10/24/2024 Weirs Times

The STory of Wolfeboro’S PorT –ParT 1

by David Warren

Contributing Writer

We were down at the Wolfeboro waterfront recently when my wife exclaimed “here comes the Mount!”, so we rushed over to the wharf to watch the drama unfold. The dock worker, animated by his role as master of ceremonies, was telling the

crowd of eager shipmates what they were about to experience. As the old girl approached, my wife said “she’s coming in too fast!”. But I knew that the captain would maneuver her precisely with the new engines. As she made her moorings, crew members tossed out heaving lines, the dock worker

pulled in the heavy hawsers and dropped them on the bollards, and the crew winched her in. The captain, standing at his lofty perch on the starboard bridge wing admonished the crew to hurry up with the boarding ramps. “We have places to go and things to do” he said. Soon ev-

eryone was aboard, the crew released the mooring lines and the grand old girl sailed away on a perfect summer day. And I reflected on the times in centuries past when passengers, freight and even large animals traveled across the lake between the many port towns.

“Spooky” Poetry At Wolfeboro Library

Greet Halloween with the haunting poetry of two American masters, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe on Tuesday evening, October 29 at 6pm at the Wolfeboro Public Library. Author, poet, and student of literature Jeffrey Zygmont will recite some gruesome poems in a pounding cadence by Poe, and the more quietly haunting, eerie, and elusive works by Dickinson.

He’ll provide helpful explanations and commentary on each of the featured poems to help you fully understand, appreciate, and enjoy them. The program will include summaries of the lives and works of the two celebrated poets.

This will be Jeffrey Zygmont’s third visit to the Wolfeboro Library. He’s delighted past audiences with his pitch-perfect recital of Robert Frost’s works and last year’s recital of Poe’s “The Raven.”

The October 29 program is free and open to all. For more information on this or other Wolfeboro Library programs, please visit the Library’s website at wolfeborolibrary.org or call 603-569-2428.

A model of The Pavilion Hotel in Wolfeboro by David Warren. In the upper corner is a photo of the Pavilion which was in business from 1849-1899.

Abortion Issue Diverts Attention

To The Editor:

Is anyone trying to stop women from having babies, from getting care for their pregnancies and babies, or from getting emergency care? No.

The proclaimed “Reproductive rights” is used to divert attention from the harm that Democrat policies do, especially to women.

About 20,000 women, and even more men, are killed annually by fentanyl and other deadly drugs coming through the Democrats’ open border.

Transgender policies let biological males invade women’s private spaces, causing discomfort and fear, enabling rape, and lets males dominate women’s sports, winning awards and scholarships meant for women, and sometimes causing severe injuries to women.

Democrats’ lenient criminal policies frees criminals to abuse, rape, and murder thousands of women annually. While making life more dangerous, Democrats push for gun control laws that make women even more vulnerable.

Increasing numbers of Americans struggle to feed, house, and otherwise provide for their families due to Democrat economic policies.

The term “reproductive rights” is a misnomer, a euphemism for killing babies, not for healthcare. Democrats and the media lie about existing and Democrat proposed abortion laws.

Democrats falsely say they want to make Roe v Wade the law of the land. If true, Democrats would support Roe v. Wade consistent abortion laws like those in most North Eastern states, including New Hampshire. Bi-partisan support exists in Congress for such a law.

But Democrats fight to allow extreme abortions, even at the moment of birth, and outlaw all state controls including those protecting minors. (H.R.3755)

Abortion laws are attempts to balance women’s needs and society’s respect for human life. Democrat politicians reject democratically established sensible compromises because they want to use the abortion issue to divert attention from the harm that Democrat policies cause, especially to women.

Don Ewing Meredith, NH

Democratic Party Not What It Used To Be

To The Editor:

The Democratic Party of JFK doesn’t exist anymore. It was the party of constitutional rights, freedom of speech, civil liberties, and peace: JFK never sent anyone to war. Differing views were discussed prior to actions being taken, back then.

Today’s Democratic Party only cares about power, and holding on to that power at all cost, no matter what. The dangerous mindset of today’s Democratic Party is total allegiance, not to our country, not

to our flag, not to our principles & values enshrined in the Constitution, it is total allegiance to the party leadership. The unelected Deep State and Global Elite are deeply entrenched in today’s Democratic party. Their mission is the destruction of this country to facilitate their desire for the establishment of a one-world government. What does that sound like? Not a democratic republic, not a constitutional republic, it’s a banana republic and a dictatorship. That is why we can’t allow Kamala Harris to win the presidency and we must elect Donald Trump. President Trump is now doing what Democrats used to do; welcome people into the cause of freedom, peace & prosperity, so that we can stand together as Americans.

You just lived through four years of the Trump/Pence Administration (T/P Admin) and almost four years of the Biden/ Harris Administration (B/H Admin). Under T/P Admin, we had the greatest economy we have ever had; the most safe, secure, and protected border in American history; fair negotiated trade deals that brought back manufacturing; energy independence and one small step away from energy dominance; we were firm with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and they respected us.

Under B/H Admin, they have opened our southern border to millions of illegal aliens (undocumented & unvetted) including drug dealers, human traffickSee MAILBOAT on 29

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by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

A major Granite State sports story this fall involved neither football, NASCAR, nor the Red Sox, but rather girls’ soccer.

We’re looking at you, Bow, N.H.

The story wasn’t really about soccer between the pitch lines, but rather about those spectating from the sidelines. Mostly parents. At least at first.

You see, Bow High School hosted a Plymouth High team that included a transgender girl/biological male— which troubled many folks, who then chose to publicly share their concerns.

Schools like Plymouth High and Kearsarge High unfortunately opted to ignore a new law recently signed by Governor Sununu pro-

SPorTS, SPeech, SchoolS, and boW

hibiting biological males from competing on girls’ teams. The law was based on a measure I cosponsored — HB1205. The new statute was naturally challenged in court, which means it will be a while before the relevant issues are fully defined legally. I won’t rehash all the aspects involved here, other than to state that while most of us sympathize with all youngsters who just want to play ball, any policy which allows athletes to pick either male or female teams

based on the gender with which they claim to identify is problematical. Inconveniently, some gender identifications change over time. (We’re looking at you, Caitlyn Jenner.) But beyond that, if access to teams—and inevitably bathrooms and locker rooms—is based on “identification” rather than chromosomes, then bad actors are sure to exploit circumstances. They already have. This endangers girls in their private, personal spaces, as well

as on the soccer pitch— where there is already inherent risk involving 150-pound biological males colliding with 100-pound biological females. Sorry.

Concerned Bow parents shared their worries by simply and silently wearing pink wristbands marked by XX—which represents the female chromosome. The male chromosome is symbolized by XY. The game’s referee reportedly stopped the game and imperiously stated that Bow would forfeit if the parents didn’t take off their wristbands. The wristbands were removed.

Following the game, several parents received “No Trespass Orders” banning them from school grounds and events. So much for watching your kid play soccer.

Having spent much of my life in education, I understand how insular the education establish-

EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

NH Veterans Home Art Show

Veterans of the New Hampshire Veterans Home (NHVH) will be hosting an Art Show on Friday, November 1st, from 10am to Noon, and 1-3pm at 139 Winter Street in Tilton, NH. This event features free admission and will take place in the Home’s ‘Town Hall’ great room, accessible via the entrance near the corner of Winter Street and Colby Road in Tilton. The wide variety of veterans’ art on display will include pencil drawings, watercolor paintings, acrylic paintings, photography, poetry, and magnetic art. In addition to veteran art displays and conversation with artists, the Show will feature live music performances by veterans and employees, including the National Anthem, sung by Heather Sparano, NH Veterans Home Volunteer Services employee; patriotic selections from the New Hampshire Veterans Home Company Beat music group; and guitar with vocal performances by Eric Erskine, NHVH Volunteer. Additionally, visiting artists from The Galleries at 30 Main from Meredith, NH, will provide demonstrations, displays, and art conversations. The NH Veterans Home residents, staff and volunteers recognize RED (Remember Everyone Deployed) shirt Fridays in solidarity to support our deployed troops. Art Show attendees are invited to wear red to show their support; RED shirts are also available for purchase in the Home’s ‘Main Street Store’.

