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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 23, 2017

A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 26, NO. 12

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, march 23, 2017

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Boat Show Rescheduled For April 21-23

Stella Tells Spring, “Not So Fast!” Late Winter Storm Brings Smiles To Fans of Snow

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Columnist

didn’t include much snow. When I neared Tamworth I noticed that there were snowbanks and when I reached where they had stopped plowing Paugus Mill Road it was blocked by a large snowbank. On the edge of the road I parked my car, gathered my gear and set out for the Liberty Trailhead. I crosscountry skied for half a mile on the foot deep consolidated snow blanketing the road. There were some

snowshoe tracks and postholes and it was a speedy ski to the trailhead. At the trailhead I decided to put on my climbing skins for my 3.3 mile climb to the Jim Liberty Cabin. Climbing skins are no longer animal skins but synthetic “fur” that prevents the ski from sliding backwards. Well, most of the time. I had read that the Liberty Trail was used for skiSee patenaude on 24

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Winter hasn’t given up yet and there’s proof! We’re still shoveling the snow that winter storm Stella left behind as she blew through our state. Stella has made winter enthusiasts smile big. Skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and snowmobilers rejoiced. Even before the blizzard there still was a lot of snow in the

mountains and covering your local ski slopes. The day before Stella was forecasted to arrive it was a lovely Spring-like day. There was no snow in my yard, the sun was shining and it now stays light out well after 5pm. I grabbed my skis and backpack and jumped into my car and drove to ski Mount Chocorua. I was wondering if I was crazy as I drove up the highway because the view

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The day before the blizzard, outdoor ski columnist Amy Patenaude went on an adventure to the Jim Liberty Cabin. This cabin is nestled on the southwest shoulder of Mount Chocorua on the site of the Old Peak House. The Old Peak House was built in 1891 and was destroyed in a windstorm in 1915. The Jim Liberty Cabin was built in 1932 and renovated in 1974, large chains still hold the roof down! The Liberty Trail is the direct route to the cabin. Mount Chocorua, elevation 3,500 feet is tied for the bottom of the New Hampshire Highest Hundred peak list.

The Great Northeast Boat Show, New Hampshire’s largest boat show and the largest show north of Boston, originally scheduled for Friday through Sunday, March 24-26th, has been rescheduled. The Great Northeast Boat Show has been moved to the newly renovated 56,000 square foot NH Sportsplex in Bedford, Friday through Sunday, April 21-23rd. The Hampshire Dome in Milford, where the show was scheduled to be held, collapsed under the weight of the snow and ice from the recent blizzard. Since its inception in 2010 the Weirs Times and Cocheco Times has been the print sponsor for this great show. We will be publishing the complete show guide in our April 20th issue. See you at the show! For more information on the Great Northeast Boat Show visit their website at greatnortheastboatshow.com.

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March Thursday 23rd Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Acoustic Thursday – Holly Furlone and Hart Bothwell

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Enjoy 2 for one appetizers after 7pm and live acoustic music! 293-0841

All That Jazz Phenix Hall, Concord. 5:15pm-7:30pm. The Annual celebration will showcase highlights of the past year for Intown Concord, recognizing the work and impact of presenting and orchestrating many community and business events that help downtown Concord thrive. As the night unfolds guests will have the opportunity to network with fellow community members including Intown Concord staff, board members and local business owners. They will also hear more about the future goals that Intown has to “jazz up downtown”. Event is free and open to the public; however guests are required to RSVP as space is limited. Entertainment will be provided by The Strings & Things Band, who will be playing a variety of Jazz music and food and refreshments will be available from local businesses. www.intownconcord.org or 2262150

Friday 24th The Weight performs the Music of The Band The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Red Cross Blood Drive Moultonborough Lions Club, 139 Old Route 109A, Moultonborough. 9am2pm. www.redcrossblood.org or 1-800-RED CROSS

Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8pm.Prepare your friends for some serious fun as you pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

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Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

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The Great Hall, Wolfeboro Town Hall, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. Tickets are $25pp. www.greatwaters.org or 569-7710 Use Code wt317 when ordering for 10% off!

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Wolfeboro Inn Ballroom, 90 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 10am-4pm. TABLESCAPES is a chance for local Wolfeboro area businesses, organizations and artists to create a table-top setting that is imaginative, playful, out-of-the-box, wondrous and fun. The goal is to raise funds to bring arts programming to schools and libraries and promote the arts in the community. Admission is $5pp, children under age 8 are free, but must be accompanied by an adult. Like what you see? Portions of select TABLESCAPES will be for sale, inquire at the admission desk at the ballroom when you visit for details. 569-0078 or

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New Hampshire Camping & RV Show NH Sportsplex, Bedford. Special show deals on new 2017 models of RVs, trailers, pop-ups, & accessories. Over 100 exhibitors including campground owners from 4 New England States. Sunday is “kid’s day” with a bounce house and scavenger hunt! Free offsite parking & frequent shuttles from nearby locations. $12/adults, free for children 12 and under. Bring a donation for the NH Food Bank of two nonperishable food items and get $2 off admission. www.nhlovescampers.

