05/06/2021 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

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VOLUME 30, NO. 18

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021

COMPLIMENTARY

Wright Museum Hosts Virtual Lecture

A 1934 photo of the Meredith property where the Nutmeg Inn stands today. This historic building which went through different names and uses since it was built in the mid-1770s has more recently been used as a Bed and Breakfast and recently changed ownership. COURTESY PHOTO

Keeping The Tradition Alive At This Historic Bed and Breakfast by Dan Seufert

Weirs Times Correspondent

When Lynne Rainen and Mark Koester decided to sell their business, The Nutmeg Inn, last year, they weren’t just looking for a responsible buyer for the 273-year-old estate. The couple had re-created the historic bed and

breakfast after buying it in 2013. Having come from successful careers in other fields, they had invested 8 years, countless hours of hard work and a substantial amount of money in bringing it back. Last year, when they decided that it was time to follow other pursuits and began

the search for new owners, they knew what they were looking for. The inn has played an important – and somewhat colorful – role in local, state and national history. Koester and Rainen had gathered that history and worked to bring it alive again, and had won national recognition

and numerous awards in doing so. So, the 27th owner needed to be dedicated to preserving and continuing the inn’s legacy. “When you become an innkeeper at this place, you become part of history,” Rainen said. “We viewed ourselves as custodians See NUTMEG on 30

WOLFEBORO — As part of the Wright Museum’s ongoing lecture series, sponsored by Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney, Joanne D. Gilbert, author of Women of Valor: Polish Jewish Resistors to the Third Reich, will virtually present Women of Valor on Tuesday May 11 at 7pm. Initially inspired by her grandmother’s escape from Nazi-occupied Lithuania, Women of Valor spotlights the efforts of four women during the rise of the Third Reich, and the ways they fought back against it. “I cherished my Grandmother’s stories and in her honor became determined to find and chronicle the stories of other Holocaust victims, survivors, and descendants,” explained Gilbert, citing her grandmother’s childhood stories before the war. For Gilbert, Women of Valor allows previously unrecognized narratives of wartime heroines to be heard for the first time, and for her to honor her grandmother’s

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The Trump Vaccine To The Editor: One major media expert after another ridiculed the idea and said it would take a miracle for President Trump to produce Covid-19 vaccines and begin protecting people in 2020. (tinyurl. com/5c6rpwju) Trump worked that miracle and now almost onethird of the American people are fully vaccinated. Getting the vaccine produced and into peoples’ arms was a Herculean effort that had to overcome many technical, business, bureaucratic, and political obstacles. It required not just creating and beginning to produce nearly a billion vaccine doses but producing a billion vials, syringes, swabs, and other equipment, plus arrangements for refrigeration, transportation, tracking systems, distribution centers, and about 70,000 sites for administering the vaccine. Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed”, also ridiculed by Trump’s political opponents, accomplished this miracle. NIH Director Francis Collins (Dr. Fauci’s superior) credited Operation Warp Speed with cutting development and delivery of the vaccine by at least five years. (youtu.be/ qqcGKcF6bRM) After months of spewing distrust of Trump’s vaccines, many of Trump’s political opponents lined up to be vaccinated first. Even young, energetic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vaccinated, taking doses away from a high risk patient. The politicization by his political opponents of Trump’s actions

to save lives probably increased Covid-19 deaths by hundreds of thousands. E.g., Biden called Trump’s actions racist and Xenophobic, Pelosi (youtu.be/xIlwgy9aTHQ) and other Democrats like NY City Health Commissioner Bordot told people to party (youtu.be/x8VmRjwvKHU), and Democrats attacked and some prevented the use of effective treatments for Covid-19. Doctors successfully treating patients with a cheap Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) protocol tried to get the message out but were shut-down by politicians, the medical establishment, the media, and social media. Based on his research and experience Dr. Zelenko suggests that proper use of HCQ could have reduced Covid-19 deaths by 84% (youtu. be/KuDvWavqtaU). It’s almost as if Trump’s opponents wanted the Covid-19 death toll as high as possible to reduce the chances of Trump’s re-election. Before leaving office President Trump contracted for 900 million vaccine doses, more than enough for every American, and was vaccinating a million or more Americans a day. Candidate and PresidentElect Biden attacked President Trump’s response to the China virus and promised quick action to quash it, but he hasn’t done anything significant that Trump hadn’t already started. Biden promised to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days, a lower vaccination rate than Trump had already achieved. Trump’s plans and vaccines have now vaccinated almost half

of our population with one vaccine dose and fully vaccinated almost one-third of our population. We should all remember that these “miraculous” results and the perhaps millions of lives that are being saved are due solely to the efforts of former President Donald Trump. Don Ewing Meredith, NH.

New PUC Commissioner To The Editor: Do you know what the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) does? During this pandemic, many customers had difficulty keeping up with heat and electric bills. NHPUC worked with residents and our fuel and electric companies to protect the needs of both. A little extra insulation could save you dollars on your energy bill. NHPUC oversees energy efficiency programs. From their website: “It is the NHPUC’s mission to ensure that customers of regulated utilities receive safe, adequate and reliable service at just and reasonable rates.” Governor Sununu recently nominated a commissioner to the PUC, Daniel Goldner, a Texas Instruments executive. But is he a good candidate for bringing NH into the energy future that concerns us all? After a public hearing on Mr. Goldner’s nomination, Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington stated, “The Governor’s nominee for Public Utilities Commissioner has thus far been unable to anSee MAILBOAT on 37

Our Story

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 reestablished in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee. 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. Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories

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Not So . . . o g A g N Lo

Exploring ThE lEgEnd & lorE of our graniTE STaTE

A Mother’s Love More Than Words Can Tell by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

In yesterday’s world being a mother was to many women the most important occupation of their lives. In today’s world, it appears that for many women, being a mother is not the most fulfilling responsibility of their lives, at least that is the message that some of the things I read seem to convey. One of the exceptions may be the 2021 New Hampshire Mother of the Year who is quoted as saying the only thing she ever knew that she wanted to be was a Mother. Even then, in today’s society a mother’s role is apt to differ significantly from that of the New Hampshire mother of 50 or 75 years ago. However, the influence of mothers still has a lot to do with how the world turns. Each of us only has one mother, though in some cases, another takes on that role. I’ll call my Mother, “Mother’” because that is how we always addressed her, a name that may seem formal, but I assume that it was how we heard my Father address her. So, in this article I look back at what my “stay at home”

