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Big events at Hampton Get ready for a big weekend at Hampton Beach!

Do you like beauty pageants? Let’s start with Saturday, July 27, at 2 p.m.; it’s the Little Miss Hampton Beach pagLarry Marsolais eant, which is always a great event. On Sunday, July 28, also at 2 p.m., it’s the 72nd Miss Hampton Beach pageant. Both of these are held at the seashell stage located right in the center of the beach. Read more about the pageant’s history on p. 24.

Also on Friday and Saturday, head to the beach and catch a game of sand soccer — there’s a tournament going pretty much all day for both days right on the beach across from Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom.

Every Monday night you can catch a movie on the beach, across from the playground.

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And one last thing — don’t forget the free concerts that take place at the Seashell Stage every night.

There is still plenty of summer left at the beach! For more information on any of these, please go to hamptonchamber.com. and click on beach events.

As always feel free to call me anytime at 603-935-5096 to discuss local issues or to place an ad.

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EVENTS TO CHECK OUT JULY 25 - 31, 2019, AND BEYOND Soccer in the sand

Sand soccer tournaments and skills competitions are back at Hampton Beach. Watch 5 v. 5 soccer in the sand on Friday, July 26, and Saturday, July 27, across from the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. Games will be played pretty much all day, so if you’re at the beach, stop by and watch the fun. Visit hamptonbeachsoccer. com for more information.

Run on

Run in the SIX03 Summerfest 10K and 5K Race on Saturday, July 27, at the Dover Ice Arena, 110 Portland Ave., Dover. The races start at 9 a.m. and registration is $35 for the 10K, $30 for the 5K. There will be fun, music and drinks to follow. Visit six03endurance.com.

Music at the Ballroom

The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom has a few shows on the schedule for this week. Check out the Dark Star Orchestra Friday, July 26, and Saturday, July 27, at 8 p.m. Tickets $59.

See Amos Lee with opener Bailen Sunday, July 28, at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $29. Or Watch Brit Floyd (Pink Floyd tribute), Wednesday, July 31, at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $29.

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Over 20 local brewers will be at the Tall Sips Brewfest at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye to offer tastings on Friday, July 26, from 5 to 9 p.m. There will be food trucks and kids’ games as well. Tickets are $35 and are available at sailportsmouthnh.org.

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From bars to coffee shops, the Seacoast has a variety of places where amateur entertainers can get behind the mic. Whether you want to be on stage yourself or you want to watch up-andcoming musicians, comedians looking to try out some new jokes or poets craving an audience, open mics are an exciting way for new talent to shine.

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Dave Ogden has been part of the Seacoast music Scene for years. He’s been to all of the popular open mics in the area, from the Portsmouth Book and Bar to the Press Room “probably a thousand times over the years.” Ogden has played them all, and he’s taken in this first-hand experience and translated it to the next level by hosting his own open mics across the Seacoast.

Ogden ran an open mic at the Chop Shop in Seabrook for around eight years, which is where he got his start doing so.

Then, when the Stone Church in Newmarket opened its doors after closing for a brief stint in the early 2000s, they reached out to Ogden to see if he wanted to host their weekly open mic and kickstart their live music program. Ogden agreed, and hasn’t looked back since.

Ogden is still hosting the Stone Church’s weekly Sunday night open mics, and is also just starting up a new open mic at the Portsmouth Brewery.

Behind Ogden’s supervision of these open mics is the insight and experience of a seasoned performer; Ogden loves music and wants to give others the opportunity to perform.

With this musician’s wisdom, Ogden

has instilled a number of unique qualities into his open mic at the Stone Church.

For one, it starts early for an open mic at a bar, beginning at 7 p.m., but it doesn’t end early, often going until 1:30 a.m.

Ogden does this as a way to give everyone a chance to perform, from kids who have school the next day and want to play earlier in the evening to those who moonlight as musicians after getting out of their day job.

“I refer to the late night as musician’s hour because a lot of magic happens at midnight; you never know what’s going to happen, you never know who’s going to show up,” Ogden said. “It’s a different night — if you don’t like what’s on stage there’s going to be somebody different in 15 minutes.”

Another distinctive quality of Ogden’s open mic is the amount of time he gives each performer up on stage. While most open mics sit at somewhere around 10 minutes or three songs per performer, Ogden gives each act the opportunity to do four songs.

“Over the years of playing open mics, you’re in the middle of your third song and you’re just starting to get warmed up and you really want one more song so I usually try to give people at least four songs,” Ogden said. “I’m sure that contributes to why I’m there until 1 in the morning, but it also contributes to giving people a chance to display what they do a little bit more.”

Ogden said many open mics cultivate a high-intensity listening experience, where the whole audience is focused solely on the performer. Ogden understands the merits of such an open 8

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7 mic but wants to give aspiring musicians a more realistic experience for how playing gigs will be like at bars if they ever get to that next level in their career.

“It’s a casual bar atmosphere, it’s very friendly but it’s a bar,” he said. “I tell people, sometimes the crowd isn’t listening and sometimes it’s really loud and I’m like, ‘Well, this is what happens.’ It wouldn’t matter, like Neil Young could walk in and people are busy doing their thing, they wouldn’t even listen. But other times, people are keyed right in and listening.”

Ogden’s Stone Church open mic primarily sees musicians, but he said that he’s seen everything from comedians to poets to even motivational speakers. He explained that it’s the performers who come week in and week out that define the event’s ambience. From watching local youngsters mature and groom their music skills to hosting regulars such as Snake, a man in his 80s who comes every other week or so, prefaces each song with a short history lesson of its origins and has become beloved by the community, Ogden can’t get enough of the communal aspect his weekly open mic has bred.

In the summertime, Ogden said there will almost be two open mics going on at the Stone Church: one inside on the stage, and one outside on the steps or parking area, where waiting musicians will practice and hold their own informal jam sessions. It’s experiences like these that motivate Ogden to host open mics.

“For me, I’m just such a huge music fan and nerd,” he said. “My favor-

ite thing is hearing people do their own songs and sometimes I get to be one of the first people to hear really good, new, original music. For me, that’s really the big highlight.”

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A group of seven high schoolers were up on stage, blaring on horns, percussion and other various instruments. Attracting a crowd of over 85 people, the band of students were a huge hit playing engaging party music, and drew comparisons to the popular 1990s party band Fly Spinach Fly. When all was said and done, the band, Three Junk Funk, had finished their first-ever live performance, and decided to officially form together and become a band following the show. While this scene may beckon of a large-scale music hall or performance arts center, this all happened at Flight Coffee in Dover during its monthly open mic night.

At a stereotypical coffee-shop open mic, you might imagine a small group of around 10 people reading poetry, drinking espresso and snapping after each poem recitation. This isn’t exactly how the open mics at Flight Coffee in Dover and the Book and Bar in Portsmouth typically go.

“Flight is a listening room in the truest sense of that,” said Kelly Bower, owner of Flight Coffee in Dover. “All of our events take place after Flight has closed; we re-open for these events. Nobody is there to watch TV, watch the game, play pool, have drinks with their buddies.

