08/26/2021 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

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VOLUME 30, NO. 34

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021

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Lakes Region Arts & Crafts Festival In Meredith

Ernie Lewis, Jean Marchant, Gary Coyne, JoAnn Clark, and George DeWolf were all part of a butterfly count at Thomson Tree Farm in Orford, NH. Here they posed for a photo overlooking one of the bogs at the Farm with Smarts Mt. in the background. TOM THOMSON PHOTO (Inset) Monarch Butterfly.

Butterfly Count On The Thomson Family Tree Farm by Tom Thomson Orford, NH.

Recently I hosted a “Butterfly Count” on our Tree Farm on the south side of Mt. Cube in Orford, NH.

George DeWolf, from Wentworth, is the coordinator of the only butterfly count held in New Hampshire that reports data to the North American Butterfly Association (NABA.org).

He was particularly interested in obtaining access to our property because it gave counters access to butterfly habitat above 2000 feet. I had the pleasure of

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The 41st Annual Lakes Region Fine Arts and Crafts Festival is scheduled to be held on Saturday and Sunday August 28 and 29 from 9am – 5pm in Meredith, NH. The Festival is hosted by the Meredith Area Chamber of Commerce. This event will transform the Main Street of Meredith and the upper parking lot of the Mill Falls Marketplace into an outdoor art gallery featuring pottery, baskets, leather, wood products, weaving, quilting, metal sculpture, jewelry, clothing, painting, photography, furniture, specialty foods and more. Some of the 65 artists will be demonstrating at their booths. All items are original creations and the artists and craftsmen will be available throughout the weekend to meet and talk with customers. While walking through the Festival, live music will fill the air courtesy of Ambrose Bros., Inc. Performing at this year’s event will be Marc Elbaum and Jarrod Taylor playing jazz and American songbook tunes, the Sweetbloods with Phil and Janet Sanguedolce, an acoustic duo singing classic and modern tunes, Frank See ARTS on 37 RE ONLINE FOR A H S & F RE AD E RE

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To the Editor: President Biden‘s incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrates a shocking disregard for the lives of others. Withdrawing troops without first withdrawing the 5,000 to 40,000 American civilians and our allies’ civilians working on behalf of our government’s goals is shameful, unpardonable, and displays Biden’s moral bankruptcy. Biden’s incompetence was not surprising, former Secretary Gates said that Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the last 40 years. But what explains the total incompetence of the rest of his administration, the State Department, or the Military whose motto is “Leave no man behind!”? Apparently winning wars and protecting Americans is a lower priority than Climate Change, implementing Critical Race Theory, and expelling Trump supporters. Our State Department tells civilians to get to the Kabul Airport. But, the airport is surrounded by Taliban fighters who prevent passage and seize, beat, and execute some people. All have been left to the mercy of the merciless Taliban. Biden promised that the withdrawal from Afghanistan would be nothing like the withdrawal from Saigon. He was right; this is much worse. Thousands of Americans and our allies have been left behind to be slaughtered, enslaved, or held hostage; this is far worse

than the Iran hostage situation. Biden also left behind billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment. These weapons can be used to enslave the Afghan people who mostly despise the Taliban, to arm terrorists, or to use in military adventures elsewhere, perhaps to take over nuclear equipped Pakistan. Afghanistan is now an even stronger sanctuary for terrorists than it was before 9/11. The Taliban now controls more territory. It has billions of dollars of modern weapons and equipment, including advanced helicopters. Making the situation even worse, China and Russia are now lining up behind the Taliban solidifying its control over Afghanistan and enhancing its ability to make mischief around the world. Taliban spokesmen say that women will be treated well, in accordance with Islamic Law. What this means is TBD, but past Taliban practices indicate that women can be beaten, mutilated, raped, deprived of educations and medical care, and even killed. Apparently America’s Women’s Rights Groups don’t care. Biden went into hiding after ordering this disaster. Biden only appears to contradict his previous statements about the withdrawal and to try to blame others for the disastrous results of his orders which abandoned all of Trump’s conditions and controls. Biden’s incompetent with-

drawal from Afghanistan makes the world much more dangerous. It endangers Americans at home, especially with Biden’s open borders policy. Many, many innocent people will pay with their lives. There’s no indication that Biden understands or cares. Don Ewing Meredith, NH.

Response To Klemme Letter

To The Editor: As a healthcare professional I would like to correct some misconceptions in a recent letter titled Giving Away Our Freedom (8/5/21 issue). Please consider that these are statements of fact, accepted by the medical community. We wear masks to protect others. Those who are vaccinated can carry the COVID virus in their nares (noses), these people can carry the virus to nonvaccinated people. Children can get COVID and it can be a serious infection. Some people can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons, and some have a poor response to the vaccine. If the virus is allowed to spread unchecked in a community, it will mutate. New mutations require new restrictions on our freedoms. Perhaps the question should be; what is our responsibility to our community? Are we only concerned with ourselves and our individual freedom? Freedom has a cost; an overSee MAILBOAT on 23

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES “Make A Joyful Noise” Organ Concert

Blessed Bargain Thrift Shop Sale Blessed Bargains at First Congregational Church,400 Main Street, Farmington, will be open for business this Saturday August 21st and next Saturday, August 28th. The entire contents will be Half Price. Time to get the kiddos ready for the new school year. Come in and get great quality clothes and other school essentials at phenomenally low prices. Starting to feel the change in the weather lately? The mornings will be cooler and if you are a morning walker, or like to be outside by a campfire in the evenings, come in for a sweater, sweatshirt or sweatpants to keep you cozy while exercising. As the seasons change and the temperatures drop, come check out the quality bargains to keep all your family members warm this fall. The dedicated ladies at Blessed Bargains will be thrilled to see you.

