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Crowds tour World War II-vintage airplanes flown by The Collings Foundation of Stow, Mass. The Foundation is currently working on getting permits to continue their program after a WWII B-17 crash in October. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COLLINGS FOUNDATION

by Dan Seufert

Will Historic Aircraft Tours Be Allowed To Continue?

Weirs Times Correspondent

The manager of Laconia Airport is hoping that aviation history fans will pay tribute to the nonprofit foundation that has been bringing historic aircraft to the airport in past years, and hopes that in doing so, New Hampshire

residents may help bring the planes back. The Collings Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts, is in the process of getting government permits approved for its Living History Flight Experiences and Wings of Freedom tours, which brought numerous vintage planes to Laconia Airport this sum-

mer and in the summer before. But the Foundation’s permits are under scrutiny because of a tragedy on October 2nd near Bradley International Airport outside of Hartford, Connecticut. On that day, the foundation’s classic World War II B-17 crashed, killing seven of the 13

people on board. As government officials investigate the cause of the crash, there have been calls from politicians to ban or restrict such flights – by the Collings Foundation or other entities - though there have been no findings of fault on the part of the foundaSee AIRCRAFT on 30

On Sunday, November 24th, FUNds4Paws will be holding their First Annual BowlAThon at Funspot. The organization holds various fun fundraising events throughout the year with all of the proceeds going to support organizations or individuals involved in the humane treatment of animals, including those in dire situations. For the Bowl-A-Thon, 4-person teams will bowl a string of both Ten Pin and Candlepin with prizes for top bowling scores. Additional prizes will also be awarded for the team with the top pledge amount. Team registration is $150 and check in starts at 9am with the event starting at 10am. All team members will also receive an event T-shirt as well as a pizza and soda lunch. There will also be prize raffles and a 50/50 cash raffle. Bring in a Dog or Cat Donation (food, litter, toys) and get a free Richardsons Ice Cream. Register online at FUNds4Paw. org/Bowlathon today. Funsot is located at 579 Endicott St N, Weirs Beach, NH. Come help save Animals!

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mostly at taxpayer expense and reportedly in up to 1000 private jets, to enjoy fancy hotels, sumptuous meals, sightseeing, and telling each other how virtuous they are for telling the rest of us that we must be colder in winter, hotter in summer, and pay more for energy. The media loves the Goliath side not just because they also are mostly leftists, but because alarmism increases media incomes; threats of disaster drives people to the media. The Goliath side claims that people generate too much CO2 and that the only acceptable way to save mankind is to surrender another $1 trillion annually from American taxpayers for politicians to distribute to their friends and supporters. But, the climate alarmists’ models even failed to predict recent history. Considering their track record, the David side believes that no sensible person would just believe more climate alarmism. The Goliath side doesn’t even act like they believe their own claims. If they believed, they would reduce their personal CO2 footprints, and they would hold online conferences, e.g., via Skype or Zoom, to avoid creating all that horrible CO2. They wouldn’t falsely declare climate change is “settled science”, they would share data, debate, and work to convince people. And, they would pursue and support any solutions

that help even if the solutions didn’t make Americans surrender more of our liberties and money to politicians. Don Ewing Meredith, NH.

Time For A Change? To The Editor: Numerous recent news reports claim that there are more health problems and accidents during the time that we are adjusting to changing our clocks twice a year. I used my Facebook page to ask if anyone liked the idea of having to change the clocks. Not one person said they liked it. Most said they hated it. This is probably the most bipartisan issue I have ever seen. If the people who represent us in Congress want to pass a bill that would make most of the country happy, this is it. Instead of simply complaining among ourselves, perhaps we should let our representatives know how we feel about this issue. Congress can change this! Denise Crompton Nashua, NH.

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clear that everyone made contributions and sacrifices that helped win the war.” According to Culver, the year’s final exhibit, “The Last Good War,” sponsored by Taylor Community and The Weirs Times, gave “a face and voice to those who lived through WWII.” “The wonderful photos of the ‘greatest generation’ and accompanying text made human the story that

was America during the war years,” he said. In looking ahead to 2020, Culver expressed enthusiasm for continued growth at the museum, which will include a significant re-evaluation of its educational and gallery spaces. “With continued support, The Wright is poised to take the next step in its organization growth as not just a steward of history, See WRIGHTon 34

HOLIDAY SPECIALS CAR WASH Dover High School students enjoy the Home Front exhibit during their trip to the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro. COURTESY PHOTO board member John Frank, Culver said the WWII homefront took center stage. “The exhibit illustrated how WWII permeated every aspect

of American culture on the homefront,” he explained. “It also showed how profoundly united America was during this period, once again making it

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NOVEMBER Wednesday 13th 6th Annual Wine & Chocolate Tasting to Benefit The Chase House The Atlantic Grill, 5 Pioneer Road, Rye. 6pm-8pm. The 6th Annual event will feature food, cocktails, a short program and a live and silent auction. Tickets are $65pp, with sponsorship oppor tunities star ting at $250. Tickets can be purchased at www.

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Meredith Community Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith. Doors open at 5pm, dinner served at 5:30pm. This month’s dinner will consist of meatloaf, veggies, salad, rolls and delicious dessert! Dinner is free, but donations are gratefully accepted and will go to fund future dinners. www.

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Thursday 14th

Lakes Center for the Arts Silent Auction Fundraiser Chase House, Mill Falls at the Lake, Meredith. 5pm-8pm. This exhibit and silent auction include fifty 8”x8” pieces of art created and donated by local and regional artists of all disciplines. Proceeds from ticket sales and bidding will go directly to the LCA’s Building Fund. Artists will be onsite to meet bidders and to discuss their work. There will be music, light food, and a cash bar.

Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Come hear how changing barn architecture tells the story of NH agriculture. A chronological walk through time, with illustrations of barns around the state that are examples of eras of agricultural history. Program is free and open to the public. Families are invited! Light refreshments will be served at 6:30pm. 332-4033

Eric Gales & Gary Hoey Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551

Great Bay Services 4th Annual Bowl-a-Thon Dover Bowl, 887 Central Ave, Dover. Bowlers can pick the 10am or 12pm time slot to bowl. This family-friendly event will feature raffles, food, fun, and of course, Bowling! All proceeds support adults with disabilities in the Seacoast. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased in advance at www.

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The Arts Center, 12 Main Street, Sandwich. 7:30pm. The Bakery Band consists of banjos, guitars, fiddle, mandolin and a thumpin’ standup bass attempting to keep them all in control. Admission is a suggested donation of $15pp. Refreshments will be available by donation. www. AdvicetothePlayers.org or 986-7827

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Home of Pat Charlton, 27 Pleasant Street, Wolfeboro. 10am-3pm. There will be multiple ar tisans selling their crafts including hand painted or naments, handmade jewelr y, photography, handcrafted greeting cards, fabric coasters and much more!

