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The Godfather Of Modern Ice Fishing by Tim Moore Contributing Writer
The modern Ice Fishing revolution began back in the late 1980s. Since that time, several ice anglers have been credited with certain innovations that have taken ice fishing to new levels in terms of ease and angler success, but none have received as much credit for product innovations, and revolutionary ways of approaching ice fishing as National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame inductee,
Dave Genz. Dave is a friend of mine. I first met him on the ice back in 2012, right in our great little state of New Hampshire, when I was invited by Mark Beauchesne of the NH Fish and Game Department to spend a day on the ice with them. A couple of years ago I had the honor of chatting with Dave about modern ice fishing and his role in it. This first part of a two-part piece deals mostly with the history of modern ice fishing and how it differs from the more traditional See MOORE on 18
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Back in 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to run for a third term as United States President. He then dumped his Vice-President, a Texan named John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner. Cactus Jack was pushing 72 years of age, which was then considered far too old to be on a presidential ticket. (I know. I KNOW! Don’t say it.) Anyway, FDR replaced Cactus Jack with Henry Wallace who became VP when FDR won reelection. But Wallace turned out to be a huge fan of the Soviet Union and such a Communist sympathizer that even FDR and couldn’t politically afford to keep him on the ticket. He replaced Wallace with Harry Truman in 1944. FDR died in 1945 at the age of 63. Wallace died in 1965 at the age of 77. So what happened to Cactus Jack? Well, Garner was still going strong when Lyn-
John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner (Top) and Tom Brady. don Johnson replaced the assassinated John F. Kennedy in 1963. (Kennedy actually talked to Garner the day JFK was shot.) Cactus Jack kept going strong until he died in 1967 at
the age of 99. Maybe you know where I’m going with this. Substitute Bill Belichick for FDR, Tom Brady for Cactus Jack, and Cam Newton for Henry
Wallace. Hindsight being 20/20, FDR should have kept Cactus Jack working for him. And it sure looks like Belichick should have kept Brady working in Foxboro as opposed to Tampa Bay. Given the way Newton’s played lately, Belichick must have remorse about his notion of winning without Brady. Garner call the vicepresidency “A spare tire on the automobile of government.” Football teams also need spare tires to keep on rolling. But Patriot backup QBs Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer also proved to be more like flat tires. But there’s still a lot of football to be played. Maybe by mid-December Newton and the New England offense will be in synch with the Pats in playoff contention. And perhaps TB will finally show his age in TB. We’ll soon know. And at least Newton isn’t a Communist sympathizer like Wallace. (As far as we know.) Sports Quiz What backup replaced the legendary Baltimore Colt quarterback JohnSee MOFFETT on 21
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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Silver Bells Arts & Crafts Fair In Tilton Don’t miss the Silver Bells Arts & Crafts Fair on Saturday and Sunday, November 7-8 at Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Rd., Tilton, NH. Do your holiday shopping early with American artists & crafters. There will be over 80 fabulous arts & crafts exhibitors including cedar wood creations, aerial Lakes Region photography, sheepskin handmade products, handpainted stemware, nuts & bolts art creations, leather jewelry, handpoured soaps, soy candles, handknitted items, various jewelry styles, home decor, resin window art, children’s items, pandemic masks, handcrafted wooden spoons, kettle corn, recycled wool mittens/scarves, towels & quillows, specialty coffees, gourmet honey, handcrafted pocketbooks, & lots more. Rain or Shine Outside Under Canopies. Please social distance. Mask Required! Friendly, Leashed Pets Welcome. Outside Under Canopies. Rain or Shine. For more Info call Joyce (603) 528-4014 - Take I-93 Exit 20 & Go Left at Lights See you there.
Faith Matters Program Features WWII Profile On Farmington’s 7 Bowden Brothers In recognition and celebration of upcoming Veteran’s day, The First Congregational Church in Farmington will present Sandra DiPrizio, daughter of the late Pearl Bowden of Farmington as the guest on the November 5th edition of Faith Matters. Sandra and co-hosts, Pastor Kent Schneider and Susan Loker, will discuss the extraordinary story of Pearl and his six brothers who all fought in World War II ~ and who all returned home alive. Each of the seven brothers enlisted or was drafted between the years of 1938 and 1945. They all served in the Army in various locations including India, Germany, Japan, Panama and the Aleutian Islands. Widowed in 1940, their mother, Clydia, wrote to each son each week and was, in the words of son, Seymour, the true hero. “She comforted other women who got telegrams of their sons’ death, knowing that the next telegram coming into town could be for her.” Join us on November 5th at 5pm to learn more of this wonderful story of dedication and service of this local family. Faith Matters broadcasts weekly from the sanctuary of the First Congregational church in Farmington, offering a “Faith Lift” and positive connections to all who tune in to www.facebook. com/farmingtonnhfirstcongregational. The First Congregational Church is located at 400 Main Street, Farmington, NH.
