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VOLUME 30, NO. 44

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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The Modern Era of Hotel Development: 1983 to 2019

This beautiful photograph taken by Tom Thomson of Orford, NH., reflects the rugged beauty of New Hampshire. It also inspired us to run this piece from a 1946 edition of “The New Hampshire Troubadour.”

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by C. Ross McKenney NH Troubadour - April. 1946

The flames of the campfire were making eerie, dancing shadows on the tent walls. Two men were seated on the ground in front of the fire with their backs against a huge pine

log. One was an old-time woodsman and guide; the other was a newcomer, and the language of the forest was foreign to him. The silvery chuckle of a nearby stream was the only sound that broke the silence except for the

crackle of the fire. From across the lake came a deep, throaty whoo-hoohoo hoo-hoo. The newcomer turned his head and gazed into the darkness. The silence again shut in like a softly closed door, and again the sound

came, whoo-hoo-hoo hoohoo. This time the newcomer’s eyes were large as he turned to the guide with an inquiring look almost akin to fear. The guide puffed on his pipe and smiled. To the guide See TRAILS on 20

The Meredith Historical Society’s upcoming program on November 9th is “The Modern Era of Hotel Development: 1983 to 2019” presented by local figure, Edward J. “Rusty” McLear. Rusty will share his experiences and insights of one of the most transformational periods in Meredith’s history. Rusty was born in Albany NY and raised in Scotch Plains, NJ. He attended the University of Notre Dame and Windham College. He is a resident of Meredith for over 50 years and is the father of two grown sons. Rusty served on the Meredith Zoning Board of Adjustment for ten years and was a member of the 1982 Master Plan Steering Committee. As President and CEO of Hampshire Hospitality Holdings from 1983 to 2019, McLear lead major redevelopment projects in Meredith Village including the Mill Falls Inn and Marketplace, the Inn at Bay Point, the Chase House and Church Landing. His real estate redevelopment efforts have also taken him to other communities in New HampSee HOTEL on 18

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To The Editor: Why anyone trusts CNN, MSNBC, etc. is a mystery. Covid-19 is yet another example where what’s reported by the MSM contradicts the data. As an engineer, my job for the last 40 years has been to analysis data. Data (if accurate) is nonpartisan. Here are the facts from the world Covid tracking system https://bit.ly/2XrrUN2. Florida has a population of 21,477,737 and New York has 19,453,561. Since the pandemic began Florida has had 3,681,830 cases and 58,608 deaths. New York has had 2,607,661 cases and 56,713 deaths. The death rate (deaths/ cases) in Florida has been 1.59% versus 2.17% in NY. Why the disparity when NY has had the most restrictive Covid policies and Florida the least? Shouldn’t the death rates be lower in NY? Here are a few reasons why they are not. Governor Cuomo mandated that elderly Covid positive patients be returned to nursing homes. A story covered widely by conservative news outlets and barely covered by CNN, MSNBC, etc. Governor DeSantis segregated seniors that tested Covid positive and vaccinated the elderly first when the vaccine was available. NY on the other hand debated for weeks on who should get the vaccine first. Why does that matter? Because age is the single biggest factor in Covid mortality. Looking at the CDC data https://bit. ly/3otEMu5 95% of all deaths since the pandemic started are those age 50 and older. The total

number of deaths for ages 0-17 is 542 and 4,014 for ages 18-29 total. Compare that to suicides. According to the NIMH https:// bit.ly/3kdQPMR 534 children ages 10-14 and 5,954 young adults ages 15-24 commit suicide annually! Has anyone considered how school shutdowns, social distancing, masking, mandatory vaccinations, etc. will affect those statistics? Has CNN, MSNBC, etc. even brought it up? Of course not! That would counter the narrative that all the Orwellian measures they are pushing will save young lives. They won’t, it will just shift the “cause” of death. Another misleading narrative was that Covid affects blacks more than Caucasians. It’s true but has little to do with race but rather obesity. According to the CDC https://bit.ly/2VJuD3E people that are obese are 3 times more likely to suffer more severe symptoms. A CNBC story reported that 78% of people hospitalized were overweight. Blacks have a higher obesity rate than Caucasians. The biggest lie that the MSM is pushing is that Covid-19 is an equal opportunity killer. It’s not! The two examples above point out how the elderly and obese account for an overwhelming majority of deaths and school age children a miniscule percentage. The point of this LTE is not to dissuade people from getting vaccinated or wearing masks. I support both, but reject that it be made mandatory for all. The data is clear! 98% of people that contracted Covid recovered. Covid poses little risk to healthy, young individuals, yet they are being

“forced” to get vaccinated and wear masks by an authoritative administration. In closing, it’s everyone’s responsibility to assess their own risk factors and act accordingly. Vaccines absolutely reduces the risk of serious illness and death in the elderly and obese. Efficacy for the young and healthy is still debatable. Finally, if you “choose” to wear a face covering, purchase the American made N95 mask and replace it regularly. Anything else offers little protection. Bruce Jenket Moultonborough, NH.

