06/01/2023 Weirs Times

Outboard Racing Series This Weekend

In partnership with New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM), South Shore Outboard Association (SSOA) will host the Granite State Title Series in 2023, beginning in Milton, NH on June 3 - 4.

“This is hydroplane racing at its best, said SSOA Events Coordinator Steve Noury.

At this first event in the Granite State Title Series, drivers will be divided into ten different classes determined by engine horsepower and boat size. Races will be held in a two-heat format with each heat consisting of three laps around the course.

Drivers are scored based on their finishing position in each heat. The driver who scores the most total points for the two heats will be declared the winner.

With the boating season in full swing , A Guide’s Life columnist Tim Moore emphasizes the need for boating etiquette not just on the water, but in getting on the water. As Moore says “You would be hard pressed to find a boat ramp with no staging area. When in doubt, read the signage.”

Some Boating etiquette

by Tim Moore Contributing Writer

With boat ramp activity picking up, I thought it might help to update this piece for those who may need it. Etiquette is defined as: The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group. Like

driving a car, one operator can cause huge delays and backups, especially at times when traffic is highest. Etiquette is not appreciated more than at a boat ramp, as it shows that one boater cares for the timeliness in which other boaters can get on the water and often brings about a sense of com -

munity among folks who barely know each other. Here are some tips for good boat ramp etiquette.

Use Staging Areas

Almost every boat ramp I have ever been to has a designated (with signage) or an implied staging area. This is an area that was designed for boaters to

stage their boats prior to backing down the ramp. The staging area is an out of the way place where you can take your time rigging your tie-off lines and fenders, get life jackets out of storage compartments, and transferring items such as fishing gear, coolers, and whatnot from

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Awards will be presented to the top three finishers. All drivers receive National points for their finishes. With these points, drivers are ranked nationally by the American Power Boat Association with a National Hi Point Champion declared at the end of the racing season.

The first event in the Granite State Title Series takes place at Milton Town Beach, Noon to 4pm, on June 3 - 4.

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To The Editor: Doesn’t anybody learn math anymore? The transgender problem in sports can be solved fairly by using simple math. It used to be when I was growing up (I’m 64 years old) humankind was binary (0 or 1, man or woman).

Now, in our “enlightened age”, we should acknowledge that humankind has evolved to be 22 = 4 possible outcomes: 00 = men, 01 = women, 10 = men who become women and 11 = women who become men.

So the solution for fairness in sports is to have four categories for sports. After all, we don’t have horses race greyhounds, do we?

Scott D. Theg

New Boston, NH.

School Funding

To The Editor:

Last week, I attended a presentation from the NH School Funding Fairness Project at the Goffstown School Board meeting. I felt like the presentation was very straight forward, and the numbers are clear that New Hampshire does not provide enough state funding to meet the State’s constitutional responsibility to fund education. When the State pays an average of $4,700 per student in adequacy funding, and the actual cost of education averages closer to $20,000 per student, that’s not adequate.

I think the school board felt the same way. They were nodding in agreement, because they see this every single year when they put their budgets together.

What was really disconcerting is despite the very clear presentation, when given the opportunity to ask questions, it seemed like none of the State Representatives in attendance would even consider exploring the issue further.

None of them said they would support increasing school building aid when they heard Goffstown was using some temporary buildings for classrooms.

None of them would consider slowing down the repeal of the Interest and Dividends tax to prevent even more of the school funding burden from landing on property tax bills.

I hope the courts make it clear in their rulings on the two ongoing school funding lawsuits that the legislature must stop dragging its feet and must start coming up with a school funding solution that complies with the NH constitution.

Rina Petit Litchfield, NH.

Hold Legislators Accountable

To The Editor: As Americans we picture representative government through the lens of controlled history, unable to call for a replay to see through the decep-

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was reestablished in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

Locally owned for 30 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people

tion that rewriters of history have caused. Below the surface of misinformation about the history of our American Republic, the narrative of eternal truth is triggered by Cal Thomas’s definition of politics: “Poly means many , and a tic is a bloodsucking insect” that portrays boughten politicians who threaten the death of our nation. Words that scream loudly at the apathetic and those who blindly trust, that the war for our liberty is not a spectator sport. The future of your children tomorrow depends on what you do today.

As citizens, the knowledge of this document that our politicians swear loyalty to should be our first priority. For it must be weaponized by “we the people” to control the corrupted ways of officeholders today to set a standard of acceptance for leaders to follow tomorrow. Otherwise, we follow the common path of neglect described by the late Tom Anderson: “Changing the pins on a soiled diaper without changing the diaper leaves you with the same old mess.” We must reactivate tyrannies greatest enemy , the Constitution, to limit government to protect our liberties within its boundaries. For it stands on the eternal biblical roots of the Declaration of Independence: “We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”How do we do this if we do not know the law our leaders are to obey?

This is our nations Christian

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YeSterYearS’ Summer Clothing StYleS- the SpeCial Word

ing any similar outfits to their graduation ceremonies this year. From what I’ve observed in recent years, I guess many don’t wear anything dressy at all under their commencement robes.

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

It doesn’t matter if you are looking back 150 years ago or 50, there is one word that I thought of that described many of the summer clothing styles of those olden days that is largely not applicable to today’s styles.

I don’t pay much attention to changes in yearly clothing styles, but it is difficult to ignore the difference from decade to decade.

I am not a fashionguy by any means, but I happened to find some old issues of Demorest’s Monthly Magazine and was struck by the differences of the clothing illustrated in the 1883 editions of that publication to that worn by today’s ladies.

One hundred and forty years of change.

The June issue introduced some commencement dresses with descriptions that, not being a seamstress, I don’t fully understand; nevertheless, I doubt if you will find any New Hampshire girls wear-

Demorest’s Magazine of June, 1883 told the young girls that if they could not afford silk they should not grieve because “the dainty cottons, the soft satines and ‘foulards,’ the ginghams and Chamberys, are prettier than common silk, and fresher for summer wear, as well as more becoming to girls.”

The 1883 ladies were told that in many parts

EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

Sanbornton Historical Society Trip To Wright Museum

The Sanbornton Historical Society is hosting a trip to the Wright Museum on Thursday, June 8th. Located in Wolfeboro, The Wright Museum’s purpose is to educate, entertain and inspire visitors with the story of WWII-era Americans often called “the greatest generation”. Enjoy exhibits and displays that include a “Time Tunnel” where you stroll through the America home front during the years 1939-1945. Visit the Military Gallery which is filled with fully-operational military vehicles. Experience the past and be inspired by a Nation United, 1939-1945. Car pooling is available as space allows. The group will meet at the Lane Tavern in Sanbornton by 12:45pm on Thursday, June 8th, and leave promptly at 1pm. The fee of $10 per person includes discounted admission to the Museum. Reservations are required. Please call Linda Salatiello at 1 603 286-4526 to reserve your spot.

“Small Works” Gallery Now Open At Art Center In Dover

The Art Center is pleased to announce that they have opened a new Backstage “Small Works” gallery. More than 50 talented artists from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts are exhibiting in the Backstage Gallery “Small Works” at The Art Center. The exhibition includes over 150 pieces of original fine art, photography, sculpture, and various styles and mediums. The exhibit will be on display from May through June.

The Gallery features various styles and mediums, from abstract paintings to realistic portraits, unique sculptures, and beautifully hand-crafted wooden tables. Whether a seasoned art collector or a curious newcomer, you’ll find something to admire and appreciate in this beautiful new space.

Located in downtown Dover, the Art Center is the premier destination for art enthusiasts. With a commitment to supporting the regional arts community, the Gallery showcases established and emerging artists. In addition, visitors can browse and purchase unique, handmade items, making it the perfect place to find a one-of-a-kind gift.

