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nhmagazine.com | October 2022 5 Contents 54 October 2022 First Things 6 Editor’s Note 8 Contributors Page 10 Feedback Features 42 Transcript Meet Istvan Miko, manager of UNH’s Collection of Insects and other Anthropods. by David Mendelsohn 44 Beer Bonds Discover local beer pubs and the communities that make them. by Kendal J. Bush 54 Stephen King’s New Hampshire The fictional towns in King’s stories may have roots in the Pine Tree State, but many are inspired by the Granite State too. by Kevin Flynn 62 Screen Dreams & City Lights Portsmouth is the perfect spot for the New Hampshire Film Festival’s after-party. by Robert CookMEADMATTHEW/MENDELSOHNDAVID/ISAXAR/BLANCHETTEMICHAEL/MURRAYJ.DAVID/COURTESY/BUSHJ.KENDALBY:IMAGES 603 Navigator 12 Fall Foliage Try These Byways for Peak Leaf-peeping by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers 18 Our Town Wonderful Winchester by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers 22 Sips Back to the Beer-ginning by Michael Hauptly-Pierce 603 Informer 24 Griddle Magic Mel’s Munchies in Hooksett by David Mendelsohn 28 Spooky History The Tale of Stone-throwingthe Devil by Dan Deloge 32 Blips To Infinity and Beyond by Casey McDermott 34 What Do You Know? Lunch With Sasquatch by Marshall Hudson 36 Politics Keeping a Low Profile by James Pindell 603 Living 72 Fields of Gold Arranging SunflowersSeasonal by Matthew Mead 91 Calendar Summer Events edited by Emily Heidt 94 Health Do Antidepressants Really Help You Beat the Blues? by Krysten Godfrey Maddocks 96 Ayuh Color Me Gobsmacked by Rebecca Rule SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONS 38 Beer Beat 76 Pink Power: Breast Health 85 Five Star Financial Volume 36, Number 8 ISSN 1532-0219 ON THE COVER At these beer establishments, it’s all about good beer, good food and good company. Read more on page 44. Cover photo by Kendal J. Bush Photography 44 62
Happy Month of Horror
as this happens, flocks of giant, weirdly garbed aliens transport in from far-distant realms to witness, applaud and chronicle your deaths.
Our story this month about Stephen King and the role that New Hampshire plays in his sprawling empire of fear brought all this into focus for me. I was helping to gather leads for writer Kevin Flynn’s research when I came across “Horror Guide to Northern New En gland” by David and Scott Goudsward, with an introduction written by one of my favorite local authors (and a frequent contributor to this publication) J.W. Ocker. Along with the Kingsian references Flynn was looking for were hundreds of fascinating accounts of hor ror writers dipping their quills into the local blood supply to spin their spooky yarns.
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“It’s the state you only think about once every four years, as if it were some kind of strange Shangri-la. That’s why J.D. Salinger fled there to hide from the world. Why Sutter Cane holed up there to destroy it. Why Aleister Crowley
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The book’s main author, David Goudsward, a Haverhill, Massachusetts, guy who now lives in Florida, notes, “New Hampshire has a veneration for its past. Florida was settled by Spaniards in St. Augustine, but people tore down all those buildings in the 1950s. When tourists came looking for more historical landmarks, they found old photographs and built replicas.” The implication being that history in Florida draws as much from its theme-park present as from its distant past. “Name one town in New Hampshire that has no builiding dating back to 1700s,” he asks.
New England, with New Hampshire at its heart, is a scary place. Perhaps it’s the presence of spirits of the earliest inhabitants, refusing to depart from it as their living bodies did, falling to disease and musket ball, and finally disappearing into the deep woods of history. Perhaps it’s the ancestral horrors deposited and then rooted here from Europe, the land of plagues, banshees and vampires.
“In Florida, you may cross a ‘haunted bridge,’ but in New Hampshire, you cross an ancient haunted covered bridge where your brother’s cousin’s babysitter once actually saw a ghost.”
And, like some old spirit in chains, he can’t seem to quit New England. He’s working on a second book on sightings of sea serpents off the coast (and in the mouth of the Pisca taqua). Stories “accumulate” here, he says, making it a rich vein for his kind of research.
Or maybe it’s just that writers of horror found so much raw material here for spin ning their tales of terror and cosmic angst.
Goudsward has some local history of his own, having served for a couple of seasons as manager of the legendary Mystery Hill site in North Salem. “I was there for the year of the Harmonic Convergence,” he says, referring to the 1987 planetary alignment that sent New Age aficionados looking for the best place to catch a vibe shift. “Between that and Hal loweens spent there, I spent more time than I cared to chasing witches off the hill or else telling people where to find the witches.”
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All it takes is a simple change in point of view (and a little poetic license) to make leaf-peeping into the ghastly horror story it could be — if only leaves could speak.
magickly retired there to probe occult secrets. The Invisible Man was laid to rest there. Daniel Webster fought the Devil there. This is the spot aliens picked to start abducting and probing humans in the modern era. It gave the world one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history: Herman Webster Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes. Thanks, New Hampshire.”
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Ocker resides in the Granite State when he’s not chasing other states’ Bigfoots, UFOs and lake monsters, and obviously has a deep and unsettling fondness for his home state. New Hampshire looms large in his “Horror Guide” introduction:
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New Faces, New Places, Old Friends
Emily Heidt
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Michael Hauptley-Pierce is the regular “Sips” contributor and co-founder of Lithermans Limited Brewery.
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About | Behind the Scenes at New Hampshire Magazine
New Hampshire Magazine has seen some staff turnover during the last few tempestuous years, but, as often as not, it is old, faithful friends who come to the rescue when we find ourselves in a bind. Our roster of contributors (see this month’s above) sometimes features former writers and editors along with other talents we’ve worked with for years or for decades. Our recent adoption of Yankee Publishing for our solitary corporate name is one change that seems to fit this description. We’ve been operating for the past eight years, since we were formally acquired by Yankee Publishing, under our old dba, McLean Communications. That ends with this issue in which we proudly declare ourselves to be a product of Yankee Publishing on our masthead. Another old friend whose name is rising on that masthead is Emily Heidt. She’s been the associate editor for New Hampshire Magazine for five years and will now take over as managing editor of this publication as well as for New Hampshire Home Magazine, and she has been named editor of New Hampshire Magazine’s BRIDE, a publication for which she’s been a driving force (albeit in the background) for years. Expect to see her name and face more often in the months ahead.
The Portsmouth New Hampshire Film Festival story was written by our own Robert Cook, whose by line has appeared in New England publications for 30 years.
True crime and nonfiction author Kevin Flynn wrote “Stephen King’s New Hampshire.” He is also the co-host of the podcast “Crime Writers On.”
Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, who wrote “Foliage Drives With a Payoff,” is our regular “Our Town” writer. She is the co-author of more than 30 travel guidebooks.
Before calling the Monadnock Region home, photographer Kendal J. Bush — who wrote and photographed “Beer Bonds” — traveled the world as an editor and videographer for the National Geographic Channel and NBC. She combines years of experience as a photojournalist with her film school education to yield beautiful, creative portraits as well as corporate, wedding and event photography. See more of her work at kendaljbush.com.
Contributors
Humorist Rebecca Rule is our regular “Ayuh” contributor. She has written a number of books for both children and adults. See more at rebeccarule.com.
Stylist, author, photographer and lifestyle editor Matthew Mead produced this month’s “Living” on unique ways to decorate with sunflowers.
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I enjoy reading New Hampshire Magazine. I was very happy to see the Driving Sustainability supplement in the latest NH Magazine (a little less happy when I realized it was sort of an advertisement for Casella).
I am really enjoying the articles in the most recent issue [September 2022]. Having lived in New Hampshire since 1986, I can find personal connections in many of your stories. For example, “Making Waves in Franklin” reminds me of the early days of that town’s resurgence and the role that Colby-Sawyer College professors and students played in that. “Granite State Comicon” made me reach out to my nephew Matthew and his two sons in Mass. who would love to make the trip north in September to attend this affordable and people-friendly gathering.
—Jane Sodders, Amherst
Scenically Riding the Rails
Editor’s note: Thanks for sharing. Our vanity plate story seems to have made an impression on a number of readers, judging by the many who have written in to share their own tiny works of coded humor, marketing, poetry and propaganda. Here are a couple more:
Recycling and waste management is important in a small state like ours and it’s good to know there is strategy and planning for at least some of it. I wish our town had such services available. Our town has been cutting back on the items that can be recycled (especially plastics, which seem to comprise a significant portion of the wasteWestream).hadaquote on our refrigerator
—Gary LeBlanc, Owner Scenic RailRiders, Concord
Thanks again for the cool articles and all the work put into producing them. Congratulations. I am old-fashioned and love to have a magazine in my hands and not online.
— Dan Guilmette, East Kingston
I have just read the Vanity Plates story and that prompted me to write to you and share a few of my finds. When I spot fun ones, often in parking lots where it is a lot
I enjoyed the article on vanity plates. Once our kids completed college, I decided that a reward was in order, so I bought a car. Kids are not happy with the plate.
Editor’s note: The Casella supplement in that issue did puzzle a number of our readers, some of whom assumed it to be an editoral feature. In fact, it was a product of our custom publishing division and was “tipped in” to that issue at the printer. We hope to make such in clusions clearer in subsequent editions. Anyone interested in taking advantage of this service should contact sales executive Josh Auger — jauger@nhmagazine.com.
I truly hope that NH Magazine will continue to support us as being a popular tourist activity in New Hampshire. I will also be forwarding this story onto the mayor and entire city council in Concord for their information. I hope it might help persuade them into renewing our lease after they purchase the railroad tracks from CSX Railways. Not sure if you are aware, but the city’s intention is to tear out the tracks and turn it into a rail trail. My hope is that they will work with us so we can have a rail with trail and Scenic RailRiders can continue to provide people an alternative activity that so many seem to enjoy doing.
Reindeer Games
— Richard R. Gerken, Meredith
Many people think it stands for “I Love New Hampshire,” but the real meaning is Illinois/New Hampshire 1999, which is the year we began transitioning from the Chicago area to Meredith, New Hampshire. We actually moved here in 2001. We had the same plate in Illionois before we moved, and it did not cost extra because if the plate has a number in it, the state did not charge an extra fee.
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10 New Hampshire Magazine | October 2022 Send letters to Editor Rick Broussard, New Hampshire Magazine, 250 Commercial St. Suite 4014, Manchester, NH 03101 or email him at editor@nhmagazine.com. @nhmagazinefacebook.com/NHMagazinenhmagazine.comFeedback emails, snail mail, facebook, tweets
So, thank you again for allowing Marshall to publish this story on us. He did a great job on it.
—Mike Heffernan, Sutton Mills
A Few of His Finds
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you very much for running the story about Scenic RailRiders in the September edition of New Hampshire Magazine. My family and I are very grateful that Marshall Hudson was able to visit with us and write our interesting story. I think he did a wonderful job tying in the Old West themes and names with the railroad tracks and relating it to our operation. I’m sure the readers will find it to be both an informative and amusing story. Hopefully, it will let even more people know that our different type of activity exists.
Loved the article on vanity plates. We have one that reads: ILNH99.
Best regards,
—Barb Kimber, Syracuse, N.Y.
I just finished reading August’s article about Canobie Lake Park, and the accompanying page about the Granite State’s Cool Runnings. Everything was reading along swimmingly until I got to the subheading “Santa’s Village.” Who’s this “Donna” who allows guests to pat her along with Dasher, Comet, and Cupid? Risky behavior on her part, I would say, especially in this day and age. Ooh, this wouldn’t be good. Of course, I realize that the name should have been Donner. That blasted auto-correct! My laugh for the day, at Donna’s expense. I continue to look forward to each issue of New Hampshire Magazine.
Editor’s note: Good catch, Barb, but don’t be too quick to blame auto-correct. Maybe Donna just hangs out with Olive, the “Other” Reindeer.
safer, I snap a photo with my phone. For some of them, I have photos printed out and make photo cards of them to spread good cheer. Hope you enjoy the ones attached that happen to be my most recent finds.
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“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and Autumn was awakened.”
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At left: An early evening view of the Milky Way, seen from Beaver Pond at Kinsman Notch in Woodstock
ROUTE 1: North Woodstock to Sugar Hill and Polly’s Pancake Parlor
Go left on Route 117 and climb into Sugar Hill. The views of the color-splashed mountains get better and better, and it’s worth a detour onto Sunset Hill Road for the continuing views across the White Mountains. If all this fall scenery isn’t enough of a reward for your travels, treat yourself to lunch or shop at Polly’s Pancake Parlor.
along the valley to Franconia.
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Try these byways for peak leaf-peeping
hen the maples are ablaze in red and orange, and the birches have turned to gold, almost any road in New Hampshire is worthy of a foliage tour. These are a few of our favorites, each with a prize at the end — a memorable meal or an attraction that’s especially appealing in the fall. Along the way are mountain and valley views, picture-perfect villages, natural attractions and interesting places to stop. Grab your camera, hit the road, and take advantage of New Hampshire’s most beautiful season.
BY BARBARA RADCLIFFE ROGERS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL BLANCHETTE
Above: The scenic drive from North Woodstock to Sugar Hill and Polly’s Pancake Parlor
Stop to pay respects to the poet at The Frost Place and admire the foliage-framed view of the Franconia Range that inspired his work there. Route 116 continues through Franconia, where sculptures decorate Main Street. Stop at the stone iron furnace to read the signs explaining how ore from Sugar Hill mines was smelted there.
Immerse yourself in the White Mountain National Forest as you drive west along Route 112 from North Woodstock. Lost River Gorge is worth a stop to climb past the waterfalls and through the convoluted rock formations carved by the glacial waters. Shortly after Route 112 climbs over Kinsman Notch, turn right onto Route 116 through the village of Eastman and
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In Center Sandwich, browse the League of N.H. Craftsmen’s gallery, then continue on 113, following 113A in North Sandwich for beautiful views of Chocorua, Whiteface and Passaconaway from Wonalancet. Route 113A leads to Tamworth, home of the Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile tasting room and spirits shop. Follow Route 113 through Tamworth to Route 25 and head east to Moultonborough, where a left onto Route 109 and again onto Route 171 leads you to Castle in the Clouds. Stretch your legs on a hike to a series of waterfalls, or just continue to the top to tour the opulent estate and enjoy the panorama view of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Belknap Mountains. End the day with a tour of the gardens, and perhaps a meal at the café or the Carriage House Restaurant.
Fall of Song is a 40-foot breathtaking plunge waterfall in the Castle in the Clouds Conservation Area.
ROUTE 3: Conway to Franconia Notch and the Aerial Tramway
The Kancamagus Highway, Route 112, follows the Swift River as it drops through a series of pools at Lower Falls and again at Rocky Gorge. Past the gorge, take the seasonal Bear Notch Road, climbing to a series of scenic overlooks before dropping intoTurningBartlett.left on Route 302, head into Franconia Notch, stopping for views of the Presidential Range over the Saco River. The road climbs into the notch, passing the
Echo Lake at the head of Franconia Notch. After a stop at the Old Man of the Mountain Museum in the Tram Lodge, ride the Aerial Tramway to the top of Cannon Mountain for vertigo-inducing views down into the notch and a spectacular panorama that reaches to Canada and New York on clear fall days.
Willey House Historical Site and climbs more steeply past the long ribbon of Silver Cascade. At the head of the notch is a restored Victorian railway station and Saco Lake. The high valley widens and the Mount Washington Hotel, now the Omni Mount Washington Resort, comes into view with the mountain rising majestically behind it.
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At right: The foliage is ablaze with color at this spot near Waumbeck Junction in Gorham, a town located in the Presidential Range in the White Mountains.
ROUTE 2: Ashland to Moultonborough and Castle in the Clouds
Continue to Twin Mountain, taking Route 3 through the National Forest to
Lakes don’t get any lovelier than Squam, or villages more idyllic than Center Sandwich, so enjoy them both, wrapped in fall colors. Leave Ashland (after stocking up on fudge at the Common Man Company Store) on Route 3 to Holderness, on the shore of Little Squam Lake. Follow Route 113 past the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center and along the northern lake shore. Watch for the trailhead for the Old Bridle Path to the ledges on West Rattlesnake Mountain for the best views of Squam Lake in fall colors.
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beyond Alyson’s, Walpole is a New England classic town with a bandstand in the center of its broad common and well-preserved stately buildings along the main street.
When 63 ends at Route 12, turn left, stopping at Alyson’s Orchard for apples or cider, and for one of the region’s best fall views across the Connecticut River Valley. Not far
Make a semicircle around Mt. Monadnock by following Route 101 west from Peterbor ough to Bond’s Corner and turning left onto Route 137 to Jaffrey. Continue circling Monadnock with a right on Route 124 through the picture-postcard village of Jaf frey Center with its historic academy build ing and schoolhouse. On its way to Marlbor ough, Route 124 passes some of the region’s finest views of Mt. Monadnock, one of them with a maple-rimmed pond as foreground.