Motown Music w/ the Soultown Band

Homemade Herbal Gifts – Holiday Workshop

Friday 15th

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $20pp. BYOB venue. www.PitmansFreightRoom.

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Mac Powell & The Family Reunion Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH.com or 5362551 Saturday 16th

Pie/Bake and Craft Sale

Union Congregational Church, 80 Main Street, Union. 9am-1pm. Homemade pies, breads, and various desserts. Beans and hot dogs, and chowder for sale as well. 473-2727

The History of Agriculture as Told by Barns

Rochester Grange Hall, 21 Charles

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-12pm. This class will be for adults who would like to make a homemade herbal gift for holiday giving. For more information visit www.PrescottFarm.org or call 366-5695

Monday 18th Winnipesaukee/Carroll Republicans Meeting

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Buckey’s Restaurant and Tavern, Route 109, Moultonborough. Everyone is invited to join at 5pm if you wish to have dinner and socialize and the meeting starts at 6:30pm. The special guest will be General Don Bolduc, one of the Republicans challenging Senator Jeanne Shaheen. This will be one of the most watched Senate races in the nation, so you

will want to hear General Bolduc’s positions and plans. 630-9422 Tuesday 19th

Center Harbor Soup Kitchen Meal

Center Harbor Congregational Church, 52 Main Street, Center Harbor. 5pm-6pm. Join the Church and volunteers for an opportunity to meet new friends or for families and friends to gather and enjoy a great meal at no cost. Tues. 19th – Dec. 17th

Grief in the Holidays – Support Group

Central NH VNA & Hospice, 780 North Main Street, Laconia. Group will meet on Wednesdays from 5pm6:30pm. Central NH VNA & Hospice hosts the Grief Group, that is open to all adults in the community. This time of year can be full of powerful memories, feelings, and challenges – Navigating through gatherings and traditions- while vividly aware of those that are not with us. Together with others we can acknowledge our grief and anticipate what we may need and learn from how others have navigated these waters. All groups are nonreligious and are offered at no cost. 524-8444 x2390. Wednesday 20th

Discover Girl Scouts

Campton Elementary School, 110 NH 175, Campton. 5:30pm-6:30pm. At this event you can meet local Girl Scouts and volunteers; learn about expanded STEM and outdoor programs; enjoy fun, girl-led activities; explore programs, lear n about volunteer opportunities, and register to become a Girl Scout. 888-474-9686 Wed. 20th – Dec. 18th

Grief in the Holidays – Support Group

First Congregational Church, 115 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. Group will meet on Tuesdays from 6:30pm8pm. Central NH VNA & Hospice hosts the Grief Group, that is open to all adults in the community. This time of year can be full of powerful memories, feelings, and challenges – Navigating through gatherings and traditions- while vividly aware of those that are not with us. Together with others we can acknowledge our grief and anticipate what we may need and learn from how others have navigated these waters. All groups are nonreligious and are offered at no cost. 524-8444 x2390.

Thursday 21st

The Buzz About Bears In Gilford On Friday, November 15th, at 10am, Wesley Woods welcomes Mary Goodyear, a volunteer of the NH Fish and Game Fish and Wildlife Stewards program, and retired Fish and Game employee. Mary will present Black Bear Happenings, a presentation that offers a chance to learn of our native wildlife, related to the research and management activities, in New Hampshire, and the part that the Black Bear plays in it. The presentation will be in the Wesley Woods Community Room, located in the First United Methodist Church in Gilford, off Rte 11A. Light refreshments will be served. Please contact Stace, at 603-528-2555 or sdhendricks@ wesleywoodsnh.org, for more information, or to RSVP.

The Rochester Opera House presents “A Joyful Christmas” The Rochester Opera House is happy to present GrammyAward winner Eileen Ivers on Saturday, November 30 at 8pm. Eileen’s Irish and American roots shine through the evening’s music, beautifully mixing traditional, story-filled folk, age-old Wren Day songs, a jig-ified Bach, fiddle looping, and of course foot stomping and hollering roots music. Eileen and the ensemble’s twenty instruments and voices weave throughout the evening coupled with Ivers’ signature warmth, inviting listeners in for a tuneful, soulful celebration capturing the true spirit of the season rejoicing in the traditional story of Christmas. Grammy awarded, Emmy nominated, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, guest starred with over 50 orchestras, original Musical Star of Riverdance, Nine Time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Sting, Hall and Oates, The Chieftains, ‘Fiddlers 3’ with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Regina Carter, Patti Smith, Al Di Meola, Steve Gadd, founding member of Cherish the Ladies, movie soundtracks including “Gangs of New York”, performed for Presidents and Royalty worldwide…this is a short list of accomplishments, headliners, tours, and affiliations. Fiddler Eileen Ivers has established herself as the pre-eminent exponent of the Irish fiddle in the world today. This show is Sponsored by: State Farm Insurance - Peggy Lynch Agency and co-Sponsored by: BootLegger’s Footwear Centers. Tickets start at $35. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show. The Rochester Opera House is sponsored by Eastern Propane, Shaheen & Gordon P.A., and Norman Vetter Foundations, Liberty Mutual, Albany International, The Cocheco Times, Seacoast Media Group, MacEdge, Holy Rosary Credit Union, Waterstone Properties, 98.7 FrankFM, City of Rochester. The Rochester Opera House is located above City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

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Loon Center, Lee’s Mill Road, Moultonborough. 7pm. The presenter will Jane Pesaturo, author of “Camera Trapping Guide: Tracks, Sign and Behavior of Eastern Wildlife”, and the founder of Winterberry Wildlife,

