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A WORD FROM LARRY

Help Pease Greeters help the troops

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There is a group of volunteers at the Pease Airport in Portsmouth called Pease Greeters. One of the many things that they do is put together Pease Care Packages for the troops.

Larry Marsolais When a plane of troops lands at Pease, every person on that plane receives a care package from a Pease greeter.

Right now there is an urgent need for items for those packages. Please go to page 8 in this week’s issue and you can see the list of what is needed — things like basic toiletry items, food, fun stuff and things

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that cannot be sent overseas. You probably have some of these laying around your house right now. I went to the dollar store and for $5 filled up a bag.

Sandy, the owner of 3 Sisters Consignment Boutique (845 Lafayette Road, Hampton), has offered her store as a dropoff location.

Here is a great chance to help out the Pease Greeters and do something nice for our troops. Put together a small or large bag and drop it off, and tell her you read about it in the Scene. For questions about donations you can call her at 603-967-4833.

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

Larry Marsolais is the general manager of the Seacoast Scene and the former president of the Hampton Rotary Club.

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COMMUNITY

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COVER STORY

9 Find your best breakfast

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18 Beaches, restrooms, where to walk your dog and more

PEOPLE & PLACES

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September 22 - 28, 2016

More than 150 fairy houses will be on display during the annual Friends of the South End Fairy House Tour in Portsmouth on Saturday, Sept. 24, and Sunday, Sept. 25. For more on this and other community happenings, see p. 7.

Check out the Somersworth Indonesian Fair Saturday, Sept. 24, for a taste of Indonesian culture.

See the story on p. 20.

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The Furniture Masters’ Distinctive Exhibit is on view through Sept. 25 at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, with an auction and dinner with the masters on Sept. 25.

Read about it on p. 32.

Meet Kensington author Jacquelyn Benson, who will discuss her debut novel, The Smoke Hunter, at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, Wednesday, Sept. 28, and Lane Memorial Library in Hampton, Tuesday, Oct. 18.

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Put on your dancing shoes and best 1920s-inspired attire for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Great Big Bash on Friday, Sept. 23, where F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby will come to life.

Guests can immerse themselves in the roaring ’20s theme by wearing flapper dresses and fedoras during the event, which will be held from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Rivermill at Dover Landing at 2 Washington St. in Dover, N.H. There will be a live band and 14 local restaurants donating appetizers, dinner items and desserts. For the seafood-lovers there will also be a raw oyster bar.

Beer, wine and of course The Great Gatsby-inspired cocktails are included with the price of the tickets.

“Once the guests arrive and have the appetizers and so forth, they will get to preview our silent auction items and they will also receive a program with our live auction items,” Development Director Nicole McShane said. “We have a really great variety of different items.”

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sive to the guests who partake in The Great Big Bash. However, the live auction is accessible to anyone and can be

joined by the touch of a smart phone or home computer.

“Of course we want everyone to attend and enjoy the festivities, but if they’re not able to, people can virtually attend the auction and bid on items from wherever they are,” McShane said. “It’s all done by your mobile phone or computer.”

All of the proceeds from the event and both auctions go to the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation, whose mission is to provide positive role models to kids and teenagers in the area.

Offering one-on-one mentoring, the foundation has proven to be beneficial in inspiring the “littles” to reach for higher education and fostering better relationships between them and their parents and peers. “[The foundation] is just really great because with children having that role model. It really does change their lives,” McShane said.

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Hampton Rec and at least a dozen other organizations will host a free volunteer fair and ice cream social on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on the lawn of Hampton Academy (29 Academy Ave., Hampton, N.H.). This event is for people who want to learn more about local volunteer opportunities while enjoying ice cream in a casual environment. If it’s raining, the event will be held in the Hampton Academy school cafeteria. Call 603-926-3932 to find out more information.

More than 150 fairy houses built by creative professionals, community members and students will be on display on the grounds of the Strawbery Banke Museum (14 Hancock St.), at the Gov. John Langdon House (143 Pleasant St.), and in Prescott Park (105 Marcy St.) for the 12th annual Friends of the South End Fairy House Tour in Portsmouth on Saturday, Sept. 24, and Sunday, Sept. 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors will also have the chance to see excerpts from “Fairy Houses: The Ballet,” performed both days on the Prescott Park Arts Festival stage, and see performances by the New Hampshire Theatre Project in the Langdon grove.

Families are invited to build their own fairy house on Peirce Island.

Admission to the tour is $25 per family, $12 per adult, $8 per senior, and $4 per child ages 3 to 12. Call 686-4338.

The Seacoast Science Center’s (570 Ocean Blvd., Rye, N.H.) Bio Blitz will take place on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 6 a.m to 5 p.m. Kids of all ages can take part in the search for different types of animals and species living within Odiorne Point State Park. Kids, friends and family can stay the whole day or do a partial day. The event costs $10 per person or $30 per family (up to six people). Visit seacoastsciencecenter.org or call 603436-8043 for more information.

Saturday, Sept. 24, the Five Lighthouse Cruise (Off Route 1A, Rye, N.H.) will set sail to pass by White Island Light, Boon Island Light, Cape Neddick “Nubble” Light, Whaleback Light, and Portsmouth Harbor Light from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Although there will be no meals served on board, there is a snack bar on board. Lighthouse historian and author Jeremy D’Entremont will narrate the voyage, teaching the histories and fun facts of the surrounding lighthouses. Tickets range from $35 to $45 per person and can be purchased online at portsmouthharborlighthouse.org.

The Seacoast Cancer 5k Run/Walk is taking place on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 9 a.m. at the Wentworth-Douglas Hospital (789 Central Ave., Dover, N.H.).

People can register for the 5k online by joining as an individual or as a team. The 5k is meant to benefit the Wentworth-Douglas Hospital for people in the Seacoast area combating cancer.

Go to giving.wdhospital.com to register. Registration costs $30 per person. If registering the day of the race, the cost is $35.

Saturday, Sept. 24, all are welcome to attend the Dover Children’s Museum (6 Washington St., Dover, N.H.) to harvest its garden from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. The Anyone Can Grow Food program will include harvesting crops and snacking on them too. There will be educational discussions about gardening and worm bins. Everyone will be able to take home a pumpkin and other crops. Children under 1 year old can enter free. Adults and children pay $10 for admission and seniors pay $9.

The 17th annual Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is making its way back to Portsmouth on Saturday, Sept. 24, and Sunday, Sept. 25, beginning at 11 a.m. in downtown Portsmouth, presenting American and English folk music. A number of

artists will perform throughout the day. The event is meant to celebrate the area’s maritime trades. Admission to the event is free.

The Seacoast Century Ride is a great excuse for everyone to take out their bikes before they are forced into storage for the upcoming cooler months.

The cost to ride is $55 and the proceeds go to the Granite State Wheelmen’s bicycle advocacy efforts. The ride will take place on Saturday, Sept. 24, and Sunday, Sept. 25, beginning at 7 a.m. at Hampton Beach State Park (1 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, N.H.). The 50- to 100-mile ride invites the community to come and cheer on the riders.

The Afternotes will perform their fall concert on Sunday, Sept. 25, beginning at 3:30 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church of Exeter (43 Pine St., Exeter, N.H.). The women’s a cappella group will also be joined by the University of New Hampshire’s The New Hampshire Notables.

Attendees can come and listen to the two groups sing and harmonize with one another. Tickets cost $10. A portion of the proceeds will go to Rochester’s Hope on Haven Hill, an organization that provides a nurturing, safe and therapeutic home environment for women who are pregnant with a substance abuse disorder or are recovering from such a disorder.

Join the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (6 Washington St., Dover, N.H.) on Sunday, Sept. 25, from noon to 5 p.m. to celebrate its 33rd birthday.

