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I would like to share with you some interesting facts about Veterans Day. In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11 as the first commemoration of Larry Marsolais Armistice Day. On June 1, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Nov. 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.

Veterans Day continues to be observed on Nov. 11, regardless of what day of the week it falls on. It is a celebration to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. If all of us reached out and thanked just one vet-

eran for his or her service it would go a long way.

Let’s also 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 a perfect time of the year to get in touch with a friend, family member, coworker or someone you have not seen in a while and say, “Hi, how are you doing?”

I am pretty sure it would really mean a lot and Thanksgiving is a wonderful day to do it.

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RiverRun Bookstore (142 Fleet St., Portsmouth) will welcome Michael Cameron Ward on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m., with his new book, A Colored Man in Exeter. Ward tells the story of his family, which moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Lee, New Hampshire, in 1957 to escape gang violence and became the first “colored family” in the area. Ward wrote the book at the request of his father who, with only weeks to live, recounted the stories of his life that he had never told to Ward. Visit riverrunbookstore.com or call 431-2100.

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Comedy Night returns to The Old Salt at Lamie’s Inn (490 Lafayette Road, Hampton), starting Thursday, Nov. 16, with Joe Powell, Abhishek Shah and Jim Collition. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m. Call 603-926-8322 for reservations.

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The Hampton Falls Free Library hosts living historian Aileen Kelly, who presents Corsets & Chevrons: A Salute to Women in Military History on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 6:30 p.m. Take a stroll through history as you learn about some of America’s military heroes, on and off the battlefield. The program is free and open to the public. The Hampton Falls Free Library is located at 7 Drinkwater Road in Hampton Falls. Visit hamptonfallslibrary.org or call 926-3682.

The Portsmouth Garden Club and the NH Division of Forests and Lands will present the 22nd Festival of Trees at the Urban Forestry Center, 45 Elwyn Road, Portsmouth, on Nov. 17, 18 and 19, from 3 to 8 p.m. Local garden centers and clubs, historic organizations, businesses and artisans create more than 90 displays of decorated indoor trees, cozy rooms decked out for the holidays, miniature trees, wreaths and outside displays. Admission is $7; children 12 and under are admitted free.

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Craft fairs are quintessential New England — and there are plenty of them taking place in the coming weeks with various arts and crafts vendors, each offering items that could make perfect gifts. At many of these events you’ll find food vendors selling their homemade goodies. To find out what it takes to get their products from kitchen to fair, the Scene talked to a few of these culinary crafters. Read on for their stories, and check out our extensive list of holiday fairs coming up in the greater Seacoast area.

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The Jingle Bell Fair at the First Congregational Church in Hampton is happening Saturday, Nov. 11. You’ll have a chance to buy some great gifts for the holidays — and you’ll have the chance to meet Lois Desrochers, a Hampton resident who prepares roughly 100 pies each year for this event. The vast majority of her pies are apple, although she does make some blueberry and raspberry, too.

Desrochers does not make these pies alone; her husband Buddy works behind the scenes.

“He puts in a lot of time peeling apples,” she said. “We work as a team.”

Adamant about rolling her own pie crusts, Desrochers said she does not buy anything else at the store for her pies other than the required sugar and flour. She does everything except bake the pies; instead she freezes them so people can bake the pies themselves.

“They are ready to put into the oven after the turkey comes out — you just follow the instructions I provide,” she said. “You bake the pie and can tell people you baked it.”

She said it takes her about 30 minutes to make each pie.

Desrochers’ pies are so popular, she presells many of them for $12 apiece.

“I have already sold about $500 worth of them,” said Desrochers, who noted her blueberry pies are already sold out this year.

While acknowledging it is a lot of work, she said it is all a labor of love, as her pie sales contribute to the overall amount raised to support the church’s charitable work. One initiative, which began in 1991, is God’s Baby Closet. Serving dozens of families in need each year, God’s Baby Closet offers everything from T-shirts to food, baby wipes, diapers and more.

“Last year at the fair, we raised about 14 or 15 grand — it’s been wonderful,” said Desrochers. “Operation Christmas Child, Seacoast Family Promise, Seacoast Youth Services — these are some of the places we support.”

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Behind the scenes While craft fairs may appear to run very smoothly, there are many factors that go into planning them, which is half the fun for event organizers. For Karen Johnson, who organizes the fair at Webster at Rye, craft fairs result from the efforts of many collaborators and require substantial planning.

“You have to start planning it as early as possible,” she said. “What kind of fair would I want to go to? It needs to flow — you need to have great parking, a great building, and a beautiful area. You need unique vendors, too. … It doesn’t take a large community. It just takes people who are dedicated to doing a great job. You just need to think about it from other people’s point of view.”

Johnson acknowledged, however, that there are always unforeseen challenges in planning a craft fair.

“You worry about the weather and the turnout,” she said. “Just like throwing any terrific party, you have to have confidence and not let anxiety get to you. Something small always goes wrong and you have to be ready to handle that quickly and smartly.”

As for what she hopes people experience at their fair, she cited great food, live piano music and interesting people.

“It will be a great time,” she said.

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Vendors and crafters from the area will attend, and there will be a food table that will benefit the eighth-grade students’ class trip.

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A small but well-attended fair that vendors come back to year after year. All vendor fees 2017 Hampton Holly Days Fair and raffle proceeds benefit the fifth grade’s Nov. 18 class trip. There is delicious food and a bake Sacred Heart School sale fundraiser. Come shop for the holidays 289 Lafayette Road, Hampton at more than 30 vendor booths that include Hours: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. paintings, knitted products, leather works, Come out and enjoy a day of good cheer, jewelry, skin care products, home scents and games, shopping, raffles, food, fun and much more. more. Visit with Santa Claus. Taste delicious homemade treats. Win a fabulous raffle prize. 2017 ECS Holiday Craft Fair Finish your Christmas shopping list by visiting Nov. 18 and Nov. 19 more than 40 local crafters and vendors. Bring Epsom Central School 282 Hall Road, Epsom the kids for prizes, games, and much more.

