The ripe time: Pick-your-own fruit near Concord
If you can stand being out in the heat for more than a few minutes, it’s time to make plans to visit one of the Concord area’s many pick-your-own farms. (And if you can’t stand the heat, most will have some pre-picked options for you to make a quick getaway.) Here’s a sample of a few of the places where you can find fruit to harvest yourself. Apple Hill Farm Pick-your-own strawberry season has ended at Apply Hill Farm, but now they...
National night out
Concord Police Department will be among those participating in the 2022 National Night Out. Concord’s event will be Aug. 2 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Rollins Park. National Night Out is America’s night out against crime. This will be the 38th annual night out in the United States. Activities planned for Rollins Park include food, music, bike safety, contests, youth activities, Touch-A-Truck, rock climbing walls, informational displays and...
‘Bubble Boy’ staged at Hatbox Theatre
Dive In Productions is proud to present Bubble Boy the Musical at the Hatbox Theatre from Aug. 5 to 14. From the creative team behind the cult classic movie Bubble Boy, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio take audiences back to early 2000s Palmdale, Florida, and the home of our Bubble Boy, Jimmy Livingston. Born with no immune system, Jimmy’s entire life has been spent behind the plastic walls of his bubble room with no one for company besides...
Art on Main installations updated
The City of Concord and Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce created “Art on Main” in 2018. This program enlivens and enhances Main Street with a year-round sculpture exhibit. Mixed with Concord’s classical art, it creates an open-air gallery that is free to enjoy, and on view every day. Installations may last from one to two years, typically remaining on view from 12 to 24 months. In 2022, the exhibit expanded beyond Main Street and...
Entertainment for the week of July 28, 2022
Live music July 28 Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Paul Hubert at Area 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. Josh Foster at Uno Pizzeria & Grill in Concord from 6 to 9 p.m. Eric Lindberg Band at Butler Park in Hillsborough from 7 to 8 p.m. The Shanna Stack Band at Eagle Square from 7 to 8:30 p.m. July 29 Fern Family Bank from 7 to 9 p.m. and the Quint-E-Sential Band from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. at Area 23 Joey Clark & the Big Hearts at...
City news: Fall sports sign-up plus another week of camp
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: Youth fall sports registration The Parks and Recreation Department is accepting registrations of the upcoming youth sports season. Fall sports include: Archery (ages 6 and higher) NFL Flag Football Leagues (ages 6-8, 9-11 and 12-14) and...
This week in Concord history
July 28, 1776: New Hampshire militiamen are mustered atop Mount Independence, across from Fort Ticonderoga, for a reading of the Declaration of Independence, adopted earlier in the month in Philadelphia. They cheer heartily and fire a 13-gun salute. July 28, 1927: Nellie Taylor Ross, the nation’s first woman governor, stops at the Concord home of former New Hampshire governor John G. Winant. She is on her way to Tilton, where...
Bulletin board
Friends-a-Palooza The Friends Program is taking over Keach Park in Concord to celebrate International Friendship Day on July 30 from 2 to 5 p.m. Friends-a-Palooza is a family-fun event filled with free activities for kids of all ages. We will have crafts and field games, face-painting, kids Zumba, giant bubbles, corn-hole, music, dance and a storytelling read-a-thon, snacks, prizes and more. Friends-a-Palooza is designed to raise...
Book: Sea of Tranquility
Sea of Tranquility By Emily St. John Mandel (255 pages, fiction, 2022) Emily St. John Mandel’s newest release, Sea of Tranquility, unfolds in a series of vignettes across a span of nearly five hundred years. It’s a spiderweb of characters across time, all facing similar themes of displacement and grief, and each of these threads is tied to a single anomalous phenomenon. Sea of Tranquility is one of those books that you can’t divulge...
