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Archie Statue Dedication in Meredith

— THE JAMES BELL — Winnepiseogee’s First Tourist Steamboat

by David Warren Contributing Writer

The James Bell met her end in a most unusual way. This is her story. The James Bell was built at Center Harbor in 1864 by Stephen Wentworth and Alpheus Sweatt. She was named for U.S. senator James Bell of the newly formed township Laconia. Mr. Bell was born in Francestown on Nov. 13, 1804, and served in the senate from July 30, 1855 until his death on May 26, 1857. Alpheus Sweatt was the Bell’s first owner, but apparently

sold the boat to investors in Lake Village (now Lakeport), who berthed her at the old freight terminal near the dam in Paugus Bay. Formerly the winter quarters for the Lady of the Lake, this became the Bell’s home port. Her smokestack was specially designed so it could be easily lowered into a “X” shaped crutch in order to clear the Weirs channel bridge. Stephen Wentworth was the Bell’s first captain. See WARREN on 38

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When we reflect on the early days of commercial steam boating on Winnepiseogee Pond, big boats like the Lady of the Lake, Dover, Chocorua and the Mt. Washington come to mind. But there were many smaller boats that were just as interesting. The James Bell ranks high on that list. She was the first tourist boat on the lake, and was one of the few that

catered to women. They had a separate seating area (presumably far from the cigar smoke!), and their own powder room equipped with a water cooler. The Bell also had a very unique power plant - very different from the huge walking beam engines on the larger boats. She was so successful, two of the bigger boats battled to buy her and put her out of business. The only known drowning off a steamboat occurred on the Bell.

The James Bell. Built in Center Harbor in 1864 and named after U.S. Senator James Bell of Laconia. It was one of the smaller, lesser known steamboats of the era. This week writer David Warren tells the story of the James Bell, one of the first to cater to women. Warren’s exquisite scale-model of the James Bell is the most recent addition at the Lake Winnipesaukee Museum where he will be giving a presentation on the days of steamboats on Winnipesaukee on Wednesday, August 22.

A life-size bronze statue of cartoon character Archie Andrews, seated on a park bench, will be unveiled and dedicated to Meredith artist and resident, the late Bob Montana, on Thursday August 9 at noon in Community Park on Main Street in Meredith. The sculpture recognizes Bob Montana for his exemplary citizenship and his many contributions to the life of the town. Montana lived in Meredith for thirty-five years before his untimely death in 1975 at age 54. The statue was created by Valery Mahuchy of Sugar Hill, NH, who will be present for the dedication. Major donors to the project are the Montana Family, Meredith Village Savings Bank, Archie Comic Publications, Rusty McClear, Mill Falls, and Bob Lawton, owner and founder of Funspot Family Entertainment Center. Visitors to the park will be able to sit next to Archie for photos; young children can sit on his lap.

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The other day I overheard a couple talking (a polite way to say I found myself eavesdropping). One of them was saying how there have been advances in medicine where it will soon be possible for people to live as long as two hundred years old. I imagine that the prolonging of human life for so long would have to do with replacing aging organs and alike, though I never heard the rest of that couple’s conversation as they noticed me listening and then rudely lowered their voices. They didn’t ask my opinion, for obvious reasons, but if they had I would have said “No Thank you.” (I did, anyway, under my breath.) Living a long, long, long time sounds good in theory, but in practice it certainly would have its negatives. As I look at turning sixtythree and anticipating retirement sometime within a foreseeable future, it gives me a little something to look forward to; something that made all the years of work worthwhile. Some well earned rest and relaxation. If my expected lifespan was two-hundred years old then I would be looking at….oh….I don’t know… maybe another one hundred years of work so I would have enough money to support myself for the last thirty or forty years… maybe. No Thank you. Of course, my Social Se-

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curity benefits would be huge since I had entrusted the government with a portion of my weekly paycheck for one hundred and forty some odd years so I’m sure the payoff would be fantastic. (Once you have finished laughing I will continue.) Living to be two hundred years old would be burdensome in more ways than having to work for over a century. It would wear you down more than aging organs in your body could ever do. Financially it would take its toll in ways we can’t imagine today. For example, if you have kids then that yearly birthday present check would not only extend to kids and grandkids, but now would extend out to eight or nine generations with great-great-great-great (etc) grandkids. Just the cost of the cards alone would put a big dent in your pocketbook. (But, of course again, the government’s got your back.) Then there are those senior citizen discounts which wouldn’t kick in until your well into your seventeenth decade. The financial burden of people living a hundred years or more longer, will even fall on those youngsters who are still in their fifties and sixties. As their kids marry, the list of wedding attendees will start numbering in the high hundreds. (“You have to invite your great-great aunt Mabel, she hasn’t missed a family wedding in a hundred and sixty-six years.”) I can only imagine that the Hokey-Pokey would have to be done in shifts. I can’t even imagine the pressure of being in my one hundred and fifties and have to figure out, yet again, another new technological advance that’s supposed to make my life simpler. At sixty-two, I’m still trying to figure out

the alarm on my supposed smartphone. There are some things that would have to change. For example, AARP would most likely have to change their age requirements to one hundred and seventy to join. (And you will be getting those mailers all the way until your 200th birthday.) There are some things that would stay the same though. You’d be reading about a United States Senator (politician) who just got elected to his twenty-fifth, six year-term (and still promising change). Yes, there could be a few fun things about living to be two-hundred. For instance, I could go around complaining about how those damn kids in their one hundred and sixties who just have no respect for the older generation. You would be listening to music on the “Really, Really Ancient Extremely Oldies Station. Taking You Back To Your One Hundred and Twenties” (That is if stations even exist.) You could miss your High School’s one hundred and twenty-fifth reunion, but still be around for the one hundred and fiftieth (which you probably won’t attend either). You can lie about your age without fear of being called out on it. After all, will one hundred and seventy-two really look much different than one hundred and ninety-eight? Still, even with the average age being two hundred years old, someone will be working on a way to get us to live even longer. Living forever being the ultimate goal. Then you’d never stop working, No Thank you. Brendan will be at Moultonborough Library on Thursday, August 23. See page 17 for more details.

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Free Valentino Dixon “If it wasn’t for my artwork and God, there’s no way we’d be having this conversation right now.” I’m in Colby Michelle Malkin orado on a Syndicated Columnist three-way phone call with Valentino Dixon, inmate No. 91B1615 at New York’s Wende Correctional Facility, and his 27-year-old daughter, Tina Dixon, a first-grade teacher in Ohio. Faith, family and drawing -- golf courses, jazz musicians, landscapes -- have kept him alive and sane behind bars. It has been a long, hard rollercoaster ride with “so many ups and downs” that he has learned to manage expectations while holding on to hope. Tina was a four-month-old infant when her father was convicted of second-degree murder. That’s “26 lost summer vacations, 26 missed birthdays, 26 years of life,” she recounted earlier this year at an event I attended at Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative class on wrongful convictions. “I watched him for years studying the case in front of me over trailer visits, showing me all the facts, putting this puzzle together.” At Attica, the notorious supermax prison where Valentino Dixon spent all but the last eight months of his 33-years-to-life sentence before being transferred to Wende, Tina tells me: “I would eat pancakes and bacon, have water fights and coloring contests with my dad” during family reunion visits on the honor block while listening “to him and my grandmother

and my aunt going over the trial transcripts and educating me about injustice.” About six years into his sentence, Dixon started reading every book he could get his hands on -- from criminal justice texts to Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” to Donald Trump’s “Art of the Deal.” He is self-taught in art, business, law and survival. Dixon has been a model prisoner, mentoring other inmates (“I’m like Dr. Phil for these guys,” he chuckles) and earning international interest for his online art gallery. He’s never been to a golf course, but Attica’s former warden sparked Dixon’s imagination by bringing him a photo of Augusta National’s 12th hole. Lots of convicts will tell you they didn’t do it. But Dixon has steadfastly maintained his innocence in the street corner shooting that led to the death of Torriano Jackson and wounding of three others. And here’s the kicker: There is someone else who has repeatedly said Dixon didn’t commit the crime -- because he did it. Lamarr Scott first confessed to killing Torriano Jackson just days after the 1991 shooting during a Buffalo TV news broadcast. In 2012, Scott stated publicly of prosecutors who he says threatened him: “Each and every day it eats away at me that I allowed them to convince me to do the wrong thing.” No forensic evidence, no physical evidence and no murder weapon tied Dixon to the crime. Multiple witnesses gave sworn statements that Dixon was not the shooter; others gave physical descriptions that matched the six-foot-tall, heavy-set Scott, not the five-foot-seven, 130-pound Dixon. Two witnesses who ada-