The NHVH is home to 136 men and women veterans who have served their country and fellow New Hampshire citizens. NHVH was established in Tilton in 1890 as the Soldier’s Home for Civil War Veterans and serves its mission to provide high quality, professional long-term care services to the Granite State’s elderly and disabled veterans with dignity, honor and respect. NHVH is the State’s only long-term care facility dedicated exclusively to veterans. For more information, call (603) 527-4400 or visit www.nh.gov/veterans, www.facebook.com/nhveteranshome.

American Independence Museum To Offer “Spooky”

Stroll

Carter Mountain Brass Band In Gilford

The Carter Mountain Brass Band will be performing at the First United Methodist Church in Gilford on Sunday, Oct 27th at 3pm.

The band is part of the Northern New England Heritage Brass Association, a 501(c)(3) organization, whose goal is to promote the performance and appreciation of brass instrumental music in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and beyond. The Carter Mountain Brass Band performs the rich heritage of brass music from the 16th century to the present day.

Carter Mountain has dedicated this year’s concert season to the memory of their first conductor and resident arranger, John Beyrent a founding member of the group, educator, and trumpeter extraordinaire. All program selections have been arranged, transcribed, and/or specifically adapted for the Carter Mountain Brass Band by John.

From his 131 arrangements for the band, music director Debbi Gibson has chosen a wellrounded program of classical, folk, liturgical, and popular music, with a toe-tapping march for good measure.

A reception with refreshments immediately following the concert will give the audience an opportunity to meet the band members as well as indulge in light fare.

The concert is free, but a donation of $8 is appreciated and will be collected at the door. The band will be donating all proceeds of the concert to the church as a ‘Thank You’ for allowing them to use the building for rehearsal space.

The church is located at 18 Wesley Way (off Route 11A, near the Rt. 3/11 bypass exit for Gilford). For more information, call the church at 603-524-3289.

Exeter - On Sunday, October 27, at 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., the American Independence Museum (AIM) will offer a “spooky” walking tour, Exeter After Dark: Crime, Haunts, and Local Lore. Beginning at Folsom Tavern (1775), the 1.5-mile tour will explore the historic streets of Exeter and Water Street Cemetery. While strolling, guests will learn about alleged ghost sightings, UFOs, and the town’s darkest mysteries. The 90-minute tour will also focus on the supernatural history of AIM and Folsom Tavern, where spiritualists, who believed the spirits of the dead could communicate with the living, once gathered. The tour will also discuss true crime, including serial killer H.H. Holmes’ connection to Exeter.

Tickets for Exeter After Dark: Crime, Haunts, and Local Lore are $15 for AIM members and $20 for non-members. Guests should arrive at Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, 10 minutes before the scheduled tour time.

The walking tour is not the only supernatural event of the season at AIM, which will also welcome North East Paranormal Associates, a group of paranormal investigators, for Beer for History on Thursday, October 24. To purchase tickets for either event, visit independencemuseum.org. Home to a world-class collection of 3,000 historic artifacts, AIM develops programs, events, and exhibits that honor and invite inclusive and diverse perspectives. AIM is partly sponsored by The Society Of The Cincinnati In The State Of New Hampshire, Service Credit Union, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and William W. Treat Foundation.

Teen Worship Night And Concert In Alton

The Community Church Of Alton is hosting a teen worship night and concert for all teens and youth groups on Friday, October 25th.

This concert is free to attend. Hailey Chalifour will be performing with her band.

The concert will start at 6:30pm and they will play until 8pm.

This concert will take place at the Community Church od Alton’s church building at 20 Church Street, Alton NH.

The building is handicapped accessible.

Homeschooling families are encouraged to attend and are welcome!

Parking is available at the church building and on Church Street. Please register large groups at www.ccalton.com .

by Brendan Smith Weirs

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NEW HAMPSHIRE

The home STreTch

As we hit the home stretch of my own run for governor of New Hampshire representing the Flatlander Party, I am always looking for ways to get my message out there while spending as little money as possible.

As of this morning, I have sixty-two dollars in my campaign war chest. (It was forty-two last week, so thank you Jim.)

In past years I found it hard to keep up with my opponents who were spending hundreds and even thousands of dollars on oversize political mailers that were stuffed into mailboxes around the state, suffocating the smaller, less important mail like mortgage payments, magazine subscriptions and handwritten letters from family members who you haven’t seen for years.

This season it seems there is a lot less of that, at least at our house, and more and more candidates are turning to social media and other less expensive options. (After the last election cycle, I was considering replacing our small letter sized metal mailbox attached to our house that has been there for years in order to better accommodate the giant redundant cardboard mailers from candidates. I am happy I waited.)

So, it has become a little easier for me to compete (and not to mention to read those handwritten letters from far away loved ones which used to get crushed beyond recognition by those mailers.)

Of course, I still can’t afford those professionally produced campaign ads of some candidates that I see on Facebook and alike. You know the ones where they show the candidate

walking around town, talking to people and smiling (sometimes walking his dog, or maybe it’s a professional acting dog) with a voice over telling about all the things the candidate promises (but probably will not be able to accomplish) if elected. For some reason it seems to be important to show the candidate, in the last scene of the ad, standing there with his arms crossed looking into the camera, as the voice over repeats his name and a catch slogan like: “Vote So and So for a stronger New Hampshire” or something else generic and boring.

I did try to make my own video to post. Using my cell phone I filmed myself walking around town sans dog and stopping to shake people’s hands, but I got a lot of funny looks. I also found it nearly impossible to take a video of myself folding my arms while a forcing a concerned look.

Another cheap way to promote my candidacy is by writing letters to the editor. Being the editor of this paper I can’t in all fairness write letters to myself, so I have been working on some letters to send to other publications.

I first read letters from other candidates to try and get some ideas.

I read one letter by a candidate running for reelection for local state office who claimed he “will work day and night tirelessly” for the people. I didn’t think that would be a good idea for me to use that old phrase, since I do like to take the occasional nap. (And I’m sure that candidate does as well. At least that’s what I’ve heard.)

There were other letters from other candidates using the same old, same old, tried and not so true slogans sprinkled throughout their blather like: “I’ll be a strong voice in Concord,” “I’ll represent all the people,” “I’ll fight for you,” blah, blah, blah.

I feel in my letter I need something new and exciting besides

these relics. Maybe something like, “a vote for me is a vote for me,” or maybe “I’ll be a strong and tireless voice for you except for those afternoons when I need a nap.”

I haven’t made my mind up yet. I’ll keep you posted.

Another campaign tactic I will take advantage of with my limited budget is standing at intersections and in the middle of roundabouts asking drivers for their votes.

Since I don’t have enough funds to have professional campaign signs produced, and since my handwriting is so atrocious that there is a risk of people getting into accidents while trying to read what any handmade sign might say, I thought it best that I just stand there and wave while yelling at cars as they drive by.

Of course, being late October, most of the drivers windows will be closed, so I imagine I will have to scream a bit.

I’m hoping that the infamous incident from 2022 doesn’t repeat itself where drivers stopped to try to make out I was saying and caused some traffic problems.

“I’M BRENDAN SMITH AND I NEED YOU To WRITE IN MY NAME FOR GOVERNOR.”

“DID YOU SAY BRANDAN SMITH?”

“NO, HE SAID BRENT.”

“I COULDA SWORN HE SAID BRENDON:

“NO, BRENDAN. BRENDA WITH AN N.” I corrected.

It wasn’t long before, the police were called and I was asked to leave.

Whichever tactic I use, I will do my best to get the vote. (Also, I now only have sixty dollars left in my war chest. I needed to buy a cup of coffee so I could finish this column.

Times Editor

Letters From God

QUESTION How Can We Know You Are Real?

I realize that because I am not visible to your human eyes, it is understandable that you would think that I am not real, a mere figment of your imagination. This thinking is flawed however, because you believe with certainty, many things that aren’t seen. Things like, radiation from the Sun, air molecules, diseases that are airborne, like Covid, radio, tv and various invisible waves passing through the air, enabling you to use sophisticated machines like computers and cell phones. You would never say they aren’t real just because you can’t see them. You

can’t see them because they exist in various forms that your eyes are not equipped to appropriate. If this is true for these and many more unseen realities, you must also apply this thinking to me.

