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General John Stark, con-sidered New Hampshire’s greatest hero, and author of what later became our state motto “Live Free Or Die (Death Is Not The Worst of Evils),” is buried in Man-chester in the park that bears his name.

You would think that such an honored hero’s final rest-ing place, which was also the site of his former home, would be a revered and hon-

ored site. That is the case today, but it wasn’t so as recently as the early 2000s.

It was the Friends of Stark Park who have brought this magnificent park back into the public eye after many years of unwanted behav-ior and deterioration at the park actually kept people away.

Today, they are in the process of raising funds to renovate the Stark Fam-ily cemetery that sits with-in, including the General’s

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This obelisk marks the grave of New Hampshire Revolutionary War Hero, General John Stark, whose written toast “Live Free or Die, Death Is Not The Worst of Evils,” would evolve into New Hampshire’s motto. The grave site in Stark Park in Manchester is waiting to be renovated after 100 years of neglect as the Friends of Stark Park seek funding to undertake the ambitious and much needed renovation. brendan smith Photo

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by Brendan smithWeirs Times Editor

On Monday, May 14, the Moultonborough Public Li-brary and the Moulton-borough Historical Society are co-sponsoring a NH Humanities Council musi-cal program by Jeff Warner, entitled “Banjos, Bones, and Ballads” at 7pm. Jeff Warner is among the na-tion’s foremost performer/interpreters of traditional music. His songs from the lumber camps, fishing vil-lages and mountain tops of America connect 21st century audiences with the everyday lives–and artistry–of 19th century Americans. Rich in local history and a

sense of place, they bring us the latest news from the distant past.

A native of New York City, Jeff has lived in Portsmouth, NH since the 1990s. He has toured nationally for the Smithsonian, and taught at Ashokan, Swannanoa, and Pinewoods summer music camps.

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Moose Lottery Deadline Is May 25th

Want to hunt moose in New Hampshire this fall? The deadline for entering the New Hampshire moose hunt lottery is May 25th. It costs just $15 for residents and $25 for non-residents to enter the lottery for a chance at the adventure of a lifetime. A total of 275 permits will be issued. The state’s moose hunt will run from October 20 – 28th. Last year, the statewide hunter success rate was 71%.

Each applicant can enter the lottery once a year. A bonus point system improves the chances for unsuccessful appli-cants who apply each consecutive year. Don’t miss a year, or you’ll lose your points! Hunters who are drawn and accept a permit are not eligible to enter the lottery or apply for a bonus point for the following three years.

Apply now by visiting http://www.huntnh.com/Hunting/Hunt_species/hunt_moose.htm, where you can apply online or print out a mail-in application. Lottery applications for 2012 must be postmarked or submitted online by midnight Eastern Time, May 25th or delivered to N.H. Fish and Game headquarters in Concord before 4pm that day.

For more information on moose hunting in New Hampshire, visit www.huntnh.com/Hunting/Hunt_species/hunt_moose.htm.

“Who’s THAT Girl??” In Wolfeboro

Wolfeboro Friends of Music presents Valerie Sneade in concert at Anderson Hall, 205 S. Main St, Wolfeboro, on Sat-urday, May 12 at 7:30pm.

Sponsors for this event are an anon-ymous donor and Avery Insurance and co-sponsored with Lakes Region Newcomers Club. Tickets are avail-

able for $20 at the door, at Black’s Paper Store and Av-ery Insurance in Wolfeboro or at Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith,by calling (603) 569-2151; or by visiting www.wfriendsofmusic.org.

High school students with ID will be admitted free of charge. Middle and elementary school students and their parents or accompanying adults admitted free.

The Bucky Lewis Experience Coming to Rochester

New Hampshire’s own “wicked funny” comedian Bucky Lewis presents an adult comedy night at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, June 2, at 8pm. The zany funny-man sends audiences into hysterics with his one-man cast of dysfunctional characters, outrageously funny stories, music and songs as he mixes physi-cal, stand-up and charac-ter comedy with audience banter and participation.

The New Hampshire Police, Fire and EMS Foundation play host for this benefit for the First Responders of New Hamp-shire.

Tickets are $20 and can be reserved online at www.rochesteroperahouse.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5 and two hours before the show. Beer and wine is available. Age 17 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester.

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The Making of Strawberry Bankeharvey-mitchell memorial Library, 151 main street, epping. 7pm. Presented by author J. dennis robinson. robinson looks candidly at mistakes made and lessons learned in this grassroots success story. 679-6707

Southside Johnny & Brooks Young BandFlying monkey, Plymouth. 536-2551 or www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Songs of Gratitude – Pemigewasset Choral SocietyGilford Community Church. 7:30pm. open to the public with admission by donation. www.pemichoral.org

Tempest Trio Performssant bani school, sanbornton. 7pm. Public welcome. $15. students and children are free. 934-4240

Men’s Grief Discussion Grouphospice house, Concord. 9-10am. drop-in grief discussion groups are designed to help men after a significant loss. 224-4096 ext. 2828

Thurs. 10Th – saT. 12Th Chicago – The Musicaloyster river high school auditorium, durham. 7pm. 868-7156 for tickets and more info.

Jerry Rubushka’s “Full Frontal Nudity”Franklin opera house. .7:30pm. $12-$14. not appropriate for children under the age of 16. 934-1901

Friday 11Th Rusted RootFlying monkey, Plymouth. 536-2551 or www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Dokken with Firehousethe Casino ballroom, 169 ocean blvd., hampton beach. doors open

6pm. show at 8pm. ages 18+. 929-4100

“Made in the USA” – 7th Annual Private Collections’ EventLake opechee inn & Conference Center, Lakeport. 6-10:30pm. dinner catered by o’s steak $ seafood, music and dancing with annie &the orphans. $100 pp or $575 for a table of 6. www.belknapmill.org or 524-8813

Blue: The Music of Joni MitchellCapitol Center for the arts, Concord. 8pm. acoustic performance of Joni mitchell’s exquisitely crafted words and music by top new York and nashville musicians. $33-$39. 225-1111

Learning the Internet Part 1meredith Public Library, 91 main street. 3-4pm. browsers, navigating, simple searching and bookmarks. Free. 279-4303

Huggins Hospital Aid SaleCollection barn Center, route 109a, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. For more info visit the Facebook page huggins hospital street Fair.

Man of La ManchaWinnipesaukee Playhouse. 7:30pm. 366-7377 for tickets and info

Songs of Gratitude – Pemigewasset Choral Societyst. Paul’s roman Catholic Church, Franklin. . 7:30pm. open to the public with admission by donation. www.pemichoral.org

Love is in the Air – Suncook Valley ChoraleFirst Congregational Church, 177 n. main street, Concord. 7pm. $15. 774-3751

Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Village Players theatre, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. $14/adult, $8/children. www.PerformitstageCompany.org

saTurday 12Th Huggins Hospital Aid SaleCollection barn Center, route 109a, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. For more

info visit the Facebook page huggins hospital street Fair.

The Art of Needle FeltingLeague of NH Craftsmen, 279 D.W. Highway, Meredith. Strong!red rivers theatre, Concord. 6pm. this movie chronicles the journey of champion weightlifter, Cheryl hayworth. 224-4600

Annual Plant Salerumney Fire station. 9am-noon. bushes, indoor & outdoor plants.

