’s their wedding night. Goats eyeball you for snacks and scratches. A vista of sprawling forests around you makes it seem like the farmhouse atop the knoll is the last bastion of civilization.

The second payoff is the 14% alcohol-by-volume wine, created with the vineyard’s own Marquette grapes. A careful sip brings you notes of oak and spice. A hint of black pepper.

It’s taken Mermaid Hill owners Ray Conner and Hugh Herr more than two years to bring their wine to table. Half the journey was reviving the vines that had been growing on the property for at least six years before they bought the land in April 2018.

The other half ? The paperwork. It takes a lot to nurture a vineyard from first plantings to selling your first bottle, especially when you’re a small, local grower like Mermaid Hill.

“It’s a complex process. ... What I’d love to see at some point is just a how-to guide – and maybe I just haven’t found it yet – to setting up a winery in New Hampshire,” Conner said. “I mean, you don’t even know what you don’t know.”

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Jean-Marie Belize of Mermaid Hill Vineyard trims a vine at the vineyard off Currier Road.

The red wine is made with Marquette grapes.

Fermentation

Lewis Eaton of Sweet Baby Vineyard in Hampstead said it can be “unbelievably expensive” to create and sell your own wine.

As the president of the New Hampshire Winery Association, he said the capital needed to start a vineyard – both time and money-wise – can be daunting to small businesses.

“I think it’s a challenging process,” he said.

“It’s rewarding if you find a niche and know what you’re good at. Some people come into it with a romantic vision and find out there’s a lot of work associated with it.

“It deters some people,” Eaton continued. “You have to find your comfort zone and

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The Mermaid Hill Vineyard processing building includes two large steel tanks to ferment the wine. As opposed to oak barrels, steel is completely neutral in the winemaking process.

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what you’re willing to put up with in order to sell your product and get people into your tasting room.”

First, there’s the land cost. Eaton said farmland in southern New Hampshire costs about $150,000 an acre. You can put about 150 vines on that much space, meaning you’ll have to sell a lot of wine to get your money back.

If you want a storefront, there’s rent to consider.

And then there is the paperwork: Eaton recommends going to your municipality to make sure you have the right zoning in place to run an agricultural business.

Next is the Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau. Eaton said it takes about six months to go through the vetting process, a system he said is “more of a paper shuffle” through the internet.

“One of the biggest reasons it takes so long is that they’re (TTB) in Ohio and you’re out here,” he said.

Once you get your federal approvals, you have to go to the state. The cost of a license depends on how much wine you want to sell. Fewer than a thousand cases costs about $100. Over a thousand will run you about $1,140.

Both licenses need to be renewed annually, Eaton said. Plus, you owe the federal government a surety bond. When he started Sweet Baby 11 years ago, he said that cost him about $1,000.

So you’ve got your land, your vines, your processing equipment, and the federal and state governments have given you the green light. You’re ready to start making wine.

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But then there are the taxes. Eaton said there are about six taxes on every dollar you make: a business tax, an income tax, a federal excise tax, a business profit tax, a business enterprise tax and a state excise tax.

All the hurdles it costs to put your product out there “almost makes making wine look easy,” Eaton said.

Back to the vineyard

Conner and Herr inherited the grapes and the wine-making infrastructure at Mermaid Hill from the previous owners, who grew grapes for six years at the site before selling the land.

But it still took a while to get off the ground: Mermaid Hill just started tastings this summer.

Conner said there are barriers to getting her product off the ground, too.

“There are barriers for local growers and small producers to getting into the state stores and stuff, just because of capacity,” she said. “You have to have a certain number of cases available before you can get in.”

Still, the work has been worth it, Conner said.

She’s billing Mermaid Hill as a boutique, organic vineyard.

Tastings are available the first Sunday of every month, but you can also pick up a bottle of Mermaid Hill Marquette at the Concord Food Co-op and Marketplace New England in Concord, and the Warner Public Market in Warner, Conner said.

It’s also being served at Revival Kitchen & Bar and Whiskey & Wine in Concord.

Coffin Cellars Webster

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Jamie Austin remembers spending summer afternoons as a child at his family home in Webster with his brother and sister stomping on blackberries in a 40-gallon bucket, his father watching with a careful eye nearby.

Austin’s father, Peter Austin Coffin, enlisted his children to help him make wine from the blackberries, raspberries and dandelions he found in the yard of their colonial home, Austin said. Each time it was a family affair.

“He was always out in the garden picking everything he could find, trying combinations he liked,” Austin said. “The whole family would be a part of it.”

Winemaking is a tradition Austin carried on as he grew older, visiting his father when he moved out and went into the restaurant business. He would meet up with family at

his father’s place once a month to have dinner and to make a batch of wine with berries or flowers.