Mother’s days looked like. Each day, except for warm weather days, involved either keeping the two wood stoves supplied with wood to burn, or making sure someone else (children) did so. Early morning meant preparing breakfast for my Dad, herself, and their six children. When we were babies, it meant caring for all the baby needs. So there was formula to prepare and either to feed or make sure that someone else fed the current baby. Toddlers had their special needs as did those in each progressive age level to adulthood. But after breakfast there were dishes to be washed and dried and put away. On Mondays there was wash to do with the washer with the back and forth agitator moved into the kitchen

where there was water available to wash the clothes for the family. The clothes had to be rinsed and hand fed through the wringer to remove the bulk of water in them before being hung on the clothes lines strung on the porches or between trees out in the open air to dry. Each day the chamber pots in the bedrooms needed to be emptied and the beds made up for the next night. Of course the schoolage children needed to be sent off to school. Sometimes this involved packing lunches. At other times that meant preparing a noon lunch which we children would walk home for from the one classroom schoolhouse just a quarter of a mile away. We did eat some things that came from a can, like spaghetti and tomato soup, and spam, but things

like “pizza” weren’t in our vocabulary. Once the clothes were dried they needed to be ironed, folded, and put into the right drawers. We had no vacuum cleaners so floors needed to be swept and mopped and items dusted to keep the house clean. We children were required to help our Mother with some of these things, but she had to oversee it all, and even if she had some assistance it is easy to see how her work at home consisted of many responsibilities involving untold hours. I remember the coffee made by the percolator that was placed on the wood stove that provided heat for cooking, heating water, and warmth. Today one can choose to have their coffee as light, medium, or dark roasts, quickly preSee MOTHER on 10

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Roe v Wade: The True Untold Story Camp Constitution is sponsoring and the Community Church of Alton is hosting a viewing of the movie Roe V. Wade Saturday May 15--7pm at the Community Church 20 Church St in

Alton. Admission if free. Offerings taken. Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history. The film begins with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who launched an initiative called “The Negro Project.” She gives a speech at a KKK rally, describing her intentions to reduce the growth of the African American population by legalizing abortions. Quickly, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the most outspoken doctor performing abortions during this time, joins her cause, followed by outspoken feminist Betty Friedan. A team of activists begin to search the country, looking for a pregnant girl they can use to sue the government for her right to have an abortion. They find the perfect pawn: a young woman with a 10th grade education, struggling with poverty and other issues, named Norma McCorvey, now famously known as “Jane Roe” We watch as Norma and her legal team sue Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County. (A link to a review of the movie which we published: campconstitution.net/a-review-of-the-movie-roe-v-wade-by-myrnamaloney-flynn/

Belknap Mill Quilters Guild Looking For Quilters For September Show The Belknap Mill Quilters Guild is seeking interested quilters to participate in the 44th Annual “Harvest of Quilts” Quilt Show & Mysterious Journey, September 25th - 26th. This year they are combining the annual quilt show and the journey into one event! The quilt show at three different venues in downtown Laconia and as you travel from one venue to another the Mysterious Journey will take place! If you attended the Mysterious Journey last year you know how much fun that was and now the annual quilt show is included as well. The quilt show draws visitors from all over New England and beyond. Entry and image submission deadline for possible inclusion in the 2021 quilt show is Friday, July 9, 2021. If you are interested in learning more about the Belknap Mill Quilters Guild you may contact them at: BMQG, PO Box 6174, Laconia, NH 03247 orinfo@bmqg.org.

Wolfeboro Friends Of Music Presents The United States Marine Corps Band Wolfeboro Friends of Music is extremely proud to present the United State Marine Corps Band, “The President’s Own”. The concert will be provided virtually on Sunday, May 23rd at 7:30 p.m. To hear this concert on May 23rd, simply email info@wfriendsofmusic.org to request the link to the special YouTube channel. The link will be released the afternoon prior to concert time and sent to your email address. Access to this WFOM virtual concert is free of charge. Established by an Act of Congress in 1798, the United States Marine Band is America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization. Its mission is unique—to provide music for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The “President’s Own” is the final performance from Wolfeboro Friends of Music’s 85th spring seasons. In past seasons, WFOM has depended on ticket sales, advertisers and sponsors to sustain itself. This year WFOM would be immensely appreciative if you would make a donation on our website or mail a donation to WFOM, PO Box 2056, Wolfeboro, NH 03894. Please help us keep Music alive in the Lakes Region.

“Ten Ladies And A Gentleman” Art Exhibit In Rochester The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 N. Main Street in Rochester, will host an exhibit during the month of May called “Ten Ladies and a Gentlemen. “ There will be no opening reception due to RCF’s concern for the safety of its visitors, but anyone may stop by and see the current exhibit during regular RCF business hours. “Ten Ladies and a Gentlemen” is a multi-artist exhibit featuring the following local artists: Roseann Meserve, Gerry Bresnahan, Carol Poitras, Collete Fath Malerba, Gwen Morgan, Joanne Lewis-McCoy, Marie Benton, Masako Buck, Nancy Hunt, Patricia Francoeur, and Bob Goudreau. This exhibit features a wide variety of art mediums including watercolor, scratchboard, encaustic, acrylic, and oil, with each artist bringing their own personality and style into their art RiverStones Custom Framing and the Franklin Gallery are open Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. For information about this May exhibit and other RiverStones events and services, call Kris or Tom at 603-812-1488 or visit the RiverStones website or Facebook page

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The Flatlander Chronicles

Live Free or Die.