Letters From God

That leads me to explain why you can believe that I am real.

First, you must understand that, unlike me, I created you with flesh and blood to live in a physical world and universe that is limited in its dimensions. You can only exist and know things in dimensions of width, height and depth and time. Because of these limitations you are unable to see or perceive anything that exists in dimensions beyond your four. It is in these dimensions that I exist. Because of my ability to live in dimensions beyond yours, I can live in your dimensions without you seeing me, even as very real radiation from the Sun or air molecules can’t be seen with the human eye. You who exist in limited dimensions, can’t live in my dimensions unless it is granted to you. If you have read my book, the Bible, this reality is evidenced in my son, Jesus. As God, he too lives in other dimensions, yet he appeared at various times in your dimensions in history, even before his birth (Genesis 18:13; 32:24-25, 28-30).

On the other hand, Isaiah and Paul, who were limited to earthly dimensions, stood in my presence in heaven only because they were equipped with a special ability for a brief time (Isaiah 6:1-8; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4).

Other reasons to know I am real, are evidenced in my book, the Bible. In it, I reveal information and prophecies that can only be known by someone who is preexistent and all powerful. In the Creation account of Genesis 1 and 2, no one was present to record the events. I revealed how your existence began. Despite attempts to rationalize it away with theories that are unprovable and crumbling as new technology are utilized, my account is being confirmed. The theory of evolution, that stands on the need for everything in existence to be the product of simple forms expanding and developing into complex forms over time, is debunked. It is disproven by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which states that everything is moving from order to disorder, not disorder to order. Recent discoveries in DNA are proving, the coded information I placed in each of your cells is degrading over time and leading not to upward movement but a steady downward slide, demonstrating genetic decay. The fact that there are not millions of transitional forms existing on the earth, as the byproduct of the slow evolutionary process, also proves my description of creation and therefor my existence as the eternal God.

Along with information revealed by me, that could only come from one who is outside your limited realm of human existence, there are a myriad number of prophecies made in

my book, the Bible, and fulfilled, proving my existence. This fact confirms that I exist and possess the attributes of God, namely omniscience, which is knowing all things, and omnipotence, which is possessing almighty power to ensure they happen (Isaiah 42:89). I predicted immediately after Adam & Eve sinned, that the Messiah would come from the woman and crush the head or power of the Devil (Genesis 3:15). I predicted that he would be born in Bethlehem, (Micah 5:2) hundreds of years before his mother Mary and Joseph were commanded to report to Bethlehem, by an edict of an unbelieving Roman Caesar (Luke 2:14). I predicted he would die by crucifixion and be raised from the dead to prove he is Messiah (Psalm 22; Isaiah 53:10-12). I predicted through my son, Jesus, that the temple and city would be destroyed, as it was only 40 years after he was raised from the dead and returned to me in heaven (Mark 13:1-2). I told you that before my Son returns to the earth, there would be a great defection from faith in me throughout the world, and then his return would end human history (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Look around you and see what is happening. Following his return, my final judgment will reward those who believed in me and trusted my son to be their Savior, with eternal life and for those who continued in their sin, eternal punishment (1

The braT energy iS

gone

When Kamala Harris first jumped into the 2024 race, the joy was palpable. Every major Democrat leapt to celebrate. The legacy media uncorked the Champagne. Rank-andfile Democratic voters had a pep in their step. After all, the Democratic Party had pulled off an unprecedented feat: After rigging the Democratic primaries to avoid any serious opposition to ailing incumbent Joe Biden, they had, without a single vote, removed his nomination and handed it to Biden’s younger, more diverse vice president.

What could go wrong?

The theory was simple: The problem with Biden’s campaign was Biden. It wasn’t the issues. It wasn’t Americans’ view of the country more broadly. It was just the doddering old man wandering around stages and speaking mushmouth. Put him out of his misery like Old Yeller, the theory went, and Democrats could insert literally anyone and beat the much-despised Donald Trump. For a few weeks, it seemed they might be right.

Harris soared in the polls; suddenly, where Trump had led by anywhere between three and five points nationally, she was ahead by a similar margin. In the swing states, where Biden had fallen

North Korean Troops To Ukraine; Cannon Fodder Or Combat Training?

by John J. Metzler Syndicated Columnist

The rumors were true. The apparent dispatch of elite North Korean military units to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine appears at first surprising but actually is quite logical given the historic and comradely ties between Pyongyang and Moscow. After all, North Korea’ s isolated Kim Jong-un regime has forged increasingly close ties with Putin’s Russia and the cash- strapped North Koreans have shipped more than eight million 122mm and 152mm artillery shells to Russia during in the past year.

The story goes back to the mists

of WWII and the close political and military links between Stalin’s Soviet Union and various Korean communist factions fighting the Japanese. Many Koreans had fled to the Soviet Far East and had come under the patronage of the Soviet military. Many would formally join the Red Army; one such Korean was Kim Il-sung who was a loyal and unquestioning Red Army Captain and was personally selected by Stalin to rule what would become the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) aka North Korea in 1948. While there were many Korean partisan factions fighting the Japanese, one was pro-Chinese communist, others nationalist, and others pro-Soviet; it was Kim’s faction which had Stalin’s blessing and was given the mandate to

Quelling naTional debT iS Key To ProSPeriTy, freedom

The Official national debt is $35.4 trillion as I write this. This doesn’t count any future obligations under Social Security, Medicare, or our overstretched military commitments. The federal government has paid north of $1 trillion in gross interest on its debt for fiscal 2024, up 30% from the same period a year ago. The jump in debt service costs came as the U.S. budget deficit surged in August, edging closer to $2 trillion for the full year.

But let’s start, as you have to with anyone that has overused their credit card, by dealing with the official debt. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last year was $27.4 trillion. Estimates put the GDP for 2024 at

$28.8 trillion.

Using a rough guess of $36.2 trillion for the debt at the end of 2024, that gives us a debt/GDP ratio of 126%.

The U.S. debt/GDP ratio in 2001, according to Federal Reserve FRED figures, was 54%. In less than a quarter of a century we have gone from being a bit less responsible than Switzerland to being more indebted than Portugal and Spain. (We’re still better than Greece and Italy… but we don’t have Germany, France and the rest of the EU to bail us out.)

Our political class has completely lost control of spending. Neither party has shown any commitment to fiscal sanity. Simply paying the interest on the national debt is taking away our options. Continuing to print money to cover our deficit spending only drives up inflation,

further eroding the buying power of the dollars in your pocket.

How can we restore a healthy economy? Like any family: by reducing expenses, cutting out wasteful and unnecessary spending, balancing the federal budget and freeing up labor and capital to be more productive and grow our economy. The last time the U.S. had a balanced budget was in the 1990s when Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House with a Republican majority and Bill Clinton was president.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of obsolete federal programs that can be cut or eliminated.

We need to take a chainsaw to corporate welfare. Taxing small companies to pay for gifts to Intel and other large companies does not help the economy, it is just a transfer to those with political influence. Programs like the ethanol subsidy not

only hurt the economy, they hurt the environment.

We need both cuts in federal dinosaur programs and a renaissance in the U.S. economy. And there is nothing preventing us from doing both except bureaucratic inertia.

We have the most brilliant and innovative people in the world in the United States. We have people curing cancers, writing the world’s software, and literally going to Mars (when they can get the FAA’s permission to launch).

If you give me your vote this November, I pledge to be a vote in Congress for a more free, more prosperous, and less indebted United States.

Thank you.

Lily Tang Williams of Weare is the Republican nominee in the 2nd Congressional District.

by Lily Tang Williams Werare, NH.

by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist

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A breakthrough in Ear-Brain Technology™:

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• Replicates how our “normal” auditory system works.

• Distinguish words and speech more intuitively and naturally.

• Hear soft sounds without distracting noise.

• Reduce the effort it takes to listen and hear.

dry river WilderneSS

aWay from The croWdS

I have been rather amused by the reaction by some to the reports of the crowds at Artist Bluff this past holiday weekend. It is always a busy place on a nice sunny day. So it was busier than usual. Who are these people that want to fight for a parking place and then hike in a line to stand shoulder to shoulder on top of a cliff? Seriously every person on that trail should have known what it would like before they even got out of their car.

