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Thanksgiving is almost here

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Thanksgiving is just around the corner; let’s take the time this Thanksgiving as we celebrate in our own ways, to be thankful for what each and every one of us has. What Larry Marsolais a perfect time of the year to reach out to a friend, family member, coworker or someone you have not seen in a while and ask how they’re doing. It might mean a lot, and Thanksgiving is a wonderful day to do it.

There are a couple of events coming up that I would like to share with you.

There’s the Jingle Bell Fair on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 127 Winnacun-

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net Road in Hampton. The Hampton Chamber of Commerce hosts its Holiday Auction on Nov. 17 at the Ashworth by the Sea, 294 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach. Door opens at 6 p.m., and admission is $5. Both of these events are great ways to get some early holiday shopping done.

Last but not least, the town clock is coming back! The new clock tower in front of Centre School in Hampton is finished, and the clock is ready to run.

Please join them for a dedication ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 13, at noon.

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 8 Stay outside

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PEOPLE & PLACES

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FOOD

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On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Hampton Falls Free Library will host Songs and Stories from the War Years presented by Richard Kruppa. Find out more about this and other community events on p. 6.

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•Seven Stages Shakespeare Company presents King Lear through a lens you probably haven’t seen before — Alzheimer’s disease. The play, billed as Lear, is an exploration of Shakespeare’s text while looking at questions like, What is identity based on when you strip everything else away? The performances happens at the Millspace (55 Main St., Newmarket), with shows Thursday, Nov. 10; Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are free or pay what you will and must be reserved at 7stagesshakespeare.org.

•Stephen Godlieb’s art show will be on view now through Saturday, Nov. 12, at the RiverSea Gallery (One Washington St., Suite 310, Dover, N.H.).

• The Amesbury Cultural Council presents the 20th annual Amesbury Open Studio Tour (Amesbury City Hall, 62 Friend St., Amesbury, Mass) showcasing the artistic talents of the city and region on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Local artists and fine crafters will open their studios to the public. People may view and purchase the artists’ works.

There will be a free trolley ride and live music.

• Dover artist Carly Glovinski was awarded the 2016 Artist Advancement Grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation — a $25,000 award, which, according to a press release, is like a “mini MacArthur” grant and is one of the largest unrestricted grants to artists

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Entries and artists’ plans are reviewed by two independent juries. Visit carlyglovinski.com.

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•Water Street Bookstore (125 Water St., Exeter) turns 25, and there’s a celebration Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be refreshments, giveaways and hourly prizes, and everything will be 20 percent off.

Visit waterstreetbooks.com or call 778-9731.

• On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Hampton Falls Free Library will host Songs and Stories from the War Years presented by Richard Kruppa. This entertaining and informative program, which begins at 6:30 p.m., focuses on some of the most beloved songs from that era such as “Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover,” “Sentimental Journey,” and “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” Richard sings, accompanying himself on guitar, five-string banjo and baritone ukulele, but he also tells their fascinating and unfamiliar stories, their meanings, history and significance. Free and open to the public. The Hampton Falls Free Library is at 7 Drinkwater Road in Hampton Falls. Check hamptonfallslibrary.org or call 926-3682.

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• At the Hampton Garden Club and Exeter Garden Club joint meeting, Merle Schlesinger will demonstrate ikebana, which is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, on Thursday, Nov.

17, 9:30 a.m. Stratham Municipal Building, 10 Bunker Hill Road, Stratham. The event is free and open to the public. Call Pat Navin at 929-6315.

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• Hampton Parks and Recreation, along with local fitness instructor Kat Cooper, will be offering Pilates classes from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays during November at the Tuck Field House at Park Avenue. Pilates is a body sculpting program designed to create lean, long muscles, reshaping the body from head to toe. The fee is $28 for one class per week, or $56 for two classes per week. Registrations are currently being accepted at the Hampton Rec office. For more information call 926-3932.

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In addition to hiking and mountain biking, Sally Gregory, adventure coordinator at New Heights in Portsmouth and Exeter, said the park provides all kinds of opportunities to experience nature, including bouldering and rock climbing.

“The park is fantastic for top-rope rock climbing at the Uppers and Lowers at Pawtuckaway — it's pretty fabulous climbing for most levels of climbers actually,” she said. “While the bouldering there is good, the top-roping is really good. … With the crowds gone from the park, now is the perfect time.”

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For lovers of history, the park is unusual in that evidence of its diverse history may still be seen today with remnants of old estates and formal gardens along with military bunkers camouflaged in thick vegetation. Offering sweeping views of the ocean and rocky shore, the park is home to the Seacoast Science Center, which features exhibits that relate to the natural and human history of Odiorne and the Seacoast region.

Other places of interest Adams Point State Wildlife Refuge, Durham: An easy, flat loop trail walk with beautiful views of Great Bay and the opportunity to see some wildlife.

Stonehouse Pond, Barrington: Easy, mostly flat terrain with just a small incline and beautiful views of the pond.

Wagon Hill Farm, Durham: Overlooking Great Bay, Wagon Hill Farm features numerous trails set amongst grassland habitats, mowed trails, oak forests, old apple orchards, and various community garden plots.

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Kingman Farm

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Used for educational field experience for the UNH Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the property contains woodland, open fields (with expansive views) and a small portion of wetlands.

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For Rice, the Great Bay Discovery Center in Greenland represents the perfect family destination.

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Outdoor adventures in Exeter With dozens of miles of trails and an abundance of conservation land, the entire town of Exeter provides numerous opportunities for exploration by foot or bike.

“Now is the perfect time to hit the trails or just access public land in general,” said Kristen Murphy, natural resource planner with the Town of Exeter. “There are no bugs or mosquitoes either, which is obviously great, too.”

Fort Rock Fort Rock, which collectively refers to Henderson-Swasey Town Forest and Oakland Town Forest, is great not only for hiking, but also for mountain biking. “The trail terrain is challenging for both hikers and mountain bikers,” Murphy said.