The Meredith First Congregational Church is hosting a free organ concert on Sunday, August 29th at 4:00pm. Some of the finest church organists in the area are coming together to inaugurate the new concert series at First Congregational Church Meredith by showcasing the church’s newly installed Hybrid Organ. Over a yearlong revitalization project of blending the church’s historic 1956 pipe organ with a new Rodgers hybrid console has resulted in a uniquely beautiful instrument. Bob Bengston, Nancy Narducci, Laura Belanger, Phil Breton, Kevin Chamberlin and Ben O’Brien will offer a special musical buffet. They will be performing a range of organ works from Bach to more contemporary pieces. The concert is free and open to the public and all are welcome. The First Congregational Church Meredith ,4 Highland Street, Meredith, NH 03253 www.fccmeredith.com 603-2796271.

Lucky Paw Raffle Fundraising Event T h e Fra n k l i n Animal Shelter (FAS) recently announced its first annual Lucky Paw Raffle fundraising event. With in-person participation at events still questionable because of the current COVID-19 situation, the shelter board of directors has decided to run a virtual 50 / 50 raffle as part of their autumn fundraising event activities. The Lucky Paw Raffle is a 50 / 50 raffle, with no more than 400 tickets being sold. Tickets for the raffle are priced at $50 each. This means that if all tickets are sold, there will be a single ticket drawn that will be worth up to $10,000 to the winner. Note that with a jackpot that high, taxes will be withheld in accordance with IRS guidelines. Tickets can be purchased at the shelter, from any board of directors member, or online at www.franklinanimalshelter.com/events. The drawing will be held on November 18th at the monthly board meeting and will be streamed live over Facebook. Details of the streaming will be posted on the shelter website and Facebook page prior to the drawing.

Open House At Meredith Historical Society Visit Meredith Historical Society on Tuesday, September 7 and arrive with an appetite. Board Member, John Edgar, will be expertly grilling free hot dogs outside the building and serving Ice cream donated by Ben & Jerry’s. Buy a raffle ticket for a basket of assorted items; the winning ticket will be drawn that evening. Tour the museum, including the “must see” Timeline which showcases Meredith’s progression from a British land grant, to mill town, to today’s vibrant community. Board members will be on hand to answer questions and explain unique focal points. Renovation of the museum included upgrades to flooring and lighting as well as refreshing of the exhibits. John Hopper, board member who spearheaded the project says, “this has been a labor of love actively undertaken by the entire board of directors and volunteers to portray the progression of our town and the characters instrumental in in its transformations.” Meredith Historical Society is located at 45 Main Street and is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday until mid-October. The Speakers Series takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at the Community Center with free admission. For more information visit their Facebook page, www.meredithhistoricalsocietynh.org, or phone 279-1190.

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Self Inflicted As Brendan is putting the finishing touches on his new book (or so he says), “I Really Only Did It For The Socks- Stories & Thoughts On Aging”, we by Brendan Smith are reprinting Weirs Times Editor this column from May 19, 2016. The famous philosopher Descartes once said “I think therefore I am” in order to help some understand the complicated thoughts about their own existence. Today they just take selfies. At first the concept of a selfie made sense. If you were on vacation or somewhere you had never been before and were in front of a beautiful setting, but no one around to give your camera to in order to document the occasion, you turned the camera around and did your best to take a photo of your surroundings with you in the photograph. Of course, in the old days (Pre-2002) of actually having to carry around a camera with you, the odds of taking a good photo were small since you couldn’t see exactly what the framing of the picture looked like and often you ended up with a great picture of the grand canyon behind you, but only your left earlobe and eyeball. Still, film used to cost good money and so did developing the picture, so you added this keepsake to your collection of photographs despite the lousy framing. The idea of these photos was that many, many years later, when you were old and grey and your grandchildren would come to visit, you would take out your battered box of photographs and share them while sitting around the dining room table. “Is that you at the Grand Can-

yon grandma? It looks like your eyeball.” These are the kinds of memories that are, I am sad to say, gone forever. Today, there is no need to lug a camera along on a trip, now we bring along our cellphones which have not only a great camera to take photos with, but they also provide an instant source of communication with the rest of the world in case something should go wrong. They also provide a sense of amusement in case any part of our trip should get a little tedious. No longer do we have to be bored by the unending rows of the same looking vineyards as we take a tour of California’s wine country. Today, we can now cut through the monotony by using our phones to connect to Facebook to see what our “friends” are eating for breakfast back on the East Coast. Maybe, if it is an exceptionally good day, someone will post a video of their cat falling off a chair while sleeping which we can share with anyone else on the bus under the age of forty. (Those over forty will roll their eyes over this new intrusion of technology during such a beautiful tour, but they will still try and sneak a peek of the video over your shoulder while you aren’t looking which, of course, since you have a smartphone, you never are.) Obviously, the best part of the smartphone is the built in camera for it gives us the opportunity to memorialize our trip with a photo of our giant smiling head in front of each landmark (which will be barely visible in the background). It also gives us the opportunity to see the photo before it’s taken and, even if we don’t like the photo, we can quickly erase it and take another and another and another until we catch the impromptu moment perfectly. (This can often take hours.)

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Even better we can instantly send the photo to Facebook for all of our friends to see and be jealous of our journey. We will then spend a great deal of the rest of our vacation time checking Facebook to see if our friends commented on just exactly how jealous they are. One of the benefits of being able to take your own photo over and over again until you get exactly the look you want is that you will be preserving for your children and grandchildren a series of perfect photographs for them to enjoy for generations. “Gee grandma you really look great in this photograph, just like you do in every photograph. Is that the Eiffel Tower behind you?” “Eiffel Tower? I don’t remember seeing that. But it is a great photo of me giving a thumbs up. Don’t you think?” The age of the selfie is most likely here to stay. In fact, I recently read of a new, small drone that can be programmed to hover around a person all day and film their every move which can then be posted online. The claim is that people can use it to promote their business or skill without the cost of a big production, but I think the creators really know what most people will use this for. As Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard famously said: “I’m ready for my closeup Mr. DeMille.” And to paraphrase Descartes: “I click therefore I am.” Brendan is also the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available at BrendanTSmith.com. His new book “I Really Only Did It For The Socks - Stories & Thoughts On Aging” will be released soon.