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8 Bower, owner of Dover’s Flight Coffee for the past two years and director of the live music program, takes pride in the musical scene he’s carved out in Dover. Bower said that he aspires to make Flight Coffee the Elvis Room of this generation, calling back to the popular Portsmouth music venue of the 1990s that was known as a hang-out spot for local teens to drink coffee, listen to music and feel comfortable exploring their passions. With Flight Coffee often filling up their performance list and packing the room from 7 to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month when their open mic takes place, Bower is on his way.

“I love that it’s an environment where kids feel like they can put something together, show up, play, and if they get a good response they run with it and it becomes a band,” Bower said. “Seeing kids do their first show or their first time in front of people, that’s the kind of stuff that warms my heart.”

At the Book and Bar in Portsmouth, Ethan Pratt, the bar manager, said that they’ve also seen bands come in for the first time, have a couple of great shows and later end up booking more shows as a result. Pratt said that the band Sensitive Men began by performing at their weekly open mic (that runs every Wednesday night from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m.), and after impressing the audience and staff, ended up having their own headlining show at the Book and Bar on Thursdays and Fridays.

“It’s pretty free form,” Pratt said. “We get stuff as loud as someone whaling on electric guitar, and we just let everyone

go for it.”

Portsmouth Book and Bar sees about 70 percent musical performers at their open mic, with the other 30 percent ranging from comedy to poetry and anything in between. Flight Coffee sees a majority of music acts as well, but encourages any type of performer to give it their best shot. Additionally, Flight Coffee limits each performer to 10 minutes, while the Book and Bar likes to keep each performance to around 15 minutes, but both allow performers three songs each.

Pratt and Bower agreed that both of their open mics have attentive, positive audiences, and strive to create a welcoming environment for performers of any age and experience level.

“This is not a place where people are talking and you have to play over them and they’re ignoring you and they’re doing their thing,” Bower said. “This is a place where you’re going to get a tremendous amount of support.

“I strive for it to be a high-quality listening room, a family-friendly environment, and my goal is to carry the torch of development into something as cool as the Elvis Room was back in the day.”

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“I support all artists and try to help them build their name and fan base,” Green said.

This is Green’s first year running an open mic night at Cloud 9. As a seasonal venue, Cloud 9 opens in May and closes in September, and Green attempted to start up an open mic last year, but it was too late in the season for it to gain steam.

This summer, Green has been hoping to attract hip-hop artists who need a musical home on the Seacoast.

“We get a lot of hip-hop artists that come each week to hit the stage and perform and try out new songs,” he said.

“We really are the only true hip-hop venue in the area, so we get a lot of performers from that genre.”

Cloud 9’s open mic night runs from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. every Tuesday night.

Although they are a music venue that is 21 and older after 9 p.m., they operate as a welcoming restaurant for all ages before 9, and Green said he hopes for younger performers to come in earlier in the evening to perform. He also hopes to get more comedians, poets and performers of any genre; while Cloud 9 specializes in hip-hop, green encourages all genres and types of performers to show their skills at his open mic.

Cloud 9’s open mic is hosted by DJ Slipwax and Kevin Wolff, who emcee and DJ the night, and has a first come, first served sign-up sheet. Green said that the open mic is an example of their passionate dedication to music.

“The venue centers around the stage and we really focus on supporting artists and music,” Green said. “We live and breathe music. We are not here for the money, we are here to help artists make a name for themselves and give them a space to showcase their talent.”

JOKIN’ AROUND

Walk into Sue’s Space in Rollinsford, and you’ll find graffiti artwork lining the walls, minivan seats for audience members and a giant E.T. doll greeting visitors at the door. Far from an average comedy venue, Sue’s Space is “funky and loose,” as described by Palana Belken, who hosts the monthly open mics at Sue’s on the first Saturday of every month from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Belken had never done standup comedy before trying out the Open Mic Stand Up Nite at Sue’s Space that was started

by Darcy Blake in 2017. Belken said that what Blake aimed to create was a comedy-club atmosphere that was accepting, alternative and not offensive or “punching down” just for the sake of a joke. “[Blake] wanted to create a space that was more for people that wanted to create comedy that isn’t as lazy, because it’s really easy to just default to stereotypes and play off that and you can get giggles from something you know is a societal thing,” Belken said. “But a lot of people who come to these, they’re not traditional standup comedians either. It’s a space to do more experimental things.”

Belken said that when she began doing standup at Sue’s Space, her first set was an alternative radio show where she used a voice-changer to play a DJ reading poetry that doesn’t go as planned. She said this was her take on the out-there comedy performances the monthly standup night encourages, and that they’ve seen everything from silent prop humor to storytelling to hilarious dances.

At most of Sue’s standup nights, Belken said that one can expect to see a handful of the same performers every month interspersed with newbies experiencing Sue’s for the first time. The 14

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12 handful of regulars Belken sees every month include Ari, her partner in hosting the event, Angie TV, a performer who plays an intentionally awkward character that interacts with the audience in “jarring” ways, Matt Shore, who does a mixture of comedy and music and Darcy Blake, the original host of the show who recently moved away and passed the show on to Belken, but has been around this summer to participate herself.

Belken said that Blake has been responsible for some of the more gutbusting, memorable performances at Sue’s. From a lip-sync and dance to the Rihanna song “Kiss it Better,” to an ASMR-whisper-fest dissecting her mental health and familial issues, Belken said Blake’s performances encapsulated what Sue’s hopes to be: an alternative comedy venue that encourages and celebrates

performances that are exceedingly personal, wonky and true to the performer.

“Anyone who gets up and does it for the first time is typically a memorable performance,” Belken said. “Someone who’s kind of becoming empowered for the first time, like, ‘This is a space I feel comfortable being funny in.’”

Belken said that the comedy nights have been so successful in bonding attendees that it often takes an hour or two after the performances have ended to clear everyone out of Sue’s Space, as people love to stick around and chat with each other.

“People are looking to just come and bond with the performer,” Belken said.

“It’s a very open, community-type vibe.

Regardless of who you are and where you come from, you’ll probably feel comfortable here.”

Seacoast-area open mics Here are a few of the open mics hap- p.m. with refreshments provided by The pening around the Seacoast area, offering People’s Cafe. $5 donation suggested. everything from music to comedy to poetry.

Open Mic Stand Up Nite (3 Front Cloud 9 Bar and Grille (225 Ocean St., B789, Rollinsford, suesstandupnite@ Blvd., Hampton, 603-926-0099, cloud- gmail.com, facebook.com/ 9barandgrille.com) is a restaurant and bar suesstandupnite) is a comedy show that located on the second floor of the Hamp- happens the first Saturday of every month ton Beach strip that host live musical at Sue’s Space in Rollinsford from 8:30 to performances. They have weekly Tues- 10:30 p.m. They limit performances to 10 day night open mics hosted by DJ Double minutes each, and encourage performers Vision from 8 p.m. to close. All musical to email suesstandupnite@gmail.com to acts are welcome free of charge. sign up beforehand.

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Imagine Studios (People’s United Methodist Church, 64 Purchase St., Newburyport, 978-834-0367, imaginestudios. org) is a nonprofit organization that aims to foster and promote performing, visual and healing arts. They hold an open mic night the last Friday of every month at 7

Flight Coffee (478 Central Ave., Dover, 603-842-5325, flightcoffeeco.com) is a cafe with live performances. They hold open mic nights once a month on the first Friday of every month from 7 to 9 p.m.

