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Dover Guided Walking Tours Extended
Building of Uncle Sam Model Inspired By Boat’s Former Pilot by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
ted to building models of historic vessels. Over that course of time, Warren has built about 30 models, each one taking between a year to three years to complete. His models have been displayed throughout the Lakes Region, most notably in the New Hampshire Boat Mu-
seum in Wolfeboro where his models of the SS Mt. Washington, Lady Of The Lake and Chocorua are housed. His latest project, which has taken over three years to build, is a 4-foot scale model of the Uncle Sam, one of nine mail Boats that See uncle sam on 18
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When David Warren was eight years old he, like most young boys of his generation, loved to go down to the local Five and Dime Store and buy the latest Revell or Aurora model airplane or ship.
Unlike most of those same boys, Warren’s passion for model building never left. “When I was in sixth grade, I got into the Tall Ships and built a model of the USS Constitution,” said Warren. Soon after, he went to see the real Constitution and it was then he was commit-
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David Warren of Melvin Village, NH, stands behind his scale model of the old Lake Winnipesaukee Mail Boat the Uncle Sam, which was in operation until 1962. Working from old photos and the vivid memory of former Uncle Sam Captain, Vernon Cotton, the completed model, which took three years to complete, is on display at The Lake Winnipesaukee michael cotton Photo Museum on Rte 3 in the Weirs.
Due to impressive attendance during the summer months, the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce will be continuing their Guided Walking Tours of Historic Dover through September 22nd. The Historic Tours, which depart from the Chamber of Commerce (550 Central Avenue), every Saturday morning at 10:30am were originally planned to end on August 25th. To date, over 70 people have taken the historic tour this summer which began being offered on June 16th. Attendees have come from as far as Israel, Canada and Wisconsin. The cost of the Guided Tour is $5 per person and $15 for families of three or more. Comfortable shoes, water bottles and reservations are strongly recommended. To make a reservation for an upcoming tour, please contact the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce by calling (603) 742-2218.
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AUGUST Tues. 28th – Sat. Sept. 1st “The Hound of the Baskervilles�
The Barnstormers Theatre, 104 Main Street, Tamworth. 323-8500 for tickets and showtimes.
Thursday 30th Bucky Lewis – Hilarious Comedy
The Margate, Laconia. Doors open at 7:15 and the show starts at 8pm. $15 at the door. 524-5210
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Swift River Jazz Band
Center Harbor Gazebo. 7-9pm. Free . Please bring a lawn chair or a blanket to sit on.
“The Composers of Tin Pan Alley� – Krisanthi Pappas
The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Alpenrose Plaza, Weirs Beach. Reservations are encouraged. $18/ adult or $16/seniors and students. 366-7377
Family Movie Night
The Gilman Library, 100 Main Street, Alton. 7pm. Popcorn and a movie! 875-2550. Free.
Bye Bye Birdie
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Franklin Opera House, 316 Central Street, Franklin. 7:30pm. $16/ adults or $14/students. www. franklinoperahouse.org
Saturday 1st
Recreational Use of the Belknaps – Free Lecture
NH Boat museum, 399 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Presented by Russ Wilder. 569-4554
Friday 31st Iris Dement
Prescott Park Arts Festival, Portsmouth. 7pm. www.prescottpark. org 436-2848
Bye Bye Birdie
Franklin Opera House, 316 Central Street, Franklin. 7:30pm. $16/ adults or $14/students. www.
Old Time Water Skiing Day
Meet at the pine tree by the Mount Washington Dock, Alton Bay. There will be skis from the 1940’s-1980’s to try and antique and modern boats to pull you. 397-2677
Separated/Divorced Support Group Meeting
St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, Main Street, Belmont. 6pm. All welcome. 267-8174
Book It 5K Race
Meet at the Community Park, near
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Frog Rock Tavern, Main Street, Meredith. 8am. Register in advance at the Meredith Public Library or register day of event. 279-4303
Children’s Book Signing
RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth. 10am. Authors Jennifer Butenas and Renee Schneider will be on hand to talk about their picture books, sign copies and maybe even do some drawings. 431-2100
“Broadway Favorites‌and All That Jazzâ€? – Krisanthi Pappas
The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Alpenrose Plaza, Weirs Beach. Reservations are encouraged. $18/ adult or $16/seniors and students. 366-7377
Flea Market
Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 8-2pm. 393-3746
Ballroom Dancing
Fitness Edge, Rt. 7-10pm. 677-2410
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Meredith.
Tuesday 4th Lafayette and the Farewell Tour : An American Idol
Meredith Historical Museum, 45 Main Street, Meredith. 7pm. 279-4617
Wednesday 5th The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking?
East Kingston Public Library, 47 Maplevale Road, East Kingston. 7pm. Presented by Richard Hesse. 642-8333
Lafayette: Symbol of FrancoAmerican Friendship
Wolfeboro Community Center, 22 Lehner Street, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. 912-201-1579
Country Village Quilt Guild Meeting
Moultonborough Life Safety Building, Rt. 25, Moultonborough. 1:30-3pm. Please bring a needle, scissors, string quilting type thread, tacky glue, pins and a decorative button to make Kanzashi Fabric Flower, which will be taught by Jane Pappe.
