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This past Saturday (April 22), Rotary members, friends, family and Interact students spent two Larry Marsolais hours shopping at Seabrook Market Basket for seven local food pantries on the Seacoast. The shopping spree was for $5,000 donated

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It’s called Portsmouth Jewelers, and it’s located at 801 Islington St., Unit 21.

If you like yard sales, there are a couple of great ones coming up on May 6, at United Methodist Church on Lafayette Road in Hampton and First Congregational Church on Winnacunnet Road in Hampton.

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The Run to Read 5K is happening on Saturday, April 29, at 10 a.m. at the Rochester Community Center (150 Wakefield St., Rochester). The event is a fundraiser for Seacoast Learning Center’s children’s dyslexia program. Money from the event will go toward expenses for the center’s free program that helps children with dyslexia learn alternative reading methods.

Proceeds will also go toward training teachers to use the Orton-Gillingham method of instruction, which values individualized needs assessment and one-on-one tutoring with children who have dyslexia.

If runners pre-register, their tickets are $20. Runners who register the day of the race will pay $25. The first 100 registered runners receive a free T-shirt. The race will begin and end at the Rochester Community Center, where there will be a digital clock so runners can see their times. All times are recorded and posted so runners can compete to see who is more proud of giving to a good cause. Visit running4free.com for more details.

Fire Department Road Race is being held Saturday, April 29, at 7:30 a.m. at Oak Park in Greenfield (971 Forest Road, Greenfield). The race is being sponsored by the Greenfield Firefighters Association and will benefit the Greenfield Volunteer Fire Department. The second annual event will feature a Hot Foot 5K and a Fire Trail 10K run. There will also be walks along the same routes.

The 5K and 10K courses will be mostly flat as runners travel along the scenic back roads of Greenfield as well as a short stretch on Forest Road. For children 10 and under there will be a Kids Smoke Stampede that will take the young runners once around the ½-mile track at Oak Park. Awards will be given to the first overall male and female runners in the 5k and 10k races.

If you are part of a fire department, you can create a team of three or more runners and register with a team name. The first fire department with three runners to cross the finish line will win a plaque and bragging rights till next year’s race. The first 50 registered runners will get a T-shirt. Race results will be posted the day of the event on colorrunning.com and will be sent to those who provide an email during registration. Visit gfdroadrace.webs.com.

The Chief Maloney Unity Run will be held Sunday, April 30, at 11 a.m. at the Stratham Police Department (76 Portsmouth Ave, Stratham, N.H.). The point-to-point 10K race will start at the Stratham Police Department and the finish line will be at the Greenland Police Department. The run honors the community’s first responders and is put on by the Chief Michael Maloney Memorial Fund. Adults are $30, teens are $20 and children 12 and under are $5.

The 6.2-mile course is a mostly straight L-shaped route following Bunker Hill Avenue and Union Road. There will be a dedicated parking lot with shuttle buses at Target and Lowe’s at 1450 Greenland Road.

A custom “260 Forever” trophy commemorating Chief Maloney will be awarded to the top overall man and woman as well as the top overall man and woman from each age group. All finishing runners will receive a medal. After the race, there will be a beer garden where runners can mingle once they have completed the course.

If you haven’t been keeping up with your training you can participate in a 0.1K race at 1 p.m. at Krasco Field, where runners will sprint to the finish and receive a beer ticket for drinks after the race. Ticket money for the races will go to the Chief Michael Maloney Memorial Fund.

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What to plant?

Flower gardens can give new life to your home. Their variety of colors and summertime shine can bring so much light to a property. Flower gardens are fragrant too, creating smells that will uplift any spirit.

Vegetable gardens are a great way to add some life to your kitchen. That’s right, what you grow in your backyard could end up as part of your dinner. Whether you are living alone or have a family to cook for, fresh garden vegetables have a unique way of standing out in any dish. If you want to truly enjoy the fruits of your labor, starting a vegetable garden can be a rewarding endeavor.

Jamie Colen, the director of Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, said that typically, flowers are easier to grow than plants that will produce food. Flowers want to spread their petals and attract pollinators like bees and butterflies so that they can flourish in your gardens.

Vegetable plants want the same thing, but it can be harder to coax out the flavorful rewards. The good news is that your hard work will make a plant that can produce food that you can use in the kitchen.

Your taste buds will notice the freshness of the vegetables because you got them right from your backyard and not from the supermarket.

Location, location

Now you’ve got to decide where you’re going to start your project. Colen said is it important to pick a spot in the back or front yard that gets a healthy amount of sunlight. Your backyard may be more ideal if it’s fenced off. Fences keep out rodents and other animals that will want to get a taste of what you have been growing.

Once you find a protected and sunny area, make sure to clear it out. Get rid of any dead leaves or other lawn debris that could get in the way of your gardening.

The soil in the spot you pick should be healthy. But that can be hard to tell by just looking so you may want to start with soil testing.

There’s something about soil

Colen said that the novice gardener will want to understand the overall health of the soil they are trying to cultivate before they begin.

“There’s a huge misconception about what soil does. It’s not simply a sponge that holds water. It’s its own ecosystem inside itself,” Colen said.

This is the part of the project that can get a little scientific.

If you are using a plot in your backyard, you will want to gauge the chemical makeup of the soil already present there. To test the health of your soil, Seacoast residents can use the resources available at the University of New Hampshire’s Cooperative Extension. You can take samples from different areas in your garden and then send them into the Cooperative Extension soil testing facilities.

Cooperative Extension’s website says to take samples from six to eight spots from the garden area you want tested. Dig down six inches with a spade or narrow shovel and remove rocks and debris from the sample. Mix the separate samples together to create a representative sample of the area.

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If you want to plant a garden, now’s the best time to do it. The sun is out and ready to give those plants the warmth and energy they need to grow, and spring’s showers will keep the plants hydrated and healthy.

Starting a garden can be intimidating, but the main pillars of growing healthy plants are simple. First, you will want to know what type of plants you want to grow. Then you will want to figure out where your new garden will flourish. Next, you have to make sure the soil in your soon-to-be garden is healthy and ready to cultivate life.