There will be special activities, children’s musician Benji Latham, cake, ice cream and a birthday crown craft for all to take part in. The celebration is included with the price of admission to the Children’s Museum.

Children 1 year and younger are admitted free. Adults and children pay $10, while seniors pay $9.

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escribing the Seacoast region’s comedy scene is a bit like the parable of five blind men standing around an elephant. It depends on which part you grab. Hampton Beach is all about big stars and bigger crowds, while inland hamlets like Dover and Newmarket and Epping are scrappy upstarts hatching a movement from the ground up. Salisbury Beach is a bit of both, with Blue Ocean Music Hall regularly welcoming national acts while an unassuming sports bar provides a rallying point for comedians of all stripes, the seekers and the stars.

Meanwhile, Portsmouth embodies the title of Monty Python’s first feature film — And Now For Something Completely Different. It elevates the offbeat, from literary-based improv to edgy standup, and is populated by people who can tell jokes in the evening after impersonating an 1890s robber baron for a historical trolley tour of the city during the day.

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Comedy is blowing up everywhere — dozens of venues in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine offer a variation on a classic standup theme. Each has a stage just large enough to hold a microphone and a stool that serves as a drink stand (it's never used for sitting), all lit by a single spotlight.

The Winner's Circle in Salisbury is part of this trend; it’s frequently packed each Tuesday, and often big-name comics are on the bill, working out new jokes.

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that turns out each week. Second, the owners have really embraced it and have gone above and beyond to make it a great environment for comedians. ... It's really unique, and a great place to develop material."

Juston McKinney has used the Winner's Circle as a staging ground since its inception.

"I just broke over 200 performances there," McKinney said in a recent phone interview. "One of the things I like is that it's under the radar a little bit. I kind of just drop in; it's a great location on the Mass.New Hampshire line so the material you're working there plays all over. It doesn't bump up against the paid work on the weekend.

Also, the Dufords are the most supportive bar owners that I have ever come across.

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9 we've had more than 600 comics," said Dave Rattigan, a comedian who organizes the event. The venue offers great sightlines, lighting, and a professional sound system, and the Duford family, owners of the bar, videotape all shows, giving a free copy to any comedian who asks.

The bar's interior is a shrine to standup. Every comic who's ever appeared has a framed photo on the wall. The gallery spreads across multiple spaces. Big name or small time; it doesn't matter. A few favorites have drinks named after them — there's the Raspberry Rattigan, Juston McKinney's Irish Gold and Tony Moschetto's Super Freak, the latter a mix of anisette, Jim Beam bourbon and ginger ale.

"There are two great things about this room," Rattigan said. "First, we have built a small but loyal group of comedy fans

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Hampton Casino Ballroom’s Andrew Herrick sees a lot of big names come through the Hampton Beach venue. The next comedy event scheduled at the 2,000-seat room is Kathleen Madigan on Thursday, Oct. 13.

Herrick talked about the role standup plays and the summer’s slate of funny people in an email exchange.

Do you have any favorite acts?

All of them, I love the comedy series. Some of the best are Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Brian Regan, Sebastian Maniscalco — I would call him the current reigning champ — and so many more.

Are local comics on the bill?

Usually a Boston comic opens the show.

How well does comedy do at Casino Usually they have some kind of former conBallroom? nection with the headliner, either opened for I dare say it is our most successful “genre” them before or know them personally. in the sense that everyone loves to laugh and for comics our size room is like a rock band How did they work out? playing an arena.

Most of the time they are amazing because they are 45-minute-set comics being asked How does it compare to a few years ago? to do 15 to 20 minutes of their best material.

The comedy series has been in full effect for 10+ years and has always attracted the top Any other observations on the laugh 10 or 12 touring comics. The big difference business? now is that comedy has grown so much and If you want to remember what it looks like there are many more comedians playing are- to see large groups of people smiling togethnas, which wasn’t the case in 2005. Comedy er ... just stand in our parking lot after a in general is way more popular. show. Pretty inspiring — laughter makes everything better.

Hall, or one of the other theaters I do."

For McKinney, the weekday event is an incubator for his ever-changing act, and one of the reasons he's able to play so many different venues in the region — no one ever sees the same show twice.

“Whatever I wrote that week, I put them out on stage; for a joke or two I may want to try a new tag line. I always try to add two to three minutes from that for my show. It's been instrumental,” he said.

McKinney lamented that there aren't many options like the Winner's Circle.

When he was a rising comic working in New York City, he could hit four rooms a night, seven days a week.

"UNH had an open-mike show on Monday that fell apart," he said. "There was another good one on Thursdays in Derry at Halligan."

The latter was run by Nick Lavallee and Dave Carter, who continue to operate a very successful Wednesday night event at Manchester's Shaskeen Pub. “These rooms are all really important to me being able to work the material," McKinney said. "Then my ego takes a hit, because I'm doing new stuff and it doesn't always work. ... That is always the hardest

Dave Rattigan. Courtesy photo.

part. They give me 7 to 8 minutes and I try not to go long and be disrespectful to the other acts [but] I've got to grow and I have to turn over material."

Sometimes, the Winner's Circle crowd is so supportive McKinney literally does a double take.

"Two to three weeks ago the crowd was so good I had to try all of my jokes again because I was sure there's no way all of these are going to work," he said. "I'll occasionally get those nights."

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Josh Day did his first standup set at The Winner's Circle, ironically, following one of Juston McKinney's many appearances. Once he got past the terror of following McKinney, after being a foil for a particularly raunchy joke as he watched the comic's set, Day did fine.

His worst experience happened at an open-mike night in Concord a few years back.

"It was the only time I have been physically attacked when I was on stage," Day said.

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of effort, but it just didn't take off."

Both crowds and comics are "super eclectic" — comedy precedes late-night live music, and crossover often happens. "A lot of people come early to hang out, and they'll say, 'Oh, it's a comedy show,' and they sit down to watch. It's 99 percent supportive; very rarely have we had any issues with that room. A lot of people will say, 'We came here for the music but were pleasantly surprised with what we just saw.' They had no idea there was a comedy show, but they want to come back, and about 10 people come to every show.”

Day has the venue fully booked through December and wants to grow even more next year.

"I want to bring in some bigger names like Todd Barry, more national touring guys," he said. "Maybe do one show a month with all local people and then one show per month with a local opening. We have Kelly

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is they let the guy stay and kept serving him alcohol. I haven't been back there."

Day has since opened for McKinney and is considered a rising star around the Seacoast. He's also a comedy entrepreneur, promoting shows at Stone Church in Newmarket and acting as the guiding light for the comedy component of Dave Ogden's Hoot, a Sunday night open mike.

"It's mostly music, but crowds are usually digging the comedy, and Dave always gives acts 15 minutes since they're mostly bands," Day said. "So you can work on sets if you want. I love it, but it's hit or miss audience size wise."

More successful are weekend comedy nights at Stone Church, a mix of biggername regional comics and up and comers.

Day took over the operation four years ago, and has built it steadily.

"I think I can put my own stamp on it now," he said. "The former guy put in a lot

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Music Hall 20 Chestnut St., Portsmouth Rockingham Ballroom Friday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. – Mike Birbiglia, 22 Ash Swamp Road, Newmarket Thank God for Jokes (Historic Theater) Shows at 8 p.m., $15 Thursday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. – Cameron EsposiFriday, Oct. 14 – Jim McCue, Shaun Bedgood to with Rhea Butcher (Music Hall Loft) Friday, Nov. 11 – lineup to be announced Thursday, Dec. 29, 5 & 8 p.m. – Juston McKinney’s Last Laugh 2016 (Historic Theater) Stone Church 5 Granite St., Newmarket, stonechurchrocks.com Blue Ocean Music Hall All shows doors open at 6:30 p.m.; showtime 4 Ocean Front, Salisbury 7:30 p.m.