Join the Art Center for an artist reception on June 3 from 6-9 pm. Meet the artists and learn more about their work. The Gallery’s owner, Rebecca Proctor, is excited to share the incredible work of these talented New England artists with the community. Enjoy the beauty and creativity of some of the region’s finest artists at the Backstage Gallery.

Backstage Gallery “Small Works” located at the Art Center, 1 Washington Street, Suite 1177, Dover, NH. www.theartcenteronlinegallery.com

Original 1916 Silent Version of “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” In Plymouth

Flying Monkey to screen original 1916 silent film version of ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’

The original silent film version of the Jules Verne classic ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ (1916) will be shown with live music on Wednesday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center, 39 Main St., Plymouth, N.H.

General admission tickets are $10 and available at door or in advance by calling the box office at (603) 536-2551 or online at www. flyingmonkeynh.com.

Live music will be provided by Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based silent film accompanist.

Calling itself “The First Submarine Photoplay Ever Filmed,” the film is highlighted by pioneering underwater photography, including an underwater funeral and a deep sea diver’s battle with a giant cephalopod. Several methods were devised to capture scenes underwater, including a sort of “reverse periscope lens” that used mirrors in long tubes to enable a camera onboard ship to film below the surface.

The film has little in common with a later adaption released in 1954 by Walt Disney Studios and starring James Mason.

The original silent film version of ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ (1916) will be screened with live music on Wednesday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center, 39 Main St., Plymouth, N.H.

General admission tickets are $10 and available at door or in advance by calling the box office at (603) 536-2551 or online at www.flyingmonkeynh.com. For more about the music, visit www.jeffrapsis.com.

NH Fiddle Ensemble At Franklin Opera House

On Sunday June 4th at 2pm, The Franklin Opera House welcomes back the New Hampshire Fiddle Ensemble

An annual favorite, the New Hampshire Fiddle Ensemble is a community orchestra made up of approximately 100 musicians of all ages and abilities playing a variety of acoustic instruments - including fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, upright bass, harp, accordion and more! Each year they arrange several tunes and sing songs of different genres, including Celtic, Swing, Bluegrass, Folk, Blues, Country, and Cajun music. Fourteen years ago, New Hampshire Fiddle Ensemble performed its first concert at Franklin Opera House.

The Fiddle Ensemble has seven different rehearsal locations throughout New Hampshire and Southern Maine. The groups rehearse from late November through April. They come together each spring for their concert season. Pluck your up tickets now before they sell out! Reserved Seating.

Tickets available online at www.FOHNH.org, or by calling (603) 934-1901 during office hours. Adults $18, Seniors, Students, and Children $16.

by Brendan Smith

The summer season is upon us and with it comes the yearly influx of summer residents and tourists that make things busier than we are used to during the off season.

The summer season, as frustrating as it might be for some year-round residents, is, of course, essential to the economic vitality of the area and a necessity for some area businesses to survive.

But underneath all of that there is a new growing threat to the Lakes Region and beyond that comes with the summer season.

Of course, I am talking about Altnatives.

Years ago, there was no question about who was a native and who was not. Those born and raised in New Hampshire were natives, those born elsewhere were not. Or Flatlanders, if you will.

About ten years ago the Altnative phenomenon began to emerge when some Flatlanders who moved to New Hampshire and lived here for years began to identify as natives simply because they “felt like one.”

Their disillusionment, for the most part, was accepted as a minor blip by most natives and was dismissed as mostly harmless.

But all it took was one so-called Altnative who went to the State House in Concord, held a sign that read “Altnatives Are Natives Too” and protested outside long enough that the local media decided to cover it since it was a slow news day anyway.

This, of course, led to more Flatlanders, tired of feeling marginalized, taking up the banner of Altnativism and to come out of a closet that they didn’t even know they had been in the day before.

“If I feel like a native, then I’m a native,” was the cry heard at

well organized protests around the state by those with nothing better to do.

Still, the numbers of so-called Altnatives was small since many folks who were not natives were okay with that since they were living in this beautiful state anyway and saw no need to complain about it. But, as they say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so the loudest of the few were getting all the attention and the news covered it as though it was actually a problem.

The number of Altnatives has been relatively small over the past few years, but a disturbing trend began to develop last year, when summer residents and tourists had started to return after the Covid nonsense.

Having nothing better to do then watch TV news and listen to political radio and obsess over the internet all day while in lockdown, a good handful of those coming to their summer homes had decided that they now had the right to be called Altnatives too, simply by owning a home here.

Of course, as these things balloon, it was soon seasonal tourists who were on their second or third summer visit to New Hampshire who declared they also now had the right to be considered Altnatives.

This summer it won’t be surprising to me to see the number of the Flatlander who think they are natives just because they say so, increasing exponentially.

With it will come savvy marketing by some local summer businesses who will be quick to print up coffee mugs and sweatshirts proclaiming “Altnatives Are Natives Too” to pull in a few extra dollars. Who would blame them?

Even some non-natives who don’t identify as “alt” will buy this paraphernalia in supporting the Altnative community to add to their own “feel good” social justice resume, even if they themselves don’t understand how a nonnative can actually be a native.

Recently I saw a car with a Massachusetts License plate in the parking lot at a local supermarket. On it was a homemade bumper sticker declaring: “I am A NH Altnative.”

I waited until the owner of the car came out and I asked.

“Your car has a Massachusetts license plate. How can you be a New Hampshire native?”

“I don’t need to have a certain thing to be another thing,” he screamed at me. “I can be whatever I want to be, and you have to go along with it. If not, you are an Altnativephob.”

Of course, some actual natives are not taking kindly to the Altnative movement. At first, many were just willing to let it go since they thought it would blow over, but recently in a northern New Hampshire town an Altnative won “Native Of The Month” taking the crown from a 98-year-old lifelong native resident of the town and many saw this as the last straw.

I fear things could come to a real boiling point this summer.

I must admit that after living in New Hampshire for thirty-eight years now, I sometimes feel like a native myself, but I know I’m not one and never will be and I’m okay with that.

This is the life God has given to me and I am grateful that I have one at all and to be able to live in such a beautiful area.

Still, I admit, I sometimes get the urge to tell people, “You can’t get there from here” in a poorly executed New Hampshire accent. But the urge soon passes.

Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” available at BrendanTSmith.com. His latest book “I Only Did It For The Socks and Other Tales of Aging” will be published later this year.

Weirs Times Editor

Welfare Work requirementS make everYone Better off

The Congressional Budget Office has just released its latest projection for the next ten years.

Will elon muSk Break the legaCY media Stranglehold?

by Star Parker Syndicated Columnist

“In the agency’s updated projections, annual deficits nearly double over the next decade, reaching $2.7 trillion in 2033 ... As a result of those deficits, debt held by the public also increases in CBO’s projections, from 98% of GDP at the end of this year to 119% at the end of 2033.”

The picture keeps getting worse.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans on the issue: Republicans say let’s do something; Democrats say let’s do nothing.

House Republicans have put forward the Limit, Save, Grow Act as condition for increasing the debt limit, which imposes limits on growth of spending over the next 10 years and achieves reductions in expenditures.

Democrats are beside themselves because Republicans propose to achieve efficiencies in spending in Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families by imposing more stringent work requirements.

The idea that those getting welfare should have some skin in the game regarding humanitarian assistance they receive from U.S. taxpayers is an idea that is bonkers to our president and his party.

But, for me, Democrats screaming about cruelty and heartlessness regarding work requirements for welfare is nothing new.

I started my public career working on welfare reform passed in 1996.

It was my personal experience with the horrifying and destructive realities of welfare that opened my eyes to how badly reform was needed.

