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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, April 27, 2017

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“The Life Of Celia Thaxter”

New Hampshire’s Historic Hall Of Flags by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

blood-stained and bulletridden relics of that awful time, from 1861-65, when 600,000 Americans lost their lives in the War between the States—including thousands of Granite Staters. Among the colors displayed in Concord are those of the 5th N.H. Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel

Edward Cross of Lancaster, who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. New Hampshire’s Fighting Fifth has the sad distinction of having sustained the greatest total loss in battles of any regiment in the Union Army, with 295 killed and 756 wounded. Currently encased are 87 battle flags in variSee flags on 24

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While New Hampshire may be among the most secular of states, its State House in Concord is home to a shrine of sorts—a spiritual corridor where anyone with any imagination and sense of history can’t help but be moved. That shrine is the “Hall

of Flags” which is the first area one encounters when one walks through the front door into the historic edifice—designed in 1814—where N.H.’s legislature has met continuously since 1819. Civil War regimental flags and banners are encased on three walls surrounding the State House lobby area. They’re

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Civil War Regimental Battle flags adorn the south wall in the State House Lobby. Currently encased are 87 battle flags in various stages of disrepair.

On Thursday, May 11, at 8 PM at the Rochester Historical Society Museum on Hanson Street, actress Stephanie Voss Nugent will present “The Remarkable Life of Celia Thaxter.” Imagine being four years old and sailing off with your family to live at a lighthouse out in the ocean. It sounds like the stuff of fiction, yet this is exactly what happens in the unique story of Celia Laighton Thaxter, the wild and free child of the Isles of Shoals who became a famous poet, painter, and folklorist. Using archival photography and performing extended passages from the artist’s prose and poetry, Nugent will explore the forces that shaped Thaxter’s work, and introduce some of the writers, musicians, and artists who followed Thaxter to her beloved island home each summer. The hour-long presentation is perfect for audiences 8 to 108. For more information please call (603) 330-3099 or e-mail rochesterhistorical@metrocast.net.

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April Thursday 27th The Civil War Soldier – Presented by Warren Sommers

Schoolhouse Museum, 94 Dane Road, Center Harbor. 7pm. The everyday life of the Civil War Soldier is not often discussed. More familiar are the names of generals, like Lee and Grant, or the famous battles of Antietam and Gettysburg. But hundreds of thousands of young men volunteered to fight in this bloody war against their fellow Americans, and many were killed or seriously wounded. Speaker Warren Sommers shares his understanding of the daily trials and tribulations of the Civil War soldier. His unique perspective offers an opportunity to learn more about the events that divided our nation from 1861 to 1865.

Giant Rummage Sale

Congregational Church of Laconia, Corner of Pleasant Street and Veterans Square, Laconia. 5pm-7pm. Featuring collectables, toys, books, clothing, electronics, craft supplies, kitchenware and more!

Dokken & Warrant

and silent auction. Tickets are $100 and admit TWO people. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Giant Rummage Sale

Congregational Church of Laconia, Corner of Pleasant Street and Veterans Square, Laconia. 9am-3pm. Featuring collectables, toys, books, clothing, electronics, craft supplies, kitchenware and more!

Plant and Tree Sale

Gilmanton Iron Works Fire Station. 5pm-7pm. Stop in and pick up some plants for your home! 837-8976

Gerry Beaudoin Jazz Trio Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 5270043

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The Streetcar Company’s Performance of “Mary Poppins” Inter-Lakes High School, 1 Laker Lane, Meredith. Fri. 7pm, Sat. 2pm and 7pm, Sun. 2pm. Tickets are available at Greenlaw’s music in downtown Laconia or online at www.

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Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach. www.

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Friday 28th Stormy Weather The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Lottery Cocktail Party Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 5:30pm. Ten lucky ticket holders will share $13,000 in cash prizes. The last ticket drawn will reveal a $10,000 grand prize winner! One ticket admits two for a great night of entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, games, prizes and a live

RUMMAGE SALE AND FLEA MARKET United Methodist Church 35 Tower St • Weirs Beach

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Saturday 29th Peter Wolf The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

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League of NH Craftsmen, 279 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. 10:30am1:30pm. Class will be taught by juried artist, Deb Fairchild. Students will be using anodized aluminum jump rings during class while learning the techniques. Students should bring magnifiers if they typically need them for close work. $35per student with a $15 materials fee. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. 279-7920

Motor Booty Affair Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

“Consider the Conversation” – Free Film Showing

Unitarian Universalist Church, 206 Central Street, Franklin. 10am. This film is a thought-provoking look at end-of-life issues that opens the floodgates of thought and can lead to conversations about this subject among families and community members. Free admission. 934-3454

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.

Chicken Pie Supper

Blazing Star Grange Hall, Danbury. Homemade and delicious chicken pie supper includes full meal and brownie sundae dessert. $9/adults, $4/kids age 4 to 12 and kids 3 and under are free. 252-4440

Giant Rummage Sale

Congregational Church of Laconia, Corner of Pleasant Street and Veterans Square, Laconia. 9am12pm. Featuring collectables, toys, books, clothing, electronics, craft supplies, kitchenware and more!

Plant and Tree Sale

Picnic Rock Farm, Route 3, Meredith. 10am-2pm. Stop in and pick up some plants for your home! To benefit the Belknap County Conservation District. 837-8976

Sunday 30th Dancing with the Community Stars The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551.