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How Tweet It Is I’ve had a Twitter account for a few years now, but I don’t use it much. Twitter is part of Social Media, that oddly named phenomena by Brendan Smith where people Weirs Times Editor talk to each other without actually “talking” to them. We email, text and tweet things on different Social Media sites that can be read by one or even thousands, without ever leaving the bathroom. Nothing very “social” about it at all. With Twitter, you tweet. These were names made up by the creator of this site who was very excited when he woke up one morning and realized he had the power to make perfectly sane and responsible adults use the word “tweet” on a daily basis. (I believe he got the idea one night after drinking heavily with the guys who created Google and Yahoo.) There are millions of people all over the world on Twitter, tweeting millions of supposedly clever things, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Proving that the world, for the most part, is full of Tweet. On Twitter, people get to use up to 280 characters to express their feelings about something. Originally Twitter was created so that people could only use 140 characters in a tweet. The idea was to keep tweets short and simple. Today you can use more characters in a tweet because, it was soon realized that people have a lot more tweet in them than previously thought. A lot of people tweet about things that they are angry about, politics especially. People get into a lot of arguments about things with each other on Twitter. It’s a place where you can yell and scream and say nasty things to each other that you would never

say to them in public. Of course, it is embarrassing when you actually do run into the people you were arguing with on Twitter. If you happen to see them walking towards you on the street it is best to take out your phone and look at Twitter so you won’t have to look them in the eye. On Twitter, it’s okay to follow someone all day long. In fact, its encouraged and usually by the person you are following. I felt a little overwhelmed when I first signed on to Twitter and then began advertising at the end of my columns for people to follow me. First off, just asking someone to follow you is weird. When I was a kid my parents told me to run away from people who were following me, but now I am trying to learn to embrace it as acceptable. Some people have thousands of followers. Some people, like me, have about eighty…including family and friends. So, in essence, I am in the lower echelon of the Twitter world and should know when to keep my mouth shut. For instance, not long ago, I tweeted something sarcastic (who me?) in response to a tweet by the chairman of one of New Hampshire’s political parties (I can only tell you the party starts with a D so as to keep that person anonymous). The chairman quickly responded by letting me know that he had thousands of followers and I only had eighty so, according to the Twitter world, he was more important on Twitter than me since less people were reading my tweets. I’m guessing that’s the social media equivalent to wriggling one’s fingers while inserted in ears, sticking out tongue and saying “Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.” (Which, by the way is actually in a party chairperson’s job description.) I was cautious when I first went on Twitter. You have to be

careful. A lot of people have gotten in trouble using it. People have a tendency to tweet stupid and hurtful things and find themselves in hot water. I don’t want that to ever happen to me. I consider myself decent and honorable and I’d be horrified if every slanderous, cruel and hurtful remark I ever made about anyone ever went public. Those are things best said in private after making sure no one has a hidden camera or microphone. When I first got on Twitter and I asked people to follow, I thought they’d now be expecting something clever, not just once a week…but every day….and not even just once a day but several times. It became unnerving. I did tweet a few pithy (whatever that means) sayings but, after a few days, I felt like my tweets were forced and not as clever as my followers might expect. I was beginning to feel like a complete Tweeting failure. I don’t tweet that much anymore and so I don’t have many followers and may never be as important in the Twitter world as that party chairman, but I’m okay with that. I do send out the occasional tweet just to keep my Twitter muscles in shape. So, if you want, you can follow me on Twitter at @weirsbrendan. If you follow me anywhere else, I’m calling the police. An audio version of this and other columns can be heard 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 & Other Tales Of Aging” will be published in early 2020.

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Three Cheers for Refugee Reduction Over the weekend, President Donald Trump approved a new annual refugee cap of 18,000, the lowest since the U.S. program began in 1980. The reduction follows news that America took a pause last month and refused to admit any new refugees. On economic, public safety and national security grounds, this is a very good thing for the 325 million people already in our counby Michelle Malkin try. But you wouldn’t know it from the grim Syndicated Columnist headlines and hysterical condemnations by globalist zealots and media sympathizers. CNN International led the open borders funeral procession last week, with a report decrying, “No refugees will be resettled in the US in October, leaving hundreds in limbo around the world.” U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., hyperventilated that “Donald Trump is trying to destroy the very heart of this nation. I won’t let him.” Social justice group CARE bemoaned this “dark moment in our nation’s history.” Human Rights First complained that Trump’s proposal is “crippling the United States’ status as a global leader in refugee resettlement.” Heaven forbid citizens in a sovereign nation have an effective say in who comes here, from where and how many. Is one refugee-less month in America such a catastrophe? Calm down, Chicken Littles. Get some perspective. It is most certainly true that America has a legacy of embracing people from around the world fleeing persecution and war. After World War II, the U.S. helped lead efforts to assist 650,000 displaced Europeans who had fled in fear, were expelled and were victims of Nazi crimes and terror. Congress passed the 1948 Displaced Persons Act to accommodate them. Five years later, the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 aided refugees from Italy and East Germany escaping Communist regimes, adding another 250,000 refugees over four years. In the 1950s and 1960s, we welcomed Hungarians, Cubans and Czechoslovakians also escaping Communist oppression. In the 1970s, we opened our doors to an estimated 300,000 political refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The Refugee Act of 1980 created the Office of Refugee Resettlement and office of U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and raised the annual ceiling of admissions to 50,000. Under Obama, that number soared to nearly 100,000 annually. The idea that we’ve abandoned our humanitarian leadership role because of this refugee resettlement reduction is ludicrous. Overall, since 1975, the U.S. has resettled more than 3 million See MALKIN on 35

Is Elizabeth Warren Set to Fall? This has been an awful week for the purported new 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. For months, Warren has received nearly unmitigated praise from the media for her bevy by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist of “plans.” She’s been praised as “wonkish” and “brainy” and “focused.” Her growth in the polls has been the dual result of a strong organizational effort by her campaign in early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and endless gobs of drool from reporters. But now the bloom is coming off the rose. For months, Warren has simply lied about whether she would raise middleclass taxes to pay for her Bernie Sanders-lite proposal to replace America’s health care insurance system with “Medicare for All.” To support that lie, on Friday, she released another one of her now-famous plans. It is a compendium of tissue-thin falsehoods, a plan about as plausible as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. According to Warren’s plan, she’ll somehow manage to institute a wildly generous Medicare For All policy -- including coverage for illegal immigrants -- at a one-third discount off virtually all major estimates. She’ll radically reduce reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals -- and yet, care levels won’t suffer. She’ll cram down drugmakers’ prescription drug prices -- but innovation won’t suffer. She’ll jack up taxes on the wealthy -- but the wealthy won’t engage in tax avoidance. The plan is a joke. It’s a lie. But that’s Warren’s tendency: dishonest radicalism. At least Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., can be counted on to tell the unfortunate truth about soaking the middle class. Warren can be counted on to shift her policy

proposals to appease specific constituencies and then lie about how she’ll pay for them. She’ll also lie about everything from her own ethnicity (Harvard Law School graduate David French rightly calls Warren an “academic grifter”) to her research on medical bankruptcy (she has claimed that “medical bankruptcies” represent a far higher percentage of all bankruptcies than can be supported by the facts). All of this underscores her unelectability. As her poll numbers have risen, so, too, has Democrats’ wishcasting that perhaps -- just perhaps -- her unelectability has been overestimated. Maybe, the argument goes, voters aren’t put off by Warren’s radicalism and tendency toward scolding self-righteousness. Maybe Warren can pull this thing off. Also last Friday, a poll came from The New York Times and Siena College. It pitted former Vice President Joe Biden, Sanders and Warren against President Trump in the battleground states and showed that among likely voters, Warren trails Trump in every major battleground state. She’s down by four points in Michigan, two in Pennsylvania, two in Wisconsin, four in Florida and four in North Carolina. Biden, by comparison, is up in all of those states except North Carolina. And Warren’s numbers are likely to drop. Remember, Trump’s numbers aren’t particularly malleable. Neither are Biden’s, since he has 100% name recognition. Warren, however, isn’t widely known by the public. That means Trump -- whose chief political skill lies in his willingness to use every iota of dirt against political opponents -- will have the opportunity to define Warren. If she’s riding weak against Trump now, wait until he dubs her “Lieawatha.” All of which explains why Warren has been faring worse in national polling of late. In early October, Warren actually surpassed Biden in the RealClearPolitics poll average of naSee SHAPIRO on 33

