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A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 24, NO. 26
THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, June 25, 2015
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Guided Historic Walking Tours In Dover
Students have a blast learning to sail at the Lake Winnipesaukee Sailing School, a great program that is now in its 28th year. Learn more about this popular summer program on page 16. Also this week we kick-off our Summer Fun section courtesy Photo lake winnipesaukee sailing assoc. bringing you the best of where to go and what to do all season long.
Attractions New & Old Highlight A Great Season Of Summer Fun After the long, cold winter and the less than seasonable spring in New Hampshire, summer is beginning to show its smiling face. Along with that, a few of the new businesses who have been getting ready over the winter are now open for business and some existing businesses have added
some great changes. This week we will highlight a few of those businesses as we kick off our Summer Fun Section. On a weekly basis we will bring you timely updates on some great local attractions, businesses and events to help you enjoy your summer all courtesy
of our great advertisers who sponsor these pages. This is just a taste of what to expect over the next few months of summer. We will be bringing you more great new places as well as perennial summer favorites each week. It wasn’t hard for us to find our first new attrac-
tion since we only had to look out our office window to see it right across Rte 3 here in the Weirs. OUTDOOR FUN Laconia Paintball This really is a one of a kind for the Lakes Region and sure to be a big hit.
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On Saturdays at 10:30am join our Walking Tour guides as they take you through downtown Dover on a 90 minute walk where they discuss how Dover came to be. Among the many features and topics of the Walking Tour, are the rise and fall of the textile industry, “Dover’s Black Day” and famous visitors to Dover. New this year will be architectural tours and returning for its second year will be a Pine Hill cemetery tour. The Architectural Tour meets at the Locust St. parking lot for St Joseph’s Church. The Pine Hill Cemetery Tour must be reserved in advance and the cost is $10. That tour meets at the Pine Hill Cemetery. The cost of the other Guided tours is $8 per person, and $5 per person for families of four or more with a maximum of $20 for a family unit. Sponsored by Dover Chamber of Commerce.
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June Through Sun. 28th 1950’s Musical “The Taffetas”
Inter Lakes Community Auditorium, Route 25, Meredith. Starring Emily Nies, Elise Watson, Hannah Zieser and Ari Raskin. Presented by Interlakes Summer Theatre. 1-888-245-6374
Thursday 25th Wolfeboro Area Farmers Market
Clark Park, 233 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 12:30-4:30pm. Rain or shine. 569-6342
Blue Oyster Cult & Robby Krieger
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. 929-4100 www.casinoballroom.com
Allysen Callery – Live Music
Portsmouth Book & Bar, 40 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth. 9pm. $5. www. bookandbar.com 427-9197
“Governor Wentworth’s Plantation in Wolfeboro: A Window on the Frontier of Early America”
New Hampshire Boat Museum, 399 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. The talk will be given by Dr. David Starbuck, professor of anthropology at Plymouth State University. Free and open to the public. 569-4554
Children’s Theatre – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Silver Center for the Arts on the PSU campus, Plymouth. 2pm. The audience will have a chance to meet their favorite princess, bear, puppet, cat and all other characters from the show in the lobby after the performance every Thursday through August 13th. $7pp (including babes in arms). 535-2787
Thurs. 25th – Sun. 28th “The Salon”
The Little Church Theatre, Route 113, Holderness. “The Salon” is a play in two acts by Jessica Hoffman Davis.
Come meet this hard-working stylist and the whacky clients of Mona Lisa Salon! www.littlechurchtheatre.com 968-2250
Thurs. 25th – July 3rd The Drowsy Chaperone
Barnstormers Theatre, Tamworth Village. Side-splitting, toe-tapping, award winning musical comedy! Tickets are $12-$36, group rates and package discounts available. www. barnstormerstheatre.org or 323-8500 Friday 26th
Star Shine
The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551 or www. flyingmonkeynh.com
Happy Together Tour
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. 929-4100 www.casinoballroom.com
Red Molly – Great Waters Music Festival
Anderson Hall, 205 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. 569-7710 or www. greatwaters.org
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Portsmouth Book & Bar, 40 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth. 9pm. $5. www. bookandbar.com 427-9197
Walk with Washington – Tour of Portsmouth
Tours begin at Governor John Langdon House, 143 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth. 11am. Walk the streets of Portsmouth in the footsteps of George Washington when he visited the city in 1789. See where he took tea with his secretary’s mother, Mrs. Lear, attended services at St. John’s Church and was feted at a reception at Governor John Langdon House. $12pp/$6 Historic New England members. Registration required at www.historicnewengland. org 436-3205
Royal Tea & Ballerina Dance
The Libby Museum, Wolfeboro. 10am11:30am. Free event that will include a lesson in court dancing. Princesses; Cinderella, Belle, Elsa and Snow White will demonstrate a dance and
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then dance with all the Princes and Princesses that attend. Come dressed in your own costume or dress up in one of our medieval dresses or knight outfits! Space is limited, to avoid disappointment, RSVP is requested. 569-1035
Small Farmers Club – Get to Know Cows
The Remick Museum, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 10am-11am. Time will be spent getting to know the featured animal and includes an activity to compliment learning. Ages 2-6. $5 per child. Guardian must be present. 323-7591
The Jeremy Wallace Blues Trio
Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043
Fri. 26th – Sun. 28th Phantom Gourmet BBQ & Music Festival
Rochester Fairgrounds, 72 Lafayette Street, Rochester. This three day affair will feature award-winning pitmasters from across the globe, a country music festival, carnival entertainment and several extreme competitions, beer and wine gardens and family-friendly fun! Friday and Saturday from 11am10pm, Sunday 11am-8pm. Admission is complimentary on Friday from 11am-3pm and $5pp all other times. Free parking available on premise. www.festeventsne.com or 918-3385
Saturday 27th Church Yard Sale
Andover Congregational Church, 1 Chase Hill Road, East Andover. 8:30am-2pm. 744-6858
The Starlight Honeys
The Back Room at the Mill, 2 Central Street, Bristol. 7:30-9:30pm. $12 at the door. 744-0405
Lakeport Community Association’s Yard Sale
Freight Building, behind the Lakeport Fire Station, Lakeport. 8am-2pm. Weather permitting. 528-1544
Pirate Picnic & Tinkerbell Tea
Prescott Park Arts Festival, Portsmouth. www.prescottpark.org
Tilton Masons Breakfast
Masonic Building, 410 W.Main Street, Tilton. 7-9:30am. All are welcome. Full breakfast including eggs cooked to order. $8, Proceeds benefit various charities. For more info call 524-8268.