Against WOW Trail Direction

To The Editor: A “trail” is meant to be a wilderness path type of thing, not a conveyance through a residential/city area. The WOW Trail need not proceed through uninteresting suburbs. Prospective hikers/tourists could experience something just as special if they had remained home; the present trail is almost exclusively a rural/wilderness experience, why change it now? The last ¾ mile Lakeport end of the present path is full of trash and graffiti. Drug users like to veer off it to inject themselves with their peculiar libations. There was even a homeless encampment on Dutile Co. land abutting it. Franklin Street residents chose to live there as it’s a nice little street – simple but not high end. It was rebuilt in the sumSee MAILBOAT on 30

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A pair of rubycrowned kinglets flitted among the brush and a crow or two flew overhead. That was all the bird action on the early part of the walk. Then I heard a commotion coming from a nearby tree. It was a huge, dead maple tree with no leaves on its branches but various types of vines climbed up its trunk and spread out among the limbs. The vines still had their leaves, making the tree look like nature had splattered various shades of red, yellow, orange and green on the venerable old guard. Something must have been lurking among the brush be-

cause the birds were on high alert. I’ve never seen a more varied collection of bird species in one tree before. I could hardly believe it as I counted out the species in my head. For starters, there were three types of woodpeckers among the branches: northern flicker, downy and yellow-bellied sapsucker. It was the first sapsucker I had seen in a while. I’m not sure if the woodpeckers were joining in the commotion or just looking for food in the dead tree. A lingering catbird, a small group of Carolina wrens and a large gathering of whitethroated sparrows made the majority of the noise. Carolina wrens have such an

impressive repertoire of songs and calls, but they stuck to their alarm calls on this occasion. Although they stayed hidden among the brush, cardinals added to the cacophony with their own high-pitched alarm calls. A lone blue jay squawked out its namesake “jay, jay” call from time to time. In the spring, a lone blue jay might be enough to cause such a raucous as the other birds would be protective of their eggs or babies, but I don’t think the blue jay caused this uproar. I never did find the source of the alarm. I looked carefully for a hawk or owl but didn’t see anything. I easSee BOSAK on 30

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Epic WWI Drama ‘The Big Parade’ At The Flying Monkey

Silver Bells Holiday Craft Fair In Tilton On Saturday and Sunday, November 6-7, The Silver Bells Holiday Craft Fair will take place at the Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Rd., Rt. 3, Tilton. I-93 Exit 20 & Bear Left Hours for the Holiday Fair are Saturday from 10am to 4pm and Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm. There will be over eighty Fabulous Exhibitors including chainsaw wood demos w/Elise. There will also be amazing pet portraits, cedar wood furniture, various fabulous jewelry styles, wooden art, abstract art, custom lake name signs, beautiful soy candles, handpainted holiday decor, felted items, fused glass art, gourmet honey, macrame chairs, felted items, holiday & seasonal decor, animal photography from around the world, fine art, CBD products, soaps and much more. The Holiday Craft fair has free admission. Friendly, Leashed dogs welcome. Held rain or shine under canopies. Please Social Distance. For more information call Joyce at (603) 387-1510.

“Into The Woods” At Interlakes In Meredith On Thanksgiving weekend One Light Theatre and the Performers’ Initiative of the Lakes Region will bring all your favorite fairy tale characters to life and shed new light on their very famous stories. “Into the Woods” will be performed at the Interlakes Community Auditorium in Meredith on November 26 and 27 at 7pm and November 28 at 2pm. Tickets are available now by visiting the company website at OneLightTheatreNH.org. Tickets can be purchase now at OneLightTheatreNH.org and seating is limited so early purchase is recommended. Seating is by general admission; masks are required for everyone entering the school building. Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. If you would like more information about the show, need special seating accommodations or would like to get involved with the One Light Community on stage, behind the scenes or as a sponsor please email the producer Jessica Alward at jessicaalward20202@gmail.com

It was the ‘Saving Private Ryan’ of its time — a movie that showed audiences war as experienced by a front line soldier whose life is changed forever by the experience It was ‘The Big Parade’ (1925), a sprawling World War I epic and a box office sensation that made MGM into a powerhouse studio. It’s the latest installment of the silent film series at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center, 39 Main St., Plymouth, N.H. ‘The Big Parade’ will be screened one time only on Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 6:30 p.m. General admission is $10. The show will feature live accompaniment by silent film musician Jeff Rapsis. The Big Parade’ went on to become the topgrossing movie of the entire silent film era, earning $6.4 million domestically and making director King Vidor into the Steven Spielberg of his day. It stood as MGM’s biggest single box office hit until the release of ‘Gone With the Wind’ in 1939. For more info, call (603) 536-2551 or visit www.flyingmonkeynh.com. For more info on the music, visit www.jeffrapsis.com.

Hand Woven Tapestry Exhibit In Rochester The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 N. Main Street, Rochester, will host an exhibit by Suzanne Pretty during November featuring hand woven tapestries and multimedia pieces of Farmington artist, Suzanne Pretty. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 4, from 5 to 6:30. Light refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend. Suzanne Pretty graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BA in painting. Her work then evolved from thick paint and texture into quilted, stuffed and painted pieces and eventually into tapestry. “My grandmother was a lady’s tailor in London and planted the seeds of her love of fiber with her knitting, crocheting and interesting fabric samples,” says Pretty. “I did production weaving for a number of years when I first moved to New Hampshire, but then I set this aside as my focus shifted to tapestry and multimedia works. I develop my images in multimedia painted in gouache and then enlarge and translate the images to be used to develop my tapestries.” The Franklin Gallery and RiverStones Custom Framing are open Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Unless otherwise indicated, all exhibited Franklin Gallery artworks are available for purchase. For information about this and future Franklin Gallery exhibits, contact Kris Ebbeson at krisebbeson@comcast.net or 603-812-1488.