He now owns a winery, Coffin Cellars, opened nine years ago and operated out of his childhood home in Webster. He sells dry to off-dry fruit wines made from berries that are almost all grown in Austin’s father’s backyard and another 2 acres the family owns in Webster.

Jamie Austin opens the coffin-themed doors to the winery he owns with his family in Webster.

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Jamie Austin in the tasting room he had built at Coffin Cellars.

You can also find Coffin wines at select farmers markets and at state liquor stores.

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Apart from making a good product, Austin sees it as a way to honor that family history.

“I think it all really did start with the family aspect – everybody living in different places, but coming together to hang out and make a little wine,” he said.

“Over time it just became natural.”

None of Coffin Cellars’ wine is made from grapes.

They sell products such as peach wine, black currant wine, kiwi-berry wine and jalapeno wine – a spicy wine that is a favorite among customers. They have nine wines they are selling now, and switch out flavors periodically depending on what resources are available.

“It’s a very country feel – easy, simple,” he said. “It’s very drinkable.”

Family and tradition are seeped into the wine, but also the character of Austin’s business and tasting room.

The name Coffin Cellars was inspired by an old family name. The Coffin, then “Coffyn,” family came to the United States from England in the 1700s and purchased land on the island of Nantucket. The Coffins (sometime before the “y” changed to an “i”) soon became one of three families to start whaling off the island. Austin’s father is named for the famous whaling ship captain Peter Coffin.

Austin and his family have played off the Coffin theme by creating a design in the shape of a casket with a wine bottle in the middle.

“We thought something fun and a little different like that would catch people’s eyes,” he said.

The home where Austin makes his wine dates to

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1775. The tasting room, where people can visit on weekends between 1 and 5 p.m., is in an old shoemaker’s shop next door that was built in the Civil War era to make boots for soldiers. In the 1930s, it was a playshop for his grandmother. The inside is designed by a friend of Austin’s who made it largely from pines found on the property. Austin’s friend did all of the delicate trim work inside by hand. An old lamp made out of a wagon wheel hangs down as a centerpiece in the space.

“We feel like this place really embodies us,” he said. “This is the feel that we want to have: It’s very homey.”

He said growing most of the berries themselves helps keep prices down. A bottle of Coffin Cellars’ wine costs between $10 and $20. Most are around $15.

“It’s really important to my dad to be accessible to everybody,” Austin said. “He wanted to make a quality product that everybody could afford.”

Every Thursday, Austin said he comes out and spends the day with his father, making, labeling or bottling wine or picking berries.

“I think it’s a passion we will always share,” he said.

Where to find it

Austin said each of the wines and ciders he sells takes between nine months and three years to make.

It’s sold locally at various farmers markets, including in Concord and Nashua, and at convenience stores.

The winery’s most popular wine, cranberrypomegranate, is sold in New Hampshire state liquor stores.

Contoocook Cider Company

By JONATHAN VAN FLEET The effort to preserve Gould Hill orchard in Hopkinton is now served in a bottle, keg or can.

High up on the hill with views of nearby Mount Kearsarge and the White Mountains beyond, one of the newest offerings at the orchard is hard cider.

Rows of trees historically packed with McIntosh and Red Delicious apples are being transformed to grow lesser-known varieties, like Golden Russets, Ashmead Kernels, Jonagolds and Yellow Newtown Pippins. Grafting young branches on old trees is a way to bring back forgotten heirloom apples that dotted New England orchards a century ago, back when making hard cider was a Yankee staple. Prohibition changed all that, and apple growers wiped out their cider apples – with higher acids and tannins – in favor of milder varieties that made for good eating and baking.

At the turn of this century, China flooded the apple juice market, which drove down prices and wiped out a huge source of income for local growers. Orchards started going under, their centuriesold trees cut down to make way for houses on some of the most picturesque land in the state.

Gould Hill was no exception. The farm was for sale and in danger of disappearing.

In 2009, Tim and Amy Bassett took over Gould Hill, first leasing the land and trees, then buying it a year later. The couple with three kids had bopped around the Concord area, first living in Henniker, then Dunbarton and finally Hopkinton in 2004.

Tim had a farming background and Amy liked to think big, so they decided to take over the beloved orchard atop Gould Hill with the spectacular views.

They immediately set out to grow their business to pay off their mortgage and keep the orchard open to the public.

They planted row after row of blueberries and thousands more apple trees. They offered pickyour-own peaches and converted the barn into a commercial kitchen capable of pumping out pies,

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Mark Strader, left, and Tim Bassett work on filling cider at the Contoocook Cider Company.

cider donuts and other sweet treats.

The cash flow was good in late summer and fall, but revenue was slim the rest of the year.

“We had a couple bad seasons in a row,” Tim Bassett said. “From January to July, it was a constant struggle of, ‘how are we going to do this?’ ” They were looking for a product that could sell year-round, something different.