Hooked Rugs in the Gardens – Mapped, Self Guided Tour
Bittersweet Farm, 30 High Street,
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West Side Story Coming to Interlakes After waiting for 7 years, for the national tour to end, the Interlakes Theatre is proud to present the classic Leonard Bernstein musical “West Side Story”. The story is a modernization of Romeo & Juliet, set in Manhattans West Side Story and examines the social dynamics of the Jets and Sharks, as they struggle to protect their turf, overlapping a love story between the star-crossed lovers, Tony & Maria. The company is led by long time ILST director/choreographer, Brian Feehan and Musical Directed by Nathaniel Beliveau. Set design by Erik Diaz, Lighting Design by Thom Beaulieau. Performances are June 30-July 12, Tuesday-Sat at 7:30,Sundays at 5:00, with matinees on Weds/Thursday at 2:00. For information/tickets call 1-888-245-6374, or purchase in person at the auditorium or online at www. interlakestheatre.com.
An Evening of Romance At Garrison Players Arts Center The popular “Impersonators of Romance - a Night to Remember IV” returns to Garrison Players Arts Center on Saturday, June 27 at 8pm. The evening will feature many legends of radio, stage and television. See your favorite singers and performers come to life for an evening filled with entertainment! Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students under 18. They can be purchased at the door, by calling 603-7504ART or at www.garrisonplayers.org. The arts center is located on Route 4, at the corner of Roberts Road in Rollinsford.
Arts In The Park In Plymouth Friends of the Arts, in collaboration with the Plymouth State University Karl Drerup Art Gallery summer exhibition, “Forces of Nature”, presents Arts In The Park. Arts in the Park is open to children ages 6 – 10 and will take place every Thursday morning, 10AM -11AM, for five consecutive Thursdays starting July 9th. Instructor Sara Hage will explore creating art from objects found in the natural environment as well as exploring all senses of the outdoor world through feeling, smelling and expressive movement. All activities will take place at Fox Pond Park Pavilion, Plymouth, NH. There will be a small fee of $5 per session. For a full schedule visit Friends of the Arts website: www. friends-of-the-arts.org or call us at (603) 536-1182.
Author Signing at Bayswater Books Bayswater Books in Center Harbor welcomes Andy Opel on Saturday, June 27 from 11am to 1pm as he signs his newest book The Mansion, A Winnipesaukee Mystery. This third book in the Winnipesaukee Adventures series and this time it’s a mystery! Join Jack, Franny and J.J. as they learn about how the lake used to be and Grammy tells them a spooky story about when she was a little girl. Bayswater Books is located at 12 Main Street in Center Harbor. Visit them online at www.bayswaterbooks.com.
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The FDA will require animal producers to obtain authorization from a licensed veterinarian to use drugs to treat a specific disease, rather than just to promote rapid growth, as is current practice. As much as 80% of all U.S. antibiotics are used in animal agriculture. The moves come amid growing concern about the link between routine antibiotic use in animal agriculture and human infections by bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics because of their excessive use. The CDC estimates that antibiotic resistance causes 2 million illnesses per year in the U.S. and 23,000 deaths. It also adds $20 billion per year in health care costs and $35 billion in lost productivity (2). And we thought that animal products were just linked to heart disease, cancer, and stroke. While government agencies reduce antibioti.cs in animal products, the rest of us can do better immediately with wholesome vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains and a rich variety of plant-based meats, cheeses, milks, and ice creams available in every supermarket. These foods contain all the nutrients we require, without the deadly pathogens, antibiotics, carcinogens, cholesterol, and saturated fats. Carl Mason Concord, NH
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A Hairy Situation
by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
As nauseating as it is, we are already in full swing into the next presidential campaign season here in New Hampshire. A s always happens, promises will be made and mud will be slung and television and radio stations will reap the benefits of getting paid to run countless hours of repetitious advertisements that, in the end, give us no real insight at all into who might be best to lead our country. They will cover all the usual topics: the economy, the environment, gay rights, abortion and alike. Still, there is one issue that none of the candidates will touch. It is an issue so volatile that even the news media stays away. Yet, as it is ignored it continues to grow out of control and is affecting our day to day lives. Of course, I’m talking about the price of razor blades. Have you bought any lately? Some 10-razor blade packs can cost as much as the Gross National Product of Belize. If you just look around you can see how the rising price of razor blades is affecting our country. More and more goodlooking young men have decided to give up shaving and to grow hideous and unkempt Rip Van Winkle style beards instead of spending the outrageous price for razor blades. It comes down to one of two things: do I at least at-
tempt to present a decent image of myself to my loved ones and the world or do I eat? The choice is obvious. Some say this ubiquitous sprouting of out of control facial hair is merely a fad, that it will soon go the way of the leisure suit, but I am not so sure. This time it isn’t merely about wanting to look totally ridiculous, it’s about survival. To those men who have, for years, sported beards that they worked hard at keeping nice and neat, I can feel your pain as you are now finding yourselves lost in the crowd. Your years of daily hard work at keeping your beards in a presentable fashion to the world are now being lumped in with the rest of those who are finding themselves with no choice but to just let their beards grow willy-nilly, sticking from their faces at odd angles and, like clouds, resembling something different each day, as they are unable to afford the one thing that can bring them back to a sense of reality. It’s not their fault. They are not to blame, but it is becoming a national dilemma. It seemed not that long ago that razor blades were affordable; the price not even worth a second look at the drug store. It was a happy time, but we weren’t satisfied. We wanted bigger and better razors. We wanted more power. We didn’t want to just shave off our whiskers; we wanted a whole new experience. Soon, meeting our demands, the double-blade razor was created and then the triple-blade. Soon we were demanding skin softener to be added to the blade to make for a more comfortable experience, and we were answered. Today, it has grown out-
