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WWII Vet | Page 5

What’s Up | Pages 14-15

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Pop Whalen Ice and Arts Center

By Rosalie Triolo Remember when The Pop Whalen Ice and Arts Center located on Pine Hill Road next to the Abenaki Ski Area was an outdoor ice-skating rink?

Whether actively skating, or watching from the sidelines, the bitter cold air and blustery winds were, at times, a test of one’s level of endurance. In 1987 the outdoor rink was built using steel framing enclosed with un-insulated metal walls. The metal roof was insulated. The building provided skaters and spectators shelter from the outdoor elements and icy temperatures. Three years later the addition of a heated front lobby was constructed to include high school locker rooms, restrooms, a snack shack, and a warm area for hockey fans to watch games.

Today, for those fans wanting a closer look at the game, there are two choices in the unheated area: sitting on one of three sets of 3-tiered bleacher benches or standing directly behind the protective dasher boards and plexiglass barriers. Whether sitting or standing, the nearer one gets to the ice the colder the temperatures.

Who was Paul (Pop) Whalen and why was an ice center named for him?

A positive influence on many youths’ lives, “Pop” was a coach, mentor, father figure, friend, and loved the game of hockey. During his high school years at Medford High School in Massachusetts, Pop played varsity hockey. After graduating in 1945, he served in the

Floor Plan for the updated Pop Whalen Ice and Arts Center. Photo Courtesy Friend of Pop Whalen US Navy. Four years later he entered Boston University, a 22-year-old freshman. During his four years at Boston University Pop was named an all-star center and MVP for BU’s win over Eastern College Title. After graduation he played with the Berlin Maroons and the Laconia Lakers of the Granite State Hockey League.

Arriving in Wolfeboro in 1954, with his wife by his side and diploma in hand, he taught for the next 17 years at Brewster Academy. He was instrumental in the revival of Brewster Acad-

emy’s hockey program winning the Lakes Region Title 11 of his 16 years as coach.

After leaving Brewster Academy he moved to Maine and Berwick Academy where he was a member of the faculty and coach of Berwick Academy’s hockey team. Throughout his years with Berwick Academy, the hockey teams became renowned for winning four Lakes Region League titles, two New England titles and a 1974 NE Junior A title with a #4 national ranking.

After a brilliant thirty-six-year career

as educator and coach of winning hockey teams, Paul (Pop) Whalen retired in 1990. He died on October 10, 2008.

In 2019, realizing the need for expansion and renovation, a volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Friends of Pop Whalen was established. Their goal “to enhance and preserve” the Pop Whalen Ice and Arts Center, thereby creating a year-round (four-season) venue. Instead of opening from mid-October and closing the • Pop Whalen continued on page 4

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Great Waters Scholarship Applications Now Available Since its inception, the Great Waters Scholarship Program has contributed financial assistance to music students in the Lakes Region, helping them on their journey to connect their talents with the needs of the music world. In the summer of 2021, the program was re-named the Barbara and David Lobdell Scholarship Fund in honor of a couple who have served the organization in a variety of roles over the past twenty-five years. The scholarship program is funded in part through the gen-

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placed on the ice rink to catch roof leaks resulting from dripping rainwater and snow-melts. When outdoor temperatures climb to 40 or 50°F, there is a build-up of condensation on the plexiglass barrier surrounding the rink.

The ice softens creating a safety issue for skaters. Noticeable ceiling patches cover the missing roof insulation due to roof leaks. Holes in the insulation are evidence of puck damage.

Not only do the existing 3-tiered metal bleachers not provide sufficient seating, but they do also not meet the current codes for ADA accessibility.

Guardrails are not provided.

Currently the home teams of Kingswood High School and Brewster Academy each have their own heated locker rooms with showers and bathrooms. The four small heated changing rooms, two of which are used by visiting teams, are sparsely equipped only having benches on three walls of the room and one row of hooks on a wall above a bench for jackets. There are no lockers, no showers and no bathrooms.

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end of March, the Friends of Pop Whalen envision the Ice and Arts Center as a “self-sustaining year-round, multiuse facility.”

By adding accessibility and comfort, “Every fan and family member will have a comfortable spot with a view to cheer on their favorite team and player.”

For greater efficiency and greater venue, “Reducing the cost to operate the building only makes sense as we envision a year-round schedule with more activities and events for families and guests in our community.”

Whether you visit the building in person or take a YouTube “Wolfeboro Parks and Recreation 2022 Pop Whalen Tour” guided by Christine Collins, Director of Wolfeboro Parks and Recreation, the glaring need for renovation, expansion, and a dehumidification system are quite evident.

A leaky roof and condensation cause building deterioration, mold, and create skating safety issues. Buckets are

Applications are now being accepted from New Hampshire residents enrolled in high schools located in Wolfeboro, Alton, Gilford, Meredith and Moultonborough who have an interest in pursuing a career in the support of the performing arts or music education. Students from those same towns already enrolled as college undergraduates or graduate students may

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also apply. The 2022 application can be found on the Great Waters website https://greatwaters.org/community/.

Scholarship recipients are announced in May and will be honored at one of the Great Waters concerts this summer.

Great Waters is a non-profit organization that has been bringing music to the Lakes Region since 1995. Great Waters celebrates the performing arts with programs that satisfy every palate.

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ter is also home to The Lakes Region Curling League. More space is needed for their equipment.

Every inch of available space in the building is utilized to capacity.

In addition, the “Pop” hosts the She Wolves Women’s Hockey, Sr. Men’s League (for 40 and over), and the Lakes Region Curling League. Public skating hours are offered for (Lap Skating, Stick Practice and Public Skate). Since the Public Skating times may change, it is advisable to check the daily schedule.

According to the Project Summary and Business Plan prepared by The Friends of Pop Whalen in Conjunction with the Town of Wolfeboro: Regarding Lockers – “Two new varsity locker rooms for Kingswood High School plus two for Brewster Academy would be added. These locker rooms would be slightly larger to accommodate the larger team sizes and would have private showers. Both Kingswood and Brewster would pay any additional fitup necessary to customize the locker rooms and would also operate under the Memorandum of Understanding with the Town of Wolfeboro regarding operation and ongoing maintenance.

There would be four locker rooms added for use by Back Bay Hockey, adult leagues and visiting teams.”

“The Electrical system had been modified many times over the years and needs upgrade to bring it into

and Roll, Classical and Folk, Great Waters brings something for everyone to enjoy. Its Concerts in the Clouds series is held on the grounds at the Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough, and this coming season the Concerts in Town series located in Wolfeboro will be announced shortly. More information about Great Waters can be found at www.greatwaters.org or by contacting Executive Director Doug Kiley at 603-569-7710.

compliance with the applicable safety codes. Lighting upgrades and other energy efficiency items were not considered at the time of the original pricing.”

As written in the Wolfeboro 2019 Master Plan, “The arena roof is in need of considerable repair and insulation.

Interior air circulation is inadequate causing high summer humidity along with mold growth and extra labor spent in scraping the concrete floor surface.

Potential for year-round operation of the arena (ice sports in winter, antiques & craft shows and other events in inclement weather) is possible and should be planned for.” “The Pop Whalen Ice Arena has the potential for becoming an important element in the Town’s drive towards a four-season economy.”

Taking all the renovations and expansions into consideration, a Deliberative Session was held on February 8, 2022 at the Kingswood Arts Center to discuss Warrant Article #11. Pop Whalen Ice and Arts Center Renovation and Expansion Project (Bond). It had been recommended by the Board of Selectmen with a vote of 4–0, and by the Budget Committee with a vote of 8-0.

On March 8th, Wolfeboro voters went to the polls and voted YES passing the Renovation and Expansion Project by a majority of 68%.

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David Doane, World War II Veteran Served under General Patton

By Lori Tremblay 1943 photo courtesy of David Doane; current photo Lori Tremblay In May of 1944, the Western Allies were preparing to deliver their greatest blow of World War II, the long-delayed, cross-channel invasion of northern France, code-named Overlord, later called D-Day. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was supreme commander of the operation that involved the coordination of 12 nations. Months of careful planning and preparation led up to the invasion.

The real location of the attack was kept secret as Allied undercover agents, posing as German sympathizers, tipped off Hitler that the location was to be north of the river Seine, where the English Channel is narrowest. Hitler put most of his panzer divisions there.

The German word Panzerkampfwagen means an armored fighting vehicle, which is usually shortened to panzer.

The division had tanks, mechanized and motorized infantry, as well as artillery, anti-aircraft and other support elements.

On June 6, 1944, about 175,000 Allied troops and 50,000 vehicles went ashore, with almost a million more men on their way that summer. An immense army was placed in Nazi-occupied Europe, never to be dislodged.

Five beaches were designated landing sites. The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah beaches.

D-Day marked the turning point of the war, but at heavy costs to the soldiers. As Omaha beach was taken, over 4,700 were killed, missing or wounded out

of the 35,000 American soldiers that came ashore. (nationalww2museum. org) David Doane, 18 years old, landed with the Third Army, under General Patton, at Utah Beach in Normandy, just six days after D-Day. I had the honor to meet Mr. Doane and speak with him about his experiences in World War II. At 97 years old, he is tall, cordial, and told some great stories. My editor, Bob Hartnett, introduced me to Mr. Doane and his wife, Clara, who are neighbors of his in Wolfeboro. The couple have been married for 76 years.

During the interview, Doane showed us photographs that he had taken during the war. He also received five battle stars in World War II. He told his story with humor, humility and humanity.

Doane was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1925. He attended Beverly High School and trained in the printing industry. He enjoyed photography and building boats. His father was a boat builder and built mine sweepers in Ipswich. David built a motorized bike at age 16 and would ride it to see his sweetheart, Clara.

Clara mentioned that at that time,” Everyone stood in lines for coffee, or butter or nylons, cigarettes or most anything. There was always a line, people waiting. I was in that line all the time for my mother, for sugar.”

Doane was drafted on June 3, 1943, his high school graduation day. He was working that day and his parents went to get his diploma. “I didn’t join the army,” said Doane. “Uncle Sam waved a hand and asked me to come.”

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Two weeks later, he was in basic training at Camp Van Dorn, in Mississippi with the 67th Signal Battalion.