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ties, and Cooperative Extension will send you back information about the makeup of the soil in your garden area. What you want to pay attention to is the “potential for Hydrogen” or the pH balance of your soil. Typical, healthy New England soil has a 6.5 to 6.7 pH balance, which is roughly in the middle of the 14-point scale. Most plants prefer a slightly acidic pH because it helps turn the nutrients in the soil into a Grow wild Here are a few native wildflower options that could thrive in your garden, suggested by UNH Cooperative Extension.

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Golden Alexanders: Tiny yellow flowers that grow in clumps. Blossoms in late May, early June.

Wild Columbine: Crown-shaped red flower. Blossoms between late May and the end of June.

Pale Purple Coneflower: A light purple flower head with narrow and drooping rays. Blossoms from late June to mid-July.

Black-Eyed Susan: A dark-colored flower head in the center of bright yellow rays. Blossoms from mid-June to mid-August.

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Wild Bergamot: A light purple flower that splays out like fireworks. Blossoms from late July to mid-September.

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New England Aster: A purple flower with a yellow center. Blossoms from midSeptember to mid-October.

form that the plants can absorb.

Colen said that if your soil’s pH balance is too low you will see yellowing on the base of the plant and on its leaves. If the pH is too high, the plant will be exposed to toxic levels of molybdenum and die.

To reduce the pH level, Colen suggests adding more compost to the garden by churning up the topsoil and mixing the nutrient-rich substance in.

To increase the levels of pH in your soil if it is too low, Colen said, you can add lime periodically throughout the season.

Rules of (green) thumb

If you want to have good soil, Colen said, you need to mix your backyard’s native soil with manure, typically cow manure and/or compost. You can buy dehydrated manure at any gardening supply store, like Dodge’s Agway Farm & Garden in Hampton Falls.

The amount of manure you should buy depends on the size of the garden you are starting. A good rule of thumb that Colen uses is that 40 pounds of manure will satisfy 10 square feet of garden. So if you have a garden that is 5x5 feet, 40 pounds of manure will work.

At the Fuller Gardens Estate, Colen uses cow manure to enrich his soil. Cow manure is important to gardening because it feeds the microbes that help build the soil. Colen said the soil in any garden can be thought of as its own ecosystem with insects and microbes living and feeding on the soil’s nutrients. These creatures in turn give the soil more strength.

Composting is also a useful ingredient to get soil ready for gardening. Composting is the process of letting food, plant and manure decompose into a nutrient-rich substance that can increase the health of your soil.

To mix the manure or compost with the soil already present in your planned garden space, gardening masters suggest digging up some of the soil and putting it into a large

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container like a wheelbarrow. You will want to dig down about six inches so the roots that grow there have adequate space.

Add the compost and manure and mix the contents together. Then reintroduce the new mixture on to the garden. You will notice that the soil already looks healthier.

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Why these strange ingredients?

When you are out shopping for seeds or manure at a gardening store, you might stumble on a few words that can confuse you. The most common are “annual” and “perennial.” Colen said an annual is a type of plant that grows, blossoms and dies in one year. These plants typically only have one bloom period and because they die at the end of the year you will have to replant more next season.

Perennials are plants that regrow every spring. Colen said they are convenient in terms of consistency because you do not have to replant them every year. This does not mean that they can be left alone and not dealt with.You still need to water them and make sure their soil is healthy come spring.

To have a garden blooming with flowers throughout the season, Colen uses a process called secession. He said that you should stagger flowers that bloom at different times of year so that there will always be a flower in your garden in bloom.

ability to change nutrients from one form that the plants don’t like into another form that the plants do like.

“Some of those microbes can change nutrients from one form to another form that becomes available to the plant,” Smith said.

The microbes do this by eating nutrients in the soil, digesting them and then releasing them back out. Once processed by the microbes, the nutrients take a form that the plants love to consume, according to Smith.

Smith said some microbes even go after pathogens in the soil that can kill your plants. The microbes actually parasitize the parasites and drive them out of the garden. If the leaves of your plants start to accumulate dark splotches and holes, it means they have been invaded by parasites. Microbes help to fight off these parasites, which Smith said is incentive to have a thriving soil biology.

Pots and planters

So now you understand the importance of soil and you are ready to get the plants started. Let’s look at your options.

Experts say you can make the gardening process easier by starting your plants in pots or raised gardens. Bringing the pots inside by a sunlit window can let you control how much water and sunlight the plants get, without having to worry about Mother Nature. You can look for aesthetically pleasing pottery at garden centers like Wentworth Greenhouses in Rollinsford.

Once your plants have sprouted and created some roots, you can remove them from their nurseries in the pots and place them into small holes in your backyard garden. Be gentle while taking them out because you want to keep the roots in healthy condition so they can start absorbing water and nutrients right away in their new home. Every plant species is different, so do some research on when to best move a particular plant.

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You can also buy already started plants at local nurseries. The plants have already been grown to a healthy state and are ready to be put in your backyard. Like any garden, the plants will not thrive without good soil.

What about those weeds?

Once you have gotten started, you will want to know how to combat weeds. The unwelcome guests will likely be a constant problem while maintaining your garden.

Plants are constantly vying for position in your garden and weeds are especially tenacious. According to Dennis Lanphear from StoneFalls Gardens, the weeds want to suck up all the nutrients from the soil and leave your beloved garden plants with nothing.

To combat this ever-present encroachment, Lanphear said it is important to constantly stimulate your soil. Use a four-pronged cultivator to disturb the soil around the plants. If soil has been packed down or has remained settled for more than a week it needs to be churned up. Dig the cultivator about an inch into the ground and simply stir it around. Lanphear said to be careful not to dig too deep or disturb the roots of the plants you are trying to grow.

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product called a weed barrier. This product rolls out like a carpet out onto your garden.

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den sealed. Lanphear said the barrier stops the weeds from getting the chance to grow.

Now those pesky weeds won’t have their day in the sun because they will be hidden under the carpet.

For some, the carpet can be too unsightly because you don’t get to show off the whole of the garden. But if you are just getting started you can use it to make sure your plants have a healthy first few weeks without interruption from weeds and then you can take the carpet off later.

“Get on your hands and knees and start weeding,” Lanphear said.

If you want to get it done yourself, get on your hands and knees and pull those weeds out. If your other tactics have not worked, Lanphear said, you’ll just have to do it the hard way. If weeds go unchecked they can take over your garden so you need to keep them at bay, according to Lanphear. When pulling the weeds out manually, try to pull them out at the roots because otherwise they can grow back.

