Ocean Views – Seacoast Scene – 08/05/21

MOVIES COLIN HAY IN ON THE SALISBURY BEACH P. 6 P. 16 AUGUST 5 – 11, 2021

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Hop on a boat for island tours and wildlife sightings

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A WORD FROM LARRY

Eating at The Old Salt As we continue north on my personal eating tour, my next stop is at The Old Salt Restaurant located at 490 Lafayette Road in Hampton, owned and operated by the Higgins family. I have to admit that Larry Marsolais this is my favorite place to eat and have been doing it for 20 years. Much to choose from on the menu but seafood is their specialty. My favorite is fried haddock and I highly recommend it. No matter what you get, you will not leave hungry!

This is a family friendly restaurant and has indoor and outdoor seating with a cozy atmosphere. What The Old Salt has to offer for outdoor dining is just amazing. This is not your average tent. First, there is a lighted chandelier hanging from the center. There

are three small shacks around the tent; one is an outdoor bar area, a waitress station where you are greeted and one for entertainment.

The outside décor is highlighted with many vintage items and just makes you feel really comfortable. Many small rock sculptures outline one side of the tent and on the street side there is a very large one. I call them rock art and you have to see them for yourself.

The owners have gone above and beyond to make your visit the best it could possibly be while you are enjoying your meal. This is a Hampton landmark and is only less than 10 minutes from the beach. We are very lucky to have a place like this in our community and appreciate everything that The Old Salt does and gives back.

Larry Marsolais is the past president of the Hampton Rotary Club.

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Experience the ocean, from its islands to and unlike many scenic cruises, Uncle Oscar docks mid-tour to let passengers off its wildlife, from the comfort of a boat. to explore Star Island. “[It’s] a great walking island,” Reynolds Scenic cruises From harbor seals to cormorants, there’s said. “It’s only 46 acres so you can explore a good chance you’ll see wildlife in the pretty much the entire island when you’re water and along the shores when you take on it.”

He said there’s an old stone chapel from a scenic cruise —‌and the views along the the 1800s, replica stone buildings that recway are pretty photo-worthy too.

“Normally we go straight out to White reate the fishing village that used to be on Island to see the lighthouse,” said Pete the island, short hiking trails and plenty of Reynolds of Granite State Whale Watch scenic views of the Atlantic. and Island Cruises in Rye, which offers tours of the Isles of Shoals on Uncle Oscar, Whale watches Reynolds, who started working at Grana 62-foot-long single-deck boat. “All the ite State Whale Watch when he was 14, islands are scenic in their own right.”

During the 5½-mile trip from Rye Harbor came back shortly after college and bought to the Isles, they often see marine porpoises the business in 2006. Then his mom started and the occasional whale, though Reynolds the scenic tours on Uncle Oscar, and now Reynolds does a little bit of everything, said those are fairly rare.

“Pretty frequently around the island spending two days a week captaining the we’ll see both harbor seals and grey seals,” island boat and two days a week captaining the whale watches.

Reynolds said.

“They both kind of have a different fla“We see cormorants … and a tern colony ... that’s always a favorite of bird watchers.” vor,” he said of the experiences. “I started The ocean tours are narrated, with the on the whale watch, so that’s kind of my captain sharing the history of the islands, first love.”

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Reynolds did say that as a captain, the scenic cruises are a little less pressure.

“It’s a lot easier to find the islands on any given day than to find the whales,” he joked.

Even so, it’s rare that he can’t find at least one whale on these excursions, but it depends on the season.

“Right now we’re having a really good season,” he said. “The whales have been plentiful, they’ve been very active and they’ve been close.”

So far this season they’ve had 100 percent sightings; in fact, in 30 years, there have only been a couple of times that they’ve gone out and not seen a whale, and it’s usually weather-related, especially if it’s foggy.

“We could be within 300 feet of a whale and not see it,” he said.

An average trip could see anywhere from a couple to 10 whales, but if there aren’t any sightings, passengers can come back for another whale watch for free.

Reynolds said the whales up here in the Atlantic are mainly humpback, with fewer fin whales in the last few years. They see

the occasional Atlantic white-sided dolphin too, but the humpbacks tend to be the favorite. Being so familiar with this particular 3 to 5 square miles of ocean, Reynolds said he knows a lot of the whales that come back each year. He said humpbacks have unique marks on tails, and their dorsal fins are all a little different. Researchers will name new whales once they’ve seen them for two years.

“My favorite whale is a whale named Owl,” Reynolds said, noting that Owl got hit by a ship and has a scar that has healed over. “She’s a trooper.”

He said Owl was born in 1986 and comes back every year, usually for a couple weeks.