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Being a Socialist Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry “So, how are you planning to pay for that?” This should be the first question asked about any political program. Unfortunately, it’s not. And by Ben Shapiro that’s why Sen. Syndicated Columnist Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are thought leaders for their parties. Take Sanders. He has been promoting his “Medicare for All” slogan for years. The left loves it. Among the top Democrats who have embraced this slogan are Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. Most of those senators want to run for president. So they understand that Sanders’ bumper sticker policy is popular on its face. There’s only one problem: No-

body asked that first question. This week, Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released a study taking a look at the cost of Sanders’ preferred program. The total: $32.6 trillion over 10 years. Over that same period, our total federal spending is projected at $56 trillion -- and we’re already racking up debt like there’s no tomorrow on that budget. That means that we could double our taxes at every level and still not come close to covering Sanders’ program. Sanders responded to this unfortunate news by attacking the study, blaming the nefarious Koch brothers for sponsoring Blahous’ basic math. There’s only one problem: The Urban Institute, a left-leaning outlet, estimated the cost at $32 trillion. So this isn’t a right-left problem. It’s a basic math problem. Sanders doesn’t understand basic math. Or, more accurately, he doesn’t care about it. And he’s not alone. Ocasio-Cortez recently embar-

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Cambodian Shadows PARIS - The very name Cambodia evokes tragic memories and historical passions. This small Southeast Asian by John J. Metzler l a n d w h i c h Syndicated Columnist was ravaged by the communist Khmer Rouge genocide a generation ago, then occupied by neighboring Vietnam, and later, resuscitated back to life by a long forgotten United Nations peacekeeping and electoral mission in 1992, now is predictably overlooked by the international community. Cambodia has largely been forgotten in recent years. Cambodia may now be forsaken too with the predictable re-election of longtime leader Hun Sen. The die was cast. With an 82 percent national turnout,an absence of any serious opposition parties, Hun Sen, an old Khmer Rouge who has politically reinvented himself many times, has been in power in Phnom Penh since 1985. And with the unapologetic backing of his mentors in Beijing, it seems his tenure and that of his increasingly authoritarian Cambodian People’s Party remains assured. His party’s 77 percent victory and sweep of all 125 parliamentary seats, may reflect the population’s frustrated disenchantment with the future as much as any genuine support. Sam Rainsy the exiled leader of

the banned opposition National and their East Bloc allies. Rescue Party chided, “A vicAfter what seemed like a pertory without a contest is a hollow manent conflict, the Vietnamese one.” The U.S. State Department finally agreed to a UN backed called the electoral outcome as Peacekeeping and electoral mis“neither free nor fair.” The Eu- sion which actually ushered in ropean Union decried the results reasonably free and fair elections as “Not credible.” While the EU refused to send election observers, China and Russia happily obliged. As Sam Rainsy stated from France, “For the first time since the UN organized elections in 1993,Cambodia does not have a The Old Man legitimate government recognized of the Mounby the international community.” tains fell from At the end of the Indochina high above wars in April 1975, Cambodia Profile Lake became the bloody victim of the fifteen years Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge ago, but it communists who through the feremains the rocious “killing fields” murdered symbol of the up to a quarter of the country’s Granite State, entire population during a few by Ken Gorrell Northfield, NH. and always short if horrific years in power. will. Then an invasion by neighborI can’t pinpoint the year when ing Vietnam turned Cambodia into a vassal of its ancient rival the Gray Lady – the New York but the mass murder stopped. Times – fell from journalistic grace, Here Hun Sen, enters the scene but I’m having a hard time rememas a callous collaborator of the bering when the “paper of record” Vietnamese sponsored regime. wasn’t just a Progressive shill. Correspondingly, this was the pe- “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” riod when Cambodia’s mercurial isn’t supposed to be ironic, yet Prince Sihanouk, diplomatically with every edition one imagines lobbied in support of the ousted the editors smirking at their own Khmer Rouge “Democratic Kam- masthead. A case in point comes from puchea” regime. Each year the debate would spill over into the the July 27th edition, under the United Nations where the Chi- patently-offensive headline, “New nese backed factions would lobby Hampshire, 94 Percent White, successfully to hold the Khmer Asks: How Do You Diversify a Rouge’s UN membership seat Whole State?” Talk about a quesagainst Vietnam’s isolated client tion nobody is asking – at least state, supported by the Soviets nobody who isn’t a race-hustler, misguided politician, or champion of corporate welfare. New Hampshire is one of the least racially-diverse states in the nation. But our “Whiteness” isn’t a problem, much less something that needs to be “fixed” by newspaper editors, business and political leaders, or crusading busybodies. We are a product of historical and geographical forces, and our status quo is not just fine, it’s better than most. Our history doesn’t include enslaved Africans working our small family farms. When emancipated slaves left the South, many followed the navigable rivers north into what would become the industrial heartland. Some were part of the westward expansion, while

and not surprisingly, restored the historic Kingdom of Cambodia as a constitutional monarchy. During the post-UN phase there was a giddy glimmer of hope for long suffering Cambodia;

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others settled in the cities of the mid-Atlantic and northeast. New Hampshire wasn’t on their map. Waves of foreign immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries largely bypassed us as well. We lack large cities or open land that historically attracted new arrivals from Europe. We are far from the Mexican border and the flow of Latinos northward; further still from Pacific ports where Asian immigrants landed. None of those factors are racebased. But at the New York Times, every important issue has a racial component, and race shapes the questions asked and not asked. Fear of running afoul of the Thought Police limits the questions many in the political center will dare ask out loud. These days any utterance, even one grounded in facts and spoken in plain, rational language, will be labeled “racist” if it fails to put racism at the top of the What’s-Wrong-withAmerica pyramid. The Times quotes business and “community” leaders telling us that we need to attract young working families to maintain our healthy economy and standard of living. But it then pivots to the race angle and the idea that we must therefore be more “welcoming” to “lure other racial and ethnic groups.” The idea of doing a better job growing our own never occurs. Even “with nonwhites poised to make up a majority of the American population in the next three decades,” the huge US labor market dwarfs the NH market to the point where we are little more than a rounding error. In other words, there are plenty of fish in the sea. There is no need to use the heavy hand of government to change who and what we are to accommodate anyone’s race-based “require-

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on Jeb. Our budgets have been balanced and taxes have not been raised. In fact Jeb led efforts to repeal the tax on electricity and to lower New Hampshire’s high business taxes. On September 11 and November 6th I am standing with Jeb Bradley, and I hope many will do the same.

