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Mainely Skiing: A digital slide The Conway Area Holiday Concert: program at Humane Society Dana Cunningham, Fryeburg has joined forces Max Dyer and Academy will with the Animal Carol Noonan look at the Rescue will present two history of League of very special skiing in N.H. … holiday concerts Western at the Little Maine … A White Church 5 in Eaton … A2 All For The Animals: B1 A SALMON PRESS PUBLICATION • (603) 447-6336 • PUBLISHED IN CONWAY, NH Page Two

‘Down-Mountain and Cross Country - 140 years of skiing in Maine,’Nov. 24 Ski Museum of Maine & FA Ski Team host narrated digital slideshow FRYEBURG, Maine — Maine’s skiing history goes back farther than any other New England state. A Mainer wrote America’s first book on skiing. A Maine company built the world’s tallest ski jump and the first chairlift in the East. Two Maine manufacturers were leading producers of skis in the mid-20th century. Two dozen Maine skiers have com- peted or coached at the Olympics. Maine has hosted five ski, snowboard and biathlon competitions at the World Championship and World Cup level. These are a few facets of a narrated digital slideshow recently produced by the Ski Museum of Maine. The show, titled “Down-Mountain and Cross- Country: 140 Years of Skiing in Maine,” will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, on the Fryeburg Academy campus. The public is invited to attend this free public event. More than 140 photos, some more than a century old, have been assembled from the Kingfield-based museum’s collections and more than 30 other sources, including historical societies and skiing organizations. Photos and graphics to be presented cover the entire span of skiing in (Photos courtesy of the Maine Ski Museum) Maine, from the arrival of immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Norway in country, alpine, freestyle and biathlon. Pleasant Mountain, today’s Shawnee the late 1800s to present-day happen- For a brief period in the late 1930s, Peak, was the go-to place to ski in the ings. Locations that were historically Fryeburg was Maine’s skiing capital. 1950s. Its facilities were the most important to the development of skiing Snow trains ran from Portland, and advanced in Maine, including the state’s include Aroostook County, Auburn, skiers had a choice of three hills in town first T-bar and first chairlift. Augusta, Bethel, Bridgton, Brownfield, plus a variety of cross-country trails. Skiing has been important to Maine’s Carrabassett Valley, Farmington, Maine’s first ski lift was installed at economy for many years. Ski manufac- Fryeburg, Norway, Paris, Poland, Jockey Cap in Fryeburg, and the Hannes turing was an important industry in Portland and Waterville. Competition Schneider ski school established a Norway and Paris between 1900 and subjects include ski jumping, cross- branch. 1965. A large-scale development at Evergreen Valley promised to provide an immense economic boost but went bust instead. Other long-gone local ski hills included Burnt Meadow Mountain in Brownfield and Ski-W in Fryeburg. Bethel enjoyed more success in the ski business. After a modest in-town rope tow proved popular in 1948, the community got together a decade later to develop something a bit larger. The result was Sunday River Skiway, which opened for business on Dec. 19, 1959 with one T-bar and one rope tow. The narrator will be Scott Andrews, a Portland-based ski journalist and museum director who assembled the photos and performed much of the research. In 2008-2009, this show was presented 30 times, between Kittery and Fort Kent. “Skiing has been part of the Maine way of life since the late 1800s, offering recreation and competition to both residents and visitors,” says Andrews. “The museum’s objective is to feed the passion of Maine skiers and to illustrate the sig- nificance of our sport to our state’s lifestyle and economy.” “Down-Mountain and Cross- Country: 140 Years of Skiing in Maine” is sponsored by the Ski Maine Association and the Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club. Call 207-935-9232 for more information. ▲

On the Cover Inside Index M&D Productions Home heating through the ages Arts & Entertainment...... Pages B1-7 The Valley’s hometown theater company, M&D Writer Sara Young-Knox takes a look back at the Business News...... Pages A10-11 Productions, is looking ahead to 2010 and has a at times innovative, but mostly functional, ways variety of plays in store for the public, from classic that New Englanders have used to stay cozy and Calendar...... Pages B6-7 comedy to cutting edge drama. Managing warm at home. See Page A8. Nooks & Crannies...... Page B11 Director Mark DeLancey (left, on cover) and Artistic Director Ken Martin have nurtured M&D A law firm with a heart North Country Notebook...... Page B12 from the beginning, producing 72 plays and win- Cooper Cargill Chant has grown to become the On the Rockpile...... Page B8 ning more than 14 separate N.H. Theatre largest law firm in the North Country, but it takes Real Estate ...... Pages A5 & A11 awards.See Page A4 for the full story. pride in its local community involvement. See Sports ...... Page B12 (Photos courtesy M&D Productions) Page A10.

Page A2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 In the News

North Conway store joins effort by accepting gifts for local kids Dressbarn partners with Toys for Tots for second year NORTH CONWAY — The holidays including the North Conway location at dreams, no matter what their circum- to those who need it most. are a time for family, joy, wishes that Settlers’ Green, will encourage residents stances are. We at the North Conway For more information on Dressbarn come true and gifts. However, for some to donate new, unwrapped toys by giv- Dressbarn location are proud the com- in North Conway, or its participation disadvantaged children, regardless of ing customers who donate 15 percent pany is taking part in this important in the Toys for Tots Drive, call 356- how good they’ve been or how hard they off their purchase of a regular-priced effort again. We invite the local commu- 2040. ▲ wish, there just won’t be a present to item. All of the toys collected will be nity to join us in spreading holiday cheer unwrap this year. given to children in the community. Dressbarn is partnering with Toys for “The holidays can be hard for chil- Tots to help bring a toy, a smile, and a dren from families of limited resources. sense of hope to some of the 14 million We are determined to make an even big- Time to sign up children living in poverty. ger difference as a company this year by To ensure no child goes empty hand- collecting more than 12,000 toys,” said for snowmobile safety classes ed, Dressbarn is launching its Toys for Lori Sue Gravel. “A toy can be so much Tots Drive for the second year in a row. more than just a present. It can be a CONCORD — The seasons are chang- Many of the trained volunteer The toy collection will take place Nov. message of hope. Along with the Toys ing fast, and now is the time to sign up instructors teaching the safety classes 19 through Dec. 15. During this time, for Tots program, we strive to help for snowmobile education classes are affiliated with one of the more than Dressbarn stores across the country, motivate children to reach for their offered across the state. 100 snowmobile clubs in New To operate a snowmobile in New Hampshire. Hampshire, any person over the age of “Joining a snowmobile club is a great Hiker Achievement Patch Program offered 12 must have either a valid Motor way to learn about safe riding and help Vehicle Driver's License or have suc- maintain trails for your own and others’ cessfully completed an approved Off- enjoyment,” Acerno said, noting that New trail guide for LRCT’s Highway Recreational Vehicle (OHRV) club membership also gives riders a $30 Safety Education class taught by volun- discount on snowmobile registration Castle in the Clouds area teer instructors trained by the New fees. Hampshire Fish and Game Department. The New Hampshire Snowmobile OSSIPEE — The Lakes Region headquarters and will also soon be Additionally, all children under the age Association (NHSA) and its member Conservation Trust has just released a available in stores throughout the of 14 must be accompanied by a licensed clubs have actively promoted safe and new Hiking Trails Guidebook for the region. adult when operating a snowmobile, responsible riding since 1969. NHSA Castle in the Clouds Conservation The Lakes Region Conservation unless they are on property belonging to members work with Fish and Game to Area. LRCT hopes the guidebook will Trust has also launched a Hiker their parents, grandparents or manage over 6,800 miles of trails in be a great resource for exploring this Achievement Patch Program designed guardians. New Hampshire and provide safety edu- 5,381-acre property in the Ossipee to recognize hikers who have ascended Most snowmobile safety classes are cation to more than 2,500 children each Mountains, which is owned and stew- five major summits and hiked 16 desig- offered in November and December, year. For more information on how to arded by the Lakes Region nated trails located entirely within with a few in early January, so sign up become involved with a snowmobile Conservation Trust. LRCT's Castle in the Clouds soon. There is no charge for the classes, club, visit www.nhsa.com. The property is open to the public Conservation Area. These trails are all which are usually completed in a single In addition to safety education, this during daylight hours at no charge, included in the new guidebook and day. Parents are encouraged to attend winter Fish and Game Conservation with trailhead parking located at the depicted on the new map. LRCT hopes along with their children. For a current Officers will use innovative enforcement end of Ossipee Park Road and on that people throughout the region will class schedule, visit www.ride.nh.gov. patrols to detect and apprehend Route 171. take on this five summit/16 trail chal- “Snowmobiling is a great way for impaired snowmobile operators; The new guidebook contains lenge and hike, snowshoe, or cross- families to have fun exploring the great enhanced speed enforcement and modi- detailed descriptions of over 28 miles of country ski towards earning a patch! outdoors, but riders have a responsibili- fied exhaust patrols also will be conduct- trails, their level of difficulty, trail dis- To find out how to participate in the ty to obey the rules of the trails, to be ed. These ongoing initiatives will help tances and elevations, and includes a program, visit the LRCT website at courteous and — most of all — to ride to keep the state’s snowmobile trails safe waterproof, foldable trail map in the www.lrct.org; you will find a link to a safely,” said Major Timothy Acerno, for all outdoor enthusiasts during the back pocket. Funding support for program description and application who coordinates Fish and Game’s upcoming season. ▲ development of the map and guidebook form on the homepage. To purchase a OHRV Education Program. was generously provided by the guidebook, contact the Lakes Region Meredith Village Savings Bank Fund. Conservation Trust at 253-3301 or Guidebooks are available at LRCT's [email protected]. ▲ Do you need financial help with spaying or altering of your dog or cat? 224-1361 before 2 p.m. Time to make your Holiday Reservations!