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“I’m happy to do it,” she said. “We’ve been around more than 300 years, [since] 1638, I think, so giving back is what we have always done.”

Desrochers said there are plenty of other food choices, too, at the Jingle Bell Fair.

“There is so much great food at our fair — hot dogs, all different sandwiches, cakes, cookies and clam and corn chowder,” she said. “We have one of the best kitchens.”

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Never intentionally setting out to become a chocolatier, Mary Ann Wright describes her business, Chocolate Passions, as more of a hobby. She’ll be at the Holiday Fair at Webster at Rye on Dec. 2 with all kinds of sweet creations.

“I am famous for my gourmet apples,” she said. “They are dipped in caramel and chocolate and rolled in nuts, but you can get them without nuts, too.”

She applies the same technique with pretzel rods, but these items are just the start of her foray into all things sweet.

One of her creations, a house made entirely of chocolate, is particularly suited for the holidays.

“It’s the size of a gingerbread house and comes as a kit,” she said. “You decorate it for Thanksgiving or use it for Christmas as a centerpiece. It’s a very elegant white house.”

Other creations include chocolate teacups filled with truffles, hairdryers and rollers (perfect gift for hairdressers), and golf clubs and golf balls (great for the golfer in the family).

Noting she has been creating unique items with chocolate for 20 years, Wright said she got started after her mother returned from one of her semi-regular trips to Las Vegas with liquor chocolates.

“These chocolates aren’t available on the East Coast,” she said. “I found a recipe and started making them myself, and it branched off from there.”

She said her favorite part about making chocolate is the smiles she sees on people’s faces. (But for those who can’t make it to the fair in December, she is happy to take custom orders at chocolatebymaryann@ yahoo.com.)

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What began as holiday stocking stuffers for friends and family has grown into a large business with products that can be bought at locations from as far south as Boston up through Bath, Maine. Known as Hubba Hubba Foods, their signature products are spice rubs and blends; a more recent addition is no-added-fat granola.

According to owner Sue Swietek, who makes all the products from her kitchen in York, Maine, Hubba Hubba is the

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result of feedback from family and friends, many of whom could not get enough of her creations.

“A friend came back and said they would never eat steak again without my sauce,” she said. “I kept making more and went to the York farmers’ market, rented a booth and saw success after that.”

As time went on and her kids grew older, she decided to pursue it as a full-time business. She sells a lot of her products at craft fairs; locally, she will be at this year’s Yuletide Craft Fair in Stratham on Nov. 18, as well as other fairs throughout the greater region.

“Last year was incredible [at the Yuletide fair],” she said. “I’m looking forward to it.”

One item she’ll be selling is Dip Me Daddio, a bread dipping spice with basil, garlic, thyme, oregano, salt, black pepper, rosemary, chili flakes.

“It’s my most popular product,” she said.

“I was in New York eating Italian food and loved the flavors, so I started to play around with the spices and came up with it quickly. It’s great for dipping bread.”

She expressed personal fondness for Hubba Rubba, a Southwest-style rub that she said provides foods like steak, salmon or pork “a sweet and zesty kick.”

“I made my husband eat ribs every day for three weeks until I got the recipe perfect,” said Swietek, who noted the ingredients include brown sugar, salt, cumin, coriander, chili powder, mustard powder, oregano, thyme and cayenne.

She said being adventurous with flavors helps set her rubs apart from others.

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“I push the envelope on what we use to cook with in our products,” she said. “The public responds well, too.”

She said the secret ingredient to her success has been her emphasis on attending fairs, interacting with customers, and creating how-to-cook videos.

“It’s important to be very interactive and social with the public and our customers,” she said. “I like to teach them how to cook and use spices in their cooking.”

Noting she loves to hear feedback from people, she said she takes what she hears in talking with the public to create new flavors.

“I build based on what people are asking for,” she said. “At the beginning of each year, I develop new flavors. One new fish rub, Rub My Fish, was created in response to people who wanted something with no salt for fish. I’m now hoping to develop something with no sugar, but universal, for any food. … I like playing with flavors.”

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After attending area craft fairs for decades and admiring all the crafty people and their goods, Ellen DeCosta decided it was time to try her hand at making someDaddio Corn Fritter Recipe courtesy of Hubba Hubba Foods This mouthwatering cross between a cornmeal pancake and fritter is outstanding with corn, in season and fresh off the cob, or with frozen corn kernels.

4 ears of corn 2 eggs 1 cup whole milk 2/3 cup cornmeal 5 tablespoon all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons Dip Me Daddio 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

thing on her own. That desire has led to many creations; one of her most popular is dry soup mixes, which will be available for purchase at the Hampton Holly Days Fair on Nov. 18 at Sacred Heart School.

“They are a crowd favorite,” she said. “I always sell all the product that I take to the fair, which is usually around 20 to 30 mixes with four different flavors available.”

These soups include Beef Barley, Chicken Noodle, Farmhouse Soup (country soup, turkey) and Friendship Soup (minestrone, tomato, ground hamburger, lentils, rice, barley, peas, herbs and spices).

“The crowd favorites are the Friendship Soup and Chicken Noodle Soup,” she said.

Referring to her operation as Ellie Bell’s Craft Corner — she makes gift baskets and other items, too — she said the most challenging aspect of what she does is the fact that other vendors often create similar products.

“It happens at other fairs,” she said. “It really bothers me, but what can you do about it?” she said.

As for this year’s Holly Days Fair, she expects to have a great time.

“My grandma was one of the founders of the Women’s Club in Hampton,” DeCosta said. “I know all the people in Hampton and my mother did as well, so my favorite thing is to socialize and see friends. I’ve always gone to the fair. Everyone knows me.”

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SEACOAST AREA FELINE EDUCATION AND RESCUE VOLUNTEER Tell me about SAFER. What SAFER does is they humanely rescue abandoned or homeless cats or kittens. They also provide feeding stations Courtesy photo. in the Seacoast area.

