Look at that Turkey tower! – Tue, 02 Jul 2013
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Look at that Turkey tower! – Tue, 02 Jul 2013

Concord natives Hilary Adams (left) and Abby Comstock-Gay (right) took the Insider with them to the Galata Tower in Istanbul, Turkey. Adams told us that if we print this picture, her mother won’t disown her. Well, Hilary, you’re back in!

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Classic Concord photo – Tue, 02 Jul 2013
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Classic Concord photo – Tue, 02 Jul 2013

Reader Earl Burroughs sent us this photo of a man Burroughs thinks is his father Jim. As a trolley conductor, he ran the Concord to Penacook line occasionally, Burroughs told us. Do you have a classic Concord photo from our fair city’s past? Send it to news@theconcordinsider.com and we may print it here!

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Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 02 Jul 2013
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Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 02 Jul 2013

Who says advertising isn’t a contact sport? Insider sales wiz Alexandra Chaisson sliced up her knee walking the mean streets of Concord recently, but it didn’t slow her down. This is what we are willing to do for you, readers.

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Leaving it all on the field – Tue, 02 Jul 2013
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Leaving it all on the field – Tue, 02 Jul 2013

Who says advertising isn’t a contact sport? Insider sales wiz Alexandra Chaisson sliced up her knee walking the mean streets of Concord recently, but it didn’t slow her down. This is what we are willing to do for you, readers.

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Mark Hopkins’s tiny masterworks

Check out these miniature versions of period-specific furniture at the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Gallery. The New Hampshire Furniture Masters Gallery is located at 49 S. Main St. For more information, visit furnituremasters.org.

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Mark Hopkins’s tiny masterworks

Check out these miniature versions of period-specific furniture at the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Gallery. The New Hampshire Furniture Masters Gallery is located at 49 S. Main St. For more information, visit furnituremasters.org.

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Waldo is back!

Where’s Waldo is back! After having such a fun time last summer, how could we not do the same this summer? Join us for a free Downtown Concord community scavenger hunt that stretches across the whole month of July! Hidden in twenty downtown businesses are little Waldos, ready for you to come and find him. As you find them, each shop will give you a stamp on your Where’s Waldo passport (stop in to a participating store to pick up a...

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Syrian sweets find their way to Concord

None of the cooking equipment was familiar. None of the ingredients were the same. Ahmad Aissa’s kitchen was starting to mirror the last year of his life, when he was forced to flee his war-torn homeland of Syria and relocate to unfamiliar surroundings, where unfamiliar faces spoke an unfamiliar language. Aissa was determined to find a taste of home, though, and more than a year of tinkering later he’s found comfort – in the kitchen...

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Off the beaten path

When you walk around Concord, you probably see the same things every day. Some you take for granted, some blend into the scenery and some you just never even notice at all. Here at the Insider, finding the beauty in little things is pretty much what we do! With that in mind, we’ve compiled a scavenger hunt of the little details and hidden gems of Concord. Can you find these items and locations around town? Here’s a hint: read the...

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Off the beaten path

When you walk around Concord, you probably see the same things every day. Some you take for granted, some blend into the scenery and some you just never even notice at all. Here at the Insider, finding the beauty in little things is pretty much what we do! With that in mind, we’ve compiled a scavenger hunt of the little details and hidden gems of Concord. Can you find these items and locations around town? Here’s a hint: read the...

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Concord company revolutionizes recess

Kids are unpredictable. Just when you think they’re going to zig, they put your wallet in the toilet and flush. How often do children open their gifts on Christmas and spend less time playing with the toys than the boxes they came in?Ron King looks at recess in much the same way – there’s no sense spending 200 days in a row climbing up and down a plastic slide when you could be enjoying the box it came in.The box, of course, being...