*A FLATLANDER’S OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE

That Reminds Me Was looking at some old photos of my grandfather and it reminded me of this column I wrote in 2013. It also appears in my book “The Best Of A by Brendan Smith F.O.O.L.” Weirs Times Editor

Watching the show “Mad Men” takes me back.` It takes place during the 1960s and focuses on a Madison Avenue advertising firm. I don’t know much about advertising, but I do know a lot about the 1960s. I was just a kid back then and I remember it well. That was only fifty years ago, but compared to today’s politically correct madness, it now only exists in dreams, in the movies and on television. There are a few things that I am glad have changed since then. It seems every adult smoked cigarettes back then. We all smelled like stale cigarette smoke but none of us knew it since we all stunk. We were oblivious to our own stinkiness. Being a kid in the 1960s was, in my opinion, definitely more fun than being a kid today. You only have to look around and read the nonsense in the newspapers and on television to see that. We did things like ride bicycles without helmets and we sometimes fell down. We lived dangerously and we survived. When I was a kid, believe it or not, not everyone made the team. Sometimes you had to deal with the ugly truth that some of the other kids were better than you at some things. So, you kept trying different things till you found what you were good at. That was usually for the best since the thing you weren’t good at you really didn’t enjoy doing anyway. If you weren’t good enough to make the team, you didn’t have to suffer through being on it anyway

and not being any good, while your parents cheered you on. One of the fondest memories I have of my childhood in the 1960s is of my grandfather. A lot of people say I look like him now that I have gone bald (or follically challenged as is the politically correct term today). He was an easygoing and kind man who always needed to keep busy. He used to carry around a tool kit in the trunk of his giant Oldsmobile and look for things to tinker around with or fix. Those of you who know my limitations with a toolbox will quickly realize that the similarities between me and him end with the physical features. Once he went around his neighborhood over the course of week and dug out pieces of scrap metal and other items from people’s trash. Out of these he built a gokart and later a bicycle for my brothers and me. We test drove these handmade contraptions down the narrow asphalt hill behind our grandparent’s house in Forest Hills, NY. Unencumbered by knee pads, helmets and protective eyewear, we tooled full speed straight down the hill and, if we didn’t make that last left turn fast enough, we’d crash into the front of a neighbor’s fenced in garden. Then we’d get up, dust ourselves off, climb up the hill and try again. We all survived. One time my grandfather had a very cool idea. My brother had a newspaper route. It was decided that he would sit in the trunk of that giant Oldsmobile – a trunk that could accommodate fifteen illegals in a border crossing – while my grandfather would slowly drive through the neighborhood as my brother threw his newspapers from side to side onto the lawns and front steps of his customers. I went along for the ride. There we were, two kids sitting

in the open trunk of this giant Oldsmobile while our grandfather slowly cruised the neighborhood while sipping on a single, cold can of beer and smoking a cigarette. (Just for the record, my grandfather wasn’t a big drinker but he did enjoy his Manhattan and cold beer on occasion.) It was a glorious afternoon. It was one of my beautiful childhood memories. It was, at the time, an exhilarating feeling even though we were most likely traveling about ten miles per hour. I know something like that could never happen today. Either we would have been spotted by the police and my grandfather would have been arrested and we would have been put into the custody of the Division of Children Youth and Families (my parents would have been at fault too for allowing it) or maybe we would have made it back home where, after the word had spread throughout the neighborhood, someone would have likely filed suit against my grandfather for reckless endangerment. We all could have followed the trial on television. I have dozens of other stories like that one, If I were a kid today, I’m sure I would never have been able to experience even a third of them. Somewhere along the line we baby boomers decided that the things we had the most fun doing, the things that created such great memories, were too dangerous for the next generation. That is a shame. Sacred Heart Church 291 Union Ave Laconia, NH 524-9609 St. Joseph Church 30 Church St. Laconia, NH 524-9609

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Anti-Censorship Legislation: Get It Right

Larry the Cable Guy made the phrase “Git-R-Done” his signature. A new breed of young Republicans and populists has its own message for their establishment elders: Get it right. This new strategic alliance refuses to clap like trained GOP seals at any shiny vehicle masquerading as a free speech rescue because their very lives and liveliby Michelle Malkin hoods are on the line. This is not a drill. Syndicated Columnist In Florida, conservative GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned lavish praise and attention for backing anti-censorship legislation that he claims will reign in Big Tech’s power to exercise “clear viewpoint discrimination.” Among the DeSantis-backed statehouse bill’s key features: fines of between $25,000 and $250,000 per day for social media platforms that “censor, shadow ban, deplatform, or apply post-prioritization algorithms” to Florida candidates, users or residents; a ban on public contracts with social media entities found guilty or civilly liable for antitrust violation; and requirements to disclose standards and definitions used by the tech overlords to censor and stifle dissidents. DeSantis asserts that the bill, sponsored by Republican state house Rep. Blaise Ingoglia (H.B. 7013/S.B. 7072), which passed the state Senate on Monday, would protect “negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the big tech cartel.” As the bill notes, states have substantial interests in protecting their citizens from “inconsistent and unfair” internet companies that “have become as important for conveying public opinion as public utilities are for supporting modern society.” That’s exactly the right message and every red-state governor should be sounding it. But if you are going to take on the Silicon Valley overlords and protect free speech, you’ve got to make them pay. You’ve got to close gaping loopholes. And you’ve got to leave no deplatformed victims behind. Citing Facebook and Twitter’s bans of former president Donald Trump, DeSantis has rightly blasted the immense control of “monopoly communications platforms” who now act as “enforcers of preferred narratives.” But the bill would not retroactively protect Trump or former Florida GOP congressional candidate and free-speech warrior Laura Loomer. As Loomer (who is running again See MALKIN on 36

The Circular Logic Of Systemic Racism

Last week, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the evidence on manslaughter by Ben Shapiro was significantly stronger. Syndicated Columnist Still, the jury took only 10 hours and zero questions to come to its conclusion: guilty on all counts. In and of itself, the Chauvin case never should have been a national news story. After all, an average of three suspects are shot by police every day in the United States, and thousands of homicides that have nothing whatsoever to do with the police take place in the United States every year. Theoretically, national news stories should be indicative of profound national problems, not man-bites-dog statistical rarities. But, of course, that was the entire point of elevating the George Floyd story to national attention: to declare it indicative of a deeper rot at the core of America. Thus, Chauvin was convicted not of his individual criminal activity but of a charge that was never even brought against him: the charge of racism. As Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison admitted, there was no evidence whatsoever that Chauvin was a racist, or that his killing of George Floyd was motivated by race. “We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did,” Ellison ruefully told incredulous “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley. And Pelley, speaking for the entire establishment media -- a left-wing bubble thoroughly invested in the narrative of systemic American racism -- responded, “The whole world sees this as a white officer killing a black man because he is black.” Pelley isn’t wrong. In the end, evidence for systemic racism is utterly unnecessary. Systemic racism requires no evidence of