Once we rescue the animals we make certain they undergo complete medical workups.

Then we place them in foster homes where they can get the love and attention they need, prior to placing them with some of the local adoption agencies, such as the SPCA and others. To date, the organization has rescued almost 3,600 cats or kittens.

How long has SAFER been around and how long have you been involved?

The group was really started back in 1998 as a result of the many feral and abandoned cats along Hampton Beach. … I have only been volunteering with SAFER for the last 18 months. Prior to that, my introduction to SAFER was almost 14 years ago. We adopted a cat, Diesel, from SAFER. I had just lost my cat of 22 years and we contacted SAFER and we were able to adopt Diesel. … Eighteen months ago I decided to get involved as a volunteer. … They needed someone to orchestrate fundraising and publicity.

Why did you decide to do this type of work?

I’ve always had cats and I love cats. … My heart keeps going toward SAFER because they’re all volunteers … they all have families, they have other jobs but yet they find the time to do what they do. Some do the trapping, others work feeding stations. … And we have vets who work with us to make sure cats are medically cleared.

Do you have any recent success stories?

SAFER had a large rescue in Hampton Falls and we were contacted because there were two new litters of kittens and I think six or seven adult cats living in a barn. Our organization went out [and] it took us three days to trap the cats and the kittens and then get them into medical work-ups and then foster homes. I personally am fostering two of those kittens from that rescue. … They’re almost five-and-a-half months old now.

How can people who might not have as much time get involved?

Contact SAFER, go to our website, tell us what you’re willing to do. We need people to

assist us with the fundraising events. I don’t need them to feel compelled to spend numerous hours trying to coordinate an event, just come ... help me man it. We need people who can give us an hour or two to do vet runs — pick up the cats from our area, take them to the vet, and then pick the animal up at the end of the day and bring them back. Help us at work, take two hours out of your schedule, just once a month, and put a box in your dining room or your cafeteria where people can drop off cat food or paper towels or litter.

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Where do I start? Just imagine [your animal] being alone or astray and not having a home. ... I look at my two little guys that I am fostering, they were in a barn, under a board, buried in insulation. I think animals give us as much love as we give them.

Is this your full-time job?

I have a career in real estate. I’ve been selling real estate, residential, for a little over 30 years. I’ve had a very successful career. I enjoy what I do but I don’t have children so I do have some time.

Are you from the Seacoast area?

I’ve lived here for 34 years, so it’s home for me; I consider it home. When I came here I didn’t really know anybody in the area but I was able to start my business with some good support from the company that I started with.

I eventually made wonderful contacts with my business both professionally and personally and so many of my clients have animals. … Having lost my first cat and then getting Diesel from SAFER, I was just so grateful that they filled this void for me.

What do you do for fun?

Gardening. I’m not bragging but this year has been the first year that my garden looked so fabulous that I had to actually call [the woman who] helps me close my garden down in the fall and say, ‘Can you wait? I’m not ready, I still have these fabulous blooms.’

The blooms are dahlia flowers and I give them to all my clients and friends.

Where do you see yourself in a few years?

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CAR TALK

To idle, or not to idle? That is the question this week

By Ray Magliozzi

Dear Car Talk: I have a remote starter for my Chevy truck. I like to start the truck and let it run for a few minutes, especially during the winter. I recently read online somewhere that this is not good — something about the car not getting enough air. Could you give me your opinion on this matter? To idle, or not to idle? — Arturo Idle away, Arturo — within reason.

I’ve never heard of a properly functioning car not being able to get enough air.

There should be plenty of air in the atmosphere for both you and your car.

Of course, if you’re starting your car in a closed garage or one that’s attached to your house, then you’re the one not get-

ting enough air — to your brain, Arturo.

So don’t do that.

But let’s assume your car is outside, or in a detached garage with the garage door open. In that case, you won’t do any harm to the Chevy by letting it idle for a few minutes. The car doesn’t need to be warmed up before you drive it — it’s purely for your comfort — but it won’t do any harm.

In the old days, when cars had carburetors and chokes, you could harm the engine by warming it up for too long. With the choke set to cold-start mode, tons of gasoline would pour from the carburetor into your cylinders. And lots of that gasoline would go unburned, and would leak down into the oil pan, diluting the oil and shortening the life of the engine.

But modern cars are all computer-controlled, and the fuel is very precisely metered. So that’s not a problem anymore.

The only downsides today are that you’ll be wasting gas and creating pollution.

Which is why I recommend that you warm up your car “within reason.”

I’ve got a neighbor, who shall go unnamed. But Frank goes out and starts his truck every morning — rain or shine. Then he goes back inside, has breakfast, takes a shower and a morning constitutional,

and comes out and drives away 45 minutes later. That’s wasteful and ridiculous.

But on 20-degree mornings, I can certainly understand wanting to get into a car that’s already warmed up.

So if you want to give your car a fiveminute head start on cold winter days, in our minds, that falls under the “pursuit of happiness” clause of the Declaration of Independence, and you have my mechanical, if not environmental, blessing, Arturo.

Dear Car Talk: First of all, I love your show and your column. My question for you is this: Could I have a tracking device inside my car? I have a 2011 Honda Civic LX, and for the first time tonight, I heard, on two separate occasions, a vibrating noise, like a cellphone makes when it’s on “vibrate-only” mode. The vibration came from inside the center console on the dashboard, behind where my radio is located. Thanks.

— Jennifer I doubt it’s a tracking device, Jennifer.

But it sounds like you have some unpleasant person in your life, or formerly in your life, whom you’re concerned may be tracking you. That’s unfortunate.

In which case, on the off chance that

anyone is listening, next time you’re in the car, say something like this: “You’re not going to believe this, but my ex-husband called me and said he’s planning to rob a bunch of banks. He says he’s been reading books on safe-cracking and stocking up on rubber face masks.”