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A few key facts about Mark Dierauf

Name: Mark DieraufPiano restorer and tunerHow did you get into restoring old instruments? What was the first instrument you restored? I was a pianist. I took lessons as a kid, and when I went to college, I found out about the possibility of helping with piano technician stuff for work study  and I found I had a real aptitude and enjoyment for it. So I wound up spending all my time down in the piano room instead of upstairs in the...

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This week in Concord history

July 2, 1976:  Gov. Mel Thomson orders a full investigation into what happened to 1,500 pounds of chicken that never made it to a state worker picnic at New Hampshire Hospital. The birds, worth $780, were contaminated and disposed of.July 3, 1990: Stalled for four years in his effort to build a huge housing project and luxury golf course on Concord’s Broken Ground, Vermonter Barry Stem announces plans to build a 200-room hotel and...

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The Grammarnator: Fix your preconceptions about prefixes
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The Grammarnator: Fix your preconceptions about prefixes

The enlightening and entertaining column by the Grammarnatrix last week on antiautonyms, which show up for high school students in Macbeth’s claim that sleep “knits up the raveled sleeve of care,” got the Grammarnator thinking of a related issue: people’s misunderstanding of the prefix pre-. Now, we all know that pre- means before. And as surely as night follows day (not really; it’s all a continuum, with day just as much following...

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Missed Connections: A triple-dipped hyena and auras by the river

We at the Insider like to scour Craigslist’s Missed Connections section to see if anyone in Concord saw us taking shirtless selfies in the public restroom mirror is finding true love online. Here are a couple unedited entries.The river in concord – m4w – 30You were wearing a light green binki an you looked so hot.You were with two girls and a guy….I like your star tats up your leg. So hot! and aura was amazing. I was wearing...

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City briefly

Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell buys a box of sparklers and lights them all at once. He then runs around the State House lawn, wildly tracing the city memo in the air before burning all of his fingers. We were ready with gauze and bandages but instead took down the memo and present it here.Calling in celebratoryClosing up for freedomAll city offices, including the Concord Public Library, will be closed July 4 in observance of...

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Concord Public Library book of the week
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Concord Public Library book of the week

Once Upon a Flock: Life With My Soulful ChickensLauren Scheuer2013, 243 pagesNonfictionLauren Scheuer is an illustrator with a fondness for building things with power tools.  She and her family live in the country, and she decides she’d like to have a flock of chickens.  She figures she could build special chicken coops for them. Lauren takes us through her adventure with her chickens: Hatsy, Lil’ White, Lucy, Chickie and Pigeon. She...

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Bulletin board: VNA offering drop-in grief discussion groups

The Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering drop-in grief discussion groups July 24 and Aug. 21 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Concord Regional VNA Hospice House, Community Room, 240 Pleasant St. There is no registration or fee to attend. For additional information, please call 224-4093, ext. 2828 or email carmella.dow@crvna.org.

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Bulletin board: Red River Theatres seek donations for annual sale

Red River Theatres is looking for donations of gently used CDs, DVDs, records and tapes for its annual Music, Movie & Poster Sale. Donations can be dropped off at the theater box office from 2-7:30 p.m., or you can call Mike at 568-9241 to arrange a pick-up. The sale will be held in the Red River Theatres screening room during Market Days on July 18, 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Money raised supports the programs and events...

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Bulletin board: Merrimack County Stamp Collectors set to meet

The Merrimack County Stamp Collectors’ monthly meeting will be held July 16 at 1:30 p.m. at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow. Anyone interested in stamp collecting is invited to attend. For more, call Dan Day at 228-1154.

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Bulletin board: Concord Hospital hands out 11 scholarships

Eleven students seeking a career in health care received scholarships through the Concord Hospital Trust Scholarship Fund at an awards luncheon at Concord Hospital on June 19. Kimberly Wright, Catie Tirrell, Lindsey Sevigny, Sandrine Ndetah, Chelsie Ann McKerley, Toria Haungs, Emily Gatzke, Kimberly Dennis and Jade Chandronnait all received nursing scholarships. In addition, allied health awards were given to Justin Worth, and Frank...

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