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Covered Bridge over the Warner River in the Waterloo section of Warner. Weirs Times’ history writer Robert Hanaford ROBERT HANAFORD SMITH PHOTO Smith’s grandparents lived in the house across the street.

Waterloo Historic District Trains, Rivers & Mills

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

I recently went on my occasional trip to Warner to meet my Waterloo. It is not really my Waterloo and it

wasn’t a crushing defeat for me as it was for Napoleon at his Waterloo experience in Belgium many years ago. Mine at Waterloo, New Hampshire was actually a pleasant experience as the Warner River and

Fall colors added beauty to the drive I made to visit the place where my great grandparents lived and worked. Waterloo is a section of the town of Warner, New Hampshire that has been

designated an Historic District with some of its houses being on the National Register of Historic Places and being the location of one of the mills that were built years ago along the river. See SMITH on 24

Join the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance for the announcement of its 2020 Seven to Save list on October 20 at 4:30pm The event will be live but virtual this year. Past announcement locations have included significant, once-threatened sites like Daniel Webster Farm in Franklin and the Wolfeboro Town Hall. Since 2006, the Preservation Alliance’s Seven to Save has helped attract attention and resources to irreplaceable landmarks around the state. Progress with the Chandler House in Manchester and the rescue of the Gale School in Belmont are two recent successes. More than half are considered out of danger or saved. Criteria for selection include: historical significance, imminence of threat, and potential impact of listing a site. RSVP to seventosave@nhpreservation.org, and registrants will receive a confirmation and instructions for the virtual program. More at www.nhpreservation.org. The event is free but donations are suggested.

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To The Editor: As pointed out in previous Letters to the Editor, and in lock-step with their Washington-based, Left-Wing, Progressive puppeteers, our local “northern” Grafton County, NH Democrat candidates to Concord have a track record of voting for higher taxes, more gun control, and loosening commonsense, voting restrictions, among other issues (listed below) in the NH Legislature through June 6, 2019 (the 2020 NH legislative session was cut short by the COVID–19 pandemic!). “Northern” Grafton County towns covered by these “representatives” include: Bath, Benton, Bethlehem, Easton, Franconia, Haverhill, Landaff, Littleton, Lisbon, Lyman, Monroe, Orford, Piermont, Warren, and Sugar Hill. Did you know that Sue Ford, Elaine French, Linda Massimilla, Timothy Egan and Dennis Ruprecht voted FOR the following NH Senate Bills: *SB2 – raiding the unemployment trust fund to create a 37th job training program; *SB4 – enshrining unaffordable, inadequate, and inferior features of Obamacare in New Hampshire law; *SB5 – throwing money at substance abuse without the necessary oversight to determine the effectiveness of the money spent; *SB 20 – for restricting a teenager’s right to choose how many hours to work per week; *SB99 – incentivizing people to stay on disability rather than work; (excluding Massimilla); *SB 100 – restricting use of a

criminal background check by a potential employer; *SB139 – for studying whether to put NH taxpayers on the hook for student loans; *SB4140 – minimizing students’ opportunities to learn outside the classroom; *SB 196 – subjecting students to invasive surveys without the knowledge of their parents; *SB271 – increasing the cost of municipal and school building projects 30-50% by allowing Washington to manage labor costs; *SB 290- removing work requirements for able-bodied childless adults to receive Medicaid. Voting has consequences. Vote for candidates who promote responsible representation by voting for: Erin Hennessey; Joseph DePalma, IV, Calvin Beaulier, Matthew Simon, Robert Peraino, David Binford, and Thomas “Wes” Chapmon as well as Douglas Dutile and Omer Ahern, Jr. for County Commissioner and Joseph Kenney for Executive Councilor. Nick De Mayo Sugar Hill, NH

Candidate Meet & Greet To The Editor: Close to the upcoming General Election on November 3, Meredith & Gilford voters will have an opportunity to meet & greet many of the Republican candidates running in the Lakes Region at a house party at my home on Sunday, October 25, from 1 PM to 5 PM. It will give those candidates a great opportunity to make a “closing argument” regarding

their races. The location is 243 Mountain Drive in Gilford, and it is being billed as a “Beef Bash” with Norm’s famous beef chili and smoked beef brisket. There will be no vegetables served unless you consider the chili’s tomato base to be a vegetable. But there will be a police presence to maintain order in the food line. The event is for registered Republicans and liberty-loving Undeclareds only. To facilitate open and candid discussion of last minute electoral strategy, there will be no press or Dems or “trackers” allowed. And anyone who is registered as a Republican but does not actually believe in or support the state and national party platforms (whom some might refer to as RINOs) should stay away. Any questions or requests to attend should contact this writer at njs@silbersnh.com or 293-0565. Norm Silber Candidate for the NH House of Representatives Belknap County District 2Gilford & Meredith

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Leaf Peeper’s Craft Fair In North Conway Don’t miss the Leaf Peeper’s Arts & Crafts Fair on Saturday and Sunday, October 17-18 at the North Conway Community Center, 78 Norcross Circle, Rt. 16, North Conway (next to the Scenic Railroad). The hours are Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm. There will be 80 fabulous exhibitors with an array of different arts & crafts including metal art, wildlife photography, soy candles, NH maple syrups, handknits, cedar wood furniture, kettle corn, homemade fudge, pandemic masks, handpoured soaps, handsome alpaca clothing, various styles of jewelry, children’s items, gourmet foods, resin window art, quillows, fabric creations, home decor, stained glass art, walking sticks, colored fire starters, honey products, & more!!! Please wear a mask & social distance. See Joyce for a free mask if you need one. Rain or Shine Under Canopies - Food - Music - Friendly, Leashed Dogs Welcome. More Info: Joyce (603) 528-4014 - GPS Address: 78 Norcross Circle, North Conway - www.joycescraftshows. com