intent, either individual or systemic. It requires only evidence of disparate outcome by race. Which is why Ellison explained that even though he couldn’t charge Chauvin with a hate crime, he could charge the entire system with racism in the Chauvin case: “In order for us to stop and pay serious attention to this case and be outraged by it, it’s not necessary that Derek Chauvin had a specific racial intent to harm George Floyd. ... (P)eople of color, Black people, end up with harsh treatment from law enforcement. And other folks doing the exact same thing just don’t.” Now, statistically speaking, this is simply untrue. In late 2020, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report that found no statistically significant difference by race between criminal activity and arrest -- in other words, you get arrested in America if you are reported to have committed a crime, no matter your race. Multiple studies, from Harvard’s Roland Fryer to professor Peter Moskos of John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University New York, show that police officers are less likely to kill black Americans than white Americans in similar circumstances. But to ask for evidence of systemic racism beyond mere inequality of outcome is to be complicit in systemic racism, according to the circular logic of systemic racism. Any incident of white-cop-on-black-suspect violence must be chalked up to the racist system; the evidence of the racist system is the presence of such violence in the first place; to deny that race lies at the root of such incidents makes you a cog in the racist system. The circular logic, protected by an enormous so-called Kafka trap -- in which protestations of innocence are treated as proof of guilt -- means that systemic racism is subject to no falsification. And that’s precisely the point. Systemic racism is a fundamentalist religious belief. It posits original sin; it posits saints and prophets; it posits its own malevolent god of the gaps. See SHAPIRO on 36

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Liberty Winning? Do I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is winning. Salon claims, “We all live in Kochland, the Koch brothers’ libertarby John Stossel ian utopia.” Syndicated Columnist Tucker Carlson says, “Our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian.” What? Who? Not President Biden. Biden already spent $1.9 trillion on COVID-19 “recovery” mostly unrelated to COVID. Now, he wants trillions more for an “infrastructure”

bill, even though most of the spending would not go to infrastructure. He’s eager to regulate more, too. Maybe the pundits were talking about former President Trump. He tried to deregulate -- a little. But Trump vilified trade and raised military spending, increasing our debt by trillions. We libertarians want to reduce debt and believe trade and immigration are good for America. Above all, we believe the best government governs least. That’s not what I hear from most Democrats and Republicans. So, how can pundits from both left and right say libertarian ideas are

winning? “In a way, we are winning,” answers the Cato Institute’s David Boaz, author of “The Libertarian Mind,” in my latest video. “Over the past couple of hundred years, we’ve moved from a world where very few people had rights and markets were not free -- to a world mostly marked by religious freedom, personal freedom, freedom of speech, property rights markets, the rule of law.” For most of history, no country had those things. As a result, says Boaz, “There was practically no economic growth, no increase in human rights and justice.”

Kings and tyrants ruled, enslaving people, stealing property and waging wars that lasted decades. Then, in 1700 “suddenly, limited government and property rights and markets came into the world,” Boaz points out. The result was a sudden increase in prosperity. Americans now are told that “the poor get poorer,” but it’s not true. Americans are 30 times richer than we were 200 years ago. When America began, rich people were poorer than poor people are today. “In Colonial America,” says Boaz, “(if) you were traveling and you See STOSSEL on 37

“Your Papers Please,” Will We Get Vaccine Passports? “Your papers Please,” has long been the customary greeting for people crossing borders, visiting many foreign countries, or by John J. Metzler sometimes even Syndicated Columnist moving about cities under Covid “lockdown.” At its worst the question conjures up what I call the “Checkpoint Charlie” syndrome, crossing into East Berlin or back during the bad old days or some other nervous foray into the East Bloc before 1989. Now the same aura could be coming here. Naturally it’s all about Covid, the seemingly perennial pandemic which has ravished the

world and greatly restricted travel and freedoms. The restrictions are all about, science, political science, where governments on all levels see another bureaucratic opportunity to protect and control movement; naturally for your own good. Vaccine Passports would be such a measure. They would record your COVID vaccinations, store data on your health, and then presumably reopen the doors to the world for you. The “passport” would probably be some sort of a biometric credit card which would be required to visit Sporting arenas, Museums, restaurants and naturally allow wider air travel. Given that more people are now getting vaccinated the “passport” would be the logical next step to prove both compliance and offer a reward.

From a technical standpoint this is probably pretty simple to implement. I recall interviewing Estonia’s Prime Minister a few years ago, and being genuinely surprised by the size and scope of that small Baltic democracy’s “health card” which all citizens must carry. It has just about everything about you and your health status stored on a computer chip on the credit card sized document. Impressive… to a point. Without moralizing, the issue of Vaccine Passports is less about technology than about civil rights and liberties. Big Tech plutocrats can probably implement this task over the weekend and make a fortune doing so. But then there are the very real constitutional concerns here in the U.S. as well as the

European Union. Back in the 1960’s and into the 1970’s I remember needing the “International Certificate of Vaccination,” a little yellow booklet issued by the U.S. Health authorities and the World Health Organization (remember them?). The booklet, recording your shots and vaccines with dates of the jabs, was needed even for travel in Europe and beyond. While everybody had the “plain vanilla” shots I recall being particularity proud to get a Yellow Fever shot and later some sort of special jab before going to Panama. Last year Operation Warp Speed saw government and the private sector join forces to create the See METZLER on 37

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operated the separator to separate the cream from the milk, and was involved with making butter and cottage cheese. Don’t get me wrong, my Mother loved the country life, but she was brought up in the city (Nashua, NH). The latter fact was something I thought little about

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sion service that I’m now sure helped her in becoming an experienced farm-wife and mother. My Dad worked outside of the home, but we continued some limited farming until some time after I left for college, etc. I haven’t yet mentioned the sewing that needed to be done to prolong the life of torn clothing, socks with holes in them, and the replacing of lost buttons. Hand sewing wasn’t Mother’s favorite thing, but she did what needed to get done. There were also the duties of a mother outside of the home that needed to be taken care of. Our Mother was a teacher, but wasn’t allowed to continue teaching with children at home. That’s why you will find that most of New Hampshire’s country teachers back in the 1940’s had a “Miss” in front of their names. They were either recently out of Normal School or had missed out on the opportunity to marry, or, if they were a Mrs. their children were either grown or they