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Time Will Tell If you didn’t know it already, and before you start showing up early for everything and can’t figure out why, Daylight Savings by Brendan Smith Time ends this Weirs Times Editor weekend. You can thank me later. The beginning and end of Daylight Savings Time is a confusing time of year for some. It is that interruption into our rhythm that happens twice a year. I did some research on the Internet from a reliable source I often turn to (allthisistrueIswear.com) and came up with some interesting history on this phenomenon. (They have videos, so their information must be correct.) Daylight Saving Times in the United States started a little over one hundred years ago in 1918 by Benjamin Franklin after he discovered electricity and then saw his first utility bill. “Yikes,” said old Ben, “It would be nice to get an extra hour of daylight to keep the lights off. Money doesn’t grow on trees.” (Of course, we know today that old Benjamin was wrong. Money most certainly does grow on trees in the greenhouse of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.) Depending on the time of the year, we either set our clocks ahead an hour or back an hour. Most of us already know this, but many of us forget which one we do on what month, so the government spent two billion dollars (which they grew in one of their orchards) years ago to have someone come up with the little ditty “Spring Ahead and Fall Back” that would help us all remember which is which. According to my Internet source, the Russians, who are

always ready to try and disrupt everything that is going on in this country, had some of their agents walk around repeating the phrase backwards “Spring Back and Fall Ahead” thus confusing many people. Our government has been investigating these claims for thirtytwo years as of yesterday. One of the biggest problems this caused, according to my trusted Internet source, was that school-aged children were either getting to class too early or too late, depending on the time of year. It was getting to be a real problem. So, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education whose sole purpose, at the time, was to have its employees print of hundreds of thousands of copies of letters to be distributed to schools nationwide and given to students to be brought home to their parents. Each letter told of the upcoming time change and whether or not it was appropriate to Spring ahead or Fall Back. Over half of the letters never made it home as they were somehow lost, got covered with peanut butter and jelly and thrown away, or used to make paper planes by the students. It was soon realized that the cost of producing the letters was prohibitive since they didn’t work and the plan was scraped. Today, the over 4,000 employees of the Department of Education work year-round sending emails to parents reminding them when to turn their clocks forward or backwards. (Thank goodness for technology.) Today, a few states don’t turn their clocks back or forth, they just leave them be. It is always the same time there when it might be a different time somewhere else. It is sort of like a boring Twilight Zone episode. A lot of people like the idea of leaving the clocks alone.

One of the reasons for this, according to the Internet, is that more and more people are getting used to their electronic devices automatically changing the time so they can keep up, while at the same time, they are too busy staring at said devices to manually change the time on their microwaves and car clocks which will most likely have the wrong time for months. Most surveyed said they would prefer not to have to stop staring at their devices to take the time to fix those clocks, so it would just be better to keep the time the same year-round. Personally, I am a big fan of turning the clocks back this time of year. Being able to drive home after work and think of all the things that might need to be done outside from November to March doesn’t bother me much since I know it will always be too dark to do anything once I get there. In the spring, with daylight lingering till almost seven, I can’t find enough things to do at work to keep me there just a little longer, forcing the inevitable. In past years here in New Hampshire, the legislature has discussed on occasion whether or not Daylight Savings Time should come or go for good. The discussion is usually forgotten when more important issues come up like what the state condiment should be. Will Daylight Savings Time be around for a while, or will it go the way of the public pay phone? Only time will tell. Brendan’s latest book “I Really Only Did It For The SocksStories & Thoughts On Aging” is now available for sale. See the ad on this page for more details.

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Grant Napear’s Life Matters Should a peaceful, law-abiding man of faith be punished in perpetuity for publicly proclaiming his heartfelt belief that “ALL LIVES MATTER ... EVERY SINGLE ONE”? The question is not merely rhetorical. It is now a legal matter for a California court and jury to decide. Grant Napear, radio talk show host and former announcer for the Sacramento Kings basketball team, by Michelle Malkin filed a lawsuit last week against his former Syndicated Columnist employer, Bonneville International Corp., after the Utah-based media conglomerate threw him under the bus last spring to mollify the un-mollify-able Black Lives Matter mob. In case you had forgotten, hordes of lunatics across America lost their minds over the Minneapolis police-involved death of career criminal and drug addict George Floyd. Coast-to-coast riots caused nearly $2 billion in damages and cost scores of lives -- all under the guise of “social justice” and “peaceful protest,” of course. Those who dared stray from BLM orthodoxy -- no joking allowed, no defense of law enforcement allowed, nothing less than full and immediate genuflection to the vengeful gods of “diversity” allowed -- faced moral condemnation, social media persecution and even employment termination. Napear suffered all three punishments. His crime? In response to NBA player DeMarcus Cousins’ tweet to him asking “what’s your take on BLM?” the veteran sports journalist answered with those fateful six words: “ALL LIVES MATTER... EVERY SINGLE ONE.” A tsunami of hate and smears ensued on social media. Another NBA player, Matt Barnes, gleefully tarred Napear as a “closet racist” and stoked a backlash. Barnes had preexisting grudges against Napear, who had called him out over a nightclub brawl that led to criminal charges against Barnes for assaulting a woman in 2016, among other unruly incidents. “Plain and simple,” Napear told me in an interview on Monday, “Matt called me a closet racist on Twitter to get back at me. The sad thing is his tweet was taken as judge and jury. If I’m a closet racist, why did you come on my show every week and ask to play in my golf tournament? This is just part of the sad cancel culture that exists in our country now.” Within 48 hours, corporate cowards at Napear’s Sacramento radio station, KHTK, fired the 62-year-old veteran sports journalist, despite more than two decades of superlative work on the airwaves. See MALKIN on 28