After basic training, Doane asked for a transfer to a unit going overseas and was sent to Camp Bowie, in Texas. He joined the 45th Medium Maintenance Company, which was later called the 550th MM Co. On May 13, 1945, he left for Europe on the MS John Ericsson, formerly a Swedish American Line Atlantic Passenger ship MS Kungsholm (from 1928-1941), requisitioned by the US government in 1942 and renamed MS John Ericsson. This was then used as a troop transport until after the war.

Doane remembers, “It was the longest convoy that ever left the east coast…

As far as I could see in both directions, were ships.”

They landed in Liverpool, England and were taken by the constable to stay in private homes, where they were billeted the entire time they were in England. They prepared their vehicles to reach the beach by an LST, landing ship tank, by waterproofing and putting snorkels on their vehicles.

They landed at Utah Beach, the westernmost beach of the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion. Doane said that, later that summer, the soldiers went to Paris. “General Patton had come up to Paris and while he was there, we were attached to that Third Army,” Doane explained. “From Paris, I went to Verdun, France. We were in a building that, a few weeks before, • Doane continued on page 6

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From there, he went to Rumelange, Luxembourg, just south of General Patton’s headquarters, where his company split up. His platoon went one place and another platoon left for another location. Doane was in the small arms repair, which he learned in the army.

He described a time that he repaired a 50 caliber machine gun. There was a pit in half a cellar of a house with cinders, which was used to test fire. “As I was firing the 50 caliber machine gun,” Doane said, “I’m lucky to be here today, because all the tracers were going right over my head after going through the cinders and hitting the wall.” The

rounds had ricocheted off the walls. “I think that was the last 50 caliber I ever fired there,” said Doane.

“That’s where the Battle of the Bulge broke out,” Doane said. It was a cold and harsh winter, and the Germans were on the offensive. Doane remembered that his platoon was very close to the front lines and after the Third Army started to move north, the battle moved swiftly. The army needed volunteers to haul ammunition to the front lines and to take prisoners back to prison camps.

Doane volunteered and was attached to the First Provisional Trucking Company from March to May of 1945.

“We were given papers when we joined the trucking company and they were sealed. Nobody could stop us for any reason,” said Doane. He would drive 16-18 hours a day, alone, and

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would sleep behind the wheel, have some C-rations for meals and then leave with a truckload of artillery shells. Sometimes he would drive at night through the forest with tiny blackout lights, not knowing what was alongside of the road. On the way back, 50 German prisoners were loaded in the back of the open truck, sometimes with a canvas cover, to be taken to the designated prison camps.

One time, while taking prisoners back, a tree branch struck and killed one of the prisoners. The others pounded on the roof and asked Doane to stop.

“I stopped at the bottom of the hill, a real country setting with farmhouses. I let them all off,” said Doane. “They all went in different directions to houses and came back with water. They took the guy off the truck, put him by the side of the road and covered him up and they all came back. Every one of them.”

“The trucks we drove were two and a half ton, 10-wheel GMCs and I loved to drive them,” Doane said. One night, he was returning to his outfit for a shower and a bed to sleep in, which was a rare occasion. The MPs (military police) stopped Doane and asked him for his license. He told the MPs to follow him back to camp and he would get one. It was about midnight when they got to camp and while the MPs waited, David went to wake up the commanding officer of the day to tell him what he needed. He told the officer that he had been driving since he’d been in the army and never bothered to get a license. Fortunately, they were good friends and the officer said, “We’ll fix that!” He went to his office to make a license giving Doane authority to drive all army vehicles, even tanks!

Doane talked about the strict rules that Patton demanded of his soldiers.

General Patton had a book to go by that covered all the aspects of the army. If a soldier fell asleep at guard duty, he got the death penalty. Patton was well known for giving the Third Army talks,

peppered with vulgarity. He was not always popular with the higher ups, who considered him to be a bit ruthless. Doane remembered that Patton slapped a soldier in the hospital and later apologized for it.

One of Patton’s rules was that soldiers had to wear a steel helmet until 5:00 p.m. and after that, they could wear their overseas cap. Doane remembers deciding to go to Luxembourg City, where Patton’s headquarters were. He went with his overseas cap and it was early afternoon. He saw an MP truck go by and right behind the truck was Patton. Doane told me that they had to pick up every soldier that was out of uniform. “So, Dave Doane was issued into the back of the hat truck,” he laughed. “It was just a holding situation, not a prison. We weren’t court martialed, either.”

One dangerous situation that Doane experienced was when he decided that he wanted a military motorcycle. He took off in his truck and went on the Autobahn and came into contact with a whole row of American trucks, about 20 tanks, and they turned off the road.

Doane followed them. He saw buildings on fire and he realized that they were taking the town. “I turned around and thought, I’ve gotta get out of here in a hurry!” He took a side road to get back to the Autobahn when suddenly, there was a loud boom and his truck fell into a crater from a shell. The motor mounts on the engine broke and it dropped down both pedals flat on the floor. Doane was really concerned because he needed to get out of there fast.

A German man came down on a bicycle with a white flag, wanting to help. Doane didn’t know whether the man was armed, so he refused the help and told the German man to go. Doane jacked up the engine with the tire jack, took the tire chains and put it around the engine. He locked them somehow and had just enough pedal to clutch or • Doane continued on page 8

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When Germany surrendered, the news reached the soldiers and they were elated. Because of his five battle stars, Doane was able to get out early after the war ended. “They sent me to a cigarette camp in southern France,” he said. “They were all named after cigarettes. I was in Phillip Morris, in pyramidal tents, six-man tents.”

Doane explained that after the war, Germans were taken and put into service to officers to take care of problems. “Well, the problem in that particular camp was there was never enough hot water for showers. So, we went to chow one day and we heard a boom!

The Germans got so mad because they had received so many complaints about that, that they fired up the boiler and opened all the drafts. It got so hot, it blew the boiler up!” He heard that it went up 100 feet in the air. “I don’t believe that, but it went up in the air and landed right across the corner of a tent.” There was a man in the tent, who fortunately did not get hurt.

Coming home was another adventure. “I was on a ship from southern France, in what I call the perfect storm.” Doane said. Once they had gotten far out in the Atlantic, the waves were so high, that the ship was going way up and crashing down. “Plaster was coming down. I go out, outside the ship. The water is coming over and I am getting wet. I ruined my camera, by the way. I would grab a pole or something and hang onto it. I enjoyed

just being out there.” He said that there were only 15 out of 1500 men that ate.

Everybody was sick. “You can imagine what that’s like.”

In Doane’s own written account of the war, he said, “I saw a lot of Europe, received five battle stars, drove thousands of miles in dangerous territory, surrounded twice by the enemy, had to leave my truck and duck behind a dirt pile on the side of the highway as a German plane strafed the vehicles on the road. God was with me all the way. “ OFin VINYL WRAPPED COMPOSITE DECKING Happily arriving New York Harbor late in December of 1945, Doane was home in time for Christmas. He and his beloved Clara were reunited, Canoe Race participants negotiating the rapids. Photo Courtesy Josh Spaulding and they married in February of 1946.

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In 1985, they moved to Wolfeboro and have been active in their neighborhood community. calling 603-569-5454. Racers can also The 46th Annual Great Smith River Doane worked for three different Canoe and Kayak Race, sponsored register the day of the race at Albee printing companies, including Daniels by the Wolfeboro Lions Club, will Beach from 10 am-12:45 pm. All proPrinting Company, which moved from take place on Saturday, May 21, at ceeds from the race will benefit Lions Boston, Mass. to Everett. He worked 1:15 pm at Allen Albee Beach (Albee Club Scholarships. For More informawith large six color printing presses.

Beach Rd. Wolfeboro). The four-mile tion, contact Race Chair Roger Murray One of the companies printed maps for race includes a ¼ mile of class 2 white at 603-569-5454. the government. Doane got his motorwater rapids and two portages cycle and rode it to work. He had it The Lions Club motto is “We There are 19 classes to suit everyone, until about 10 years ago.

Serve,” and Lions put it into action evfrom novice to expert. So, get those caHis wife, Clara, worked as a visitery day. Lions are caring men and womnoes, kayaks, and paddles ready, grab ing nurse and also worked at nursing en who come together to be the differa friend or go it alone. Registration homes as they raised their family. Latence in their communities. “We believe is $20 per paddler; the first 50 particer, Clara began quilting and made many we can do so much more together than ipants registered will receive a free quilts for her family. David built modwe can alone.” The Wolfeboro Lions t-shirt. Prizes will be awarded to the el boats, in great detail, from scratch.

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Makers Mill Pilot Program: It’s all About Community Engagement As the various building renovation contractors begin to wrap up, pack up and move out of Makers Mill, a new team of worker bees is moving in: the Makers Mill Pilots. This dedicated team of approximately 20 volunteers is leveraging all the ideas and plans that have been incubating so far to put the finishing touches on the makerspace, test it, and turn it into a reality.

The Pilots are currently engaged in painting interior walls, refinishing floors, and redesigning the kitchenette.

They’ve also split up into teams, each representing one of the makerspace workspaces, to collaborate on ideas and decisions for floor plans, tool and equipment lists, standard operating procedures (SOPs), storage solutions, workbench designs, and develop best practices as they test out the spaces and provide important feedback. In the process, Pilots are playing a hugely important role in testing out the internal communications flow and functionality, many of them at a new frontier with technology they’ve never used before. These volunteer Pilots are essentially the beta team, preparing Makers Mill to be safely up and running later this summer offering a variety of memberships and programs in a space that’s already been tried and tested.

This Pilot Program continues the participatory approach to creating Makers Mill that has been implemented from the get-go. Community engagement in creating the makerspace has been, and continues to be, a number one priority involving

are working together on how to create a space that works for them both. Ditto the Fiber Arts and Fine Arts teams.

The Woodworking team is not only planning for their space but supporting the other shops with the construction of workbenches and storage options. Everyone is invested in creating the best possible community makerspace and vocational center for Carroll County.

Let’s give a huge shout out to the Makers Mill Pilots: Ashley Hibbard, Betty Brown, Cara Flitner, Claes Thelemarck, Darryl Parker, Dave Bolduc, Deb Ryan, Dennis Hart, Diane Cooney, Eli Roxby, Jeanne Flanagan, Kyle Reynolds, Laura Maroon, Lynn Willscher, Mark Eiler, Mark Hempton, Mary Lyon, Megan Young, Scott Keller, Stephanie Ellis, Stephen Berry, Tilde Lanberg, TK Kennedy, and Jenn Dow. Anyone interested in volunteering during this pre-opening and test pilot stage of Makers Mill can contact Josh or Carol for more information at info@ makersmill.org. We are particularly interested in hearing from those with metalworking and welding experience.