Rummage Saleholderness Community Church, 923 Us route 3, holderness. 9am-2pm. 968-7643

Spring Fairthe Community school, 1164 bunker hill road, tamworth. 323-7000

Man of La ManchaWinnipesaukee Playhouse. 7:30pm. 366-7377 for tickets and info

2011 Walk MS LaconiaWalk starts and finishes at opechee Park in Laconia. each walker 12 yrs. and above is expected to raise a minimum of $25. tshirts are awarded for at least $100, but historically walkers have averaged about $200 in pledges! [email protected]

Tee it up for Ty – Golf Tournamentomini mount Washington resort, 12 Crawfords ridge road, bretton Woods. this fundraiser will benefit the young son of melissa Jenkins, the beloved st. Johnsbury academy teacher, who was recently lost to a brutal act of violence. Proceeds from the tournament, silent auction and barbeque will be added to the melissa Jenkins memorial trust Fund for young ty, care of the Passumpsic savings bank. actor Luis Guzman will be the master of Ceremonies. 278-GoLF or [email protected]

Komen New Hampshire Race for the Curethe race will start and finish at Portsmouth’s historic strawbery banke museum. 888-550-CUre or Komenvtnh.org

Love is in the Air – Suncook Valley ChoraleFirst Congregational Church, 177 n. main street, Concord. 7pm. $15. 774-3751

8th Annual Choose Franklin Community Dayodell Park, memorial street, downtown Franklin. Live music, laser tag, crafts, vendors, parade and more. 934-3108 ext.420

Victorian Style Doll Tea Partythe Cornel Paul Wentworth house, Water street, rollinsford. 2-4pm. Young guests must be accompanied by an adult. 742-4747

Granite State Symphony OrchestraConcord City auditorium, Concord. 8pm. 226-4776

Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Village Players theatre, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. $14/adult, $8/children. www.PerformitstageCompany.org

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With it being a presiden-tial election year, not many people follow the local po-litical scene too closely.

Here, in New Hamp-shire, as happens every two years, we once again gear up for the campaign season where folks will be running for governor, rep-resentatives, senators and all sorts of offices.

If you have been following this column over the years, you know that, somehow or other, I end up throwing my hat in the ring for Gov-ernor of New Hampshire; this year is no different.

Being governor is a big commitment. It means sac-rificing at least two years of your life towards doing your best, and using all your energy and resources, on a daily basis to try and make New Hampshire a better place to live.

To me it means some-thing different: it’s a guar-anteed job for two years at $100,000 a year, you get great benefits and can’t get fired even if you do a lousy job. It gives you a pretty

comfortable situation for a couple of years until you figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life.

Obviously, I’ve yet to win a term in that big comfy chair on the corner of the state house, but I’m going to try again.

If I do win this year, I make the promise that as governor I will try my best to do nothing. Our pres-ent governor has been on the job for eight years and he’s done a few things…if you give me a couple of hours I might even be able to remember what… but I am committed to doing even less.

My philosophy is that the less government does the better. So, I think, with the platform that I am going to be governor and not try to do much, should actually be a relief. I think vetoing stupid bills would be fun. I’d also be good at going around and giving people awards for stuff; that’s a very important part of be-ing governor and I know I’d be great at it.

There was talk this year of a bill that would bring

the New Hampshire legis-lature back to the old days when they only met once every two years. A lot of legislators didn’t like the idea because they didn’t think it would give them enough time to pass a lot of laws that they thought needed to be passed in order to interfere with peo-ple’s lives more. They also thought it important to spend money that we don’t have on things that nobody besides them knows any-thing about.

I was hoping they’d pass that bill. It would obviously be good for people and businesses since they’d have a whole year that they wouldn’t have to worry about what new restric-tion or tax was going to be bestowed upon them. I was also thinking it would be a pretty cushy year for the governor; $100,000 and you’d hardly even have to show up.

I’ll tell you what, If elect-ed, for the first year, I’ll veto every bill that is a new law or spends money. Maybe they’ll override me, but at least I’ll be giving you the chance to breathe

a little bit, for at least a few months, until the next in-trusion makes its way into your life.

Hey, a guy can only try.So, I’ll be out there again

this year, just another op-tion for you to consider.

I’m going to be upfront about it. I don’t plan to do much as governor, in fact, that is what I am going to base my campaign around. Come to one of my rallies and I’ll tell you about all the things I’m not going to do. You can be guaranteed that while I serve, I will try as hard as I can to make sure that nothing new hap-pens.

So, if you want a bunch of new laws and things to spend money on, you can

Plenty of nothinGvote for the other guys (and gals). If you want a governor that promises to do nothing at all, to keep the status quo and guar-antee that your life, as you know it today, isn’t going to change much, then I’m your man.

And, if you find, two years from now that this is the wrong direction, then I will happily take my $200,000 and ride off into the sunset.

But if you like what I don’t accomplish, you can elect me for another two years and we won’t get any-thing done again.

I’ll leave it up to you.

Brendan Smith wel-comes your comments at [email protected].

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ing over our lives and crushing our liberties at an alarming rate. It ac-tually takes your breath away.

The statists are now hell bent on shutting down small family farms with any means available including using our chil-dren as pawns in their social justice schemes. This is just the latest ex-ample of their unabated mad rush through all our constitutional defenses to create an atmosphere of “fairness.”

Arrogantly done with absolutely no concern for our freedoms. Patroniz-ingly done with a total lack of of common sense and a total lack of insight into the unintended con-sequences. Please check out this link or find it at the Daily Caller. http://news.yahoo.com/rural-kids-parents-angry-la-bor-dept-rule-banning-054605888.html. This is a bipartisan call to arms for all New Hampshire citizens.

If you enjoy purchasing healthy foods from your local farmers’ markets and if you think preserv-ing local family farms for future generations is im-portant, then you might want to scream into the ear of your congressmen and women and demand that they stop this ab-solute and udderly ri-diculous madness and restore some political

sanity for our nation. Russ WilesTilton, NH.

Funding EducationTo The Editor:

Will this be the year the Legislature finally allows NH citizens to vote on how to fund education in our state?

After more than 80 at-tempts to address the Claremont lawsuit rul-ings, the House approved an education funding con-stitutional amendment and the Senate passed a version supported by the Governor. Just a few words separate the two, but they are critical to the upcoming Committee of Conference negotiations.

If lawmakers refuse to compromise, there will be no education funding constitutional amend-ment on the November ballot and the best op-portunity for eliminating the Statewide Education Property Tax (SWEPT) dies, too – possibly for-ever.

F e a r s t h a t p u b l i c schools will lose millions in “State” aid if the SWEPT disappears ignore the re-ality that it always has been a local education tax paid by local taxpayers that remained locally, ex-cept in “Donor Communi-ties.” They also have been allowed to direct SWEPT proceeds toward local ed-ucation since 2005, but this could change under a future Legislature.

Without the SWEPT,

taxpayers would continue to pay that portion of the cost of education but un-der its true label: a local education tax.