Punishing Achievement Is Punishing Everyone

This week, Democrats settled on an area of apparent commonality: the desire to eat the rich. According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, “Senator Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee ... would by Ben Shapiro impose a tax on unrealSyndicated Columnist ized gains on liquid assets held by extremely wealthy individuals, billionaires.” While Yellen refused to call this a “wealth tax,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had no such qualms: “We probably will have a wealth tax,” she said. This has long been a talking point for the most Marxist-leaning Democrats, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who famously proposed a 2% wealth tax on all assets of a family above $50 million and 6% on all assets above $1 billion. Elated Warren supporter Adam Jentleson told The Washington Post, “Biden’s agenda was about to fall apart, but Warren had a plan for that.” So, what do wealth taxes do? They destroy value by taxing unrealized value. Say, for example, that you are a business owner who created a company now valuated at $1 billion. And say that you have built that business over the course of the last five years, paying yourself a post-tax, post-expenditure salary of $5 million per year. You would be liquid to the tune of $25 million. Under Warren’s proposal, $950 million of those unrealized assets would be taxed at 2%, meaning that you would be on the hook for an annual tax of $19 million. You would have no choice but to liquidate your stock, undermining its price and endangering the growth of your company. Wealth taxes have been tried in a variety of countries, and they have regularly failed. When France created a wealth tax, some 42,000 millionaires left; French President Emmanuel Macron eventually

killed it. From 1990 onward, nine out of the 12 European countries that had a wealth tax followed Macron’s lead and killed their wealth taxes. So, what’s the point of a wealth tax if, in the end, it will fail? The point is the punishment. Biden and Warren are seeking to tax dollars that do not yet exist, because the people who have created those dollars are worthy of sanction. While Biden constantly blathers that he is a capitalist who doesn’t seek to punish earners -- only to make them pay their fair share -- he’s simply lying. Earners in America certainly pay their fair share: the top 1% of income earners pay approximately 40% of all income taxes while earning just 21% of all income; the highest quintile of income earners pay virtually all net taxes in America after income transfers by the government. This isn’t about a “fair share.” It’s about disincentivizing wealth creation, demonizing it, treating it as a mark of sin. Unfortunately, we have mainstreamed such economic and moral idiocy. When we speak of the wealthy as the “privileged,” we betray our own unwillingness to speak the obvious: High-income earners provide more and better goods and services to people than lower-income earners. That is why their income is high. Income is a reflection of consensual transactions resulting in voluntary trades. Innovation and risk-taking must be rewarded in order for them to take place; to then attribute success to “privilege” or “luck” is to pretend that a free-market system is some sort of lottery. It isn’t. If we decide that it is somehow more altruistic and moral to receive government benefits than to take risks that result in economic success, we destroy the economic mechanism that has generated all of our prosperity -- and the individuals who make that mechanism work. And that’s the point. What begins as a small See SHAPIRO on 30

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Lessons From Venezuela Democrats say President Joe Biden won “a strong mandate.” His government can do all sorts of good things! I don’t believe he has a mandate, by John Stossel but thanks to the Syndicated Columnist selfishness of former President Donald Trump, Democrats control Congress, and that may give them power to shove their worst ideas down our throats. Those include: No. 1: Hate speech laws. No. 2: Expanding the Supreme

Court. No. 3: Gun control. No. 4: Spending much more. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have noticed that these “reforms” were just tried in a country near us. My new video reveals how they worked out (spoiler alert: badly). Venezuela became progressives “it” country when Hugo Chavez became president. Celebrities like Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore showered him with praise. Sean Penn called him “one of the most important forces we’ve had on this planet.” “You have to be blind to believe

that,” responds Andres Guilarte of The Fund for American Studies. Guilarte is one of many Venezuelans who risked his life to protest socialist rule. When the protests failed, he came to the United States as a refugee. Today, protest is even riskier in Venezuela, because of progressive reform No. 1: the “Law Against Hatred.” Half America’s Democrats support that, says a YouGov poll. They should rethink what they want, says Guilarte, because “the ruling party ... (gets to decide) what hate speech is.” In Venezuela, critics of the govern-

ment now face jail time. No. 2: Some Democrats want to add four new justices to the Supreme Court. Sen. Ed Markey says the new justices would “restore balance” after years of Republican rule. Chavez added justices to Venezuela’s Supreme Court. He “changed it from 20 people to 32 people,” says Guilarte. After that, “the court never ruled against him.” It let him shut down opposition media and confiscate 1,000 private businesses. No. 3: American Democrats want gun control. In Venezuela now, only the army, See STOSSEL on 29

Sudan Coup Jolts Country’s Fragile Comeback Here we go again; another military coup in Sudan! The army takeover in one of Africa’s largest if most unstable countries, underby John J. Metzler scores the growSyndicated Columnist ing economic, social and political turmoil between a new civilian led government and the restive military who’s been in and out of the shadows since the nominal return to democracy two years ago. In August 2019 Sudan’s long serving dictator Omar Al-Bashir was toppled by the army. But in the wake of Bashir’s entrenched thirty-year authoritarian rule, civilian protests and a strong civic

movement forced the military to enter into a transitional power sharing agreement leading in theory to a more democratic government for this land of 42 million people. That fragile civilian/military deal has now shattered. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan the new supremo, has predictably promised free and fair elections by July 2023. Literally on the eve of the overthrow, American Special Envoy Jeffrey Feldman visited the capital Khartoum to press for agreement between the military and the civilians; the envoy departed with what he thought was a deal. Hours later the military overthrew the transitional government. Washington was hoodwinked. Surprise, Surprise.

The Sudan coup has triggered a lightning response and pushback by the international community. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters, “I once again strongly condemned the forceful military takeover of power in Sudan. .. It is true that Sudan has achieved important milestones; they cannot be reversed. A civilianmilitary partnership is critical.” The UN Security Council later met in urgent session. The African Union and the Arab League have condemned the power grab. United Kingdom Ambassador Barbara Woodward stated, “Two years ago, the people of Sudan put there lives on the line for democracy. They should not have to do so again.” As importantly the United States immediately suspended $700 mil-

lion in aid for Sudan and The World Bank put a few billion in loans on hold. First a little backstory. Omar al-Bashir ruled over Sudan for 30 years, turning this Horn of African state into an international pariah. Remember Darfur? The Arab regime’s terror against largely Christian nomads in the vast western Darfur region of the country became synonymous with ethnic cleansing. While still in power, in 2008 Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), but still has not been delivered to the Hague for justice even by the former transitional government. This raises many unanswered questions. See METZLER on 30