In 2015, Tim Bassett incorporated the Contoocook Cider Company with a plan to make hard cider – not like Woodchuck cider that many of us have tried at the bar, but a more artisanal blend, one that captures the local flavor of the orchard.

One of his customers, Mark Strader, was buying lots of fresh cider each year and fermenting it into a crisp, refreshing, slightly carbonated beverage.

Mark and Tim decided to go into business and by the end of 2017 the first bottles of Contoocook Cider were on the shelves.

Making the cider

Despite the stunning views from the orchard’s grounds, Strader’s workspace is abruptly less picturesque. His laboratory and brewhouse is an insulated room that was built years ago for apple storage. It’s great for cider making because it can keep the temperature steady inside during the heat of the summer or cold of the winter. One drawback: no windows.

Such is life for Mark the mad scientist, who’s learned to blend different apple varieties like a culinary Mozart.

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Strader started out as a homebrewer, making beer and improving his craft with each batch. Like many alchemists, he started looking for new flavors and decided to try a hard cider. Every fall, cider was everywhere and easy to get, and the end product was tasty as heck.

Once Strader and Bassett got to talking – one man had the knowhow and the other had the product – their tasty partnership was formed.

“We take some of the sweet cider he’s got, turn it into hard cider, and you’ve got revenue all year round,” Strader said. “I like to call it weather-proofing his business.”

Amy Bassett was on board, too: the business venture fit into her overall vision of diversifying the orchard to give people more than just a bag of apples when they came up the hill.

“When we bought the farm, we wanted to give people an experience,” Amy said. “We wanted to be part of the community. It’s paid off because people

do appreciate us being here.”

But for all the thank-you’s they got for keeping the orchard open, some people in town don’t even know Gould Hill is making its own hard cider.

That’s why Amy has become an ambassador for cider. It’s glutenfree, it’s not too sweet, it’s local, she tells people. When they try it, they love it, she says.

“I think our cider shocks a lot of people, in a good way,” Amy said.

How good is it, you might ask?

Geoff Forester Actually, it’s top-notch.

Two of their blends – their Cranberry and Contoocook Blend – were recognized by the Seattle Cider Awards with Double Gold Grand Awards of Excellence.

If you haven’t tried cider, here’s a primer.

By using different varieties of apples – with different sugar contents and acid levels, the cider can take on the characteristics of a fruity beer – think apple lager. With a little extra alcohol, it can be

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live and work. They view reminiscent of a white wine themselves as business – think sparkling pinot griowners and stewards of the gio or try to imagine what land, keeping the orchard apple champagne would grounds open to the public taste like. year-round.

It can be blended with “We’re so grateful to have other New England fruit to take on entirely new flavor this orchard,” Amy Bassett profiles and colors. All of said. “We’re grateful to give Contoocook’s products have back. We’re grateful for the between 6.9% and 9% alcopeople who support us.” hol, but since Contoocook is One thing that both the licensed as a winery, not a business owner and the brewery, they can conceivcustomers seem to appreciGeoff Forester ate is the cider’s local roots. ably crank up the alcohol Mark Strader of Contoocook Cider Company content to 24%, but there “We’re using our own shows a vat for the cider. The company just are no plans in the works apples,” Tim Bassett said ordered another one because of demand. for an apple-blueberry port from inside the wood-lined wine, according to the cider masters. tasting room. “It’s tree to glass. It literally comes off Contoocook offers a blueberry cider, which is that press and into our fermenter.” sold in bottles. Its cranberry cider is available in Strader smiled at the thought. cans and growlers. Another offering, Fireside “I can’t stress enough how fresh that is to have Maple, is blended with 60 gallons of Gould Hill that juice pressed off and into our fermenter in a maple syrup, producing a mind-blowing semiday,” he said. sweet beverage that tastes more mapley than sap But there are still risks, like hail and blight. when it comes right out of the maple tree. Another “We’re living by Mother Nature out there,” Tim blend uses local honey.

Bassett said.

Thirsty yet?

Generations of families have come to Gould Hill And like grapes, each apple variety has its own to pick apples, take pictures and make memories. characteristics, opening a world of single varietals, More than anything, the Bassetts say they want to like the Chestnut Crabapple, which is woody and preserve that for generations to come. tannic and offers the boldest flavor in Contoocook’s “We keep wanting to go further,” Amy said. “We cider line. hit our original goals but we definitely want to conOr they can be used to create infinite blends catinue to grow the experience.” pable of producing bouquets of flavor – like their award-winning Contoocook Blend, which uses Where to find it Golden Russet, Yellow Newtown Pippins and Getting the product onto shelves and into Chestnut Crabapples. And as the trees begin prorestaurants has been as slow as making the cider ducing even more of these heirloom varieties – like itself, but that too is expanding. Locally, it can be the red-fleshed Redfield apple – the options will found at the Concord Food Co-op, Buffalo Wild continue to grow.