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The Pilots are now carrying this collaboration forward by sharing their various experiences, skills, and enthusiasm with each other. Those who are IT savvy are coaching those new to some of the platforms guiding Makers Mill’s operations and communications. Others with organizational management skills are helping with timelines to keep Pilots on track, and with guidance on developing SOP templates that are con-

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By Chef Kelly Ross Hello Lakes Region Friends. It’s great to have you back for another batch of fun recipes to keep your friends and family happy. The weather keeps getting better, the layering of clothes keeps getting thinner, and all in all, our attitudes are getting better as a result. Winter is ok in my book, just a little long. So as the snowbanks shrink, the smile on my face gets bigger and bigger by the day. Our days are longer, and we are well on our way to the weather we all crave.

Today’s theme of food is a sentimental one to me. Admittedly, I was never brought up a religious guy, and I really haven’t looked in that direction as an adult, but the holidays did mean a lot to my grandmother in the respect of getting everybody to her house for the most outstanding dinners of the year.

My Gram on my dad’s side of the family, to this day and forever, will always be the most outstanding chef I have ever known, and I have worked for some worldwide renowned chefs.

If you read my articles somewhat regularly you know how much my Gram meant, and still means to me.

The big three meals were Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, and yup, Easter is right in our face in a couple of weeks, so this article is dedicated to Grammy Judy.

We will start off with a great coffee cake that she would have ready for any of us who got there the night before to stay the night, and then we’ll share a wide array of fun, some from Gram, some from me and others. They will help provide you with the makings for

a stellar Easter dinner for all of your family and guests.

Besides the coffee cake, I have a fun soup, an appetizer, a slow cooker ham recipe, a cheesy stuffed potato casserole, lemon garlic mushrooms, and a chocolate pecan cobbler to finish off the meal. I am by no means expecting any of you to prepare all these dishes on Easter Sunday, but maybe you will pick and choose a few of them, and then from there, add the rest to your repertoire down the line. It’s all about fun choices my friends, and that’s my job to provide to you.

OK, so who doesn’t like homemade coffee cake? I doubt any hands went up for that question. Good ‘ole Gram had to cook for 25-30 people for the big Easter dinner and she got up at the crack of dawn and cranked out a few of these Streusel Topped Coffee Cakes for those staying the night and for those who showed up fashionably late. We needed no alarm clock as the aroma from the kitchen climbing up the stairs was as good as it gets. This

recipe is for 15 pieces. It takes about 20 minutes to prep and 40 minutes to cook. One whiff of this and your family is going to be lining up in the kitchen! This Streusel Topped Coffee Cake features a buttery, cinnamon crumb topping that’s simply irresistible. Plus, this coffee cake doesn’t just taste great, it’s easy too! Not just on a special occasion, you can make this on a busy weekend and serve it alongside a pot of coffee, milk, or tea. There is no bad time for this yummy treat.

Streusel Topped Coffee Cake For the Streusel 1 cup all purpose flour ½ cup packed light brown sugar 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 stick butter, cut into pieces For the Coffee Cake 3 cups pancake/biscuit mix ½ cup granulated sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon salt 1 ½ cups milk 2 eggs

½ stick butter, melted 2 tsp vanilla extract Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9- x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. In a medium bowl, combine Streusel ingredients; mix with a fork until crumbly, and set aside. In a large bowl, whisk pancake mix, granulated sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk milk, eggs, butter, and vanilla. Add egg mixture to pancake mix mixture and stir until combined. Pour batter into baking dish and sprinkle evenly with streusel.

Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

What a great start to the day this will give you!

For any soup lover, and is there really anyone out there who isn’t, this one is sure to please. It’s got a hearty and rich tomato-based broth, chock full of cheese filled tortellini which makes this very tough not to fall in love with This is truly irresistible and like so many of my favorite delicious recipes that I like to share, this one again is so quick and easy. You can put this together in 15 minutes, will cook in 30 minutes, although letting it simmer longer is never a bad thing, and it will serve 8. Keep in mind this works great as a main course on a weeknight coming home from work, although as a main course, it will feed more like 4-5. Like all soups, it’s always better the following day or two, so it’s never bad to have leftovers, so maybe it’s worth doubling up the recipe.

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April 2022 | THE LAKER | Page 11 • ‘Cue The Grill continued from page 10 2 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, chopped 2 cans diced tomatoes, undrained, 14 ½ oz each 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar 4 cloves garlic, chopped ¼ tsp dried oregano ¼ tsp salt ¼ tsp black pepper 2 cups water 48-50 oz chicken broth 1 package frozen or refrigerated cheese tortellini, 19 oz or more if preferred 3 cups fresh spinach In a soup pot over medium high heat, heat oil until hot. Sauté onion until tender, then add tomatoes, vinegar, garlic, oregano, salt, and pepper; cook 5 to 7 minutes, or until heated through.

Stir in water and broth and bring to a boil. Add tortellini and spinach and cook 6 to 8 minutes, or until tortellini are tender. Serve immediately. If you want to let simmer longer, wait until the last 10 minutes before serving to pop in the tortellini and spinach into the soup.

Now for the seafood portion of our program, we offer you a great mini crab cake recipe. These are the perfect two bite appetizer that are loaded with crabmeat, plus veggies and herbs to boot. The sauce is outstanding and again, very simple and quick to throw together. This recipe makes 36 mini crab cakes, takes a half hour to prep and 20 minutes or so to cook.

Mini Crab Cakes 2/3 cup Italian flavored breadcrumbs ½ cup mixed eggs ½ red bell pepper, finely chopped ½ red onion, finely chopped 1 rib celery, finely chopped 3 tbsp light mayonnaise 2 tsp fresh squeezed lemon juice ½ tsp salt ¾ tsp black pepper 1 tsp crushed dried tarragon 3 cans lump crabmeat, drained, 6 ½ oz cans 2 tbsp vegetable oil For the Sauce ½ cup mayo 4 tsp prepared horseradish 2 tbsp ketchup 2 good squeezes of fresh lemon juice In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients except the crabmeat and oil; mix well. Fold in the crabmeat, being careful not to break up the crabmeat chunks. Form mixture into 36 equalsized patties. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat oil until hot. Add the patties and cook in batches 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until golden brown.

Serve warm. If need be, keep the oven on to 225 degrees and as they are cooked, place in the oven and once all pan fried, you can serve all of them hot.

For the sauce, combine all ingredients until well blended. Wicked Good!

Now I can guarantee my Grammy Judy never cooked her Easter ham in a slow cooker, mainly because there were no slow cookers back in the day, but I bet my bottom dollar that if there was, she would have been all over this.

Not only is it simple, but it also frees up the oven for all the other stuff going on, and she had so much going on that all our heads were spinning like a top. Between her taters, veggies, rolls,

desserts, and such for 25-30 people, this ham would have made her life a breeze. A bone-in ham is best, but boneless works well too.

Simply, place the ham, honey, pineapple juice and brown sugar in a slow cooker and let that little machine work its magic for you. Like most anything out of a slow cooker, the ham comes out moist and tender and is absolutely as yummy as anything out of the oven.

It’s perfect for a holiday gathering considering how much hoopla is generally going on. As a rule, a 7–8-pound ham is a good size to feed a large group.

Estimate about ½ pound of boneless ham per person and ¾ pound of bone in per person. So this may have something to do with your decision on using a slow cooker depending on how many you are cooking for. A slow cooker can only hold so much ham. If you go any larger than 8 pounds, you may have trouble fitting it into your slow cooker. If you use bone-in ham and you are having difficulty fitting your ham into your cooker because of the bone or overall size, you can trim off a chunk of the ham to make it fit. You can also cover the slow cooker with heavy duty aluminum foil that is tightly sealed.

There will be some liquid from the steam that will drip down the slow cooker, so beware of that. I usually put a cookie sheet under the slow cooker in this situation to catch the drippings.

A large oval 7 to 8-quart slow cooker works best. This recipe is for a 7-10 lb. bone in ham, will feed 8-10 or so, takes about 10 minutes to prep and 4+ hours to cook.

Slow Cooker Ham 1 ½ cups brown sugar 7-10 lb. bone in ham 1 ¼ cup honey 1 ½ cups pineapple juice Optional herbs for garnish Sprinkle brown sugar evenly in the

bottom of a large 7 to 8 quart slow cooker. Place ham on top of the sugar, cut side down. Pour honey and then pineapple juice over the top of the ham.

Cover and cook on low heat for 4-5 hours or until the meat is tender and

the internal temperature reaches 140 degrees. Once fully cooked, remove ham onto a large, rimmed serving platter. If using a bone in ham, it is recommended to shred the meat and remove any clumps of fat. Ham will easily fall apart. Before serving, ladle a desired amount of juices from the slow cooker for the table for those who want it. As a side note, if you decide to use a boneless ham, a whole or spiral cut, a cured or uncured, smoked or not, shank, butt or shoulder will all work fine.

I have no problem saying that as much as I love the big family holiday meal, more times than not, I find myself a ginormous fan of the side dishes, and especially a kick butt potato dish, and this one certainly qualifies. It is the most time-consuming aspect of the meal, but considering how simple the main course is, and the next dish, this is still a walk in the park in the big scheme of things. It’s not difficult, it’s just a 2-step process. Seriously, I know it might not be the healthiest thing for you, but I could just eat a huge plate of these spuds, and hey, it’s a holiday so we’re all allowed to cheat a little.

Everyone loves a twice baked potato, just consider that mentality in casserole form. A-Ha you say! This dish is outstanding. One thing to consider is that this recipe will generally feed 4-6 of you, so, depending on the size of the ham you are cooking, if that’s what you are doing, you may need to make two of these, which all in all won’t take much longer than making just the one.

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Cheesy Loaded Twice Baked Potato Casserole 2 lb. red skinned potatoes 1 tbsp olive oil Kosher salt, to taste 8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled, divided ½ cup half & half 1 cup sour cream ½ cup butter, melted and cooled 1 ½ cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese, divided 4 green onions, sliced 1 tsp chopped fresh parsley ½ tsp Kosher salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper, freshly

ground Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wash the potatoes, pierce each with a knife.