Plant and Tree Sale

Picnic Rock Farm, Route 3, Meredith. 10am-12pm. Stop in and pick up some plants for your home! To benefit the Belknap County Conservation District. 837-8976

May Monday 1st Google Business Workshop Moultonborough Public Library, Moultonborough. 5:30pm. Want to get your business found on Google Search and Maps? This workshop, part of National Small Business Week, introduces “Google My Business”, a free tool to manage your business information across Google. It’s the easiest way to help your business be found online. Check out GYBO.COM for details. If you need help with your Google business listing, this workshop is for you! Register by sending a request with your business name and contact information to workshop@

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Tuesday 2nd “When is War the Answer? Woodrow Wilson and the Decision for War in 1917” The Wright Museum, Wolfeboro. 7pm-8pm. Presented by Professor Kurk Dorsey. In this illustrated talk, Dorsey will describe how Wilson tried

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Wright Museum Opens Season With Exhibit of Saturday Evening Post Covers From 1941-1946 The Wright Museum of World War II in Wolfeboro, NH, opens its 2017 season with a staff-curated exhibit, Saturday Evening Post Covers 1941-1946: Mead Schaeffer, Norman Rockwell, and Friends. The exhibit, which runs from May 1 to June 24, features 60 Saturday Evening Post covers created by artists who were Norman Rockwell’s peers. The exhibit also displays World War II posters, many of them created by the artists whose covers are on exhibit. The Post covers and posters come from the Wright Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibit is made possible with sponsorship by John and Evelyn Frank. When people think of The Saturday Evening Post covers, they automatically think of Norman Rockwell. But Rockwell was only one of many talented artists whose illustrations graced the magazine’s front cover. Most of the artists in the exhibit are not household names today. But during the Post’s heyday, those artists – such as Mead Schaeffer, John Falter, Stevan Dohanos, and Margaret Troop – were just as well known as Rockwell. Their illustrations appeared alongside his and were just as beloved by Americans throughout the country. The covers in the exhibit focus mostly on the home front during the war years and the first year after the war. Subjects range from the mundane and comical to the dramatic. But all the illustrations reflect not only American values but how Americans reacted to World War II. The covers also document a seminal period in American history. The Wright Museum of World War II is open to the public for the 2017 season on May 1 and will remain open daily through October 31. Museum hours are Monday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and Sunday: 12:00-4:00 p.m. The Museum is a not-for-profit educational institution focusing on the American home front as well as the war front during World War II. The museum is located at 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, NH, on Route 28. For more information, contact the museum at 603-5691212, Michael.Culver@WrightMuseum.org, via Facebook, or go to the museum’s website at www.WrightMuseum.org.

Solo Performance by Eric Grant, May 3 at Taylor LACONIA -Musician Eric Grant brings a solo performance to Taylor Community’s Woodside Building, Wednesday, May 3 at 2 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. The Gilford, N.H.-based Eric Grant Band has taken the music scene by storm playing in front of thousands of fans in northern New England since their 2009 inception. They have been featured as supporting act and opener for national headliners such as Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line and many more. Taylor Community is a not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality of retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. For more information, visit www.taylorcommunity.org.

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Some things just take getting used to. Have you gotten one of those new debit or credit cards with a chip in it? Supposedly, these are designed to help keep us safer from those evil doers who want to steal our information and go on spending sprees using our cards. It seems that this country has been behind the times with these things and we are finally catching up. Just in time for the evil doers to have finally figured out how to overcome this nuisance to their livelihood. Still, when I first got my new chip card I was pretty excited. After all this was New Hampshire in the middle of the winter and something like this got my blood boiling a bit. I hadn’t been this excited since I purchased my new ergonomically designed snow shovel a few winters ago. Of course, like most new things we crave as humans to make us happy, the novelty soon wore off by the second snowstorm. The next winter it was time for a snowblower. Next year, who knows; maybe a new house in Florida. I had heard about these chip cards and I was excited to see how they would work. My first stop was a local department store to purchase some cat food. This in itself was a winter diversion I had planned for a while, so I figured I

would kill two birds with one stone, a feat I could never accomplish in reality seeing I never had a good pitching arm. (Even if I did, I could never do it.) But, I digress. Our cat, Dagny, needed to add a little wet food to her diet so I needed to find which type she would prefer. It would be a process of elimination by purchasing many different types and bringing them home and then, one by one, letting her taste each flavor until she found one to her liking, if at all. Unfortunately, we did not have a dog to make quick work of whichever food was not lucky enough to be chosen, so there would be a good deal of waste involved if Dagny couldn’t decided on her preferred flavor right off the bat. I must admit I was surprised to see the selection of cat food available. A few dozen flavors. I might have to make several trips until the magic recipe was discovered. There was tuna, tuna grilled, tuna grilled with gravy, tuna grilled flaked, tuna chunky and even classic tuna, to name a few of the tuna varieties. There was also beef, chicken, turkey and more with all of these options as well. There was a wide variety of price ranges depending on how discriminating you think your cat’s tastes might be. I grabbed several types, but I refused to even consider the “Fancy Feast White Meat Chicken Florentine With Garden Greens In A Delicate Sauce� (I’m not kidding). I had to draw the line somewhere and I certainly didn’t want Dagny to develop an even larger aloof attitude than the standard cat one. With my mind buzzing from this unexpected journey into the world of cat food, a world I never knew of but was now a perma-

nent part of my life, I arrived at the cashier and placed my armful of cans on the conveyor belt and watched as each one was scanned and placed in a bag. “That will be fourteen seventy-six,� announced the less than enthusiastic cashier. I was shaken from my stupor, reached into my pocket for my wallet, took out my new debit card and with my thoughts far away from why I was here in the first place, I swiped my card. Nothing. “You have to insert chip cards,� I was told as though I had left my zipper down. I felt foolish, My reason for leaving the house in the first place had eluded me at the most inopportune of times. I smiled sheepishly and inserted the card. I waited for what seemed like the intermission at the Super Bowl without the entertainment. Had I done this correctly? The cashier seemed unconcerned as she studied her fingernails. Then an annoying “BLAT BLAT BLAT!!� emanated from the machine. Eyes turned towards me. “You have to take your card out now,� I was scolded yet again. I took out my card, was handed my bag and receipt and I hurried from the store, my first foray with my chip card a total failure. Now it was back home to find out if I had chosen wisely or would I face the same failure with the cat foods I had chosen? Dagny seemed to like the tuna with gravy, but who knows how she’ll feel about it tomorrow? Follow Brendan at his website BrendanTSmith. com