of-control. We have razors with five blades. Why? We don’t know but we realize we have to have them. We’re hooked and there is no turning back. Now we’ve paid the price for our addictions; trapped due to our own vanity and comfort. We have become prisoners to the “Big Shaving” concerns. Today, it has backfired and more and more young men are leaving the arena of “shaving” and entering the one of “looking totally ridiculous” and it seems like there will be no turning back unless something is done. We will soon be a nation of men with silly beards and we will wonder how we missed it. That is why I am asking the question here today? Where do the candidates stand on this important issue? What will they do to help bring down the price of razor blades so that well-intentioned young men in this country can once again be able to afford to live a decent life and also keep their self-esteem by being able to once again show the world what they really look like? It is a national dilemma and no one is asking the questions. I just hope that by writing this column I may start the conversation. That it will spark some of these young men to come forward and admit that no matter how much they defend their beards as something they are proud to have, if the price of razor blades was within their reach, this country would be a different and less hairy place today. Visit Brendan’s website for information on his books and speaking engagements at www.BrendanTSmith.com
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Every Breath She Takes Fifteen years ago this week, my beautiful daughter Veronica entered the world. She didn’t make a sound. As I stretched out my arms by Michelle Malkin to hold her in Syndicated Columnist the delivery room, furrowbrowed doctors and nurses instead whisked her away. I shouted after them in panic: “Is she all right? Is she going to be OK?!” Slightly underweight and jaundiced, she remained in the hospital for several days before we got the all-clear. My husband and I counted our blessings. But it wouldn’t be the last time we felt the pangs of parental helplessness when it came to her health. Here’s the good news: In the blink of an eye, our shy, clingy little girl blossomed into a wry, wisecracking and independent young lady. She loves to go fishing, hates shallow people, solves a Rubik’s Cube in 35 seconds, prefers true-crime novels to “Twilight” schlock and recently developed a thing for ice hockey players. Veronica’s a wicked Photoshopper, a talented drawer, a makeup artist and (unlike mom) a math whiz. Until six weeks ago, her main obsessions were “Grey’s Anatomy,” the Stanley Cup, Instagram, her new cartilage piercing, an actor named Evan Peters and the hope of getting a learner’s permit. Just before Mother’s Day weekend, however, she started having what appeared to be respiratory trouble. She “couldn’t get a good breath” and began gently gasp-
ing and sighing for air every few minutes. Two trips to the ER later, she had been administered ibuprofen for “costochondritis” and then albuterol to open up her airways. The problem is that all the various tests and exams indicate she’s getting plenty of oxygen. Her lungs, heart and vocal cords are all “normal,” and yet she describes a chronic feeling that she’s “drowning.” Every day begins with gasping beyond her control, multiple times a minute, nonstop, every hour of every day, until she reaches a point of exhaustion at 1 or 2 in the morning. After a brief respite while sleeping, the day-mare starts all over again. Despite taking an alphabet soup of potent neuro-related meds for tics and Tourette’s, Veronica’s condition has steadily deteriorated. The force and frequency of the gasping -- now with loud stridor on both the inhale and exhale -- keep her in bed most of the day. She has choked on food and drink several times; aspiration is a constant risk. It has been agonizing to watch her suffer while waiting weeks and months on end to see an increasingly short supply of specialists. It is more agonizing knowing that, despite obtaining the best care possible for her, we still don’t really know what’s going on. “Dr. Google,” though much maligned, has helped connect us to compassionate patient advocacy groups and websites for other perplexed parents with children suffering chronic mystery ailments. The awareness of not being alone is profoundly comforting. But we don’t know how long the winding trail of diagnoses and trial-and-error pre-
The Politics of Viability
On June 15, a Committee of Conference on SB 40 met at the NH State House. This Committee met to look at Fetal Hoby Jane Cormier micide bill, SB 40. In a nutshell, the Hooksett, NH. House recently passed HB 560 which offered families the ability to seek justice in the NH court system for a preborn (beginning at eight weeks) killed during a criminal act. Abortion was specifically exempted in this bill. Meanwhile, the NH State Senate passed SB 40 which contained the following “viability” requirement: “sustained extrauterine survival”. Americans United for Life offered the following testimony at the SB 40 Senate hearing, “Limiting the protections in this bill to viable unborn children, particularly when viability is defined in a vague and narrow manner, would serve a great injustice to many unborn victims of violence and their families.” As written, SB 40 is a nightmare See malkin on 42 bill for parents seeking justice and
closure for the loss of their loved one. Those three words on viability hold no opportunity for justice, just more misery for the families involved. When SB 40 passed to the NH House, the bill was amended to mirror HB 560, with the eight week provision. The NH State Senate did not take kindly to the House amending their bill and refused to back down from the original but horrifyingly poor viability language. One of the Senate sponsors (Senate sponsors also included Birdsell, Bradley, Carson, and Avard), Sen. Regina Birdsell told yours truly, “The Senate will never vote for the amended language. The House should not have amended the bill.” Why is that? Because no one should ever amend a Senate Bill? (Interestingly enough, Sen. Birdsell voted FOR a Fetal Homicide bill last session in the NH House which did not hold any viability language. The NH State Senate does strange things to people, it seems. Now, SB 40 finds itself in this Committee of Conference which See cormier on 41
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Vetoing Local Control R a r e l y does a politician provide a glimpse into her foundational beliefs more revealing than Gov. by Ken Gorrell Maggie HasNorthfield, NH. san’s veto of House Bill 603 last week. Hassan vetoed local control. She decided that NH parents and students are mere means to an end, and that federal moneymen, Big Education, and Big Business were her true constituents. HB 603 would have recognized parents as the primary decision makers for their children’s education, giving them the right to opt out of statewide testing. In her veto message our governor cited “jeopardize federal funding” as one reason to limit parental rights. Her additional reasons also focused
on issues other than the interests of individual children. Yes, “business leaders and educators joined together to oppose this legislation,” but why should they have final say in how your child is educated? Hassan’s veto missive was full of statements presented as fact but which are really disputed talking points in an on-going, sometime heated, often technical debate. The issues extend beyond parental rights – as if that isn’t enough – to include the validity of these tests, how they shape (and shrink) curriculum and lesson plans, how test preparation displaces real learning, and how the test data is collected, disseminated, and analyzed. Rather than addressing the issues fairly, Hassan resorted to empty fear-mongering (“…could do real and lasting damage to New Hampshire’s economic competitiveness…”) to justify putting the interests of NH citizens behind those who profit from the ongoing