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Endless Wars = Endless Refugees It’s time to end the madness. However you feel about President Joe Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, I want you to focus on what’s best for Americans on American soil right here. Right now. Our citizens are suffering under continued draconian lockdowns, medical tyranny, skyrocketing inflation, violent by Michelle Malkin crime, cancerous homelessness, border Syndicated Columnist chaos, ideological persecution and Silicon Valley censorship. Cops cannot or will not maintain law and order. Gun owners who exercise their right to self-defense face scorn at best and decades in prison at worst. Our troops are being emasculated and mass-vaccinated against their will. The mental health crisis among veterans and teens is unceasing. Health care workers have become shills and guinea pigs for Big Pharma. Schools regulate how much air your children can breathe, whether they are allowed to have water breaks or sing in public, and how much guilt they must confess in the classroom for the sin of being white or part-white. Our criminal justice system is run by corruptocrats and hijacked by mob rule. Election integrity is a joke, and those who expose it are punished. This country has transmogrified before our eyes into an incorrigible Clown World. The very last thing we need right now is to compound the chaos with the addition of 30,000 Afghan refugees imported through the Special Immigrant Visas program run by the notoriously open-borders, “America Last” U.S. State Department. According to documents obtained by Fox News over the weekend, the bureaucracy “plans to potentially relocate up to 30,000 Afghan SIV applicants into the United States in the immediate future” and resettle them at military bases such as Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Bliss in Texas “while still being vetted for parolee status.” “We want to have the capacity to get up to several thousand immediately and want to be prepared for the potential of tens of thousands,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told Fox News. “Bliss and McCoy have See MALKIN on 36

Biden Chooses Decline In November 2009, the late Charles Krauthammer gave a seminal speech, titled “Decline Is a Choice.” In it, Krauthammer stated, “The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or by Ben Shapiro no ... Nothing is ineviSyndicated Columnist table. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice.” This week, President Joe Biden chose decline. That choice was not inevitable. It was foolhardy in the extreme, a symptom of Biden’s commitment to his own idiotic ideology -an ideology that crashed headlong into the steel wall of reality in Afghanistan. Former Presidents Obama and Trump both wanted to remove the United States from Afghanistan, but both recognized the reality on the ground: that removing all American support from the Afghan military would result in the Taliban -- the terrorist regime responsible for providing aid and support to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaida in the run-up to and aftermath of 9/11 -- taking over the country. Biden knew this. He just didn’t care. As he reportedly expressed in 2010, while speaking with Richard Holbrooke about American responsibility in Afghanistan, “F--- that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.” And so, Biden destroyed the stalemate in Afghanistan that had allowed America’s counterterror mission in-country to continue successfully. The Afghan military was built to work with U.S. close air support; Biden withdrew that support. In fact, he went so far as to bar American contractors from entering the country to help the Afghan air force maintain its equipment. He cut the Afghan military off at the knees, then blamed them when they left the battlefield. And Biden lied. He lied that Afghanistan represented an “endless war” carrying the possibility of “endless rows of headstones

at Arlington National Cemetery”; in reality, the United States ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014, had just 2,500 troops on the ground before Biden’s unplanned pullout, and has not suffered a combat casualty since February 2020. Biden suggested that his hands were tied by a tentative agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban, though he has had no problem abrogating Trump’s agreements, and despite the fact that the Taliban had obviously failed to fulfill any of the contingencies under the Trump agreement. And he lied that the Afghan military’s collapse simply reflected a lack of willpower: The Afghan military incurred 55,000 deaths since 2015, compared with nearly none from NATO. Why did Biden do all of this? Because American strength is not Biden’s priority. He wants America’s footprint on the world stage minimized; he wants America focused as much as possible on building a Nordic-style social welfare state accompanied by racially inflammatory equity programming at home. The result of Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will be a reconstituted terror threat as our enemies recognize we are a paper tiger; renewed Chinese aggression against Taiwan and diplomatic overtures toward the Taliban; and new offensives from Russia and Iran. Foreign policy abhors a vacuum. Biden has willfully created one. What’s more, in abandoning an ally of two decades, Biden has sent a clear message: Those who rely on American support can no longer do so securely. They’d be better off making realpolitik connections with America’s enemies in order to hedge their bets. Meanwhile, Biden presses forward toward American hospice care. With the economy under inflationary pressure, he continues to foster trillions in spending, extraordinary new entitlement programs and a complete rethinking of the relationship between individuals and the government. If there is a Biden doctrine, it’s simply this: surrender abroad, bloated dotage at home. Decline is a choice. And Biden has made that choice.

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Coronavirus Censorship YouTube just froze Sen. Rand Paul’s YouTube channel. That’s just wrong. Smallminded. Counterproductive. YouTube says by John Stossel Paul violated their Syndicated Columnist COVID-19 misinformation policy when he told an interviewer, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work ... virus particles are too small and go right through.” Paul didn’t make that up. Properly worn N95 masks are ef-

fective, but two peer-reviewed studies suggest that simple masks might not work at all. But the studies aren’t perfect, so Paul shouldn’t use phrases like “no value.” But give him a break; that’s how people talk! It’s good if he tells people not to trust cloth masks. Unfortunately, YouTube bans any video that contradicts pronouncements of the World Health Organization. The rule makes it impossible to criticize WHO policy, even though one WHO video says “wear a mask regardless of the distance from others.” WHO bureaucrats aren’t perfect. They made many mistakes during COVID-19. Other health “experts”

once rejected germ theory and told people with ulcers to drink milk. Such mistakes got corrected through criticism and debate. But YouTube now forbids that! Last month, Paul got into a heated debate with Dr. Anthony Fauci over money the National Institutes of Health gave to Chinese scientists. Paul asked if it was used to do “gainof-function” research (science that makes diseases deadlier-- to learn more about them) Paul didn’t suggest that the experiment the U.S. government funded created COVID-19. It didn’t. We know that because of COVID-19’s molecular structure.