I was in the system as a young woman and collected welfare in the pre-welfare reform world of AFDC, or Aid to Families with Dependent Children. I saw from the inside the destructiveness, inhumanity and cruelty of government support pretending to be assistance and charity.

Welfare funds were available to women who were poor, not working and not married. Those were the conditions that had to be met to get the money.

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to announce his 2024 presidential candidacy on Twitter Spaces, the newest feature on Elon Musk’s Twitter. Musk himself would be cohosting the event, giving DeSantis access to Musk’s 141 million Twitter followers. Only after the Twitter launch will DeSantis begin the more typical campaigning, embarking on a series of campaign events across the nation.

by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist

DeSantis’ decision represents yet another blow to the power of the legacy media. Legacy media outlets have been fighting mad that DeSantis sees no purpose in granting them long-form interviews; while he’s happy to answer their questions -- and to aggressively confront them -- at press conferences, he simply does not trust that legacy media will ask decent questions or edit him fairly. Instead, DeSantis has merely ignored them.

That strategy has resulted in extraordinary hew and cry from our supposed journalistic establishment. This week, Tara Palmeri, senior political correspondent for Puck News, for example, attempted to confront DeSantis with a series of obtuse questions. “I am also Italian American like you,” she said, “if that makes any difference to you at all. Why are you against Disney characters? Which one is your favorite one?”

When DeSantis declined to engage, she then called him a “paper tiger -- a superficially perfect test-tube Republican candidate who, on closer inspection, is probably not ready for prime time.”

But perhaps prime time is entirely the problem. After all, it is prime-time television that made glitz and glamour the center of our presidential politics, gave Donald Trump billions of dollars in free media coverage in 2016, then proceeded to label Trump a threat to the republic and a probable Russian asset. It was prime-time tele-

vision that elevated lies about COVID-19, turning DeSantis into the Enemy of the People while championing disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero; that endlessly trumpeted the false narrative that black Americans are at dire daily threat from police, resulting in billions of dollars of damage from race riots; that ceaselessly promotes the notion that boys can be girls and vice versa.

The same legacy media that pushed those lies now pushes a bottomless well of lies about DeSantis as well: that his wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth; that Florida has banned gay Americans by passing a “Don’t Say Gay” bill that, in reality, merely prevents the sexual indoctrination of children; that black Americans are at existential threat in the state; that books are being banned at scale.

Why, precisely, should a politician like DeSantis trust them?

He doesn’t. And now, thanks to the open forum provided by Musk, he doesn’t need to use them to promote his candidacy. He can simply go directly to the people. This is merely an extension of the strategy Donald Trump used so successfully in 2016 when his Twitter account became the most magnetic media property on the planet -- only now Trump has relegated himself to Truth Social, even after Musk reinstated his Twitter account.

In any case, the legacy media -- instead of re-examining their own biases and asking just why candidates of the Right refuse to appear on their air -- have decided to target Musk and Twitter. They suggest that Musk is the newest threat to the republic -- after all, if he weren’t, would DeSantis be using Twitter for his launch?

Conservatives no longer need the approval of reporters at The New York Times. They no longer need to suffer the indignities of skewed grilling at the hands of partisan hacks who work for the alphabet networks. Times have changed. And DeSantis’ Twitter launch is just the latest evidence.

by John Stossel Syndicated Columnist

preSident deSantiS?

Recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with me for a one-hour interview.

I started by praising him for keeping Florida largely open during Covid.

“I just had to make the decision as a leader,” says DeSantis. “Are you gonna worry about the daily news cycle? Worry about your personal popularity? ... I did not know how it was going to work out politically. I was going to do what I thought was right.”

That worked well for Floridians. “If you look at excess mortality, we were the lowest in the Sunbelt and (had) lower excess mortality than California and New York.”

In addition, since the pandemic started, Florida gained more than 500,000 jobs. My state, New York, lost more than 200,000. Florida opened schools quickly. As a result, kids suffered less learning loss. Good for DeSantis.

DeSantis also banned mask mandates.

“Some local police departments were going to fine people ... We kneecap them with our clemency power ... no penalties for wearing a mask or

not. It’s your choice.”

“Your choice” is a great thing. But DeSantis’ laws and executive orders often limit choice. Today no Florida business may require its customers wear masks or show proof of vaccination.

I push back. “If it’s my business and I’m scared ... why can’t I?”

“You do have freedom to choose, but so do individuals,” answers DeSantis. “In Florida, we’ve just consistently sided with the individual.”

But people who own businesses or who want to be surrounded by masks are individuals, too.

Florida does give parents a choice when it comes to picking a school. In

fact, thanks to DeSantis, Florida leads the nation in school choice, offering parents $8,000 scholarships they can take to a better school. So why can’t parents choose a school with a mask mandate?

“Because it’s irrational,” replies DeSantis. “Hysteria took over evidencebased analysis ... the policy shouldn’t be based on fear.”

No, it shouldn’t be. But while mask mandates were often irrational, and possibly harmful to children, one-sizefits-all rules are harmful, too.

I change the topic to immigration.

Last summer, DeSantis flew 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard -- a stunt See

thiS pride Stuff iSn’t healthY

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I’ve never understood ethnic, race, gender or sex pride. Even as a kid.

didn’t emanate from either disinterest in sports or disinterest in Jews. I was keenly interested in both.

But even at the age of 13, the idea of ethnic pride meant little to me.

by Dennis Prager Syndicated Columnist

For my bar mitzvah, someone gave me a book titled “Great Jews in Sports” or something like it.

Aside from the usual jokes — it was not a long book; the print and the photos were very large — what I remember best was that I had little interest in the book. I loved sports. And I strongly identified as a Jew — I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home and attended yeshivas until the age of 19. So, my disinterest in the book

As far as I could tell, my friends — and, of course, the relative who gave me the book — considered the book quite meaningful. They were proud of Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg, of the great Cleveland Indians third baseman Al Rosen, of the lightweight boxing champ Benny Leonard, and the other Jews who were featured.

I apparently marched to the beat of a quirky drummer. It turned out, however, that my attitude at 13 wasn’t a quirk. Though I didn’t realize it then, it was actually the dawning of a conviction — that maybe group pride wasn’t a great idea.

The next time that view hit me was when I was in college and the slogan “black is beautiful” was becoming popular. This time I did more than not relate to group pride; I objected to it. How could a race be beautiful? Isn’t the idea of a beautiful race itself racist? When I raised these questions in my college and graduate school years, I was given one of two answers: After being put down for so many years, blacks needed to bolster their selfimage. And since blacks — especially black women — had suffered greatly because white beauty was the normative standard of physical beauty, “black is beautiful” was a muchneeded corrective.

These were entirely understandable explanations. But I still recoiled. Perhaps being a Jew born only a few years after the Holocaust rendered

race-based pride scary.

It turned out my instinct was right: It is scary. “Black is beautiful” soon morphed into “black power,” a phrase that, often accompanied with a raised clenched fist, was meant to be scary. And then, in an echo of Aryan racism, terms like “race traitor” were thrown around to describe any black who wasn’t into “black power” or “black solidarity.”

Soon, feminist women joined the group solidarity bandwagon with “girl power”; “I am woman, hear me roar”; “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”; “Any job a man can do, a woman can do better” and other puerile celebrations of “sisterhood,” a term which applied only to women who shared feminist views. Women who didn’t share those views were

John

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CanterBurY Shaker village foCuSeS on reStoration of keY hiStoriC StruCtureS

Tuesday, June 6 marks the start of NH Gives, a 24-hour online giving challenge that leadership at Canterbury Shaker Village hopes will inject muchneeded financial support into ongoing restoration efforts of key historic structures.