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Berlin, New Hampshire, in the state’s north country, has been described as the city that trees built because it had its beginnings as a sawmill and was built around the lumber business. In the year 1956 the Brown Company of Berlin was New England’s largest producer of pulp, paper and paper products and announced in the spring of said year that it was expanding its hardwood purchasing program. This was good news for owners of woodlands because it meant that they would have a market for tree species such as oak, maples, birches and beech as well as the softwood trees like pine and spruce, though the change to hardwood was probably because of the decreasing supply of softwood trees. The Brown Company spokesman indicated that this could help in woodlot management because the owners could profit by thinning their trees with the increasing demand for hardwood pulp. Probably many people do not know that paper made from wood is a process that has been around for less than 200 years. Before wood, used rags were a main source of paper-making material, but in 1838 two men, not in contact with each other, were influenced by the idea of making paper out

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more efficiently.” Trucks had by then become more important as a means of transporting logs to the pulp mills or saw mills. This was particularly important with the increased demand for hardwood logs because they, unlike the softwoods, could not be floated down the rivers without being specially treated. It was reported See smith on 16

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Chelsea Clinton’s Cheerleading Cult How thirsty does Variety look begging readers to join it in doing high V cheerleading moves for Chelsea Clinton? Thirstier by Michelle Malkin than an ultraSyndicated Columnist marathoner lost in Death Valley in mid-July. Hyping the entertainment magazine’s latest cover, Co-Editor-inChief Claudia Eller gushed this week, “How cool does Chelsea Clinton look on our Power of Women, NY, cover?” Welcome to the liberal media’s manufacturing of “cool.” Leather jacket? Check. Overzealous airbrushing? Check. Humanizing grin? Check. Democratic establishment pedigree? Checkitycheck-check. This is just the latest attempt by The Media Resistance to make Chelsea Clinton a thing. The same liberal lunatics in the press who rage about the Trump children’s nepotistic privileges champion the “refreshingly outspoken” daughter of the Clinton dynasty -- who, at 37 years old, will receive a “Lifetime Impact” award from Variety on Friday for her “humanitarian work.” The honor comes during the same week that the Clinton Global Initiative cash machine officially shut down. Among the generous “humanitarian” projects of CGI’s parent, the Clinton Foundation: chipping in a reported $3 million for Chelsea’s wedding to another heir of Democratic corruptocrats, Marc Mezvinsky -- the newly jobless former hedge fund manager and son of convicted fraudster Edward Mezvinsky, a former Demo-

cratic congressman from Iowa. Remember: The Clintons’ own inner circle lambasted Chelsea’s hubby for exploiting the Clinton Foundation and CGI to prop up his now-defunct hedge fund. The duo also siphoned off charitable donations to pay for “taxes on money from her parents” and expenses racked up to subsidize her “life for a decade,” according to longtime Clinton aide Doug Band. But I digress from the Cult of Chelsea Coolness. Shake those pompoms, propaganda media: The New York Times lauded “Chelsea Clinton, Unbound,” applauded her “confrontational tweeting” against President Trump and interviewed her about books for a series featuring successful authors -- after her most recent ghostwritten opus on global health care flopped like those famous Filipino divers on YouTube. BuzzFeed and The Hill cover Chelsea as if she were a Kardashian. Politico also cooed over Chelsea’s new “spicy, sarcastic online personality” on Twitter. Then the Beltway publication hailed her upcoming children’s book, which opportunistically cribs left-wing feminist Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s cri de coeur, “She Persisted.” The Huffington Post breathlessly reported on Chelsea’s brave thoughts about breast-feeding and menstruation. She boldly asserted in a wellness article that we all need to “support” breast-feeding women and menstruating girls “by talking candidly” about them. OK then. Prepare the Nobel Prize nomination, stat! Insipid platitudes deserve eye rolls, not gala celebrations. What independent “power of women” has Chelsea Clinton exercised, other than inheriting her father’s name and what’s left of her two-

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With U.S. missiles flying in Syria, the “mother of all bombs” exploding in Afghanistan and an aircraft by Rich Lowry carrier strike Contributing Writer group heading toward North Korea, has there been a revolution in President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? His most fervent supporters shouldn’t get overly exercised, and his interventionist critics shouldn’t get too excited. What has been on offer so far is broadly consistent with the Jacksonian worldview that is the core of Trump’s posture toward the world. Trump’s views are obviously inchoate. He has an attitude rather than a doctrine, and upon leaving office, he surely won’t, like Richard Nixon, write a series of books on international affairs. See malkin on 22 What we have learned since he

took office is that Trump is not an isolationist. At times, he’s sounded like one. His “America First” slogan (inadvertently) harkened back to the movement to keep us out of World War II. His outlandish questioning of the NATO alliance, an anchor of the West, created the sense that he might be willing to overturn the foundations of the post-World War II order. This hasn’t come to pass. It’s not possible to be a truly isolationist president in the 21st century. And such an approach would undercut the most consistent element of Trump’s approach -- namely strength. His set piece foreign-policy speeches during the campaign were clear on this. “The world is most peaceful and most prosperous when America is strongest,” he said last April at the Center for the National Interest. Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would take the war to ISIS and build up our defenses,

