‘Love Letters’ pulls heart strings in Concord
Love Letters by A. R. Gurney was nominated in 1990 for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It follows the ever-changing relationship of Andrew and Melissa through 50-plus years of correspondence, starting at age 6 in first grade. Gurney deftly creates characters, their personal growth, locations, historic and cultural shifts through his articulate and often funny pen. It illustrates how relationships formed and flourished before the advent of...
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Walker Lecture The Walker Lecture Series invites you to join us for “Central and South America,a Travelogue” with Marlin Darrah. Explore the beautiful Spanish colonial town of Antigua, Guatemala; the stunning islands and Mayan monuments of Belize; the renowned National Parks of Costa Rica; the marvel of the Panama Canal and the Indians of the San Blas Island of Colombia; the incomparable mountain UNESCO World Heritage sites of Cuzco...
This week in Concord history
March 10, 1964: Absentee candidate Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary with 36 percent of the vote. Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, who have campaigned hard in the state, take 22 and 21 percent respectively, and write-in Richard Nixon, the former vice president, wins 17 percent. March 11, 1952: Sen. Estes Kefauver’s grass-roots presidential campaign...