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House members summoned Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Washington, D.C., and grilled him -harshly -- about his plan to create a new currency, by John Stossel Libra. Syndicated Columnist “Why should we trust you?!” asked Congressman Mike Doyle. I liked it when Zuckerberg said, “I actually don’t know if Libra’s going to work, but I believe that it’s important to try new things.” He was right. That’s very important.

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The Libra would make it easier to transfer money anywhere in the world. It also promises stability. Its value would be based on a basket of currencies from different countries, which would protect Libra owners from inflation in any one country. It’s an idea that deserves a try. But it may never be tried because the clueless politicians’ threats of punitive regulation scared off many of its supporters. Politicians want to crack down on Libra “because they’re threatened by it,” says tech reporter Naomi Brockwell in my new video. “This is going to be competition for the U.S. dollar. Government doesn’t like competition.”

Governments also like to control any money that we might use. “Want to send money to Russia to a family member; it’s going to be censored. You want to send money to a relief effort in Venezuela; it’s going to be censored,” says Brockwell. But if you use a cryptocurrency like Libra or Bitcoin, “your money will get through. That’s an incredibly powerful tool that gives people the freedom to spend their money where they want to spend it.” Bitcoin is harder to stop than a currency like Libra would be because Bitcoin doesn’t emanate from one company or government mint. There’s no one owner of Bitcoin or most other

cryptocurrencies. “It is the first currency that is decentralized,” Brockwell points out. “That’s why it’s still around, because they haven’t been able to have these hearings, haven’t been able to call the CEO of Bitcoin and say, ‘cease and desist!’ There is no server to unplug, no company to shut down, no CEO to throw in jail, so it persists! That’s really exciting.” Digital currencies “live” on thousands of individuals’ computers, so no government can stop them by pressuring any one company. That’s a reason they’re valuable. When Bitcoin started, it was worth See STOSSEL on 34

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- Thirty years ago on 9 November 1989, the world suddenly changed. Mass civil and religious demonstrations by John J. Metzler rocking East GerSyndicated Columnist man cities created a political Tsunami which soon reached Berlin. Berlin, the divided city and German capital at the epicenter of the Cold War, would see an unexpected performance of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” as throngs of East German comrades suddenly rushed towards the Berlin Wall and finally breached the barrier. Yes on that November night, the

Joshua Trumpet sounded, and the Wall came tumbling down. As in a Fairy Tale the Wall had fallen… the evil force was seemingly gone, banished. Germany would become reunited a year later in peace and freedom. Europe would be whole and free. Yet these extraordinary events just didn’t happen by chance but through a rare combination of Spiritual, Political and Economic factors. The stars had to be aligned just right! What were called the socialist states, those counties abandoned to Stalin’s charms at Yalta and condemned to a forgotten fate behind what Churchill would call the Iron Curtain, suddenly erupted in a frenzy of freedom to break away

from Moscow’s icy grip. The election of Pope John Paul II, a Polish pontiff was the first step. This was a decade earlier in 1978 when he became the first non-Italian Pontiff in 400 years and energized a religious reawakening in Poland where the People’s Republic could never totally subdue the Catholic Church. Besides a Polish Pope, Central Europe’s largest nation also saw a free trade union movement Solidarity emboldened. But Poland alone was not strong enough to change Europe’s post WWII geopolitical game board. Hungary too saw the local communists waver; months before the epic events in Berlin, thousands of East Germans were allowed to transit through Hungary to the West.

Ronald Reagan, elected president of the USA in 1980, formed the second building block. The Reagan Administration unapologetically confronted Soviet communism and didn’t flinch in supporting NATO. Standing before the Berlin Wall in June 1987, President Reagan challenged the new Soviet leader, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this Wall.” At the time the speech was largely met with smirking contempt on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist Soviet leader wavered and then blinked at the critical moment. And West Germany’s Chancellor Helmut Kohl focused his vision on reunification, again at the crucial moment. Freedom would soon pre- See METZLER on 33

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The title of this article was a question recently posed to protestors in Hong Kong. In a video by Isaac Hadam r e c e n t l y Contributing Writer posted online, an American woman is shown berating the Hong Kong protestors for their actions. In the video, the woman calls the protests “a waste of time.” When pushed about what the Communist government is attempting to do, the woman made the following statement, “You guys value freedom more than safety. Do we agree? (Protestor answers in the affirmative) Okay, so I think safety is more important than freedom.” Before I touch on this woman’s statement, it is worth pointing out the track record of the Communist Party in China. Between the years 1958-1962 according to the Washington Post, Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, murdered up to 45 million of his own people. That’s an average of over 11 MILLION per year. Mao’s rule went from 1949- 1976 so you can only imagine what his final tally was. The current leader of China, Xi Jingping, has overseen hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Chinese Muslims being held in “re-education” camps. That sounds like some extreme religious discrimination. With the history lesson done, let’s talk about liberty and security. How can the woman in the video really claim that security is more important than liberty? President Dwight Eisenhower once said, “If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is free-

dom.” I assume this woman wouldn’t be too crazy about heading to prison, let alone going to a prison where she could very well be killed for giving any opinion that goes against mainstream thought. The reason for this is because it turns out we like doing what we want to do. I would wager this woman enjoys being able to talk with these protestors and say what she wants. I would also assume that she likes being able to decide whether or not to go to the protests and not have anyone forcibly detain her. This is because deep down, whether she realizes it or not, she does value freedom over security. However, being put in a prison is essentially what the Hong Kong protestors are trying to fight. Sure there might be some security from foreign invasion or crime under the Chinese government, but what security is there from an intrusive tyrannical communist government? I think this mindset also shows a complete lack of knowledge about the source of our freedom. Our Founding Fathers understood that individual liberty wasn’t given to us by government, rather, our freedoms were given to us by God. The Declaration of Independence summed it up well when our Founders wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It has been often