The Legislature estab-lished a definition and cost for ensuring every schoolchild has an oppor-tunity for an adequate ed-ucation. A constitutional amendment would let NH join 48 other states that help needy communities, rather than pay the total cost of adequacy for all. This could eliminate the need for a SWEPT in favor of true “State” aid gener-ated by the lottery, etc.

Please urge your law-makers to let NH citi-zens vote on an education funding constitutional amendment in Novem-ber.

Pat RemickCoalition CommunitiesCoordinatorPortsmouth, NH.

Buffet DiversionTo the Editor:

Hopefully the irrelevant Buffett tax discussion is over. The Buffett tax neither solved nor helped solve any major problem. Despite the hype, the Buffett Tax only annually raised about one day’s worth of borrowing, if it raised 10 times more it would still be irrelevant.

The whole Buffett tax “theater” was intended to divert that public’s atten-tion from the lack of any meaningful Obama ad-ministration solutions for our country’s problems:

not for creating private sector jobs, deficit reduc-tion, high energy prices, high food prices, the im-pending Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid funding shortfalls and benefit cut-backs, Iran or North Korea, the rise of radical Islam in the Middle East including their persecution of non-Muslims, our foreign energy dependence, our illegal alien problems, our credit problems, or for desperate families who just want a decent job, etc. Sadly, President Obama’s policies have ag-gravated these problems, not reduced them.

President Obama is great at diverting atten-tion from his lack of so-lutions. So, we will see many more meaningless diversions like the Buffett rule and the algae alter-native for oil being pro-moted by the President and the fawning media. Today we are supposed to think that carrying a dog in a carrier on the roof of your car is terrible, but eating your dog is good.

We thought “Hope and Change” meant change for the better, with a more promising future for each American, but we were wrong. We learned that “change“ can be for the worse, and, because of Obama policies, millions of American families have no hope for a better fu-ture.

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E l i z a b e t h Warren is the Harvard law professor run-ning for Sen-ate in Mas-sachusetts as a Democratic p o p u l i s t -progressive c h a m p i o n . But don’t call

her “Elizabeth Warren.” Call her “Pinocchio-hontas,” “Chief Full-of-Lies,” “Running Joke” or “Sacaja-whin-er.”

Warren has claimed question-able Native American minority status for years to reap career “diversity” benefits. Now, Chero-kee leaders, campaign rival GOP Sen. Scott Brown and an army of Twitter detractors have called her out for gaming the racial-pref-erence system. Live by identity politics, die by identity politics.

The Boston Herald reported last Friday that Harvard admin-istrators “prominently touted Warren’s Native American back-ground ... in an effort to bolster their diversity hiring record in the ‘90s as the school came un-der heavy fire for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male.” When asked for proof of her tribal heritage, Warren’s campaign first denied that she had ever bragged about it. But from 1986 to 1995, Warren listed herself as a minority professor in a professional law school direc-tory.

While the Democrat’s team scrounged for evidence over the weekend, Warren stalled for time by asserting that she didn’t need to provide documentation because family “lore” backed her up. Someone told her a story,

you see, and magically conferred native status upon her. Through narrative, all things are possible! (Notorious “fake Indian” Ward Churchill is wondering why he didn’t think of this alibi first be-fore the University of Colorado at Boulder fired him for academic fraud.)

On Tuesday, Warren finally discovered a great-great-great-grandmother supposedly “certi-fied as Cherokee” and a random cousin somehow involved with a museum that preserves Na-tive American art. There’s also a great-great-grandfather some-where in Warren’s dusty genea-logical records who spent time on a Cherokee reservation. Because walking a mile in someone else’s moccasins is now just as good as being born in them.

Native American officials aren’t buying Warren’s 1/10,000th Cherokee claim. Suzan Shown Harjo, a former executive direc-tor of the National Congress of American Indians, told the Herald: “If you believe you are these things then that’s fine and dandy, but that doesn’t give you the right to claim yourself as Na-tive American.”

When Brown raised the issue, Warren and her progressive strat-egists traded in the candidate’s Native American blanket for a War on Women victim’s mask -- because asking a privileged Har-vard prof to verify her minority claims is sexist, of course.

“If Scott Brown has questions about Elizabeth Warren’s well-known qualifications,” her cam-paign manager railed, “he ought to ask them directly instead of hiding behind the nasty insinua-tions of his campaign and trying to score political points. Once

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WASHINGTON -- My old Ameri-can Heritage Dictionary de-fines the word “theater,” inter alia, as “a large geographic area in which mili-tary operations are coordinat-ed.” Throughout World War II, of-

ficial dispatches and press reports described military action and events in the European, Pacific and China-Burma-India “theaters of war.” We now have a new defi-nition, courtesy of our present commander in chief: a place to remind everyone that Osama bin Laden is still dead.

On the anniversary of bin Lad-en’s demise at the hands of U.S. special operators, the Barack Obama re-election campaign made a “surprise” middle-of-the-night visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. According to White House talking points, the purpose of the trip was twofold: “thank the troops” and sign a “historic” strategic part-

nership agreement with Afghani-stan’s erratic president, Hamid Karzai. It was brilliant political theater in a theater of war.

Since the end of World War II, few military operations have received as much self-congratu-latory acclaim by a commander in chief as the operation to kill the head of al-Qaida. Mention of Osama bin Laden’s death is a con-stant in every Obama campaign appearance and fundraiser. Bin Laden’s being dead is a staple in Democratic Party direct mail and Internet solicitations and men-tioned more often than Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. The topic even creeps into speeches about green energy, health care, the economy and White House meetings with foreign dignitaries.

Republicans complain about the O-Team’s hyping bin Laden’s death. They cite Vice President Joe Biden’s chest-thumping com-ment that “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive” as proof that Obama is “overplay-ing his hand” or “taking too much credit,” even “dancing in the end

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a cynical ProceSSLabor unions,

like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being -- not by what they actually are or what they actu-

ally do.Many peo-

ple, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still think of labor unions as protec-tors of working people from their employers. And union bosses still employ that kind of rhetoric. However, someone once said, “When I speak I put on a mask, but when I act I must take it off.”

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the Obama administration, and what is revealed underneath is very ugly, very cynical and very dangerous.

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Ever since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, workers have been able to express their free choice of joining or not join-ing a labor union in a federally conducted election with a secret ballot.

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U N I T E D N A -TIONS—There’s been a signifi-cant drop in ship seizures and hi jack-ings by Somali pirates in the troubled waters off East Africa. Despite last years spike in

piracy with 28 vessels captured in the first half of 2011, there were only three ships seized in the sec-ond half of the year according to the Commander of the European Union’s anti-piracy task force. So far this year only four merchant ships have been seized by the latter-day buccaneers.

So to what do we owe the good news or perhaps more soberly, the cautious optimism?

In a briefing Rear Admiral Dun-can Potts of Britain’s Royal Navy, stressed “while the activity level is down, the progress that we made is very definitely reversible.”

“After a record year for ransom demands last year, where they got almost $150 million in ransom demands, “ Potts added, “I think it is fair to say at the moment the pirates may be cash rich but they are definitely asset poor; they have very few tradable assets.”

A year ago, Somali pirate gangs held 24 ships and 500 sailors; to-day they are holding seven ships and 200 sailors. He advised that “only three ships have a reasonable market for ransom.”