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governments and relief agencies. Indeed the UN’s current humanitarian appeal is five times larger that in 2004, a figure reflecting a world in calamity and chaos. It appears that the human tsunami from civil wars, failed states, and famine threatens to overwhelm relief agencies. More troubling longterm becomes the deeper problem of crisis overload, where the world simply shrugs the latest tragedy away. Syria’s high profile civil war presents a clear and present danger not only geopolitically but on the humanitarian front where 12 million people need humanitarian help. According to the UN’s Stephen O’ Brian, “7.6 million have been forced from their homes and four million people have left their country.” Millions have settled or are in the refugee limbo of neighboring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. These numbers are staggering and particularly destabilizing for small countries such as Lebanon. The quiet horrors of Sudan and South Sudan where intra-Islamic See Metzler on 42
consolidation in education. Follow the money, they say, even if it means stepping on thousands of NH kids. “New Hampshire’s economic competitiveness depends on our ongoing commitment to ensuring that our students and workers have the skills needed to compete in the future.” That’s true. It’s also a non sequitur in the context of mandatory testing. Long before these tests were foisted on us with their federal strings attached, NH communities were educating their
children. We were committed to helping the next generation succeed. Does the governor believe otherwise? The opt-out movement isn’t limited to NH; it’s nationwide and truly grass-roots. The reasons given by parents and educators vary but can be summed up by one line: Whose education is it, anyway? Last year in Oregon, Maika J. Yeigh, Ed. D, penned a guest editorial explaining why her two chilSee GORRELL on 40
Micro-totalitarianism The political left has come up with a new buzzword: “micro-aggression.” Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been ofby Thomas Sowell ficially warned Syndicated Columnist against saying such things as “America is the land of opportunity.” Why? Because this is considered to be an act of “microaggression” against minorities and women. Supposedly it shows that you don’t take their grievances seriously and are therefore guilty of being aggressive toward them, even if only on a micro scale. You might think that this is just another crazy idea from Berkeley. But the same concept appears in a report from the flagship campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana. If you just sit in a room where all the people are white, you are considered to be guilty of “microaggression” against people who are not white, who will supposedly feel uncomfortable when they enter such a room. At UCLA, a professor who changed the capitalization of the word “indigenous” to lower case in a student’s dissertation was accused of “micro-aggression,” apparently because he preferred to follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style, rather than the student’s attempt to enhance the importance of being indigenous. When a group of UCLA law students came to class wearing Tshirts with a picture of one of their
professors who had organized an intramural softball game, those T-shirts were protested as a manifestation of “white privilege.” Why? Because that professor had written a book critical of affirmative action. “Micro-aggression” protests have spread to campuses from coast to coast -- that is, from California’s Berkeley and UCLA to Harvard and Fordham on the east coast, and including Oberlin and Illinois in the midwest. Academic administrators have all too often taken the well-worn path of least resistance, by regarding the most trivial, or even silly, claims of victimhood with great seriousness, even when that involved undermining faculty members held in high esteem by most of their students and by their professional colleagues on campus and beyond. The concept of “micro-aggression” is just one of many tactics used to stifle differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be “hate speech,” instead of debating those differences in a marketplace of ideas. To accuse people of aggression for not marching in lockstep with political correctness is to set the stage for justifying real aggression against them. This tactic reaches far beyond academia and far beyond the United States. France’s Jean-Paul Sartre has been credited -- if that is the word -- with calling social conditions he didn’t like “violence,” as a prelude to justifying real violence as a response to those conditions. Sartre’s American imitators have used the same verbal tactic to See Sowell on 40
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******** Barack Hussein and I have one thing in common. Our mothers provided us with several options for a father. MY father gave his life to maintain our freedom, and break the oppression of Europeans! I have worked to keep America free and to protect the US Constitution from people like Barack from throwing it away. That mission has been made more difficult than ever, far too many Americans have become fans of the welfare system – you know – where we work, and they don’t! They will however, get to the polls on Election Day to vote for people like Obama, those who do for some; cradle to grave. Speaker John Boehner to reporters: “I made it pretty clear to the members today I was not very happy about it. You know, we’re a team. And we’ve worked hard to get the majority; we’ve worked hard to stay in, and I expect our team to act like a team, and frankly, I made it pretty clear I wasn’t very happy.” This is phoney politics at its best. This also takes place at the State House level. Bonehead Boehner insults us by talking about “team”. As I asked of my committee chairman in my first year as a member of the NH House after hearing “the speaker wants this bill dead”. Now I am sure that the speaker didn’t vote for me, because he lived in another community not in my district. Therefore I voted in the interest of MY voters. I hate to break your trust in government, but in Concord or Washington, for the most part, democrats and republicans are powerless if you are not “part of leadership”. Thank the Lord we do have some members
in Congress who place constituents and country above politics! ******** MARC: The bill isn’t an up or down vote on whether or not we favor trade. The vote is about whether we are going to pass more legislative power to the executive branch. The tactics Boehner is using are what has brought progressives to control. Stifle dissent, attack anyone who opposes you and remove anyone not voting a party line ticket from a position of leadership. It’s not exactly what we might hope for. It is coming to define what we must change. ******** Thomas Sowell (March 2014): “It doesn’t matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States, if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn’t matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials’ power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences. In other words, the Constitution cannot protect you, if you don’t protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom -- and all our freedom -- to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously.”