stated that a government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it all away. As a matter of fact, Benjamin Franklin had some hard words for those who valued security over liberty when he said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Earlier I asked what security there is against a tyrannical government. The answer in America is a Constitution that preserves our liberties from governmental oppression. Remember that the Bill of Rights is not the government giving you and I certain freedoms. In fact, it is ‘We the People’ telling the government that we know what our God-given rights are and that those rights are not to be tampered with. It is easy for an American to make the claim that they value security over liberty. However, if we ask someone who grew up in Soviet Russia, Communist China, North Korea, or Venezuela, what would they tell us? It might be good for us to listen to those who have lived without freedom and then realize how blessed we are to live in a society that has valued freedom OVER security. Isaac Hadam, 18, studies and writes about issues that involve the Constitution. He is the Vice-President of the Constitutional Awareness Pact, which strives to help people read and understand the U.S. Constitution. For more info please visit constitutionalawarenesspact. webs.com. He lives in Moultonborough, NH and will be contributing editorials on the constitution from time to time.

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David Clyde the Texas Ranger’s #1 draft pick in 1973 weathered fame quite well. Maybe females somehow deal with notoriety better. Here’s hoping that young Bates emulates the Davis experience, as opposed to the Clyde experience. UNH WOMEN HOOPSTERS That same Emoni Bates SI issue included a feature on the defending NCAA champion women’s basketball hoopsters from Baylor University, led by star center Lauren Cox. Baylor opened its season at home against the Wildcats of UNH. That’s right, the University of New Hampshire. Baylor led 23-0 after the first period and 51-3 at halftime. Despite showing as much mercy as they could to UNH, the final score was 97-29. There’s a sports adage to the effect that losing can yield valuable lessons. If that’s the case, then the UNH women returned to the Granite State from Texas a whole lot smarter. BASEBALL AND BEER Baseball fan Jeff Adams stepped away from his seat at Nationals Park in Washington during the recent World Series

to buy a couple beers. As he came out of the tunnel to return to his seat, two Bud Lights in hand, he was struck in the chest by a home run ball. He held on to his beers. “We were so inspired by the athleticism of Jeff Adams,” Bud Light Vice President Andy Goeler said in a statement. “We knew we had to reward him for his heroism in not spilling one drop of his Bud Lights.” Anheuser-Busch offered to fly Adams to Houston for Game 6 so the “hero” could wear a special T-shirt reading “Always save the beers” above a graphic showing the man puff out his cheeks as he See MOFFETT on 34

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brewing. One of the most creative guys there went on to pursue a new initiative out of the ashes of the old Smuttynose name. Charlie Ireland wanted to brand a fresh new start to his brewing talents. The old 7th Settlement building in Dover worked out to be the best place to make that fresh start. Over

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as time goes on. A Kolsch beer is defined as unique style using ale yeast at the beginning of fermentation and finished with a lagering yeast creating a smooth, easy drinking pale with a crisp and clean finish. Siamese Gorilla is a red Irish

ale that introduces kaffir lime leaf and brings a Thai element into the beer. Further additions of ginger root and lemon grass help to procure a pleasing and fresh taste. A light khaki plentiful head takes to your glass. Citrus and malty sweetness balance each other within the complexity of Gorilla and you will notice a creamy mouthfeel and subtle notes of unexpected flavor within this liquid invention. At 5.5% ABV, Gorilla isn’t the monster you would expect but rather a gentle giant. Lasting notes of ginger and lemon are a trademark to this beer. With the other constantly changing offerings from Smuttlabs, you can always find them at Case-n-Keg, Meredith as well as other beer providers. BeerAdvocate.com and folks on RateBeer.com are giving favorable thumbs-up at 3.75 or above. Look out for Smuttlabs to be an amazing creative force in NH beer and try many of there other beers that are equally ingenious.

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As Thanksgiving approaches, it’s meaningful to reflect on the origin of the holiday –Native Americans and pilgrims sharing their bounty of food with each other. As you gather with your loved ones this year, perhaps you can think of ways to share not only your dinner, but also your financial bounty.

In terms of bounty-sharing, here are some suggestions you may find helpful, no matter your age or that of your children: • Make appropriate gifts. If you have young children, you may want to get them started with a savings account to help them develop positive financial habits. You could even make it a Thanksgiving tradition to measure how their accounts have grown from year to year. But you can go even further by starting to fund an education savings vehicle such as a 529 plan. This account can provide valuable tax benefits and gives you total control of the money until your children are ready for college or trade school. Other education-funding options also are available, such as a custodial account, commonly known as an UGMA or UTMA. If you have grown children, you could still contribute to a 529 plan for your grandchildren. • Develop – and communicate – your estate plans. While you may want to be as generous as possible to your loved ones during your lifetime, you may desire to leave something behind as part of your legacy. And that means you will need to develop a comprehensive estate plan. Such a plan will allow you to express your wishes about where you want your assets to go, who will take care of your children if something happens to you, how you want to be treated should you become incapacitated, and other important issues. Your estate plan will need to include the appropriate documents and arrangements – last will and testament, living trust, power of attorney, health care directive, and so on. To create such a plan, you may need to work with a team of professionals, including your financial, tax and legal advisors. And it’s essential that you communicate the existence and details of your estate plan to your loved ones. By doing so, you can help them know what to expect and what’s expected of them to help avoid unpleasant surprises and familial squabbles when it’s time to settle your estate. • Solicit suggestions for charitable giving. Sharing some of what you have with charitable or community

organizations will also help fulfill the spirt of Thanksgiving. And you can make it a family affair by asking your loved ones which groups they would like to support. Not only will you be helping a worthy cause, but you’ll also be teaching your children about the value of money – in this case, the ability to use money you’ve saved to help make a positive contribution to society.