NH Audubon Pollinator Webinars The webinars are free and open to the public but registration is required to access the ZOOM presentation. Please visit www. nhaudubon.org for details and registration. Thursday, October 15: 7-8:15 PM -Butterflies of NH Heidi Holman, Wildlife Diversity Biologist with NH Fish and Game’s Nongame and Endangered Species Program. Learn about butterflies in the Granite State ranging from the common to the rare. Thursday, October 29: 7-8:15 PM -A Garden for Pollinators & Wildlife: Natural Landscaping for a Better Yard Vicki J. Brown, Pollinator Pathways Founder, NH Natural Resources Steward and Speaking for Wildlife Volunteer. . No matter how big or small, how rural or urban, you can provide critical habitat for birds, bees, and other wildlife. Join us and learn how to attract and sustain pollinators throughout the year, provide food and shelter for birds, enable pollinators to survive the winter, and increase the biodiversity of the insects and other animals on your property Thursday, November 5: 7 – 8:15 PM -Gardening in a Changing Climate. Lisa Wise, Climate Adaptation Manager with UNH Cooperative Extension This presentation will familiarize participants with the impacts of climate change on our NH landscapes Focusing in on our own “backyards” and community spaces, participants will learn ways to adapt gardening to a changing climate and utilize gardening practices to reduce the impacts of climate change. Take away climate smart ways you can make a difference in your garden spaces.

Jonny & Merrill Peiffer Livestream At FAITH MATTERS Two of New Hampshire’s most talented musical performers, brother and sister Jonny and Merrill Peiffer will be the special guests on FAITH MATTERS, Thursday, October 15 at 5 pm streaming live on Facebook from the First Congregational Church in downtown Farmington. As an Equity actress and singer, Merrill Peiffer has performed on stages throughout the region and around the country, including as a member of the North American Broadway Tour of “Mamma Mia!” Jonny Peiffer is a gifted pianist, drummer and composer who started You will find FAITH MATTERS at facebook.com/farmingtonnhfirstcongregational every Thursday at 5 pm.

Wright Museum & Black’s Paper Partnering Through October 31, Black’s Paper and Gift Shop in Wolfeboro will offer 20% off its merchandise to anyone who shows a Wright Museum receipt for admission, or their Wright Museum membership card. The promotion is part of Wright Museum’s Business Partner program, which features one partnership each month in which the museum works with local businesses to enhance their respective offerings and promote one another. “Black’s has been an ardent supporter of ours through the years, and I am very pleased to work with them in this program,” said Mike Culver, museum executive director. In return, The Wright will provide half-off admission for up to 2 people in one party with a Black’s Paper and Gift Shop receipt (minimum $10 purchase), dated October 1 - October 31. The region’s leading resource for educators and learners of all ages on World War II, the Wright Museum features more than 14,000 items in its collection that are representative of both the homefront and battlefield. To learn more about The Wright, visit wrightmuseum.org. To learn more about Black’s Paper and Gift Shop, located at 8 South Main Street, Wolfeboro, visit blacksgiftsnh.com.

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Straight Talk I have to admit I was quite surprised when a reporter for a popular New Hampshire magazine asked for an interview about my candidacy for govby Brendan Smith ernor. I can’t Weirs Times Editor tell you which magazine since I don’t have permission to use this excerpt, but if you can figure out which magazine then you can find the entire interview on their website. Q: Candidate Smith, I would like to thank you for taking the time to sit down with me today for this interview. A: You are welcome Jim, though I can’t imagine doing this standing up, that would be difficult. Q: Umm..my name is Bill. A: Sorry. Q: You have been campaigning for governor for the past twenty years or so. Do you think that this might be your last attempt? A: Wow, that is a hard question. Do you have an easier one? Q: No, they just get harder from here. A: I am glad we are sitting down then. Q: So, do you think you would run again? A: Let’s try a different question and come back to that one after I’ve warmed up a bit. Q: Okay, how would you, as governor, handle another pandemic. A: You were right, the questions do get tougher, can we go back to the first one? Q: Too late. A: Well, I’d probably close things down unless I thought it better they stay open and I would

make it mandatory that everyone wear masks unless I thought it a better idea to let people decide it they want to wear them or not. Q: That’s a pretty vague answer. A: Is it? Q: Okay, what would be the first thing you would do as governor? A: I get asked that a lot, so I am prepared for that one. I understand the inauguration ceremony is rather long and being a guy over sixty, I’m sure I’ll need to use the governor’s washroom first thing after it’s over. I’m looking forward to it though. I understand it is quite magnificent. Q: Do you believe that there is a widening divide based on race in this country? A: Yes Q: What do you think is the solution. A: That’s easy. We need to better educate people. Q: In what way? A: Well, people who like horse racing don’t know much about NASCAR and vice versa. We need to change that. I for one don’t understand NASCAR, but I’m willing to try and learn more so I’m not part of the problem. Q: That wasn’t what I meant when I said race. A: Sorry, I misunderstood. What’s your next question? Q: You said in your campaign that you are planning on lowering taxes. A: That’s right Jim, I’m going to go right to work on lowering taxes. Q: It’s Bill A: Sorry again. Q: So, how will you lower taxes? A: Umm…I think I said something about that when I was