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Sultan Erdogan’s Uneasy Turkish Turban UNITED NATIONS—There’s

troubling news from across the Bosphorus, the narrow slip of water separating Europe from by John J. Metzler Asia-minor. In Syndicated Columnist a decisive but dividing referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan narrowly gained the political blessing he sought by winning 51 percent of the nationwide vote. Erdogan’s divisive victory (51/49 percent), allows the increasingly authoritarian Turkish ruler to gain sweeping powers to change the constitution and to allow him near unrivaled power until 2029. The main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has called on the electoral commission to annul the outcome citing “manipulating the referendum results.” Still the newly-minted Sultan Erdogan failed to gain the minimum 55 percent vote he wished for to bless the constitutional changes. Turkey remains a key piece on the geopolitical board linking Europe to the Mid East and the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. But its strategic situation has been sadly compromised by its border with Syria whose civil war continues to spill over into Turkish territory both in terms of violent terrorism and humanitarian hosting of nearly three million refugees. Contrary to many assumptions,

Turkey’s economy in recent years was strong and growth- oriented. Turkish tourism was booming and deservedly so. The Syrian crisis changed the equation dramatically. Tourism has taken a dive downwards. The once staunchly secular Turkish Republic of Kemal Ataturk was founded in 1923. The new 18 article constitutional changes focus on granting of executive powers to an elected President and the abolition of the Prime Minister. Equally Cabinet Ministers can be chosen from outside the Parliament. The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has changed the rules of the game. Erdogan became Prime Minister in 2002 and was elected President in 2014. Administrative streamlining may be necessary but it’s curiously too convenient that Erdogan is the right man at the right time to assume the unofficial role of Sultan? His is a classic Personality centered rather than policy oriented polity. Erdogan is loved or loathed, a strong paternalist leader with a delirious following combining high octane nationalistic politics with Islamic fervor. Having seen Erdogan increasingly combative and shrill speeches, at the UN for example, one witnesses the physical gestures and gesticulations of a dictator. Yet Turkey has been a good friend to UN peacekeeping missions as well as the multinational military operation in Afghanistan. Furthermore, Turkey has been a reliable partner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO) and a

true friend of the USA. This may be changing. Positive American impressions of Turkey are primarily rooted in the preErdogan era. Last July an oddly bungled military coup tried to topple Erdogan’s

rule. Erdogan’s quick and focused countercoup allowed a massive crackdown on dissent; 130,000 people were purged from civil service jobs. More than 45,000 soldiers, police, teachers and journal-

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Earth Day Dopes Expect more craziness this weekend. Earth Day is Saturday. This year’s theme: Government must “do more” about climate change because “conby John Stossell sequences of Syndicated Columnist inaction are too high to risk.” They make it sound so simple: 1) Man causes global warming. 2) Warming is obviously harmful. 3) Government can stop it. Each claim is dubious or wrong. This weekend at a movie, I was surprised to be assaulted again by former Vice President Al Gore. In a preview, a puffy-looking Gore suddenly appeared, attacking Donald Trump and mocking critics of his previous movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the deceitful documentary that spreads fear in classrooms today. Yes, teachers play it in class. Now Gore claims “the most criticized” part of the film was his assertion that the 9/11 memorial site would flood. Then, during Hurricane Sandy, it did! But Gore creatively misremembers his own movie. He had claimed the World Trade Center would flood because of a permanent 20-foot sea-level rise. Actual scientists called that nonsense. It would take hundreds of years for such a thing to possibly happen. But since the area flooded, briefly, Gore spins that as confirmation of his exaggerations. This preview was the first I learned that theaters will soon show a sequel to Gore’s film. Google tells us that “An Incon-

venient Sequel” got a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival. Trendy Hollywood is so dumb. At least critics who’ve watched it gave it poor reviews. Let’s go back to points 1, 2 and 3: 1) Man’s greenhouse gases contribute to warming, but scientists don’t agree on how much. Of 117 climate models from the 1990s, 114 overpredicted warming. 2) Warming is harmful. Maybe. But so far it’s been good: Over the last century, climates warmed, but climate-related deaths dropped. Since 1933, they fell by 98 percent. Life expectancy doubled. Much of that is thanks to prosperity created by free markets. But some is due to warming. Cold kills more people than heat. Carbon dioxide is also good for crop growth. Even The New York Times admits, “Plants have been growing at a rate far faster than at any other time in the last 54,000 years.” But what if Al Gore is right? Maybe our greenhouse gases will eventually cause Greenland’s icecaps to melt and flood our cities. Shouldn’t government act now? No. 3) Nothing we do today will stop global warming. The Obama regulations that Trump recently repealed, horrifying the Earth Day crowd, had a goal that amounted to a mere 1 percent reduction in global CO2. And that was just the goal. Of course, some think any cut is better than nothing. But cuts are costly. They kill jobs, opportunity. All to accomplish... nothing the earth will notice. If warming does become a problem, we’re better off if our economy is very strong when the See stossell on 22

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Your Health is in Your Hands by Dr. Graham Moneysmith, DC. Contributing Writer

Hope is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happenâ€?. Do you feel hopeful? I believe every person has at least some hopes, even in their darkest moments. A hope to get healthier, to get a better job, to lose weight, for our kids to be happy, for the car to pass inspection, etc. I think a case can be made for hope as one of the most powerful feelings a human can have. Hope drives us to change, to improve, to achieve. I know it can be interpreted as fluff or hokey by some to focus on hope, but never discount the power of thought, of belief, of hope. Our minds and words are powerful, this is why it is important to always be conscience of the health of our thoughts. Hope is more than a powerful feeling or an internal motivator. There is evidence that hope can have can have real tangible effects on your health. For example, pain relief. In his book “The Anatomy of Hopeâ€?, Jerome Groopman states, “Belief and expectation‌the key elements in hope‌can block pain by releasing the brain’s endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.â€? Dr. Shane Lopez, author of “Making Hope Happenâ€?, lays out many effects high hope levels can have on a person’s life: 1) Hope has been shown to decrease absenteeism at work. Whether you own the business or are the new guy at the job,