Keep it moving

Keeping the soil moving makes it harder for weeds to find a place to grow, and the process also aerates the soil. Lanphear said that doing this once a week can help keep away weeds that will taint your garden. Use a cultivator tool to disturb the soil by lightly digging up the top layer of dirt and mixing it up so that the soil does not stay stagnant for too long. The process also aerates the soil, which Lanphear said helps air, water and nutrients sink deeper into the ground for the roots to absorb.

Weed-killing sprays are designed to kill plants and many experts say that is not something you want to add to your garden.

When to water

It is important to water your garden at the right time of day. Contrary to what most people believe, Lanphear said, you can’t just water your plants whenever you have free time. What can happen is novice

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gardeners decide to go out to their gardens after a long day of work and start spraying the hose. But Lanphear said it can be bad for the plants because, at night, most of that water lingers, giving mold and mildew the chance to grow.

“Don’t water on cloudy days. Everybody is out there watering their plants after work,” Lanphear said.

You will want to water your plants in the morning or during the day so the sun can warm those leaves and get them absorbing the water, Lanphear said. How much water depends on the size of your garden. You also do not what to leave your garden so dry that the soil appears gray and lifeless. Use your eyes and your intuition to determine the sweet spot for your garden in order to keep that soil moist and healthy. In general, Lanphear said, too much water is better than too little

Fertilizer

Your plants will want a healthy amount of nitrogen in their diet that sunlight and water can’t provide. You will want to use fertilizer to give your plants the extra bit of goodness they crave. Lanphear recommends using fertilizer to give your soil more nutrients. Lanphear said the small gold dots in most fertilizers are concentrations of nitrogen. When you add water to your garden, the gold dots slowly melt and release the nitrogen into the soil for the plants to drink up. The slow release gives the plants a steady amount of nutrients that they use to grow and become healthy.

The fertilizer is laid on top of the soil you already have.

Rotation and harvest

Colen at Fuller Gardens said that rotating the location of your plants can benefit the soil and the plants themselves. He said different plants absorb different nutrients so if one type of plant stays in the same area for too many years in a row, that plot can

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Cost: Public self-guided tours are free admission, but registration is encouraged and donations are accepted. Private tours can be booked for larger groups for $15, or a $250 minimum, for any that are scheduled outside of the tour dates.

What to check out: The property features 23 distinct points of interest with opportunities to visit each one during a tour. You can check out the Funnel Garden, which is heavily planted with beautiful perennials, shrubs and trees during the season, or the “Shrubaria,” a garden of shrubs and rhododendrons under a canopy of oak trees.

Hobson Jandebeur, a docent at Bedrock Gardens, said each of the tours provides a short history of how the property has developed over time to its present state as flower and recycled art garden.

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become deficient in the types of nutrients that plant likes.

If you start your plants inside in a pot or planter by April, you will want to get them in the ground by May. Zucchini, cucumber and tomato may take longer to get healthy and large enough to put in the ground.

Most vegetables should be ready to harvest and eat by mid-July or August. You will want to check their ripeness before picking.

Plants that are easy to grow in New England A few recommendations from Jamie Colen, director at Fuller Gardens

What about those hungry creatures?

“Keep in mind that everything you grow could end up being food for something else,” said Colen.

Unfortunately, it can be very hard to grow a vegetable garden without a fence around the area, according to Colen. Fences will help keep out rodents that will want to dine on the delicious garden you have grown for yourself.

You can also use a homemade organic repellent out of dried red peppers. Capsaicin is an organic chemical found in spicy peppers that can act like a repellent for mammals. According to Wikihow.com, to make the spray simply add half a cup of dried red peppers to four cups of water.

Bring the water to almost boiling and then let it cool. Use a wire strainer to separate

the dried red peppers from the water. Put the water into a spray bottle and spray your plant’s leaves. This will keep away mammals who want to munch on your pants.

The butterflies and the bees

Deb Schneider at the UNH Diagnostic lab said pollinators like bees and butterflies are important to the health of any garden. Pollinators take pollen from one plant and bring it to another plant that

needs the pollen to become impregnated.

Schneider, who studies endangered species like the Rusty Patch bumble bee, said that pesticides can harm the helpful insects.

According to Smith, the process of pollination is very healthy for the plants in your garden and anything you can do to support them is good.

“Even just a small garden, it’s important.

They’re doing the pollination for our tomatoes, all of our squash,” Smith said.

Rhododendron - Blooming mostly during spring, these shrub-like plants produce large round pink and red flowers. The flowers of the plant cluster together creating the large bunches of color they are known for.

Marigold - American Marigolds are annuals that produce brightly colored globe-shaped bunches of flowers. Most animals will not disturb this plant and it blooms throughout the summer.

Dusty Miller - An annual with a unique leaf that appears to be lightly coated in a white dust. The silvery-white leaves can offset the other flowers in your garden and make their colors pop. The plant is very easy to grow and is a good way to fill out your garden.

Chrysanthemum - This perennial plant can come in a wide variety of colors. Also known as ‘mums,’ these plants do well in lots of sunlight.

Cleome Spider Flowers - These annual plants can grow three to four feet in height.

Rain will not knock down the plant and its flower is unique.

Mexican Heather - A sturdy plant that is especially successful in New England. This tropical plant is known to be problem-free.

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I sell really hot sauces. It is based on my inner darkness of wanting to burn the inside of people’s mouths. I’m kidding. I don’t want to burn people’s mouths, but my sauces are really hot.

What are some of the sauces you currently offer?

We currently have three sauces available in the fall. Violence is one, which is a peach mango habanero sauce. Most people that have tried it can’t get enough. The second one is 187 Sauce, which is a ghost pepper cherry lime, sweet and hot. The last is Shiva, which is cranberry and raspberry. This sauce has the ghost, the Reaper, the Trinidad scorpion, the bubble gum, the viper — these are the hottest peppers on the list at this current time.

How can people get your sauces?

Where are they now?

I’m currently only selling my sauce at farmers markets and through word of mouth. I hope to expand on that someday.

When not making hot sauce, what do you do for fun?

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The peppers I use aren’t purchased in a store. You have to grow them from seed.

The peppers you find in a store are pretty mild in comparison. Peppers in the store range from the jalapeno at 3,500 Scoville units to the habanero at around 200,000.

