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Molly Ockett: Avoiding Trouble War. The British, not quite knowing what to do with them, but recognizing the guide skills of the adult males, took whole families to Plymouth County in Massachusetts so women and children could be safely held while men were encouraged to provide guide service for British troops. Molly was among the children kept, and, the authors surmise, she learned British culture and how to speak English while there. As a young adult, she returned to Maine with other Pigwackets, only to be confronted with a tough choice: they could take back up their semi-nomadic, agrarian lifestyle in eastern New Hampshire/southern Maine beside settlers who had just been offered huge bounties for Native American scalps, or pick up and move again, this time to Canada. They chose to move. While in Canada, Molly appears to have learned about French Canadian culture and expanded her knowledge
By Barbara Neville Wilson “Remember that as you pass through life’s journey, your greatest trouble will be found to result from ignorance.” — Molly Ockett, as recorded in Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816 edited by Robert Steven Grunet
“Molly Ockett Middle School,” “Molly Ockett Motel,” “Molly Ockett Pony Club,” “Molly Ockett Chapter of Trout Unlimited,” “Molly Ockett Chorus of Sweet Adeline Int’l,” “Molly Ockett Days” celebrated with vigor in July of every year. If you have ever ventured to eastern New Hampshire, southeastern Maine, northern Vermont, or up to the Canadian border, you have probably encountered the name “Molly Ockett,” or its wide-ranging variants: Molly Ackett, Mollymocket, Mollyrocket, Molly Lockett, Mollockett, or even Mollidgewock. Who was Molly Ockett and why is • Molly Ockett photos courtesy BethelHistorical.org her name so ubiquitous in the North Continued on page 4 Country? First the basic, known facts: Molly Sale Ockett, baptized Mary Agatha, was iS BiG at our... Save and in Come O n ... AT n OW a Native American. Some historians A l OF O l FO ! U U lOCA R STORE R hypothesize that “Molly Ockett” TION S! is a phonetic version of the French pronunciation of her Christian name: newstead factory select Plush or firm “Marie Agathe.” After all, the French twin 199... now $169 twin 299... now $269 full 249... now $219 stress the second syllable of MaRIE full 369... now $329 queen 299... now $289 queen 449... now $389 and roll their “r’s” and soften the short KinG 599... now $549 “a” in “Agathe” and make the “th” a roxwell firm You Know You’ll landmere eurotoP twin 249... now $219 pure “t” sound. with memory foam Sleep Better full 299... now $269 She was of the Pigwacket people twin 349... now $299 queen 349... now $319 On A New Mattress... full 449... now $399 {sometimes “Pequawket”}, a tribe KinG 549... now $499 FDeRlivEeEry So why wait? queen 499... now $429 & Setup losing population in her youth that all It’s Good For Your Health NOW! KinG 699... now $629 but assimilated into the Abenaki during abin Rust plymOuth tiltOn her lifetime. In fact, many accounts y C ic z 603-238-3250 603-286-4500 o proclaim her the last of her tribe. She 67 East Main St. 742 Tenney Mtn. Hwy. was born around 1740 and died in 1816 meredith linCOln -F 603-279-1333 603-745-7251 and is documented to have spent much s ur ni e 55 Main Street Junction of Rt. 3 & 25 tur e & M attr e ss of her life along the Androscoggin River abin Rust and cultivate friends. C y ic Open daily 9am-5pm • SundayS 10am - 4pm • COzyCabinruStiCS.COm Valley in the Fryeburg/Bethel oz area of Bunny McBride and Harold E.L. Maine, in Conway, New Hampshire, Prins outline Molly’s life in their and Troy, Vermont. She spent her well-documented essay, “Walking last years in Andover, Maine and was the Medicine Line: Molly Ockett, a buried there, yet she spent formative Pigwacket Doctor,” in the University of years in the (then) Massachusetts Massachusetts imprinted Northeastern Colony, near Boston. Indian Lives, 1632-1816. They tell In a time when travel was mainly by readers about the small Pigwacket foot, Molly traversed huge territory. group from the Fryeburg area of Maine In an era when disparate cultures seeking safety in alliance with the intersected and often clashed, Molly British during the French and Indian was unusually able to make bridges s