Part of the setbacks for Somali pirates stem from concerted in-ternational action to counter this seaborne threat. In 2008 the Eu-ropean Union set up a joint naval task force Operation Atalanta to deter and prevent piracy, to safe-guard regional shipping, and to escort vessels carrying humani-tarian aid. Pirates were targeting vulnerable but lucrative World Food Program humanitarian aid shipments en route to Somalia for example.

Operation Atalanta currently de-ploys nine surface ships from six EU countries; France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Most are corvettes and frigates. Yet the area of responsi-bility is huge; from the waters off East Africa and deep into the In-dian Ocean, the zone of operations covered is many times the size of

SoMali PirateS ScUttled by navy coUnterPUnchEurope.

In parallel NATO maintains an equally needed naval contingent off the Horn of Africa. Operation Ocean Shield provides naval es-corts and equally offers deterrence. Under Turkish command, six ships including the U.S. Navy and British navy joined by Denmark and Turkey patrol the still danger-ous waters. Other countries such as South Korea, India and Japan maintain a separate presence in the region as well.

As naval patrols are success-ful, the pirates move deeper and deeper into new areas rich with targets of opportunity. Until re-cently according to Vice Admiral Potts, piracy offered “reward with little risk” and even today pirates “will seek to go where we are not and there are viable targets.”

But who are the Somali pirates in the first place? According to most observers, the pirate culture stems from Somali’s fate as a failed state where endemic poverty, warlords, Islamic militants, and despair have led many fishermen and militia-men to follow what has become a very lucrative business. Today coastal clans run small speed boats and larger mother ships which attack with near impunity usually unarmed merchant vessels and yachts, traditional targets of opportunity.

Ransom payments have fueled an amazing lifestyle for pirate clans in Puntaland along the Somali coast who can live in pockets of unimaginable luxury in a destitute land.

Yet over 1,000 pirates, out of a suspected community of three to five thousand, have been captured and prosecuted in a score of coun-tries. Last year pirates foolishly hijacked a South Korean merchant vessel seeking ransom. South Ko-rean commandos soon stormed the ship, killed eight buccaneers and freed twenty-one crew members.

Rear Admiral Duncan Potts concedes the EU operation is con-ducting a constabulary operations which “restrains what we can do.” He asserts “we can have an impact on the ‘business model’ for piracy but have to change conditions on shore.” Yet, he clearly states, there’s “no intention of to put EU boots on the ground,” in Somalia.

Tragically the long running So-mali crisis has confronted policy makes for twenty-two years and

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hints of stability are sparse. While the international naval operations are protecting vital maritime trade routes, the naval presence treats the symptoms and not the root problem.

Transforming Somalia’s socio/economic and failed state status has eluded the world community

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Remarking upon receiv-ing the award, Heather Tacconi, Board President of Rochester Main Street, stated “This project was

a major undertaking by the Main Street volun-teers and the successful completion was only pos-sible through the generous help and funding of a true community partnership. We are extremely grateful to all those who partici-pated in this project which will help to preserve this public treasure for genera-tions to come and happily share this recognition with all of them. We especially wish to thank the City of Rochester and Rochester Public works for allow us to undertake this effort and partnering in this project.”

Plans are underway to celebrate the completion of a new look for Central Square at a special event entitled Celebrate Cen-tral Square, scheduled for Tuesday, May 29, from 5-7pm at the square in the heart of downtown Rochester. The public is invited to attend and in case of inclement weather the festivities will be held on Wednesday, May 30.

diversions, flood the air-ways with excuses, make unfulfillable promises, and lash out at his oppo-nent with irrelevant and frequently false charges. He will remind us that “He” got Bin Laden (good for him!), but it would be much more helpful if his policies created, rather than discouraged, decent economic growth.

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years ago. But, outside of Washington, DC, few other Americans are.

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W h e n w e r e a c h e d Stinson Lake, we fol-lowed Doetown Road and thankfully there are a few homemade signs pointing out directions to the trailhead. We parked and put on our hiking shoes, shouldered our packs and headed up the

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From “Place Names of the White Mountains” by Robert and Mary Julyan: “In April of 1752, a hunting party consisting of David Stinson of Londonderry, Amos Eastman and John Stark were attacked by Indians. According to tradition, Stinson and Eastman were killed and scalped on the shore of this lake near Rumney, while Stark was captured and taken to Canada. He later was ransomed and went on to be a hero in the Revolutionary War. The name Stinson Mountain first appears on Philip Carrigain’s 1816 map.”

only saw two well worn yellow blazes. When the trail split apart, there is a sign pointing the way to the right. The trail narrows and for the last three quarters of a mile to the summit the hiking feels like big mountain trekking. The trail becomes steeper and switches back and forth. The footing isn’t as easy over the now rocky

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and ledgy trail and some ice made it slippery.

Just below the summit, the snowmobile trail re-appears and I realize the snowmobile trail must be the former fire tower road. Only the footings of the fire tower are all that are left and grown trees block much of the view. A little chainsaw work would do wonders here and, if the trees grow any taller and thicker, poor Stinson Mountain might be removed from the “52 with a view” list. Just the same we enjoyed the splendid views south and we peeked through the trees to see the mar-velous views north and east.

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There were a few other cars in the parking lot and we must have missed meeting these hikers when we descended the snowmobile trail.

Stinson Lake is beau-tiful and its shore is surrounded by season-al homes. Stinson Lake Road is all downhill to village of Rumney. On this road is a historical home where Mary Bak-er Eddy lived (1860-62) while she was married to Mr. Patterson the local dentist.

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“Rochester Gardens - The First Hundred Years”

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Much of rural New Hampshire in the late 19th century was locked in a downward spiral of population decline, abandonment of farms, cleared lands returning to forest and shrinking villages. These declines contributed to widespread feelings of melancholy and loss among the rural residents. The rural communities’ hunger for a new vehicle that would draw communities together for social interaction, entertain-ment and mutual support helped foster the development of the Grange movement in the state in the 1880s and 1890s.

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sample of Craig Bannis-ter’s work: “If all unem-ployed Democrats simply stopped looking for work, they could get Obama’s unemployment rate down to 4.3% by Election Day. Here’s how. They say that no president since FDR has ever won re-election with an unemployment rate over 7.2%, and the April unemployment rate ticked down by 0.1% to 8.1% - with the help of those unemployed people who threw in the towel and gave up looking for work.

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cooperation we received from Attorney General Kelly Ayotte and Assis-tant AG Bud Fitch.

Newspaper clippings, ads and letters to the edi-tor were pulled from the “junk.” The opposition must have spent a bunch of money. We spent $200 on one sizable ad. The opposition was a group – we still are not sure who they were, and who was funding their ads, etc. This from one of their expensive ads – this was definitely a David vs. Goliath - and only one person signed off on the ads, because someone has to. In this case it was “Laconians for Sensible Government – Jay Do-herty, Fiscal Agent.”