“Fort Rock is my go-to place,” Desrosiers said. “I’ve ridden some of the most premier trail systems around the country and I still believe Fort Rock is one of the best. With a lot of tight single track, rocks, and roots, the two forests offer amazing variety and miles upon miles of trails.”

Raynes Farm Featuring grassland, woods and river frontage, Raynes Farm is another great destination this fall. Featuring a short loop that goes through a wooded area, the property is great for wildlife-lovers, too, as turkeys, hawks and grassland birds may be found in great abundance.

Raynes Farm is also interesting with several unique architectural features, including an iconic red barn and an old granite cattle underpass.

“It’s where cattle were herded under the railroad tracks to reach boats that shipped

them to Boston,” Murphy said. “This property was the original town landing.”

Little River Conservation Area Not as well-known as other trail systems, Little River Conservation Area is a great place for those interested in experiencing nature and catching glimpses of birds and wildlife.

“The trail is under a mile and a half, but there are fishing and hunting trails throughout that you can explore further,” Murphy said. “It’s one of my favorite trail systems in town and can be accessed from Brentwood or Continental Road.”

Phillips Exeter Academy The PEA trail network features roughly 7 miles of trails that are navigable by people of all ages and abilities. These trails connect with trails at Gilman Park, which is held in a conservation easement by the Southeast Land Trust and provides beautiful views of Exeter River.

Exeter Trail Passport As a way to encourage children to get out on the trails in Exeter, the Town has created a Trail Passport, which may be printed from its website at exeternh.gov/bcc/ exeter-trail-passport.

“It’s a booklet that features some areas where parents and their kids can explore,” Murphy said. “It’s a neat program with passport rubbing stations where kids lay their passport and use a pencil to create a stamp. Kids can then come into the Planning Department office for a prize.”

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Just shy of two miles, this easily navigable trail is part of the larger Coastal Trails Network of rail trails that connect the coastal towns of Amesbury, Salisbury, Newburyport and Newbury. Flat and wellmaintained, the trail is perfect for walking or biking.

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For those with experience in surfing, Gregory said, Hampton Beach features “great waves.” She noted fall surfing at Hampton Beach is not just for adults either.

“We have a surfing program here at New Heights in the fall for youth who are 13 and older and they love it,” she said. “Experiencing the ocean in the fall is just a totally different kind of experience. I highly recommend it.”

Her only word of caution is one related to safety. “You need to wear a wetsuit and watch yourself around the waves, which can get pretty big this time of year,” she said. “It’s really a lot of fun.”

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is left of its colorful foliage from a unique perspective.

Located in Stratham, Chapman’s Landing is another entry point into Squamscott River and represents an easily accessible spot from which to explore the various salt marshes and tidal creeks along its banks.

“This is my favorite time of year to go exploring — whether it be hiking, moun-

For Rice, there is nothing quite like exploring the Seacoast, especially through the eyes of her children.

“My kids are young, so it’s fun to celebrate reaching a summit,” she said. “It’s great to see their reaction to something — the changing of the leaves, for instance.

It’s also great when we can encourage the kids to keep going when they have reached a hard part of the trail. They feel like they have accomplished something.”

Desrosiers said the Seacoast is particularly beautiful (and quiet) in the fall, which she said is an underappreciated time to explore the Seacoast’s surprisingly diverse terrain.

“You have marsh land, the ocean, forests, rivers, lakes and mountains all within 30 minutes’ drive — it’s pretty incredible,” she said.

Murphy said what is equally incredible is that many of the trails in the region rely on the work of volunteers.

“I can speak directly from experience in Exeter, which has a trail committee composed entirely of volunteers,” she said.

“They discuss current conditions and any-

thing else related to their upkeep. … The natural resources in the area rely to a real extent on a committed volunteer base.”

Gregory added, “You just need to get out there to experience it.”

Safety first Whether you’re exploring the Seacoast on the water or on the trail, safety is critical, especially due to the shortening days.

“It gets dark early, so you don’t want to get caught unprepared,” Desrosiers said.

Items to include on any adventure include a headlamp that can be worn around your head and extra layers of clothing, including a hat. Clothing with breathing and moisture-wicking properties is worth the extra expense. Desrosiers suggests telling people where you are headed, too, as an extra measure of safety.

Tips for safety on the water this time of year include wearing — not just bringing — a personal floatation device (PFD), as colder water temperatures will instantly restrict your movement should you fall out of your kayak.

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For most young people, Saturday afternoons in May and June are spent with friends or pursuing personal hobbies. But for Jack Rademacher and Jack Nardone, those days are all about teaching kids lacrosse.

Both have volunteered their time for several years as coaches for Hampton Youth Association Sports Association’s K2 Lacrosse program. Head Coach Nick LaPierre referred to their commitment as “impressive.”

“Both of these kids have been heads above my other volunteers based on their consistent attendance, politeness and overall good attitude,” he said. “They have served the kindergarten through second grade program well for the last few years.

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The program gives them a chance to get some of that energy out.”

He said that while fun is one major objective, so too are teamwork and game fundamentals.

“They make friends, too — it’s great to see,” he added. “I like the whole program because it emphasizes fun while also encouraging them to develop an interest in the sport moving forward — wherever it is they plan on going with it.”

Regarding his future, Rademacher said he is considering several colleges, including the University of Michigan, Cornell, Princeton and others. He plans to major in some discipline related to engineering, with computer science most likely his top choice.

“I’m struggling with that decision,” he said.

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el, although he is considering participation on a club team. In summing up his experience as a volunteer coach for the program, he said it has been particularly gratifying to serve as a role model.

“They really look up to me. It’s great to have that role and help teach them about a great sport while having fun at the same time,” he said.