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McFarland coming back the weekend after Thanksgiving; when she was here before, we had 110 people and had to add tables — she is awesome."

Unlike at a lot of places, hecklers are rare. Day thinks that some of it has to do with the fact that Stone Church is a listening room for music, and deference extends to comedians.

"It's not like people wandering into a bar," he said. "At other places, people come in thinking they're just going to have a beer and all of a sudden they have this comedy forced on them."

Offbeat laughter in the Port City

Portsmouth has tried the classic standup idea at places like the Rusty Hammer, which hosted biweekly open-mike comedy for a few years, but it was gone after the club closed for renovations and opened several months later. The Red Door's regular event ended with a change in ownership, and more recently Birdseye Lounge held its monthly Laugh Lounge, but the downtown performance space abruptly shuttered in early September.

"We had some pretty big names," said Day, who ran the Birdseye event.

National comics like Ben Kronberg, Tom Shillue and Myq Kaplan all came through, along with rising regional stars like Matt Donaher, who began as an open-mike comic in Manchester and is now a veteran of multiple Conan appearances.

Filling seats regularly was challenging,

however, an up-and-down affair for every show.

"Portsmouth was almost too cool for comedy ... it's hard to explain," Day said.

"There were nights when we'd have 80 people in there and others when we'd have two.

I don't know if it's on us for the way we put the word out, but it's very strange. People would come and have a great time, and then they didn't come back or spread the word. I can't figure it out."

It's not that people aren't laughing. Quirky themed nights frequently pack houses. 3S Artspace has a long-running Dungeons & Dragons improv event called Dorks & Dungeons, while Players’ Ring Theatre recently launched a similarly structured night devoted to the stories of Sherlock Holmes.

Both are hosted by Sam Bennett — he's the comic who doubled as Donald Trump in the gilded age for the summer Pickwick’s Tour. He's also performed with Darwin's Waiting Room, a comedy troupe that traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland for the legendary Beyond the Fringe Comedy Festival a few years ago.

Bennett spends a lot of time pondering Portsmouth's oddball comedic nature. The first event he ran in the city was a round robin standup comedy show at Players' Ring filled with Boston comics he'd met at places like Comedy Studio in Cambridge, and fellow New Hampshire comics.

"Most nights I could only get about 20 to 40 people, which was not bad for a paid, ticketed event," he said.

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a luxury that places like the Red Door and Rusty Nail couldn't claim.

Most people, Bennett observed, go to a bar for reasons that have nothing to do with someone telling jokes.

"All of a sudden, somebody walks in with a microphone, and they go, 'Oh crap, now we have to listen to comedy' — and I think with a lot of places, that was the hard part. If there's a band, sure, or something that was comedy and an event but wasn't standup."

For example, Bennett mentioned a group called Shakespeareans.

"It's Shakespeare in a bar atmosphere, with the cast members drinking with the audience while going through plays like The Tempest, or Romeo & Juliet," he said.

"That seems to work well, but it's been difficult to find traditional comedy that wasn't a stage show."

Thus, the job falls to the city's alt rooms.

"3S Artspace loves having fringe comedy, something that is entirely new," Bennett said. "Not just from a business sense, but because it's something they have never heard of, that nobody has ever seen before.

'Of course we want to bring in these people that will do an improvised puppet show, or make the audience tell a story.' It fits."

Along with his role hosting the two improv nights, Bennett works as a standup comic, more often than not on the road.

He began seven years ago by doing three

consecutive weeks of open-mike sets at Manchester's Shaskeen Pub. "It went from OK to bad to horrible and I should quit," he said. "Then the fourth show I did was St. Patrick's Day weekend in New York City at Eastville Comedy Club. It blew up; there were 90 people, a fantastic time."

Bennett brought traditional standup to his hometown via nontraditional venues.

"A friend of mine had an idea to essentially rent the parking space at Portsmouth — and seeing if a person could buy their parking ticket and perform a show in that small space for anyone walking by because it's a legally rented space,” he said.

Indies and one-offs

The rest of the region's comedy is sporadic. Michael Smith is a comic turned impresario who books shows from Newburyport to the Lakes Region. He's done shows at the Old Salt in Hampton for close to a decade, and booked comedy at Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry for nearly seven years. In February 2015, he launched standup at Rockingham Ballroom in Newmarket, and soon he'll present his first event at Dover's Strand Theatre.

That show, set for Sept. 24, stars Brad Mastrangelo, a veteran of Las Vegas, Comedy Central and cruise lines, along with Matt Barry and Dave Decker. Smith thinks highly of Barry, a Manchester comic who’s

caught the attention of many in the comic cognoscenti.

"He's got the stuff," Smith said. "If he plays his cards right, he is really going places."

Jay Grove is another scrappy comedian and promoter. Whether it's a bar, bowling alley, cigar bar or campsite, Grove has a knack for filling a space with comedy-lovers. Among his ongoing venues

3S Artspace loves having fringe comedy, something that is entirely new.

SAM BENNETT are Radloff's and Mel Flanagan's, both in Rochester. At the latter, he's done a few No Cost Fundraisers, pass-the-hat affairs benefiting local charities.

"We've raised thousands of dollars already, and have two great shows coming up," he said. "They've been fun."

Grove once ran Veronica Laffs in Raymond for a spell, and spoke of plans to

open another comedy club.

"That's the exit strategy," he said with a laugh. "In the next year or two, to have an actual brick and mortar storefront club right here in Rochester. I'm taking small steps because I want it to be sustainable."

Rob Steen is the biggest operator in the state, but doesn't do much on the Seacoast.

He's done regular shows at Rochester's Governor's Inn. There are medieval reenactments at an old church, a la Medieval Manor, with leather walls etc. Not comedy, but it would play well in Portsmouth.

"I had the Holy Grail in Epping and did comedy at Portsmouth Gas Light for a while," he said. "But I've got nothing going on now."

Steen alluded to a probable Seacoast return, to launch a new location for his Headliners Comedy Club franchise.

"I've been working on it for two years," he said. "But there's not enough solid to say for certain. Watch this space."

A veteran comic known for his talent for "crowd work," engaging the audience with off-the-cuff exchanges and building his act around it, Steen does occasionally perform in the area.

"I did my act at the Stone Church a while back, and it was really interesting," he said. "Half the crowd was my age, 40 to 50, and the rest were younger, Deadheads, long hair, that kind of thing. The place was packed, and we had a great time."

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Formerly known as the Jakarta Fair, named after the capital of Indonesia, the fourth annual event has been renamed this year so that it encompasses all of Indonesia rather than just the capital. The nation’s regional diversity will be highlighted among the participating food vendors, who come from Indonesian communities based in New Hampshire, in Boston and New England, in Maryland and in New York to represent some of Indonesia’s islands at the fair.

“Indonesia has tons of islands with their own types of food,” said Raude Raychel, head of the fair planning committee. “Some may have the same main foods, but there will be one island that does it spicy, another that does it sweet and another that does it salty, so what we’re trying to do is highlight the traditional flavors from different islands.”

The food selection will feature around 50 signature dishes from Indonesian islands, including lemper ayam (a sweet sticky rice with sweet chicken, wrapped in banana leaves), fried banana cakes, panada (fried dough with spicy tuna fillings), a variety of egg rolls and other rolls, bakwan sayur (vegetable fritters), Indonesian tempura and es teler (drink made of shaved ice, coconut, avocado and other fruits).