First, the attack was on Franklin for their tax cap. Then this: “A tax cap limits spending re-gardless of a communi-ty’s need.” Now that just wasn’t true. We have built a new Middle School as

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happen, where it is need-ed, and not turn our lives over to the politicians and bureaucrats, or would be dictators. As for telling me; the Tax Cap is here to stay. And any council that does not abide by the peoples’ rule, do so at their peril. Too bad we don’t have one for Obama – another politician who doesn’t understand, what Gov. Mel Thomson said. “Low taxes are the result of low spending.”

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Now that the Obama administration has ap-pointed a majority of the members of the National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB leadership has im-posed new requirements that employers supply union organizers with the names and home address-es of every employee. Nor do employees have a right to decline to have this per-sonal information given

out to union organizers, under NLRB rules.

In other words, union organizers will now have the legal right to pressure, harass or intimidate work-ers on the job or in their own homes, in order to get them to sign up with the union. Among the con-sequences of not signing up is union reprisal on the job if the union wins the election. But physical threats and actions are by no means off the table, as many people who get in the way of unions have learned.

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In the past, unions had to make the case to work-ers that it was in their best interests to join. Meanwhile, employers would make their case to the same workers that it was in their best interest to vote against joining.

When the unions began losing those elections, they decided to change the rules. And after Ba-rack Obama was elected President of the United States, with large finan-cial support from labor unions, the rules were in fact changed by Obama’s

NLRB.As if to make the out-

come of workers’ “choices” more of a foregone con-clusion, the time period between the announce-ment of an election and the election itself has been shortened by the NLRB.

In other words, the union can spend months, or whatever amount of time it takes, for them to prepare and imple-ment an organizing cam-paign beforehand -- and then suddenly announce a deadline date for the decision on having or not having a union. The union organizers can launch their full-court press be-fore the employers have time to organize a compa-rable counter-argument or the workers have time to weigh their decision, while being pressured.

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fore of course, but never like this. Jim not only mashed my toes, he some-how managed to scrape his entire foot over mine, as if he were wiping some-thing bad off his sole…like he forgot what was under-foot was attached to me!

A steamroller cruising over my foot couldn’t have hurt worse. But did I do the intelligent thing and hang up my dance shoes for the night? Of course not. Instead, I waited until the throbbing subsided, and with lower lip planted firmly in teeth, I limped right back out there on the dance floor. Let’s hear it for stupidity.

The next morning when I woke up it felt as if an el-ephant was sitting on my foot. It was my Chihua-hua. My toes throbbed so bad I had to wear sandals instead of sneakers. Now I know why old ladies wear toe armor for the feet oth-erwise known as orthope-dic shoes…because they live with old men.

I f sincere apologies could have made my foot better, it would have been cured thirty seconds af-ter Jim first mangled it. Captain Crunch obviously

People are beginning to notice the limp. So far, nobody’s asked me what’s wrong. At my age they probably assume it’s the gout. Every time it starts to get better something happens all over again. That “something” is Jim.

Some of you may re-member that last year we took Ballroom Dancing 101 and many of the stu-dents in our class have moved on to perfecting such skills as actually ex-ecuting the tango without fear of bodily harm. I am happy for them. Really.

Then there’s us. Once a week we go danc-

ing. And every single time Jim steps on the dance floor he forgets that he ever took a lesson. I mar-ried a very intelligent man so I’m guessing it’s psy-chological. I can practi-cally hear Jim’s alter ego – the guy dressed in red wearing pointy little devil horns – leaning into Jim’s ear and whispering “if you pretend you don’t know what you’re doing one of these days she’s just gonna give up.”

Fat chance. Instead, I came up with

this idea to count out the beats to Jim and guide him with my hands un-til his memory kicks in and transmits to his feet. Sometimes this works. Mostly, it doesn’t. Some-times I get my signals mixed up and before you know it right in the middle of a rhumba we’re doing a jive – but stuff like that happens only if someone is looking at us.

Last week, in a futile attempt to help Jim get in touch with his inner choreographer, I was busy counting out the beat. That’s when Jim stepped on me. Jim’s done this be-

felt terrible about it…as in bouquet of flowers and bag full of pistachio nuts terrible. (Pistachios have potent healing power, but only because they’re good and I like them.)

Like I said, it took three days for the limp to go away. It showed up again when I was walking across the kitchen floor and Jim decided to back up out of the pantry. My foot hap-pened to be in the way.

“Not AGAIN!” I shouted. “Why did you do that?” hopping on my left foot.

“I didn’t see you there! Do you see eyes grow-ing out of the back of my head?” Jim retaliated.

“Did you have to back out just THEN?”

“I’m sorry I don’t come with backup beeps,” as if that little piece of informa-tion was going to make me feel better. I limped for another three days. Yesterday it started to get better…until Jim ran over my toe.

We run around our com-munity in a golf cart. In fact, we go almost every-where in our golf cart, even grocery shopping. Every night we plug in the cart to recharge it.

Yesterday Jim leaned over to unplug the cart. When he did, his foot hit the pedal and the cart rolled forward. My foot just hap-pened to be in the way. The good news is that I jumped out of the way fast enough. The bad news is that Jim wasn’t finished with me yet.

We got to the grocery store without further in-cident and I forgot about it which was not a good thing because that’s when I let my guard down. I was talking to Jim and showing him a product I just bought when without warning, he pushed the cart forward. By this time it’ll come as absolutely no surprise when I tell you that my toe was in the

JUSt call Me “GiMPy”way. Jim ran over it. The cart was full. It was all I could do not to bop him off the head with a roll of paper towels.

This time the clerk no-ticed my limp. She asked about it too. Jim told her it was my fault because I used my toe as a wheel stop.

I spent yesterday with my foot wrapped in a cold pack and Jim just can’t seem to do enough for me. Just between you and me, it doesn’t hurt that bad anymore, but this time I’m going for a lot more payback than nuts and flowers. I haven’t decided what yet, but I do know it’s not going to be more dance lessons. My feet just can’t take it.

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Dear Looking for Spice,The whole look of the

house begins at the land-scape so your interest makes sense. As you ap-proach the home from the road, you can create a sense of welcome, of excitement, even curiosity with your choices in the yard. Maybe you want to come home to a special pleasant greeting that as-sists you to leave your cares behind and enjoy your home life.

Your tired border garden may be overcrowded. A perennial flower will mul-tiply into an ever-widen-ing bunch, covering more ground. This creates a lovely area of focus for that flower. Perennials are very generous, giving years of enjoyment, but they do like to be divided in order to thrive. Perhaps it is a lesson from nature that we might learn, to share our bounty as we go.

As the perennial spreads, it may become weak at the center with smaller flow-ers and even bald ground. If that has happened, your

root center has become overtaxed and would profit from a dig-up. Different varieties vary, but digging and dividing can be done every 3 to 10 years for var-ious varieties. If your gar-den has been neglected, it is likely time to dig.

Digging – I love a warm but overcast day to get on my knees and root around in the garden. You do this before the leaves are fully up, yet even blooming plants can be dug up if you want. It is easier and more opportune to get into the digging and replanting early in the season.

You do this gently, relat-ing to the plants and their roots like handling a baby. You notice the weighty bottoms and feel for the center of gravity and bal-ance from there. You don’t go roughly, but carefully pry and see what moves and what needs attention. You notice the crowded bulbs and can see they have no access to nutri-tious soil because they are so close.