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For seventhgrader Jack Nardone, who attends Hampton Academy, there is nothing more enjoyable than giving back to a sport he has enjoyed playing since Courtesy photo. kindergarten.

“I like seeing kids getting their experience levels up,” he said. “I like coaching them.”

Nardone’s mother started the program so younger kids could play with those closer in age — previously, all K through 2 kids participated at the age 9 level — and Nardone said he hopes kids follow his lead and become coaches, too.

“I hope they step up to the same job,” he said. “I think what I have learned is that it is just good to coach little kids.”

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By Ray Magliozzi but it’s nice to know it’s there if I get the urge. Living near the top of one of San Francisco’s steepest hills, I do get to live wildly for seven blocks of four-wheel energy on a daily basis. The only problem I have with it is with the initial acceleration response. Stepping on the gas produces a momentary (one- to three-second) delay before the engine understands its instruction.

It can be very dangerous when changing lanes at 70 mph, and it puts me at a slight disadvantage when I’m first in line at a stoplight. (I’m not too old to still get a kick out of being first off the line.) The service manager at the dealership explained that cars no longer use linkage to communicate with the engine and that it is now all electronic through sensors, and it just takes time for the instructions to get through to the engine. He told me all new cars have this problem. For some reason, this just doesn’t cut the butter for me, and I’m wondering if this is, in fact, a

problem universally with the new cars, or do I need to four-wheel it to Italy and confront the Fiat Chrysler Company? — Ken What the service manager told you is unmitigated horsefeathers. While it’s true that all cars now communicate the throttle position electronically, if anything, the signal travels faster than the old cable connection.

And not all new cars hesitate from one to three seconds after you step on the gas. This kind of cock-and-bull story is what gives car dealers a bad name. This service manager clearly needs to take our two-week course in “gaslighting” customers. We call it “Two Weeks to Better Horsefeathers.”

This car has a new nine-speed automatic transmission that was the subject of many customer complaints — and at least one class-action lawsuit. My guess is that the hesitation has to do with the transmission.

Perhaps Jeep has come up with a software upgrade that improves the transmission’s performance. It’s worth asking specifically about that and seeing if it helps.

The other thing you should do is ask the service manager to go with you for a drive in another car on the lot. If his argument is that all new cars do this, then the 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee on the lot will do it too, right?

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egade, and see if it’s any better than your 2015. If it’s the same, you may be out of luck, and Fiat Chrysler may have been unable to make this transmission work correctly.

But if a newer Renegade doesn’t hesitate, then you’re perfectly justified in telling the service manager that there’s something wrong with yours, and that you expect Jeep to fix it under warranty.

You also might want to familiarize yourself with your state’s lemon law provisions, to keep your options open. We hope it gets fixed, and we hope you enjoy many years of four-wheeling in the Denny’s parking lot.

Dear Car Talk: I own a 2003 Toyota Avalon that has 45,000 miles on it. I’m the original owner, and I live in Hawaii. My wife and I are thinking of relocating to the Pacific Northwest and are wondering if the change in weather temperature will do anything to change the car’s performance. The car runs really great, with no engine problems. Back in the ‘90s, I shipped my 1986 Chevy truck to my son, and a year later, there were all kinds of problems. One was that the engine would stall upon accelerating, which is scary when trying to zoom across a busy intersection. Another problem was when a mechanic

reported that the engine fan was hitting the shroud, even though there was no accident involved. I would appreciate your feedback and thoughts. Aloha! — Jackson Well, since you’re moving from the earthly paradise of Hawaii to a place where it’s cloudy and rainy 300 days a year, my biggest concern is that your Avalon is going to become depressed. You might need to start dropping Carzac into its tank.

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Go local for your big meal’s main event While many stores may skip right from Halloween to Christmas, there’s a major foodie holiday in between that duly gives thanks for all the year’s blessings. And that means it’s time to get your turkey on.

For every family tradition, there is a different way to prepare the bird. Traditionalists will roast it, adventurers will beer-baste it all week, daredevils will opt to dip it whole in a giant Fryolator vat of peanut oil. Regardless, the centerpiece is turkey — not a bad thing, since it’s packed with protein and all the B vitamins, thanks to poultry’s tryptophan, which induces that happy chemical serotonin (and the mythical napping).

No one will point fingers at you if you go the grocery store route of purchasing a frozen turkey, but before you do, take a look at a more holistic, healthier version to dress your table and in so doing support local farmers.

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At Kellie Brook Farm in Greenland, owner Tim Rocha has been farming the 30-acre land since 1992 along with his children Kellie, Timothy and Andrew — first with vegetables and now with all things meat, from pork and poultry to beef and veal.

“Over the years, raising the birds themselves hasn’t changed too much,” Rocha said, “but what has changed is customer awareness of GMOs and non-GMOs, seeds, free-range, and so forth — all these have become more of a concern. They’re questioning things, and people want to buy what’s good for them and the community. People who don’t want GMOs will buy local.”

According to Rocha, commercial birds all look the same because they are massproduced, and while this means they may cook at a more standard, predictable rate, it doesn’t mean they taste better.

“Ours are going to vary from commercial birds. Mine are leaner in general, and some are heavier, some lighter,” Rocha said.

Rocha prefers the standard broadbreasted white turkey (versus the darker-feathered, steeped-in-pilgrim-history heritage variety).

“We buy day-old chicks, called poults, from a hatchery and raise them from the very start by ourselves. The broad-breasted white turkeys prefer grain, although they do go out to pasture so they eat whatever they want, but they predominantly prefer grain, whereas, for instance, heritage birds like to eat more grass,” Rocha said.

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lie Brook Farm typically has birds ranging between 10 and 15 pounds, which Roche said are the most popular, but they do get to be as large as 25 pounds. According to Roche, turkey orders start coming in at the beginning of October, at $4.75 per pound, until they sell out.

“Sometimes we sell out, sometimes we don’t. About two weeks before Thanksgiving is our busiest time,” Rocha said.