But gain-of-function is still risky science that deserves public discussion. The NIH did fund pre-pandemic experiments at Wuhan that combined coronaviruses to see if they could infect humans. “Does Fauci respond and explain to us in a reasonable fashion, (SET ITAL) why(END ITAL) he thinks it’s not gain of function? No! He calls me a liar,” says Paul in my new video. Fauci did once write that even if a pandemic did occur from such research, “benefits ... outweigh the risks.” “Sounds like incredibly bad judgement,” says Paul. See STOSSEL on 24

Afghanistan: The Hinge of Fate The warning flags were clearly there but Team Biden chose not to heed them. A top secret State Department Memo in midJuly, cited by the by John J. Metzler Wall Street JourSyndicated Columnist nal, signaled swift advances of the Taliban and the impending collapse of the Afghan military. Nobody seemed to notice? Let’s offer a sobering assessment of a deteriorating situation; Bagram Airbase; The disastrous pullout from Bagram in early July was a catastrophic mistake by the U.S. Why would we withdraw from our most secure and versatile air

and supply hub just north of Kabul the capital? Why would leave in the dead of night, only to tell the Afghans, it was theirs to run. First came looters, then the Afghan army, and now the Taliban! Billions of dollars in military supplies and munitions fell into the hands of the Taliban. Blackhawk helicopters, armored Humvees, drones now all waiting for buyers in the international arms market. So who signed off on Bagram? The Bagram Airbase pullout created an inflection point from where the threads of the entire fragile mission quickly unravelled. The Afghan military plainly saw the writing on the wall. What little morale there was evaporated into a pathetic cut and run mission cascading like dominos throughout

provinces across the country. This is not a U.S. military failure nor largely an intelligence failure, but a clear and unmitigated political failure by an Administration who misread the signals and blundered into a impasse at the Kabul International Airport where thousands of Americans and Afghan allies are marooned. More than 6,000 exceptionally trained and tough American troops are bottled up inside while we sort out chaotic departures with the Taliban. And this is OK? What are our NATO allies saying? European countries were a vital part of the military and reconstruction mission. Countries like France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands

along with Canada provided troops and economic assistance. What have they been saying? According to President Joe Biden, “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.” Significantly Armin Laschet, the likely candidate to succeed outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated, “This is the greatest debacle that NATO has seen since its foundation.” Britain’s Financial Times, long enchanted with the current administration, had a lead story, “Biden’s Foreign Policy Fiasco.” An opinion column by Simon Tisdall in the left-wing Guardian gushed, “After Afghanistan, the Pax American is over; as i s N A T O . See METZLER on 35

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Gray Matters On Preserving The New Hampshire Way

by Leslie Gray, LCMHC

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The year was 1980. Captain and Tennille was topping the billboard charts. Daisy Duke posters plastered the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. Peace efforts of the 70’s were still alive and well. Life moved a

little slower. But not slow enough for my parents. They described life in Massachusetts as a ‘rat race,’ and they were tired of running. So, they packed up their four young children and set the compass due North, landing in Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. Only a few hours by car, yet lightyears from Scituate, Massachusetts. It was as if life had come to a screeching halt. We got a goat (and took him back). We rototilled the backyard for a garden (successfully growing a wide variety of weeds). We explored the haunted nooks and crannies of our 200-year-old house until tears streamed down our terrified faces. That first Christmas, strangers showed up at our door singing songs. Legit Christmas carolers. Life would never be the same. Fast forward a few years, my father’s work brought us back to Scituate. We kept our home in GIW and became those ‘summer tourists’ we locals love to hate. But the rat-race caught up with my hippiehearted parents once again and we returned permanently to GIW in ‘86. Today’s Gilmanton is still reminiscent of those times, recently opting to turn the Four Corners intersection into a four-way-stop instead of installing traffic lights. Our local government has done a spectacular job at resolving the congestion on our hiking trails by

limiting the number of vehicles that can park in the lots. (Our lakes are in need of similar solutions.) But what about other parts of this beautiful state? How are cities and towns doing at preserving the New Hampshire way? And what, exactly, is that? There was a time when billboards lined the roadways preaching, “Drive with Courtesy… That’s the New Hampshire Way.” And people did. Matter of fact, we were known for letting people into traffic, following speed limits, and being allaround courteous drivers. Accidents were rare. Road rage was non-existent. Tailgating was something you did at the local stock car race. People were friendly, happy, and helpful to one another. It was a place where everyone knew your name… and you knew theirs. (Maybe that helped hold people accountable for their own behavior…) In GIW, my parents had a van for their furniture restoration business. When the school bus wouldn’t start because of the cold temperatures (which was often), my dad would pick up all the neighborhood kids taking them to school himself. Parents applauded and the school Principal would thank him profusely paying no mind to the dozen or so kids piling out of the back of his wide-open van. We came here for the

slower pace. My parents weren’t trying to keep up with anyone, let alone the Jones’s. Many people who travel here really enjoy that pace and want more of it. For a long time, NH was off-the-beatenpath: a well-kept secret for grateful natives. But that’s changing. The lakes and mountains have been discovered. Our quiet little towns are becoming congested. An afternoon of boating feels like a battle in Boston traffic. Accidents are on the rise. We are becoming over-populated and are losing a grip on our humankind-ness. I am stunned at the way people drive today. I’ll admit, I look at the plate expecting to see it’s from out-ofstate. But the truth is, it’s equally often as not a NH plate. Are these transplants who have made this their permanent home, bringing their rat-race ways with them? Or are these locals who have become calloused? ‘If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’. The true meaning of living in NH is changing. The scenery may be what brings people here, but beauty is only skin deep and there is so much more to NH than meets the eye. There is an appreciation of life here that many people still possess. I’m talking about quality of life. Parents dip in the river with their children on hot summer days after work. Families eat dinner together, See GRAY on 11