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Saturday 25th Swing Dance with the Tall Granite Big Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www.pitmansfreightroom. com or 527-0043

Maple Sugar Madness Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. Join us to experience an old-fashioned New England tradition- Making maple syrup! You will have hands-on participation in every step of the syrup making process. $10pp with pre-registration or $12pp at the door. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695

Red Cross Blood Drive First United Methodist Church, 34 South Main Street, Rochester. 9am2pm. www.redcrossblood.org or 1-800-RED CROSS

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Funspot, Route 3, Weirs Beach. 10am-4pm. Sign up your 4-person team and compete in candlepin bowling, indoor mini-golf, pinball, skee-ball, and electronic darts. Teams raise pledges to add points on to their scores. All players receive free lunch of Pizza and soda and the first 35 teams receive the official event t-shirt. There will be prizes, 50/50 and prize raffles and lots of goofy fun to raise money for those creatures without a voice. Pre-registration at www.

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Cabin Fever Reliever Fundraiser at The Mug The Mug, Route 3, Center Harbor. 6pm-8pm. Chase away the Winter Blues with a fun night out at the Cabin Fever Reliever! Guests will enjoy a

beer and wine tasting and are asked to vote on their favorites, as well as enjoy free appetizers. Door prizes, raffle prizes and plenty of fun! Seating is limited and all guests must be 21 years of age or older. Tickets are $25/ advance, $30/door. Proceeds benefit Interlakes Community Caregivers and the Meredith Historical Society. www.EventBrite.com or www.

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Holy Trinity School Auction

St. Andre Bessette Parish Hall, 291 Union Ave, Laconia. 5pm. $15pp entry fee includes dinner and bidder paddle. 524-3156

The Daniel Webster Chapter of Ducks Unlimited Holds Dinner Banquet/Auction

La Piece, The Room in Riverfront Place, in the Mill Building, 322 Main Street, Tilton. 5pm. Order tickets by March 18th. Tickets are $70pp or $95/ couple, $40/under age 18. All attending youth will be entered to win a .22LR Caliber rifle donated by Brad Marshall of Marshall Firearms. Sponsor tickets are $285 for an individual ticket. Sponsors will have a 1 in 5 chance of winning a gun of their choice from a selection of over 30. To purchase tickets or for information on how you can support Ducks Unlimited’s program of wetlands conservation, contact Pete Spear at 729-0214 or Kevin Stack at 236-2110

Live and Let Live Farm Rescue – Art Show Wild Women’s Wellness Center, 160 Dover Road, Chichester. 10am-4pm. Come shop for artwork by local artists and don’t miss a special dedication wall featuring stories and portraits of residents at Live & Let Live Farm, by Lyudmyla Hoffman. For details and questions email Contact@ PurplePorcupineArtStudio.com or call 978-828-0091

Tuesday 28th Open Mic Night Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Hosted by Paul Luff! If you are interested in performing, contact Paul at pluff1@myfairpoint. net 293-0841

Wednesday 29th Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm. www.

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Ladies Night with Cody James

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. Half-price drinks for ladies at the bar. 293-0841

Red Cross Blood Drive Epsom Fire Station, 1714 Dover Road, Epsom. 11am-4pm. www. redcrossblood.org or 1-800-RED CROSS

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Golden Dragon Acrobats In Rochester The Rochester Opera House presents world famous “Golden Dragon Acrobats” on Wednesday, April 12th.The Golden Dragon Acrobats are the only year-round Chinese acrobatic touring company. This show is fun for the entire family! The Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-five centuries ago. The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today. The reputation of the company is solidly rooted in a commitment to the highest of production values and an attention to artistic details that is unparalleled in the art form. World renowned impresario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Chang combine award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty. The show starts at 7pm (doors open at 6pm) on Wednesday, April 12th. Tickets start at $18. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

Aviation Museum Of N.H. To Screen Early Biplane Melodramas Join fellow flyboys and flygals for a program of rarely seen vintage silent melodramas featuring 1920s biplane action, all accompanied by live music. The “Dare-Devil Aviation Double Feature” takes off on Friday, March 24 at 7 p.m. in the exhibit space of the Aviation Museum of N.H. at 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry. A cash bar reception will open at 6 p.m. Movies will be “The Phantom Flyer” and “The Sky Ride” both made in 1928. The movies will be shown in a hanger-like space right alongside Runway 17-35 at Manchester-Boston

Regional Airport. Tickets are $15 for museum members, and $20 for nonmembers. Tickets may be purchased online at www.aviationmuseumofnh.org. The screening will feature live music by New Hampshirebased silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis, a New England based composer who specializes in creating music for silent film presentations.Tickets are $15 for museum members, and $20 for non-members. Tickets may be purchased online at www.aviationmuseumofnh.org. For information, contact the museum at (603) 669-4820. For more about the music, visit www.jeffrapsis.com.

Laconia’s Historic Churches Laconia is the home of many architecturally beautiful buildings, including churches. Brenda Keen, Taylor Community’s Director of Resident Life, will present a program on the Historic Churches of Laconia, Wednesday, March 29 at 2pm in Taylor’s Woodside Building. The event is free and open to the public. Kean’s lecture focuses on a research project she prepared while director of the Laconia Historical and Museum Society. Theses churches hold a great and interesting history – some moved around town and others were ravaged by fire. With photographs old and new, Kean presents the history of these beautiful houses of worship. Taylor Community is a not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality of retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. For more information, visit www.taylorcommunity.org.