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Judy Knows More of What OUR Children Need I just love and respect the parents who are serious about h o m e schooling their children. Or, at miniby Niel Young Advocates Columnist m u m , break the children out of the “Indoctrination Centers” which I have referred to, for many years! From a friend/activist thinking aloud: “Public schools are a mess...... parents and students deserve alternatives...... Answer - NH, ESA (Education Savings Account) SB 193.....offers one!” Time to have some folks back on radio to explain, and promote. ******** http://pamelageller. com/2017/04/westvirginia-middle-schoolteacher-teaches-wearing-tuck-frump-shirtclass.html/ These are the real-life villains teaching our children, brainwashing and inculcating them into the army of goose-stepping leftist zombies. I have one word for Americans — Homeschool. If that’s not an option, get active. Get on school boards, fight! Principal: Matt Riggs 9846 Coal River Rd, Seth, WV 25181 (304) 837-3694 How sure are these totalitarian soldiers? The teacher Ms. Judy said she doesn’t try to push her liberalism on others, but asserted that the children who saw her patch on Thursday were

“like-minded.” Frightening. West Virginia middle school teacher photographed wearing ‘Tuck Frump’ shirt in class. The West Virginia middle school teacher is under fire after she was photographed by a student in class wearing a jacket with the words, “Tuck Frump,” emblazoned on the back. Cheryl Judy, an art teacher for Sherman Junior and Senior high schools in Boone County, told the Charleston Gazette-Mail that the profane anti-President Trump message was written on a patch that s h e la te r a tta c h e d t o her jacket while in class Thursday afternoon. Ms. Judy said she was planning on wearing the patch to a school board meeting later that evening, so she briefly tried it on in class to make sure it was on straight. She said that “without thinking,” she then allowed a student to take a picture of the patch, which the student shared on Snapchat. The picture quickly exploded on social media, and now some parents are calling for Ms. Judy’s resignation. “We expect professionalism with both conduct and appearance,” Mr. Huffman told WSAZ. “It seems to have caused a great amount of concern from around the area and around the nation, as we’ve received multiple phone calls today.” Ms. Judy said she’s been teaching in Boone County for more than 13

years and is the secretary for the local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers labor union. She said she doesn’t try to push her liberalism on others but asserted that the children who saw her patch on Thursday were “like-minded.” “We had discussed this kind of stuff before,” Ms. Judy told WSAZ. “They were not offended by it. It doesn’t really have anything inappropriate on it unless you read it the wrong way.” ME: Miss Judy, I left much of Pamela’s words from her piece to be read at her site. So informative! So, Miss Judy, you are the Secretary of the American Federation of Teachers Union. That explains the attitude. No, not sure, is it liberalism, or COMMUNISM? Just for the record; I believe that Merit Pay is the answer to what educators will be paid, based on how they have improved, and not about longevity. What is one’s worth? No union, just performance, and the drive to be the best one can be. As a great leader once wrote: “If your lot in life is to be a shrub; be the best little shrub there ever was!” ******** PAMELA GELLER is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

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the surface. They sink slow, so you can pause them for long periods in hopes that it will be too much for a nearby pike to handle. Swim baits and glide baits can be fished with a steady retrieve across shallow flats, and can also be occasionally paused in hopes of triggering a strike. As spring progresses and water warms, spinners, spoons, and spinnerbaits will also work well. Stealth is one of the most important aspects of spring pike fishing. It’s not uncommon to see a large northern pike sunning itself in the late morning sun, but they spook easy. As you drift, your craft casts a shadow on the bottom and a silhouette from above. Since kayaks have a much smaller profile than boats, they cast a smaller shadow. The smaller profile also makes them less intimidating to wary pike below. The shallow draft of kayaks allows anglers to drift into very little water, sometimes in areas a pike would never expect to see a boat. I believe that pike sometimes see my kayak, but See moore on 26

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down separately. I was struck by the thousands of female runners, and thought about Kathrine Switzer, who used her initials to register for the 1967 Marathon, for which she received bib number 261. (Mette’s bib number of 20164 would include Switzer’s numbers.) Midway through that 1967 race, a Marathon official, Jock Semple, realized that a woman was running in what had always been a males-only competition, and he stepped onto the road in front of Switzer to forcibly remove her from the marathon. A Kathrine supporter literally knocked Semple off to the side of the road and the young woman continued running towards Boston, where she became the first female to officially finish the historic race. Many runners just can’t complete the Boston Marathon, for any of a myriad of reasons. I hoped that Mette would make it, but whatever happened, I’d remain proud that she’d tried. And finish she did, with a very credible time of 3:44. Through the magic of cell phones, Mette’s fans all linked up with the triumphant runner on the Boston Common afterwards to celebrate. Mette had accomplished her goal of honoring John’s memory with a completed marathon ten years after his death. And on the subject on anniversaries, we later learned that Kathrine Switzer celebrated the 50th anniversary of her historic 1967 marathon run by also completing the 2017 race. The 70-year-old icon, wearing bib number 261, finished with a time of 4:44—exactly an hour behind Mette. A marathon is the most difficult of sporting events to watch. It’s not like a basketball game in a gym. It’s a 26.2 mile course. Spectators have to pick their spots to get glimpses of their favorites. I found a perch by the Buckminster Hotel—near Fenway Park—to watch the field and try to get a photo of Mette. It was a joy to see just a tiny part of this Hallmark sports event, with its diverse thousands of

runners drawing inspiration from the continuous cheering from hundreds of thousands of spectators. It then occurred to me that maybe John was somehow in a position to see the whole race, not just a piece of it. I’m sure he was very proud. Sports Quiz When was the first Boston Marathon? (Answer

follows) Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on April 27 include major League Baseball legend Enos Slaughter (1916) and NBA great George “Iceman” Gervin (1952). Sportsquote “The difference between running the mile and running the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match

and being slowly roasted over hot coals.” – Hal Higdon Sportsquiz Answer Inspired by the success of the first Olympic marathon in 1896, the first Boston Marathon took place in 1897 and is the world’s oldest annual marathon. John J. McDermott beat out 14 other runners to win with a time of 2:55:10. The Boston Marathon is al-