had none. Occasionally in school reports for elementary teachers you would find a Mr. listed, but that was rare. Our Mother did spend some time as a School Board member, was involved in leadership in the Juvenile Grange, in assisting her children in 4-H club projects, and I believe was at one time a member of the local women’s club. She also taught Sunday School, and, along with our Dad, helped in the planning of Old Home Day activities. There were also seasonal activities that Mother was involved in such as gardening, including planting and canning over a hot stove in summer, and harvesting in the fall. As my children’s Mother, my wife was involved in many of the same activities as my Mother, and has never complained about not having a dishwasher. Of course, Mother did the meal preparation which in those olden days meant most things being prepared from “scratch,” rather than buying pre-

prepared foods at the store. Mothers made their own pie crust and mixed the filling to put in it, as well as mixing the ingredients for cakes and other desserts. They baked their own beans and other meals. The popcorn we ate on Sunday evenings with added milk was popped on top of the wood stove. Mother dug dandelion greens in the Springtime to enjoy one of her favorite dishes, spring dug parsnips being another. She would pick wild strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries with her family when each was in season and make a little grape juice from the few grape vines on the farm. Mothers, then and now, are known by what they do for their children. They work on their behalf. There is much more to being a mother than all that they do however, including all that they teach by word of mouth, as I was taught to pray at bedtime, instructed in many ways, and disciplined in others. A mother’s love is conveyed in what they do for their children, not just in what they say. And a good mother’s love does not end when her children are grown. Some years ago an elderly woman in talking to me about her daughter, who was in her seventies, said “I still think of her as my little girl.” Mothers aren’t perfect, but their value is beyond that which I am able to describe.

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Welcome to May, arguably the best month of the year for birdwatching. So many exciting things happen in the bird world in May that it’s hard to know where to begin. The breeding season is in full swing and our year-round birds as well as newly arrived migrant birds are either looking for nesting sites or already raising young. Suddenly our feeders are visited by colorful newcomers such as rose-breasted grosbeaks, Baltimore orioles or indigo buntings. Waders are back in full force stalking our ponds and rivers. When it comes to May, however, talk of the birding world has to begin with warblers, those small and often colorful Neotropical migrants that add life to our neck of the woods every spring. Some of these warblers will simply stop by for a few days before heading farther north to their breeding grounds. Many, however, will find a suitable place to raise young and will be with us until the fall. Here are some quick, random thoughts on warblers as we head into “warbler season.” Most warblers are sexually dimorphic, meaning the males

Yellow warblers are often heard singing from bushes throughout New England in the spring CHRIS BOSAK PHOTO and summer. and females have different appearances. Some are vastly different, such as the blackthroated blue warbler, but many are fairly similar with females being slightly more dully colored. There are early warblers and late warblers. Pine, palm, yellow-rumped, and black-and-white are some of the early arrivals. By the second week of May, most of the warblers have arrived. In fact, many of them are here and gone already. The yellow warbler is one of the most common warblers in New

England, and it nests throughout the region. It favors brushy habitat on the edge of woods and its “sweet, sweet, I’m so sweet” song is ubiquitous. The yellow warbler is also a good argument for capitalizing bird names. Newspapers follow AP style, which is why bird names are not capitalized in this column. Capitalization, however, would eliminate any questions about what bird I am talking about. If I write that I saw a Yellow Warbler, you’d know exactly what species I saw. If I write that I saw a yellow

warbler, I could be referring to any number of warblers with yellow plumage. Warblers may be found in a variety of habitats throughout New England. Many warblers favor woods with tall deciduous trees, many favor coniferous forests, and others like shrubby areas. There are even warblers, such as the ovenbird, that nest on the ground. It’s the warblers that favor deciduous trees that cause “warbler neck” among birdwatchers. That is a condition by which birders get sore necks from looking through binoculars among the See BOSAK on 34

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A lecture by Jane Oneail Norman Rockwell created dozens of images related to World War II. What happens when an artist known for his humor tackles the serious subject of war? Oneail explores how Rockwell’s work departs from earlier artistic interpretations of American conflicts. She also discusses Rockwell’s choice of themes. **This is a NH Humanities To Go Program and is free to the public

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Letters From God This series of Letters From God is an attempt to put the thoughts of God as revealed in the Scriptures as they relate to individuals and the nation of the USA

the New Testament (James 3:13-18), write to describe the difference in wisdom from me and that which comes from hell. He said “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual of the devil. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.” Look at your leaders, look at the citizenry seeking to overthrow your Constitution and my values of moral behavior, sexual identity and practices, sanctity of life, adherence to laws and so much more. They are hell bent to transform your once great nation into one that is unspiritual, lawless, immoral, driven by selfish ambition and every evil practice. Look at the description above that I gave to James to describe the wisdom from the world that, in fact, is inspired by hell. It is identical. You must know that if this continues, I your Creator

and judge, will withdraw any of my blessings and you will be at the mercy of evil spiritual and human leaders. Your nation will not survive. No nation that followed this wisdom has ever survived. Now look at the description of the wisdom I give. Note first, that it is pure, it has no evil. Those individuals and nations who have my wisdom, live according to my will and laws which are based on my pure character and which bring my rich support and blessing. It loves peace. It is considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Righteousness, which is living as I designed and commanded, characterizes your behavior. Your political leaders and mob rule have little or no manifestation of this fruit of my wisdom. You unfortunately have become like all the other nations I had blessed. You grew rich and prosperous and became proud and self-sufficient. You rejected me for your own wisdom and nature. Since, I made you to live in dependence on me, in order to know genuine life, your decision is deadly. I once described, through my prophet Isaiah, that with me, your loving Father as your power source, you enjoyed the gentle waters or my blessings that brings life. Instead, by walking away from me and giving yourselves over to leaders and godless

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QUESTION: We seem to no longer fear you. Are we as a nation following your wisdom? You are right. There is such little “fear” of me in the ways I described in my last letter. As a result, instead of following my ways you have forsaken me and my will and you are following a worldly wisdom. You must recognize that this wisdom is from hell. Before I created humanity, I created angels. They, like you, are people, but I created them to exist in a different form and with different abilities. Just as I exist outside your dimensions but can be present in your dimension, so do they. One third of all I created, like many of you, rebelled against me and now battle me for control of humanity (Revelation 12:4). They are led by the angel I made with a unique glory, so much so, he was given the name Lucifer, which means Morning Star. Unfortunately, it went to his head and he led the rebellion away from me (Ezekiel 28:11-10). What is happening on earth and in your nation is being driven by Lucifer and his wisdom which is diametrically opposed to my wisdom. I had James, in

citizenry who operate on their own wisdom, inspired by hell, you are being engulfed by a Tsunami of evil (Isaiah 8:6-8). You have sown the wind, of rebellion from me, and now you are inheriting the whirlwind of judgement, (devastating judgement) and as it blows through you will be blown away (Hosea 8:7-8). You are very nearly at the point of no return. If you would live, I counsel you to recognize the spiritual battle that is driving your national dance with death. Recognize as well that you don’t have the power to overcome this powerful spiritual force set against you. It will only be as you humble yourself, an essential element of my wisdom, and fear me, looking to me for my wisdom, that you will continue to live. How sad that you have missed your history lesson and are repeating the same mistakes that made other nations part of the scrap heap of history. You will determine your history. Choose me again and live. Don’t waste time, as you don’t have much. I love you, God These letters are written by a New Hampshire pastor.