I drove up Franconia Notch early Friday afternoon. The line to take Exit 32 on I-93 in Lincoln was at least half a mile long. It was 15 mph up through the Notch and from the parkway it looked like 500 people standing on top of Artist Bluff. All I could think was why would you even bother stopping when you could see that crowd. I guess some people must enjoy it because it is often crowded. But the foliage was beautiful.

I met my friends Bria and Jeremy in Crawford Notch Saturday morning at 7;30 am. Funny how there is plenty of parking if you show up early. We headed up the Crawford Path and didn’t see anyone until we entered Mizpah Hut. It felt warm inside compared to the chilly morning air outside. We ate a snack and thought about buying a piece

Bria on the Mount Clinton Trail in the designated Presidential Dry River Wilderness. She stands next to an old log that once blocked the trail but was removed. The square cut was left behind a long time ago and is now a useful clue to follow the trail. There are more than 600 trails, over 1,400 miles, described in the Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountain Guide. There are plenty of places to avoid the crowds. Each chapter in the White Mountain Guide has recommendations for Easy, Moderate and Strenuous hikes. And don’t forget to buy a Hike Safe Card and support New Hampshire Fish & Game search and rescue.

of their blueberry cake that looked good but they put coconut in it.

Our goal today was to tag along with Bria as she gathered some more redlines. Hiking all the trails in the White Mountain Guide is redlining. Today’s new to her trail goals were the Mount Clinton Trail

and the Dry River Cutoff and that would mark out the Dry River Wilderness area trails for her.

The White Mountain Guide Book describes these trails as “lightly used” and “not recommended for inexperienced hikers.” These trails are located in the

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2024 - 7:00PM

Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness designated in 1975 and since then tropical storms have wreaked havoc with these trails. The trails do not have painted blazes to follow and trails are maintained to “wilderness standards.” Often a lightly worn foot-

BENJAMIN GREENE, CONDUCTOR

FIGHT THE FLU

Flu Vaccines are available at the following convenient times:

October 24 (Thursday)

Waterville Valley Town Offices: 11am - 1pm

October 25 (Friday)

Speare Hospital: Front Lobby 7am - 3pm

November 14 (Thursday)

Boulder Point Community Room: 8am - 3pm

November 21 (Thursday)

Speare Hospital: Front Lobby 7am - 3pm

November 26 (Tuesday)

Speare Hospital: Front Lobby 7am - 3pm

Not So LoNg Ago ...

Exploring ThE lEgEnd & lorE of our graniTE STaTE

The leaTher bucKeT laW and 1817 neW hamPShire

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

In October of the year 1817 the New Hampshire Gazette newspaper, which was published in Portsmouth, included an article informing the inhabitants of that town that a law which was passed by the New Hampshire state legislature on April 6th of the year 1781 was going to be enforced.

The item in the newspaper was under the heading, Firewards Notice, and had to do with the leather bucket law. The law stated ‘...that every house of two stories high, which has four fireplaces, shall be provided with one leather Bucket; every such house having six fire-places, shall be provided with two such Buckets; and having eight or more fire-places, with four Buckets, as aforesaid, fit for, and to be used in the case of the breaking out of fire; which buckets shall be provided and constantly kept for use aforesaid, at

the charge of the owner of every such house. And every house shall have thereon a good secure ladder or ladders, reaching from the ground to the ridgepole, provided by the owner or occupant.”

Anyone neglecting to keep the required buckets or ladders was fined two pounds for every three months they neglected to keep them. So in the Fall of 1817 the town of Portsmouth was asking its inhabitants to repair their houses and to keep the bucket law by providing the prescribed buckets and ladders for their houses.

The weekly New Hampshire Gazette paper also had a section where it published the

happenings having to do with the sailing ships based at its seacoast port, and I will share some of those posts from the port from October of that year of 1817, the year President Monroe toured some of the Granite State by stagecoach, the main means of public transport then, by land.

Portsmouth was focused on the transport of people and cargo by sea. Not being a seafarer I had to find help to discern the difference between a ship, sloop, schooner, and a brig, vessels that were based at the port of Portsmouth. Actually, a ship, defined as “a vessel larger than a boat for transporting goods or

people by sea,” includes all of the other vessels I found associated with Portsmouth, and more. And any of these might transport people and goods at the same time. A sloop is a one-masted sailboat, which, I guess can also be called a ship. A brig, I found, is a two-masted sailing ship with square rigging on both masts

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BIRDS For The

New England’s Wild Birds & Their Habitats

by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

There are trade-offs with everything in life. When I lived in my house in the woods years ago, the action at the birdfeeder was nonstop with great birds. I never saw a single house sparrow, starling, or pigeon the entire time I lived there.

On the other hand, it took 20 minutes to drive to the nearest grocery store or restaurant. Nothing except a few trails through the woods, a small lake

and a pond were within walking distance. That suited me just fine when I wanted to look for birds or simply take a nice peaceful walk, which was often. It didn’t do me much good when I needed food, however.

Now that I live close to a downtown area of a small town, I can walk to the grocery store, restaurants, and just about anything else I need. The flip side, of course, is that the action at the birdfeeder is not as robust. It is not void of birds by any stretch, but house sparrows and starlings are the most frequent visitors, sometimes converging on the feeders in great numbers.

I do get my share of more “desirable” feeder birds such as chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and downy woodpeckers, but it is nothing like the old place in the woods. It is rare that an unexpected visitor will show up at

The other day, however, I was treated to a surprise visitor. The feeding station is outside of a large picture window in the living room. As I walked towards my desk to start a work-from-home day, I noticed a large brown bird sitting on top of the suet cage. There was no mistaking that it was a brown thrasher.

Brown thrashers are not what anyone would consider a common feeder bird, and never in all my years in the woods did one visit. Brown thrashers are more likely to feed off the ground, so people sometimes see them at their feeding station eating spilled seeds. It is more uncommon to see them actually at a feeder.

I think part of the attraction to my feeding station for the thrasher is the nearby dense brush. A grossly overgrown forsythia is in the vicinity, and brown thrashers love thick vegetation.

It was the first surprise visitor I have had at my feeders in a long time. When I first moved in, a redbreasted nuthatch was hanging around, but I haven’t seen one since. At the old house in the woods, surprise visitors were fairly common. In addition to scores of the common feeder birds, I hosted eastern bluebirds, indigo buntings, rosebreasted grosbeaks, yellow-rumped warblers, pine warblers, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers.

In an ideal world, one would be able to see awesome birds at their feeders regularly and also be able to walk to the grocery store. Life doesn’t always work that way, of course, so I just appreciate the things I do have. I appreciate the birds I do see at the feeder these days, and it’s always nice to know that a gallon of milk or loaf of bread is only a short walk away.

A brown thrasher visits a suet feeder in New England last week.

The Simple Feast The Simple Feast

The Simple

by Eric N Gibson Contributing Writer

While some find fall to be a frenetic time, anticipating everything there is to do to ready the homestead for winter’s onset, I find fall one of my favorite times of the year. Yes, there is much to be done before the first snowfall; gathering the last of the garden veggies and tilling under the remains of the day, picking up the yard, and winterizing all the summer tools and equipment. But taking time out to enjoy the season will come with its own rewards.

The Simple SPagheTTi for SuPPer

There is nothing like a crisp fall day, blue sky with an occasional passing white puffy cloud. The trees bedecked in their full autumnal colors, crimson red of the swamp maples is my particular favorite found among the accents of blaze orange to hammered copper and lemon yellow to harvest gold. There is even beauty to be found in those pesky creeping vines, the wild Black Berry canes that intertwine with Bittersweet along an old split rail fence. As each recedes deep into a dormant state, thorny canes turn a deep maroon as the Bittersweet turns brown, leaving behind

that familiar colorful berry “blossom” used in homes to accent the season.

With fall comes the squash harvest: Butternut, Acorn, Blue Hubbard, and Pumpkin. Often it is the pumpkin that we think of first, the king of October, as the others fall into line to usher in Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions of their own. However, there are other squashes to add to the fall harvest table and many have become quite popular in recent times: Delicata, Carnival, and Spaghetti to name a few.