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pipes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d connect bath fans to schedule 40 PVC pipe and send the exhaust up through the roof. Once the pipe exits the roof, use a gentle sweep 90-degree angle followed by a 45-degree bend to prevent rain water from entering the exhaust pipe. Be sure the end of the pipe is at least 20 inches above the roof so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never blocked by deep snow. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vital the exhaust pipe be wrapped with at least three inches of foam insulation. If you have just the PVC pipe exposed in the attic, it will get cold and the water vapor in the pipe will condense and run back down the pipe eventually leaking into the bathroom through the exhaust fan. When you go to put the PVC pipe through your roof, make sure to use a high-quality flashing. The last place you want a leak is in your roof. Not all roof flashings are made the same, and some have components that fail in short order. I recently replaced a plumbing vent pipe flashing that had failed after just 12 years or so. I prefer flashings that
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Prevention is the key to avoiding skin cancer. Make Big Change is leading the way in education and awareness to help save lives What would you do if you knew you could save a life? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do whatever you could, right? Maybe call 911, or throw a lifeline or start CPR. Nearly anything, if you thought you could do some good. Now, what if that life was your own? The question has relevance, because among all cancers, skin cancer (of various types) is one of the most common and is in many cases preventable. You just have to know the risks, use some easily adapted techniques, and you can be one of the fortunate ones not to be counted in the number of non- and lifethreatening skin cancers occurring every year in the United States. The statistics are frightening: 9,000 deaths per year caused by melanoma. 65,000 melanoma skin cancers in 2011. More than 3.5 million skin cancers in 2 million people every year.
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Your Health is in Your Hands 1) Thank and recognize our military personnel. If you have a veteran in your life, tell them thank you and pay them the appropriate respect. These are the men and women who set aside their own lives, to protect us and our way of life. What better way to honor your freedom, than to recognize the source?
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The Fourth of July is quickly approaching. Everyone, obviously, thinks of fireworks, parades, and grills. These are all well and good, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what makes July 4th wonderful. This is a great holiday, because I truly believe that we live in the best country in the world. We enjoy freedom that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t available in many countries. This freedom came at a cost, of course. Many have sacrificed their time, efforts, and even their lives to protect it. I am truly grateful to all who allow us to have our continued freedom. Truly, thank you. The question that comes to mind then: how do we live lives that honor this freedom? I think we can do this in a few ways:
2) Live the life you want. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to get caught in a bad cycle of work, sleep, repeat. Everyone works hard to make ends. This is understandable, and necessary, but at some point we may cease to live the life we want for the life we are stuck in. I know this is a hard one, because we have responsibilities and bills. Yet, if we just become our work, if we are always feeling â&#x20AC;&#x153;busyâ&#x20AC;?, and we stop having joy, then on some level I feel like we waste the freedom bestowed upon us. The point is, we honor our freedom, by living happy, productive, passionate lives. If you look at your life and it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what you want: change it. Maybe you wanted to learn to ride a motorcycle, paint a picture, or visit a foreign country. Time is not un-
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“Dear children! Also today the Most High permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of conversion. Many hearts have shut themselves to grace and have become deaf to my call. You, little children, pray and fight against temptation and all the evil plans which the devil offers you through modernism. Be strong in prayer and with the cross in your hands pray that evil may not use you and may not conquer in you. I am with you and pray for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
“Dear children! I am with you also today to lead you to salvation. Your soul is restless because your spirit is weak and tired from all worldly things. You, little children, pray to the Holy Spirit that He may transform you and fill you with His strength of faith and hope, so that you may be firm in this battle against evil. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
“Dear children! Also today I am with you and with joy I call all of you: pray and believe in the power of prayer. Open your hearts, little children, so that God may fill you with His love and you will be a joy to others. Your witness will be powerful and everything you do will be interwoven with God’s tenderness. I am with you and I pray for you and your conversion until you put God in the first place. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
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ful in the sun? One of the more interesting devices employed by Make Big Change is a small, beaded bracelet. Some of the beads are colored, some are white. The bracelets are given out to younger kids to wear while playing outside. This part of the education initiative is the ultimate in showand-tell: As their exposure to UV radiation increases, the light-colored beads turn dark, signaling dramatically that the childrens’ exposure to UV radiation is approaching dangerous levels. Time for shade,
sunscreen, a break from the sun, or- perhaps- some of all o f the above. Another important part of the education initiative is to dispel the notion that tanning both tans are a desirable fashion accessory. Several states, including New Hampshire, have banned the use of the indoor tanning beds by children under the age of 18. Most of this legislation was passed after legislators were made aware of the danger of indoor tanning beds. It’s up to you. And to me. And to all of us. The evidence is in; the See save on 25
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renovate the ornaments one last time and build a 5500 square foot indoor mini golf, a one of a kind. The new indoor mini-golf, built on a previously unused section of Funspot, a large empty space above the bowling center, is completely self-service. Only
costs five dollars to play and is fun for everyone in the family. It makes for a great rainy day diversion or just a nice break from a hot summer day. Funspot also has over 600 other games including a great variety of redemption games, as well a twenty-lane ten-pin and candlepin bowling al-
TASTING FUN Tamworth Distilling Switching Gears in both direction and substance, we travel up north a little to visit this rather new and unique micro- distillery, Tamworth Distilling and Mercantile, which was built on the site of the historic Tamworth Inn in Tamworth Village. A section of the Inn was preserved for its historic value while the remaining space was dedicated to the distillery. While there are no tours of the distillery itself, the See fun on 34
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retail space and tasting room provides great views of the distillery and the operations. There are currently nine different unaged products available for tasting and purchase. One of the more interesting products is Reverendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Universal Spirit which is made to be infused at home with one of the spice packets sold. It is a 151proof neutral spirit which can be infused or, believe it or not, used for household purposes like a powerful
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Pick up a Growler at the Lone Wolf Brewery in Wolfeboro. Celebrating their first annivesary they will soon be offering food. cleanser, room spray, sanitizer or beauty aid. Tamworth Distilling is open Wednesday through Friday from Noon to 5pm, Saturday from 10am to 5pm and Sunday from Noon to 5pm. It is also available by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays. Tamworth Distilling and Mercantile is located at 15 Cleveland Hill Road in Tamworth. They can be reached at 603-323-7196
or at info@tamworthdistilling.com Lone Wolf Brewery From distilled spirits itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only fair we take care of the beer lovers as well as we travel to Wolfeboro where, one year ago, the town joined a growing list of towns around the U.S. that boast their own brewery. After many years of home brewing and countless accolades from friends, GraSee fun on 36
The Greenside Restaurant serving great quality food 1.6 Miles East Off Exit 20, I-93, Tilton, NH 603-528-7888
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ham Combes, along with his wife Jen, opened the Lone Wolfe Brewing Company last year in downtown Wolfeboro. On Saturday, June 20th, they celebrated their first anniversary. A lot has changed for them over the year. Originally the tasting room opened last year with four beers on tap and a month ago that number increased to eight. They do have growlers for sale but are getting ready to offer pints in the tasting room as soon as they are approved to sell food as well. At this point, the planned menu includes house roasted nuts with candied bacon; pretzels made from scratch using the breweryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent grains; their own house-made beer mustard; a Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market crustini with bread from LaBoca Bakery and local vegetables; Mill Street bratwurst cooked in beer; and a variety of panini sandwiches. Lone Wolfe Brewing will be open from 1 to 9-ish pm Wednesday through Saturday and 1 to 5pm Sunday and Monday. They will be closed on Tuesdays. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t visited Lone Wolfe Brewing yet, check out their community table.
Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Eatery in Gilford has renovated bringing a new dimension to both the pub and dining areas. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awesome inside!! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a large table where strangers quickly become friends. Lone Wolfe Brewing is located at 39 N. Main Street in Wolfeboro, behind Nolanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro and next to Capelli Hair Salon. Everyone is invited to celebrate Lone Wolfe Brewingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first anniversary this Saturday starting at 1pm. EATING FUN Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Eatery Dining out is definitely a part of the summer fun experience and in Gilford, Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Eatery, a longtime favorite with locals and vacationers alike, has renovated their pub and dining areas to provide two different experiences
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under one roof Meet some friends for good time and cheer in the Pub or bring the family for a delicious dinner in the mellower experience of the dining area. It is the best of both worlds without missing out on Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous reputation for good food and good times. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub is located at 18 Weirs Road in Gilford. They are open at 11:30am every day. Dinner is served until 10pm; 11pm on Friday and Saturday evenings. Call 603-293-0841 or visit www.patrickspub.com. Be sure to check out our Summer Fun section each week for more great ideas on where to go and what to do.
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Gilmanton. 4-8pm. Mapped, selfguided wine & cheese tour of extensive gardens with hand hooked rug collection throughout. Over 50 rugs displayed. RSVP for tickets; $25/each or $40/for 2. 100% of ticket sales donated to the Gilmanton Food Pantry. Rain Date, Sunday, June 28th. 267-1905
RVYSEF’s 5th Annual Golf Tournament
Pheasant Ridge Golf Club, Gilford. Registration begins at 8am, shot gun start at 8:30am.Torunament is a Scramble format. $110/pp includes; golf, golf cart, lunch and welcome bag. www.rvysef.org or rvysef@gmail.com
Eckankar Spiritual Chat
Water Street Café, 141 Water Street, Laconia. 10:30am-noon. Free and open to the public. Attendees will receive a complimentary free booklet, Spiritual Wisdom on Dreams. 800713-8944
Celebrate National Dairy Month
The Remick Museum, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 2-3pm. Doc Remick’s historic barn will be open, offering a chance to learn the history of his dairy business, Hillsdale Farm. Tour the 1930’s milk house to see how milk went from barn to table, meet the milk cows and talk with the farmer about the history of the dairy industry. Tour is included with $5 Museum admission. 323-7591
Summer Fun Craft Fair
Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 10am-5pm. Over 50 exhibitors, free admission and parking. Rain or shine under canopy. www. joycescraftshows.com 528-4014
Central NH Amateur Radio Club Participates in 24 hr National Event – All Invited
Belknap County Fairgrounds, Belmont. 2pm – June 28th at 2pm. Radio operators will test their skills by making contact and exchanging information like they would should an emergency arrive. There will be a public information table, you will be able to tour the stations and there will be a station set up where club members will aid anyone interested in amateur radio to sit down and give it a shot. 527-8726
Laconia Farmer’s Market
Laconia City Hall parking lot, Beacon Street East, Laconia. 8am-noon every Saturday through September 26th. The market features a rotating line up of 12-15 vendors, offering the state’s finest farm-fresh, local and organically produced food and artisan crafts. The market now offers EBT?SNAP benefits
and will match all EBT purchases with up to $10 free to spend on produce. www.laconiafarmersmarket.com
Sunday 28th Loon Preservation Committee’s Summer Luncheon and Auction
Church Landing, Meredith. 11am2pm. Attendees will enjoy a delicious buffet lunch, silent auction and the chance to swap stories with fellow loon lovers. Dress is smart casual. For info or tickets, call Lin at 476-5666
Summer Fun Craft Fair
Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 10am-4pm. Over 50 exhibitors, free admission and parking. Rain or shine under canopy. www. joycescraftshows.com 528-4014
Monday 29th Jurassic Park – Movie Showing
Prescott Park Arts Festival, Portsmouth. www.prescottpark.org
philosophy of the D Acres Farm. The D Acres Farm is an educational center that researches, applies and teaches skills of sustainable living and smallscale organic farming. Free and open to the public. 524-6042
Tues. 30th – July 12th West Side Story
Inter Lakes Community Auditorium, Route 25, Meredith. Tuesdays – Sat. at 7:30pm, Sundays at 5pm, with matinees on Weds/Thurs at 2pm. www.interlakestheatre.com or 1-888245-6374
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Tuesday 30th An American Schindler, Varian Fry - Lecture
The Wright Museum, Wolfeboro. 6:308:30pm. Varian Frye helped rescue 1,500 people during the Holocaust, among those saved were some of the most revered intellectuals, artists, writers and political dissidents of the 20th century. Presented by Rev. Dr. Virginia Jones-Newton. www. wrightmuseum.org 569-1212
Janet Polasky – Author Reading and Discussion
RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth. 7pm. Janet Polasky will read from and discuss her new book, “Revolutions Without Borders”. Free and open to the public. www. riverrunbookstore.com or 431-2100
Living Well with a Chronic Health Condition
Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, Union Ave, Laconia. 11am1pm. Workshop to learn how to manage your symptoms with better choices. Presented by LRGHealthcare. 527-7120
NH Author to Visit and Discuss New Book
Gilford Public Library, Gilford. 6:307:30pm. Josh Trought, author of the recently published book, “The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm: The D Acres Model for Creating and Managing an Ecologically Designed Education Center”, will share the inspiration behind the book and the
