Hatbox hosts 3 one-acts
Granite Playwrights opens its show with a send-up of the famous film, “It Happened One Night.” Lindsay’s play, “It Happened One Afternoon,” is set in Chicago, 1938. Wendy Williams yearns to be free to make her own dumb choices. But her movie star brother, Gabe Clarkson, wants to save her, and Nick, her cop boyfriend, wants to control her. Meanwhile, two young ladies who work the nightshift at the Majestic Arms Hotel want to drive her...
This week in Concord history
June 29, 2002: In Laconia, two bikers are shot in an episode that police link to motorcycle gang violence. “It appears that it’s part of the ongoing feud between the Hells Angels and rival motorcycle gangs,” says Laconia police Sgt. John MacLennan. The bikers are treated at Lakes Region General Hospital and released. June 29, 1835: Celia Thaxter is born. She will become a renowned Portsmouth poet. June 29, 1873: The...
Churches partner for concert series
First Congregational and Wesley United Methodist Churches are sponsoring a new summer concert series that will take place behind Wesley Methodist Church at 79 Clinton Street in Concord. The first show, a concert by the Wholly Rollers, takes place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 29. There’s a large, fenced in playground that kids can use while adults watch the concert and snacks/soft drinks will be available at a modest price. Local artist...
Book: “Where the Forest Meets the Stars”
“Where the Forest Meets the Stars” Glendy Vanderah (321 pages, Contemporary Fiction, 2019) “In Where the Forest Meets the Stars”, Jo Teale is an ornithologist spending the summer in a cabin located in the Shawnee Forest of Southern Illinois, doing field research for her PhD. Gradually, we learn that Jo has survived a lot in her young life; her mother died of breast cancer a few years ago, and then Jo’s cancer was caught early enough...
Bulletin board
‘Where Ivy Dares to Grow: A Gothic Time Travel Love Story’ With author Marielle Thompson at Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 South Main Street in Concord on Friday, June 30, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Marielle Thompson returns to her childhood home of New Hampshire to present her debut novel, Where Ivy Dares to Grow: A Gothic Time Travel Love Story! Mexican Gothic meets Outlander in this spellbindingly atmospheric timeslip debut, as a woman...