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Seacoast-area open mics continued 6:30 p.m. and performances are 14 limited to three songs or 10 minutes. Performers of all kind and age are welcome.

Portsmouth Book and Bar (40 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, 603-427-9197, bookandbar.com) is a used bookstore, bar and coffee shop that hosts live performances. They have weekly open mics from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights. A sign-up list goes out at 7:15 and is first-come, first-served. Each performer gets 15 minutes, or three songs. Performers of all kinds and ages are welcome.

The Press Room (77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, 603-431-5186, pressroomnh.com) is a restaurant and bar that hosts a variety of shows and performances. They hold a weekly “Hoot Night” open mic on Tuesdays from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Sign-ups start at 6 p.m. and all performers are welcome. Anyone under 21 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Portsmouth Public Library (175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, 603-427-1540, cityofportsmouth.com/library) is hosting a Teen Open Mic Night hosted by Nick Phaneuf, director of the Teen Rock Band program at the Portsmouth Music and Arts Center, on Wednesday, July 31, from 5 to 6 p.m. Teenagers between ages 13 and

18 will be performing in the Levenson Community Room. Each performer will have time to perform one poem or song.

Original works and covers are accepted.

Sign-ups are online (https://tinyurl.com/ OpenMicPPL) and to be done in advance, as the event will be limited to 15 performers. The public are welcome to attend as audience members.

The Stone Church (5 Granite St., Newmarket, 603-659-7700, stonechurchrocks. com) is a music club, restaurant and function hall that holds weekly open mic nights on Sunday nights from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. hosted by Dave Ogden. All performers and ages are welcome and the event is free.

Crackskull’s Coffee and Books (86 Main St., Newmarket, 603-659-8181, crackskulls.com) is a used bookstore and coffee shop that holds two monthly open mics. Prose, Poetry and Popsicles is their adult open mic for writers held on the first Tuesday of every month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Writers of all kinds are welcome and are encouraged to show up slightly early to sign up for a five- to 10-minute reading. PP&P for Pipsqueaks is their monthly open mic for young writers between the ages of 7 and 13. Hosted by Larry Doyle, it takes place the last Saturday of every month from noon to 1 p.m.

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The Freedom Cafe (10 Mill Road, Durham, 603-815-4916, thefreedomcafe.org) is a nonprofit cafe and event space that has live music, educational and awareness events and more that go toward their mission of helping to end human trafficking. Every Wednesday night from 7 to 10 p.m. the Freedom Cafe hosts “Perform For Freedom,” an open

mic and awareness event that begins with a scheduled performer, followed by an educational window on human trafficking and open mic performances. Sign-ups for performing begin at 7 p.m. On the second Friday of each month, they hold Freedom Friday Teen Night from 7 to 9 p.m. with the same set-up as their Perform for Freedom event.

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You can imagine how challenging dom to create a healing practice. Courtesy photo. this could be for any given person.

For this purpose, we use special stones from different parts and depths of We all grew up in a society fueled by social the planet, crystal singing bowls, colors pressures, religion, peer pressure, jobs and and light to open the chakras, or portals, school that all push us to be prejudiced. of our clients to connect with their higher Overcoming these obstacles is challenging. selves, guides and angels. We provide tools It takes a lot of courage to trust someone and opportunities for our clients to use the you have never met before with something most powerful healer on the planet, which as deeply personal as healing. is themselves.

It sounds like there is a lot of trust How did you get into this overall line of there, too, right?

Building trust is the key because with that work? Have you always had an interest in comes the ability to relax. When our clients healing, spirituality?

I have followed a spiritual path my entire relax, they are more open and receptive to life. When I was very young, I used to the healing energies. Our clients who are spend all my spare time in the forest com- on their path to healing, after having a sesmunicating with the trees, elementals and sion, recommend us to their friends, family animals. I always felt safe and secure and and to those who are in need, because they happy when surrounded by trees and birds. are able to see what we can offer. We are I knew early on that I was a natural intu- open, honest and transparent in the purity itive who could feel and experience what of our healing sessions. was happening around me energetically.

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By Caleb Jagoda Where I went: Seacoast Science Center, 570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, seacoastsciencecenter. org, 603-436-8043.

What it is: The Seacoast Science Center is a nonprofit marine science education organization that offers a variety of exhibits, events, camps, programs and interactive opportunities for the public to learn about ocean life. Currently they’re offering several summer camps for children, as well as their weekly Atlantic Grill Music by the Sea concerts every Thursday night from 6 to 8:30 p.m. through Aug. 1. They’re open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. now through Oct. 31. Admission is $4 to enter Odiorne Point State Park for those age 12 and older and an additional $10 for admission into the Seacoast Science Center for those ages 13 and older.

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curiosity. I consider myself a curious person who enjoys learning about new things, and the ocean and its inhabitants fit this criteria. It’s essentially an entire world I only had a very surface-level understanding of, and for me that’s a pretty intriguing opportunity.

As I walked up to the SSC, I was already impressed with the view. It sits in Odiorne Point State Park in Rye right along its rocky shores, and to see the sun peeking through on a stormy day and the ocean raging underneath it was a near sublime sight.

There was a wedding going on outdoors right beside the SSC, and while you’d think it would be weird to have a wedding at an ocean museum, the scenery is so breathtaking I guess I can understand it.

Upon entering the building, the first thing that struck me were the animal skeletons suspended from the ceiling. The whale skeletons were massive, spanning large stretches above visitors’ heads frozen in swimming poses. As I walked around and started reading some of the mini-exhibits they have everywhere, I learned that the huge whale in the center of the SSC was named Tofu. Tofu is a juvenile humpback whale that was 2 1/2 years old when she died from what is thought to have been a collision with a boat. I read that Tofu is 32 feet long and weighed over 20,000 pounds when she was alive. Tofu’s skeleton was quite a sight to observe, and it was shocking to think that a Rye museum was able to procure a huge whale skeleton like Tofu’s.

I also gazed at two pilot whale skeletons and a harbor porpoise skeleton and

Seacoast Science Center in Rye. Photos by Caleb Jagoda.

learned some pretty interesting facts about them that left me surprised at the disparity in whale sizes. When you think of a whale, you think of a gargantuan creature that is too big to even consider. While there are obviously whales like that, the harbor porpoise whale is only four feet long.

Another thing I had no idea about was how big seals are. The Science Center had a wall dedicated to the different types of seals and their sizes, diets, habitats and more. I read that some seals, like the gray seal, can get up to 10 feet long and 800 pounds.

Eight hundred pounds! Maybe most people know this, but I was astounded; I always pictured them the size of a big dog, never mind 10 feet long.

I continued on my museum exploration and learned a little bit about the history of the museum as well as the people of Odiorne Point State Park through the years.

In a little stationary educational booklet they had on display, I read how people first inhabited the region 10,000 years ago, and they were migratory hunters from the West following grazing herds of caribou and mammoth. I read on and learned the evolution of the region’s people, and how 9,000 years ago they began to fish, 8,000 years ago seasonal migration to the coast occured to hunt seals, 5,000 years ago the use and variety of vegetables increased and so on.