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To The Editor: In the upcoming Republican primary on September 11, I am with Jeb Bradley. Clearly. When you need an elected official to respond --you can count on Jeb as I once did returning from Iraq when Jeb was serving in Congress. When you need someone to stand up for your freedoms and constitutional rights you can count on Jeb. Jeb sponsored SB12 in 2017 which finally gave law abiding New Hampshire citizens the right to defend themselves without needing a special permit to carry on a concealed basis. Legislators had tried for years to pass this bill with no success. But Jeb got it done. Jeb also was a co-sponsor of legislation termed Stand Your ground several years ago that allows someone to defend themselves if attacked. Lastly when you need someone to protect taxpayers -- you can count

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Tues., September 18, 7 - 8 p.m. Conflicts in the Middle East, and International Security - Lecture by Mohamed Defaa Tues., September 25, 7 – 8 pm World War I and “The Great Migration” - Lecture by Professor Sarah Batterson

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It appears that it was not unusual in the 1700’s for residents of any of the first four towns to be established in New Hampshire during the previous century to decide to move further inland and become settlers from Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, or Hampton to some newer inland town. One has to wonder, however, what it was that caused Samuel Kelley to make such a move in the winter of 1775 with his wife and two young sons. Kelley and his family are said to be the first settlers within the boundaries that comprise the town of New Hampton today. Sam Kelley and his family are said to have crossed Pemigewasset Lake pulling sleds on the ice, and to have built a log cabin near the lake where he established his home and went on to acquire much land. At that time the town was blanketed by forests, described by some as wilderness, waiting for Kelley and other settlers to clear the land for farming and to make use of the lumber. I must explain at this point that the town of New Hampton was first designated as the Moultonborough Addition in 1765 when it was granted to the Moultonborough Proprietors, under the leadership of Jonathan Moulton, by the Masonian Proprietors. Beyond that transaction it has been reported for many years that Jonathan

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Mother Nature can be the most beautiful thing we ever experience or She can be our worst fear. On July 24, 2008, Mother Nature exploded her wrath on 11 towns in New Hampshire and the outcome was devastation for approximately 52 miles damaging the landscape and over 200 homes. My home was one of many severely damaged by the tornado and I, like so many other New Hampshire residents, lost cherished possessions including sentimental pictures and family treasures to flood damage. For days, weeks, and months, I walked around in a daze. I couldn’t accept reality. I kept envisioning my home, the forest surrounding my home and the animal habitats destroyed by Mother Nature. I kept hearing a moose bellowing for her baby killed by a tree and hearing the silence of baby birds nestled forever in a birdhouse crushed by debris. So much destruction and lives changed forever from a quick moving storm. I was normally a faithful person, but I knew my inner spirit died that day and I desperately needed a way to rejuvenate my love of life. I succumbed to self-pity at first, but I decided to write about my feelings during the dark of night when the house was quiet and everyone was asleep. The lonely sound of the keyboard became a comfort to me. My writing was definitely not worth sharing, but I used the time to cry on my own shoulder and release some negative

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Weirs Times’s Editor/ Columnist Brendan Smith At Moultonborough Library On Thursday, August 23rd at 7pm. Weirs Times’s Editor and “F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” columnist, Brendan Smith will be at the Moultonborough Library. Brendan, who moved to New Hampshire from Long Island, New York in 1985, will be telling tales of his adventures as a “Flatalnder” adjusting to life in the Granite State. Brendan will be sharing some of his “classic” stories include learning how to Rake His Roof and his first experience at the dump as well as other stories. Brendan will also be reading an excerpt from his new book “I Only Did It For The Socks And Other Tales Of Aging” that will be published in 2019. Brendan is also the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire.” His website in www.BrendanTSmith.com. Find out about other great events at Moultonborough Library at www. moultonboroughlibrary.org

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Folk/Country Artist Katie Dobbins At Pitman’s In Laconia On Friday August 17th Katie Dobbins returns to Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. A New Hampshire native, Katie is a folk singer-songwriter whose music has aired on multiple radio stations around New England. Since the release of her debut album She Is Free, Dobbins has been touring throughout four New England states. Dobbins will be joined by special guest and local favorite “Dr. Jack” (Jack Polidoro). Dr. Jack has a fifty-year career as a prolific songwriter, acoustic performer and recording artist with 9 albums (from vinyls to CDs). On August 17th, audience members will also have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive silent auction, with all proceeds going toward the production of Dobbins’ sophomore album. You can learn more about Katie and her music at www.katiedobbinsmusic.com.

Interlakes Summer Theatre Offers Disney Week On Wednesday, August 15th at 2pm The Interlakes Theatre will open it’s final show of the Season, “Disney’s Newsies” for a one week only run August 15th through Sunday August 19th. This was a recent Broadway show based on the Disney film. It will be directed and choreographed by Chaz Wolcott, who also directed “Cats” last season. Chaz was a member of the Broadway Tour cast and brings all his experience of the original to this production. The show tells the story if the paper boy strike at the turn of the century and features non-stop musical dance and song numbers. This show is family friendly! Just before the opening of the last ILST mainstage production, the Interlakes Children’s Theatre division will present “Lion King, Jr.” which will feature 25 local youths. ICT is a non=profit organization which offers a free summer theatre program. The students work with theatre pros and learn to put up a show on a summer stock schedule (10 days) The shows are Staurday Aug 11th at 2:00 and Sunday Aug 12th at 11:00. Tickets for Lion King, Jr, are $10.00 and can be purchased on line interlakestheatre.com, on the phone 603 707-6035, or at the door, One Laker Lane, Meredith.

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The Alton, Barnstead, New Durham Centennial Rotary is hosting it’s 3rd annual painting contest. Wooden silhouette cutouts of bass are now ready for pick up at Alton Profile Bank M-F, 9-5, Sat. to 12pm. Contest closes on August 11th, and on August 18th there will be a public exhibition of all entries at AltonR/R Park from 12pm-3pm. Everyone there will be treated to cake and ice cream, and will vote for their favorite painted bass. Contest is open to adults and students throughout the state. Cash prizes, trophies and ribbons will be awarded. 569-3745

Through August 12th “The Forgotten War: Korea 1950” – Photo Exhibit Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. The exhibit, 35 remarkable photos by Max Desfor, originally opened in Seoul in 2014 and traveled throughout Korea where more than 250,000 people saw it. Desfor was an AP photographer who covered WWII and other events in troubled parts of the world. , who actually CHOSE to cover the Korean War, over an AP Florida Staff Photographer position. Exhibit can be viewed during regular Museum hours. www. WrightMuseum.org or 569-1212

La Cage aux Folles – Based on the Film “The Birdcage” Inter Lakes Community Auditorium, Laker Lane, Meredith. Full of dance, glitter and fun, this flashy show won six Tony Awards including “Best Musical”. Tickets can be ordered online at www.InterlakesTheatre.com or via

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Sandwich Old Home Week Town of sandwich, NH. Various events happening each day throughout S a n d w i c h . P l e a s e v i s i t www. SandwichNH.org or call 284-6473

William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” – Advice to the Players S a n d w i c h Tow n H a l l T h e a t r e, Sandwich. Tickets and showtimes are available at www. AdvicetothePlayers.org or by calling 284-7115

Through August 18th NH Historical Society Seeks Public Help in Identifying Pictures of People and Places New Hampton Historical Society, Dana Hill Road, New Hampton. Stop by the museum on Saturday’s this Summer from 10am-12pm. to check out the WWI exhibit, and see if you can help identify pictures of the past.