“I wait for that day every year,” Reynolds said. “She’s brought a bunch of calves.”

The average whale watch is about four hours, but Reynolds said to plan for five just in case they have to go out a little bit farther.

There are several ocean cruises available based in Portsmouth, including the Gundalow Co. (433-9505, gundalow.org), the Isles of Shoals Steamship Co. (islesofshoals.com, 800-441-4620) and Portsmouth Harbor Cruises (portsmouthharbor.com, 800-776-0915).

Whale watching is also available with Al Gauron Deep Sea Fishing and Whale Watching, 1 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, algauron.com.

Granite State Whale Watch and Island Cruises 1870 Ocean Blvd., Rye, 964-5545, granitestatewhalewatch.com The boat leaves twice a day, at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and ocean tours are about three hours long, including the boat ride and a stop at Star Island for an optional walking tour and time to explore. Tours are offered until about mid-September. The cost is $35 for adults, $32 for ages 60+, $26 for ages 4-16, and free for kids under 4.

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There are still four weeks left for Movie Night Mondays on the Beach at Hampton.

“Five hundred to 600 people come on a big night,” said Lisa Martineau, co-director of marketing for the Hampton Beach Village District. “We have had to get a bigger screen because it’s gotten so big.”

The movie nights even took place last summer when many other things weren’t happening.

“It was one of the events that we were able to hold because we could keep people socially distanced,” she said. “Movie nights were the event that people looked forward to last summer, especially since there were no fireworks. It was nice to have something for people to do during Covid.”

When you come for movie night, Martineau said, you should bring your own blanket and chairs, and show up early to get a good seat.

“We get almost as much attention for movie night as we do for fireworks,” she noted. “It has become such a popular thing to do.”

Monday Night Movies have taken place at Hampton for about 10 years.

“We were one of the first places to do an outdoor movie night,” said Martineau.

“Doing it on the beach is so special, because it’s underneath the stars, waves crashing behind you, and it’s under the moonlight. It is a special environment.”

That environment draws people of all ages, she said, from grandparents to young kids. For the older generation, they may bring back some memories.

“They remind me of going to the drive-in theater as a kid,” said Martineau. “It is that same feeling of nostalgia, and it becomes a part of your story and history.”

Movie nights take place next to the playground at Hampton Beach, which is another draw for families.

“It was painted recently, and it looks fresh,” she said. “It’s great for younger kids

who won’t sit still through the movie, and it is lit up at night.”

The beach itself, she added, is a big draw for movie nights, as many of the people who attend them are in town for a while and staying in nearby lodging.

“They love to come out and enjoy the movie and walk back to their cottages by the beach,” said Martineau.

In addition to the movie, other features of movie nights include a DVD giveaway of that evening’s movie. Movie Night Mondays on the Beach are sponsored by JB’s Seafood and Boardwalk Inn and Cafe.

“At JB’s Seafood, kids eat for free on movie night and they are given a bucket of popcorn to take with them to eat while watching the movie,” she added.

According to Martineau, Movie Night Mondays on the Beach underscore the popularity of Hampton Beach itself.

“We try to create memories with our events,” she said. “Those memories mean so much. Hampton is a lot of people’s happy place and special place. We’re trying to make that experience more enjoyable and to bring families together … and so many events are free.”

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Inadequate rebuild is more than a seating issue Dear Car Talk: I recently had my old, 327 Chevrolet engine completely rebuilt. The motor has around 700 miles on it since the rebuild and is burning almost a quart of

By Ray Magliozzi oil every 150 miles. My mechanic says not to worry and that the rings just need to seat. I would like to hear your thoughts. Should I be concerned? — Edward Yes. But not as concerned as your mechanic should be. If you were burning a quart of oil every 750 miles, I might be inclined to believe that the rings still might seat correctly.

But you’re burning oil at five times that rate.

So your rings are going to have to do more than seat. They’re going to have sit on a golden throne.

By the way, “seating” means that the piston rings that go up and down inside the cylinders “conform” to the exact shape of their cylinder walls. When rings are properly seated and perfectly matched up with their cylinder walls, very little oil gets by them and burns up. Conversely, rings that don’t seat properly, or are worn out, let lots of oil past them and result in you burning lots of oil and getting calls from local officials who want to use your vehicle for

mosquito control.