Wings and Riverhill Market. In Hopkinton and Things are going well enough that the orchard Contoocook, the cider can be bought at Colonial has added a second fermenter to potentially double Village, Everyday Cafe and the Lakehouse Tavern. production, but they are wary of getting too big too Still, one of the best places to try the cider is at fast. Quality is their number one goal, they said. the orchard itself, where you can grab a growler and a bag of fresh apples.

Stewards, business owners The Contoocook Cider tasting room is open There’s an ethos behind Contoocook Cider weekends year-round with extended days and hours during peak picking season. Stop by Gould Company and Gould Hill Orchards beyond apples Hill Farm and check out these award-winning and alcohol. Its owners and their brewmaster are ciders for yourself. ◆ producing something from the land where they

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WHERE THEY MAKE IT

Go visit: A Granite State of wine The number of New Hampshire winemakers continues to grow, each with their own niche. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a full listing across the state. More details can be found at aroundconcord.com.

Allen Brothers Cider: Dover Ancient Fire Mead & Cider: Manchester, ancientfirewines.com Appolo Vineyards: Derry, appolovineyards.com Averill House Vineyard: Brookline, averillhousevineyard.com Black Bear Vineyard: Salisbury, blackbearvineyard.com Butternut Farm: Farmington, butternutfarm.net Candia Vineyards: Candia, facebook.com/Candia-Vineyards133805012628 Coffin Cellars: Webster, coffincellarswinery.wixsite.com/home-1 Contoocook Cider Company: Hopkinton, gouldhillfarm.com/ contoocook-cider.html Copper Beech Winery: Hooksett, copperbeechwinery.com Crazy Cat Winery: Bristol, crazycatwinery.com

Dube & Robinson: Tamworth, facebook.com/duberobinson Flag Hill Winery & Vineyard: Lee, flaghill.com Fulchino Vineyards: Hollis, fulchinovineyard.com Gilmanton Winery & Vineyard: Gilmanton, gilmantonwinery.com Haunting Whisper Vineyards: Danbury, hauntingwhisper.com Hermit Woods: Meredith, hermitwoods.com Hill People Vineyard: Sandwich, facebook.com/HillPeopleVineyard Incredibrew: Nashua, incredibrew.com Labelle Winery: Amherst, labellewinerynh.com Loyal Dog Winery; New Boston Mermaid Hill Farm: Concord, mermaidhillvineyard.com Moonlight Meadery: Londonderry, moonlightmeadery.com Mountain Music Winery & Vineyard: North Woodstock, mountainmusicwinery.com Winnipesaukee Winery: Wolfeboro, winniwinery.com

Old Settlers Cidery: Alstead, oldsettlerscider.com Poocham Hill Winery: Westmoreland, poochamwinery.com Poverty Lane Orchards: Lebanon, povertylaneorchards.com Pupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cider Company: Greenfield, pupscider.com Sap House Meadery: Center Ossipee, saphousemeadery.com Squamscott Winery: Newfields, blueheronwines.com Stump City Cider: Rochester, facebook.com/stumpcitycider Summit Winery: Westmoreland, thesummitwinery.com Sweet Baby Vineyards: Hampstead, sweetbabyvineyard.com Vineyard at Seven Birches: Lincoln, sevenbirches.com Walpole Mountain View Winery: Walpole, bhvineyard.com Whippletree Winery: Tamworth, whippletreewinery.com White Mountain Winery: N. Conway, whitemountainwinery.com Zorvino Vineyards: Sandown, zorvino.com

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Braised short ribs, and a glass of red Red wine braised short ribs with brown butter sweet potato puree, wilted garlic spinach and braise reduction For the braised short ribs 2 pounds of short ribs portioned out into 8-ounce pieces, lightly salted and left out of refrigeration for a half hour Two medium-sized carrots peeled and cut into half-inch pieces 3 ribs of celery, chopped 1 medium yellow onion, diced large 3 cloves of garlic, pressed 3 sprigs of fresh thyme 4 bay leaves 2 cups of red wine 2 cups of beef stock Salt and pepper Heat a medium-sized sauce pot over medium-high heat with 90/10 blended oil. Once the pot is hot, sear all sides of the short ribs until they are golden brown. Remove short ribs and place into a braising pan. Turn the heat on the pot down and add all of the mirepoix (diced vegetables). Sweat the vegetables until they are tender. Add red wine and stock to deglaze. Pour mixture over the short ribs in the braising pan. Add the thyme sprigs, bay leaves and a teaspoon of kosher salt. Cover the braising pan and place in a 325-degree oven for 3 hours.

For the sweet potato puree 1 cup of unsalted butter 5 large sweet potatoes 2 teaspoons of salt Using a fork, poke holes in all the sweet potatoes.

