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How The First Settlers Moved To Northern New Hampshire This article was excerpted from “Bethlehem, New Hampshire - 1999 Bicentennial Edition.” It was written by the people of Bethlehem. We thank the Bethlehem Heritage Society for providing it. During the early 1600’s when the settlement of

New Hampshire was just beginning there was no provincial organization or government and the people practiced a form of local self government. Two brothers, Edward and Thomas Hilton, developed with David Thompson a fishing colony at the mouth of the Piscataqua

River. They were working for John Mason who owned a land grant for a large part of the present State of Maine and New Hampshire. The Hilton brothers settled on the present site of Dover, while Thompson set up a small fish drying factory at Rye. When Mason

died in 1635 his investment in these two operations was over 22,000 British pounds, a sizeable amount even by today’s standards. Land was cleared, forts built, trading posts established, factories built, and the development of New See settlers on 22

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An early postcard looking east down Main Street in Bethlehem, NH. Its first residents did not move there until the 1780s. In fact, many towns in Northern New Hampshire were not developed until the second half of the eighteenth century.

On Saturday morning, Dec. 1, at 11 a.m., the Dover Public Library will host a free, live classical music concert featuring three performers and some well-known pieces from Mozart, including the “Turkish March”, a violin sonata, and arias from his operas. Designed especially for families, the concert’s length will be just 40-45 minutes so that children may attend and enjoy the music too. The performers’ goal is to encourage classical music appreciation among all ages. Performing will be: Naho Bessho on piano, Sally Wituszynski on violin, and soprano Melissa Manseau. Please join the Dover Public Library for a wonderful opportunity to enjoy, listen, and learn more about classical music. For more information, call the library at 603516-6050.

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Bayswater Books Hosts Local Author Signing Lakes Region author Peter Miller will be at Bayswater Books in Center Harbor on Saturday, December 1st to sign copies of his recently published book, “Seven Canterbury Tales Retold: Improvisations on Chaucer.” Bayswater is located in Senter’s Marketplace near Keepsake Quilting. The signing will take place from 11am to 1pm. “Seven Canterbury Tales Retold” was begun in 1995 and completed in June, 2012. Says Miller, “My goal was to create a modern version of Chaucer’s medieval classic. My pilgrims interact with each other in humorous and touching ways as they travel to the Vatican, Jerusalem, and beyond, and they compete at storytelling, just as Chaucer’s pilgrims did en route to Canterbury. Their stories range from the comical to the spiritual, and they include a Civil War epic, an animal fable told in the Native American tradition, a love story with an unexpected and imaginative twist, and an account of the small miracle God creates to renew a priest’s faith. All of the stories are improvisations on Chaucer’s original tales, utilizing the characters and themes he made famous.” The “Canterbury Tales” is the second most published work in the English language, surpassed only by the Bible. There will be an opportunity to chat with Miller about his book and about Chaucer during the signing. So come on down to Bayswater on December 1st and be one of the first to own this unusual and original work of fiction, which one Chaucer scholar has praised as “a mammoth undertaking and a powerful achievement.”

Ed Gerhard At The Belknap Mill Ed Gerhard returns to Laconia on December 1 for his Twenty-first Annual Christmas Guitar Concert at The Belknap Mill, The Mill Plaza, 25 Beacon St E, Laconia. Showtime is 7:30pm. Tickets are $22 in advance and $24 at the door. They are available by calling (603) 664-7200, at Greenlaw’s Music in Laconia and the League of NH Craftsmen in Meredith and on the web at www.edgerhard.com In the season of giving a food drive will be held at the concert. Bring a nonperishable food item to benefit Community Action/ Laconia Area Food Pantry and receive a $1-off coupon for any CD at the CD tables. One donation per CD please.

Celebrity Waiter Holiday Dinner Theatre On Saturday, December 1st the Celebrity Waiter Dinner Theatre will once again be held at the Rochester Opera House. Enjoy a fantastic evening of non-stop entertainment and holiday cheer as the Opera House is decked out for the holidays with cocktail seating for a rousing Broadway Variety Show with a catered dinner served by community celebrity waiters. Your every wish is their command since the waiters are competing for the most tips. Expect lots of laughs, audience participation and surprises. The dinner is catered by the Governor’s Inn. Cocktail hour is 6pm and dinner is at 7pm with the show scheduled to start at 8pm. Tickets are $60 per person with a table of 8 for $400. Patrons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. For tickets call 603-335-1992 or online at www.rochesteroperahouse.com. The Rochester Opera House is located at 31 Wakefield Street in Rochester.