Spider Web Gardens, 252 Middle Road, Tuftonboro. 10am. Dana Duxbury-Fox, a lifelong summer resident of Tuftonboro, will share her knowledge of hummingbirds and butterflies, encouraging attendees to plant their gardens in a way that will attract them both! Spider Web Gardens will have many of the special plants that the hummingbirds and butterflies favor for sale. Free and open to the public. Preregistration is requested. 569-5056
Great Waters Music Festival presents
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Children’s Theatre – The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Silver Center for the Arts on the PSU campus, Plymouth. 2pm. The audience will have a chance to meet their favorite princess, bear, puppet, cat and all other characters from the show in the lobby after the performance every Thursday through August 13th. $7pp (including babes in arms). 535-2787
Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards
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Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, 18 Highlawn Road, Warner. 10am-5pm. Roger Longtoe Sheehan and Mike Plant, members of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, will be demonstrating traditional Native tattooing. They will also be talking to folks about what their tattoos mean to them, and some of the history
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Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, Union Ave, Laconia. 11am-1pm. Workshop to learn how to manage your symptoms with better choices. Presented by LRGHealthcare. 527-7120
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justify ghetto riots. Word games are just one of the ways of silencing politically incorrect ideas, instead of debating them. Demands that various conservative organizations be forced to reveal the names of their donors are another way of silencing ideas by intimidating people who facilitate the spread of those ideas. Whatever the rationale for wanting those names, the implicit threat is retaliation. This same tactic was used, decades ago, by Southern segregationists who tried to force black civil rights organizations to reveal the names of their donors, in a situation where retaliation might have included violence as well as economic losses. In a sense, the political leftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy. But this is just one of the leftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever-increasing restrictions on other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freedom to live their lives as they see fit, rather than as their betters tell them. Current attempts by the Obama administration to force low-income housing to be built in middle class and upscale communities are on a par with forcing people to buy the kind of health insurance the government wants them to buy -- ObamaCare -rather than leaving them free to buy whatever suits their own situation and preferences. The left is not necessarily aiming at totalitarianism. But their know-it-all mindset leads repeatedly and pervasively in that direction, even if by small steps, each of which might be called â&#x20AC;&#x153;micro-totalitarianism.â&#x20AC;? Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell. com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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has members from both the House and Senate debating the bill. Here is where the “Politics of Viability” rears its ugly head and gives us some important lessons from which to learn. Representatives Leon Rideout and John Burt both discussed the necessity to have NH join the 38 other states who currently have Fetal Homicide bills on the books. “I have still not found anyone that can explain the definition of “extrauterine viability…It is language a lawyer can pick apart…We are trying to get to a place where there is justice for families…I don’t see it as justice for the families to have to sit through this kind of court battle,” says Rep. Rideout. In reply, Senator Carson then states “…the Senate is not going to move off its position…we retained the amended version for the 8 weeks language in the fetal homicide bill.” Then Senator Bradley chimed in “… one thing that I do know, when we say that moving off the Senate position, I know there are not the votes… people maybe find that troubling…that is what is driving this…”. So, in Senator Carson and Bradley’s minds, it is all about the VOTES. NOT FIGHTING FOR GOOD LEGISLATION. (Could the fact they sponsored the original SB 40 be a reason why they have dug themselves in against the much improved House wording? Hmmm…) Yes, the lessons learned at this committee hearing were troubling. Lesson One - It is the VOTES that drive policy - NOT the principled stand of what IS the best policy for New Hampshire. Votes for a bad bill doesn’t change the fact that it IS still a BAD bill. While these elected officials banter about “votes”, they are actually advocating putting distraught families through the debacle of an ugly court battle without any real chance for justice. “Sustained extrauterine survival” can never be proven in a court of law. And, THESE SENATORS KNOW THIS. But, one has to stick with the “team”, don’t you know. Even if the “team” is promoting poor legislation
to its citizenry. At the end of this discussion, Sen. Carson, who was not the least bit amused at this Committee of Conference meeting, spoke with Rep. Burt. Rep. Burt had suggested the Senate do a roll call vote on SB 40. The response from Sen. Carson was a cold one. “Representative, we don’t threaten our Senators like that in our house.” Rep. Burt responded “It’s not a threat, it is to show the voters.” Carson responded, “No, it IS a threat. You may threaten over in your House, but we don’t threaten in ours.” Really? A Roll Call Vote is “threatening”? Good to know. Lesson Two – DO NOT ROLL CALL IN THE NH SENATE, WHENEVER POSSIBLE. It is “threatening”. Because, God forbid constituents know how you voted in the NH State Senate, right? This should upset you, folks. The NH State Senate is an entitled, insulated group which will do anything it can to fend off transparency and accountability to its constituents. This elitist attitude serves only itself. We need to hold them to their voting records. But, if there are no roll calls, or not enough roll calls, there is NO record. They like that. They will fight for that. How does this sit with you?