Place on a baking sheet lined with foil.

Toss the potatoes with olive oil and salt, bake for 35-45 minutes until tender depending on their size. Cook bacon until crispy, drain on paper towels.

Crumble when cooled and set aside.

When potatoes have cooled enough to handle, slice in half, then into half rounds about 1/2 inch thick. Place potatoes in a large bowl and toss with 1 cup of the Cheddar cheese, half of the bacon, and half of the green onions.

Using pan release spray, grease an 8 x 8-inch baking dish. Combine the half and half, sour cream, and the melted butter. Add the parsley, kosher salt, and pepper. Pour the sour cream mixture over the potatoes and toss. Using a

potato masher, break down the chunks mashing well. Place the potato mixture in the baking dish, cover with foil, and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes.

Remove foil and top with remaining 1/2 cup shredded cheese and bake for 5 minutes until the cheese has melted.

Garnish the top with remaining bacon and green onions and watch everyone dig in. So Good!

This veggie side dish is so good, and the easiest of all dishes of the day.

This will take you all of 20 minutes, so I hope you can handle the stress lol. I’m a huge fan of mushrooms, and with added garlic and lemon, you have yourself a big ‘ole winner. Ideally, I grill these, but these can easily be done in a sauté pan, which is how I will go about describing this dish considering the time of year. This is for 8 people, so alter accordingly if needed.

Lemon Garlic Mushrooms ½ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice 3 tbsp minced fresh parsley 4 tbsp olive oil 6 garlic cloves, minced Pepper to taste 2 lb. large fresh mushrooms of choice. If large, half or quarter them 2 tbsp olive oil For the dressing, whisk together first 5 ingredients. Toss mushrooms with 4 tablespoons dressing. In a large sauté pan, add the 2 tbsp olive oil and heat over medium heat and then add the mushrooms and sauté for 4-5 minutes maybe more depending on mushroom size - until they are tender but not overdone. Turn off the heat, add the rest of the dressing and toss well and pour into a serving bowl.

Alright, it’s time for the favorite part of the meal for at least 50% of the crowd, if my past is any indication.

Everybody loves a good cobbler, and this one is much different than any of the usual fruit cobblers we are much too familiar with, although I love a good fruit cobbler. I’m one of the few people out there who isn’t a big fan of chocolate. Don’t get me wrong, at times I’ll have a mini fix, but when it comes to chocolate cakes, brownies, and cookies, I’m not overly enthusiastic. Now give me almost any pie in the world, especially berry or fruit related,

and I’ll fight you for any extra pieces I can snag. As opposed to a brownie, I adore a blondie in a huge way and could eat a whole pan myself. All this being said, this cobbler is a Chocolate Pecan Cobbler that I feel pretty confident in saying will bring a three-mile smile to all the eaters at your table.

Serve this hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and you’ll have a winner.

This treat takes 15-20 minutes to prep, 40 minutes or so to cook and will feed 8 happy campers.

Chocolate Pecan Cobbler 6 tbsp butter 1 ¾ cups sugar, divided 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ tsp salt 1 ½ tsp baking powder 6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder, divided ½ cup milk 1 tsp vanilla extract ½ cup chopped pecans ½ cup toffee bits, plus more for topping once done if you want to, strongly suggested 1 ½ cups boiling water Vanilla ice cream to top once serving Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a shallow 3-quart casserole dish, melt butter in microwave, about 1 minute; set aside. In a medium bowl, combine 3/4 cup sugar, the flour, salt, baking powder, and 2 tablespoons cocoa.

Add milk and vanilla, whisking until smooth. Spoon over melted butter. In another medium bowl, combine remaining 1 cup sugar, remaining 4 tablespoons cocoa, the pecans, and toffee bits: sprinkle over batter mixture.

Slowly pour boiling water over the top.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until cobbler is crusty on top. Serve warm. Hit each portion with a scoop of ice cream or whipped cream and sprinkle with more toffee bits and/or chopped pecans and get your chocolate fix on.

Well, unfortunately that brings us to the end of this Easter article. May you all have a great holiday that is shared with many loved ones. Keep those taste bud’s happy boys and girls and we’ll meet right back here next month.

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Village Players Bringing the Laughs with Farce of Nature Wanelle Wilburn is convinced there is something fishy going on at the Arkansas fishing lodge that she and her husband, D. Gene, operate.

Her husband’s secret phone calls with someone named Roxanne, his insistence on cleaning up the lodge and encouraging her to go shopping in town all lead Wanelle to these conclusions. And, in a way, Wanelle is right, there is plenty fishy going on, but it’s nothing like what she’s imagining.

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Wanelle and D. Gene, played by real life husband and wife Helen and Bob Rautenberg, are at the center of the Reel ‘Em Inn. D. Gene has a secret plan to help bring the fishing lodge back to its former glory, but there’s plenty of things standing in his way.

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Barnstead’s Fox and Crow Farm

By Dawn Bradbury More than 70 people watched online in late February as Lucy celebrated her 1st birthday. For five minutes, Lucy and her sister, Mabel, poked at and then ate six frosted Dunkin Donuts.

That’s a lot of doughnuts, even for a birthday splurge. But Lucy is a pig (an Idaho Pasture Pig, to be precise).

This crowd-sourced and livestreamed event is only one of the creative ways the Fox and Crow Farm in Barnstead is finding its niche in this pandemic-altered, supply chain-challenged landscape. Erin Stone and Jared Hanselman are stitching together farm products, events and activities to put their 100-acre farmstead at the center of the community: open houses to raffles, snowshoeing to snow yoga, a farm store stocked with meat, earrings, art and more, a thriving website, not to mention a weekly podcast.

This is not your momma and daddy’s farm.

Hanselman takes wood from around the farmstead and makes boards – cheese boards, fruit boards, use your imagination — and Stone uses her laser cutter to add design flair. She uses the same machine to make earrings, keychains and other accessories for sale on the website and at the farm store. You can also buy T-shirts and postcards featuring Lucy and Mabel, livestock guard dogs Cash and Bagel, and the farm’s two horses, Penny and Tango. And you can get to know the farm animals from their biographies on

the website.

“We’ll just keep getting creative,” Stone said.

It may come as no surprise that these creative techniques are coming from the minds of Stone and Hanselman.

They’re not your traditional farmers: Stone, 39, previously worked in the corporate world, Hanselman, 33, runs Red Fox Carpentry out of the farm location. He built the horse barn, the farm store and an off-grid cabin that rents via the Fox and Crow website (www. thefoxandcrowfarm.com) and Airbnb.

“When I say I used to be a career executive, this is what I used to do for a living,” Stone said. “I did the landlord property management thing, but then I really got into small business, and business management, and that sort of stuff. So it was always

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“So naturally, we have our own little mini experiment here on the farm. And obviously, I wanted to be as functional and profitable as possible. These little mini things that we’re doing, it’s all part of the big picture. We’re going to continue to do it, we’re going to continue to expand on it, we’re going to continue to reach out to other businesses and incorporate them. The more they come, they bring their audience and they bring their followers.”

Stone and Hanselman were living in Maine when they decided to return to Jared’s home state; looking for a little more space than their Portsmouth apartment offered, they ended up buying the 100-acre farm at 948 Province Road in 2015.

Stone, a Texas native, and husband Hanselman settled in the heavily wooded farmstead and got to work.

They used aerial photos and a forester to clear 8 acres of land and added live-

stock. “We went from no animals to 46 in six months,” Stone said.

Today, the farm is home to two horses, two Maremma livestock guard dogs, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks and hares, plus three house dogs and a “barn cat failure” who is now an indoor cat. The process has been a journey.

“We’ve learned every farm lesson the hard way,” Stone said.

They started out selling at farmers markets, where the couple established themselves as meat vendors. Last year, they sold at four farmers markets; this year, they will sell at three. They also sell meat, eggs and a line of “Ranch Chique” accessories at their farm store and online. Hanselman built the farm store, which they opened in 2021. The farm store features prominently in Fox and Crow’s open houses and events.

“The only way it makes sense is to jump in and do it,” Hanselman said.

“How do you drive traffic to your farm store? We got creative and started having these family-friendly events.”

The seed of the idea was planted with Barnstead Open Farm Days. In the beginning, Fox and Crow was a participant in the annual event. Now, Stone and Amy Matarozzo from LorrenJoyce Farms spearhead it.

“It’s to get the community out at the farms,” Stone said. “And every time we were doing Open Farm Day, hundreds of people would come to our farm. And we thought we didn’t have anything to offer anybody. So we started inviting other artists and crafters and other farmers.”

Last year, that included a portable sawmill demonstration, and Stone made a presentation on livestock Guardian dogs.

“It was a really cool opportunity to offer people different niches,” she said.

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Their first one took place after the farm store opened in 2021. Jared was on a job site in Ohio for two months that fall. The farmers market season had ended. Stone went on Facebook and made an open house: There would be food, and drinks, and people could see what was happening on the farm.

“You know, we would just see what would happen,” Stone said. “And my parents came up to help. And it poured rain. Our driveway was a big sloppy mud hole. And the wind was blowing, and it was just completely miserable.

Honestly, I woke up that morning, and I was like, why even do this? No one’s going to come to my open house.”

But it was nonstop. “My parents had to walk sideways to fit into the farm store, there were too many people in the farm store for everybody to even fit. So now we’re going to build an awning over the side so people can hang out outside,” Stone said.

The word of mouth had spread through social media and its paid advertising, Stone said. She tried again in December, praying for good weather. “It was a blizzard. Oh, it snowed so hard. But we had tons of people.”

Knowing now that people will show up in snow, sleet, wind or rain, Fox and Crow Farm’s events schedule is taking off: In March, there was a spring open house and a full moon hike and farm tour; on April 16, there will be an Easter open house complete with an egg hunt. This winter, they opened a snowshoeing trail.

Followers find out about these events

on social media. Fox and Crow Farm is followed by nearly 1,300 on Facebook, 1,300 on TikTok and nearly 600 on Instagram. Lively, engaging posts chronicle the day-to-day life (new piglets arriving, newly harvested turkey meat in the farm store) as well as events (snowshoeing, open farm days and Lucy and Mabel’s birthdays).

Followers can meet the farm team and read their bios: Find out why you will love Lucy and how Tango and Penny came to join the farm family.