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page A3 Putting on successful shows is just one of the company’s goals

Established 1976 M&D Productions PUBLISHER Richard Piatt FOUNDING EDITORS celebrates 10 years R. Stephen Eastman Jane Golden Reilly t is hard to believe that since the Season for 2010, while also crafting a one woman’s monumental certainty (?) debut of the controversial play Studio Season of ‘cutting edge’ produc- shine as harshly as a naked light bulb MANAGING EDITOR “Extremities” in 2000 in what is tions for which we are well known.” amidst the shadows of Catholic guilt. The six Mainstage shows M&D will • “A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Nina Perry now the Echo building in Conway, Ken Martin and Mark perform this upcoming year are: Tennessee Williams. June 3 through 5, DeLancey of M&D Productions • “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s 10 through 12, and 17 through 19. This COPY WRITING/ would look back on that defining Nest” by Dale Wasserman, Feb. 11 is the story of an emotionally-charged I through 13, 18 through 20, and 25 confrontation between the traditional PROOFREADING moment with such fond remembrance. through 27. Taking place in a mental values of the American South and the Nina Perry This company has rapidly progressed since its conception as a cutting-edge institution in the Pacific Northwest, aggressive, rapidly-changing world of Kristina Whitten theater, growing into a community- these mostly catatonic inhabitants are modern 1945 America. The play empha- based theater not only educating patrons content to have Nurse Ratched tell them sizes the clash between cultures and CONTRIBUTING WRITERS with such heartfelt dramas as “Facing right from wrong. Then a new inmate, classes in this story of alcoholism, mad- East,” “’Night Mother,” or “How I Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives and ness, and sexual violence. This is one of Pru Smith Learned to Drive,” but also making proceeds to change the previous norm. Tennessee Williams’ best and well- Steven D. Smith them laugh with humorous comedies, This heart-touching story teaches us known works of literature. We are proud Peter Minnich and revitalizing them with the classics that life is never over, never wasted. The to bring you such a classic. such as “Glass Menagerie” and “Cat on play encourages theatre-goers to think • “California Suite,” by Neil Simon. Steve Caming a Hot Tin Roof.” about (amongst all the chaos around us) July 8 through 10, 15 through 17, and 22 Linda Tucker To date, M&D Productions has pro- what is real and what is “made up.” through 24. A married man and his John Harrigan duced over 72 shows, won more than 14 • “Doubt: A Parable,” by John comatose hooker, an academy award- separate N.H. Theatre awards, the Patrick Shanley. April 8 through 10, 15 nominated actress and her gay antique Rachael Brown “Matty Award” for vision and tenacity, through 17, and 22 through 24. Set at a dealer husband, a divorced couple received several letters of recognition Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, caught in an embittered custody battle, CONTRIBUTING from the Governor, and earned the Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister and two couples vacationing together Aloysius, who does not approve of are viewed under the microscope at a PHOTOGRAPHERS highly coveted New England Regional Award from the NETC for Excellence teachers offering friendship and com- hotel suite in Beverly Hills. This slap- Steven D. Smith in the American Theater. After but 10 passion compared to the discipline she stick comedy is not only one of the best Joshua Spaulding years in the Valley, M&D is viewed as a believes students need to face the harsh family friendly events of the year, but Linda Tucker highly reputable theater company that world. When she suspects a new priest also one of the most hilarious. of sexually abusing a student, she is faced • “Fat Pig,” by Neil LaBute. Aug. 12 Steve Caming produces shows of the highest quality. “While we are very proud of all our with the prospect of charging him with through 14, 19 through 21, and 26 Dennis Coughlin accolades, we are most proud of the rela- unproven allegations and possibly through 28. This is the shocking story of Rachael Brown tionships we have created with our val- destroying his career as well as her own. Tom, a thirty-something, in shape, Dick Pollock ued supporters,” states Mark DeLancey, Is there abuse? Who is right? Come see stereotypical professional in a large city, the Managing Director. “They who meets an overweight are the invaluable source of our librarian named Helen. They ADVERTISING SALES accomplishments.” “Facing East” meet in a crowded cafeteria at Rick Clay-Storm The relationship M&D lunchtime and talk. 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Page A4 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 ... of theater in the Valley later in a coffee shop open mic. Both fundraisers for M&D Productions to “Imagine a safe place for your kids to of the biggest improvements M&D touching and funny, this exploration of relieve some of the financial burden. come and learn how to look outside plans is their community outreach. the human condition will leave you Along with all these improvements, their shyness, learn valuable life skills “Right now almost 90 percent of our speechless. M&D Productions looks forward to and perform onstage all under the tute- patrons think of us as a great theater renting out the beautifully remodeled lage of experienced staff. Imagine a place company. While this is true, we are so &D will bring in other studio black box theater to the community for where adults can come and contribute to much more,” exclaim Martin and shows like “Vagina Mono- its growing needs, conducting classes what is important to them. The public DeLancey. “This theater will be a place Mlogues,” directed by Stacy and workshops for children and adults, can obtain quality theater from profes- where those interested in creating a bet- Sand, on Valentines Day weekend. This increasing their volunteer base and sionals who care that their voices will be ter community can come and discuss show will be done with an M&D twist. implementing a new, improved, user- heard,” DeLancey states. their ideas on how to make a difference, “We are also weaving into Eve friendly website. The future for M&D is exciting. One to create that change, and include col- Ensler’s classic some local women-relat- laborations with the community and ed stories,” says Martin. “It will keep the talk-backs on numerous social issues.” impact of the stories current and “Warmth of the Cold” Martin and DeLancey realize that thought provoking.” they cannot achieve their vision alone. Other studio shows M&D has slated They firmly believe that many can play a for 2010 are world-renowned visual key role in their future. During the next artist and silent performer Rajmond year, M&D Productions will be engag- Klechott in the spring; Voice of the ing many members of the community in Valley; and Comedy nights. M&D also a bold project that will define M&D’s plans on soliciting one new work every strategic direction. M&D recently year. These submissions will come from signed a contract with daVinci all over the state and Western Maine. Consulting, which is based in Intervale, “These are only a few of the improve- to help guide them into the future. On ments we have planned,” said DeLancey. Sept. 23 and Oct. 2, more than 20 mem- “We are raising the funds to turn the bers of the community met to begin the lobby into a coffee shop to be used planning process. You will be hearing before and after the performances. much more from Mark and Ken during Patrons seem to love the idea of staying the next few months as they begin to after a show and discussing what they reach out to the community. just saw over a cup of coffee. We are also If anyone is interested in volunteer- expanding our social media networking ing, lending their voice, auditioning or to include Twitter and Facebook.” being part of this movement, they can Those interested in following M&D either forward an email to info@yourthe- online can do so by searching for atre.com or give a call at 662-7591 and “yourtheatre.” It is also DeLancey’s goal just talk. M&D would be happy to hear that the community will help to create what you have to say. ▲ Attitash Realty

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page A5 A day for our Veterans

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Page A6 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day, the American Legion Color Guard along with parade organizer Marine Corps Ret. Major Frank McCarthy led the Parade of Heroes along the Main Street of North Conway. The Kennett High School Band, along with local Boy and Cub Scout troops, marched with the Veterans. The keynote speech was given by State Rep. Karen Umberger and State Rep. Ed Butler also spoke. (Dick Pollock Photos)