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Davis’ words about a bumpy night - she would not utter them in All About Eve for another six years but he is surely in for one. Many of Billy’s nights and most of Billy’s rides have been b u m p y both figuratively and practically since his f l i g h t across the Atlantic back in 1 9 4 2 (Billy B o y l e , Soho Press, 2006), and I suspect Billy’s days and nights and modes of transport will remain rough until the war is over. In Road of Bones, James R. Benn’s latest entry in the “Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries,” Captain Billy Boyle of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces) and his friends and co-detectives Kaz, Lieutenant Piotr Kazimierz of the Polish Armed Forces, and Big Mike, Staff Sergeant Mike Miecznikowski, are headed to Russia to solve a double murder, one American, one Russian. The Russians are eager to find an American guilty of the killings and the Americans, of course, want the opposite, so

General Eisenhower, Billy’s Uncle Ike, who wants to keep things on an even keel with the Russians to further the war effort, needs Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike to sort things out. After the terrifying lift across Germany in a B-17 bomber Billy is in for more trouble when he must start the investigation without Kaz and Big Mike. Billy is teamed up instead with a Russian who he had dealings with in an earlier case (Rag and Bone, Soho Press, 2010), a Russian he gravely mistrusts. I do not know how Benn works his magic to make me feel – really feel – like I am sitting next to Billy in the B-17, but I do. I am deaf from the noise, frigid from the cold,

and I recoil with every thump of a bomb or bounce of flak. I should have been prepared for the instant fear and dread because many of Benn’s Billy Boyle novels start with Billy (and the reader, vicariously) in a loud, dangerous, and deadly situation. Billy is a detective, not part of a bomb squadron, but here he is on page one, up against the wall of the fuselage, behind the wing, manning a machine gun and keeping an eye out for the enemy. Things gets worse as the story goes on and there isn’t a safe place or a slow pace in the novel. Admirers of the Billy Boyle mysteries are used to the power of battle passages, but readers should also take a minute to appreciate the eloquence of Benn’s more subdued scenes. In one spot he writes, as if describing an Edward Hopper painting, “At the first hangar, a dull yellow light spilled out feebly onto the runway as ground crew pushed out a small biplane.” Further on his depiction of a brief, calm respite in Billy’s journey is every bit as potent as his pictures of war. See MONTAGUE on 24

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Sam Walter Foss d e d i c a t e d h i s Back Country Poems “To all men and women who are fortunate to have lived ‘ back in the country.’” This New Hampshire born poet wrote poems about the common people, particularly country people, that could be understood by the same. You won’t find Foss mentioned as often as fellow poet Robert Frost, who New Hampshire folk like to claim as one of our own, even though Frost was born in California and shared his residences in this state with those in several others. Sam Foss was born and raised in New Hampshire, but eventually became a resident of Massachusetts. His birthplace was in Candia, New Hampshire and he was descended from eight generations of farmers in the Granite State. Sam Foss had some things in common

Sam Walter Foss with my Dad, being a product of a New Hampshire farm, but also both having lost their mothers by death when they were about four years old. The sons were four years old, not the mothers. Sam was born in June of 1856 and worked on his father’s farm and attended school during the winter months. After his father remarried and moved to Portsmouth, Sam attended Portsmouth High School, reportedly walking three miles each way. He then attended Tilton

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to follow your Constitution when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” This statement was confirmed in your failed attempts to make Iraq and Afghanistan nations which embrace your Constitution. At that time, the religion and morality spoken of by John Adams was Christianity, which worshiped me, the one true God. For nations who do not worship me, they neither have the power nor the will to embrace and live out the principles found in your Constitution. Sadly, much of your nation and many of your leaders have now become a people who have rejected me, my Word and my will. As a result, they are now rejecting your Constitution. Decision making and lawlessness at the highest levels of your government, reflect a desire to repudiate and replace that founding Constitution, with laws and principles of their own making. I’m reminded of my chosen people Israel, who during the time of the Judges, for 400 years, chose to live by their own standards and in so doing egregiously violated my Word and will. The phrase that characterized their rebellion from me, their King, was expressed in Judges 21:25. It stated, “Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.” In other words, when they rejected me and my Word, they created their own.

If you read my book, the Bible, and particularly the end of the book of Judges, you will see a horrifying society, who practiced what they determined as right but which led to the most hideous sexual behavior and barbaric society, indistinguishable from the Pagan world (Judges 19-21). You are beginning to witness this with your own eyes. A young man, encouraged by recent laws, to dress as a woman was allowed to enter a girls High School bathroom, where he raped & sodomized a student. It was then covered up so as not to jeopardize the new freedoms created by the new laws. All the while, the perpetrator repeated the same act again in another location. Then, when a parent sought to address the horrific event and was denied a hearing, he was dragged away and beaten by police. News broadcasters then blamed the bad behavior of the parent and suggest his behavior was reprehensible. A woman was sexually assaulted on a train in a major city, while onlookers failed to call for help and only took pictures of the act. Military leaders under the guidance of political leaders, abandoned a 20-year defense outpost in Afghanistan before Americans and American sympathizers were safely transported out, so that they and all Afghan people were left to suffer the ravages of radicals armed with 85 billion dollars of military equipment left behind. Your politi-

