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Who Is John Stark? April 22nd Marks 10th Anniversary of Official Day To Remember NH Hero Not everyone realizes that the 4th Monday of April was designated General John Stark Day in 2003. A bill sponsored by David Lawton, managing editor of the Weirs Times and then a state representative, was passed to honor General John Stark who led the Battle of Bennington during the Revolutionary War and gave us our state motto: “Live Free Or Die.” What follows is a history of General Stark reprinted from the Granite Monthly of 1904. —ed.
From the lives of many of the prominent men of past generations, we of this progressive age can profit much. While their forms are unseen by the human eye, their deeds of valor are monuments in modern civilization. Empires of the old world have been born and destroyed by the children of men. In the new world a republic has been formed, as a home for the oppressed of all races and creeds; and in that home the Declaration of Independence
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This statue of New Hampshire Revolutionary War Hero John Stark stands in Stark Park in Manchester. General John Stark, who gave us our powerful state motto: “Live Free or Die” is celebrated the fourth Monday of every April which has been designated “General John Stark Day.”
The Lakes Region Singer will hold two spring concerts, one on Friday, May 3, at 7:30pm, and one on Sunday, May 5, at 2pm. These concerts are open to the public, with a suggested donation to help cover expenses. They will take place at the First United Methodist Church on Route 11-A in Gilford. Each performance will feature memorable songs by Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and George Gershwin, including swing/big band favorites like “It’s De-Lovely,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” and “Flip, Flop, and Fly,” plus
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Free Class on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Repurpose
Sunflower Natural Foods, 390 South Main Street, Laconia. 10am-Noon. Registration required. 524-6334
Thursday 18th Hugh Masekela
Capitol Center for the Arts, Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Business After Hours
Baron’s Major Brands, 225 Daniel Webster Highway, Belmont. 5-7pm. Free and open to the public. RSVP by visiting http://baronsmajorbrands. eventbrite.com
Phoenix Marionette Theatre’s “Aladdin and the Lamp of Dreams”
Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center, 26 Main Street, Peterborough. 11am and 1pm. $7/adult, $5/child. 924-4555
Spiritual Discussion with Harold Klemp
The Brad Myrick Jazz Quintet
Hampton Inn, 195 Laconia Road, Tilton. 10:30am. Klemp is the Spiritual Leader of Eckankar. 800-713-8944
Gerald Auten – Artist Reception
“Fred Marple of Frost Heaves, NH”
Pitman’s Freight $12pp. 527-0043
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Laconia.
The Studio, 50 Canal Street, Laconia. 5-7pm. “Gerald Auten: Reckless” will be on view at The Studio through May 31st. 455-8008
Newfound Lake Region Association – Watershed Project Update
Alexandria Town Hall. 7-9pm. 7448689 Friday 19th
Bruce Hornsby
Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord. 225-1111
NH Boat Museum’s Annual Spring Fling Fundraiser
Club 59, Kingswood Golf Course, South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 6pm. $42/members, $45/nonmembers.569-4554
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Franklin Opera House, 316 Central Street, Franklin. 7:30pm. 934-1901
Spring Rummage Sale
St. John’s Methodist Church, 28 Cataract Ave., Dover. 8am-Noon. 7423046
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Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992
Porcupine Ball Workshop
League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Gallery, 279 D.W. Highway, Meredith. 1-4pm. Class taught by Kristine Lingle. $25pp. Pre-registration is required. 279-7920
Andover Elementary/Middle School, 20 School Street, Andover. 7pm. $10/ adult or $5/students. Maryo.asclub@ live.com
Boys and Girls Club Annual Spring Fling
Gilford youth Center, Gilford. 6-11pm. Cocktails, dinner, auctions and dancing with the Wicked Smart Horn Band. 528-0197. bgclakesregion@ metrocast.net
Joyce Anderson in Concert
Nottingham Community Church, 106 Church Street, Nottingham. 7:30pm. $20 at the door, $15 advance. 207351-1985.
3rd Annual Lyme Disease Conference
Beane Conference Center, Laconia. 10am-4:30pm. The general public is encouraged to attend. $5 donation at the door. www.lyme411.org
Clean Up Day
Squam Lakes Science Center, Holderness. 9:30am-1pm. Public invited to help with various projects on the grounds to prepare for opening day on May 1st. 968-7194 x 22.
Indoor Flea Market
Belknap Mill, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia. 8:30am-Noon. www. belknapmill.org 524-8813
Cake Decorating Class
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a chance to practice on a cupcake. Class intended for adults, but teens and children are welcome with adult supervision. 279-4303
AVRA Spring Model Railroad Show
Haverhill Cooperative Middle School, North Haverhill. 10am-3pm. $3/adult, children admitted free. 747-3492
Varieties and Techniques for a Victorious Harvest
Moulton Farm, 18 Quarry Road, Meredith. 10am-Noon. 279-3915
DIY Graphic Design Series for Small Business
Plymouth State University, Plymouth. 9am-Noon. Attendees will learn how to create their own logos in the first workshop. Next two workshops are April 27th and May 4th. $25pp for each workshop. 535-3222
Belknap Range Trail Tenders Volunteer Workshop
The lower gate on Carriage Road, just off Belknap Mountain Road, Gilford. 8:30am. Participants should bring gloves, lunch and stable footwear. 286-3506 Sunday 21st
Brunch To Benefit Habitat For Humanity
The First Congregational Church in Meredith is hosting a brunch at 11:00AM, after the worship service. Part of the proceeds will benefit “Habitat for Humanity”. Adults $7, ages 6-10 $4, under 6 free. All are welcome to attend at 4 Highland St, Meredith. Home baked goods and craft will also be available to purchase.