We need YOU to get active. Because if we do not get into this “game”, we stand to lose any control we have as voters here in the Granite State. I have always believed state politics is more important than federal politics. State’s rights can hold bad federal policies at bay. Once we lose control of our state politics, it is game over. The stakes have never been so high. The Business of Politics needs to be shut down. And we can do this at the ballot box next election cycle. I will be there. How about you? Update: On Thursday, June 18, the REPUBLICAN Committee of Conference met to look at amendments offered by Rep. Leon Rideout. These amendments
were to try to mitigate the terrible wording in the original SB 40 “sustained extrauterine survival”. The REPUBLICANS on this committee would not compromise. “Sustained Extrauterine Survival” or nothing. So, the bill died. Actually, it is a good thing. This HORRIBLE Republican-led Sen-
ate legislation, should never have seen the light of day in the first place. The NH Republican majority in the NH House supported TWO different votes on good Fetal Homicide legislation. Kudos to them. And SHAME on the NH State Senate who could not get the job done. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
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tions, 248,000 last year, while Hungary followed with 74,000, Italy with 64,000 and France with 58,000. Clearly, the widening swath of radical Islam, especially the expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as Al Qaida affiliates, have been the singular deadly catalyst for the troubles in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Then there’s the entrenched Islamic Taliban threat to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Doctors without Borders, (MSF) the French medical agency adds, “Iraq is experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis in recent decades.” MSF advises, “Intense fighting has forced three million people to flee the war torn areas of central and northern Iraq and many are now stranded in areas without the most basic humanitarian assistance.” Yet in 2014, MSF carried out 219, 000 outpatient consultations for the displaced persons.
Brutal ethnic strife continues to plague the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. Natural disasters such as in the recent earthquake in Nepal, added 2.8 million to the list. According to the UN Global Humanitarian Response Report, there are 5 million people needing assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 10 million in Sudan and South Sudan, 8 million in Yemen, and 331,000 in Libya. The dire list continues. When one thinks of the uprooted, say the Hungarians escaping the Soviet crackdown in 1956 or the Cubans fleeing Castro in the early 1960’s or even the Bosnians and Croatians of the early 1990’s we assume most asylum seekers soon integrate and assimilate into their host countries such as the USA or Canada. This is less the case today. Sadly the average time a person stays dis-
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NOW OPEN FOR OUR 21ST SEASON! Preserving & Sharing The Stories of World War II-Era America For Generations to Come...
FROM THE HOME FRONT .... TO THE FRONT LINES Visit our website WrightMuseum.org for a complete list of events and exhibits!
THE RON GOODGAME & DONNA CANNEY
2015 EDUCATION PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUES., JUNE 30 6:30 -8PM dacious Fakery – Lec- TUES., AUGUST 25 AT 7PM
The American Schindler, Varian Fry – Lecture by Rev. Dr. Virginia JonesNewton
WED., JULY 1 AT 1PM
Concert by the 39TH Army Woodwind Band
TUES., JULY 14 AT 7PM
Harpsichord Recital by Peter Sykes Members $12.00; non-members $15.00.
TUES., JULY 21 AT 7PM
Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms and the World War II Era – Lecture by Tom Daly
TUES., JULY 28 AT 7PM
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sounds Effects and Other Au-
ture and book signing by author Rick Beyer
TUES., AUGUST 4 AT 7PM
Last Shots for Patton’s Third Army – Lecture and Book Signing by author Robert Fuller
WED., & THUR., AUGUST 5TH & 6TH 10:30AM -5PM
The 2nd Annual Wright Museum Film Festival Hollywood Films of World War II – Introduced by Michael Culver
The Story of a FiveYear-Old Holocaust Survivor – Kati Preston
TUES., SEPT. 1 AT 7PM
Music of WWII – Musical Presentation by Ramblin’ Richard
TUES., OCTOBER 6 AT 7PM
Genealogy and World War II – Lecture by Aimee Fogg
TUES., SEPT. 8 6:30-8PM
TUES., OCT. 13 AT 7PM
Comics go to War: Cartoons, Superheroes, and Graphic Culture in the World War II – Lecture by Marek Bennett
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Popular Music Dur-
TUES., AUGUST 18 AT 7PM
American Art of the 1930s and 1940s – Lecture by Michael Culver
“The Changing Fortunes of War . . . “ – Lecture on FDR by Jeff Urbin
TUES., AUGUST 11 AT 7PM ing WWII: Using Pro-
The Homefront: Songs & Stories from World War II – Performed by Judith Black
TUES., SEPT. 29 AT 7PM
paganda to Boost Morale – Presented by Calvin Knickerbocker
TUES., SEPT. 22 6:30-8PM
The History of American Long Arms from the Revolution to Vietnam – Lecture by Randy Cook
World Wars I and II Banjo – Presented by Mike Hashem and Jamie Bryce
TUES., OCT. 20 AT 7PM
Victory Garden in World War II and Today – Lecture by Christin Kaiser and Lisa Simpson Lutts
The 2015 Education Programs are made possible by the generous sponsorship of Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney
Admission is $8.00 per person for non-members and free for Wright Museum members, unless otherwise noted. Because of limited seating, we strongly encourage you to make reservations by calling 603-569-1212. All programs begin at 7p.m., unless otherwise noted. The museum’s doors open 1 hour before the program begins. For more information on these and other Museum events please visit our website: www.wrightmuseum.org.
July 7 - September 12, 2015
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July 12, 2015 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Take a ride in one of the Wright’s military vehicles, interact with WWII-era re-enactors, view private collectors’ WWII memorabilia, tour of our nationally-recognized Museum, and view the special 2015 exhibition, “Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Associated Press Archives”. In addition there will be a balloon twister, a caricaturist, a magic show, two Squam Lake Science Center animal shows, face paintings, a story-teller as well as games and prizes. Food will be available to purchase.
Experience the past, and be inspired by a nation united. OPEN DAILY May 1st thru Oct. 31st
Monday – Saturday, 10am-4pm Sunday, Noon-4pm Thanks to Lakes Region Coca-Cola Bottling Company for their Support of the 2015 Special Events.
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Take the Bridge Falls Walking Path from town directly to the museum. It is a short walk, less than 5 minutes right along Back Bay.
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$60 individual / $85 family / $125 Contributing $250 Benefactor / $500 Sponsor / $1,000 Patron
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