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to check them out. The tourist season will be here sooner than you think. There’s a new restaurant in town to try out: Shane’s Texas Pit on High Street in Hampton. Its slogan is “Big Texas Flavor in a Small Town.” It offers Texas-style smoked barbecue, dry rub, brisket, prime rib, lamb shanks, ribs and more on its menu, plus live country music and a full bar.

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Gabriel’s Rainbow Coffeehouse in Newburyport presents an Earth Day African dance party and fundraiser, featuring Mamadou and Red Tail Hawk, on Saturday, April 21, from 6 to 11 p.m. It’s an Earth Day celebration, and proceeds benefit renewable energy projects of A3DInc.org and local environmental groups. Enjoy African food, crafts and information about local nonprofits, plus a drum circle and special performances. There is a $15 suggested donation at the door. Visit imaginestudios.org, email kristine@ imaginestudios.org or call 978-834-0367

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The four out-of this-world jive-talkin’ funkateers of Motor Booty Affair bring their 1970s extravaganza of groove, style and attitude back to the Rochester Opera House stage. The show starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 21. Dance to the hits of The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, Earth, Wind and Fire, The Commodores and other favorites! Tickets start at $18. Reserve online or call the box office at 335-1992. Visit RochesterOperaHouse.com.

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The Rescue Run: Race for Marine Mammals is scheduled for Saturday, April 21, at 9 a.m. at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye. It features a 5K chip-timed trail race and untimed walk to benefit the center’s Marine Mammal program. Now in its 10th year, the popular race follows a scenic route through the forest, by the rocky shore, along a sandy beach, and alongside historic military fortifications in Odiorne Point State Park. The first 175 5K registrants receive an official wick-wear race T-shirt; additional shirts are available for purchase for $12 when you register. A limited number will be for sale on race day. The Kid’s Fun Run features a 300-yard dash and a half-mile run for children ages 12 and under. After the race, festivities continue with music, face painting, a mock seal rescue and a beach clean-up with the Blue Ocean Society. Visit seacoastsciencecenter.org, or call 436-8043.

On Friday, April 20, Baron Forrester in Hampton will host a Spaghetti and Meatball event, starting the evening with Prosecco and moving on to bottomless pasta, Italian bread and salad. The food will be paired with red wines picked to complement the red sauces. Homemade tiramisu and a vintage Madeira will be served for dessert. The cost is $30 per person. Register at baronforrester. com.

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COMICS FOR ALL! By Abigael Sleeper Nestled between cafes and restaurants or tucked away in small plazas, the comic book stores of the Seacoast form a vibrant community. Whether you’re looking for the latest issues from Marvel and DC, unique indie comics made by local creators, or a game of Dungeons and Dragons, they have you covered. A step through their front doors may mean a familiar escape, or the first step in discovering a new passion. We explored some of the coast’s comic book shops for a closer look at what’s new on the local comics scene. Jetpack Comics has operated in Rochester for 12 years, and store owner Ralph Diberardo has been in the business for even longer than that. “In the early 1980s, I had a comic shop in Portsmouth,” Dibernardo said. SEACOAST SCENE | APRIL 19 - 25, 2018 | PAGE 6

“I closed the shop just after they shut down the Navy base [at Pease] because that was like 85 percent of my customer base. Then in the late ’90s I went to work for a store in Somersworth called The Paperback Bazaar, where they did a lot of comics and games.” When that store closed a dozen years ago, Dibernardo decided to open Jetpack. Nestled among the other storefronts on North Main Street, Jetpack is bursting with merchandise, memorabilia and shelves stacked with brightly colored issues. Growing up on the Seacoast, Dibernardo discovered his passion for comic books when his father brought some home from a local used book store. “Even before I could read, I was just looking through them for the pictures,” said Dibernardo, “and eventually, when I could read, I just fell in love with them.” At the time, when there were fewer options on television and you could only

find cartoons on at certain times of the day, comic books were perfect for keeping him entertained, he said. He thinks that the greater variety of entertainment through television, streaming services and the internet has changed the game when it comes to reading, creating and selling comics. “The demographics have definitely changed,” said Dibernardo. “When I was buying comics off a newsstand as a kid, they cost a quarter, and they were geared toward kids. … The customer base that’s buying comics now, or the bulk of it, are the people who were reading comics in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.” Dibernardo says that there aren’t as many new comic book customers coming through the doors as you may have seen in years past. “I attribute a lot of it to the internet, to video games and things that are quicker and provide that immediate satisfaction,”

he said. Still, Jetpack serves customers young and old, and is always happy to see both returning customers and new faces. For those who might be unfamiliar with comic books, or haven’t read one in a long time, Jetpack is happy to give advice and recommendations. “There are still new people coming in,” Dibernardo said, “and all of the staff here know what to do. First we’ll find out what your interests are, what movies you like, what TV shows you like, and just get a general feel for what you enjoy, and then we can point you in the right direction.” You can count on Chris’ Cards and Comics to know what they’re doing when it comes to selling comic books; they’re the oldest comic store in the state. Owner Chris Morse said that com8 ics were his passion, a natural fit