The Facebook page has been around since 2015. “When we closed on the house, pretty much that’s when we built it,” Stone said. “Right now, we average, probably about 67 new followers, like every two to three weeks.

We were lucky. And we were so humbled to get that in one year. I remember we got 100 likes and followers. It was like oh my God, 100 people, who are these people? But we knew most of them. Now we’re meeting people.”

Raffles are another community/social media draw. For a $5 ticket, the raffles — announced and promoted on social media — bestow prizes of meat and farm goods, or maybe a custom cheese board, well above the ticket price. They’re a joint production between the Fox and Crow Farm and The Little Red Hen farm, also in Barnstead.

“We have the same demographics, we share customers,” Stone said. “It was easier for us to work together and share the camaraderie of farmers rather than pull from each other.”

In February, Stone partnered with Powerful You Yoga in Pittsfield to present “Snow-Ga” — a snowshoeing and yoga event. The first scheduled date was canceled due to warm temperatures, but the second date serendipitously fell right after a storm brought 6-8 inches of fresh powder. The event sold out. It’s something Stone hopes to repeat.

“It was a fantastic way to get outside and be in nature and enjoy their beautiful property,” said Stacey Morin, owner of Powerful YOU Yoga in Pittsfield,

who presented the event. She said she “absolutely would do it again, it was fantastic.”

The event obviously struck a chord with folks: If both weekends had gone off as planned, Morin said there would have been around 35 participants.

Snow-Ga ended with refreshments by the fire at the “Windfall Cabin” — so named because Hanselman built it in 2018 with pine trees knocked down in a windstorm. Each board and beam was cut on site. The rustic, cozy, offgrid cabin rents on Airbnb or the farm’s website. There’s no electricity or running water (the outhouse is a few hundred feet down the path) but there’s a 5-gallon water tank for washing or preparing meals. If you reserve the cabin for a day, Stone will provide a lovely meal (if you’re lucky, it will be a sandwich made with homemade bread and the farm’s delicious English back bacon, dressed with Stone’s homemade mayonnaise.)

The farm is Stone’s main business, while Hanselman enjoys building anything and everything that requires wood. In addition to running the farm business, Stone produces the “Fridays From the Farm” podcast (fridaysfromthefarm.wordpress.com), where she shares her journey from being a former “slave to the 9-5,” as she describes it on the website, to “becoming a full time farmer, wife, artist and creator, Airbnb superhost, and owner of several small and local successful businesses.”

The podcast, the business, the cabin all center on core concepts the couple treasures: sustainable farming, community involvement, ethical and humane treatment of animals and respect

for and dedication to their heritage.

Fox and Crow is on schedule to raise 30 hogs for meat this year (that does not include Lucy and Mabel, who are part of the farm’s breeding program). “We’re still pretty small potatoes,” Stone said. “But I want to raise them. We’re at our max of what we can produce as a small-scale farm.”

Stone and Hanselman plan to build a newer hog barn this year that will enable them to grow to 100 hogs and more. In addition, the couple generally raises about 150 meat birds, 25 turkeys and 30 ducks and keep about 30 laying hens year round. All of the meat, and more, is available at the farm store.

Stone has a goal of adding salami to the farm store’s offerings this year.

“We’re going to be at the Deerfield Fair this year for the first time ever as a salami vendor,” Stone said. The plan is to feature Fox and Crow’s salami paired with LorrenJoyce farm’s smoked gouda. “And we want a spicy mustard vendor, but it’s got to be local. So, we’re working on that partnership right now.”

Between its partnerships and the high profile developed between social media and events, Fox and Crow Farm is realizing its dream of deep community involvement.

“We feel like little mini celebrities,” she said. “We started selling T-shirts two years ago. And we literally see people at the gas station wearing one of our shirts. Like how did that even happen?

“It’s so cool. First of all, like, we are just a tiny little speck of a farm in this massive state, but our entire impact has always been right here in this community. And … it’s so humbling.”

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A Choral Trifecta—Pemi Choral Joins with Two PSU Choirs for April Concerts The Pemigewasset Choral Society (Pemi Choral) is joining with the Plymouth State University Chorale and their Chamber Singers to present its spring concert featuring composer Dan Forrest’s choral work, Requiem for the Living. Dan Forrest choral compositions have become well established in the choral repertoire in the U.S. and around the world. Requiem for the Living, his first major choral work, written in 2013, has quickly become a choral and orchestra favorite for ensembles around the world.

“This is our first collaboration with the Pemigewasset Choral Society,” said Harmony Markey, Plymouth State University (PSU) Director of Choral Studies. “This choral collaboration has many benefits, one of them being the chance for the students to see the lifelong effort that people make to keep

singing in their lives, and the lifelong joy it brings them. Joining with Pemi Choral also allows us to sing with an orchestra of the caliber that will be accompanying the singers.”

Pemi Choral Music Director Will Gunn and Harmony Markey have known each other through their association as music educators. Gunn is also the director of music at Plymouth Regional High School (PRHS) where he conducts the Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Concert Choir, and Chamber Singers. This is the first opportunity for each of them to conduct a major Dan Forrest choral work. The collaboration of the three choral groups provides a fuller choral sound that is enhanced by the rich musical accompaniment of an orchestra. Pemi Choral funded the 15-piece chamber orchestra through its very generous donors and membership

who value the opportunity to share an extraordinary musical event with the community. The chorus is also accompanied by collaborative pianist Laura Belanger.

“This is a hauntingly beautiful piece,” said Gunn. “Forrest titled it Requiem for the Living because he is making a distinction from traditional requiems which originated as Masses for the dead. The five movements of this requiem end in a majestic, energetic and hopeful section that is full of life.”

“In many ways, this choral work resonates with the experience that has touched us all during the past two years of Covid,” said Markey. “I invite the audience to reflect on all that we have lived through, and to focus on the hopefulness that is following.”

There are two performances: Thurs-

day, April 21, 7:00 pm at the Silver Center, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH and Friday, April 22, 7:00 pm Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium, Meredith, NH. Tickets may be purchased online or at the door for the PSU concert, and at the door for the Inter-Lakes High School concert.

The Pemi Chorus is a regional community chorus based in Plymouth, NH, with a wide-ranging musical repertoire. Members come from communities throughout the Lakes Region and the White Mountains. Membership has ranged from 60 to 90 members per semester with a diverse range of ages from high school students to age 80+!

They perform concerts in December and in the Spring, and welcome new members at the beginning of each semester. For more information, please visit pemichoral.org.

Tapply-Thompson Community Center Receives Grant The Tapply-Thompson Community Center received a $7,000 grant from the Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction to provide funding for their Operation Warm & Every Child is Ours Programs.

The grant will help further TTCC’s mission with these two important community programs. Operation Warm provides winter coats, boots, snow pants, hats and mittens to area children in need. In the past two years they have distributed 432 items to 218 youth in the Newfound Region. This program is a collaboration with Bristol Communi-

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Every Child is Ours, distributes weekly food bags to students in the Newfound School District that may have food challenges on weekends.

During the 20-21 school year 3,462 bags of food were distributed with the help of school nurses and guidance counselors. This program is a collaboration with the Bristol Police Department. TTCC Director, Leslie Dion, reports that the need for these two pro-

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Upcycled Fashion Show Tickets Are Now on Sale Makers Mill and the Governor Wentworth Arts Council (GWAC) are excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for their Upcycled Fashion Show on Saturday, April 23 in the Great Room of Wolfeboro Town Hall between 7-9pm. Tickets may be purchased online at www.makersmill. org/events and cost $3 for GWAC members and $5 for non-members before the event, and $7 at the door for everyone. Children under 12 are free.

Light refreshments will be served.

Starting at 7pm, Josh Arnold, Executive Director of Makers Mill will give an update on the makerspace building renovation which is due to open later this summer. Liz Helfer, GWAC President will share how the idea for the show came to be before introducing the fashion show designers, and their upcycled designs and models. As each design is modeled, attendees will hear the story behind

its inspiration and creation, including details of the repurposed materials used in making the upcycled garment.

Upcycling techniques have been with us for eons. Born either from necessity, or in a spark of individuality, or as a nod to sustainability, upcycling takes worn or used materials, clothes, or objects and transforms the old into something new, and typically, more valuable. More recently, upcycled fashion in particular has become very popular.

The Upcycled Fashion Show is designed to celebrate ingenuity, community spirit, and environmental awareness, hence it being held on the day after Earth Day is celebrated globally.

“So far we have teams entering designs from several local organizations including the Wolfeboro Garden Club, Brewster Academy, and Verani Realty, but we’d love to see more of our local schools and businesses, and other nonprofits participate,” said Liz Helfer.

Josh Arnold added, “Interestingly, participants have signed up from Portsmouth, Laconia and as far away as Pennsylvania, and we even heard interest from a company in Colorado who make upcycled hats and dungarees. The word is definitely spreading: recently we were featured as part of an article on upcycling by Hippo Press out of Manchester, NH.” The opportunity to create a design and participate in the show is still available, either as a team or as an individual. If the idea seems a little daunting, know that a local support team of experienced fashion and fiber art professionals is available for guidance through the process with design ideas, sewing and assembling tips, and access to recycled materials. Inquiries can be directed to Liz Helfer at info@governorwentworthartscouncil.org or Carol Holyoake at carol@makersmill.org.

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sensitive and aware of the trepidation for many around attending large indoor events at this time, and we are taking precautions accordingly. The event will go on so long as Carroll County’s “community level” remains “low” according to the CDC tracker.

Facemasks are encouraged, but not required, and you get extra points for upcycled facemasks! Please do not attend if you are experiencing a fever, cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID-19. Full reimbursement will be given to those who need to cancel due to sickness or symptoms.

More updates around event details and covid risk mitigations measures will be shared in future media releases. If you have any questions, specific needs, or feedback, please reach out to Carol or Liz using the contact information above.

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The N.H. State Council on the Arts has announced that Emily Matos from Kingswood Regional High School is the winner of the 2022 New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud High School Championship. Annalise Locke from Hopkinton High School was selected as alternate champion.

As state champion, Matos receives $200 and Kingswood Regional High School receives a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books. Locke will receive $100, with a $200 stipend given to Hopkinton High School for its poetry book collection.

Matos will represent New Hampshire at the national finals. Should Matos be unable to participate in the finals, Locke will represent the Granite State.