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Resting on her laurels is not going to be on any agenda for 10-year-old Hayden Bullens, a fourth-grader at Lincoln Street School in Exeter, who recently landed her first professional modeling job with Hasbro. Noting her image will be used for a new game they plan to release later this year, Hayden said she secured the opportunity through the New England Model Group in Manchester.

“I started with them this past fall,” she said. “I’ve been on some auditions for other things — there was a film shot here and some commercials for coffee and a clothing company.”

The experience with Hasbro, which took place in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Hayden described as “a dream come true.”

“They took tons of photos of me,” she said. “It was actually more fun than I thought it would be. Everyone was so nice there, too. I hope I get chosen to do something for someone else, too. … It was a ton of fun.”

Her experience was equally exciting for her mom Dawn, who said her daughter expressed an interest on her own to secure work in the modeling industry.

“We tell her it’s a journey,” she said.

“We are here to support her.”

As if modeling were not enough, Hayden also plays the flute on the school’s band and she dances with hopes to compete next year. Karate and horseback riding are other passions, as is acting.

“I just acted in a play — Willy Wonka. It was a lot of fun,” she said.

As for how her daughter manages to stay so active and excel in school — she is a straight-A student — Dawn said Hayden has always had an abundance of energy.

“She loves staying active and trying new things,” she said. “She was chosen by her classmates to serve on the student council, too, this past fall. We are very proud of her.”

When she is not involved in one of these pursuits, Hayden said, she enjoys reading and will often dig into a book for an entire Saturday or Sunday morning. Harry Potter is currently tops on her reading list.

“I’ll read for hours,” she said. “I’m onto Book 2. … I watched the movies and I read the books, and I realize the books have a lot more detail,” she said. “It makes the story makes sense.”

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stuffed animals, which she numbers at more than 100. “[Stuffed animals] are my favorite things in the world,” she said. “I love stuffed animals. They are on my bed and on my couch. I have a giant bin under my bed and a giant bin like 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide with stuffed animals, too.”

Coming in a close second in her household are the Bullens’ six pets, which include two dogs, two hamsters, one fish and a bunny.

“I love them, too,” she added.

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Do we have a lemon? — T.J. It sure sounds like the brake pedal pressure sensor (which cancels the cruise control when you touch the brakes) is misadjusted. But if they’ve replaced it and adjusted it, then maybe you’ve got more serious electrical gremlins that no one’s found yet.

But before you mess around with the dealer any more, first investigate your state’s lemon law. States that have strong consumer protections often have good laws in place to protect consumers like you, who buy brandnew cars and have nothing but problems from the get-go. For instance, California’s lemon law says that if your new car is out of service for any reason for 30 days in the first 18 months or 18,000 miles, you can trigger the lemon law proceedings and force the

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AT BLUE MOON EVOLUTION For good vibes and nourishing food, Blue Moon Evolution (8 Clifford St., Hampton, 603-778-6850, bluemoonevolution.com) is the place to be. This restaurant is filled with natural woods and soft natural lighting from the windows, and it makes for a comfortable, relaxing space. The food is wholesome and is made from locally grown and organic produce with a keen sense of delivering the best food possible. Yoga practitioners can go from the studio above to the restaurant below for food that will keep the positivity flowing.

Owner Kath Gallant shared with the Seacoast Scene what philosophies have made her restaurant thrive near the coast.

How long has this restaurant been around?

We opened on Earth Day, and we will be celebrating our 22nd anniversary on this year’s Earth Day on April 22.

What made you want to start this restaurant in particular?

I’d been living in Nottingham, kind of in the woods, and we used to do meatless Monday. I would go to Portsmouth just to get the vegetarian and whole foods, and when I moved to Exeter this was still where I was going because there was nowhere else to shop for this.

I was doing catering at the time, cooking for corporate, high-end clientele, and I decided I wanted to cook for the common man. I wasn’t fueled by the money.

I veered from catering, even though they eventually found me again, but in my move to Exeter I decided to open a market to serve the sort of goods that I wished were here. We decided to just give it a go, a “once in a blue moon” sort of experience, and that’s where we got the name. Eventually we transitioned into being a restaurant, where we now serve only dinner.

pasta for this are hand-crafted to make this item. I love all of our raw, plantbased foods, too, like the sunflower pate nori roll that’s delicious with the cashew wasabi cream. We’ve had it on the menu since we began serving only dinner in 2010. I’m personally more on the vegetarian spectrum, but I have family who are meat-eaters, and I want to serve them the best grass-fed meat that I can.

How would you describe the dining environment?

We use the term ‘casual upscale.’

We’ve had a yoga studio above us for 14 years now, so people come from yoga to eat with us and it doesn’t matter what you wear here. We want to be approachable. We had the opportunity to go kind of upscale or high-end, but that does nothing for me. The time spent here is meant to be respectful and comfortable; we encourage no usage of phones here and I don’t think we’ve ever had computers here either. It’s meal time, time to have a conversation.

What do you think sets your establishment from others around you?

We are a family business. My daughter and I have worked together since she was 18 and now she’s 40. We uphold a level of expected respectful interaction, whether it’s each other, the guests or even the food. I say, “Cook as if you’re feeding your grandmother.” We put a lot of love and positivity into our food here.

All of our workers we’ve had over the years put in more than just treating it like a day job. We function under a high principle of ethics, and we don’t tolerate negativity.

What’s your personal favorite from the menu? Why? Our new menu item is this goat cheese agnolotti. The ingredients come from a local farm near to us, and the cheese and

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Do you have any seasonal specials people can expect?

We craft all of our menus based on what’s up-and-coming in the produce and meat world. We’ve just begun to see some green sprouts, so we’re still using root vegetables for most of our meals. When we know what we’ve got available to us, we create seasonally inspired menus from those ingredients.

What’s special about your menu in comparison to others?

We’re always about organic and locally grown produce. Charlie Burke of the New Hampshire Farm to Restaurant organization would go around and see just how local restaurants truly were in what they served, and we received the highest rating from him. I started my own garden eight years ago, too, because we care about how food is made.

Which famous person, dead or alive, would you most like to serve?

I would love to serve Mother Teresa, because her sayings have moved me in a way that makes me love teaching children.

It would honor me to nourish someone who gave so much of her life to serving others.

What’s an essential skill that keeps you running smoothly?

Being willing to learn something new.