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impressive Globe Institute of Technology. Local media has long overlooked some great NHTI teams, which is really too bad. Check them out. You’ll enjoy the show. On Buffalo Wild Wings Great News! There is now a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Concord. This national chain has been growing since it started in 1982, and each franchise is, in effect, a local sports bar. The Concord location has seemingly countless screens of every size featuring all kinds of sports action. There are sports jerseys on the walls. The obligatory Larry Bird (#33) and Bobby Orr (#4) are there, or course, as well as local paraphernalia, such as a Concord High School Crimson Tide hockey jersey. And best of all, they have the national Trivia Network (NTN) capability, where patrons can compete in knowledge contests against others in the bar/restau-

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Guest Editorial Get Involved In Politics To Make A Difference by Tim Carter

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I read with great sadness Ray Cunningham’s rant about the ugly industrial wind turbines (Weirs Times 11-222012 issue) that are now peering down over Newfound Lake. Ray’s advice, in his last sentence, is to “ ... write your elected officials ..... to make sure it can’t happen in your neck of the woods.” Ray, I share your frustration with the monster propellers, but your proposed solution is not the right course of action. I know this because I once sat as an appointed bureaucrat on a local planning and zoning board for eight years. After that I was an elected selectman in my village for two terms of office. Writing letters to those people will do little. There’s a far better way to stop offensive projects like this. If you want to make sure something doesn’t happen in your neck of the woods, then you must either be one of the actual decision makers or you discover how to prick the Achilles heels of those that make the decisions. If you want to stop the erosion of freedom, liberty, personal property rights and the raping of New Hampshire’s vistas, then you and every other citizen who is both angry and infuriated by such actions must get involved. Getting involved means you must actively and regularly participate in the political

process. This can range the gamut from attending public meetings on a regular basis to running for office in your town or county. Without knowing the facts about the wind turbines around Newfound Lake, I’ll conjecture on what happened. My guess is many months before the foundations for the towers were poured on the ridge line, this project was discussed at some level at the planning board meetings in the town(s) where the turbines are located. Do you attend those meetings regularly? I didn’t think so. Rarely did citizens attend the meetings in my village when we discussed important issues. The chairs in the room were empty. I always thought that was crazy when here we were, up on the dais, discussing issues that would have long-term major impacts in our village. But I digress. It’s possible that zoning had to be changed or a variance issued to allow for the construction of the wind machines. This would have been discussed at the open meetings. It’s possible the selectmen in the town(s) had to vote on the project. Do you, and many of your neighbors, attend the selectmen meetings on a regular basis? Do you attend their open workshops? Why don’t you attend? Planning board members in our towns are usually not elected. Selectmen almost

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Wal-Mart vs. The Mob Black Friday always brings out the worst: long lines, short tempers and r a n d o m outbreaks of shoppers’ rage. This by Michelle Malkin year, Big Syndicated Columnist Labor will ratchet up the Strikesgiving tension with professional grievancemongers and workers picketing at 1,000 Wal-Mart stores nationwide. Attention, Wal-Mart directors: Mob appeasement never works. They’ve tried repeatedly to stave off union thuggery through political “partnerships” and capitulation. It has failed and failed and failed. As you may recall, the discount retail giant shocked many observers in 2009 when it announced it was embracing the principles of President Obama’s federal health care mandate. The nation’s largest private (and non-union) employer was joined by its perennial arch-enemy, the Service Employees International Union (then-helmed by frequent White House guest and deeppocketed heavy Andy Stern) and the far-left Center for American Progress (run by Obama confidante John Podesta and funded by billionaire George Soros). In their joint Obamacare letter, the strange bedfellows declared: “As the nation’s largest private employer, the nation’s largest union of health care workers with over 1 million members and a think tank that has been a leader on health care policy, we have worked closely in support of health care reform since 2006, when we came together to help