Since Poetry Out Loud’s founding in 2005, tens of thousands of students from across New Hampshire have participated in the program, choosing poems to memorize and recite from a roster curated by the Poetry Foundation. Their recitations are judged on several criteria, including physical presence, voice and articulation, dramatic appropriateness, evidence of understanding and accuracy.

Each year, competitions begin at the classroom level, advance to school championships and then to semi-finals prior to the state championship.

For New Hampshire’s 2022 Poetry Out Loud semi-finals, twenty-six high school champions recorded their recitations “live to tape,” supervised by the Arts Council to ensure continuity. The recordings were then submitted to be scored by judges who used the same criteria that are applied when competitions

take place in person.

Eight finalists then advanced to the 2022 New Hampshire state championship on March 11 where, in the two qualifying rounds, each student recited a poem they had selected from a roster curated by the Poetry Foundation. The four students with the highest scores then recited a third poem that was evaluated by the judges.

The state championship was recorded and will be available on the N.H. State Council on the Arts’ YouTube channel, which can be accessed from the Poetry Out Loud section of the Council’s website, nh.gov/nharts.

In addition to Matos and Locke, the other students competing in the final round at the championship were Savannah Davis from the Derryfield School and Lam Kellye Nguyen from Brewster Academy.

Administered in New Hampshire by the N.H. State Council on the Arts, Poetry Out Loud is a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.

New Hampshire’s Poetry Out Loud supporters include the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and the Putnam Foundation – a donor-advised fund of the N.H. Charitable Foundation. Other partners include Brightspot Consultants, Currier Museum of Art, Granite State Ambassadors, New England College, New Hampshire Public Radio, the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and Slam Free or Die. To learn more about 2022 New Hampshire Poetry Out Loud, visit nh.gov/ nharts and click on the Poetry Out Loud button.

Registration Open for Community Sailing On April 1, registration will open for Community Sailing, a program developed by the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) and the Town of Wolfeboro’s Parks and Recreation Department. Designed to teach basic sailing to youth and/or adults, Community Sailing classes take place on Albee Beach on Lake Wentworth and at Lake Winnipesaukee.

“Community Sailing is a great way to get people of all ages out on the water,” said NHBM Executive Director Martha Cummings.

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Yester year

Capturing – and Preserving - History

By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper Photos courtesy Zechariah Boodey Farmstead Committee Many people do not know the Free Will Baptist religion began in the parlor / home of New Durham’s Zechariah Boodey. This, among other things, is the reason a group of local citizens are working very hard to preserve the Boodey Farmstead.

If Zechariah Boodey, who was born in 1745, could see the work the present-day Zechariah Boodey Farmstead Committee is putting in to save the historical gem, “He would, I think, be very proud,” surmises committee chairperson, Cathy Orlowicz.

The project, when completed, will provide a permanent home for the farmstead. The home is a good example of a post-Revolutionary War farm and gives us an idea how people in the area lived long ago.

The idea for the project was planted when Cathy was an assistant to Eloise Bickford, New Durham’s town historian. It was Eloise’s dream to see the old Boodey farm preserved for the future, largely because of the 1780 Free Will Baptist history that took place there.

In 2006, the home was donated to the town of New Durham by the Ferguson Family Trust. By the terms of the trust, the Boodey home would be donated but it had to be moved from the location.

Rather than see the building lost, the committee and town representatives decided to dismantle the house and have the structure moved, and that is how the project began. A barn was gifted to the town in 2018, for the project.

The barn was in Alton, once known as New Durham Gore. The addition of the reconstructed barn, and replacement of the log cabin and ell, with the Cape house, would restore the farmstead to its original layout.

When completed, the homestead will be reassembled on another property in New Durham where it will be used for private and community events, and for small weddings and other celebrations.

With the approval of the New Durham selectmen, two acres of land at the corner of Berry Road and Stockbridge Corner Road have been chosen as the site.

Dismantling the Boodey house took about a week, and it was not an easy

task. The home was built in 1769 but had been unused since the 1950s. When the committee began their work, the rooms were empty, and some sections had severe rot. But it was dealt with by experts and everything from the Colonial period was saved as well, such as a lot of floor joists and timbers. The style of the house was a timber-frame Colonial Cape.

“We also dismantled the central fireplace,” explains Cathy. “The home had three working fireplaces and a beehive oven. We also found things in the basement, such as pieces of old pottery and wood molding and windows.”

All this suggested to the committee what the house had been like in its days as a working farm. In another stroke of luck, Boodey descendants found old family photographs of the homes’ interior. The gave a glimpse at what the home had once been like, with finished woodwork and wallpaper.

The dismantled homestead is now in storage trailers at a secure location, waiting to be reassembled when fundraising is completed.

“We hope to create a museum in the house to share New Durham’s history and for educational purposes,” Cathy says. “Also, events and activities could be held for such things as weddings.

The facility could address the town’s space needs for meetings and voting.”

The plan is to reassemble the rustic barn first and to put in parking, making

the historic property perfect for today’s popular rustic barn type of weddings and events.

The philosophy of the committee and others is to respect and hold onto our past. “We believe we do not need to flatten pieces of our past,” Cathy says.

“Our motto is ‘Preserving the past to support future needs’ and we have pride in our community.” The homestead project is the perfect example of that belief. It is hoped the committee will have raised the funds and a groundbreaking will take place in about two years. Rental fees from the barn as an event venue will help with the money needed to complete the project.

Once reconstructed, the building will be used as a house museum for educational purposes and a function hall for meetings and events.

“Our plan is to do it in phases, and we know it will be easier to take it in pieces versus trying to do it all at once,” Cathy explains.

The committee answers to the board of selectmen of New Durham. The farmstead is owned by the town, as is the property it will be erected upon.

But what of the Boodey family and their history? Zechariah was born in Madbury, New Hampshire in 1745 and he relocated to New Durham. At that time, the French and Indian War had ended, and it was safer to settle in the more remote areas in New Hampshire.

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Randall started the movement because he felt a person did not need to earn their way into heaven but rather that it was a choice. He broke away from the more organized Baptist religion and articles of the new church were signed in Zechariah’s New Durham house in 1780.

One can only marvel that the Free Will Baptist religion began in the tiny local community of New Durham and grew to be worldwide. Cathy says some leaders in the religion have made the trip to the homestead to honor the original site where their church began.

As a local farmer, Zechariah and his wife, Mary, stayed on the property their entire lives. Zechariah was well known in New Durham and served for many years as a selectman. He was part of the town when it began and as an older man, he probably had many stories to share about the history he remembered.

When Zechariah passed away in 1821, the family continued to live at the home. His son, Joseph, who was born in the log cabin on the property, was then the head of the Boodey family. Eventually the property passed to daughters who summered there and the 1950s was the last time the home was lived in on a full-time basis.

All this rich history underscores the importance of saving the homestead and reassembling it to bring the past to others. A fundraising effort that is but one of many to see the project to fruition is a cookbook. “It was an idea of a committee member who had always wanted to have a local cookbook,” says Cathy.

Last spring, the committee researched the costs for printing the book and sent out a call seeking recipes from the community. Although most of the recipes are from the current time, the cookbook’s sections are divided with local historical photographs. The cookbook is titled “Hometown Cookery”

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North East Motor Sports Museum Events for 2022 The 2022 outdoor events schedule at the North East Motor Sports Museum (922 NH Route 106, Loudon NH, 03307) kicks off with the inaugural New England Racers Reunion: All Eras Race Car Show on Saturday April 16th. Each of the museum’s events are essential fundraisers to help meet financial obligations so we can continue our mission of New England motor racing preservation, education and inspiration.

After a two-year absence, the museums annual race car show returns to the spring. The event has been rebranded as the New England Racers Reunion and now welcomes all eras of race cars to display on Saturday April 16th. The event will feature best appearing awards and unique artifact displays from various mobile auto racing museums from across the region. The event takes place on the same day as the Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This will allow race fans to stop by the museum in the morning and then continue on to watch the stock car and modified races in the afternoon on the one-mile NHMS oval.

The month of June sees the return

of the annual AMA Gypsy Tour Motorcycle Ride to benefit the museum on Sunday June 12th. The tour starts in Laconia, laps around the NHMS road course and concludes with a tour of the museum. Hundreds of American made muscle and classic cars and trucks will once again take over the museums parking lots on June 25th with the popular NH Muscle Cars car show. The visit by NH Muscle Cars moves to a new early summer date.

The museums annual all vehicles car show “Hot Rods, Muscle and More” will take place on August 27th. Car and truck owners will vie for the second annual Parker-Coraine Best of Show Trophy as we honor two integral museum supporters. 20 trophies in total will be up for grabs for supporting vehicle owners. The 2022 outdoor event season will wrap up with the 4th annual Nor’Eastern Pontiac Club, Pontiac Day Car Show on September 24th. The event will feature multiple class awards for Pontiac, GMC and Oakland cars and trucks. Make sure to visit www. nemsmuseum.com throughout the year for all event details.

• Yesteryear continued from page 22 and is published by The Zechariah Boodey Farmstead Committee.

“In November, there is a craft fair in New Durham, and our goal is to have the cookbook back from the printers so we can sell copies at the fair as part of the fundraising effort,” explains Cathy. The recipes are from fine cooks all over the country, and from Boodey descendants, who are known as good cooks.

Another event sure to please visitors and locals will be the July 16, 2022, event called the Boodey Hometown Revels. (Revels is a Colonial name for party.) There will be demonstrations of old-time skills which will give attendees first-hand exposure of how things were done in the olden days. “There

will be demonstrations, entertainment, and music. We will be asking for donations for the homestead project at the Revels event,” says Cathy.

Cathy says all evidence is that Zechariah Boodey was an honest and sincere man and very hard working. He was an integral figure in starting the town and building his farmstead.

His place in New Hampshire’s history is rich, and well worth saving, as is the Boodey Farmstead.

For information on the Boodey project, donations, and events, please email cathyo@tds.net.

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The Moultonborough Women’s Club is Making a Difference in the Community

by Lori Tremblay As a newcomer to the area, I wanted to find out what opportunities were available for helping out in the community. I discovered one of them, the Moultonborough Women’s Club (MWC), when I was invited to their February meeting, at the Moultonborough Function Hall on Old Route 109,

by Carolyn Minahan of Moultonborough. She introduced me to co-presidents Pamela King and Julie Osgood, as well as other members.