Thursday 6th The Making of Strawberry Banke
Plaistow Public Library, 85 Main Street, Plaistow. 7pm. Presented by J. Dennis Robinson. 300-0081
Native American History of NH
Pease Public Library, 1 Russell Street, Plymouth. 7pm. Presented by David Stewart-Smith. 536-2616
Saturday 8th 98th Annual Community Fair
Blazing Star Grange #71, Danbury. All day event! 526-2614
LRGH Employee Fundraising Yard Sale
Bucky Lewis Does It One More Time At Margate Laconia native and funny man Bucky Lewis has been packing them in at Blackstone’s Showroom in the Margate Resort, 76 Lake St. Laconia on Thursday nights this summer. The Laughs on the Lake� series has been bringing in good crowds this summer, and for those who haven’t experienced it, “It’s a highly fun and memorable time�, Lewis says. He is scheduled to perform his one-man adult comedy show one more Thursday, August 30th at 8pm. “People love to laugh. It’s such a release. And if you have a great and funny show, people will find you� Bucky Lewis states. “I have built a career on word of mouth shows. Of course it’s a challenge to stay fresh, especially in a smaller market, but it’s easy to work and create in an environment that you love.� A lot of his stories as well as characters that he does on stage come from his experiences growing up in New Hampshire. “We used to go to the `dump’ and shoot rats. Now we go to the `transfer station’ and recycle plastic.� Lewis goes on: “People love blue collar humor, especially when I get folks from the audience on stage. It’s pure spontaneity�. Tickets may be purchased on location at the door and by calling the Margate at: 603-5245210. Tickets are only $15.00 per person, and doors open at 7:00 pm. They can also be purchased online at: http://themargate.com/cornedy.html . To find out more about Bucky Lewis visit buckylewis.com.
Soling Championship Regatta In Wolfeboro On Sunday, September 2nd, The New Hampshire Boat Museum’s Back Bay Skippers will host top sailors from all over the Northeast and Canada in the American Model Yacht Association’s Regional 1 meter Soling Championship Regatta. The event is from 10:00am - 3:00pm followed by the awards ceremony and takes place in Back Bay. The races can be watched from the Bridge Falls Path. This prestigious event is sponsored by Edward Jones Investments and the office of Zach Tarter AAMS. Sailors will be racing using solings hulls. The soling is a scaled down version of an Olympic class yacht. It was developed in the 1960s and is one of the most popular classes in the American Model Yacht Association’s fleet. It carries 600 square inches of sail and displaces a minimum of 10 pounds. Attendees can come to watch the Regatta free of charge, and don’t forget your camera for this very photogenic event. For further information please call the Boat Museum at 5694554.
Downtown Art Stroll In Rochester Come on down to downtown Rochester for a great evening filled with fine art! The 1st Saturday Art Stroll will be on September 1st from 5pm to 7pm. Participating businesses include: artstream, Jenny Wren Gallery, Dos Amigos Gallery, artstream @Fat Tony’s Gallery, The No. 27 Gallery @ The Portable Pantry, BookBumz Java and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts located at 1 North Main Street on the 2nd floor. This event is always free and open to the public. Just look for the red and white ART flags.
Employee Parking lot, 63 Highland Street, Laconia. 8am-2pm. 737-6720
Festival of Flight
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. The Event will feature live animals, a spectacular kite and puppet performance and even a chance to get a bird’s eye view in a
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packing trip was the transportation; everything else was up to Rachel. This is her senior project and the first backpacking trip she has planned and led. Since it was likely to rain on our second day Rachel decided it would be best to do the hike from the North to South. This way we would have a good chance to make it over Old Speck and through the Mahoosuc Notch in good weather. Old Speck, elevation 4,170 feet, is a haul with a heavy pack; 3.8 miles straight up from Grafton Notch. Adrenaline carried us up the trail. We ditched our packs at the intersection of the spur trail to the summit and the beginning of the Mahoosuc Trail. Without packs we felt like we were floating. Two scraggly young men
rushed down past us. They looked like thru hikers to me. On the summit Rachel talked me into climbing the vertical ladder up the observation tower. We admired the grand panorama and wondered if we’d make it all the way to the Full Goose Shelter. Our destination looked so very far away. Off the tower we retreated quickly, it was too scary and windy way up there. Coming off Old Speck was exposed and steep; the wind tried to blow us off the mountain. We reached Speck Pond just before one o’clock and sitting on the edge of the shelter were four guys, including the two we saw on the summit. We chatted a bit and they didn’t seem interested in us. We learned
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Our Story The Weirs Times was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert. The newspaper, then named Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette, was published until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. One of the most remarkable features of the publication was a map of Lake Winnipesaukee which occupied the center spread of the paper. Readers will find the same map reprinted on the center pages of this, and every issue. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its
To the Editor: Who could imagine being jailed for collecting rainwater on your own property? It happened in Oregon where the state has decided it owns all water, from what comes up through your well, to whatever falls from the sky! Some may be unaware that in NH we have 9 unelected boards called “Regional Planning Commissions�. There is also a “Water Sustainability Commission�, created in 2011 by executive order of the Governor. People that are appointed to these commissions have no authority to impose laws, but are funded by millions of tax dollars to “advise�. Their documents indicate the promotion of the idea that NH has some sort of water emergency, requiring draconian measures to manage it as a “collective� resource — even though they acknowledge that New Hampshire is a “water rich state�. On one commission’s list of “legislative policies and priorities� (which they seem reluctant to define) are items such as “storm water management� and “storm water utility legislation�. Statements from their meetings suggest that all water is to be treated as a “state� resource whether it is from a public or private source, hinting at the idea that new regulations and taxes would be needed to control all usage “for the common good�. Further, there are activist groups (such as http://