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Boost Your Immune System

by Dr. Graham Moneysmith, DC. Contributing Writer

Covid-19 vaccinations….boom, clickbait! Got your attention! By now we all know that vaccines are a hot button topic. Everyone seems to not only have an opinion but an extremely strong one at that. But let’s put that aside and agree on one thing: the best way to face any immune system challenge is to have a better, stronger immune system. So put aside your vaccine opinions and make yourself stronger no matter what with the following tips from the University of Maryland medical system. All of the following have been shown to boost your immune system. 1. Get regular exercise. It takes 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise. That is just under 22 minutes per day. And we don’t need to get fancy here. It can be a well paced walk. Bonus, exercise improves basically everything from physiological health, weight, and IQ. 2. Eat a healthy diet. It’s not rocket science. You don’t need a fad diet. I prom-

ise. You do not need to be perfect. You do not need to starve yourself. Just switch out most of the processed food and fast food options for things that grow in the earth, walk on the earth, or swim in the sea. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Shop the outside aisles of the market. Do not overthink it. Do not make it hard. 3. Maintain a healthy weight. Okay, I’m not going to be judgemental on this. I have always been an individual better built for tackling running backs than running marathons. So we are not talking about having to be a stick. And by now we all know maintaining a healthy weight for overall health is important. According to the World Health Organization in 2020, 2.8 million deaths were overweight or obesity related! Want to talk about a different kind of pandemic? But for the purpose of immune function and Covid consider this: the CDC has said that 78% of all people hospitalized with Covid are overweight or obese. So if you’re stressed about Covid this may be our best protection. 4. Get some good sleep. Sleep is obviously good. Getting rested, feeling good. But did you know sleep and getting enough affects your immune function? It is also when your body repairs itself, consoli-

dates memory, and heals. So put down your phone and sleep. As a chiropractor I get asked alot about pillows, mattresses, and sleep position. But honestly, there are answers to those thoughts and questions. None are as important as sleeping, so if you are sleeping well, keep doing what you are doing regardless of those recommendations. 5. Reduce your stress. Okay, easier said than done. But stress reduces your immune function. So find ways to decrease it. Exercise, hobbies, or talking to someone. All are good options. But carrying stress, overworking, and pushing through are not badges of honor. They are a recipe for breakdown. And don’t say you can’t change. You can be proactive and change yourself or your body can break down and do it for you. It’s always better to make the change before it is forced on you by a health crisis. 6. Consider your smoking and drinking. There is nothing wrong with a drink in moderation. Smoking there is no moderate amount that is healthy. But drinking in excess suppresses immune function. 7. Common sense. This isn’t about Covid. But all viruses and bacteria, Wash your hands. Regularly. You don’t even need fancy soaps or antibacterial

stuff. Hot water and soap go a long way when used regularly. Seems like everyone is questioning everything. And really, that is fair. The news, the numbers, the stats, the government recommendations seem to change almost daily. So with that in mind, I encourage you to take control of what you can! Your health. Your function. These you can control and give yourself the best chance to live the life of your choice.

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Vacations are a part of healthy living that can easily get overlooked in their importance for our long term health and wellness. While studies have shown that vacations offer health and wellness benefits ranging from a decreased risk of heart disease and heart attack to improved mental health and increased relationship satisfaction, being intentional about how we spend these criti-

cal breaks can be just as important as taking them. Particularly in the era of social media, pressure to make the most out of every moment of our vacations can leave us relating to the phrase, “ I need a vacation from my vacation”. Below are some simple steps to connecting to what you most need now in order to gain the maximum benefit of your cherished time off. Check in with what you really need from this vacation Our needs will vary year to year, and while vacation traditions are a wonderful way to build family memories and strengthen bonds with those we love, if we spend all of our time checking off the boxes

of what we’ve accomplished, we run the risk of bringing the same goal and task orientation into our time off that we experience while working. Taking a moment to sit quietly and asking yourself, “what do I need the most from this time off?”, can help you better understand where to direct your time and energy. Perhaps you’ve been going non-stop and are seeking stillness, or maybe this is a vacation to spice up the monotony of daily life and adventure is most needed. With no wrong answers, getting clear on where you are can be truly helpful when it comes to prioritizing how you spend your time and energy on this particular vacation. Give yourself permission to prioritize your answer It might sound strange to need permission to prioritize your own needs on your vacation, but there are a number of pressures we can feel surrounding how to spend our vacation time. Because vacations are something many families save and budget for, we might experience pressure to make the most of the time in ways that aren’t the most beneficial for us when we get there. Particularly if the vacation includes traveling to a novel location, there can be immense pressure to see all the sights, and experience every aspect. Of course doing so is not inherently problematic,

but if, for instance, what you’ve identified needing the most is lazy down time, it’s absolutely possible to find yourself in conflict. By trusting that you’ll be better off listening to your genuine needs, and giving yourself permission to meet them, you’re likely to end up with both better memories and a greater payoff to your physical and mental health than you would have had you powered through because you believed it was the only option you had. Tune out comparisons Once you’ve checked in with your needs and given yourself permission to meet them, tuning out comparison to both yourself and others will allow you to enjoy yourself even more. Regardless of what you may have enjoyed most on a previous vacation when your circumstances were different, or what experiences a friend shared on social media from the same location, meeting your own needs for this time will give you and your loved ones a more genuinely positive experience, especially when you consider how much stress and chaos is often behind that quick shot of smiles you see online. With so many benefits to a long, happy, and connected life, intentional vacations can be one of the most pleasurable ways we take consistent and responsible care of ourselves.

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T o Y our G ood H ealth

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Can Lyme Disease Lead to Parkinson’s --DEAR DR. ROACH: Can Lyme disease send a person into Parkinson’s disease? I tested positive for Lyme -- I had the bulls-eye rash, fever and terrible headaches. After a month on doxycycline, my left arm started shaking and my neurologist diagnosed me with Parkinson’s. The doctor said it had nothing to do with the Lyme disease. What is your opinion? -- S.M. ANSWER: I can absolutely understand why you might suspect that the neurologist could be wrong. The coincidence seems too much to believe. However, I think your neurologist is probably correct. The different types of neurological complications of Lyme disease are many and varied. The most common are any combination of meningitis symptoms (inflammation of the lining of the brain, with headache, fever, stiff neck and light sensitivity); disorders of the cranial nerves (especially the facial nerve, so people with neurological Lyme disease can look like they have Bell’s

palsy); and damage to peripheral nerves, causing pain and weakness or numbness, often resembling sciatica (but may include other parts of the body). A detailed neurological exam by a neurologist would look for signs of Parkinson’s disease -not just the tremor you describe, but also muscle rigidity and changes in gait. These would be very unusual in Lyme

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disease. I did find cases resembling some aspects of Parkinson’s disease, but they improved with treatment. It is possible that the stress of the Lyme disease hastened the onset of Parkinson’s disease you were destined to get. I say your neurologist is “probably correct” because what I found -- absence of data to support a correlation -- does not mean that

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by working together to keep it that way: The New Hampshire Way.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual questions, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med. cornell.edu.