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QUESTION: Our Constitution seems to be crumbling. What should We expect as a result? Yes, it is, and it is crumbling fast. It must be amazing to you that your country, which for so long was founded on principles contained in your Constitution, should be abandoned so swiftly. It may be for you, but it is not for me. I not only saw it coming before it was in vogue, but I knew that it would follow the forsaking of my Constitution, which is my Word and will as revealed in my book, the Bible. In fact, the reason that they are now laying it aside is related. When your country turned your back on me and my word, you no longer had the desire or the power to maintain your Constitution as your guiding document for success. You see when your country, by and large trusted me, I gave them my power to conform to your Constitution. Without me, people are without self-control and without self-control it was only a matter of time before the rule of law, as revealed in your Constitution, would be overturned. One of your founding fathers, John Adams, spoke of the relationship of following me and my will in order

cal leaders then patted themselves on the back claiming it was a great success. In the name of compassion, your President and his minions broke virtually every immigration law, and in so doing, subjected your country to untold misery for current citizens, those who came into your country legally and ironically those being brought in to your country, which is morally, economically and societally unable to absorb the influx of illegal citizens. Not to speak of the thousands who, because they have been brought in illegally, have as their desire, to destroy your country. The evidence of lawlessness and nullification of your laws stated in your Constitution or too numerous to address. You must know however, that having abandoned me you are powerless to adhere to your Constitution and your demise is inevitable. Oh, how I wish you could see the error of your ways and return to me. Time will tell! I love you enough to speak the truth to you before it is too late. God. These letters are written by a New Hampshire pastor.

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Among the many advantages to kayak fishing, not needing to winterize them and the late season fishing opportunities they bring often attracts new kayak anglers. Kayak anglers often see extended seasons that last well into November for some. Beautiful scenery, great fishing, and little to no competition for prime fishing spots are all major factors in how long many kayak anglers fish each year. The great fishing is often the major draw, causing many kayak anglers to take risks.

Risks that could cost them their life. I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I have seen a kayak angler fishing with their life jacket (PFD) either behind them in their kayak or out of sight completely. I try to mind my own business, so I’m not one to preach to people who aren’t wearing one, but when I do speak up I hear things like, “I’m a good swimmer,” or “It’s in my kayak. I can put it on if I fall in.” These arguments sound good, but only apply to perfect and predictable conditions.

In New Hampshire, the law only requires that you have a PFD in your kayak. The law does not require you to wear it. If you’re someone who doesn’t wear a PFD because you think you can put one on if you fall in, I challenge you to (in a warm month) try putting one on while you’re in the water. I’ve tried it. It’s far more difficult than you think. Add sub40-degree water to the equation and you’ve got a real challenge on your hands. The U.S. Coast Guard reported that in 2020, 75 percent of all fatal boating accident victims drowned.

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Hall-of-Famer Ivan Rodriguez used to bless himself before every pitch, one of numerous baseball players who’d make the Catholic “Sign of the Cross” during games. Many other players similarly display religious faith during contests. Some point to the heavens after crossing home plate after hitting home runs. While such gestures inspire many, not everyone is enthralled. One MLB catcher once tired of a batter’s overt religiosity. Every time the batter made the sign of the cross the catcher would stand up and do likewise. “Now that we’re on equal terms with God, let’s see if you can hit.” Some folks, particularly “progressives,” recoil at public displays of faith and clearly would like to ban such practices. But we still have freedom of religion and freedom of speech in America, much to their chagrin. (Freedoms that some seek to incrementally take away from us, a reminder that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.) Anyway, all that brings us to Baltimore Raven placekicker Justin Tucker. His team recently trailed the winless Detroit Lions 17-16. With time running out the Ravens were at midfield with time for one

Sports Quiz Answer Dempsey’s kick gave the New Orleans Saints a last second 19-17 win over the Detroit Lions— the same score by which Detroit lost to Tucker and the Ravens.

Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker. more play. As is so often the case, the cameras focused on the solitary placekicker standing on the sideline, in this case Tucker. Millions would see the 31-year-old placekicker from the University of Texas make the Sign of the Cross. Raven coach John Harbaugh then sent Tucker out to try an unprecedented, recordsetting 66-yard field goal. On his own 44-yard line, 66 yards away from the distant goal posts, Tucker marked his spot behind the holder and awaited the snap. And then he made the Sign of the Cross. Again. Then came the snap. And the kick. For several seconds the stadium was completely quiet, as the prolate spheroid soared up towards the Detroit sky on its unprecedented journey towards the promised land. Upon its descent,

the football hit a barrier—the horizontal goalpost. It bounced almost straight up in the air, and then came down on the far side. Ravens win! 19-17!

Not all prayers are answered, for divine reasons that believers try to understand. But folks much wiser than me have long lauded the power of prayer and as the old saying goes, “Faith can move mountains.”

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¨Dad! What’s for dinner?¨ ¨Tourtier.¨ ¨What’s Torture?¨ ¨Tor-Tee-Air!¨ My family does not appreciate Tourtiere. I, however, armed with a bottle of ketchup, will fully indulge in such a splendid repast, one delicious wedge at a time, until it is no more. A delicious mixture of ground pork and finely chopped or mashed potatoes gently seasoned with savory herbs and

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Ungreased Pie Plate / Dish for making pie 1 pk, Double pie crust - 2 lbs. Ground Pork - 2 cups Lightly Mashed Potato (not whipped) - 3 eggs½ cup of Potato water (reserved)- 1 Tbsp. Cider Vinegar - 1 small onion finely diced - 1 tsp. All Spice - ¼ tsp. Nutmeg - ¼ tsp. Cinnamon - ½ tsp. Clove ½ tsp. Sage - ¼ tsp. Black Pepper - ¼ tsp. Salt 1) Cook 2 pounds of Ground pork in a large skillet. Remove to a mixing bowl and hold. 2) Withhold enough pork fat in the skillet to saute one small diced onion, draining remaining fat. 3) Cook potatoes, reserve ½ cup of potato water, drain potatoes, and make mashed potatoes according to how you like. (Butter, salt, pepper, sour cream or milk, etc.) Careful not to whip. 4) When onion is translucent, add pork back into skillet with onion and continue cooking on low heat, adding ½ cup of potato water, and 1 Tbsp. of cider vinegar. 5) Continue to cook over low heat for about 5 minutes. 6) Back into the mixing bowl; combine pork and onions, mashed potatoes, spices and seasonings, and fold together. Mixture