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RICK BARRY AND SON(S) This being a March of college hoop Madness, alert basketball fans may have noticed a Canyon Barry playing for the Florida Gators. Yes, he’s the son of Hall-of-Famer Rick and his second wife Lynn. Canyon is actually a grad student at UF, studying nuclear engineering, having already graduated from the College of Charleston— with a year’s hoop eligibility remaining. Named for the Grand Canyon, where he was conceived, the younger Barry is one of the top scorers for the Gators, who earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Regionals. Canyon has four halfbrothers who all played pro ball—Scooter, Jon, Brent, and Drew, sons of Rick and his first wife Pam. In his prime, Rick was the top forward in pro basketball. I met him in 1971 at a basketball camp in Fitzwilliam, N.H., where the other big name was Jerry West, then the top guard in pro basketball. (Imagine LeBron James and Steph Curry coming to New Hampshire today to run a summer camp to make some extra money!) Barry was with the Nets then, who lost in the ABA Finals to the Pacers the next year. Rick then returned to his former Warrior team, whom he led to an NBA title in 1975. As for West, he had a good season the next year as well, leading the Lakers n Ru s toCaabi33-game ti win streak y z o en-route to ac then-record

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To The Editor: I may not have been clear when I asked Don how he would label the Men and Women of the Revolution. However I was not asking what the difference was between then and now. If we look at Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 which is heavily propagandized by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. The Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773, again Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. Remembering the Declaration of Independence is not until July 4, 1776. And labels seemingly to be much apart of your writing. The question is, if you were living in 1770 (when these Son’s of Liberty are a minority) how would you label them? What is most important to me is your point of view and why you think that way. Hopefully without labeling and rhetoric. John Brennick Rochester, NH.

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To The Editor: As a Navy veteran and a strong supporter of our military I commend President Trump for initiating a program to rebuild our military with a defense budget increase of $54 billion, but it should be decreased by $1.3 billion and the $1.3 billion added to the Coast Guard budget within the Department of Homeland Security so it is not cut by

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$1.3 billion. Our military has dramatically shrunk and been neglected in recent times. Although we have increased the capabilities of our military through technological advances, we have downsized our forces and we have not adequately replaced worn out equipment. Due to the cuts imposed by the 2014 sequestration act our Army has significantly decreased from a high of 570,000 soldiers after 9/11, and it is heading down to 450,000. The Marines are going from 184,000 to 175,000 and the National Guard and Reserves will lose tens of thousands. The Air Force will have 700 fewer aircraft, and the Navy remains at 286 ships. My Navy has 11 carrier battle groups but at any one time a number of them are not available due to overhaul and maintenance requirements, in port rest and relaxation, and ships in transit. It should have 12 carrier battle groups to fulfill its global missions in a dangerous world. George Will in an article on October 1, 2015 stated “the sun never sets” on our Navy. Potential adversaries continue to build up their military forces. Iran has a large army and continues with its missile development program. North Korea continues to test long range missiles and develop nuclear armaments. The two significant potential adversaries are China and Russia. China has a huge army, is adding to

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

its air force, and is building up its navy, including aircraft carriers and submarines. China lays claim to the South China Sea and has established island bases in the region, which our Navy will have to contest. Russia is rebuilding its navy and maintains a large army and air force, and it continues to threaten Europe. Trump should continue to rebuild our military so we can meet the military challenges in the world, preserve our national security, and keep the peace. P.S. President Trump, please stop your unpresidential tweets and concentrate on the important matters which impact our national security and our economy. Donald Moskowitz Londonderry, NH.

No “Democracy” At The I-L School District Meeting To The Editor: In her 3/17/17 Letter to the Editor, Paula Trombi asserts the school district meeting as “one where democracy was demonstrated to its finest.” I would hardly describe the Inter-lakes annual school district meeting a meeting where democracy ruled. Most of the 121 voters who attended the annual district meeting were comprised of teachers, administrators and family members. Only those who would benefit from the increased spendSee mailboat on 29

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Last week I gave some ideas in using famous movie quotes to help new transplants, otherwise known as Flatlanders, in adjusting to their first winters here. I had no idea at the time what was about to befall us that Tuesday. If I had known in advance about the coming snowstorm I would have included another famous movie line once shouted by Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire: “STELLA! STELLA!” Of course, this wouldn’t have helped in adjusting to the storm, but it would have provided some good old fashioned primal scream therapy to at least help get through it. My household was fortunate enough in not having to endure a prolonged power outage like so many others; in fact, we didn’t have any at all. Though we did lose our TV and Internet for about a day. If I had been given a choice before the storm of which I would rather endure, no lights and heat for three or four days or longer, or no TV or Internet, the choice would have been simple. Still, as some suffered through the former, those who only had to endure the latter still didn’t know enough to count their blessings. Finding my way online using just my cell phone (how advanced and yet primitive, depending on your age) I kept track of the progress, or lack thereof, by the cable company

in getting life returned to normal - as far as normal is nowadays. I got the opportunity to read the various comments by others, most sitting on comfortable couches in their lit and heated homes, moaning and groaning about the cable workers who weren’t working fast enough through downed trees and power lines, howling and dangerous winds and subhuman freezing conditions in getting them back on Facebook and Netflix fast enough. These folks were, obviously, connected to the Internet, but not in the way they would like. The inconvenience was apparently unbearable. In all fairness, there were some businesses without Internet who depended on it to operate, so their concerns were real. In reading other comments, it became clear that the supposedly advanced civilization we are living in is basically doomed if a few satellites and power grids go down. One of the commenters on the site was complaining about the fact that he had just started his vacation and he had planned spending it playing some kind of online video game. What was he going to do now? Another complained that he wouldn’t be able to watch the Bruins game and might even lose sleep over this. Maybe the one that got me to thinking the most about all of this was one girl who seemed beside herself because without Internet connection she would never be able to finish her homework. What now?? This last comment got me to thinking about an incident that happened about twnty-five years ago, before the Internet was a big deal. Still, it stuck in