A T-shaped building with 56 rooms that has been expanded several times since its construction in 1793, the Dwelling House is the Village’s first area of focus. “We have successfully raised funds for a new roof, but we have discovered we must also repoint the Dwelling House’s five chimneys,” said Leslie Nolan, executive director of The Village. “This is just one of several projects that must take place.”

Restoration of the Dwelling House is com-

plicated by its sheer size—8,700 square feet— and the complexity of its roof. Featuring a Chapel, a Paul Revere family bell, and a Shaker library, the Dwelling House, according to Nolan, is “the crown jewel of the property.”

In support of its ongoing historic restoration efforts, the Village has received sizable contributions from various foundations and individuals, including Madeleine von Weber Foundation ($15,000), Merrimack

Saving Bank ($10,000), Putnam Foundation ($40,000), 1772 Foundation ($5,000), and two anonymous donors ($25,000). Specific to NH Gives, John Swope has also offered to match up to $10,000 for any restoration

work on the Dwelling House.

“Restoration and preservation is expensive and complicated work, but the 26 structures help preserve the incredible legacy of the Shakers,” cited Nolan.

This legacy, she said, “shocked their contemporaries.” “The Shakers challenged almost every mainstream ideal of American society during their time,” said Nolan. “Shakers believed in communal ownership, pacifism, dancing in worship, equality of the sexes, celibacy, and living simply…These are ideals that continue to fascinate and inspire people today.”

In May and June, including Memorial Day on Monday, May 29, indoor guided tours at the Village take place at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., Tuesday through

Sunday. In addition to indoor guided tours, the Village interprets Shaker life through exhibits, restored historic structures, gardens, and educational programs.

Canterbury Shaker Village is located at 288 Shaker Rd., Canterbury, New Hampshire, just south of Laconia and north of Concord. To learn more about the Village and its NH Gives campaign, visit shakers.org.

Canterbury Shaker Village is a member of the NH Heritage Museum Trail, which connects the public with culturally rich heritage institutions in New Hampshire. For more information, visit nhmuseumtrail.org.

The Dwelling House at Canterbury Shaker Village.

This series of Letters

From God is an attempt to put the thoughts of God as revealed in the Scriptures.

Letters From God Letters From God

QUESTION:

Why Are So Many Clergy Supporting Political Agendas That Appear Contrary To Your Commands In The Bible?

I’m so glad that you noticed.

Many clergy and many parishioners have been so conditioned by the liberal position’s clergy have taken against my word, that it seems to be normal and sanctioned by me. But make no mistake about it, I have never endorsed contemporary liberal teachings that are being championed by many clergy and even whole denominations today.

From time immemorial there have always been faithful clergy and false prophets. Many times those spiritual leaders are packaged so similarly that it’s hard to see that the false prophets “never stood in my council” (Jeremiah 23:18) and didn’t give you my word but instead passed on their own and thus the Devils.

“This what the Lord Almighty says: Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.” (Jeremiah 23:16).

It was true with the false worship of Babel; it was true of clergy during the time of Ne-

hemiah who literally opened my temple to arch enemies of the faith and slept with enemies (Nehemiah 13:7) . It was true at the time the 10 nations of Israel split from the two remaining nations of Judah & Benjamin who remained faithful to me and to worship in Jerusalem and the temple where I gave the exclusive right of leading worship. From the death of Solomon around 950 BC (before my Son Jesus appeared on the earth), to the fall of those ten nations at the hands of the Assyrians in 722 BC, not one of the practices of the man-made clergy were ever acceptable to me. They had their own place of worship, they had their own clergy, they had their own celebrations and feasts and unfortunately their own version of my word.

Unfortunately, at no time was any of this religious activity sanctioned or approved by me. In fact, because of this fraudulent religious activity the 10 northern tribes would succumb to captivity nearly 200 years before the southern Kingdom. Then as the southern kingdom of Judah followed the false prophets and their worship became corrupt, they too would succumb to the same apostasy and the same consequences of captivity.

And what can I say about the days when my son walked the earth and visited our creation to live among our own chosen people, Israel. He came to reveal me to all creation and also to die to pay

the penalty for your sins. Tragically, his death was not called for by pagan gentiles, but by the false religious leaders of my own chosen people. They were dressed in the garb of religiosity and performed all of the duties of a clergy, even as they passionately pursued and finally accomplished the crucifixion of their creator God and savior. Since then there has continued to be a long line of both faithful and unfaithful clergy. You cannot tell which is which by external appearances, religious garb, even by the titles they carry like, Reverend, Pastor, Priest etc. but only by their faithfulness or lack of faithfulness to teach you only what I, in my book the Bible, instructed them to teach.

As the old covenant was closing, I asked one of my prophets, Malachi, to write about the problem of rogue clergy who had departed from my original calling of the Levitical priests of the Old Testament and we’re no longer faithful teachers. This is what I said through Malachi, “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge and from his mouth men should seek instruction-because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty. But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord Almighty.” (Malachi 2:7,8).

Today, in your State, 80 religious’ leaders, including pastors, priests, rabbis, and nuns signed a docu -

ment to reject a bill that would continue to give parents the rights to know what teachers are teaching and influencing their children to practice especially with respect to transgender ideation and practice. Where in my word did I ever remove this primary responsibility from parents to whom I entrusted this most sacred task? (Deuteronomy 6). Never! Where did I every entrust it to government or schoolteachers especially those who have no knowledge of me, my word and my will. To appeal to taking this responsibility away from parents as being “loving,” is a hideous distortion of what I called love. Love is leading children to follow me and my will so that they will enjoy “life that is truly life,” (1 Timothy 6:19) and not suffer the natural disastrous consequences of sinful behavior, one of which incidentally is suicidal ideation, and my supernatural punishment for sinful behavior. Sadly, because of the influence of these clergy, the bill was defeated and for this time, my will was stifled.

Please know however that the time of my patience will end and when it does only my will shall be done. Then, those who misled others and those they misled will miss the eternal life that only I can give.

These letters are written by Rev. Dr. Samuel Hollo, pastor at the Community Church of Alton, NH.

— OBITUARY —

Hazel S. Potter of Alton, recently of Mtn View Community, Ossipee, passed away April 21, 2023. A gathering of friends will be held as “We Remember Hazel” at the Alton American Legion on Route 28, Alton, NH, June 10th, 2023, from 2 to 4 p.m. Remembrances in writing will be collected and put together for her son. Refreshments will be provided.

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New England’s Wild Birds & Their Habitats

the eaStern kingBird

by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

We’ve all heard about the college linebacker who was considered too small to play in the NFL, but teams couldn’t resist him because he’s such a tough and fearless son of a gun.

Then the guy gets drafted and becomes a star, leading the league in tackles every year. No running back, quarterback or receiver wants to cross his path. No lineman, regardless of his size or bulk, wants the responsibility of blocking him.

In the bird world, the eastern kingbird is that undersized linebacker. It’s an average-sized bird but knows no fear and is fiercely territorial. Crows, more than double the size of kingbirds, are public enemy number one. Kingbirds may look dainty next to a crow, but there’s nothing dainty about watching an eight-inch kingbird chase away an 18-inch crow.

The kingbird is relentlessly aggressive and almost always wins its battles. Even hawks that cross into a kingbird’s territory suffer the wrath of the little tyrant and get unceremoniously escorted away. (Mockingbirds will also take on birds such as crows and hawks.)

Kingbirds have been reported to ride on

Eastern kingbirds are fierce birds for their size.

the backs of the larger birds and peck at their heads. It’s as if a 320-pound professional wrestler with bursting muscles breaks into the house of a fairlybuilt 150-pound man. Then the owner proceeds to toss around and body slam the wrestler until he runs away screaming.