spices such as sage, nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove and perhaps a light splash of cider vinegar, Tourtiere a.k.a. Pork Pie is a wonderful dish brought down to us from the French Canadians. The recipe may vary from family to family but the basic foundation is the same and when wrapped in a moist, flakey, buttery pie pastry shell, it is truly unlike any other meat pie. I would argue that, served hot for breakfast, accompanied with eggs over easy, toast, fried potatoes, and hot coffee, life couldn’t get much better. But tiring of this by the fourth day, (remember, I´m the only one eating this 14¨ pie) I decided to change up See FEAST on 19 should hold together. 7) Taste the mixture for flavor and add what you feel is needed. This is a matter of taste and I start small. You can always add but you cannot subtract flavors. 8) Once it meets your preferred flavor, add in two eggs and fold to mix well. 9) Carefully unroll one pie crust and lay it into the bottom of the pie plate. 10) Spread pork filling evenly into the bottom crust and cover with the second unrolled crust. 11) Crimp the edges of the top and bottom crusts together and with a sharp knife, make three one to two inch long cuts into the top crust for venting. 12) Place in the oven and cook for 35 minutes. 13) In a small dish mix the third egg. This will be for an egg wash on the crust. 14) Remove the Tourtiere and, with a pastry brush, wipe the beaten egg over the top crust, then place back in the oven for 10 minutes. 15) Remove, check the internal temperature (165 degrees F. or higher) and if ready, let rest for 10 minutes, if not to temperature, place back into the oven for a few minutes more and recheck. Finish preparing the rest of your feast and serve Tourtiere hot.

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FEAST from 15 my menu a bit. My daughter had brought over some fresh Macs to swap for some Honey Crisp apples. So, I thought, why not try a Mac and some Cheddar for breakfast with my Tourtiere? Oh! What a delectable combination! I had always heard of the old timers eating apple pie with cheddar cheese but never tried it. The words ¨Yum!¨ and ¨Delicious!¨ do not even begin to describe the sensory overload to the taste buds brought forth by this duo. Adding Toutiere served hot with ketchup gives a complementary twist to the ensemble. The flavorful simplicity of these foods for a snack gives them the ability to satisfy on their own. But, it is their combination that makes them the delicious subject of this Simple Feast. Truly, a satisfying meal fit for paupers and kings alike. Perfect for a cool crisp fall morning of yard work or lumberjacking. Try making Tourtiere. The internet abounds with recipes, the history, the tradition, and the lore that surrounds this dish. Any pork pie worthy of the name Tourtiere, and you should not be disappointed. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, accompanied by a side of ketchup, freshly sliced apples, and sharp cheddar cheese, your taste buds will wonder where you have been hiding this scrumptious treat all your life. Until next time; enjoy the bounty of the simple feast!

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eerie laughter, and the wailing cry rose to a shriek that was repeated again and again. The newcomer jumped to his feet and his eyes were wild as he asked, “For God’s sake what was that?” The guide smilingly answered, “The night would indeed be a blank if the loons didn’t offer their bit of conversation.” The newcomer settled back on his seat of balsam boughs and studied the face of the guide, who continued to puff at his pipe with a peaceful smile on his face. The sounds still came from the darkness — the squeal of a woodmouse in the clutches of an owl that See TRAILS on 21

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You are nearer God’s heart in the forest than any CHRIS BOSAK PHOTO place else on earth.

Leave them alone and they will teach you many things. TRAILS from 20 had spotted it with night-seeing eyes and had drifted through the branches on noiseless, down-tipped wings; the quick hip hop of a weasel as it, too, looked for a supper of woodmice; the rasping groan of two trees rubbing together as a breeze stirred them. These and many other noises filled the darkness as the forest people made their way along the trails in search of food, paused to give their hunting cries, or struggled for supremacy in the bid for a mate. Lawless? No! The forest people are governed by something greater than you or I. Their law is survival of the fittest. Their codes of living could well be a standard for sportsmanship. They take only what God gave them to take, and that is whatever is placed on the forest floor. To be sure, the sounds they make in the night are somewhat terrifying, but those who learn their language and their code find those

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ton that, for feet that waded through The early fields of clover and the daises and the dew, The stones are hard and cruel there on Boston’s biggest street, And are pressed each day and hour by a horde of tired feet. And that men are cold and selfish, each one busy with his plan To climb to wealth and power o’er his prostrate fellow man;.” Foss concludes by saying: “And I write

my children letters; tell them that their father still, Still is toiling by the roadside on the green and quiet hill, And to come away from Boston, with its cruel noise and roar, For the biggest street in Boston passes by their father’s door.” Foss had moved to Boston in 1887, and soon after became the librarian at Somerville Public Library and from then on his occupation was listed as librarian and poet. Mr. And Mrs. Sam Foss were the parents of two children, a boy and a girl. At one time he was writing a poem a day for the newspaper. His two most popular poems appear to be “The House By The Side Of The Road” and “The Coming American.” Baseball announcer Ernie Harwell helped to keep the first of these poems in the minds of his listeners because when a batter took a called

third strike Harwell would say, “He stood there like the house by the side of the road and watched it go by.” Carrie Foss, Sam’s wife, was the daughter of a Methodist minister, and she and her husband attended the Methodist church. Some readers would interpret some of his poems as making fun of the church, though I see them as warnings to the church against hypocrisy and insincerity, though I don’t know that he used those words. Sam often used humor in his writing. “The Elder’s Sermon” is a good example of the mixture of teaching a moral lesson by the use of humor: “Our elder told us yesterday, we had not learned to live Until we learned how blessed ‘tis to pardon and forgive; The dear, sweet precious words he spake like heavenly manna fell; The perfect peace they brought our hearts no human words can tell.” Foss then has the parishioner telling how he says “Amen” in his soul to all the elder was preaching about loving and forgiving others. “‘So love your neighbor as yourself,’ he then begun again, And Silas Fi`tz, across the aisle, he shouted out, ‘Amen!’ What right had he to yell “Amen!,’ the lowtoned measly hound! Who took my cow, my new milch cow, and locked her in the pound! The low-down, raw-boned, homely crank, a lunkhead and a lout, Whose love and grace and heart and soul have all been rusted out-To sit there in the sanctuary and holler out ‘Amen!’ If I could choke the rascal once he’d never shout again!” See SMITH on 23