Chesterfield Gorge Natural Area spans 13 acres and features a walking path along Wilde Brook and along the deep gorge. The park offers a great opportunity for a short hike as you explore the footpaths along the gorge and enjoy the scenic views.
In the tiny business block opposite the library is L.A. Burdick Chocolates, a chocolate shop and café. Next door, Burdick’s Restaurant serves delectable bistro-style lunch and dinner. It’s a good idea to stop there first, before indulging in the chocolates next door.
Join Route 101 in Marlborough, past Keene and following Route 9 to Chesterfield. Stop for a short hike through Chesterfield Gorge before taking Route 63 north along Spofford Lake to Westmoreland and the picturesque settlement of Park Hill under its 1762 meeting house.
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ROUTE 4: Peterborough to Walpole With a Chocolate Topping
river to the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park, summer home of the sculptor and the nucleus of the Cornish Art Colony. Beautiful gardens surround the home and studio (both of which are open to visit), and are the setting for casts of Saint-Gaudens’ most famous works, including the “Standing Lincoln.” From the terrace of his studio, you can appreciate the views of Mt. Ascutney that were immortalized by Maxfield Parrish. NH
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through Newport and along the Sugar River. Look for the two rare covered railway bridges, now part of a rail trail. Continue through Claremont’s Historic District to Route 12A and turn right to travel through river valley farms to the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, the country’s longest wooden covered bridge. Few can resist driving across it to Vermont and back again.
Begin in New London, following Route 103A alongside Lake Sunapee and past The Fells, the summer estate of diplomat John M. Hay and its beautiful gardens overlooking the lake. At Newbury, at the southern end of Lake Sunapee, turn right on 103, past the entrance to Mt. Sunapee State Park. During fall foliage season, the chairlift at Mt. Sunapee operates on weekends for the best views over LakeRouteSunapee.103joins
ROUTE 5: New London to Cornish and the Saint-Gaudens Studio
Route 11, continuing
No matter what route you take, if you plan your timing right, you find great color. For update-to-date foliage details, go to visitnh.gov/seasonal-trips/fall/foliage-tracker
Route 12A continues north along the
The historic Ashuelot Covered Bridge follows the river through the village of Ashuelot.
So great was the output of Winchester’s mills that five trains a day carried goods to Boston from the depot in Ashuelot. That route is now the Ashuelot Recreational Rail Trail, covering 21.5 miles from Keene’s Cheshire Rail Trail to Route 63 in Hinsdale. The trail follows the river through the village of Ashuelot, past the Sheridan House and the Ashuelot Covered Bridge.
Local dairy and sheep farms provided hides for the Winchester Tannery, founded in 1831 and later becoming A.C. Lawrence Leather Company, which employed about 300
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Four wooden box companies, a cotton mill, at least two manufacturers of pails and buckets, a wire-spring mattress factory, a pa per mill, and at least four sawmills employed 300 more people. The larger mills, impressive three-story brick buildings, provided tene ments and boarding houses for employees.
20 stores, three churches, a hotel, a public library, three banks, three blacksmith shops and a high school. The bones of that town center are still there, with two churches, a library, and a brick mercantile block in the narrow strip of land between Main Street and theThatriver.block has been restored as the home and tasting room of New England Sweetwater Farm and Distillery, producers of handcrafted spirits based on local ingredients. At their 50-acre farm on the Old Chesterfield Road, they grow heirloom cider apples, grapes, blueberries, and juniper berries used in their small-batch gin, vodka,
In 1880, the center of Winchester was described as “a handsome post village” with
he Ashuelot River was the lifeblood of Winchester from its earliest days, and by the 1880s, it powered two major mills employing more than 300 workers between them. Both manufactured Union beavers, a type of woolen cloth with a brushed surface to mimic fur.
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603 NAVIGATOR / OUR TOWN 18 New Hampshire Magazine | October 2022 workers. Lawrence Leather was the most long-lasting of Winchester’s major factories (it operated until 1987), and employed as many as 900 when it ramped up during World War II. Nearly half the caps, boots and jackets worn by U.S. airmen used mate rials from the Winchester tannery.
Don’t miss out on this mill town’s rich history and culinary delights
Two of Nelson’s mounted ospreys and a case of 55 small birds are in Winchester’s Conant Library, an imposing Victorian Ro manesque Revival building built in 1891. Also on display in the library is the original 1799 pipe organ built by Henry Pratt, the first pipe organ ever built in New England. Pratt, a selftaught carpenter and craftsman, built more than 40 church organs as well as violins and other instruments. He gave the first organ to the town of Winchester for use in the church.
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door.When her husband was jailed for embez zlement, Mrs. Albee needed to earn a living. She already had a shop that sold products of the California Perfume Co., and she suggest ed to its owner that sales would increase if she could sell directly to her neighbors. He liked the idea, and so did her neighbors — the company eventually became Avon and made its name on the personal sales concept.
rum and whiskeys. Most of their products are exclusive to the tasting room on Main Street, and tours of the distillery are held on Saturday afternoons.
A selection of beers from The Outlaw Brewing Company
It wasn’t the box mills, woolen mills or tannery that put Winchester on the com mercial history map. It was Persis Albee, the first Avon Lady. For her story, we visited the Winchester Historical Society’s Sheridan House, the restored Victorian mansion of an Asuelot woolen mill owner. An entire room on the second floor of this fascinating muse um is dedicated to the woman who first had the idea of selling women’s cosmetics door to
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The revitalization of Winchester’s down town was given a head start by the distillery, but it’s not the only act in town. The Outlaw Brewing Company on Scotland Road also has a tasting room where you can choose from a long list of draft brews. Popular are Peach Blonde, English Brown Ale, Chocolate
the extent of their buildings and the sur rounding hillsides stripped of forests to provide pasture for sheep and lumber for the box and bucket mills.
There’s a lot more to see in the Sheridan House. One room highlights the local industries, with examples of their products and a panoramic photograph showing
It wasn’t all heavy industry. Two clock-makers worked in Winchester as did one of New England’s most prominent taxidermists. The owl in the Sheridan House was preserved by Luman Nelson, whose collections are exhibited in the New Hamp shire Fish and Game Commission building in Concord (he was once its chairman), and in the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum at the crest of Hogback in Marlboro, Vermont. That collection includes 650 indi vidual birds and animals, plus more than 150 dioramas by Luman Nelson.
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The New England Sweetwater Farm and Distillery offers a selection of fine spirits, some that are exclusive to their Winchester tasting room.
Oatmeal Stout and cider sweetened with mango and passion fruit.
An 1810 home on Main Street near the center has been restored as an inn and restaurant. Guest rooms at the Arlington Inn & Tavern have wide-board floors and antique furnishings, and the dinner menu
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includes pub favorites, six mains and a sand wich list. Brunch is served on Sunday morn ings, featuring Irish eggs benedict, breakfast quesadillas and traditional breakfast favorites, with mimosas and “adult hot chocolate.”
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become a local favorite for its comfort food menu and family-friendly atmosphere. Look for dishes like the sweet and spicy shrimp quesadilla appetizer and ravioli in seafood cream sauce topped with lobster and shrimp.
A bit out of the center on Route 10, The Rustic Table has been open long enough to
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In 2016, the Winchester Revitalization/ Economic Development Commission started the farmers market on Saturday mornings beside the library on Main Street, and in the Town Hall in the winter. The market has grown steadily, now regularly featuring a bak ery with croissants and breads, pastries, fresh vegetables and fruit, jams and preserves, hand weaving and other crafts. NH
The Outlaw Brewing Company (603) 239-6292 / theoutlawbrewingcompany.com
The grounds of the Conant Public Library are the location of various events throughout the year, such as the annual Pickle Festival, which happened in September.
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Lastly, we have mixed fermentation. Some of these beers had all the fermentation done by special bacteria rather than lager or ale yeast — we call them “bugs” in the brewing world. Some had bugs introduced, either with an addition of a bacterial culture or by storing in a wooden container with resident bugs after primary fermentation had been accomplished with a standard
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localized product often reliant upon the quality of groundwater available in a given place. Styles and philosophies developed along these lines. Belgian beers tend to focus on the yeast, British beers on the malt, and American beers on the hops, with German beers blending the best of all three.
A history of modern beer from brew to bottle
in a proper English bitter, or the clovey finish of a traditional German hefeweizen. These ales are often described a “flavorful.” Lager yeast (saccharomyces pastorianus) ferments cooler and slower than ale yeast, which means less opportunity to produce flavor and aroma compounds, and it must cold-condition for two to six weeks after fermentation. “Lager” is actually German for “to store or warehouse.” These lagers are frequently called “clean” in character.
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s an introduction, I should admit that I don’t consider myself an expert on “modern beer.” In the past, I have been everything from a home brewer to a certified beer judge (a real thing) to a brewery owner and professional brewer. These days, I generally use less brain power when I bend the old elbow — I just like to enjoy beer. But as the craft beer landscape increasingly becomes a victim of urban sprawl, I figured some folks might like a few signposts and landmarks to better understand where beer has been to help decide where they would like to go next. (Beware, for my contracted word count will necessitate a few generalizations in the following ramble.)
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The first dramatic beer differentiation used to be between ales and lagers. This ignores perhaps the most interesting classification: that of wild and mixed-fermentation beers. Old-school amantes de la cerveza (beer lovers) would claim the difference between ales and lagers is a matter of top or bottom fermentation, which tells us nothing useful.
Therebusiness.isabeer out there to please almost any palate, and you should explore to find yours. Until we meet again, at a bar or in my backyard, keep your glass full! NH
MODESTMAN Hard Reign > This was an im perial sour, weighing in at 8%. Sweeter than most of the rest, bigger mouthfeel. “Jammy, some grapiness, quick finish.” Almost a winter sour, if there is such a beast.
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What we know as “sour beers” practically all have their origin in what was, until recently, an obscure style — the Berliner Weisse. This style evolved in northern Germany before the 16th century and bears little resem blance to modern ‘Merican sours. It was originally brewed as an off-shoot style of the already-popular wheat beers of the time. The wheat and barley were minimally kilned to maintain the light color, and hops were used very sparingly, as hops are antibacterial and their absence allowed the souring bacteria of the lactobacillus family to thrive in and sour the beer. Wild yeast (brettanomyces) often played a part as well, and the result was cloudy, low ABV (often below 5%), and wicked tart, guy! No fruit was harmed in the making of them, but they were often served “mit Schuss” or “with syrup,” meaning syrups of raspberry or woodruff (an herb with apple and vanilla notes) were offered to the patron to add as they desired. As sweetness is difficult to package with active yeast, modern brewers use a few tricks to introduce the fruit to the beer. I spoke to Jon Pinches from The Packie in Manchester for his current favorite five available sours from New Hampshire. Here they are, tasted with some fine baby back ribs during a hiphop tailgating session with my dear friends Jenn and Charlaine. Quotes are situationally unattributed. Spoiler: The beer was better than the beats.
THROWBACK BREWERY Cheek Squeezer > The driest of the bunch, bringing the sour notes to the forefront. “I like that it tastes like real tart cherry and not fake cherry candy.” Almost salty on the finish.
LITHERMANS LIMITED Throne of Gold > A huge sweet nose of passionfruit and tan gerine on this Barbados Punch-inspired sour, barely any nutmeg detectable. “Reminds me of my Caribbean honeymoon, and not just because of the quick finish.”
BRANCH AND BLADE I Just Want to be Puree > This is what is called a “smoothie” sour because of the residual sugar at packag ing. “It was thick yet fizzy, a weird yet enjoy able contrast of mouthfeel and carbonation. Banana daiquiri all throughout with a hint of lime at the end.”
STONEFACE Raspberry Berliner Weisse > It packs a flavor punch for only 3.7%. Quite fruit-forward, “Hits that little dangly thing in the back of my throat.”
With capitalism being what it is, the national manufacturers (eventually) knew a good thing when they saw it and tried to emulate what was happening in the start-ups emerging all around them.
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With capitalism being what it is, the national manufacturers (eventually) knew a good thing when they saw it and tried to emulate what was happening in the startups emerging all around them. This was an interesting experiment, but it gained little traction with the supermarket shoppers at whom they were aiming. (The notable exception being Mitch Steele’s specialty project at Anheuser-Busch in the early ’90s. He went on to helm Stone in California for a decade, but that story is worthy of its own article.)
yeast. These brews are “funky,” like an old batch of collard greens.
Until the last 25 or years so, most beer sold in America was of the lager variety and was dumbed down from its ancestors in continental Europe, mostly due to consolidation and standardization. The beer my dad was drinking when I was still in plaid slacks and turtlenecks was pretty interchangeable with whatever beer my neighbor’s dad was drinking to the point where the grocery stores offered generic BEER with no style differentiator. Nobody expected significant differences between any of the national brands — a far cry from the dark and malty schwartzbier of the Franconia region of Germany or the fullness of a Munich dunkel. But there were Americans for whom this uniformity was
and inhale the aroma deeply: That is the glorious complexity and simultaneously the simplicity of Cascade hops. Some qualities often attributed to Cascade are green fruit, spicy, red berries and citrus. I could go on about this hop all day, but I am running out of space.
unsatisfying, and in fact offensive to both tastebuds and history. Some brave souls risked criminal prosecution and brewed their own beer at home! Yes, gentle readers, home brewing was still illegal, by virtue of poor verbiage in the legislation, until 1978. But there was a will and there was a way, and we have those merry miscreants to thank for the market diversity we are now experiencing.Becauseitwas harder to control fermentation temperature (required for lagers) at home than in a factory, American home brewers experimented with ale yeast, which also required only two to three weeks total from brew to bottle. They had no bottom lines to meet or stockholders to please, so they used ridiculous amounts of hops in their pale ales, specifically Cascade hops. Cascade was developed and brought to market by Oregon State University in 1972, and it single-hoppedly changed our perception of beer. Crack open a cold Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, pour it into a glass,
The natural evolution of this brewing movement took hold in the early- to mid’80s, depending on how close to a coast you lived. The beers from this era were, for the most part, bold. They were brewed in vociferous defiance of the status quo and were quintessentially American, but often they were one-dimensional, or at least lacking nuance. The stouts and porters were dark, the pale ales and the new-fangled American IPAs were crisp and hoppy, but often that is all they were. Even more often, they were all that was available. In addition, these styles were not being brewed by the big breweries but by something called nano-breweries.
All of which brings us to today. We have more breweries in America than before the Anti-Saloon League introduced the 18th Amendment (may it rest in peace). New England-style IPAs, with their soft mouthfeel and focus on aromatics as opposed to bitterness, have supplanted their West Coast brethren in popularity and brought IPAs to a broader market. Sour beers, made with ale yeast but soured with the same lactobacillus found in yogurt, have brought mixed-fermentation to the main stage and given folks who don’t like hoppiness and/ or maltiness an alternative to wine coolers. Barrel aging, once relegated to a few styles brewed near both sides of the English Channel, has experienced a rebirth to the point that barrel brokers compete for breweries’
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“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”
Mel’s Munchies in Hooksett offers off-thebeaten-path delights
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t all began as a modern (late, latter-day) fairy tale. The story starts in a restaurant called Woodsby, an unremarkable joint somewhere down in Kissimmee, Florida. It involves a waitress and a flirtatious, big-tipping visitor ordering daily breakfasts when he was in town. Then, there was that unexpected and scorching kiss in the parking lot that melted the blacktop and set fire to the palms. As things went, a suitcase was stuffed, a final wave to the Sunshine State
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Malinda Krissak can take the heat in the kitchen.
was bid, and then it was off to a new and unfamiliar life in New Hampshire. This fable contains no frogs or velvet slippers, no prince or princesses. It does, however, contain a royal carriage of sorts in the form of a humble, somewhat-yellowish food truck dug permanently into a gravel pit.
So eat there at one of three eroding picnic tables or just grab it to go. You can also call ahead if you are traveling at warp speed and just flying though. Predictably, no reserva tions are required and casual attire is the expected. Credit cards are happily processed. Rated 10 out of 5 golden fries. NH
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays Closed on weekends. 523 West River Rd., Hooksett (603) 210-1180
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French toast, with a side of love
The half-pound burger with all the fixin’s
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Dan Plourde owns the property, a surreal Martian landscape located in Hooksett. Malinda Krissak owns the six-year-old modified tool truck and, with the likely help of NASA and luck, Mel’s Munchies touched down in the middle of the dunes. Formally a sous-chef in Las Vegas, Krissak offers up some of the most unforgettable, basic meals for very reasonable prices. Half-pound burg ers, breakfast sandwiches and lobster rolls all tempt the taste buds. There are also perfectly cooked and secretly seasoned fries and onion rings with portions that keep the 18-wheel skippers coming back. It is a very full gamut of simple foods prepared unusually well. Her regulars won’t allow any changes to the fare and have humorously threatened her with arson if there are any substitutions. And although Mel’s offers a substantial menu, she stays nimble and encourages off-the-board requests to keep life interesting. If you don’t see it, just ask.
