Time to brush up on your Concord history with a walking tour
If you’ve got a couple free hours, we suggest taking a nice walk. This is the trails issue after all. But the one we’re about to suggest isn’t over the river or through the woods, although it might be near grandma’s house – depending on where she lives. This isn’t off the beaten path or a secret by any means, but it will teach you a lot about the history of your city. Concord is celebrating 250 years in case you missed all the events...
Go out and hit Concord’s two dozen walking trails
Did you know, before reading the headline, that Concord is home to more than two dozen walking trails? Well it is, and we thought that was pretty interesting. A big-time capital city, an economic hub of the region, with walking trails that aren’t made of asphalt or concrete? And you can catch views of rivers, ponds and mountains, too? Only in scenic New Hampshire. Whether you like long trails or short ones, vertical climbs or flat...
We took an expedition into Bow to see what trails we could find
So we took a little trip the other day. We hopped in the old Insider mobile and headed south to Bow in search of some trails to walk on. Kinda funny how we drove in order to walk, but we needed to have some sort of energy left to make it through whatever we found. We did, after all, attempt to eat 2-pound tacos last week. With so much open space in Bow, we knew it was only a matter of time before we could pull off the side of the road...
The Taco Gigante Challenge was no match for Tim’s hungry tummy
I’m not going to lie, the last few bites were painful. But I had come way to far to stop. Those small helpings of lettuce, rice, fried tortilla, pickled jalapenos and meat were the only thing that stood between me and what could only be considered one of the greatest victories in Insider history. So I choked them down, one at a time and very slowly. After all, I didn’t want the previous 1.9 pounds of my Taco Gigante to make a...
Saying goodbye is hard, so why not have an art show instead?
The Hargate Arts Center has been home to the St. Paul’s School’s art department since 1967. But some sizable gifts have paved the way for a soon-to-be renovated location across campus. So help celebrate 48 great years of pictures, paintings and exhibits by checking out Farewell to Hargate from now until Nov. 21.
Challenge proves Jon’s mouth writes checks his mouth can’t cash
I’m not proud to admit it, but I’m a failure. I had the world at my disposal, and I threw it all away. The future was limitless for me, but not anymore. The taco got the best of me. Unlike my companion on the other page, I went into this challenge not with doubts, but confidence, audacity, bravado even. A 2-pound taco? Come on. That’s kids’ stuff, I thought. Where’s the “challenge” in this Taco Gigante Challenge? Step up your game,...
Dan Zanes and his friends rock out to help the Friendly Kitchen
Grammy Award-winning musician Dan Zanes returns to Concord every year to perform a pair of benefit concerts for the Friendly Kitchen, an organization his mom, Hope Zanes Butterworth, has been involved with for many years. So last Saturday, Zanes got the audiences in the Concord High School auditorium dancing and singing along to his original brand of kids music. The concerts have raised lots of much-needed money for the Friendly...
ConcordTV lets us peek behind the scenes at open house
ConcordTV held an open house at its Heights Community Center studio last week. Guests were able to tour the studio and see what goes on behind the scenes. Some even got to pretend they were news anchors for a few minutes.
Ever wonder what those fake looking apples are? So did we
Chuck Souther doesn’t want to use insecticides on his apple crop. But if he didn’t, you probably wouldn’t be all that thrilled finding apple maggots inside your freshly picked fruit. So for 30 years, Souther has been trying to find a way where he doesn’t have to spray his Apple Hill Farm crop, while still keeping the annual pest away from the apples you want to make pies, crisps and doughnuts out of. The only tricky part is that...
Music school to host sing-along concert Saturday
A sing-along concert will be held at the Concord Community Music School on Saturday, at 7 p.m. The concert is being held to celebrate the release of a long-awaited companion book to the widely known and loved songbook, Rise Up Singing. The concert will feature Annie Patterson and Peter Blood, the creators of Rise Up Singing, teaching and leading songs out of their new book, Rise Again. They will be joined by Bill Harley, Charley King...
If you’re looking for stuff to do this week, let us be your guide
You may have noticed, but we’re kind of a good place to start when you’re looking for something to do in these parts. We like to consider ourselves as the guiding light to your social life. So with that being the case, we have to constantly keep our fingers on the pulse of the city and pass along the important info pertaining to cool things that are coming up. Or even the odd and weird. Between the calendar, bulletin board, preview...
NHTI’s third annual Quonquer the Quad was a physically fun time
NHTI hosted the third annual Quonquer the Quad this past weekend, and physical fun and mayhem ensued. Lots of money was raised for the Jennifer Kemp Memorial Scholarship, too, so it was a pretty good day all around.
This Week in Concord History
Oct. 6, 2003: In the first action of its kind by any state, New Hampshire is suing 22 oil companies for using a gasoline additive that the attorney general says has polluted much of the state’s water supply. The additive, MTBE, has caused “an unprecedented and significant groundwater contamination problem,” Attorney General Peter Heed says at a press conference. Oct. 6, 2001: Concord High School senior Matt Delois wins the Class L...
Book of the Week: “The Inn at Lake Devine”
The Inn at Lake Devine Elinor Lipman 1998, 253 pages Fiction Elinor Lipman is whip smart and funny; many people know her for her essays and her hilarious tweets about electoral politics, but her novels are also a treat. The Inn at Lake Devine is about a young woman, Natalie Marx, only 12 when the book opens, and her fascination with a Vermont inn whose proprietress responds to her mother’s request for information by writing that...
City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell wanders around the city’s trails in search of Concord’s version of the Bow emu. When his efforts are unsuccessful, he uses crushed up leaves to create his weekly city memo. Getting rid of waste The hazardous kind Concord General Services would like to thank everyone who came out to its annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day at the Everett Arena on Sept. 27. It was a tremendous success this...
Bulletin Board
Friday Family Fun Night at Immaculate Heart Please join us for a wonderful night of drumming, dancing and ice cream. New American Africans will host Friday Family Fun Night on Friday at the Immaculate Heart of Mary (180 Loudon Road). Bring your family and friends and get to know Concord’s newest neighbors. The fun starts at 6 p.m. For more info, email molly@newamericanafricans.org. Molly McEachern Red Sox PA announcer Dick Flavin at...
Classic Concord photo
Just imagine living in a time without a paved Main Street, like parts of this summer.