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As a kid, many of my summer weekends were spent with my father fishing for flounder from shore. During the early to mid1980s, flounder could be caught from shore just about anywhere there was a muddy bottom. Dad would dig sea worms, usually the day before. Then we would head to one of the many spots he knew where we could spread out and spend the day. It appeared to be a nobrainer, and maybe it was back then. There is something to be said for the sportsman (or woman) who can catch a limit of flounder in 6-8 hours from shore. They seem to be among a group who know that even though fish numbers have risen significantly, you still need to do something more than just show up with a rod and reel, and bait. More importantly, they know what that something is. In my opinion, flounder is one of the best eating fish. There’s nothing better than a fillet lightly coated with seasoned flour or breading mix and fried until golden brown. Many others share my opinion making flounder highly sought after. Recreational and commercial fishing greatly depleted their numbers and by the late 1990s catching

Mastering the art of flounder fishing will put a smile on anyone’s face. a flounder along the NH coast while fishing from shore was a real accomplishment. In recent years, through conservation efforts, the winter flounder population along the NH coast has made a dramatic comeback. Stricter length and bag limits and the fact that most of a generation of recreational fishermen stopped fishing for flounder have made such a comeback possible. During the winter, flounder move into bays and estuaries to spawn. Spawning takes place in March or April and during the spawn flounder reduce, or even cease, feeding, which would explain

why there aren’t many caught. As the water temperature rises above 59-degrees they move into deeper cooler water. As the fish emerge from spawning areas they are hungry, making them easy prey. May and June are great months to catch flounder from shore, but they can be caught all summer long if you know where to look. A good place to catch them is in estuarine waters in late May and early June, and deeper coastal mud flats during the summer months. I have caught them in as little as two feet of water in the spring, where I could watch them take my bait, and in

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We are finally beginning to see signs of getting back to the life we once knew before COVID. With vaccines being administered to most everyone, we are being assured that life should soon restore to normalcy. As people of custom and repetition, we love our ability to visit places that bring us happiness. We visit establishments that we know will be able to fill the void of what we have missed and will satisfy our cravings for food and beverage that we long for. We all know one day that the masks will come off for good and we can finally view smiling faces. With that said, our focus beer today comes from our friends over in Shelburne, Vermont who brew with amazing quality and know how to make great beer happen for us. Brewing Company opened its doors in late 2011 in Shelburne just across the street from the classy Shelburne Vineyard. Fiddlehead is a brewer-owned business with brewmaster Matt Cohen at the helm. In their words, they brew “a lineup of approachable, multidimensional

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essence, and bready notes burst through. Hop bittering is moderate with a crisp finish upon your initial introduction. The more you enjoy Second Fiddle, the more you will appreciate its combinations of malt and double-dry hopped balance. This brew has a bite while being at the same time in its ability to please. The booziness is fairly well hidden in the 8.2% ABV beer is deceptively subtle and inviting. With a creamy and soft mouthfeel, you will find this beer quite inviting. Overall, Second Fiddle is quite enjoyable each and every time you visit with it. BeerAdvocate.com has given Second Fiddle

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(From left) The former owners of The Nutmeg Inn, Mark Koester and Lynne COURTESY PHOTO Rainen, sit across the table from the inn’s new owners, Karen and Kevin Sarah Louise Arnold. DAN SEUFERT PHOTO LaSella, in the inn’s main lobby area. acre parcels of land on then purchased the NUTMEG from 1 more than owners, and we had to be able to transfer it to people who feel the same way.” Enter Kevin and Karen LaSella, a southern New England couple who were looking for a property around Lake Winnipesaukee in which to invest their time and money. Like Koester and Rainen, they fell in love with the inn and saw its business potential when they walked through

the front door. They were also impressed with the recent awards from TripAdvisor and other travel groups hanging on the wall. The LaSellas were, indeed, just what Rainen and Koester were looking for, and the couple bought the inn. They have clear goals about its future. “We don’t want to mess with a good thing,” Kevin LaSella said. “We want to keep the standards up, carry through

the tradition. We know this property was an important part of the history of Meredith, and we want to continue that.” The inn’s history began before the country was born. The inn’s current main inn building was financed by Eliphalet Rawlings, a tanner from Canterbury who was one of 60 local land proprietors who received government colonial grants in 1746 to buy one or more 120-

the northwestern shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. The grants were issued at the end of King George’s War, one of the so-called “French and

property from Rawlings in 1768 for 22 pounds sterling. In 1778, Cram sold the property to William Davis for 270 pounds.

Helen Osborne Storrow.

A group of Girl Scouts sitting on the lawn of what was called “The Clover Ridge Camp,” a Girl Scout camp. COURTESY PHOTO Indian wars,” which took place primarily in what were then British provinces in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Nova Scotia. Rawlings hired a tenant-farmer, Joseph Cram, to occupy and develop the property. It is believed that Cram was the builder of the homestead building itself, and that he developed much of the 120 acres for farming. Cram

Davis, a farmer who raised and sold beef for a living, expanded the main building to accommodate his family and workers, and the 1790 census counted 15 “free white men and women” living on the property. Ebenezer Smith, one of Meredith’s founders and a prominent judge, legislator and landowner, purchased the farm from Davis in 1805. Smith then sold

it in 1813 to the Nealy family, who owned it until 1927. In that period it had become Clover Ridge Farm, a boarding house for summer tourists and a stopping place for travelers. In the 1800s, Koester and Rainen believe the building was used as a “safe house” for slaves escaping the south. While stringing wire in the attic in 2013, an electrician found and See NUTMEG on 31