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Farmington Community Band – Live Concert

On the Green of First Church Congregational, 400 Main Street, Farmington. 6:30pm. The band will perform music from both the Silver Screen and the Small Screen, themes from Hollywood movies, popular tv sitcoms and westerns! There is seating for 40 people. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy a “Farmington Frank” meal while you listen. Free and open to the public. In case of rain, the show will be moved indoors. 755-4816

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Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” – Live Performance

Sandwich Home Industries, 32 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 10am-4pm. Fair will be held rain or shine. www. CenterSandwich.NHCrafts.org or 284-6831

Barnstormers Theatre, Tamworth Village. Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island, and all of them have in common both a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the suspense becomes thick and a sinister plot to seek revenge is revealed. This show will keep the audience on the edge of their seats until the very end! www. BarnstormersTheatre.org or 3238500

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78th Annual LRAA Art Show Lakes Region Art Association Art Gallery, Tanger Outlets, Tilton. Gallery will be open Wednesday through Monday 10am-6pm. The show will feature the work of numerous Lakes Region artists and photographers who are also members of the association. Various mediums will be on display in the show including, but not limited to, oils, acrylics, watercolors, photography and art craft items. 9912137 or stevehallart@gmail.com

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Frates Dance Studio,171 Fair Street, Laconia. 10:30am. This class is for persons of all levels of experience. The

Rudyard Kipling Program Storyteller Jackson Gillman

Wolfeboro Public Library’s meeting room, Wolfeboro. Speaker, storyteller and living-history presenter, Jackson Gillman will present “Rudyard Kipling Revisited”, which provides an inside look at the writer’s experiences in New England and some of the controversy surrounding this complex man. Free and open to the public. 569-2428

Summer Nature Talk – “NH’s Moose”

The Loon Preservation Center, Lee’s Mills Road, Moultonborough. 7pm. This program covers the history and life history of New Hampshire’s Moose. It also will include a review of current management practices and research as well as a discussion of what the future holds for this icon of the north woods. Free and open to the public. 476-5666

Tribute to Bob Montana – Archie Statue Dedication Community Par k, Main Street, Meredith. Noon. A life-size bronze statue of cartoon character Archie Andrews, seated on a park bench, will be unveiled and dedicated to Meredith artist and resident, the late Bob Montana. The sculpture recognizes Bob for his exemplary citizenship and

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restaurants. One other location we didn’t get to but enjoyed their beer was from Threshers Brewing Co outside of Lincolnville. They have created a tremendous IPA for the locals to enjoy. While on Lincolnville’s Rt 1, three restaurants are vying for your patronage; Chez Michel where their seafood chowder is a must, Whale’s Tooth Pub in which you need to sample their crab rangoon and Lobster Pound Restaurant for the best lobster roll around. Our last stop in this brief

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A great selection at Marshall Wharf Brewing in Belfast. excursion is Belfast. Great bike paths and river walks are only the beginning of this artsy community of friendly residents. The oldest shoe store in America is one of the many varied storefronts. Great breakfast food and tons of art galleries await your perusal. Down along Front Street, Marshall Wharf Brewing and Three Tides Waterfront Dining co-exist with awesome food and drink. Marshall is a 7 barrel brewery with such a balanced and vast collection of brews for the most discerning imbiber. Look at their current and recent tap creations at www.marshallwharf.com

Nearby, the jolly people at Front Street Pub were happy to serve up generous portions of tasty Haddock Bites and lobster rolls. 19 beers await the thirsty at this spacious rest spot on the water containing a game room, dance area for late night fun and lots of seating. So when your travels take you to this part of Maine, make time to relax and enjoy the locals (people, food and beer) Cheers! 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. wickedbrews@ weirs.com

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rassed herself on this same topic. When asked about how she would pay for her program of free Medicare for All, college tuition and housing, she explained that we could just raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent and close some loopholes, and “that’s $2 trillion right there.” Which would pay for ... approximately seven months of Medicare for All. Then, Ocasio-Cortez explained that she’d find money by cutting the defense budget ($700 billion per year), which would still not cover Medicare for All. And she’d create a carbon tax, which could crush industry, leading to lesser tax revenue. But Democrats aren’t interested in who pays for things, because their ultimate solution is that nobody pays for things. Yes, really. According to Stephanie Kelton, professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University -- and a Sanders 2016 advisor -- we can simply pay for things by paying for things. She says the only limit on spending is inflation. Even Paul Krugman of The New York Times has called this idea foolhardy: Inflation is inevitable once people realize that the government is literally just printing money to spend it, and once people begin socking away cash in order to avoid the exorbitant taxes they’re sure will come. The good news for Democrats is that nobody asks the key question. Even Republicans don’t, which is why they spend trillions of dollars of their own. And so long as nobody is asking the question, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will be the future of the country ... until we run out of money. Ben Shapiro, 34, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is The New York Times best-selling author of “Bullies.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

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the country of 16 million was awash with foreign Humanitarian aid and genuine goodwill. Tourism revived for the splendid Angkor Wat temple complex. Foreign firms invested in a growing textile industry which remains an economic bulwark. A free press flickered alive. Today’s Cambodian economy is oriented towards textile and apparel exports form largely Chinese owned factories. The building boom in the capital Phnom Penh reflects China’s commercial interests. Happily over the past twenty years, this once war ravaged land has seen economic growth and some prosperity. “The Cambodian regime plays China against the European Union,” warned the French newspaper Le Monde. Indeed as the USA and European countries are considering economic sanctions on Phnom Penh’s rulers, it’s the People’s Republic of China who has turned Cambodia, as it has Burma, into a playable piece on Southeast Asia’s geopolitical chessboard. China has equally reinforced its commercial grip on the economy and the political class. A millennia ago, Cambodia’s storied Khmer Kingdom held sway over vast parts of Southeast Asia, including modern day Thailand and some of Vietnam. Indeed here in Paris the splendid Guimet Asian Art Museum holds the treasured stone sculptures of ancient Khmer elephants and deities. Cambodia’s legacy contrasts sharply with the present regime which is hardly a regional power but a land whose sovereignty lies in the political shadows of People’s China.

ments.” What are some of those requirements? The Times leads the article with the story of a woman who moved here from Lynn, MA, where she had provided cultural training to hospital workers. Her complaint: “I went from being able to speak Spanish every day to not speaking Spanish at all...” She couldn’t find an ethnic hairdresser. She had trouble finding ethnic restaurants, supermarkets, and clothing stores, referring to these as “basic services,” as if she expected them to be available to her simply because she chose to move here. Call me oldfashioned, but I find such carping rude and ungracious. Speaking of rude, one week after publishing its article critical of our “ethnic vacuum,” the Times hired an Asian woman to an editorial position whose Twitter history would have made her radioactive if she were a White man. “Dumba-- f-----white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs p------ on fire hydrants” is just one of her bon mots. If you want more like that, Google “Sarah Jeong.” Adding an Asian woman to its editorial staff makes the Times more diverse, but does that make it a wise choice? Diversity qua diversity isn’t an unalloyed good. In survey after survey, New Hampshire ranks near the top for quality of life, place to raise a family, strong economy, school outcomes, per-capita income, low crime, low taxes, and general happiness. That should be enough of a draw for people – minority or otherwise – to join us. But the thought that our strengths might come from our small-town homogeneity wouldn’t occur to reporters at the Times. Even if it did, they would never write it. And even if they did stray so far off the Progressive reservation, editors like Sarah Jeong would never let it go to print. “All the News That Fits the Narrative.” If they were honest, they’d change the masthead.