So I guess it comes as no surprise that the kingbird’s scientific name is Tyrannus tyrannus and that they are from the Tyrant Flycatcher family. Tyrant flycatchers, which also include eastern phoebes and greatcrested flycatchers, sit on a perch and wait for insects to fly by. The birds then fly out and grab the insect with its bill - a hunting method

England, and I’ve seen kingbirds at nearly every turn. But that’s not to say I tire of seeing kingbirds. The binoculars raise and heart rate elevates with each sighting.

known as hawking. For all its tyrannical nature and aggressiveness, the kingbird is actually quite an attractive bird. Its colors are simple - black, white and gray - but the kingbird is distinctive. The head and back are black and dark gray and the throat and belly are pure white. The wings may also show streaks of white.

The most distinguishing field mark is the white band at the tip of the tail. Kingbirds also have an orangered stripe on the head, but it’s concealed and rarely seen.

Eastern kingbirds are a reliable sighting nearly everywhere I go. In the past month, I’ve been birdwatching from Maryland to New

My most memorable sighting of a kingbird came one morning at a large pond. I was on the water well before sunrise and settled near a large patch of high grasses poking through a shallow portion of the water. As the golden rays of the rising sun illuminated the lush grasses, the steamy water and a bright red barn in the distance, a kingbird flew to the top of a sturdy piece of grass and claimed that portion of the pond to be his. I watched the morning spectacle a bit longer and moved on my way.

Eastern kingbirds are just as likely to be seen in less natural settings, such as perched on telephone wires, signposts or otherwise along roadsides. We get to enjoy eastern kingbirds for only about five or six months as they migrate south for the cold season. Kingbirds are one of the relatively few species that will migrate during the day. But once they set up home in the spring, other birds are wise to take notice and avoid the area. No one wants to get tackled by the hardest-hitting linebacker in the league.

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In addition to beautiful boats, there will be music, entertainment, silent auction and raffle. The NH Boat Museum will join in with information about their programs. Talk with boat owners and vote for your favorite boat.

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by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

The Granite State debate on marijuana legalization continues. There are many aspects to it all which we won’t get into here, except that—as with so many issues— there is a sports component.

Consider the outcry a couple years ago when American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson faced disqualification from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana? She supposedly smoked pot after her mother’s tragic death.

Drug testing has abounded for decades. Most sports folks don’t want performance enhancers providing Russians with unfair advantages. And that’s also why home run king Barry Bonds’ steroid use keeps him out of Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame.

But is pot really a performance enhancer? The debate will continue.

Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of legalizing pot. I’m sure my low-tolerance for weed stems from being drug-tested for many years as a U.S. Marine.

Which brings us to Saturday, June 18, 1983, when I boarded a bus in Quantico,

Baltimore BaSeBall, Beer, pot & Yaz

sell every beer in no time.”

The beer vendor laughed and said okay, but he’d need to follow me at a discrete distance.

“Excellent!”

I strapped on his giant tray and donned his beer vendor cap and started up the steps, hawking brewksis.

“Beer!” I yelled. “Get your beer here!”

After a couple sales I was inevitably recognized by my Marine brethren, who naturally cracked up.

“Moffett is selling beer!”

Va., along with 50 other Marine Corps lieutenants, to ride up to Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium for an Orioles game. The O’s were hosting my Red Sox and it was Carl Yastrzemski’s 23rd and last season. I wanted to see Yaz play one more time.

Yes, there was beer on the bus. Would one expect differently from 50 young Marine Corps lieutenants out on liberty?

One of the pro-pot arguments is “Alcohol is worse!” Prohibition failed! But there are many differences. Comparing pot to booze is like comparing apples to oranges.

Anyway, we fifty Marines sat as a group in Memorial Stadium’s upper deck, on the first base side—where

we’d hopefully avoid trouble. But I was pleased to discover that, unlike Fenway Park, Memorial Stadium had a liberal beer policy. One could buy two 24-ouncers at the same time! The O’s treated beer drinkers as adults

After making an early inning head call, I walked back towards the upper deck when I saw a beer vendor strapping on a giant tray with numerous libations to sell in the stands. This inspired an idea.

“Yo! Beer vendor. I’ll sell those beers for you!”

The beer vendor laughed and explained that such action would surely be frowned upon.

“But I’m with those Marines up there. I’ll

As predicted, the Marines immediately bought all I had. I returned to the tunnel and gave the delighted beer vendor a bunch of money, loaded up the tray again and went up and again sold out. The section of Marines gave me a standing ovation, which drew the attention of many of the 36,668 attendees. What was going on up there on the upper deck?

(The Orioles drew good crowds in 1983 and would win the World Series that year.)

I was fortunate that all this beer business predated social media. A viral video of me selling lots of beer in the Memorial Stadium stands may not have enhanced my military career. And my friendly beer vendor would likely have been fired. Still, it was such fun. But there’s more.

Carl Yastrzemski.

The Simple Feast

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by Eric N Gibson Contributing Writer

“It tastes like sour celery!”

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Truer words were never spoken of rhubarb.

The look on the face of nearly any child the first time they taste rhubarb is so precious! Their brow wrinkles, their eyes squint, their nose flares, their mouth is all screwed up, pursed into involuntary contortions, going every direction at once. If their lips could tie themselves into a knot they would. This is usually followed by a hasty discharge of the partially masticated mass, something in the brain triggering the “auto eject” as tears spontaneously form in the eyes. But those of us, older and wiser, who have gained an affinity for rhubarb, find great joy in that same reaction.

The true New England gardener looks forward to rhubarb’s mouth-watering ground breaking each spring. It is the equivalent of the die hard Red Sox fan anticipating the “Spring Opener.” There is just something magical in the air, you can almost feel it as each day passes with hardly any sign that something is stirring. Then, one

day, those tiny tell tale shoots pop out of the ground and within a few days stalks begin to explode onto the scene. And before you know it, leaves as big as an elephant’s ear crown each deep red stem. It’s “Game On!”

Enjoying that bitter “sour celery” to the fullest before the plant once again goes to seed for another year is sometimes a challenge. But, once you get a taste for rhubarb, you just cannot help but drool as you watch it grow. You visualize those vibrant red and green stalks soon being turned into delicious pies, crisps, sauces, and so much more. With a short harvest season there is so

much to do and so little time. Perhaps a month, maybe two, if judicious in your harvest, you can stretch the season from sometimes as early as late April to mid June. Well, about mid-May I received a text from a friend asking if I liked rhubarb. My immediate reply was an enthusiastic “YES!” He responded, “Good! You can have it all!” Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I happily accepted his offer. Within 24 hours nearly ten pounds of rhubarb, stems to leaves, were on my doorstep. After trimming the leaves, I processed the stalks and ended up with about three fat full gallon freezer bags of chopped rhubarb. What

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Strange But true

by Lucie Winborne Syndicated Columnist

* Do you like to shop at IKEA? You might be interested to know that the “IKEA bias” makes you place a disproportionately high value on

things you partially assemble yourself, regardless of the end result’s quality.

* An attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensive cocktail

sadly proved futile after a customer dropped and broke a bottle of cognac worth $77,000.

* Upon hearing of the 9/11 attacks, the Maasai tribe in Africa gifted 14 cows to America.

* In 1987, a 93-gram radioactive device was stolen from an abandoned hospital in Brazil. After it was passed around, four people died, 112,000 people had to be examined, and several houses had to be destroyed.

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* Gal Gadot trained for nine months to gain 17 pounds of muscle for the movie “Wonder Woman.”

