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Recently, Burnt Timber Brewing & Tavern in Wolfeboro held a farm to table dinner for approximately 20 guests that featured locally grown and

sourced produce, protein and herbs. The evening, however, was more than just a great time. “The farmers were at the event and spoke directly to our guests about the ingredients that made up their

dishes,” said Burnt Timber Tavern Owner Eddie Michno, who said 7 courses were featured. “We believe it is important to connect the public with their local farmers.” Participating local farmers in attendance agreed.

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WOLFEBORO - On Sunday, September 13 and Sunday, October 11, the Wright Museum will offer free admission, an opportunity made possible by Northeast Delta Dental. “We are completely thrilled to be able to welcome visitors of all ages at no cost to them on these special days,” said Executive Director Mike Culver. “It’s our hope The Wright can serve to inspire our guests as well as help them remember what Americans can do when we rally together, an especially important theme at present.” He cited a long-standing partnership with Northeast Delta Dental as instrumental in the museum’s ongoing efforts to expand access to its collection and exhibits. “Northeast Delta Dental has been a wonderful supporter through the years,” said Culver. “Partnerships like this create

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The Red Horse, A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery by James R. Benn, Soho Crime, September 2020 “We sat together as the light faded, daylight mingling with dusk, until the night sky drove the day to ground under the distant horizon. We talked of many things. Small things, important things.” The Red Horse finds Captain Billy Boyle at St. Albans Convalescent Hospital, formerly the St. Albans Pauper Lunatic Asylum, recovering from a recent mission in newly liberated Paris. Billy is exhausted physically and emotionally after his short time in Paris where he overdid the methamphetamines trying to keep up, where he saw his beloved, Diana Seaton, taken prisoner by the Gestapo, and where his best friend and partner, Kaz – Lieutenant Piotr Augustus Kazimierz – suffered a heart attack and is now at St. Albans

with Billy. At St. Albans Billy gets the rest cure, which is good for his physical and perceptual well-being, but even after forty hours of sleep emotionally things are not much better. Billy gets the news from Big Mike, Sergeant Miecznikowski, another of his partners in war-

time crime solving, that Kaz’s sister, Angelika, and Diana are being held at Ravensbruck concentration camp. Kaz is facing a life as an invalid and subsequent dismissal from the armed services which would greatly restrict his ability to search for Angelika. Before Billy can help Kaz get well and stay

in the loop or figure out how to get Diana and Angelika out of the concentration camp he has a murder or two to solve. Solving murders, as Billy has learned over the past couple of years, is particularly challenging in wartime and when a murder occurs at a looney bin, even a former looney bin, there are bound to be snafus. The Red Horse, James R. Benn’s fifteenth Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, is marvelous in every way – the plot, the characters, the style. Indeed, after enjoying and reviewing every one of Benn’s Billy Boyle novels I am hard pressed to come up with new and different adjectives to describe his books because I used up superlatives long ago. As usual Benn’s writing is first-rate. In The Red Horse the sentences at the beginning are short, staccato echoing Billy’s disjointed thoughts, his shaky hold of reality. Then the sentences lengthen, evolve with Billy’s recovery as he muses about the crime at hand, Kaz, Diana, Angelika. It is gratifySee MONTAGUE on 24

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES It’s Time To Get Out & Play “Fore” The Pets

The Lakes Region Humane Society (LRHS) annual Play “Fore” the Pets Golf Tournament Fundraiser was altered due to Covid 19. Rather than a 1-day tournament, we’re asking club-wielding supporters to golf wherever they’d like before Sept.18th. After play, tally your score and donate $1 (or more) per stroke to pets in need at LRHS. Donations can be mailed to LRHS at PO Box 655, Ossipee, NH 03864, made via LRHS.net or called in 603-539-1077. This revised format allows anyone in the country to participate, golfers can play 9-18+ holes and kiddos can play at mini golf courses! During play, take photos/videos and post them to social media using #PlayForeThePets. We will be doling out tons of special prizes for best social media posts, first to donate, highest scores and more! Players who donate before Sept. 18th will be entered into a drawing to win $1,000! Sponsorship opportunities are available and greatly welcomed, especially this year, as we have had to cancel or extremely alter ALL of our fundraising events.

NH Boat Museum Welcomes Peter Ferber To Their Gallery Since the start of the 2020 season, the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) in Wolfeboro has displayed local art and photography in its gallery, which continues this month with the work of Peter Ferber. Featuring mostly original paintings as well as a few limited edition prints that connect with NHBM’s focus on history, Ferber’s display relates to boats and boating in the New Hampshire Lakes Region. Having grown up spending his summers in Wolfeboro, Ferber said he is drawn to the rural New Hampshire landscape as inspiration for his paintings. As for why he has elected to again work with NHBM, Ferber said he has found that when people see things in a different setting that they look new to them. “People who have seen my work before may discover things again or for the first time,” he said. “I also want to support the museum in their expanding of their offerings and help them attract people to visit.” Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 to 4pm and Sundays from 12 to 4pm, Ferber’s work is part of NHBM’s, new ongoing “Featured Artist” series.