Annual Mae Hart Thanksgiving Dinner
The Annual Mae Har t Thanksgiving Dinner will once again take place on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 26th, 2020 at the Meredith Community Center thanks to the generosity of the Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant. Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant has partnered with the Meredith Parks and Recreation Department for years to provide this wonderful meal and wanted to ensure that the meal would be provided again this year. Due to the Covid‐19 pandemic this year the in‐house Annual Mae Hart Thanksgiving Dinner will be a drive‐thru event and offered to those in the Meredith and surrounding area. We will still be providing delivery to those who are housebound who live in Meredith, Center Harbor & New Hampton. Anyone wishing to pick‐up a meal, volunteer their time or is house bound and would like a meal delivered please contact Terri Thompson at the Meredith Parks and Recreation Department at 279‐8197 or tthompson@meredithnh.org. Preregistration for drive‐thru curbside pick‐up and housebound delivery is required by no later than November 20th, 2020. Drive‐thru curbside pickup will take place at the Meredith Community Center from 11am‐1pm on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 26th, 2020. Meal delivery will be made between 10:30 & 11:30am. This special meal is a long‐time tradition thanks to the generosity of Mae Hart, the Hart family matriarch, who promoted community spirit and believed no one should eat alone on Thanksgiving Day. The very generous Hart family has continued her tradition since 1988. We would also like to thank a generous anonymous donor, who contributes funding each year to help provide delivered meals. Thank you also to the many volunteers who have made this wonderful gathering possible over the years.
Volunteer Open House At Aviation Museum Of New Hampshire LONDONDERRY - You’re invited to attend the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire’s upcoming volunteer open house, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 7-8:30pm. The open house will take place at the museum, which is located at 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry. Face coverings will be required; the facility is compliant with all local and CDC Covid-19 guidelines. If you plan to attend, please call (603) 669-4820 and leave a message with your name, or send an e-mail to jrapsis@nhahs.org. Volunteers are needed for the museum’s main exhibit floor, for the museum’s historical archive, for the education outreach program, for administration, IT and mechanical engineering projects and more. For more information about volunteering at the Aviation Museum, visit www. aviationmuseumofnh.org or call (603) 669-4820. Follow the Aviation Museum on social media at www.facebook.com/nhahs.
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Looking Forward To The End I write this column a couple of days before the big election. I am looking forward to all of this craziness to be over. Over the past by Brendan Smith week my worry Weirs Times Editor has increased tenfold and I am hoping that once this election is said and done, that I will be feeling a bit more at ease. The fear has been at its worst each day as I drive home from work. I try to calm myself by listening to soothing music on the radio, but that doesn’t help to ease my mind for what I know awaits me as I pull into my driveway. There have been other elections in the past that have had me concerned, but this year is by far has been the most awful I have ever experienced. Yesterday was my worst nightmare come true. Not one or two, or even five or six, but twelve, yes twelve, an even dozen, oversized, extra glossy political mailers were stuffed inside the tiny 8x4 inch metal mailbox I have attached to my house. My wife, Kim, says the mailbox is cute, and on most days it is. But on this day, it was far from cute. Its tiny lid propped open gasping for breath; the ancient screws that had held it in its comfortable place for decades, quivering from the weight. Pictures of Jeanne Shaheen, Governor Sununu, Matt Mowers and the rest of the candidates, staring and glaring at me as I made my way from my car towards the now unsightly mailbox which was being asked to carry more proportionate weight than even the strongest human could ever endure. At first, I wanted to just walk by the mass of mangled faces, some smiling, others scowling,
depending on what the message was being portrayed on the mailer. But I knew I could not let the poor mailbox suffer any longer. And what about the other pieces of mail? The bills and letters and birthday cards that, on any other day, would have been sitting happily awaiting my arrival, but were now buried deep inside under the insipid weight of the messages from these people seeking political office. It was not fair for the other mail to suffer just because it was delivered on such a tragic day. There might even be a magazine trapped in their as well, at first happy to deliver me the monthly articles that I had chosen myself to partake of, but was now feeling very uneasy with its pages in uncomfortably close contact with the phony smile of Kamala Harris. I approached the mailbox, planted my feet firmly against my porch steps for leverage, and slowly pulled the mass of mailers out so as not to bring harm to the innocent mailbox or letters underneath. Lugging the load inside I dropped them all on our granite kitchen counter. I thought I heard a crack from the weight, but was relieved to find it was only the sound of my arthritic shoulder when the load had let loose. As is my usual course of action after bringing political mailers into the house, I picked them up again and then went to throw them immediately into the trash bin. I pressed the foot pedal to open the lid of the bin, my arms once again becoming heavy from the weight, only to notice that the bin was full, mostly from what I thought at the time was a record number of political mailers that had haunted me the day before. I never imagined that even more would arrive this day, it did not seem humanely possible.