www.celdf.org) that are planning to target town meetings in Mass, Maine and NH this spring to promote and propose the passage of ordinances which will satisfy a demand for “collective rights� and the “rights of nature.� If you value your private property rights, you will want to find out more about these NGOs and when they hold public meetings. The NH Water Sustainability Commission: http://www.nh.gov/water-sustainability/calendar/index.htm Nine NH Regional Planning Commissions: http://www.nharpc.org/ about-us For Maine, Massachusetts and other states: http://www.abag.ca.gov/ abag/other_gov/rcg.html ... or simply do a search for “regional planning commissions� or “regional planners� with your state in the phrase. Please call 603-4710138 for more info. Jane Aitken Bedford, NH
Choices Are Clear To The Editor: America is at a crossroads this November. This election is the most important election of our lifetime. We have now developed an “entitlement mentality�, which has got to change before it gets worse. Barack Obama is an unmitigated disaster. His policies have failed and have resulted in our economy being on life support--with another $5 trillion of
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predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and vicinity. Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will be found in these pages, just the good stuff. 30,000 copies are distributed every week in the Lakes Region/Concord/Seacoast area. 15,000
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accumulated debt. Energy prices are a disaster (with $86 billion of Our Own Oil being put “off limits�) ; food prices are at record highs ; unemployment stays at 8% for 42 consecutive months; an $86 billion “stimulus� --all on borrowed money ; seniors and middle class citizens on a fixed income hard hit ; the highest corporate tax rate in the world ; outright fraud in voting rolls, using massive numbers of dead voters ; the worst recovery in U.S. history. Obamacare was built, and sold, on a flawed idea, an impossibly complex remake of 1/6 of the U.S. economy. Government control of health care is wrong, and will bankrupt the country. There’s more---much more--- that is being foisted upon us. It’s time to stop transforming America into a second-rate, socialist state, dependent on the global economy, as liberals, progressives, and big government republicans are doing to our great country. Presidents hold a unique trust; presidents alone represent all Americans, in a position of responsibility with an obligation for improvement. The choices have never been more clear---stand up for America before it’s too late. Nancy Wall Bridgewater, NH.
Debate Issues To The Editor: To debate or not to debate - that still seems to be the big question in the NH political scene, especially concerning Senatorial District 2 Candidates Jeanie Forrester and Bob Lamb! Really? With all that’s going on in NH and the country, the “debate� issue continues to be the big question? “We need debates,� the Bob Lamb supporters say,
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Death’s Door, James R. Benn, Soho Crime, September 4, 2012, www.jamesrbenn.com Seven days, seven seas, seven deadly sins, seven pillars, 007. Number seven is ubiquitous in life and literature. Right now number seven is lucky for me and other fans of James R. Benn’s Billy Boyle World War II mysteries since the seventh in the series, Death’s Door, has been released. Last winter when Benn tweeted that he’d finished the final edit on his seventh Billy Boyle mystery the most immediate thought in my head was “I had lived there seven years… and seemed likely to remain so for another seven , or even twenty-seven”
a remark made by Nero Wolfe’s Archie Goodwin in the first Nero Wolfe novel, Fer-De-Lance . I’ve been reading the Billy Boyle mysteries since the beginning, and I hope Benn writes at least seven more, preferably twentyseven or more, stories about Billy Boyle. Why not? Billy’s job as a lieutenant in the U.S. army and a special assistant to General Eisenhower is far from over. And what about after the war? With the contacts Billy’s made and the skills that he has, there’s no reason he can’t go to work for the OSS when he’s demobilized. Death’s Door finds Billy at the Vatican in the middle of German occupied Rome. His girlfriend, Diana Seaton, a British secret agent, is being held and perhaps tortured in a vile Nazi prison not far
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- Americans following this year’s presidential campaign would never know it from mainstream media coverage, but the by Oliver North commander in Syndicated Columnist chief we hired four years ago has set the United States on a course for unilateral disarmament. The following people hope you won’t notice until after Nov. 6: Vladimir Putin, Liang Guanglie, Kim Jong-un, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Salman bin Abdulaziz alSaud, A.Q. Khan and of course, Barack Obama. The 10 individuals above share a common fascination: nuclear weapons. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s modern czar; Liang Guanglie, minister of national defense for the People’s Republic of Chi-
na; Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s “Great Successor;” and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Kayani, already have such weapons of mass destruction in their hands, the means of delivering them and are racing to build more. Messer’s Khamenei -- Iran’s supreme leader; Gen. al-Sisi, Egypt’s new defense minister; Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan; Saudi Crown Prince Salman and Pakistan’s “nuclear physicist for hire” A.Q. Khan -- are all aspirants to the exclusive nuclear weapons club -- and engaged in various stages of building many more such devices. As for Barack Obama -- he just wants to get rid of all nuclear weapons -- starting with ours. To m a n y A m e r i c a n s , t h a t sounds a lot like an invitation to disaster. To Global Zero, an international movement dedicated to the elimination of all nuclear weapons, that sounds like a great idea. Barack Obama says, “Global Zero will always have a partner in me and my administration.” See north on 40