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For a traditional dish that captures the overall essence of Indonesian cuisine, Raychel recommends the nasi kuning, a yellow rice cooked with coconut milk and turmeric, served with chicken or beef and veggies or eggs in a spicy chilli sauce.

The most popular food at the fair is sate, which is a grilled and seasoned meat skewered like a kabob and served with a sauce. Raychel says you can’t go wrong with the sate ayam, a chicken skewer with peanut sauce.

“There’s beef sate, chicken sate, spicy sate, a lot of kinds. It’s one of the things that’s very common at the event and will be probably be sold by many different vendors,” she said. “In the past we had a vendor who brought 1,500 sate, and it was all gone in an hour or two, so it’s definitely one of the top selling foods.”

Since some of the ingredients and spices used in Indonesian cuisine aren’t widely available in New Hampshire or even the country, not all of the food at the fair will be fully authentic. Still, with vendors coming from various states and communities with access to other types of ingredients, there will be a number of authentic and uncommon dishes at the fair that aren’t typically offered at area restaurants and markets.

“Sometimes, the Asian populations in New York and Boston can get certain spic-

es that we don’t have, so at least with them here it makes some of the food a little more similar [to authentic Indonesian food], and that’s really nice,” Raychel said.

Visitors can purchase food to eat on site at the event or to take home. With so many dishes to choose from, she said it was important to offer a takeout option so that people can try everything they want without being limited by how much they can eat in an afternoon, and so RAUDE RAYCHEL they can bring some back for their family and friends to try.

In addition to the food, the fair will have a fashion show of traditional costumes and performances of traditional dances from different islands, a flag-raising demonstration, music performed on an ancient Southeast Asian instrument called a kulintang, an Indonesian spices vendor, various cultural exhibits and information booths with community resources for the Indonesian community.

Though the fair has been expanded this year to include more cultural activities, Raychel said the food is still the main draw.

“In the past when it was Jakarta Fair, it focused on nothing but the food,” she said. “It’s different this year because we’re offering other things to try to educate people about Indonesia, but food is still the No. 1 thing. We want everyone to come see all the different types of food.”

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— Leonard I suspect Toyota has some legitimate concerns that are unique to its Hybrid Synergy Drive. And had you towed this trailer under warranty and made a drive-train-related claim, Toyota would have been well within its rights to deny your claim.

What makes me think you can get away with it is that the weight is relatively light.

The 2007 Camry Hybrid is sold as a fivepassenger vehicle. So if you have five people in the car, you’d already be over 800 pounds.

You’ll certainly use the gasoline engine more, which contributes to your lower mileage. But the same thing that applies to all cars applies to your Camry Hybrid: When you make the car work harder, you do shorten the life of its parts. And by adding weight — whether it’s a camping trailer or your inlaws — you’re making the engine and the electric motor work harder. What effect that will have on the longevity of the car is hard to say. Maybe instead of 200,000 miles, you’ll get 180,000 out of it. Who knows, exactly?

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“We do need volunteers. … It’s a very, very fun event to volunteer at. People have a great time, and you can be part of something beautiful,” said Mallett. “I’m always impressed every year, here are these amazing chefs working out of a barn, and all the plates look consistent. I love watching them do all this in the barn setting, seeing them work together. It’s beautiful to watch and delicious to eat.”

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On Saturday, Sept. 25, the crowd milling around the barn at Meadow’s Mirth Farm in Stratham won’t be there to clean the stables but rather to embark on the culinary journey of the seventh annual Heirloom Harvest Barn Dinner at 4 p.m.

If it sounds intriguing, it is. This eclectic mix of barn and fine food is the manifestation of what the Heirloom Harvest Project is all about — bringing farmers, chefs and the public into each other’s paths to honor heirloom produce and heritage breed animals. The project was founded by Denise and Evan Mallett of the acclaimed familyowned and -operated Black Trumpet Bistro in Portsmouth.

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“Years ago, the Portsmouth-area food groups did a dinner, and it was amazing,” said Denise Mallett.

She said that after a few years that dinner fell by the wayside and they wanted to organize something similar and maybe on a bigger scale to bring the community together. Heirloom Harvest Project was born, and the barn dinner is a reflection of the couple’s drive to promote sustainability and their commitment to the Seacoast community.

“My husband, Evan, really so much of his life had this vision for a harvest dinner.

Years went by, and people would come to him for advice about this and that. He said to me, ‘I want to do that harvest dinner,’” Mallett said. “We started the Heirloom Harvest Project, and it all came together and gave it a purpose.”

The theme of this year’s dinner is perennials, items that come back year after year and thus speak to sustainability and reducing damage to the soil and environment.

“This year with the theme of perennials, everything will be things that reproduce without our assistance. I joked that it will be all rabbits and fish,” said Mallett.

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Likewise, the proceeds (tickets are $100) are gifted to something different each year.

“In the past, we’ve purchased a seed extractor for one farm, with the idea that other farms can share it, and they’ve done that. One year organic seeds was our theme, one year was poultry. Every year we try to figure out what is the hurdle, and address that challenge,” she said.

Having always been held at the small organic farm Meadow’s Mirth, which grows vegetables, flowers, and herbs, the barn dinner attracts well-informed repeat customers.

“The first year our friend and farmer Josh — who has always been on board — offered his barn. We said, there’s nowhere else like this, it’s perfect, so we’ve always just held it there. We only do one barn dinner a year,” said Mallett.

According to Mallett, the annual barn dinner is a who’s who of Seacoast food.

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that time are homemade cocktails and local beers brewed specifically for the event. We do it a little different every year. Sometimes we pair chefs together for one course. I’m not sure but I think this year there’s probably three different chefs working on hors d’oeuvres, then there’s typically four seated courses including dessert.”

Don’t let the word “barn” fool you — the décor is as chic as the plates.

“It’s as beautiful as any fancy dinner spot, except that it’s in a barn. The only heat source are the grills outside, which are standard charcoal, and everyone pitching in is a volunteer, from setting to serving tables,” said Mallett, who noted that she is still in need of volunteers for the Sept. 25 event.

And if you want to go, that’s your best bet.

“We can seat about 100 people and we’re sold out, almost overbooked as it is. This year we sold out in two and a half days. It’s always quick, but this was extremely fast.”

Volunteering, however, gets you in the

With very strong ties to biodiversity, the Heirloom Harvest Project’s mission is filled with hope.

“The idea is a way to connect farmers, chefs and consumers. There are lots of ways for consumers and chefs to connect, but for farmers, it was more just at farmers markets to reach them,” said Mallett.

And like seeds germinating, the small community project has spread its ground cover.

“We’ve created a cycle where we purchase heirloom seeds in the winter, then we lay out all the seeds with the farmers and chefs, and everyone talks and figures things out. Some take a few years of experimenting. Chefs will say, I really want to cook with that, I’ll try it. Originally it was all for the dinner, but the reality of what happened is that these heirloom products got to farmers markets and restaurants. Now they’re somewhat common, whereas seven years ago or so these were not around here,” said Mallett.

The exchange has opened a world of possibility for Seacoast chefs, farmers and ultimately everyone who eats locally.

“What we do is connect them all — farmers and chefs,” Mallett said. “For instance, we have a closed Facebook page where they can communicate. A chef may say, ‘We need 25 pounds of lettuce,’ and a farmer can respond, ‘Hey I have that’ or ‘I can grow that for you.’ Or the farmer may say, ‘It’s been dry or [there have been] poor weather conditions, so carrots aren’t doing too well right now.’”

And in this way, an open dialogue is formed for the truest “farm to table” principle.

“I will say that the farmer and chef community on the Seacoast is like no other I know of. It is such a good community. I’ll hear people say all the time, ‘How do you guys do it over there?’ And I tell them it’s because it’s such a great group of people who are just willing to share ideas for the greater good,” said Mallett.