I placed the mailers on the counter again, and then slowly lifted the heavy garbage bag from the bin. There were at least two days’ worth of smiling and scowling candidates in there that I had forgotten about. As I lifted the bag, the weight was too much and the bottom of the bag burst open and spread the faces of President Trump, Joe Biden, Shaheen, Messner, Mowers, Pappas and a slew of local candidates all over the kitchen floor. It would be a long evening of cleaning up the mess. Now I sit here and write about my adventures in dealing with this onslaught of political mailers. But I really can’t be angry at anyone but myself over all of this. It is my own fault. I could have thrown them all in the large recycling bin in the cellar, like a good citizen concerned for the environment, but that is only collected every other week and I wanted the faces of these creatures out of my house as soon as possible. It is also my fault that I am registered as an Independent. If I had simply chosen to commit to one political party, the tragic load of these political mailers would possibly have been less and my life a little easier during election season. There is still one day to go before the election, and I am looking forward to the end of this nonsense. Now that I am nearing 65, I need space in the mailbox for the Medicare mailers. Hear the audio version of this and other columns at BrendanTSmith.com. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” His latest book “I Only Did It For The Socks - Stories and Thoughts On Aging” will be published soon.
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The Mobilization Of The Mob Ready or not, here they come. The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance aren’t just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin’ Joe Biden. Hell no. They’re making their direct action checklists and checking them twice. They’re training for instigating. No matter the outcome at the ballot box, the left-wing mob is prepared to disrupt by Michelle Malkin and destroy nationwide in the name of preSyndicated Columnist serving “democracy.” Four weeks ago, I exposed the pot-bangers and lawn-crashers of the Sunrise Movement. That’s the constantly morphing, full-time front group for the Sierra Club that nurtures rent-a-rioters to agitate for everything from the “Green New Deal,” to Black Lives Matter and the “defund the police” movement, to the attacks at private homes of Senate Republicans -- who just delivered the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Another key social justice player, ShutDown D.C., is teaming with Sunrise Movement guerilla warriors to mobilize students, community organizers and even federal employees to take to the streets on Nov. 3. ShutDown D.C. anticipates that 10,000 protesters from a motley assortment of affinity groups will converge at Black Lives Matter Plaza to engage in “civil resistance” if President Trump tries to “steal the election.” A “Flying Bike Squad” is “coming together as a rapid response team,” according to organizers. If it’s anything like the skateboard squads and soup can squads who’ve used everyday items as weapons to beat Trump supporters, look for more blood to spill in the name of “peaceful protest.” Mass disruptions are planned at train stations and airports, on highways and in residential neighborhoods for at least the first full week after Election Day. “We’ll keep it going until Trump concedes,” ShutDown D.C. threatens in its outline of a “No More Business As Usual” blockade across the country. “We could be in the streets throughout the fall and into the winter -- maybe as lots of rolling waves of action or possibly as a few major tsunamis! In other parts of the country, as vote counts conclude, our focus will turn from protecting the vote counts to themselves being ungovernable.” Here’s what has me especially concerned: The “deep state” Trump-haters are openly gearing up to do everything they can from inside the federal government to assist the resistance. ShutDown D.C. is conducting online training this week with public employees See MALKIN on 20
The Great COVID Lie
