City Newsletter: Winter activities arrive in the capital city
The city manager’s office sent out the City Manager’s Newsletter last Friday. The full newsletter can be found by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the “Newsletter” button. Here are some highlights: Basketball Pre-season basketball with Concord Parks & Recreation is in full swing! Participants and spectators have done a great job following all safety guidelines. Regular season basketball registration is now open. Please visit...
Online shows, virtual author talk and more
Curtain closed, but shows go on Though the Capitol Center for the Arts plans to keep its building closed into the new year, they are pleased to announce several upcoming virtual holiday shows to keep you entertained in the next several weeks. The purchase options vary depending on the show and producer of the content. They hope you find something you like or that you purchase to send to a friend or family as a gift. Hip Hop Nutcracker...
Walker Lecture: Visit Antarctica without leaving your couch
Up until the current pandemic, the Walker Lecture Series had been regularly offering programs for free to the public at the Concord City Auditorium. The Audi has been pretty quiet since March, but the lectures are again being offer via ConcordTV and after the fact on YouTube. Next up in the fall 2020 line-up is a virtual travelogue with Ed Webster on Antarctica, which will air on ConcordTV, channel 22, on Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and be...
This week in Concord history
Dec. 3, 1963: Gov. John King says he favors an appropriate memorial for the slain President John F. Kennedy but will oppose any effort to rename one of New Hampshire’s mountains after Kennedy. Dec. 3, 1847: For $1,000, Edward H. Rollins buys R.C. Osgood’s drugstore on Main Street opposite the State House. Rollins will become a leading Republican, and the back room of the store will be his political headquarters, where policies...
Book: Luck, life through psychology of poker
The Biggest Bluff: How I learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win By Maria Konnikova (354 pages, nonfiction, 2020) Life is like a poker game. No, I’m not bluffing. Written by Maria Konnikova. You may have heard of her. She’s a psychologist who has written for The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Scientific American, and the Smithsonian. This is the story of how she went deep into the...
Audi Cookie Bakers share recipes for intermission treats
Have you ever attended an event at the Concord City Auditorium and enjoyed a quick treat during intermission? And if you have, you might have wondered where the cookies came from and who are the delightful folks serving them. The Friends of the Audi Hospitality Committee is made up of a chairwoman and 50 or so bakers and servers, they are the “Famous Cookie Bakers.” Before each event an email goes out to everyone asking for...
Book: Possibility within poetry and painting
Imagine A Night By Sarah L. Thomson, illustrated by Rob Gonsalves (Children’s picture book, 2003) Dream, fantasy, and reality gradually intermix in beautiful perception. The speaker instructs the audience to “imagine” a night of all sorts, from flying over fields of bedspreads and farmers playing lullabies to their swaying crops to plays of words and light opening doorways to the magical. Gonsalves’ paintings stir something...