* Elevator operator Betty Oliver survived a 75-story fall from the Empire State Building in 1945 when a B-25 crashed into it due to fog. Three crewman and 11 people in the building died, but Betty, who died in 1999, still holds the Guinness World Record for longest survived elevator fall.

* A cat named Barsik, in Barnaul, Siberia, won a mayoral race with more than 90% of the vote. Notwithstanding that fact, and his clever campaign slogan -- “Only mice don’t vote for Barsik!” -- he was, alas, not allowed to actually take office.

* While John and Clarence Anglin, two of See STRANGE on 17

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* Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong once asked President Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because Armstrong was “an old man.” We feel pretty sure Nixon wasn’t aware the bags contained marijuana.

* In 2015, the 1,000-year-old corpse of a Buddhist monk was discovered inside an ancient statue of Buddha.

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MOFFETT from 13 buff and burly Marine Corps officers—all quite concerned that inhaling second-hand pot smoke might end their careers.

Sitting a few rows behind us near the top of the stadium were some hippies. Midway through the game the hippies did what hippies do. They started smoking pot. This immediately got the attention of fifty regularly drug-tested,

Our group turned and stood as one to confront the hippies. A big Texan with a deep voice yelled “You G--- D--- hippies bet-

ter stop smoking that pot or we’ll throw your asses over the top of the stadium!”

Peer pressure? Or beer pressure?

Rather than confront 50 agitated Marines who were clearly ready to rumble, the hippies decided that discretion was the better part of valor and wisely moved to another part of Memorial Stadium to get stoned. All the commotion must have drawn the attention of many of the 36,668 attendees. What was going on up there?

Marines on liberty. Always an adventure. It was a night to remember. Jim Rice hit a homer and BoSox pitcher John Tudor went all the way to win 3-2.

And I got to see Carl Yaztrzemski in action one last time. The 44-year-old future Hall-of Famer walked twice. He would hit ten home runs that season to finish his career with 452 roundtrippers.

And I’m also pretty sure that not one of Yaz’s 3419 career hits was aided by any performance enhancer, whether imbibed, injected, or inhaled!

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your vehicle to your boat, without holding up others who would otherwise be able to get on the water faster than you. Whatever you do, do not stage your boat in the middle of the ramp. I wish I had a nickel for every time I saw someone drive right by the sign saying, “Stage Boats Here” and do so in the middle of the ramp.

Turn Off Your Headlights

Many boaters launch and land at dawn or dusk. Turning off your headlights may not be intuitive, until you’ve tried to stage or launch your boats while another boater’s headlights are beaming in your face. Turn off your headlights while staging and launching your boat. If your vehicle has day running headlights that stay on while the vehicle is running, shut the vehicle off. Use your parking lights or bring a headlamp if you need additional light.

Use The Courtesy Dock

Most marinas, and some town or state ramps, wills have a courtesy dock for boaters to tie up to after they launch their boats. These docks are a place to tie up your boat while you park your vehicle. They are not for staging your boat. This is not the

Leaving enough room for others to use a launch is an always appreciated thing to do.

place to load up coolers and fishing gear. This is a temporary place to tie up your boat. Some marinas have larger courtesy docks, so you might have a little more time to be there depending on the traffic, but most marinas expect boaters to help them keep things moving by limiting the amount of time spent tied up to the courtesy dock. If you have a friend who can take the boat out and raft while you park the vehicle, take advantage of that.

Take Turns

Often times, especially on weekends, boat ramps are busy with people launching and landing. It’s hard to know for sure exactly who goes next all the time, but if there are boaters waiting to launch or land when you arrive at the ramp, get in line and wait your turn, even though the line is figurative. Marinas often have dock workers that know who’s next and will help keep everyone in line.

Don’t Park Like A…

Okay, you staged your boat in the staging area, with no headlights, you launched quickly and tied up

to the courtesy dock. You did everything right. You head to the trailer parking area, pull into a space, and head to your boat, but you missed one very important piece to the etiquette puzzle. Your trailer as at a weird angler, making it difficult for other people with trailers to get around it without hitting it. Maybe you noticed and thought it was no big deal, but some trucks and trailers are longer than others. The truck next to you might not be able to get out, or others may not be able to get theirs in, so you’ve essentially taken up two spaces.

Proper launch etiquette isn’t something new, and it isn’t exclusive to just some launches. It applies to every launch, everywhere you go. I realize many people don’t know what proper launch etiquette is, and I really try to give the benefit of the doubt, but a little common sense goes a long way. If you arrive at a ramp and there’s no one else there, it’s easy to back into the ramp thinking you have time. The thing to remember is that many people arrive at the ramps ready to launch. The area might

be empty one minute and then there could be two or three angry boaters sitting in line waiting for you to finish loading your boat, when there is almost always a staging area at every ramp. A little common sense goes a long way. Whether we are fishing or just pleasure boating, we all spend time on the water for one reason, to have fun, but proper launch etiquette isn’t just about having more fun. It’s about making sure the flow keeps moving, but a little courtesy goes a long way toward that fun.

Tim Moore is a fulltime licensed New Hampshire fishing guide and owner of Tim Moore Outdoors, LLC. He offers guided fishing trips on Lake Winnipesaukee and kayak trips for striped bass. He is a member of the New England Outdoors Writers Association and the producer of Tim Moore Outdoors TV. For information on guided trips visit www.TimMooreOutdoors.com. You can also follow TMO on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ TimMooreOutdoors.

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Rhubarb Dump Cake

Yield: 12 Generous Servings Time: Approx 1 Hour

4 Cups Chopped Rhubarb

1 Cup Sugar

1 Moist Yellow Cake Mix

1 Cup Water

1 and ½ sticks Butter (Melted) plus some to grease the pan

Preparation —

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and grease a 9x13 baking pan.

- Rinse, drain, and chop Rhubarb for four cups.

- In a bowl combine chopped Rhubarb with the sugar. Toss to evenly coat and then pour the rhubarb and sugar mixture into the 9x13 pan, be sure to evenly spread over the bottom of the greased pan.

- Evenly pour the dry cake mix over the sugared rhubarb.

- Evenly pour the cup of water over the cake mix.

- Evenly pour the melted butter over the water / cake mix.

- Place in a preheated oven and bake for 50 minutes. Check for done (temperature is over 165 and the thermometer stem comes out clean).

- Serve warm with Rhubarb Sauce and Vanilla Ice Cream or Whipped Topping.

RHUBARB

3 Cups Chopped Rhubarb

2-3 tsp. Tapioca

SAUCE

1 Cup Water1 Cup Sugar

INGREDIENTS — Preparation —

INGREDIENTS

1 tsp. Lemon Juice (optional)

- Into a medium size sauce pan / pot goes the three cups of chopped rhubarb, the water, and the sugar. Over medium heat reduce the rhubarb, breaking it down to an apple sauce consistency. (about 30 minutes or so. It will be loose.)

- To thicken add the Tapioca (about 2 teaspoons) and continue to reduce / thicken over medium low so as not to burn.

- Taste for flavor and consistency. If not tart enough add the lemon juice. If not thick enough add the third teaspoon of Tapioca and continue to reduce over low heat. Be certain that the tapioca has softened / dissolved before serving.

- Serve with the Dump cake, or solo over ice cream.

- Refrigerate covered in a plastic airtight container it should last about a week.

side of the door to the machine shed. My wife let out an ear-popping gasp as she slammed on the brakes.

“That’s not Skunk Cabbage! That’s Rhubarb!” Her tone was emphatic. “And don´t go pulling it up unless you´re going to make me a pie.”