Free Comic Book Day Celebrated on the first Saturday of May, this annual event will take place around the nation on May 5 of this year. The main event of FCBD is the release of up to 50 issues for free at stores across the country, but individual shops have their own special ways of celebrating the day. “Every store does Free Comic Book Day differently,” Dibernardo said. For Jetpack Comics, that means an all-day celebration spreading throughout Rochester’s downtown. “I wanted to share my customers with my friends that owned businesses in town,” Dibernardo said, “so I came up with what we call the Free Comic Book Day Scavenger Hunt.” Customers can download a map online, or pick one up in the shop, and follow it to various businesses throughout downtown Rochester. At each destination they’ll find a free comic book. Inside Jetpack itself there will be sales and promotions, as well as food and other vendors in the back parking lot. “Along with that, we put on a comic book convention at the Governor’s Inn,” said Dibernardo. “There will be writers, artists, and vendors, and we also have a cosplay costume contest.” Among the guests scheduled for this year’s convention are two artists from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, an artist from Marvel, and a producer from the Transformers animated series. Many local writers and artists from around New England will also be in attendance. Dibernardo likened the event to Portsmouth’s annual Market Square Day, except with more comic books and a lot of the attendees dressed up in costume. Attendance usually falls in the range of 4,000 people. For those who are looking for a lower-impact Free Comic Book Day experience, other shops in the area provide plenty of free comics all in one place. “We give free comics to everyone who comes in the door,” said Morse about the event at Chris’ Cards and Comics, “and we run sales on all kinds of merchandise.” Stairway to Heaven Comics also offers the opportunity to find all of the available free comics in one place. “We get as many free comic books as are offered,” said Gile, “so we have a really heavy variety. There are usually around 50 free comics available that day, and we have them all in one place.” Gile also provides spaces in his shop for local artists and writers to come sell and display their work, and some artists will do sketches for patrons on site. Peter Simeti of Alterna Comics in Newmarket will be among the local creators spending Free Comic Book Day at Stairway to Heaven this year. No matter how a store chooses to celebrate, they can count on it being an eventful day. “Free Comic Book Day is traditionally the busiest day of the year for any comic shop,” said Dibernardo. Similarly, despite some differences in the way they celebrate Free Comic Book Day, the comic book stores of the Seacoast all ultimately hope that the day brings in new customers and new comic book readers. “What we want to do is to get new people reading comics. The person who comes in every week, we love, of course, but we really want to get someone new into it,” said Morse. “It can be really hard to get kids to read anything, especially today. If we can get a comic book into a kid’s hands, that’s what Free Comic Book Day is about.”

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stemming from other interests he had when he was young. “As a kid, I read all the time, whether it was newspapers, books or magazines” he said. “I was also into the animation in cartoons like Scooby Doo, Batman and Disney cartoons. Comics were kind of the perfect marriage of those two things.” As an adult who still had an interest in comics, Morse realized there were no comic stores in the area and decided to open his doors in Salem in 1979. Business boomed, and the second location in Seabrook opened in 1984. “At the time, there just weren’t any [other] stores around,” said Morse. Since then, Morse and his staff have been providing the Seacoast with comic books, collectable cards, games and more. Just as Dibernardo noted, Morse said the people coming in through his doors have changed over the years. “The clientele for comics today is 100 percent different from 10 years ago, which was different from 20 years ago and 30 years ago,” said Morse. He noted a significant increase in women and young girls, especially as many comic books are now featuring strong female lead characters and women of all ages see themselves represented in the medium. Morse says that he thinks the shifting demographics have to do with the greater variety of themes, genres and storylines that are published. More than ever before, there seem to be comics out there for all ages and interests. “It doesn’t matter who a person is — male, female, young, old. We have suggestions for everyone,” said Morse. “There are comics out there for every audience.” Morse thinks that his store and the comics he sells provide an escape for his customers. “I think [comic books are] a relief from their everyday jobs, their everyday worries,” Morse said of his customers. “They can go into a fantasy world and just escape from all of that everyday stuff for a while.” 6

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Slightly newer to the scene is Stairway to Heaven Comics, which operated in Exeter for a few years before moving to Newington two and a half years ago. Owner Brad Gile shared the sentiments expressed by Dibernardo and Morse, saying that he was inspired to open a comic book shop because of his love of the medium. “It’s always been a passion for me,” Gile said. “I love comic books. I love the art and the refreshing storytelling. I grew up in Manchester, and I remember as a kid finding a Daredevil comic on some ratty convenience store shelf and just immediately falling in love with the superhero genre.” Although he started out reading most-

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ly superhero comics, Gile says that he’s grown to appreciate many kinds of comics. He mentioned how much the industry has changed and grown, and how many different genres of comic books you can find today. “There are so many different kinds of comic books now, and such a variety that we’ve never had before,” Gile said. “There are still superhero comic books, but there’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and so much else.” Like Morse, Gile mentioned the increase in women and girls reading comic books, and he thinks that is reflective of the evolving industry. “It’s wonderful to see more women getting into comics now than, I think, has ever been before,” Gile said. “[Reading comics] used to be pretty much a white male activity, but that’s changed so much. People from all different backgrounds are coming in.” Gile says that the best part of owning the store is interacting with the customers who come in and seeing how excited they are to 9

Local Store Owners’ and Publishers’ Top Picks Ralph Dibernardo of Jetpack Comics: “When I first started reading comic books, The Fantastic Four was what I was most drawn to. I just loved the family aspect of it, I thought their powers were really cool, and they’re still in my heart my favorite characters.” Chris Morse of Chris’ Cards and Comics: “Batman is my all-time favorite character, but The Walking Dead is my current favorite read.” Peter Simeti of Alterna Comics: “X-Men is probably my favorite title, especially in terms of how many I own, but in terms of the stories I tend to gravitate toward horror comics.” Brad Gile of Stairway to Heaven Comics: “My favorite comic now is called Black Hammer. It’s a really fun, mysterious comic about these kind of golden-age superheroes who are transported to another dimension.”