15 ways held on Patriots’ Day, the third Monday of April. State Representative Michael Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He 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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A bulldozer pushing softwood logs into the Upper Androscoggin River to be floated downstream to the company’s sawmills. smith from 5

that with the use of cranes a truck could be loaded in about a quarter of an hour instead of an hour and a half, making the use of trucks a more economical practice, so scores of trucks were put to use each day hauling logs to the pulp and saw mills in Berlin and Gorham. The emphasis of the Brown Company in the mid 1950’s was upon modernization and mechanization. A new type of debarker was apparently more efficient, leaving more of the debarked piec-

belts, caps, and imitation leathers. Soca-Floc also was used in a number of products. Though not going by the name Brown Company until 1917, the company was founded by a group of men from Portland, Maine in 1852 with one of the men involved being John B. Brown. Josiah Little and Nathan and Hezekiah Winslow were also founders and the company was called H. Winslow and Company and later the Berlin Mills Company. The Brown Company had its share of difficult times, but under one name or another the es-

es of wood available for the making of pulp, thus reducing waste. The Brown Company had started its expansion program in the 1940’s and a main component of the 50’s phase of the program was the building of a “ new kraft pulp bleachery plant.” The company’s president, A. E. Harold Fair, called the new plant “a most important milestone in the long-range development and expansion plan of the company.” Before the new plant was built the company had to depend upon other sources for its

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ny, already competed in 1956, was the installation of a two million dollar steam generating boiler, anticipated to cut costs of generating steam by at least 40 per cent. As a child, when traveling with my parents in northern New Hampshire, I discovered that one could not escape the odor coming from the city of Berlin before they arrived there. I knew the odor, which seemed comparable to that of rotten eggs, had something to do with the paper mills in the area and was caused by the use of some type of sulfur. It apparently was specifically

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bleached pulp as it could previously produce only unbleached pulp. Many years of research went into the planning of the new bleaching plant to determine the process and the agents to be used at the plant. The plant was expected to produce 150 tons of pulp daily which would be transported by a two mile long pipeline to the paper machines at Cascade Mill. The mayor of Berlin in 1956, Aime Tondreau, said the new bleach building was “a most important step forward in the industrial progress of Northern New Hampshire.” Another project by the compa-

related to the processing of the wood pulp which was used to make paper and other products. The Brown Company manufactured Nibroc paper towels and other paper products. Nibroc was the last name of the man who developed the towels (William Corbin spelled backwards). The wood pulp also was made into a cellulose pipe impregnated with pitch called Bermico pipe which was used for sewers, drainage, conduit, and irrigation. Another pulp product was Onco, which had many uses including being a component of shoe insoles, handbags, wallets,

tablishment provided employment for many people in New Hampshire’s north country for about 150 years. Gulf and Western reportedly bought the company in 1968 and the James River Corporation Company in the 1980’s, followed by others, but the permanent closing came in 2006. But back in 1956 ambitious projects were in the works and the company’s spokesman said that, besides the projects mentioned in this article, “…many other projects, including more major ones, are in the works.”

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Wicked Brew Review

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The word session is used to describe many different things in our lifestyles. A session musician is someone who is hired or sits in on a recording to add his or her artistry to the musical piece. It is also a time where you meet with others to get something accomplished. Or it is a time to participate in an activity. Well, all of these terms can also apply to a session beer; a lighter type of beer where the alcohol doesn’t get in the way of your activity. And this session beer we look at today is from New Belgium Brewing. Just recently, New Belgium Brewing Company of Fort Collins, Colorado, began importing its quality beer into NH. With the wealth of an awesome and extensive product line-up including the renown flagship beer, Fat Tire, NB was to be a sure success story. Started by Jeff Lebesh and Kim Jordan in 1991, these two entrepreneurs took a dream and made it into an empire and have, in late 2012, turned this empire into a 100% employeeowned company which makes each and every one of their workers proud of their products and success. Today, NB is sold across the nation and has a newly opened east coast presence established in Asheville, North Carolina. They are also the fourth largest craft brewer and eighth largest brewery in the country. Their lengthy website will give you a glimpse into this truly amazing company. Read more about them at www. newbelgium.com.