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I consider August to be the second month of Summer, with July being the first and the last part of June and first part of September making up the third. Hot and humid are characteristic of August and still having haying to do was sometimes the norm back in the 1940’s because my parents owned neither horses, oxen, nor tractors and we relied on the neighbors to lend their implement pullers and themselves to get the hay cut, dried, stacked and carried into the barn for winter feed. They had their own haying to do, and I assume that such took precedent, understandably over ours. There may have been times that a helper who had the horse-power, but not the cattle to feed, was available earlier in the summer to assist us. I’ve mentioned haying in other articles, but not about all the details about working up a sweat with the salty

One of my cousins on the seat of a hay rake probably in the 1940’s drops finding their way into ones eyes, and the “chaf” from the hay (bits of grass, seeds, and such from hay and weeds) clinging to the arms, back, and chest of our wet shirtless bodies, the haying process of old seems to have a nostalgic if not romantic aspect to it. First, there were the horses pulling the sickle-bar mower with the driver firmly placed on the tractor-style seat, which, I believe, may predate the tractor, with his hands firmly clutching the reins which controlled the movements of the horses. In my mind I can still see the horses chomping on the bits on the other end of those reins as they did

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I had just discovered a new berry tree at work and thought to myself how great it would be to see the birds raid the tree when the berries ripened. At the time, the majority of the berries were red with a few purple ones mixed in. It wouldn’t be long now, I figured, before they were all purple and the birds would be feasting on them. About a week later, I went back to check out the tree and it was practically picked clean. Apparently, the berries ripened quicker than I thought they would and the birds wasted no time in having their feast. I missed the flurry of activity that had the tree stripped clean, but I did see a lone gray catbird fly in and out to grab a few of the remaining berries. At least I wasn’t completely shut out of the show. I’m not sure what type of tree it was, but it was fairly low-growing, had a wide canopy for its size and was full of berries. At some point, before I made my return trip to the tree, a bunch of birds had raided it. I’m guessing it was either robins or cedar waxwings. I was lucky enough to catch a group of waxwings ravish another berry tree on the work property about a year ago. Robins are the birds

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recall fondly the times I’ve been lucky enough to see migrants stop and eat berries. One of my favorite recollections is of a large flock of yellow-rumped warblers eating the light blue berries from a row of cedar trees. It’s not all about the berries this time of year, of course. Flowers are going to seed and birds are taking full advantage. Keep an eye out for goldfinches on black-eyed Susans, coneflower, sunflowers and just about any other flower or grass that has gone to seed. Planting trees and bushes that produce berries is a great way to attract and help out birds. Try to pick types that will ripen at different times of the year,

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my laws and my commands. They also represent indirect judgment, which is the natural consequences of the sin of humanity, coming back up on them and boomeranging on them and producing catastrophic effects that ultimately will come back to hurt them. Things like war bring famine and famine brings death and death becomes pervasive. These judgments, as revealed in the book, are brought in three groups of seven judgments. Each of the groups are named. The first is a series of judgments that begin with the opening of a scroll (Chapter 5). The second are initiated with the sound of a trumpet (Chapter 8). The third are described as bowls of judgment being poured out to complete the judgement (Chapter 16). When I first spoke to Adam and Eve I reminded them that I have never sinned, I am holy and I am perfect. I created them, like me, without any sin. I also reminded them that should they sin, even once, they will be separated from me, the source of life, and the wages of their sin would lead to death (Romans 6:23). It is true of all humans, that they die physically. It is true of Nations, over the course of your history, that if they continue to walk away from me and violate my word and my will, Nations will die. It is also true of the World that I created, that when it becomes so corrupt that it is incorrigible and irreversible, it will lead to the death of the magnificent cre-

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1963 by American journalist, Malcolm Browne, the graphic photo (The Burning Monk) captures the self-sacrifice of Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death on a Saigon street corner. According to Miller, Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College, the story behind the photograph is well-known but still “frequently misunderstood.” “In this lecture, I will highlight the connection between Quang Duc’s death and the larger struggle over the fate of South Vietnam,” he said. “The struggle would subsequently become the bloody international conflict known as the Vietnam War.”

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So back in 1989 my spouse and I were in Montreal where we took in a just-released sports movie: Field of Dreams. Baseball, ghosts, Fenway Park, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, lots of Iowa corn and a fun story. We were the only ones in the theater but we really enjoyed the show. Years later I watched it on TV and thought, “This is a really DUMB.” I suppose most escapist fantasy is. I’ll take Patton. Chariots of Fire. Schindler’s List. Miracle. Things based on real life events. You can take all the Avenger movies. And all the Star Wars movies, too. Did you ever wonder how those characters from that faraway galaxy so very long ago all spoke such good English? But escapist fantasy has its place, I suppose. If you need to escape. And when Major League Baseball decided to actually create an Iowa ballpark with corn stalks surrounding the outfield, I knew that the message from the movie voice would hold true: “If you build it, they will come.” Of course, they did. The place was packed. (Actually, the line from the movie was “If you build it, he will come.”) The Des Moines Register described things thusly: The Yankees and

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Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams. White Sox spent the night dazzling the fans in the 8,000-seat stadium and the nationally televised Fox audience at home, launching ball after ball into the tall Iowa corn with eight total home runs. The final came on a walk-off two-run shot by Tim Anderson in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the White Sox a 9-8 win. “That was as special and breathtaking a setting for a baseball game as I’ve ever been part of,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said afterward. Players from both teams walked through the corn and onto a pathway to the original diamond to visit the movie site. They spent their pregame time snapping photos and recording videos. The spectacle was the first-ever regular season MLB game in the state of Iowa. In the movie Costner plays an Iowa farmer, Ray Kinsella, who plows over his corn and builds a baseball field for the ghosts of banished “Shoeless Joe” Jackson and other members of the disgraced 1919