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my mind ever since as a clue to where things are today. I was working as a manager at a local restaurant and one of the weekend breakfast waitresses, a young high school girl, was waiting behind a couple of other waitresses to use the adding machine. She was bit agitated as she waited and I asked her what was wrong. “I forgot to give a table their senior citizen ten percent discount and they are in a rush,” she said. “Can’t you just figure it out yourself?” I asked. She looked at me as if I had three heads. “I have no idea how to do that,” she said. It was then that the adding machine became available and she hurriedly tapped in the numbers to figure out the ten percent. I had an inkling then and there that technology, as great as it was in some forms, was taking away a lot of basic skills. Today, it has become a lot more complicated than simple math; it has become for so many a minute to minute way of life, every bit of information you could need only a click away. When it goes away, for even a few hours, some folks don’t know what to do. Maybe go to the library and open a dusty old research volume, play actual chess face to face, maybe hear the game on the radio. The horror! The horror! Don’t get me wrong. I depend on technology myself for business as well as quick answers to questions and when it is slow or down for a minute I get upset: “Stupid Internet” I cry. Still, if it’s suddenly not around for a couple of days I can easily adjust. I guess I’m just getting old and that’s fine with me.

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The Dirty Dem Dogs Of Disruption Here come the hyperpartisan hounds. A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to by Michelle Malkin combat PresiSyndicated Columnist dent Trump’s “culture of impunity.” The outfit declared itself “nonpartisan” and claims its crusaders will fight for a “transparent and ethical government.” But like Waylon Jennings once crooned, “Baby, that dog won’t hunt.” These Democrat operatives aren’t interested in accountability. Their mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs. Executive Director and Obama donor Austin Evers is certainly familiar with the “culture of impunity.” He worked as a lawyer at Williams and Connolly -- the firm representing Hillary Clinton and the same firm that boasts longtime Clinton consigliere David Kendall, who shepherded scandal-ridden Bill and Hill through Whitewater, Lewinskygate and Email-gate. Evers had zero experience handling public records and classified document requests before he was hired by the State Department in 2015 to be Hillary’s information blocker. But the ethical olfactory nerves of the Democrats suddenly shut down over the clear conflict of interest. “At the very least, this suspect arrangement raises questions about the State Department hiring process,” GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency’s inspector general. “At

worst, it suggests willful obstruction by handpicked Clinton associates at the State Department on behalf of former Secretary Clinton, to ensure damaging or incriminating documents never saw the light of day.” American Oversight also employs Obama donor John Bies, who served as counselor to former corruptocrat Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. Bies and Holder worked together at white-shoe law firm Covington and Burling. That’s the same law firm that represented 17 Yemeni terror suspects held at Gitmo -including at least a dozen who rejoined al-Qaida after being freed. Among Holder’s countless subversions of transparency was his refusal to cough up the names of appointees who had been involved in legal work on behalf of Gitmo detainees. In February 2010, after 9/11 families raised hell, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley finally forced Holder to acknowledge that at least nine DOJ attorneys officially represented or served as advocates for Gitmo detainees before joining the Obama administration. But he still refused to reveal their identities. Bies was one of the suspected nameless abettors. That kind of backside-covering secrecy and conflict of interest cover-up are government failings that American Oversight senior advisor Melanie Sloan might have once protested. But the ethics watchdog who formerly helmed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington abandoned nonpartisanship eons ago. Under her leadership, CREW occasionally targeted corrupt Democrats, including Maxine Waters and William

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The Battle Of Middlebury At Middlebury College earlier this month, Charles Murray needed a safe space -literally. In a signifiby Rich Lowry cant escalation Contributing Writer of the campus speech wars, protesters hooted down the conservative scholar in a lecture hall and then roughed up a Middlebury faculty member escorting him to a car. The Middlebury administration commendably tried to do the right thing and stand by Murray’s right to be heard, but was overwhelmed by a yowling mob with all the manners and intellectual openness of a gang of British soccer hooligans. Sometime soon, we may yearn for the days when college students were merely childish and close-minded. If campus protests of speech begin to more routinely slide into violence, Middlebury

will be remembered as a watershed. First, there was the target. Charles Murray is controversial -- mainly for his book “The Bell Curve,” about IQ -- but he is one of the most significant social scientists of our age. His latest book, which was to be the topic of his Middlebury talk, is “Coming Apart,” a best-selling account of the struggles of the white working class that illuminated some of the social forces behind the rise of Donald Trump. Second, there was the venue. No one has ever mistaken Middlebury, a small Vermont liberal arts college founded by Congregationalists, for Berkeley, and yet it has given us one of the most appalling episodes of anti-speech thuggery in recent memory. If it can happen at Middlebury, it can happen anywhere (or at least at Swarthmore or Bucknell). Finally, there was the violence. The students who brought in Charles Murray framed the eve-