Breaking news: The Fishwrap of Record has finally discovered that the Obama administration gives its Chicago corby Michelle Malkin p o r a t e p a l s Syndicated Columnist special access to power and regulatory favoritism. On Thursday, The Not-So-New York Times published an A1 story titled “Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility.” Everyone, put on your shocked faces! “With energy an increasingly pivotal issue for the Obama White House,” the Times intoned, “a review of Exelon’s relationship with the administration shows how familiarity has helped foster access at the upper reaches of government and how, in some cases, the outcome has been favorable for Exelon.” You mean Hope and Change was all smoke and mirrors? Well, knock me over with a feather and call me Grandpa Daley! White House press flack Jay Carney played dumb when asked about the report, which detailed “an unusually large number of meetings with top administration officials at key moments in the consideration of environmental regulations that have been drafted in a way that hurt Exelon’s competitors.” “I’m not sure what the issue is, frankly,” Carney told the Beltway press corps. Carney, a former Time magazine journalist who pointedly reminded his former media colleagues that he “was a reporter,” apparently forgot all the connect-the-dots training he got at his once-hallowed publication.
The issue, dear Carney, is favortrading and access-peddling. Government for the cronies, by the cronies and of the cronies. The Times spelled it out: “I would like to get some treatment in Washington like that,” Ken Anderson, general manager at Tri-State G and T, a Colorado-based power supplier that has been at odds with Exelon over environmental regulations, told the paper. “But Exelon seems to get deference that I can’t get.” As I noted back in January in my column on Obama’s green robber barons, my scouring of White House visitor logs showed nine visits from Illinois-based Exelon’s CEO John Rowe, who met with the president and former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel multiple times. The clean energy company’s deep ties had already been illuminated by several other business publications, including Forbes and Crain’s. Frank M. Clark, the veteran lobbyist who runs Exelon’s Commonwealth Edison, the largest electric utility in Illinois, is a top Obama adviser and fundraiser dating back to the former community organizer’s Illinois State Senate days. Longtime Obama campaign guru David Axelrod worked as a consultant to Exelon. And Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel helped create Exelon -- where he raked in more than $16 million over two years. Carney’s boss once made it a central hobbyhorse of his presidential campaign. When he announced his presidential intentions in 2007, candidate Obama decried “the cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests who’ve turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.” He indignantly singled out “the best bundlers” who get the “greatest access”
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D-Day Beaches to Join Ranks of World Heritage List? PARIS—The
Normandy Beaches which witnessed the epic 6 June 1944 Allied landings leading to the libby John J. Metzler e r a t i o n o f Syndicated Columnist France and Nazi-occupied Europe, have been etched in the annals modern history. Now the in a move supported by the French government, the landing beaches would be inscribed into UNESCO’s World Heritage List, hopefully in time for the 70th anniversary of the landings in 2014. First, a word about the World Heritage list. The list contains a compendium of 962 sites globally which have historic, cultural and natural geographic significance as recognized by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. They are culturally protected treasures. For example in France the Mt. St. Michel Monastery (very near the landing beaches) is on the list as is Chartres Cathedral. Such European historic city centers of Florence, Sienna and Prague along with the Tower of London are included too. In the USA, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Redwoods National Parks are inscribed. In Asia for example, the Great Wall of China, ancient Kyoto and Nara in Japan, and Gyeongju historic city in Korea are but a few of the wonders. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s planning for and executing the D-Day, the largest amphibious military operations in history was hobbled by inter-service infighting and national rivalries. Now getting the famed Normandy landing beaches on the select list requites both historic standing and equally the political patience to navigate the Byzantine bureaucracy of UNESCO’s Paris headquarters where bureaucracy reaches the level of fine art. The French newspaper Le Figaro headlined, “Landing; Battle for the classification of the Beaches by UNESCO. The Normans wish to inscribe Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword to the national patrimony.” Yet, the article con-