Unfortunately, I fear that your rebuild was done inadequately. Your mechanic is, understandably, doing everything he can to avoid having to redo it. It’s time-consuming and expensive. But I think that’s where you’re heading. You might as well humor him for now. Tell him you’ll drive it for another 500 miles and see what happens. But if the oil burning doesn’t drop precipitously by then, he’s going to have to try again. When you rebuild an engine, you usually have two choices. You can either just hone (rough up) the insides of the cylinder walls and replace the rings. Or you can bore out (increase the size of) the cylinders and then put in new, oversized pistons with new rings. That’s probably what he should have done, even though it costs more.

Whatever went wrong, burning a quart of oil every 150 miles after a rebuild is totally unacceptable. If I had an engine rebuilt, and it burned more than a quart every 1,000 miles, I’d be ticked.

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2006 Ford Fusion that is working well, except for a periodic starting issue. Every now and then, when I turn the key, I hear a metallic “ping” without the usual slow crank-

ing sound I associate with a dying battery.

When I get the ping, the engine doesn’t crank or start. If I turn the key to the off position, and then try to start it again, it will fire up without a problem. I’ve had a mechanic spend a couple of hours trying to duplicate the problem, and he could not. Any ideas? — Charles That’s all that’s wrong with it after 15 years?

Are you sure? If you’re lucky, what you’ve got is a bad starter. Normally, a starter that’s failing will make a clicking sound. That’s obviously not what you’re hearing.

But if the starter’s pinion drive — a small gear that pops out of the starter to mesh with the larger flywheel — is sticking and not popping out all the way, you can get a quick, metallic “brrrrring” or “zzzhhhiiing” sound. If you’re lucky, that’s the “ping” you’re hearing.

The reason I say “if you’re lucky” is because the alternative is a lot more expensive.

If you’re not lucky, there’s a worn or broken tooth on your flywheel. And replacing a flywheel is a big, expensive job. If your flywheel is damaged, some of the time, when that pinion gear pops out of the starter, it’ll try to mesh with a missing or worn-down flywheel tooth.

And failing to engage with a gear, it’ll spin and make that metallic “zhhhiiiiiing” sound.

Here’s what I’d suggest: Have your mechanic remove your starter. Once the starter is off,

he’ll be able to see part of the flywheel. He can then manually turn the flywheel 360 degrees and look for a bad tooth.

If he’s smart, he’ll mark the flywheel with a piece of chalk before he starts to turn it. If he’s not smart, and he’s still turning the flywheel a couple of hours later, you can tap him on the shoulder and suggest the chalk idea. If he doesn’t see any flywheel damage, that’s great. Then, have him put in a new starter and, chances are, your problem is solved. If he does see one or more bad teeth, tell him to put in a new starter anyway. Since you’ve already paid for the labor to remove the starter, it’d be silly to put a 15-year-old starter back on there.

And then keep driving it. I wouldn’t recommend replacing the flywheel at this point.

Since this problem occurs rarely, and the car always starts on the next try, it doesn’t sound like you’re in imminent danger of being stranded.

It’ll likely get worse over time, but it may deteriorate very slowly. You could be fine for a couple of years.

And, if no other major parts of the car fail first, it gets to the point where you do get stranded someday, call AAA, get the car started and then drive right to your mechanic. Or the trade-in lot. Good luck.

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Following a motorcycle accident in Canada in July 2016, Chef Ben St. Jeanne of Hampton was told he would never work in the kitchen again. But after multiple hospitalizations and surgeries, culminating with the amputation of his right leg in August 2019, St. Jeanne was able to make a full return to work . Up until last year, he had been the chef at the former Mombo Restaurant in Portsmouth. After that eatery closed in the spring of 2020, St. Jeanne and his wife, Molly McCoy (St. Jeanne), began laying out plans for their newest venture. The Big Bad Food Truck (bigbadfoodtruck.com, and on Facebook and Instagram @bigbadfoodtruck), which launched earlier this year, features an always-changing menu of scratch-made barbecue comfort food items, from smoked meats like beef brisket and pork shoulder to vegan alternatives like jackfruit, also prepared with its own house spice blends. The truck’s name is a play on the “big bad wolf,” and its logo is inspired by St. Jeanne and McCoy’s two pomskies, Scotch and Whiskey. The couple lives in Hampton but has traveled to communities across coastal New Hampshire and Maine. The truck’s weekly schedule is regularly posted to its Facebook page and website. The Scene recently caught up with St. Jeanne to talk about his journey fulfilling a longtime dream to launch a food truck, as well as some of his must-try menu picks.

How long has The Big Bad Food Truck been around?

We started working on it in February of this year. … Our first event was May 15, and then we also did the [Smuttynose] Beach & Brew [Festival] at the end of June in Hampton. We’ve both wanted to have a food truck for a very long time, so it’s been a really fun experience for us.

and barbecue sauce. … We also do a really slow roasted jackfruit that has the texture of a pulled pork, and that comes on a vegan barbecue sauce.