I think what you’re hearing behind the dashboard is more likely to be a failing, lazy relay of some kind — those tend to buzz. Or it could be a part of the ventilation system, like a “blend door,” that’s sticking when it’s trying to open or close — and you’re hearing the little motor trying, unsuccessfully, to open or close it.

I really doubt it’s a tracking device. They tend not to make noise, for obvious reasons. If you did have a tracking device, it would more likely be attached magnetically, under the car somewhere, probably near the back bumper, where the perpetrator could retrieve it and change the batteries every few days.

So if you’re really worried about that, try taping a sign under your rear bumper that says: “Frank, I told you to get lost.

Go rob a bank or something.” Good luck, Jennifer.

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I’d been to the brewery tour at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Merrimack, where there are thousands of gallons of beer made and hundreds of employees.

But Smokey Quartz is a bit more intimate, with Kurland being one of two employees who distill about 7,000 bottles of spirits annually.

The tour starts in the lobby area where Kurland has his award-winning spirits for sale and his numerous medals on display.

Kurland has tried to bring his simple warehouse to life with rustic decorations like barn boards from an 1850s barn in upstate New Hampshire and railroad boxcar floors from the 1920s and ’30s from an Oklahoma City salvage yard.

“I like old stuff. I’m not big on new and shiny. I like old stuff and the way it feels,” Kurland said.

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Aging barrels and the distiller at Smoky Quartz distillery.

Smokey Quartz makes a vodka, a corn whiskey, a moonshine, a white rum, a bourbon and a barrel-aged rum. Kurland’s product floor houses everything he needs to make, distill and bottle his products.

The production of whiskies starts with the mash turner, which turns the corn or grain base into a beer using Monadnock Springs water, a malt enzyme and yeast.

“We try to get everything as local as possible. So when I can, I get New England grain and New England corn,” said Kurland.

Kurland’s mash turner is a repurposed 1987 U.S. Navy spaghetti cooker that he bought from a local food company that was going out of business. The enzymes deconstruct the starch, turning the grains into a sugary corn syrup. Kurland then adds yeast, which turns the sugars into alcohol that ferments in plastic, cubicle-sized fermentation tanks for a week.

Kurland’s rums go through a similar first step using water and Grade A molasses as a base instead of grain. The water and molasses mixture is fermented by Champagne yeast because it can handle the higher alcohol content created by the sugar in the molasses.

“As a bonus [the Champagne yeast] introduces a wonderful flavor into the rum, a nice fruitiness. I make one of the best rums you’re ever going to taste,” said Kurland.

The contents of the plastic fermentation tanks are later put into the distiller, which separates the alcohol from the water by bringing it to a boil.

“Alcohol boils before water boils, simple as that. I put my mash in there and I heat it up with steam, the alcohol vapor rises and I capture it and condense it. That’s what your spirits are — it’s the condensed alcohol vapor,” said Kurland.

That’s the end of the process for most

moonshines, while the rums and whiskeys age in barrels at varying lengths of up to a year. Kurland experiments with different barrel aging techniques with his premium products and is working on a maple barrel to age his maple-infused bourbon.

After the tour I sampled all the products we had talked about and could easily taste the difference from any major spirit brands I’d had before. The spirits tasted homemade and pure, without any linger artificial aftertastes or unpleasant bites. They went down smooth as Kurland explained the drinks and what flavors and sensations to look for. He had me mix the moonshine with an Applecrest Farm hot cider he’d made with orange bitters, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. While some hardcore enthusiasts think mixing spirits is sacrilege, Kurland said his products can be enjoyed net or with other beverages.

Who should try this: If you’ve done a tour of a beer brewery or winery and are interested in how other alcoholic drinks are made, you should check this out — the tour was educational and tasty. If you want to go straight to the alcohol, Kurland’s products are available at New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets.

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Q&A’S

We talked to people on the beach and asked them some tough questions...

Are you a coffee person or a tea person?

“I like them both but I like coffee in the morning and I like tea in the afternoon. I like tea because there are so many selections of fun flavors.”

Chocolate or vanilla ice cream?

“Chocolate. I like anything chocolate. Anytime, anywhere.”

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What is your favorite fall activity?

Do you prefer chocolate fudge or caramel on your ice cream?

“Walking on the beach, because it’s beautiful.”

“Caramel. I like it because it’s the closest thing to butterscotch and I love butterscotch. I can always get chocolate.”

CHRIS PETERS OF GREENLAND, N.H.

Would you want the ability to fall asleep whenever you wanted to but lose the ability to dream?

“No, I don’t want to sleep without dreams. They’re always crazy. It’s like an adventure.”

KENDRA GEMMETT OF RYE, N.H.

AMELLIA MCKENNEY OF RYE, N.H.

When was your last great nap?

“I’d say yesterday afternoon … right on the couch in the living room.

I slept right through the Patriots game. In fact, I never even turned it on.”

DICK MCKENNEY OF RYE, N.H.

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AT BETTY’S KITCHEN & CATERING Betty’s Kitchen & Catering (164 Lafayette Road, North Hampton, 603964-9870) is a cozy, family-owned diner, serving up robust breakfast and lunch offerings every day from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. The staff is friendly, greeting many of the customers who come in by name. Whether you’re looking to get a cheeseburger for breakfast or a Tater Tot Benedict for lunch, the extensive and rotating menu is sure to have something for you. The Scene sat down with owner Kim Goddard and manager Marsha Casad to learn more about why you might want to take a trip to this Seacoast staple.

How long has Betty’s Kitchen been around?

Casad: The building itself has been around since the ’50s, but Betty’s Kitchen has been here since the ’70s, when Jim and Betty Merritt took it over. Then, Stan Shot bought it and ran it for over 13 years and created what Betty’s is today. Kim worked for Stan for those 13 years from the time she was 12 and so did I. She’s owned it for almost 16 years now.