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Not only does her husband have a knack for community-building, but according to Mallett he is also a superb public speaker who enjoys sharing the issues facing the food industry. Each year at the barn dinner he gives a talk about one or several of the most pressing issues of that year.

“He does a lot in food policy — ways to become educated. He’s at Apple Island right now participating in a culinary retreat, focusing on nature, water, like foraging for seaweed,” said Mallett, adding that Evan also collaborates with Josh Jennings and the UNH facilities with the goal of giving back to local food banks.

“The talks tend to be inspirational and educational. For instance, there’s no denying the issue of climate change. Other themes are food waste, balancing plates — small meats, more veggies, or working meats into dishes. Lots about food and biodiversity. Every year it’s a little bit different, whatever’s on his mind about the issues, what everyone in the industry is paying attention to,” said Mallett.

The Heirloom Harvest Project is a huge advocate for local organizations that promote sustainability.

“For anyone who wants to get involved, there are student gardens, university programs, community events. It’d be hard to not find something if you look around,” said Mallett.

“In this community, so many great things are going on. Personally, I’d want people Heirloom Harvest Project. Courtesy of Denise to donate to the SNAP program. The most Mallett. important thing in my mind is to make all this available to kids and the next generaHeirloom Harvest Barn Dinner tion, and for people with less money. Any TO START way we can do that is helpful. The marAlex Stevens, Jumpin Jay’s Fish Cafe kets have a ton of education and are now Lee Frank, Otis.restaurant available really all year round. I’d say get Mark Segal, Tinos Greek Kitchen involved in any of these local food proBrent Hazelbaker, Earth’s Harvest Juice grams,” said Mallett.

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I was recently invited to Madeira by the Madeira Promotion Bureau as part of a press trip to familiarize wine and travel writers with the island and its winemaking during their harvest season. In my full-time public relations job, I also help promote Portugal as a tourism destination.

Madeira is a Portuguese island in the north Atlantic Ocean that is southwest of the mainland and 540 nautical miles from the African coast. Like winemakers here, Portuguese winemakers are currently in the middle of harvest, so it is a very busy time for them. But it is also a time of celebration and a chance to honor their history, as Madeira wine dates back to the 15th century.

Many visitors plan their trips around the harvest, with “Festa do Vinho,” or the Madeira Wine Festival, running from the end of August through mid-September. This festival began in the 1970s and has grown to include exhibitions, tastings, wine classes, traditional music and a parade. A “wine village” set up for this occasion in the capital city of Funchal welcomes guests as the main hub, but the harvest is celebrated throughout other parts of the island as well. If you are a wine lover like me, it is the ideal place to be because the wine celebration is paired with breathtaking views.

The thing that struck me most about Madeira is the landscape. Madeira is a volcanic island, so although the soil is rich, the landscape is dramatic and challenging. Growing grapes — and other fruit and vegetables here like bananas, passion fruit and sweet potatoes, to name a few — is no easy task.

We drove by many, many vineyards built on terrace arrangements, which keep the soil from washing away when it rains. The terraces stretch hundreds of feet down cliffs. So when it is time to harvest the grapes and other produce, they must be carried all the way to the closest roadway. In addition to all of the maintenance put into the vines, there is a lot of work put into just getting them off the vines. It is amazing and a true labor of love.

Other winemakers grow grapes and use them as shade from the island’s long, hot days. Grapes are grown on trellis-like structures over carports and on tops of buildings, which help keep buildings and cars cool.

As a side note, I have now decided I want to try growing my own grape trellis at my house because I love the look of it and also the functional aspect. I was very impressed at the ways in which the people of Madeira use the landscape and found innovative ways to make things work.

The first wine festival I attended was held at Quinta do Furão, in the adorable town of

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Quinta do Furão is a beautiful estate property with gorgeous views of the clear blue ocean.

It includes a restaurant and a hotel that overlooks a vineyard.

This festival honored Madeira’s winemaking past with traditional music, dancing and food. We also tried a traditional cocktail with wine, lemon, mint and fruit, which was perfect for the hot day. But the highlight for me was being able to crush grapes with my feet in an old wine press. It was squishy but so fun, and really added to the whole experience.

Since I began writing this column, many people have asked me if I have ever been able to do this. Now I can finally say yes, and check this item off my bucket list!

The second wine festival I attended was held at Madeira Wine Company in Funchal, as part of the Festa do Vinho. Like the festival at Quinta do Furão, it included regional food, wine and music. It was set in the Blandy’s Madeira Wine Lodge, which has an urban but rustic feel.

There was also a pop-up wine museum in the downtown that guests could walk through to learn more about the regional grapes and winemaking.

Madeira is a unique wine with an interesting past (more about this in a future column).

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NHFM member James Cameron was inspired the first time he walked into the 3S gallery space, which was different from anywhere the group’s shown before, with cement floors and incredibly high ceilings.

“3S ArtSpace is a converted industrial space. It has raw power and is as big as most places, if not bigger than the ones we’ve shown in,” Cameron said. “What intrigued me was the chance to really utilize the air, the space above everyone’s head. … All I could think was, I want to see furniture in the air!”

Enough people took him seriously that they handed the reins over to him to design the 2016 show’s layout.

“As soon as someone said yes, I just ran with it,” Cameron said via phone last week, a day after installation. “I had a lot of fun putting this together.”

NHFM is a group of professional furniture artisans whose aim is to preserve the centuries-old tradition of fine furniture making, and one of its biggest events of the year is its annual auction.

At the time of Cameron’s phone interview, there were 22 pieces in the gallery by 14 members, plus some by a handful of students from the NHFM Prison Outreach Program, though Cameron was expecting four or five last-minute additions by the end of the show. Four hung in the air, the rest displayed along walls or on platforms.

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Cameron’s hope in the presentation is to allow viewers to be freer in how they think of modern furniture.

“Hopefully we’ve been able to pleasingly fill the space so that it looks well-balanced and right, yet still completely interesting and unexpected,” Cameron said. “Much of our work is formal; it’s eventually going to be put into formal use.

But most of us are also creative in trying, in our way, to be innovative artists. I think this accentuates that.”

It’s not just the presentation that’s different this year; many featured pieces aren’t functional or contain modern details.

“I think that the organization is maturing a bit. The members are actually multi-faceted people. For years, every piece in the show had to be furniture, furniture, furniture. But then we thought, wait a minute. This guy does sculpture.

That guy also does sculpture,” NHFM Chair Jeffrey Cooper said.

So why not allow some more creative freedom?

One of Cooper’s pieces is a sculpture, “Madonna and Child,” made from a 120-pound piece of cherry wood someone — he still doesn’t know who — left on his doorstep. Another member, Jeff Roberts, also strayed from his normally traditional work; one of his pieces, “Alice & The Woodland,” contains caterpillar and leaf carvings on its legs. Hanging from the ceiling are a rake and a ladder, and on the wall is a heart sculpture.

Cameron thinks New England’s taste in handmade furniture is changing.

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Auctions have been held across the state — at the Currier Museum of Art, the Mount Washington Resort, Wentworth by the Sea and the New Hampshire Historical Society. The past two years, it was at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel.

All these were successful, but at 3S, NHFM found everything it needed — a stage with plentiful seating, gallery space and restaurant — all in one venue. Because of this, the event’s structure is different for 2016 as well, spanning two weeks instead of one day. The first night of the exhibition, the group held a social media presentation, and a week before the auction, it would hold one about its prison program.

The hope, Cooper said, is that more people come and check it out.