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come to the store. “During the weekdays, we have a lot of people coming in from work,” Gile said. “You can almost see the release of stress as they walk in. It’s a little haven for folks.” He said that the comic book community can seem small but is full of very passionate people. “It’s great for them to be able to get out here and meet other people who are into comics,” he said. Gile has organized his store to be welcoming to both newcomers and comic veterans. At the front of the shop, there are several sections designed to be entry points into comic book reading. “Right at the front of the store we have a big rack of comics that reprint first issues

for a dollar,” Gile said. “That way, people can try a wide variety of things and not have to blow their bank account.” Also located at the front of the store is an “All Ages” section, which offers kidfriendly comics, many of which feature characters children may be familiar with through other books, cartoons or movies. Whether his customers have been reading comic books for decades or are just starting out, Gile thinks that people are drawn to comic books because they’re a unique medium. “I think that for a lot of comic book readers, they like comic books because they present a lot of cool new ideas,” Gile said, “and because they present stories in a way that a lot of people haven’t seen before.”

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More comics events on the coast Comic Book and Toy Show On Saturday, May 12, Chris’ Cards and Comics is sponsoring the first-ever Hampton Beach Comic Book and Toy Show. The event, which will take place at the Winnacunnet High School, is a fundraiser for the WHS Class of 2019. “Admission is five dollars,” said Morse, “but students and kids get in for free.” Morse says that this event will feature over 70 vendors, artists and writers, including many local creators. Comics and merchandise will be on display and for sale, and Morse is hoping that the event will take off and become an annual event. “This is the first one we’re having, but were hoping to host many more,” said Morse. Superhero Pancake Breakfast Rochester Main Street and Jetpack Comics are planning a Superhero Breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 28, at Jetpack Comics. The public is invited to join several costume-clad superheroes while enjoying all-you-can-eat pancakes with sausage, bacon and beverages. Tickets are $5 for children and $10 for those over 10. Tickets

can be purchased in advance on the Rochester Main Street website, or purchased that morning. For more information visit.rochestermainstreet.org/superhero-breakfast. Weekly gatherings Many local stores also host smaller events in their shops on a regular basis. At Stairway to Heaven Comics, groups gather weekly to play games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering. There is also a comic discussion group that meets in the shop once a month. “It started out as an all-women group,” said Gile, “but we’ve started to incorporate a few men that are very respectful and don’t try to dominate the discussion.” The group meets once a month on Saturdays, for an evening of discussion and refreshments. A patron of the shop organizes the event and plans the discussion topics each month. All of the shop owners welcome customers new and old joining in all of the festivities and events at their stores, or just stopping by to browse the shelves. “The best thing is just interacting with customers when they come in and seeing their excitement,” Gile said.

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If you were asked to imagine a comic book publisher, you might think of big names like Marvel and DC. A significant number of comics, however, are published by smaller labels that are based in cities and towns all around the world, including Newmarket. When Peter Simeti decided to start publishing some of his own comics under the label “Alterna Comics,” he had no intention of starting a full-fledged publishing company. “There wasn’t a whole ton of thought behind it,” Simeti says of starting his own publishing company, “because any time you start something like that, you don’t really think it’s going to take off.” Simeti, who studied graphic design and business, said that he was a little taken aback when he started receiving submissions. “People started submitting stuff, and they didn’t know that it was just a self-publishing label,” he said. “I turned a lot of people away at first because I didn’t feel like I understood the space well enough, but then a couple of months later I was getting more submissions and some of them were pretty good.” Simeti said that he heard from a number of creators who were having a hard time breaking in to the industry, and he was struck by a kind of “gatekeeping mentality” when it came to making it into the comic book scene. “It just felt like we weren’t getting a lot of new voices out there,” he said. Simeti took inspiration from some other “indie” labels, who published creator-owned content, and started publishing some of the submissions he got. For a small publisher, it can be difficult to compete with larger companies and cre-

ate a profitable business model on a small scale. To combat this, Simeti found a creative way to cut costs and offer issues of Alterna Comics at a lower price point. “We started using newsprint to make our single issues,” he said. “The industry hasn’t regularly used newsprint for probably almost 20 years, but we started putting issues out on that paper.” Most comics made today are printed on smooth, high-gloss paper, but until the late ’80s and early ’90s most were printed on the newsprint that Alterna still uses. Simeti explained that newsprint serves 12

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book price. “We sell comics for $1.50, while most comics these days are four or five bucks,” Simeti said. He explained that selling at a lower price point helps his business operate, and also allows customers to feel comfortable trying out new comics without having to make a big investment. As a writer and artist, and as a publisher, Simeti enjoys his relationships with local shop owners. Although Alterna Comics have a wide distribution, there’s something special about the connection between local creators and sellers. He explained how he developed a relationship with Stairway to Heaven Comics’ Brad Gile. “I had a film that was made out of one of my comics, called The Chair,” Simeti said. “They were going to show it in Portsmouth, but the showing got cancelled. We ended up scrambling at the last second, and I came to the shop and introduced myself to Brad and he said, ‘I’ll show the movie here.’ So we set up a big TV and had a showing right there.” Since then, Simeti has been a frequent visitor of the shop, and has been a guest at events and book signings in the store. He emphasized the importance of local comic book shops in the industry. “Even if you see something elsewhere, on Amazon or whatever, go to your local shop first and see if they can get it for you,” he said. “It’s always good to support the local store.”