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St. Patrick’s Day Events Gabe Smith Exhibit Extended Music lovers, mark your calendars for Sunday, March 19 and plan to be at the Wakefield Opera House for the New England Irish Harp (NEIHO) concert. NEIHO will perform with the McDonough-Grimes Irish School of Dance and the Seacoast Set Dancers. A dozen harps on one stage is a visual treat and the New England Irish Harp Orchestra’s performance of traditional Irish tunes and original pieces combined with Irish Dancers is sure to delight the audience. Advance tickets are available for purchase by calling Ed Morrison at 522-0126. In Wakefield, get tickets at Woodman’s Corner Barber Shop and Angie Nichols, Tax Office. In Sanbornville, Sharper Image Salon and Lovell Lake Food Center have tickets. The Opera House is located at 2 High Street in Sanbornville. If you like all kinds of music, you will love the Rochester Opera House on 31 Wakefield Street in Rochester. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Tony Kenny’s Irish Celebration on Saturday, March 18. Tony Kenny is one of Ireland’s most beloved artists. Kenny has starred at the world famous Jury’s Irish Cabaret in Dublin for more than 20 years and won many awards for his work over the decades. He’s entertained millions across Ireland and the U.S in dozens of coast-to-coast tours. Together with Victoria Kenny, Seamus Kennedy, and the Trinity Irish Dance Company, Kenny brings you a celebration you’ll never forget. The show starts at 7 pm. Tickets can be obtained by call 335-1992 or visit
www.rochesteroperahouse.com. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with food, music and dance…and a chance to win a trip to Ireland. If you are looking for a fun evening out during March, the St. Patrick’s Day Fest, organized by the Rotary Club of Wolfeboro is just the thing! The event takes place on Friday, March 17 from 6 to 10 pm at Estabrook Hall, Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, and is sponsored by Meredith Village Savings Bank. The dinner menu will include a traditional Irish boiled dinner of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, Irish soda bread and dessert. The dinner will be catered by Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant. A cash bar will be available for drinks. Following dinner, the Mazy Spade band will provide heartthumping Irish tunes, as well as their own dance music. The evening also will feature a drawing for a Best of Ireland Trip for two that includes airfare and a sevennight trip to Ireland for a value of $4,000. The lucky winners must travel before June 30, 2018, but you need not be present to win. Raffle tickets may be purchased in advance by calling 569-8996 or from any member of the Rotary Club of Wolfeboro. Only 500 tickets will be sold for this exciting trip arranged by Penny Pitou Travel. Proceeds from the St. Patrick’s Day Fest and the Best of Ireland Trip raffle will be donated back into the community for high school scholarships and to non-profit organizations throughout the year.
Something Green at Art Works Gallery Calling All Artists for the “Something Green” Art Show. The event, which takes place at Art Works in Chocorua, will be held from March 18 to 26. Everyone is in the mood for spring and looking for all things Green. The gallery invites artists to submit work for the green-themed show: Green in Color, Green in Thought, and Green in Spirit. Application and exhibiting details are online at www.chocoruaArtworks. com, or visit the gallery at 132 White Mountain Highway (Rt. 16), Chocorua. Winter hours are Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. The gallery is accepting two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces (check display guidelines). The application deadline is March 11. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 18 from 2 to 4 pm at Art Works - Chocorua Creative Arts Center.
The gallery also offers workshops. The next class will take place on Sunday, March 26 from noon to 3 pm. The class is titled “Explore the Techniques of Gelatin Printing” ($25.00 fee). Information on these events and future classes can be obtained at www.chocoruaArtworks. com and on Facebook - Chocorua Art Works. Workshop space is limited; contact the gallery to preregister and for details. Art Works Gallery hosts fine artists and crafters from the surrounding area. The showroom offers a range of artwork, from large pieces to hang over a mantle to tiny tokens great for saying “Thank you” or “Just because”. The shop features colored blown glass, heirloom furniture, wearables and jewelry, unique art cards, pottery, sculpture and much more. For information, call 323-8041.