League Of NH Craftsmen Exhibit Baskets and Bowls Art Exhibit Benefits Meredith Food Pantry -Meredith Frame Shop, 73 Main Street, Meredith, is sponsoring a unique art exhibit featuring the watercolors of local artist Marc Bard. The exhibit will adhere strictly to all current New Hampshire safety measures and will be open between September 10 and September 30, 2020. Many of the watercolors have been inspired by local scenes around the Lakes Region and all have been donated to the Gallery by the artist. All proceeds from the sale of the paintings will benefit the Meredith Food Pantry. A reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit is being generously sponsored by Hermit Woods Winery, directly across the street from the Gallery, from 3:00pm – 5:00pm on Thursday, September 7, 2020. In support of this worthy cause, 50% of the proceeds from the reception are also being donated by Hermit Woods Winery to the Meredith Food Pantry.

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With summer fading and autumn temperatures greeting us each morning the League of NH Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery will host an exhibit titled Baskets and Bowls - A Bountiful Harvest. This exhibit will feature the work of many of the League’s juried artists. Basket makers, potters, and wood turners have created a plethora of unique and beautiful baskets and bowls to mark the turn of the seasons from the hot days of summer to those cool mornings when the bounty of the garden is ready to be harvested. Baskets and Bowls - A Bountiful Harvest will begin September 1st, 2020 and continue through the end of the month. The Gallery is open seven days a week. To inquire about this exhibit, call us at (603) 279-7920, visit our website at http://meredith. nhcrafts.org/, or stop into the gallery at 279 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith, NH. The League of NH Craftsmen is a non-profit organization that encourages and promotes the creation, use and preservation of fine contemporary and traditional hand craft. The League represents the signature of excellence in fine craft, through the work of its juried members, and its rigorous standards for self-expression, vision, and quality craftsmanship.

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The Magic Excuse Recently I had an online battle with a representative of a company I had ordered something from. The order, which I had by Brendan Smith paid extra to Weirs Times Editor be delivered on a certain day, had not yet arrived, much less on the paid for date. Of course, the extra fee was waived, but the package would still be even a few days later than it should be. When all was said and done, the sales rep finally put the blame on why things were like they were. “It’s because of Covid-19,” he said. Ahhh…yes…the inarguable and extremely convenient excuse for everything that is messed up today. Did you screw up? No reason to blame yourself. Blame Covid. At first, I was a bit annoyed, but after I cooled down a bit I realized that this whole Covid-19 excuse phenomenon was a once on a lifetime event (hopefully). Never before has one particular thing been allowed to be used so nonchalantly to excuse anything. Societal new norms also make it so that there can be no recourse from the affected party. I have silently fumed while others pulled this magic excuse from their back pocket. Even businesses on the web explain up front, usually with a large banner on the top of their homepage, that they really don’t have to try as hard to please me since….well…you know…. Covid. So, if things don’t go the way you like…tough luck. Now, six months into this phenomenon, I am a little angry at myself for not using this magic excuse more than I have. So, last weekend, I thought I

would give it a go. A trip to my local supermarket was the first test of these new superpowers. For once I could participate and do things that other “special” people have done incorrectly, or just plain rudely, for years. First, I parked my car a bit sideways so that I took up three parking spaces. Then I placed a sign on my windshield I had made at home with magic marker that read: “Sorry, my inconsiderate parking is due to Covid-19”. Next, I gathered about twentyfive items and brought them to the fourteen items or less line. As I placed my items down on the conveyor belt amidst the glaring eyes of others on line, I looked up sadly at the cashier and turned to those behind me and said: “I would have used the proper line, but Covid….you know.” They said nothing. What could they? I uttered the magic excuse that cannot be argued against. Of course, my final run was taking my shopping cart to the car and after unloading it, leaving the cart smack dab in the middle of the parking lot so no one could possibly get by with their car. Another handmade sign attached to the handle read: “Cart left here due to Covid.” Who could argue? Last I heard, that cart is still sitting there, no one with the nerve to touch it lest they get the Covid. WMUR is supposedly sending a news crew to cover this. On my way home I came across a long line at a stoplight (this was the summer season after all). So, I pulled into the empty right hand turn lane and timed it so I would hit the light just as it turned green. Then I put on my left blinker and cut in front of the line of cars, with the window down I leaned out as horns honked and tires screeched, and yelled: “Sorry,

Covid.” Not only did the horns stop honking, but I think I got a few thumbs up from some folks who were driving with their masks on. It was kind of hard to make out since their windows were closed. When I arrived home, my phone rang, it was a call from an old acquaintance who was in town that I hadn’t seen for years. He wanted to get together that night since he was only in the area for the day. I was pretty tired from all my Covid shenanigans that afternoon and wasn’t really feeling up to it. In the past, this would have been a problem and hard to get out of, but I pulled out the magic excuse again. “Wow, that’s great, I haven’t seen you in years. We’d have a lot to catch up on, but, hey, you know I really can’t….Covid.” “Sure, I understand. Maybe next time.” Did I feel bad? Maybe a little, but I will get over it soon enough. (It is important to note that the magic excuse will not work when trying to get out of household chores. I give this to you as fair warning.) If you have not taken advantage of the magic “Covid-19” excuse, I’d advise you to hurry up as there is still time. I only hope that a vaccine is still a ways off yet so I can continue to use the “Covid-19” excuse for months (or possibly years) to come. I am always looking for the silver lining. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available at BrendanTSmith. com. His latest book “I Only Did It For The Socks - Stories and Thoughts On Aging” will be published soon (or not ....after all... Covid...you know).