Have you ever had a time in the kitchen where everything

just seemed to come together effortlessly? I have experienced just such a time. It was on a Wednesday. It all started about 4pm. I was looking in the fridge for dinner options. Being retired I have been elected to the illustrious position of chief cook and bottle washer with all the rites and rituals that come with such a prestigious position. Although I do not remember running for the office I am told by the electorate that I ran unopposed and won by a landslide. In keeping with the trend of never having won anything of significance in my life, I can assure you that a “victory” of this magnitude has also passed

without fanfare. But, a victory won, even under such suspect circumstances as these, is a victory. And with no one wanting to contest my win, I will take it in stride. Not too bad for a guy whose campaign was one of such deep stealth that even the candidate himself was lost in its ambiguity. But then again, I’m probably not the first person in history to be elected to such an illustrious position and have no cognitive recollection of said events. So here I am wondering what to have for dinner when, on the lower shelf, a rather bodacious yellow Spaghetti Squash was just sitting there minding its own business. How fortuitous! A volunteer to become dinner. Before the other vegetables could breathe a sigh of relief I assured them all that I would be back for them soon. One of the drawbacks of early retirement is that there is no one to talk to so you end up talking to whoever or whatever will sit still long enough: the cat, the dog, the telemarketer or pollster, or, in this case, the veggies in the fridge. So, you may ask (and even if you didn’t I’ll still tell you), how do you cook Spaghetti

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Squash? Well, in this particular instance it was using the “Bob Ross” method, also known as the “happy little accident” method.

I set the oven to 375 degrees and prepared the squash. Cut in half lengthwise and slathered with olive oil on the inner surface and edges of each half, the two halves were placed face down on a sheet pan lined with parchment. By this time the oven was preheated to the appropriate aforementioned temperature and into the oven went the sheet pan… yes, with the squash on it, (just in case I lost anyone along the way).

Enter “Bob Ross”. I get a phone call and, through a subsequent change of events, after turning off the oven with three minutes left on the timer, I find myself spending “quality time” with my immediate family. I will spare you the details of how this came about, but as we ride throughout our little corner of southwestern Strafford County with a brief foray into Rockingham County it is becoming more apparent that a car wash with touchless undercarriage treatment big enough to fit a one ton 4X4 King Cab with eight foot bed, the newest addition to Junior’s fleet scattered across my fruited plain, is not to be found.

Arriving back home, the Spaghetti Squash has been in the oven for nearly two hours, one hour cooking time plus nearly an hour of “cool down”. During that additional hour

the squash continued to cook, almost creating a steaming effect to the pulp without over cooking it. The results were a tender, warm, perfectly done squash.

Canned sauces, as far as I am concerned, are just a base, a starting point. I like sauces with substance, especially in the fall where evenings usually possess a chill in the air and a more hearty meal is in order. To that I will usually add veggies and meat, in this case, since the boy was off seeking dinner elsewhere, I loaded up on the veggies and found two wayward unsuspecting Italian Sweet Sausages looking for a void to fill. Cutting the

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•New Hampshire is the second most infested state with Japanese knotweed.

•Real estate experts warn house hunters to consider costs and dangers of gardens with Japanese knotweed, English ivy or black walnut.

•Removing Japanese knotweed can cost $10,000 for an average-sized garden and take three years to eradicate.

•Other risks include larger ecological damage, affecting house structures, allergies, intoxication and stunting the growth of nearby plants.

Real estate experts warn house hunters to watch out for properties with Japanese knotweed, English ivy and black walnut. New Hampshire currently suffers from the second-highest rate of infestation with Japa-

nese knotweed in the US. Owners risk removal fees upward of $10,000 or maintenance complications such as roots too deep to eradicate, impacting the soil’s ability to grow other plants, causing rare skin allergies or being toxic to animals. According to experts at Agent Advice, those seeking to buy a house should seriously assess the property’s garden features. Japanese knotweed, English ivy and black wal-

diSPoSing of Problem

PlanT debriS

by Melinda Myers

You’ve probably read you should remove and dispose of insect pestinfected and diseased plant material to reduce these problems in next season’s garden. This is not as easy as it seems. Most compost piles do not heat up and maintain hot enough temperatures to kill weeds, weed seeds, disease organisms, and insect pests. In many locations burning is not allowed and it negatively impacts air quality. So, what’s a gardener to do?

Start by calling your local municipality and asking about disposal options. Many communities allow you to dispose of invasive plants in the garbage after placing them in a clear plastic bag labeled invasive.

Solarization is an option for managing weeds. Place small amounts of plant debris in clear plastic bags. Then place the bags in a warm sunny location before composting. For larger quantities, set the problem plant debris on a sheet of plastic and securely cover it with a 2- to 6-mil clear plastic tarp. The plastic helps create a greenhouse effect, trapping heat while blocking access to water. The seeds will sprout and then seedlings and other plants are killed by the high temperatures and lack of water. It is most effective when the days are long and hot. This may be effective if the temperatures are hot enough to kill plant

A peony plant infected with blight.

insect pests and diseases. Most plant pathogens are killed when moist soil remains at 145F for 30 minutes, 160F for bacteria, and 180F for weed seeds.

If battling jumping worms, the University of Maryland has found

creating a solarization package is effective for managing them in soil, compost, and mulch. Spread a sheet of clear plastic on the ground.

Place a 6 to 8” layer of mulch, compost, or soil on the plastic tarp, leaving enough excess

to wrap and completely and securely cover the enclosed material. On a sunny day, the material inside can reach 150F. Research varies on the number of days needed to kill the jumping worms. Several Univer-

nut are three red flags whose presence home buyers often overlook. Notably, all three have distinct features showing in early fall, which are worth looking out for.

Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) is a notoriously prolific invasive plant. Originating from Eastern Asia, it first entered the US as an ornamental and erosion control plant. It is exceptionally difficult to remove due to its deep, extensive and aggressive root system that

can reach up to 15 feet. This suppresses other plant growth and causes structural and ecological damage if left uncontrolled. What sets it apart from many other deep-rooted invasive plants is how fast it can multiply from the smallest rhizomes. Homeowners should only remove Japanese knotweed professionally. Depending on the severity, this can cost more than $10,000 for a mid-sized garden of 600 square feet. It also takes at least three years to treat the land entirely. WEED from 16

The Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System (EDDMapS) program, developed by the University of Georgia for the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, currently reports 35,971 infestations with Japanese knotweed across 44 US states and the District of Columbia. These are most common in Oregon (9,729), New Hampshire (5,688) and New York (5,241).

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sity sources recommend 3 or more days of at least 104F or 105F to kill the eggs, cocoons, and adult jumping worms. You may want to enlist this strategy when harvesting your compost before applying it to the soil. This extra step may help reduce the risk of introducing problems back into the garden.

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terial can help reduce the source of future infection of some diseases. Dig a hole, fill it with plant debris, mix it with soil, and then cover it with an inch or two of disease-free soil. Speed up the decomposition of buried material by shredding it before burying it. Avoid growing plants susceptible to the disease in that location the following

season. Remember to disinfect your pots, stakes, and tools that may have housed or touched diseased plants. Diseasecausing organisms can survive on these items, increasing disease risk in next year’s garden. Soak pots for 30 minutes in a 10% bleach solution, rinse with clear water and air dry. Store in a clean location. This

is much more effective with clay and ceramic pots than plastic. Consider rotating plantings as you would in the garden and changing display areas when using plastic containers if you do not want to dispose of them.

Disinfect garden tools by dipping them in a 70% alcohol solution using rubbing alcohol or something similar for

at least 30 seconds. Or you can spray your tools with a disinfectant spray containing about 70% alcohol.

Investing time in prevention will result in fewer problems and better results in next year’s garden.

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SPAGHETTI SQUASH W/HEARTY SAUCE

YIELD: 4 TIME: About 1 Hours & 4 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 Spaghetti Squash (average size)

4 Tbsp. Olive Oil

1 24 oz. can Spaghetti Sauce

2 Sweet Italian Sausages (optional)

1 Tbsp. minced Garlic

½ Green Pepper diced

2 ea. Med. Roasted Red Peppers (or 1 large)

3 stalks Celery diced

1 shallot (small to med) diced

3 large Mushrooms chopped

1 small Yellow Squash diced

TT Black Pepper ground

TT Italian Seasonings

PREPARATION

- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

- Line a sheet pan with a sheet of parchment paper

- Split Spaghetti Squash lengthwise down the center. Remove the seeds and stringy pulp as you would any squash.