White Sox to play on. He heard voices that told him to do so. I won’t say much more about the movie, just in case there are still any baseball fans reading this who haven’t seen it. But good for MLB for being creative and appealing to our romantic sides. And Field of Dreams was a better flick than many other Costner

movies. (The Postman. Waterworld. The Bodyguard, et al.) Still, as a history guy, I just prefer films inspired by real events. You can have Field of Dreams. I’ll take the Impossible Dream 1967 Red Sox. That true life story was almost as improbable as seeing “Shoeless Joe” Jackson and the Chicago Black See MOFFETT on 35

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If you are frequenter of this column, we looked at hard seltzers and ready-to-drink cocktails a fare amount this summer. We had plenty of sizzling temps in which we needed to stay hydrated with lots of water and other beverages to quench our thirst. Hard seltzers of all varieties dominated the thirst market offering very light fruit flavors as well as hard lemonades and ice teas. Hard ciders also enjoyed a grand market share too. But above all, the greatest variety are hard seltzers. One of the main attractions is very low sugar and carbs, and usually rated around 5% ABV. RTD’s (readyto-drink cocktails) all enjoyed brisk sales in the summer heat. But August is the time when we turn a corner into fall beverages. One of the most anticipated times for a number of us is pumpkin season. Pumpkin beers of all strengths and intensities are always welcomed by the buying public. So we, start our exploration in the next few issues of different pumpkin-

style offerings. One of the most celebrated is Shipyard’s Pumpkinhead at 4.5% ABV. You can start to find it everywhere on tap and often offered with a cinnamon sugar rimmed glass. But this year, Shipyard tried mixing seasons by offering its Pumpkinhead as a Hard Seltzer. Shipyard Brewing out of Portland, Maine start releasing their pumpkinhead beer in August ahead of the lower fall temps. Shipyard is a family-owned brewery which opened in 1992. Back then, head brewer Alan Pugsley came up with many of their award winning recipes which have lasted over decades. He later

earned the title of Master Brewer and garnered rave responses to his offerings such as Smashed Pumpkin, an imperial version of Pumpkinhead. Learn more about this quality brewery at shipyard. com I was frankly surprised at this focus beverage. I’ve been a pretty big fan of pumpkin season. There are so many possibilities. But when I saw pumpkinhead hard seltzer, I was inquisitive. The picture speaks volumes. It is not the amber pumpkin ale we are used to seeing in a pint glass. It’s optically clear with a very brief frizzy head poured aggressively into a glass. It is has

some aroma leaning toward pumpkin and no spices akin to pumpkinhead ale. I had a sideby-side sit down with the seltzer and an ale to gain what Shipyard was doing here. I have to believe that a seltzer version had to be less of what we would expect in a beer. Yes, seltzers are light. Yes they are thirst quenching. And yes they are lower carbs than beer. I finally began to understand their logic and started enjoying the lightness of it all. At two grams of sugar, 110 calories and 5% ABV, Pumpkinhead Hard Seltzer will still beat the summer heat. You can find plenty of Shipyard Pumpkinhead Hard Seltzer at Case-n-Keg in Meredith as well as other fine beer providers. Slide into pumpkin season with Pumpkinhead Hard Seltzer and get ready for fall.

WHAT’S ON TAP IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?? A listing of some of the area’s beercentric watering holes where you can find old favorites on tap as well as some cutting edge seasonals.

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Boat Museum To Host Vintage Race Boat Regatta On Friday and Saturday, September 17 and 18, the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) will host the biennial Wolfeboro Vintage Race Boat Regatta, which began in 2000. Featuring dozens of vintage boats, including small outboards, Grand Prix hydroplanes, Jersey Skiffs and Gold Cup racing boats, the Regatta is a free spectator event that takes place on Wolfeboro Bay. “This is such a fun event for people of all ages,” noted NHBM Ex-

ecutive Director Martha Cummings. In addition to races, the Regatta features

several evening events, some of which are open to the public, including a Cocktail Party

on Friday, September 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. An Awards Dinner Fall Social takes place on Saturday, September 18 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Both are ticketed events, and all are invited for an evening of fun. “Meet the drivers, who come from throughout the nation, and celebrate a great season at NHBM,” said Cummings. Founded in 1992 by vintage boating enthusiasts, NHBM is committed to inspire people of all ages with an understanding of, and appreciation for, the boating heritage of New Hampshire’s fresh waterways. To learn more about NHBM or the Wolfeboro Vintage Race Boat Regatta, visit nhbm.org.

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NH Heritage Museum Trail Getting ‘Revved’ Up Joining the New Hampshire Heritage Museum earlier in 2021, North East Motor Sports Museum will host Hot Rods, Muscle And More Car Show on Saturday, August 28. In total, the museum will award 20 trophies, including the inaugural Parker-Coraine Best of Show Trophy. “Ted Parker and Gil Coraine have contributed extensively to the museum’s success, and we look forward to honoring them with this high quality and unique trophy,” said Thomas Netishen, executive director. The show runs from 10am to 2pm at the museum, 922 NH Route 106 in Loudon, with the Coolest Sounding vehicle runoff competition kicking off the awards at 1 p.m. The show will also feature a 50/50 raffle and an onsite food truck. “Visitors will also enjoy and explore the history of more than 30 historical race car and motorcycle exhibits inside our museum,” he said. “You can test your skills on our iRacing and four-lane electric slot

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 26, 2021 — SMITH from 30 as you are only to have your fork load fall back upon yourself. Or, more satisfying, you can imagine that fork-full of hay being successfully planted at the top of the growing stack on the wagon and seeing the man on top of the wagon successfully place that hay with the help of his pitchfork in a manner that it will not fall off. More satisfying to me, in those days of yore, was being given the opportunity to be one of the guys on the wagon and learning to layer the hay placed on the load in a manner that would enable a high level load to be pulled by those horses (twohorsepower) safely into the barn. If a fourth of the hay fell off of the wagon on the way to the barn and had to be re-loaded, it wasn’t a happy moment. I should say, however, that my remembrances of those haying days are that, even during those times when things didn’t go smoothly, the workers maintained a positive