cedes that battlefields anywhere are rarely listed in the World Heritage list. Alessandro Balsamo, program specialist at UNESCO told the France 24 news channel, of a lengthy and complex process for applications which could see the idea “stuck in the pipeline for decades.” He stated, “Even getting such a project into a tentative list can take years of preparation.” Currently France has 34 sites waiting to be evaluated, some since 1996. Despite what could be expected to be strong French lobbying in the 190 member state organization, UNESCO officials concede that even considering the application could take five years. Official French support for the inclusion came during the waning days of the Sarkozy administration; now President Francois Hollande has expressed interest in the project and recently Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear visited Normandy as part of a contact program encouraging investment and trade. All sides realize both the historic and business boost the World Heritage status would add to the Normandy region. The landing beaches were the springboard from which 160,000 American and Allied troops went ashore on D-Day to storm Nazioccupied Europe. The American landed on Omaha and Utah Beach, Gold and Sword hosted British forces, while Juno saw the arrival of the Canadians. Landing units were augmented by Free French troops. At least 10,000 allied troops were killed on what came to be known as the longest day. After the initial success of the landings, the Allied forces were bottled up near the coast by stiff German resistance for nearly two months until the breakout and the dash across France. The Liberation of Paris came on the 25th August with the arrival of the French 2nd armor Leclerc Division, backed up by U.S. forces. General Charles de Gaulle, leader of Free France, properly insisted that French troops be the first to enter the capital city. Though the beaches have hosted annual D-Day commemorations, none was as memorable as President Ronald Reagan’s mag-
isterial speech at Omaha beach in 1984, praising the heroism of the generation which liberated Europe from Nazi tyranny. Now the political battle begins through the bureaucratic labyrinth of UNESCO’s headquar-
ters. Clearly France has much political capital and clout with the organization. But serious additional support and lobbying by the nations United States, Britain and Can-
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A Powerful Movie Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie “2016,” based by Thomas Sowell o n D i n e s h Syndicated Columnist D’Souza’s bestselling book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Where I live is so politically correct that such a movie would not even be mentioned, much less shown. Every seat in the theater was filled, even though there had been an earlier showing that day, and more showings were scheduled for the rest of the afternoon and evening. I had to sit on a staircase in the balcony, but it was worth it. The audience was riveted. You could barely hear a sound from them, or detect a movement, and certainly not smell popcorn. Yet the movie had no bombast, no vio-
lence, no sex and no spectacular visual effects. The documentary itself was fascinating, as Dinesh D’Souza presented the story of Barack Obama’s life and view of the world, in a very conversational sort of way, illustrating it with visits to people and places around the world that played a role in the way Obama’s ideas and beliefs evolved. It was refreshing to see how addressing adults as adults could be effective, in an age when so many parts of the media address the public as if they were children who need a constant whirlwind of sounds and movements to keep them interested. Dinesh D’Souza’s own perspective, as someone born in India who came to America and became an American, provided a special insight into the way people from the Third World often perceive or misperceive the United States and the Western world. See Sowell on 43
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Your Health is in Your Hands by Dr. Graham Moneysmith, DC. Contributing Writer
I am seriously shocked that summer is rapidly coming to an end. I’m good with this though, as I really like fall. Not to bring up fall too soon, but it’s on its way and it’s time to accept it. Leaves, pumpkins, and corn mazes are just part of the fun. We also have back to school; here is where the parents cheer and the kids groan. Back to school is great because it’s a fresh start and a clean slate. It’s the opportunity for our kids to have more success than last year, create good habits, and be their best selves. It’s this time of year, in our offices, that we are sure to remind our practice members of some back to school safety and success tips. First and foremost to have a successful start to your family’s school year: create rituals. Meaning: make habits that add structure to the day to help your student have consistency. The best way to do this is to set time parameters. Have your student wake up and go to bed at the same time everyday and don’t allow too much variation on the weekends. This will help your kid to be well rested. Another great habit: make breakfast a priority. Many kids skip breakfast and if they do eat breakfast it’s often sugary junk food or fast food. According to some preliminary research presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (summary presented on webmed.com) breakfast eaters (adults in this case) were 34% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, 43% less like-
ly to become obese, and 40% less likely to develop fat around the stomach (abdominal fat is an indicator of future disease). One other key ritual to success would be daily time that is prescheduled for homework/studying. This time is to be untouchable and will allow your student to get all their assignments done, but also keep you in touch with what they are learning. Besides rituals, another way to make the school year a success is backpack safety. How many times have you seen some little kid trudging home from school carrying a roughly 50 pound backpack, yet they only weigh like 60 pounds themselves. This is obviously not good for the child. In 2004 the University of California, Riverside researched this topic and the research was presented in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. The UCR researchers determined that a large percentage of middle school kids suffer back pain based on the weight on their backs. As the weight increased , so did the pain. Furthermore, they reported that more than 64% of the middle school kids surveyed had pain. How often do we think our kids are back
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“I feel that large scale models can sometimes be unwieldy and that small scales can lose a lot of detail,” said Warren. “The Uncle Sam model is the largest scale I have ever used. You can see clearly every nail and screw head.” Still, the task of building a model of the Uncle Sam wasn’t a simple one. “I couldn’t find any surviving plans of the vessel,” said Warren. “Most of the pictures I found didn’t provide enough information to build an accurate model. Most of them were with the vessel in the water which doesn’t help in seeing the hull shape, propeller or rudder.” What Warren did find was See uncle Sam on 19
