We hit the town looking for the best places to play trivia. Put on your thinking caps and come along with us! (No smart phones, please - only true brainiacs need apply.)The Barley HouseOur first foray into the world of trivia went down at The Barley House, where trivia takes place Wednesdays at 8 p.m. The game is set up in four rounds of six questions each. Teams can assign a point value…

The Insider admittedly opted not to conduct a scientific poll (we failed statistics class - but we aced English!), but our guess is that if we asked a dozen people if they'd visited the Hannah Dustin monument in Boscawen, the answers would range from "the what?" to "You do know what a restraining order is, right?"Alas, the first U.S. monument erected to honor…

We're proud to bring you a new feature: Girl Scout of the Week! We'll be profiling some local Girl Scouts to find out just what being a scout is all about. This week, we've got 12-year-old cadette Delaney John-Zensy of Troop 10524. Check it out!How long have you been a Girl Scout?Seven years.What are the three qualities of a good leader?To be a good leader, you have to be able to have fun and get things…

Name: Stella HoganOwner, A Wig Center, 83 S. Main St.How did you get started in the wig business? How long have you owned your own business?I worked as a receptionist in the field, and always liked doing hair, and over the course of 10 years became educated in wigs and decided to open my own business. And it will be 21 years this summer since I opened here.Do you make any of the wigs?…

The Food Snob has connections, okay? One can't snob for as long as we've snobbed without making some powerful friends. This year, we used those connections to gain early access to the Cappies winners, to better plot our future snobbery. The first entry that caught our eye was "best lunch" winner Sandwich Depot. We hopped in the Snobmobile and headed to the South End…

Adam Boyce portrayed Charles Ross Taggart, "The Old Country Fiddler," in a program sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council in the Hopkinton Library recently. Boyce (as Taggart) used his violin not only to play popular tunes, but also to imitate the songs of birds.Boyce narrated the humorous stories that Taggart had told during his travels across our country to perform with his violin. According…