Goddard: When I was a kid, all I wanted was to have a horse. On my 12th birthday, my mother told me that I could finally get one, but I’d have to take care of it, so I started getting up early every weekend to go work at Betty’s. I learned how to do everything and learned more and more each year. The last year that I worked for Stan, I managed the place, so when he decided to move on, he offered it to me and so at 25 I became the new owner. I love it here. My mom works here, my dad helps out, Marsha is my cousin, and we just treat all our employees like they’re family.

What makes Betty’s Kitchen unique?

Goddard: We try to give it a homey feeling so everyone that comes in feels welcomed. We get to know our customers and we try to make everybody happy. The last two years we’ve had “back in the day,” where I decorate the whole place like the ’50s, ’60s or ’70s and we all dress up like that and I put the prices back to those days, so we’re going to continue that tradition ... this year, too.

Casad: It’s more home cooking. We’re getting more modern, adding healthier options. Our menu is huge. We have over 300 breakfast specials that we rotate weekly and they’re unique. We had a Tater Tot Benedict as a special one year and it was so popular we had to add it to our regular menu.

What is your personal favorite dish?

Casad: My favorites are the Florentine Omelette and Betty’s Stuffed French Toast with bananas and strawberries. I’ve known a family that’s been coming here for 16 years on vacation and they get that every time.

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What is a dish you recommend everyone get?

Casad: I’d go with the Florentine (it’s vegetarian-friendly), but if someone wants something nice and hearty, the Hash Mash. It’s corned beef hash on a bagel, two poached eggs, and drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with a side of homefries. But even better than that is the Irish Benedict. It’s a bed of grilled corn cheddar muffin, then we have corned beef hash with onions and peppers sauteed in it, two poached eggs and hollandaise sauce on top.

What’s an essential skill to running a restaurant?

Goddard: You really have to know everything about the business so that you can do anything in the business. You also have to have a personality for people — be a people person. I love people, so I love when they come in and we can talk to them and get to know them, you make a lot of friends and I think that’s very important.

You have to appreciate your customers.

What is your favorite part about being on the seacoast?

Goddard: The people. In the summer, we attract a lot of people to the Seacoast and I love meeting them all. I just talked to a couple from Germany that loved it here.

We get a lot of folks that come back every time they vacation here. I love seeing them every year.

Casad: I grew up in North Hampton and Kim grew up in Rye. I love the Seacoast — everything is here. And the people who work here are just great — we’re like family.

— Suzana Mihajlica Give props to your favorite restaurant!

If you love a local eatery and want to see it featured on this page, send your suggestion to editor@ seacoastscene.net. Seacoast Eats highlights restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops and anywhere else you can get great food in Hampton, Rye, Seabrook and Salisbury.

FOOD

Tasty food from fresh ingredients

Mushrooms One of the places I grew up was outside of Philadelphia, not far from Kennett Square. If you’re not a huge mushroom fan, you might not know that Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, is the mushroom hotspot. I found this great feature on NPR’s website called “How a Sleepy Pennsylvania Town Grew into America’s Mushroom Capital” that told me all about how Kennett Square came to be.

Like so many things in Pennsylvania, it all started with the Quakers. Ever the utilitarians, they were frustrated with the wasted space under their flower beds and decided to grow mushrooms there. They employed Italian immigrants as laborers and the rest was history. The Italians began their own farms and mushrooms took off!

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too much. Oyster mushrooms are the easiest to grow, apparently. In fact, there are scores of websites dedicated to teaching people how to grow mushrooms at home.

While mushrooms are readily available at your local supermarket, I’ve been loving the ones from a farm local to me in Newfields, Vernon Family Farm. It’s so nice to support a farmer and their family.

Not only that, but you get the inside skinny on how best to prepare the food they grow. Pretty incredible, especially when you come across produce you’ve never seen before.

My recipe below comes from a good friend. While the mushrooms could be omitted, don’t make such a mistake!

Mushrooms add such an interesting flavor profile to a dish! They’re juicy, meaty and so very tasty.

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Beer and learning NH is developing its brewing craft Even if you are not a big beer drinker, you have seen the evolution of the beer scene in New Hampshire and New England. Instead of six-packs and 12-packs, people bring growlers of local, breweryfresh beers to get-togethers.

When you go to a restaurant or bar, people are scanning the tap list for the local options. And you have probably heard people — whose company you used to enjoy — discussing things like dry-hopping and hop strains and bitterness units.

We have all seen it and heard it because it’s all around us, and it’s exciting. Most of it is exciting, anyway.

I visited the Denver area about a year or so ago and there’s very nearly a brewery on every corner. Obviously, we’re not there yet in New Hampshire, but it sure feels like we’re heading in that direction.

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Attendees will hear from keynote speaker and craft beer industry icon Mitch Steele, brewmaster and co-founder of New Realm Brewing in Atlanta and formerly of Stone Brewing in California.

“We want to stress this is a regional event; any brewer, hobbyist, craft-centric business, wholesaler, vendor, taproom staff or restaurant is welcome to attend,” said CJ White, executive director of the New Hampshire Brewers Association.

“The more folks passionate about the craft beer industry that attend the better. Being the first event of its kind in the state, [this conference] presents a unique opportunity for us to showcase the talent behind New Hampshire’s beer culture and raise awareness for its economic impact on the Granite State.”

I think it’s probably safe to say there will be some beer at this conference, but this isn’t a beer tasting festival. Beer festivals are wonderful, but this is about growing, developing and enhancing New Hampshire and New England’s craft beer industry and trade.

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Photography exhibit showcases nature and wildlife Kevin Talbot’s images of nature and wildlife are on display through November at the Seacoast Artist Association Gallery (130 Water St. in Exeter).

For Talbot, a member of the association, photography was always a potential passion, but it didn’t become a real part of his life until he had the time and resources on his hands.

“As a young man, I had always wanted to be a photographer, but didn’t really get a chance to do it since I was raising a family,” Talbot said.