While Rocha admits there’s a lot less work after Thanksgiving when the demand for turkey decreases, he urges people to think about turkey year-round for its diversity and opportunity to create so many dishes.

“The biggest problem with raising turkeys is that no one gives a thought to them very much after the holidays,” he said.

Still, whatever birds don’t sell never go to waste.

“We will sell all the turkey parts and make lots of other things, like sausage and chili,” which they’ll sell at the Seacoast Eat Local winter farmers markets and to local restaurants.

Rocha said he’s able to maintain a healthy balance between the business of raising animals as meat and getting attached to them.

“It may sound harsh, but it’s a business.

They’re meat, and I raise them for that. I don’t get too attached anymore because I grew up on a dairy farm so I’ve been around animals my whole life. We also raise around 80 to 100 pigs a year, in addition to chickens, turkey and beef, so it’s an ongoing process with lots of cuts of meats.”

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necessarily recommend any fancy footwork when it comes to cooking one for dinner.

“You can do all sorts of things, you can go all out with the flavor combinations, but local birds have so much flavor I don’t think you need to go overboard with the spices and things like that. All the flavor is already there. So I just do a simple spice rub of salt and pepper,” he said.

He recommends using a meat thermometer, “especially if it’s a small enough bird, you don’t want to overcook it.” And, “when you take it out of the oven, be sure to lie it on its back while resting — that way all the juice goes into the breast and makes it really moist.”

Hurd Farm

Steve Hurd, of Hurd Farm in Hampton, which has been family-owned and -operated since 1923, also grew his farm business on dairy before switching over to animals for meat.

“Around 2009, we were losing about $1,000 a week raising dairy cows. We’ve been raising turkeys since 2010 as well as other poultry and beef,” he said.

All-natural, free-range, non-GMO, pasture-fed — it is simply locally grown goodness.

“We have about 600 turkeys growing as we speak, all pastured open-range, with both grass and grain feeding,” Hurd said.

“Each bird has plenty of acres apiece to graze on, as we move the pasture every week across 20 acres [with 160 total acres available on the farm] to make sure they always have fresh grass to eat.”

According to Hurd, the main reason to buy a farm-raised turkey versus the frozen-food-aisle variety is to support local farmers.

“If you buy a bird from me, you’re not only supporting my farm but all local farms and farmers,” he said. “I buy grain from local farmers, for instance, so you’re supporting that chain of sourcing local ingredients.”

Choosing locally raised meats also carries with it a sense of doing something right for the environment and creating a harmonious relationship with the universe.

“I feel local birds are best, because they’re outside, getting fresh air, being happy. They tend to be moister. Poultry in general is fairly lean, so farm-raised birds are just an all-around better bird,” he said.

According to Hurd, the birds are themselves nature-lovers. They love the rain and the elements and are happy to stay outside on Hurd Farm’s little wagon to roost.

“A lot of times we as humans build barns and such for our own benefit,” he added.

They purchase their birds locally once they’re off the heat — which is about six weeks old, once their feathers are in — and Hurd said they have about six age groups going at a variety of sizes.

“We tell folks we can’t guarantee a size when we first get them, because there’s never a guarantee with Mother Nature, but they’re usually anywhere from 12 to 30 pounds. It’s first come, first served when ordering,” he said.

When you pick up your main dish, at $4.99 per pound, you’ll receive a detailed instruction sheet for cooking and preparation. Commercial birds usually require 20 to 30 minutes per pound, while fresh local birds, depending on size, can range from 15 to 30 minutes.

Hurd advises thinking outside of the fad box when it comes to cooking farm-raised birds.

“A lot of people, they’re going to brine it. I think that started with commercial birds because they’re dry. These birds are moist enough as is so that doesn’t need to be done,” he said.

Like Roche, Hurd admits that turkeys are very seasonal and any leftover birds are never for naught.

“If we have any turkeys left over, we’ll make ground turkey or turkey pot pie, things like that,” which they will also sell at Seacoast Eat Local farmers markets or their in-house shop at the farm, which is open Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m.

“Overall, I sell more beef and pork than turkeys,” Hurd said, “but it’s all turkey around Thanksgiving and Christmastime.”

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Whether you’re making Thanksgiving dinner for the first time or you’re looking for something new to bring to the table this year, there are all kinds of Thanksgiving cooking classes to help you prepare for the big day. You can learn the basics of cooking a turkey, or take it to the next level with a tutorial on apple wine cranberry glazed turkey. Get tips on how to make various sides, pies and other desserts, gluten-free dishes and more. Kids can join the fun, too, with a parent-child workshop and a lesson in leftover turkey lunches. Class sizes may be limited, so call to confirm that space is available, and register soon to secure your spot.

• Turnip Your Thanksgiving Workshop series includes three sessions, each featuring a demonstration of how to make a Turnip The Beet recipe for a Thanksgiving side. The recipes are grain-free sage biscuits and easy clean gravy; grain-free turkey sausage stuffing; and maple pecan vegetable root puree and cranberry sauce. Participants will receive samples and recipes.

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• T’is the Season: Party Appetizers Menu TBD. When: Saturday, Nov. 12, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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• All the Thanksgiving Fixin’s Fresh and Local Kids in grades 4 through 8 will learn how to make creative lunches with Thanksgiving turkey leftovers using cranberries.

This class is part of the Fresh Ideas About Food youth series taught by Tracey Miller and Chef Teri Hull from Dig In: Real Food Solutions.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 4 to 5 p.m.

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• What’s Thanksgiving without Pie? Menu TBD. When: Saturday, Nov. 19, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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We know where the glitches occur in the system and we address it as necessary [laughs]. The customer base is also quite good. We have a lot of regulars. We have a lot of newbies.

How would you describe La Festa’s dining environment?