George was involved in a number of lawsuits that were land-related, one of which included
The time was 1682. The place: the Great Island — more commonly known as present day New Castle. It was a time when persons accused of witchcraft might find themselves imprisoned, or worse. It is a decade before the atrocities of Salem, Massachusetts, but the hap penings on Great Island could mark a signifi cant precursor to those dark days.
The mysterious legend of the Great Island Lithobolia
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Should you find yourself in such a situation, you may have encountered a Lithobolia, aka “stone-throwing Devil,” and if New Hampshire history offers any guide, you’re in big trouble.
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magine if you were sitting at home, all is peaceful, when suddenly rocks rain down on you. Not just one or two, but varying sizes from pebbles to fist-size stones. Then, down the hallway, a small boulder rumbles by your door. No culprit is found. Now imagine weeks of this; wherever you go, you are pelted with rocks by invisible hands.
A local tavern owner and Quaker, George Walton, was well known for his wealth and ego. Great Island spanned roughly 512 acres, only a portion being decent farmland; George owned one-fifth of it. Quakers were looked down upon by Puritans. George’s daughter, Abishag, was once brought to court for the crime of not showing up for Sunday services forGeorgemonths.Walton lived with his wife, Alice. He was an innkeeper, lumberman and merchant, as well as owning the largest parcels of land, much to the envy of less-prosperous neighbors. He had two Native American employees — a fact that did not sit well with people in a time just after King Philip’s War had been waged in a last-ditch effort by the tribes in New England to stem to spread of the “English.” His clientele were “godless men” from various walks of life. To say he wasn’t looked upon favorably by neighbors is an understatement.
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Richard, while nodding off after a period of quiet, woke as the assault began again, this time with a stone reportedly weighing 8 1/2 pounds, which had struck the door hard enough to open it. When Richard looked into the hallway and others had come from downstairs, again no person was found, and if someone was present, no means of escape. Just as he lay half asleep, a brick from a nearby fireplace made an appearance. He would occasionally wake to find stones on the stairs.
ny of New Hampshire, such attacks occurred during his stay at the tavern. Published in London a few years after his visit to New Hampshire in 1698, in his 7,000-word written account, “Lithobolia: or The Stone-Throwing Devil,” Richard writes much like a journal format to the powers that be, how “Stone, Bricks, and Brick-bats of all Sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Domestick Utensils” had been thrown about for nearly a quarter of a year. In his manu script, Richard declares the events were not natural, but “praeternatural” and happened by means of witchcraft.Onone Sunday evening during his stay, Richard woke to hear many rocks pelting the sides of the house and upon the roof, noisily, and from an area sus pected to be not far from the gate between Walton’s land and his neighbor, John Amazeen, a gate that on more than one occasion was found on the ground ripped from its hinges. As Walton and friends were arriving home and having been assaulted with pelted rocks, the clatter of the people retreating into
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The attacks continued outside the house as well. George and company found themselves victims of peltings while walking through the yard. Workers in the field were occasionally the target of flying objects. In the absence of corporeal bodies, several witnesses spoke of a whis tling sound, Devilic moanings, or that of trampling, like a colt would make.
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an elderly neighbor by the name of Hannah Jones. After her husband had passed away, Hannah had been involved in another land-related case that left her poorer and now older. When the courts finally awarded in her favor, Hannah decided it was time to go after George. Tension grew. Words flew in the direc tion of the Waltons along with some rocky projectiles designed to hurt more than just feelings. During arguments stating her land had been unjustly taken from her, she promised that George Walton “should never quietly enjoy that piece of ground.” George countered and a bond was placed against Hannah, presumably to prevent hostilities between the two from increasing. Hannah brought up the complaint of George’s horse repeatedly breaking into her property and causing damage, but because of the bond she could do nothing to stop it. From here, the projectiles increased in frequency, number and size to where it seemed unlikely that one angry could be responsible.
The next morning, a spit typically in the corner by the hearth seemed to have come down the chimney and speared into a log. A pressing iron also by the fireplace had been flung into the yard; not the first object nor the last. On one occasion, a mysterous hand witnessed throwing stones.
the home at the late hour further woke Richard from his daze.
Shortly thereafter, one of the woman saw stones thrown down the hall and yet upon investigation found no one. Then a few pebbles rained on Richard and another guest seemingly from the ceiling. While retreating to another room in the house, a large rock had been hurled at Richard’s head as he shut the door. There seemed no escape from the invisible antagonist able to materialize rocks from thin air. They were surrounded.Manyofthe stones had been thrown with enough force to bounce back a few yards into the room. One stone had been found in a pane of glass but rather than breaking it became lodged, the hole from which it was extracted the perfect shape of theThestone.entity seemed to especially enjoy creating a racket, with stones repeatedly mortared at pewter items on shelves and candlesticks that were knocked to the floor. On occasion, the stones were hot to the touch, as if just out of the fire. Having collected several groups of stones and marked them for counting, the assembly found the stones disappeared as soon as their backs had turned.
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Other cases of Lithobolia sprang up as claims of similar incidents occurred in Connecticut and Maine. Rev. Joshua Moody of Kittery went to Increase Mather to explain the activities of Lithoboly (stone-peltings) in Portsmouth and Berwick. As the states saw an increase in these matters, Salem was no doubt also included at some point. Even though the events of the Salem Witch Trials were ghostly in nature, Lithobolia was mentioned.IncreaseMather wrote of these events in his book, “Remarkable Providences: An Essay For the Recording of Illustrious Prov idences” (Boston, 1684). His name may be familiar as the father of Cotton Mather. Both were prominent Boston Puritan ministers with varying views on witchcraft and the Sa lem trials. In his book, Increase emphasizes the Puritan view of witchcraft and sup ports the existence of apparitions, witches and other anomalies, of bricks and stones thrown by invisible hands in the homes of other families in New England, along with ashes from chimneys, iron hooks hanging by hearths slamming against walls, and of objects materializing. In one such instance, a man awakened to a large hog in his home and yet the entry door was closed.
They reverted to a traditional folk reme dy as an aid to rid themselves of the unseen foe, an elixir of bent pins and urine heated in the hearth. As this was considered white magic instead of black, it was a more widely accepted practice. One account states a
brick fell from the chimney and broke the pot in which they were boiling the strange brew. Another states stones fell into the pot and spilled the contents. Each attempt was futile, resulting in lost concoctions and no end to their pesky poltergeist.
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One evening, one of the guests decid ed a musical instrument was in order to soothe the nerves of the house, a conduit of entertainment. But a short time after they began to play, a boulder rolled into the room followed by an avalanche of smaller stones. Weeks of these encounters both in and out of the house would continue. Finally, George and his wife had had enough.
In his book, “The Devil of Great Island” (April 15, 2010), Emerson W. Baker goes to great lengths to research this phenomena. In it, he fills in a number of details and his tory left out in most manuscripts. Whatever the judgment of land or witchcraft against George Walton or Hannah Jones, we will never know as the records are lost and the trials longer than either party. It is known that George passed away first and Hannah was never tried as a witch. And whether the events that took place were supernatural or an elaborate hoax, only the dead know for certain. Salem may be notorious for hang ings, but the wave of neighbor accusing neighbor throughout New England seemed to have a firm foothold in Great Island, New Hampshire. NH
An agitated George confronted his neighbor, Hannah, whereby he accused her of being a witch, causing their misery. She likewise rebutted with the accusation George was a wizard. Both accusations were relatively common during this time and came with weighty consequences if the sub ject was thought guilty. However, Hannah’s claim may have defeated her purpose, for
it was known that only a witch could know the identity of a wizard. Her own mother, Jane, had been accused of witchcraft for many years, which did not play favorably in Hannah’s defense. George brought the case to the council in Portsmouth, which summoned George and the elderly woman. En route to the proceedings, George was hit with three fist-size stones, one of which “broke his head” and left a wound that he showed to the council as evidence.
ong before Jeff Stone was working on Pixar hits like “Coco,” “Toy Story 4” and, most recently, “Light year” — the origin story of the beloved cartoon Space Ranger by the same name — Stone was just a kid in Jaffrey. His dad, a teacher at the local middle school, would
School, he made his way to Fairfield University in Connecticut and, eventually, out to California. There, he bounced around all kinds of gigs: shooting corporate projects, editing, and even a bit of radio.
“I remember just playing around with that as a kid,” he recalls. “So I kind of got that filmmaking storytelling bug early on.”
bring home a camera and computers with rudimentary editing software during summer vacations.
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“At the core of it, I really enjoy the sto rytelling process,” Stone says. “I’ve always felt you can convey a lot of information and a lot of stories and a lot of different life events, and a lot of emotion, in a film in a creative way, without just sort of telling somebody something.”
By 2010, he landed a job on Disney’s much-anticipated sci-fi epic, “John Carter.” That film famously flopped at the box office when it was released in 2012, but Stone leveraged the connections he built after relocating to the Bay Area for the production process into a career in the editorial department at Pixar.
“A lot of filmmaking is a team sport, where you’re having to work with people,” he says. “I grew up on a cul de sac, so there was just a bunch of boys that hung out in the neighborhood that lived in the
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These days, Stone says, his job as a first assistant editor involves a lot of coordina tion — with other editors, animators, voice actors, composers and more — to prepare storyboards, dialogue and shots for an animated film. For “Lightyear,” which was released earlier this year, Stone also helped to prepare the film for release in IMAX.
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“My job is sort of like the sous chef for the editor,” he explains, “where we get all that stuff ready for him or her … so they can do their job and put the pieces togeth er for the director to then see, analyze and change his movie based on that.”
Looking back, Stone credits his child hood in small-town New Hampshire with helping to prepare him for a career that, at its core, relies on collaboration.
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Granite Staters might quibble with this, but we are not the best state to live in — if a recent WalletHub ranking is to be believed. The online finance site looked at the local economy, education and other factors and deduced that honor belongs to none other than Massachusetts. New Hampshire was still comfortably in the top 10 overall, at No. 6, but it ranked near the bottom of the list for affordability NH
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One Red Sox fan recently got a nice surprise at Canobie Lake Park. CBS News reports Jason Varitek, the team’s former catcher and current game planning coordinator/catching coach, spotted a fan wearing his No. 33 jersey and struck up conversation. The fan reportedly said, after initially not recognizing, “Oh, my god, it’s Jason Varitek. Dude, you got me. What are the odds?”
“It’s a hard thing to do, to get into the film business,” Stone says. “But the answer I always give people whenever they ask me that, I just say: Start making movies. Your movies will probably be bad, and that’s OK, because you’ll learn from your mistakes. You’ll watch your own movies and realize what could be better, and different ways to tell the story or different things you might want to tell in your stories.”
Whether it’s you and your friends, or just you and an iPhone, Stone says, “Just keep making them.”
neighborhood. We’d all play together and hang out and build forts and do projects together.”Stonerecently returned to New Hamp shire for a special screening of “Lightyear” at his hometown cinema, The Park Theatre in Jaffrey. During a Q&A with the audience, he says he got a familiar question: A father of an 11-year-old wanted to know how his son might be able to find his own path into the film business.
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This severe storm event led to a major disaster declaration throughout Grafton County, meaning FEMA reimbursement funding associated with the disaster dec laration would be available to assist with rebuilding the Weeks Crossing Dam.
The old dam was owned by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, who had been granted rights to build
An emergency fix was made to the road to temporarily provide access to the residences on the north side of the breach and allow access by emergency vehicles. The temporary fix was later replaced with a new and larger culvert, and the road was reopened. But the old Weeks Cross ing Dam remained unrepaired, and the pond drained. Some felt it should be left in this more natural condition, but others believed that the dam should be rebuilt, and the pond resurrected.
Sasquatch is known by different names throughout the world and reported sightings of the beast date back to before recorded history. In the high-altitude Himalayan Mountains where few humans venture, the legendary monster is known as the Yeti or Abominable Snowman, and it has reportedly left footprints that would be physically impossible for someone perpetuating a hoax to have done. In the Pacific Northwest, the indigenous people called the animal “Sasquits” or Sasquatch, which translates to “wild-man.” Explorers and settlers in the region reported seeing footprints and having sporadic encounters with a big-footed creature as early as the late 1800s. To this day, tales are told of a seven-foot-tall, hairy, manlike ape creature stalking the woods and scaring hikers and lumberjacks. In the southeastern bayous and swamps, Cajun folklore tells of a manape creature that prowls the bayous, and eyewitnesses report seeing and smelling the giant “swamp ape” or “skunk ape.”
Bigfoot at the Weeks Crossing Dam construction site in Warren – file photo NHDES Dam Bureau
A chance encounter at a remote dam site answers an age-old question
t was at a remote construction site in the shadow of Mount Moosilauke where I saw the Sasquatch. I was sit ting on the tailgate of my pickup chewing on a sandwich, when the Bigfoot emerged from the woods. After a momentary staredown, the monster headed straight for our little encampment. The construction crew and I had to decide whether to bolt in the opposite direction or grab for cameras and hope to capture proof that the legendary Sasquatch really does exist.
National Forest? Perhaps I happened to be in the right place at the right time to catch sight of one.
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Most scientists believe the Sasquatch is just a hoax or mythical creature, but a few think it is possible that an elusive Nean derthal descendent might inhabit the wild unexplored areas of the planet. New Hamp shire is not typically a venue for Sasquatch sightings, but could there be a small Bigfoot population living in the White Mountain
I was with the dam construction crew at the site of the Weeks Crossing Dam on Black Brook in Warren. Or more properly, the reconstruction of the dam on this site. An earth embankment dam existed on this site for more than 65 years, but it breached and blew out during an extreme storm event in July of 2017. The sudden gully-washer caused the entire nine-acre Weeks Crossing Pond to drain out through the breach. The blowout swept away a four-foot-diameter culvert and took out a large segment of Gould Hill Road where it ran along the crest of the dam. As a result of the dam failure and road washout, access to homes and properties further along the dead-end road were cut off and isolated.
Lunch SasquatchWith
While waiting for the concrete trucks to arrive, the construction crew posed for pictures on the temporary catwalk staging. The resulting scenic picture features an American flag in the foreground and 4,802-foot-high Mount Moosilauke in the background. This led to some goodnatured debate over whether Moosilauke is correctly pronounced with three syllables and ends in “lock” with a silent “e” on the end, or whether a fourth syllable is tucked onto the end so that it rhymes with “Winni pesaukee.” Is it Moose-e-lock, or Moose-elock-kee? I take the position that the name originates from “Moose Hillock,” so no more than three syllables are needed, and that word-efficient, old-time New Hamp shire natives pronounce it simply, “Mount Moose-lock.”
Dam construction crew with Mount Moosilauke in the background
a dam at this location in 1954. Their old dam provided for enhanced wildlife and fishery habitat, recreational opportunities such as fishing, canoeing and kayaking, and control of the headwaters on Black Brook. The Town of Warren and the United States Forest Service also used this artificial impoundment as a water supply source for filling tank trucks when fighting fires.
Setting up the concrete pumper truck
When the last of the concrete forms are filled and the final truck has left the job site, we congregate for a late lunch. A grinning Fish and Game conservation officer drops by to check on the progress and joins our little picnicking group. A few minutes after his arrival, the Sas quatch emerged from the woods and crashed our lunch party. Was the Bigfoot that wandered into our encampment that day the real deal? Or was it a human in a Halloween costume filming an advertise ment for an outdoor equipment rental website? I won’t tell. But I will answer the question of whether Sasquatch is an herbivore, carnivore or omnivore … it eats Pringles potato chips. NH
in this final concrete pour.
After a few years of public hearings, surveying, engineering, designing, permitting, legal paperwork and chasing funding, the construction of the new Weeks Crossing Dam was well underway on the day I had lunch with Sasquatch. There was still a lot of construction to be done, but the concrete forms in place that day were for the last pour. Everyone from the engineering and construction teams unofficially gathered to participate
The concrete trucks finally arrive after being stuck in a road closure detour. They spill their concrete into the hopper of a large pumper truck, which then pumps it up over and out into the forms, and the crew vibrates and settles it. After the concrete has cured, the forms will be removed and the dam backfilled. Stoplogs will be inserted, the water level of Weeks Crossing Pond will rise again to its prior level, and the popular fishing and recre ation spot will be restored. This artificial impoundment is located within property owned by the White Mountain National Forest, and the accessibility of the dam from the road will allow local and federal agencies to once again obtain water from the pond for firefighting.