Until COVID-19 hit, President Donald Trump was on a glide path to reelection. On domestic policy, Trump’s tax and regulatory cuts spurred the economy to heights unseen in 50 years; his Department of Education cracked down on by Ben Shapiro the star-chamber courts Syndicated Columnist applied on college campuses in cases of alleged sexual misconduct; he has appointed scores of well-qualified constitutionalist judges, including three Supreme Court justices. On foreign policy, Trump is the first president of my lifetime not to enter any foreign wars; he has brokered historic peace deals in the Middle East between Israel and Arab countries; he has stood up to Chinese predations in unprecedented ways. If this election had been held in February, Trump likely would have won. And he likely would have won rather easily. That’s because Trump’s often-terrible rhetoric would have taken a back seat to his actions, and Americans’ pessimism about Trump’s character would have taken a back seat to their optimism about his agenda. Then COVID hit. The economy, thanks in large part to overwrought lockdown policies, collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died. And Trump’s rhetoric blunders took on renewed seriousness as Americans looked for steady leadership and instead found the usual Trumpian stew of bloviation and exaggeration and ire. COVID has become the Democrats’ chief electioneering ploy. Their argument is patently wrong and immoral. It is an argument repeated ad nauseum by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as their allies in the media. The argument, expressed by Biden, is this: “220,000 Americans dead ... Anyone who’s responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.” But, of course, Trump isn’t responsible for those deaths. Trump should have spoken
sooner about wearing masks; he should have acted with more alacrity in developing testing. But COVID has spread throughout the world, killing hundreds of thousands, and is now spreading nearly unchecked throughout Europe, where lockdowns and masking have been prevalent for months. In fact, Democratic governors praised Trump for giving them the ventilators and personal protective equipment they sought; the White House’s Operation Warp Speed has accelerated the development of a vaccine in historically unprecedented ways. The hardest-hit states in terms of death per millions were nearly all states with governors who did not follow Trump’s preferred anti-lockdown policies. Just as important, Democrats have never provided an alternative plan with regard to COVID. Biden’s stated plan -- to accelerate a vaccine, to socially distance, to mask more, to create local authority for targeted lockdowns -- is no different from Trump’s. Biden was holding packed rallies into early March. Democrats have repeatedly condoned or celebrated massive rallies of millions of people during the pandemic, so long as those rallies meet with their political approval. The narrative that Trump is responsible for COVID’S death toll, then, is a religious argument, not a factual one. It is reliant on a perverse view of the universe by which Trump is responsible for all evil, a miasmatic orange Satan haunting the land. And, the theory goes, if Trump is excised, COVID will be controlled by someone with a steadier hand. That’s nonsense. The pandemic will continue on Nov. 4, no matter who is elected. But so long as Trump is labeled the true scourge, rather than COVID, Trump will pay the political price. And the so-called Party of Science will continue to promote that anti-scientific lie all the way up through Election Day. Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.
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Worried about Tuesday? Remember: The most important parts of life happen outside politics. Love, friendship, family, by John Stossel raising children, Syndicated Columnist building businesses, worship, charity work -- that is the stuff of life! Politicians get in the way of those things. But despite the efforts of power-hungry Republicans and Democrats, life gets better. You may not believe that. Sur-
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veys show most people think life is getting worse. But it isn’t, as Marian Tupy and Ron Bailey point out in their new book, “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know.” “Child labor was once ubiquitous. Now it’s limited to a few countries in Africa. Women did not have a vote (until New Zealand granted it at the end of the 19th century). Today, women vote everywhere except for the Vatican,” Tupy reminds us. Gays and lesbians, persecuted for millennia, are free to marry. Slavery was universal; now it is illegal. The world has never been more peaceful, more educated and
kinder.” But the nastiness of today’s politics may stop progress! Make life worse! It’s possible, but “worse” compared to what? I’ve lived through the Vietnam War, a military draft, 90% income tax rates, price controls, indecency laws, widespread racism and sexism, Jim Crow, the explosion of crime in the 1970s... Overall, life got better. With Donald Trump and Joe Biden claiming the other will destroy what’s good, it’s hard to see improvement. But the world has made progress, largely thanks to