- Using about a tablespoon of olive oil for each half, rub the inner side and edges to coat with oil. Place face down on the sheet pan and place in the preheated oven. Bake for 1 hour and turn off the oven at the end of the hour leaving the squash in the oven.

- When you turn off the oven, begin to prepare the sauce. Dice all vegetables and set aside.

- Cut the casing from the two sausages being careful not to cut your self.

- In a hot skillet, place the meat and break it up into chunks. When done (no pink) but not brown or blackened, add about a tablespoon or so of olive oil, the diced celery, and diced shallot. Cook until tender.

- Add the diced green pepper, diced roasted red pepper, the minced garlic, and continue to cook.

- Add the diced yellow squash and the chopped mushrooms and cook for a few minutes more.

- Add the can of spaghetti sauce to the meat and vegetables, bring to a simmer and season to taste. Continue to simmer for 10 minutes.

- Using a fork, follow the inside edge of the hull to remove the spaghetti squash from each half into a large bowl. Separate the large clumps by twisting the fork or use two forks to create a pull apart motion to separate the squash into strands.

- Serve squash hot with hearty spaghetti sauce topped with cheese..

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casing off, the ground meat went into the skillet along with those veggies I had warned earlier I would be back for. Sauteed in a bit of olive oil until tender, but not over cooked, the can of sauce went into the skillet with the veggies and a few seasonings.

While this all came together, simmering in the skillet, I hulled out the Spaghetti Squash into a large bowl and gently separated it with two forks, pull apart style. When done, the “meat” comes clean

from the hull and there is virtually no waste. With the twist of a fork the cooked inner “meat” separates into strands about the thickness of a thin spaghetti, hence the name.

Not just for vegetarians or people with dietary concerns, specifically carbohydrate intake, Spaghetti Squash is a great way to have your cake and eat it too (in this case “pasta”). A two cup portion of Spaghetti Squash has 14 grams of carbohydrate whereas a two cup serving of Spaghetti pasta has 86 grams of carbo-

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hydrate. While you still get that feeling of being satiated from a filling meal of “pasta” with a hearty sauce, you do not feel heavy and tired after eating a meal of Spaghetti Squash. Skeptical? I was too. For many years I poohpoohed squash of all sorts as a dish best left forgotten on the side board at Thanksgiving and Christmas. My ignorance blinded me to the benefits of squash. Not only can it be flavorful on its own but it also provides the perfect medium for a variety of stuffings,

flavorings, pie making, and yes, in the case of Spaghetti Squash, pasta dishes.

Many homeowners can undoubtedly take a stroll through their homes and find at least one space that could be repurposed to provide more functionality. Real estate professionals know that such sentiments are not uncommon, and many point to formal dining rooms as spaces that have fallen out of favor in recent years.

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shredded Mozzarella, you have a happy little accident that turned into another delicious Simple Feast. Enjoy!

cluded that formal dining rooms were rarely used for eating. If that sounds a lot like home to many current homeowners, then it might be time to consider some ideas to convert formal dining rooms to make these spaces more functional.

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Cooked half of Spaghetti Squash. A Hearty Sauce.

Advances in transportation technology shaped those towns. Gundalows, horse boats, steam boats, the railroads and finally the automobile all played a part. Geographic features were also important. The Weirs (then part of Meredith), and Lake Village on Lake Paugus in Gilford (now Lakeport in Laconia) were always at the

forefront. Large mills, powered by the water that flowed from the lake, made that area an industrial powerhouse. Alton Bay was an important shipping point because of its proximity to the seacoast, and even Center Harbor was popular for a time as the jumping off point for stagecoaches that conveyed tourists to the grand hotels in the mountains. When

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Like the area that became Laconia, Wolfeboro also enjoyed abundant waterpower. Flows from Smith’s Pond (now Lake Wentworth) in the Smith River through Wolfeboro Falls, and the 60’ drop out of Middle Pond (now Rust’s Pond) in South Wolfeboro powered many mills and factories. Before the railroads arrived, they shipped most of their products out of Wolfeboro by water, which made Wolfeboro a port town second only to Laconia. This story will focus on the development and activities at the commercial waterfront.

When the land in Wolfeboro was divided among its 24 proprietors in 1766, Judge David Sewall received the most valuable parcel. His 440 acre downtown plot included the waterfront from what is now Brewster Academy all the way around to the end of Sewall Road. It also included the area known as Smith’s Bridge on both sides of Miles Road (now N. Main St.) that is now the downtown area. The landing area extended from what is now Cate Park up to Endicott St. where Varney’s tan -

correct opinion that a large and commodious public house, conducted on strict temperance principles, located in the village at Smith’s Bridge in Wolfeborough would be profitable to the proprietors and a great convenience to the public.” The Pavilion, the largest hotel ever in Wolfeboro, was built in 1850 on what is now Brewster field at Pickering Corner. On July 15, 1851, a newspaper story stated “This delightful village lies at the southern end of Lake Winnipiseogee and should form one of the points of sojourn

nery and shoe shop was located (more on that later). The judge later made the landing area that currently includes the Mount Washington wharf a reservation for the general public, relinquishing his personal claim (but not those of his heirs).The town had no property rights to it except as custodian.

Squatters soon appeared, including James Brackett, who set up a cabinet shop there that was soon removed, and the landing became a popular watering spot for horses pulling the stagecoaches.The landing was conveyed

to the town in 1840, and was sold to the Winnipiseogee Steamboat Co. (builders of the Lady of the Lake steamboat) in 1848, then to the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad which leased the Lady in 1851, and finally to the Boston & Maine Railroad in the mid 1890’s.

A group of savvy Wolfeboro investors, anticipating the tourist business the railroads and their steamboats would bring, wrote an amusing prospectus for Wolfeboro’s first grand hotel. It began: “It is confidently believed by intelligent men who have the means of forming

in every well planned tour of the mountains. There is an excellent first class hotel, the Pavilion, kept by Mr. Daniel Chamberlain, former of the Adams House, Boston.” In the 1880’s the room rates were $3 a day and $10 to $12.50 a week, including board. The Pavilion was expanded in 1890 to accommodate 250 guests and was renamed the Kingswood Inn. It was demolished in 1899 after its contents were sold at public auction. Travelers soon arrived on the large steamboats operated by the railroads.. John Greenleaf Whit -

The Pavilion Hotel being torn down.

The Ann Inn model by David Warren.

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tier wrote this as he steamed into Wolfeboro Bay on the Dover to attend a meeting of the Free Soil Party in August, 1853. “Ten miles from Alton Bay, gliding between a long projecting headland and a small island, we enter a broad and beautiful bay, at the head of which lies the village of Wolfeborough, its dwellings brilliant in white and green, scattered in their picturesque irregularity along the fertile slopes of the southward trending hills, looking out over crystal clear waters upon the long broken ranges of misty mountains on the opposite shore. Nothing finer than this site can be found in New England.”

Tourism really kicked into high gear when Wolfeboro finally got rail service in 1872. One of the most elegant hotels in the lakes region opened two years later. Originally called the Elmwood, subsequent owners renamed it the Wolfeboro Hotel, Hobbs - Is - Inn (more on Frank Hobbs later) and finally the Glendon House. It was razed in the summer of 1936, and the cornerstone for the post office that now occupies the site was

The waterfront area also developed rapidly and is the focus for the rest of our story. We’ll start at what is now Cate Park and move north through the dock and wharf area to Endicott St.

The building eventually known as the Ann Inn was built as a private residence in 1840. Daniel Horn, a prominent local businessman, bought it from the second owner in October 1868 and opened it to the public as Horn’s on the Lake. An early guest who was fluent in French thought the view of the lake from the back porch was so lovely, she named it Belvue, and the name stuck. Horn enlarged the building with an addition at the back in 1872, which increased the guest capacity to 75. Frank Hobbs looking to expand recreational activities for guests at his inn, leased the building on June 1, 1898 and renamed it the Lakeshore House (also known as Hobbs - Is - Inn Annex). He built two more additions that stepped down to the water and built docks, known as Hobbs’ Wharfs, to accommodate canoes and rowboats, as well as steam and gas launches. He pur-

chased the property on August 5, 1901 and opened the docks to the public in 1905. The August 11, 1906 issue of the Granite State news noted that “Frank P. Hobbs wishes it distinctly understood that he is sole manager of the landings at the lakeshore known as Hobbs’ Wharfs. All boats around the lake are invited to land and make use of them, but not remain there for an unreasonable length of time. Take orders only from Hobbs.”