Sometimes I’ll say to my crew, “Are you willing to change?” and it’s in regard to learning new skills in the kitchen or about how you might choose to do something. It’s all about evolution.

How would you describe your crew of employees?

I keep saying that they’re the best ever.

We have frequent gatherings, so our team is really an extended family. We keep refining, and I’ve learned a lot as a team leader over these 20 years. We thrive on communication, knowing that certain things aren’t prepared to be served, and we all know to take things as they come and go with the flow. My team is high-energy, just like me, and we strive to keep focus.

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After closing for renovations, Baron Forrester, a wine and cheese shop on Lafayette Road in Hampton, reopened last week. With the completion of renovations, the shop has expanded to include a specialty line of organic teas and fresh-roasted coffee, made possible by a new “spring lever” espresso machine and a “slow drip” coffee brewer.

In the summer, Baron Forrester will have a tasting party every Friday night and offer fun specialty iced coffee drinks during the week.

Baron Forrester first opened last February as a European wine and cheese specialty shop, which proved successful on its own.

Julie and Sean Baker, the owners of the shop, gradually started offering classes, private parties and other wine tasting events.

When a coffee shop downtown closed after Christmas, the Bakers saw an opportunity for expansion of their own shop.

“We felt that there was a void in the downtown for fresh-roasted espresso and homemade baked goods. … For our shop, we’re going to be pairing with A&E Coffee Roastery to offer all fair-trade organic coffee and fair-trade organic tea,” Julie Baker said.

Neither of the Bakers is new to the coffee shop industry. They have both owned coffee shops before, including Café Cubana in Claremont. Sean Baker said he is hoping to relive some of the good memories he has from coffee shops in the past, and he hopes that this new coffee shop will become a fixture as part of the downtown culture.

The owners also hope their business will begin to feel a little more bustling and a little less like a specialty gift shop. Julie Baker expressed hopes for building community in their shop with the help of the renovations.

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Spring lever espresso machine. Courtesy photo.

“I think that the market for fresh-roasted coffee is probably a little bit bigger than the market for fresh wine,” Julie Baker said.

“But I think [the renovations] will benefit many of our current customers as well. …

You could hypothetically come in and get a latte a couple times a week. We’re hoping to give people a more frequent reason to stay involved.”

With more people in their shop getting coffee during the day, there could also be more of an opportunity for customers to taste their wines, she said.

Another new service that the owners are excited about is a “Tea for Two” option that they are offering every Sunday. Customers can make a reservation to be served individual pots of fresh English tea and tea sandwiches on antique china.

In addition to new events, the shop will be gaining some new décor.

“I think the thing that might be the most fun is for customers to come see the big wall behind the bar that will be filled with huge maps to show everyone where all the different products in the shop come from geographically,” Julie Baker said.

The Bakers hope that this expansion will breathe new life into their shop, but they also plan to stay true to the values espoused by its namesake, Joseph James Forrester, baron of Portugal in the 1800s.

Sean Baker said Baron Forrester was an Englishman who had a passionate and outspoken voice for quality and going back to the traditional values in terms of wine. The owners named their shop after him as a reflection of their desire to offer a traditional cheese and wine — and now coffee — shop.

The shop is now open seven days a week and opens at 8 a.m. — Rebecca Walker

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Cinco de Mayo is next week, and with Cinco de Mayo comes margaritas. While I really like margaritas, I don’t like all the sugar that’s in them. Some restaurants make a version with just tequila, triple sec and lime juice, but others use a sugary sour mix that is also famous for causing bellyaches.

To avoid all this sweetness, I like to make margaritas at home so I know exactly what is in them. Last year I went to Texas and discovered moonshine there (which in this case was just alcohol made from cactus that they classified as moonshine). The distillery that made it also made orange liqueur moonshine, and now this is what I use in my margaritas instead of triple sec. I am savoring the bottle because I have not been able to find something similar here in New Hampshire.

Below are my two tried and true recipes for homemade sour mix and a basic This week’s wine tasting: homemade margarita. The best thing Ruffino Chardonnay about these is that you can adjust them If you have read my column before, you according to your own personal taste. know that chardonnay is not my favorite wine — mainly oaked chardonnay from Homemade Sour Mix California. For some reason, it just does not First, you need to make simple syr- agree with my palate. However, I do enjoy up from sugar and water. I cut the recipe a nice glass of unoaked Italian chardonnay. from three cups of sugar to two cups of I first discovered Italian chardonnay while sugar mixed with three cups water. Boil working at a restaurant with an all Italian this combination until the sugar is com- food and wine list. When customers ordered pletely dissolved. (You could use sugar it, we made sure to tell them that it was substitutes like Splenda, though the pro- unlike the common California chardonnay portions may be different). Let it cool in so they weren’t surprised when it arrived. whatever container you prefer. Once it’s This week, I tried Ruffino Unoaked Italcooled, add two cups unsweetened lime ian Chardonnay from Tuscany. This wine juice (I do not recommend Rose’s as it is is nothing like its California counterpart. already sweetened) and two cups lemon While it really has its own characteristics, it juice. You now have homemade sour mix. is more like a pinot grigio but is less acidAdjust it to your taste as needed; it may ic. Without being aged in an oak barrel, the be too tart for your liking. More water chardonnay grape is fresh, clean and crisp, can be added to dilute the mix. You can with notes of apple, sage and figs. also add more sugar later, depending on Ruffino introduced this wine in the 1980s the drink recipe. and at the time it was very unconventional not to age the grape in oak. However, it shows a different and in many ways less Homemade ‘House’ common side of chardonnay, one that has Margarita For what would be considered a minerality and crispness without the oaky “house” margarita at most bars and res- and buttery notes that the oak barrel imparts.

I enjoyed this wine on its own, but it taurants, combine the sour mix with would go well with light pasta dishes and tequila, triple sec/orange liqueur and a seafood like broiled fish. few freshly squeezed lime wedges. I typThis wine is available in New Hampshire ically use three or four parts mix to two parts tequila and one part triple sec, but Liquor & Wine Outlets (and as a bonus, it is again this is all personal preference. only about $10 a bottle). But if you cannot Sometimes I even like to add a dash of find Ruffino specifically and want to try Italsalt. For a frozen margarita, add this rec- ian chardonnay, take a look at the label and ipe to a blender with a few ice cubes and the description and it should say whether or enjoy. You can also add a salt or sugar not it has been oaked (California chardonrim. I prefer silver tequila, but you can nay is almost always oaked).