break the stalemate that had defined the health care debate for too long.” Wal-Mart, SEIU and CAP together endorsed Obamacare’s employer mandate and “shared responsibility” provisions, which they called “important proposals that should be included in the current efforts to reform our nation’s health care system.” These unholy alliances were forged out of Wal-Mart’s desperation and political expediency. Providing cover for the White House on Obamacare bought Wal-Mart one day of goodwill theater. But SEIU and Soros operatives have promoted a noholds-barred campaign against Wal-Mart for decades. The union funded an incendiary “Wal-Mart Watch” website with at least $1 million in rank-and-file employee dues. Wal-Mart foolishly contributed between $500,000 and $999,999 to Podesta and his Soros-backed Center for American Progress. But Soros’ MoveOn hit team is now instigating the Black Friday strikes online. Similar corporate outreach to the Congressional Black Caucus brought rebukes from, you guessed it, SEIU leaders, which blasted Wal-Mart for “undermining standards for all American workers.” Never mind that Wal-Mart employs 1.3 million people, 250,000 of whom have been there for more than 10 years and 165,000 of whom are hourly associates who were promoted last year. Nor will the company ever have the sympathies of the president -- despite first lady Michelle Obama’s comfy seat on the corporate board of directors of TreeHouse Foods Inc. Wal-Mart happens to be the conglomerate’s biggest customer. See malkin on 27

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Obama’s Burma Road UNITED NATIONS--The his-

forts to ensure a slow but certain political thaw. Yet, Burma’s reformist rulers are still shadowed by a skeptical military. Obama’s six hour visit to Rangoon was part of a larger trip to an ASEAN conference.

Burma appears one of the painfully few places where American foreign policies seem to be trending towards the positive; the setbacks in Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the shameful

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Killing The Goose Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should by Thomas Sowell listen to. The Syndicated Columnist labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have learned a lot from that old children’s fairy tale. Many people think of labor unions as organizations to benefit workers, and think of employers who are opposed to unions as just people who don’t want to pay their employees more money. But some employers have made it a point to pay their employees more than the union wages, just to keep them from joining a union. Why would they do that, if it is just a question of not wanting to

pay union wages? The Twinkies bankruptcy is a classic example of costs created by labor unions that are not confined to paychecks. The work rules imposed in union contracts required the company that makes Twinkies, which also makes Wonder Bread, to deliver these two products to stores in separate trucks. Moreover, truck drivers were not allowed to load either of these products into their trucks. And the people who did load Twinkies into trucks were not allowed to load Wonder Bread, and vice versa. All of this was obviously intended to create more jobs for the unions’ members. But the needless additional costs that these make-work rules created ended up driving the company into bankruptcy, which can cost 18,500 jobs. The union is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Not only are there reasons for employers to pay their workers enough to keep them from joining unions, there are reasons why See Sowell on 28

toric visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Burma, the highest profile American diplomatic contact by John J. Metzler ever to this Syndicated Columnist long isolated political pariah state, saw the United States enter a high stakes geopolitical chess game in Southeast Asia. Thus amid the shimmering golden temples and pagodas of Rangoon, the president set out to cut through the murky political haze which still envelops this storied Southeast Asian land. A rogue regime, Burma has long been courted by China, coveted by India, and shunned by Washington and most Western countries has come back into play after a reform process by the current quasicivilian leadership under President Thein Sein. The political dynamic appears to be changing as Burma’s leadership has allowed a series of incremental reforms which included contested parliamentary by-elections, a release of political prisoners, and allowing respected dissident and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi a prominent place in the political transition. Just a year ago Secretary of Stare Hillary Clinton made a celebrated visit to Burma, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State since John Foster Dulles in 1955, to nudge open the political doors. During the recent United Nations General Assembly debate, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi made a near victory lap visit to the UN. Whether Washington’s proposed engagement is prompted by a genuine glimmer of political hope in the country, it is being perceived by the People’s Republic of China as a bold political move on the Mainland’s southern frontier at a time when Beijing has already chastised President Obama’s plans for a “policy pivot” to Asia. The move is seen in China as “part of a cold war mentality” and an attempt at American encirclement. Thus the welcome thaw in relations between Burma and the United States has been viewed by Beijing as playing in the People’s Republic’s backyard.