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Beware Of The Flu Shot Bullies Dear skeptical Americans: You have every right and reason to be hesitant about rolling up your sleeves and submitting to flu vaccine jabs this year. The public health-industrial complex bureaucrats who have flip-flop-flipped on universal mask-wearing during this COVID-19 chaos are the same ones now pushing universal flu shots. Assurances by Michelle Malkin about the safety and efficacy of seasonal inSyndicated Columnist fluenza immunization should be taken with a boulder of salt. The actual scientific literature, as opposed to government-promoted propaganda, shows that safety and efficacy evidence is lacking on all fronts across all age groups. Even more alarming: While gullible journalists regurgitate panicked talking points about a “twindemic” of COVID-19 and flu this fall and winter, scientific data suggests that taking the flu shot may increase the risk of influenza or other noninfluenza respiratory viral infections. Just four months ago, a study published by the EvidenceBased Medicine, Public Health and Environmental Toxicology investigated whether the seasonal flu vaccine played a role in increasing COVID incidence and mortality. “We found statistically significant positive correlations between” the vaccination coverage rate and reported COVID-19 incidence, “as well as mortality for Europe and the USA,” the team reported. “A statistically significant positive correlation was also found between the VCR and the COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) for Europe. ... Our analysis indicates that receiving seasonal influenza vaccination(s) in the past might be an additional risk factor for the elderly in terms of enhanced susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2 and higher likelihood of a lethal outcome in case of infection. More research about this possible risk factor is urgently needed.” You don’t say. But as always, Feckless Anthony Fauci casts his public health pronouncements as unassailable moral imperatives. (Remember: First, it was selfish to wear a mask because health workers needed them more than the rest of us did during shortages -- and they didn’t do anything to protect the wearer, anyway. Then, it was selfish not to wear a mask because we “have to do our part to stop the spread of COVID” -- even though there is still no scientific support for universal mask mandates.) Well, Fauci now tells us that we all need flu shots because it’s “our personal responsibility to protect ourselves,” but also “the vulnerable See MALKIN on 28

If Trump Loses, It’s on Trump Joe Biden is a terrible candidate. He is 77 years old; he is incoherent; he has called a “lid” every other day of his campaign to avoid serious questioning. His running mate, Sen. Kamala by Ben Shapiro Harris, is so unpopuSyndicated Columnist lar that she dropped out of the Democratic primaries before they even reached her home state. The Biden-Harris campaign is absolutely lackluster. And according to national polling, Joe Biden is leading incumbent President Donald Trump by up to 16 points. In the RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump is trailing Biden in every single swing state. Were the election held today, by the RealClearPolitics statistics, Biden would win 375 electoral votes, picking up states including North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. How is this happening? How did a doddering fool, a career politician mostly famous for his incurable logorrhea, end up in the catbird seat one month before the 2020 election? The answer is simple: Joe Biden understands the nature of this election. Donald Trump simply does not. To understand this election does not require a graduate course in political science: If the election is a referendum on President Trump, he will lose; if the election is a referendum on Joe Biden, he will lose. Trump is personally unpopular by every poll metric, and he has been consistently unpopular for years, but he was still able to win in 2016 because Hillary Clinton was even less popular. The same could have held true here. After all, Biden has opened himself wide to serious questioning. He has repeatedly refused to state whether he is in favor of ending the Senate filibuster, adding new states and packing the Su-

preme Court, calling such questions distractions; he has refused to condemn the antifa movement; he has soft-pedaled Black Lives Matter violence in America’s major cities; he has put forward the most left-wing platform in American history, according to communist fellow traveler Bernie Sanders. But Biden hasn’t answered a single serious question. He has been able to avoid nearly all questions by pointing at his opponent. Biden hasn’t just run a lackluster campaign; he hasn’t run any campaign. He hasn’t even walked a campaign. He has essentially grown into his couch in his Delaware basement, getting out only long enough to stand in front of an empty field or answer a few softball questions from a friendly pseudo-journalist. That’s not just because the media hate Trump and sycophantically massage Biden, though they do. It’s because Trump himself steadfastly refuses to recognize the central issue of the campaign: his own centrality. Trump loves being the center of attention, and he simply refuses to cede the spotlight. Every day is a new spectacle in Trumpland, from descending in Marine One onto the White House lawn amid dramatic music to reenter quarantine to tweeting incessantly about the latest news of the day. The media hang on Trump’s every word, and he appears to love that. But that symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media puts Trump at a dramatic disadvantage. The more people think about Trump, the less they want to. In 2016, the “Access Hollywood” tape unintentionally relegated Trump to the sidelines in the last days of the campaign, freeing the way for then-FBI Director James Comey to put the spotlight squarely on Hillary Clinton’s emails -- and Trump won. In 2018, Democrats seized the spotlight by unjustly and cruelly maligning Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the polls consequently tightened; then Trump See SHAPIRO on 29

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Fake Fact-Checking Recently, I released a video that called California’s fires “government fueled.” A few days later, Facebook inserted a warning on my video: by John Stossel “Missing Context. Syndicated Columnist Independent factcheckers say this information could mislead.” Some of my viewers now feel betrayed. One wrote: “Shameful, John... what happened to you!!? Your reporting was always fair... (but) your... fires story was so...