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Plight of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing to Celebrate American workers across the wage scale are hurting. Small-business owners across the country are fighting for their survival. Young people face more uncertainty than ever about their futures and ability to put food on the table. As we head into Labor Day weekend, I would like to offer a friendly reminder from the “America First” right to the Beltway Reby Michelle Malkin publican message machine and the Trump Syndicated Columnist campaign’s social media mavens: Now is not the time to be cheerleading for pandemic profiteers, tech billionaires, and “woke capital” globalists who are addicted to cheap foreign labor and abhor American sovereignty. According to one analysis by Oxfam, 17 out of the top 25 most profitable U.S. corporations -- including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook, Pfizer and Visa -- are projected to rake in $85 billion more in 2020 than in previous years as upward of 40 million Americans are out of work. SwampCons keep touting the “booming stock market” and “record” S&P 500 highs. President Donald Trump himself bragged last week, “NASDAQ has broken the record, I think 16 times already, during a pandemic.” He also warned Republican National Convention viewers that Joe Biden is bad for our “retirement” nest eggs and “401(k)s.” True enough. But what about the tens of millions who’ve lost their jobs and those who haven’t even had the chance to start putting away any savings? Moreover, why should any “Make America Great Again” populists wave pom-poms for Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google/ Alphabet and Facebook? The founders, top executives and elitist employees of these Silicon Valley firms -- the top five companies in the NASDAQ index -- hate America, sabotage U.S. workers through advocating for mass migration, Black Lives Matter and antifa anarchy, and they openly disparage and discriminate against Trump-supporting customers. In ordinary times, I used to be one of those reliable voices touting the “free market,” “invisible hand” and miracles of American capitalism over “socialism.” But our current condition is not one of “limited government conservatism” vs. “big government socialism.” As I’ve illustrated all summer long, we live in a bloody state of anarchotyranny. The lawless reign while big business collectively allies itself with the mob to reap profits at the expense of the law-abiding. Back in February, I reported See MALKIN on 28

Why Won’t Biden Condemn Antifa or BLM Violence?

On Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was finally forced to confront the left-wing violence that has been plaguing America’s major cities for months on end: riots in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, by Ben Shapiro Chicago, Portland and Syndicated Columnist Seattle, among other cities. For a full week, the Democratic National Convention ignored that ongoing violence, driven by members of the Black Lives Matter and antifa movements. The media went right along with the narrative that violent riots have been “mostly peaceful,” that conservatives were “pouncing” on occasional violence for political purposes and that the true threat to American safety could be found in Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. The only solution to America’s ills, Biden held, could be found in repeating pernicious slogans about supposed systemic American racism. On Aug. 9, Biden tweeted: “It’s been six years since Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson -- reigniting a movement. We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.” Never mind that two state investigations and the Obama Department of Justice found that Brown was justifiably shot; no facts are necessary to continue repeating mantras. Then, a small Wisconsin town, Kenosha, burst into flames. At first, the media tried to excuse the burning, rioting and looting. After all, they proclaimed, this was justified rage at the systemic racism of American policing. It simply didn’t matter that Jacob Blake, who was shot by police, had resisted arrest, bucked police officers off of him, ignored their orders and then reached into his vehicle, where a knife was later found on the driver’s side floorboards. It also didn’t matter that Blake has faced vicious crimi-

nal charges and had an open warrant for sexual assault and domestic violence -- and that the police reportedly arrived only after being called by a woman who alleged that Blake digitally raped her in front of one of her children. The police were the problem. And Biden went right along with that generalized narrative, excoriating the police for the shooting of Jacob Blake. Sure, Biden may have softly tut-tutted violence. But the real problem was the American system. On Aug. 28, Biden tweeted that George Floyd and Blake can’t become “just another pair of hashtags,” and that instead, it was time to “reverse systemic racism.” But Americans didn’t see the riots and looting in Kenosha as indicative of a reaction to American racism. They saw it for what it was: horrific behavior. And so, Biden was forced to leave his basement -- to fly to Pennsylvania, of all places, and deliver a 12-minute address denouncing violence. The media did their dutiful best to characterize that address as a groundbreaking call for peace. It was no such thing. Instead, Biden blamed the police, Trump and white supremacists for the violence. He name-checked “right-wing militias” and “white supremacists.” He made no mention of Black Lives Matter or antifa, the actual sources of rioting and looting in American cities. And the same media that excoriated Trump for condemning violence “on many sides” in Charlottesville suddenly found it in their hearts to pretend that Biden’s radically unspecific rhetoric actually covered the evils of BLM and antifa. Biden simply cannot condemn antifa or BLM by name, because to do so would be to recognize two simple truths: first, that Trump isn’t the chief source of violence in American cities; second, that in spite of his “return to normalcy” message, Biden’s “systemic racism” narrative provides the ideological groundwork for those who seek to tear down the system. Democrats have spent months denying the violence, calling Trump a fasSee SHAPIRO on 28