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PATTY FLAHERTY RYE BEACH AND LITTLE BOAR’S HEAD GARDEN CLUB Do you plant different flowers each year and, if so, how do you decide what to plant? It’s definitely different every year; that’s sort of our goal. It started in about 1970 that we tried to pick a theme for the garden. In those years, the first one, I think, was a big whale and she planted all with white petunias so it was actually like this figure. One year there was a starfish. Two years ago for our anniversary we planted a cake. … We look every year for what’s new and different, whether it’s a whole different breed of flower or just different colors that have come in.

Patty Flaherty is a member of the Rye Beach and Little Boar’s Head Garden Club. The club maintains three gardens: the Island Garden, at the east end of Sea Road in Rye Beach; the North Garden, at the north end of the North Hampton Fish Houses at the foot of Sea Road and Route A1A, and the South Garden, at the south end of the North Hampton Fish Houses.

Tell me about the history of the club. There has been a garden in that area of the beach along 1A since about 1930. The road actually started through there in the 1890s and at first ... there was nothing there so people started using it to stop and have picnics. So it got pretty dirty [with] trash and things like that. Around that time, the woman who lived across the street, Mary Frost, petitioned the state to have that be made into a garden. Around that time more dirt was brought in but there was no garden club at that time; she was just planting a garden. It was after her death that we actually became a garden club. She died in about 1939. In 2016 we had our hundredth anniversary.

How did you first get involved with the club? I have probably been involved for about eight or nine years now. How we get a majority of our members is word of mouth. People assume that we only take people from the North Hampton area but we don’t. Actually, I live in Portsmouth now and I am still a member of the garden club. One of the women who is very active lives over in Stratham, and we actually have members who were a member when they lived in Hampton and now have moved away but they come back to be part of the garden club in the summer. … You have to be nominated in order to become a member but it’s really a bit of a formality.

Did you already have a passion for gardening? My father and my grandfather were both very big gardeners. They both had very big vegetable gardens. I’m a self-taught gardener from both of them — primarily my father taught me everything. My father started out having a small patch and ended up, in his later years, growing everything, seeding and tilling and just doing everything and learning more and more about gardening. My brother is actually an

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agronomist, which is a weed scientist. So it is sort of in my family. What was it like growing up around fresh vegetables? I don’t think there is anything better to eat in this world than a fresh vegetable. I would take vegetables over a good piece of steak or fish any day. We grew up always having more vegetables on our plates than anything else. And partly that was because my father was also trying to be frugal so the meat was kept at a minimum, but to this day it’s the diet that I prefer. What gardens does the club tend to and what makes each one unique? The largest garden we have … the garden that’s there by the fish shack that everybody knows really well with the flowers, that’s called the North Garden. Several years ago a couple of members started to become interested in the South Garden. That’s the garden on the other side of the fish shacks that’s closest to the parking lot of North Hampton Beach. That’s more of a natural garden; we don’t really plant flowers but [we] have been working with the state in planting lilac bushes that the state’s been giving and various other tree and things. Then we maintain the small area at the end of Atlantic Avenue and small area at, I believe it’s C road, right across from the Rye Beach Little Boar’s Head Garden Club. In the last few years we’ve also helped the police station plant in front of the station in North Hampton.

How did the storm affect the gardens and what new projects you have this year? That’s been our biggest new endeavour. Unfortunately this year with the storm [the South Garden] really took quite a hit. So I think we are going to put it back together again but for people to realize the amount of work it’s going to take to do that, it’s an important thing. It was pretty much destroyed, filled with rocks and a lot of debris. Do you have a garden of your own at home? Very small. I actually downsized a year ago. Prior to that I had pretty large gardens. But after downsizing I just have a small garden myself. Just flowers right now. My sister has a vegetable garden and she’s always looking for me to help her with that so I still have a way to get my hands in the dirt. Other than gardening, what else do you do for fun? Riding bikes, getting out [and] running, taking my dog for a walk down by the parks, down to Odiorne or Seacoast Science Center. Just sitting on the beach reading. There’s nothing better than having the beach all the time. Are you from the Seacoast originally? I grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts. I’ve been here now 35 years. Do you see yourself gardening in five years? I hope I never have to stop gardening. My father gardened until two weeks before he died so I have to follow in his footsteps. — Ethan Hogan

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My Experience: I had the opportunity to play a round of disc golf with one of the most experienced players in the area, Chris Baker. Chris owns Walters Disc Golf Emporium, located next to the course. Chris has been playing the game for years and with a background in Ultimate Frisbee he was the perfect person to show me the course and teach me the proper technique. “When I’m at work I’m thinking about playing disc golf, when I’m at home I’m thinking about playing disc golf and when I’m playing disc golf I’m thinking about when I’m going to be playing disc golf next,” Chris said. Disc golf and regular golf are very similar. In disc golf, players try to get a flying disc into a metal basket instead of trying to get a golf ball into a hole. However, each basket is still called a hole and there are 18 holes in a round, like golf. The Bellamy Park course was set up and is still maintained by a dedicated volunteer community, according to Chris. It boasts unique features meant to draw players in. The first hole, for example, has players throw their disc from an old stone foundation, over the Bellamy River, to a basket on top of a hill. I knew how to throw a Frisbee but having Chris show me the proper technique was like starting from scratch. The goal is to keep the disc at the proper angle while twisting your body to give the throw as much force as possible. My first throw barely made it across the river, the disc landing in the brush on the sloping bank. I was impressed I had even made it across. Despite there being no ball or club, disc golf uses the term “putting” for when players are trying to get the disc into the basket at close range. The task can be challenging because there is less margin for error and the stakes feel higher when you are so close. On my first attempt I missed at embarrassingly close range. There are also drivers, like in golf. These discs have a sharper bevel so they cut through the air more effectively and can go farther.