After Talbot’s children grew up and he could afford to splurge on some photography equipment, he began to truly explore it, and he claims that photography “keeps him out of trouble” in his retirement.

“I’ve been shooting mostly nature and landscape photography, wildlife photography — ponds, lakes, rivers, mountains of New England,” Talbot said. “Lately I’ve been geared more toward wildlife photography, specifically birds, ducks, and the loon.”

Talbot said his niche right now seems to be loons, as he tries to capture images that record the lives and daily activities of the beautiful creatures.

“I’ve been following a couple of different pairs of loons over the past couple years and watching them raise their young,” Talbot shared. He focuses on moments of the loons’ lives that the average observer may not catch, such as the parent loons feeding their chicks or the chicks preening themselves.

Images of these loons, along with Talbot’s other wildlife and landscape photography, will be part of his exhibit at the

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Seacoast Artist Association Gallery. He said his photos are printed on metal, without any glass or frames.

“They just hang right on the wall,” Talbot said. “It’s very plain, very simple and really highlights the photographs.”

In addition to these photographic prints, Talbot has other projects that he has worked on throughout the years. One of these projects stems from his discovery of poems written by his late grandmother. The book of poetry was called Ghostflowers and contained countless poems about nature.

Talbot said he discovered these poems when he was about 40 and quickly realized that a lot of the poems were on subjects of which he had photographs, He matched 24

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of her poems with these photographs, and he called the book Ghostflowers after the original title of his grandmother’s poems.

“I made a connection with my grandmother through her poetry and my photography that was never possible when she was alive,” Talbot said.

Talbot has another published book of photography called Emma’s Journey, which includes photos and memories of adventures that included his dog Emma, a pet with whom Talbot and his wife spent a lot of time in the mountains.

When he is not working on publishing books of photography, Talbot is taking photos to keep his followers engaged. For almost eight years he has been working on

a project in which he posts a new photo on his website and his Facebook page every single day, and he plans to keep this going for a long time.

Talbot will be selling his two published books at the November exhibit, and his 2018 calendar is also available for purchase. The photographer noted that his books and calendars are great Christmas presents and that he hopes people will keep this in mind when they visit the gallery in November.

Taking a step back from the gallery and various projects he is working on, Talbot emphasized his larger wish for the impact of his photography: “My main focus is to capture things and show people things that they might not necessarily see without the advantage of freezing what is happening in a still photograph. … I want people to have the opportunity to see things that you couldn’t necessarily see except through a lens.”

To learn more about Talbot and his work, visit ghostflowers.smugmug.com.

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“I’d like to have tattooed on my wrist: ‘What’s the worst that can happen?’” she said.

That’s the sort of statement that invites karma to swoop in, malevolent. Sure enough, the worst that could happen promptly did: Maynard’s new husband, Jim Barringer, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year after their wedding and died in their bed 19 months later.

Maynard’s new memoir, The Best of Us, is the story of the brief love affair, but more than that, it’s a compelling account about what it’s like to love someone through a terminal illness — or any crushing hardship, really — and come out whole at the end. “If only you could learn the lessons of cancer without having cancer,” Maynard writes sorrowfully, as she teaches them.

A fixture in American literature since the age of 18, Maynard has long been a love-her or hate-her sort of author, having alienated many J.D. Salinger fans at the start of her career by writing about her May-December relationship with the famous recluse.

Most of her 16 books are fiction, but Maynard is also a prolific essayist who wrote freely about her life long before “living out loud” through a blog became a thing. Among other topics, she has chronicled her difficult divorce, her breast implants, an unsettling relationship with a prison inmate, and a short-lived attempt at parenting two sisters that she adopted from Ethiopia after her own three children had left home.

Honesty like that requires courage and backbone, or a willful blindness to how such stories are received. And in her new book, Maynard remains true to style, writing about her second marriage and her husband’s death as if her computer lacked a “delete” key. No detail, it seems, is too trivial to leave out, no anecdote so off-putting that it should be concealed, even when Maynard is pulled over after a wine-drenched meal for suspicion of drunk driving, or has a telephone tantrum that results in a visit from the local police.

Considering how short the marriage and how quick the death, the book is long, and it feels long, as Maynard and her husband traverse the country looking for magical cures or at least a modicum of life extension. They

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— “they” because Maynard does everything with her husband but the chemo and surgery, even sleeping beside him in hospital beds — try different kinds of diets, see specialists at the nation’s top cancer clinics, meet with other pancreatic cancer patients and their spouses.

Both virtually abandon their work to hunt for hope full-time. It is a grueling journey, not only for the couple but for the reader.

Hope is hard to come by with pancreatic cancer, which has one of the worst survival rates among cancers. As their options diminished and Barringer grew thinner and weaker, Maynard fought the occasional twinge of self-pity in order to be a warrior for her husband, all the while mourning the old life she was learning to relinquish.

She writes poignantly of how strange it seems that the rest of the world blithely goes on as her world is collapsing.

“Biting into their sandwiches without taking a single pill. Pedaling their bicycles.

Walking their dogs. Looking bored. So few held hands. Didn’t they know how lucky they were? If my husband had their husband’s pancreas, we’d never complain about one thing again.”

Maynard met Barringer, who also had three children and had been divorced 25 years, on Match.com. He was a high-powered attorney who was also a musician, athlete and avid consumer of the arts, the sort of man who counts down the days to a museum opening in a couple of months.

Although both lived in California, they were married in New England, and in the course of the tale, Maynard bought a lake

cottage in New Hampshire sight unseen.

They spent several months tooling around New England on a motorcycle and in a car they that they bought on Craigslist and later magnanimously gave to a parking lot attendant at a Hilton hotel.

This seems a good time to note that Barringer and Maynard, despite irregularity of income and the occasionally expressed concern about money, seem to have plenty of it, enough to pay out of pocket for $6,000-a-pop cancer treatments, for regular plane trips across the U.S., and for recreational travel, to include flights to the lakeside home that Maynard owns in Guatemala.