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A Better President The media obsess about Trump/ Biden, but another candidate will be on every state ballot: Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen. Dr. Jorgensen, by John Stossel a psychology lecSyndicated Columnist turer at Clemson University, is very different from Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Instead of promising government solutions, she tells people, “You can spend your money better than the politicians.” I like that. So, she’s the subject of my video this week.

I start with COVID-19. Libertarians are skeptical of government action, but a pandemic may be the rare situation when government should act. People need protection from contagious people. No one wants medical facilities overwhelmed. When politicians issued lockdown orders, their actions were praised by most media. “There are no libertarians in a pandemic,” smug people said to me. Jorgensen says that’s nonsense, that COVID-19 became one more excuse for authoritarian politicians to boss people around. “Is it right for the government to take away tens of millions of jobs? I

say no. Young people could be out there and have no more risks than having the flu.” If government stepped back, she says, the private sector would lead the way. She points out that Walmart required masks be worn in all their stores. “It shows that, yes, we can be adults without government telling us we need to be adults.” I tell Jorgensen that my former Fox Business colleague Lou Dobbs calls libertarianism “an absurd philosophy.” “What I think is crazy,” she replies, “is spending a lot more than you take in... having troops in the Middle East, which makes us more at risk, just like

we saw with 9/11... crazy is actually having taxpayers pay for the defense of Germany and France.” Good points. Why does America need to be the whole world’s policeman? Vice President Biden helped get America into many of its endless wars. President Trump said he’d like to bring our soldiers home, but he hasn’t done much of it. “Instead of fighting wars and having military bases all over the world,” Jorgensen says, she’d “make America one giant Switzerland, armed and neutral.” Biden says he would “end gun See STOSSEL on 29

Chinese Military’s Rising Red Tide The rising tide of China’s military modernization, expansion, and force projection capabilities has long haunted policymakers by John J. Metzler from the United Syndicated Columnist S t a t e s t o E a s t Asia. But while many Washington politicians were premised on the paradigm of China’s “peaceful rise” and a world of global commerce with only occasional political friction, the stark reality is emerging that the People’s Republic has been building an increasingly formidable and sophisticated military machine with global ambitions. It is precisely the massive trade

deficits favoring China, which provide Beijing with the financial means and technological capacity to pursue its geopolitical goals. The annual Pentagon report on China’s Military underscores and elaborates the challenge. As in past assessments the survey shows the expanding size and scope of the Beijing regime’s military capacities. Most alarming, the expansion and sophistication of China’s nuclear forces, its ground based missiles, and cyber war capacity. The Chinese Navy is now larger than the U.S. Navy. Yet the old quantitative versus qualitative advantage argument goes only so far; I recall many NATO briefings in Belgium and Germany now a generation ago, where the Soviets decisively out-

numbered us in tanks, artillery and aircraft. The U.S., West German and British advantage rested in better quality equipment, more formidable air assets, and holding a defensive position. Contemporary East Asian states, notably Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and let’s include Australia would be in a defensive position facing PRC probes, posturing and forays. But there’s a significant difference. Contrary to communist China’s bellicose revolutionary rhetoric during the 1960’s in which blustering Chairman Mao’s massive but underprepared military even threatened the Soviets, modern China now has the economic clout and sophisticated weapons systems to back it up. Beijing’s mili-

tary modernization increasingly focuses on qualitative systems, a smaller and more effective force, and lethal cyber warfare capacities. The strong economic component largely eluded the former Soviet Union. The so-called People’s Liberation Army/Navy (PLAN) while now numerically larger than the U.S. Navy, “with an overall battle force of approximately 350 ships and submarines including over 130 major surface combatants. In comparison, the U.S. Navy’s battle force is approximately 293 ships as of early 2020.” Even if we allow for advanced U.S. Navy technology and coordinated battle force operations, the Chinese Navy would be largely See METZLER on 29

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she heard a strange noise. Upon going outside to investigate Chauncey found Abraham in the barn. The young man said that he had hit Sally with a stake (fence post) and killed her. Abraham was ordered to take Chauncey to his wife, which he reluctantly did, taking him to a part of the pasture where there w e r e n o s t r a w b e rries and pointing to some bushes beside the brook field where he had put her body, having dragged it a some distance from where the killing took place. Mrs. Cochran was still breathing when See SMITH on 25