libertarian ideas. “For millennia the world was marked by despotism, slavery, hierarchy, rigid class privilege, and literally no increase in the standard of living,” says Cato Institute Vice President David Boaz in the May/ June 2020 Policy Report. “Then libertarian ideas came into the world. Of course, they weren’t called that at the time. ... (T)hey were the ideas of human rights, free markets, property rights, religious toleration, the value of commerce, the dignity of the individual - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” See STOSSEL on 21
UN Report Slams North Korea’s Human Rights Policies In a scathing but measured account, a report by the UN”s Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Demoby John J. Metzler c r a t i c P e o p l e ’ s Syndicated Columnist Republic of Korea (DPRK) produced an update on North Korea. The annual survey drills down on the DPRK’s continuing practices of forced labor, a void for civil and political rights, and a dangerous lack of transparency concerning the state of the COVID-19 virus in the communist country. The survey admits candidly, “The human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
remains extremely serious and shows no sign of improvement or progress in advancing justice and accountability for human rights violations.” Yet concerning COVID it concedes, “to date, no cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been officially confirmed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The authorities are continuing their preventative actions, including by imposing strict border controls.” In North Korea, the report asserts that 48 per cent of the total population, 12.2 million people, were undernourished in the period from 2016 to 2018. By 2019, “40 per cent of the population, were already living with food insecurity and in urgent need of food.” In fact while current harvests are thought
to be near the dangerously low farm production numbers of 1994, the survey cautions that, “As a result of the pervasive discrimination in the public distribution system, ordinary citizens, including farmers, do not receive rations.” Moreover the country is plagued by widespread tuberculosis which makes people particularly vulnerable to the COVID virus. It adds, “While the scale of the pandemic within the country is still unknown, the limited capacity of the health facilities is a concern.” Not surprisingly the human rights monitor is blocked from visiting the quaintly title Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Contrary to past surveys the report did not cite religious repression or a state controlled media.
The Special Rapporteur warns, “The secrecy surrounding the political prison camps kwanliso is particularly concerning.” While thousands suffer for often minor political infractions in appalling conditions, the report doesn’t cite numbers as in the past where estimates stood near 200,000 inmates. In North Korea “thousands of people who have committed “antiState” and “anti-people” crimes are imprisoned indefinitely in kwanliso, the political prison camps.” The document underscores, “the labour system controlled by the Workers’ Party of Korea, based on the policy and practice of State ownership, central planning and the juche ideology of economic selfsufficiency, determines the entire See METZLER on 20
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There are certain things and, to be honest, certain types of people, that try our patience either because they repeatedly do things that we find distasteful or they just become a nuisance. That was as true in the early 1800s as it is today and back then it included quacks, peddlers, and the militia, all three groups which received some bad press in one 1834 Fall issue of the Farmer’s Cabinet newspaper published in Amherst, New Hampshire. Quackery may sound like a place where ducks assemble, but it actually refers to fraudulent medical practices. Back in the 1800s a quack could refer to anyone who claimed to be an expert in any profession that they were not qualified to perform, though the practice of medicine was probably the most prominent and harmful business of quacks. A used car salesman once sold me a nice looking, white colored used car. It wasn’t long after I bought the car
Bloodletting as a medical procedure. that brown spots started appearing through the white paint. A car covered with rust was painted over with white paint. I would call the owner of that business a quack. “Medicines” in the form of elixirs were sold that were supposed to cure all sorts of diseases when the sellers were really quacks who knew little about healing. Foul! Most of those concoctions apparently contained alcohol as the main ingredient. There was no FDA back then to regulate medicinal potions. In 1834 one of the most popular quackery methods of treatment was called the steam system or Cayenne pepper system. This system, according to a publication of the day, “consists of sweating the patient and administering doses of the essence of red pepper.