Long tables were festively decorated in a Valentine’s Day theme by committee members, a raffle table was available, and members had a chance to visit before lunch. Lunches are catered by Senior Meals at a cost of just $2.00 per meal, which is included in the $30 annual membership dues. Volunteer hostesses from the club provide desserts.

Many committee members keep the meetings and events running smoothly.

The February meeting featured an interesting presentation by the Lakes Region Conservation Trust. President Don Berry and Deputy Director, Anna Boudreau, showed the many local properties protected by the work of the trust. One of the biggest properties that they have helped to preserve, over 5,000 acres, is The Castle in the Clouds Conservation Area in the Ossipee Mountains of Moultonborough.

The MWC is dedicated to promoting civic, educational and social activities.

According to their Facebook page, they “actively network and fundraise for the community needs” in the Moultonborough area. Established in 1950, the nonprofit organization has made a positive impact for local students, charities and businesses in the community. Mary Dominguez, a three-year member, said that the club is “a committed, faithful group.” Members have the opportunity to share their skills and work with women of diverse talents and backgrounds.

The club has over 100 members, with 40-60 members regularly attending meetings, who actively network and fundraise for the community needs of the surrounding area. Members

come from Lakes Region communities such as Sandwich, Tuftonboro, Center Harbor, Melvin Village, Mirror Lake, Ossipee, Meredith, Gilford, Laconia and more.

This year, meetings are in person, and many were happy to be back together again. The club meets on the first Monday of the month, September through June. The first meeting, in September, is a raffle. Everyone brings a like-new item to add to the raffle. This is a fundraiser, run by the Ways and Means Committee and it is a fun start to the year. The money raised goes to the club’s scholarship fund and to the operating budget.

Upcoming luancheon meetings are at 11:30 a.m. the first Monday of the month, at the Moultonborough Function Hall. Interlakes Community Caregivers, a nonprofit volunteer organization in Moultonborough, will speak at the meeting in March.

In April, the featured speaker is Cara Sutherland from Remick County Doctor Museum and Farm in Tamworth.

May’s speaker is Tracy Waterman from The Lake Host Program, where volunteers sit at launches on Lake Winnipesaukee and other lakes to inspect incoming boats so that invasive plants don’t come in.

June is the annual banquet and installation of officers, which will be held at the Geneva Point Center in Moultonborough. Presentation of the 2021-2022 Woman of the Year Award also takes place at the annual banquet.

“The June general meetings have been a formal affair with our Installation of Officers Ceremony,” said Leslie Ann Angelo, corresponding secretary and publicity chairwoman. “Last year we were forced to hold our meeting at the Sandwich Fairgrounds due to Covid and although it wasn’t the special event as in years past, it was such a blessing to be able to see each other in person and not on a ZOOM screen.”

“We usually try to have speakers from a variety of organizations, from nonprofits, companies and local businesses,” said club director and past president, Deb Kumpf. “Susan

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Doherty-Funke is our member who is also very involved in the Red Cross as a volunteer.” Doherty-Funke spoke to the club a few years ago about her experiences with what the local emergency services do, such as for house fires.

“She will be back next year to talk about the inner workings of the Red Cross,” said Kumpf.

Fundraising is a big focus of the MWC. “We raise funds for Moultonborough Academy,” said co-president Pamela King. Moultonborough Academy is a public school, grades 7-12.

There are 231 students and 31 teachers. This year is the fifth year in a row that the school has been ranked among the best high schools by U.S. News and World Report, according to the school’s website, www.ma.sau45.org.

Committed to helping graduating seniors in need from the Moultonborough Academy, scholarships provide funds for attendance at an accredited college or vocational school for at least a oneyear term. Adult learners are also welcome to apply. Applications are due April 15 and should be postmarked no later than May 31. Since1960, the MWC has given over $202,000 in scholarships. Many local businesses are also generous sponsors of the MWC Scholarship Fund. Check the website for more information, www. moultonboroughwomensclub.org.

Also, sponsorships are not always just monetary. In October, Chelsea Francek spoke to members about The Circle Program, a camp for underprivileged Lakes Region girls on Newfound Lake in Hebron. The girls are sponsored to come to the camp and they are matched with a mentor. The mentors continue to meet with the girls throughout the year. That relationship can extend through graduation from high school and longer. “Many club members have either graduated from the program or are mentors,” said Kumpf. These relationships enrich the lives of the girls and their mentors.

In October, the MWC team walks in Moultonborough in support of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Deb Kumpf and Nancy McDonough are in charge of organizing this event. To date, the club has raised over $141,000 for the American Cancer Society by participating in the walk each year. In the fall, sixteen walkers collected over $7,200 in donations for the charity, the seventh highest fundraising team in New Hampshire for 2021.

Monthly, club members can donate items or money to a local charity.

“These are in addition to annual donations the club makes to nonprofit organizations who complete our Donation Request Form,” said Kumpf. The annual charity this year is the Lakes Region Food Pantry’s Emergency Fund.

“Every year the MWC participates in the Meredith Village Savings Bank’s Mitten Tree, the American Cancer Society’s Strides Walk, Altrusa’s Festival of Trees and at the Moultonborough Library’s Book Sale, we hold a bake sale fundraiser,” said Angelo. Bake sales are also held at the local elections and Harriet Bickster oversees the annual town meeting box lunch.

Angelo said that a tea is given in the fall to welcome our new members. The club plans a Gala every other year and a Kentucky Derby party on the off year. May 7 is the date for the Kentucky Derby party this year. There will be a dinner, games, photo booth, hats contest and a TV set up to watch the derby.

Each year, the MWC chooses an Outstanding Woman of the Year to honor one of their members. Endowed by an anonymous donor in 2019, the award celebrates a woman who has been very involved in MWC and has demonstrated exceptional leadership, sustained dedication and service, a high level of volunteerism, and inspiring achievements, Kumpf explained.

In 2021, Janet Schurko was honored for her many accomplishments and her compassion. She is the Remembrance Committee chairwoman, sending cards and messages to members, veteran’s home and nursing home residents and Meals on Wheels homebound recipients. She and a team of members knitted and delivered 175 scarves, mittens and hats for Meredith Savings Bank’s Mitten Tree Project in December, among other generous acts of kindness.

Members can get together weekly, on Fridays, for walking, hiking or snowshoeing together in the Lakes Region. Members rotate selection and leadership of the walks so that they can explore their favorite trails. Especially during the pandemic, members have been happy to get outdoor exercise with friends and enjoy the beauty of the area.

If you would like to be a part of a fun, active and caring group, interested women are welcome to join the club for a meeting. Meetings begin with lunch, a speaker of interest, followed by a business meeting.

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Lakes Region Model Railroad Museum- Phase One Completed

By Lee Caldwell and Bob Hartnett Located in downtown Wolfeboro, in the Back Bay Area, is the site of the future Lakes Region Model Railroad Museum (LRMRM), the 1872 B&M Railroad Freight Shed. The restoration project has been planned to be in three phases: rehabilitate the building for public use; construct an inside museum space, including an office and an ADA-compliant bathroom; and create the model railroad museum itself.

Phase 1 has now been completed. In a December 2020 letter to investors, President of LRMRM John Simms, stated “It is with great excitement, gratitude, and relief that I am finally able to report to you that the 1872 Boston and Maine Freight House in Wolfeboro has been rehabilitated, restored to its former glory, rugged enough to last another 140 years, and ready for our Lakes Region Model Railroad Museum.”

The project began in 2016 when two events came together. One was the closure of Klickety-Klack, a model railroad layout on Elm Street in Wolfeboro, and the other was the continued deterioration of the freight house. Boston and Maine owned and operated the freight house until 1960 when it was sold to a local businessman for receiving and storing furniture. He sold it to Wolfeboro Oil in 1966 who used it until 2016 when the Town agreed to purchase it. The original idea was to use the area for municipal parking, but the voters required a further vote if that were to happen so the town was receptive to an alternate use. Meanwhile

placing sills and other structural timbers, siding repair, and replacement of an asbestos roof. A handicap accessible ramp was completed, and the building was repainted. LRMRM currently has a ten-year lease agreed with the town.

Funding for the improvements was provided by a $130,000 Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LC̱ HIP) grant, with $95,000 in capital reserve funds by the town to match the LCHIP funding, and $155,000 in donations by private investors. The restored building is now on the NH Register of Historic Places.

Phase 2, constructing the actual inside museum space, will begin as soon as weather permits.

Phase 3, creating the Model Railroad Museum, will be an ongoing process.

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One-time visitors will experience this transformation by interrogating buildings and places on the layout with smart phones, hearing and seeing historical narratives, leading to an understanding of Wolfeboro’s history and how this is reflected in the layout of the Town. This audience is the traditional museum visitor and may not visit the museum more than once. This includes tourists traveling through town, coming from the lake boats, staying in town. It includes guests of residents, short-term renters, and all residents curious to see what is here.

The second, and very important audience is the repeat visitor. Any visitor to the museum will be able to run a train. A seven-year-old can run a train in a limited area, with limited functions, and limited speed. A ten-year-old will be able to do this and will also be able to couple and un-couple box cars and make simple deliveries. By 15, we would expect this same person to be able to operate part of the railroad in cooperation with her peers and have, by that time, an understanding of what is happening and why. This will be a structured progression, with feedback and acknowledgement. The focus will be on having fun while “playing with trains” with quiet exposure to simple STEM principles.

Simms believes, “Reaching out to the public with this type of technical involvement is a very important aspect of the museum’s purpose and one of the major reasons the museum continues to receive solid public support. This will engage the town’s people, give them a stake in the success of the museum, and provide for them an introduction for our STEM activities, not through a formal classroom, but through an enjoyable exciting new hobby.”

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How to Incorporate More Heart Healthy Foods into Your Diet Diet and heart health go hand in hand. The American Heart Association notes that a healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons to fight cardiovascular diseases, which the World Health Organization says kill more people across the globe each year than any other disease.

Men and women do not need degrees in nutrition science to create heart healthy diets for themselves and their families. In fact, the familiar call to “eat your fruits and vegetables” many adults recall from childhood lessons or nights around the family dinner table still bear weight today. A diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables is a hallmark of a healthy lifestyle. And supplementing such a diet with other heart healthy foods is a great way to reduce one’s risk for cardiovascular disease.

Fruits and vegetables The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notes that fruits and vegetables are healthy whether they’re fresh, frozen, canned, and/or dried.