Jetting to and fro for cancer treatments is not a lifestyle of the rich and famous, but it is something beyond the grasp of ordinary Americans who buy Maynard’s novels, and the casualness with which Maynard writes about their expenditures — to include splurging on a low-mileage BMW when Barringer was in his final months of life and throwing out a platter of fresh seafood after a party was canceled — at times makes the book seem like the first installment of a series called “Cancer as Rich People Do It.” That said, Maynard is a woman who was married in cowboy boots, and her preferred method of travel is the passenger seat, feet on the dash. She’s swimming in the deep end here, not the shallows, so we’re able to give Maynard a pass when her actions cross the lines of propriety. Hers is a story of genuine heartbreak and loss, paradoxically made bearable by the great love that made the loss so immense. “No story I have ever told has mattered more than this one,” Maynard writes. No argument here. A — Jennifer Graham

VETERAN’S DAY DOCUMENTARY “Hampton Voices from World War 1,” a documentary video, will be shown on Veteran’s Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, at two venues in Hampton. Karen Raynes and Mike Garland created the video to honor the men and women from Hampton who served in The Great War. The video will be shown at the American Legion Hall on High Street following the 11 a.m. Veteran’s Day service, and again at the Lane Memorial Library on Academy Avenue in the Weston Auditorium at 1 p.m. Refreshments will be served after both showings of the video. This free event is sponsored by the American Legion Post 35, the Hampton Historical Society/Tuck Museum of Hampton History and the Lane Memorial Library. This year is the 100th anniversary of the United States of America’s entrance into World War 1. On display at the Tuck Museum of Hampton History at 40 Park Avenue are memorabilia from World War 1. The museum is open Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.

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Early on in his standup career, Guptel felt the entrepreneurial pull. On a 2009 trip through Vermont, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, he strung together gigs; in the process he began learning the business of getting laughs. One fact stood out.

“It became clear pretty fast that I needed to control the means of production,” he said in a phone interview. “Otherwise it was like I was applying for the same job every night.”

His first foray as a promoter came in 2009, when Guptel launched a Monday night open mike at Concord’s Penuche’s Ale House. The

effort helped him develop, and it nurtured (if that’s the word — the audience could be rough) other aspirants via its annual Best Bar Comic contest.

A few years later Guptel booked weekends at a pop-up club called Veronica Laffs, while nursing the desire to eventually have his own operation. Running the club, located in a Raymond bowling alley, taught Guptel a hard lesson.

“I booked it more on who I thought people would like to see, and I found I should have just trusted my gut,” he said. “It was a training ground. ... I found that if I think something’s funny, not only am I able to get behind it, but people will too, because it’s probably funny. It doesn’t matter what contest they’ve been in.”

As a touring comic, Guptel built a healthy contact list.

“I kept my ear to the ground, and when I worked with acts I enjoyed, I made a note.

It feels good to share some of these people,”

BALLROOM LAUGHS Live stand-up comedy returns to the Rockingham Ballroom in Newmarket on Friday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m., with headliner Mark Riley, a Boston based comedian and former professional hockey referee who currently has a film script in the works called Penalty Box. “For a long time a game I refereed [in the ECHL] held the record for the most penalty minutes in a game,” said Riley, who also spent a week in the employ of the NHL before realizing the stage was where he belonged. “There were fights breaking out all over the ice and you couldn’t be everywhere at once. It was a lot like Slapshot that night.” Riley, whose comedy is wide reaching to include family, job, and everyday life situations, has also penned a booked, Not Every Kid Should Get a Trophy, which is also the topic of one of his bits. Joining Riley will be Matt Barry who is a regular at Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun and CBS Place, and Paul Landwehr a rising star who plays Caroline’s in New York, Laugh Boston the Comedy Studio and more. Tickets are $15. Visit therockinghamballroom.com.

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he said, though he also admits he’ll miss the circuit a bit. “It’s weird not to be going somewhere on the weekends, but I’ll get used to it.”

The philosophy at Curlies is to keep the laughs local whenever possible. Guptel’s experience playing clubs throughout New England tells him this is a good idea.

“I realized that the general public doesn’t know a ton about comedy clubs — it’s a new thing,” he said. “You get questions like, ‘Are you gonna get guys from New York and L.A.?’ I say, ‘No, we’re gonna have guys from New Hampshire.’ They kind of wrinkle their nose.”

Kyle Crawford, headlining Nov. 24 and Nov. 25, proves Guptel’s point.

“He’s a great act who’s born and raised in Plaistow. You don’t have to go to the ends of the earth to get talent,” Guptel said.

Curlies opens Nov. 10 with Steve Scarfo and is booked until the end of the year with Guptel’s favorites.

“I’m lucky to have enough of a relationship and professional trust with a lot of these guys,” he said. “It’s a pretty cool thing, to be able to sit and go, ‘Who would I want to see if I could choose?’ With the exception of Mark Scalia and Jody Sloane [both eyed for 2018], I got my top choices. When I’m talking to peo-

ple about who we have coming up it’s easy to sell them, because I’m legitimately excited.”

The club will be open Wednesday through Sunday. Headliner comedy happens Friday and Saturday; other nights feature some form of live entertainment. The Match Game, which Guptel hosted at Radloff’s Cigar Shop for many years, happens Thursdays. Sundays are filled with family-friendly interactive events like the TV-inspired Make Me Laugh, a couples game and comedy trivia.

“It’s not going to be just a bar for people to hang out; there’s always something happening,” Guptel said. “It’s a destination venue.”

Food items like squash fritters, deep-fried lasagna rollups and (in a nod to the room’s past incarnation) orange chicken will be offered.

“It’s heavy snack, not dinner,” Guptel said.

“Trying to ape what other places in Rochester are doing, like City Grill and Revolution, made no sense. For us it about was finding our niche.”

Though he performed his last full set in early October, and canceled a planned November show at Dover’s Strand Theatre to focus on Curlies, Guptel still has the chance to work his standup muscle.