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As mentioned last week, we are focusing again on another beer from this awesome brewing company. Dayblazer’s style is called an American Blonde Ale as brewing categories go. This beer is a light golden, super-clean ale with a white head which foams for quite a long time through the experience. Aromas of light malt, buttery biscuit and mild spice greet you for the first sip. Subtle flavors of toasted grains, well balanced hops and light to medium body rounds out your time while enjoying this smooth 4.8% ABV beer. Some folks also call this style a ‘lawn mower beer’ reminding us of summer chores mixed with timeout refreshment breaks between jobs… but I think this one deserves more recognition than that. BeerAdvocate.com has

officially rated this beer only as ‘OK’ and awarding it a 75 out of 100. I think personally they have misjudged this one as it is quite a great, thirstquenching brew. This beer is available at Case-n-Keg in Meredith and many other places around the area. Grab it in 12 oz six and fifteen packs as well as 22 oz cans. Make your next session memorable with Dayblazer! Jim MacMillan is the owner of WonByOne Design of Meredith, NH, and is an avid imbiber of craft brews and a home brewer as well. Send him your recommendations and brew news to wickedbrews@weirs.com

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“The Right Size Flower Garden� Gilford Community Church, 19 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 6:30pm. Program is presented by award-winning gardening specialist and author, Kerry Ann Mendez, on “The Right Size Flower Garden: Exceptional Plants and Design Solutions for Aging & Time Pressed Gardeners�. Free and open to the public. $5 donation requested.

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Fri. 5th – Sat. 13th WET PAINT – 6 Day Plein Air Arts Event Town of Tamworth, NH. The Tamworth Visitors Council is transforming Tamworth’s historic community into an outdoor painting studio with its vision of becoming one of the East Coast’s most prestigious plein air art events, WET PAINT. This event showcases some of the nation’s top plein air landscape painters alongside emerging artists. Painters participate in a 6 day plein air celebration that includes public paint-outs, complimentary daily receptions, painting demonstrations, educational events and numerous activities at participating local businesses. Whether you live locally or visit from afar, this is a festival that will showcase what makes Tamworth timeless. For a complete schedule of events visit www.tamworthmade. com or email Tamworthnh@

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time-losing mother’s political cache? “Lifetime achievement”? She skated through college and pulled family strings to secure her short-lived, high-priced jobs in management consulting and media. Those who know Chelsea Clinton best see her for what she is: a “spoiled brat,” metzler from 7

ists were arrested. So who backed Erdogan in this controversial vote? While the ruling AK pressed for a Yes vote, the “No” vote prevailed in Istanbul and Ankara the capital. In coastal Izmir, a secular stronghold No gained 69 percent. Yet in the vast Islamic religious Anatolian interior and the Black Sea, Erdogan’s support was rock solid. A commentator dubbed it “Anatolia versus the Metropolis.” Tragically Turks apparently voted to elect a dictator. Crucial to the campaign was Erdogan’s lobbying the 5 million plus Turkish vote overseas, mostly in Europe and especially in Germany and the Netherlands. Tensions were high as Erdogan’s minions shamelessly campaigned in Europe; in the Netherlands the Yes

to quote Doug Band. She is Bill Clinton without the charm, Hillary Clinton without the ruthlessness and full Billary in her bottomless well of inflated entitlement and ideological hackery. The ineluctable drive to prop up Chelsea Clinton is textbook fake news. The only constituency rooting for her to run for political

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reached 71 percent, France 64 percent and in Germany 63 percent. The Turkish vote in the USA on the other hand, was resoundingly against Erdogan with 83 percent voting NO! During the heated campaign President Erdogan’s gloating rhetorical rants against European democracies as “crusaders” and “Nazis and fascists” reminded Euro-skeptics of their initial reservations about Turkey’s fitness to join the European Union. Erdogan’s unalloyed authoritarianism is often masked through using Islam as a legitimizing force to rule. Hurryiet Daily News columnist Semih Idiz opined, “Turkey’s parliamentary system of 94 years has been replaced with a presidential one that is not restricted by any checks and balances. This can’t be

reversed… This hardly augers a good start for a Turkey visibly divided along active social, religious and ethnic fault lines.” Sultan Erdogan has been emboldened but remains nervous over his slim mandate. So did Turks choose to elect a dictatorship? Turkey’s populism has been unleashed but its outcomes are decidedly unpredictable. Despondingly, Turkey’s once staunchly secular state has morphed into an increasingly authoritarian Islamic system which has apparently chosen to look more like the Middle East than Europe.

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in direct contradiction to isolationism. Now, there is no doubt that the Syrian strike is a notable departure for Trump, and he defended it in unapologetically humanitarian terms. But it’s entirely possible that the strike will only have the narrow purpose of re-establishing a red line against the use of chemical weapons in Syria and reasserting American credibility. That is particularly important in the context of the brewing showdown with North Korea. The Tomahawks in Syria and saber rattling at North Korea have Trump’s critics on the right and the left claiming he’s becoming a neoconservative -- a term of abuse that is most poorly understood by the people most inclined to use it. All neocons may be hawks, but not all hawks are neocons, who are distinctive in their idealism and robust interventionism. stossel from 7

science tells us clearly that action will make a difference. We should be especially wary of expensive government projects given how often alarmists were wrong in the past. As Cato’s Pat Michaels says, “I’ve lived through eight environmental apocalypses ... overpopulation ... resource depletion ... Silent Spring ... global cooling ... acid rain ... the ozone hole ... global warming ... the next one is going to be ocean acidification.” In the ‘70s, environmentalist Paul Ehrlich won fame with his book “The Population Bomb.” Ehrlich predicted: “I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Oops. Ehrlich now admits: “When you predict the future, you get things wrong.” But he says there’s a grain of truth in his prediction, because: “If you look closely at England, what can I tell you? They’re having all kinds of

We haven’t heard paeans to democracy from Trump, or clarion calls for human rights. He hasn’t seriously embraced regime change anywhere (even if his foreign-policy officials say Bashar Assad has to go). He shows no sign of a willingness to make a major commitment of U.S. ground troops abroad. Trump is a particular kind of hawk. The Jacksonian school is inclined toward realism and reluctant to use force, except when a national interest is clearly at stake. As historian Walter Russell Mead writes: “Jacksonians believe that international life is and will remain both violent and anarchic. The United States must be vigilant, strongly armed. Our diplomacy must be cunning, forceful, and no more scrupulous than any other country’s.” This tradition isn’t isolationist or neoconservative, and neither is Trump. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. problems.” Give me a break. Saturday’s Earth Day nonsense will include a “March for Science.” The media will hype it, claiming Trump’s proposed budget will poison the earth. It won’t. The alarmists claim they’re marching for “science,” but they’re really marching for a left-wing religion. Instead of celebrating Earth Day Saturday, I’ll celebrate Human Achievement Hour. The think tank behind it, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says Human Achievement Hour pays tribute to “our basic human right to use energy to improve everyone’s quality of life.” Some ways to celebrate: •Use your phone or computer •Drive a car •Take a hot shower Good idea! Let’s celebrate progress instead of attacking it. John Stossel is the author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.”