The AHA advises eating fruits and vegetables with every meal and snack, and that may require a little creativity

as you sneak them into favorite dishes. For example, the AHA suggests replacing half the ground meat in recipes for burgers, meatloaf or meatballs with cooked chopped mushrooms. The mushrooms can be finely chopped with a knife or food processor, and then sautéed in some olive oil until they’re soft.

They can then be mixed in with the lean meat, and the meal can be cooked as it normally would. At the breakfast table, add fruit to a bowl of cereal to make for a more flavorful morning meal.

Dairy products When purchasing dairy products, the DHHS recommends sticking to fat-free or low-fat options. Replace whole milk with fat-free or 1 percent milk and buy only fat-free or low-fat cheese. When snacking, reach for fatfree or low-fat plain yogurt or cottage cheese. You can even add fruit or vegetables to such snacks to make snack time even more heart healthy.

Proteins Healthy proteins are another way people can promote heart health with their daily diets. When choosing proteins at the grocery store, the AHA

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try to anticipate what they will want 20 years from now,” Simms explained.

Simms anticipates that the fully completed museum will open in 2023. “We are indebted to the voters of Wolfeboro and the Board of Selectmen for supporting this project with their votes and for creating the Capital Reserve that helped us match the LCHIP grant.

Meanwhile, anyone and everyone with an interest in model railroading, experience with interactive museums, or furthering STEM exposure and education, is encouraged to contact us. We believe that this project will be very important for Wolfeboro, broadening attendance in the shoulder seasons (fall and spring), adding to the museum experience available for visitors to Wolfeboro, and continuing to upgrade this part of downtown.

Lakes Region Model Railroad Museum Inc, PO Box 713, Wolfeboro NH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that is all volunteer. They do engage contractors for specific tasks. They are actively looking for additional volunteers. They maintain both a website and a Facebook page.

dents, then tested on the layout, and, if successful incorporated. These range from designing operating schedules, to making 3D buildings, to electronic fabrication, electrical wiring, and writing software.” He describes this as being a “whole engineering experience. A place to learn technology in a thoroughly enjoyable environment.”

He goes on to describe this opportunity for students as a “broadly based technology resource exposing them to a complex computer control system.”

He also believes that this hands-on experience gives the learner the freedom to learn how to actually fix mistakes- a valuable lesson.

The museum will also have a virtual existence, allowing for operating trains remotely, remotely accessing the history narratives, possibly using 3D, and possibly running the layout as a virtual simulation from inside the cab of the train. The goals of the museum will be continually re-assessed based on visitor feedback. “We need to focus on their needs, desires, and wishes and

recommends choosing chicken and fish over red meats. That’s because red meats, which include beef and lamb, have more saturated fat than chicken and fish. Saturated fats increase blood cholesterol levels and can worsen heart disease, while the unsaturated fats in fish like salmon can reduce the risk for cardiovascular issues like heart failure and ischemic stroke. When preparing poultry, remove the skin, as most of the saturated fat in poultry is found just beneath the skin.

Grains When buying grains, the DHHS recommends reading the ingredients list on the package before purchasing.

Make sure whole wheat or another whole grain is the first item listed in the ingredients list and choose only those products that say 100 percent whole grain. Instead of preparing white rice as a side dish, serve brown or wild rice, quinoa or oats.

A heart-healthy diet is easy to design and just as flavorful as less healthy alternatives.

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Getting the Butterflies to Fly in Formation

By Lori Tremblay Do you suffer from glossophobia, a fear of public speaking? If so, you’re in good company. The fear of public speaking is the most common phobia ahead of death, spiders, or heights, according to nationalsocialanxietycenter. com. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that public speaking anxiety, or glossophobia, affects about 73% of the population. The underlying fear is judgment or negative evaluation by others.

A very practical way to master this fear is through Toastmasters International, a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. The organization has helped people from diverse backgrounds to become more confident speakers, communicators and leaders. (toastmasters.org) I was invited to attend Zoom meetings of two area Toastmasters clubs, the Lakes Region Toastmasters in Wolfeboro and the Mt. Washington Valley Toastmasters in Conway. Currently, some clubs are scheduling hybrid meetings, partially online and in-person. The meetings are well-organized, supportive and everyone participates in the meetings.

Many club members find that their communication skills improve in their professional and personal lives. With so many people communicating on Zoom or other online venues, Toastmasters teaches you to present your ideas in a more confident way.

Rob Maguire, DDS, is president of the Lakes Region Toastmasters Club in Wolfeboro and has been a club member for two years. Retired now, he had a successful dental practice in Wolfeboro for 34 years and is currently a speaker, coach and dental consultant.

Maguire found that communication with patients was a missing link in den-

tistry. Crediting his Toastmaster training, Maguire now speaks at dental conventions to help other dentists improve their communication with patients.

When I spoke with him, Maguire had just given a speech to more than 200 dentists. “My goal is to speak once a month. This is to give back and share my communication,” Maguire said.

Maguire also talked about how rewarding it is to see Toastmasters members progress and grow. “What drives me to Toastmasters is the people,” he said. “They become your family. You get to know these people. No matter what level you are in your learning, you are welcome. You are supported.”

Deb Kumpf is vice president of education and secretary of the Lakes Region Toastmaster Club in Wolfeboro, which she helped to charter in June of 2016. She has been area director and area governor and has received the Distinguished Toastmaster award. Kumpf is also the vice president of education at the Mt Washington Valley Toastmasters Club in Conway. Kumpf joined a company-sponsored Toastmasters club in 1999. Since her retirement as an en-

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gineer, she appreciates the fact that she can keep on top of her communication skills through Toastmasters. “Toastmasters teaches communication and leadership skills,” said Kumpf. “You learn about each other and have fun.”

She also mentioned that you learn to manage your fear of public speaking in a healthy way. “The butterflies are still there,” she said, “but they are flying in formation.”

If you have a speech to prepare for work, a wedding or an online meeting, “Toastmasters provides you with the environment where it’s safe to try and safe to fail,” said Kumpf. The group provides positive support and feedback on every speech. There are also short, impromptu speeches, called Table Topics, that members practice during meetings. This skill is designed to help you to be able to speak clearly on a variety of subjects, according to club members.

Kumpf explained that the area clubs are part of an international district. The district clubs are in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and three Canadian provinces, Nova Scotia, New Bruns-

wick and Prince Edward Island. Although the official language of Toastmasters is English, some Canadian clubs in the district are French speaking. Once a year, all the clubs in the district get together. There is a conference that all clubs may participate in.

Cindy Sarvai, a club member for five years, is the area director, which she describes as being a communicator between the clubs and the district. She has had this position twice. “Personal development is huge,” said Sarvai.

“People think, oh, I don’t need public speaking, but you do. Record yourself.” She said that most people are unaware of how many filler words, the ums, the you knows, they use. Sarvai said that you learn how to convey your message in an articulate and effective way. Sarvai is enthusiastic about the organization and plans to continue.

“Everything you touch in Toastmasters is never boring,” she said.

Joining Toastmasters is an affordable way to improve your confidence, leadership and public speaking skills, while experiencing personal growth, said club officers, who also told me that you get out of it what you put into it. There are mentors to help you along the way.

There is a one-time joining fee of $20.

The Toastmasters International fee is $45 every six months, and the local clubs charge a nominal fee, under $10.

So, for about $50 every six months, you can benefit from a well-organized, educational program with the benefit of personal development.

Another benefit of Toastmasters is mentorship. Mount Washington Valley Toastmasters President Paul Coddington was past president of three clubs in Conway, past division governor and is now enjoys being a mentor for new members. He also received the Distinguished Toastmaster award. He likes • Toastmasters continued on page 29

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Watch Out for Amphibians Spring has officially arrived in New Hampshire, and as the days get warmer and those remaining stubborn snow piles melt, a variety of wildlife are waking up from their winter slumber.

Over the coming weeks and months, amphibians will begin to migrate to breeding sites throughout the state, with the largest volume of movement occurring on warmer, rainy evenings around dusk.

Migration to breeding sites can be a dangerous feat for amphibians. Motorists should be aware that spotted salamanders, American toads, spring peepers, four-toed salamanders, Eastern red-backed salamanders, wood frogs, and Northern leopard frogs frequently must cross roads to reach their vernal pool breeding destinations. Whenever possible, please consider not driving

on rainy nights when temperatures are greater than 40°F for the next few weeks. If you must drive, delay your travel time until at least two hours after sunset or adjust your route to larger streets and avoid smaller, wooded roads with higher concentrations of wetlands and vernal pools.

Residents are encouraged to get involved by reporting areas where high amphibian activity or mortalities are observed as well as any encounters you may have with state-listed or rare amphibian species, such as marbled salamanders, Fowler’s toads, and Northern leopard frogs. Become part of the Reptile and Amphibian Reporting Program (RAARP) and report your findings online through New Hampshire Wildlife Sightings at https://nhwildlifesightings.unh.edu/.

• Toastmasters continued from page 28 the satisfaction of helping other people with their journey and commented that he learns from those that he mentors.

Coddington helped to introduce the transition from the Toastmasters training format of paper booklets to online learning modules, called Pathways, in New Hampshire in 2010. “This is the best computer-based training I’ve seen anywhere, in government or corporate,” said Coddington. “It’s easy to use.” Pathways provides self-paced instruction and projects to work on.

One of the Pathways projects that Coddington completed was to raise $30,000 for United Way in four weeks.

He accomplished this goal and credits Toastmasters for the skills to do it.

Gary Gladstone, in charge of corporate giving for United Way, was in the audience when Coddington gave a speech about the campaign. He thanked Cod-

dington and arranged a speaking tour for him on behalf of the United Way. Coddington works for the Department of Transportation in New Hampshire. There is a lot of communication required and thanks to Toastmasters training, he is called on frequently to spearhead communications for the state employees. “It is an honor to have these skills recognized,” said Coddington. “I have a shelf at my office with my (Toastmaster) trophies so that people will ask me about Toastmasters.”

If you are interested in learning more, you can attend in-person or online meetings as a guest, as I did. You can experience the organized format of the meetings, the fun interactions and the camaraderie of the groups. For more information, check the international website and local websites in your area: www.toastmasters.org, www. lakesregion.toastmastersclubs.org, or, www.mwvtm.toastmastersclubs.org.

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