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The Gafney Library in Sanbornville has announced that the Gabe Smith exhibit is being extended. The current exhibit will run through the month of March. Gabe’s reception, which was postponed from February 9 due to a snowstorm, was held at the Gafney on Thursday, March 2. Gabe is known for his art work and work with young people in the area who struggle with depression, heroin abuse and suicide. A raffle opportunity offered by Gabe will also extend through March with the drawing to be held on Thursday, March 30 at 5 pm. Gabe has donated one of his pieces, “Lasso around the moon”
• Molly Ockett Continued from page 3 of medicine and treatments, for when she once again returned to the Fryeburg region, she was recognized as a healer to residents, both native and white. Today we sometimes forget that many medicines we get in a bottle have their origins in wild plants and herbs. According to McBride and Prins, Molly recognized the treatment qualities of white birch bark as an antiinflammatory, hemlock as a sedative, and spruce bark as a digestive aid, for instance. Regardless of their culture, natives and settlers alike could call on Molly when illness struck. Molly’s activities were not limited to realms imposed by white traditions. Beyond healing, she became renowned for her trapping and hunting skill, and is said to have killed sufficient ducks to fill a feather mattress for her employer and friend Mrs. Swan. Stories about Molly are filled with examples of her care for others, but she was no altruistic innocent. One spring, after selling furs she had trapped all winter, she took the $40 earned to a Jesuit priest, and laying it down, asked for absolution of her sins and assurance that her first husband had made it out of Purgatory. The priest gave forgiveness
to the Gafney for a raffle to benefit the Gafney Teen Advisory Board. Raffle tickets are $5 per ticket or three for $12 and may be purchased at the library during open hours. More information about Gabe and his art is available on Facebook: realgabesmith, and on Instagram: @ therealgabesmith. For more information, call Gafney L i b r a r y director Beryl Donovan at 522-3401. Library hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1 to 7 pm and Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 12:30 pm. For more information call the library at 522-3401.
and prayed for her husband’s soul. Afterwards, he assured Molly all was well. Molly scooped up her money and turned to leave. The priest stopped her, warning that he had prayed the husband out of Purgatory and certainly could pray him back in. Molly took no notice. Her husband was too smart for that, ‘”when we used to traverse the woods together….if he chanced to fall into a bad place, he always stuck up a stake that he might never be caught there any more.”’ On another occasion, gold was stolen from a group of Native Americans. Spying some of it in a white man’s home, she laid a curse on him and his descendants. It is said the man’s house was subsequently swept away in flood; the maple syrup family members boiled turned sour on the fire; daughters died young; and the few children who survived infancy died of asphyxiation or were destroyed by animals. Molly Ockett, Mollyrocket, Mollidgewock? We may be ignorant of the spelling, but the stories behind the name show a remarkable woman, a woman remembered two centuries after her death for deep knowledge and keen smarts. By her own advice, she avoided trouble.
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Northeastern Ballet Theatre The Snow Queen Northeastern Ballet Theatre (NBT), New Hampshire’s premier ballet company and training school, is collaborating with Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro for its upcoming production of “The Snow Queen.” Five male students will be performing in the show, much of which will include partnering with advanced pointe dancers from NBT’s company. All five have stage experience, including major roles in Brewster Academy’s recent production of “Guys and Dolls,” but none have done ballet before, except for one. John Ling, dance instructor at Brewster Academy, has been on hand to help Artistic Director, Edra Toth, with rehearsals, and the boys have even taken a ballet class with Mr. Ling and the NBT girls to learn about the technique behind what they will be doing. When asked about the collaboration,
Northeastern Ballet Theatre dancers (left to right - Elizabeth Waaks of Wolfeboro; Mykenzi Sanders of Center Sandwich; Skye Darling of Milton Mills and Anna Tibbetts of Wolfeboro (understudy) with four of the five male students from Brewster Academy who will be performing with them in Northeastern Ballet Theatre’s upcoming production of “The Snow Queen”. (Left to right - Yu Koriki of Japan; Frederic Rahola of Spain; Salim Fabio of New York, and Charlie Scott of Bosnia.) Dancers not pictured: Iona Darling of Milton Mills; Abbey Sislane of Wolfeboro, and Robbie Enos of Wolfeboro. Courtesy photo. Miss Toth said, “I really want to dispel
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just for girls. Ballet is for everyone. These five young men from the Brewster drama department are doing an incredible job with this experience. It’s very exciting to watch it come together.” NBT’s production of “The Snow Queen” will take place on Saturday, April 8 at 7 pm and Sunday, April 9 at 2 pm at Oyster River High School in Durham, NH and on Thursday, April 10 at 7 pm at the Kingswood Arts Center in Wolfeboro. Tickets for all shows are available at www.northeasternballet. org or by calling 834-8834. (The website also offers more information about ongoing classical ballet classes at NBT, as well as the Ballet Master Class series, which will be happening over the next few months featuring nationally-known ballet dancers and instructors.)