Place on sheet pan and roast for 45 minutes. Test the potatoes with a toothpick. If you can push it through the potato with no resistance, it is ready to be removed. I would recommend using an oven mitt to hold the potatoes and a fork to pull the skin off so you only have the roasted inner potato left. It can be tricky to do, but the best results require a hot potato to make a smoother puree. Place your butter in a pan

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For an “Around Concord” special wine pairing, we turned to Daniel Dionne, executive chef at The Granite Restaurant & Bar, who gave us a recipe to accompany a Mermaid Hill red, grown and produced in Concord.

and slowly heat on medium-low until the butter solids start turning brown. At that point, you can remove the butter from the stove. Combine all ingredients in a food processor and puree until smooth.

For the wilted spinach 12 ounces of baby spinach 3 cloves of crushed garlic 1 tablespoon of butter In a large sauté pan, sweat the garlic in oil over low heat for about 3 minutes. Add the spinach, gently stirring it with a wooden spoon. Once it starts becoming darker in appearance and wilted looking, turn off the heat and add the butter, stirring until the spinach looks shiny. Lightly season with salt and pepper.

For the braise reduction Remove the short ribs from the braising pan and set aside. Remove the rest of the contents from the braising pan and place into a large sauce pot. Place on the stove and bring to a simmer. Once a quarter of the liquid has evaporated, strain off the vegetables and place the short ribs and liquid back into the pot to slowly reheat the ribs. Once they are hot, they are ready to serve. Don’t forget to taste all of your food for seasoning!

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OLD HAUNTS

By ERNESTO BURDEN The Concord Public Library may be the most haunted building in the city.

“Personally, I don’t like to be in this building alone late at night after we close,” Concord Public Library Director Todd Fabian told a tour group last year. “I feel like at 7 a.m., if I’m alone, the ghosts are sleeping in. In the evening ... well I’ve heard all kinds of strange sounds that I cannot explain.”

The library was one of the stops on Concord’s Upstairs, Downtown Haunted Tour coordinated by Intown Concord Economic Vitality Committee

A spooky hallway in the bowels of Concord library.

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Ernesto Burden

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Some say it’s the water that lies beneath that can make areas of Concord seem otherworldly member Jennifer Kretovic.

Kretovic says there’s a running theory among ghost hunters that water is an energy-generating substance that creates spiritual activity. And, she says, there’s “an aquifer under the downtown that’s larger than Penacook Lake.”

And according to Fabian, the library is “the closest location to the largest lake-like portion” of the aquifer.

That’s why, Kretovic says, “Of all the places along the Haunted Tour, the Concord Public Library is likely the most haunted of them all.”

The tales, both old and new, may bear this out: Staff recall a man refilling the vending machine outside the employee lounge felt hard tugging on his shirt. When he turned, there was no one there. He stopped at the desk on his way out, “as white as a sheet, and told the staff he wanted no part of coming back,” Fabian said.

Speakers lecturing in the auditorium, (right over underground water, Fabian points out) have asked afterward if the building was haunted, and reported feeling breath on the backs of their necks while they were presenting – and sometimes hearing a ghostly voice whisper their names.

Patrons also report seeing a woman lingering in the fiction section on the first floor … then just fading away.

City staff have heard unexplained noises in the boiler room.

They’ve also described books falling off carts and shelves for no apparent reason.

And while Fabian says some people attribute the ghostly encounters to a staff member who passed away in the library in the 1950s, the stories go back much further. And continue to this day.

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Concord Public Library Director Todd Fabian gives a tour of the hidden areas of the library, including the window to the children’s reading room (below). For staff, one thing is clear: Something or someone roams the halls of the old building.

It’s hard to dismiss accounts from the custodians, he says, who are alone in the building and hear people walking around in other rooms, or see figures watching them from the floor above the atrium, through the window of the children’s reading room.

Of all the places in the library, the basement stacks, off limits to the public, see the most reports of paranormal activity. Half of the library’s collection is in this shadow-drenched basement storage area, and staff must descend to retrieve or shelve books.

A now-retired staff member told Fabian she was walking through the back stacks area carrying a cup of about 40 paper clips. She dropped the cup and the clips spilled onto the floor. She flicked on the light in that aisle and bent down. There were no paper clips. A few days later, in the same area, she saw a paper clip hit the shelf in front of her, as

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if thrown from behind by an unseen hand.

Oddly, Fabian chuckles, despite the connection between ghosts and water, the one place nobody’s ever reported a sighting is in the library bathrooms.

So if things get strange on your next visit to the stacks, you know where to hide.

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You don’t have to try very hard to get creeped out in a 1700s cemetery. At Old North burial ground, you’ll find the final resting spot for President Franklin Pierce, but don’t be surprised if you catch a glimpse of some dancing spirits.