Now, like separating chil-dren to their own chairs at the table, you give each cluster some room.

Pulling the roots apart may be easy, but if they begin to tear, you will want to use a knife. You slice vertically, so that long roots remain with the bulbs as you separate little clusters for their own new home.

The soil you move to ought to be similar, but can be improved with nu-trients, peat, and compost. You can look up your flow-ers and their needs, and also test your soil to see if it needs adjusting with something like wood ash. Your flowers will thank you for years in their new beds with pleasant com-fort for their toes.

So, notice the obvious opportunity with your di-viding process – giving! You will have much more than you need in your own garden. What can you do? Yes, think of the places you have been that could use the color and

freshness of these pretty garden sentinels.

Give a call and see who may want some daylil-ies or wisteria. Also, you likely have too much soil mix too, so bring some of that over and now you have a fun ending to your gardening day.

The freshness of this re-start has lessons for our souls, showing us that dividing our bless-ings and sharing is good for all involved. It shows us that deep digging and turning over our attitudes is healthy and gives us a fresh start no matter how mature we think we are.

What else? Looking around at the paths and visuals of your yard can be fun to compose into an outdoor collage. Maybe you have a boring side of the house with just a dull border along the bottom edge. Yes, that is a good spot for a new focal point. A nice ornamental tree, an interesting shrub, or a piece of art can turn that boring wall into a perfect backdrop for a treasure.

I love paths too. A plain house can be perked up by a gently twisting path of pretty pavers and a row of flowers or low bushes. The bushes can be pretty evergreens or maybe prac-tical blueberries that offer their fruits as you walk up to the door.

Your vision may develop as you tend to the plants already in place and take inspiration as you work in their roots. Digging is so good for the spirit and helps us to dive into the meaning of the task. Inside you will find sat-isfaction that may not be put into words, but will base your perspective of the whole terrain. Give it a chance to settle and you may well see a spark down the road that ignites your vision to a new passion. Happy Home Team!

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We all carry around a purse or wallet with the things that seem essential to life. What would we do without our driver’s license, a debit or credit card, some cash, a comb, lipstick, some tissues, a tape measure….?

I look at some of the purses women carry and wonder what they are carrying – a full change of clothes? Books?

I look in my own purse and there are things I re-ally do not need – like the tape measure – but carry “just in case”. How often do I need wet-wipes or band-aids? Could I get away without a handful of pennies weighing me down? And when did I ever need that tape mea-sure?

My father used to say that our checkbook is the way to find out what is really important to us. Each check represents something that we needed or supported. For ex-ample – we pay for our housing, heat and food. But what are the extras – eating out? Vacations? Books? Music? Chari-ties? Gambling? When we look at the bank state-ments, we can see where

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I also think that what we carry in our purses and pockets may also repre-sent what is important and what we fear.

My mother always has a handful of tissues – just in case. I always have cough drops – and only discard them when they start to melt and make a mess. I have seen people with re-ceipts and notes shoved to the bottom and forgotten. Each piece of paper rep-resents something impor-tant at the time, but now, not so much. We don’t want to discard those bits and pieces because we are afraid that sometime we might need them.

All the stuff we carry weighs us down, creates bad posture, and much of it is unnecessary.

Spiritually, we also car-ry around a lot of baggage that weighs us down.

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We see ourselves as the center of everything, which puts a great re-sponsibility on us, be-cause if we are the center, then we should be able to control, like a spider in its web. But we can’t control or fix everything. We then become helpless.

I would suggest that this week, you look at two things.

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There will be some ex-ternal causes for unhap-piness – a rotten boss, a lack of income, health issues, grief.

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Mother’s Day Weekend Craft Festivalhampton Falls town Common. 10-5pm. over 75 Juried Craftsmen and women from all over new england will display and sell their american made works. 332-2616 or www.castleberryfairs.com

Spring into Healthy Living FairConcord Food Co-op, 24 south main street, Concord. 10am-2pm. 225-6840

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Man of La ManchaWinnipesaukee Playhouse. 2pm. 366-7377 for tickets and info

Mothers Day at Squam Lakes Science Centerholderness. mothers receive free admission to the Gephart exhibit trail with another paid admission. www.nhnature.org or call 968-7194

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Pemigewasset Choral Societyhanaway theatre in silver Center for the arts at Plymouth state University. 3pm.$10. 535-arts

Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Village Players theatre, Wolfeboro. 2pm. $14/adult, $8/children. www.PerformitstageCompany.org

Monday 14Th “When Disaster Strikes” – Exhibit OpeningLaconia Public Library. 6:30pm. Visitors will become aware of the disasters that ripped through Laconia and learn to appreciate the Laconians who persevered through them and recognize how today’s Laconia was shaped by them. exhibit on display through august. 527-1278

Wed. 16Th – sun. 20Th Days of Peace and HarmonyCanterbury shaker Village, 288 shaker road, Canterbury. the drepung Gomang monks will visit the Village in the days leading up to the season’s

opening day on sun., may 20th when tours will begin and buildings will open. Witness the creation of a sacred sand mandala, participate in traditional buddhist stone painting and see the monks’ costumed snow Lion dance. Learn about the parallels between shaker and buddhist traditions and the monks’ concepts of community, compassion and the monastic life. www.eventbrite.com or 783-9077 x 230

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A Few Good Menrochester opera house, 31 Wakefield street, rochester. $12. call 335-1992 for tickets and times.

Wednesday 16Th 2nd Annual Walk for Homeless Veterans Please contact Lisa Jacobs at 624-4366 ext. 3622 for more info on how you can help

Thursday 17Th Spaghetti Dinnertilt’n diner, tilton. 934-2118

“The Mask of Zorro” – Silent Film Seriesthe Flying monkey, Plymouth. 6:30pm. score performed by Jeff rapsis. $10 per person. 536-2551. www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Friday 18Th Tom Fairchild Friend of 4H Golf TournamentCandia Woods Golf Club. www.tournevents.con/nhh

High Range Band & Reel TuckermansFranklin opera house. 7:30pm. 934-1901Dairy and Cheese Making Workshopthe remick museum, 58 Cleveland hill road, tamworth. 5-7:30pm. reservations required. $30 per person. 323-7591

Fri. 18Th – sun. 20Th Streetcar Company 40th Anniversary ShowLaconia high school. Fri. and sat. 7pm and sun. at 2pm. www.streetcarcompany.com or 527-0752

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Spring Farm Daynh Farm museum, route 125, milton. 10-4. sheep shearing, planting and plowing activities, herb garden tours, learn to make butter and rhubarb tonic, take a farmhouse tour and dance around the maypole! 652-7840

Annual May Yard/Bake Salebristol baptist Church, 30 summer street, bristol. 8am-2pm. 744-2875

Huggins Hospital Aid SaleCollection barn Center, route 109a, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. For more info visit the Facebook page huggins hospital street Fair.