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

It was the first Tuesday of September in the year 1833 when Abraham Prescott was indicted in the Merrimack County Court at Concord for the murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran on June 23rd of the same year. Procedural delays, however, kept what was described as the first murder trial in Merrimack County, New Hampshire from taking place until a year later in September of 1834. Abraham Prescott had lived with the Cochran family for three years and was only eighteen years old when he killed 28 year old Sally Cochran with a stake in the pasture belonging to her brother-in-law. The big question that the judges and jury struggled to find an answer to was: “ Was Abraham Prescott aware of what he was doing when he took the life of his benefactor, Mrs. Cochran?” His defensive claim was

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Picture of woodcut print of Poem on Abraham Prescott’s Confession. that he did it while asleep. Chauncey and Sally Cochran had taken 15 year old Abraham Prescott into their home and treated him as one of the family. He helped them by working on their farm in Pembroke. On the Sunday morning of June 23, 1833 Sally and Abraham went to a nearby pasture owned by Chauncey Cochran’s brother to

pick strawberries. Abraham had asked Chauncey if he was going to pick strawberries and received the answer of no because Chauncey was in the process of reading a book. Exactly what happened in the pasture is not entirely clear , but about an hour and a half later another member of the household, Chauncey’s mother, came to him and told him that

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I was all set to follow last week’s column about fall migration with a closer look at some of the songbirds, including warblers, that are heading south now and will be for the next several weeks. That column has been put on hold as I saw something in the garden last week that just can’t wait. Experienced vegetable gardeners have likely seen this before, but it was a first for me and I was amazed at the gruesome details when I researched it online. First, a little background. It is a firstyear garden plot. I dug it during April at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Northeast. More than anything else, it was a diversion from the nuttiness going on in the world; something to keep my mind and body occupied during quarantine. I’ve never had a green thumb and I had little hope in the garden ever yielding impressive crops. As it turns out, my pessimism was warranted. Once the leaves popped on the giant oaks that surround my property, the garden didn’t stand a chance. Tomato plants require how much sunlight? Oh boy, not even close.

A tomato hornworm is covered in braconid wasp larvae on a tomato plant in New England last week. It was like that Rush song where the maples complain that the “oaks are just too lofty, and they grab up all the light.” Fast forward to early September. I got a few tomatoes (emphasis on few), three jalapeño peppers and a few dozen beans. The sighting the other day made up for the meager vegetable yield, however. I approached the garden after not bothering to check it for a few days and noticed a strange white growth on one of the tomato plants. Upon closer inspection, the growth seemed to be a clump of egg-like ovals. Then the clump moved, ever so slightly. I was about to rip off the branch when I noticed the white “eggs” (there were hundreds of

them) were attached to a large, green caterpillar. My first inclination was to knock the white things off the caterpillar, but I wanted to research it first. Years ago, I would have had to wait until the library opened the next day and spend a few hours thumbing through encyclopedias to find out. Instead, I pulled the phone out of my pocket, launched the internet and had the answer in about nine seconds. The answer is the stuff horror movies are made of. The “eggs” weren’t eggs at all, but the larval stage of the braconid wasp. The actual eggs were laid inside the caterpillar by an adult female wasp. Once hatched, the larvae literally ate their way out of the caterpillar and spun a

white cocoon attached to the outside of the caterpillar. The garden blogs and websites say this is a good thing as the braconid wasps are harmless to humans and the caterpillar is a tomato hornworm, which they say can devour an entire tomato plant in a single day. The tomato hornworm, however, would eventually turn into a hawk moth, otherwise known as a sphynx or hummingbird moth, which is always a thrill to see around flowers in late summer. Plus, they are really cool-looking caterpillars with large, bright green bodies and a “horn” on the back end. There’s really no choice for us to make anyway. It’s in nature’s See BOSAK on 29

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Not everyone loves ads or commercials but they help make the sports world go around. Consider that a thirty second Super Bowl commercial goes for around $3 million. This is good for the advertiser, good for the network, good for the NFL, and good for the players. And viewers often enjoy the commercials as well. Then there are print ads, of which there are less and less every year. While thumbing through my latest Sports Illustrated magazine I reviewed its advertising. It didn’t look good. There was a Gatorade ad. An ad for Portable Protein Pack. A Wal-Mart ad for a wireless carrier. Twenty pages later there was another Gatorade ad. Ten pages later there were a couple GEICO ads. Many pages later there was an Oscar Mayer ad. There was what looked like a Public Service notice about organ donation. And inside the back cover was an ad for Lunchables. That was it! I was shocked. Back in the day, one sometimes had to thumb through many pages of ads just to get to a magazine index. Things have changed. Mostly due to the ubiquitous World