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page A7 Keeping warm through the ages It’s hard to beat a wood fire for warmth & coziness at home By Sara Young-Knox ing room furniture it bore almost no trace of That didn’t last too long, Contributing Writer its previous function. Almost no trace, I say, though. Within a generation of hen my sisters and I because the central interior wall was taken the Pilgrims’ landing and initial were young my parents up nearly entirely by a huge fireplace. The settlement, English immigrants used to take us on visits hearth was large enough, tall enough and crowded onto the shoreline, to an old friend of theirs deep enough, for a child to play in, and making their way inland to who lived in an even indeed, there was a small straw-seated chair claim land, and the resources olderW house. set inside the fireplace. Sitting on this seat that went with that land, for The house, on Hopkinton Road on the was like being in a cave, though we had to be themselves. By the mid-1600s western border of Concord, was full of all careful not to bang our heads on the iron houses were large enough, and sorts of interesting knick-knacks, and had bar that swung out for cooking pots. In handsome enough, to still be fascinating nooks and crannies. This friend’s Colonial times, and for quite a time after- copied by late husband had served in the military, ward, fireplaces such as this one were the modern day builders. This is mostly in the Far East, and there was a only source of domestic heat. In the winter, especially true for the center Modern day fireplaces, such as this one being built in delightful mix of Eastern and Western family life would revolve around the massive colonial, one of the earliest the 1980s, are more for pleasure than function, though objects in the house. On one wall a nearly masonry structures. styles of American architecture. the narrowness of the firebox and the brickwork makes full-sized tiger slunk out from the minimal These houses, though, were this one fairly efficient, as fireplaces go. Note the Dutch brush strokes of a Japanese painting. y today’s energy standards, this type not warm by our standards. oven above the woodbox — in colonial days this cham- The house had Indian shutters, wooden of heating was terribly inefficient. At The massive masonry struc- ber would have been used for baking. In this fireplace, panels that slid across the windows from the Bleast 80 percent of the heat produced tures that anchored the houses it’s just for show. (Sara Young-Knox Photo) inside. One upstairs hallway, really just an went right up the chimney, but as there sometimes supported fireplaces extra space running behind two bedrooms, weren’t any alternatives, and since the New in bedrooms on the second floor, too, but spread the heat throughout the house was open to the roof rafters which slanted England landscape was well-forested, there these fireplaces did little to heat the air with proved a practical way of heating all sizes of down to the outer wall. The house seemed was little incentive to capture more heat. any consistency. buildings. The new steam engine technolo- very, very old, and even as a child the lack of One of my 1700s-era ancestors, in his gy was quickly adapted for central heating, nails in the ancient timbers, the presence of contract with the town of Hollis to provide ot all earlier heating methods were with fireboxes in basements heating water pegs only to hold the house together, ministerial services, requested 20 cords of as inefficient. A Roman engineer, in boilers and the steam from the heated amazed me. firewood as part of his annual salary. No NSergius Orata, is credited with water rising through the pipes. By the 20th Somewhere during its life the house, just doubt his neighbors, in their timber-framed inventing a central heating system back in century, the adaption circulating fans and like many New England houses, had farmhouses, had similar energy needs. the 1st century. Called the hypocaust, this pumps made forced hot air and hot water stretched out to include out buildings as liv- Still, these fireplaces did have an advan- system carried the hot exhaust from a sub- systems. Again, coal proved to be the fuel of ing space. By the time I knew the house the tage over earlier heating systems. The stone floor wood or coal fire through tubes of choice. kitchen, which extended from the original and brick that lined the walls and hearth terra cotta embedded in the walls. Only the rectangular footprint of the house to face absorbed some of the fire’s heat, giving it out rich could afford such extravagance, and atty Boewe of Freedom grew up in a the pine woods in the back, was thoroughly as radiant heat long after the fire burned this heating method, also used for the farmhouse in Ohio that had a coal winterized and modernized. It still had a down to ashes. Roman baths, died with the fall of the Pfurnace. One of the big disadvantages kitchen fireplace, but the fireplace was rela- That wasn’t the case for more primitive Roman Empire. of coal is that, like firewood, it is labor tively small, not big enough to provide the dwellings, in which there were no chimneys As the colonies grew, so did the demand intensive. winter heat that would have been necessary and the smoke from central fire pits had to for firewood. In urban settings, it’s harder to Patty remembers loading coal into the in early America. It was in this kitchen, find its own path through roof openings. find places to store 20 cords of wood for firebox with a long shovel. A long poker was around a large table, that the adults sat to The fireplaces at Plymouth Plantation in each dwelling. There had to be a more effi- used to break up the ash and embers that catch up on the doings in the state’s capitol, the 1620s were only slightly more sophisti- cient way of capturing those BTUs. rested on the grate, to make sure the coal leaving us children to wander where we cated. Fires were built on the dirt floor Benjamin Franklin was first out of the got enough air from underneath. The wished. against a wall or in a corner, with the smoke gate with an iron sided firebox that came to damper was operated by a push button, and The tiger painting was in a room which from the fire vented through a timber- be known as the Franklin stove. Brought if you didn’t wait long enough between the faced the now-busy road. The room was framed chimney. There was no formal sep- out into the room, this stove had the advan- rush of air and loading the furnace, the likely the house’s original kitchen, though aration between the hearth and the rest of tage of having more surfaces from which to blowback could singe your eyelashes, as with its wall-to-wall carpeted floors and liv- the living space in the one-room houses. radiate heat. Woodstoves quickly evolved Patty found out one time when it was her from this moment in 1743, with parlor turn to load the coal. stoves and cook stoves becoming increas- Her father would bank the fire at night. ingly efficient, and increasingly ornate. “In the winter, once you got that coal burn- Chinese Auction/ The age of wood energy didn’t last for- ing you didn’t want it to go out,” she says. Penny Sale to Benefit Special Olympics ever, though. Coal had been used as a fuel in Though easier to handle than firewood, November 21, 2009 Europe for hundreds of years, particularly and longer burning, coal did have a big dis- Kennett Middle School Cafeteria in England, where it was an abundant advantage. Patty remembers that in the (formerly Kennett High School) resource. Coal had some advantages over winter the snow had coal specks in it. Viewing and Tickets sold from 5:00 - 6:30 wood. It was easily transported and stored Though her mother still lives in the farm- Winning Bidders Announced- 6:30 in basements, and a half a ton of coal pro- house, it is now heated by an oil furnace. Not all Midwesterners heat with oil; in You must be present to win! duced the same energy as two tons of wood. With some modifications, coal needs more fact, unlike Northeasterners, most don’t. Support two great causes, have fun, and do your Christmas shop- oxygen to burn and so needs an air source The technology for tapping into natural gas ping at the same time! This annual fundraiser supports local beneath the fire grate — freestanding pockets and safely transporting and storing Olympians, the Arctic Wolves, in the Winter Olympics at Waterville. woodstoves could be converted to burn that gas evolved with the advent of the Four years ago, two local Olympians went to Japan in the World coal. industrial revolution, and by the end of the Winter Olympics and brought home medals! Finally, Sergius Orata’s idea came to the 20th century natural gas was the heating For more information contact Emma McNally at 356-9045 or States. In the 18th century the idea of hav- and cooking fuel of choice by many Tammy Shaw at 356-6921 Ext. 1045 ing some kind of conflagration in the base- Americans. This fuel burns more cleanly ment of a building with a system of pipes to than other fossil fuels, producing 30 percent less carbon dioxide per energy unit than oil, and 45 percent less than coal. The 1970s saw a revival of heating with woodstoves, due to the energy crisis. Now, many of those who were young during that era, and had strong backs, opt for heating with wood pellets or use their woodstoves to take the chill off their houses so that their oil burners won’t kick on as much. The new headquarters for the White Mountain National Forest takes heating with wood a step further. It uses a one million BTU (British Thermal Unit) wood pellet gasification boiler to heat its main building and warehouse. The boiler is 90 percent efficient. The gasification of wood pellets also supplies the energy to run a 125KW electrical generator. That 90 percent efficiency is a far cry from the 15 to 20 percent efficiency achieved by that the large center chimney fireplace I used to play in. Still, the principle remains the same after all these hundreds of years: in the winter, there’s nothing like a fire to keep you cozy, no matter where the fire is located, or how the fire’s heat travels through your home to warm your cold toes. ▲

Page A8 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 Valley Focus & Folks

The Ear and the Tasmanian Outback. Joe Fay (right), of North Conway, and Bob Christiansen, of Brisbane, Australia, and Conway, show off The Ear in front of Precipitous Bluff in the southern wilderness of Tasmania. The two had embarked on The Ear tastes the romance of Italy. John and Kathy Cochrane of North a trip through the wilds of Tasmania which truly defined the term ‘wilderness adven- Conway vacationed in romantic Italy this September. They toured Tuscany with vis- ture,’and both have lived to tell about it. Stay tuned to future issues of The Mountain its to Florence, Lucca, Siena, Pisa (pictured near the leaning tower with Ear in Ear for an up-close-and-personal account of their most excellent adventure. hand), and San Gimignano, where they enjoyed a lunch at a nearby winery. (Christiansen’s Australian Odyssey Photo) (Courtesy Photo)

Shelters combine to better serve N.H.’s animals Animal Rescue League of N.H. and CAHS join forces CONWAY - The Conway Beyond the retention of each organiza- 105-year-old Animal Rescue League of Area Humane Society tion’s current community services, addi- N.H., under the superb management (CAHS) and the Animal tional anticipated benefits of this alliance experience of CEO Caroline Boyd, with Rescue League of N.H. (the include: the energy and additional service area of League) have announced • More animals' lives will be saved in the six-year-old Conway Area Humane their formal affiliation effec- New Hampshire; Society. In this case, one plus one equals tive Nov. 11. The combined • The affiliation will create efficiencies three. New Hampshire can only benefit talents of each organization and leverage management and develop- from more of such affiliations,” said Lew will strengthen the pro- ment expertise, bringing additional Feldstein, President of the New grams and services offered resources to bear on the animal welfare Hampshire Charitable Foundation. to more than 70 communi- services provided by the two organizations; Each year the League and CAHS help ties in the Granite State. and more than 2,500 animals find homes and The Animal Rescue • While each shelter will be sharing best help countless more through animal cruel- League of N.H. brings Animal Rescue League of N.H. and Conway Area Humane practices and operational strategies, the ty investigations, obedience training, more than 100 years of his- Society recently announced their affiliation. Pictured structure will ensure that community humane education, spay/neuter programs, tory and experience to this above are (left) Virginia Moore, Executive Director of resources and assets will stay within the and food pantries. relationship, which will Conway Area Humane Society and Caroline Boyd, community of origin. For further information, contact the assist the younger CAHS in President and CEO of the Animal Rescue League of New “This winning partnership links the CAHS at 447-5955. ▲ becoming more fiscally and Hampshire. (Courtesy Photo) operationally resilient. The League’s current leader, Caroline critical local resource.” Boyd, will serve as the affiliation’s In addition to a unified management President and CEO, with the leadership team, two members of the CAHS Board teams of both organizations reporting to will serve on the League’s Board and vice her. versa. “This affiliation is an exciting time “Together, we can help more animals. in our organizations’ histories,” said Our shared missions of serving animals and Boyd, “and I know that by combining the community brought us together and efforts we will be able to realize the we believe that our whole will be greater benefits of collaboration while still ensur- than the sum of our parts,” said CAHS ing that each community retains a Executive Director, Virginia Moore.