Consider the geography. Burma is bordered by China on the north, Thailand to the east, India to the West, and the Bay of Bengal to the South, this land of 55 million remains in the vortex of competing power interests. Historically the country has been in the Chinese sphere or in the orbit of former British India. The resource-rich ex British colony was once close to the West. Since the early 1960’s the “Burmese Way to Socialism” has been the pernicious path followed by a left-wing military regime exhibiting an eclectic political mix of nationalism and xenophobia. The rulers changed the country’s name to Myanmar and switched the capital from Rangoon to Naypyidaw, an inland city of gaudy but glittering government buildings in the middle of nowhere. Periodic regime crackdowns on dissidents, ethnic minorities, the house arrest of the leading human rights figure Aung San Suu Kyi, prompted suffocating sanctions and isolation from the United States and European Union. During the past decade both the former Bush Administration and the Europeans worked in close political harmony to isolate Burma’s military rulers. Correspondingly China moved closer to the Myanmar regime offering the military government diplomatic support in the United Nations and concessionary commercial relations. Nonetheless, China has overplayed its commercial ties and political links, prompting a backlash even from Burma’s once docile rulers. As is often the case in Africa with Chinese aid and investment schemes, overplaying a strong hand causes resentment and a search for options among dependent client states. “We were in isolation for may years and now are opening up, but that will not hamper the relationship between Myanmar and China,” stated Ko Hlaing Advisor to the Burmese President in an interview with Beijing’s China Daily, “ The bilateral relationship is a special one.” Over the past five years, the UN has made quiet but determined moves to politically engage and “sound out” the Burma rulers. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has visited the storied land three times and pressed for political ef-

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I like to watch the television show “The Walking Dead.” In case you haven’t seen it, it is the story of a handful of people who are trying to survive in a world full of zombies. Much like Washington, D.C. There’s also another show on called “Doomsday Preppers” about real people who are planning ahead in getting ready for the end of the world. I’ ve n ever seen this show but I have been to the grocery store after the weatherman is calling for a few inches of snow. I’d imagine it’s close to the same thing. The end of the world has been in the news a lot lately; it happens every few years. In fact, this is the second time I have written about it. In May of 2011 the world was supposed to end. If you are reading this, then you know it didn’t. The world is supposed to end this year as well and this time the hysteria is hyped up a bit because it was something that was supposedly predicted thousands of years ago when people were much better at predicting the end of the world than people today are. The Mayans lived in Mexico thousands of years ago; one of the few successful Mexican groups that didn’t make their money from drug trafficking. They had an

ish this calendar?” “No thanks. And what’s the big deal if we don’t finish it anyway? It won’t be the end of the world.” I don’t understand why people think the end of a calendar is a big deal anyway. We thrive as a society on only having one year on a calendar at a time. Just think how our lives would change if we had to deal with calendars that lasted for five-thousand years. We’d never be able to put one on the wall without risking damage to our house. What other yearly gifts would banks be able to give us to show us how much they appreciated our business? And, I don’t think there are enough pithy sayings or cutesy pictures of pets that could be used to headline each month of a calendar that size. I won’t even get into desk calendars and the obvious increase in office space that would be needed. So, maybe instead of worrying about what the sudden end of the ridiculously huge Mayan calendar means, we should be celebrating its demise and how it has benefitted civilization as a whole. I know some of you reading this are actually concerned about this whole December 21st end of the world thing and I’m sure I haven’t done a whole lot here to ease your minds. I can only say that I’m pretty sure that we will still be here on December 22nd. After all, I have to see how “The Walking Dead” ends.

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advanced civilization and were very clever when it came to engineering for those primitive times. There are a lot of show on TV as well as books written about the Mayans. A lot of people are watching and buying. A lot of people either fast forward or skip to the end past all of the boring history of the Mayans and how cool their civilization was; they just want to get to the part about the end of the world. I thought that my more intelligent readers would want to know a little bit about the Mayans history. So, here goes. The Mayans were around Mexico and Mesoamerica from around 250 to 900AD…okay that’s enough of that…let’s get to this end of the world stuff. It seems that besides all the boring stuff the Mayans did…they even developed their own indoor plumbing system…. oops…sorry…didn’t mean to get off track….they developed this calendar which was, coincidentally, called “The Mayan Calendar.” The Mayan Calendar lasts for a period of 5125 years, unlike our standard twelve-month calendar. The Mayan Calendar suddenly ends on December 21, 2012. Based on this, many people assume it means the world will end on that day. To me, that’s pretty stupid reasoning. There might be a lot of other reasons the Mayans stopped their calendar on that day. Maybe the guy who made the calendar died or just got sick of the thankless job and quit and no one wanted to do it. “Hey Itzel, why don’t you take time off from helping build this really cool civilization and fin-