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Middlebury March Madness M a r c h roared in like a lion at Vermont’s Middlebury college, where students chose to riot rather than by Ken Gorrell debate the Northfield, NH. estimable political scientist Dr. Charles Murray. If only we could blame it on the month. Sadly, Middlebury followed the example set earlier by schools like UC Berkeley and NYU: failing to prevent a riot or punish rioters. It isn’t the month; it’s the movement. “Mad as a March hare” is a common Brit expression dating back hundreds of years, long before college basketball fans took to the coinage “March Madness” to describe their annual tournament. At least hares and hoop fans have an excuse for their behavior. What could possibly explain away the insanity on display March 2nd at Middlebury? Much has been written about the violence that greeted scholar and author Dr. Charles Murray by students who have probably not read his works. The story boils down to this: Dr. Murray was invited to debate a liberal professor on topics from his recent book Coming Apart: The State of White America. Campus officials knew the event would draw protesters. They reminded the students about Middlebury’s code of conduct, which, not surprisingly, was about as effective as reading the Marquess of Queensberry rules

to marauding Vikings. Administration should have known better and prepared accordingly. Students who have been allowed to grow up thinking they have a right to not hear opinions they find disagreeable and to prevent others from hearing them, too, prevented Dr. Murray from speaking. They shouted him down using the moronic couplets much beloved of the political Left. (Any chant that starts with “Hey, hey, ho, ho” is going to be inane.) But the acolytes of the arrogant ignorant Left didn’t stop there. They never do. When their limited vocabulary failed them, they rioted. The liberal professor was hurt and Dr. Murray threatened. Private security did its best to get these academics to safety, but their car was blocked and rocked before they could make their escape. I have yet to read an account in which the police were called and the appropriate response – legal use of force and arrests – was brought to bear. The “terrible twos” are a tough time for parents and anyone unfortunate enough to be stuck in an airplane seat near a screaming toddler. But being in the presence of intellectual babies going through their terrible teens or twenties can be downright dangerous. College administrators must start applying the same level of ruthless enthusiasm to curbing anti-free speech rioters as they have been in promoting PC speech codes and punishing microaggressors. You know there’s something wrong on campus when failing to use a preferred pronoun gets you in more trouble

than using violence to intimidate and disrupt a debate. That tactic – violence and intimidation – has deep roots in authoritarian movements like the one we’re seeing on campus to-

day. That it is employed by people claiming to advance “liberal” or “progressive” ideals is irony defined. A March 1936 editorial in the Toledo Bee titled “March Mad-

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der clouds are swirling over the Korean peninsula as a perfect storm of political instability and by John J. Metzler regional geoSyndicated Columnist political challenges rumble through South Korea. North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests, as well as Chinese bullying, have thrust the region into a dangerous cycle which could affect South Korea’s hard won peace and prosperity. Events over the next six months will be crucial. Political crisis has returned to South Korea, a vibrant if fractious democracy for over a generation. President Park Geun- hye, the once popular but tough president has been forced from office after a bitter drawn out impeachment scandal. President Park, the now tarnished daughter of Park Chung-hee the strongman who rebuilt the shattered South Korean economy, was a close American ally. Elections slated for May will no longer be the polite formality as expected where former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would swan into the Blue House, but a tough knockdown contest between the now discredited right and an ascendent left. Not since the countdown to the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics has there been such political tension. Yet today’s Korea faces a very different dynamic as young people have grown up in a safe, secure and prosperous society no longer shadowed by the Korean War of 1950-53 and the arduous rebuilding era of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The candle holding protesters are hardly the militant firebomb

throwing hyper political youth of the mid-1980’s. North Korea’s nuclear tests and missile provocations continue. While the UN Security Council has slapped salvos of economic sanctions on the Pyongyang regime, the reality remains that the quaintly titled Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) holds workable if rudimentary nuclear weapons and is doggedly working for the delivery means through repeated rocket testing. North Korea’s communists pose a real and present danger not only to neighboring South Korea, but to Japan and the USA, and most especially American military bases in Japan and Guam. Before long the Hawaiian islands and West Coast may be in effective range. Responding to the emerging missile threat, the U.S. and South Korean governments agreed to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to counter North Korea. The decision by the Obama administration is now being carried out by the Trump team. The U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty with Seoul has offered both defense and crucial deterrence behind which South Korea’s socio/economic miracle flourished. Though THAAD is a defensive system for the Korean peninsula, the People’s Republic of China, has vigorously opposed the ongoing deployment as posing a threat to the Chinese Mainland! Beijing has encouraged consumer boycotts of South Korean Pop stars, TV shows, tourism, and businesses over initial THAAD deployments. Given that the PRC is South Korea’s largest trading partner, Beijing’s boycott has teeth. But such blunt tactics can also backfire, as the Koreans don’t See Metzler on 23

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Should It Stay Or Should It Go? by Steve White Contributing Writer

As we approach the nesting season for wild birds, many questions arise regarding nest boxes. Do all birds use bird houses? If not, why do birds build nests exposed to weather and predators? Truth be told, few birds will use a nest box to raise their young. To a wild bird’s mind, an enclosed box with only one hole is a trap. A predator can easily raid an occupied box using that single hole while parents and young have no means of escape. Birds that use nest boxes are typically bluebirds, chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers, titmice, sparrows and swallows. There are large birds such as wood ducks that also use a nest box, but they are commonly found in marshlands or near an open body of water. Wrens are the only species of wild birds that prefer their nest boxes hanging rather than post mounting. These particular winged acrobats subscribe to the theory that predators have a much more difficult time raiding a smaller, mobile abode. The species of wild birds that avail themselves of nest boxes are referred to as clinging birds. These small birds have developed a preferred method of entering a bird house using only the edge of the entrance holes. Clinging birds can easily feed from bird feeders that do not use perches or portals, such as wire-clad feeders. Woodpeckers are the only species of wild birds that excavate holes in trees for

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4-6pm, $4 drafts, $4 house wines & $4 well drinks;

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Downtown Laconia, 12 Veterans Square Across from the Train Station 603-737-3000 w holygraillakes.com

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Enjoy 2 for one appetizers after 7pm and live acoustic music! 293-0841

Thurs. 30th – April 12th 12 Angry Men Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester.

www.rochesteroperahouse. com or 335-1992

Friday 31st Mudhens Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Lez Zeppelin The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 5362551.

Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8pm. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as you pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

Red Cross Blood Drive Hannaford Supermarket, Route 25, Hatch Plaza, Plymouth. 11am-4pm. www. redcrossblood.org or 1-800RED CROSS

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prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

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Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm.

Coffeehouse Open Mic Doris L. Benz Community Center, 18 Heard Road, Center Sandwich. Sign up is from 6pm6:50pm, music begins at 7pm. The group welcomes listeners and always treats beginners with the same respect given to seasoned performers. Nonparticipants are encouraged to come and listen, and everyone is encouraged to bring a finger snack food to share during the break. Beverages, including beer and wine may also be brought. TomBartlett

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Pheasant Ridge Country Club, 140 Country Club Road, Gilford. 10am-2pm. Visit PennyPitouTravel.com for a full list of attending vendors and presentations. Enter to win a trip to Jamaica! First 50 attendees receive a custom beach bag from Penny Pitou Travel.

Winter Farmer’s Market with the former chef/owner of Nadia’s

TEAM TRIVIA

Join Us Tues.-Thurs. 3pm - 5pm

Brain saving fun at 7pm

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Multi-talented host Paul Luff and a great variety of talent. To get in the gig, email: PLuĆĄ1@myfairpoint.net

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Ladies of Blues and Soul Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Sunday 2nd

It’s all about the ladies as Cody James sets the groove and ladies get 1/2 Off drinks*

Giuseppe’s 23rd Annual JTG Music Memorial Extravaganza!

2 GOOD 2 BE TRUE 2 Local favorites on stage with $2 Drafts and 2-for-1 Appetizers after 7pm*

DUELING PIANOS

Giuseppe’s Pizzeria & Ristorante, Mill Falls Marketplace, Meredith. Noon11pm. 11 hours of live music to benefit the Gnerre Music Scholarship Fund. Call 2793313 for reservations and more information.

Tuesday 4th

Prepare your friends for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show beginning at 8pm

Open Mic Night

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Discounted Draft Beer & House Wine

Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 2290655

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Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Hosted by Paul Luff! If you are interested in performing, contact Paul at pluff1@ myfairpoint.net 293-0841

Wednesday 5th Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash

Game Time Trivia

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Ladies Night with Cody James Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. Half-price drinks for ladies at the bar. 293-0841

Thursday 6th Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrĂŠe, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Acoustic Thursday

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Enjoy 2 for one appetizers after 7pm and live acoustic music! 293-0841

“A Journey to the End of the Earth�

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 6pm. Ruth “Sam� Jamke presents this thrilling, illustrated talk about her expedition to Antarctica, Elephant Island and South Georgia Island. Join her for incredible scenes of ice, snow, glaciers, penguins, seals, whales and birds seen nowhere else in the world! Free and open to the public. 225-8670

Friday 7th Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8pm. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as you pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

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Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $25pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Saturday 8th Children’s Tea Party

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 10am11am. Dress up and bring a favorite doll or stuffed animal! For ages 5 and up. 225-8670

Winter Farmer’s Market

Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 2290655

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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 23, 2017

OUT on the TOWN Great Food, Libations & Good Times!

events from 14 Ryan Ordway CD Release Show Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Wednesday 12th Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm.

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Jody Sloan – Live Comedy Show Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Wednesday 19th Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm.

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The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrĂŠe, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Acoustic Thursday

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. Enjoy 2 for one appetizers after 7pm and live acoustic music! 293-0841

“Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea� with Author Michael Tougias

Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 6pm. Tougias will chronicle how in November of 1980, two fishing vessels, the Fair Wind and the Sea Fever, set out from Cape Cod to catch offshore lobsters at Georges Bank. The National Weather Service had forecast typical fall weather in the area for the next three days- even though the organization knew that its only weather buoy at Georges Bank was malfunctioning. After the program, Tougias will be signing books -The Finest Hours, Ten Hours Until Dawn, So Close To Home: A True Story of an American Family’s Fight For Survival During WWII. 225-8670

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Saturday 22nd Winter Farmer’s Market

Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 2290655

Wednesday 26th Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm.

www.shootersnh.com

Winter Farmer’s Market

Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. More than 30 participating vendors and live music. 2290655

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Funspot, Rt. 3 Weirs Beach. 10am every Monday morning. 50 years and older welcomed! Call Gail 569-1974 or Al 8552561

Line Dancing

Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 9am-10am Every Wednesday. 524-6042

Oil Painting Classes

Bleu Waves Gallery, Meredith. Tuesday through Saturday. 561-401-1487

Hooks & Needles – Knitting & Crocheting Group

Meredith Senior Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith. Group meets every Tuesday 9:3011:30am. All are welcome. 279-4647

Newfound Knights – Chess Club Sleeper-Minot Library, Bristol. 5-7pm. Twice a month (Tuesdays). Any and all chess players are welcome, even if you have never played, people will be willing to take time and teach you how to play. Learn a new game, meet new people and have fun! Free and open to all. Tron84nh@gmail.com

Lakes Region Community Services, 719 Main Street, Laconia. 6-7:30pm. 1st Thursday of every month. 2258400

Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 7-9pm. First and third Thursday of the month. Persons of all experience levels are welcome to attend.