Reading all of this had me both really intrigued and feeling cosmically small in the grand scheme of things. I mean, here I was, in my 20th year of life, in a museum reading about the evolution of people over thousands of years summed up in small paragraphs. This made me feel like a little blip on the radar, and was oddly comforting to put my life in perspective with the evolution of the human race. These are things we don’t stop and think about during the

hustle and bustle of day-to-day life, and to be able to have that opportunity at the SSC was really meaningful.

I went on to jaunt through their H20 Today exhibit, where I learned all about the history of Earth’s water. This was super cool and made me really consider how we often gloss over the importance of water in our life; it’s so accessible, but in the past it ruled how and where people lived. It also made me think about how drinkable water is, in fact, a limited resource that could one day run out if we don’t properly care for the Earth.

My last stop on my aquatic stroll was probably my favorite part: the touch tanks and mini-aquarium (if you want to call it that). I looked at a ton of super cool animals, from stingrays to various fish to anemone and starfish. My personal favorite were the seahorses, who seemed to float through the water while looking eerily majestic. They almost didn’t look real with their bony-plated skin and tiny stature. Some fun seahorse facts I learned: There are 47 known types of seahorses that range from a quarter of an inch to over a foot in size; they typically live from one to four years; they eat frequently because they lack a stomach; and lined seahorses mate for life.

Who should try this: Anybody remotely interested in aquatic life and the ocean.

It’s super cheap (especially compared to the prices of aquariums you’ll find in Boston), fun for all ages and wildly multifaceted in all that it offers. A lot of kids go, as it’s a great combination of education and interactive fun, but any age or type of person can be engaged and interested. I really recommend going here, and had a great time exploring it by myself.

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says that every year she receives applications from prospective contestants up until the day before the pageant, and her belief in the show as a community-building event keeps her from turning away the majority of these late applicants.

“I always order a few extra T-shirts for the kids to wear just in case. I don’t want to say no. It’s a Hampton Beach activity. I want everyone involved if they want to be involved,” she said.

Under Lussier’s direction, the pageant has since grown to include younger girls eager to take part in the fun. Little Miss Hampton Beach, for ages 5 to 9, and Junior Miss Hampton Beach, for ages 10 to 15, will take place Saturday, July 26.

Besides creating lifelong friendships, Lussier says participating in pageants also gives young women and girls valuable life skills that last them long into adulthood.

“You learn stage presence — being on stage in front of an audience, getting over that fear — public speaking, speaking into a microphone, interview skills. There’s something to be said about that, being part of an organized event,” she said. “Those are all skills you can take with you and have fun and make some friends along the way.”

One of the best parts of being the pageant’s director, Lussier says, is watching the girls grow up and take on their own roles in the pageant. It’s not unusual to see former Miss Hampton Beach winners and contestants helping out backstage or giving their input as judges. This is particularly meaningful to Lussier, who says that former contestants sometimes travel back to their Hampton Beach community from farflung corners of the country to help mentor

the younger generations.

“It’s been nice to keep all of my previous girls who have competed onboard and involved in a community-based event that’s beneficial for everyone. It’s giving these little girls, or whoever’s onstage, self-esteem and creating a network,” she said.

The tradition of it is also special to Lussier, who says she often has participants whose mothers and grandmothers have also taken part in the Miss Hampton Beach pageant.

It’s for these reasons that she continues to take on the enormous responsibility of directing the Miss Hampton Beach pageant year after year, despite the amount of time and dedication it takes to pull it all together.

“I’m glad that the town of Hampton has given me the opportunity to give back like this. It’s my one big thing a year that I always do despite how much time it takes because despite it being a time-consuming event, I enjoy doing it and I think it’s good to do something for the community,” she said. “This is my way of giving back and I’m grateful that I’m able to do it every year.”

The pageant, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Seashell stage on Hampton Beach. Little Miss Hampton Beach and Junior Miss Hampton Beach begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 26. Miss Hampton Beach begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 27. Anyone looking to enter should contact Stephanie Lussier by phone at 603-512-5257 or by email at Princess50@yahoo.com, or visit hamptonbeach.org/events for more details.

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For director Stephanie Lussier, Miss Hampton Beach is more than just a pageant — it’s an integral part of summers at Hampton Beach and a decades-long tradition that has brought together generations of girls from around the country.

This year the tradition continues as young women ages 16 through 24 prepare to compete for the grand title in the 73rd annual Miss Hampton Beach pageant on Sunday, July 27.

“I think it’s a great community event that a lot of people come and see every year.

They wait for it just like any other show,” Lussier said.

Lussier, in her 23rd year as the pageant’s head organizer, first discovered her love of pageantry after competing for the title of Miss Hampton Beach in 1994. She enjoyed it so much she decided to enter again the next year — and won.

The experience was an overwhelmingly positive one for Lussier.

“I had such a good time and I made so many friends that I still have to this day from all around the country,” she said.

However, Miss Hampton Beach’s future wasn’t always so certain. Due to budget and time constraints, the town decided to end the competition in 1995 after celebrating its 50th year. When she learned of plans to discontinue the pageant, Lussier took action. She spent a year petitioning the local Hampton board and carefully crafting her own proposal and outline. The town eventually relented and Lussier took over to become director of the 51st Miss Hampton Beach pageant in 1997.

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CAR TALK

Seize this opportunity to learn about your engine

By Ray Magliozzi

Dear Car Talk: I was told I have a seized engine in my 2012 Hyundai, with a 3.5 V6.

How does one check to confirm this conclusion? — Blair

When you pick up your checkbook, Blair, do you hear a whooshing sound?

The sound of money rapidly leaving your account is a pretty good confirmation.

I assume your car suddenly died on you, and the engine would not restart.

The first thing we’d do is check your engine oil level.

Running out of oil is a frequent cause of engine seizing. So, if you’re out of oil, that’s a big clue that you ran out of lubrication, and your engine parts rubbed themselves together into a permanent sculpture, rather than a functioning engine. If checking the oil is inconclusive, or if there is still sufficient oil in the crankcase, we’ll try to turn the crankshaft with a wrench.

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bolt and use it to try to turn the crankshaft. So, we’ll put a socket on the bolt, attach a breaker bar and see if the crankshaft will turn. If it won’t turn, that tells you that you no longer have engine parts.

You have an engine part.

If you don’t have confidence in the mechanic who diagnosed it for you, you can have it towed to a mechanic you trust more and ask him to do these tests.

However, if you know you did something drastic, like never changing the oil, running the car out of oil, or overheating the bejeebers out of the engine, then you may very well have seized it, Blair. In which case, the engine is toast.

That means it’s time to film “The Blair Engine Project.” Or “The Buy Blair a New Car Project.” Good luck.

Dear Car Talk: I’m hearing a clicking or tapping noise from my 2010 Honda Pilot. It has 110,000 miles on it. The valves have never been adjusted, nor has the timing belt been replaced (I know it’s time).

I’m reading and hearing all sorts of comments that when the valves get noisy, they are in need of adjustment. But I have also heard that when valves get

tight, that is when they need adjustment.

Two part question: Which of the above explanations is right and why, and how much should I pay for a valve adjustment? Thank you for your help!

— Gordon

They’re both right, and since this is a V6 engine, it could easily cost you $400$500 to have the valves adjusted. That’ll include new valve cover gaskets.

You could be cheap and try to put the valve covers back on using the old gaskets, but that’s kind of like taking a shower and then not bothering to change your underwear.