A man fell from a frame and was considerably bruised, the physician was preparing to bleed him while the steam doctors gathered round and declared that blood letting would mean certain death, nothing but steaming would save him; but bleeding had the desired effect.” The article said that people should realize that most of what were called drugs were vegetable: aloes, opium, manna, stramonium, and not of the roots and herbs of the native hills as they thought, but from foreign lands. Interestingly, today these drugs, some of which could be deadly if wrongly prepared or used, are still used by some in the medical field. Bleeding, on the other hand is, in most situations, now thought to be more harmful than helpful when used in an at-
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Now that election season is behind us and we are beyond the phone calls, TV ads and endless mailings for the candidates, we can get back to life in Covid country. In the coming weeks, who knows if we will see anything change from our new normal of face masks, student online learning and ‘working from home’ which has us all frustrated. One good thing though is the fact that the folks that keep us well stocked in craft brews are still hard at work. With that said, let’s focus on this week’s selection; Green Fountains IPA from Ten Bends. Ten Bend Beer Company, based in Hyde Park, Vermont, refer to themselves as providers of small batch ales. Mike Scarlet and Jason Powell created their first beer recipe and brewed it in Jason’s workshop one weekend not long ago. Though the climate and lack of good equipment were some of their initial stumbling blocks, the beer turned out amazing. With fresh enthusiasm of turning a hobby into a business, they
decided to go for it. Ten Bends comes from the amount of turns the nearby Lamoille River makes as it winds through Morrisville and Johnson, Vermont. Today, they are still a seven barrels brewery in a 1400 square foot building. When they are allowed to reopen to the public, you can stop in and chat with them and appreciate one or all seven of their taps. Only one of their beers is below 5% ABV and they appear to focus primarily on IPAs. Open for online beer pickup only, they are located at 590 East Main St, Hyde Park, Vermont. Check out
their website, TenBendsBeer.com Green Fountains’ title is a play on Vermont’s namesake; the Green Mountain state. It also refers to the choice of plentiful hops used in this IPA. Pouring into a pint glass, a brilliant white attractive head and opaque haziness are among your first impressions. You can gather lots of lemony citrus aromas before your first sip. With a moderate mouthfeel and bready texture, you’ll notice what the malt character has achieved here. As far as hop involvement, Cascade imparts the citrusy grapefruit fla-
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SMITH from 9 the telephone. But the “pedlers” (the Farmers Cabinet’s spelling) and subscription sellers were said to be a “perfect nuisance” in New Hampshire, The newspaper declared that scarcely an hour in the day went by without the householder being confronted by one of these pedlers who also gathered where any public event took place in an effort to sell their wares. Door to door salesmen were common during my childhood when Watkins and Raleigh product salesmen would call at our house, along with the likeable Grand Union representative, whom my Dad labeled “HighPressure Homer,” and, on Fridays, the fishman came calling. But in 1834 the newspaperman complained that “On public
A couple of classic “cure all” ads occasions the ‘auctioneer pedlars’ are so numerous, noisy, vulgar and veracious, that it is high time our legislature should act up to the spirit of the times, and with other states stop their career.” It was claimed that no other state, east of the Potomac, tolerated them, so they all came to New Hampshire. Some of these peddlers were no doubt the “quacks” that were selling their “miracle medicines,” but included those who sold tin goods, wooden ware, pottery, textiles, tools, books, and whatever else might be of use
to the people of those days. Rural folk of those days relied on the occasional visit of the traveling salesman, but too much of a “good thing” obviously led to the cry of “nuisance.” The third nuisance was caused by some militiamen, particularly at their musters. All three of these problematic items in this article were somewhat involved with each other. Concerning a muster held by the militia in Amherst the following commentary was printed: “The occasion attracted an unusual assemblage of spectators, pedlers, rum-
sellers, rumdrinkers, and gamblers; whose noise, ribaldry, intoxication, and violation of the laws in the face and eyes of the authorities, was disgraceful to the place, to the occasion, to those especially engaged in it, and to all who looked on and tolerated it.” The actual Muster received a mixed assessment by the newspaper. It involved the Fifth Regiment of the militia under the command of a Col. Peabody. The troops paraded in the morning, being a Friday, and were examined by inspection ofSee SMITH on 17
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The third nuisance was caused by some militiamen, particularly at their musters. SMITH from 16 ficers and the Major General. The opinion of the newspaper observer was that the militia had “depreciated” rather than improved from previous years. The reason for the lack of improvement was given as resulting from various causes, including the fact that the then present militia system was not popular. Though the States had banded together to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War, it is my understanding that after the war the idea of having a standing army was not popular, and the states relied on the militia to be ready when fighting men were needed. The men of the Amherst militia were reported to have put on a respectable display “... in its various movements of marching, countermarching, concentrating, and deploying ,” and showed good conduct except for a few who fired their weapons recklessly long after they had been dismissed. The conclusion of the Amherst newspaper
was to let the people come to their own conclusions. It stated:“We leave it to the people to judge whether there be more good than evil derived from ‘making a muster’. I’ll add an unrelated and uninformative but attention getting item from the 1834 publication. “The National Intelligencer of Saturday states that no ‘confirmation has yet reached this city of the reported engagement between