2nd Annual Nathaniel Bibaud SCI 5K Race/Walkinter Lakes high school, meredith. 10am. race finishes at hesky park, meredith. nathaniel is a 28 year old newton, nh resident who was paralyzed from the chest down after a terrible motor vehicle accident in december of 2010. all proceeds from the road race will go to assist nathan in mobility accessible equipment, physical therapy and medical costs. entry fee is $25 online or $30 day of race. there will also be a post race bbQ. register at active.com or Coolrunning.com. 707-0001

Variety Basket Weaving with Ray LagasseLeague of nh Craftsmen, 279 d.W. highway, meredith. 9am-5pm. $95 per student includes materials. bring a lunch. Pre-registration required. 279-7970

Pancake “Send a Child to Camp” Fundraiser BreakfastFirst baptist Church of sanbornton. 8am-11am. $8 adult and $5 children.

Ken Fernald’s Memorial Gospel ConcertFranklin opera house. 7pm. 934-1901

Ham & Bean Supper & ConcertCampton historical society, 525 route 175, Campton. 6pm. $6 per person. 536-3982

Northeastern Ballet Theatre’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”oyster river highschool, durham. 2pm and 7pm. $23/adults, $20/seniors and students. www.northeassternballet.org or 834-8834

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sunday 20Th Antique Bottle Collectiondanbury north road schoolhouse museum, 440 north road, danbury. 1-3pm. Featuring glass expert michael George& many unique bottle collections

Monday 21sT The Shaker LegacyUnited Church of Christ, 295 atlantic ave., north hampton. 7pm. darryl thompson gives the presentation on the more than two and a quarter century year old religion commonly known as shakers. 964-8841

Introduction to GravestonesLaconia Public Library. 7pm. Presented by Laurel K. Gabel. Free and open to the public but donations are greatly appreciated. 527-1278

Lakes Region Art Association MeetingWoodside building Conference Center at the taylor Community, Laconia. 7pm. 293-2702

Tuesday 22nd Hindu WorldviewWentworth-douglass hospital, 789 Central ave., dover. 12pm. Presented by nYU’s donald J. Johnson. 740-2824

Native American History of New Hampshiremeredith Public Library, 91 main street, meredith. 6:30pm. Presented by david stewart-smith. 279-4303

Susannah Johnson: An English Captive among the Abenaki and FrenchGilmanton old town hall, 1800 rt. 140 Gilmanton iron Works. 7:30pm. Presented by marcia schmidt blaine of PsU. 267-6098

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gravesite. It is an ambi-tious and much needed project that can hopefully be accomplished by 2014 and will cost in the neigh-borhood of $160,000. All to be raised through pri-vate donations, grants and other avenues.

Friends of Stark Park was formed in 2004 after the City of Manchester, in an effort to cut down on illegal activity within the park, placed large boulders at the entrances to the roads. It worked

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(Left) The Stark cemetery in 1931. Notice the urn on top of the memorial monument in middle. (Right) The cemetery today. Somewhere between 1976 and 1992 someone stole the urn. Though no grave sites will be disturbed during the renovation, a replica of the urn will be made and placed back on the monument.

at keeping out many but it also angered the local residents. It was then that The Friends of Stark Park was formed and they began to focus on bring-ing back the glory of this 30-sprawling acre gem, and save it from deterio-ration.

In 2007 they became a 501(C) 3 non-profit. In 2009, one of their first ef-forts to bring back people to the park again was to build a bandstand, all with private funds. They now host many free out-door concerts in the sum-mer bringing in hundreds of people.

Among one of the origi-nal projects was to restore the magnificent John Stark equestrian statue, which is the centerpiece of the park. Built in 1947, after Governor Charles H. Bartlett had gifted the city funds to erect the statue, it had not seen a cleaning in that span up to 2010

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This magnificent equestrian statue of General John Stark, which was restored in 2010, sits in the center of Stark Park.

CoUrtesY Photo /brendan smith Photo


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when its restoration and repair became the second project of the group. It was then they also un-veiled a plaque honoring General Stark. The funds for that project were from a trust, the State and much fundraising,

Now, possibly their most ambitious project, the gravesite restoration, will be a key piece in making Stark Park, once again, a valuable New Hampshire destination.

“It’s amazing how many people in Manchester and elsewhere, don’t even know who Stark Park is named after,” said Richard Duckoff, of The Friends of Stark Park.

The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the Ameri-can Revolutionary War that took place on August 16, 1777, in Walloom-sac, New York, about 10 miles from its namesake Bennington, Vermont. A rebel force of 2,000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Mas-sachusetts militiamen was led by General John Stark. They succeeded

stark from 24 in stopping the British from capturing Albany and gaining control of the Hudson River Valley, di-viding the American colo-nies in half. This was part of a grand plan to sepa-rate the rebellious New England colonies from what they believed to be the more loyal southern colonies. It was a decisive and major victory of the American Revolution.

On July 31, 1809, John Stark, in poor health de-clined an invitation to recognize the anniversary of the battle. Instead, he sent a toast to be read at the event. “Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils.”

“Live Free or Die” be-came the state motto in 1945 and later replaced “Scenic” on the license plates in 1971.

Stark also owned a tre-mendous amount of land in Manchester and he died in Derryfield in 1822 at the age of 94. He was buried in the family cem-etery, which is part of Stark Park and his rest-ing place is marked by a

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The corner columns are also in much need of repair,brendan smith Photo


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stone obelisk. Other fam-ily members have stone markers and a larger me-morial sits in the middle of the gravesite listing all that are buried there.

In 1890, his great-great grandchildren, Augustus and Lizzy, gave the cem-etery to the city and a few years later the rest of the park. The park was dedi-cated in 1893.

Over the years, curi-ous seekers would come to General Stark’s grave site and would chip away pieces from his headstone for souvenirs.

In 1911, the city of Man-chester put a hand forged, cast iron fence, with a locking gate, around the gravesite to keep out the souvenir hunters.

Somewhere between 1976 and 1992 an urn sculpture, which had been in place on top of

considerable deteriora-tion over the years due to weather and water dam-age. Many points along the periphery are collaps-ing. The corner post of the fencing is also cracking and deteriorating and needs to be restored.

The fence and curb-ing are not particularly ornate, but they are con-sidered of architectural and historic significance and it was agreed upon by consultants from the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources and the Manchester Parks and Recreation Department that the overall design should not be altered.

None of the gravesites will be altered or dis-

the memorial stone since it was created, was sto-len. It was not an easy task considering its weigh and dealing with the cast iron fence It had to have taken two or three men. It is even more amazing to consider that no record of when the theft actually took place exists and it can’t be pinpointed.

Now, one hundred and one years later, the natu-ral deterioration of the enclosure and its support structure needs to be up-graded, hence the latest project of the Friends of Stark Park.

The project calls for the cast iron fence to be re-moved in sections, taken off and straightened – be-sides the wear of time it recently had a tree fall on it as well. Patterns will be made for missing pieces and replicated. It would also be stripped,

galvanized, repainted and reinstalled.

“We estimate that would take about eight weeks,” s a i d Robe r t Chase , Friends of Stark Park Treasurer.

The cement curbing that the fence is attached to has also undergone

turbed but the missing urn will replicated and finally replaced.

New plantings, an apron in front of the gravesite for ceremonial purposes and a change in the roadway pattern to allow improved wheelchair and pedes-trian access, will also be part of the project. They would also like to clear out a lot of the growth be-hind the gravesite, which includes some huge pine trees.