Rochester Chamber Stars & Stripes Banquet The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce will present a Stars & Stripes Annual Dinner Dance & Awards Banquet, underwritten by Eversource and Service Credit Union on Saturday, April 8. The elegant black-tie optional event will take place from 6 to 9:30 pm at The Red Barn at the Links at Outlook Golf Club in South Berwick, Maine. Corporate co-sponsors for the event include Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics, Albany Engineered Composites, Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Laars Heating Systems Company and Waste Management. The festive evening begins with
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March 25, Guided Snowshoe Tour, 2-5 pm, King Pine Ski Area, 1251 Eaton Rd., Madision, meets and sign-up at Mill Indoor Pool and Fitness Center across from Purity Spring office, 367-8896. March 25, Maple Sugar Day Open House, 10 am-2 pm, free, demos of early Abenaki sugaring practices and modern day evaporator method, sample maple sugar, treats for sale, Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm, Tamworth village, 323-7591, www.remickmuseum.org. March 25-26, Maple Weekend in NH, maple sugar houses all over NH open for tours, demos, info: www.nhmapleproducers.com. March 26, Gelatin Printing Class, noon-3 pm, Art Works Gallery, 132 White Mt. Highway, Chocorua, 323-8041, www.chocoruaartworks.com. March 26, King Pine Pond Skimming – Beach Party, noon-4 pm, King Pine Ski Area, 1251 Eaton Rd., Madision, 367-8896. March 29, Returning North with the Spring: retracing the journey of naturalist Edwin Way Teale, 7 pm, program by John R. Harris on his journey to retrace Teale’s route, Cook Memorial Library, 93 Main St., Tamworth, 323-8510. March 30, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Debra Ballou performs, reservations: 284-6219, www.cornerhouseinn.com. April 1, Basket Weaving Class, make an Easter basket, 10 am-2 pm, Art Works, 132 White Mt. Highway, Chocorua, pre-reigster: 323-8041. April 1, Coffeehouse Open Mic Night, 7 pm, Doris L. Benz Communty Center, 18 Heard Rd., Center Sandwich, email for info: TomBartlettMusicInquiries@ gmail.com. April 2, Princess Academy, day of fun for preschoolers through grades 6, M&D Playhouse, N. Conway, info: 374-6241. April 3, More Than Just Ourselves: Willard Uphaus, Louis Wyman and Civil Liberties in the McCarthy Era, Kennett High School, N. Conway, hosted by World Fellowship Center, funding from NH Humanities Council, 7 pm, public welcome, info: 447-2280. April 3, Spring Improv Meet Up, 6-8 pm, improvisational acting, no experience necessary, 12 Main St., Sandwich, Advice To The Players, $5 donation, 284-7115. April 5, John Muir Trail, 7 pm, program by Gordon DuBois on his 3 wk. journey on the John Muir Trail, Cook Memorial Library, 93 Main St., Tamworth, 323-8510. April 6, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Cora Jo Ciampi performs, reservations: 284-6219, www. cornerhouseinn.com. April 6-9, 14-15, 