unfair, even Facebook tagged it.” A “fact-check” from Facebook carries weight. Worse, Facebook says that because my video is labeled misleading, it will show my content to fewer people. This kills me. My news model counts on social media companies showing people my videos. I confronted the fact-checkers. That’s the topic of my newest video. Facebook’s “fact-check” links to a page from a group called Climate Feedback that claims it sorts “fact from fiction” about climate change. They post this complaint about my video: “Forest fires are caused

by poor management. Not by climate change.” They call that claim “misleading.” It is misleading. But I never said that! In my video, I acknowledged: “Climate change has made things worse. California has warmed 3 degrees over 50 years.” I don’t know where Climate Feedback got their quote. Made it up? Quoted someone else? Facebook lets activists restrict my videos based on something I never said. Now, Facebook is a private company that can censor anything it wants. I understand the pres-

sure they feel. All kinds of people demand that Facebook ban posts they don’t like. There’s no way Facebook can police everything. The site carries billions of posts. I wish they’d just let the information flow. People will gradually learn to sort truth from lies. But to please politicians, Facebook now lets other people censor their content. Mark Zuckerberg told Congress, “We work with a set of independent fact-checkers.” That’s how Climate Feedback got its power. Facebook made it a factchecker. See STOSSEL on 29

China’s Human Rights Abuses Slammed In Key UN Committee Beijing’s widening human rights and political crackdowns in both Xinjiang Province and Hong Kong have underscored the People’s Republic by John J. Metzler of China’s pavSyndicated Columnist lovian reaction involving any opposition towards the ruling communist regime. Though suppressing religious and political dissent is nothing new on the Chinese Mainland, its scope and intensity has deepened under Chairman Xi Jinping’s hardline personalist rule. Now a disparate and diverse group of 39 countries pushed back publicly in the UN’s Third Com-

mittee; Germany’s Ambassador Christoph Heusgen who sponsored the move stated emphatically, “We are gravely concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the recent developments in Hong Kong.” The United States, Canada and United Kingdom joined the condemnation along with much of the European Union such as Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. Other European states included Albania and Bosnia/Herzegovina. In the Asia/Pacific region, Australia, Japan and New Zealand were joined by the Marshall Islands and Palau. A Joint statement on the oppression of Muslims in western China read in part, “On Xinjiang, we are

gravely concerned about the existence of a large network of “political re-education” camps where credible reports indicate that over a million people have been arbitrarily detained. We have seen an increasing number of reports of gross human rights violations. There are severe restrictions on freedom of religion or belief and the freedoms of movement, association, and expression as well as on Uyghur culture.” They added, “Widespread surveillance disproportionately continues to target Uyghurs and other minorities and more reports are emerging of forced labour and forced birth control including sterilization.” Turning to the former British Crown Colony of Hong Kong the statement stressed, “We also share

concerns expressed separately by a group of UN experts that a number of provisions in the Hong Kong National Security Law do not conform to China’s international legal obligations. We have deep concerns about elements of the National Security Law that allow for certain cases to be transferred for prosecution to the Chinese mainland.” They added, “We urge the relevant authorities to guarantee the rights which are protected under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the SinoBritish Joint Declaration, including freedoms of speech, the press and assembly.” Recall that Britain’s 1997 Hong Kong handover to the Peoples’s Republic o f C h i n a See METZLER on 28

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So after New England Patriot quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for the coronavirus the Pats game at Kansas City was first cancelled, then postponed, and then they ended up playing the next day. What? Je ne comprends pas! Newton was later reported to be symptomfree and hoped to get two negative test results so as to return to the playing field. COVID-19 involves serious health risks but fit

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Services COVID Dashboard, as of October 5 (when the Chiefs and Pats actually played—as opposed to October 4) only one Granite Stater under the age of 40 had died from the virus. ONE. Claims of over 200,000 American COVID deaths also need context. Elderly folks account for most deaths. And most of them had concurrent health issues. Why is the death of a COVIDpositive 85-year-old with emphysema, kidney disease and cancer listed as solely due to the coronavirus? Can you say “comorbidity?” (The simultaneous presence of several chronic diseases or conditions in a patient.) Elderly folks with other afflictions are most at risk from not only COVD-19 but also from the flu, the common cold or whatever. Yes, we need to take measures to better protect those most at risk. But does that mean we earlier needed to stop people

from golfing? That we needed to cancel youth sports? That we needed to postpone Big Ten football? Was it truly necessary to dash countless sports dreams while breaking countless sports hearts? There are no definitive answers, but there’s certainly a spectrum/ range of thoughts as to how best to deal with the coronavirus. Think personal responsibility vs. government responsibility. Catholic schools have been open all fall while families in places like Nashua are stymied by risk-averse officials and administrators who’ve kept youngsters out of classrooms and off playing fields. When I was a kid we all had to deal with mumps, measles, chicken pox and more. Schools remained open. Indeed, ponder what our forebears had to contend with: Smallpox, Influenza, Bubonic See MOFFETT on 12

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profile. Looking from left to right, Anbai Ale (salty plum) starts with their signature White Ale wheat beer and is infused with locally-sourced green sour plum and Japanese sea salt. The resulting sour and bitterness balance against this 7% wheat precociously. Next is DaiDai IPA, reaching an 83 of 100 rating from BeerAdvocate. DaiDai is a deeper golden 6.2% ale concentrating on citrusy notes and mild hop goodness. Paired with Chinese takeout of Orange Chicken, DaiDai IPA would go amazingly well. Their 7% Espresso Stout is a deep, dark liquid employing roasted coffee beans. A thick mocha head covers the lusciousness of this cold weather drink. Based on a Russian Imperial Stout recipe, dark beer lovers will find this one very attractive. XH stands for Extra High and is based on a