We’ve found that Hondas do require regular valve adjustments. Honda recommends it every 105,000 miles, when you change the timing belt. But we recommend our customers check their valves every 75,000 miles.

Here’s why: Honda valves have a unique propensity to get too tight over time, and if valves get too tight, you don’t hear anything.

But valves that are too tight won’t close all the way, and if they remain open during the combustion process, hot gasses will blow past the valves and

eventually melt them. Pretty soon, you’ll have a five cylinder Pilot. Then a four cylinder Pilot, etc.

If you think a valve adjustment is expensive, just wait until you need 24 valve replacements. That’s thousands of dollars.

Having valves that are too loose is a problem, too. But at least with loose valves, you get a warning — a clattering noise — if you pay attention to such things.

Now, it’s possible for some of your valves to be too loose (that’s when they make noise) and some of your valves to be too tight (when they don’t make noise, but they’re even more apt to be damaged).

So, you should go to a mechanic who knows Honda engines. At the very least, let your regular mechanic know that you understand that Honda valves sometimes get too tight, and you want to be sure he checks for tight valves as well as loose valves.

Those tight valves are what the kids call silent but deadly, Gordon. Get it done soon.

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FOOD

AT FUKI Fuki (2 Bow St., Portsmouth, 610-4227, fukinh.com) may share the same name as a plant native to several regions in eastern Asia, but according to executive chef Zach Squier, it’s actually an abbreviation of its concept. The eatery, its name a shortened version of the phrase “fusion kitchen,” features a variety of innovative foods and craft cocktails combining New England favorites with Japanese, Korean and other Asian styles. Fuki is open seven days a week for dinner and four days a week for lunch, offering everything from burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches to rice bowls, noodle bowls and pupu platters.

But these aren’t your traditional run-of-the-mill comfort items. The okonomiyaki dog, for example, uses 100 percent wagyu beef, with distinct toppings like pickled ginger, okonomi sauce, kewpie, bonito flake and scallion, all served on a New England-style bun with your choice of hand-cut tempura fries or a salad. Other menu staples include dumplings with an ever-changing filling option, duck wings with confit and fried tiger sauce, house-cured pork belly steamed buns with pickled vegetables, Korean smoked St. Louis ribs and more. The Scene recently spoke with Squier, who formerly co-owned Umami Farm Fresh Cafe in Northwood, about Fuki’s unique concept and some of his personal favorite dishes that are worth coming for.

How long has Fuki been around?

We opened in February of this year.

The menu changes semi-frequently, especially because we’re new, so we tweak things pretty often and do specials and seasonal changes. We do offer takeout and we’ll be delivering soon as well.

city. We’re kind of about having good New England comfort food with everything having an Asian flair to it. It’s definitely more diverse than anything that’s been around here before. Everything we do is kind of new and different to this area.

What makes Fuki unique?

There are definitely some great restaurants that do traditional Chinese and sushi and things like that, but I think ours is more of a restaurant that you might find or expect to find in a much bigger

What is your personal favorite dish?

It would probably be our burgers. It’s an American classic, but we do ours very differently. We use wagyu beef and we serve it on a house-made steamed bun.

We take a traditional steamed bun and

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basically turn it into a hamburger bun, and it comes with tempura fries. You can add pork belly, an egg or house kimchi to it.

What’s a dish everyone should try?

The pupu platter, just because it has so many different things on it that you can try. There are six different small plates on it with a little hibachi grill in the middle.

It has dumplings, Korean smoked ribs, confit duck wings, blistered shishitos, smoked salmon rangoons and karaage, which is Japanese-style fried chicken.

What is an essential skill to running a restaurant?

You have to have patience with everything, from letting your business grow to changing what your vision might be to what the customer base is responding to.

What is your favorite thing about being on the Seacoast?

I would say the community. It’s a small restaurant community, but there are a lot of great chefs here.

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time of year and cycle of the goats. All their cheeses are aged at least two weeks, and the longer their cheeses are aged, the stronger they taste.

“We always encourage people to taste the cheese before they just purchase something,” Woods said. “So we have to kind of base our recipes according to that — in the spring, summer and fall, you will get three very different cheeses.”

Their cheeses vary in taste, color and consistency. Woods said that the cheese the farm is currently milking for is very creamy and high in butterfat and will be sold in the fall season after being aged for two months. She said that some of the cheeses can age up to four or five months and become a darker caramel color throughout.

At their farm, the Woods family milks the goats using a split six-wide that allows them to milk 12 goats at once. They also have a new milk parlor they’ve been uti-

lizing for the goat milk.

Hickory Nut Farm’s cheeses are the result of their three goat breeds: Toggenburgs, Oberhasils and Nubians. The farm often mixes the different breeds’ milks together to get the “creamy, milky texture our cheeses begin with,” according to Woods. In total they have 82 does, 23 yearling and six bucks.

All of their hard work in Lee allows the family to have fun at the markets selling their products, building relationships with customers and other vendors they’ve gotten to know over the last 15 years they’ve been frequenting farmers markets.

“It’s a really nice social gathering to see them come in groups of friends and family, so it’s nice that way,” Woods said.

“I would say it’s a little community. We kind of know what’s happening with each other, which is nice.”

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Terrene: Hard cheese from unpasteurized goat milk, natural rind from hand-rubbed ash, pressed curd. This cheese has complex flavors that dependent on the hay, mood of the barn, weather, time of season for milking and aging conditions inside the cheese cave.

Accompaniments: Nuts, dried fruits, simple crackers, truffle honey drizzles, thin toasted French bread, wine (robust red), beer (dark, full-bodied) and flavored teas.

Suggested uses: Terrene is first of all a snacking cheese to entice the taste buds before dinner or to satisfy the taste buds as a dessert cheese with firm, crisp fruit.

Use inside hamburgers or sprinkled on omelets to blend flavors.

Chebar: Hard cheese from unpasteurized goat milk, pressed curd and hand-rubbed with sea salt. Accompaniments: Shaved on top of pasta, melted on top of homemade bread and as a topping for sauteed veggies with a drizzle of balsamic cream.

Suggested uses: Pasta and macaroni and cheese; sweet fruits and jellies on crackers and toasted breads; with fresh bruschetta; with fresh herbs on fresh baked bread.

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In 2000, Dorianne Woods’ daughter fell in love with three goats when the family brought them onto their blueberry fields.

The goal was to get the two bucks and one doe to eat the poison ivy away from the blueberries so the fruit could prosper.

Woods learned the hard way that if given the opportunity, goats will eat blueberry leaves rather than poison ivy leaves. That, plus the fact that they were getting noise complaints from their neighbors about the socially clamorous goats, prompted them to move the animals to Dorianne’s mother’s recently purchased farm for retired police horses.

Over time, the goats began breeding and breeding, and the Woods family ended up with a goat farm.

Hickory Nut Farm is based in Lee and is a family operation run by Dorianne, who handles making the fudge; Dorianne’s mother, who makes the cheese; Dorianne’s sister, who makes the soap; and Dorianne’s stepfather, a retired architect who cuts the cheese and assorts it into the wheels. Together, the Woods family produces goat products that they sell at farmers markets across New England.

Dorianne has been visiting the Exeter Farmers Market since 2005 and also goes to the Portsmouth market. Her mother attends markets in Lee, Copley Plaza in Boston, Concord, Andover, York, Cambridge and multiple winter markets through Seacoast Eat Local. The majority of their sales come from markets, although they sell to a handful of restaurants wholesale.