21-23, Twelve Angry Jurors, Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, tickets: 335-1992. April 7, Rainbow Fish, 10 am, geared for grades K-2, Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, tickets: 335-1992. April 8, Cat Scratch Fever ski/rider challenge, 11 am-3 pm, Wildcat Mt. Ski Area, Rt. 16, Jackson, 466-3326. April 8, Corn Hole Tournament, 4-9 pm, Club 59 at Kingswood Golf Club, Wolfeboro, benefits The Nick, info: 569-1909. April 8, Chili Cookoff and Feeling Good 5K, N. Conway Community Center and Gibson Center, Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, 356-5701. April 8, Egg Decorating, Art Works, 132 White Mt. Highway, Chocorua, prereigster: 323-8041. April 8, John Hamilton Davidson singer/songwriter concert, 7:30 pm, Theatre in the Wood, 41 Observatory Way, Intervale, tickets/info: 356-9980, www. believeinbooks.org. April 8, Spring Artisan Fair, Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, 2617 White Mt. Highway, N. Conway village, 356-5701. April 10, Unlaunch’d Voices: An Evening with Walt Whitman, 6:30 pm, Conway Public Library, 15 Greenwood Ave., Conway, public welcome, funding from NH Humanities Council, 7 pm, public welcome, info: 447-5222. April 12, Crafts at the Library, (grades 1-6) at 2:45 pm, Native American painting designs; adult class to learn quilling at 7 pm. Community Room, Samueul H. Wentworth Library, Sandwich, 284-6665. April 12, The Golden Acrobats, Rochester Opera House, 7 pm, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, tickets: 335-1992. April 13, Dinner & Storytelling at Corner House Inn, Jct. Rts. 109 & 113, Center Sandwich, 6:30 pm, Jo Radner performs, reservations: 284-6219, www. cornerhouseinn.com. April 14-15, Wildcat Pond Skim, noon-1 pm, Wildcat Mt. Ski Area, Rt. 16, Jackson, 466-3326.
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Concerts at 12 Main, Arts Center at 12 Main, Sandwich village, 7:30 pm, select concerts. Info: 284-7115, contact@advicetotheplayers.org. Crafty Kninjas, meets Friday afternoons, 3:30-5 pm, Milton Free Public Library, 13 Main St., Milton Mills, 473-8535. Knitters and crafty people gather. Fiber Gatherings, first Thursday of the month and third Wednesday of the month, 7-9 pm, fiber enthusiasts gather at Benz Center, Sandwich village. Knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, needle felting, embroidery, crewel, rug hooking, quilting, sewing- no formal lessons provided but if you need help with a project, there is sure to be someone who can give you some pointers. Info/questions: Jen Elliott at lupineblossoms@gmail.com. Forgotten Arts: Fiber Arts Group. Meets every other Tuesday, 9:30 am-noon. Fiber artists and/or interested onlookers welcome to join Happy Weavers & Friends group to learn the historic art of weaving, spinning, sewing, quilting, and more. Bring a project to work on, if desired. Group meets monthly on an every other Tuesday schedule at Remick Museum & Farm, Tamworth Village. Free. (Does not include access to the Museum.) 323-7591.