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tainly provide an powerful and authentic link to the Civil War. In recent years different proposals have come forth as to how best to maintain these poignant connections to our state’s history. There are, of course, other state models to be considered. Maine and Massachusetts lay their banners flat and keep them on a rotating display. Maine also New Hampshire’s legislature has been meeting at the displays flag replicas of historic State House since 1819. the battle flags in its State House—such as that of flags from 1 the famous 20th Maine ous stages of disrepair. Regiment, commanded by The flags came to the Colonel Joshua Chamberstate capital in 1866 after lain, who played a critical the war ended and have role at Gettysburg. been in the present locaConnecticut, on the tion since 1900. Two flags other hand, stabilized its from the Fighting Fifth, in original flags and kept FARM MARKET particular, are especially them hanging on display. GARDEN CENTER & BAKERY shredded. In 2014 a Joint Legisla“They are the tattered tive Historic Committee remains of what some of (JLHC) hired New Yorkthe men last held in their based conservator Gwen hands before sacrificing Spicer to develop a contheir lives,â€? said Virginia servation strategy. SevDrew of the State House eral options were brought Visitors Center to the forth but there was debate Concord Monitor in 2015. on costs, funding, and & Sal’s Fresh Fish The Visitors Center coorwhether disturbing the dinates visits from school present set-up could dam01&/ 5IVSTEBZ 'SJEBZ children from all over the age the flags. BN QN state and the Hall of Flags The Concord Monitor The Regimental Flags for New Hampshire’s legendary also reported that the t 3UF .FSFEJUI is a tour highlight. The faded silk fabrics Fighting Fifth Regiment are especially battle-worn. state had commissioned XXX NPVMUPOGBSN DPN hang from original staffs experts from the Museum of Textile History in North that New Hampshire men Andover, Mass., to examcarried into battle. To ine the collection. Though some that is part of the the reviewers didn’t open attraction. The tattered the glass cases for fear remnants, while perhaps of disturbing the delicate aesthetically lacking, cer- fabrics, they observed 15 Ferrous & flags in “very poor condiNonferrous Metals tion.â€? They recommended the state remove all the ~Call For Pricing~ flags from their staffs and put them in flat storage, No amount too big at a cost of $600,000. Anor too small... other preservation plan had a million dollar price Environmentally Safe State Licensed and Certified tag. Those prospective Disposal Of All Materials Truck And Floor Scales A Unique Bookstore costs were just too high for the Avid Reader... for the legislature to acOver 25,000 commodate. New & Used Books The JLHC has other Puzzles • Cards & Gift Certificates concerns beyond the Civil War flags, as the State SAVE 10% OFF House’s 2019 bicentennial USED GARDENING approaches. For example, BOOKS FOR THE MONTH the many corridors of the Fully Licensed Facility OF APRIL! License Number: 16-001J Let Us Haul Away We Have Dumpster Cans For State House feature nuNo other credits or discounts Permit Number: DES-SW-PN-11-006 Your Junk Vehicle Your Commercial Scrap Metals merous paintings of N.H. can be used or applied. 201 Abel Road BUSINESS HOURS: .0/ Ĺą t 56&4 Ĺą 4"5 Ĺą governors and other famous Granite Staters that Closed Sundays Bristol, NH 03222 Monday - Friday 8am to 3pm also need care and attenanniesbookstop.net Saturday 8am to Noon Office: (603) 744-3453 anniesbookstoplr@gmail.com tion, along with a number CLOSED SUNDAY Fax: (603) 744-6034 1330 Union Ave., Laconia of historical artifacts. A

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covering the flags—and the lobby’s windows— with a new, high-tech coating to protect the fabrics from destructive ultra-violet light rays. LED (Light-Emitting Diode) bulbs also have a lessharsh effect on the flags. JLHC members continue to receive questions and suggestions as to how best to handle the building’s many priceless historical treasures. But for now, the flags remain as they’ve been for decades, silent sentinels which by their presence at the State House testify to the sacrifices of countless Granite Staters, including over 5000 who—as Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg—gave “their last full measure of devo-

Virginia Drew, the Director of the State House Visitors Center, poses beneath a portrait of John Winant---one of N.H.s most famous governors. (A statue of Winant will soon be in place at the State Library, across the street from the State House.) flags from 24

veritable museum, the State House is a treasure trove of N.H. lore. House Speaker Shawn Jasper has a reverence for N.H. history and tradition and worries about the consequences of moving the banners. “As far as I am concerned every flag needs to remain in public view,” said Jasper, a Hudson Republican, to the Monitor’s Allie Morris (October 10, 2015). “If they turn to dust over the next 100 years they turn to dust,

because taking the shreds and putting them someplace else does nobody any good.” Morris reported that State House legislative turnover was a source of frustration for people like David Nelson, who chaired a N.H. non-profit battle flag preservation committee. “We’re subject to the fact these people come and go, and every session they swap,” said Nelson. “It’s frustration, plus.” Eventually the JLHC opted to treat the glass

tion … that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

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