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To The Editor: The Gilford Rotary Christmas Tree Sale starts on Friday November 30. This year we will be located across the road from Hannafords Market in the parking lot of the former P.S.N.H. building which is located next to Gilford Well Co. On behalf of the Gilford Rotary I would like to thank Peter and Chris Irwin for allowing us the use of their property for our annual tree sale. As you all know who support the Gilford Rotary Christmas Tree Sale, all of our profits are used to help others that are less fortunate by contributing to local charities and others in need such as the victims of hurricane Sandy. We also support the work of Rotary International who supports projects in areas of need throughout the world. Our trees are “fresh cut” and grown in New Hampshire by Hidden Meadow Tree Farm owned by Dana and Jane Blais. They have supplied us with trees and wreaths for the last 17 years and have been a huge factor in our success. Our free raffle is always a big hit with our customers along with free hot chocolate, coffee, hot dogs and corn chowder. Oh, by-the-way, Santa will be visiting us on Saturday December 1 between 11AM and 1PM. I’ll bet he brings some candy with him. This is a big event for the Gilford Rotary Club

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an Iranian counter strike using conventional weapons. It is doubtful any of the other countries in the Middle East will come to Iran’s aid. Israel cannot count on the Obama administration to come to its aid. President Obama erroneously believes sanctions will work to halt Iran’s nuclear armaments program, and at the same time he warns Israel not to strike Iran. Obama, with his coddling of Arab countries, is not a friend of Israel. Israel’s survival depends on military action against Iran. Donald A. Moskowitz Londonderry, NH.

Fair Tax To The Editor: The income tax creates a stagnant economy for the United States. Companies have moved overseas to give their investors a tax advantage. They will not return to the US until our system gives them an advantage in the world market. The answer to this is The Fair Tax Plan. It will: eliminate income tax and the IRS, jump-start the economy, bring jobs back to the US, capture untaxed dollars currently lost to criminal and offshore businesses, allow you to keep 100% of your paycheck, let you save all the money you want and pay taxes only when you spend it, eliminate taxes you don’t even know you are paying, lower interest rates and make April 15 just another beautiful spring day. If everyone tells their congressman to support HR25, we can turn this economy around as soon as it is enacted. Roy T Newsom, Granbury, Texas.

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phy, being a mish-mash of often conflicting interest groups. Such a patchwork has little chance against the Democrat’s liberal/progressive monolith. I will be changing my voter registration to ‘Independent’ and looking for voter options outside the Republican Party. A viable third party is unlikely to rise up, but I refuse to soldier on with a party that couldn’t close the deal against the likes of Obama, Hassan, Kuster, etc. “The Republicans may well be beyond reform, destined to be the perennial runners-up in every important two-man race, at least for the foreseeable future. The conservative message deserves a better messenger. The Republican ship is ‘in irons,’ with an incompetent captain and sailing master. Maybe it’s time to look for a more worthy vessel.” As much as I agree with the writer grandson Owen always reminds me to “Fight the Good Fight, and never, ever; give up!” Yes, there is a bit of Winston Churchill there. ******** The Daily Mail/Mail Online: ‘It’s just desserts!’ Matt Lauer ‘set to get the axe’ from Today after ratings free-fall and clashing with co-anchors - After repeatedly clashing with co-anchors and overseeing plummeting ratings, the Today show’s Matt Lauer is reportedly being given the boot. The long-time host, who earns a staggering $21.5 million a year, is being blamed for the NBC morning show’s dismal performance over the past three months and sources claim ratings will only improve if he is replaced. For nearly 16 years this creator and host of “The (radio) Advocates” has been selling advertising to cover the costs of airtime – and

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to help establish a larger resident population of birds in your vicinity during the winter. Contrary to some beliefs, feeding during this period does not deter birds from migrating, but instead may only hold them in a more northerly segment of their normal range. Migratory birds instinctively will head to more favorable climates. The availability of food affects only the migratory distance. It does\not induce a bird to stay in an intolerable climate or in an area that otherwise would not be normal for it to reside in. It is very helpful to start supplying any winter foods such as high oil content seeds as well as suet during the entire autumn season. This will show your current population and any transient birds that your feeders will provide adequate, high-energy foods to help carry them through the upcoming winter months. Establishing your backyard as a reliable food supply will encourage resident birds to include your area with their feeding range, or as we like to call it, their “dinner circuit” See bird on 30

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Rd, Lupine Blossoms Fiber Arts @ 25 Main St and Ryan’s Walking Sticks at Kindred Spirit Farm @ 103 Upper Rd. Hope to see you there!