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Perhapsborder.itisbecause of this strategy of being purposefully uninteresting that no one has recognized that Kuster is about to make history.
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ongresswoman Annie Kuster doesn’t make headlines in New Hampshire very often. Kuster, a former adoption lawyer and Concord lobbyist, largely keeps her head down.
It’s unclear how long she will continue to run for the House or if she will seek higher office. But after the latest round of redistricting, she could continue to break her own record.
Still, the path to Congress wasn’t laid out on a silver platter for Kuster. She famously backed a primary challenge against Shaheen in 2000 that put her on the outs with some in the Democratic establishment. She then was a prominent supporter of Barack Obama in the 2008 New Hampshire primary when most of the big names lined up with Hillary Clinton.
Keeping a Low Profile
pass former U.S. Rep. Norm D’Amours, who won five times in a row in the 1970s andThe1980s.interesting thing is that in New Hampshire this is a big deal, whereas in most states a six-term member of the U.S. House is theWhilenorm.Kuster
Consider the dynamic this year: When na tional political analysts run the numbers her. Second Congressional District is considered a toss-up contest between a simple Republi can and Democrat.
But when you put the actual candidates up, no Republican can match her name recognition or money raised, and most have little support even within their own party. Gov. Chris Sununu had originally recruited one candidate who many thought would be a significant threat to Kuster, but he dropped out before the candidate filing period.
Kuster comes from a well-known political
Middle-of-the-road Democrat Annie Kuster seems on track to make history
She initially ran as a progressive but governs as a middle-of-the-road Democrat. She also raises gobs of money for her campaign account and does the necessary roundtables back in the district, which stretches from Nashua to the Canadian
The first time she ran for Congress, in 2010, she was viewed as the underdog for even the Democratic nomination. Her opponent back then was Katrina Swett, the wife of Dick Swett, who held the same seat for a pair of terms.
This puts her in a category that even Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the creator of the modern New Hampshire Democratic Party, cannot match. Shaheen has won six times herself but not consecutively. She lost a race for U.S. Senate in 2002. If the state’s other sen ator, Maggie Hassan, wins this fall, it would be only her fourth consecutive win.
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With a win in November, Kuster would
family. Her great-grandfather, John McLane, served as governor. Her father served as a Concord mayor. Her mother was a state sena tor who even ran for the same Congressional seat she holds now.
Kuster was able to swing to the left in that primary and win the nomination but lost the general. Since then, no Democrat — or Republican — has come particularly close to her at the ballot box.
lost her first bid for Con gress in 2010, she has been essentially elusive to Republicans ever since. Even Republicans admit that Kuster raises enough money and her district is just Democratic enough that it has been hard to convince serious GOP candidates to take her on.
If Kuster wins reelection in November, she will be the first Democrat in state histo ry to win major office six times in a row.
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We don’t even know how many species of these insects can be found in North America, but I personally have found undescribed species not only abroad and in the tropics but also in New Hampshire in our own College Woods.
Bugs. Vicious, razor-sharp jaws, saucered eyes, and far too many legs dragging you to places where dark Kafkaesque nightmares are seeded and plump larvae emerge. Meet Dr. Istvan Miko, manager of UNH’s Collection of Insects and oth er Arthropods, a swarm of about 700,000 pinned specimens. He’s unfazed by these images and finds beauty in the facts. Bugs are also part of his diet. Istvan is a strong advocate of consuming them; a cheap and eco-friendly protein source. Yep. Grubs as grub. With maybe seven million species on the planet, you can create quite the menu. Perhaps some air-fried crickets over rice tonight?
The collection had 250 000 specimens before the arrival of Donald Chandler, professor emeritus, who increased the number to 700,000.
The nutritional value of insects is just amazing. The main thing with insects as a food source is that they are way more sustainable than any other stock animals and therefore would be the most “planet friendly” food source for humans.
There are about one million insect species described (at least four million yet to be described) and insects might represent 80% of all living species. Unfortunately, most insect species likely will remain unrecognized before they go extinct.
On the other hand, this morphological diversity and mechanical solutions are not only inspiring movie makers but also engineers of the growing field of biomimicry (bioinspired applications).
Ever Eat a Bug? (Ask a Dumb Question, Get a Smart Answer.)
He organized massive collecting trips in New England and applied numerous different insect-collecting methods, including sweep nets, Malaise traps, pitfall traps, flight interception traps, litter sifting, etc.
My collection trips are focused on small, mostly unknown, but both ecologically and economically important parasitic wasps.
When a praying mantis couple mates, the female often starts eating on the head and anterior body region of the male, sometimes eating half of it , but because they have multiple neura and mating movements and ejaculation is controlled by those that are located in the back of their body, males can just perfectly finish their job even though they lose their upper body, including their head.
“I am teaching entomology this semester and will have an insect kitchen at the last class in which we will try multiple things with my students. Back at NCSU and Penn State, I was involved in their bugfests, where the organizers invited chefs from local restaurants to prepare insect-containing dishes, and they always were very delicious. I personally like their taste and even their crunchiness does not bother me (I usually eat shrimp without cleaning them perfectly — tail on).
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They don’t have a central nervous system, so the way they observe and convey stimuli and process information must be cardinally different from ours.
“I understand people might have a problem with that, but then again, we process chicken and other animals before we eat them (like clean off feathers and scales and hairs), so we also don’t have to eat insects as they are.” — Dr. Istvan Miko
Insect diversity is just enormous and serves as an endless resource for horror movie makers.
I am an evolutionary biologist and biodiversity researcher whose research is centered around insects.
“I have eaten insects in Thailand and really enjoyed that. Also, when I was younger, I ate June beetle grubs back in Hungary. Recently, I used cricket powder in my keto muffins and plan to eat Japanese beetles this coming summer. According to many sources, they are actually quite delicious.
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People don’t understand insects because they are too small and too complex-looking without a microscope.
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And, yes, less than 1% of the entire species are actually pests.
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p To Share Bartender Spencer Curson and his wife Crystal with friends Matty, Emma and Molly Webber.
BEERBONDS COME THIRSTY
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, LEAVE HOPPY IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE BEER — IT'S ABOUT BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER
Story and Photos by Kendal J. Bush
n A draft pour of Too Much Cologne Kolsch at Vulgar Brewing Company
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Although this quote is famously attributed to Ben Franklin, he never actually uttered those words. Nevertheless, the sentiment remains a relatable one with deep-rooted history.
“God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.”
The allure of beer predates Franklin by roughly 8,800 years, with its origins widely attributed to Mesopotamian culture in 6,000 B.C.E. However, the earliest form of beer dates back to China 1,000 years prior, in 7,000 B.C.E., and went by the name Kui.
Ancient Sumerian tablets show beer drinkers in Mesopotamia sharing beer communally from a bowl using reed straws. Europe’s early public houses were often gathering places where locals and travelers alike could gather to share ale tradi tionally brewed by the matron of the house. The “public house,” later shortened to “pub,” became the center of the village community.
The word “vulgar” dates back to the 14th century. It comes from the Latin vulgaris, meaning pertaining to the common people. The English poet Chaucer made a name for himself by exploring the lives and language of commoners, and in the process gained himself a reputation for having a “vulgar tongue.” In 21st-century Franklin, “Vulgar” simply represents the preferred drink of the common people — beer. Carrier and Lee at Throwback Brewery say they have a threefold reason for their brewery’s name. Along with a nod to the desire to “throw back” a beer with a friend, they also cite historical throwbacks to the first brewers (who also were women), and to the old pubs that wel comed everyone in the community and were often the center of them.
While the number of beer-drinking es tablishments has similarly soared in the past 157 years, the feel of the local brewpub has remained more or less the same.
Fast-forward to 2022 and China is the top beer consumer in the world, drinking up over 11,429 million gallons of beer annually, with the United States coming in second with an intake of 6,319 million gallons. Beer’s popu larity has increased over time, making strides in production techniques and variety. In 1865, beer consumption in the United States averaged about 3.4 million gallons overall. Since then, consumption of the cool, frothy beverage has increased significantly.
Of the more than 9,000 breweries in the United States, about 100 of those call New Hampshire home. Throwback Brewery in
The love of beer has been an organizing principal for communities all over the world, although its popularity was often aligned with the common folk and the work ing class. The wealthy and bourgeois often selected liquors or wine as their libation of choice. However, it wasn’t uncommon for folks to brew their own beer at home. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were among the early American home brewers
— a hobby that has helped ferment many of today’s local brewpubs. Damon Lewis, Jason Harrington and Shelly Harrington met at a home-brew club near Dallas, Texas. After relocating to New Hampshire for a new job, Jason and his wife Shelly flirted with the idea of opening a brewery. They convinced their friend Damon to make the move and the trio opened the Vulgar Brewing Company, locat ed on Central Street in downtown Franklin.
“It’s hard to believe that it’s too saturated,” says Carrier. “In New England, you think, how lucky are we? There are so many great options.” Lee adds, “I’ve always felt like the presence of other good beers is good for everybody. And you have to be very genuine in what you’re trying to do with your beer. I think that goes a long way in terms of reaching out to people.”
Today, the modern brewery, or brewpub, invites all generations of the community for fresh local beer, food, games and music. Less family-friendly pub traditions such as cockfighting, boxing and poker have been replaced with yoga, high-intensity interval training, book clubs and drag bingo. Games, music, singing and dancing remain popular activities for local beer establishments and nonalcoholic beers have seen an uptick in popularity as many health-conscious folks choose to opt-in on the fun and community while passing on the alcohol.
North Hampton is among the earliest brew eries in the state (it was #13 to be exact), while others like Vulgar Brewing Company, To Share Brewing Company and Feathered Friend Brewing have recently emerged on the New Hampshire beer landscape. Is the market oversaturated? Throwback Brewery co-owners Nicole Carrier and Annette Lee say (practically in unison), “No way.”
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Vulgar owners Shelly and Jason Harrington, Damon Lewis
So whatever they are called — pubs, beer halls, brewpubs, breweries — they all share this — good beer, typically served in open, welcoming, family-friendly spaces and usu ally alive with activities and entertainment.
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With a delayed laugh, he adds, “It’s a family environment, people bring their kids, spend the afternoon — it’s just really a casual, fun place. You don’t have to dress up, you don’t have to have pretenses. It’s just a cool place to
One of the latest additions to the local brewer community is the Feathered Friend Brewing founded by Tucker Jadczak. They just opened in March, but the beer business is deep in his blood. “My great-grandfather had the first liquor license after Prohibition to sell beer in Massachusetts,” says Jadczak. “He started an Anheuser-Busch distribu torship and my grandfather continued the business with his siblings.”
Locals Gayle and Jim Stevenson live a mile up the road and frequent the neighborhood brewery a few times a week. When asked what it is about beer that brings people together, Jim replies without missing a beat, “Beer!”
“We have lagers, IPAs, stouts and sours to make sure there’s something for everyone. We do seltzers too, which is kind of cool,” says Jadczak. “If you look at our tap lines, there’s diversity there — a style for everybody that wants to drink beer.” He calls his customers “a melting pot of people,” and notes, “We’ll have sports on, but we also have arts and crafts, or board games or music. There’s something for everybody to come in and enjoy and it’s a nice laid-back atmosphere.”
Tommy practices writing the letter “L” on the wall size chalk board at To Share.
hang out. And the beer is always delicious.” Gayle appreciates the lack of television screens and notes that “people aren’t sitting there on their phones. They’re socializing with other people they don’t know and end up knowing, and it’s just great to see people play ing games again, instead of on their phones, you know. We came here yesterday with our next-door neighbor who is 88 years old.”
Just a short drive down the highway, you’ll find To Share Brewing Company tucked away in the north end of the Queen City. Touted as “Manchester’s Neighborhood Brewery,” the roomy, light-filled space sparkles with pops of bright colors, vintage records and a plethora of games. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Union Street hotspot is bustling with families, friends and folks who love beer — kicking back to sounds of vinyl interspersed between sets of live music.
In the game room around the corner from the main bar, 3 ½-year-old Tommy is prac ticing the letter “L” with pastel colors on the wall-size chalkboard while her 10-year-old sister Bella plays board games and pinball. Kimberly Longley of Hooksett is the girls’ mother. She appreciates the inclusive atmo sphere at To Share. Longley and her family popped into the brewery after spending the early afternoon at the local waterpark. “They have the music, they have the kids’ stuff. The chalkboard is amazing. It’s all-ages, so every one can have fun.” She likes this as an option
n Brother and sister Joe and Mandy enjoy an early evening of board games and beer at Feathered Friend in Concord.
To Share was founded by Aaron and Jenni Share, who relocated to Manchester from the Washington, D.C., area in 2013. They quickly fell in love with the area and, after many years of home brewing, decided open a brewery to meet new friends and enrich the local community. Since opening in December 2018, Aaron says their ambition has been “to create a safe space for neigh bors, friends and strangers alike to come together over a beer.” Their taproom hosts a variety of events, including fundraisers, and monthly book club and craft night.
The unassuming Concord South End establishment provides a great selection of beer, board games and live music. In addition to video game nights and corn hole tournaments, Concord’s popular Smoke show Barbeque relocated right next door and cooks up tangy dishes for folks looking for accompaniments to their beer.
Just a table or two over from the Longley family — who are now enjoying a game of table shuffleboard — is a group of friends throwing back a few beers at a hightop next to the wall-size window while playing a game of UNO. The little ones in the house seem to en joy the live music from husband and wife duo Molly and James. They play an acoustic set that doesn’t overpower the room, providing a great soundtrack to the buzzing of conversa tion and laughter on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
To Share regulars Jim and Gayle Stevenson enjoy beers with Tim Grenier, a neighborhood friend.
for families to get out and do things together “because date nights are hard to come by,” she quips with a laugh.
The demographics of the patrons in the room are as varied as the selection of beers on tap. Many folks here know each other mostly from coming here. Local guy Paul Wendell seems to know about half of the people in the room as he makes his way from the front door over to the bar. On occasion, Wendell performs stand-up comedy for the
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Krystin Shields has been working at To Share for the last year and loves the brewery
If a day of rigorous hiking works up your appetite, many of these beer halls strive to offer food that is as good as the beer they serve. Throwback has a fantastic menu with unexpected flavors created by their in-house
crowd, but today he’s just there for the beer and camaraderie. “You’ve got to read the room. If I come in and there are kids here, I’m going to do a whole different routine than if kids aren’t here, but both are good.”
p Throwback regulars, and self-proclaimed “beer nerds” toast before grabbing a bite of lunch from the scratch-made kitchen.
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vibe. “It’s not where you go at 10 o’clock at night for that last cocktail of the evening. But it’s a place you go to have a beer, play a game, see some friends, meet up with somebody,” she says. Shields notes that the family atmosphere was cultivated with intention. “The beer drink ers are good people in general, no one enters here in a terrible mood,” she says. “And even if they’re having a hard day, when they leave, they’re in a much better mood.” She says the place attracts “a lot of hiker-types. So you end up with just good, wholesome people.’”
she says, “The first thing that we wanted to do was visit all the breweries in the area. We’ll do a hike and look up where the closest brewery is to this hike, and we are hitting them on the way home, so it’s awesome.” On the way home from their hike up north earlier in the day, Smith and her crew made stops at Vulgar (their third visit) and Feathered Friend (their first time). “It’s super fun. They have music here, which is great and we love trying the different beers that they have.”
Wendell touts himself as a brewery aficionado who will make stops at different brewpubs in his travels as well as make desti nation trips to visit other breweries. He says he can judge a place by its employees. “I look for people that like working where they are. People that work in a place need to feel own ership of the place ... and have something at stake. They all do here.”
Melissa Smith from Hooksett is one of those beer-loving hikers who frequently coordinate hikes with brewery visits. A recent transplant from Baltimore, Maryland,
Throwback Brewery co-owners Nicole Carrier and Annette Lee
you’re gonna get to know whoever you’re sitting next to. We see a lot of conversations between people that don’t know each other out there — and now they do,” muses Jason Harrington. Shelly adds, “That’s another reason why we didn’t want to put any TVs in here. We want this to be a place where people can talk to each other — not just like a zon ing out, watching the game kind of thing.”