More Haunted Places

Although the library may be at the top of the list, there are plenty of other haunted places in Concord as well. Kretovic and co-tour organizer Sean Skabo shared some of the other prominent ones: Margaritas Mexican Restaurant: This former jail still boasts cells, now equipped with tables for dining. Skabo says the staff and patrons describe a former inmate named George playing with the food.

New Hampshire State Hospital: This now abandoned edifice was chartered in 1838 as the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. While the state’s Department of Health and Human Services official histories describe the hospital’s buildings and treatments as state of the art (for their time) and “highly therapeutic,” 19th century mental health treatment overall has a dark reputation, highlighted in the expose “10 Days in A Mad-House” by

Nellie Bly. Skabo says he’s heard tales of strange happenings in the tunnels under the hospital.

Barley House: Downstairs in the B-Lounge, Skabo says, staff and patrons have reported a little boy appearing in the back left corner when people are having cocktails. They’ll approach him, and he’ll walk backwards – and into the wall.

Old North Cemetery: The cemetery, ringed in an iron fence, was established in 1730 and is the oldest in central New Hampshire. It is also the burial place of President Franklin Pierce and has accumulated plenty of ghostly legends over the centuries. People claim to see spirit lights dancing over the headstones, Kretovic says. And Sharon Bonner, who works at the Concord Public Library, says she was up early for a workout and was driving past the cemetery and saw a woman in a Colonial-era outfit carrying a lantern as she drifted among the graves. ◆

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Best of Concord

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EVENTS

SEPT. 22

Multicultural Festival

SEPT. 1 – OCT. 6

Vineyard Tours and Tastings Staff will show visitors the process and host tastings. During harvest season, you might also be able to pick some grapes off the vine.

Mermaid Hill Vineyard, 1 - 4 p.m. mermaidhillvineyard.com SEPT. 5

The Ballroom Thieves

SEPT. 6-15

First Night It’s New Year’s Eve, 1985. Danny Fleming, mid-30s, is about to close up his store for the evening when into the shop pops a woman he believes he remembers from his grammar school days.

Hatbox Theatre, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

SEPT. 6

Amythyst Kiah

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Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

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SEPT. 11 – OCT. 9

Discovering Magic Hatbox Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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SEPT. 8

SEPT. 13

Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

Jacob Jolliff Band ccanh.com

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State House, 11 a.m. 4 p.m.

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Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

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Celebrate all cultures through entertainment by local performers, ethnic food vendors, cultural crafts and demonstrations and the international flag parade. More than 50 cultures are represented.

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SEPT. 22

Wings and Wheels View antique vehicles and a variety of aircraft.

There will also be a display of model aeronautics.

Concord Municipal Airport, 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. concordnh.gov/ wingsandwheels

SEPT. 14

Canterbury Artisan Festival A celebration of handcrafted arts with music, food, family craft activities, farm animals and demonstrations.

Canterbury Shaker Village, 10 a.m.

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Capitol Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. ccanh.com

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OCT. 2

Walk a Mile In Her Shoes The annual walk is a fundraiser for the Crisis Center of Central New Hampshire to help prevent domestic and sexual violence.

Main Street, 4 – 6 p.m. cccnh.org

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SEPT. 20

Love, Loss and What I Wore

Studio Two Beatles Tribute

It’s more than just a coming-of-acertain-age story, it follows the life of Gingy, intertwined with colorful stories of other women and the clothes they wear.

Concord City Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Hatbox Theatre, Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. hatboxnh.com

SEPT. 24

Collective Soul Capitol Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m.

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SEPT. 25

Straight to Hell plus Rockaway Bitch Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m. ccanh.com

Charlie Sawyer’s BB King lecture and tribute Concord City Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. walkerlecture.org

SEPT. 20

Eli “Paperboy ” Reed Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

SEPT. 19

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SEPT. 20-21

Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

Reunion at Hippy High A murder mystery dessert theater where the cast reminisces about the days of free love and the age of Aquarius.

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SEPT. 27

Barika Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m. ccanh.com SEPT. 28

Borealis Quintet Concord City Auditorium, 6 p.m. concordcommunityconcerts.org SEPT. 29

Celtic Night followed

by Carolina Eyck Bank of N.H. Stage, 5 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 1

Beautiful “Beautiful – The Carole King Musical” tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.

OCT. 11 – 13

Warner Fall Foliage Festival Parades, a road race, activities for children, music, contests, artisans and more.

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

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OCT. 13

Northeast Delta Dental New England Half-Marathon A point-to-point scenic run from New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon to the State House. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. millenniumrunning.com/ne-half

OCT. 6

The Audience Bank of N.H. Stage, 12:55 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 6

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…

A musical tribute to the Beatles’ “White Album.”

Capitol Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. ccanh.com

OCT. 2

Ann Patchett Capitol Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. ccanh.com

OCT. 11

Indigo Girls

Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

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OCT. 12

The Office!

OCT. 12

Now … The Bass: Dance!

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OCT. 11

Bank of N.H. Stage, 9 p.m.

Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

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Dionysia

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OCT. 18, 19, 25 and 27

Spirit Encounters Tours Hear firsthand accounts of otherworldly encounters on this 60- to 75-minute tour.

Canterbury Shaker Village, 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. shakers.org

OCT. 12

Vintage Car Show

OCT. 18-19

Frozen Jr.

Bring your antique car or motorcycle (25 years and older) to this familyfriendly car show.

The Community Players of Concord children’s theatre group will perform the popular Disney film’s live adaptation.

Canterbury Shaker Village, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Concord City Auditorium, Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m.

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Anais Mitchell

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Michael Tougias “Above and Beyond” is a gripping account of John Kennedy and America’s most dangerous Cold War spy mission.

Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 19

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Dragons Love Tacos and Other Stories

Vieux Farka Toure & Bombino

Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

OCT. 16

OCT. 18

AMISH HOMESTEAD 80 S. Main Street Concord, NH

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Concord City Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. walkerlecture.org OCT. 16

San Fermin Bank of N.H. Stage, 8 p.m.

OCT. 18

Jesse Cook Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. ccanh.com

A great selection of Amish hand crafted furniture and country decor, along with a variety of linens, braided rugs, lamps, Bentwood rockers and so much more!

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OCT. 20

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bank of N.H. Stage, 12:55 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 23

Peter Furlong Furlong will perform “Das Lied con der Erde,” or “The Song of the Earth,” by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.

Concord City Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. walkerlecture.org OCT. 25

Kansas Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 25-27 OCT. 25

Granite State Puppet Invasion

Trick or treating for families at downtown businesses. Street will be closed to traffic. Main Street, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. intownconcord.org

Hatbox Theatre, Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Halloween Howl

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 21 Centre Street, Concord NH (603) 224-2523 www.stpaulsconcord.org

Seven days a week of service, fellowship, learning & worship Outreach programs including food pantry, thrift shop & clothing bank Fellowship opportunities such as parish meals, gardening & crafting Learning through service, study & discussion series

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OCT. 26

Harvest Music Festival Traditional music performed by a variety of artists and groups. Food and foliage views will be available.

Canterbury Shaker Village shakers.org OCT. 26

One Funny Mother Capitol Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 27

Nick Offerman: All Rise Capitol Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. ccanh.com OCT. 30

Mark Valenti on Piano Concord City Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. walkerlecture.org More events at concordmonitor.com and daily in the Concord Monitor

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POETRY

Geoff Forester

A farm on Route 129 in Loudon holds on to autumn.

‘I Want’ I want to visit the old abandoned farm,

breathe the sweet aroma of fresh-cut hay.

stand where my grandfather stood

I want to know he found peace

when he viewed the surrounding hills through optimistic blue eyes.

with his hard work, simple life, honesty and integrity.

I want to feel his first taste of freedom in a new land,

Sometimes you have to look back before you can move forward . . .

By J.W. Spain

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HISTORY

July 25, 1927 The Lone Eagle was lost – again.

It was the afternoon of July 25, 1927, and Charles A. Lindbergh was in the air somewhere over Concord.

On his history-making flight from New York to Paris in May of 1927, some mariners say they saw his Spirit of St. Louis overhead and tooted out the latitude and longitude on the ship’s whistle. Lindbergh himself says he flew down over the Irish Sea to ask a boat full of fishermen, “Which way to Ireland?” On this particular July afternoon, fog and bad weather prevented Lindbergh from making his scheduled landing at Portland, Maine. So Lindbergh headed west until he spotted a grassy field that turned out to be White Park in Concord. Two boys were playing baseball. The revolutions of the Spirit’s nine-cyclinder engine were throttled back to reduce noise, and the plane swooped lower. Lindbergh hollered, “Which way to the airport?” The boys pointed toward the east, and sprinted for their bicycles.

They reached Concord Airport just as the Spirit of St. Louis was being pushed into the hangar. Lindbergh had already left for a hotel in Concord.

One of the boys was Bob Hilliard, who grew up to become a sports writer for the Manchester Union Leader. The other, J. Wayne Ferns, became a founding father of Concord aviation – and always cited Lindbergh’s visit as the event that got him started.

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Charles Lindbergh inside the “Spirit of St. Louis” before heading to the Eagle Hotel in Concord on July 27, 1927. Below, Lindbergh (right) stands with Robert S. Fogg Sr.

This excerpt written by Jack W. Ferns appears in the chapter titled “New Hampshire’s First Airport” in the Concord Historical Society’s “Crosscurrents of Change: Concord, N.H., in the 20th Century.” Writer Jack Ferns is the son of J. Wayne Ferns, who is mentioned in the excerpt.

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‘Crosscurrents of Change” Concord, N.H. in the 20th Century’ This 400-plus page hardcover edition introduces you to the people who helped shape a city, and it takes you through tragedy and triumph with some of the defining moments in Concord history. To purchase a copy or to learn more, visit concordhistoricalsociety.org/store.