The dining environment, like I said, is eclectic and odd in a good way. People seem to really dig it. We have open seating, so families don’t have to wait or anything when dining in. As long as you see tables and chairs, just dive on in.

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A week to dine out

Seacoast restaurants offer special deals The culinary celebration known as Restaurant Week Portsmouth & the Seacoast is back for another 10 days of special deals at more than 40 Seacoast area restaurants.

From Thursday, Nov. 10, through Saturday, Nov. 19, all participating restaurants will feature three-course prix fixe meals at $16.95 for lunch and $29.95 for dinner per person, as well as exclusive menu items and drinks.

Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce events coordinator Sara Dahlen said the biyearly event attracts between 60,000 and 75,000 diners every spring and fall.

“It just keeps getting bigger and bigger,” she said. “It’s really exploded into this great week when all the restaurants can show off what they can do and put Portsmouth on the map as a restaurant destination.”

Most of the participating restaurants are located in Portsmouth, but there are others from all around the Seacoast including Dover, Hampton, New Castle, Rye, Exeter and Kittery, Maine.

The cuisine runs the gamut: Greek, Mexican, Italian, contemporary American, pub food, tapas, seafood, fine dining, comfort food, farm-to-table and more. Dahlen said it’s that diversity that makes Portsmouth a unique dining destination worth celebrating.

“We have such an eclectic variety of restaurants here,” Dahlen said. “There’s really something for everyone.”

Restaurants may offer either lunch or dinner or both, and some may apply the same $16.95 lunch deal price to dinner as well. The prix fixe menus typically consist of an appetizer, main dish and dessert, with several different choices for each course.

Optional add-ons may also be available.

Throughout the week, restaurants will also be highlighting certain drinks including Michter’s Whiskey, Jack’s Abby brews and wine from M.S. Walker.

Because many of the restaurants utilize local ingredients, the Restaurant Week menus often feature seasonal dishes, making this a culinary experience distinct from the Restaurant Week held in the spring.

“Some of these menus look amazing.

It’s really [the restaurants’] time to shine,” Dahlen said. “All these fall- and winterbased [dishes] with the local apples and pumpkin just sound delicious.”

Links to all of the participating restaurants’ Restaurant Week menus will be posted on the event website as they become available. Reservations are strongly recommended as the restaurants will have more diners than usual.

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One of my go-to Thanksgiving wines, and the one that probably tops my list, is Hermit Woods Winery’s Heirloom Crabapple wine.

This has become a signature offering. It has medium sweetness and some subtle bitterness from the crabapples that pairs perfectly with stuffing, turkey and more.

Another Thanksgiving wine on my list is LaBelle Winery’s cranberry wine. Not only is its color gorgeous, but it has light sweetness balanced with tartness from the cranberries.

It can be used to make a spritzer or cranberry cosmo martini as well. LaBelle’s Shimmer, a blend of riesling and dry apple wine, is another alternative to the typical sparkling wine that will still please Champagne drinkers with its crispness. Zorvino Vineyards also offers a cranberry wine, as well as CranZeeno, a cranberry blend.

Speaking of cranberries and apples, the apple cranberry wine that Flag Hill Winery & Distillery in Lee offers is another favorite and something I always stock up on this time of year. This wine is just sufficiently sweet and tart to please the palate. That balance also makes it a great wine to serve with the variety of dishes the Thanksgiving meal includes.

Copper Beech Winery in Hooksett has a variety of wines that will complement the Thanksgiving meal, including Autumn Harvest, an apple and white cranberry blend; Brilliant Cranberry, a tart and bright wine; Country Crabapple, a crisp, tart and off-dry wine; and Crisp Apple, made from a blend of Granite State apples.

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White wine is typically thought of as a natural pairing with turkey, but the key is finding something that also goes well with the rest of the meal, including the squash, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Sweet Baby Vineyard offers a pinot grigio that is a great option for Thanksgiving, as it is off-dry with hints of pineapple. Chardonnay drinkers will also like their offering, as it is lightly oaked with just enough buttery texture.

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wine with notes of green apple; Seyval, a smooth and clean wine with hints of passion fruit, peach and citrus; and one of my favorites, Cayuga White, which is an off-dry wine with hints of tropical fruit and melon. You really can’t go wrong with any of these.

Wine drinkers who like something a little sweeter may like Flag Hill’s Cayuga White, which is a sweet wine with balanced acidity and notes of exotic and tropical fruit.

Red wine

Red wine drinkers should choose a pinot noir, as it is a lighter red that will complement the meal. Other options are merlot and cabernet. My favorite pinot noir is Firesteed from Oregon and it is what I’d put on my table as a red option. Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown makes a pinot noir as well.

Other options include Italian wines like barbera and valpolicella; Beaujolais; zinfandel or grenache.

Dessert wine

Following the Thanksgiving meal, sweeter dessert wines pair well with pies and other sweets, or they can be enjoyed on their own.

Port wine or Madeira will pair well with chocolate or chocolate desserts. If you’re having pumpkin pie, try it with riesling (Jewell Towne Vineyards makes one of my favorites), or moscato if you’d like something sweeter. I like the Sequin and Cupcake moscatos, but there are several options.

Mulled apple cider with Sap House Meadery’s Vanilla Bean mead is another great option. Or try Zorvino Vineyard’s Jumpin’ Jack’s Pumpkin Wine with some coffee.

Ultimately, you should base your decisions on what you or your guests like, regardless of what “the rules” say, or just offer a variety of red and whites that are middle of the road: not too dry, and not too sweet. — Stefanie Phillips

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It’s probably fair to call Peterborough writer Katrina Kenison a publishing expert.

The former Houghton Mifflin Co. employee was the series editor of The Best American Katrina Kenison.

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But for her latest project, Moments of Seeing: Reflections from an Ordinary Life, Kenison wanted total creative control. She wanted to choose the title, cover art, paper, typeface size and style, in addition to content.

So she did.