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page A9 Business News &&MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY REAL ESTATE LISTINGS After 10 years of practicing internal medicine in the Valley Dr. Diane Snow to leave primary care practice at year’s end CONWAY – After more than 10 years as “It’s a very difficult decision to leave,” ified to treat those with chronic disease,” Information has been sent to Dr. an internal medicine physician serving Dr. Snow said recently. “But I have she said, “and I encourage all of my Snow’s patients regarding the selection the people of Mt. Washington Valley, Dr. found that as much as I enjoy being doc- patients to consider them when selecting of a new primary care provider. For Diane Snow will be leaving her practice tor, I also find great professional satisfac- a new primary care provider.” According patients who have an appointment with and the area at the end of December, tion leading administrative efforts within to the board-certifying American Dr. Snow before Dec. 31, it will take according to an announcement by an organization.” She added, “Moving Association of Family Practitioners, fam- place as scheduled and a new provider Primary Care at Memorial Hospital. to a larger community and larger institu- ily practice physicians are the largest can be selected at that time. For patients During her time at the hospital, Snow tion will allow me to pursue the type of group of primary care providers for chil- who do not have an appointment before has been an active physician leader, serv- work I find most satisfying, while freeing dren and adults in the United States. Dec. 31 or do not have any scheduled ing as medical staff president for five up time that I want to spend with my Dr. Snow invites all of her patients to appointment at this time, call the years and facilitating physician adoption young son during these important stop by the practice and sign a picture Primary Care office at any time to dis- and use of electronic medical records. years.” mat that will hold a painting of Mt. cuss selection of a new provider. Patients Working to advance goals of quality Dr. Snow said the Primary Care prac- Washington for her new office. “My with appointments scheduled after Jan. care and patient safety, Dr. Snow was tice is assisting her patients in the selec- patients have been such a huge part of 1, 2010 will be contacted and set up with instrumental in creating the hospitalist tion of and transition to new providers. making me the best physician I can be, the provider of their choice. program at Memorial and establishing “There are two new, well trained fam- and I thank them dearly for entrusting For more information, or to discuss current medical pathways for patient ily practitioners, Dr. Brian Sponseller me with their medical care,” she said. “I selection of a new provider, call Primary care. and Dr. Bill Martin, who are highly qual- will miss them all.” Care at Memorial Hospital, 356-5472. ▲

BUSINESS BRIEF Cooper Cargill Chant is a law firm with a heart - and proud of it

By Rachael Brown principal and lead teacher were sued by Contributing Writer their former employer. The former NORTH CONWAY — The biggest law employer obtained a temporary restrain- firm in the North Country has a big ing order. Within 48 hours, Chant and heart, too. associate Christopher Meier were able to The acquisition in April 2008 of the get the restraining order lifted. The Berlin law firm, Bergeron, Hanson and school did open. The case was decided in Bornstein, by North Conway’s Cooper favor of the new school in that it met the Cargill Chant cements the company as best interests of the students and parents. northern New Hampshire’s largest law Chant and Meier went up against a pres- firm practicing in: personal injury; real tigious International Place Boston law estate; business and corporate; planning, firm. zoning and municipal; civil litigation; “We gained support of the educational family law; bankruptcy, employment and officials of Groveton and Berlin, we pre- labor law; criminal defense and DWI. vailed. The International Place law firm When Berlin partner Peter Bornstein received notice that it was in the best was appointed associate justice of the interest of the kids to open the school,” New Hampshire Superior Court and left says Chant. his firm he wanted to be certain that a And here’s more on having a big heart. strong law firm would prevail in Berlin. In addition to working on cases like the Partner Paul Chant, of Cooper Cargill Dennis Morgan (left), managing partner, and Paul Chant, partner, at Cooper Cargill Chant one in Berlin, the firm and its attorneys Chant, says when they took over the prac- take pride in their work and giving back to the community. (Rachael Brown Photo) take great pride in working within the tice they were able to add areas of service local community — it’s almost like part of to become a full service firm and to con- work hard and play hard,” he says. Chant has seen in his 23 years of law practice. the job description. tinue to serve the people of Berlin. says he knows of some attorneys who ADR was in its infancy when he was in “We literally represent a couple of The firm also serves the people of the have held outside jobs to pay the bills. He law school. hundred small businesses in the commu- Mount Washington Valley and western is happy to say, though, this is not the case Another change is client awareness. nity. We work with 94 non-profits and Maine. The broad base of services is sup- at Cooper Cargill Chant. “People are more educated now, they ask every lawyer is active in one or more ported by the versatile staff of Cooper better questions,” says Morgan. He also organizations in the Valley,” says Chant. Cargill Chant. Changes and trends says there is not the same deference to The list is too long to mention all, but “Each partner brings to the table their Morgan and Chant, who have been lawyers as in years gone by because of here are a few examples: own area of concentration, which is a lux- with Cooper Cargill Chant since 2001 more public awareness and of course, the Ken Cargill does most of the corporate ury in this state,” says Chant. He adds and 1999 respectively, have seen changes Internet. “Clients view lawyers to be uti- work. Randy Cooper is immediate past that if one needs real estate help, there is and trends in the legal profession. lized to improve their [client’s] position,” president of the Mount Washington Randy Cooper; if it is a domestic situation One change in the profession is the he adds. “We have to be more flexible as Observatory. Chant sits on the boards of there is Charles Greenhalgh, and for practice of Alternative Dispute lawyers.” the Mount Washington Valley Economic criminal expertise there is Dennis Resolution. This is an alternative to going Morgan would like to dispel the image Council, the Ham Arena, the Mount Morgan. “There is a lot to law these to court to settle disputes. “With the right that lawyers are not approachable and Washington Valley School to Career days,” he adds. attorney, mediation can be successful adds, “People think we are not approach- Partnership, the Kennett High School And the practice of law has seen its ups rather than ultimately going to court,” able. One of our strengths is we can sit Student Improvement Task Force. and downs just like other businesses dur- says Morgan. down with folks, we have a commonality, Morgan serves on the board of directors ing these challenging economic times. Chant is a Superior Court Certified we sit on school boards. We are all par- for the Eastern Slope Ski Foundation and The residential real estate has probably Mediator. He says serving as an arbitrator ents in this community.” just finished working with the Eastern been the toughest. is very satisfying work. Slope Ski Sale. Charles Greenhalgh “We have to diversify or disappear, we “You can start out the day working Legal experts, one & all served on the White Mountain Waldorf have to be flexible and reallocate our with two parties or more and it seems like Speaking of public images, the firm School board of trustees and the resources,” says Morgan, managing part- a hopeless situation; with prodding and works to change another perception. “I Tamworth Conservation Commission. ner. He explains that in the first quarter of nudging you work toward a resolution. think there is a perception in the valley “This [giving] is part of our culture, 2009 he met with more bankruptcy There comes a moment as a mediator that you need to go out of the valley to get says Chant. “What this firm brings to clients than in the entire year of 2008. when you know the case will be resolved. an expert. I hope we are changing that non-profits in the Valley is perhaps Chant says that at the national level huge The parties don’t see this yet. It is extraor- perception,” says Chant. unmatched by any other business. They firms have been devastated. dinarily fulfilling to know they will leave He talks about a case the firm handled [non-profits] turn to us; it’s flattering,” he “You have to be able to maintain prof- with a resolution,” he says. Chant adds up in Berlin. One week before an alterna- says. ▲ itability. Up here it is a balancing act, you that mediation is the biggest change he tive school was about to open, the school’s