What celebrity would you like to see ordering from your food truck?

Alton Brown [of Food Network]. I have watched every episode of Good Eats since the beginning. The guy is my idol.

What makes it unique?

We definitely strive to have the freshest What is an essential skill to running a food ingredients possible. We make everything from truck? scratch, and we pour a lot of time into it just tryI think it comes down to ... keeping the proing to go for the highest quality we can. cess streamlined and making sure you have everything lined up. The other thing is patience What is your personal favorite on your and … being ready in case things go wrong. menu?

We do a 13-hour smoked brisket that is What is your favorite thing about being on absolutely exceptional, and we make our own the Seacoast? barbecue sauce for our sandwich that goes on The community, and just everybody coming toasted buttered bread. It’s incredible, especially together for the greater good. There is no betif you’re really hungry. We also have a fryer in ter example for us than our accident. … The our trailer, so we can do hand-cut seasoned fries. town of Hampton collectively raised thousands of dollars to bring us home from Canada to What is something that everyone should try? Brigham and Women’s Hospital ... and some of We do our own take on a grilled cheese called these were [people] we had met once or never The Meltdown, which has our smoked bacon met. The people here have just been incredible. with Gouda, provolone and cheddar cheese, —‌ Matt Ingersoll

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TRY THIS AT HOME Fresh peach scones The second half of summer heralds a rush of locally grown produce. For a cook, it’s an exciting time of year. With so many freshly picked fruits and veggies available, it can be difficult to decide what to cook or bake next.

For the next two weeks peaches are the focus in my kitchen. Although this fruit is absolutely perfect when eaten on its own, it’s also fun to find new ways to serve it, such as these scones. For this recipe you want peaches that are perfectly ripe —‌ nicely sweet but not too soft. The softer the peaches are, the more liquid that adds to your scone. If it happens that your peaches are a bit on the softer side, you can add a little more flour to make the dough less sticky.

These scones are topped with a simple vanilla glaze. If you would rather not add the glaze, I would suggest sprinkling a tablespoon or two of granulated sugar on the scones right before baking. Either way you’ll have a nicely sweet scone full of freshly picked peaches.

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Fresh peach scones

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2 cups all-purpose flour 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 5 Tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, diced 1 cup diced peach* 3/4 cup buttermilk** 1 large egg yolk 2 teaspoons vanilla divided 1 cup powdered sugar 1 Tablespoon milk Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Mix flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.

Add butter.

Combine butter with dry ingredients using a pastry blender, two forks, or your fingers until the butter is reduced to the size of grains of rice.

Add diced peach to flour mixture, tossing gently.

Whisk buttermilk, egg yolk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in a 2-cup liquid measuring cup or small bowl.

Add liquids to dry ingredients; mix until dough forms a ball.

Place dough on a lightly floured surface and press into an 8-inch round.

Cut into 8 wedges.

Transfer wedges to a parchment paperlined, rimmed cookie sheet.

Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the scones are crusty on top and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

While cooling, combine powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 tablespoon milk.

Top each scone with vanilla glaze.

Notes *I prefer to keep the skin on the peaches in this recipe. You can peel them if you prefer. **In place of buttermilk, you can pour 1 tablespoon lemon juice into a measuring cup and fill with milk to equal 3/4 cup.

Allow to sit for 2 minutes before adding it to the recipe.

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I deeply distrust economics.

Yes, I acknowledge that economics provides some convenient answers, but I don’t really trust it. It’s like the character in a movie — always shot with shadowy lighting — who supplies the hero with important information. Everything seems on the upand-up, but something about the whole exchange makes you realize that she really isn’t on the hero’s side. When things fall apart badly in the third act, you nod your head and tell your eye-rolling date, “Yup, thought so.”

Economics pretends to explain a great deal about human nature, but once you make peace with the concept that money is imaginary and economics is arbitrary, everything sort of falls apart.

“Why is such-and-such worth so much money?”

Because that’s what people agree it’s worth.

“Janitors and farm workers do work way more important than CEOs; why don’t we pay them more?”

Because we don’t want to.

Totally. Arbitrary.

And yet — OK, have you ever made an impulsive purchase or invested a lot of time and money in something that ultimately hasn’t worked out? Hobby supplies or a disappointing vacation or a boyfriend — that you kept around or stuck with long after they ceased to be rewarding?

You or I might call that Poor Judgment, but economists have a name for it (because of course they do): the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

The idea is that we don’t want to “waste” all the money and heartache that we’ve put into something unproductive, which makes sense on an emotional level but isn’t actually terribly logical. That money and effort are gone, no matter how you feel about it. Investing more time in Bradley or shelf space on scrapbooking materials doesn’t make much sense if they aren’t going to fulfill you.