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In October of 1910 a remodeled and enlarged New Hampshire State House was dedicated in Concord putting on display the improvements made to the building that was first dedicated in 1919. Efforts by the city of Manchester to have a new state house erected in that city failed and rhetoric suggesting that the capital city of New Hampshire would always be Concord was heard. The noontime dedication service was preceded by a concert by Nevers’ Second Regiment Band and a reception by Gov. Henry B. Quinby and the executive council in the council chamber. Sometime previous to the event the possibility of attendance by the President of the United States had been explored, but he was absent from the ceremony. Six notable speakers, however, were chosen to address those in attendance at the exciting event

Ex- Representative David Cross was the oldest speaker at the dedication ceremony for the new State House in 1910. plus some remarks by the Governor and a Prayer by the pastor of the Unitarian church in Concord, Edwin B. Snow. The speeches,or addresses, as they were then called, revealed thoughts about the past, present,and future of New Hampshire with an emphasis on praise of the same. The oldest speaker was a former representative of the New

Hampshire house who served his first term in 1848 and was in his ninety-fourth year of his life at the 1910 dedication, David Cross of Manchester. The elderly man noted that they were living at a time when old things seemed to be passing away and new things were rapidly coming upon them. Those times he hailed “as the brightest era in the history of the state and,in

fact in the history of the world.” He declared that the people of New Hampshire were in better condition than they ever had been and would be still better in the years ahead. He then proceeded to offer examples of progress that had been made in the lives of the people since 1819 while offering his opinion that “on the whole everything is better than it was.” He saw less partisanship in politics and religion than in years past. The constitution of New Hampshire in 1819 and for years afterwards prevented a Roman Catholic from holding town or state offices. In orSee SMITH on 39

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FOR THE BIRDS

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I’ve seen them in the deep woods, in my flower garden, in suburban parks and even at a sandy beach. There are no excuses for missing out on kinglets during the fall migration. That is, unless you aren’t outside enough looking for them, which is unacceptable. Last week, I wrote about the tiny kinglets being tough creatures able to withstand extremely low temperatures. This week, I’ll take a closer look at kinglets, a good reliable sighting throughout New England during migration periods. We have two types of kinglets in New England: the ruby-crowned kinglet and the goldencrowned kinglet. Don’t let the names fool you, the color of the crown is not a good way to distinguish the two species in the field. First of all, you hardly ever see the crowns in the first place — especially that of the ruby-crowned kinglet — and secondly, the colors don’t exactly match up. Golden-crowned kinglets usually show their colorful crown, but they hardly sit still long enough to see it and often they are above you and the crown is not visible anyway. Rubycrowned kinglets, in my experiences, typically don’t show their crowns unless they are agitated. Also from my experiences, they are fairly docile (yet always moving) birds and therefore don’t get agitated very often. Speaking of being agitated, when a goldencrowned kinglet gets all worked up, its crown is

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actually orange and yellow. True to its name, the ruby-crowned kinglet’s crown is red. Facial markings are a much better way to tell apart the kinglets. Golden-crowned kinglets have a black eye line and the yellow crown is bordered boldly by black. Ruby-crowned kinglets have a much more nondescript face, but they do have a broken white eyering. So a kinglet with an eyering is the ruby-crowned. Ruby, ring. Get it? Also, to me anyway, the ruby-crowned kinglet appears to be a bit more round and less sleek than the golden-crowned. It looks as though the rubycrowned kinglets didn’t exercise as much as their counterparts. I’ve seen good numbers of kinglets throughout the years. This fall has been no exception as the other day I had at least half a dozen flitting among the bushes as I raked leaves. I will always remember the day years ago when I looked out the

window and saw one of each species foraging next to each other in an evergreen. It was a rare side-by-side comparison opportunity. I’m not alone in seeing plenty of kinglets, of course. Eric from Surry wrote the other day about a unique experience he had with the tiny birds. As he was stacking firewood, he noticed movement among the pines surrounding him. “Before I knew it, it was an invasion of kinglets,” he wrote.

He sat on the woodpile to watch the show. At one point, he watched as 20 to 30 kinglets foraged among the branches. “That particular warm autumn day proved when you are feeling down, birdlife and nature, on the whole, can always lift your spirits.” I couldn’t agree more. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@gmail.com or through his website www.birdsofnewengland.com

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Center Harbor Congregational Church, UCC, 52 Main Street, Center Harbor. 8am-3pm. There will be a breakfast buffet at 8am as well as Christmas Shop Tabletop Tres, Children’s shop, fabric goods, handmade knitted items, jewelry shop, baked goods, Country Store, and so much more!

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Sat. 23rd – Dec. 1st Christmas at the Castle Castle in the Clouds, Moultonborough. 10am-4pm. Tour the Lucknow mansion elegantly decorated for the holidays! Admission includes Castle tour, ar tisan fair, Children’s holiday crafts, and a visit from Santa, plus complimentary cookies and hot cocoa. $50/nonm e m b e r s, $ 4 0 / m e m b e r s. Tickets available at www.

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This trail race ends with our prepared her itage tur key awarded to the first female and male runners of both distances. Gorgeous run with great views. Sign up through ultrasignup.com or call 6527840

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OUT on the TOWN Great Food, Libations & Good Times!

Golf Club at Patrick’s Place Opens Club for Children’s Auction The Golf Club (TGC) at Patrick’s Place is opening their club to the public to host a 9-hole golf tournament during the month of November to benefit Pub Mania and the Children’s Auction. “We’re inviting any golfers who want to support fundraising efforts for the kids of the Lakes Region to come out and play in a special tournament for Pub Mania and the Children’s Auction.” says PGA Professional and Club Manager Dan Wilkins. “Proceeds of the tournament will go to go to support Pub Mania Team “Birdies for a Cause.” “This is a great chance for non-members to experience the club while helping boost fundraising efforts” said Wilkins. The cost to play in the 9-hole tournament is $20 per player. To schedule a playing time, email Wilkins at dwilkins1960@gmail. com. “We hope that TGC members and nonmembers will come out and play this month and help raise funds for the kids” explains Team Captain Allison Mitzel, PGA, First Assistant Golf Professional at Laconia Country Club. “We’re thrilled that TGC has opened up their club to the public in support of Pub Mania and the Children’s Auction.” TGC is a BYOB facility and participants are

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SAVINELLI PIPES For one of the largest and finest selections of pipes you’ve ever seen, shop for your pipe smoker at Happy Jack’s Cigar, Pipe & Tobacco Shop. Not only does Peter sell pipes, he has one of the few businesses that still does stem repair.

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ANNIE’S BOOK STOP

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Don’t forget to say “Thank You!” to friends and loved ones hosting holiday events. Cobblestone Design has something special for everyone on your list!