The Keller Quartet
UNH, 330 Huddelston Hall, 73 Main Street, Durham. 7pm. 862-7222
Beadweaving: Star Bright Earrings
League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Gallery, 279 D.W. Highway, Meredith. 12:30-3:30pm. Class taught by Deb Fairchild. $30pp with a $12 additional material fee. Pre-registration is required. 279-7920
Phoenix Marionette Theatre’s “Aladdin and the Lamp of Dreams”
Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center, 26 Main Street, Peterborough. 11am and 1pm. $7/adult, $5/child. 924-4555
18th Annual Model Train Show
Cawley Middle School, 89 Whitehall Road, Hooksett. 10am-3pm. $4/adult, $1/kids or $10/family rate. 315-0084
Earth Day Celebration with West African Drumming
Sanbornton Congregational ChurchUCC, Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sanbornton. Community welcome. 10am. 934-5717
Ed Gerhard
The Spotlight Café at the Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord. 7:30pm. 225-1111 Monday 22nd
Fundraiser for Ray Burton
Woodstock Inn, Main Street, North Woodstock. 7pm. Buffet dinner. $25pp. Email reservation to bdham@ roadrunner.com
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Electronic Waste Collection Day Bring your electronic junk over to the Laconia-Gilford Lions Club during their Electronic Waste Collection Day (EWCD) and, for a small disposal fee, not only will they take it off your hands, they will recycle your old electronic items. The small fee charged is less than the local transfer station’s prices. Cash or checks will be accepted but not debit or credit cards. If you bring your electronics to Lowe’s Parking Lot, 1407 Lakeshore Road in Gilford, on Saturday, April 20, between the hours of 9am. and 1pm., members will help you unload them. Computer monitors, laptops, CPUs, Servers, CD/DVD players, camcorders, AV equipment, VCRs, speakers, mice or keyboards, copiers, faxes, scanners, printers, phones (land and cell), phone systems, UPS systems, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, cords, cables and computer accessories. They will also take microwaves, air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, washing machines, dryers, gas or electric stoves, dishwashers, dumb terminals, and TVs. Anything with a cord not listed will also be accepted.You cannot drop off: oils, paints, thinners, batteries, tires, items containing mercury such as fluorescent and CFL light bulbs or thermometers, capacitors, ballasts, or any other hazardous waste.
Guitarist Ed Gerhard At Spotlight Cafe Grammy Award-winning Guitarist Ed Gerhard will perform on Sunday, April 21 at the Spotlight Cafe at the Capitol Center For The Arts, 44 S Main St., Concord. Showtime is 7:30pm. From Tokyo to Rome and venues across the US, Ed Gerhard’s music has touched concert audiences all over the world. Gerhard returns to the Spotlight Cafe celebrating the highly anticipated release of his new CD “There and Gone,” a collection of original compositions and covers including a stunning arrangement of “Imagine/Across the Universe,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and a concert favorite on Weissenborn, “Killing the Blues.” Call (603) 225-1111 or visit ccanh.com for info.
WildQuest Spring Camp In Laconia Starting April 22nd Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center (PFEEC) will be offering five days of WildQuest Spring Camp for children in grades K-7/ages 6-12 from 9am3pm.. Extended care is available! WildQuest Spring Camp will enhance your child’s ecological awareness and provide fun learning opportunities in a community-minded and non-competitive atmosphere. Camp includes nature activities, animal and plant identification, arts and crafts, quests, and hands-on learning. Most of the day is spent outdoors. Please dress children appropriately for the weather and time of year. Extended care provides supervised playtime before and after regular camp hours. You can register by the day or for the full week. Please register well in advance, since space is limited. Cost is $35 for Prescott Farm members and $45 for non-members per day; $175 for Prescott Farm members and $225 for nonmembers for the week. Pre-registration is required, call 366-5695 or e-mail info@prescottfarm.org. Also, visit our website at www.prescottfarm.org to learn more about WildQuest Spring Camp and registration details.
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Books, Women’s Basketball, And Men Coaching Girls Let’s get the shameless self-promotion out of the way first. Did I mention I wrote a book? Alert Weirs Times readers may recall that I recently co-authored “FAHIM SPEAKS: A WarriorActor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back.” Brendan Smith wrote a wonderful Weirs Times story about the project last year. (So what does that have to do with a sports column? Please keep reading.) A couple weeks ago I got a call from a friend in southern California, who explained that she knew a radio personality at KTLK-AM Talk Radio in Los Angeles who’d had a cancellation for her show, leaving an opening in the second hour. Was I interested in calling in to the show to talk about the book? “Of course!” But it meant calling L.A. at 1:30 p.m. EDT on a Wednesday, when I’m in the middle of a three hour “Sports and Society” class. I’d have to bow out. “My class meets at that time. Sorry. Maybe if it was about sports I could have taken a bit of class time. Too bad.” Then I was told that the host, Teal Marchande, had a daughter who played basketball for Cal-Berkeley, which was headed for the NCAA Women’s Final Four in
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UConn coaching legend Luigi “Geno” Auriemma. New Orleans. “OK.” I replied. “If there’s a sports component I can try to call during class, if we can make it interactive with my students.” So I explained to my students that we were going to be on a major L.A. talk radio station, and that the scheduled quiz would be delayed a bit. While we waited for our assigned call time, Jessica--an NHTI Lynx women’s college basketball standout--got her
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To the Editor: “Free State Project”, “they’re not welcome”, “compromising our way of life”…and so on. I have read these words in the news recently regarding “free staters” as well as listen to a discussion on NHPR last week. It’s odd to encounter individuals speaking on behalf of the whole state. I don’t buy it and neither should you. Notice how I didn’t write, NH doesn’t buy it? The folks who have a problem, should own the problem and reference individuals. Perhaps folks who have employment because of free staters bringing their businesses here would disagree, as well as those who benefit from the charitable work done through a charity organization started by a free stater. Free staters live throughout the state and work on many different projects to live and maintain the NH way of life. It is baffling to come across comments not welcoming people who are voting with their feet. One would think NH folks would be happy their state was chosen since that is the “way of life”, essentially, according to the state motto, and embrace folks who want to work to make it even freer. Maybe some folks have freedom mixed up with free stuff. I find it further odd that most of the folks that have a problem with “free staters” are from other states themselves, like
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Gun Rights To The Editor: Gun lovers are like proaborts. Pro-aborts won’t accept any restrictions on abortion because they don’t trust pro-lifers to stop. They know that pro-lifers think abortion is murder and that a true pro-lifer won’t stop until abortion is illegal everywhere. Similarly, pro-gun folks don’t trust anti-gun politicians one inch. Gov. Cuomo has spoken of confiscating guns. Mayor Bloomberg, while standing in the midst of Uzi-toting bodyguards whom we pay for, has said guns are unnecessary and dangerous. Pres. Obama, while surrounded by gun-toting secret service people whom we pay for, has said that guns don’t keep us safe and that we shouldn’t have them. Gun rights have nothing to do with hunting. They have everything to do with fighting tyranny. Why should a pro-gun person trust ANY politician?