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the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.” Off with his head! Napear recounted how KHTK barred him “from the Company premises as if he were a criminal,” despite a spotless and exemplary employment record. His complaint laid out how Bonneville fired him “for cause” without any justification or explanation of how his tweet in defense of the sanctity of all life constituted “misconduct.” Napear unflinchingly called out the corporate media giant for illegally discriminating against him “because he is a Caucasian male who published a phrase on social media” that went

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“If we had a culture like you have in the U.S.,” Guilarte responds, “It would have been incredibly difficult.” Venezuela’s gun control didn’t even reduce crime. In fact, Venezuela’s murder rate rose. Venezuela now has the third-highest murder rate in the world. “These laws never work,” says Guilarte. “Citizens don’t have guns. But the criminals have bigger guns!” No. 4: The most important lesson from Venezuela is the idea

that governments can fund whatever they want to do simply by printing more money. “The Federal government can never run out of money,” says Modern Monetary Theory economist Stephanie Kelton. She’s convinced politicians that they can spend much more without worrying about inflation. “Well, of course, John,” replies Guilarte, sarcastically. “That’s how the economy works. You just print money because money comes up from trees.”

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 4, 2021 — both sides of the trail. It was like the changing of the guard. The warblers will soon be gone to points south and the juncos are here to stay for the winter. This fall has been full of surprises for me on my bird walks. Patience isn’t always a strength of mine, but it’s certainly paid off lately. On an unrelated note, it is safe to feed the birds again. In case you were still holding off on filling your feeders because of the mysterious disease that was killing birds in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states, it has been deemed safe to resume feeding. They still haven’t found out exactly what was causing the deaths, however. Remember to keep the feeders safe by cleaning them frequently. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com

SHAPIRO from 6 tax on an upper crust doesn’t stay that way. The original income tax contemplated in the United States was 1% applied to the lowest tax bracket, and 7% on those making $500,000 or more. Today, the top marginal income tax rate is 37%; income above $86,000 is taxed at 24%. Eventually, the agenda becomes clear: going after all earners, not merely those at the top. When achievement is punished, there are no income barriers. Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editorin-chief of DailyWire. com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

METZLER from 7 According to the UN Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, an estimated 400,000 people were killed and almost 3 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes. Systematic rape and violence against women was commonplace. AlBashir’s indictment by the ICC for alleged crimes included genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Darfur crisis between 2003 and 2020. A joint United Nations/African Union peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) was deployed to the restive region in 2007 until being phased out last year. The Secretary General’s Special Representative for Sudan advised, “The United Nations reaffirms its unwavering commitment to support the realization of the legitimate aspirations of the Sudanese people for a peaceful and democratic transition in Sudan.” But that’s easier said than done. The New York based

Human Rights Foundation (HRF) stated categorically, “Sudan’s military, led by the same generals who oversaw the genocide in Darfur under Omar al-Bashir’s brutal rule, is dragging the country back into a fullblown dictatorship after almost two years of hope for democratization,” said HRF Chief Legal Officer Roberto González. Nonetheless, Sudan’s vast petroleum reserves served to prop up the regime. Not surprisingly the People’s Republic of China became Sudan’s major trading partner and political ally despite the regime’s ostracism over the years. But let’s not fool ourselves. Even prior to the military coup Sudan was ranked as Not Free by the human rights monitor Freedom House. The Khartoum regime ranked poorly with a civil and political rights score of 17 out of 100. That’s still ironically higher than neighboring regional states as South Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia. Pro-democracy protests have rocked Khartoum in a bid to reverse the coup. There’s a chance that with financially focused International pressures, the generals may back down. But as Secretary General Guterres stated forcefully, “Now, we are seeing a multiplication of coups d’etat.” Sudan seemed a coup waiting to happen. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism the Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

MAILBOAT from 2 mer of 2021 and the street is now actually narrower than before being upgraded. Any future plans to widen its sidewalk, etc., cannot utilize land taken from the street, but will depend on land taken from homeowners. How will said property owners be compensated for loss of property? (The present sidewalk is too narrow for the increase in traffic, and it will be forced to travel in the street.) Citizens of the area will need to make many sacrifices for the implementation of a project of questionable value to appease a few wealthy people who refuse to allow said project to be constructed in their own home areas. Crime, particularly break-ins will be forced upon residents due to the increased number of persons through an area meant to be purely residential. Additional police presence will be needed. The Franklin Street diversion, as well as the Elm Street Extension of the WOW Path is unsuitable as an attraction and will result in both diminishing returns, wasted money spent, and antagonized citizenry. The point of this letter is; why should we, as taxpaying residents of this city, have to endure the prior mentioned problems of crime, garbage and graffiti liberally strewn about our homes and mobs of people strolling in the middle of a street intended for motor vehicle traffic, all for a project of dubious value? All to ensure that a few greedy individuals realize great profits while we, the people burdened by this venture, realize nothing to gain except abstract talk? Leonard Paqette Laconia, NH.

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