At the markets they sell cheeses, fudges and soaps that vary depending on the

Lacy White: Hard cheese from unpasteurized goat milk; pressed curd with rubbed sea salt to form a natural rind. The cheddary cheese is sweet and nutty and ends with a refreshing tangy bite.

Accompaniments: Figs, dried fruits (apricots) and nuts, mango chutney, wine (a chilled Chablis) and beer (lager). Serve as very thin slivers.

Suggested uses: Thin slices on tomatoes on toast garnished with basil and drops of balsamic vinegar; shavings on Granny Smith apples or cold, hard pears; grated on pot roast, macaroni and cheese and omelets with Vidalia onions; layered with butterflied chicken or diced with breaded haddock; shavings on steamed leafy vegetables with drops of balsamic vinegar

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Summer means sangria Wine plus fruit equals refreshment Sangria emanates from Spain, a country with a wealth of multicultural influences that date back to ancient times. The drink reflects the Spanish cultural diversity and focus on social ritual combining local foods, wine and produce.

Wine was introduced to the Iberian peninsula by the Phoenicians as far back as the eighth century B.C., and the first recording of infusing wine with fruit was by the Romans in about

300 B.C. Legend has it the local village wine was light and lacked flavor — not particularly robust. As this was a region with a diverse culture, different grapes were used to make this infused wine, adding a note of regional influence and flavorful trends.

The name “sangria” appears to have evolved later, as late as the 18th century, well into its history. There are several theories as to its origin, from Sanskrit, meaning sugared

Strawberry Mint Sangria This is a truly summertime sangria.

2 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced ½ cup fresh mint leaves removed from stems, plus sprigs for garnish 1½ oz. brandy 1 tablespoon lemon zest 12 ounces club soda, chilled ½ cup strawberry jelly 750-ml bottle dry white wine, chilled

3 cups ice cubes Combine the fruit in a 2-quart pitcher; pour in the brandy and wine and refrigerate overnight.

When ready to serve, pour in the club soda and gently stir.

Fill glasses with ice and pour in the wine and fruit.

A Stone Fruit Sangria This sangria from southern Spain combines peaches, apricots (fresh or dry) and nectarines.

These flavors are enhanced by cinnamon and lemon peel. This is a sangria good for July but can easily be carried into early fall.

2 peaches, pitted and sliced 4 to 6 apricots pitted and sliced 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 750-ml bottle light red wine, chilled 12 ounces club soda, chilled 2 nectarines, pitted and sliced 2 tablespoons lemon zest 2 ounces apricot brandy 1 to 3 tablespoons Blue Agave (to taste)

3 cups ice cubes Combine the fruit in a 2-quart pitcher; pour in the brandy and wine and refrigerate overnight. When ready to serve, pour in the club soda and gently stir. Fill glasses with ice and pour in the wine and fruit.

A more summery version can be created by substituting a white wine for the red wine.

wine, to the more probable Spanish word for blood, “sangre,” as many sangrias are based on red wine. The Spanish love their sangria. They laud its flexibility, enabling endless ingredient variations depending on the seasonal fruit and the mixologist’s preferences. Traditionally made with light red wine, enriched from hours of soaking up fruit, it can have a bit of citrus juxtaposed with the sweetness of peaches, nectarines, berries, apples, pears. Added to this concoction are spirits, a liquor or brandy to add a little fortification. Lastly a splash of effervescence from sparkling water gives the drink a bubbly “life.”

There are many variations of sangria. One needs only to challenge their imagination to create traditional or pioneering versions of the drink. A bit of advice, however, is in the selection of the wine. Some recipes call for a grenache, because of its “fruit-forward” qualities. Traditional sangria is usually made with a Rioja, a regional Spanish red wine. It is not necessary to stick to tradition. A cabernet sauvignon, merlot or tempranillo make excellent sangrias. Avoid red wines known to be very dry, such as Chianti. One should be careful of the selection of the wine used to make white sangria. A neutral white such as pinot grigio works well. Avoid some whites, such as sauvignon blanc, as they may impart their grapefruit or grassy notes to your creation. But above all, experiment. Also, in lieu of still wines, sangria can be made from cava, or Spanish sparkling wine. These are very affordable and offer a neutral, dry note to your libation.

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Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi (Henry Holt and Co., 272 pages) Have you ever been part of a clique?

Have you ever wondered how your former friends might describe your shared experiences?

A story in three parts, told by three distinct narrators, Trust Exercise is difficult to summarize without spoiling the ending or saying too much.

The book’s title not only stands for the team-building exercises that can be performed by a group, such as trust falls, but also refers to the book itself: Expect to have your trust violated while reading.

Part 1 is the easiest by far to describe.

Told in third-party omniscient, it closely follows the story of 15-year-old Sarah and the members of her class at Citywide Academy for the Performing Arts (or CAPA), a performing arts high school.

This section takes part during the 1980s, and if you’ve never experienced such a thing as a performing arts school, I can assure you that the descriptions and images Choi conjures are accurate, even to the point of evoking nostalgia. Much of theater and acting includes getting deeply in touch with your emotions and learning to accurately call them up when needed, and as such, theater kids can tend to relate to each other on a much deeper level

than their non-theatrical peers. Boundaries are often blurred, hearts are torn open and spilled for all to see, and teachers often take on the role of counselors.

The first section details the highs and lows of such blurred boundaries: the flirtation between classmates Sarah and David that proceeds with exciting intimacy only to crash and burn (and be painfully rehashed, again and again) through classroom exercises; the thrill of the class hosting foreign exchange students from England, allowing them into their school, their homes and in some cases their hearts; and of course, the auditions, the rehearsals and opening night.

You’ll find high drama in this section, and it is well-paced. Although the subject matter may cause you to think you’ve stumbled into a YA novel, Choi’s work is very much literary and aimed at an adult audience. The prose is mostly clever although sometimes a bit cliche, but this is not bothersome enough to distract from the plot. As Sarah’s story unfolds, you

may find yourself relating to her high school experience, or you may simply want to shake her and those around her and force them to communicate. For me, it was a mixture of both.

When the book enters its second section, you’ll find yourself disoriented at first as you struggle to determine who the narrator is and whether or not she relates to Section 1 at all. And here is where the book gets tricky to describe. Forget nearly everything you learned previously, and take in this new voice. This is “Karen,” but is that her real name or not? Be prepared to struggle while you try to match up character descriptions with names and possible pseudonyms. Add to this the fact that Karen frequently changes the point of view in which she speaks, and you’re left on shaky ground. Do you trust Karen? Did you trust the narrator in Section 1?

Section 2 picks up around 15 years after Section 1 left off. You’ll meet Sarah and David again, now adults, as they somewhat awkwardly stage a play with Karen.

The excellent pacing and spark from

Section 1 are long gone in the second section, and you may find yourself scrambling to make sense of what has really happened. Many readers seem to give up on the story by this point, and I too found myself wishing the plot would hurry itself along and come to a conclusion that I hoped I’d be able to wrap my head around. If you can stick through Karen’s sometimes repetitive narration, you’ll be in for a surprising conclusion.