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Get Your Home Ready For Work And School This Winter (Family Features) Although preparing your home for winter is a fairly consistent process year-to-year, many homes have seen significantly more use this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. If your home will serve as your office or school throughout the winter months, it’s important to address issues that may have been noticed but tolerable during winters past. Consider these tips from the experts at the National Association of the Remodeling Industry to help ensure your home is ready before winter weather strikes. Improve Indoor Air Quality Beyond proper physical and structural considerations of winter preparations, the increased daily usage of your home naturally increases the importance of indoor air quality. Since windows and doors will likely be closed more often, moisture levels within your home can be significantly affected. Use a humidifier, if necessary, to maintain a relative humidity between 45-50%, which is healthier and can feel more comfortable. It can also keep wooden doors and windows functioning properly and wood furniture and floors looking good.

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of the largest culprits of reductions in a home’s efficiency. Small air leaks can add up to significant heat loss and a corresponding increase in energy consumption. If replacing window screens with storm windows and installing a storm door on your house isn’t realistic, increase energy efficiency by sealing gaps around window and door moldings with caulk to help keep heat from escaping. If any pipes or ducts travel through an exterior wall of your home, you can also use caulking and weatherstripping to help block potential entry points for cold air. Check Your Gutters Improper drainage away from the home is one of the biggest causes of water leaking

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Preventative Fall Maintenance Tips For Your Home The leaves are starting to change color and the summer’s heat wave is behind us — all signs that the fall season has finally arrived. With more time spent at home this year, taking on a few preventative home maintenance projects will not only keep your family living space comfortable; it will help safeguard your home investment. Here are a few areas of your home to pay special attention to in the next couple of months:

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From the first time Sandown, NH resident Dan Marrone visited the Wright Museum, he was “hooked.” “This place is a treasure,” he said. Marrone was so moved, in fact, he made a $15,000 investment, which enabled the museum to complete a walkway from its entrance to a Remembrance Garden, framed by flags, shrubbery and memorial bricks. One of these bricks will soon honor Marrone’s father with the inscription, “Dedicated to PFC Daniel Marrone, 3rd Army, WWII, and to all those who comprise ‘the Greatest Generation.’” Daniel Marrone served in General Patton’s Third Army March. “My dad said only two

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NH Resident Supports Museum, Reflects on Father’s Service In WWII things really brought fear into his bones -the German 88mm gun and the V-1/V-2 rockets,” explained Marrone, whose father shared several related stories about each. “Being part of Patton’s 3rd Army, there was a skirmish or two with the German equivalent of Patton, General Irwin Rommel,” he said. “Rommel would throw a rock at you to get you to pursue him until you came to a rise in a hill or a bend in the road, and then they would be waiting for you.” Regarding the German V-1 and V-2, they pummeled England, especially London, almost until the war’s end. Marrone recounted, “I remember my dad saying, ‘You would al-

it once out of sight. When the noise stopped, that was when it began divebombing to its target. It could be miles away from you, but if it exploded, no foxhole was deep enough.’” He said his father was always proud of the fact that his unit spent “343 consecutive days of mud, snow and blood PFC Daniel Marrone, 3rd Army, i n t h e f i e l d without relief WWII but got the job done.” ways hear it before you “He was part saw it. Then it went by of a crew that fired the overhead. Then you Army’s largest cannon -said a prayer that you the 155mm ‘Long Tom,’” would continue to hear he added.

This cannon, explained Marrone, had an 18-mile range and had 90 pound shells. Having worked on the old New Haven Railroad before the war, he said his father was ready to handle loading of the shells by himself. “For the rest of the crew, it was a two-man job,” he laughed. Ironically, Marrone said one of his father’s worst moments came after the war on the trip home from Europe across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary. “A massive storm hit the ship, but its tanklike construction saved all on-board,” he said. “My dad always remembered thinking while riding out the storm, ‘I got through WWII only to die in peacetime?’”

Expressing enthusiasm for the time when the museum can hold a ceremony to commemorate the completion of the Remembrance Garden, Marrone said he will simply “do the next best thing” in the meantime. “I’ll visit and go see my favorite item, the museum’s Pershing tank, which was the only tank the German army feared during the war,” he laughed. The region’s leading resource for educators and learners of all ages on World War II, The Wright features more than 14,000 items in its collection that are representative of both the home front and battle field. Visit wrightmuseum. org for more info.

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Have you noticed an exceptional number of white-breasted nuthatches at your feeders this fall? If so, you’re not alone and migration is the likely reason. We don’t typically think of white-breasted nuthatches as migratory birds. They are reliable backyard feeder birds and yearround residents, just like chickadees and tufted titmice. Do they really migrate? I’ll get to a recent article that describes the white-breasted nuthatch’s irregular migration habits in a minute, but first let me share some information you get when you do an internet search on the subject: “Because they do not migrate, nuthatch pairs store food in, and defend, small wooded areas.” – Perkypet.com “This nuthatch, like most of its genus, is non-migratory, and the adults normally stay in their territory year-round.” – Wikipedia “Usually a permanent resident. In occasional years, numbers may move south in the western and northern parts of the range, in an unexplained irruptive movement; this is far less frequent and less pronounced than in the red-breasted nuthatch.” – Audubon.