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, May 6, 2021 — NITMEG from 30 opened a walled-off area that appeared to have been hidden. There he found a bench nailed to the floor. He also discovered a trap door leading from the ceiling of a tiny closet into the attic. After much research, the couple came to the conclusion that because the property was located on what was once a stage coach route, it was probably used as a safe house. In 1927, Sarah Louise Arnold, who owned a 100-acre farm adjacent to the property, took the estate in a new direction. Arnold was known for her work helping youth and young women in public schools and at Simmons College,

Isabel and Monroe Smith, who started the American Youth Hostel camp on the property in 1937. COURTESY PHOTO

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and was a vice-president of the Girl Scouts. She was friends with Helen Osborne Storrow of Boston, Mass., whose husband was Boston attorney James Jackson Storrow (for whom the city’s Storrow Drive was named). Arnold and Storrow bought and combined the two properties, establishing a 200-acre estate deeded

to Storrow. It was named “Clover Ridge Camp.” It served as Girl Scout Regional headquarters, a leader-training facility, a conference center, and a summer camp. It became and remained the largest Girl Scout camp and headquarters in the U.S. until 1936, according to accounts. Arnold wrote “The Way

of Understanding,” a guide for young girl scouts that featured “inspirational” words and quotes to be used by Girl Scout leaders at troop meetings and camps. Rainen said leaders of the Eastern Region of the Girl Scouts stopped by a few years ago and donated old photos of the Clover Ridge Camp and a copy of Arnold’s book to the inn. Storrow sold the estate to American Youth Hostels, Inc. in 1937 for one dollar. Isabel and Monroe Smith would lead the hostel. The Smiths had founded the national organization in 1934 after they toured and admired the German youth hostelry network in pre-World War II Germany. The organization’s statement of purpose indicates its purpose was “to help all, especially young people, to a greater knowledge, understanding, and love of the world by providing for them Youth Hostels, bicycle trails, and footpaths in America, and by assisting them in their travels here and

abroad.” The hostel was the first of its kind in New Hampshire. By 1938, all German youth hostels had been commandeered by the Third Reich for training of “Hitler Youth.” This occurred at a time

when several German students were living and working at the hostel. Because of this, accounts of the time report that the Smiths had to deal with many in the Meredith community who feared that they were secretly allied with the Nazis. “The Smiths were very distrusted,” Rainen said. “They were investigated several times by the FBI up until 1952, and they were also suspected communists.” As Rainen and Koester researched the inn’s history, they found a historical link to that time. A former owner had discovered several swastikas carved into the furniture and floor of the main building. That furniture was sold or given away, they said, though one large swastika carved in the floor of the inn’s Great Room remains. Previous owners have tried to remove it without success. The symbol is not easily distinguishable.

They also learned that about 20 years ago, the inn’s owner was visited by an elderly woman who had a pre-war diploma from the hostel and said she had been a student there when the Germans were there. She said the German students had been expelled from the hostel because of their activities, however no news accounts of the expulsion could be found in local papers, Rainen said. In 1948, the property was sold again, and this time it was soon converted into The Clover Ridge Inn. Since that time, the property has been an inn, a restaurant and a dinner theater. Later, it was renamed The Nutmeg Inn and became a bed and breakfast. By 1985, the main building had a total seating capacity of 120 people, which included conference facilities in an attached barn. It’s not See NUTMEG on 32

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application process, the inn was named to the registry in 2020. The LaSellas, too, quickly fell in love with the property when they first arrived, especially the dark wood flooring and exposed ceiling beams, and a fire that was roaring in the fireplace. “This place had an effect on us from the moment that we walked in the door,” Karen LaSella said. “We immediately

of March. The inn, which serves breakfast every day, came complete with the Nutmeg Inn’s recipe book that had been updated and edited by Koester and Rainen. Like the former owners, the LaSellas love to cook. Rainen and Koester will be helping them ease into the business in the weeks ahead, as they live just a few minutes away, and the new owners’ parents have

Karen and Kevin LaSella stand near a plaque honoring The Nutmeg Inn, which was named to the State Registry of Historic Places in 2020. NUTMEG from 31 clear, Rainen said, why “nutmeg” was chosen as the name. In 2003 the bed and breakfast business was closed by its new owners, the Levy family, who made the estate their private residence. In 2013, the family put the property up for sale. When Koester and Rainen discovered it, there was less land attached – about 7½ acres – than in past years, as

previous landowners had sold off most of the acreage. But the main building had 10 beautiful former guest rooms, two of which are suites with kitchen facilities, and a separate owners’ quarters building. The buildings, which cover about 9,000 square feet, are surrounded by about an acre of landscaped gardens, a swimming pool, and two sun decks. “It was very impres-

sive,” Rainen said. It was also a bit of a surprise. When they left their professional careers, Koester and Rainen had not considered becoming innkeepers. “We were just looking for a cool old house to retire in, maybe something with a little income potential,” Koester said. “And then we came to see this. I initially thought, ‘it’s too huge,’ but we looked at it anyway. We couldn’t have afforded such a large house unless it was turned into a business.” “And we came walking into the main room, we saw the fire going, and in a matter of minutes we knew we had found what we were looking for,” Rainen said. Koester, who had come to New Hampshire from California, and Rainen, who had previously owned property in New Hampshire, bought the property and began its restoration. The first year was slow, Koester said, as “it took three months to bring it up to code” for use again as an inn. The couple made substantial landscaping improvements,

Lynne Rainen, former owner of the inn, holds a book penned by Sarah Louise Arnold, a former owner who converted the property into a Girls DAN SEUFERT PHOTOS Club camp. end of 2013 business began to improve. The inn has been regularly booked since 2014 (aside from a let-down last year caused by the pandemic). “We had a negative number for the first year, but after that we did fine,” he said. Rainen and Koester said one of the finishing touches they put on the inn was getting it entered into the State Registry of Historic Places. After completing a thorough

knew that we had found what we were looking for.” “We were looking for a property that had an investment potential. We had been looking at different properties all around the lake ... we were looking for a semiretirement kind of opportunity,” Kevin LaSella said. “We also needed a turnkey business that we could move right into, and this certainly is that.” The new owners took over at the end

committed time this summer to help with the work, they said. “We’re both very excited to get started,” Karen LaSella said. “We know it’s going to be a lot of work,” Kevin LaSella said. “We’ll spend the first year getting our arms around the place. We’ll be working hard to keep the standards and the exceptional ratings up, as well as continue the history of this place.”