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Large, farm-style community tables are commonplace and encourage people to interact and socialize. Reminiscent of the old German beer halls, the long, large tables are a feature of many of the state’s brewer ies. “We are pretty community-oriented with the way that we do stuff here too,” says Jason Harrington of the Vulgar Brewing Company. Long tables are a feature of the outdoor patio area adjacent to the grassy common. “We can fit 10 people at a table and
Take Flight at Throwback with some house favorites — Cheek Squeezer, Our Community Kölsch, For Dad American IPA, and Oma’s Tribute
In addition to great beer, food and commu nity, Throwback has cultivated a great selection of swag to sell to their devoted clients under their whimsical brand “Lady Sausage,” described as “swanky meats and smile-induc ing garb.” Throwback’s working-farm location
chef utilizing as much local produce as pos sible — most of which is grown onsite. The made-from-scratch home cooking is a draw for patrons who appreciate the welcoming community and delicious food as much as they enjoy the beer. As with most of the breweries in New Hampshire, 4 oz. pours are available in the form of a flight for the curious brewerygoer who wants to try new things without overconsuming.
near the coast welcomes people (and dogs!) of all ages and offers a wide variety of recurring community events such as a weekly farmers market, Sunday Yoga, Seven Stages Shake speare productions, cribbage and more.
Nestled at the junction of the Pemigewas set and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, Vulgar Brewing Company naturally appeals to hikers, kayakers and other folks who enjoy the outdoors or come for activities at the town’s recently opened whitewater park. Several families fill indoor booths with
The Successful Return of the Keep NH Brewing Festival
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The long-awaited return of Keep NH Brewing Festival took place this year on July 9 at Everett Arena Waterfront Park in TConcord.hissignature beer festival featured one of the largest gatherings of New Hampshire craft breweries and craft beers on tap in the Granite State. With over 50 breweries and 140+ craft beers on tap, this was a spectacular beer festival to usher in summer.
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Admission tickets included beer samples from a vast selection of New Hampshire breweries, a souvenir taster glass,
musical entertainment, lawn games, and culinary delights from a variety of food vendors and food trucks.
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If you want to learn more about gath erings and activities like Seven Stages of Shakespeare or Sunday yoga at Throw back, drag bingo at To Share, kayaking to Vulgar Brewing Company or video game night at Feathered Friend, head to the New Hampshire Brewers Association website at nhbrewers.org. They have links to breweries across the state, providing information to community events, beer festivals and the best places near you to enjoy a delicious, local beer. NH
oHead brewer Doug Pominville and his wife Teresa enjoy beer and snacks with their fur babies on the patio at 603 Brewery & Beer Hall.
Whether the vitamin B, antioxidant xan thohumol and other minerals in your brew provide an actual health benefit or not, all can agree that the quality of local beers and the people that brew them play a welcome role in building communities, thereby keeping the love of beer flowing for centuries to come.
Beer has been a beverage that fuels humanity while bringing people together for centuries. The first public houses that dotted the European landscape came out of a need to keep beer local as it was too costly to produce en masse and did not travel well. Today, the tradition and love of fresh, local beer remains. And, although modern science makes claims on the health benefits of modest beer consumption, Thomas Jefferson’s unscientific observations have been famously quoted: “Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health.”
small children, enjoying the eclectic pizza offerings. “People will drive hours to go to breweries that they’ve never been to,” says Damon Lewis, one of the owners. “Brew eries bring people and help a community come together, it gives a spot for people to conglomerate.”Foratownlike Franklin, not known for the vitality of its downtown business community, it’s a huge boon just to have such a popular — let’s say “common” — attraction to folks from different walks of life.
Want more beer? Of course you do! Make sure to visit nhmagazine.com/ beer for a comprehensive map and direc tory of breweries and hard cider makers.
“I don’t know if it was good advice or not, but my grandfather always said people drink in good times and bad. It’s a recession-proof industry because, no matter what, people are gonna be drinking. And it’s true. People drink to celebrate and people drink when it hits the fan,” Jadczak notes with a smile.
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Best of NH winner 603 Brewery & Beer Hall hosts their annual Fall Fest on October 15. Reminiscent of a traditional German Octoberfest, folks come sporting traditional German attire like lederhosen and dirndls. 603’s scratch kitchen creates a special menu for the event, inspired by traditional German offerings pairing the festive fall cuisine with an assortment of fall-themed beers like the Oktoberfest marzen and the New Hampshire apple lager. Head brewer Doug Pominville takes pride in creating a broad variety of beer options, but if beer is not your beverage of choice, give 603’s house-made hard seltzers, hard ciders or nonalcoholic beverages a try.
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54 New Hampshire Magazine | October 2022 THE GRANITE STATE HASN'T BEEN JUST A PASS-THROUGH JOURNEY FOR MAINE'S MASTER OF HORROR
New Hampshire isn’t just a pass-through state for the author, another toll booth to hit on his way from Bangor to Fenway Park. The King family has ties here. His late brother, David, was a longtime resident of Milton. His son, Joe Hill, is one of the industry's hottest writers and lives in Exeter. In speeches and on Twitter, King has made light jokes at New Hampshire’s expense (every Lilliput needs its Blefuscu to war with).
But over a span of 50 years, 64 novels and more
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than 200 short stories, even Maine’s favorite literary son has spread it out. The more well-known locales would be an old hotel in the Rockies, a prison in Louisiana, an oasis for the righteous in Boulder, and a post-apocalyptic Gomorrah in Las Vegas.
It’s not uncommon for an author to use a familiar location across the breadth of their body of work. John Steinbeck often set his novels in Salinas, California. Washington Irving set many of his short stories in New York’s Hudson River Valley. Most of James Ellroy’s crime tales take place in Los Angeles. The setting for William Faulkner’s novels is fictional Yoknapatwpha County. Who can begrudge King his Castle Rock, his Little Tall Island, his Derry?
Less recognized is that a considerable number of the tales in the King oeuvre are set in New Hampshire. It’s a slim slice in a very large pie, but Maine’s neighbor has not been ignored by the Master of Horror. In fact, King rivals John Irving for the number of major novels with scenes set in the Granite State.
A SHORT STORY BY STEVEN K.F. KINGSLEY
THERE IS A TROPE ABOUT STEPHEN KING NOVELS, it would be this: A white, male novelist (or teacher) uncovers an otherworldly threat. The outside world is unable to help, so he surreptitiously fights it on his own. He’s joined by a slow-to-believe friend or two, perhaps with a potential romantic partner. There is a confederate in their midst, someone who will complicate their mission. And all of this happens in Maine. Always in Maine.
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The nigh T breeze was cool enough for him to rise and shut the window from the early autumn. It was the sudden chill that shook him that drew his attention to the pane, pulling his eyes away from the computer screen and his latest manuscript. His publisher had been pulling his arm for weeks, having missed his second deadline. From the sill he could hear the fall evening sounds of New England. A whippoorwill in the backyard. The slowing chirp of the snowy tree cricket. The screech of a barred owl. As he grabbed the sash, the outside world snapped silent — as if nature had held its breath. It was unsettling. He stood with his hands gripping the top rail, waiting for the world to unmute. Then, a burst of noise as the night creatures exhaled. That’s when his dog, Gracie, stood on her hind legs and scratched at the window apron. To her nightly signal she added a low-pitched growl. She smelled something. The author typed ctrl+S and fetched the dog’s lead for the pee walk. But he felt uneasy about stepping out into, what he had always considered to be, bucolic New Hampshire.
Gracie was mushing like a sled dog and the man pulled back to slow her down. Tonight they were not on a mere walk to do her business. They were clearly going toward something. The dog put her full weight into propelling them forward. The man grew weary about where they were going. It was a road he’d known all his life, but it was different.
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The dog barked and veered her path into the scrub and low bushes that had creeped to the road’s edge. She was going to ground after something. A squirrel? A porcupine? God, not a skunk. He fumbled for his cell phone flashlight, unable to see. Gracie was snarling and pulled deeper into the brush. The man dropped the phone, needing two hands to grip the lead without being pulled into the darkness in front of him.
G racie ’ s pull was firm , directing them north on the road, not the direction to her favorite, well-watered bush. Away from the glow of his porch light, he followed his dog into a darkness uncut by stars or street lamps. There were scents in the air that said New Hampshire at night. Even in the pitch black, his nose told him where in the world he was.
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He was taller and stronger, so he could yank and move a few steps before the dog would buck and yank back. His shouts for the girl to “heel” and “come on” went unheeded. They were covering ground, and the yellow light on the porch was now visible. Again, it seemed the birds and insects had gone quiet, quiet enough to hear something crash through the woods and onto the road.
The next sound was like a gallop. Something was chasing them.
WHEN KING BEGAN WRITING UNDER A PEN NAME — Richard Bachman — he created a whole backstory for his alter ego, which included Bachman moving to an imprecise location in central New Hampshire to run a dairy farm as his day job.
For a writer looking to widen his map, perhaps countervail his reputation as a Maine nativist, New Hampshire has allowed King to change the zip code without really changing the gothic setting he’s known for.
Keepers.” A serial killer victim in “A Good Marriage” hailed from a place called South Gansett. The Bullet, in the novella “Riding the Bullet,” is an attraction at Laconia’s imaginary Thrill Park from a weary hitchhiker’s past.
The man T ried to yank his dog from the bushes. She was snarling and clearly struggling with something. Whatever it was, it was not a skunk. He set his feet and leaned back like the anchor on a tug-of-war team. Finally the animal pulled free of the brush and tall weeds, a final snarl as she crashed through.
The man already had his body pointed back the way he came, his arm stretched behind him to pull firmly on the lead and run headfirst through the darkness. When the first heave did not result in a running companion, just dead weight, he grimaced thinking he’d pulled a corpse from the woods. But her tug in the opposite direction told him she’d planted her paws and strained to go back.
"When he talks about the small town in Maine, what he's really talking about is the small town in New England," says Dr. Anthony Magistrale, a professor at the University of Vermont who has written several books about Stephen King. He says the brick mill towns and rural communities in the states are visually and culturally interchangeable.
In an early short story entitled “Night Surf,” a crew of former college students leave behind a world decimated by a plague by catching some waves at New Hampshire’s Anson Beach. A J.D. Salinger-type author is kidnapped from his secluded New Hampshire home in the “Finders
One of King’s most recognizable fictional Maine communities, Castle Rock, first made the page as a New Hampshire town. It appeared as a backwoods farm community in a short story “Weeds.” Largely overlooked, it was adapted in the 1982 anthology movie “Creepshow” as a segment called “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.” King himself played the titular character on film, a dim backwoods farmer who discovers a meteor on his property. The space object gives off a rapidly spreading green fungus, which soon covers the farm and Jordy Verrill himself. (This causes King’s character to retreat to the bathroom and yell through the door, “No! Not there!”) The alien vegetation continues its sprawl from the farm, making its way to the unsuspecting Granite State village and beyond.
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When not battening down in Derry or Little Tall Island, fighting the evil that has come to his heroes, King’s other protagonists venture on epic journeys that take them from the ordinary world of New England to the strange world beyond.
"So much of the first part of his career is map-based. He clearly has a map of interstate highways across the country,” Magistrale says, noting books like “The Stand,” “The Talisman” and “The Dark Tower” series. He says it shows the author had been considering the world beyond Maine and the narrative value of proceeding into it. “These characters are able to move from the highway into fantasy."
Several of these westward journeys start in real and imagined communities in New Hampshire.
In “The Stand,” Glen Bateman was a sociology teacher at Woodsville Community College before the super flu wiped out the population. When Stu Redman asks Bateman to join him on a quest to find other survivors, he declines, preferring to stay in New Hampshire with Kojak, the only surviving dog in town. Eventually, he joins the journey. Nadine Cross, leaves her pre-plague life as an elementary school teacher in South Barnstead. In Epsom, she discovers a boy, Leo Rockway, and nurses him back to health. They also leave New England for the Boulder Free Zone, where she’ll betray the survivors with a bomb and head to Las Vegas to be the bride of Randall Flagg, the leading villain in King’s multiverse of novels.
In “The Talisman” (co-authored by Peter Straub), 12-year-old Jack Sawyer lives with his dying mother in the resort community of Arcadia Beach. One of its landmarks is the Alhambra Hotel, a substitute for Rye’s historical Wentworth by the Sea. Jack sets off in search of a talisman that will cure his mother’s cancer, then returns to New Hampshire. The Alhambra made a return appearance in “The Tommyknockers.”
character,” says storytelling guide Lani Diane Rich of the “How Story Works” podcast and book of the same name. “In the same way that a character based on someone real becomes their own thing, so do the fictional settings an author creates, even when they’re based on real places. The reality shifts and shimmers, and a real place magically becomes something else.”
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In the nearby town of Anniston, young Abra Stone has her own shine and the child can detect Dan’s. The two strangers communicate spectrally, hoping to navigate these powers. But no sooner can you say “redrum,” than Abra is being hunted by a group of psychic vampires who are on their way to New Hamp shire to drink in her life force. While the action must predictably bring Dan back to the remains of Colorado’s Overlook Hotel (unlike in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation, the hotel in the novel burned down after Jack Torrance forgot to maintain the boiler), this Stephen King novel is firmly placed in New Hampshire.
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In Stephen King’s multiverse, Maine is filled with towns with killer clowns, towns with rabid dogs, towns covered in mist and covered in glass domes, towns with pet cemeteries where sometimes “dead
head injury playing hockey on Runaround Pond, leading to a premonition of calamity for one of the boys. Johnny spends five years in a coma after a car crash. When he awakes, his powers of clairvoyance have sharpened. When he takes someone’s hand, he can see visions of their past or future. He helps a sheriff identify the Castle Rock Strangler. He warns a student to skip a graduation party at Cathy’s Roadhouse in Somersworth — the restaurant is struck by lightning and the fire kills 81 people.
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The situation comes first. The characters— always flat and unfeatured, to begin with— come next. Once these things are fixed in my mind, I begin to narrate. I often have an idea of what the outcome may be, but I have never demanded of a set of characters that they do things my way. On the contrary, I want them to do things their w ay. In some instances, the outcome is what I visualized. In most, however, it's something I never expected. ❜❜ Excerpt from Stephen King's book "On Writing"
Johnny’s attention is turned to Greg Stillson, the former mayor of Ridgeway and congressman for New Hampshire’s (nonexistent in reality) Third District. When shaking his hand at a rally in Trimbull, Johnny gets a vision of Stillson becoming president and starting a nuclear war. At a campaign event, Johnny takes a sniper position atop Jackson Town Hall to assassinate Stillson. He misses his target and Johnny is mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire. Before Johnny dies, his final vision of Stillson, who used a child as a human shield during the gunfire, tells him his political career is through.
King’s most New Hampshire-centric novel may be “Doctor Sleep.” In a later-discarded prologue to “The Shining” (later published as “Before the Play”), we learn Jack Torrance grew up in Berlin and his abusive alcoholic father worked at Berlin Community Hospital. This trivium will later find relevance in this 2013Nowsequel.anadult, Danny Torrance has hit rock bottom as an addict and lost his “shine.” Determined to start fresh and stay sober, he gets off a bus in the quiet tourist town of Fraizer, New Hampshire. He makes new friends, like Billy Freeman who runs the Teeny Town miniature train, and gets a job as an orderly at a local hospice. He uses his preternatural powers to help the patients slide into a peaceful death.
Magistrale says, "I think he knows New Hampshire pretty well, but for crying out loud, you gotta go through New Hampshire to leave Maine."
Growing up in Durham, Johnny Smith suffered a
into New Hampshire with no discernible compass occurs throughout “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.” Nine-year-old Trisha is separated from her family when she wanders off the Appalachian Trail. Thinking she’s heading for North Conway, she makes her way deeper through the White Mountain National Forest, past the fictitious Kezar Notch, all while listening to Red Sox games on her Walkman.
There are two other King novels placed firmly in New Hampshire’s North Country. “The Dead Zone” utilizes several factual and fabricated municipalities.
NOT ALL OF HIS JOURNEYS through New Hampshire are westward. In the pre-“Hunger Game” YA dystopian novel “The Long Walk,” published under the Bachman nom de plume, 100 boys compete to the death in a hike south from the Canadian border through Maine, across New Hampshire and into Massachusetts. In another Bachman publication, “The Running Man,” Ben Richards flees from New York to Manchester, disguising himself as a priest, hoping to evade the hunters who’ll kill him as part of a television game show. In “Cell,” after a strange pulse turns cell phone users into (literal) zombies, a group of people travel north from Boston along Route 28 and stop at Gaiten Academy, Derry’s Pinkerton Academy in
Rather than reverse directions and chase the chaser, Gracie continued to pull him back up the road. His home was in sight and his tugging moved them closer in fits and stops. In front of the house, the man halted. There was a figure blocking his door. His pupils slowly adjusted to the porch light to make it out. It was Gracie. The collarless dog was bloodied, but it was definitely her. A thought blurred across his mind.