On June 5, 1921, Frank and Ann Cronin, the original owners of the Elmwood, purchased the building and renamed it the Ann Inn. The famous MGM movie star Louise Rainer stayed there in 1928. She wore sunglasses as a disguise but was immediately recognized by her adoring fans. The Cronins opened a theatre in the 1930’s and advertised “rooms with real charm”. They sold the building in 1930 to the Onthank - Rich company of Boston, and it became their headquarters for sales of motor boats, appliances and mechanical devices. The building was demolished in November 1940, and an ESSO service station was built in its place. Salvaged materials

were used to build the original ski lodge at Abenaki, which was dedicated on December 20, 1940. Some time later, Edward F. Cate, a prominent local citizen, established a $5000 endowment to build a town park. The town soon bought the lower part of the property, extended the lakeshore 114’ with 6000 cubic yards of fill, installed new town

docks and opened Lake Front Park on August 13, 1967. It’s now the lower lawn and Gazebo of Cate Park. In the meantime, the town bought the upper half of the property in 1966, and the ESSO station was cut in half and moved to a spot behind the Wolfeboro shopping center (now Foss Field).

Upper town park was later improved with

benches and beautiful gardens and is now the upper half of Cate Park.

I hope you’ll join me again next week when we’ll move on to the wharf buildings and rail terminals that served the Lady of the Lake and SS Mt. Washington steamboats, and wind up at Wolfeboro’s all time hotspot.

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The Belvue with the landing in the foreground.

The Esso Station with the Lake RR Station in the background.

with a length of 75 feet to 165 feet, which took a crew of 22 to operate. A schooner with an average length of 152 feet and fore and aft sails, was designed for the toughest of sea conditions with multiple purposes.

So one newspaper item reported that the sloop Argo, with Captain Jonah Rogers in charge, had left Boston to sail to Portsmouth, but had been wrecked a few days before the paper was printed, “on the Sow and Pigs, 9 miles west of Martha’s Vineyard.” The story was that “The wind was blowing hard from the south west, capt. R. endeavored to fetch by the rocks, without going about, but finding it impossible, he hove the vessel in stays, and the current, which was running strong, took her on; the vessel and cargo was entirely lost; dam-

vessel that capt. R. has lost within a few years past....”

May be it was to Captain Rogers’ benefit that his first name was Jonah, but I doubt if I would have trusted him with the command of another ship. Two of the three ships lost during the 15 months preceding October of 1817 were owned by Captain

Rogers.

The brig, Sarah and Susan, also experienced some problems at sea, and, though bound for Philadelphia, had made port in Boston. The reason for the diversion was reported as being “.. on account of springing a leak, Sept. 13, in lat. 38,32 lon.37,35 - has leaked from 3 1/2 to 4 feet of water per hour since, and has thrown over from 40 to 59 ton coals. Remainder of cargo consists of bale goods, gunpowder, iron, &c. to sundry persons in Philadelphia - has 32 passengers.”

Another vessel, the sloop Embargo, arrived in Portsmouth on Oct. 14, 1817, from Lubeck with rum, fish, and oil going to E. Whidden, whom I assume was a merchant. The Brig William & Thomas arrived on October 19th of the same year, being 46 days from Isle May with a load of salt for multiple persons, and,

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on the same day, the brig Syren arrived from Portland with a load of lumber. Arrivals to the Port of Portsmouth on Monday, the 20th, included the Sloop William, and the Schooner, Jack, both coming from Boston with merchandise for “sundry persons.”

The 1817 information book on the Granite State, the book called the New Hampshire Gazeteer, made mention of the Auroraborealis, or northern lights as we now call them. They were first noticed in New Hampshire, according to the Gazeteer, in the year 1719, but the aged people of 1817 were said to insist that it was not so common in those early years of the 1800’s as it had formerly been. When the

lights did appear it was said that some people

“In the calm night, and in the intervals between gentle flaws of wind, an attentive ear, in a retired situation, may perceive it to be accompanied with a sound.”

There were said to be seven principal religious denominations in the State of New Hampshire in 1817, and they were named as being congregationalists, presbyterians, episcopalians, baptists, methodists, quakers, and universalists.

The NH Gazeteer added, “There is also a small society of sandimanians in Portsmouth, and one of shakers in each of the towns of Canterbuy and Enfield. The most numerous of these sects is the baptist denomination.”

The Gazeteer continued with, “The christian religion in some form is almost universally professed throughout the state. Those few sceptics who pretend to deny this religion have not as yet agreed upon any substitute for it.”

There were 222 ordained ministers in the state in 1817 and 261 houses set aside for public worship.

Going back to the newspaper, the Gazette, an October issue had the following notice: “To Correspondents - We regret our inability, for want of room, to insert, ‘Hints for improvement, No. 1.’”

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“The oldest continuously used mountain trail in America.” This sign honoring the Crawford Path is only seen by hikers because it is located along the path near its beginning above Crawford Notch. We followed the Crawford Path to Mizpah Hut and then again when we descended from Mt. Pierce.

bed and noticing a cut tree are your only clues where the trail lies.

It was all downhill to the Dry River and between the three of us we were able to negotiate the trail with only once we realized we were off the trail. We had to backtrack to find where the trail turned down a steep bank and crossed another brook. The trail crosses many drainages and brooks and has plenty of steep banks to climb and muddy sections.

Our experience was better than a fellow we met just above the intersection of the Cut-Off. He had started off from the Hut and planned to go down the Dry River Cutoff but had lost the trail and got turned around and repeated his footsteps. He would have ended back up at the hut if he had not run into us. He couldn’t believe he had spent more than an hour not getting anywhere.

When we reached the Dry River it was anything but dry but the water was as low as one could hope for and rock

ternates between lovely sections of trail along the wide blown out river and sketchy sections crossing eroding slides. When we were about half way done with our time on the Dry River Trail we met a much happier fellow coming down the trail towards us. He still couldn’t believe he had gotten turned around. He had mentioned he had passed by a couple of other hikers ahead of us and said he was surprised to see people. This fellow ended up being the only person we saw while we were hiking until we returned to the Hut.

The three of us found solitude and the foliage was bright and beautiful

Rock hopping across one of the many brooks that the Mount Clinton Trail crosses. In two miles there are at least eight brook crossings in just two miles.

hopping across was possible. But getting down the steep eroded bank to the water was even more difficult. We kept our feet dry and followed rock cairns down the river before we reached the bank on the other side and the trail sign indicating we had completed the Mt. Clinton Trail. Next we followed the Dry River Trail upstream for a couple miles to the Mt. Eisenhower Trail intersection. The Dry River Trail al-

Leaving the summit of Mount Pierce and looking at Mount Eisenhower in the distance and Mount Washington was hidden beneath clouds. The wind was chilly and we wore our down jackets and gloves to keep warm. Winter has arrived to the White Mountains. At treeline there was snow in the trees

remarked it was less than a mile to hit the summit of Mt. Pierce. Why not! And this is where we met the crowds of people. Lots of people making their way down to the Hut to spend the night after summiting Mt. Pierce. Some people looked happy and well prepared and others looked tired and worn and asked if they were almost there.

On the summit it was

windy and Mount Washington was wearing his white wig. Snow! Yes and we saw snow just below Mt. Pierce’s summit in the trees. We wore our down jackets and hats and it felt like winter above the treeline.

We trotted down the Crawford Path and passed many more people on their way to the Hut and six brave souls that planned to camp in their tents at the Nau-

mann Tentsite adjacent to the Hut. Brrrrr.

We arrived back at our cars around 4:30 in Crawford Notch. We were amazed by the number of cars parked just everywhere as far as the eye could see. Where were all these people? I guessed Mt. Willard. It is almost as popular as Artist Bluff.

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during the six miles of hiking in the designated wilderness area.