CORRECTION There are two corrections to the captions under the pictures with Robert Hanaford Smith’s August 19th article “Quilt Show Tells The Story Of A Town’s History”. The picture at the bottom of page 29 should read: “Liz Hager’s completed seal of New Hampshire.” The caption under the picture on page 30 should read: “Some of the quilts displayed at the Quilt Show at the Dana Meeting House.” and patient attitude. I guess that is what has long been called as “keeping one’s composure.” One of our favorite haymakers as children was a jolly man named Jim who answered questions in the affirmative with a resounding “yes-siree!” Once in the barn the wagon load of hay had to be transferred to the haymow and the pitchfork was again put to good use as the dried grass was placed in its proper position with short interruptions used to spread salt on the hay to enhance further drying from any wetness still present and thus prevent spontaneous

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, August 26, 2021 — METZLER from 7 About time too.” “Afghanistan is the biggest foreign policy since Suez (1956)” tweeted Tom Tugendhat, a military veteran and Chair of the UK parliament foreign affairs committee. In Prague, Czech president Milos Zeman said that, “by withdrawing from Afghanistan, the Americans have lost their status of global leader.” The list goes on. So Who Profits? Obviously the jihadi international who now have their capture of Afghanistan as a crown jewel and just in time for the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks! The timing and the nuance of this U.S. policy debacle remains stunningly serious. It’s unmistakable that Terror LLC has had it’s best year since 2001. China who borders Afghanistan wishes to get in the Taliban’s good graces and Afghanistan’s resources. Beijing’s Foreign Minister met the Taliban in China just weeks ago. Can an atheistic regime like China real-

ly embrace the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban? Maybe a transactional marriage of connivance but communist China’s mistreatment of its own Uighur Muslim population hardly makes a strong case for the Belt and Road stopping in Kabul. Pakistan is a real winner here. Traditionally having supported the Taliban, Pakistan shares a long border, religious ties of Islam, and a common ethnicity along the border, thus is well poised here. Pakistan’s shadowy ISI, a parallel military security apparatus, has supported Taliban after first taking handfuls of cash from Washington. Recall Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Pakistan’s press has largely been gleeful over the Taliban takeover BUT warns the group to play nice and gain international support and is quietly nervous over its spillover effect into Pakistan. Refugees Redux. Here we go again. After the calamitous refugee/migrant

movement on Western Europe in 2015, where Germany and Sweden accepted over one million Syrians and others, the Afghan surge is about to begin. Watch Turkey here. Strongman Erdogan, not wanting to expand the more than four million refugees already inside Turkey, will squeeze the Europeans for a deal lest he open the floodgates. Turkey won’t become Europe’s “refugee warehouse,” he warned. ormer UK Prime Minister Tony Blair however offered the contrarian view that the decision to pull out of Afghanistan was “tragic, dangerous and unnecessary.” Clearly it’s not the withdrawal but How it’s being done. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He’s the author of Divided Dynamism, The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

MOFFETT from 19 Sox emerging from an Iowa corn field! NEVER ON SUNDAY III

(Alert reader Bill Lamb of Meredith recently messaged us with the following.) As a follow-up on a previous column about athletes foregoing important competitions for religious observance, you wrote that “New York pitcher Christy Mathewson never pitched on Sundays.” That is true, but it does not detract from Mathewson’s sterling character to observe that he rarely had the chance to. During Mathewson’s major league career (19001916), Sunday baseball was prohibited in New York by strictly enforced blue laws that dated from the 1650s. Nor was Sunday baseball permitted in Boston, Philadelphia, and other Eastern major league venues. About the only cities that allowed Sunday ball games were Chicago and St. Louis (and maybe Cincinnati), younger cities without a pre-Colonial Puritan pedigree. In August 1917 when Mathewson was manager of the Cincinnati

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Reds, he and NY Giants manager John McGraw were arrested for trying to stage a WWI charity benefit ball game at the Polo Grounds on a Sunday. Happily for the pair, they appeared before Manhattan magistrate Frank McQuade, a rabid baseball fan and friend of McGraw. Judge McQuade dismissed the charges, finding that the Sunday repose that blue laws were intended to preserve were not infringed by the playing of a WWI charity benefit game. Last, as I am sure that you know but column readers may not, the gassing that caused the searing of Mathewson’s lungs did occur in France in 1918, but was not a result of combat. Rather, Mathewson was accidentally gassed in a training mishap. This trivia aside, I enjoyed as always the August 12 column. Keep ‘em coming and best wishes. (Thanks Bill!) Sports Quiz In Field of Dreams the Costner character, Ray Kinsella, is told by voices to “Ease his pain.” The voices referred to the Burt Lancaster character, Dr. Archibald

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ted Afghans and their families who will soak up precious public resources in our age of pandemania? Bleeding-heart Democrats and Bidenbashing Republicans are both tripping over themselves to virtue signal over the sight of desperate Afghans clamoring into helicop-

ters and planes to get out of their Godforsaken mess of a country. I understand the impulse to exploit the withdrawal fiasco for political gain. But pull yourselves together and think, people. Think. The Special Immigrant Visas, or SIV, program was originally created to help a

small number of Afghan and Iraqi interpreters who worked for the U.S military. By 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that a whopping 60,000-plus individuals -- about 20,000 principal SIV holders and their families -- had been admitted to America un-

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food stamps, case management services and welfare that can last up to five years. Despite all that, the feds found that 60% of SIV holders were unemployed 90 days after arrival. Meanwhile, Afghan SIV holders in Northern Virginia -- where the numbers have increased more than tenfold since fiscal year 2013 and almost doubled from fiscal years 2015 through 2016, according to the Government Accountability

Office -- were straining schools, hospitals and affordable housing before COVID-19 chaos. Imagine what the impact will be now -- and don’t be naive about the demographic and electoral consequences of recklessly throwing open the gates to these masses, let alone the public safety and national security implications of allowing untold numbers of refujihadis to blend in with the refugee population, which I’ve reported on exten-

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