This week in Concord history
March 3, 1972: Four days before the New Hampshire primary, 1,800 people rally for President Nixon at the armory in Manchester. Among them is Gov. Walter Peterson, who beams: “There is no doubt this is Nixon country.” March 3, 1915: The Legislature takes a poll on Prohibition. Of Concord’s 18 state representatives, only one votes in favor. After all, that year there are 33 places in Concord where liquor can be legally sold: 13...
1900: Old Walker School
The Old Walker School is pictured in the year 1900 on the site of the current day Walker School Media Building. The Concord Union School District purchased this empty lot to build the first Walker School that is pictured in in this photograph in the year 1873, after the prior building burned in a terrible fire. The prior building was the Methodist General Biblical Institute, formally known as the Old North Church. The Old North...
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Walker concert The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for a concert by Artful Noise. The string quartet will perform “Sounds and Colors” by Gwyneth Walker, “String Quartet” by Florence Beatrice Price, and Opus 96 by Anton Dvorak on March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. The show is free. For more information, visit walkerlecture.org. Virtual author visit Gibson’s Bookstore is pleased to...
City new: Meet Concord’s new head of housing
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: Housing and Redevelopment has new director Julie Palmeri is returning to her hometown of Concord as the new Executive Director of Concord Housing and Redevelopment where she is taking over for John Hoyt, who is retiring after more than...
Entertainment for March 3 to 16
Live music March 3 Remembering the Green Martini at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. Dan Weiner at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Bach Lunch Lecture: ‘Irish Pub Songs’ at 12:10 p.m. at Concord Community Music School March 4 Justin Cohn at Pats Peak from 6 to 8 p.m. Talisk at the Bank of N.H. Stage at 8 p.m. March 5 Tim Kierstead at the Downtown Concord Winter Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to noon Kimayo at Concord Craft Brewing from 2 to 5 p.m....
Book: Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land By Anthony Doerr (626 pages, historical and literary fiction, 2021) Cloud Cuckoo Land is an ambitious matryoshka-doll-of-a-book. This riveting story spans the 1400s to the future, occurs in several places geographically (space, Constantinople, Idaho), and is held together by an invented ancient text, written by Anthony Doerr but inspired by the works of 2nd-century author, Antonius Diogenes. This is a deceptively...