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, May 6, 2021 — MOORE from 15 fight to stay on the bottom. Lifting them off the bottom can sometimes prove harder than one would think, hence the nickname “trash can covers.” The majority of fish caught will be between 10”14”. A 7-foot spinning setup is perfect. Flounder are extremely light biters and often lay there with the bait in their mouths until you set the hook. If they feel the hook and can spit it out, they will, so don’t go too heavy with your rod and reel. Most bait and tackle shops carry flounder rigs and bank sinkers in the saltwater section. These are twohook setups with a swivel and sinker clip. The hooks have small yellow beads on them making them easier for fish to see. You can attach whatever size sinker you need depending on how far you are casting and how much current you are fishing in. You only want the amount of weight you actually need to keep your rig on the bottom. Painting your sinkers bright colors also helps lure sight feeding fish in to investigate.

Kayaks are an extremely effective way to target flounder. Technique is as important as tackle. Flounder are sight feeders. If you keep your bait moving you have a better chance of catching more fish. Cast out and retrieve your line by either slowly raising your rod tip or slowly reeling your line. I fish in a kayak a lot and drifting is by far my favorite technique. Make sure

to keep your line tight so you feel the bites. I have found flounder to be persistent when it comes to food. If I get a bite but don’t land the fish I will cast or drift back in the same spot a few minutes later and often catch the fish the second time. What do flounder eat? This can differ from one area to another. Some areas

have an abundance of surf and soft shell clams; these areas will

usually produce more flounder when you use clams for bait. Other areas (mud bottoms) are rich in seaworms, so there that will catch more. Another thing to remember is when to fish. Flounder move out deeper with the outgoing tides and spend the duration of the outgoing tide digesting food. When the tide turns to come back in, they come in with it and the process repeats. Flounder fishing is inexpensive, relaxing, and can be fun for the whole family. You don’t have to be an expert to catch one. It also provides excellent table fare. It’s fun to pack a cooler with some food and beverages and make a day of it. If all you do is show up with a rod and reel, hooks and weights, and bait, you have a pretty good chance at

catching a flounder or even two. If you want to catch more flounder, try fine tuning your fishing to include some of the tricks and tips I’ve mentioned and you are sure to fill up a stringer in no time.

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MOFFETT from 9 her a shot at nursing school. She opted for the top-rated threeyear program at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. While there were days when she didn’t have enough money to call home, she persevered

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tired, RMPA had to hire two people to replace her. The outpouring of love and affection at her testimonial was amazing. This success story would not have occurred without those heroic educators and it is a reminder that poverty need not preclude academic achievement. While those titans of 1930—Babe Ruth and Herbert Hoover—are long gone, Sis is still with us. At age 91 she lives independently in Concord and goes to Mass every day while still going the extra mile to help out family, friends, and neighbors. The Sis Moffetts of the world should be honored and celebrated. Too many of us sometimes forget that half of the “greatest generation” was female. And unlike Ruth or

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only protect journalists working for large corporate entities and leave independent citizen media in the cold. Moreover, the Florida anti-social media censorship law fails to cover a wider universe of internet-based companies and financial institutions beyond Facebook, Twitter, Google and Instagram that are punishing conservative users for their political views. These include multinational banks, rideshare companies, payment processors and telecom companies. Loomer knows of which she speaks, having been banned by Paypal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Lyft, TeeSpring, Uber and even Uber Eats, among dozens of other companies, for her no-holds-barred journalism and antijihad activism.

Similarly, “America First” host Nick Fuentes has been banned by all the usual Big Tech suspects, along with livestream service DLive, Coinbase, “and every payment processor” for his forceful advocacy of populism, an end to mass migration and protection of the nuclear family. He was scheduled to join Loomer, former Delaware GOP Senate candidate Lauren Witzke (banned from Twitter for calling a pedophilia-flirting transgender activist “demonic”), and me in Palm Beach Tuesday at a rally to push for loophole-free legislation holding Silicon Valley accountable for discriminatory deplatforming. But Fuentes never got off the ground, because two airlines and Joe Biden’s TSA informed

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STOSSEL from 7 wanted a place to sleep, you’d go to an inn where everyone shared a bed.” Benjamin Franklin and John Adams shared a bed on one of their diplomatic missions. They fought whether or not the window should be open. John Jay, America’s first chief justice of the Supreme Court, complained about “sleeping with strangers and picking up bedbugs and lice,” says Boaz. “It’s not like that anymore because of the increase in wealth.” Today, at motels all over America, middleclass and poor people have their own beds. When markets are free and private property is protected, innovation happens in ways that allow ordinary people to live better. Over time, that innovation multiplies. It’s why, today, most of us live better than kings once did. Louis XIV had hundreds of servants who prepared him dinner. Today, my supermarket offers me a buffet Louis XIV couldn’t imagine. Thanks to trade and property rights and

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markets, each of us lives as if we had more servants than kings. We also live longer. “President Calvin Coolidge’s teenage son was playing tennis on the White House tennis court,” says Boaz. “He got a blister on his foot and the blister got infected, and the health care available to the son of the president of the United States was not sufficient to keep him from dying.” Few of us notice such steady progress. The media give us bad news. “They tell us about cancer clusters and coups in Myanmar,” says Boaz. As a result: “We forget the big picture. It’s important to remember the big picture so that we don’t lose it.” The big picture also includes progress in fairness and decency. “We’ve moved from ‘some people have privileges that others don’t’ to ‘human rights belong

to women and Black people and gay people,’” Boaz reminds us. “The direction of history has been in the direction of markets, personal freedom, human rights, democratic governance, and that’s what libertarians advocate.” John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

MAILBOAT from 2 swer questions about energy efficiency, clean transportation technology, distributed energy, or climate change. Despite my letting him know when we spoke the week prior that I would be asking about these topics, he was unable or unwilling to give us any answers in his public hearing.” Governor Sununu, our state is not prepared for the energy future. Energy efficiency standards are stalled at the PUC. Communities don’t know if they’ll be allowed to create their own energy with solar and net metering. Now is not the time to head our Public Utilities Commission with a person lacking knowledge in the fields of energy, transportation, and adaptation to climate change. Susan Richman Durham, NH,

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