The final section is again disorienting at first but is not that far out of line when you consider what you’ve already learned. Here you’re introduced to a new character, Claire, who I want to assume, based purely on her age and naïveté, is a reliable narrator. The time we spend with her is only brief, but the pace picks up again and, despite the recurring stumbling blocks that are character names, things are wrapped up.

Trust Exercise seems to be hit-or-miss among readers, but I found it to be a refreshing format and a thought-provoking read that challenges your perceptions of the truth. It provided a few twists and turns that I never quite saw coming.

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Expression through abstraction Local artist’s work on display at Hampton Town Hall

At 72 years old, Tim Gilbert’s life has been one full of family, work and responsibility. But after retiring from his 40-year day job of advertising design, Gilbert finally has the time to invest in the passion that’s inspired his entire life: painting.

Gilbert can often be found at his studio at the Art Center in Dover, where for the past two years since his retirement he’s been hard at work honing the craft he loves.

Although Gilbert still helps run Sweet Hannah’s on Hampton Beach with his daughter and son-in-law, which takes up much of his time in the summer, he is mainly able to paint full-time. This focus has awarded him newfound recognition in the world of art, beginning with his exhibit at the Hampton Town Hall.

Gilbert is the July Artist of the Month at the Hampton Town Hall as announced by the Hampton Arts Network, with an exhibit featuring three of Gilbert’s paintings on display.

“For me, Tim’s paintings are visually interesting,” said Julie Martinelli, the secretary of the board of directors for the Hampton Arts Network. “Being abstract, his paintings allow the observer to use imagination and have a unique experience.”

Gilbert’s artwork falls within the bounds of abstract expressionism, an art movement that began in the 1940s and put America on the map as one of the new-school leaders of art. He finds abstract expressionism to be a truly moving experience for both the creator and the viewer.

“It’s exactly that: an expression through

abstraction,” Gilbert said. “It’s shapes and sizes and relationships and color and motion and balance and unbalance. But it’s to create a sensation, a positive sensation when viewed. It’s the viewer who determines if it’s positive or not. And the thing is, I like painting that way because it’s a little spiritual in nature.”

Gilbert first showed a proclivity toward art in boyhood. Surrounded by a family of musicians, Gilbert was encouraged to be creative, and took to art as a means of creative expression. He began painting as he grew older, taking art more seriously once he hit high school. Gilbert would go on to attend Syracuse University and study fine arts, and eventually graduate with a B.F.A. in advertising design and a minor in painting. Gilbert was especially inspired by professor Larry Bakke, the head of the painting department at Syracuse.

“Bakke taught us how to put paint on canvas freely but with a little discipline in terms of our subject matter,” he said. “He was a very powerful teacher and mentor for a lot of people.”

Gilbert took a break during his college career when he found the opportunity to travel. Working his way through Europe, he and two friends jaunted through Sweden, Rome, France and other European hotspots for around nine months. During this excursion, Gilbert took advantage of the opportunity to view some world-class art in foreign cities that had much to offer.

“I always spent a lot of time in art museums — the Louvre, of course,” Gilbert said.

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“I spent two weeks in Paris just because of the Louvre. But I was just traveling, and I was a young guy, I was having a good time, too. … It was a good experience.”

Once Gilbert returned to the States, he started a family while finishing his degree and realized he would have to soon join the workforce to provide for his wife and children. So, despite his love of painting, he pursued advertising design, opting for a career choice that would allow him immediate financial support. Though he still painted throughout his busy adulthood, Gilbert never had the time or the means to take it as seriously as he would’ve liked. That’s all changed since he entered retirement.

“It was difficult, because I didn’t have a studio and it’s tough to work in your cellar and so on and so forth,” Gilbert said. “And I work on a large scale, and I’m messy. …

I’ve only been painting seriously the last year and a half, two years; I’ve dedicated myself to get back into painting. You’ve got to paint every day to be serious.”

With the time to dedicate to his craft, Gilbert has been able to tap into what he calls “the groove”: a period of time where an artist is creating stunning pieces that are the result of painting almost every day for months on end.

“Most canvases, you hate them,” he said.

“It’s only a few that just pop and make you go, ‘Wow, where’d that come from?’ You’re always pushing a style, another style; it’s an evolution, it really is. You don’t just sit down and say, ‘I’m going to paint something.’ It flows through you.”

Of Gilbert’s three paintings on display at Hampton Town Hall, only one was created while he was in his “groove.” Yet he says the other two are solid canvases and strong examples of his style and artistic zeal.

Gilbert believes the opportunity to display his work is just another chance for exposure and to continue doing the thing that he loves.

“When someone loves one of my pieces, it’s one of the most rewarding things in the world,” he said. “My oldest daughter just admitted on Facebook that she stole three of them when she left the house as an adult.

She didn’t steal them, I knew she had them, they’re hers, but she just loves them. That’s what you really appreciate — it’s not money or anything like that.”

Gilbert’s work will be on display at the Hampton Town Hall until Aug. 2 where the public can visit and view the canvases during regular business hours. Visit theartcenterdover.com for more information on Gilbert’s art.

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“We didn’t know at the time that we were about three years too late for that,” Edwards said in a recent phone interview; the scene had peaked. “But we stayed here anyway.”

Their first show after a long drive from the Midwest was on the Harvard Green — a humbling experience, Edwards said.

“We found a place to park right in front of the stage, and there was Earth Opera playing,” a seminal Boston band including David Grisman and Peter Rowan.

“We had never seen nor heard anything like that in our little parochial life in Ohio. … It was like, ‘Uh-oh, we’re in some high, deep cotton here, boys.’”

Sugar Creek did make one album, 1969’s Please Tell a Friend. Other than that, though, the band gained little traction, and Edwards went solo in the early 1970s.

“I liked the sound of bronze strings on rosewood better than steel strings on magnets,” was how he explained the decision in one interview.

It’s that spirit Edwards is bringing to his shows of late. All are solo, apart from longtime piano player Tom Snow joining him on his birthday July 28 in Ogunquit — “he’s giving me himself,” Edwards said with a laugh.

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out,” he said. “The first night I walked out on stage, I wasn’t 20 feet from the microphone and somebody yelled out, ‘You suck!’ I figured I had no place to go but up from that point.”

That he did — his first record spawned the monster hit “Sunshine” and found him opening for the Allman Brothers, B.B. King and other greats. Edwards has made 15 albums since, including the buoyant Honky Tonk Stardust Cowboy and four other ’70s LPs, a bluegrass collaboration with Seldom Scene, and a children’s collection called Little Hands.

His most recent is Tomorrow’s Child, which came a relatively short time after his first studio collection in over a dozen years, 2011’s My Love Will Keep. What sparked the creative burst?

“I had taken some time off to be on the road and enjoy that aspect of creativity, but the stars all fell together,” Edwards said, crediting songwriter and producer Darrell Scott for inspiration. “We got together and he made this amazing dinner; we started talking songs and playing guitars and pretty soon we had an album’s worth of tunes right there on the table.”

Many were deeply personal songs, touching on Edwards’ experience as an adopted child and his public revelation that in the mid-1960s he’d given up a child for adoption.

“They all fell into this category of family and love and reunion … all these things that I was going through pretty hard at the time,” he said. “It all fell together really magically and that’s what you’re left with on the sound of that record.”