This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
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Desperate Need For Volunteers To The Editor: For the last several years I have enjoyed coaching soccer to kids who are 5, 6 and 7 years old. The parent(s) of these kids typically pay for their registration, then extra for a soccer jersey and often they are outfitted to look like a miniature version of a professional soccer player. What really warms my heart though is when the children’s “entourage” comes to cheer them on. The wild cheering is unconditionally positive and occurs regardless of their abilities. Armed with lawn chairs; the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends are screaming encouraging words to support these little athletes. Although I adore these kids, they probably aren’t the kids I’m writing about today. Today I am writing about children who desperately need someone to get to know them and look out for their best interests. I am writing about the kids I probably won’t get to meet on the soccer field with a slew of doting adults supporting them. The kids I am writing about today are the victims of abuse and / or neglect. These kids’ parents might have had the really good intentions to sign them up for soccer and had the money set aside for registration (along with the car payment and money for groceries) but they See mail boat on 15
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“The Case of the Missing Flatlander” -A Nick Savvy Mystery
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I arrived in the little New Hampshire town on a foggy mid-March morning. I’d gotten a call from an old friend’s wife, Marge Brewster. Marge was Mike Brewster’s wife. They had moved to this sleepy hamlet after retirement. They didn’t care for the action and noise of New York City any longer. Being a city junkie, I was already unsettled by the quietness and obvious lack of entertainment this rural community exuded. Sure it was a beautiful landscape. Some kind of snow covered mountain in the distance and a cool clear lake nearby. But where were the shows; the bright lights, the constant traffic? Those were the things that made my blood run daily. I felt like a prize fighter at a bridal shower. I’d have to get out of here as soon as possible. Mark and I were old friends. We met playing one-on-one basketball at the Y on the Upper West Side of Manhattan years back. I was invited to a few parties at his brownstone. Nice digs. They had the money, but I had the know how. Making a living finding people takes something and I had it. Their retirement to a house on Lake Winnisomething or other was more Marge’s idea than Mark’s, but he went along like cattle to slaughter. “I’d follow her anywhere,”
my piece. I’d heard there were bears running around in places like this and I wanted to make sure old Yogi knew who was boss if push came to shove. I rang the bell and the door opened before the last notes of “Home Sweet Home” finished echoing through the place. Marge was at the door, trembling like she had a bad case of St. Vitus Dance. She threw her arms around me, crying on my shoulder. Her perfume had a sweet scent that slowly dripped over my brain like cinnamon on a bun. I had to keep my head straight, this was my best friend’s wife and I was here to do a job. She calmed down and led me inside. She fixed me a drink. I thought she’d never ask. She told me how Mark had left to take a walk up the road to the General Store, whatever the heck that is, and she hadn’t heard from him since. Seems the local flatfeet were too busy helping little old ladies across the street or pulling cats out of trees or whatever they do. They didn’t think Mark was gone long enough to warrant any concern. It took me about two seconds to realize that Mark was in trouble. I saw the first clue right in the den and it hit me in the face like a jealous husband who got out of work early.
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he once told me. I never felt that way about a dame. I guess I was a bit jealous. I never had much luck with the ladies, in settling down anyway, but that was the kind of work I was in, dropping everything for a case, for weeks sometimes. It just happened that I was sharing a bottle of high test champagne at the Plaza with a lady friend after solving the case of a missing heiress and things were just starting to get spicy when the call came from Marge. Damn cell phones. Who said technology was a good thing? “Nick, Mark has gone missing. Two days now. He went for a walk and never came back.” I knew right then I’d have to drop everything and go. After all the blood of friendship was stronger than any champagne or woman, even one at 3622-36. I kissed her on the cheek and took off. No time to explain. Five hours later I was driving some dark, windy road in the middle of nowhere. Signs screaming “Frost Heaves” every few yards. Some kind of intestinal virus run rampant? I kept my windows closed. I was ready to give myself up for lost when I saw their mailbox. People had funny names for streets around here. Give me a good old number and a direction on a street sign and I’ll find you; name it after some kind of farm animal and all bets are off. Their driveway was about as long as the off ramp on Exit 22 of the Long Island Expressway. I got out of the car. It was quiet; so quiet you could hear a name drop. I stepped out of the car and walked to the front door. I kept my hand on
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From The State House Common Core is Truly Rotten to the Core The New Hampshire Department of Education has been very busy of late getting the word out about the new FEDERALIZED by Rep. Jane c urriculum Cormier called Common Belknap District 8 Core. Chances are your community signed on to this “rigorous” program and you didn’t even know it. The “Powers That Be” like that – they can get this structure in place, believing parents will just cave. After all, what are they going to do? Pull their kids from school? Interesting idea - if not very practical. Basically, Common Core is a national school standard curriculum backed by Bill and Melinda Gates (of Microsoft fame) along with other extremely progressive educational groups. It started
with “Race to the Top” which lured cash hungry schools into this program by promising over 4.3 billion dollars for schools who applied for grants. The catch is, after your state gets the money, you must adopt Common Core into your community. In essence, FEDERAL GRANTS USURP LOCAL CONTROL. What a great deal! The “collective” knows better than parents how to educate their child anyway, so what’s the problem? UGH. Where do I begin…? 1. Assessment drives this program and assessments are all computerized – (Microsoft, anyone?) This EXPENSIVE undertaking will come to our communities to foot the bill via taxes. 2. While officials will tell you it is a “rigorous” program, many in the teaching field, at all levels, say the Math and English components are significantly lower than today’s educational standards.
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No Tears For Lynne Stewart The jihadists’ favorite American lawyer, Lynne Stewart, reportedly has stage-4 breast cancer. Her radical friends -- ranging by Michelle Malkin from the “ParSyndicated Columnist ty for Socialism and Liberation” and “Workers World” to Pete Seeger, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal -- want her freed from jail. There’s only one decent response to the Lynne Stewart Fan Club’s criminal-coddling demand: No, hell, no. The way the bleeding hearts tell it, this harmless grandma got thrown in the slammer by Big Bad Bush merely because she was “distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman.” Oh, the outrageous inhumanity! How could America the Cruel do this to an innocent little old lady serving the cause of “social justice”? How can they just let her suffer and perish behind bars? All she did was “distribute press releases.” 1960s leftover agitator Dick Gregory is now on a hunger strike until the feds order the “compassionate release” of the left’s sweetheart “political prisoner” and she “receives medical treatment in the care of her family and with physicians of her choice.” He and Stewart’s apologists claim she was prosecuted “to intimidate the entire legal community so that few would dare to defend political clients whom the state demonizes and none would provide a vigorous defense.” Spare me the proglodyte pathos.