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always appoint planning board members. If you want responsible planning that adheres to the US Constitution, does not infringe on personal property rights and erode freedom, then you must make sure planning board members think like you do. This means you must become a selectman, or you must elect selectmen that appoint planning board members that will make the right decisions based on conservative principals. Currently we’re facing a far more serious threat here in New Hampshire. It’s called the Granite State Future. It’s very possible the planning board members who approved the wind machines are also gleefully

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who’s enraged about what’s going on, I invite you to attend our upcoming December meeting. Bring a plate of cookies or a tray of appetizers because we’ll be celebrating. We’ve decided it’s time to really take back our local towns, counties and our state. We’ll show you just how easy it is to accomplish this. We’ll be meeting at the Moultonborough Life Safety Building at 7 pm on December 12th. Park in the rear and enter the rear doors. When you come, you’ll discover that all those radical tea baggers are just normal folks that deeply respect the US Constitution and understand the basic financial concept that you can’t spend what you don’t have. P.S. What a shame you and others didn’t attend all those wind turbine planning meetings. You could have participated in the discussion with facts about micro-hydro electric plants. We have countless streams and rivers here in central New Hampshire where small generators can be placed out of sight. These silent tiny machines can generate power 24 hours a day through much of the year. Wind turbines will never do that. Heavy sigh!

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Stroll through the quaint, historical village of Sandwich. View the storefronts and homes decorated with seasonal greens and aglow with the spirit of Christmas. Mark your calendars and plan to share this remarkable experience with family and friends. The Bearcamp Valley Garden Club merrily returns to the Sandwich Home Industries located on the green in Center Sandwich for the traditional Sandwich Craftsmen’s Christmas in the Village weekend Saturday, December 1st from 9:003:00 PM and Sunday, December 2nd from 10am2pm. To reach the Sandwich Home Industries on this weekend only, please call 284-6831. Stop by the Bearcamp Valley Garden Club display at the Sandwich Home Industries and discover special gifts as well as Home for the Holidays at the Benz Center on December 1st from 9 – 4pm. An amaryllis shaded -soft lime-green — makes its debut this year as well as amaryllis in the more traditional shades of pink and red. Paperwhites, miniature Cyclamen, and Christmas Cacti will also be available. These iconic winter plants, perfect for

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Christmas Night In Ashland Ashland Baptist Church. The celebration concludes at 8 p.m. in Memorial Park, at the corner of Main Street and Riverside Drive. Christmas carols will be sung. The prize winners for the Gift Bag Raffle, the Sixth Grade raffle and the scavenger hunt will be announced. And, with the help of Santa Claus, the town Christmas tree will be lit. For more information, call Sue Longley at 536-3141.

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in value, the provincial government could collect a greater tax and thus everyone seemed to make a profit. Very poor individuals were encouraged to move into the new towns with ample credit terms and to develop side by side with other wealthy farmers who bought their See settlers on 24

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Citizen Watches Gold & Silver Jewelry Dr. James Lloyd, the first proprietor of Lloyd Hills which later became Bethlehem. individual or groups of individuals known as proprietors. The usual fee for the grant charter was 60 pounds sterling which was paid to the provincial treasury. Land however was often offered to persons in return for services offered the British government, such as outstanding military service. The terms of the grant were designed to maximize development and settlement, and a failure to meet the terms of the grant could invalidate the proprietor’s right to own the land. The proprietors could convey only land and not political rights in the area of their granted land. The powers of government always came from the provincial government which was responsible to the rulers in England. No land became taxed until it was developed. In each grant, land had to be set aside for roads, churches, and

schools which had to be built in a definite period of time. All tall pines on the proprietor’s land had to be saved for the King’s Navy. Each proprietor was free to make his own arrangement with the new settlers wishing to settle in his town. Sometimes the settlers bought tracts of land outright and sometimes they were given extensive credit. The proprietors of course profited by having as many people as possible in their town. As people settled, they built roads, raised bridges, cleared the land and in general increased