John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea,China.

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his many contributions to the life of the Town. Montana lived in Meredith for thirty-five years before his untimely death in 1975 at age 54. He is known world wide as the creator of the Archie Comic Strips, as well as the designer of the “famous” Funspot Jester, which appears on each of Funspot’s tokens. The statue’s creator, Valery Mahuchy of Sugar Hill, NH, will also be present for the dedication. Major donors to the project are the Montana Family, Meredith Village Savings Bank, Archie Comic Publications, Rusty McClear, Mill Falls, and Bob Lawton, owner and founder of Funspot. www.

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Thurs. 9th – Sat. 25th Seussical! – Live Musical Jean’s Playhouse, Paper Mill Drive, Lincoln. The Cat in the Hat is back, and he narrates this delightful blending of Dr. Seuss’s most famous tales. Seussical is a fantastical, magical musical that is fun for the whole family! For full schedule visit www. JeansPlayhouse,com or call 745-2141

Friday 10th Fireworks Show!

Weirs Beach, Weirs. 10pm. Enjoy Fireworks every Friday night through August 17th on Weirs Beach compliments of The Weirs Action Committee.

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Dueling Pianos Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. Serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! www.PatricksPub.com or 293-0841

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“Simply Charming” – Mixed Media Jewelry Show – Wolfeboro Artist Linda S. Vogel

Hansel & Gretel Antiques, 436 Gov. Wentworth Highway, Route 109, Melvin Village. Fri. 10am-5pm with Artist Reception 4pm-6pm. Sat. 10am-5pm with Meet the Artist from 10am-2pm. Sun. 11am5pm. Vogel’s Designs East jewelry collection features a variety of work including her Charmed Series. Themes represent Lakes Region life, holidays, travel, abstract shapes and/or ethnic cultures. Vogel’s jewelry is hand fabricated in small batches using found objects, metals and gemstones. Some pieces are one-of-a-kind, and others created in limited production. 515-1443

On the Green 2 – Arts and Craft Festival Brewster Academy, 80 Academy Drive, Wolfeboro. Fri. & Sat. 10-5, Sun. 10-4. Over 90 Fabulous Exhibitors! Great arts and crafts, Alpaca exhibit, wood carving demo

on Saturday, live music, held rain or shine under canopies. Friendly pets are welcomed!

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Saturday 11th Open Air Market Townhouse Road, New Hampton. 9am-noon. You will find a great variety of local goods including organic veggies, berries, jams, maple syrup, farm fresh eggs, cheeses, handmade jewelry, yarns, tie dye and much more.

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Weirs Jazz Series – Sam Summer Jazz Band Patio Garden Restaurant Outdoor Marketplace, 21 Weeks Street, Weirs Beach. 7pm-10pm. www.

weirsbeach.com/weirs-jazzseries or 366-5800

Tribute Night at Patrick’s Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. Every Saturday will feature a tribute to a different band or singer. www.PatricksPub. com or 293-0841

Mixed Media JewelryMaking Demonstration by Artist Margaret Donnelly

Squam Lakes Artisans, 23 Main Street, Center Harbor. 11am-4:30pm. Artist Margaret Donnelly will demonstrate the art of Mixed media jewelry making. Free and open to the public. 253-9525 Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Ocean B l v d . , H a m p t o n . w w w. CasinoBallroom.com or 9294100

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Belmont Old Home day Town of Belmont. The day begins at 7:30am with a pancake breakfast at Tioga Pavilion on Mill Street. There will be crafts, rock wall, live music, inflatable obstacle course, food, pedal tractor pull and much more! Old Day will come to an end with a fireworks display at 9:30pm. For a full schedule of events visit www.BelmontNH.org

Family Fun Day at the Castle Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Road, Moultonborough. 11am2pm. Pack up the car and head to the meadows at Shannon Pond for a day of music, games, activities and family fun! Free to the public when entering via Ossipee Park Road. Event will be held rain or shine. www. CastleintheClouds.org or 476-5900

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Squam Lakes Artisans, 23 Main Street, Center Harbor. 11am-4:30pm. Artist Stephanie Demme will demonstrate the art of jewelry design. Free and open to the public. 253-9525

Wright Museum, Center Street, Wolfeboro. Doors open at 6:30pm, presentation begins at 7pm. Professor LeAnn Erickson will discuss a secret US military program launched in 1942 that remains largely unknown to the public. The lecture will feature E r i ck s o n ’s d o c u m e n t a r y film “Top Secret Rosies; the Female ‘Computers’ of WWII”. According to Erickson, this program recruited mathematicians who would become human “computers” for the Army. These women wor ked round-the-clock shifts and created ballistics tables for every weapon in the US arsenal. $3/members, $ 8 / n o n - m e m b e r s . www. WrightMuseum.org or 5691212

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Weirs Beach, Weirs. 10pm. Enjoy Fireworks every Friday night through August 17th on Weirs Beach compliments of The Weirs Action Committee.

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PBVRC Spaghetti Dinner – Special Guest Steve Negron

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6th Annual “Cruise into the Wright” - Antique Car, Hotrod & Motorcycle Show Wright Museum, Center Street, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. In addition to the WWII exhibits inside the Museum, visitors will have the chance to see and learn about some other amazing classic machines while enjoying a great day with their family. Live music from The Bel Airs, and food will also be available. Event will take place rain or shine. www. WrightMuseum.org or 5691212

Tribute Night at Patrick’s Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. Every Saturday will feature a tribute to a different band or singer. www.PatricksPub. com or 293-0841

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Best Selling Crime Writer Sue Coletta – Book Signing Annie’s Book Stop, 1330 Union Avenue, Laconia. 10am12pm. Sue Coletta, author of the much beloved Grafton County Series and awardwinning Mayhem Series will be signing copies of her books at Annie’s. Meet the author and picked up a signed copy of her book “Scathed”. All books in the Grafton County Series and Mayhem Series w i l l b e ava i l a bl e. www. AnniesBookStop.com or 5284445

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Squam Lakes Artisans, 23 Main Street, Center Harbor. 11am-4:30pm. Artist Nancy Lane will demonstrate the ar t of making jewelry and watercolor paintings. Free and open to the public. 253-9525

Sunday 19th The Great Rochester NH Food Truck Bash! Lilac Mall parking lot, 5 Milton Road, Rochester. Noon – 5pm. There will be more than 10 of the top food trucks and food vendors in New England serving a wide variety of food. Bad Labs will also have a beer garden set up selling their local brews with local musicians playing on the main stage. Event is free admission and open to the public. Feel free to bring lawn chairs and tables to sit and enjoy the food and music! 834-4345 or email kozman@metrocast.net for more information.

Concord Model Railroad Club Show Everett Arena, Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-3:30pm. This year’s show will have dealers, door prizes and operating layouts. Admission is $5/adults, children under 12 are free with an adult, $12 max per family.