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paintings on canvas for sale created by local artists. Look over their website at www. oerbier.be Arabier is describe as a pure malt beverage using local grain with Nugget and Whitbread Goldings hops. Part of the name, Ara, refers to Arabic where beer is forbidden, yet desired, so the mystique of this beer broadens with this bit of folklore. The bottle also says to consume the contents within two years. The date on my bottle cap said 2018. It is also bottle fermented (conditioned) so prying off the cap is noteworthy. At 8% ABV and delightful on the tongue, Arabier finishes a little dry with a honey aftertaste. Boskeun Speciaal Paasbier (as written

on the label), is the successor to an earlier beer, Stille Nacht (still night) and is described as a powerful beer with hints of berries, licorice, vanilla and so on. It is made with pure pale malt with Poperingse Golding hops and cane sugar to boost up the 9% ABV. This one is also bottle conditioned to give it the massive white frothy head when poured into a European stemmed beer glass. Mouthfeel on this one is also gentle with lingering and quite boozy on the par with Chimay ales. Delicately balanced as Belgians are, these two both are amazing but I am leaning slightly toward the mellow flavors of the Boskeun. BeerAdvocate.com officially has rated

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Lake Turnover And Fall Fishing by Tim Moore Contributing Writer

If you’re like me, then this cooler weather has you thinking about the next phase, or season, of fishing, fall. When lake trout and salmon season closes after September 30, a lot of anglers give up on fishing for the season. They winterize their boats and put away their rods, because they believe fishing season to be over. Many head into the woods for various hunting seasons and while I love to hunt too, there are too many great fishing opportunities in the fall for me to break away for too long. These fall fishing opportunities are driven largely by the phenomenon known as lake turnover and the fishing turns on almost overnight. If you like to fish as much as I do, then fall can be the most memorable time of the year. Why am I talking about fall so early? Because the nights seem cooler than they’ve been in the few previous years for early September, which can only mean one thing: the lake is due to turnover soon. Lake turnover and length of daylight drives fall feeding for many species, but anglers often don’t understand how and why it works. By late August, the temperature of most water bodies

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The author has already been testing the waters with some early panfish success. has warmed and stabilized. Warmer water sits on top while dense cooler water has settled to the bottom. Larger lakes develop a thermocline layer that separates the upper layer of warmer water from the layer of cool water below. However, when the air temperatures begin to drop, surface water temperatures begin to cool. This cooler water is denser and sinks, forcing warmer water to the surface. The cycle continues until the lakes freeze. Hence the term lake turn over. When lakes and ponds turn over, coupled with shorter days, many fish species are triggered to feed so

they can bulk up for the coming winter. Warmwater schooling fish such as crappie, white perch, and sunfish will form large schools and spend many days chowing all the food they can get. While many of these species, especially white perch, are in schools most of the year, the schools get bigger, the fish get bigger, and the feeding activity gets more aggressive. Most times, warmwater schooling fish will head for basins after a lake turns over. Basins hold plankton, which attracts baitfish, which in turn attracts gamefish. Almost all water bodies

have some sort of basin or depression. Low light periods, such as early morning, late afternoon, or cloudy days, are the best time to target gamefish in basins, as this is when plankton is most active. For those waters that do not have a well-defined basin, the challenge is figuring out the feeding behavior. On windy days, the windward shorelines often hold bait that gets pushed there by prevailing winds. Watch for nervous water where bait may be pushed to the surface by predatory gamefish or seek out submerged shoreline structure to find fish. See MOORE on 24

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Americans are the default,” she said. “Having a restaurant create context for these foods and allowing people to experience them in that context is enormously beneficial for our farm and has the potential to translate to new customers and increased business.” According to Wotton, one recent factor that has proven instrumental for local farms has been the pandemic itself. “We have had a large increase in the number of customers who want locally grown food,” she said. “It seems that people are much more aware of the fact that they need locally produced foods.” Keeping up with the demand for product might be Wotton Farm’s current biggest challenge. “It seems like we are always busy trying to keep product available for our customers,” explained Wotton, who said their suppliers have similarly faced unique business obstacles. “When we wanted to order additional seed,

many companies were sold out,” she added. “The same problem applied to our meat chickens.” Citing local farmers’ markets as an important revenue, Wotton said diversification as another important component to their sustainability model. In addition to vegetables, Wotton Farm features everything from unpasteurized milk, cream and several different kinds of yogurt to cheese and livestock, including chickens and pigs. “This is a lot of work for just 2 to 4 people -- my husband Joel and our sons Joe and Nathan -- but we love it,” she said. Describing Corvus Cairn Farm as “a small mountainside farmstead,” Young said they raise and grow heritage and conservation breed ducks, antique fruit and a variety of vegetables. This season, they also have red and white currants, golden raspberries, purslane, ground cherries, garlic and wild blackberries. As for the impact of See FOOD on 21

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Some of the fresh, tasty fair at the Burnt Timber Farm To Table event.