Allow me to smash the world’s smallest violin to bits. Stewart is no martyr, no heroine. She’s a menace to peace-loving society who illegally conspired with killers. And there’s a very good reason why her client was demonized. He is a demon. Refresher course for the clueless: Stewart was convicted in 2005 of helping terrorist Rahman -- the bloodstained Blind Sheik -- smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client’s court-ordered isolation. Rahman, Stewart’s “political client,” had called on Muslims to “destroy” the West, “burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air or land.” He issued bloody fatwas against U.S. “infidels” that inspired the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1997 massacre of Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt, and the 9/11 attacks. Defying a judge’s communications ban, Stewart ferreted messages to the Blind Sheik from fellow jihadist Rifa’l Ahman Tara urging him to support a new wave of Islamic violence in Egypt -- and then smuggled out a coded order to his followers lifting a ceasefire between his terrorist group and the Egyptian government. Stewart personally delivered one of the messages to a Reuters reporter. The Middle East Quarterly also described how Stewart created “covering noises” for the Blind Sheik’s translator to evade the communications ban: “On some surveillance videos, Stewart could be seen shaking a water jar or tapping on the table while (the translator) and the sheikh exchanged communications that were then
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The Real Thatcher Revolution U N I T E D NATIONS —Mar-
garet Thatcher, the British Conservative Prime Minister, between 1979-1990, was a R evoby John J. Metzler lutionary. As Syndicated Columnist the first female Prime Minister she emerged as a truly transformational figure both on the domestic and foreign front and soon challenged the entrenched interests with a stance that promoted freedom and economic liberty. She stood on principle and thus became a lighting rod for the continuing scorn of the collectivist left and the former Soviet Union who dubbed her “The Iron Lady.” She died at 87 in London. In 1979 when her Conservative Party was voted into office in an electoral landslide, Britain was the “Sick Man of Europe.” Thatcher inherited a Britain in decline; economically, militarily and psychologically, not unlike the USA at the time. She would soon turn the tide through a resolute belief not only in her philosophical values but the courage and conviction to pursue them. She stood for something, and would righteously and often controversially push forward to achieve the freedom agenda whether it would be against Britain’s paralyzing trade union powers, standing up to the Soviet Union, or defending the remote Falkland Islands from an Argentine invasion. Not unlike today, the world was mired in moral relativism and a political log-jam. Nicholas Jones, longtime BBC labor correspondent opined, “Margaret Thatcher’s demolition job on the industrial might of the British trade union movement helped generate an economic revolution.” During the 1970’s, strikes paralyzed the country. By the end of her premiership in 1990, stoppages had dwindled to a fraction. Later her “popular capitalism” movement saw the sale of lumbering state-owned industries and the shift of 900,000 jobs to the private sector. A million often run-down
“Council Housing” units were sold to their inhabitants who became homeowners and thus had a personal stake in the survival of their neighborhoods. Her policies fostered Entrepreneurialism and the opportunity it creates versus socialist stagnation. Gerry Grimstone, formerly in charge of privatization told the BBC, that firms like British Airways, British Telecom and Jaguar were taken from the government sector as a start. He recalls, “Britain was a very, very socialist country.” Nothing was stronger than the revived special transatlantic relationship with the U.S. and President Ronald Reagan, her philosophical soul mate. As committed disciples of economic freedom and global liberty, both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan challenged the lurking dragons of entrenched interests and then thawed the permafrost of the Cold War. In 1979 the geopolitical chessboard in Central Europe appeared locked. But a Polish Pope John Paul II had been elected, and would soon unexpectedly challenge the Soviet bloc and their local rulers with a philosophical and religious challenge which would emerge as a political movement for freedom throughout the East Bloc. Radek Sikorski, Poland’s Foreign Minister who himself lived in Britain during Warsaw’s communist rule opined, “For those behind the Iron Curtain, she was a member of the anti-communist ‘Holy Trinity’ consisting of John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and herself,” who changed the fate of the West. Her role in opposing the Soviet imperium in Eastern Europe earned her a nickname from the Russians, “The Iron Lady.” Mrs. Thatcher wore the title proudly. Half a world away in the depths of the South Atlantic, she was confronted by another challenge; the unprovoked Argentine invasion of the British Falkland Islands in 1982. The unfolding of the Falkland Conflict was a diplomatic and military showdown in slow motion. Against most advice, Thatcher decided to fight back
and send a Royal Navy task force 8,000 miles away to confront the Argentines. I recall the UN deliberations at the time where diplomacy ticked on while the Task Force plowed the waves into the South Atlantic.
Britain retook the islands; my column headlined, “The Empire Strikes Back.” The deal over the fate and future of Hong Kong was another matter. Deng Xiaoping’s re-
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Tests and Tiger Moms New York City’s Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are by Thomas Sowell o f t e n b o r e d Syndicated Columnist to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright students to become behavior problems. Recent statistics on the students who passed the examination to get into Stuyvesant High School raise troubling questions that are unlikely to receive the kind of serious answers they deserve. These successful applicants included 9 black students, 24 Latino students, 177 white students and 620 Asian Americans. Since this is definitely not the ethnic makeup of the general population of New York City, we can expect to hear the usual sort
of comments from those who are in the business of being indignant and offended. The most common of these comments is that the tests are “unfair.” That is of course possible, but it is also possible that the groups themselves are different. Yet only the first possibility is allowed to be mentioned, in an age when race can be discussed only with pious hypocrisy and obligatory lies. However shocked some people may be by the ethnic breakdown among students who passed the test to get into Stuyvesant High School, similar disparities can be found among students from different ethnic backgrounds in other countries around the world. Back in the decade of the 1960s, students from the Chinese minority in Malaysia earned 20 times as many Bachelor of Science degrees as students from the Malay majority. In Sri Lanka, children from the Tamil minority consistently outperformed members of the Sinhalese majority on university See Sowell on 30
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“Journeys Outward, Journeys Inward” – 2 Lakes Region Poets Share Their Works
Wolfeboro Public Library, Wolfeboro. 6:30pm. Featuring Barbra Bald and Charlotte Cox. Free and open to the public. Includes some open mic time. 569-2428
Poetry Walk Fundraiser
The Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. 5-6:30pm. www. remickmuseum.org 323-7591
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The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover. All activities included in admission price. 742-2002. www.childrensmuseum.org
How to Grow Asparagus, Blueberries and Strawberries
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The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 5362551
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Hampton Beach Ballroom, Hampton 8pm. 929-4100
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Pines Community Center, 61 Summer Street, Northfield. $30. 286-8653
The Zeke Martin Project
Pitman’s Freight Room, Laconia. $10pp. 527-0043
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Raider Laser Tag, Newington. 6pm. Rochester Republican City Committee takes on the Strafford County Republican Committee. Kids are welcome and competitive people are encouraged to join! 335-2509
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The Streetcar Company Presents “Oliver”
Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. Fri. and Sat. 7pm and Sun. 2pm. $15/adult, $12/student. www. streetcarcompany.com
Saturday 27th Free Class on Vegan Intuitive Cooking
Sunflower Natural Foods, 390 South Main Street, Laconia. 10am-Noon. Registration required. 524-6334
Roast Beef Supper
Trinity Episcopal Church, 93 NH Rt. 25, Meredith. 5-7pm. $12pp or $30 per family. 2796689
Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner
St. John’s Methodist Church, 28 Cataract Ave., Dover. 4:406pm. $8/adults, $7/seniors and $4/children. 742-3046
Ham and Bean Supper
Campton Historical Society, 529 NH Rt. 175, Campton. 5-6:30pm. $6pp, children under 12 free. 536-5140
Sara Evans & Ayla Brown Hampton Ballroom, 929-4100
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West Main Street, at the Franklin/Tilton town line, the parking lot of the Subway restaurant in Smitty’s Plaza. 10am-2pm. 998-5337
The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. 5362551 Saturday 4th
Rummage Sale
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9-2pm. 968-7643
Painting Your Historic Home
Sunday 28th 3rd Annual Circle Trot
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Lane Tavern, Sanbornton. 1-4pm. Presented by the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. Reservations required. $15/members, $25/ non-members. 224-2281.