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Tim Moore attributes much of his success as an angler, guide, and outdoor promoter to his exposure to Dave Genz. find them.” So, that’s how it all began. Moore: Clam Outdoors carries a lot of your signature products. How did you become involved with them? Genz: I started my company (Winter Fishing Systems) and I was interested in mobility. A man named Denny Clark started a company called Frontier Industries and he made a house called The Clam, which was a pop-up shelter with a floor. Several ice fishing shows started across the country. Denny and I were both at these shows and we got to know one another. He was after the more permanent fishermen and I was after the mobile fishermen, so we joined forces and traveled together. Eventually, I licensed a company called USL (who had already incorporated the Clam fish house) to manufacture and market my shelters. Then, the present owner purchased Clam and here we are making lots of fish houses and marketing them across the United States. Moore: You talk a lot about mobility and efficiency. How does mobil-
ity relate to ice fishing and catching more fish? Genz: If the fish aren’t there you have to move to the fish, so you have to be mobile. Think of it like it’s summer. We troll in the summer; we move around. We never go out, throw our anchor, and stay in the same place all day. Moore: What are some ways that anglers can become more mobile and efficient? Genz: Have a good auger. We don’t need a ten-inch auger (for panfish). Be lightweight so it’s easy to move around and drill a few holes, fish for only a few moments in those holes, and move on until you start catching fish. A good rod and reel is also important so you can drop down and pick up quickly. It needs to be easy to do things. If it’s easy, you’ll do it. If it’s not easy, you won’t. Moore: I often hear you refer to “casting a lot.” Genz: Correct, every hole is a cast. In the summertime it seems like the more casts you make, the more fish you catch. Sometimes you’ve got 20 holes in an area the size of your house and all of a sud-
den there are no fish in any of those holes. They didn’t swim across the lake, they’re just sitting in between your holes. You have to drill holes between all the other holes. Dave often attributes much of his success to techniques that seemed to dawn on him as a young man, such as mobility and efficiency. His drive to make ice fishing easier and more productive, especially when it’s at its most difficult or slowest, has driven him to innovative products such as flashers designed for ice fishing and ice fishing rods designed to perform like their larger open-water counter part. Stay tuned for more in part two coming in two weeks. Tim Moore is a professional fishing guide in New Hampshire. He owns and operates Tim Moore Outdoors, LLC. He is a member of the New England Outdoors Writers Association and the producer of Tim Moore Outdoors Fishing on YouTube. Visit www. TimMooreOutdoors.com for more information.
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MALKIN from 6 in the nation’s capital to undermine election integrity and the day-today work of the Trump administration. A protest guide lists the following subversive federal worker groups as key partners: Takoma Park Mobilization, Alt National Park Service, Alt Ed, AltFDA, Alternative NOAA, Alt U.S. Forest Service, AltEPA and BadHombreLands National Park Service. The ShutDown D.C. crew is schooling its forces in intentional slowdowns to “reduce the pace” of activities they oppose ideologically and on how to participate in “nonviolent direct action protests/ rallies” (which serve as cover for violent riots and assaults by antifa and Black Lives Matter brethren). Another tactic: “Fed Flu” actions by U.S. government
workers to “coordinate sick days across workforces.” More “tools in the toolbox” of “Never Trumpers” employed in federal police enforcement, research and development, the U.S. Armed forces, administrative management and political appointments: --Refuse orders. --Strike in coalition. --Slow-walk enforcement and gum up bureaucratic processes. --Publicly denounce “attacks on democracy.” --Leak information. --Publicly resign. Are federal authorities as locked and loaded as are these shutdown infiltrators? Is the Trump administration ready to purge these infiltrators from the bowels of the federal bureaucracy before it’s too late? I’ll repeat my warning from four weeks ago: They may look and sound like pesky, snot-
nosed toddlers having harmless temper tantrums in black pajamas (and three-piece suits). But these professionally organized punks provide obstructionist boots on the ground for globalist Democratic billionaires and strategic cover for their violent antifa and Black Lives Matter comrades. Wake up, smell the manufactured chaos and vote to put these “deep state” moles and trolls out to pasture. Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
METZER from 7 life of the people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea… Article 4 of the Socialist Labour Law states that under socialism, every citizen is duty bound to participate in labour.” The juche ideology, devised by North Korea’s first Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung, remains a mainstay of regime self-reliance. The Report adds, “People in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have to routinely provide unpaid compulsory labour for State projects through mobilization by the Workers’ Party of Korea.” The document concedes “Surveillance and control over the population continue in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the decreased contact with the out-
side world during the COVID-19 pandemic could exacerbate entrenched human rights violations, with more freedoms being restricted, and discrimination and treatment in detention, including in political prison camps, worsening.” Yet while calling for more oneness and transparency on humanitarian grounds the Special Rapporteur makes a number of key but overlooked observations. In the case of neighboring South Korea the survey stresses, “Integrate human rights into negotiations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” as well as “Ensure that a human rightsbased framework is integrated into possible economic and humanitarian cooperation.” This remains
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a key concern. Significantly the Seoul government has not seriously woven human rights assistance for their ethnic Korean family in the North into policy, nor has South Korea been welcoming enough to the relatively small numbers of escaped North Koreans who fled to the South. In recent years the United States has stepped up its human rights focus on the DPRK regime, but should do more in pressing for transparency in human rights cases. Yet since 2017, Kim Jong-un’s regime has been on best behavior not having tested nuclear weapons nor long range missiles since the Trump Administration checkmated their ambitions with military deterrence and diplomacy thus averting a war. How long will this curious political limbo continue? Kim Jong-un’s dystopian regime, seeking attention and a crisis mode, may soon confront whoever wins the White House in Washington with a renewed North Korean security crisis. Be careful taking the bait! 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.