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Ethan practices his throw.

Each hole starts on a concrete slab or tee where players make their first attempt at reaching the basket. Sometimes the basket is in clear view and other times it’s on the other side of a hill or behind a tree. I did a few mock throws before sending it down the stretch and my disc made it surprisingly far. It sailed down the open forest and landed about 20 feet from the basket. The second hole was a wide-open shot down the trail. But the deceiving thing about throwing a disc is that it almost always wants to veer left at the end of its journey. Chris said

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the veering left quality of a disc is always a factor when playing. Players have to anticipate the arch and either work against it or use it to their advantage. The discs took us through the course and our conversation took us everywhere else. Disc golf is a great social sport because you’re not going to get out of breath trying to beat a clock so you can talk as you play. You can also take your time and feel your way through the course. Occasionally a more competitive group would catch up and we’d just let them play through so we didn’t hold them up. There’s no single way to throw the disc.

You can throw it overhand, underhand, flick it or even roll it. Every technique has a use case for getting around trees or over hills. Halfway through the course I was able to skip my driving disc off the crest of a hill, sending it to the other side where the basket waited. It was very satisfying seeing the disc fly so straight and then kiss the top of the hill, sending pine needles into the air. The best hole on the course overlooks a perfect forest scene. A stream divides the pine woods at the bottom of a shallow valley. Walking bridges made of lumber cross the stream and take players from one hole to the other. The basket sits on the other side of the stream at a low elevation compared to the tee. We hucked several discs in the open forest just because it felt good (and also because we kept hitting trees and needed a few “mulligans”). “Without getting too philosophical or sappy, when people ask, ‘What do you like about disc golf?’ it’s just that, it’s watching the disc float through the air the way it’s meant to,” Chris said. I was learning to control how much power to put on the discs and I knew when to use my driver versus my putter. The 11th hole sits alone in a field with the Bellamy River behind it. If you overshoot your disc it’ll get wet. Chris’s ended up in the river and he had to fish it out with a stick, and mine veered left and almost rolled out of reach. But we kept hucking them into the field anyway, because it felt good and our round was over. We did 11 holes and I’m excited to go back and do all 18. Who should try this: If you have had any luck throwing a Frisbee in your backyard, you would enjoy the challenge of trying to get it into a basket. It’s always fun to accept that you might not be good at something initially but enjoy the experience anyway. This is a great sport to play with a small group of friends who want to compete but don’t necessarily want to break a sweat. You could use your own Frisbee but Walter’s has rentals for $1.

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Touch-screen technology is a step in the wrong direction Dear Car Talk: My husband has a new Subaru Forester, and I absolutely hate the touch screen and most of the other controls in the car, like the heating and cooling. The touch screen By Ray Magliozzi makes it impossible to adjust the radio without looking at the screen, and it’s also really hard to touch the correct point on the screen if you’re driving on even a slightly bumpy road. The settings for temperature also require looking at a number on a display, since the dials don’t have start and stop points. The backup camera is great, but I think they’ve crammed so much into that touch screen that more drivers are going to be distracted. Are any carmakers reconsidering this design? — Barbara You’re right, Barbara: Cramming everything into a touch screen is dangerous. The good news is we’re starting to see backlash. Honda decided at some point that it was cheaper or “cooler” to eliminate the radio’s volume knob, and created a little thing you slid your finger across to adjust the volume. When we reviewed Hondas, we found it so unpleasant to use that we said it was a deal-breaker for what otherwise was a very good car. Appar-

ently, lots of people agreed with us. Honda recently relented and added a volume knob back to newer models. The volume knob is a perfect example. You knew where to find it by reach, and you could feel how much you were turning it up or down without looking at it. It was ergonomically perfect. And they went and screwed it up; they tried to uninvent the wheel. The same is true for other controls we use frequently, like temperature, fan and radio presets. The good news is that the smarter manufacturers have been adding back hard buttons for that stuff, while leaving the touch screen for detailed entertainment choices and vehicle preferences that you use less frequently. Another example of backward thinking can be seen in today’s automatic transmission shifters. You used to be able to grab the shifter and shift from park to drive, or drive to reverse, just by feel. Now some cars have push-button selectors or joysticks that require attention and concentration (and then a short moment of prayer while you wait to see if your gear wish was granted). When we drove a Cadillac CT6 with a standard automatic shifter a few weeks ago, it was an unexpected joy. And while the transmission-shifter trend is still heading in the wrong direction, we’re hoping that the “everything via the touch screen” trend is peaking or, better yet, has peaked.

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The best thing you can do is refuse to buy a car that isn’t easy for you to operate. Sales are what manufacturers respond to, and if you tell the Subaru salesman that you love the Forester but won’t buy it because you have to take your eyes off the road to adjust the temperature, that’s the strongest message you can send. Dear Car Talk: I have a 1991 Cadillac Eldorado with 140,000 miles on it. About a year ago, I began having problems with my starter. When I would try to start my car, sometimes it would start right up, and other times the starter would click several times and then start. My mechanic recommended that I replace the starter, so I did. The starter worked fine for several days, and after several days of working fine, the same problem returned. I replaced my battery with a new one, and had two different auto stores run a test on my starter, alternator and battery. The tests indicated that they were all in good shape. What else could be causing this problem? Could it be my battery cables or my ignition switch? — Joseph I doubt it’s your battery cable’s terminal ends. Since you had the battery replaced, the mechanic almost certainly made sure the connections were clean and tight. That’s standard procedure. So, based on the age of the car, I would lean more toward a ground prob-