Page A10 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 North Conway Music Shop celebrates anniversary One year done and many more to come By Elizabeth Carleton n Tuesday, Nov. 10, the North Conway Music Shop celebrated Oits first anniversary. This first year has been one of constant evolution, from its initial inventory, to additions from customers, to workshops, to expansion of styles of instruments, and much more. To celebrate, a proper party was had. A contest has been held over the last few weeks, with the grand prize being a Takamine acoustic electric guitar. All one had to do was be the closest to guessing the number of guitar picks in a jar without going over. Simple, eh? The left: Kristen Corrigan and John Dugan winner of the guitar with a guess of 946 started the night off with some live music. was Roger Malcolm. The exact number above: New to the shop is a series of was 947. exquisite electric guitars made by a local Kristen Corrigan and John Dugan artist. The guitars are called Rue de started the night off with some live Royale, made by E.L. Welker of music. Some of our younger, up and about convention. I wish I could play to be able to afford that new one. His Claremont. coming future musicians also provided music with this kind of freedom. Kids wife, explaining how wonderful and self- (Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Carleton) their share on guitars and drums. rock! less this man is, decided to muster all her New to the shop is a series of exqui- I know we chatted with others resources and surprise him with the new mine, living here in beautiful Mount site electric guitars made by a local about Otto Ninow. Has he been an guitar, allowing to hold onto the very Washington Valley, with my loving fam- artist. The guitars are called Rue de influence in developing the shop? Is meaningful current instrument. She ily and growing community of musical Royale, made by E.L. Welker of he/will he be an influence down the arranged to have the new guitar listed as friends. This is as good as it gets. Claremont. Not only are these instru- road? sold, and left our shop just a day or two If you have any interest in music, or ments beautiful sounding guitars, but I honed my musical chops on NY’s ago with the guitar paid off and in hand, children that seem to be developing an they are works of art in themselves. famed West 48th Street — the music ready to surprise him. We’ll find out interest in music, this is the place to stop These guitars are clad in leather! Each row. There were dozens of old time what happened next, when they come in by to nurture further interest. The one is unique in colouring and in tool- shops there, filled with the unusual and again! North Conway Music Shop also has for ing. They have to be seen and played to the necessary, and usually with an irasci- I can’t imagine a better life than sale CDs of local musicians. ▲ be believed. ble old gentleman presiding over the Owner Brian Charles’ philosophy is whole thing. I worked for and eventual- one of blending business with blending ly bought one of the classic shops, called with the community. After the party, I Ponte Music Company. My boss, Real Estate Showcase asked him some questions: Charlie Ponte, was a member of the What are your goals for the shop Paul Whiteman Band and Radio City in the next year? In the next five Music Hall orchestra in the 1940s and years? 1950s and had a thousand stories and a My goal both now and for the fore- love for music and musicians. When I seeable future is to be responsive to the moved to the valley a little over 15 years needs of the community. I will be look- ago, Otto was still presiding over his ing to our local musicians, teachers and shop. I stopped in numerous times, and parents for inspiration and direction. loved the atmosphere and the feeling of After one full year as a member of the being at home. I’m not yet an old man, music community here in Mount though I may be irascible at times, but it Washington Valley, we couldn’t be hap- is with deep affection that I attempt to pier with our level of achievement. New emulate these masters, making my shop and deepening relationships throughout a place for the music community to be at the community are a determining factor home. in focusing our energies on the future. In the last year, have there been In answer to these needs, I believe that any particular things that happened SILVER LAKE we’ll be expanding our range of services at the shop that have been especially and adding more specialty products. moving or memorable? Cape style home with 3 Clinics and workshops in music will be I’ve owned and run a catalog/internet expanded; support of teachers and music business for over 25 years. I am bedrooms, 2 baths and a teaching services will be supported used to my customers being spread 1 car garage, on almost 2 Acres more deeply and thoroughly; products around the globe — communicating by and new product lines are being added email only. The experience of having a of land. Less than a mile now and will continue to be added, as shop full of musicians is beyond won- needed and wanted by the community. derful. There are so many little to the boat landing and town You have done some workshops moments we’ve witnessed over this year over the past year. Any plans for that it’s hard to choose just one to share beach on Silver Lake. more, and what type? with you. Here’s one very recent story Snowmobile access is close by. We’re anticipating workshops on that stands out: a husband and wife music continuing on a monthly and per- came browsing a few weeks ago. The MLS# 2807253 $164,500 husband fell in love with a rather expen- haps weekly basis. We’re looking to add For more information please contact adult group guitar clinics; banjo and sive guitar and apparently couldn’t stop David R. Haine Real Estate mandolin clinics are possible as well. thinking about it over that weekend. He Based on the clinics of the past year, called us and began the process of sell- At the intersection of Routes 16 & 153, Conway Village we’re seen that singing, and guitar ing his current (very meaningful) guitar 603-447-5023/447-3871 • email:[email protected] website: davidrhainerealestate.com Cell: 603-387-7516 “how-to” are both very popular and will be kept in the line-up. We are asked almost daily if we offer lessons. That is an avenue that must be pursued. Have kids been a big presence at the shop? All three of us, John, Jen and myself, are parents of young children. We often have our own kids sitting at the drum sets, or doing their homework (hopefully) in the corners of the shop. Dozens of kids come through our shop every week with or without their parents. There are three local boys, maybe 12 years old, who ride their bikes over and drop in all the time, just to hang out with the instruments. We encourage kids to touch and play all the instruments, ask questions and listen as older players show what can be done. I enjoy all the sounds, even the noisy, off-meter ones, and appreciate that this is music at its best: unfettered and original, enthusiastic and uncaring

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Page A12 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 Entertainment Arts Recreation && Maine filmmaker’s tribute to Veterans and the many who care about them ‘The Way We Get By’ screening at FA Nov. 19 eteran’s Day 2009 was marked by Vmany special celebrations and tributes to our nation’s Veterans. One of these celebrations was aired on PBS, the newly acclaimed film by Maine filmmaker Aron Gaudet, enti- tled “The Way We Get By.” If you missed the film on PBS, you will have another chance to be swept away by it on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on the campus of Fryeburg Academy. For those who did see the film, Fryeburg Academy is offering you a special treat Dana Cunningham and Max Dyer will perform two concerts at the — the film’s director, Aron Gaudet, Little White Church in Eaton on Dec. 5 & 6. will be on hand to meet you and Singer/songwriter Carol Noonan will appear with Dana in her answer any questions you might have. upcoming holiday concert scheduled for Dec. 5 at The Little White The film tells the story of a group Church in Eaton. (Photo by David Griffin) of senior citizens who have been on call 24 hours a day for the past five years and have made history by greet- At The Little White Church, Dec. 5 & 6 ing over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. “The Dana Cunningham and guests to present holiday concerts Way We Get By” is an intimate look at three of these greeters as they con- ianist and composer Solstice, Advent, and Christmas con- Route 153 in Eaton. The first one, on front the universal losses that come Dana Cunningham and verge, offers us a time for reflection Saturday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m., will with aging and rediscover their reason cellist Max Dyer will give and grace, a time of receiving the invi- feature special added guests Carol for living. The Washington Post says a series of performances tation to be still, to be open, to listen. Noonan on guitar and Julia that the film “strikes a deep, rich vein in the New England area It is also a call to contemplate how we Hendrickson on flute. For those who of emotion that flows through during the first weekend may more fully participate as makers fondly remember Dana and Carol’s America’s elderly, and it should be Pin December. Well-known of peace – finding peace within that Christmas concerts from years past, required viewing for those who think singer/songwriter Carol Noonan will becomes peace in the world. With this this evening will provide an opportu- they know exactly what America is join Dana and Max for the Dec. 5 intention, Dana, Max and Carol pres- nity to recapture some of that magic. about.” evening show. ent this upcoming concert. The next afternoon, Sunday, Dec. 6, A Maine native and film maker, The upcoming season of light and Two concerts have been scheduled hope, wherein Hanukkah, the Winter at The Little White Church, on WHITE CHURCH continues Page B2 SCREENING continues Page B3