The book, released officially Nov. 1, is a collection of essays from her blog, which she started in 2009 at the request of her publisher to promote The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother’s Memoir. At the time she wasn’t sure what a blog even was and felt dubious after her first entry.

“I thought, who’s ever going to find this?”

Kenison said via phone last week.

She needn’t have worried. Readers of her books found her. It certainly helped that her memoirs — which also include Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry and Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment — received rave reviews from prolific writers, like Ann Patchett, and popular magazines, like O: The Oprah Magazine and People.

Kenison wrote about children growing up and leaving home, about loss — of friends, family pets — and about midlife changes.

Mostly, she wrote about everyday moments.

Today she has almost 6,000 subscribers.

“I discovered that I love the essay form. It was so liberating to just get to sit down and, every week, write about what was going on in my life,” Kenison said. “And to my surprise, this community of readers just grew. … The blog became, in a way, almost like an online notebook. And unlike so many other blogs about one specific thing, like gardenMeet Katrina Kenison

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ing, cooking or parenting, mine is just about life as it unfolds.”

Four years ago, she thought about collecting these essays in a book, but her husband beat her to the punch and created 50 copies for her 2012 Christmas present. Kenison dispersed them to friends and family and offered a couple to website readers. Leave comments, she told them, and she’d pick a winner at random.

“I got hundreds of comments of people saying they wanted to buy it,” Kenison said.

“I realized [the essays] really do tell a story about a certain time in a person’s life that’s pretty universal, certainly for mothers. …

I wrote about some pretty challenging middle-age losses that everybody I knew had experienced some version of.”

While recovering from two hip replacement surgeries last spring, she got her chance to spend more time with these pieces, choosing the ones that best contributed to the narrative. Because of her careful, slow writing style, she didn’t need to spend much time editing, but regular readers might notice an energy different from her memoirs.

“These are even more intimate and more personal because, working on a book, you’re working in hindsight; you’re looking back and you’re writing about things you’ve kind of figured out. But these are very much of the moment,” Kenison said.

Peterborough artist Sue Callihan painted the cover image, her friend Rickie Harvey edited, Kase Printing in Hudson did the printing and Hancock book designer Ellen Klempner-Beguin helped create the perfect balance of beauty and comfort.

“It’s really important to me that this book be a beautiful object, not only that the content be beautiful, but the book itself be physically beautiful. Ellen, the designer, and I spent a couple hours at the Toadstool Bookstore looking at all these beautiful books,” Kenison said. “Even though I was an editor in New York for years and published books with New York publishers, I never got to make these choices before — the type of paper, the cover design, I got complete artistic control.”

Kenison said she was able to make the decisions a big publishing house might not.

“We weren’t going for the cheapest price. It wasn’t about [making] the most money. I was out to make the most beautiful book I could,” she said.

It’s a gamble, to publish this way. Writers who work with big companies get advances; this project had upfront costs. It’s also up to her to make it sell, and she’s got many author events set up at local bookstores. But it’s the kind of work she enjoys, and already she’s sold more than half her first printing of 2,100.

“The book was a labor of love but also a labor of joy,” Kenison said. — Kelly Sennott

SEACOAST FILMMAKER AT INDIE FEST Dover filmmaker and attorney Alfred Thomas Catalfo returns to the New England Indie Fest (formerly known as the SNOB Film Festival) to show his eighth short film, Split Ticket, a 20-minute supernatural drama that takes place in 1947 and follows newly minted congressmen and future presidents John F. Kennedy (age 29) and Richard Nixon (age 34). The two travel to Pennsylvania together and eat hamburgers in a diner and bunk beds on a train and must make a fateful decision. Catalfo said it has a Twilight Zone kind of flair and was inspired by a historical incident recounted in Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America by Chris Matthews. Split Ticket was shot in six different Seacoast locations and has been making the festival circuit rounds, having screened in places like Orlando, Los Angeles, D.C., Rhode Island, Atlanta, etc. Catalfo always makes sure Concord, N.H., is on the list.

“I really like the atmosphere … [at] SNOB, now the New England Indie Fest,” Catalfo said via phone. “It’s compact, and the filmmakers and audience members really have a chance to interact and have in-depth discussions.”

Screenings for SNOB presents New England Indie Fest happen at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main St., Concord, 224-4600, redrivertheatres.org). The schedule is as follows; contact the theater or check snobfilmfestival.com to find out when Split Ticket will be shown.

Thursday, Nov. 10: Beer tasting and screenings starting at 5 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 11: Screenings start at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 12: Screenings from 10 a.m. until the end of the day Sunday, Nov. 13: Screenings start at 1:30 p.m., encore and awards at 3 p.m.

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There is always a fabulous array of holiday gifts, services, gift certificates, and much more to choose from. Enjoy the “Festive Wreaths” which features beautifully decorated wreaths donated by local business owners and community members. The auction is a great night out too, with a light supper including appetizers, soup & sliders, as well as a pie station “yum”!

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Hometown side

Godsmack frontman turns intimate on new solo record Sully Erna’s first solo record was a complex tapestry of sound and rhythm — ethereal, even symphonic at times.

Erna goes in another direction on his latest, Hometown Life — several, actually.

Released in late September, it opens with grandeur with the epic title track, turns a bit Latin on “Your Own Drum,” then offers pedal steel guitar and other country elements on “Different Kind of Tears” — that’s just the first three songs.

At turns jazzily buoyant and achingly honest, it’s a rich and wholly winning effort, a more than worthy follow up to 2010’s Avalon. Both records share a common thread: a studio band that includes mostly local musicians. Chris Lester, Lisa Guyer and Dave Stefenalli, ex-bandmates in Mama Kicks, returned for the new disc, along with Seacoast guitarist Tim Theriault and Boston cellist Irina Chrkova. Erna even brought his father in to play trumpet on the record’s most upbeat number, “Turn It Up.” Erna explained in a recent phone interview that once again looking in his musical backyard was an easy choice.