“I’ll be hosting on the weekends. That’s a whole different cadence, energy and skill set, but it will keep me writing,” he said. “If and when I get to the point where I can take a week and work, I’ll have another hour to draw from. I’m hoping to use one to sharpen the other.” — Michael Witthaus Curlies Comedy Club grand opening with Steve Scarfo When: Friday, Nov. 10, and Saturday, Nov. 11, 8:30 p.m.

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A CAPPELLA SOUNDS The rockin’ a cappella of Tuckermans at 9 returns to Café Nostimo in Portsmouth on Saturday, Nov. 11, starting at 7 p.m. The venue offers plenty of free parking, “and there’s no cover charge for our fun, kidfriendly show,” says Tuckermans at 9’s founder and baritone Mark Miller of Dover. Tuckermans at 9 has been performing a cappella versions of rock, pop, blues and light jazz since 2004. Tables of five or more can be reserved at 603-436-3100. “Or just come and make friends,” Miller said. “It’s that kinda place.” Rounding out T9’s roster are soprano Diane Weir (Dover), altos Betsy Shelley (Wells, ME) and Fran Lipe (New Durham), tenor Aaron Carson (New London), bass Bill Hersman (Durham), and vocal percussionist Tim Bull (Hampton). Sound design is by Tony Berke (Exeter).

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Mesi said, according to The Independent. She spent more than 10,000 euros ($11,700) for the occasion, which included a white wedding dress, a three-tiered cake, bridesmaids and 70 guests. Mesi is part of a self-marrying movement dubbed “sologamy” that has followers all over the world. Her marriage holds no legal significance. “If tomorrow I find a man to build a future with, I will be happy, but my happiness will not depend on him,” Mesi declared.

• An anonymous collector from Palm Beach, Florida, was the winning bidder in an Oct. 11 online auction for a halfsmoked cigar that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed during a 1947 trip to Paris. AP reports the 4-inch cigar remnant brought just over $12,000 in the auction managed by Boston-based RR Auction. The company says Churchill smoked the cigar on May 11, 1947, at Le Bourget Airport. A British airman, Cpl. William Alan Turner, kept the cigar after he and his crew flew Churchill and his wife between Paris and London.

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• In Lissone, Italy, 40-year-old fitness problem in town,” the department tweet- instructor Laura Mesi made news when The 72nd annual Yellville (Arkan- ed. “State law doesn’t allow the police or she married herself in late September. sas) Turkey Trot, which took place on (animal control) to remove them.”

“I told my relatives and friends that if Oct. 14, is famous for its Turkey Drop, I had not found my soul mate, I would Visit newsoftheweird.com. in which live turkeys are dropped from Update marry myself by my 40th birthday,” a low-flying airplane and then chased In 1990, Marlene Warren, 40, answered by festivalgoers. This year, KY3.com her door in Wellington, Florida, and was reports, several turkeys were dropped shot in the face by a clown bearing balloons during the afternoon despite animal- (one of which read “You’re the greatest!”) rights activists having filed a formal and flowers. On Sept. 26, Palm Beach complaint with the sheriff’s office, say- County Sgt. Richard McAfee announced ing the pilot “terrorized” the birds. But that Warren’s widower’s current wife, pharmacist and past pilot Dana Woods Sheila Keen Warren, 54, had been arrested told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: for the murder, 27 years after the fact, and “We treat the turkeys right. That may taken into custody in Abingdon, Virginsound ironic, but we don’t abuse those ia. Sheila Keen married Michael Warren in turkeys. We coddle and pet those tur- 2002, NBC News reported. (Warren went keys. We’re good to them.” Wild turkeys to prison in 1994 for odometer tampering, can fly, but in 2016, about a dozen tur- grand theft and racketeering in conneckeys were dropped and not all survived tion with his car rental agency.) Sheila had the fall. According to The Washington worked for him, repossessing cars, and Post, over the past several years, local they were reportedly having an affair when sponsors and the chamber of commerce the murder took place. While Sheila had have distanced themselves from the Tur- always been a suspect, new technology key Drop, now more than five decades finally allowed prosecutors to retest DNA PETS OF THE WEEK old. The Federal Aviation Administration evidence and build a case against her. is checking to see if any laws or reguSimba was brought to us because his owner was going into a care facility. lations were broken, but said it has not Lucky!

This 11-year-old sweet senior had one home his entire life and now finds intervened in past years because the turKenyans Gilbert Kipleting Chumba himself living in a shelter, where the hustle and bustle is overwhelming keys are not considered to be projectiles. and David Kiprono Metto were among to him. Because of this, Simba spends the day in his hidey house where the favorites to win the Venice Marathon he feels safe. But when he is approached gently, he will push his little on Oct. 22. Instead, Eyob Ghebrehiwet ‘Tis the season face into your hand, seeking attention and asking for more chin scratches.

Could turkeys be sensing the peril of Faniel, 25, a local running in only his Some cats do not show their true personalities while they are with us and the season? Police in Bridgewater, Massa- second marathon, took the prize after need to be in a home environment to truly shine. Whoever adopts this chusetts, tweeted a warning to the town’s the lead runners were led several hunhandsome orange boy and gives him that chance will be rewarded with residents on Oct. 15 about aggressive wild dred meters off-course by an errant guide a lifetime of love and purrs. Like all the animals available for adoption at turkeys, WBZ-TV reported. As proof, an motorcycle. Faniel is the first Italian the New Hampshire SPCA in Stratham, Simba is neutered, microchipped accompanying video showed four turkeys man to win the Venice Marathon in 22 and up to date on all his vaccines. As a senior cat, Simba has a reduced chasing a Bridgewater police cruiser, but years. “Today’s race shows that the work adoption fee. Stop in and meet him today, or call 603-772-2921 or visit police were not as amused as their Twit- is paying off,” Faniel said following his nhspca.org. ter followers. “Aggressive turkeys are a victory. Uh, sure.

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