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Pease Public Library, downstairs, Plymouth. 7pm. First and third Mondays of each month. Open to anyone who is dealing with a close friend or family member who has a mental illness. 254-5090 or 536-2699

Zentangle Workshop

VynnArt, Main Street, Meredith. Every third Friday. Call 2790557to sign up.

Overeaters Anonymous

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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 23, 2017

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stones around the ring. Build up the fire pit wall with additional mortar and stones. After the pit has been built to a height of your choosing, use a brush to remove excess mortar from the inside. You may also spray the inside with a can of spray paint to give your pit’s interior a uniform look. Planning The Planters If you’ve always wanted to add a pop of color to your backyard, planter boxes can be just the ticket. They are relatively simple to build yourself. Start by choosing a wood, like cedar, for your project. Cut four strips with two half the length of your other two, but sharing the same height. These strips will form the foundation of your rectangular planter. If you lack a saw to cut them with, you can always rent one. Once your strips are cut, butt the ends together and apply wood glue at the joints to secure the fit. Drill a screw into each end to solidify the fit. Next, attach the bottom panels with glue and drill a screw through See projects on 20

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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 23, 2017

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This roof framing looks normal, but it makes noise when the wind blows. common, and it reminds me of a house I looked at in New Hampshire not too long ago. The wife complained about the same issues you’re having, but the popping noises happened each sunny day in the morning. All would then be quiet until after the sun went down. The wind pressure against a roof, or an entire home, can be enormous. You can demonstrate this to yourself quite easily by trying to carry something large and flat on a windy day. Years ago, as a young builder, I almost got blown off a roof while trying to carry a sheet of 4-by-8 plywood. A sud-

den wind gust knocked me down and the plywood sheet went sailing out of my hands off the roof. Luckily no one was hurt except for the plywood. I can see from your photo that you’ve got a standard gable roof where at least one end of your home has a flat gable wall that takes the full brunt of the wind. Imagine the pounds of pressure against the entire side wall when a strong wind hits it. The entire roof system, if not solidly braced, can and will flex to absorb this force. This flexing is what’s causing the popping noise. See builder on 22

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As for the popping noise in the morning and evening, that’s a different mechanism. It’s thermal expansion and contraction. The sun hits your roof and heats it up. As the lumber expands, it moves and it will rub against other pieces of wood that aren’t moving at the same rate. This movement creates the popping noise. When the wood cools down after sunset, the same thing happens in reverse. I’ve stopped these noises from happening in homes by adding diagonal bracing to the roof rafters or trusses. It’s best if you can incorporate 2-by-6 material and use large timber screws instead of nails. You want to place at least two 4-inch long timber screws through the 2-by-6 where it passes over the underside of the roof rafter or truss. The diagonal bracing transfers the concentrated wind load to other parts of the structure all at once and this helps dampen the movement. It’s best to place the diagonal braces so they run different directions creating the letter V or W on the underside of the rafters. You want to start as low as possible near where the rafters cross over the bearing exterior walls and run the wood up as high as possible to the roof ridge. The diagonal bracing creates an extremely rigid box so the roof framing lumber moves as one giant unit instead of each piece of lumber moving on its own. You may have great success just installing one set of diagonal bracing on each side of the roof. I’d do that before I’d put it across all the rafters. If you want to get a professional opinion before you start any of this work, you need to call in

a residential structural engineer. These skilled pros are well versed in wind loads and how to resist them. It’s a core part of their training. I prefer to work with engineers who specialize in residential work because they’re in touch with the best practices and the nuances of wood framing. Many other structural engineers work primarily with structural steel and concrete and may not give you the absolute best advice to get excellent results for the lowest investment of time and money. Be sure you have the engineer look at the connection of the roof rafters where they sit upon the exterior load-bearing walls. If your roof ever detaches from the house, this is where it’s going to happen. The engineer may recommend that you install simple metal connectors. Be sure to use the approved structural screws made especially for these connectors. The screws may cost a little more, but they hold so much better than a nail. If you use a cordless impact driver, you’ll have no problems installing the screws. I had to do this same thing to stabilize my outdoor deck. The person who built my deck before i moved into my home did a horrible job, and there were no structural connectors at all. The impact driver did a superb job and saved me lots of time, money and my wrist! Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for free at www.AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free.