“They’re all phenomenal, and I knew that no matter what I threw in front of them, they’d be able to not only play it, and play it well, but bring a kind of authenticity,” he said. “What I thought was cool is I could use the exact same musicians that helped me create this really earthy, tribal, mystical record — Avalon — to create something completely different.”

Sully Erna When: Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m.

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Lester and Theriault are backing Erna for a short tour that stops in Hampton Beach on Nov. 12. The shows will be stripped down affairs.

“I want to present these songs in a very intimate way for now, because I really believe in the songwriting,” Erna said. “I want to touch people on an emotional level.”

Lyrically, Erna is exposed and vulnerable on the new record. The tone is set on the opening track, surprisingly written at the end of the project. He uncovered an “epicsounding” piano riff from a collection of song notes and began trying to match his emotions to the music.

Soon, memories of growing up in Lawrence, Mass., came to the forefront. One

line in the song sums up Erna’s ambivalent relationship with his hometown: “I breathe in the air that’s so unclean/yet keeps me alive,” he sings.

“I don’t think I would have been able to go through these experiences of my life — the trauma, feelings and the ups and downs — if I hadn’t come from such a crazy city like Lawrence,” he said. “So there it was, the content was there and plenty of it. I could probably write a whole album on just that song.”

Initially, he worried that the last-minute addition would disrupt the flow of Hometown Life.

“I was really concerned about it fitting with the record because it’s not

like ... it’s disconnected from the textures of the rest of the album,” he said.

“Then I thought, you know what? Nothing sounds the same on this record.”

Working with Erna for the first time was Nashville songwriter Zac Malloy.

“Sometimes another writer will steer you in a different direction, they’ll zig when you zag and it really opens up a whole new world of information,” Erna said. “I had my management reach out to see who was available that wasn’t afraid to work with the big bad wolf from Godsmack, and Zac was one of the first who spoke up and said he was really interested. I really loved what he brought to the table.”

Malloy’s contribution led to some of Erna’s favorite moments on the record, particularly “Different Kind of Tears,” a song both drew from their experience raising teenagers.

“Emotional pain in their lives always feels so unique, like no one can understand how badly it hurts ...,” he said. “It’s a different kind of pain for them. Really, it was inspired by the younger demographic that’s experiencing real-life situations for the first time. Same thing with ‘Your Own Drum’ — it was more about making sure that they have identity; don’t be a follower, be a leader. Go find your own path, be in front of everyone else.”

For the linchpin of a high-powered heavy metal band, exploring his softer side energized Erna, and he’s excited to unveil Hometown Life with spare instrumentation.

“I really think the new songs will translate in a much different way, stronger to a degree, when they’re stripped down,” he said. “So we’re gonna play around with this a little bit. See how it feels.”

— Michael Witthaus

Rock revival

Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals reprises classic era The voice of countless classic songs with The Young Rascals and The Rascals, Felix Cavaliere performs Nov. 11 at Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury, Mass. Expect a hit-packed show from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. In a recent interview, Cavaliere talked about his beginnings with Joey Dee’s Starliters, where he met two future members of The Young Rascals, as well as the band’s early and rapid success, the 2012-13 Once Upon a Dream reunion tour and his current show.

Cavaliere went from pre-med college student to playing music full-time.

It just kind of happened. I was in Syracuse and I took a summer and went to the Catskill Mountains with a band that I had in school. I had been bitten by the bug of how much fun this was, to play and to make a living playing. … I had my dad’s permission to give it a year. I’ll never forget his words, to see if I could make it in the music business. Which of course is absurd.

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It took more than a year ...

Quite frankly, what I had to deal with was the draft. I really felt strange about trying to start something only to be interrupted by a two-year stint in the U.S. Army, so I dilly-dallied until I got that resolved. They were a lot more choosy in the beginning of the draft for the Vietnam War … so they classified me as 1Y. So I said, ‘OK, now I can start my band?’

So I did [and] as naïve as that sounds … in 1965 it literally only took us six months to have a record contract.

How he knew their first big hit would happen …

The advantage of being a band in a nightclub is that you get an instant reaction from the public. From the moment we started putting “Good Lovin’” in our set, people started jumping out of their Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals When: Friday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.

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chairs to dance. You don’t really know except for other people’s reaction whether you have a hit or not. And “Good Lovin’” kind of caught all of us by surprise because it was our second record and it just went all over the world with that No. 1 status.

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The band’s second Top 10 song was much different.

Like The Beatles, we wanted to write. I convinced Eddie [Brigati] that we would be a good team because I felt he was very good with words — some of them not so nice and some nice. ... That transition from using other people’s songs to your own songs was not the easiest. Instead of having time to develop, we had to develop in front of the public [and] we had to hone our craft. Besides becoming writers, we also produced, so we had to learn that. We had tremendous help from Atlantic Records. I can’t say enough about the way that the company nurtured us and helped us to evolve into quality talent. So by the time ... we got to “Groovin’” we were getting pretty good.

The differences between Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals and Once Upon a Dream …

There are a lot less people! We had 21 people on Once Upon a Dream — that was a really interesting experience for me. First of all you are bound to a script [and] I really feel that the people really wanted to hear us more than to see the story behind us, although it was a really good and true story. But mine is a different setup. I’m in the middle now and more of the focal point ... I try to do all of our songs that people know, because I really feel that that is what people want to hear.

Felix Cavaliere. Courtesy photo.

His current group is a five-piece: drums, bass, guitar and two keyboard players.

I’m so proud of the band. The Rascals were together five years and these guys I’ve been with for 15 to 16 years. They are just magnificent. It’s a really joyous occasion when you get to play in front of people. I’m blessed to do this at my age FELIX CAVALIERE and still see those smiling faces. It’s a pretty cool thing to do, and the band, even though they weren’t there then, they sense that.