A white-breasted nuthatch clings to a branch in CHRIS BOSAK PHOTO New England last week. org Leave it to Audubon to get the specifics right. While the first two sources aren’t way off base, it is inaccurate to say the white-breasted nuthatch is not migratory. Last week in this column, we discussed the Winter Finch Forecast and hypothesized on what finches and other birds will irrupt into New England and farther south this fall and winter. An irruption, as you recall, is when a bird migrates in large numbers some years and little to no numbers in other years. Food availability and competition for food typically dictate

irruptions. An article published on birdcast.info last month states that this indeed a year in which white-breasted nuthatches are migrating in larger-than-normal numbers. Birdcast is a consortium of birding organizations that use high-tech equipment to track migration patterns of birds. The website includes daily bird migration forecast maps and is definitely worth checking out. According to the article, white-breasted nuthatches follow typical irruptive migration patterns, such as unpredictable years

and moving east, west or even north to find food as well as south. Strong white-breasted nuthatch migration years seem to coincide with that of the redbreasted nuthatch, which gets much more attention during irruptive years. “Looking at count data from bird observatories at migration hotspots, a pattern quickly emerges — the white-breasted nuthatch movement tends to occur the same year as irruptions of redbreasted nuthatches. These comparisons would be impossible without long-term migration monitoring data from bird observatories such as Long Point in Ontario, which has careSee BOSAK on 23

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six at a time on my deck railing grabbing the sunflower seeds I’ve dispersed. Studying the whitebreasted nuthatch migration is nothing new. I found in my research an article from 1968 by the Bureau of Research, New Jersey State Museum entitled “An Extraordinary Autumn Migration of White-Breasted Nuthatches.” The article has an auspicious beginning: “Conflicting data concerning the occurrence, or lack of occurrence, of Whitebreasted Nuthatch migrations have existed for decades, and this lack of agreement still continues in the literature.” More than 50 years later, the whitebreasted nuthatch migration is still largely overlooked. The 1968 article is similar to last month’s

birdcast.info article in that it recognizes the similar pattern of migration frequency among the two nuthatch species and points to much anecdotal evidence as support. Just when you think you know your common backyard birds, you learn they have fascinating stories of travel to tell. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@ gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com

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SMITH from 1 The historic district covers an area of fifty acres that comprises the village of Waterloo. The search for a fugitive from justice led to the naming of the settlement to the west of the main village of Warner. Samuel Champlin was a tradesman who owed $2,000 to a man from Boston, Thomas Whitman. In the year 1819 Mr. Whitman made a trip to Warner to collect the debt and an arrangement was made with Henry B. Chase and Stephen Currier, Jr. to sign a note with Mr. Champlin to pay the man from Boston. Some agreement was made whereby Champlin would reimburse Chase and Currier for their part of the payment but he failed to do so. Instead he ran away. Mr. Currier and a John Kimball were appointed Deputy Sheriffs

House my grandparents lived in during the late 1800s and early 1900s and the same house today. to find Mr. Champlin and bring him back for trial. The deputies found their man in Waterloo, New York. Warner’s historian wrote that Kimball thought the town to be “...the most delightful village he had ever seen.” So he brought back the fugitive and also brought back the name Waterloo and applied it to the vil-

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lage in which he lived in New Hampshire. Settlers came to Warner in 1762 and by the next year there are said to have been 43 families in the town with 45 acres of land each by the conditions set by the proprietors. The settlement became a legally established town in September of 1774 and was given its cur-

My Mother, Dorothea Gage Smith at left with her friend, Marjorie Aiken. rent name by Governor Wentworth, probably in honor of one or both of the men on his council with the last name of Warner, Jonathan and Daniel. My great-grandparents came to Waterloo long afterwards, in the 1900’s, and my GreatGrandfather, Roger Gage, was the stationmaster at the Waterloo Train Station. At its beginning it appears that, like much of rural New Hampshire, became a farming community as the settlers cleared their

land , grew crops and raised animals. If Warner residents wanted to travel, the means of getting somewhere until the mid1800’s was by stagecoach. But things changed in 1849 when the Concord and Claremont Railroad opened up transportation to the outside world. Not only were the people of the town afforded an easier means of travel, but the trains provided a means of transporting manufactured goods to outside markets. Mills

were built along the Warner River where water power was available. Roger Gage was born in Washington, New Hampshire in the year 1851 and went to the State of New York as a young man for a number of years before returning to New Hampshire in 1879 and making his home in Waterloo until his death. He met his wife, Jennie Neaskern, in New York State and my grandfather, Charles Gage was born in Clayville, New York. The Gages were parents of eight children, five of them boys and four of them girls, two of which died as children. The house that they lived in still stands on New Market Street across the covered bridge over the Warner river from the Railroad Station where Roger was station-master for the Boston and Maine Railroad. He also served as Postmaster and “engaged in trade”, selling Edison phonographs. One of my pleasures as a child was listening to the old music coming from the cylinder records on the Edison phonograph in our home. Not only did my grandfather Charles Gage and his siblings have the enjoyment of See SMITH on 25