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Photo of the Uncle Sam used by David Warren in building his model. Other photos show modifications that were added to the boat. A railing was added later to the top to keep passengers from falling off. In later photos the Black and White awning in back of the boat was gone. Vernon Cotton (L) Ed Lavallee in 1961. uncle sam from 18
a more invaluable source. Vernon Cotton, now in his early 90s, was once a pilot of the Uncle Sam. (Cotton also was one of the owners of a WWII era PT Boat that became the Uncle Sam II.) Cotton remembers every aspect of the Uncle Sam in great detail and also
provided Warren with invaluable photographs of the Uncle Sam in dry dock and being worked on giving Warren the complete look he needed to give his model the exact details. “I never would have attempted to make this model if it wasn’t for Vernon,” said Warren. “We corresponded
back and forth for about two years during the project. His knowledge about the Uncle Sam was unbelievable.” Cotton now lives in Virginia and he and Warren have never met, still their back and forth correspondence was key to Warren’s getting the Uncle Sam just
right. One of Vernon’s letters to me runs several pages,” said Warren. “In it, he walks me through the vessel from stern to bow and then up to the cabin roof. He even remembered where some of the smaller items were stored. He provided invaluable information right
down to the dimensions of the frames.” One entry in Cotton’s letter to Warren states: “At the front was a two-door cabinet for all kinds of candy. The seat on each side held 6 people. On the deck was a large box about 3’x4’ with a cover. The box held ice See uncle sam on 21
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Hill Historical Society Open House The Hill Historical Society will host an Open House at the Town Meeting House on Saturday, September 8th from 10am to Noon. Visitors can view items in the archives and learn about local history from a self-guided wall panel display which includes the moving of the Village of Hill to allow construction of a federal flood control project. Historical publications are available for sale and HHS members will be there to answer questions and accept membership applications which include a newsletter of the Society’s events. The Old Village is expected to be open to vehicle traffic on Saturday and Sunday, September 8-9th from Back Road in Hill. This is a once-a-year event sponsored by the NH Dept. of Natural Resources.
Tales of The Mount Washington and The Uncle Sam On Wednesday, September 12th at 7pm at the Lake Winnipesaukee Museum, David Warren will give a presentation on the Steam ship Mount Washington and also talk a bit about the Uncle Sam Mail Boat. The Uncle Sam serviced the islands on Lake Winnipesaukee from 1907 to 1961. Warren recently completed a scale model of the Uncle Sam which is now on display at the museum. The Museum is located on Route 3, between Meredith and Weirs Beach (next to Funspot). Admission is free and donations are always greatly appreciated. The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10am-2pm. For more information call 603-366-5950 or visit www. lakewinnipesaukeemuseum.org.
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and about three cases of tonic.” “The hull was the hardest part,” said Warren. “I peppered Vernon with questions for about a year and then started constructing a half-hull model. When the half-hull model was done I took the lines off and drew a complete set of plans based on the information
and sketches that Vernon provided.” The rest of the model is exquisite in its detail, including scaled reproductions of the mail room, right down to the miniature letters, and the engine room, which was open to passengers. “That proved to be a challenge,” said Warren. Warren even found some
historic coal for the model from the old Piper Homestead in Tuftonboro. (The Uncle Sam was converted to diesel power at the end of the 1944 season.) The entire model sits upon a sea of U.S stamps from 1910-1960. The Uncle Sam was built in 1905 to replace The Dolphin, which was built in See uncle sam on 22
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The engine room of the Uncle was open to passengers so David Warren had to replicate that as well. Not something he was used to with other ship models.
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& Arthur, the first mailboat. Both the Robert & Arthur and the Dolphin were proven to be ineffective for their tasks. The Robert & Arthur was too small (36 feet) to meet the growing need of the mail business and the Dolphin, at 43 feet, still proved too small and her overhanging stern resulted in a low hull making the vessel wet and tender. Dr. George A. Saltmarsh, a well-known physician in the Lake Region, was the one who had the idea of
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anderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, as captain and the Uncle Sam was used as an excursion boat. In 1934, Ed bought the Uncle Sam from his father and put it back into mail service with the Marshal Foch eventually being dismantled. In 1962, a state inspector made test borings on the Uncle Sam, found rot and condemned the boat. Soon after, Lavallee had the boat dismantled and burned. In the 1920s, the Uncle Sam ran one route a day from Lakeport to The Weirs and then out to the Islands on Lake Winnipesaukee. In the 1950s, the Uncle Sam made two trips a day around the lake. She left Lakeport at 8am and 1pm for a four-hour cruise that cost $1.50. It made thirteen stops: Lakeport, Weirs, Loon Island, Pine Island, Bear Island Post Office, Beaver Island, 3 Mile Camp, Camp Seneca on Bear Island, East Bear Island, Birch Island, Sandy Island, Cow Island (Camp Idewild), Jolly Island, Mark Island, Weirs and Lakeport. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the reasons I found doing a model of the Uncle Sam so important was that it served as such a crucial lifeline to the islanders on Lake WinnipeSee uncle sam on 23
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The Uncle Sam now with the railing on top.