The Dry River Cutoff climbed away from the River and back towards the Hut. We continued to rock hop and keep our feet dry at the water crossings. Beautiful water cascading everywhere all day and the foliage oh so beautiful.

When we made it back to the Mizpah Hut Bria remarked that the Cutoff was her favorite trail of the day. Then Jeremy

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rule the DPRK. Though Moscow was influential in creating the DPRK, this move did not mitigate communist China’s strong and competing influence on the peninsula from day one. Historically China saw itself as the “Big Brother” and protector of the Korean people whether they liked it or not.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has confirmed the “beginning of the North’s direct involvement” in the Ukraine war, after having discovered that North Korean troops had embarked on Russian Navy transport ships. The NIS later stated that 1,500 North Korean troops were transported to Russia between October 8-13th. A Seoul intelligence source was quoted saying that North Korea is expected to deploy a total of 12,000

troops, including those from the country’s most elite military units to the war in Ukraine.

The North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been stationed across various locations in the Far East, including Vladivostok and Khabarovsk where they are currently being integrated with Russian military units. The North Koreans have been issued Russian uniforms, fake ID’s, and weapons.

But will these units become cannon fodder to replace ill-motivated Russian conscripts or shall hardened and tough North Koreans work together as cohesive combat units to fulfill specific missions?

Recall Chechen militia units fought effectively in the early stage of Moscow’s invasion.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and NATO chief Mark Rutte

agreed that North Korea’s military support for Russia in Ukraine escalates regional tensions and threatens global peace.

For Pyongyang this becomes a win win as it follows secret defense cooperation deals made in June this year between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. North Korea will probably get paid handsomely, Moscow does not have to explain North Korean losses to Russian mothers, and the DPRK People’s Army gets genuine combat experience they have not had since the Korean War.

Keep in mind the North soldiers are always marching and drilling and their aged Generals are bedecked in medals from a war which ended 70 years ago. A Ukraine deployment offers serious combat experience in the tough living condi-

tions the North Korean troops are accustomed to. Moreover they many not necessarily be assigned frontline fighting duties but rather to combat engineering and logistics tasks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cited intelligence reports indicating that North Korean personnel have already been deployed in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.

It’s significant to recall that during the 1980’s the North Koreans sent military units to assist various African left-wing regimes. For example in Zimbabwe (ex-Rhodesia)

North Korea’s notorious 5th Brigade operated as effective shock troops to carry our ethnic cleansing for Robert Mugabe. Indeed in many African states, including Libya, North Korean units were used as Pretorian guards to protect unpopular re-

gimes and to effectively counter domestic resistance.

Seoul’s respected Korea Times added editorially, “Kim Jong-un’s gamble; For Kim Jongun, the troop deployment to Russia is a highstakes poker game.”

The deployment to Ukraine equally signals a high profile power projection for the isolated DPRK and more importantly underscores a political shift that Kim Jong-un’s regime can rock the geopolitical order with both ballistic missiles as well as clas-

sic, if still modest, military meddling. Over the decades, Pyongyang’s regime has cynically played a balancing act between Beijing and Moscow; in recent years Putin’s Russia is in the ascendancy. For now.

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far behind, Harris had leapt to small but measurable leads.

The Kamalamentum was real.

And then, suddenly, it faded away. What happened?

The answer is simple: The American people realized that Kamala Harris is, after all, Kamala Harris. She’s still the awkward, empty, incoherent mess she was when she ran for president in 2019. She doesn’t know how to answer basic questions about her own policies; worse, she doesn’t even know her own policies. She begins to fritz out like Quaid’s fat lady suit in “Total Recall” when asked anything beyond the absolutely facile. Her sentences resemble MC Escher illusions: verbal staircases that ought to ascend to a fixed point, but instead, defying the laws of reason, curve back on themselves to end where they began. Her platitudinous slogans are matched in the magnitude of their vacuity only by the extraordinarily ersatz enthusiasm with which she utters them. All the off-putting tics -- the random laughter, the strange hand motions, the nasal smugness as she recites entirely obvious tautologies -they’ve all reappeared with a vengeance.

In short, she’s terrible.

And she was always terrible.

Biden himself had worried about this reality. There was a reason Harris dropped out of the 2020 race earlier than any other major candidate. There was a reason she was the most unpopular vice president in modern American history. And there’s a reason she’s collapsing now. And so she’s left with

one strategy: bribery. She’s pledging new goodies, day after day, directed at specific voter blocs. This week, after deploying Barack Obama to lecture young Black men didn’t jog her support levels, she proposed a bevy of obviously unconstitutional giveaways, including a million loans of $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs, fully forgivable . This followed her pledge to hand a $25,000 homebuyer grant to firsttime homebuyers, with heavier grants to “firstgeneration homeowners” -- a giveaway again specifically targeted at minority audiences. This is unlikely to work. After all, big promises rarely materialize in big results. She’d require Congressional help to achieve any of this -- and as she made clear to CBS News’ Bill Whitaker, she literally has no idea what to do if Congress refuses.

And so Kamala Harris is on the ropes. The joy is gone. The sugar high has worn off. Kamala, it turns out, is still Kamala. And that’s devastating news for a Democratic Party that had hoped to move forward, unburdened by what has been.

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ment can be. Deviate from progressive orthodoxy and risk expulsion, sanction, or unwarranted opprobrium. Prepared to be banned or cancelled—as in Bow. Countless examples of such abuse abound at schools and universities across the land. It’s heartbreaking and unAmerican.

Constitutionalists immediately saw Bow’s tragic error. It unfortunately took longer for school administrators to get over their hubris and learn some civics lessons about freedom of expression, our First Amendment, and fundamental fairness. While Bow administrators dug themselves ever deeper into a muddy and avoidable hole, legal free speech advocates stepped up on behalf of the aggrieved parents and a lawsuit was filed. This will likely cost the school district dearly. But it won’t be the offending school administrators who’ll pay. Innocent taxpayers—who already support a school budget approaching $40 million—will end up paying for a settlement because of the perfidy of an arrogant education establishment. Ironically, and sadly, some of these paying citizens will include those whose speech rights were quashed on those soccer sidelines in the first place!

There are lessons to be learned here. Civics lessons and more. Liberty lessons that should have been learned long ago. Lessons that sadly will turn out to be very expensive. Why did this girls’ soccer saga ever have to become a story in the first place? Answers will eventually manifest themselves, as surely as red cards and penalty kicks are inevitable when immutable rules

are broken.

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That is to say, sports standouts born on October 24 include Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Y.A. Tittle (1926) and British soccer star Wayne Rooney (1985)

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“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” – author Salmon Rushdie, who was sentenced to death by militants due to his writing

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State Representative Mike Moffett was a Sports Management Professor for Plymouth State University and NHTIConcord. He co-authored the award-winning “Fahim Speaks: Between Two Worlds: A Hollywood Actor’s Journey as a U.S. Marine Translator through Afghanistan” which is available on Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mchlmoffett@ yahoo.com.

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ers, violent criminal gangs and terrorists. Alien crime and fentanyl overdoses are an epidemic killing us and our children. Inflation is squeezing family budgets & gas prices are painful: It’s the worst inflation in 40 years and they have no plan to reduce it. If you’re better off now than you were four years ago, you’re probably an illegal alien. The national debt is $36 trillion and climbing fast. Addicted to liberal spending, they are carelessly throwing your money around, supporting every lunatic liberal cause under the sun. Rest assured that if the Democrats get reelected, one of the first thing they will do is raise your taxes. If Democrats are still your choice to run this country, maybe you’re the one that needs that cognitive test.

Vote Republican at the Local, State and Federal levels on November 5th to Make America Great Again.

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Thessalonians 5:110). Only I, as God, could see and predict these things. I could go on about how you actually do know, I am God, but most will continue to deny me because your deeds are evil, and you want to continue to make yourself a “god,” to your own demise (Romans 1:18-21).

Know, that the time has grown short, in which my patience will end. If you do know, don’t wait to admit it and turn back to me. Ask and receive my Son, Jesus’ payment for your sins, which was made when he died as a substitute for you, on the cross. You will all see me then, but it will be in judgement. Your decision now will determine my decision then, to bestow eternal life or eternal death. Use your time that is left, wisely. I love you, God

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