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Salmon Falls Stoneware creates salt glaze pottery Home to bean pots, spoon jars, dinnerware and more, Salmon Falls Stoneware in Dover has been churning out classic and new designs since 1986.

Before the salt glaze pottery shop got its name, owner Andy Cochran began peddling pottery under the name Pottery by Andy out of four vehicles, including his 1935 Ford pickup truck.

He then went through three studios before setting up shop at the old Boston & Maine Engine House in 1983. In 1986, Cochran settled on the name Salmon Falls Stoneware when he came across a map of the Salmon Falls River. This name better expressed his company as it shifted from a one-man operation to a staffed production line.

Salmon Falls got its first spike of business when Cochran’s art director Helen Berg stopped by the shop and asked to decorate pots with a teddy bear design. Immediately, Cochran received five wholesale accounts.

Within two years of business, the shop went from two to 42 employees.

Then, a wire service churned out a story about the company, leading to an even more booming business.

Cochran’s mother created advertisements for Salmon Falls in the form of a catalog.

The eight-page catalog included pictures of all signature potters’ and decorators’ marks along with family recipes that were portioned to match the company’s bakeware.

Stippled pictures of Salmon Falls products were printed in the catalog as well as some color photos. The catalog explained the company’s history and work process and gave credit to all involved artists and workers.

The catalog was designed to fit into the local newspaper, and it was the perfect route to distribute information to the Dover locals.

Almost instantaneously, Salmon Falls was filled with customers.

“I went to the [shop] to visit somebody who was working, and the place was full of people. I called my parents and I said,

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‘Quick, get over here. We’re taking money in baskets,’” said Cochran.

After the initial success, they continued to produce an annual catalog. Soon enough Salmon Falls had over 3,000 stores buying their pottery to sell in their stores, including chains like Cracker Barrel and L.L. Bean; even Dollywood wanted to sell the popular pottery.

“People would be fighting over [our pots] just to get them. We just grew fast,” Cochran said.

With the giant leap in demand, the company had to keep up by upgrading its kilns and firing process. Rather than sticking with kilns that were only good for one year and then needed to be ripped down and rebuilt, Cochran and his team figured out a way to make them last for five to 10 years with minimal repairs.

“We got very lucky [by] coming up with the right process. We also had to reinvent the instruction manual on how to do salt glaze,” Cochran said. “We had to do hundreds and hundreds of tests to come up with the best clay body and the best temperature to fire at.”

A technique that originated around the 16th century, salt glazing is the process of adding salt to the kiln during the final stage of firing, which creates a vapor that reacts with the surface of the clay that results in a permanent finish and slight variations in color.

Due to the volume of demand, new decorators were trained in the company’s popular blueberry basket products for a full year before doing a second design. Today, decorators are free to come up with new ideas once they have mastered classic designs.

“We used to wholesale so much that we had to stay with a strict product line of two or three things. Now it’s more retail,” Cochran said.

Current popular products from Salmon Falls are mugs, dinnerware and lasagna pans. Inspiration for new shapes can come from potters as well as customers.

“If you’re sitting down there with wet clay, it’s so easy to come up with a new idea.

We have so many ideas that we haven’t even tried,” Cochran said. “We have things that we’ve developed for years that we’ve never even put out for the public to purchase.”

As for new products that are currently or soon to be available, Salmon Falls created rabbits, wren houses and Mother’s Day pots for the spring season. An updated mug shape is in the works and will be released at a later time. A project currently in the works is Cochran’s idea to produce tavern pipes based on those found in shipwrecks. However, he is still in the midst of developing the right process.

While Salmon Falls no longer produces an annual catalog due to the convenience of internet advertising and the death of Cochran’s mother, its established reputation allows for its continued success. On average the shop produces between 500 and 1,000 pots weekly.

“We produce functional pottery good for everyday use,” Cochran said.

Salmon Falls Stoneware’s handmade salt glaze pottery is lead-free, microwave- and dishwasher- safe, and great for baking.

Salmon Falls Stoneware is at 75 Oak St. in Dover and can be reached at 1-800-621-2030 or salmonfalls.com.

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Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Atria, 202 pages) At the tender age of 11, George Washington owned 10 slaves, bequeathed to him by his father.

By the time of his death, he owned 123 men, women and children, and his Mount Vernon estate was tended by 323 slaves, the others owned by his wife’s estate.

Despite this, the father of our country has been seen as a progressive of sorts in the matter of slavery. Mount Vernon’s website says, “George Washington struggled with the institution of slavery and spoke frequently of his desire to end the practice” and “At the end of this [sic] life Washington made the bold step to free his slaves in his 1799 will — the only slave-holding Founding Father to do so.”

That’s the positive spin. Erica Armstrong Dunbar offers another version in her engrossing new book Never Caught, The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.

It’s a must-read for anyone interested in American history, as well as anyone who lives in New Hampshire, since Judge, who was Martha Washington’s personal assistant when she fled, found refuge in the Granite State.

The author uncovered this story 20 years ago when she doing research on 19th-century black women in Philadelphia and noticed an ad in a period newspaper offering a $10 reward for the return of a 20-year-old “absconded from the household of the President of the United States.”

That ad, and another, was published just days after the young slave vanished while General Washington and his wife were eating dinner. It was clear from the wording that the president wanted his property back; absent was any sign that the president suffered any inner conflict over the institution of slavery.

The ad said any person, white or black, would receive the reward for bringing Judge back and warned “as she may attempt to escape by water, all matters of vessels are cautioned against admitting her into them.”

It’s unknown whether Captain John Bowles, who was sailing from the Delaware River to Portsmouth, N.H., the day Judge escaped, knew that his mixed-race passenger was a fugitive, or if he did, who her owner was. It was not uncommon for slaves to try to escape — in fact, Washington himself had other slaves run away — but most fugitives were male. It was rare for an enslaved woman to attempt to flee Meet Erica Armstrong Dunbar Where: Water Street Bookstore in Exeter When: Friday, April 28, at 7 p.m.

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because most women who were young and healthy enough to dare that emotionally and physically grueling challenge had young children or other family members they didn’t want to leave behind. Also, the cost of failure was frightening and violent.