Though, if we’re being completely honest, if there are killer cars, zombie cats, and trans-dimensional entities roaming a town — it may be best to live in a different area code. NH
He felt another hard tug on the lead. is better.” But that Maine is pressed against the sea and cut off from the rest of the natural world by New Hampshire (no offense, Québec). All the evils that roam there, the ones those writers and teachers and average citizens are trying to contain, if those evils escape Castle Rock or Jerusalem's Lot or Little Tall Island, they are coming here. On any of these maps, New Hampshire is the Rubicon where the supernatural must not cross. If the devil cannot be restrained there, its passing into New Hampshire means it’s too late for the rest of the world. And that means the Granite State’s red line indirectly plays an important role in King’s lore (even if the author doesn’t know it).
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But does it matter if we’re only horror-adjacent? You can move “Cannery Row” to Portsmouth, but it wouldn’t be the same. The Knickerbocker tales don’t neatly fit into the Connecticut River Valley. “Get Shorty” doesn’t work in the Queen City. “The Sound and the Fury” would not resonate if set in Keene. But you could ctrl+F and replace most of King’s locations with a real or fictional New Hampshire town and main tain that same sense of New England gothic. Pennywise
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in our Derry, vampires in our Salem. A Castle Rock that looks and feels like Claremont or Franklin but is filled with the same Yankee protagonists who respond the same way when called to action.
If that’s Gracie …
Their pursuer was fas T . Having Gracie pulling away was fatally unhelpful. Its hooves galloped louder, nearly upon them. The man clenched his body as a whoosh of air passed by him and back into the darkness. Despite the scuffle in the bushes, they were not the pursuer’s prey.
MAGISTRALE SAYS NOT TO FRET if the setting of the latest King story is again Maine. The fictional towns inspired by real locations in the Pine Tree State are similar enough to real locations in the Granite State that they are practically colored by the same brush. Diane Rich believes, for all intents and purposes, the settings of these great stories are just a name.
“For King, all of those fictional story places may be set in Maine or New Hampshire, but they generate from the author’s head. So, in a sense, they are all the same place, and that place isn’t New Hampshire or Maine or Florida or anywhere else — it’s the state of Stephen King’s imagination.”
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Portsmouth is the perfect spot for the New Hampshire Film Festival and its after-party venues
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Since the New Hampshire Film Festival moved to its permanent home at The Music Hall in Portsmouth in 2004, as many as 10,000 film lovers can enjoy up to 100 films that cover an array of cinematic genres and styles.
Once again, professional filmmakers, screenwriters, film industry experts and film lovers will converge on the Seacoast for an unforgettable weekend. The festival, which is celebrating its 20th anniver sary one year late because of the pandemic, will be held from October 6-9 at the iconic Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth.
“We are beyond thrilled to finally celebrate our 20th anniversary edition in person and bring together the best filmmakers from around the state and globe alongside our incredible community of attendees and sponsors,” says Nicole Gregg, the festival’s executive director. “It’s going to be a celebration like no other, and we are so grateful to showcase these amazing films and special events in our spectacular city of Portsmouth. We are also ecstatic to share so many new and exciting venues this city now has to offer — we can’t wait to welcome you all back this October!”
For three days in October, New Hampshire Film Festival fans from the Granite State and around the country can get the red-carpet treatment without going to Hollywood.
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fter a two-year hiatus, the New Hampshire Film Festival will make a huge comeback this month.
The festival was recently named an Academy Award-qualifying festival for the Short Film awards by the Academy of
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The New Hampshire Film festival has grown tremendously since it made its debut in Derry in 2001 and relocated to The Music Hall in 2004. Many celebrities have also attended the festival, including Rae Dawn Chong, who sits on the festival’s board of directors, Tom Bergeron, Ken Burns and Mike O’Malley.
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Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this past year. Like previous festivals, this year’s event will feature a screenplay competition, screenings of world-class films, industry panels and workshops for young filmmakers. For passes starting as low as $25, festivalgoers can pick and choose which films they want to see and which activities they wish to attend.
As many as 10,000 people attend the New Hampshire Film Festival each year and the four-day event engages more than 15,000 social media followers. Just outside The Music Hall, the city of Portsmouth has also experienced tremendous growth and now offers, along with its usual array of upscale shopping and eclectic dining, some dynamic venues for festival after-parties.
Festival attendees filling The Music Hall Historic Theater before a film screening
Celebrities Rae Dawn Chong and Tom Bergeron are long-time supporters of the New Hampshire Film Festival.
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Greg Kretschmar hosting the festival’s 2019 Comedy Panel featuring (L to R) Tom Bergeron, Hayes MacArthur and Josh Meyers
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Festivalgoers enjoy a catered hospitality event at 3S Artspace, courtesy of Seacoast area restaurants. This year’s hospitality event will be held on Saturday at 1 Harbour Place.
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Attendees will also be able to enjoy their favorite spirits in the ground floor lounge of the historic theater. The eclectic bar and lounge space was designed by TMS Architects in Portsmouth in 2008 as part of The Music Hall’s renovation project, which resulted in new spaces for patrons to enjoy without compromising the history and beauty of the Portsmouth theater venue.
Just a few doors down from The Music
Hall Lounge, Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club opened its doors in December 2021 after the Labrie family, owners of the River House in Portsmouth and the Atlantic Grill in Rye, successfully renovated the former YMCA building, into a classic jazz supper club where fine dining, elegance and live musical entertainment converge in ways that Portsmouth has never seen.
Jimmy’s features two levels that offer different stage views. The mainstage level is where the YMCA gym was located. There is another bar that runs along what used to be an outside wall that is now enclosed with glass. Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Mavis Staples, Elvin Bishop, the Brubeck Brothers Quartet and scores of other jazz greats have played there to capacity crowds.
One of these new venues is The Music Hall Lounge on Congress Street. Formerly The Music Hall Loft, the Music Hall’s staff decided to make some changes to create an intimate audience experience. With tastefully lighted tables and a full-service bar, Music Hall Lounge patrons get to enjoy their favorite cocktails as they listen to live music performed on a small corner stage by artists such as Ellis Paul, the Sarah Blacker Band, Jonatha Brooke and River Sister.
This month, some of the artists who will take Jimmy’s stage include Grace Kelly, the North Mississippi Allstars and Morgan James and Cindy Blackman Santana.
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Music Hall Lounge patrons get to enjoy their favorite cocktails as they listen to live music.
Brittany Wason, producer and content manager at The Music Hall Lounge, explained The Music Hall opened this new venue in June. She says it was created in direct response to the great enthusiasm that Live Under the Arch concertgoers expressed after attending small, intimate outdoor shows that were held during the pandemic. Thus far, The Music Hall Lounge is enjoying a great following of music fans.
“Our vision is for Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club to represent the highest standard of excellence for a jazz and blues club,” said Peter Labrie when they first opened the new club in the 1905 building on 135 Congress St. “We want to provide our guests a oneof-a-kind, world-class experience where we deliver the highest-quality music, food, and service — within a magnificent environment — for them to enjoy. We want to create the most positive and memorable live music experiences for every guest who comes through the door at Jimmy’s.”
“Michael and Peter have built a venue that jazz and blues musicians will love because few jazz and blues clubs in the world have
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The Press Room’s second-floor venue offers full drink and food service, along with music, at a reasonable price.
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Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club came along, another iconic Portsmouth venue served as one of the primary places where seasoned musicians and up-andcoming artists could perform — The Press Room. The Daniel Street venue opened in 1976 after Jay Smith decided it was time to give Portsmouth a welcoming bar and space where local musicians could gather, jam and entertain his patrons. For more than
Suzanne Bresette, managing director of programming at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club, says the response has been even better than they expected. The Labrie Family is also very proud of how they utilized many of the original features of the former YMCA building to preserve its history. In addition to using timber frames that were charred in a fire many years ago, they have also preserved small items that were recovered during construction and display them in glass cases that Jimmy’s patrons can view as they make their way upstairs to theBresettevenue. says that Michael and Peter Labrie drew their inspiration from Moulin Rouge in Paris and classic jazz clubs from a bygone era when they envisioned the club.
the quality of production, sound and lighting technologies we have at Jimmy’s,” says Bresette.Longbefore
Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club is a classic jazz supper club where fine dining, elegance and live musical entertainment converge.
30 years, the Press Room’s vintage black typewriter hung from its sign. Sadly, the Press Room fell into disrepair and needed extensive renovations, and the venue closed its doors in 2017. When new owner Josh Sheets of Hampton purchased the establishment, the long-awaited makeover began in earnest. The final result when the Press Room reopened in the fall of 2018 was met with rave reviews.
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A second-floor venue with full drink and food service now hosts scores of musicians for a very affordable price.
finalizing the last details before a scheduled grand opening.
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Those who venture into Porstmouth’s West End along Islington Street will also encounter hidden dining gems that complement this neighborhood’s renaissance.
The French cuisine-inspired menu, specially crafted cocktails and wine selection will certainly satisfy anyone’s palate. The gin cocktail menu is the most extensive on the seacoast and represents a gin lover’s dream come true.
Among them is the Botanica Restaurant and Gin Bar at 110 Brewery Ln.
The fact that Portsmouth has emerged from the pandemic with so many new and exciting musical venues and dining experiences shouldn’t surprise people. This city’s creative vibe and penchant for resilience in the face of challenges is the current that permeates every new eatery, café, retail shop and venue that are created here. NH
The Puddledock Restaurant conjures up an authentic Colonial-era tavern experience.
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The Rooftop at The Envio atop the AC Hotel of Portsmouth on Vaughn Street now offers patrons the option of an extensive menu with entrées and small plates along with a complete wine list and craft cocktails. It may also serve as the perfect complement to an enjoyable day at the New Hampshire Film Festival, especially for festivalgoers who are also staying at the hotel.
The brick walls and black railings lend the venue an atmosphere that celebrates creativity and allows the audience to really take in the Portsmouthexperience.hasalways been known for its rich dining experience, but there is always room for more culinary innovation. Just as the city has seen a plethora of new luxurious apartment buildings and hotels, it now offers a skyline dining experience that yields breathtaking views of Portsmouth Harbor and the city.
New Grounds café is long gone and so is the former Tuscan Market Bakery and Café. In its place is the Tuscan Market, an Italian bistro that represents another addition to the Tuscan Brands restaurant empire. With an inviting bar and intimate dining room, the Tuscan Market also features some of the most beautiful outdoor dining in the city that immediately conjures up all things Italia. The menu is different than the Tuscan Kitchen restaurant a few doors down but offers great variety.
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High above the AC Hotel Portsmouth, you will find Rooftop at The Envio, offering a modern menu of locally sourced ingredients and spectacular panoramic views.
If festivalgoers want to connect with Portsmouth’s rich history, a short stroll from Market Square will lead them to another new restaurant experience at Strawbery Banke — The Puddledock Restaurant on Marcy Street. It opened its doors as an authentic Colonial-era tavern in 2021 to bring patrons closer to those days when Portsmouth was previously known as Puddledock. This dining adventure back in time coupled with a walk among Strawbery Banke’s historic homes and grounds provides a perfect bridge between the present and the not-so-distant past.
For film festivalgoers who want to enjoy some great lobster rolls, craft beer and cocktails, all they need to do is take a short walk across the Memorial Bridge to Badger’s Island in Kittery where The Buoy Shack awaits. It offers dine-in and take-out plus spectacular views of Portsmouth Harbor. As of this writing, The Buoy Shack was close to
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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.”
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Fields of gold at Lull Farm in Hollis
Lull is a magical spot, a storybook setting with the most beautiful pumpkins and autumn trimmings. Take a stroll on their property and be drawn to the abundant field of sunflowers. People come from all over to visit, take pictures, and even have small wedding ceremonies amongst the blooms, which are reminiscent of the south of France. It’s particularly enchanting just before dusk, when the field glows in gold en yellow tones. Flowers bloom into mid-October, and you can purchase cut stems singly, in bouquets or in beautiful arrangements. Specimens vary in size and variety, and can be used in all kinds of ways.
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hile fall in New Hampshire has many folks making a trek to the leafy and colorful slopes of the North Country, it’s actually in the southern part of the state where botanical enthusiasts can find their most sunny autumn fix. Hollis, a vital and vibrant farming community close to Nashua, is the home of Lull Farm, a purveyor of fine local produce, plants and cut flowers. Among their fall offerings: golden fields of the magnificent sunflower.
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2. Use a sharp blade to ensure a clean cut, helping to prolong the vase life of your flower. Cut stem at desired length, at a 45° angle, to prevent the stem from resting flat on the bottom of your vessel.
4. Place cut flowers in a container of water immediately after trimming.
1. Cut sunflowers early in the morning, just as the outer petals are begin ning to rise off the bloom.
3. Strip cut sunflowers of all leaves, except for those next to the flower head. Fewer leaves mean better hydration for the flower.
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5. Maintain clean water in your vase, changing water every two to three days to prolong the life of your cut flowers.
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Cut off the entire bloom when you are ready to harvest the seeds. Next, place it in a net bag or tie a piece of cheesecloth around it before hanging it upsidedown from a piece of kitchen twine. The flower head should be hung in a warm, dry place with good air circulation for about three weeks. Seeds will easily drop from the bloom and can be further dried for a week on a a piece of screening. Fill hanging trays or birdfeeders, but beware the bears and squirrels. Sunflower seeds are rich in nutrients and beloved by the birds. Here’s a list of feathered friends you might attract with an offering of sunflower seeds: Finches, chickadees, nuthatches, grosbeaks, cardinals, jays, and even some species of woodpeckers.
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SUN SPOTS A collection of pottery bowls make a stunning centerpiece down the center of a dining table. Low arrangements make it easy to see your guests and make use of blooms that may be top-heavy with broken stems.
SUN TEA Sunflower seeds steeped in water and tinged with honey make a welcome autumn refresher over ice. Add a vintage wood molding emblem with a sunflower motif as an impromptu coaster.
HERE COMES THE SUN Create a showstopper with a mix of sunflower varieties arranged in a tall vase. Make it easy by placing a ball of chicken wire in the vessel and adding stems of multiple sizes. Change water daily for the freshest and longestlasting arrangement.
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Scientists around the globe are constantly searching for new ways to treat, prevent and even cure cancer. Most can cers are treated with some combination of surgery, radiation therapy and intravenous or oral medications called chemo therapy (“chemo” meaning chemical). There are hundreds of chemotherapy drugs for all different types of cancer available. They work by killing fast-growing cells in the body, which is also what cancer is — multiplying cells that have begun to spin out ofButcontrol.howdo these drugs come to market for patient use in the clinic? We’ve heard a lot about the development and ap proval of Covid-19 vaccines over the past couple years. While the vaccines followed the same strict protocols, the whole process was prioritized for emergency public health needs. Normally, a drug development process can take years. Breast oncologist Linda T. Vahdat, MD, MBA, section chief of medi cal oncology at Dartmouth Cancer Center has been directly
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Dr. Vahdat: The development of a cancer drug begins when clinicians and researchers have an interest in a particular disease or identify an unmet need—maybe a cancer that has no treatment options. The first task is to understand the critical steps that happen as cells go from normal, to abnormal, to cancer to spreading cancer. The goal is to interfere with those critical steps.
Once the scientists think they have a drug candidate, foremost importance is making sure it’s safe. This is done by investigational new drug toxicology studies through the FDA. During these studies, scientists make sure they understand how the drug is processed in the body and what the side effects are. They use this information to design a Phase I or first-in-human clinical trial, the goal of which is to determine optimal dosing, safety and side effects, as well as learn what diseases the drug candidate might be useful for.
Once safety and efficacy is known, the drug may be studied in people whose cancer hasn’t spread yet to try to prevent it from spread ing. And ultimately, we look to see if there might a role for this drug in prevention. The classic drug for this example with over 50 years of history is an oral anti-hormonal treatment for breast cancer called tamoxifen. Tamoxifen was initially shown to be able to shrink a lump of cancer. Researchers then considered, if it can shrink cancer, maybe it can prevent cancer from coming back. Then they took it a step further and studied whether the drug could prevent cancer from de veloping in the first place in people who are at increased risk of breast cancer. The answer was yes, and that’s how tamoxifen became what we call a chemo-prevention agent, which is used to prevent cancer from developing at all.
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involved in the development of three major drugs that have been approved to treat people with breast cancer. She breaks down the process and explains how it works.
From there, work is done by PhD laboratory scientists, usually at universities, in cell lines or in vitro models. Picture test tubes and pe tri dishes in science class—that’s where it begins. Laboratory scientists will look at lots of new and different things in the cells. If they find something interesting or potentially useful, the cell will be put into an in vivo model, which is usually a genetically engineered mouse model with a tailored genetic blueprint, or a mouse that develops spontane ous or natural cancer. Under very controlled conditions, the scientists look to determine if what they thought might be important, really is important.Thenext step is to look for a drug that will hit a specific biological target. Using a process called high-throughput screening, thousands to millions of compounds are screened against the pathway of interest in a very short period of time. Sometimes the drug identified already exists and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat whatever has been found in the studied cells. If there are no matches for existing drugs, the scientists then look into design ing something. At that point, the in vitro and in vivo testing starts all over again. There is a lot of trial and error in these initial steps and it can take years to even get this far. Even if it’s fast-tracked like the Covid vaccines, it can still take a year.