I’m blessed to do this at my age and sill see those smiling faces.

A unique aspect of the show is a bit of context Cavaliere calls “lightening.”

People were really connected to the music in those days as opposed to today, being connected by Facebook. I try to establish this type of communication and I do that by the music. So when I’m doing “Groovin’” I throw in another song — “My Girl” — for about 32 bars. Everybody’s eyes perk up, they start singing.

Then I’ll stop and do another thing, throw another song in. I really try to make it an experience that twinges the memory banks of our audience. Sometimes I throw Hendrix and Zeppelin in to wake them up.

Did he ever sense the Rascals’ music would endure as it has?

I never thought about it. The only thing I had was that I was classically trained and the music that I was playing was a hundred years old in some cases. But we never thought of that, especially in our industry at that time, where the demand on your output was considerably more than it is today. We did two albums per year, so you really try to put that kind of emphasis into every single song but realistically, no. I don’t think anyone ever dreamt that this music would last as long as it has lasted. — Michael Witthaus

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today you realize that it’s the little things in life that are important. Especially those pills you take every morning.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The key to success is to grab life by the throat. Unfortunately, life is a giraffe.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, except for the mice living in your walls, whose plans are working out just great.

Aries (March 21-April 19): You have friends in high places, especially the secure psychiatric unit on the fourth floor.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Great things are about to happen. Not to you, but to a lot of other people somewhere.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): You will soon encounter the blessings and miracle of newborn life. Unfortunately, it will come in the form of bedbugs.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): He who hesitates is lost. But due to a typo, when you hesitate, you’re last. Tough either way.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than a

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): All is fair in love and war. In your case, you stand a much better chance of finding out how that relates to war.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today you will shout “Yes!” to life. Unfortunately, we can’t print what life will shout back to you.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Live your life as if you have nothing to apologize for.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Today you will see life from a completely new and unexpected perspective, especially after you slip on a stray bocce ball.

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Kids as young as 6 who live on a cliff top in China’s Atule’er village in Sichuan province will no longer have to use flexible vine-based ladders to climb down and up the 2,600-foot descent from their homes to school. Beijing News disclosed in October, in a report carried by CNN, that a sturdy steel ladder was being built to aid the 400 villagers after breathtaking photographs of them making the treacherous commute surfaced on the internet earlier this year.

An “ant” version of Hell

Researchers in Poland reported in August the “survival” of a colony of ants that wandered unsuspectingly into an old nuclear weapon bunker and became trapped. When researchers first noticed in 2013, they assumed the ants would soon die, either freezing or starving to death, but, returning in 2015 and 2016, they found the population stable.

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(20,000) of driver-deer collisions. Even killing deer, mountain lions still trail pussycats as predators; researchers in Nature Communications in 2013 estimated that “free-ranging (U.S.) domestic cats” kill at least 1.4 billion birds and 6.9 billion small mammals annually.

Least competent criminals

On the way to the police station in Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 19, after being arrested for, among other things, being a felon in possession of a gun, Raymond Brooks, 25, asked an officer (apparently in all seriousness) whether, after he got booked at the station, he could have his gun back. (The police report did not specify whether the officer said yes or no.)

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• Sovereigns! The director of the Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands, facing foreclosure of her home by Firstbank Puerto Rico, decided she was not really “Chenzira Davis-Kahina” but actually “Royal Daughter Sat Yah” of the “Natural Sovereign Indigenous Nation of ...

Smai Tawi Ta-Neter-Awe,” and she and her equally befuddlingly named husband have sued the bank for $190 million in federal court (and begun the flood of incomprehensible paperwork). The couple’s law of “Maat” conveniently holds that attempts by federal marshals to seize their property would double the damages to $380 million.

• “Emotional Support” Animals: Daniel, a 4-year-old duck, accompanied a woman in her 20s in October on a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Asheville, outfitted in a

Captain America diaper and red shoes to protect its feet, occasionally giving the woman a peck on the mouth. Reporting the event was author Mark Essig, who has written about pigs but admitted he’d never before been on a flight with “companion poultry” and mused whether Daniel, gazing out a window, experienced an “ancestral” yearning to fly.

The Art of Smuggling: At press time, Leston Lawrence, 35, an employee of the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa, was awaiting a court decision on charges that he stole $140,000 worth of thick gold coins (“pucks”) that, over time, were taken from the mint in his rectum. The mint’s “highest security measures” never turned up a puck on or in Lawrence; he was arrested after the mint investigated a tip that he had sold an unusual number of them for someone of his pay grade.

The passing parade

Tiny Thrills: (1) The town of Warley, England, announced it has applied to the Guinness people for the honor of having the world’s smallest museum. The Warley Community Association’s museum, with photos and mementoes of its past, is housed in an old phone booth. (So far, there are no hours; visitors just show up and open the door.) (2) The recent 100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service drew attention to the park in Guthrie, Oklahoma 10 feet by 10 feet, behind the post office and dating from the original Land Office on the spot in 1889. (According to legend, the city clerk, instead of asking the government for land “100 foot square [100 feet by 100 feet],” mistakenly asked for “100 square feet.”) Visit weirduniverse.net.

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Arrested in October and charged with kidnapping a 4-year-old girl in Lakeland: a truck driver, Mr. Wild West Hogs. Arrested in West Palm Beach in August and charged with trespassing at a Publix supermarket (and screaming at employees), Mr. Vladimir Putin.

And in August, at the dedication of a new unit at Tampa General Hospital’s pediatric center, longtime satisfied patients attended, including Maria Luva, who told guests her son, now 8 years old, was born there: Ywlyox Luva.

Perspective

In 1921, researchers for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife stated categorically in a journal that “the one predatory animal” inspiring practically nothing “good” is the mountain lion, but recent research in the journal Conservation Letters credits the animal for saving the lives of many motorists by killing deer, thus tempering the current annual number

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