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ANNALEE DOLLS

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24th Annual Hospice Tree of Memories Celebration of Life Preparations are underway for the 24th Central New Hampshire VNA and Hospice Tree of Memories, a celebration of life and remembrance. This annual event will be held in four locations on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 11am. Locations are the lobby of the Medical Arts Building at Huggins Hospital, Wolfeboro, the Wakefield Town Hall, Moulton Farm, Meredith, and the Pearson Road Community/Senior Center, Alton. Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice provides an opportunity to remember the lives of family, friends and neighbors by placing an inscribed porcelain dove, a symbol of serenity, peace and tranquility, on one of the lighted trees. Many local clubs and organizations find this is a wonderful opportunity to honor and remember past members. The touching ceremonies involve lighting of the tree, sharing of music and prayers, words of comfort, reading of names, and placing doves on one of our evergreen trees. One might ask how did the Hospice Tree of Memories begin? The reply is that several years ago, Shirley Richardson and her late husband, Bob, while visiting Cape Cod during the Christmas season, had the opportunity to take part in a meaningful ceremony to remember Shirley’s parents. Organized by the local hospice organi-

zation, the event included placing an inscribed seashell on an evergreen tree. It was such a profound experience, that Shirley brought the idea to the local hospice organization in Wolfeboro and in 1995, the first Tree of Memories was established. A dove was selected as a symbol of serenity, peace and tranquility. A touching ceremony was created and today, twenty-four years later, that same ceremony continues with inscribed, porcelain doves being hung on a special evergreen tree honoring loved ones. Hundreds of doves are placed on trees each year and remain on the trees throughout the month of December. Proceeds from the sale of doves are used to improve the quality of life for people living in those lakes’ region communities served by Central VNA. A reality of our times is that endeav-

ors such as the Hospice program require community support through donation in order to meet the increasing needs of over 20,000 residents in over 500 square miles of area served. Tree of Memories letters will be going out soon, but anyone can contact Central directly for information on

the “Tree of Memories” by calling 603-569-2729 or 1-888-242-0655. To purchase a dove in the name of a loved one or friend contact Central’s Office at 603569-2729 or visit our website www.centralvna.org. The deadline for purchasing a dove is December 3rd. One need not purchase a dove to participate – everyone is welcome to attend this remembrance celebration at any of the four locations

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so they can come and watch. Vehicles line up along Lily Pond and people come to the terminal at the airport to see them come and go.” Officials at the Collings Foundation say they hope to continue their mission, which is to make history “come alive.” Since 1989, the foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour has been appreciated by those who have attended as the tour visited more than 3,600 communities. According to the foundation, tens of thousands have

View from insider the gunner station of the B-17. er generations come out to see the aircraft because a father, or uncle, or some family

Collings with a goal of preserving and exhibiting rare historical artifacts, and to organize and support events that enable Americans to learn more about their heritage through direct participation. The original focus of the foundation was transportation-related living history events in the Stow, Massachusetts area. During the mid-eighties, the activities were broadened to include aviation-related events such as air shows, barnstorming, historical reunions, and joint museum displays on a local and nationwide level.

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flown aboard its planes, including its B-17, B-24, B-25, and A-1E. The tours have also featured flight training flights on the foundation’s TP-51C, TF-51D, and TP-40N. The foundation is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1979. It was formed by owner and president Robert

Since then, the foundation has expanded to be the operators of one of the world’s largest collections of historic aircraft. It also opened The American Heritage Museum on its property, which features some of the world’s rarest tanks and some or the rarest armored vehicles in North America. This Wings of FreeSee AIRCRAFT on 31

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The Collings Foundation’s B-17 at Laconia Airport this summer. The plane crashed in a tragic accident at an air show in Connecticut on October 2. The Collings Foundation’s P-51 aircraft at Laconia Airport this summer. AIRCRAFT from 30 dom tour has showcased three fully restored bomber aircraft, including a B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell and two fighters, a P-51 Mustang and a P-40 Warhawk. After the B-17 crashed while trying to gain altitude at an aviation event outside of Hartford, the foundation expressed tremendous sorrow while giving its full cooperation to government investigators. “Please join the Collings Foundation in our thoughts and prayers with those who were on the tragic flight of the B-17 Flying Fortress,” the foundation said in a statement. “We will be forever grateful to the heroic efforts of the first responders at Bradley International Airport and the assistance of all local agencies in the days after the crash.” The foundation also suspended the tour for the remainder of the 2019 season and the aircraft were taken to its winter maintenance base in Florida. It would like to take

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the tour to the skies and local airports again in March, but it needs permits from the Federal Aviation Administration. “In the coming months, federal agencies will be reviewing the LHFE program for not only our organization, but many other organizations nationwide who continue to fly vintage aircraft as a part of their educational mission,” the foundation said in a statement. “As these reviews take place, we feel it is important for the voices of those impacted by the Wings of Freedom Tour over the years to be heard. We need to let federal agencies know that the LHFE program is important to you and other American citizens as an educational tool.” The foundation is concerned, said spokesman Hunter Cheney, about its permits in light of the tragedy. “It is during this time that we are actively encouraging people to make submissions to the FAA on the importance of

continuing this living history program,” he told The Weirs Times. “This kind of reinforcement brings light to how much of an impact this means to people when it comes to honoring our World

War II veterans while providing an experience that brings us to a closer sense of appreciation,” he said. Those wishing to add their names and comments in support of the foundation may do so by going to www. regulations.gov/comment? D=FAA-200111089-0096

Everson said he would like to have the Wings of Freedom Tour return, but asked that New Hampshire residents help by posting. “I encourage fans of the vintage aircraft – particularly of The Collings Foundation – to go to the FAA’s website and voice their favor of the renewal of

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we parked at the gate at the beginning of Old Waterville Road. This 2.5 mile long trail is part of the old road that ran between Campton and Waterville. This time of year when all the leaves have fallen and left the hardwoods bare the hiking trails no longer feel like a long green tunnel. There is much more to see. I love being able to look deeper into the forest and up at the surrounding mountains through the now open treetops. Along the Old Water-

ville road we admired stonewalls and a cellar hole. We found the old cemetery with gravestones from the early 1800s and read the inscriptions. People died young then. We met some people headed to the cemetery near the intersection at the top of the Pine Flats Trail and they tried to get us to take that trail back down to the car. When we told them we were redlining the trails and had to finish the Old Waterville Road first they told us we’d bet-

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trail has good footing and isn’t steep too. Wes looked forward to bringing his wife and father on this nice path. Every time we reached a connecting path I went out and back with Bria to complete the redline of the trails. We continued to make a loop by following the Yellow Jacket and Tri-

Town Trails working our way back to the Smart Brook Trail parking lot. We were happy there was as nice bridge to cross Smarts Brook at the end of the Yellow Jacket Trail. These trails are also used for crosscountry skiing in the winter. We turned right and walked a short distance on the Smarts Brook Trail and then turned left on the TriTown Trail and climbed up a hill and then back down. Just before we got to lower end of the trail we saw a bright orange hat and underneath it was Jeremy hiking towards us. Jeremy had just finished hiking the Osceolas and saw Bria’s car and guessed we’d be returning this way. It was a good lucky guess because now he could join us for lunch. We picked up our car and headed back to the Town Square where we ate yummy hot sandwiches at Legends. Have Fun.