“As an artist, you just want people to see your stuff. You’re sitting there, making [furniture], and you’re putting your heart into it, and when you put it on display, you want people to see it. So I’m just hoping lots and lots of people will make the effort to walk down to 3S, go into the gallery and see what’s there,” Cooper said. “It’s nice for us to have such a contemporary space for such a traditional form.”

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If you’re a running fanatic with a “26.2” or “13.1” sticker on the back of your car, know that it doesn’t much impress Joe De Sena.

Yes, you can run in a straight line, on a flat path, for a couple of hours, while smiling volunteers cheer and hand out Gatorade orange slices lest your energy fade. So what? The average German shepherd can do as much, without the treats.

De Sena is the creator of Spartan Race, the grueling obstacle race that makes a typical 10K look more like a nap than a measure of fitness. Two years ago he wrote Spartan Up! to explain the philosophy behind the movement, which De Sena directs from his 700-acre farm in Pittsfield, Vermont. Now he’s back with Spartan Fit!, proposing to get slackers who’ve never suffered through a Spartan event to the finish line. Thirty days is all you need, he promises, even if you’ve never done a burpee.

Here, it seems important to point out the typical challenges in a Spartan Race. In addition to running between 3 and 26-plus miles, participants crawl under barbed wire, carry buckets filled with gravel up hills, climb ropes, walls and nets, drag tires and throw spears. Often in mud. People have died on the course. (In fact, an early iteration of a release form contained the disclaimer “You may die.”)

The point, as De Sena explains it, is that physical challenges like this prepare us for life outside the race, which is a lesson our buttery soft society badly needs, he says. “Forget the challenges of an endurance run — some people are so ill-equipped at handling the unexpected that a cold cup of coffee or a traffic jam can ruin their day,” he writes.

In training for, and then enduring, a Spartan event, people develop what De Sena calls “obstacle immunity” that will help get them through a pink slip, broken marriage or cancer diagnosis. It’s a logical approach, and De Sena an effective cheerleader. He himself is the sort of muscular, militant demigod that Spartan Races tend to attract, and you wouldn’t want to come across him in a dark alley, but surprisingly, his books aren’t nearly as intimidating as the program behind them, and they are bolstered with inspiring anecdotes and occasional wit.

There is, for example, the story of Amanda Sullivan, a young woman who completed a Spartan Race on crutches after being hit by a car twice within six weeks and spending three years in a hospital bed, every body part “broken, fractured, torn, ruptured, bloodied, or bruised.”

After reading about her, it’s a bit difficult

for anyone who hasn’t been hit by a car lately to explain why they, too, can’t “commit to grit.”

Even being out of shape is not an acceptable excuse for De Sena; there’s a prescription for anyone significantly overweight, or so unfit that they can’t attempt Spartan’s three basic tests: hang from a bar for as long as possible, do as many burpees as possible in five minutes, run or walk as far as you can in 30 minutes. Those are the baselines from which progress is measured.

De Sena’s program is dense with specifics.

In addition to outlining the seven pillars of fitness, his 30-day plan gives specific activities to be performed every day, from 60-minute runs to taking cold showers, from fasting to playing with your kids. On rest days, called “active restoration,” he recommends community volunteering, writing thank-you notes and calling someone you are at odds with — an unexpected touchy-feely bent to such a hard-core program.

But De Sena, whose physical accomplishments include completing three Ironmans — the 135-mile Badwater ultra, the 140.6mile Lake Placid Ironman and a 100-mile Vermont trail run — in a single week, is also an advocate of yoga and meditation; he’s part guru, part drill sergeant, which makes his hardest prescriptions a bit easier to swallow.

Unfortunately, to get to them, you have to suffer through a bizarre and disturbing prologue, about how a Spartan associate escaped a violent home invasion because his father had taught him to wrestle blindfolded as a teenager. While technically the story does fit with De Sena’s core message — life is unpredictable and often unfair, and you’ll survive longer and be happier if you prepare for all sorts of physical challenges — it’s an offputting beginning to an otherwise useful and potentially inspiring book. Skip it and start with the first chapter, in which De Sena condenses the book to five sentences for anyone without time or inclination to read the rest: “Go outside right now and run as far as you can. Then do as many burpees as you can.

Then run, walk, or crawl home. Eat whole foods, skip dessert, don’t get drunk, get some sunshine, take cold showers, lift something heavy, use the stairs, meditate or pray, find someone to love. Lights out at 8 p.m.”

But disregard the invitation to bail, because somewhere in the remaining pages most everyone will find nuggets that are useful, from De Sena’s discourses on life in ancient Sparta, to his Steven Pressfield-esque exhortations on how to overcome existential barriers to achievement. There are even a few unusual recipes (kale lemonade), and a convincing aside on why obstacle racing should be an Olympic sport. It’s a quick read, but one that pulses with energy and surprises with depth. B+ — Jennifer Graham

POP CULTURE

Adventure story

NH native on her debut novel, The Smoke Hunter

By Kelly Sennott

news@seacoastscene.net

When Jacquelyn Benson was a kid, she yearned to be Indiana Jones. That dream carried into her teens; she even applied to and was accepted by the same college the fictional character attended, the University of Chicago. Her intention was to

study archeology.

But then she was offered a scholarship to a different university and realized maybe archeology wasn’t exactly the subject she was so passionate about.

“While real archaeology is absolutely fascinating, what I was in love with were these incredibly fun, adventurous stories — not necessarily the reality of digging in the dirt for hours,” Benson, who lives in Kensington, said via phone last week.

She studied English and philosophy at Northeastern University but came back to the subject — sort of — at Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland, where she studied anthropol-

ogy and lived with an archaeology student.

So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the subject plays a major role in her debut novel, The Smoke Hunter.

The book, released in September, takes place in 1898 and follows British archivist and suffragette Eleanora Mallory, who stumbles upon a map to a city that shouldn’t exist, a jungle metropolis flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed. She travels to Central America to uncover the map’s secret with maverick archaeologist Adam Bates — but they’re not alone in their quest.

Initially, Benson thought this would be a historical romance, but she couldn’t quite make the two protagonists fall in love.

“I should have known something funny was going on when I wanted to set it in one of the oddest places I could think of — British Honduras [now Belize],” Benson said. “I kept trying to force that scene into the book, and it didn’t fit. … At that point, I took a look at the manuscript and realized I had written something a bit different than what I had set out to do. … I always had a fascination with adventure stories as a kid, and so I think it was somewhat inevitable that, when I set out

to write something that was not necessarily an adventure story, that genre kind of invaded it and took over.”

Her idea for the novel started seven years ago. She wrote some of it, set it aside, then came back to it.

“I was looking at this pile of unfinished novels on my computer. I had a commitment problem with writing fiction, and I couldn’t get past chapter four. So I decided to just commit to something. … I pulled this story out and decided, this was going to be the one I saw through to the entire end,” she said. “[Compared to the others], this book just seemed like it would be a really good time to write. I figured having fun doing it would make me more likely to succeed in getting over my chapter four problem.”

She gave herself permission for the first draft to be terrible — and a nine-month deadline.

“I got knocked up! That created a deadline.

I wanted this book to be done before I had a baby,” she said.

Benson, who describes herself as a “tremendous nerd,” was also attracted to the story because of the amount of research it required.

She’d never been to Belize, but she knew it to be rich with Mayan culture and archaeolog-

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ical history and began sifting through Flickr accounts and YouTube videos to get a sense of the place. She also spent a lot of time at the library, delving into history books and traveler’s accounts.

It’s Benson’s first book but not her first stab at writing, with two plays — Interference (2007) and Crush Depth (2009) — plus an ongoing anthology of short plays (Evening Broadcasts) under her belt. All were produced at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth.

Right now, she’s busy various author events, but she’s juggling a few other projects in the meantime, trying to decide what she wants to move forward with next — likely, another novel.