“Challenge accepted!” I thought to myself. And so began my search for a recipe for Rhubarb Pie. Well, Al Gore had just invented the internet and we were on dial up so that search method

was hopeless. And our combined cookbook collection was a scant few volumes to include her Fanny Farmer Cookbook and my academic texts. So I began my quest the old fashioned way. Just as any young man would do when wanting to impress his new bride… I called my mom. Surely mom would have a recipe for Rhubarb Pie!

Eventually I did end up with a pie recipe and many of you who follow this feature already know my challenges with pie dough

told me they made it often when he was a leader for his son’s scouting troop. When I asked him to help “cater” my future son-in-law’s Bachelor Party, a weekend event for some of his close friends, we put together a menu to include dump cake: Peach Dump Cake. Easy to make, satisfying, and filling, dump cakes should be on everyone’s “GoTo” list when needing a quick, simple, forgiving, tasty dessert that feeds many. But dump cake is often overlooked for some reason. Perhaps because it is reminiscent of something that yields from an Easy Bake Oven? I don’t really know. But, if a spring and some bent wire attached to a board will catch a mouse, why do we feel the need to invent something more complex? So too this question with dump cake. And, you can use just about any fruit, canned fruits being the

easiest but fresh will work too. And Rhubarb

Dump Cake proves that even a vegetable can be used. Yes, that’s right, Rhubarb is technically a vegetable even though most people use it as a fruit for pies, muffins, dump cakes, cobblers, etc.

And, while dump cake is delicious, dump cake really isn’t cake. And it isn’t so much a crisp as it is more like a cobbler. But to say it is like a cobbler is also misleading because it doesn’t have a biscuit-like topping. Its moist, cakelike top isn’t even cake, but more of a unique sweet butter rich topper all its own. However, no matter how you describe it you should be

using the word “good”, because that’s what it is. And not just any old “good”, it’s “really good!” Coupling the tart tangy flavor of rhubarb under a soft, moist, sweet, buttery rich topping, the balance is just right. And paired with a simple Rhubarb Sauce (an easy reduction) and some vanilla ice cream, well… it’s “really, really, good!” Funny how sometimes the simplest words can most accurately describe the simplest things.

This Rhubarb Dump Cake recipe is just that, it is so simple. Why, it’s almost too simple. But then again, nothing is ever too simple for the Simple Feast.

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so I need not go into that foray again. (The Weirs Times Vol. 31, No. 40 of 10-06-22.) There have been many pies to grace our table since that time, thanks to mom, Pillsbury, and the in-laws rhubarb plants. However, while my taste buds have developed a penchant for that deliciously tart flavor of rhubarb my sweet tooth craves crisps, cobblers, and similar dishes, and this is where dump cake comes into my recipe box.

I had heard of dump cake, a friend having

of the country flannel underwear should not be wholly removed at any part of the year. But lets move ahead from the 1800’s.

In the Spring of 1906

the L.P. LaBonte store in Manchester, New Hampshire, presenting themselves as “Ladies Outfitters,” advertised

“ The Greatest Sale of Ladies Summer Readyto-Wear Goods” in the history of their business. They offered a variety of fabrics in their Spring and Summer suits, coats, and skirts, including wool, silk, velvet, cotton, and linen.

I didn’t find the word “dress” anywhere in their full page ad in The Union newspaper in Manchester. In Laconia the Lougee, Dinsmoor & Patent store had, in the Spring of 1906, a

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sale on knit underwear “which was only slightly damaged by smoke and water by our fire last fall.” I was surprised to see that their line of summer underwear included ladies vests and union suits. McCarthy Bros. on Main Street was having a closeout sale on corsets with all one dollar ones on sale for 69 cents.

In 1938 Leavitt’s in Manchester, NH had a June “Department Manager’s Sale.” They advertised a variety of Fifth Avenue Shop styles in dresses to fit sizes 11 to 52 for only $6.00. Cool cotton frocks were on sale for 70 cents and something not seen in the earlier years- ladies sport slacks or culottes!

into general use because the public would not support them. ‘Oh,’says an amateur critic just returned from one of Hollywood’s latest, ‘If he had only been right!’”

Advertised as “neither dressed up nor too casual” in 1956

Briefly departing from our emphasis on clothe styles, I was surprised to read that in the June 22 , 1938 edition of The Union,from Manchester, that a woman’s group from Massachusetts set about to buy some small American flags to sell to benefit wounded veterans and found that the flags they wanted were only made in Japan. And that was before World War II! The same newspaper reported that “It was in 1926 that Thomas A. Edison predicted that talking pictures would never come

I notice by reading the June 6, 1952 edition of the Laconia Evening Citizen that nurses were still wearing white uniforms with caps. Laconia High School also had a code of conduct for high school students, “prepared by the parents and the students themselves.” The code included a list of what was considered inappropriate dress for the students. Forbidden dress in 1962 included dungarees and sweatshirts, outdoor coats worn in the classroom, T-shirts worn as a shirt, shirts unbuttoned more than one down from the top, shirts worn untucked (unless made to be worn that way), skirts worn above the knees, high heels (except for special occasions), and excessive jewelry and make-

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Misses’ Costumes - 1883

1938 Corset Advertisement.

From 1962 ad showing change in styles from earlier 1900’s

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up. The code was based on the precept that undisciplined dress led to undisciplined behavior.

As for the word that I don’t hear vocalized often in these days, particularly in regards to clothing, is the word “modesty.” Those clothes stylists in the late 1800’s were cer -

tainly concerned about modesty, maybe to an extreme length to keep the human body covered in all kinds of weather, but they also tried to make that clothing fashioned in an attractive manner.

My mostly uneducated observance on the topic leads me to believe that as we transitioned

into the 20th century that a steady trend towards more practical clothing styles have led to the unsophisticated and daring styles we see today that are the opposite of modest. Not that everyone is running around half naked, though I guess that 50% or more of the summer population may do so with some being only 10% or less covered.

In contrast to 1880 modesty in clothing fashion some Hollywood women come as close as they can to bring us back to Eden while still having a pretense

of covering up with seethrough clothing.

History is, among other things, a schoolmaster, so maybe it would be wise to listen to those 1962 Laconia High School students

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who asked for a stricter code of conduct then their parents expected.

And maybe “modesty “ should once again become a household word.

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More 1883 Dress style.

Ad from 1938.

Ad from 1938.

Instead of being charitable and humanitarian, the government assistance was really a heartless subsidy that encouraged poverty, unemployment and sexual promiscuity out of marriage.

Welfare reform in 1996 showed how a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, could productively work with a Republican House, under the leadership of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Bill Clinton had promised to “end welfare as we know it,” and House Republicans stepped up to work with him.

When Temporary Assistance for Needy Families was put forward by Republicans, reforming welfare with work requirements and time limits, Democrats started screaming, as they are screaming now.

Poor women would be thrown into the streets. It is amazing how those who supposedly care about people have such little respect for the humanity, creativity and resiliency of those same people.

When suddenly poor women on welfare were faced with time limits for welfare and work requirements, the world changed for the better, for everyone.

In 2006, 10 years after welfare reform was passed, Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution scholar, testified before Congress summarizing the results.

From 1994 to 2005, welfare caseloads declined 60%. From 1993 to 2000, employment among single mothers increased from 58.9% to 75%. Employment among never married mothers increased from 44% to 66%.

For female-headed households in the bot-

tom 40% of the income distribution, income attributable to earnings increased from 30% to 55% from 1993 to 2000, and income attributed to welfare declined from 60% to 23%.

Theologians and philosophers over the ages have noted that the highest charitable act is to help someone become self-sufficient.

Unfortunately, the many forms of welfare distributed by our government take recipients in the opposite direction.

Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans are doing the nation a great favor with the Limit, Save, Grow Act.