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Monday 20th Carl Johnson Memorial Golf Tournament Ridgewood Country Club, Moultonborough. The tournament is open to the public with pre-registration required by August 13th. Tournament will be a scramble format with teams of four, and a shotgun start at 8am, followed by lunch and awards. Proceeds from the Carl Johnson Memorial Tournament will benefit the Loon Preservation Committee. To register visit www.Loon. org or call 476-5666

Mon. 20th – October 31st “Manufacturing Victory, The Arsenal of Democracy” – Exhibit Wright Museum, Center Street, Wolfeboro. At the beginning of WWII, the US mobilized the entire economy and industr ial structure to produce the most powerful “Arsenal of Democracy” the world has ever known. This exhibit will detail these enormous efforts on the home-front during WWII. The Military arsenal and machines of

Allied victory depended on a work-force willing to do whatever it took to arm and outfit the U.S. and Allied forces. While soldiers faced the actual fighting around the world, those at home built an unprecedented machine of war in factories all over the United States. www. WrightMuseum.org or 5691212 Tuesday 21st

Mindful Energy Flow Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Frates Dance Studio,171 Fair Street, Laconia. 10:30am. This class is for persons of all levels of experience. Yoga Practice is considered a moving meditation; sequenced to cleanse and rebalance our Energy Bodies; Amplified with guided Energy Medicine techniques throughout and a Nidra Savasana. This is a p ow e r f u l c l e a n s e a n d realignment of each energy system. Classes are $15pp. Join the YOurGA Facebook page to sign in to class ahead of time for a $5 discount!

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Friends of the Meredith Library Book Sale

Meredith Public Librar y, Main Street, Meredith. Thurs. 9am-6pm, Fri. 9am4:30pm, and Sat. 9am-1pm. With the purchase of a new membership with the Friends, you will be provided with an attractive canvas book bag, which in turn can be filled, one time, with books free of charge! Renewal memberships can be updated at any time during the event and will entitle you to a 10% discount at Once Read Books

Friday 24th Dueling Pianos Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. Serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! www.PatricksPub.com or 293-0841

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Wednesday 22nd “Steamboats of Winnipesaukee” – Lecture by David Warren

Lake Winnipesaukee Museum, 503 Endicott Street North, Weirs Beach. 7pm. Local historian David Warren will share his latest research on the many steamboats of Lake Winnipesaukee. This lecture looks at some of the lesser known steamboats, with special emphasis on the James Bell. Free admission. 366-5950

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Grab your popcorn, take a seat and get ready to be dazzled by this year’s vaudeville-themed Circus Smirkus extravaganza! On Sunday and Monday, August 12th and 13th, locals will flock to The Nick Recreation Park for a Big Top experience like no other.

With aerials, acrobatics, wire-walking, juggling, lively music and an array of brilliant costumes, this magical event is sure to awe audience members. Circus Smirkus’ performances in Wolfeboro are part of a 68-show tour across the Northeast, fea-

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On The Green 2 Arts & Crafts Festival In Wolfeboro Don’t miss the On The Green 2 Arts & Crafts Festival at Brewster Academy, 80 Academy Drive, in Wolfeboro on August 10, 11, and 12! Hours will be Friday & Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm!!! There will be over 90 fabulous arts and crafts exhibitors with an array of arts and crafts and an alpaca exhibit for all to enjoy. There will also be a wonderful chain saw wood carving demonstration on Saturday. The above photo was taken at last year’s Wolfeboro fair. Some of the exhibits will include amazing wood carvings of bears/animals/statuary, beautiful handpainted glassware, fabulous fused glassware & tables, framed metal art, pottery, NH maple syrups, wildlife photography, historical names framed, fresh squeezed lemon-

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products and customized demonstration, custom wooden photo mats, and lots more!!! Music & Food!!! Friendly, leashed pets welcome!!! Free Admission and Free Parking - Info Joyce 528-4014 - www.joycescraftshows. com - Rain or Shine Under Canopies!!! See you there!!!

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Red, White & Brew

CRAFT BEER & WINE FESTIVAL

Join us at the 3rd Annual Red, White & Brew to benefit NH veterans, services members and their families! Enjoy craft beer, wine, food, live music, car show, auction, raffles and more!

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LeAnn Erickson To Present “The Female ‘Computers’ of World War II” On Tuesday, August 14 from 7 to 8 p.m., Producer/Director and Temple University Professor, LeAnn Erickson will discuss a secret US military program launched in 1942 that remains largely unknown to the public in Wolfeboro as part of the Wright Museum’s Lecture Series, sponsored by Ron Goodgame and Donna Canney, this lecture will feature Erickson’s documentary film, Top Secret Rosies, The Female “Computers” of WWII. According to Erickson, this program recruited female mathematicians who would become human “computers” for the Army. These women worked round-the-clock shifts and created ballistics tables for every weapon in the US arsenal. “‘Rosie’ made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate,” said Mike Culver, museum executive director. When the first computer was developed to aid the calculation efforts, six women became its first programmers. Their work was not only crucial to allied victory, it carried a moral weight. “These women had to reconcile the issue of ending a world war with the recognition that their computations made every Allied bomb and gun more deadly,” he said. “They experienced a real moral burden.” Top Secret Rosies, The Female “Computers” of WWII will be held in Wolfeboro Town Hall’s Great Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission

Top Secret Rosies, The Female “Computers” of WWII will be held in Wolfeboro Town Hall’s Great Hall Tuesday, August 14 from 7 to 8 p.m is $3 for members and $8 for non-members. Seating is limited, and reservations can be made by calling 603-569-1212. The Wright Museum’s Lecture Series takes place every Tuesday through the end of the museum’s season, which concludes Oct. 31. As the region’s leading resource for educators and learners of all ages

on World War II. Wright Museum is open daily through Oct. 31 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, visit www.wrightmuseum.org.

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All Saints Episcopal Church Wolfeboro welcomes the Smirkus troupe to the Lakes Region Area. “This is a fundraiser for All Saints Mission Outreach Programs, but also an opportunity to bring an exciting and enriching youth event to the area,” said Don Holm representing All Saints. In addition to All Saints extensive planning, Smirkus’ stop here is also made possible by support from businesses within the community. “400 hundred tickets will be distributed to needy families in the local area”, noted Holm. No matter which performance you attend, the event is an unforgettable experience. Excited to see some of the amazing acrobatics and mesmerizing magic for yourself? Tickets range from $18 to $22, and children under 2 are always free. Tickets can be purchased locally at Blacks Paper Store Wolfeboro, NH and the Innisfree Bookstore in Meredith, NH. You can also call 877-SMIRKUS or visit smirkus.org.

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mantly insisted Dixon didn’t do it were charged with perjury by the prosecutor before Dixon’s trial. Instead of objecting to the government’s strongarm intimidation tactics, Dixon’s own public defender (who failed to call a single witness to the stand or enter a single exhibit in his client’s defense) obsequiously praised the prosecutor’s maneuver as “brilliant.” “Lawyers throw cases all the time,” Dixon sighs. As I’ve delved more into wrongful convictions over the past two years, this sickening pattern repeats itself endlessly in blue states and red ones, across racial and socioeconomic lines: ineffective counsel, faulty eyewitness testimony, shady deal-making and decades of legal wrangling to undo the damage and uncover the truth. Dixon makes no excuses for his rough past when he got caught up in drugs in his youth: “I’m no angel.” But he and a growing army of supporters say he’s no killer.