Judge, however, was healthy and childless, and her mother had recently died, an event that General Washington had noted rather coldly in his letters: “It is happy for old Betty, and her children and friends, that she is taken of[f] the stage; her life must have been miserable to herself, and troublesome to all those around her.”

Moreover, Judge was urgently compelled to act by two unrelated matters, the first being the first family’s impending move back to Virginia from the temporary capital, Philadelphia, and second, Martha Washington’s intention to gift Judge to her granddaughter upon the granddaughter’s upcoming wedding.

It was both an insult and a betrayal that Martha Washington would so casually dispense with the young woman who had been born at Mount Vernon and had served her for more than a decade. And having accompanied the Washingtons to both Philadelphia and New York, Judge had encountered what Dunbar called “the contagion of freedom” among free blacks living there.

Slavery was still legal in Pennsylvania then with a caveat: after six months of residence, the owner was legally required to free the slave. This was a law the Washingtons thwarted by sending their slaves back to Mount Vernon before six months transpired.

And while Pennsylvania was not yet as safe

for blacks as Massachusetts or New Hampshire, it had a strong network of free blacks, led by the Rev. Richard Allen, who made escaping more possible there than in Virginia. So Judge took the chance.

Her story has been hiding in plain view for years — the Mount Vernon website gives a synopsis of her life, along with other slaves’.

Much credit is due Dunbar, a professor of black studies and history at the University of Delaware, for bringing it to light. Dunbar’s language is at times lyrical, other times stilted and repetitive, but her skill at storytelling is first-rate, and she has crafted what amounts to a 19th-century thriller. We know from the spoiler of a title how this story ends, but it’s a page-turner nonetheless, because we want to know how this improbable thing happened.

The lives of Judge and the Washingtons are interwoven beautifully, from the opening vignette about snow that fell in Virginia in June 1773, to the death of the former slave, who upon freeing herself and settling in New Hampshire learned to read and converted to Christianity.

She outlived both Martha and George.

Using George Washington’s letters, period newspapers and documents, diaries and biographies, Dunbar painstakingly documents a previously overlooked yet important chapter of history. Occasionally she oversteps in projecting what Judge might have been feeling, but her decision to write the book as reported narrative, not historical fiction, made her job all the harder and overall works well.

Until now, Judge has been but a footnote in Washington’s life, but her story deserved sunlight, and both subject and author deserve the acclaim awarded via this fine book. A — Jennifer Graham

CLASSICAL GUITAR On Friday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m., classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will return to the Lane Memorial Library for a concert celebrating his upcoming appearance at Carnegie Hall, presenting a program filled with music by Bach, Albéniz, Satie and other composers who wrote or have been transcribed for six-string guitar. The concert will be in the lower Lane Room and is free and open to all.

Peter has been giving over 100 concerts a year since 2003 and currently is on a nationwide tour.

Peter balances well known works such as “Simple Gifts” and “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring,” with standard classical guitar music, and with his new transcriptions which in many cases have never been performed on classical guitar before. Peter began guitar study at the age of 7 under classical guitar instructor,John Sutherland. In 1980 maestro José Tomás, Andrés Segovia’s teaching assistant in Spain, held a week long Master Class in Atlanta, Georgia. Peter Fletcher was the youngest student to perform in the class, playing music by Bach and Carcassi.

In December, 1983, he made his formal debut under the auspices of The Brasstown Concert Association in North Carolina. Fletcher furthered his studies in Master Classes with David Leisner, David Russell, Oscar Ghiglia and Pepe Romero. As a performer in the Christopher Parkening Master Class in 1988, he was broadcast on National Public Radio. In 1990, the Music Teacher’s National Association awarded Fletcher a prize at its National Level Competition, and in 1995 he received the Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music under Nicholas Goluses, and was twice the recipient of an Eastman Graduate Award.

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Barrington writer Benjamin Ludwig found the voice of his character Ginny Moon while attending his then-teenage daughter’s Special Olympics games, years ago — though the way he describes it, her voice found him.

“The voice came to me and demanded that I express it, that I write it from that very distinct perspective,” Ludwig said via phone, a couple weeks before the release of his first novel, Ginny Moon, which he celebrates with a May 1 launch party at Water Street Bookstore. “I couldn’t keep her voice quiet! She kept talking, so I kept typing.”

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by Park Row Books, is about a 14-yearold girl with autism named Ginny Moon.

For the most part, Ginny’s a typical teenager, playing the flute in the high school band, reading Robert Frost poetry in English class. But she also holds an obsession to reconnect with her abusive and drugaddicted birth mother, Gloria, despite the fact she’s finally found foster parents who care about her.

Some of the book’s inspiration stems from Ludwig’s personal and professional experiences. He and his wife adopted their daughter, who has autism and is now 21, in 2009, at which time they became part of a large Seacoast community of parents and kids with special needs through Special Olympics sporting events. Ludwig also worked in the public school system for years, his most recent job being a teachermentor at Dover Middle School.

“I noticed very early through my own experience teaching … [that] children with special needs use language in a very different way than you and I might use it.

We use language to express how we feel, and to think out loud. Very often, children with special needs will only use language to communicate immediate needs. A lot of their world is nonverbal,” he said. “It’s almost like they’re using language as a tool rather than a form of expression.”

But Ginny Moon is very different from anyone he’s ever met — particularly his own daughter, who was happy to hear he’d written about a girl with autism but appalled to learn Ginny was such a rule-breaker.

“Our daughter is on the straight-and-narrow all the time,” Ludwig said, laughing.

“Our own experience with our own daughter was nothing like the experience in the book, thank goodness.”

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His book deal happened in 2016 while in the midst of earning his Master of Fine Arts at the University of New Hampshire.

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He hopes readers have a good time reading Ginny’s story, but he also hopes the book raises awareness about the need for adoptive parents in the United States.

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A May 2 performance is a return trip for singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier, who calls Red & Shorty’s long-running house concert one of her favorite gigs.

For this appearance, she’ll be accompanied by Italian viola player Michele Gazich.

“There is so much heart in that room; there’s love there and I keep going back,” she said by phone from Nashville. “They are great people that love bringing music to their community. So passionate, and they do it with so much grace, kindness and generosity.”

Gauthier just completed Rifles & Rosary Beads, an album drawn from Songwriting With Soldiers, a project she created to help veterans cope as civilians.