Let’s hope they get somewhere with a president and a Democratic Party whose vision for our future is a nation bloated with spending, debt and dependence.

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meant to expose the hypocrisy of places declaring themselves “sanctuary” jurisdictions.

“Liberal elites ... don’t ever face any of the consequences,” complains DeSantis. “Towns in Texas are getting overrun.”

Media called his stunt “cruel.” A lawyer for migrants criticized DeSantis for not phoning “Martha’s Vineyard so that even the most basic human needs arrangements could be made.”

I read that to DeSantis. He replies, “Do you think these Texas border towns are having people call ahead?!”

“Most of those people that went to the vineyard,” he adds, “were thankful to be in that area ... They were not treated well by Biden.”

Today’s favorite media “hate-DeSantis” topic is his Parental Rights in Education law. Critics smear it by calling it the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The law bans “classroom instruction ... on sexual orientation or gender identity.”

“Transgender or probing some student’s sexuality, that is not appropriate for the schools. We’re going to leave that to parents to discuss.”

But “it can come up,” I say. How far does the ban go? “A gay teacher could say he’s gay?”

“Our law doesn’t affect that,” DeSantis answers. Also, the decision to teach sex education is made at the district level.

Good.

I ask, “Doesn’t school choice solve this? Parents who want kids taught about gender changes could have that.”

Some private schools do teach that, says DeSantis. But “when you’re talking about what the taxpayers are funding, you just have to make a choice.”

For 44 minutes, DeSantis and I talk about: how America will go broke, whether he’d cut social security or raise retirement age, what departments he’d cut if he were president, the drug war, his opposition to Barack Obama’s plan to send Americans to Syria, Donald Trump and whether DeSantis is a “slob who eats pudding with his fingers.”

I don’t think his staff liked some of my questions. They cut our interview short, saying the governor had to go.

You can watch it all at JohnStossel.com

I like some things DeSantis says and does.

I also worry that he’s an authoritarian.

In any case, he’s definitely smarter and better than both Trump and Biden.

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right or wrong. betray our heritage of liberty, must be replaced with Statesmen.

Picture a river flowing wild and free that brings life to earth. The pollution of man that kills life must remain on the banks. Compare the pure uncontaminated Constitution, free from the “assumed powers,” that for the past centuries have contravened the law of the land, thus the laws of God over the past centuries. Under the banner of Republican and Democrat too many sleep. The Constitution should

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rule supreme over the Marxist ideology that has ruled supreme since early in the 20th century.

Since government follows the same agenda taught in our schools for the past century, most of our people see nothing wrong with the government we have. Generally speaking, each Administration is given a check signed by taxpayers unaware they are paying for illegal powers the Constitution forbids. Experts agree, that if the government was limited to powers mandated to

it by the Constitution, 80% of the spending that we pay for “assumed powers” would go away.

Barbara was born on May 3, 1941, in Albany, NY to her parents, Joseph Presner and Kathleen Champlin. She moved to Miami, FL with her parents, attended Miami Senior High School, and graduated in 1958. She also attended business school. They moved to West Palm Beach, FL where Barbara worked in the family business, Palm Beach Pastry Shop. She enjoyed baking so much that she continued to work there doing the cake decorating for the shop.

Barbara was involved in the American German Club of the Palm Beaches with her husband Herbert E. Dick and family. She served as the Secretary on the Board of Directors, as well as chairing many booths during the annual Oktoberfest from the Hot Dog and Roast Beef Booth to the Beer Booth. Barbara and her family along with members of the club played a big part in the production of the holiday floats for the Christmas parades around the area that the club participated in, receiving Best Overall Float on many occasions.

Barbara and Herb spent their summers up on Lake Winnipesaukee in Laconia, NH. This soon became their second home as this is where her husband was from. They also both loved the lake and mountains. Each year the stays got a little longer as the family grew up.

When her husband passed, Barbara decided that it was time for another pet, a full-bred Maltese that became her best friend that she named Winston.

Barbara brought so much joy to the lives of everyone that knew her. She enjoyed flowers and always had roses throughout the house. She also enjoyed cooking and baking, especially her traditional Lamb cake. She loved going out to eat at different restaurants and traveling when the time was right. Her favorite place to visit was Disney, especially the cabins at Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground.

Barbara was predeceased by her parents, Joseph Prestner and Kathleen Champlin and her husband, Herbert E. Dick. She is survived by her daughter, Jaqueline Leigh Freeman; son, Herbert Dick, Jr.; daughter, Kathleene Rowe; son-in-law, Robert Rowe; grandson, Ryan Rowe; granddaughter, Kristy Rowe; and a very good friend who is like an adopted son, Jon Vincent Di Battista.

Loved ones are welcome to send flowers and gifts, but are also welcome to donate to the Dementia Society of America.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Friday, June 9, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Cataudella Funeral Home, 126 Pleasant Valley Street, Methuen, MA. Burial will follow at Bellevue Cemetery, 170 May Street, Lawrence, MA.

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not just gender-traitors; they weren’t even women. Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem famously called conservative Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator.”

Group pride is a characteristic of all left-wing thought and activism.

PRAGER from 7 wing movement is totalitarian. Therefore, it is not enough for people to tolerate or even show respect to LGBTQ individuals. We must all celebrate lesbianism, male homosexuality, the transgendered and queers. No left-wing movement is a movement for tolerance. They are movements that demand celebration.

The most recent incarnation of group pride is LGBTQ pride. Every company, every professional sports team, every Democratic politician, even the armed forces and American embassies around the world are expected to celebrate Pride Month, Pride Night and yearround LGBTQ Pride.

This is problematic for at least two reasons.

First, what exactly is one proud of? What accomplishment is involved in being gay, lesbian or bisexual? Even trans is allegedly built into one’s nature. Isn’t the entire premise of the LGBTQ movement that one does not choose one’s sexual orientation or sexual identity?

Wasn’t anyone who argued that homosexuality is a choice declared a hater and a science denier? So, then, if no choice is involved, no effort on the part of the individual — let alone no moral accomplishment — what is there to be proud of? Maybe I couldn’t identify with Jewish pride over great Jewish athletes, but at least they all actually accomplished something.

The other problematic element has to do with why the LGBTQ movement does everything possible to bludgeon every institution into celebrating Pride Nights, Days, Weeks and Months. The reason is the totalitarian nature of all left-wing movements. Unlike liberal and conservative movements, every left-

celebrate something you had nothing to do with. Finally, if you’re honest, group pride must be accompanied by group shame. Yes, a disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners were Jews. But a disproportionate num-

ber of Western spies for Stalin were also Jews. If you’re not prepared to be ashamed of your group, don’t take pride in it. That rule applies to blacks, gays, women, Christians and every other group in the world.

For the first time in any of our lifetimes, the Left may have met an immovable obstacle. Americans are prepared to tolerate just about everything and everyone. But at least half of us will not celebrate girls who have their breasts removed — or the therapists and physicians who facilitate it. At least half of us will not celebrate men dressed as women, especially those who dance in front of 6-year-olds. And while some medical schools have been cowed into saying “birthing person” rather than “pregnant woman,” at least half of us will hold the cowards who run these medical schools in contempt.

I return to my opening point. I have devoted much of my life to helping my fellow Jews. It started when I was 21 years old, and the Israeli foreign office sent me into the Soviet Union to smuggle in Jewish items and smuggle out names of Jews wanting to leave the Soviet Union. I have brought many disaffected Jews back to Judaism. And I have constantly fought for Israel’s security. I am very happy to be a Jew. But I don’t quite relate to being proud of it — it was not my achievement; it was an accident of birth. That is equally true of your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity and orientation. You don’t get credit for, shouldn’t be proud of and have no right to demand others

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