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My Great-grandparents, Roger and Jennie Gage on their 50th wedding anniversary on August 24, 1920. (100 years ago). SMITH from 24 living along the Warner River in Waterloo near the train station, my Mother also apparently spent time there with her grandparents. Waterloo was a special place to her and I remember when I was a child spending a short time fishing there in the river. Next to the former Gage house going up the hill is a cemetery that is actually above the house in elevation. My great grandparents and some of their children are buried there in the front corner of the cemetery near the house in which they lived. So I guess it was alright for me to feel that a part of Waterloo belongs to me as I spent a few minutes viewing the house and adjacent cemetery, along with walking through the covered bridge and viewing what was the old railroad station where my Mother’s grandfather worked. I was saddened to see that the old railroad station has changed in its usage and no longer

looks like the station it was in the past when those steam locomotives would come chugging up the tracks. I read that there were once seven train stops in Warner as a result of the commerce that built up around the river when the railroad came to town. My grandfather also worked for the Boston and Maine, doing so for 55 years of his life. On Waterloo Street above the river and the covered bridge, etc. are a number of houses with plaques designating them as being on the national register of historic places. An 1895 article by Amanda B. Harris in the Granite Monthly magazine says of Waterloo: “Once this village was the scene of active industries. The falls ready for the use of man were known to the proprietors as ‘the Great Falls.’ Once there were saw-mill, grist-mill, tannery, and paper-mill. There were also a bakery and a book-bindery. Today Waterloo has the leisurely look of a place where the residents

can take their ease and enjoy their flowers. It is the summer retreat of many families, who come as early as they can and stay as long as they can.” That was in 1895, back when my ancestors did indeed own part of the district as their Waterloo.

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On top of Mount Crawford the golfing gals Sharon and Sarah are happy to return to the White Mountains. The Giant Stairs, Stairs Mountain, are over Sharon’s shoulder to the right and in the distance you can see Mount Washington and the Southern Presidential Range. PATENAUDE from 3 My friends, Sarah and Sharon since completing the 4,000 footer list have become interested in visiting more splendid peaks in the White Mountains. Peaks not on the extremely popular 4,000 footer list tend to be less crowded. The Davis Path has a large paved parking lot and

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Best seats in the house to enjoy an early lunch on top of Mount Crawford. We’re facing the West taking in the big vista where Mount Carrigain is the center of our attention. Location. (Hart’s Location is also famous for being the smallest town in New Hampshire and First in the Nation for Voting.) The first part of the hike is gentle but then wham it’s steep. We appreciated the switchbacks and the fine stone steps that protect the trail and provide good safe footing. At 1.9 miles the trail breaks out to an open ledge and we enjoyed our first

big views of the mountains and the valley below. From here the view just kept getting better. The signs for the spur trail to the summit are made out of plain wood and do not stand out and are difficult to see. Bria was leading and nearly walked past the intersection. We turned left off the Davis Path and hiked up over a steep bare granite. I don’t recall any blazes but once at the top of

the ledge the path foodbed is easy to follow. There were a few people on the top. The open area is large and we chose to sit and eat an early lunch facing west. We could see down below the Notchland Inn and across to Mt. Bemis, Mt. Nancy and Mt. Carrigain. Together we reminisced about our adventures to the peaks that we had hiked together. We pulled out a map and identified more of the peaks in the far distance. The young man that had passed us earlier saw us with the map and asked us about continuing on to Mt. Stairs. We showed him the map and he saw that it was another 2.2 miles up the Davis Path to Stair’s spur path. Bria gave him more details about what to expect along the way and we pointed out the route to the mountain too. Mt. Crawford is an excellent vantage to see all the peaks on its path to Mount Washington. The four of us spent a good hour on the See PATENAUDE on 27

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 15, 2020 — PATENAUDE from 26 summit enjoying every minute of the fine fall day. On our way back down we passed by a few dozen hikers and maybe just as many dogs. Most of the dogs were well behaved and on leashes. A few, well, their owners could use some training. We made fast work of picking our way down the mountain and when we reached the suspension bridge we lingered a few moments admiring the river. When we reached the car we could hear a train coming near. The train tracks run along the west side of Route 302. It was just after 1 pm and the Conway Scenic Railroad Mountaineer Train was headed up Crawford Notch full of happy riders waving at us. We enthusiastically waved back and watched the train

From the Davis Path parking lot we watched the Conway Scenic Railroad train heading up Crawford Notch with car loads of happy leaf peepers. The riders joyfully waved to us and we enthusiastically waved back. Train rides originate from the North Conway’s historic train station and run daily throughout the month and into November. continue all the way by before we jumped into our own cars to go home. Have fun.

Amy Patenaude is an avid skier/outdoor enthusiast from Henniker, N.H. Readers are wel-

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MALKIN from 6 around us, including young children, pregnant women, adults, 65 years of age or older and those with underlying chronic health conditions.” What Fauci won’t tell you: Health care workers have for years objected to mandatory flu shots, citing several meta-analyses by the respected Cochrane Collaboration and studies by other mainstream researchers showing weak or no evidence that vaccinated workers are less likely to transmit the flu virus. In fact, after publishing an analysis of 50 controlled studies of flu shots in healthy adults, the Cochrane Collaboration in 2010 found only “modest” benefits of reducing flu symptoms and concluded that there was “no evidence” that the shots affected flu complications such as pneumo-

nia. The independent Cochrane researchers slammed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for ignoring the “quality of the evidence” and instead quoting “anything that supports their theory.” The Cochrane Systematic Reviews, the gold standard for evidence-based scientific analysis, studied flu shots in children and found that “little evidence is available for children younger than two years of age.” Moreover, its researchers noted in 2012, “It was surprising to find only one study of inactivated vaccine in children under two years, given current recommendations to vaccinate healthy children from six months of age in the USA, Canada, parts of Europe and Australia.” Six years later, the Cochrane team found there was still not enough data to

determine the effect of vaccination on school absenteeism and parental work absenteeism. And the effect of repeat flu shots on kids, the team concluded, was “uncertain.” As for pregnant women: In 2017, a study conducted by the CDC itself and published in the peer-reviewed journal Vaccine, reported an association between repeated flu vaccination and miscarriages. The results confirmed an earlier 2013 study published in Human & Experimental Toxicology that uncovered a flu shot-miscarriage link in women who received both the seasonal and the pandemic H1N1 flu shot during the 20082009 flu season. Earlier research hypothesized that a “synergistic fetal toxicity” might have resulted from receiving both pandemic and seasonal flu shots. Independent jour-