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Memories of Skiing Mount Whittier By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper We’ve all driven by one of them. Traces of a once busy chair lift, rope tow or downhill trail are visible and hint at what were once thriving ski areas in NH. Thanks to the efforts of a number of people, the fading and out-of-business ski areas all over the state and beyond have received attention in recent years. If you have driven by such places as the former Mount Whittier ski area in Ossipee on Rt. 25 or others that once were busy places, you may have wondered why they are no longer in business. Perhaps you skied on the old slopes and have fond memories of such places at Brickyard Mountain Ski Area in the Weirs or the Mt. Whittier Area in Ossipee. One person who can take a lot of credit in bringing awareness to the old ski areas is Jeremy Davis. As a child, Jeremy came to New Hampshire on family ski vacations. A native of Massachusetts, Jeremy learned early in his childhood to ski and he looked forward to family trips to New Hampshire ski areas. It was on one such trip that his family passed Mt. Whittier in Ossipee. Although no longer in operation, Jeremy could tell that it had once been a large ski area. (For this author, attending college in Maine some years ago, I would occasionally drive home to NH for a visit and I saw the ski area when it was still in operation. I recall a busy ski area with and a parking lot filled with cars on a typical winter’s weekend.) In the late 1990s, Jeremy Davis started a website with information he
Mount Whittier in its heyday. Courtesy New England Ski Museum/Dick Smith Collection. had collected on old ski areas. The subject was unusual and it caught the interest of many people. As word spread about the website, Jeremy received many emails from those with photos and remembrances to share. The website – www.nelsap.org - is a wealth of information about NH’s (and other states) lost ski areas. Viewers will be very surprised at the number of ski areas – some quite modest in size –
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also authored a series of books about lost ski areas. And what of Mt. Whittier Ski Area in Ossipee? This is the lost ski area that so fascinated the young Jeremy Davis. Actually situated on Nickerson Mountain in the town, the ski area was operating in the 1940s. By the late 1940s, three rope tows were in operation on the mountain. According to www.nelsap.org, the ski area was a bit unique, because it never operated any chair lifts, depending instead of T-bars and a well-remembered gondola to get skiers up the mountain. By the 1960s, expansion came in the form of some new slopes at Whittier. If you skied Mount Whittier or drove by, you may recall a four-passenger Mueller gondola that crossed Route 16 to pick up passengers at a mid station (www.nelsap.org information). It can be assumed the gondola passing over the highway was eye catching and unique in NH at the time! It was probably quite a newsworthy event when the gondola lift was installed at the ski area. (The old gondola cables could still be seen long after the area closed.) The gondola offered the ski area something to
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• Yesteryear Continued from page 9 attract summer visitors as well, with rides up the mountain in warm weather months. While there were challenges for skiers, such as the lack of chair lifts and lengthy wait times for the gondola rides, it is said the ski area’s summit café had incredible views, something nearly as important as the food when dining dining in a unique location. Mt. Whittier closed in 1985, the victim of poor snow winters. One reality was that it was hard to compete with the bigger mountains that had installed snow making by the 1980s. (Anyone who lives in NH can attest that snowfall can be fickle. Some seasons see many feet of snow while other years offer sparse or less-thanadequate snow conditions.) Memories of Mount Whittier by those who skied there are many, from socializing in the ski lodge to the thrill of riding the gondola. Indeed, a Facebook page for visitors to share stories and photos now exists. Another former ski area that some may recall is Page Hill in Tamworth. According to ww.nelsap.org, the slope may have started as an alpine ski area around 1929. When it started there was no lift, but soon an 800-ft. long Model A powered rope tow was installed. Back in the early days, the Tamworth Outing Club skied at the hill. The Page Hill slope was popular and well used by local skiers. It is said beginners would learn to ski on Dr. Remick’s (Tamworth) open slope, moving to ski on Page Hill once they
became proficient. The ski slope hosted many elementary and high school slalom races, along with college slalom competitions. Future Olympian and Waterville Valley Resort founder Tom Corcoran was known to ski on Page Hill. Like many of the smaller ski areas, Page Hill had to compete with bigger ski areas that sprang up. Page Hill made a good effort to compete; new trails were cut and the area even offered night skiing with locals using flares and torches to light up the slopes, which must have been quite a beautiful sight. Unfortunately, rising costs and competition saw Page Hill eventually close. Another lost area is Candy Mountain in Brookfield. According to www. nelsap.org, the mountain was operating in the 1950s or 1960s – exact dates are uncertain. The area had a rope tow and was a smaller mountain. Like others of its size, it eventually had to compete with larger ski areas. Those who enjoyed the family-like atmosphere of the small ski areas in NH can relive those days via Jeremy’s website, where readers can share memories and photos. His books on lost ski areas can be purchased at bookstores or via www.nelsap.org. The New England and Northeast Lost Ski Areas Project also features a Facebook page with lots of old photos for a walk down ski history memory lane. (If a ski area once existed in New England, you can be sure Jeremy and his fellow ski area preservationists either have found it or would love to know about it!)