New York lawyer Marty Tankleff is an extraordinary exoneree who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his parents at 17 based on a coerced confession, corrupt police detective and prosecutorial misconduct. Tankleff co-teaches the Georgetown class whose students investigated Dixon’s case last semester. As a result of new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct they helped uncover, a new “440 motion” was filed on Dixon’s behalf in May. The prosecutor, Christopher Belling, revealed to the students for the first time in nearly three decades that Dixon’s clothing had been tested for gunshot residue and came up negative -- facts he failed to disclose to the defense or reveal at trial while accusing Dixon of shooting at least 27 rounds from a 9mm handgun. “If his case is given a fair and independent review, everyone is confident that he will be granted post conviction relief,” Tankleff told me Monday. The motion is in the

hands of Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, whose office told me this week that a decision may be issued by midAugust. Could this be the light at the end of the torturous tunnel? Dixon and his family have been here before, through endless appeals, waiting for a favorable ruling, hanging on to prayer, hope and each other. “I have a strong faith. I definitely trust in God’s plan,” Dixon says during our hour-long talk. “This is a test from Him. I know I’ve got truth on my side. And truth always wins.” Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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annoyed Dad, who was famously stubborn. So he hung on year after year after year, annually asking someone to alert the doctor in question that he was still around. But by the summer of 2018 it was clear that the clock was running out and there would be no more overtimes. On the morning of July 24, while in Hospice Care in Concord, Dad’s heart stopped and a doctor was called in to make the sad pronouncement. But then came another comeback and his heart started up again. We all knew why. July 24 was Mom’s birthday and we knew Dad wouldn’t want his last day to coincide with her birthday. So he held on until midnight. Until July 25. Ninety one years is a pretty good run, a run that included lots of sports action and a new special family remembrance day—July 25. Thanks, Dad! RIP. Sports Quiz On July 25, 1980, what gymnast scored a perfect ten during the women’s gymnastics compulsories

at the Moscow Olympics? (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on August 9 include Boston Celtic basketball legend Bob Cousy (1928) and tennis great Rod Laver (1938). Sports Quote “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”―Ernest Hemingway Sports Quiz Answer Romania’s Nadia Comaneci. State Representative Michael Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord and currently teaches on-line for New England College. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and awardwinning “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.

THE BIG MONTHLY GAME!

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‘Seussical’ at Jean’s Playhouse Oh, the places you go in the Broadway musical ‘Seussical’, opening Thursday August 9, at Jean’s Playhouse in Lincoln. Created by the Tony Award winning team of Ahrens and Flaherty, and co-conceived with Monty Python’s Eric Idle, the playful music will transport you to the many fantastical worlds of Dr. Seuss. Narrated by the iconic Cat in the Hat, with Jojo the Who child alongside, it’s an active romp telling Horton the Elephant stories from two Seuss books, Horton Hatches the Egg and Horton Hears a Who, woven into a multicharacter compilation of more stories from Seuss. Look for the Truffula Trees from The Lorax, Gertrude from Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, the General from I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew and The Butter Battle Book, and Maysie, Sour Kangaroo and Wickersham Brothers all from the Horton books. Plus – and this See JEAN’S on 35

The Cat in the Hat (Jackie Evans), Horton (David Groccia), and JoJo (Coen Mullins) contemplate some of the places you’ll go via the Main Stage musical ‘Seussical’ at Jean’s Playhouse. Performances begin August 9, and continue through the 25th. Tickets/Info at www.jeansplayhouse.com or the Box Office, 603-745-2141.

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“Historic Tea” At Clark House Barn

WOLFEBORO – Six American celebrities will step out of the history books this summer to participate in the Wolfeboro Historical Society’s Premier “Historical Figures Tea” to be held in the Clark House Barn on Sunday, August 19 from 2-4 pm.

They will be portrayed by community members portraying John Adams, Lucy Stone, Rosie the Riveter, Louisa May Alcott, nineteenth century author of Little Women and other books, and a “Mystery Figure” from the Civil War. The figures will rotate among six tables during the Tea, offering short presentations about their character. “Tea” including light refreshments is being provided by Linda Siracusa. Louise Horsken, president of the Wolfeboro Historical Society hopes the Tea will become her organization’s signature fundraising event in fu-

ture years. “This year we are starting small with only six tables, so we only have 42 tickets to sell,” she said. “We hope to have more historic figures as well as guests, join us in future years.” Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at Black’s Paper Store, Downtown Wolfeboro, the Monitor Engine House at the Clark Museum Complex, 233 South Main Street (across from the hospital) on Wed.-Fri. 10-4 and Sat. 10-2, or from Wolfeboro Historical Society Board Members.

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may be for you who have read-aloud these stories more than once – a whole phalanx of memorable creatures and situations from McElligot’s Pool, Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Circus, Red Fish Blue Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, and more; including Oh, the Thinks You Can Think, which lends that title to the opening song. The professional actors are joined by some youngsters from the NH region. Geisel only adopted the “Dr.” title (until he received an honorary doctorate in 1956, from his alma mater, Dartmouth), but he knew his audience well and the stories he wove are like modern-day Aesop fables, designed to entertain as well Aas “think.” And learn: in the end, Dr. Seuss only wanted to provide a tonic of gentle kindness and fun while imaginations soared. Fans since the Broadway premiere in November 2000 have found Seussical a place you can go to find just that. TJean’s Playhouse is producing its 32nd summer of professional theatre in Lincoln with Seussical running through

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Hampton its home is acknowledged by the fact that Pinnacle Hill was first known as Kelley Hill and some locals may still refer to Pemigewasset Lake by its original name, Kelley Pond. Samuel Kelley who eventually accumulated much land,was also the father of nine children to whom he gave some of his property,including the area around the original homestead when he moved to the top of the Pinnacle. Around the year 1820 the property including the original homestead was sold to other early settlers in New Hampton,the Drake family,though other land in town was still owned by descendants of Samuel Kelley. The Drake family farmed the land for the next 130 years. Luther and Minnie Drake were the owners when the farm buildings were destroyed by fire in the early 1950’s. The town of New Hampton bought the property in 1978 with funds provided by the federal government’s Land and Water Conservation Fund. The land is now known as the

Kiosk at the site of the foundations of buildings at the KelleyDrake farm. Kelley-Drake Conservation Area and,under the leadership of New Hampton’s Conservation Commission, volunteers have spent many hours building hiking trails as well as clearing the property of rubble, trash, and brush that has accumulated over the years. Old cellar holes, stone walls, meadows, and apple trees are reminders of the

farm that functioned on the area for nearly two hundred years, but the forest that has reclaimed much of the land now owned by the town gives one a sense of what the Kelley family found and saw when they arrived at their new New Hampshire home in 1775. The area is open to visitors who want to hike, hunt, snow shoe,

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settled in the wilderness of New Hampshire,and his original settlement is now unsettled as far as permanent human presence is concerned, but it is available for visitors to enjoy. Who knows what you might discover by walking its trails?

On a recent quick visit to the Drake Kelley Conservation Area I was surprised to hear the call of a loon from the nearby lake and to have a hawk fly by at a fast pace in front of me.

Drawing depicting farm buildings (house, barn, etc.) SMITH from 36

or ski. As for the Kelley family, it should be noted that the original settler,Samuel Kelley, was the builder of the New Hampton Town House, which is still in use and was instrumental in calling the first town meeting. He also served in the Revolutionary War. A descendant, Dr. Frank Kelley, author of a book on reminiscences of New Hampton,published in 1888, wrote about a Samuel Kelley who was a fourth generation Kelley from the first settler of New Hampton. He said that this Kel-

ley who was then living on Kelley Hill (Pinnacle Hill) was the only one of his name still remaining. “He is a shrewd and well-to-do farmer, and owns half the farm formerly owned by his grandfather, Samuel Kelley, 2nd. He is a trader in cattle and delights in keeping a nice horse, inheriting in this respect his father’s fancy. He is social and always glad to see his friends. It is to be regretted that he has no son to take his name and inherit his large estate, as it now seems improbable that Kelley Hill will much longer be occupied by any descen-