lem. There are ground cables that run from the battery to the chassis, and from the chassis to the engine block. That completes the starting circuit. And unless those ground cables are making good, solid contact, allowing the electrons to make their way back from the starter to the battery, the car won’t start, and you’ll get a clicking noise. And it’s possible that in the decades since the first Bush administration, when you bought this car, those ground connections have started to corrode. When a car is old enough that you can see the ground through the floor, it suggests that your ground connections may be perilous, too. And if the ground connection is corroded, rather than completely detached, that could explain why the problem is intermittent. I’d have my mechanic run a new ground cable from the negative terminal of the battery right to the engine block, where the starter is bolted to the block. That’ll guarantee that the electrons will have a good path back to the battery. If that doesn’t fix it, Joseph, the next thing I’d look at would be a bad neutral safety switch, which requires the transmission to be in neutral or park before it allows the car to start. Those can fail intermittently. Or you could have a bad or corroded connection somewhere else in the ignition system. But try the ground first. Visit Cartalk.com.

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AT LENA’S SEAFOOD (131 Rabbit Road, Salisbury, Mass., 978-456-8572) is truly a family-run restaurant, with four generations at the helm today. Commemorating 60 years in business this year, the Fortin family has perfected its craft — not only with delicious fresh and fried seafood (and other family fare favorites), but with true Seacoast hospitality and service. The dining rooms are spacious and cozy, with an old fisherman’s feel adding to the seafare appeal. The Scene sat down with three generations of the family, including owners Herman and Regina Fortin, their son Spike, and his son Tyler, to learn more about why this spot should be your next stop. How long has Lena’s been around? Herman: Since 1958. We used to be right on the beach. I was 14 and worked with my grandmother down there. When I was 18, Regina (my wife) got a job there and we hit it off right away. Then around Labor Day 1971 there was a fire at the Clown, a funhouse next to Lena’s — Salisbury Beach back then had rollercoasters, a Ferris wheel, fun houses — and there was smoke everywhere and it caught fire, so we moved up here the next year in 1972. Spike: We’re going on 60 years now. Five generations total, four generations that still work here today. We have two locations, here and one in Florida run by my aunts. What makes Lena’s unique? Spike: The fact that we’re able to work with family and be so close. ... I think we care more than some of the franchised places. We pour our heart and soul into it. Regina: You feel more family-oriented with your customers. When they come in, you say hello and they pour their heart

out to you because you listen. We have a good clientele, even when it comes to wintertime when you don’t have your tourists anymore, but you have your steadies that come in every week and that’s what keeps you going. What is your personal favorite dish? Regina: The homemade chicken fingers that my son put on the menu. Herman: Mine would be the scallops. Spike: Haddock. Tyler: The chicken fingers. What is a dish everyone should get? Spike: I would say the seafood plate because it’s a sample of pretty much everything we have, so you get the haddock, the scallops, shrimp, clams, our onion rings, french fries and coleslaw. Regina: Our biggest seller, especially come Mother’s Day and beyond, is the lobster roll. And our onion rings — we’re known for our onion rings. Spike: The rings are homemade and hand-dipped with our secret batter.

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Regina: People have told us they’ve tried to recreate them at home because they’re so good! What is an essential skill to running a restaurant? Spike: You have to be able to go with the flow. You never know what’s going to happen — the cooler could break down, but you have to be able to roll with it. Like a buoy in the ocean, you don’t fight the tide, you just go with it. Herman: It’s important that you help and that you treat your customers well. And you have to be good to the people that work for you. Regina: And putting a good product out there that people are satisfied with. That makes people want to come back and keep coming back because they’re happy with what they’re getting. What is your favorite part of being on the Seacoast? Spike: If we’re running short on seafood, we’re able to get it fresh right away. If

the sun pops out on a Friday and we have a great day and I run out of something, I can call a nearby fish market and have that right away, whereas if you’re not on the Seacoast, it’s not an option or it’s not fresh. Our customers benefit from that. Herman: It’s exciting to be on the Seacoast. You’ve got tourists coming, different ones and the same ones who come back every year. The ocean is a draw. Years ago when I worked on the beach with my grandmother, we learned cooking from her. It carried down to my mother and now my grandson is doing the cooking and he’s doing a good job. — 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.

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Roasted Carrot and Tomato Soup If this winter never ends, I can live blissfully in the cold knowing I’ve found the perfect soup. This roasted carrot and tomato soup is hearty, flavorful and packed with delicious ingredients that make snow in April a little more bearable. I found the recipe for this soup in the Forks Over Knives Family Recipes cookbook, a gift from my sister who has been vegan for the better part of four years. Now, my next-door neighbor also happens to be vegan, and her and her family suffered from a flu outbreak last week. I offered to make her a family friendly supper and was so thankful I had a cookbook with plant-based recipes in my kitchen. Fortunately, this recipe did not disappoint. Roasting the vegetables first helped impart a deep, rich flavor to the soup, so although it took about an hour to complete this step, the finished product was worth the time. After the roasting is complete, the soup comes together relatively quickly. Bringing the water, sage and roasted vegetables up to a boil and then letting it simmer for about 15 minutes is a painless way to make your kitchen smell amazing. The most effort this soup required, and it was minimal, was moving the water and veggies to the blender, although this step could be simplified if you have an immersion or hand blender. With a quick pass in the blender, this mixture went from a watery stock to a thick and sumptuous soup. Topped off with fresh basil and a generous amount of salt, and the roasted carrot and tomato combo was a downright delectable dinner. The soup has elements of a less robust pasta sauce, compliments of the roasted tomatoes and the basil, and the cookbook Roasted Carrot and Tomato Soup Recipe courtesy of Forks Over Knives Family Recipes 4 medium carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces 8 to 10 Roma tomatoes, quartered lengthwise 2 small russet potatoes, scrubbed and cut into quarters 4 to 6 small cloves garlic 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh sage 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar Sea salt and freshly ground white pepper