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Sunday 5th
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Rummage Sale
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9-6pm. 968-7643
Steve Earle and the Dukes
Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord. 225-1111 Friday 3rd
Rummage Sale
Rockapella
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9-2pm. 968-7643
Starts at Sandwich Town Beach. 10am. Pre-registration required by calling 476-2476. $20/adults, $10/students, kids 5 and under are free.
Monday 6th Free Skin Cancer Screening
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Thursday 9th Free Skin Cancer Screening
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Thurs. 9th – Mon. 13th “MISTI-Con” – Harry Potter Fan Convention
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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, April 18, 2013 Builders and Remodelers Association members, who plan to hold their monthly meeting at Baron’s earlier that afternoon, joining the Business After Hours festivities as they begin at 5PM. Baron’s Major Brands is an active Builder’s Association member and a major sponsor of the annual Columbus Day Weekend NH Parade of Homes. Free and open to the public, RSVP for the event by visiting http://baronsmajorbrands.eventbrite.com and tickets will be conveniently delivered to your email box.
Meredith Village Savings Bank Donates $4,000 to New Hampshire Humane Society hardship. Since its Meredith Vilinception earlier this lage Savings year, 14 pet owners Bank (MVSB) is have been assisted pleased to anby the program in nounce a $4,140 addition to the many donation to New pet owners offered Hampshire Hudiscounted spay mane Society and neuter services of Laconia. As through our Spay/ part of MVSB’s Neuter Assistance commitment to Program (SNAP).” assisting nonNew Hampshire profit agencies Humane Society has in the commulong been a forward nities it serves, thinking agency in the Bank agreed terms of communito match all 2013 employee Meredith Village Savings Bank employees, Steven Tucker, ty outreach initiacontributions to Charleen Hughes and Holly Andrews, Retirement and tives. Pet Therapy, Internships, Pet Food the Lakes Region United Way. CD Services Manager present a $4,140 check to New Pantry and a vibrant The $41,400 in Hampshire Humane Society’s Mary Di Maria, Executive volunteer service matched funds Director, Marylee Gorham-Waterman, Development/PR/ program have been mission accomplishwere distributments since the new ed evenly to 10 Volunteer Director and service dog “Daisy”. building was unveiled deserving nonsaid Mary Di Maria, Executive in 2006. As a private stand profit agencies selected by Director for New Hampshire alone non profit charitable MVSB employee vote. Humane Society. “We plan organization, NHHS relies on “I cannot tell you how much to allocate these funds to the support of individuals and this donation means to the our new ‘No Cost Spay and businesses aligned with the 1,300 animals we care for Neuter Program’, designed Society’s basic tenets, speakeach year and the many proto provide free sterilization ing for those who cannot grams we offer back to those services for animals whose speak for themselves. in the communities we serve,” owners experience financial
Baron’s Major Brands Appliances Hosts Business After Hours Event Baron’s Major Brands Appliances will host the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event on Thursday, April 18th from 5-7pm.
Located at 225 Daniel Webster Highway (Route 3) in Belmont, Baron’s Major Brands Appliances is the Lakes Region’s premier family-owned appliance, TV and mattress store. O Steaks and Seafood will provide a full complement of delicious catered selections, all courtesy of Baron’s Major Brands. A selection of bev-
erages including beer and wine will be served, and local winery Stone Gate Vineyards will be sampling some of their most popular wines. An incredible set of door prizes being given away during the event. An added bonus for this particular Chamber of Commerce event will be the attendance of Lakes Region
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Bank of New Hampshire is proud to support the Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center (PFEEC) of Laconia, with a $500 donation towards WildQuest camp scholarships. WildQuest Camps enhance ecological awareness, provide fun learning opportunities, build a sense of community and foster a non-competitive atmosphere. Camp includes nature activities, animal and plant identification, arts and crafts, quests, and hands-on learning. Bank of New Hampshire believes that providing children with these opportunities not only creates a better future for our youth but also for our communities.