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page B1 Valley Round-Up

Train rides with Santa begin Nov. 27 through 29 Santa’s Holiday Express at Conway Scenic Railroad he “All Aboard” call is going departure to Bartlett will get under p.m. to Conway. Santa will be on will have the opportunity to register out to help Santa welcome the way at 11:30 a.m. — a one-and-three- board Santa’s Holiday Express train for the “Santa’s Holiday Express Tupcoming holidays on board quarter hour roundtrip train ride — visiting with all the children on board Give-away,” which will include a one- Santa’s Holiday Express trains at while Conway trains, 55-minutes and will have a small treat in store for night stay at a local lodging property Conway Scenic Railroad. roundtrip, will depart at 1:30 and them. Passengers will also have the and many gift certificates offered Train rides for Santa’s Holiday 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 28 only. opportunity to enjoy a relaxing train (once again) by local merchants Express will get under way on Every weekend thereafter on ride through the Mt. Washington throughout the Mt. Washington Thanksgiving weekend. Trains will Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 5 and 6, Valley countryside aboard heated Valley. depart from the historic North Dec. 12 and 13, and Dec. 19 and 20, coaches, powered by one of the For those passengers looking for Conway Station on Friday, Saturday, Santa’s Holiday Express will be run- Conway Scenic Railroad's powerful train mementos, including Thomas® and Sunday, Nov. 27 through 29. A ning at 11:30 a.m. to Bartlett and 1:30 diesel locomotives. items for the Christmas holidays, the As an added bonus, passengers on Brass Whistle Gift Shop at Conway the Nov. 27 through 29 Santa’s Scenic Railroad can accommodate Holiday Express train will have the your needs. opportunity to participate in Conway For more information on the Scenic Railroad’s on-board drawings annual Santa’s Holiday Express, call Calling all artists! with items from the Brass Whistle the Conway Scenic Railroad at 356- Gift Shop, along with a variety of gift 5251 or visit www.conwayscenic. Arts Alliance seeks artwork certificates from local area merchants. com for schedules, fares, and on-line All paying passengers on those trains reservations. ▲ for card series he Arts Alliance invites sub- serving communities from Plymouth missions from member artists to Pittsburg by presenting programs group Cantiga and performs Tfor a series of cards that it is in partnership with schools and com- White Church East/West concerts with classical planning to produce this winter. The munity organizations; by producing Indian vocalist Nanda Banerjee. He first series will reflect individual print and on-line cultural guides; and Continued from Page B1 can be heard on hundreds of record- artists’ interpretation of the “Seasons by providing assistance and opportu- ings, at jazz and folk clubs by night, of the North Country.” Artwork can nities to artists, schools, organizations at 4 p.m., Dana and Max will perform and at Houston-area churches on include drawings, paintings, photo- and arts supporters throughout the in a very intimate and acoustic con- Sunday mornings, where he graces lis- graphs, fabric art, sculpture, etc. region. Information on joining the cert, joined again by Julia on flute. teners with his soulful improvisations “We hope that artists will ask Arts Alliance is available at www. Dana Cunningham is a pianist, and musical meditations. themselves what the seasons mean to aannh.org. composer, recording artist, and public In 2004, Dana released her second them, and we are very excited to see Images should be high resolution speaker who lives and writes in the CD, Silent Night, a collection of car- how they interpret that vision in their and submitted as separate jpg or tif mountains of western Maine. Her pri- ols arranged for piano and cello. She art,” said Eileen Alexander, Assistant files. Please submit your images by mary interest is in performing – inter- was accompanied on that recording by Director of the Arts Alliance. Nov. 30 to [email protected]; include spersing her original piano composi- Dyer. In the words of Windham Hill Arts Alliance membership is open “calling all artists” in the subject line. tions and the spoken word, including founder and Grammy winner, Will to anyone who is interested in sup- Need more information? Contact the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, Rilke, Ackerman, “Silent Night is almost an porting the arts, culture and heritage Eileen at 837-2275 or send an email David Whyte, Mary Oliver, Maya impossibility. That Dana could find ▲ of the North Country. The Arts to [email protected]. Angelou, John O’Donohue and others new life in this repertoire and even Alliance is a regional organization — in concert, church, corporate, and manage to make us feel we’re hearing retreat settings. She says, “My inten- these pieces for the first time is noth- tion is toward cultivating a greater ing shy of miraculous.” sense of the pre-sent moment, and Seating is limited at the church and inviting the listener to open more advance purchase of tickets is recom- fully to his or her own experience.” mended. The tickets are priced at $25 Max Dyer is a cellist with more per person and are available at White than 30 years of performing experi- Birch Books in North Conway, The ence in the United States and abroad. Office Market and Chinook Café in As a classical cellist, he studied at the Conway, Made on Earth in Shepherd School of Music with Wolfeboro, or by calling 800-818- Shirley Trepel, played with the 6247 for credit card reservations (or Houston Symphony for three years, more information). and currently plays with the Houston For further information about Ballet, Houston Grand Opera and the Dana Cunningham and this schedule Houston Chamber Orchestra. As an of holiday concerts, visit www.dana- improvising cellist, Max is fluent in cunningham.com. For more informa- many musical styles, including jazz, tion about cellist Max Dyer, visit folk, and Middle-Eastern. He enjoys www.maxdyer.com. ▲ playing with his Celtic world music

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Page B2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 An annual event which becomes more special each year Effingham Tree Lighting planned for Nov. 28

he South Effingham-West the South Effingham Church at 6:45 Parsonsfield Citizens p.m. They will offer a variety of TOrganization will hold its annu- Christmas carols and songs both in the al tree lighting ceremony in South church and during the lighting of the Effingham on Saturday, Nov. 28. tree. The public is invited to attend. At This special occasion has become a the end of the concert the band will joyous way to open the Christmas continue its Christmas songs at the Season and its success has been meas- lighting of the tree itself. ured by the number of people who Again this year, anyone who wishes attend. The tree lighting is a major part to purchase a bulb on the Tree of of Christmas in Effingham, which will Lights for the 2009 Christmas season include the open house of Bill Taylor’s in memory of a loved one can do so by Ye Olde Sale Shoppe from 10 a.m. to 9 filling out a coupon and sending a p.m. Refreshments, great shopping and donation of $5. The proceeds will be Linda Gray of Intervale is the featured artist for Nov. and Dec. at Tin Mountain a chance to meet your neighbors make used to defray the costs of maintaining Conservation Center. (Donna Dolan Photo) this an annual treat. and lighting the tree for the next year. In conjunction with the tree light- For further information, call Bill Reception for artist, Saturday, Nov. 21 ing, a concert by the Sacopee Valley Taylor at 539-7910. ▲ Community Band will be presented in Linda Gray featured artist at Tin Mtn. Conservation Center to be proud of in this film: our wonder- Screening ful young men and women who serve inda Gray of Intervale is the fea- lance fiber artist whose large appliqué wall hangings sold in galleries and juried Continued from Page B1 our country, the dedication of our vol- tured artist during November and unteer citizens, Bill, Joan and Jerry, and LDecember at Tin Mountain shows and were commissioned by col- their team, and the wonderful way the Conservation Center’s Lobby Gallery. lectors around New England. Gray has Aron Gaudet knew there were special film personalized each individual, fam- The exhibit runs through Dec. 20 with worked in the nonprofit field for the people in Maine. He knew there were ily and community.” Tegan, a solider a reception for the artist planned past 21 years, serving currently as the stories to tell, and he has chosen a won- from California says, “I met these won- for Saturday, Nov. 21, from 4:30 to Senior Foundation Officer for the derful one that is sure to touch your derful people when I returned from 6:30 p.m. North Country and Lakes Regions of heart. deployment in Iraq. I just went to see Gray began painting in oils in the the New Hampshire Charitable “It’s really a personal story, not a the film at a local theater here in summer of 2006, nearly 30 years after Foundation, and previously at the political one. That goes for the greeters Oceanside, Calif., and I cried all the her last painting venture in college. She Mount Washington Observatory and themselves, as well. They have differ- way home. I can’t say enough about this has painted landscapes on locations off the New England Ski Museum. ent views on the war, but their main film except that it should be mandatory the coast of Maine and in the White A percentage of the proceeds from goal is to support the troops,” states for all to watch.” Mountains. Many of the paintings in the the sale of the paintings are contributed Gaudet. He shares with viewers a Join us on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 show were created this past summer to Tin Mountain Conservation Center. deeply moving film about life and how p.m., at the Leura Hill Eastman during a six-week sabbatical on Gotts The Tin Mountain Nature Learning to live it, a film that has touched many Performing Arts Center on the campus Island, where she found endless inspira- Center is located on 1245 Bald Hill lives. of Fryeburg Academy. Tickets for this tion in the subtle colors of coastal fog, Road in Albany. Gallery hours are One of PBS’s viewers had this to special evening are $7 for adults and $5 the movement of light over water, and Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to share on their blog, “Just watched ‘The for students. Group rates and discounts the constantly changing contact zone of 5 p.m. For more information call 447- Way We Get By’ and recommend that for Veterans are available. rock and sky and sea. 6991. To learn more about Tin everyone, eight to 80, make it a must For more information, contact the For a decade after graduating from Mountain Conservation Center visit the see on their viewing list. There is much Box Office at (207) 935-9232. ▲ Plymouth State College in 1978 with a web site at www.tinmountain.org. ▲ BS in Art Education, Gray was a free- The Community School Holiday Fair Angels & Elves Holiday Crafters: www.mwvkiwanis.org Tables available at Dec. 5 Fair ow is the time to reserve a table music, fine handcrafts, and the second at the Community School’s annual Festival of Trees, this year the SPONSORS NEEDED! NDec. 5 Holiday Fair. fair will feature a special Bargain Bazaar Make your holiday and Table space is available in the sunlit of gift items priced just for kids in the lobby, hallways and downstairs class- upstairs Chipman Room. that of a child great! rooms. Special pricing for student Crafters and artisans may call 323- crafters. In addition to the ever popular 7000 for more information. ▲ You can sponsor a deserving local child Cookie Walk, raffles, door prizes, festive today by either calling 603-356-8710 or stopping in at the Elf Headquarters in Settlers’ ON SALE Corner (next to Staples). Sponsors are preferred FOR THE but donations are still greatly appreciated. Please MONTH OF NOVEMBER mail donations to The Mount Washington Valley Kiwanis Club of 00! $25. Did you know? North Conway, Angels & Elves Project, POBox 3053, North Jen’s Friends is currently supporting Conway, NH 03860.