“The way I went about writing this book is very different from how I will write any other book. I learned so much about what works for me,” Benson said. “But it totally empowered me to move forward with the rest of my career.”

Meet Jacquelyn Benson Water Street Bookstore: 125 Water St., Exeter, Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m.

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One voice

Portsmouth concert kicks off national anti-gun violence effort

By Michael Witthaus

news@seacoastscene.net

Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash and Marc Cohn will perform at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Sunday, Sept.

25. It’s the most high-profile of over 250 concerts being held the same day to raise awareness about gun violence in America. One of the events was scheduled for Birdseye Lounge, but the Portsmouth venue’s closure in early September forced its cancellation.

Disappointment turned into opportunity when 3S Artspace offered to host the show if it could be rescheduled from Sunday to Friday.

With approval from the national group secured, Portsmouth will host the first Concert Across America to End Gun Violence on Friday, Sept. 23.

Beloved Seacoast roots band Martin England & the Reconstructed tops a lineup that includes The Look Backs, Chris Guzikowski & The Grim Brothers, River Sister and DJ Skooch; Sam Harding hosts.

“I’m pleased that the national organization was flexible,” said Elissa Margolin, an area musician who recruited performers for the show. “I guess New Hampshire likes to be first in the nation with the presidential primary; we’ll do it for this The Concert Across America to End Gun Violence When: Friday, Sept. 23, 8 p.m.

Where: 3S Artspace, 318 Vaughan St., Portsmouth Tickets: $10

Martin England & the Reconstructed. Courtesy photo.

as well.”

When event organizer Laurel Redden asked her to participate, Margolin was initially hesitant. “Then Orlando happened and I asked myself, ‘if I’m not willing to step up and start naming this as a problem, how can I complain we’re not making progress?’”

A Facebook blitz later, Margolin was winnowing down a big list of volunteers.

The music community’s response energized her.

“There’s no right or wrong voice for something like this, but I think music has always been pivotal to igniting and sustaining a movement,” she said. “If we’re

going to hit the reset button on a conversation towards ending gun violence, I like the idea ... as a musician, it feels like a way I can give.”

An award-winning singer-songwriter, Margolin warmed to her curation tasks.

“I was looking for a headliner that would be consistent with the crowd, have some energy, feel good with a little edge to it,” she said. “Every time I see Martin and his band, people are feeling good … they are the best at what a rock band can bring out in a community.”

Margolin is excited by the halo effect offered by the effort, which has events scheduled in all 50 states.

“As someone who spends most of her time playing locally, my tours usually consist of a several-block radius,” she said. “I can’t believe I can say that I’m somewhat on a bill with Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash and Marc Cohn.”

Scheduled to coincide with the date designated by Congress in 2007 as a day of remembrance for murder victims, the national effort identified two main objectives in a Sept. 6 press release: “Keeping guns out of dangerous hands and making the issue of illegal guns top of mind [as] the American people go to the polls in November.”

Tickets for the Portsmouth show are $10, to cover production costs. The musicians are all playing for free, and any money left over will be donated to two local charities, Haven and Moms Demand Action. Other organizations will have tables at the event.

“The goal is to bring like-minded people together to say we want to end gun violence,” Margolin said. “For me as a community member and a mom, I’m tired of being quiet on this issue and I think we’re getting to the point where we have a public health crisis on our hands.”

Margolin hopes for a more reasonable conversation.

“I’d like people to leave the concert empowered to speak the way they feel about ending gun violence,” she said.

“Ultimately, we’re not providing a directive on how any community member should act on this issue, but if they feel that they do have a voice in this, we can show them groups they could work with to make something happen, and potentially come together.”

Night out

Live music and comedy Every Friday night at the Chameleon Club (11 Fourth St., Dover, N.H., 603-3434390, carairishpub.com) DJ Josh Monsta hosts Funked Up Friday Night Club from 9 p.m. until close. Listen and dance to top 40 dance music on the large dance floor with a colorful light show.

Wednesdays join Phil at 7th Settlement (47 Washington St., Dover, N.H., 603-373-1001, 7thsettlement.com) at 8 p.m. for Hump Day Trivia. Bring your quick-thinking minds every Wednesday for fun trivia, great food and drinks, and a community atmosphere as Phil

stumps everyone with his trivia questions.

On Friday, Sept. 23, from 7 to 10 p.m. Dave Gerard will perform at the Savory Square Bistro (32 Depot Square, Hampton, N.H., 603-9262202, savorysquarebistro. com). Touring since the 1980s, Gerard just released his fifth CD, Five, which features Bill Payne. Gerard has shared the stage with his band Truffle and has also joined other bands such as the Dave Matthews Band, Little Feat, The Band, and Richie Havens.

Ratt and Dokken will be at the Hampton Beach

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Casino Ballroom (169 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton, N.H., 603-929-4100, casinoballroom.com) on Friday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. Ratt and Dokken are high-energy heavy metal bands. Tickets cost $26 in advance and $31 the day of the show.

Saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky returns to Portsmouth to perform on Friday, Sept. 23, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Portsmouth Music & Arts Center (973 Islington St., Portsmouth, N.H., 603-431-4278, pmaconline. org). Accompanied by pianist Eliko Akahori, Radnofsky will

perform a mostly Russian show that will include the works of Rachmaninov and

Prokofiev. There will also be an arrangement of “Heitor Villa­ Lobos Bachianas Brasileras

no. 1” performed with string quartet. Tickets range from $12 to $18 and can be

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR CELLPHONE TO DO THAT IT DOESN’T ALREADY DO? “I wish it had more health apps – ones that could take your blood pressure, temperature, and the rest and send it right to your doctor.”

Sam Harris of Fremont, NH

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Mark Shilansky’s Fugue Mill will perform on Friday, Sept.

23, beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The Dance Hall (7 Walker St., Kittery, Maine, 207-703-2083, thedancehallkittery.org). Fugue Mill mixes jazz and classical music, creating a complex yet beautiful sound. Each member of the group adds their own flair to the music, all ranging from various musical experiences.

Tickets range from $12 to $15 and can be purchased online.

Grammy nominee Jon Butcher will perform at the Rochester Opera House (City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester, N.H., 603-3351992, RochesterOperaHouse. com) Friday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. Bucher is known for hit songs “Life Takes a Life,” “Wishes” and “Holy War.” Tickets cost $20 per person or $18 for students and seniors. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets can be reserved online, by telephone, or at the box office. There will be a

cash bar. All minors must be accompanied by someone 18 years or older.

Comedian Marc Maron’s The Too Real Tour is coming to the Music Hall (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, N.H., 603436-2400, themusichall.org) on Friday, Sept. 23, beginning at 8 p.m. Maron is considered a legend in the comedy world, appearing on David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel and more.

Maron is known for performing though-provoking comedy that is as hilarious as it is raw. Tickets cost $33 to $38 depending on the seat. Tickets can be purchased online at themusichall.org or over the phone at 603-436-2400.

The Carl Reppucci Jazz Trio will perform at Savory Square Bistro (32 Depot Square, Hampton, N.H., 603-9262202, savorysquarebistro. com) on Saturday, Sept.

24, from 8 to 11 p.m. Carl Reppucci is a jazz pianist and New England native who

has played for big bands and musicals and recorded music for the upcoming Disney film The Finest Hours.

Ziggy Marley will be at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom (169 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton, N.H., 603929-4100, casinoballroom. com) on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, is a six-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, humanitarian and producer. Tickets cost $31 in advance, $36 the day of the show.

On Sunday, Sept. 25, from 5 to 8 p.m. Great Bay Sailor will perform at The Barley House Restaurant in Tavern at its Seacoast location (43 Lafayette Road, North Hampton, N.H., 603-379-9161, thebarleyhouse.com).