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Quest Double IPA by Kettlehead Brewing Co. (Tilton): Kettlehead produces several IPA-style brews that certainly look and taste the part of the New England-style IPA. Quest jumps right at you with tropical flavors of pineapple and mango. It’s juicy and yes it’s a double, but it’s very approachable. Research by Deciduous Brewing Co. (Newmarket): I think the sweet spot for ABV on a New England-style IPA is right about 6.5-percent — and that just so happens to be where Research falls. The alcohol bite is present but not so powerful that it overwhelms the beer, which I think can start to happen as ABVs creep upward. This brew features a very fruity nose and a lingering, pleasing finish. Seek out this brewery. Misguided Angel by Lithermans Limited Brewery (Concord): Lithermans brews this with four pounds of dry hops in each barrel, so you can expect the brightness of the hops to slap around your taste buds in a pleasing way. .Jeff Mucciarone is a senior account executive with Montagne Communications, where he provides communications support to the New Hampshire wine and spirits industry. What’s in My Fridge Patina Pale Ale by Austin Street Brewing Co. (Portland, Maine): One of my five favorite beers of all time. Sure, the list is constantly evolving, but this beer is absolutely terrific. Bright, hoppy, fresh and not too bitter. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a can of the Patina Pale Ale. Austin Street is a brewery well worth seeking out. Savor this one. Cheers!

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POP CULTURE Everything Happens for a Reason, by received that she parlayed it into a book. Kate Bowler (Random House, 178 pages) It helps that she’s still alive, something that did not seem possible when she was As much as Kate Bowler hates having diagnosed with colon cancer and given a Stage IV cancer, she also hates platitudes. 30-percent chance of being alive in a year. Everything happens for a reason. It’s Despite having good insurgoing to get better. God needed an angel. ance, Bowler’s diagnosis Karma is a bitch. came late — late enough to Platitudes are what passes for insight in a seem criminally negligent. nation that, Bowler says, is steeped in “fac- By the time she talked a docile reasoning.” tor into ordering a CT scan, “And God is always, for some reason, she had lost 30 pounds and going around closing doors and opening had been suffering “stabwindows. God is super into that,” she wrote bing” stomach pains every in an essay published in The New York couple of hours for three Times in 2016. months. (The doctor who If Bowler seems a bit sardonic for a pro- eventually relented to the fessor at Duke Divinity School — she once CT scan had just wanted to took up cursing for Lent — you could blame send her home and had said, it on the chemotherapy for the colon cancer “I looked at your latest tests she’s been fighting for more than a year. and they don’t tell me anything conclusive.” It also could have something to do with Every patient in North Carolina deserves to growing up in a Mennonite community in know this guy’s name.) The scan revealed cancer so advanced rural Canada, where “the most holy words found outside of the Scriptures were ‘I got that Bowler was told to go to the hospital it on sale,’” and then going on to research immediately. She was 35. She had just had American prosperity preachers such as Joel a son with her beloved Mennonite husband, Osteen and Kenneth Copeland. (#Blessed.) Toban, whom she had met “when both of Whatever the origin, Bowler’s writing us were practically teenagers and he was is the love child of Anne Lamott and H.L. still mildly enchanted by my propensity for Mencken, and her Times essay, “Death, the spontaneous song.” The diagnosis was especially ironProsperity Gospel and Me,” was so well-

ic because she had just published a book called Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. Adherents to that enthusiastic brand of Christianity believe that God bestows special favors on those who adhere to His rules. “There are no setbacks, just setups. There are no trials, just tests of character. Tragedies are simply opportunities to claim a bigger, better miracle.” While her reporting on the subject was thorough and seemingly objective, Bowler is clearly a skeptic and her raised eyebrow never descends when she’s talking about the prosperity gospel, even though she once won $1,300 at bingo after sending up a prayer. Prosperity people would have her think and eat her way back to health. There would be a cause for her sickness, and a lesson. But Bowler and her husband will have none of the ineffectual syrup of happy-think, the “Everything happens for a reason.” When one well-meaning person says that to her husband, he replies, “I’d love to hear it.” The startled woman says, “Pardon?” He says, “I’d love to hear the reason my wife is dying.”

When Bowler’s mother-in-law insensitively complains about her wrinkles and other indignities of growing older, Bowler, who sees her life in two-year increments at best, replies, “I think aging is a [expletive] privilege.” Bowler’s book is a chronicle of defiance in the face of tragedy, and also a fresh and necessary challenge to the lazy ways in which healthy people respond to people who are sick. We mean well, yes, and we don’t know any better because no one has spelled out precisely what we shouldn’t say and what we should do. We no longer have that excuse. In appendices, Bowler offers two lists: “Absolutely never say this to people experiencing terrible times” and “Give this a go. See how it works.” An excerpt from the latter: “But really, bring me anything. Chocolate. A potted plant. A set of weird erasers. I remember the first gift I got that wasn’t about cancer and I was so happy I cried. Send me funny emails filled with YouTube clips to watch during chemotherapy. Do something that suits your gifts. But most important, bring me presents!” Go and do likewise. One present you could give is this book, but only to a certain kind of person — the kind of person who might take up cussing for Lent. B+ — Jennifer Graham