A door from the model of the Uncle Sam next to a quarter to illustrate the intricacies of the detail of the model. uncle sam from 22
saukee,â&#x20AC;? said Warren. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mail delivery was really secondary as it was really used to transport supplies and such.â&#x20AC;? One great example of this was Camp Idewild on Cow Island, which hosted up to 100 boys at a time. It was the Uncle Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest stop. During the summer it transported 400 boys with foot lockers and other gear. It also carried food, supplies and equipment for the camp. The story goes that one time there were so many cots stacked on the roof of the Uncle Sam that it barely made it under the Weirs Bridge. Vernon Cotton remembered: â&#x20AC;&#x153;One time we heard a noise when we were loading a trunk. I set it aside and opened it later. There among the neatly packed shirts and shorts was a cat. I opened up some milk, fed the cat and delivered it to the camp along with the boys and lockers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My real main focus in taking on this project was to add to, and in some cases connect the historical record.â&#x20AC;? Said Warren. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have found some serious flaws in the record of the steamboat era on Winnipesaukee. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I
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for one mile its narrow bed is filled with monster boulders and piles of large broken rock and there is no way to go around only over and often under them. We had to remove and push our packs at least three times. I got wedged like Winnie-the-Pooh in an opening and Rachel had to help pull me out. We laughed at every arrow that pointed into another boulder cave. Some were very cold because winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ice can last here all summer. Just before exiting the Notch, Rachel announced it was snack time and I was glad to hear it. Just then two of the four guys we met earlier came up behind us. When Rachel offered to share our bounty of cookies and candy they paid attention to us. They were indeed southbound thru hikers. The four of them had met on the trail and were traveling together for now. The hike up to the ledges on the South Peak of Fulling Mill Mountain wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy but compared with where we had been all day it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem too bad and we rested and enjoyed the view. The ski resort Sunday River is right nearby and I took advantage of their cell phone tower to call home to check in. At 5pm the Full Goose Shelter was a very welcome sight. We set up our tent on a platform behind the shelter. I fired up the Jet Boil and Rachel cooked us up some mighty fine mac & cheese and she added pepperoni. We shared our pretzels with the guys and listened to their tales from the trail. I confess I felt oddly pleased to be accepted by these thru-hikers. One of the guys made beautiful music on a six string guitar that he had carried in a dog food bag that he tied on his pack. We climbed in our sleeping bags before it got dark. We hit the trail at 8am and continued following the ATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s white blazes along the Mahoosuc Trail. We ached from not sleeping in a soft bed but we managed to travel along at a good clip, the trail wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too steep and we enjoyed See patenaude on 27
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On top of Mount Success the clouds broke and the rain let up. We were still three miles from Gentian Pond Shelter but at least it was mostly downhill.
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the open views from the ledgy trail up to Goose Eye from the North Peak. On Goose Eye we met hoards of northbound hikers. Our hearts nearly broke when a young gal, one of the few we met during our trip, asked us how far to Old
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Mount Carlo. Rachel made a good decision to tough it out the first day. We had a hard time imagining going through a wet slippery Mahoosuc Notch and we knew that the solo gal trying to meet her parents was doing just that. We gave a little cheer when we passed the state line sign and entered NH. Thankfully the weather was warm and being wet was just a mild aggravation. We passed two camp groups of middle school boys making slow progress up Mount Success; only a few looked like they were still having fun. Rachel entered the grumpy zone and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to stop until we reached the Gentian Pond Shelter. I was wet, hungry and bushed. I stopped, laid out my sleeping pad in the trail and sat down. She saw I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t moving so she pulled the food out of her pack and joined me. Then one of the guys showed up right in time to eat. We fed him and he was thankful. We then learned that they all were nearly out of food and wanted to reach Gorham as soon as possible. Happily we packed our sleeping bags and clothing in plastic bags and we enjoyed a dry night. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think crowded shelters, three sided sheds, are as appealing as our tent.