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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, April 18, 2013
by Roy Sanborn
A Great Boating Option
Contributing Writer
Summer is coming. Trust me. It will be here before you know it! This time of year many people start to think about buying a place on the water so they can enjoy everything the Lakes Region has to offer from their own home base. We often have buyers that aren’t quite up to speed on how much homes really cost on the lakes and are looking for that “little cabin for around a hundred thousand or so…” Well, those don’t exist anymore around here (no, not even on the small lakes) and if I found one I would own it myself. As real estate agents, we often get these buyers to look at water access or water view properties as alternatives. The fact that they are more affordable and the property taxes are a whole lot less expensive are pretty compelling reasons to consider these options. The savings gained by having a property off the water can then
The docks at the Akwa Marine Yacht Club in Laconia is a great place to keep your boat. be applied to purchasing or leasing a slip for your boat so you can enjoy those spur of the moment cruises when the spirit moves you. Hey, with the money saved, you might even be able to talk the wife into buying a little bit bigger boat! An intriguing option for summer boating fun is being offered by The Akwa Marina Yacht Club in La-
conia. It is just up past the Boardwalk in the Weirs at 95 Centenary Ave. It is owned and operated by the Mailloux family. They have 76 boat slips that they rent and can accommodate just about any size boat. The slips have modern shore power, water connection, four way ties, 24 hour video surveillance, WiFi Internet, and some pretty stunning
views. But this marina is a whole lot more than just a space to keep your boat. Akwa Marina has three different cabanas that can be rented for the season to store all the gear you need to enjoy your summer on the lake but don’t want to lug around with you. Some even have electrical outlets for that all important mini fridge. There are also
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large 12’ x 14’ Beach Suite Cabanas that have a glass sliders with a deck overlooking the lake and are complete with a wet-bar, mini-fridge, and cable TV. The Club also has a beautiful sandy beach, swim raft, deep water pool with a poolside HDTV, tanning deck with lounge chairs, hot tub, a barbecue and picnic area, volley ball and Bocci courts, two fire pits, and pool table. The really great thing they offer is that if you don’t own a boat and you don’t want to, you can join the American Boat Club and take a lot of the hassle and cost out of owing your own! Based at Akwa Marina, the American Boat Club offers several different size boats either on a half day or full day reservation basis that can also be strung consecutively. Reservations can be made online and you can have up to four different times slots reserved at any one time. When you arrive for your cruise on the lake See sanborn on 28
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Poetry Walk Fundraiser At Remick Museum --The Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm is excited to partner with Richard and Marion Posner to create a Poetry Walk along our Binsack Trail. Come to the musuem on Tuesday, April 23rd,(appropriately the 449th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth) to learn about their newest venture. An already beautiful stroll through a typically gorgeous New Hampshire country landscape will be transformed into a passage of words, emotions and geologic time as you experience Richard’s poem: The Tamworth Path of History, Carved onto 23 rocks, some with only one word on them, a story will unfold along the path from Great Hill, around through the pastures to pass by the farm buildings and the house, and across the road to end at the river. The tale is a grand one, told in just 278 words: the history of the universe, this world, and of Tamworth itself. The Remick Museum and Farm’s mission is to educate a broad and diverse public to the value and significance of the medical practice and agricultural way of life of the country doctor and to preserve and interpret the Remick property and collections for the benefit of the public. The Museum is located at 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth, NH. Please call (603) 3237591 for more information or look us up on our website: www.remickmuseum.org
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Skelley’s Market
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Come celebrate spring at the New Hampshire Boat Museum’s kick-off event of the 2013 season, the annual Spring Fling. This fundraising event, sponsored by People’s United Bank, will take place on Friday, April 19 at Club 59, Kingswood Golf Club in Wolfeboro beginning at 6pm. Reserve your tickets ($42 per person for museum members/$45 for not-yet-members) by calling 603-569-4554 or on-line at www.nhbm.org.
Ham and Bean Supper The Campton Historical Society will hold a Ham and Bean Supper on Saturday, April 27th from 5-6:30pm. The supper will be held at the Old Town Hall, which is handicap accessible. Cost for the supper is $6 per person with children under 12 admitted free. Check out their website at www,camptonhistorical.org for more info and future events.
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“ Unapologetically Pro-Choice�. If Only the Little Ones Were Important! My friend ED ENGLER, publisher of the Laconia Daily Sun, and another good f r i e n d , KEN GORby Niel Young Advocates Columnist RELL, will be my guests this Saturday 9-10 AM1350 and wezs.com. Ed says he heard Ken make some comments about Lakes Region Listens, a group that he co-chairs with Carmen Lorentz, and asked for time to respond. This may come as a surprise to many, but I like a healthy discussion of the issues! This could be a learning experience for many, so let’s hope the Lakes Region and beyond will, in fact, be listening. ******** In The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide, you will learn: How Obama is “Boiling the Frog� by overwhelming the country with deficit, debt, entitlements, onerous regulations, and tax hikes designed to slowly collapse the U.S. economy without a fight. Why Obama’s real goal is to destroy the middle class and create just two classes of Americans—the super-rich who are rewarded with bribes, stimulus and government contracts; and the poor who loyally vote for Obama in return for the handouts they need to survive. Why Texas should be the gold standard for saving America and why Detroit is the model for Obama’s America. Author WAYNE ALLYN ROOT is a scheduled guest for this Saturday. ******** AMERICA, time to look into the mirror and ask the person staring back, what has become of me? Do I really hate what
America stands for? Or have my years in the Government Indoctrination Centers, government schools, and some Lunatic Leftist university like Columbia taken over my mind? This is where the problem began; after indoctrination. You might ask yourself; is that the person who has rallied to support the murder of pre-born or already born babies, why did my mother give me birth – gave me life- so I could support the deaths of friends and family who I may never know now? ******** Last week there was a car with legislative plates parked in downtown Laconia with an Obamacare bumper sticker, and one that read: “ Unapologetically Pro-choice�. I have researched to learn whose plate carries number 5-14. Well, it is REP. CHRISTY BARTLETT DConcord. I know that in Concord it is near impossible to defeat a Democrat at the polls. Perhaps some will not accept your in-your-face- murderthe- babies approach will get you the attention you so deserve. And as a bonus, my 6 days a week radio program comes in loud and clear in Merrimack County. Perhaps Christy would like to address this problem that she has with the readers of The Weirs Times or during an upcoming show. Quick question: Do Cindy Chase from Keene and Christy hang out together? ******** Always making sure he does not let a good crisis be wasted Obama has been as phony as they come. Using the parents of the murdered children at Sandy Hook Elementary in New Town Connecticut Barack Hussein has
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used this money instead to go on a bender to numb some of their own pain. Maybe Mom really loves her three young kids so she leaves the 6 year old in charge of the younger two so they won’t see her go to her friend’s house to shoot up. Perhaps Dad loses his temper a lot and is ashamed that this recently lead to him beating his child and he really wants to stop but in the meantime he can’t risk his child exposing this dirty little secret to the soccer coach. These are the kids that I am trying to find volunteers for; volunteers who will fight for and protect a child’s right to be safe, to be treated with dignity and respect and to learn and grow in the safe embrace of a loving family. We have a desperate need for volunteer advocates throughout the statewide at this time along with some upcoming trainings in different locations. If you are interested in more information about being trained as a volunteer advocate or in the variety of other ways you can help CASA of NH to help these children, please call me at 752-9670 or email me at jbuteau@casanh.org Jen Buteau North Country Training & Recruitment Coordinator CASA of New Hampshire
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formist China was pressing for a return of the British Crown Colony to Chinese sovereignty. A 1984 agreement saw Mrs. Thatcher agree to the formal end of British rule in 1997 but with the important legal caveat for the preservation of the former Colony’s freedoms and way of life for another fifty years. Her UN speeches had an uplifting and magisterial tone not unlike Ronald Reagan’s. Her eleven year tenure at 10 Downing Street left an extraordinary legacy. In an age where statesmanship and leadership is so sadly lacking. In a period where principle
is bent on the anvil of moral relativism. And, in a time of unexceptional popular culture, her saga is inspiring. Lady Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter, will have an unprecedented state funeral not seen since the passing of Sir Winston Churchill. This is most fitting. Margaret Thatcher put the Great back in Britain. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Transatlantic Divide; USA/Euroland Rift (University Press, 2010).