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 15, 2020 — STOSSEL from 7 Facebook says I can appeal its throttling of my video, but my appeal must go to Climate Feedback, possibly the very activists who’d made up quotes from me. I tried to appeal. I emailed Nikki Forrester, Climate Feedback’s editor. She didn’t respond. But two of the three scientists listed as reviewers agreed to interviews. The first was Stefan Doerr of Swansea University. When I asked why he smeared me based on something I never said, he replied, “I’ve never commented on your article.” That was a shock. He hadn’t seen my video. I referred him to the Climate Feedback webpage that Facebook cited when labeling my video “misleading.” The page lists him as a “reviewer.” “If this is implying that we have reviewed the video,” said Doerr, “then this is clearly wrong. There’s something wrong with the system.” There sure is. Doerr guessed that my video was flagged because I’d interviewed environmentalist Michael Shellenberger. His new book, “Climate Apocalypse,” criticizes environmental alarmism. Climate Feedback says Shellenberger makes “overly simplistic argumentation about climate change.” Their other reviewer was Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at The Breakthrough Institute. He hadn’t seen my video either. “I certainly did not write a Climate Feedback piece reviewing your segment.” So, I sent him the

video. After he watched it, I asked, “Is (misleading) a fair label?” “I don’t necessarily think so,” he replied. “While there are plenty of debates around how much to emphasize fire management vs. climate change, your piece clearly discussed that both were at fault.” After those confrontations, Climate Feedback’s editor finally responded to our emails. She gave us an address where we could file a complaint. We did. They wrote back, “after reviewing the video” (at least they now watched it), they stand by their smear because the “video misleads viewers by oversimplifying the drivers of wildfires.” And both scientists I interviewed wrote to say, yes, we agree, the video downplays the role of climate change. That’s what this censorship is about. In my video, Shellenberger dares say, “A small change in temperature is not the difference between normalcy and catastrophe.” Climate Feedback doesn’t want people to hear that. It’s wrong for Facebook to give these activists the power to throttle videos they don’t like. John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.

MAILBOAT from 2 advocate defunding the police. Biden , Harris and the Demolitioncrats have failed to condemn the rioting, looting and violence of ANTIFA and Black lives matter, as these organizations have inflicted billions of dollars of property damage on Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington ;Minneapolis; Minnesota and other major cities. 2.) The President signed into law the criminal justice reform with the passage of the First Step Act. Biden is responsible for mass incarceration, especially of black people. Ask Jim Brown, Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens and an endless list of black Trump supporters. 3.) The President is the most pro-life President ever. He follows the science that now tells us a fetus is a human being Biden supports radical abortion policies, despite the murder of 1,000,000 babies per year since 1968. 4.)The President supports educational CHOICE for everyone because he thinks an educational system should put students first. Biden supports public school teacher unions first because those unions contribute millions of dollars of forced union dues to the Demolitioncrat party. 5.) The President ardently supports the First Amendment: freedom of speech, religion, and association. The President supports the second amendment , the right to bear arms, because he knows without the Second Amendment ANTFA and BLM , both Communist organizations, will use force to take away your First Amendment rights. Biden declared war on the Second Amendment because of his senility or because he supports the

mob violence that has become a Demolitioncrat scourge in our country. If you vote for “ Hiden Biden”, you are voting for mob violence and Communist rule. 6.) The President supports Americas energy independence. The consequences of this leadership are gas prices around $2.00 per gallon, which fuels a domestic economy even in fraudulent Pandemic times and international peace , as evidenced by the unparalleled Middle East treaties. Biden will stop our energy supremacy, support 10.00 per gallon gas, as the Obama administration did, impose AOC’s Green New Deal, which would destroy 10.3 million jobs. 7.) The President defeated ISIS and economically devastated the Mullahs in Iran including the assassination terrorist leaders, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi of ISIS and Qasem Soleimani, leader of the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Biden opposed the raid on Osama bin Laden and, according to his Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been “ wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue” in the past 40 years. 8.) The President made America first when

China is involved: shut down China’s spying operation in its Houston consulate, on- shoring our pharmaceutical and manufacturing industry from China and shut down travel to and from China this January. Bejing Biden and family accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the Chinese after spending decades appeasing China. Vote Donald Trump. Your life depends on it. Charles Bradley Laconia, NH.

SHAPIRO from 6 seized the spotlight back by talking about illegal immigrant caravans, and Democrats won. Joe Biden has learned the lesson. Biden has spent this campaign pointing at Trump. Trump, who should be pointing at Biden, is too busy pointing at himself. Unless Trump somehow suppresses his ego enough to allow Biden to become the issue, Trump is likely to exit the political stage altogether come Nov. 3. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

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