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in minutes. The gears were greased with beef tallow, which I suspect may have become a bit rank down in the hot engine room. The Bell’s speed isn’t known, but we do know that the Mineola, which could make 10 1/2 MPH, could beat her. We’ll hear more of the Bell and the Mineola later. The Bell had several other unusual features. She offered a separate powder room for the ladies which, like the men’s head, had window blinds and a water cooler. In fact, all the windows on the main deck had sliding shutters, a first for any steamer, and a useful one if a rogue wave broke the glass. Little is known about the Bell’s daily schedule. Photos show her at the Weirs and Wolfeboro in the early 1880’s. She probably visited Alton Bay as well. We do know that she garnered enough business to attract the attention of both the Lady and the Mount, who’s associated railroads battled each other to purchase her and put her out of the daily passenger carrying business. The history books say that the B & M RR (which owned the Mount) won, and subsequently used her to run charters out of Wolfeboro. That is incorrect. Recently discovered financial records for the Lady, which were kept by her clerk Herbert Rogers, show that on Oct. 2, 1885, the Boston and Lowell Railroad, which controlled the Lady at the time, paid state inspector of steamboats C. H. Hutchinson $13.12 See WARREN on 39

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his post to go aft and dip a bucket of water for the boiler. Unbeknownst to anybody, he either fell overboard or was dragged over by the bucket, and was drowned. Later, as the pilot approached the dock, he rang down to the engine room for reduced speed, and got no response. Another member of the crew noticed the unanswered signals, investigated, and sounded the alarm. The absence of the bucket and its attached cord gave the only clue to the engineer’s disappearance. He was never found. Fortunately, the discovery was made in time to prevent a full speed crash into the dock. But the end of the Bell was anything but uneventful. It came in late November, 1885 in Paugus Bay. Charles E. Kelley, the regular engineer on the Lady at the time, recalled the story, which I’ll relate as he told it,

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ter out and we were again afloat.. With four men on each forward side breaking ice with long handled mauls, and with the engine turning the wheels just fast enough to keep her nose up to the ice, we proceeded to the Weirs and up onto the ways. Captain Wadleigh (of the Lady) furnished two yoke of oxen, and with falls and snatchboards she was pulled out and left until spring, when carpenters from the shops came up and patched and caulked her.” “The steamship Mineola then towed her to the wharf at Lake Village. Ferguson thought she might fill and sink before morning, so he set posts under the guards (the part of the main deck that overhangs the hull to protect the paddlewheels) on the bottom. Lo and Behold! She did fill and she did sink. In the morning she was on the bottom, a total wreck, with the posts sticking up through the guards. The boiler and engine wheels and shafting were removed and she was beached in the sands near Black Brook (at the time a rather “seedy” section of Lake Village near the current location of Irwin Marine), where she served as a comfortable home for several years to those who enjoyed the waterfront. No rent, no taxes, just a wonderful life.” The pilot house was removed before the Bell was beached, and moved to Winthrop H. Smith’s front yard on Union Ave. in Lake Village, where it became a playhouse for children that lived nearby. And so ended the fife of the James Bell, certainly one of the most unique steamboats ever on Winnepiseogee Pond. Before they were displaced by the automobile, steamboats like the James Bell provided a vital connection to the rail terminals and the outside world. They were an integral part of the daily lives of many people who lived here in the lakes region during a most interesting and exciting period in our history.

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Hans returns to give his famous lecture on the underwater history of Lake Winnipesaukee. His presentation will include videos of wrecks seen while diving in the lake and other artifacts from below the surface of the lake.

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Wednesday, June 27, 7PM • Featuring Ron Guilmette

Join author and photographer, Ron Guilmette as he discusses his book, “The Islands of Winnipesaukee”. The book contains photos, many interesting stories about the islands of Winnipesaukee, and other “Fun Facts”.

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Writer Kathy Eaton draws on her own family’s experience in carrying on the legacy of their Winnipesaukee island home established in 1893. Sharing anecdotes crossing seven generations the program will prove both amusing and informative as she shares the story of the camp’s evolution.

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Wednesday, July 25, 7PM • Featuring Bryant Tollese

Jeﬀrey Klenotic presents examples from his ongoing research to produce a digital archive and interactive map charting every venue where movies played in the Granite State from the medium’s origins in 1896 to the rise of television in the 1940s.

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Visit with folks who lived in the Wawbeek community in Melvin Village, go for and exciting ride with an inebriated captain. Meet Henry Libby, the founder of The Libby Museum in Wolfeboro and ﬁnd out about what the Goose had to say about folks who chartered his boat the West Wind and more stories. If you have your own story, please bring it along.

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Saturday, August 25, 11AM • Featuring Peter Ferber

Noted lakes region artist, Peter Ferber will discuss how he approaches portraying historic scenes in his paintings, focusing on images he has done of The Weirs, Center Harbor, Laconia, as well as some of his Antique Boat Posters.

Architectural historian Bryant Tolles, Jr. shares the history and architecture of the grand resort hotel phenomenon and hospitality tourism in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the pre-Civil War era to the present.

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Wednesday, August 1, 7PM • Featuring Robert Goodby

A strategy of self-preservation required many Abenaki to go "underground," concealing their true identities for generations to avoid discrimination and persecution. Robert Goodby reveals archaeological evidence that shows their deep presence here in New Hampshire.

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piece in her pack. I ate my peanut butter and honey sandwich. We walked through the Lye Brook Wilderness Area and we appreciated the foot bridges over the roaring brooks. The weather was hot and humid as it could be. Truthfully we could smell the body order of some of the thru-hikers before they even reached us. That’s life on the trail. Along the way we took the side paths to Prospect Rock and to Spruce Peak. Prospect Rock’s vista over Downer Glen had a nice view of Mount Equinox. The spur to the top of Spruce Peak wasn’t worth the effort of scrambling up the rocky bump because the vista is nearly no more due to tree growth. See PATENAUDE on 47

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and the rolling and often muddy trail led us back to our waiting car. We’ve completed three sections of the Long Trail together, 59.9 miles and only 212.1 miles to go to reach the Canadian border! I can’t wait. But I am going to have to wait. Have fun. Amy Patenaude is an avid skier/outdoor enthusiast from Henniker, N.H. Readers are welcome to send comments or suggestions to her at: amy@ weirs.com.

Goddard Shelter, one of sixty overnight sites found along the Long Trail. The Long Trail was built between 1910 and 1930 and is the oldest long distance hiking trail in the United States. The Appalachian Trail and the Long Trail coincide in southern Vermont for more than one hundred miles.

—Raising Fleece Come see usFine at Moulton FarmShetland October 15thSheep & 16th!!— Liz and yours truly on top of Stratton Mountain. Stratton Mountain elevation 3,940 feet in on the New England Highest Hundred List and is a fun day hike from the Stratton-Arlington Road. On weekends people can ride the Stratton Mountain Resort’s gondola up the mountain and hike 7/10th of a mile to the fire tower. PATENAUDE from 46

We made it back to the car in time to beat the crowd for supper in Manchester at Cilantro’s. Liz munched tacos and I had a big burrito. Very satisfying and with our bellies full we drove to fetch the car we left behind. The next morning we were back on the trail early. Liz had a busy day ahead of her and we decided to knock off the last 5.5 miles over Bromley to complete the 3rd section of the Long Trail. We dropped off our car at Mad Tom Notch in Peru and we returned to where we had finished the day before at Route 11 not far from the Bromley Ski Area. Light and fast we went. We passed more thru-hikers just breaking camp. There was spur to a ledge with a good view of Stratton Mountain shortly before we the trail turned up Bromley’s ski trail. The workers were cutting the brush along the edge of the trail. We met up with a family from Michigan

that was just hiking up the ski area. I’d never seen the top of the ski area without snow. Five miles felt short

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