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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 5, 2020 — STOSSEL from 7 These ideas created a wave of progress unlike anything in history. “Look at the chart of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, or any measure of economic growth,” adds Boaz. “It looks like a hockey stick: flat for almost all human history, and then it rockets upwards.” The media shriek hysterically about every problem, and we have problems: pandemic, lockdowns, unemployment, wildfires, bad cops, violent riots, crime... But no matter who wins on Tuesday, life will probably get better. Entrepreneurs will invent cool things. This year, while Democrats and Republicans fought, the private sector found cheaper and better ways to send people into space. The World Bank complained about governments not providing all people clean drinking water. So private companies are doing it. A billboard in Peru turns humidity into potable drinking water. A drinking straw, LifeStraw, removes bacteria and parasites from water. Forests are expanding because modern farming uses less land, allowing the forests to regrow. Thanks to often-despised free markets, poverty continues to decline. In 1981, 42% of the world lived in extreme poverty. By 2018, only 8.6% did. Do politicians ever highlight those gains? No. Probably because most of those good things happened in spite of them, not because of them. Most good things do.
Yes, we still have lots of problems: trillion dollar deficits, mental illness, crushing regulation, endless wars (although fewer of them), criminal injustice, inequality, climate change... But it’s always been that way. Evolution programmed humans to focus on problems. Our ancestors survived in a very dangerous world. If they weren’t hypervigilant, they wouldn’t have lived long enough to give birth to the people who gave birth to us. I obsess about problems. But I try not to let that distract me from the big picture: More people in more places enjoy prosperity, religious freedom, personal freedom, democratic governance, largely equal rights, civility, better health and longer lives. Neither Trump nor Biden is likely to destroy that. John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.
BOSAK from 3 as well. Her bear-proof feeder pole proved to be up to the challenge as a large male black bear attempted unsuccessfully to get at the feeder earlier this year. With the feeder in place, recent sightings have included juncos and white-throated sparrows. Northern flickers and American robins have been scouring the lawn for meals. She also reports large numbers of cardinals and blue jays daily. Elena added this cool sighting: “Both my husband and I observed a leucistic mourning dove (not a rock dove!) on the ground at the base of our feeder pole. One side, as well as the entire head, is creamcolored, almost yellow. The other side is mostly typical mourning dove coloration. Most unusual.” Interestingly enough, a few days later, Karen from Spofford wrote to say she and her neighbors have been getting visits by a leucistic redtailed hawk. She sent a few photos of the white
bird as proof. Leucism is fairly common in the bird world. It differs from albinoism in that there is only a partial loss of pigmentation. It’s about time to focus on the ponds, lakes and rivers for migrating waterfowl. Tom had an interesting sighting last week at Otter Brook Lake in Keene when he spotted a group of 10 black scoters. We tend not to think of scoters as inland, freshwater ducks, but their migration route from northern Canada sometimes takes them over our lakes and ponds. The warmth of summer may be gone and the colors of fall may be fading, but there’s still plenty going on in the natural world. Let me know what you’re seeing out there. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@ gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com
MOFFETT from 2 ny Unitas early in the 1968 season and then led the team to the Super Bowl? (Answer follows) Born Today That is to say sports standouts born on November 5 include basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton (1952) and MLB outfielder Johnny Damon (1973). Sports Quote “The Vice Presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.” -- John Nance Garner
Sports Quiz Answer Earl Morrall Mike Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast.net.
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