46 local cancer patients. Please make checks payable to Angels and Elves. The MWV Kiwanis Club of North Conway Charitable Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. Help your neighbor, your friend, All donations are tax deductible. your co-worker... 5 messages Hours for Elf Headquarters: to choose from Your choice of 5 inspirational charms on a unisex leather Nov. 9 - Nov. 27 Mon, Wed, Fri Noon to 4:00 pm Fa it h , necklace just $35, with all proceeds Nov 28 Saturday Noon to 4:00 pm Hope, to benefit your friends and Courage, neighbors through Jen’s Friends. Nov 30 - Dec. 20 Everyday 11 am to 4 pm Believe Wear a Jen’s Friends Amulet as a REQUEST FORMS: & Strength. symbol of support and help a local! Parents or guardians of children can obtain assistance The Jen’s Friends Amulet may be purchased at the following business locations: request forms by visiting the Elf Headquarters in Fields of Ambrosia, Langdon's Mercantile, The Memorial Hospital, The MET, Settlers’ Corner (next to Staples) or calling 356-8710. North Country Fair Jewelers, Old Village Barbershop and Spruce Hurricane Request Deadline: 12/01/09 or call Jen’s Friends at 603-356-5083

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Lounges, Taverns & Pubs (N)=Nightlife, (D)=Dining, (A)=Afternoon, (B)=Brunch Almost There - Albany Red Parka Pub - Downtown Glen Open Mic Night Every Tuesday (N) Host: Simon Crawford Ricky & the Giants Fri., Nov. 20 (N) Rock Simon Crawford Fri., Nov. 20 (A) Classic Pop Now is Now Sat., Nov. 21 (N) Rock

Club 550 - North Conway Shannon Door Pub - Jackson Village DJ Sunday & Wednesday (N) Karaoke/Dancing Dennis O’Neil & Thurs., Nov. 19(N) Celtic/Folk DJ Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. & Sat. (N) DJ/Dancing Jon Deveneau Jon Sarty Fri., Nov. 20 (N) Celtic/Folk The Conway Cafe - Conway Village Dennis & Davey Sat., Nov. 21 ( N) Celtic/Folk Open Mic Night Wednesdays (N) Harlenwolf Record Shop Dolan & Crawford Sun., Nov. 22 (N) Celtic Folk

The Corner House Inn - Center Sandwich Shovel Handle Pub - Jackson Jill Ducsai Fri., Nov. 20 (N) Rock & Roll Jon Sarty & Friends Sun., Nov. 22 (N) Acoustic

Delany’s - North Conway Up Country Tavern - North Conway Masterpiece Theatre Wed., Nov. 25 (N) 80s Theme Night DJ Ryan Thursdays (N) DJ /Karaoke/Dancing DJ Brian Sparhawk Fri. & Sat., Nov. 20 & 21 (N) DJ /Dancing H.A. Cassidy’s - Fryeburg, Maine Open Mic Every Tuesday Host: Ronzony The Wentworth - Jackson Village Karaoke Every Thursday Host: Ronzony Judy Herrick Fri., & Sat., Nov. 20 & 21 (N) Piano

Homestead Restaurant - North Conway White Mountain Hotel - North Conway Acoustic Open Mic Thursdays (N) Host: Tom Rebmann Heather Pierson Fri. and Sat. (D) Piano Mike Jewell Sun., Nov. 22 (B) Piano Brunch Horsefeathers - North Conway Hoot Night Tues., Nov. 24 (N) Open Mic Night •••

Inn at Thorn Hill - Jackson Mike Jewell Saturdays (N) Solo Piano

May Kelly’s Cottage - North Conway Dennis & Davey Fridays (N) Celtic Crooners Celtic Seisuins Sundays (A) Irish Music Valley Round-Up Rafferty’s Restaurant & Pub - North Conway Frank Hastings with Thursdays (N) Karaoke Sound-FX Red Jacket Mountain View - North Conway Tugg Brothers Fri., & Sat., Nov. 20 & 21 (N) Classic Pop At The Inn at Ellis River Dramatic reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’ Nov. 28 aul Hayden and Bill McCarthy for it has amazed me! We have people will present a dramatic reading of who come to see it every year…I know PCharles Dickens’ “A Christmas that it’s always been a story that touches Carol” at The Inn at Ellis River on my heart, but I guess I never realized Saturday, Nov. 28, at 4 p.m. Light how many folks depend on it to start Victorian refreshments will be served. their holiday season.” Tickets are $15 each and must be In addition to the Dunbar House and reserved in advance by contacting the the Inn at Ellis River, Hayden and Inn at Ellis River at 383-9339 or the McCarthy are also performing at Jackson Chamber of Commerce. Blithewold Mansion in Bristol, Rhode This very popular Cape Cod produc- Island. tion comes to Jackson for its fourth year The reading has been edited down to as part of Jackson’s Traditionally Yours approximately one hour, but is read celebration. For more than a decade, the completely in Dickens’ words. So step dramatic reading has been a holiday sta- back in time for afternoon refresh- ple at the Dunbar Tea Room in ments and catch this wonderful duo. Sandwich, Mass., where it sells out every They will immerse you in a Christmas year to an eager audience. classic and leave you feeling a spirit that “This is our 14th year performing the seems to sustain you through this fast- reading,” says Hayden, “and the demand paced season. ▲

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Tickets now available at Jackson Chamber & Red Fox Bar & Grille 6th Annual ‘Not So Typical’Yankee Swap set for Dec. 5 oin the Jackson Area Chamber of If you don’t secure a seat in the Not Fox Bar and Grille at 383-4949. Be Santa will be on hand to visit with Commerce on Saturday evening, So Typical… “Yankee Swap” from the sure to come early and start the the kids, mom and dad. Kids under 14 JDec. 5, at the Red Fox Bar and drawing, you still won’t want to leave evening off with great food from one cannot hold a seat in the actual Grille, located across from the because there are always surprises of the area’s most popular restaurants, Yankee Swap, but they certainly can Jackson Covered Bridge on Route 16 happening throughout the evening the Red Fox Bar and Grille. cheer mom and dad on to victory. ▲ in Jackson, for the 6th “Not So that may get you into the game after Typical” Yankee Swap. Tickets are all. If you cannot attend, you must on sale for $10 each or three for $25. assign a “stand in” prior to the event. You can purchase your tickets at All other rules and regulations will be Bears, rocks and animal tracks - Oh My! the Jackson Area Chamber of announced at the event. Commerce or at the Red Fox Bar and Prizes include, but are not limited TMCC ‘Nature Nuts’ Grille now until 7 p.m. on Saturday, to: overnight stays, gift certificates, Dec. 5, just before the actual event. dining experiences, ski tickets, golf topics announced Twenty winners will be drawn at 7 passes, train rides, games, gift baskets, p.m. These winners will advance on as food, and so much more. This event is very Wednesday morning from ing topics for Wednesday morning participants in the 2009 Not So incredibly funny and filled with twists 10 to 11:30 a.m., a group of Nature Nuts are Nov. 18 - Bears; Typical... “Yankee Swap,” where each and turns that have the audience and young naturalists ages three Nov. 25 -Turkeys; Dec. 2 - Rocks; participants alike on the edge of their E participant plays an interactive game, through five and their parents and/or Dec. 9 - Winter Birds; Dec. 16 - all the while trying to hold on to the seat. grandparents gather with a Tin Conifers; Dec. 23 - Owls; and Dec. 30 gift they most desire. Participants This Jackson event is slowly Mountain naturalist at the Tin - Animal Tracks. The cost per child is are guaranteed to walk away with a becoming a holiday tradition for many Mountain Nature Learning Center $6 for members, $8 for non-members, prize package valued at $100 or more. of our locals and guests alike. Make on Bald Hill Road in Albany for an $4 for each additional child. The grand prize package winner will your plans now to join in on the fun hour and a half of hands-on nature For more information on Nature find themselves with a prize package by calling the Jackson Area Chamber learning. Nuts, call Tin Mountain at 447- valued at more than $1,000. of Commerce at 383-9356 or the Red Recently, children learned about 6991. A full listing of programs can be oak and beech trees. They made a found on www.tinmountain.org. ▲ tree book comparing leaves, bark, buds, and seeds and went for a nature Enjoy a look at life in Mozambique, walk on one of the many Rockwell Sanctuary trails to identify beech and with a very local twist oak trees and observe animal evidence near or on the trees, such as bear claw North Conway Library presents film, markings and squirrel and chipmunk “restaurants.” As one parent comments, “I really ‘Journey to Africa,’ Nov. 19 can't thank Tin Mountain Con- servation Center enough for the he North Conway Library will The film shows what children in amazing experience that has been host a film showing of “Journey Monapo go through just to receive an provided for each of my kids over the Tto Africa” — a film collabora- education, live disease-free, and to past three or so years. It has had such tion between Mr. Moore’s 8th grade someday prosper. Interesting compar- a positive impact on their relationship English class at Kennett Middle School isons are explored and the diversity of with and connection to the natural and a 10th grade class in Monapo, life here in the U.S. and this faraway world as they have grown and devel- Mozambique —on Thursday, Nov. 19, place are being juxtaposed by the stu- oped. They both have just enjoyed it at the Weather Discovery Center in dents. so much, too.” North Conway Village. Nia’s placement with the Peace Tin Mountain Nature Nuts is Nia Chauvin is a Kennett High Corp has made her fluent in open to the public. New and upcom- School graduate (Class of 2003) who is Portuguese and allowed her to instill in currently on a Peace Corp assignment her students a thirst for art and knowl- in Mozambique, Africa, where she edge. teaches this 10th grade class. She Christie Girouard will present the helped establish a pen pal relationship film and talk about her experiences in between the students on these two con- Africa. After showing the film, she will tinents, provoking thought as to how answer questions from the audience. the other side lives. Enjoy an evening of entertaining Nia’s mother, Christie Girouard, insight into life in Africa at the Mount then travelled to Mozambique last June Washington Observatory Weather and had the privilege of witnessing first Discovery Center in North Conway hand the lives of the African 10th Village on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. graders. She spent 11 days photograph- There is no charge for this event and ing and filming the lives of her daugh- refreshments will be served, including ter’s students. The resulting film is giv- coffee and sweets from Frontside ing insight to the students’ traditions, Grind. religion, daily chores and things as sim- For more information, contact the ple as the games they play. North Conway Library at 356-2961. ▲