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Bank of New Hampshire Supports Veterans Home Bank of New Hampshire is proud to support the New Hampshire Veterans Home and help continue their mission to provide high quality, professional, long-term care services to the Granite States veterans. For more than a century, the New Hampshire Veterans Home has provided compassion, respect and dignity while creating a unique environment for those who have made personal sacrifices in the military and now need assistance to care for themselves. Established in 1890 as the Soldier’s Home for Civil War Veterans, they provide care and comfort for thousands who have served our country and fellow-citizens. “After touring the NH Vet-
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Bektash Shrine Center, 189 Pembroke Rd., Concord. 6pm cocktail hour, music starts at 7pm. Tickets $45/advance or $50/door. To benefit CATCH Neighborhood Housing. 3696555. www.musicaltribute.org
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nuclear weapons and taking steps to preserve our nuclear triad: land-based ICBMs, strategic bombers and ballistic missile submarines. He lied. The warhead modernization program is all but defunct. Most of our geriatric ICBMs are over 40 years old; our submarinelaunched ballistic missiles are a quarter-century old; and some of the aircraft designated to respond to a nuclear attack on the U.S., with weapons in kind, are twice as old as the 30-year-old pilots flying them. The rest of the world -- Russia included -- is rushing to design and build modern equivalents for all these systems. The O-Team isn’t. Degrading the U.S. offensive nuclear capability and its deterrent factor is bad enough, but the Obama administration’s unilateral disarmament plan goes even further -by eliminating defensive systems to protect our homeland and the American people. They have already killed three promising airborne and space-
based missile defense programs and drastically reduced the number of U.S.-based interceptors. When I was at the Naval Academy, I was a boxer. What Obama has done is tantamount to sending a boxer into the ring against seven opponents, with his hands shackled around his waist. He can’t throw a punch. He can’t even put up his hands to defend himself. Worse, we don’t know what else is secretly “on the table” in this effort to gut America’s defenses. Reporters covering the presidential campaign ask about every conceivable issue but pose no questions about what Obama meant last March when he was overheard begging Medvedev to ask Putin for more “space” until after the election, when he would have “more flexibility.” Since then, the O-Team has shrugged off Russian bombers inadvertently penetrating U.S. airspace and a Russian sub trolling around in the Gulf of Mexico. Arizona Congressman
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That Third World perspective is Obama’s perspective, D’Souza demonstrates in this documentary, as in his book -- and it is a perspective that is very foreign to that of most Americans, which may be why some believe that Obama was born elsewhere. D’Souza is convinced that the president was born in Hawaii, as he claims, but argues that not only Obama’s time living in Indonesia and his emotionally charged visits to his father’s home in Africa, have had a deep and impassioned effect on his thinking. The story of Barack Obama, however, is not just the story of how one man came to be the way he is. It is a much larger story about how millions of Americans came to vote for, and some to idolize, a man whose fundamental beliefs and values are so different from their own. For every person who sees Obama as somehow foreign there are many others who see him as a mainstream American political figure -and an inspiring one.
This D’Souza attributes to Barack Obama’s great talents in rhetoric, and his ability to project an image that resonates with most Americans, however much that image may differ from, or even flatly contradict, the reality of Obama’s own ideological view of the world. What is that ideological view? The Third World, or anticolonial, view is that the rich nations have gotten rich by taking wealth from the poor nations. It is part of a much larger vision, in which the rich in general have gotten rich by taking from the poor, whether in their own country or elsewhere. Whatever its factual weaknesses, it is an emotionally powerful vision, to which many people have dedicated their lives, and for which some have even risked their lives. Some of these people appear in this documentary movie, as they have appeared throughout the formative phases of Barack Obama’s life. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is just the most vis-
ible and vocal of a long line of such people who played crucial roles in Obama’s evolution. When Jeremiah Wright thundered about how ‘white folks’ greed runs a world in need,” he captured the essence of the Third World or anti-colonial vision. But many of the other mentors, allies, family and friends of Barack Obama over the years were of the same mindset, as this documentary demonstrates. More important, the movie “2016” demonstrates how so many of Obama’s actions as President of the United States, which D’Souza had predicted on the basis of his study of Obama’s background, are perfectly consistent with that ideology, however inconsistent it is with the rhetoric that gained him the highest office in the land. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.
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Salome’s Stars Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might not like the sudden setback in your plans. But keep that headstrong Arian temperament in check and wait for explanations. Things will begin to clear up by week’s end. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Enjoy the respite from your recent hectic schedule, but be ready to plunge into a new round of social activities. A new contact holds much potential for the future. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A trusted colleague has news that could change your perception of a current workplace situation. What had seemed unfair might prove to be highly favorable after all. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You still need to watch what you say and how you say it. What you assert as honesty, others might perceive as Crabbiness. Be patient. This difficult period clears up by the weekend. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your Royalness needs time away from the limelight
ACROSS 1 Martin Sheen, to Emilio Estevez 4 Photo tint 9 Pipe part 13 TV’s “The - of Life” 18 Baal or Elvis 20 Bonus 21 Soccer superstar 22 Cold sound 23 Dancing president? 25 Landed 26 Range rope 27 - a customer 28 Whip 30 Tranquil 32 -4 (Toyota model) 33 Little lumps 36 Fawning 39 Parisian pronoun 40 Dancing colonist? 43 Go Fish and golf 45 Comic DeLuise 48 Muse with a scroll 49 Command to a corgi 50 Meyerbeer’s “Huguenots” 51 Prospector’s prize 52 “The Twelve -” (‘70 film) 54 At once 56 Freezin’ season 59 Finger food 61 Trickles 63 Short story 65 Cognizant 67 In the manner of 68 Bare 69 Start to snooze 70 Viva 72 Dancing comic? 76 “- of Gold” (‘70 hit) 77 Gray matter? 78 Northwestern st. 80 Philips of “UHF”
to catch up on things, from tidying your desk to making those calls you’ve put off. You’re back in the center of things by the weekend. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Honesty is the best policy, of course. But you’ll do better at achieving your goals if you can be less aggressive and more circumspect in how you phrase your comments. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your ability to maintain your balance in confusing situations continues to work for you. Stay on the steady course, one step at a time. The weekend shows improvement. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your indecisiveness could simply be your keen Scorpian sense warning you to be wary of making a commitment. Take this time to do a more thorough investigation. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Good news: New information comes your way to help you make a more informed decision on how to deal with the opportunity that has opened up for you.
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CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) This is a good time to reinforce your self-confidence by acknowledging your good qualities to yourself. A lull in your social life ends by the weekend. Have fun.
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