Joel & Kathey Wotton of Wotton Farm in Ossipee. FOOD from 20 the pandemic on their business, Young cited a similar experience to that of the Wottons. “With the pandemic, folks do seem to be looking more to local,” she said. For her explanation, she cited several factors. “I imagine it starts out as an impulse for safety or, I hope, to support local farmers,” she said. “Quickly, though, folks discover that locally produced foods are usually much fresher, far tastier and also more nutrient rich than their grocery store counterparts.” Michno agreed and said he hopes their dinner helped to prove this last point in particular. “If you buy quality ingredients, which you get from a local farm, you don’t need a lot,” he said. “It will taste completely different…The care that these people

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whatever they wanted without restrictions. “The ingredients were so incredible and interesting,” she said. “We had all these great proteins and interesting vegetables and produce. We even had some peppers I never even heard of before.” According to Michno, the variety of dishes they were able to produce surprised even him. “We put out 7 different dishes from only four farms,” he said. “People could see us cook, too, so it was very interactive.” Wolfeboro resident Charles Sumner Hill III described the event as“very entertaining.” “There was constant energy and entertainment from the chefs

talking about the food and how they were making each course,” he said. “Each new dish that came out was delicious, and I couldn’t pick a favorite.” A local sales representative at Favorite Foods who also helped at the event, Ken McPherson said the chefs “surprised and impressed” with unique food pairings. “My Awife is already asking about attending another one,” he laughed. As for what was served at the event, it started with Sirloin Tartar and continued with Smoked Pepper Gazpacho followed by Smoked Ribeye Sliders as an appetizer. Entrees included Duck, Herb Roasted

Chicken and Lamb Curry with Wotton Farm Panna Cotta for dessert. In addition to Wotton Farm and Corvus Cairn Farm, the event featured Top of the Hill Farm in Wolfeboro. Michno said he was even able to “coerce” local friend Kyle Clark, who supplied a variety of peppers and herbs.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 10, 2020 — heart surgery, and Leo Marks, genius cryptographer, who worked for the Special Operations Executive. The Red Horse is also a story about a great friendship. There have been many great friendships and partnerships in mysteries – Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. Billy and Kaz’s fellowship is every bit as great as the fictional friendships and partnerships that preceded theirs. Benn is expert at drawing his characters, keeping them vibrant, moving, and maturing. Fourteen books ago, in 1942, Billy was barely in his twenties, a brash kid, not wanting, exactly, to avoid serving his country, but hoping

to serve from a desk in Washington. Instead he is in England serving the war effort by chasing spies and solving murders. Two years later Billy has survived war in Africa and Italy, gone undercover in Ireland and the Vatican, done a short stint in the Pacific theater, and in the liberation of Paris. The scenery changes but not Billy’s care and love for his friend Kaz, nor Kaz’s love for Billy. They have saved each other’s life, comforted each other’s sorrow, bucked each up. In The Red Horse their friendship is threatened by physical risk and emotional peril. Billy needs to hold it together to help Kaz stay in the action so that he can search for Angelika. Kaz wants to support Billy and

his shaky recovery so that he can rescue Diana. Billy and Kaz, friends whose destinies, as Benn describes it, are “as intermingled as the air we breathed.” This fifteenth Billy Boyle was so good I wanted to slow down as I got toward the end. I wanted to savor the language and the story. But I was worried about the outcome for Billy and Kaz, so I rushed on to the end. I will tell you this: a few days in a looney bin with Billy as your guide can work wonders for your spirit in this crazy Covid world we live in. Find out for yourself. Read The Red Horse and cherish your friendships.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 10, 2020 — SMITH from 9 her husband found her, but died before medical assistance could be given. Prescott, while confessing to the murder, gave two different accounts of what had happened when he and Mrs. Cochran went to the pasture to pick strawberries. His initial story, told to Chauncey Cochran as they were running to the brook field where Sally lay dying in the bushes was that the act took place while he was sleeping. He said that he had a toothache and sat down near a stump and that was the last that he remembered until after Sally had been hit with the stake. The second confession was made to John L. Fowler, the coroner, in the state prison. Mr. Fowler indicated at the trial that with some persuasion Abraham Prescott told him the following: “ ...that he and Mrs. C went together across James C’s pasture and the brook field; that he wished to have his will of her-- that she repulsed him and applied severe epithets. He than sat down by the stump; thought he should have to go to prison, which he would soon die as do. She was picking strawberries at a little distance. - he took the stake and struck her, she probably was not aware of his approach; made no ado.” The trial was held in the North Meeting House in Concord because a large group of “spectators” was expected to attend. Prescott had entered a plea of not guilty and his lawyers, court assigned Ichabod Bartlett and Charles H. Peaslee, Esquires, based their defense on the argu-

Before presenting their verdict that the jury had supper at the Eagle Hotel. ment that Prescott was sleepwalking when he struck Sally Cochran with a stake as well as being insane. The prisoner, as he was referred to in the trial, was said to have had a habit of sleepwalking as a child and a previous incident in the Cochran household when he hit Chauncey and Sally with an axe while they were sleeping was attributed as a sleepwalking act. Prescott claimed that he didn’t know what he had done until he woke up and exhibited remorse for the attack which inflicted injury from glancing blows to their heads, but from which they recovered. They accepted his explanation and no charges were filed against him. Chauncey testified at the trial that the prisoner, during the three years he had lived with them, was kind and obedient, never refusing to perform labor, didn’t quarrel with the family, and always treated the children affectionately. There were two or three children in the

household along with Chauncey’s mother. Abraham was said to be bad-tempered and abusive towards the cattle and have some mental disability. The 12 man jury, which the prisoner was said to have chosen out of a potential 53 prospects, was given the task of trying to determine if

young Prescott was unconscious (sleeping), insane, or completely aware of what he was doing when he killed Sally Cochran. The Attorney General, George Sullivan, and the Solicitor, John Whipple, prosecuted the case for the State. Chief Justice William H. Richardson and sev-