Which brings us to triple sec.

It is a sweet, low-octane, vaguely citrusy liquor that 99 percent of us have around because of that time we were going to make a pitcher of margaritas, but we forgot to buy limes, and then we had a series of hard weeks at work and ended up drinking all the tequila one slug at a time, directly from the bottle, in lieu of sending ill-advised texts.

Anyway, an economist would tell us to throw away the triple sec; it’s just taking up shelf space. Marie Kondo would ask you if

The Firecracker. Photo by John Fladd.

it was bringing you joy, which — let’s face it — it isn’t at the moment. It’s really hard to envision a scenario where you are lying on a polar bear rug in front of a fire and purring, “Hey baby, let’s drink some triple sec.”

Let’s give Marie — and the polar bear — a break, and stare the economist in the eye and let him know that yes, in point of fact, we are using that triple sec.

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3 1-inch cubes (~45 grams) of fresh watermelon 1½ ounces golden rum 1 ounce triple sec ½ ounce fresh squeezed lime juice ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper Muddle the watermelon thoroughly in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. It will surprise you how easily it dissolves, like it’s been waiting for an excuse to completely fall apart. Better it than you.

Add ice and the other ingredients. Shake until very cold.

Strain into a coupé glass.

Drink several of these while watching Wall Street Week in Review and shouting “You don’t know me!” at the TV. Surprisingly, it is the watermelon that takes a back seat in this cocktail, providing color and a vague fruitiness. The rum is great — rum is everybody’s friend — but is there mostly to bridge the different varieties of sweetness. The stars of the drink are — again, unexpectedly — the triple sec and cayenne. Citrusy sweetness and in-your-face spiciness don’t seem like they would work together, but they do. That’s yet another mystery that economics can’t solve.

John Fladd is a veteran writer and cocktail enthusiast living in New Hampshire.

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That moment was the catalyst for Hay’s forthcoming album, I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself. It’s a collection of songs that resonated with him over the years, growing up in Scotland, emigrating to Australia as a teenager —‌where he eventually found fame with Men At Work —‌and, finally, moving to Los Angeles in the late 1980s.

Marsden’s personal story had additional resonance, Hay said in a recent phone interview.

“They were the second most successful band in Liverpool,” he said. “You had The Beatles, which was the whole world that was opening up, mystical, really otherworldly, while Gerry and the Pacemakers were the band you could always see at the local dance hall.”

That city’s gold medalists appear twice on the new album, as Hay covers “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” and “Across the Universe.” Both were written by John Lennon, though that doesn’t denote preference.

“I don’t really have a favorite Beatle, I can honestly say,” he said. “It was a perfect union … three songwriters and Ringo.”

Hay has toured with Starr’s All Starr Band four times, and was set for a fifth run last year before the pandemic pushed it out one, then two years.

The inclusion of the Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset” reflects a poignant moment for Hay. “That one was playing when we left the docks in Southampton on the ship to Australia; it was coming through the sound system,” he said. “I always remember it playing at my mother and father’s shop and being moved by the beauty, the wistfulness. It’s painfully exquisite.”

Hay chose the Faces’ “Ooh La La” at the behest of producer Chad Fischer, with an extra push from his better half.

“I said, ‘Rod didn’t sing that’ and he said, ‘Yeah, but it’ll really suit your voice,’ then he said, ‘Brooke wants you to do it as well.’ It’s one thing for your producer to suggest something, it’s quite another when your producer’s wife suggests it. Then you’re more likely to do it.”

The album’s most recent song, from fellow Scottish countrymen Del Amitri, was

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one Hay listened to returning from gigs at Lago, an L.A. club he found during the years after Men at Work split and he went solo.

“It’s about 45 minutes from where I lived, and on my way home I would put on that album Twisted, and as I was coming up the S curves the last song, ‘Driving With the Brakes On,’ would come on. It never failed to slay me,” Hay said.

He’d thought about recording it before, but set it aside until the idea for I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself struck him.

“I decided to do some songs that inform me or inspired me in different times of my life. When I came to L.A. it was a little daunting to basically start again,” he said.

The Del Amitri song “was quite momentous in a personal way.”

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“It’s full of Cubans and Guatemalans and Peruvians and myself, basically a bunch of immigrants,” he said of the group. “I’m playing five songs from the new record, and I’ll play some old Men at Work songs, and solo stuff, and then I’ll play a few that are new. It will be a long set —‌just so you know if you’re coming.”

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