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March at the Remick Museum There is always something new, historical and educational happening at the Remick Museum in Tamworth. If your family is looking for an interesting and fun way to spend a day, sign up now for an event. The Fiber Arts Group meets on every other Tuesday, year round (in March, the group meets on the 21st) from 9:30 am to noon. Fiber artists or interested onlookers are welcome to join the Happy Weavers & Friends group to observe the historic art of weaving, spinning, sewing, quilting and more. Bring a project to work on and the museum staff will provide a comfortable space. Led by Barbara Lord, Volunteer Educator, the event is free (does not include access to the museum). No registration is required. Young ones will love Small Farmers Club, The Farmer’s Year: All About Bees on Friday, March 24 from 10 to 11 am. This year’s theme, “A Farmer’s Year,” allows children to experience seasonal rhythms and chores on the farmstead. Through age-appropriate activities—including crafts, games,
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Great Waters Music Festival Kicks off 2017 Season
Great Waters Music Festival will kick off the 2017 music season at The Great Hall, upstairs in the Wolfeboro Town Hall on Friday, March 24 at 7:30 pm with a concert by folk artist Tracy Grammer. Tracy Grammer rose to acclaim as half of the “postmodern, mythic American folk” duo, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. From 1998-2001, the duo released three internationally
celebrated, folk chart-topping albums featuring Carter’s mytho-poetic Americana song craft and in 2002, toured with Joan Baez, both as featured artists and Baez’s band members. Called “the new voice of modern folk music,” the duo was clearly in its ascendancy when in July 2002, Carter suffered a fatal heart attack while the duo was on tour. He was 49; Grammer, 34.
Happenings Around Sandwich By Diane Cook Johnson Crafts at the Library Get crafty at the library! Craft classes are held in the community room of the Samuel H. Wentworth Library in Sandwich; there is no charge for the classes and all materials are provided. Wendy Shambaugh has been teaching kids and adults some of the crafts she enjoys. April projects will be held on April 12 at the library. The children will paint Native American designs using colored sand. Adults will learn to shape flowers using strips of colored paper (quilling). Please sign up at the library or call 284-6665. Spring Improv Meet-ups at 12 Main Mondays & Wednesdays! Advice To The Players (ATTP) will continue to host drop-in improvisational acting (improve) meet-ups for adults and teens twice a month as we head into spring. Drop-ins will be on alternating Mondays and Wednesday. All are welcome to try their hand— and voice—in this fun, fast-paced skill (no experience required). Mark your calendars; the dates are March 22; April 3, 19; May 1, 17. All sessions are 6 to 8 pm at the Arts Center at 12 Main St. in
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Sandwich. Meet-up guests are asked to bring a $5 donation to defray overhead costs. Call Jessie Chapman, Managing Director, Advice To The Players at 2847115. Wednesday Night Music at the Corner House Season 4 of Roger Sorlein’s Wednesday night music series at the Corner House Pub at 22 Main Street in Center Sandwich is underway. As in past years, the best folk musicians in the region join Roger each week. Roger and friends will do their best to escort you safely through the Ides of March. Enjoy music and friends Wednesday nights from 6 to 8 pm in the Pub. Storytelling Season The Corner House Inn is in its 29th consecutive season of Storytelling Dinners, which continue on Thursday evenings through the end of May. Storytelling Dinners begin at 6:30 pm. The cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, and glass of wine, dessert and coffee. For reservations and more information regarding the program, contact Don Brown at 284-6219.
Folk musician Tracy Grammer will perform at The Great Hall on March 24. Determined to honor the duo’s journey and bring Carter’s songs, and those of other favorite writers, to broader audiences, Grammer has kept to the road, releasing solo albums as well as selections from the Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer archives. Her latest release, Little Blue Egg (LBE), is a collection of intimate recordings from the duo’s home studios. LBE was the number-one most-played album on Folk Radio in 2012, and once again, the duo was the number-one mostplayed artists for the year. Grammer has become one of folk music’s most beloved artists. Renowned for her spring water-clear alto, perfectly intoned violin and guitar playing that is by turns percussive and delicate, Grammer is also a masterful storyteller with an ease and charisma on stage - not to mention a riotous sense of humor - that hardly belie her modest beginnings as Carter’s reclusive accompanist. Stories about the duo’s first meeting, Carter’s quirks and fancies, or Grammer’s own misadventures and missteps are woven thoughtfully into the set list to
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