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Dining Out In & Around Concord

DINING GUIDE

Main Street Grill & Bar

El Rodeo Mexican Restaurant

32 Main Street, Pittsfield, NH (603) 435-0005 Open Daily at 11am for Lunch 4pm for Dinner www.mainstreetgrillandbar.com

22 Loudon Rd, Concord, NH (603) 224-9600 Open Mon-Thu 11am-10pm Fri & Sat 11am-11pm & Sun 11am-10pm www.el-rodeo-nh.com

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25 South Main Street, Concord, NH (603) 856-8671 www.vibesgourmetburgers.com

11 Depot Street, Concord, NH (603) 715-5723 www.revivalkitchennh.com

Our handcrafted burgers start with Open Prairie Natural Angus®. Raised on ranches and 100% vegetarian fed, this fresh, premium-quality beef contains no added hormones, antibiotics or artificial ingredients. Our signature brioche buns are baked fresh daily.

@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.

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

Specializing in catering - office parties, rehearsal dinners, showers, anniversaries, retirements, special events, and more.

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A popular dining and socializing spot among Concord locals, our award-winning 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.

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

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ON THE TOWN

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Concord High School and Pembroke Academy girls battle it out in front of the State House on Main Street during the Rock On Fest this past August. The festival is the brainchild of Concord native Luke Bonner, who runs the Rock On Foundation, a nonprofit that serves to increase artistic and athletic opportunities in the community.

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Joe Kasper and Andy Tabor played for Team Northeast Delta Dental at The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Funds for Education Golf Tournament.

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From left, Concord Young Professionals Network Ambassadors Melina Murray and Adam Berthiaume with CYPN committee coordinator Erin Schaick.

Evening En Blanc is a pop-up picnic at a Concord location that helps support the Family Health Centers in Concord and Hillsborough. Last year, the centers provided care for more than 11,000 people in the area, regardless of insurance or financial status. Just one request for the event â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you must wear white!

Geoff Forester

Members of the Abbot-Downing Historical Society take apart the Concord Coach that has lived in the Monitor building since 1990. The organization plans to use it for educational purposes.

Geoff Forester

Riders compete at the 39th annual Concord Criterium near White Park.

ADVERTISERS INDEX A&B Lumber/Belletetes.....................Outside Back Cover Alan’s of Boscawen ......................................................... 71 Amish Homestead........................................................... 65 Annis & Zellers ................................................................59 Arnaldo Joseph Boutique................................................67 Better Hearing Center ....................................................47 Bow Plumbing & Heating ................................................53 Buffalo Wild Wings .........................................................71 Casa Dei Bambini ............................................................33 CBD American Shaman ..................................................56 The Centennial Hotel......................................................35 Charter Trust...................................................................11 Concord Antiques...........................................................66 Concord Imaging Center ................................................15 Concord Orthodontics ..................................................... 5 Concord Pediatric Dentistry........................................... 13 Concord Recreation Department .................................. 57 Constantly Pizza .............................................................. 71 Currier Museum of Art .................................................. 44 El Rodeo ..........................................................................71 Endicott Furniture.............................................................. 3 FW Webb........................................................................59 Goldsmiths Gallery..........................................................47 Gondwana & Divine Clothing Co...................................67

Granite Restaurant & Bar................................................71 The Hotel Concord.........................................................39 HR Clough .......................................................................53 Hudson Quarry ..................................... Inside Back Cover Indigo Blues......................................................................67 Irving Energy ....................................................................25 Johnny Prescott Heating Oil & Propane........................... 4 Landforms........................................................................ 10 Laurie A. Rosato, DMD .................................................... 7 Main Street Grill & Bar ....................................................71 Merrimack County Savings Bank ...................................... 8 Next Level Automotive ..................................................63 Orr & Reno...................................................................... 55 Pine Rock Manor ............................................................. 47 Revival Kitchen & Bar ......................................................71 Ruedig Realty ...................................................................61 Rumford Stone ..................................... Inside Front Cover Saint Paul’s Church Episcopal..........................................66 Speer’s Fine Jewelry ........................................................51 Sugar River Bank..............................................................54 Tasker Landscaping............................................................ 9 Upton & Hatfield .............................................................42 Vibes Gourmet Burgers ..................................................71

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A THOUSAND WORDS

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Straight ahead It’s been described as a sea of pink: 2,000-plus walked – decked out – to push ahead in the fight against breast cancer. It’s only when you get up close that you see the faces – the survivors, their families, friends and coworkers. And it’s only afterward that you get the final tally on how much good is done each October in Concord with the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. Last year, the event pulled in about $8 million. This year’s event will start at 1 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Memorial Field. To walk or to donate, visit MakingStridesWalk.org/ ConcordNH or call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345.

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