Few interviews with Edwards fail to touch upon his biggest hit. “‘Sunshine’ was a perfect song for the Vietnam era and what my generation was going through,” he said when the subject came up.

“It’s still clinging to it today, and I’m

Jonathan Edwards. Courtesy photo.

proud of that. I’m glad that my one-hit song in the world wasn’t ‘Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I Got Love in My Tummy.’”

Were it not for a producer accidentally erasing a song called “Please Find Me” (seriously), “Sunshine” wouldn’t have been on the record at all, causing all manner of cosmic dominoes not to fall.

“It probably would have come out on another album, had I had a chance to do

another album,” Edwards said, adding that if a first record stiffs that’s no guarantee they’ll be a second. “These are the hands of fate that come in and mix up the pot and point you in a direction that you have no control over. … You have to be aware of those course corrections and take advantage of those moments, because they’re important.”

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• Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): How much scope would a horoscope scope if a horoscope could scope scope?

• Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Everything is in order for you to take charge. Or, in a pinch, you could take cash.

• Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are destined to become your boss’s righthand man. Unfortunately, your boss is left-handed.

• Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Alas, you will have to get through yet another day without being hounded by paparazzi or autograph-seekers.

• Aries (March 21-April 19): Don’t get ahead of yourself, especially if you just passed a sign that says Bridge Out. • Taurus (April 20-May 20): Your greatest achievements are yet to come, which isn’t surprising, given what you’ve accomplished so far.

• Gemini (May 21-June 20): There’s poetry in your horoscope. There’s a reason why “love” rhymes with “none of the above.”

• Cancer (June 21-July 22): According to the alignment of the planets, your time has come, but your subscription to Newsweek ended three weeks ago.

• Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The more you want things, the less likely you are to get them. So I really don’t want that money you loaned to me. Really, I don’t.

• Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are part of the unbroken chain of humanity, which explains why you eat only at chain restaurants.

• Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take a few minutes from your busy schedule to ponder life’s mysteries. OK, that’s enough.

• Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you ever had one of those moments when everything just seemed so great you wanted to shout for joy? Me neither.

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Clay County (Missouri) Sheriff’s officers didn’t have to put their tracking skills to much use as they searched for a fugitive in early July near Liberty, Missouri, according to Fox2. The unnamed man, who was wanted for possession of a controlled substance, gave himself away by loudly passing gas in his hiding spot. Deputies noted on Facebook: “If you’ve got a felony warrant for your arrest, the cops are looking for you and you pass gas so loud it gives up your hiding spot, you’re definitely having a (poop emoji) day.”

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In Shawnee, Oklahoma, Brandon Killian, 29, was already in trouble for brutally beating Jarric Carolina in a June brawl. But as he sat in custody, he told an officer that his face was injured from being “first socked” during the fight. When the officer left the room to get a camera, Killian, who was being recorded, punched himself multiple times in the face (strangely using one hand to propel the other fist into his cheek). Now his charges include preparing false evidence, KFOR reported. “Lying to the police and creating a false report will not be tolerated,” warned District Attorney Allan Grubb. Killian is currently serving time in the Oklahoma County Jail for a separate drug court violation.

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A kindly grandfather, who just wanted to treat nurses at Warrington Hospital in Cheshire, England, for the good care given to a relative, unwittingly gave them a red velvet cake laced with cannabis on May 27.

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Cheshire police destroyed what remained of the cake after the incident.

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Car rental companies in Japan began noticing last summer that some customers were putting very few miles on their vehicles, so they conducted surveys to find out what renters are using the cars for, reported The Asahi Shimbun, and discovered that one in eight renters were using cars for something besides transportation, to wit: napping (most popular activity), talking on the phone, eating lunch, watching TV, putting on Halloween costumes and doing stretches said to reduce the size of their face. One respondent said she uses rented cars to store bags and other belongings because coin-operated lockers are sometimes all in use. Renting is cheap in Japan, costing only a few hundred yen (several dollars).

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leg and he was shot by the hunter.” Police responding to the shooting said someone hired to kill iguanas in the neighborhood shot the pool boy instead. “If neighbors are gonna be like the Wild West and shoot at everything, someone is gonna get killed,” Bryan said. It was unclear whether the shooter was caught or charged.

• Michael Tam, 40, of Tower, Minnesota, is in fair condition after a freak accident on July 6. Tam was attempting to move a 12-by-16-foot wooden cabin at Daisy Bay Resort “when the structure fell off the jacks, trapping him underneath,” St. Louis County Sheriff’s officials said. According to City Pages, a building of this size may weigh Blast from the past about 6,500 pounds. Tam was taken to a A plumber renovating the former Centralia Duluth hospital; no details were reported High School in Centralia, Illinois, unearthed about his condition. a 75-year-old trove of memories in late June.

Inside a bathroom wall heat vent, he discovered 15 women’s wallets, all from students at the school in the mid-1940s. The cash was missing, but photographs, IDs and other materials were still in the billfolds. “War is ending,” said Seth Baltzell, pastor of the City Hope Church, which is converting the building. “So there are lots of things like pictures of soldiers.” Baltzell posted pictures of the wallets on Facebook, and relatives of 89-year-old Betty June Sissom of Chesterfield, Missouri, saw them. “I remember I lost my wallet,” Sissom told KSDK. “Oh my goodness, look at the boy’s pictures I have ... They took all the money, huh?” Sorry, Betty.

Ted Richards of Bristol, England, isn’t your run-of-the-mill bird lover. He admires parrots so much that he has had his face tattooed with feathers and his eyes colored with tattoo ink, risking blindness. HuffPost reported that Richards, who goes by Ted Parrotman, also had his ears removed, which has impaired his hearing. “Parrots only got little holes anyways, so I had them cut off,” he said. “I didn’t think about the complications, you know? Because if you looked at the negative all the time, you’d never do anything.”

Well said, Parrotman.

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In late May, an inmate at Buena Vista Correctional Facility in Buena Vista, Colorado, tipped off officials that an employee there was bringing drugs into the prison.

On July 2, the Department of Corrections nabbed their man: Trevor Martineau, 27 -a corrections officer. According to KDVR, officials found a burrito with a plastic bag sticking out of the end in Martineau’s lunch box. The bag contained “roughly 91 grams of meth, 26 grams of heroin and 46 strips of suboxone,” along with other items. Martineau reportedly said he was paid $1,000 to pick up the drugs, and officials located $960 at his home. Martineau was charged with first-degree introduction of contraband and three charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance. He also lost his job.

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On the afternoon of July 7, Timothy Smith, 24, and his fiancee returned to their new home in Gresham, Oregon, to find things not quite right. They noted items out of place, others that didn’t belong to them, a mirror ripped out of a bathroom and holes kicked in bedroom walls. Then they found a cat (wearing a green cashmere shirt belonging to Smith’s chihuahua) hiding in a crawl space, The Oregonian reported, and called police. Fifteen minutes later, officers emerged from the house with Ryan Bishop, 38, wearing the woman’s Christmas onesie. Smith told reporters the man had broken into the home and settled right in, eating a cupcake, making coffee, smoking Smith’s weed, playing video games and collecting a clean, warm onesie out of the dryer. Bishop was charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief and third-degree theft. Smith is seeking a home for the cat. His fiancee declined the return of her onesie.

Oops!

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