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The TreeHouse Foods position netted Mrs. Obama $45,000 in 2005 and $51,200 in 2006 -- as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $72,000 for each year. While Mrs. Obama welcomed Wal-Mart’s decision to team up with her on her anti-”food deserts” campaign last year, Obama’s union cronies at the SEIU and AFL-CIO once again excoriated the nation’s largest employer. “Wal-Mart should not be celebrated for false contributions to our communities and glitzy public relations campaigns that disguise their destructive policies,” the union bosses railed. President Obama has said nothing about the

back travel was also a common method of transportation, for the roads could not easily accommodate wagons or stages due to their crudeness. Decades would pass before the region would be famous for its coaches. Between the towns of Littleton, Franconia and Lancaster lay an area that apparently did not appeal to the early settlers. While it had a large river flowing through its center, it was a hilly, unbroken wilderness. Granted as a township in 1774 under the name of Lloyd Hills, it was to remain in obscurity until a decade later when its first residents moved onto its land, eventually calling their town, Bethlehem.

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forfeited and re-issued to another group. Other towns like Lisbon and Franconia had similar problems. In 1770, five years after Bath’s settlement, Nathan Caswell moved into Littleton. In another five years the entire population of New Hampshire was 8,200 and Littleton grew to a town of 16 people. The other towns in the area had also grown: Bath had a population of 140, Lisbon 47, Landaff 40, and Franconia three families. To the north of Franconia, the town of Lancaster had 61 persons, Stratford 41, and Jefferson had four. Major forms of transportation were the rivers and crude ox wagons. Horse-

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workers in the private sector have increasingly voted against joining unions. They have seen unions driving jobs away to nonunion competitors at home or driving them overseas, whether with costly work rules or in other ways. The old-time legendary labor leader John L. Lewis called so many strikes in the coal mines that many people switched to using oil instead, because they couldn’t depend on coal deliveries. A professor of labor economics at the University of Chicago called John L. Lewis “the world’s greatest oil salesman.” There is no question that

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Lewis’ United Mine Workers Union raised the pay and other benefits for coal miners. But the higher costs of producing coal not only led many consumers to switch to oil, these costs also led coal companies to substitute machinery for labor, reducing the number of miners. By the 1960s, many coal-mining towns were almost ghost towns. But few people connected the dots back to the glory years of John L. Lewis. The United Mine Workers Union did not kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, but it created a situation where fewer of those golden eggs reached the miners It was much the same

story in the automobile industry and the steel industry, where large pensions and costly work rules drove up the prices of finished products and drove down the number of jobs. There is a reason why there was a major decline in the proportion of private sector employees who joined unions. It was not just the number of union workers who ended up losing their jobs. Other workers saw the handwriting on the wall and refused to join unions. There is also a reason why labor unions are flourishing among people who work for government. No matter how much these public sector unions drive

up costs, government agencies do not go out of business. They simply go back to the taxpayers for more money. Consumers in the private sector have the option of buying products and services from competing, nonunion companies-- from Toyota instead of General Motors, for example, even though most Toyotas sold in America are made in America. Consumers of other products can buy things made in non-union factories overseas. But government agencies are monopolies. You cannot get your Social Security checks from anywhere except the Social Security Administration or

your driver’s license from anywhere but the DMV. Is it surprising that government employees have seen their pay go up, even during the downturn, and their pensions rise to levels undreamed of in the private sector? None of this will kill the goose that lays the golden egg, so long as there are both current taxpayers and future taxpayers to pay off debts passed on to them. 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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Festival of Trees Offers Tree Stroll, Scavenger Hunt, Raffles and More The 3rd Annual Dover Festival of Trees will take place on Friday, November 30th from 5pm to 8pm at the Dover City Hall Auditorium at 288 Central Avenue. The event is open to the public and free to attend. The Festival’s main attraction, a Tree Stroll that winds among 30 holiday trees ornately decorated by local organizations and businesses, allows attendees to view the trees but also bid through silent auction on a tree to bring home for the holidays. Some tress will incorporate valuable gifts and The Restaurant Tree will be raffled off at the event and will include gift cards. Raffle tickets will be on sale at the event for $1 each. New to the event this year is the Festival of Trees Scavenger Hunt. While taking the Tree Stroll, Festival attendees are encouraged to look closely for ten objects hidden among the

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