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as a people are no longer capable of correcting our mistakes, we are too stupid to recognize error.” “Just like the Romans, we march around the globe telling others how to act and protecting them from......I know not what. Yet we no longer know right from wrong ourselves. The fact that we can’t see the naked error in this raiding of our savings proves the points above. “You think we do see the naked error? Well why did we reelect this feeble minded socialist clown?! Read the Constitution and explain that to me.”
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When we finally went live I explained I was sitting in the middle of class with my cell phone on speaker, and we first wanted to know how it felt to be the mom of a hoopster bound for the FINAL FOUR! Teal seemed delighted by the question and spoke at length of her excitement and anticipation. As the parent of a couple of daughters who enjoyed some sports successes, I could relate. I thought of Concord’s Dave and Paula Bonnor, whose daugh-
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ter Becky enjoyed some high level women’s basketball success at Stanford University (Cal’s big rival) over ten years ago. Becky’s brother Luke played big-time basketball at West Virginia and UMass. And older brother Matt is still making his parents proud, playing for the San Antonio Spurs and almost winning the NBA three-point shooting contest during All-Star weekend. Teal and I did eventually talk about the “FAHIM SPEAKS” book and movie projects, of course, but
Bear Fact … Cal-Berkeley and Stanford played one of the first-ever women’s college basketball games in 1896. Stanford won, 2-1. Men were excluded, as women guarded the gymnasium windows and doors to keep out curious male students. And … Did I mention that I wrote a book? Born Today That is to say, sports standouts born on April 18 include Red Sox star outfielder Duffy Lewis (1888) and former Celtic point guard “Tiny” Nate Archibald (1948).
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the Lakers. “Horrible coach.” I thanked Teal for the air time, and explained that the pending quiz could be delayed, but not avoided, and our class went back to business. But we now had a personal interest in the women’s Final Four. I went to ESPN the next Sunday and saw the Louisville Cardinals overcome a big Cal lead to knock off the Bears and advance to the Finals against UConn, where the Huskies easily triumphed. I loved watching Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb, and noted that she was once a basketball assistant at the University of New Hampshire, under Sue Johnson. Small world! I was disappointed that Gottlieb didn’t get a chance to face UConn and its coaching legend Luigi “Geno” Auriemma. In our “Sports and Society” class, we sometimes discuss the concerns of folks who feel that women should be coached by women, folks who especially chafe at Auriemma’s success, and who look for a great female hope to put him in his place. Maybe Lindsay will someday get the chance that she just missed out on in 2013. But that’s a different story for another day. Go Bears!
finish last in the American League East this year, and the Yankees to finish next-to-last. When was the last time something like this actually happened? (Answer follows) Sportsquote “And let that be a lesson to you. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 straight times!” - Tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis on beating Jimmy Connors after losing to Connors 16 straight times Sportsquiz Answer In 1966 the Yankees finished tenth and last in the American League, a half game behind the Red Sox, who surged past the Yanks late in the season to finish ninth. Michael Moffett is a Professor of Sports Management at NHTI, Concord’s Community College. He recently co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” (with the Marines), which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast.net.
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of Nutfield, among the forests of the New Hampshire colony. The warlike hand of the red man seemed to cause a cloud of gloom to hang over that part of the country, and giant Archibald Stark at once took up arms in defense of the king against the natives. The inhabitants of Londonderry were in some instances protected from the savages through the influence of Father Rallee, the Catholic friar of Norridgewock, who informed the Indians that they would surely go to hell if they meddled with the Irish. John Stark, his son, was born in Nutfield (now Londonderry), New Hampshire, August 28, 1726. He received but little education, yet the best the town at that time could afford. But like Frank-
lin “improved himself in books,� so when arriving at manhood the hunter boy of Londonderry possessed the rudiments of an ordinary English education. He, together with his brothers, William, Samuel, and Archibald, held commissions in the king’s service during the “Seven Years,� or so, often called the “French War,� of 1754 to 1760. On August 20, 1758, he married Miss Elizabeth Page of old Dunbarton, N. H. She was of sweet manners, of rare beauty, and of Norman and Celt extraction. The following children were the fruit of that marriage: Caleb, Archibald, John, Jr., Eleanor, Eleanor 2d, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Charles, Benjamin Franklin, and Sophia. The emigrant is buried in the beauteous city of Manchester, N.H., where a rude stone is seen, bearing the following epitaph: “Here lies he body of Mr. Archibald Stark. He Departed this life June 25th, 1758, Aged 61 years. Although the Starks had served the crown faithfully in colonial times, when the dark cloud of the war of the Revolution came, no family in all New England took a more firm stand against the British longer ruling the American colonies than this one family. Excitement ran throughout that town, and they were foremost in the new and most vital issue. After the battle of Lexington (1775) John Stark was appointed colonel in the “ Massachusetts’ Line,� and on the following month was appointed by the general court of New Hampshire, colonel to command the First New Hampshire regiment, which body, with Colonel Stark at its head, was in the thickest of the fray at the battle See stark on 21
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of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. In 1776 he served in the Canada campaign under Maj.-Gen. John Sullivan, LL. D. In the battles of Trenton and Princeton his regiment played a most conspicuous part. He being of modest disposition, therefore, claimed but little credit for his vast achievements, and was superseded by congress. This grieved the greathearted patriot, who at once resigned his commission and quietly retired to his farm at old Merrimack, where he “ patiently bided his time.� Much grieved were the New Hampshire people, as they had seen the mistake made by their honorable and patriotic body in failing at a very early date to appoint the hunter boy of wild Londonderry a colonel, thus permitting the Massachusetts colony to commission him. In 1777 he again left his loving wife and family amid the granite hills and took up the sword of human justice and fought at Bennington where he decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne’s army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann. As a volunteer he had joined General Gates and had fought with distinction and bravery at the Battle of Saratoga. After having been ordered by General Gates to send away his troops (and somewhat doubting the patriotism of Gates) he wrote the following letter: ALBANY, June 1, 1778. To the Mayor and Council of Albany:
so. General Stark, like the majority of those foremost in the patriot cause, was a member of the Masonic institution. It had been his wish for many years to be a Mason (some of his dearest friends were members of army lodges). In the busy and then much troubled town of Albany, N. Y., was old “ Masters’ lodge, No. 2�. Among whose rolls of membership were the names of many men distinguished in colonial and Revolutionary life. The name of “John Stark, Brigadier-General,� was proposed by a fellowofficer to “ Masters’ lodge,� and on January 9, 1778, he was initiated into the ancient craft. There gathered upon that occasion at this fraternal shrine many of his military compeers. And after his being there entered, crafted, and raised to the degree of a Master Mason, no prouder member of the fraternity could be found in all the Continental army than the volunteer of Saratoga. In 1780 he served with marked bravery in the New Jersey campaign and in 1781 had command of
the Northern department. On October 4., 1777, the continental congress passed the following act: “Resolved, That the thanks of congress be presented to General Stark of the New Hampshire militia, and to the officers and troops under his command, for their brave and successful attack upon and signal victory over the enemy in their lines at Bennington, and that Brigadier-General Stark be appointed a BrigadierGeneral in the army of the United States.� From the above date he bore a commission of a regular brigadier-general and served to the close of the war, when he was brevetted a major-general September 30, 1783. General Stark was noted for his unique phrases. Just before the battle of Bennington things looked critical to the Americans; he there addressed his soldiers in a most fitting manner. His words gave them fresh courage, and in concluding, he said : “We must conquer, my boys, or tonight Molly Stark sleeps See stark on 25
John Stark’s grave marker at Stark Park in Manchester. The Friends of Stark Park are constantly working to fix some of the structural issue with the entire Stark Family gravesite. GENTLEMEN: As I am ordered by the Hon. Major-General Gates to send to Fishkill all the Continental troops from this place, with the British Hospital, I must beg the favor of you to mount the guards for the security of the city and the stores in it. Your our compliance will
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that there was a large reinforcement on its march within two miles. Colonel Warner’s regiment, luckily coming up at the moment, renewed the attack with fresh vigor. I pushed forward as many of the men as I could to their assistance. The battle continued obstinate on both sides until sunset and the enemy was obliged to retreat. We pursued them till dark, and had the day lasted an hour longer should have taken the whole body of them.” Since the death of General Montgomery, this victory was the first event that had proved encouraging in the Northern department, and the name of Stark was upon the lips of all patriots. At the end of the war he retired to his farm in New Hampshire. He was popular only as a soldier. By his youthful training he had become well skilled in the art of warfare. As a farmer he was unsuccessful, and in politics he took no part. Upon the reunion of his troops remembering the Battle of Bennigton on July 31, 1809, poor health forced Stark to decline an invitation. Instead, he sent
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Swimming Pool at the Akwa Marine Yacht Club. will be added as the club grows to maintain an adequate ratio of members to boats so you can enjoy the lake when you want. The cost for this program right now is $3,600 for the season and looks to me like a really affordable way to enjoy boating on Winnipesaukee. The only other cost is that you have to fuel up before you bring the boat back. The big news at the Marina this year is the large covered pavilion that will house a new bar and grill providing a great place to hang out, have lunch, and enjoy the views. It will be open to the public starting in mid-May. The Akwa Marina Beach Bar will specialize in seafood and offer fish and chips, lobster rolls, seafood platters, haddock sandwiches
This large covered pavilion that will soon house a new bar and grill. as well as standard pub fair such as burgers and dogs. There will be healthy choices, salads, and a kids’ menu. You will be able to get there by foot, car, or by boat with transient docks available so you can come for lunch by water. You will even be able to call ahead and pick up baskets of food delivered right to the docks for you to enjoy on your
cruise. How great is that? The center piece of the pavilion is the bar which is made from a 1904, 28 foot wooden sloop named the “Anona.” In the early days this boat plied the waters of the Great Lakes. There are sure to be a bunch of landlubbers congregated around it, especially on rainy days when there will be drink specials offered. Kurt Mailloux says it is “always sunny at the Akwa Bar even when it is raining.” The views from the pavilion are just amazing and I suspect that visitors and locals alike will find this watering hole to be just the ticket on a lazy summer afternoon. It really is pretty cool. I think I found my new lunch spot! Please feel free to visit www.lakesregionhome. com to learn more about the Lakes Region real estate market and comment on this article and others. Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® at Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty and can be reached at 603-4550335.
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On Friday, May 10th, it’s game on at the Historic Belknap Mill’s Private Collections’ Event. Whether rooting for the home team or just rooting for a good time, the community is invited to enjoy an evening of Sports Spectacular, while supporting the efforts to preserve and enhance ongoing programming at the Historic Belknap Mill. Now in its eighth year, the Private Collections’ Event is presented by Eptam Plastics and held at the Lake Opechee Inn & Conference Center. This year’s theme, a “Sports Spectacular,” will showcase a collection of vintage racecars, classic sports cars, and rare sports memorabilia from notable collectors in the Lakes Region. In keeping with the theme, the event starts with a warm-up cocktail and hors d’oeuvre reception sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire. The reception area will be decorated as an all-American “sports bar,” including big-screen TVs, sports memorabilia and a collection of vintage and classic sports cars. Cars featured include a fully restored 1962 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Roadster and a 1963
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1.7 cu. ft. Microwave Oven with 1000 Watts, 10 Power Levels, & 300 CFM Two-Speed Vent. #JVM1752DPWW
GE DISHWASHER
16-Place Settings, 4 Wash Cycles, 8 Options, Sanitize Option, Steam Prewash, Delay Start, & Hard Food Disposer and 54 dBA #GDF520PGDWW
GE FREESTANDING ELECTRIC RANGE
30” Range with 4 Ribbon Radiant Elements, 9”/12” Dual Element, 5.3 cu. ft. Self-Clean Oven #JB640DRWW
GE FRENCH DOOR REFRIGERATOR
22.2 cu. ft. with 3 Adjustable Glass Shelves, Adjustable Gallon Door Bins, & Humidity Controlled Crispers #GFSF2HCYWW
WEBER SPIRIT E-310 PROPANE GAS GRILL
This grill offers enough room to cook a 20-pound turkey or roast meats and vegetables at the same time. #46510001
NEXT DAY DELIVERY AVAILABLE! PARTS HOTLINE: 800-668-1296
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QUEEN SIZE 8” MEMORY FOAM* Mattress only.
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LACONIA
rt. 3 RT. 16 967 Gold Street rt. 28 603-539-2887 603-623-0130 603-893-9131 603-524-0163
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350 loudon rd. rt. 125 603-224-8526 603-612-0087