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The rockin’ a cappella of Seacoast-based Tuckermans at 9 returns to Garrison Players Arts Center in Rollinsford on Saturday, April 21, for an 8 p.m. show. The group’s set will include new songs, like a rendition of the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ Safari” with a Seacoast twist. Special guests Tonehenge will perform as well. For more information about the event, visit garrisonplayers. org, tuckermansat9.com and facebook.com/TuckermansAt9.

before, and I’m like ... I’m not going to stand by you and sing this every night.” An eponymous 2015 debut was a critical success, and last year’s Contraband Love continued the trend. Campbell and Williams are a musical force, now supporting each other instead of rock royalty. Strangely, Campbell doesn’t relish his newfound role. “It’s hard work, and I don’t enjoy it,” he said with a laugh. “I really like writing music, but writing lyrics is very difficult — I’m so concerned about doing it to the best of my ability that I tie myself up.” Ironically, Campbell always starts with a melody and fills it out with lyrics, while Williams hears the poetry in songwriters like Dylan and Joni Mitchell, yet shies away from writing herself. Though she fills journals in her day-to-day life, she has yet to pen a song. “I romanticize it, and you don’t see me doing it,” she said. “One time … he had been struggling with a song for quite a while, and a couple days after he finished it he turned to me and said, ‘I just feel violated.’ But if you go that deep, that’s what it is about, and that is what resonates with people.” When their first album came out in 2015, Jackson Browne invited them on tour and gave the couple prominent exposure, loaning his band for their opening set and bringing them out when he took the stage. “To have those guys backing us up, you couldn’t ask for a better band,” Campbell said. “This was the first real experience doing our thing in front of crowds of that size and it felt great. ... You could feel that we found the joy in what we were doing.” For Williams, making music has felt like that from her early days growing up on a Tennessee cotton farm. “It’s interesting how it’s just the same thing, whether I’m in my tiny little church in Peckerwood Point or I’m on this big stage at Madison Square Garden with Phil and Bobby, or with Jackson Browne,” she said. “The whole thing is just about trying to reach out and touch them, and then them reaching back to you ... that’s all that matters.” — Michael Witthaus Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams When: Friday, April 20, 8 p.m. Where: The Portsmouth Book & Bar, 40 Pleasant St., Portsmouth Tickets: $20 at bookandbar.com ($25 at the door)

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On Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a home rental agreement took an X-rated turn when Leah Bassett, artist and longtime resident of Aquinnah, unknowingly leased her home to an employee of Mile High Distribution Inc., a pornography production company. In September 2014, the Boston Globe reported, Joshua Spafford approached Bassett about renting her home from October through May 2015. In March 2015, Spafford informed Bassett he had left the house because he was fired, prompting Bassett to ask her parents to stop by and check it out. They were “shocked by the deplorable state of condition in which they found their daughter’s personal residence,” according to court documents. As “circumstances evolved,” Bassett began reviewing internet sites maintained by Mile High, which “publicly boasted about their porn shoots on chic and tony Martha’s Vineyard.” Bassett filed suit in late March in U.S. District Court, alleging the sites featured photos showing her home, artwork and furnishings, “utilizing nearly every room of her home” including scenes on top of her dining room table, sofas and in her laundry room. Defense lawyer Stephen A. Roach said the suit “arose out of a basic landlord-tenant dispute.”

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Fort Pierce, Florida, police pulled over a car on March 21 after observing it swerving down the roadway. As they approached, they smelled marijuana, and during the ensuing search, passenger Kennecia Posey, 26, was shocked when police found two bags in her purse: one containing marijuana, the other cocaine. WPLG TV reported that Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, but told officers: “I don’t know anything about any cocaine. It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.” Posey was charged with felony possession of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

Questionable judgment

On March 20, the U.S. Marine Corps fired Navy Cpt. Loften Thornton, serving as a chaplain for the Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans, after Thornton was captured on video having sex with a woman on the street in front of the Crown & Anchor Pub, according to USA Today. Marine Reserve spokesman Lt. Col. Ted Wong said only that Thornton had been fired for “loss of trust and confidence.” According to the Navy’s strategic plan for religious ministry, chaplains “provide a source of comfort and refuge” to service members, which Thornton had apparently extended to members of the general public.

Our weird addiction

On March 6, Royal Canadian Mounted Police participating in an awareness campaign set up several large electronic signs in North Vancouver, British Columbia, that warned drivers: “POLICE AHEAD — STAY OFF YOUR PHONE.” Despite that, within just two hours, officers ticketed 89 drivers, 74 of them for distracted

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Dangerous food

Some people don’t like ham. When Beverly Burrough Harrison, 62, received a gift of ham from her family on Feb. 12, she waited until they left, then set it on fire and threw it in a trash can at the Bomar Inn in Athens, Alabama, where she was living. As smoke filled the room, AL.com reported, Harrison took her dog and left without alerting anyone to the fire. As a result, she was spared from being a victim of the ham bomb that blew out the front wall of the room when a can of butane fuel was ignited. Harrison was held at the Limestone County Jail on a felony arson charge and could face life in prison if convicted.

Failure to communicate

Things went from bad to worse for soccer player Sanchez Watt during a match in Hertfordshire, England, on March 6. Awarded a yellow card, Watt was asked his name by referee Dean Hulme, who mistook “Watt” for “What.” As Watt repeated his name over and over, the referee became perturbed and changed the yellow card to red for dissent, BBC Sport reported. Hulme rescinded the card when someone explained the mixup. “I think everybody found it amusing afterwards, including the referee,” said team chairman Dave Boggins. “He was very apologetic.”

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