Basket studies
Lab work
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The way we used to do research is that one drug would only used for one type of cancer. But in today’s genomic age, we can do what’s called basket studies. Whole tumors are sequenced to find a mutation that drives tumor growth. Patients can then be enrolled in studies that are agnostic for disease type, but specific to their mutation, whether it’s in a breast tumor or lung tumor or any other type.
Through these basket studies, it’s not uncommon for drugs to be developed with one disease in mind but found to be effective in other diseases. Through drug repurposing, old drugs can be used for new uses. In fact, my major research right now is actually repurposing a drug used to treat a copper storage disease called Wilson’s disease but I’m actually using it as an anti-metastatic agent for breast cancer. The way we make these connections is by following the science and net working with research colleagues. In this case, a lot of laboratory and Phase I safety and dosage work had already been done on this drug by scientists at the University of Michigan in the 1990’s. The science be
Linda T. Vahdat, MD, MBA, is a practicing breast oncologist, Section Chief of Medical Oncology and Deputy Director of Dartmouth Cancer Center. In her academic role, she serves as the Milham Professor and Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Vahdat has more than 20 years of experience in caring for people with breast cancer, with a particular focus on triple-negative breast cancer,
metastatic breast cancer and breast cancer at high risk of recurring. She has been involved in the identifica tion, conceptualization, design and conduct of Phase 0 through III clinical trials of new therapies in high-risk adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer patients since 1994. She has led efforts in FDA approval of three drugs active in metastatic breast cancer and continues to stand up new breast cancer clinical trials.
With this information narrowed down, a Phase II clinical trial is conducted to determine how well the drug works for a more dis crete population with specific diseases or disease characteristics. For example in breast cancer, we might look to see how effective a drug is in someone with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who’s had at least two lines of therapy that had to include Trodelvy®. It gets very particular. Clinical trials in humans are led by clinician researchers such as an MD or an MD, PhD, who is licensed to care for patients. This Principal Investigator works with a team of clinical research spe cialists and administrators to consent and enroll eligible patients according to very detailed criteria set by an Institutional Review Board (IRB). Extensive protocols are followed to ensure patient safety. It’s a tremendous amount of work to stand up even one clinical trial.
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Depending on the results of the Phase I and II clinical trials, the next step is applying for FDA approval for clinical use of the drug in all patients who might benefit from it. Usually by then Pharma or a biotech company is involved. These partners submit a new drug application and handle the approval process, ramp up manufacturing and distribution capabili ties and commercialize the drug through marketing.Development of drugs can take five years or more. In the meantime, clinical trials are a great way for eligible patients to get early access to promising treatments that insurance companies do not yet cover. The last major drug to be approved by the FDA for triple negative breast cancer is called Trodelvy® (sacituzumab). Prior to that it was Halaven® (eribulin). Both drugs were found to make people live longer. We were working with both drugs for years before they were FDA approved. The pa tients who enrolled in those clinical trials got early access to the drugs and were able to live longer and reach more milestones. We have several more trials opening up for breast cancer that I’m similarly excited about.The
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hind the studies they published piqued my interest in using this drug to try and pre vent breast cancer coming back in my own patients. So we developed and conducted a clinical trial in which we gave it to women who were at very high risk of recurrence. The results were terrific and are leading us to a new randomized Phase II clinical trial that will be opening at Dartmouth Cancer Center in 2023 for almost 200 patients.
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aim of building a clinical trial portfolio is to have something for every one and always be adding new trials as others close. Being located in a rural area, we’re particularly focused on our unique population of patients and their needs. All Dartmouth Cancer Center patients are screened by their cancer specialist teams for eligibility for clinical trials. We can partner with generalists at other hospitals as well as network with colleagues at other cancer centers who may be leading trials for which our patients are eligible. We are all working toward the same goal.
The Elliot Breast Health Center in Manchester, NH, part of Elliot Health System, recognizes breast cancer screening is not “one size fits all.” The Center’s High-Risk Program identifies patients with “higher than average risk” for developing breast cancer and offers a comprehensive screening program that includes a personalized risk screening and prevention plan, state-of-the-art mammography, MRI, and Whole Breast Ultrasound, and a genetic risk assessment with a specialized nurse practitioner.“TheElliot Breast Health Center staff is dedicated to the screening, diagnosis, and care of all women,” says Denise Jeffery, APRN, CGRA, Elliot Breast Health Center nurse practitioner. “We offer the most comprehensive
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Patients with a history of a high-risk lesion or atypical cells found on biopsy would also be considered at high-risk.
Women who may be at high risk for breast cancer may have a mother, sister, or daughter diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 50; two more close relatives diagnosed with breast cancer at an early age (before 50); three or more women on the same side of the family diagnosed with breast cancer at any age; a history of radiation therapy for Hodgkin’s Disease; or a known genetic mutation in the family, among other factors.
Jeffery is certified in genetic risk assessment. She considers all aspects of risk related to genetics and family history to tailor a screening plan for each patient. Jeffery continues to evaluate these plans as a patient’s family history changes or to reflect new best practices for care.
Specialized care for patients at greater risk for breast cancer
While all women are “at risk” for breast cancer, most women are considered to have “average risk.” For average risk, an annual mammogram starting at age 40 is the best approach for breast cancer screening; however, this approach may not be enough for those with “higher than average risk.”
Denise Jeffery, APRN, CGRA, is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in genetic risk assessment at the Elliot Breast Health Center in Manchester.
To learn more about the Elliot Breast Health Center, visit ElliotHospital.org/BreastHealth, or call 603-668-3067 to make an appointment.
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and specialized breast care possible for women who have increased risk for breast cancer.”
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“They have a Breast Cancer Awareness page on Facebook and there are many women who post about their diagnoses, treatment and advice. I joined that right away and posted my story and got a lot of helpful comments,” Kayla recalled.
tough, but I had a really good support system.”
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What empowered Kayla just as much was finding ways to help other women who may be facing the same fears and sadness she felt after receiving her diagnosis. Kayla and her family formed a Making Strides NH team that participated in the annual American Cancer Society breast cancer awareness walk on Oct. 17, 2021 in Concord. Kayla said she and the 20 walkers who participated raised $16,000 and were the top team.
Kayla said she had to have more chemotherapy beginning in March that is more targeted until the end of November.
“I was at school and on lunch break and that’s when they called me. It was crazy. I didn’t know what to think,” Kayla said. Her doctor told her she was diagnosed with Stage 1, Grade 3 breast cancer on July 7, 2021. “You think you are invincible and then this happens.”
Following her surgery, Kayla, now 30, wanted to get back to work and “feel like normal” as soon as possible. “As soon as the drains came off two weeks after, I went right back to work,” she said. She began a new round of chemotherapy in March.
“I live 15 minutes from Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and it was wonderful to have all resources in Nashua and not have to go to Boston,” Kayla said.
ike most people in their late 20’s, Kayla St. Louis felt pretty invincible. She enjoyed a life filled with her share of adventures, was very active and enjoyed playing sports like other members of her family. But the Hudson woman would soon begin a new journey whose conclusion wasKaylauncertain.recalled that she was taking classes to obtain her Esthetician’s license in June 2021 when she felt a strange lump on top of her left breast. She asked one of her teachers to look at it and give her opinion on what it could be. Her mom knew right away it was very serious and took Kayla to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua for tests.
She opened her new business in Hudson – Annie Lou’s Lashes and Esthetics – in August.
Kayla also drew great support from talking with other women who had either gone through breast cancer treatment or were dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis like her.
For Kayla, early detection, fast action and the quality care and the sup port she received from her doctors and cancer specialists made all the difference. Now Kayla feels just as vibrant, alive and energetic as she did before her journey began.
“The most difficult part was no feeling afterwards. You just don’t get feeling back,” Kayla said. “I didn’t have much pain and they said the recovery would be six to eight weeks and by week four I was cleared to do“Ieverything.”honestlyloved all of my doctors on the Mass General team at Southern New Hampshire, especially my oncologist,” Kayla said. “It was
“I honestly loved all of my doctors on the Mass General team at Southern New Hampshire, especially my oncologist,” Kayla said. “It was tough, but I had a really good support system.”
An ultrasound and a biopsy later, Kayla learned what she did not want to hear a month later.
Fortunately, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Kayla had a team of specialists from Mass General in her corner every step of the way. More tests followed to determine the actual scope of the tumor and to see if her cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. As she learned more about the extent of her breast cancer and what it would take to treat it, “I felt better because it helped settle my mind somewhat.” She also learned about her options.
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What made Kayla’s breast cancer even more difficult to accept is that it is very rare for women who are in their 20’s to get it. In fact, just five percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer fall into that age group.
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Kayla said they used Facebook to reach out to people to request their support for their team. The annual event gives cancer survivors and their families a way to stand up to cancer and help others in need.
Kayla was told she could have a lumpectomy to remove the tumor followed by radiation treatments and this would give her an 8 percent chance of not having a recurrence. Or she could have a mastectomy. Kayla decided to do a double mastectomy to have both breasts removed withKaylareconstruction.hadtoputher goal of opening her own esthetician business in Hudson on hold so she could focus on her treatment. She had che motherapy from July 29 to December 16, 2021. Her five-hour surgery followed this year on Jan. 31.
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Our centers are led by fellowship-trained doctors and feature the latest advances in breast imaging and digital 3D technology proven to improve early detection of breast cancer and reduce unnecessary callbacks.
DeNicola Breast Health Center is proud to offer three state-of-the-art digital mammography machines. This technology enhances image quality with only a low dose of radiation.TheCenter also offers TAG technology that transforms the surgical experience for patients by allowing the device to be placed into breast tissue in an outpatient setting, weeks before the surgery—the technology accurately indicates which tissues should be
These are just a few of the advances the deNicola Breast Health Center and Southern New Hampshire Medical Center offer patients today. The Center has a strong commitment to breast health and will continue to use industry gold standards for the comfort and care of its patients for years to come.
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Focused on providing patients with timely, successful surgical outcomes, SNHMC recently installed a breast tissue imaging machine in the surgical area, allowing surgeons to view specimens right away during surgery. This allows for faster results, reducing the time patients spend in the operating room.
The team at the deNicola Breast Health Center at Southern NH Medical Center.
Learn more about the deNicola Breast Health Center at SNHHealth.org/deNicola or call (603) 577-2665 to schedule an appointment.
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The deNicola Breast Health Center at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (SNHMC) in Nashua, NH, recognizes that follow-up care relating to a mammogram finding is one of the most stressful times of any patient’s life. The deNicola team is committed to providing compassionate care and the highest quality service possible by adopting new, innovative technologies.
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This award was issued on September 1st, 2022 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period December 20th, 2021 through September 1st, 2022. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award winners may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. 979 New Hampshire-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 87 (9% of candidates) were named 2022 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2021: 943 considered, 96 winners; 2020: 928 considered, 91 winners; 2019: 928 considered, 85 winners; 2018: 955 considered, 74 winners; 2017: 739 considered, 89 winners; 2016: 666 considered, 158 winners; 2015: 853 considered, 166 winners; 2014: 1,045 considered, 189 winners; 2013: 1,049 considered, 204 winners; 2012: 743 considered, 170 winners.
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With decades of experience working with businesses and individuals, the FSRP team members are committed to delivering solutions to meet clients’ specific goals and objectives. When working with individuals, we provide comprehensive financial planning services. For businesses, we provide 401(k) and 403(b) advice and employee education. We act as co-fiduciaries on each retirement plan we serve. Our team appreciates the trust our clients have placed in us. We are pleased that Shawn, Al, Sarah and Daniel have received the 2022 Five Star Wealth Manager award and are honored to share it.
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This award was issued on September 1st, 2022 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period December 20th, 2021 through September 1st, 2022. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award winners may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. 979 New Hampshire-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 87 (9% of candidates) were named 2022 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2021: 943 considered, 96 winners; 2020: 928 considered, 91 winners; 2019: 928 considered, 85 winners; 2018: 955 considered, 74 winners; 2017: 739 considered, 89 winners; 2016: 666 considered, 158 winners; 2015: 853 considered, 166 winners; 2014: 1,045 considered, 189 winners; 2013: 1,049 considered, 204 winners; 2012: 743 considered, 170 winners.
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Rocco offers a wide variety of products and services to his clients. He listens to them and thinks objectively in terms of how to best meet their specific needs. Due to Rocco’s work ethic, follow-through and commitment to his clients, he has become a well-respected financial advisor within his community.
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For more than 33 years, Rocco has been with Baystate Financial Services. Rocco has received multiple industry awards annually, recognizing his achievements as a successful financial adviser. Rocco resides in Exeter, New Hampshire with his family.
Andrew M. Rocco, CLU®, ChFC®, joined Baystate Financial Services in 1989 after receiving his bachelor’s degree in economics from Boston University. His goal as a financial adviser is to build long-term relationships that help his clients reduce taxes, work toward their retirement objectives and attain financial confidence.
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This award was issued on September 1st, 2022 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period December 20th, 2021 through September 1st, 2022. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award winners may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. 979 New Hampshire-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 87 (9% of candidates) were named 2022 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2021: 943 considered, 96 winners; 2020: 928 considered, 91 winners; 2019: 928 considered, 85 winners; 2018: 955 considered, 74 winners; 2017: 739 considered, 89 winners; 2016: 666 considered, 158 winners; 2015: 853 considered, 166 winners; 2014: 1,045 considered, 189 winners; 2013: 1,049 considered, 204 winners; 2012: 743 considered, 170 winners.
Securities offered through Commonwealth Financial Network®, Member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Nvest Financial, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor, are separate and unrelated to Commonwealth. Fixed insurance products and services are separate from and not offered through Commonwealth Financial Network. Financial Planning services offered through Nvest Financial are separate and unrelated to Commonwealth.
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WINNERYEAR 11 FIVE STAR WEALTH MANAGER AWARD WINNER Securities offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., a broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Adviser. Financial planning services offered through Axiom Advisors, a Registered Investment Adviser. Benoit Financial Planners and Cambridge are not affiliated. At BFP, we work with employer-sponsored retirement plans and personal financial planning for individuals and families. The relationships we cultivate with clients are the foundation upon which BFP is built. Our objective is to develop meaningful relationships built on integrity and quality service. • Retirement plans, individual accounts, financial planning • Team has 65-plus years of combined financial services experience • Core values: service, integrity, independence and guidance Creating Financial Plans For Over 30 Years Jeremy W. Benoit CRPC®, AIF®, Lic. 227707319Chenell Drive, Suite 1A Concord, NH 03301 Phone: jeremy@benoitfp.com603-506-6233www.benoitfp.com WINNERYEAR 4 FIVE STAR WEALTH MANAGER AWARD WINNER Securities and advisory services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network®, member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser. Advisory services offered through Whole Wealth Management, LLC are separate and unrelated to Commonwealth Financial Network. At Whole Wealth Management, our only allegiance is to our clients and their financial well-being. As an independent financial advisor, we operate free of any corporate sales pressure or incentives. You can feel confident knowing that our advice is aligned with your best interest and tailored to meet your objectives in the most optimal way. • Comprehensive financial planning • Investment management • Tax e icient retirement income planning Experience Financial Well-being Jeffrey W. Keefe Senior Financial Advisor, AIF®, Founding jkeefe@wholewealthmanagement.comPortsmouth,200PrincipalMarcyStreetNH03801Office:603-766-8705www.wholewealthmanagement.com WINNERYEAR 10
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This award was issued on September 1st, 2022 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period December 20th, 2021 through September 1st, 2022. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award winners may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. 979 New Hampshire-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 87 (9% of candidates) were named 2022 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2021: 943 considered, 96 winners; 2020: 928 considered, 91 winners; 2019: 928 considered, 85 winners; 2018: 955 considered, 74 winners; 2017: 739 considered, 89 winners; 2016: 666 considered, 158 winners; 2015: 853 considered, 166 winners; 2014: 1,045 considered, 189 winners; 2013: 1,049 considered, 204 winners; 2012: 743 considered, 170 winners.