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hawk Country Club, Gap, Chartwells and Silver Creek Sportsplex in San Jose all announced hundreds more Bay Area layoffs. --Among the companies confirming new COVID-related permanent layoffs reported by The Wall Street Journal: GM Resorts International, Stanley Black & Decker Inc. and CocaCola. --American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. are threatening to ax more than 53,000 workers unless they get new federal bailouts. Frontier Airlines signaled nearly 400 layoffs in Colorado. --Even as it crowed about record quarterly sales, Salesforce hand-

ed out pink-slip notices to 1,000 of its employees. --Despite promising not to cut workers in the midst of the COVID chaos, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo are now all considering doing just that. --In Florida, more than 1,900 hotel employees are facing layoffs or temporary layoffs at Loews Hotels and Co and Marriott. --Telecom giant Cisco plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers amid business troubles. --Manufacturing giant 3M slashed 1,500 jobs at the beginning of the month. --Walmart laid off laying off hundreds of em-

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trial plan is set to bypass the USA as the world’s largest economy by 2025, replacing China’s traditional lower end exports with higher quality technology such as semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. Since President Xi Jinping assumed power at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, the CCP Central Committee has placed greater emphasis on China’s foreign policy advancing “the cause of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.” Chairman Xi’s high octane nationalism combined with communist discipline poses a dangerous combination. Dr. Andrew Erickson of the Naval War College asserts, “Two decades ago, many would have dismissed the notion that China’s armed forces could achieve parity with, let alone exceed, the American gold standard in any form save sheer numbers of personnel.” He adds, “Under the CCP, China clearly aims for increasing parity with the United States, as measured in overall military capabilities, influence, and recognition.” Presenting a starkly realistic survey, the Pentagon’s account is hardly harem-scarem hyperbole but focuses on a formidable and looming adversary. 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.

STOSSEL from 7 violence” and that “the Second Amendment is limited.” Jorgensen replies, “we limit gun violence by allowing peaceful citizens to arm themselves.” Trump taxed imports, claiming America “loses” when we have a trade deficit. Jorgensen calls that laughably ignorant. “I have a trade deficit with my gas station because I buy gas from them and they buy nothing from me,” says Jorgensen. “It doesn’t matter what one country does.” Biden says increasing the minimum wage to $15 is “just a start.” Jorgensen quips: “Yeah. A start to minorities not being able to get a rung on the ladder to successful employment.” Jorgensen opposes Trump’s immigration restrictions. I push back: “There are billions of poor people all over the world. Some want to come here to freeload.” Jorgensen replies that welfare programs have rules to prevent freeloading, “Many... have a five-year waiting list.” Also, “if you look at people who have the initiative to come here, they typically have the initiative to work.” Biden would spend $2 trillion to try to delay climate change. Jorgensen says the free market is the better way. “Wherever there’s big government, there’s more pollution.” Neither Trump nor Biden wants to stop the war on drugs. Jorgensen believes that (for adults) all drugs should be legal. I agree with Jorgensen about most things. But people say a vote for a Libertarian candidate is wasted. In addition, Jorgensen will be accused of taking votes from Trump at a time when “only Trump

might stop big government Democrats.” She’ll be accused of taking votes from Biden, when “we need to get this clown (Trump) out of office.” “We need to get both clowns away from the presidency,” Jorgensen replies. Jorgensen won’t win, but I hope her campaign inspires some Americans to think about the proper role of government. Jorgensen is absolutely correct when, at the end of our interview, she says: “We’ve got Washington in everything we do. It’s just causing more problems.” John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

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BOSAK from 10 hands. By the time the caterpillar is covered in tiny cocoons, the larva of the parasitic wasps have already eaten their way through the insides of the caterpillar. I’m not an entomologist by any stretch, but I would imagine the caterpillar is a goner by that point anyway. Knocking the coccons off won’t save it at this point. The caterpillar is still alive, but I can’t fathom it being healthy enough to go through a metamorphosis. Something I saw in the garden supported my amateur theory. I watched the drama unfold in the garden for a while. I photographed it from all angles, of course. Then I looked at my tomato plants for more hornworms, infested or

not, and sure enough, there was another one on a higher branch of the adjacent plant. This hornworm was in much worse shape. While the original one still otherwise looked like a robust caterpillar, the second one I found was decimated. It, too, was still alive, but barely. It’s a scene that plays itself out in gardens across our region on a regular basis. It’s always fascinating to learn new things about nature, but boy, talk about nature not always being kind. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@ gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com

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