The band is based in Portsmouth, N.H., and performs mostly a repertoire of maritime, Irish, Scottish and British music. Eat, drink, and listen to live music Sunday night.

BOOK OR KINDLE AND WHY? “I like my Kindle Fire so much more than books. It’s easier to carry, the screen is so easy to read, and it does so much more than just store books. I love it so much I have two!”

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Portsmouth Country Club | Greenland, NH REGISTRATION: 11:30am | COST: $150 per player LUNCH: 11:30am (Buffet) | EVENT START TIME: 12:30pm Also includes: Full Dinner, Pro Golf Shirt, Green Fees with Cart, Complimentary Tees and Balls, 50/50 Raffle, Vegas Hole, Raffle Items and a Grand Prize Drawing valued at $500.

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BEACH BUM FUN HOROSCOPES

something unexpected today, such as a compliment.

By Holly, The Seacoast Area's Leading Astrologer

• Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, at least you don’t live on a dirt road.

• Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will feel as if a heavy burden has been lifted from your shoulders, especially now that you’ve given up that job carrying bricks.

Friday, September 30, 2016 5-8pm Join the Seacoast Science Center and Newburyport Whale Watch for a special river cruise to benefit the center’s Marine Mammal Rescue and ocean education efforts Enjoy seal watching, hor d’oeuvres, and a cash bar abroad the Captain’s Lady III while cruising the Merrimack River. The NH Marine Mammal Rescue Team will regale you with stories from the field and explain how their work in NH and northern MA is an important part of monitoring ocean health.

$50 per person

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• Taurus (April 20-May 20): You will feel tremendous guilt over the recent earthquake in Italy, and rightly so.

• Gemini (May 21-June 20): You have a strong desire for excitement today.

Actually, it’s more of pleasant feeling of restlessness. Well, OK, it’s just nervousness. To tell the truth, you’ll be bored stiff.

• Cancer (June 21-July 22): You will be the recipient of an unexpected family legacy. Unfortunately, it will be predisposition for adult onset diabetes.

• Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Partners and close friends might surprise you with

• Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Secret flirtations and love affairs are possible today. In your case, though, let’s just say it’s not a good day to bet the farm.

• Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How did they ever make up those constellations out of stars in the sky? A bear? The queen of Ethiopia? I don’t see anything but little dots of light up there.

• Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict you will be dissatisfied by an unhelpful horoscope that will fail to predict anything about you other than the dissatisfaction that you are about to experience. Hey, am I good or what?

• Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be so concerned about what you’ll do for the rest of your life. You haven’t got that much time left, anyway.

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• Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s entirely possible that you will meet a new and exciting friend or acquaintance today. Working against that, however, is your sentence in solitary confinement.

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Least competent criminals

• Boyd Wiley, 47, was arrested in August when he walked into the Putnam County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office and, apparently in all seriousness, demanded that deputies return the 91 marijuana plants they had unearthed from a vacant lot in the town of Interlachen several days earlier. (Until that moment, deputies did not know whose plants they were.) Wiley was told that growing marijuana is illegal in Florida and was arrested.

• Not a Techie: The most recent perp to realize that cops use Facebook is Mack Yearwood, 42, who ignored a relative’s advice and uploaded his Citrus County, Florida, wanted poster for his Facebook profile picture, thus energizing deputies who, until then, had no leads on his whereabouts. He was caught a day later and faces a battery complaint and several open arrest warrants.

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• Police in Centralia, Washington, arrested a man (not identified in news reports) for reckless burning in August when, trying to rid his apartment of roaches, he declined ordinary aerosol bug spray in favor of making a homemade flamethrower (the aerosol spray fired up by a lighter). He fled the apartment when he realized he might have taken things too far. (Firefighters were called, but the damage was minimal.)

• In September, a tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 295 in New Castle, Delaware, spilling a particularly low-value load. The truck, headed for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, was filled with 22 tons worth of increasingly shunned U.S. pennies, but these were even less useful (though perhaps, by metal content, more valuable!) because they were not-yet-engraved “blanks.”

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What goes around...

One of the Islamic State’s first reforms in captured territory has been to require adult women to dress devoutly — including the face-covering burka robe, which, in Western democracies famously presents security dilemmas because it hinders identification.

Now, after two years of Islamic State occupation in Mosul, Iraq, the security problem has come full circle on ISIS itself. Dispatches from the town reported in September that ISIS has likely banned the burka because it hinders identification of anti-ISIS insurgents who (female and male) wear burkas to sneak up on Islamic State officers.

Recurring themes

• Barbara Murphy, 64, of Roy, Utah, is the most recent “dead” person battling the federal government to prove she is still alive (but seemingly getting nowhere). She said Social Security Administration bureaucrats, citing protocols, have been tight-lipped about her problem and remedies even though her bank account was frozen; Social Security was dunning her for two years worth of Medicare premiums (since her 2014 “death”); and warning letters had been sent to banks and credit agencies. Nonetheless, Murphy told the Deseret News in August that, all in all, she feels pretty good despite being dead.

• Political connections in some Latin American countries have allowed convicted

drug dealers and crime bosses to serve their sentences comfortably, and the most recent instance to make the news, from Agence France-Presse, was the presidential-suitetype “cell” occupied by Brazilian drug lord Jarvis Chimenes Pavao in Paraguay. When police (apparently not “politically connected”) raided the cell in July, they found a well-appointed apartment with semiluxurious furniture settings (including a conference table for Pavao to conduct “business”), embellished wallpaper designs with built-in bookcases, a huge TV among the latest electronics and even a handsome shoe rack holding Pavao’s footwear selection.

Pavao also rented out part of the suite to oth- Updates er inmates for the equivalent of $5,000 plus Roy Pearson, a former District of Colum$600 weekly rent. bia administrative law judge, may be the

only person in America who believes that his 2005 $54 million unsuccessful lawsuit against his dry cleaners was not frivolous — and he has still not come to the end of his legal odyssey. In June, a D.C. Bar disciplinary committee recommended that Pearson be placed on probation for two years because of ethics violations, including having made statements “unsupported” by facts when defending his contention that the cleaners’ “satisfaction guaranteed” warranty made it liable for various negative occurrences in Pearson’s life following the loss of a pair of pants at the store. Not surprisingly, Pearson, now 65, announced that he would challenge the committee recommendation.

• Once again, Iceland’s “little people” have, when disrespected, roiled the country’s public policy. In August, a road crew had inadvertently buried a supposedly enchanted elfin rock along a highway being cleared of debris from a landslide, and immediately, all misfortunes in the area were attributed to the elves’ displeasure. According to an Agence France-Presse dispatch, crews were quickly ordered to re-set the rock. (The incident was one more in a long series in which public and private funds in Iceland are routinely diverted toward projects thought to appease the elves.)

A News of the Weird classic (November 2012)

Former Arkansas state legislator Charlie Fuqua is running again (in 2012) after a 14-year absence from elective office. In the interim, reported the Arkansas Times, he wrote a book, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution,” reminding Christians that they could put their rebellious children to death as long as proper procedure (from Deuteronomy 21:18-21) was followed.

“Even though this (procedure) would rarely be used,” Fuqua wrote, “if it were the law of the land ... it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.” (Fuqua failed to gain his party’s nomination.)

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Legalities

• Chris Atkins in Denver is among the most recent judicially ruled “fathers” to owe child support even though DNA tests have proven that another man produced the child. Atkins is in the middle of a contentious divorce/child custody battle in which his estranged wife wants both custody and support payments, and since Atkins did not contest his fatherhood until the child reached age 11, he has lost legal standing.

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