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This award was issued on September 1st, 2022 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period December 20th, 2021 through September 1st, 2022. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award winners may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. 979 New Hampshire-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 87 (9% of candidates) were named 2022 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2021: 943 considered, 96 winners; 2020: 928 considered, 91 winners; 2019: 928 considered, 85 winners; 2018: 955 considered, 74 winners; 2017: 739 considered, 89 winners; 2016: 666 considered, 158 winners; 2015: 853 considered, 166 winners; 2014: 1,045
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Sandwich Fair > This classic fall New England fair features a farmers market, crafting, concessions, midway, exhibit halls, rides, antique car show, music, animal demonstrations, the woodsmen’s field day, 4-H exhibits and competitions, magicians and much more. $6-$25. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sandwich Fairgrounds, 7 Wentworth Hill Rd., Sandwich. thesandwichfair.com
October 1-2
Milford Pumpkin Festival > It’s decorative gourd season, and this 33-year-old fête is one of the state’s largest pumpkin festivals. Highlights include a giant pumpkin weigh-in contest, a scarecrow-making tent, carnival rides and more. Free. Times vary, Milford Oval, 1 Union Sq., Milford. (603) 249-0676; milfordpumpkinfestival.org
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Apple Harvest Day > Pumpkins aren’t the only produce that get a little love this month. Dover’s fall festival focuses on the season’s sweeter favorite, with a 400-strong crafter fair, live entertainment and plenty of eats, apple-themed and otherwise. Join over 50,000 people expected to attend as you enjoy signature events, including an apple pie contest and a 5K. Free. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., downtown Dover. (603) 742-2218; dovernh.org
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23rd Annual Autumn Craft Festival on the Lake > The shops and town green along the Mill Falls Market place in Meredith will burst into color and flavor for this annual fair. Enjoy the crisp autumn air and mountain foli age while looking through the works of over 75 artisans. There will be traditional American-made arts and crafts, samplings of specialty artisan foods and more. Free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mill Falls Marketplace, 312 Daniel Webster Hwy., Meredith. (603) 332-2616; castleberryfairs.com
Warner Fall Foliage Festival > Fall lovers unite because this one’s for you. The best part? It is all free. Come and celebrate the rural life and vibrant foliage at this family-friendly community festival. Two days of events include a lineup of open-air concerts, a 5K road race, a kids’ fun run and dance party, street performers, food, amusement rides and so much more. Free. Times vary, Main Street, Warner. wfff.org
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Portsmouth Halloween Parade > Start practicing your monster mash. The Port City’s cult-favorite event turns 27 this year, and the costumes (and camaraderie) promise to be bigger and better than ever. Everyone is invited to dress up and meet at Peirce Island for this celebration of community and creativity. Free. 7 p.m., Peirce Island, Portsmouth. portsmouthnhhalloweenparade.org
“Marie Antoinette” > In David Adjmi’s contemporary take on the young queen of France, Marie is a confection created by a society that values extravagance and artifice. But France’s love affair with the royals sours as revolution brews, and for Marie, the political suddenly becomes very personal. From the light and breezy banter at the palace to the surging chants of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!” in the streets, Marie Antoinette holds a mirror up to our contemporary society. $29. Times vary, M&D Playhouse, 1857 White Mountain Hwy., North Conway. (603) 733-5275; mdplayhouse.com
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October 1
Powder Keg Beer & Chili Fest > Beer, chili and a crisp fall Saturday — will that trio ever go out of style?
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk > Though pumpkins and foliage may get the lion’s share of attention in New Hampshire this time of year, the fruits of fall aren’t the only thing October is known for. Celebrate this month’s status as Breast Cancer Aware ness Month with the American Cancer Society’s popular fundraising walks. This year’s six New Hampshire walks will take place in cities from Concord to Exeter — check the website for the one nearest you. Times, dates and locations vary. secure.acsevents.org
Children’s Trick or Treat > Charmingfare Farm’s trick-or-treat is perfect for little ghouls and boils who don’t want to be scared but still want the excitement of wearing their favorite costume for a Halloween adventure. There will be five special attractions featuring candy shops for trick-or-treating, like the Tractor Train Bog Ride and Grandpa’s Spooky Hay Barn. $22. Times vary, Charmingfare Farm, 774 High St., Candia. (603) 483-5623; visitthefarm.com
At this 10-year-old festival, sample brews from more than 50 breweries and cideries, and eat to your heart’s content from the dozen-plus voteforgetcompetitors.chiliDon’ttocastyour—thewinner at this contest is selected via the people’s choice. $35-$45. This year includes two sessions, one from 12 to 2 p.m. and the other from 3 to 5 p.m. Swasey Parkway, Exeter. powderkegbeerfest.com New Hampshire Magazine is a proud sponsor of this event.
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Plainfield Pumpkin People > Pumpkins are fun and present many opportunities to express your creativity, but what about making pumpkin people out of them? The town of Plainfield is celebrating their 10th anniver sary of this unique event. Grab your camera and jump in the car to see what you can find. Free. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Plainfield. Facebook
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New Hampshire Brewfest > Held at the Cisco Brewers in Portsmouth, this festival includes 5-ounce souvenir sampler cups, beer samples, live music and entertainment. It is also a special fundraiser for the Prescott Park Arts Festival in partnership with Master Brewers Association of America and WHEB’s The Morning Buzz. $20-$65. 12 p.m., Cisco Brewery, 35 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth. prescottpark.org
Throughout October
October 29
White Mountain Oktoberfest > With festivities including pumpkin-painting, water-balloon-launching and a stein-carry and keg-roll relay — plus, of course, plenty of beer and brats — this Granite State German fest may be the granddaddy of them all. It’s the perfect opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new ones during the weekend’s full lineup of activities and entertainment. Free. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Loon Mountain Resort, 60 Loon Mountain Rd., Lincoln. (800) 229-5666; loonmtn.com
October 1-31
Halloween
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October 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30
Spooktacular Halloween Party > Bring the whole family to Wasserman Park for this year’s Spooktacular event that features a night of food, carnival games, face painting, pumpkin-carving demonstrations, crafts, music and a c contest. There will also be a performance from a local magician. 12 to 3 Wassermanp.m., Park, 116 Naticook Rd., sandrec.orgmerrimackp(603)Merrimack.882-1046;
Lakes Region Parade of Homes Tour > This local home show and design tour has been an annual tradi tion hosted by the Lakes Region Builders & Remodelers Association since 2007. The self-guided tour features stunning, professionally designed new and renovated homes in Lakes Region communities. Attendees can also meet the talented builders while learning about the newest trends, products and techniques. Tickets are $20. lakesregionparadeofhomes.com
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October 8–10
October 16
An Evening with George Winston > George Winston is undeniably a household name. He’s inspired fans and musicians alike with his singular solo acoustic piano songs for more than 40 years while selling 15 million albums. A tireless road warrior playing nearly 100 concerts annually, live performance for Winston is akin to breathing. Winston’s music is evocative, offering us all a chance to take a step back from our perpetually busy lives and let our minds adventurously wander. Ticket prices vary. 7 p.m., Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A St., Derry. (603) 437-5100; tupelomusichall.com
Taste of New Hampshire > Formerly of the Taste of Concord, this fantastic food event is back for another year of good food and good fun. Taste fare from more than 35 local restaurants, enjoy live music, take in a cooking demo, participate in the silent auction and cheer for your favorite chef in the Top Chef competition. Plus, it’s all for a great cause — proceeds support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central New Hampshire. $35 or 10 tickets for $300. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Grappone Conference Center, 70 Constitution Ave., Concord. (603) 225-3710; tasteofnewhampshire.com
Graveyard Tour > Calling all who enjoy the cozy, spooky feeling that comes with autumn in New England. Get in the Halloween spirit and join the crew at Castle in the Clouds on a walk around the property to view the remnants of cemeteries from long ago. You’ll also view the accompanying cellar holes, discussing the families that lived there, and the funerary traditions for each appropriate time period. $12. 3 to 5 p.m., Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Rd., Moultonborough. castleintheclouds.org
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October 22
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October 18
Haunted Overload > This Granite State Halloween classic is back for another year of scares and haunts. Winner of “The Great Halloween Fright Fight of 2014” on ABC, this frightful walk is one of the most creative and unique attractions in the world. Experience one-of-a-kind props, set designs, a real headless horseman, hundreds of lighted pumpkins, and monsters looming over the crowd, some as tall as 42 feet. The attention to detail is apparent if you do the nighttime haunt, and even if you walk through during the day with no actors. Stop by and see what all the talk is about, and enter if you dare. $11-$31. Times vary, DeMeritt Hill Farm, Route. 155, Lee. hauntedoverload.com
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Mount Sunapee Duck Drop > This new event is a part of the weekend fall festival and pig roast. Rubber ducks will be dropped from the chairlift, aimed at targets on Mount Sunapee. The afternoon is full of fun and prizes, including a chance to win $1 million. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with awards presented at 4:30 p.m. Mount Sunapee Resort, 1398 New Hampshire Rte. 103, Newbury. nhduckdrop.com
Howl-O-Ween 5K > This is a dog-friendly 5K road race at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. Not only does the event raise funds for animals in need, but it’s also a great opportunity for pets and their owners to be active together. You are encouraged to celebrate Halloween early by dressing up in your favorite costume. All proceeds will benefit the Animal Rescue League of NH. $5-$50. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, 1 Line Dr., Manchester. Facebook
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How do I know if I’m depressed and whether antidepressants will work for me?
These medicines change the structure of your brain, he says, and can help you take the first steps toward making key behavioral changes that will aid you in overcoming your depression. However, you shouldn’t expect them to work right away, and you might have to try more than one medication to feel a difference. He also cautions people not to assume that elevating low serotonin levels will be the answer to overcoming their depressive state. Depression is not a homogenous entity — it can present with lots of different symptoms and making a simple change in one neurotransmitter may not address all of them, Gosai says.
Loss of appetite
It’s estimated that more than 13% of all American adults and 17% of adult women took an antidepressant in the past 30 days, according to a 2017 study by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. However, the latest study is causing many to ask: If my low serotonin levels
Antidepressantsprobably. work by altering your brain chemistry and affecting neurotransmitters responsible for your mood and emotions. Serotonin is just one of those neurotransmitters. For example, dopamine and epinephrine are other neurotransmitters that play a role in regulating your mood. The goal of these medicines is to help improve your mood and sleep, and to better regulate your appetite and improve your concentration levels, according to Khrisan Gosai, M.D., a child psychiatrist affiliated with Elliot Hospital.
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epression may not be caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain after all, experts are now saying. While it’s long been thought that uneven brain chemistry causes depression, researchers now question whether that’s 100% true.
Depression might not be as easy to identify in other age groups.
In a recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry, scientists reviewed previous studies that looked at the levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in both depressed and healthy people. One of their findings shows that serotonin levels did not differ between the two groups. They also reviewed studies in which serotonin levels were artificially lowered in a healthy control group.
aren’t responsible for my depressed state, can my antidepressant really help me? The simple answer:
How to Beat the Blues
Unexplained aches and pains, such as back aches or headaches
“Antidepressants have an initial effect of increasing your serotonin levels, but they’re also affecting other neurotransmitters. With SSRIs [Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors], you don’t see the effects straight away due to these more ‘downstream changes,’ unlike Tylenol or other medications,” he says.
They found that lower serotonin levels did not produce depression in the healthy control group either.
A recent study sheds light on mental health
Thoughts of suicide
If you’ve been feeling depressed for several weeks or more, it’s important to get evaluated by a medical provider, Gosai says. Make an appointment with your primary care provider and tell them how you’re feeling, both physically and mentally.
Difficulty concentrating Restlessness or sleepiness
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Children show signs of depression through their behavior, Gosai says. A depressed
Common signs of depression in adults include: Feelings of sadness or emptiness
At the same time, doctors frequently prescribe antidepressants — which aim to balance serotonin levels — to treat patients who suffer from depression, with the hopes that they might benefit from a boost.
5. When can I expect to come off of the medication?
3. How long should I expect to wait until I feel the full effect of the medication?
Before providers diagnose a patient with depression, they typically rule out physical symptoms such as high blood pressure
Gosai cautions that an antidepressant may not be “the magic bullet” if you’re unwilling to make other important behavioral changes. Getting regular exercise, following a routine, getting enough sleep, and engaging socially are all important factors when it comes to improving your mood.
. What are some side effects I could expect to have?
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been taking the same one for a long period of time, says Gosai, causing patients to experience tachyphylaxis, often referred to as the “Prozac Poopout.”
and hypothyroidism. If diagnosed with depression, patients can decide whether or not they think they could benefit from medication. You might try talk therapy, increase exercise, or make other behavioral changes before you try a medication, Gosai says.
Questions to ask your provider
“Antidepressants are just one factor in [overcoming] depression,” he notes. “It’s the one thing we can control. I see antidepressants in the same way as I see pain meds, whereas the job of the pain med is to get you so that you can visit a physical therapist to strengthen your (hurt) muscles.”
· Depression in the elderly can also look different. They may experience problems with their cognitive ability, withdraw from activities, or have trouble completing daily tasks such as grocery shopping.
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child or teen may show irritability or display more frequent outbursts.
“If you’ve been on a med for a long time and you’re not seeing results, you should go back to provider and have a conversation. It may be time for a med change, or time to increase it to a more optimal dose,” he says. Why does this happen? Gosai suggests that genetics could play a role and that sometimes one medication might be a better fit for one person and not another. It’s common to change medications and doing so often results in a positive outcome. While you should never discontinue your antidepressant before consulting with your provider, it is possible to eventually wean off of them and lead a happy life, he “Justsays.because you titrate down, it doesn’t mean you’re going back to square one. The theory is that meds change the way we perceive life,” he says. “Depressed people see the world more realistically. When you’re not depressed, you see a world that’s more hopeful, and that’s the thing gets you out of bed.” NH
1. How long will I have to take the antidepressants?
4. How will I know the medication is working?
Do antidepressants have side effects? Can I expect to ever get off of them? Like other medications, antidepressants can cause some people to experience unpleasant side effects. These include weight gain, daytime sleepiness and sexual side effects. They can also lose their potency if you’ve
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like the big squirt, depends on a complex combination of natural conditions. Online maps and trackers rate color from Not Yet to Past It, with the illusive Peak smack in the middle. When will foliage peak and where? That’s the multimilliondollar question for tourists and those who cater to them.
A lone maple on Northwood Ridge is my bellwether. Some years it’s so red that the looky-loos on Route 4 swerve. The
In retrospect, I should have channeled my inner yankee:
But ... if spring or summer is too hot, cold, wet, or dry, if the tectonic plates shift awkwardly or the moon is askew, if, come fall, you’re wearing a tank top one day and a parka the next, the quality of the foliage takes a hit. It’s finicky. One windy rainstorm puts the kibosh to the whole business. Just like that.
I knew what she meant though. She meant peak color, as seen in drone footage on the Here,internet.foliage is a season, albeit a short one, like black fly and summer. Foliage,
Come to New Hampshire, the cheerleaders say. Soak in the color: Canary yellow, over-ripe pumpkin, ruby red; it’s breathtaking! epic! glorious! an impressionist masterpiece!
“Don’t you move a gol-dum inch!” NH
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rosy sunrise at the flats. As the clam digger gazed across the expanse of mud, thousands of clams got it into their little clam heads to squirt ... at the same time, creating thousands of clam-juice rainbows. What prompted the big squirt? Must have been some complex com bination of natural conditions — atmospheric pressure, the pull of the moon, a shift in the tectonic“Amazing,”plates.I said.
“Ayuh,” said the digger.
Fast-forward to October in the Whites. I’m walking the Lincoln Woods Trail by the Pemigewasset River. Looking sharp: hiking sticks, boots, cargo pants, water bottle on my hip, Tilley hat tied under my chins. I come upon two hikers: him in shorts and sandals; her in a skirt and flip-flops. They’re confused: “Tell us, please, where do we find the foliage Technically,?” foliage means leaves. In New Hampshire — the second-most forested state in the country (Maine’s first) — foliage is literally everywhere.
“You’re looking at it,” I said.
Back to the seashore, where my cousinin-law summed up his love of diving for scallops this way: “It’s the thrill of the hunt.” Same with foliage: Hunt it, corner it, and — quick — shoot it with your smartphone before it’s gone.
“Tell us, please, where do we find the foliage?”
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nearby swamp is awful pretty too, when the bushes and brambles reveal their true colors. Truth is, the hunt for peak foliage — like the hunt for those wily scallops — can be both thrilling and frustrating, as droves of peepers bumper to bumper on I-89, I-93, or the funnel through Franconia Notch will attest.
But one bright maple on a knoll, or a kaleidoscope swamp, or a gold-leafed oak arched over a byway, that’s enough for some of us.
As for the confused hikers in Lincoln Woods, might be they arrived a mite early. Or maybe they were looking for a vista and I should have sent them along to the Kancamagus or the Loon Mountain gondola. It’s true, some trees in Lincoln Woods were bare that day, others still green. Instead of canary, pumpkin and ruby (as advertised), the Pemi reflected bronzes, rusts and maroons. Look closely though: See individual leaves, flares of color, dotting the water as it tumbles over sand and stone.
“Tell us, please, where do we find the foliage?” the hikers asked.
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