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 14, 2019 — METZLER from 7 vail from Poland, to Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid particular tribute to Germany’s neighbors; “Without the courage of the will to freedom of the Poles and Hungarians, the Czechs and Slovaks, the peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe and Germany’s reunification would not have been possible.” Having seen the Berlin Wall a decade before these momentous events it would be nearly inconceivable that this austere and brutal cold concrete barrier which ripped through the heart of one of Europe’s great cities would ever fall, short of a major conflict. The Wall and

the entire formidable inter-German barrier dividing the country for that matter, solidified systems and ossified ideologies. It stood as a silent testament to terror for a quarter century. Behind the Wall stood the German Democratic Republic, the dour socialist satrap which needed a barrier to keep its comrades in. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a momentous and memorable address in Berlin stated, “East Germans knew they weren’t alone. They knew they had a partner. And they took heart from the soaring words of leaders and deeds of Presidents Truman and Kennedy and Reagan.” “They saw kindred spirits all across the world. They saw them

in Poland, the march for Solidarity. They felt the prayers of Pope John Paul II,” he added. Yet German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned, “the values on which Europe is founded, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, human rights, they are anything but self-evident and they have to be revitalized and defended time and time again.” Secretary Pompeo added, “let us also not take lightly the threats to our freedoms, the challenges that we all face from regimes, regimes that rule instead of govern, regimes that crush rights instead of protect them, regimes for which this anniversary is a fearful warning, not a cause for celebration.” Transatlantic solidarity and values

bound the U.S. and Europe together during the Cold War. Sadly, over the past twenty years the focus of shared security and political interests has blurred. Clearly, the USA working in multilateral tandem with our NATO partners still offers the best defense for America’s own security. 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.

SHAPIRO from 6 tional numbers. Now she’s down nearly double digits again. So hold the phone on that inevitable Warren nomination. Warren’s a weak front-runner. And she’s not getting any stronger. Ben Shapiro, 35, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-inchief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side Of History.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. 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.

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STOSSEL from 7 virtually nothing. But two years ago, the price of one bitcoin reached $19,891. Then it crashed to $3,192. As I write, the price is $9,390. That volatility deters many people from using Bitcoin as money, but to those of us who don’t trust governments, Brockwell points out: “It is the only suitable money for free people.” Of course, many disagree. “I think it’s a gigantic classic pump and dump scheme,” says investor Peter Schiff. “There’s nothing to give Bitcoin value.” It’s “a bubble,” vulnerable to attacks from governments. “They can get banks and financial institutions to make it very difficult for Americans to use it.” Schiff doesn’t claim we should count on dollar bills because he doesn’t trust politicians either.

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“The government decided that they didn’t want WikiLeaks to receive donations, so they froze transactions,” observes Brockwell. But they couldn’t stop Bitcoin. She says government has had “a monopoly on the money supply for a very long time, and now consumers finally have a choice. You can send bitcoin peer-to-peer to someone on the other side of the world almost instantly at very low cost, and it can’t be censored. That’s incredibly powerful.” It is. Alternatives to government monopolies are very good things.

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sions don’t lock America into those same levels now or in the future. America’s constitutional duty is to Americans first (“ourselves and our posterity”). The truth is that we’ve been generous to a ruinous, open borders fault. Last year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform tallied refugee resettlement costs to taxpayers at nearly $9 billion over five years. In my adopted home state of Colorado, a new University of Colorado Boulder study acknowledged that refugees are often “trapped in chronic poverty” after resettlement subsidies

dry up and are unable to lift themselves out of dependency on government aid such as public housing, Medicaid and food stamps. Federal statistics show that nearly half of all refugee households receive cash welfare. Chain migration perpetuates the cycle of poverty. A tiny cabal of government contractors, mostly religious groups cloaking their profitseeking in compassion and Scripture, perpetuates the refugee resettlement racket. Openly hostile to American sovereignty, these people spread their tax-subsidized syndicate’s wealth

to a vast network of subcontractors, often tied to billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, which promote global governance and unfettered migration espoused by the United Nations, European Union and Vatican. These special interests have systematically blurred the lines between legitimate refugees seeking asylum from oppression and economic migrants from Central America clamoring for higher wages or better welfare benefits. They’re indifferent to the national security risks of absorbing large numbers of Muslims whose

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New Hampshire Governor Henry B. Quinby. pose of the present, and I hail in prophetic vision a better and brighter future for all who may follow us.” United States Senator from New Hampshire, Jacob H. Gallinger in his address spoke of the progress in lighting, electricity, and transporta-

tion since the State house was first erected in 1819. He pointed out that in the years since that year until 1910 the firsts of friction matches, the electric telegraph, the Atlantic cable, the telephone, the phonograph, the steam turbine, the automobile, and other items

had taken place. The discovery of things like chloroform and X-rays had also happened. He expressed the hope that those who would be inducted into the highest offices in New Hampshire would “…live up to the highest ideals of civic duty, to the end that New Hampshire may continue, as it is today, in the forefront of the states of our land in all the virtues that make for the highest type of manhood and womanhood.” Ex-Senator William E. Chandler, a Concord native, expressed his satisfaction that a new State House was not built in Manchester and that the front of the remodeled building looked the same as it had since 1863, saying, “Let us hold to some of the good old things and follow in some ways the good old times.” In his speech he recalled some of the history of the State. Ex-Congressman Hosea W. Parker in a short address stressed the importance of the character of the people whose laws would be made in the newly ex-

panded building. While suggesting that “New Hampshire stands high in the roll of states in the character of her citizenship,” he also quoted the Bible in saying that the citizens

should remember that “righteousness exalteth a nation, while sin is a reproach to any people.” Another State legislator, Samuel D. Felker, from Rochester stated that the past, present, and future were all linked together in the remodeled state house. His address was not the same as the “all’s well with New Hampshire” tone of David Cross. It emphasized the importance of government, discussed the meaning of liberty, and brought up the problem of inequality. He anticipated changes in the laws with changed conditions, including the arrival of people from “other lands.“Law enforcement and speedy justice”, he said, “is the demand of the day.” But he warned that neither government nor laws cure all the ills of the people. He

said “The restraining influence of a higher authority, a sense of responsibility to a higher authority, a just fear of God, if you will, I believe to be the greatest lack of the age.” Ex-Governor Nahum J. Bachelder expressed the opinion that “the record of New Hampshire men in the future will be as brilliant as that in the past…” The dedication of the State House occurred two weeks before an election and Bachelder said “ We are now engaged in a friendly contest for the first occupancy of this structure, so far as elective officers are concerned.” He felt the election would result in the selection of true men who would carry out right policies. Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr., welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com

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