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vote. Another House supported bill was to impose a one cent tax on gasoline along with a bill to establish a highway fund into which would be deposited all fees and taxes related to automobiles. Another tax bill passed by the representatives, but not by the senators, involved inheritances. This was a flat rate tax with heirs divided into three classes with different rates applied. The first class was direct heirs with a two percent tax levied upon them. The second class was referred to as collateral heirs, like brothers or sisters, who were to be taxed at six per cent, and the third class was to be other collateral heirs, who would be assessed a ten per cent tax. An additional inheritance tax bill was passed which made the state a collateral heir, which Pillsbury described as “…sort of a second cousin, twice removed…” that would be entitled to a certain percentage of estates above $50,000. Taxes on savings bank deposits were cut by one-third in an effort to encourage the New Hampshire banks to increase their dividends which were lower than those in Massachusetts which, it was claimed, held fifty million dollars of money belonging to New Hampshire residents. In 1923 if you owned an automobile you were thought to be rich, so legislators looked for ways to raise money through fees and taxes on the owners and to pass regulations to control the use of vehicles. Efforts were made to pass a bill introducing compulsory insurance on automobiles. The House of Representatives passed a bill placing mandatory jail sentences on drunken drivers. No fines were to be assessed and no jail sentences could be suspended. The first conviction for the drunken driver was a sixty day jail sentence and the repeat offender would be sent to the state prison for six months and lose their driver’s license for one to three years. Hobart Pillsbury’s comment about this proposed law was that “It was argued that if this bill could pass there would be no need of

compulsory insurance, because an automobile is dangerous only when there is gasoline in the car and whiskey in the driver.” As the legislators of New Hampshire adjourned their 1923 session in May, the first of the politicians who were preparing to run for President of the United States in the nation’s first primary was beginning his campaign. His name was David S. Beach and he was from Connecticut. Mr. Beach seemed to think that he could save the country and the world from financial disaster and spread the wealth around, but he also advocated abolishing state governments which would mean that there would be no need for state governors or legislators. Mr. Pillsbury insisted that such a candidate would not find support in a state like New Hampshire where “All the inhabitants … outside of the state prison, and some of them inside, hope someday to sit in the Legislature unless they have already done so…”. Maybe Mr. Anderson, who felt that there was unequal taxation and large amounts of wealth that escaped taxation, had a more favorable response to Mr. Beach’s plan to share more of the wealth of the nations between individuals. One victory for the Democrats in 1923 was the appointment of one of their own, Rev. Ora W. Craig as the state commissioner of law enforcement, which, according to Mr. Pillsbury, meant that he was the commissioner of prohibition. He had several deputies who secretly worked under him, and the common opinion was “When a stranger invades a quiet New Hampshire community , he is assumed to be a prohibition deputy until proven otherwise.” Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. lives in New Hampton.

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ness” described a “fantastic riot of tomfoolery” in Europe as Mussolini “abolishes his chamber of deputies and the deputies applaud the news,” and Germany “prepares for an ‘election’ with a oneway ballot, proving, says Der Fuehrer, that he’s for democracy.” We know where that “tomfoolery” led. Though they were dressed in the typical student uniform of t-shirts and hoodies, the Middlebury rioters were acting the part of Blackshirts and Brownshirts in service to authoritarianism. Students have shown their willingness to engage in violence. Administrators now must demonstrate their willingness to expel students and assist in the prosecution of violent agitators. Until they do, the anti-democratic violence on campus will escalate. Since university leaders have yet to do the right and necessary things, they need to be encouraged. We know that they are money-

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motivated; we’ve seen universities twist themselves in knots to avoid losing funding tied to Title IX and Department of Education “Dear Colleague” letters. It’s time for federal and state governments to stop the flow of public funds to campuses that fail to promote intellectual diversity and maintain order in the process. Our NH legislators should demand to see proof that our public universities and colleges promote diverse debate and have plans in place to effectively deal with campus anti-free speech violence. Public funding should be on the line in these discussions. Berkeley and NYU seem a world away from UNH or Plymouth, but Middlebury is right next door. It could happen here. We need to know that our campuses are fully prepared to deal with the Brownshirts in their midst.

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ning as “an invitation to argue,” and in that spirit asked professor Allison Stanger, a Democrat in good standing, to serve as Murray’s interlocutor. When chanting students commandeered the lecture hall, Stanger and Murray repaired to another room for a live-streamed discussion. Protesters found the room and pounded on the windows and pulled fire alarms. When Murray and Stanger headed for their get-away car, protesters shoved and grabbed Stanger, who was shaken up and later went to the hospital, and pounded on the car and tried to obstruct it. Political correctness has been a phenomenon on campuses since the 1980s, but now has become much more feral. The root of the phenomenon is the idea that unwelcome speech is tantamount to a physical threat against offended listeners. If this is true, it follows that dissenting speech needs to be

shunned (in safe spaces) and attacked (in protests). Shutting down a speaker and literally running him off campus is, from this warped perspective, an entirely justifiable defensive action. Of course, speech doesn’t threaten anyone. The appropriate response to an erroneous argument is counterargument. And the free exchange of ideas always allows for the possibility that someone will actually learn something. If campuses aren’t to sink further into their current miasma of illiberalism, administers will have to actively fight the tide of suppression. It’s not enough to say the right things about free speech; they have to punish thuggish student agitators. Otherwise, college campuses may become increasingly unsafe spaces for anyone departing from a coercive orthodoxy. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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ing attended. Meredith has approximately 5500 registered voters and population of roughly 6400 people. That is 2% of the registered voters and 1.9% of the total population. That is not democracy it is special interest voting. While we have seen a huge reduction in the number of students attending we have NEVER seen a reduction in spending by the Inter-Lakes School District. While our retirees received a 0.5% increase in their income and everyone else has seen huge increases in health insurance costs it appears to make no difference to the Inter-lakes school board or its employees. You may be asking; why don’t more people attend? I can attest to the abuse voters and their families receive for disagreeing with any item in their local budgets. That’s not democracy that is “crushing democracy” and is shameful. Colette Worsman Meredith, NH.

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