“To date we’ve raised about $25,000 in individ-ual donations towards the project,” said Chase.

The Friends of Stark Park, now 200 strong in membership, are actively fundraising for the addi-tional $135,000 needed to finish the job.

They have applied for some grants and are hop-ing to get some funds from the state through programs like the Moose Plate Fund, which is sup-posed to be earmarked towards conservation and cultural heritage pro-grams including preserva-tion of historical sites.

The John Stark burial place would seem likely on the top of such a list when you think of New Hampshire history.

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most of the funds will eventually come from private donations,” said Duckoff.

The group is hoping to accomplish their mon-etary goals within the year, have the restoration begin in 2013 and be fully completed by 2014.

Once the restoration is completed, the work of the Friends of Stark Park will be far from over.

“We want to keep things going,” said Duckoff. “We want to make sure that this park and the memory of John Stark is here a hundred years from now and beyond.”

As far as the history of New Hampshire goes, there may not be many projects that are more important.

If you’d like to contrib-ute to this project, and no contribution is too large or too small, you can make a tax-deductible donation to: Friends Of Stark Park, PO Box 1485,

Manchester, NH. 03105. You are also encouraged to visit their website at www.friendsofstarkpark.org to find out all about the great and important work this group is doing.

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The Presidential Ac-tive Lifestyle Award, an online challenge that requires 60 minutes of physical activity a day for children or 30 minutes a day for adults, five days a week for six out of eight weeks.

Sebelius: “Children can now use popular video games like “Dance Dance Revolution,” “Wii Fit Plus,” and “Just Dance 3” to

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********* Sir Winston Churchill:

“We contend that for a na-tion to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

Are you listening Ba-rack?

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north from 6zone.” But wait. Every pol-itician running for re-elec-tion touts his or her “ac-complishments,” deserved or not. And face it; killing bin Laden is one of the few real accomplishments of this administration. Any-one who didn’t see this “we killed bin Laden celebra-tion” coming knows less about American politics than my Boykin spaniel

Angst over the O-Team’s use of bin Laden’s death in the president’s re-election campaign is a distrac-tion. Critics -- including Mitt Romney’s advisers -- should focus on issues

that really are important to protecting the Ameri-can people. Some recent examples:

There are Republicans running around Washing-ton trying to calculate how much this week’s cam-paign junket to Kabul cost the American taxpayers. But this isn’t just another General Services Admin-istration swindle. Those who want us to hire a new commander in chief need to explain what’s in -- and not in -- the so-called En-during Strategic Partner-ship Agreement Obama and Karzai signed in the few minutes they spent to-

gether Tuesday morning. The document has glowing words about “shared de-termination” and “mutual commitments” but is silent on our financial burden. It contains nothing about how many American mili-tary personnel will remain in Afghanistan after our “combat forces” are with-drawn in 2014 and fails to describe their mission or capabilities. Unlike a status of forces agreement, it provides no legal protec-tions for U.S. troops. In short, it’s fluff. The Rom-ney team needs to tell us how it would do better.

The substance of what

actually transpired in Ka-bul wasn’t the only missed opportunity for the GOP to hone in on the Obama administration’s destitute national security record. On Monday, John Bren-nan, assistant to the presi-dent for homeland security and counterterrorism, told a Washington audience that “targeted strikes” from remotely piloted aircraft (the media incorrectly refer to them as drones) are the most “effective,” “legal,” “proportional,” “ethical” and even “humane” way of protecting us from ter-rorists. Instead of a GOP response, it took Jose Ro-

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Obama doesn’t talk about our abysmal lack of human intelligence in this long war. He called waterboarding and sleep deprivation for captured terrorists “torture” and banned those enhanced interrogation techniques.

Our appalling HUMINT deficit was evident shortly after Air Force One took off from Bagram Air Field ear-ly Tuesday morning, when suicide bombers struck “Green Village,” a secure compound outside Ka-bul. Press accounts incor-rectly ascribed the attack -- which killed seven and wounded dozens, includ-ing schoolchildren -- to the Taliban. A credible source says that the assault was conducted by the Haqqani network and that NATO officials were alerted more than six hours before the strike about the arrival of the suicide team in Kabul. The intel provided includ-ed information on how to precisely locate the terror-ists. When I asked why the attack wasn’t prevented, I was told: “It was HUMINT. Nobody pays attention to HUMINT.”

Strategists in the “Rom-ney for president” cam-paign need to identify problems such as these and explain how Romney would fix them -- fast. Bin Laden is still dead. But the war being waged against us isn’t. If Republicans fail to focus on doing bet-ter, the O-Team will turn the “theater of war” in Af-ghanistan into a “theater of the absurd.”

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PLYMOUTH - Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools will embark on a stripped down journey through Johnny Lyon’s eclectic version of the Great American Songbook at The Flying Monkey Performance Center on Thursday, May 10th at 7:30pm. Playing a wide range of music pulled from Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones and more, The Poor Fools will also dive into some of the legendary Asbury Jukes material--revisiting the classics as well as the under-performed deep tracks. Reserved tickets are $29, and $39 for pre-mier seating and can be purchased at www.flyingmonkeynh.com or at 603-536-2551.

For more than 35 years, South-side Johnny, aka John Lyon, has delivered a soul-searing brand of raucous blues and R&B that has made he and his Juke’s a semi-nal force as All-American rock n’ roll song-slingers. Now, the af-fable New Jersey rock icon is set-ting his sights on a long-desired project that will deliver to music fans some of the singer’s most cherished and under-recognized

is also quick to point out the ebullient singer will be sharing frontman duties as well – “getting everyone out of their comfort zone” - rotating singing, instrumenta-tion, and percussion roles among fellow-Fools, and even strapping on a guitar himself, for the first time in decades. “I lost the feeling in my fingers many years ago,” he says. “But I promised myself one day I was going to accept the challenge of playing guitar on stage in a live setting and that time is here,” he adds, laughing: “With this great, great group of musicians ready to cover up my mistakes.”

Southside Johnny says “The Poor Fools tour is a chance for me to try out different material and some Jukes standards in an acoustic-ish form. It will be a loose mix of songs, stories and banter between the musicians and-- hopefully-- the audience.”

Tickets for the Southside Johnny concert are on sale now for $29, and $39 for Premier seats. For tickets and more information on concerts and the Flying Monkey Performance Center, visit www.flyingmonkeynh.com or call 603-536-2551.

SoUthSide Johnny brinGS aSbUry Park rock and r&b claSSicS to the flyinG Monkey StaGe

song nuggets; Original gems as well as what Johnny calls ‘those seldom-played and maybe even forgotten rock ‘covers,’ in an inti-mate, acoustically-mined live stage throwdown billed as Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools.

Backed by Juke’s musicians

John Conte/bass, Tommy Byrnes/guitar, longtime Juke’s collabora-tor Jeff Kazee/organ and percus-sion, and premier Springsteen vio-linist/fiddle player Soozie Tyrell, The Poor Fools’ project looms as a stripped down ‘up-close-and-personal musical joyfest. Johnny

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools will be performing at the Flying Monkey in Plymouth on Thursday, May 10th. Frontman John Lyon will take the stage with Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Tommy Byrnes and Soozie Tyrell.

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