“It’s a way to help them articulate their experiences, and so many of those experiences are trauma-based,” she said. “I’ve written 50-something songs with veterans and their wives. ... I picked 12 that tell the story and cut it a couple of weeks ago.”

She talked while hiking a trail near her home. It was a few days after Joan Baez was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, prompting this from Gauthier: “A few years ago I read an article where Joanie said, ‘writers walk.’ I thought, OK, then I’m walking. I’ve been doing it ever since. Here’s to Joan and all the respect she’s earned in her service to the world.”

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Baez, she noted, wasn’t really a songwriter.

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“I write about the struggle; hell, it’s me! It’s not a big stretch. I come from an orphanage, so I’m drawn to orphans.

It’s the most natural thing in the world. I think Steve Earle said it best about songs: When they’re doing their job, a song is empathy.”

And that’s a powerful force, she said.

“It spreads understanding and human connection and I think that is every bit as powerful as a protest song,” she said.”They both have their place, but in a time as torn up as ours, I think we’re in an empathy crisis of epic proportions. So I think it’s a call to arms for songwriters to find a way. I don’t think we’re going to get there by telling people what to think or what to feel or what’s right and wrong.

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Along with her veterans project, Gauthier regularly conducts songwriting workshops for those trying to find a voice — or confront their inner demons.

“Anyone who signs up [with me] is probably dealing with some kind of a heavy load,” she said. “They’re drawn to what I do and teach because something inside of them feels like I might be able to help, and I think that’s what songs do ... by articulating what can’t be seen.”

This calling came through Gauthier’s own experience, and it surprised her.

“I didn’t know what I was doing when I picked up the guitar 30 years ago, but I was trying to heal something,” she said.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPHERD

Training day

A June 2016 police raid on David Jessen’s Fresno County (California) farmhouse caused a $150,000 mess when sheriff’s deputies and Clovis Police Department officers “rescued” it from a trespassing homeless man with the massive destruction leading to Jessen’s lawsuit announced in March. The misdemeanant helped himself to an ice cream bar, some milk and half a tomato but was otherwise “unarmed.” However, by the time the police standoff ended, the “crime scene” included more than 50 cop cars, a SWAT team (and backups), two helicopters, standby ambulances, a police robot, and a crisis negotiation team. Windows, walls and wrought-iron doors were destroyed; tear gas and a “flash bomb” were employed. (Jessen suspects that the farmhouse’s isolation enticed police to decide that it presented an excellent training opportunity.)

Compelling explanations

Jason Sexton told KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in April that he alone had been digging the massive hole neighbors noticed, now 34 feet deep and with separate tunnels extending off of the main hole. Police had come to check it out, since it was on another person’s private property (and not the city’s, which Sexton had assumed). He said he had been digging off and on for three years to get an answer to whether “the Spanish” had been in Fort Smith centuries ago, mining iron, and, if so, the site should therefore be a lucrative tourist destination. Sexton said he felt he had to give his explanation: “Nobody in their right mind,” he said, “would dig a hole (this big) for no reason.”

not thumb-wrestle him.”

• Wait, what? A father, 43, and his son, 22, argued on April 9 about who would walk the dog at their home on Chicago’s South Side. They apparently thought to settle the issue with a gunfight, and police, who recovered the two weapons, said both men received multiple wounds.

The son was killed, and the father was in critical condition.

Leading economic indicators

The eight elite Ivy League universities are better thought of as “hedge fund(s) with classes,” according to a March report by the activist Open The Books, and thus there is little reason for taxpayers to have given them the more than $41 billion in grants and entitlements they received over a recent six-year period. The schools are already legendary for their $119 billion “endowments” (based on donations from alumni and aggressive investment).

Those endowments are enough, according to Open The Books, that (assuming donations continue to arrive at the same pace) schools could provide free tuition to every student in the eight schools in perpetuity. (Even if no new donations are made, the eight schools could provide such free tuition for 51 years.)

Crime report

• At a time of growing awareness that some people seem almost addicted to their cellphones and instant 24/7 communication, police in Brookfield, Wisconsin, released surveillance photos of a woman in the act of robbing banks on March 25 and 27 while standing at teller counters and talking on the phone during the entire episodes. Acting on a tip from the photos, police arrested Sarah Kraus, 33, on March 28.

• Paul Perry Jr., 39, sound asleep behind the wheel of his car, with motor running, at 6 a.m. on April 2, was in no position to talk his way out of a DUI ticket, but did offer a gentle challenge to the Youngstown, Ohio, police officer. Several times, according to the police report, Perry offered to “thumb wrestle” the officer to get out of the ticket. From the report: “Perry was advised officers would

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Ironies

Federico Musto was suspected recently by Wired.com of audaciously inventing academic credentials to help land his job as CEO of the company Arduino (a circuit-board manufacturer popular in the computer industry among coders creating, among other things, robots and motion detectors). Arduino’s work is “open source” creating hardware that others, by design, can exploit and modify for their own loftier projects. It might thus be said that Musto’s claimed academic “accomplishments” (his so-called MBA from New York University and claimed Ph.D from MIT) are themselves the product of his having “open-sourced” his own, previously modest curriculum vitae.

The foreign press

(1) Village police in Bangladesh arrested Yasin Byapari, 45, in January on the complaint of his wife after she had learned that she was not, as he had told her, his second spouse, but rather the 25th of his 28. (Police found him at the home of No. 27.) The accuser said she had, through sleuthing, tracked down 17 of her “competitors.”

The passing parade

(1) In same-day competition in March,

perennial Guinness Book records jockeys Zoe L’Amore and Ashrita Furman squared off over the record for stopping blades on an electric table fan the most times in one minute using only their tongues. On Italian TV, L’Amore stopped blades 32 times, but Furman, at a different venue, later stopped 35. (2) Norway unseated Denmark as the world’s “happiest” country, according to the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network. (There was no word on whether Denmark was unhappy about losing the top spot.)

A News of the Weird classic (August 2013)

The upscale restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced in August (2013) that it would soon add a 20-item selection of waters from around the world, priced from $8 to $16 a bottle (and a $12 “tasting menu”). The restaurant’s manager, Martin Riese, who is a renowned water gourmet, will sell his own California-made 9OH2O (from “limited editions of 10,000 individually numbered glass bottles” at $14 each).

Riese has been certified as a “Water Sommelier” by the German Mineral Water Association.

Visit weirduniverse.net.

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