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Artist Reception at TMCC. Tin Mountain What to Do Conservation Center located on Bald Hill Road in Albany will hold a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 Friday 20 p.m. for artist Linda Gray of Intervale. Gray’s A.A. Meetings. There are several AA Meetings work will be featured at the Nature Learning held daily throughout Carroll County. Call 1- Center during Nov. and Dec. The public is invit- 800-593-3330 or go to www.nhaa.net to find one ed to attend. The gallery is open daily from 9 near you. a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 447- Al-Anon. From 8 to 9 p.m. at the Gibson Center, 6991. corner of White Mountain Highway and Grove Christmas Cupboard. The Fryeburg New Street in North Conway. Church located at 12 Oxford Street in Fryeburg, Bingo Every Friday. The VFW Post #6783 in Maine will hold the Christmas Cupboard from 9 Lovell, Maine will hold bingo every Friday. Early a.m. to noon. Handmade items, crafts, candy, Bird Games start at 6:30 p.m. and Regular Games baked goods, Christmas Wreaths. Coffee and start at 7 p.m. For more information, contact donuts will be served. For more information, call David at 207-935-7807 or 207-890-9222. Sally at 207-935-2546. Community Food Center. The Church Bean Supper. The Moultonville Sandwich/Tamworth Community Food Center Methodist Church in Center Ossipee will hold a bean supper at 5 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults based at St. Andrew’s in the Valley Episcopal Two Man Gentlemen Band. The Arts Council of Tamworth presents Two Man Church on Old Route 25 is open every Tuesday and $3.50 for children eight and under. The and Friday from 10 a.m. to noon, except for hol- menu includes homemade beans, hot dogs, pota- Gentlemen Band and Sweet Life Revue on Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Brass Heart Inn in idays. to salad, cole slaw, jellied salads, rolls, homemade Chocorua at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $20 for adults, $10 for students and children are pie and beverage. ‘Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage free. For more information or to reserve tickets visit artstamworth.org. Blockhead.’ M&D Productions presents Bert V. Conway Contra Dance and Family Dance. (Courtesy Photo) Royal’s “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage The Conway Family Dance will be held at Tin Blockhead,” today and tomorrow at Your Theatre Mountain Conservation Center on Bald Hill Road in Albany from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Fun and tion contact Dawn at [email protected]. Be part of the 2010 Census taking. For more in North Conway. This dramatic comedy information, call 866-861-2010 or 603-570-5100. explores the radically altered lives of these easy for the whole family. Adults $3, children $2 Spanish Lessons. Learn conversational Spanish “Peanuts” characters. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and $10 for families. The contra dance will take with Isabel Costa every Sunday at the Met in Zumba Dance Classes. Dotti Aiello will present Seating is limited. All tickets are $10. Call the place after the family dance from 7:30 to 10:30 North Conway. Beginners will meet at 10:40 a.m. Zumba Dance Class lessons every Monday, box office at 662-7591for information or tickets. p.m. Beginners are welcome. No partner needed. and intermediates will meet at 11:40 a.m. New Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at various loca- Byron Ricker will be the caller with music by Fish student welcome. The cost is $10 per person/per tions throughout the Valley. Class is $5 per per- Effingham Historical Society Meeting. The of a Feather. Adults $7 and children $3 age 12 lesson. For more information or to signup, call son with multi-class discount cards available. For Effingham Historical Society will meet at 7:30 and under. For more information, call 383-8946. 383-9403. class locations and more information, call 978- p.m. The Conservation Committee will speak on 790-3375 or 383-8264. preserving Ossipee Aquifer. The public is invited Freedom Food Pantry. Open every Saturday Splash-Tacular. The Red Jacket Mountain View to attend. Refreshments will be served. from 10 a.m. to noon for residents of Freedom, and Fox Ridge Resorts “Community Tuesday 24 Effingham and Ossipee at the First Christian Connection” invites MWV residents to enjoy a Fall Dance Showcase. The Kennett High Church in Freedom Village. For more informa- wonderful tropical day at Kahuna Laguna Water Bread Basket Food Pantry. The Bread Basket School Dance Department will present the Fall tion call 539-2637. Park from 3 to 9 p.m. Admission is $15 per per- Food Pantry at the River Church across from Dance Showcase today and tomorrow at 7 p.m. in son or $10 per person with a donation of three McSherry’s Nursery in Center Conway will be the Loynd Auditorium at Kennett High School. Holiday Craft Fair. A holiday craft fair will be open the second and third Tuesdays of the month held at the North Conway Community Center non-perishable food items. All proceeds to bene- Admission is $10 and children under five are free. fit local food pantries. For more information, call from 4 to 7 p.m. For more information, call 447- The showcase will feature many dance styles from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Crafts include jewelry, cro- 6633. cheted items. wreaths, baskets, photography, cen- 356-3154. including jazz, hip hop and modern. There will Story Time in Tamworth. The Cook Memorial be a raffle and great prizes at intermission. For terpieces and much more. Yoga Classes. An eclectic style of Kripalu Yoga is offered every day except Fridays by Carlene of Library offers a story time for young children more information or to reserve tickets, call 356- Puppy Playgroup. At Four Your Paws Only from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the first three 4360. located on White Mountain Highway next to Symmetree Yoga. The groups will practice Hatha yoga postures paired with breath, meditation and Tuesdays of each month. For more information Friday Painters Open Studio. The Mount D’Angelo’s Street in North Conway from 11 a.m. call 323-8510. to noon. All puppies must be on a leash and up to relaxation. Classes are $13 per person. Times and Washington Valley Arts Association will hold locations vary throughout the Valley. For more Yoga Classes. The fall session of the Tamworth Painters Open Studio from 9 a.m. to noon at the date on vaccines. No aggressive dogs please! For more information call 356-7297. information or to schedule a class, contact Rec. Department yoga classes will be held MWV Visual Arts Center at 16 Norcross Place in Carlene at 662-8664 or on the web at www.sym- Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the North Conway. All mediums and abilities wel- Thanksgiving Craft Fair and Farmers’ metreeyoga.com. Tamworth Town House in Tamworth Village. come. Work on your own project or interpret the Market. The Tamworth Farmers’ Market will Classes are multilevel. Bring a thick blanket and still life set up. Short critique at class end. Free hold a Thanksgiving Craft Fair and Farmers’ Monday 23 yoga mat. The cost for classes is $65 for the Market in the Brett School Cafeteria from 10 and open to members and nonmembers. For Agape Food Pantry. Agape Food Pantry is open eight-week session or $10 per class for drop-ins. a.m. to 2 p.m. Come support local artisans, farm- more information, call 356-2787. Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 3 p.m., To register or for more information, call 323- ers and bakers. Enjoy some soup and bread and Harvest Supper and Pie Auction. St. Andrew’s located at the Ossipee Valley Bible Church on 2090. oather treats for lunch. For more information, in the Valley Episcopal Church located at 678 Route 16 (across from NAPA) in West Ossipee. call 323-2392 or 323-2368. Wednesday 25 Whittier Road in Tamworth will hold a Harvest Billiard Tournament. Rafferty’s Restaurant and Three Mystery Scenes. The Kennett Middle Supper and Pie Auction. The supper portion Pub located on Kearsarge Street in North Cancer Support Group. Every third School Drama Club will present three mystery begins at 6 p.m. with a charge of $10 per adult Conway will hold an 8-ball billiard tournament Wednesday a cancer support group will meet at scenes at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at Kennett and $5 per child age 12 and under. The pie auc- on Mondays at 7 p.m. Single elimination, winner Saco River Medical Group located on Middle School. For more information, call 447- tion will begin at 7 p.m. For more information, takes all. For more information, call 356-6460. Greenwood Avenue in Conway from 7 to 8 p.m. call the church at 323-8515. 6464 ext. 21. Cancer patients, caregivers, family members and Canterbury Trails. The Fryeburg Walking Two Man Gentlemen Band. The Arts Council previous patients are invited to attend. This is Story Time in Denmark, Maine. The Denmark Group at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church walks of Tamworth present Two Man Gentlemen Band free and open to the public. For more informa- Library will host story time on Fridays from 9:30 1/2 to 1 mile on Mondays and Thursdays at 1 and Sweet Life Revue at the Brass Heart Inn in tion, call Donnarae at 356-3448. to 11:30 a.m. For more information call 207-452- p.m. Rain or snow, we cancel. All welcome. Wear Chocorua at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $20 for 2200. comfortable shoes and warm clothes. For more Community Coffee Klatch. Meets at the adults, $10 for students and children are free. For Story Time in Effingham. The Effingham information call Bebe Toor at 207-935-2068. Chocorua Public Library from 9:30 to 11 a.m. more information or to reserve tickets visit art- Coffee, tea, sweets and great conversation are all Public Library hosts infant and toddler story time Conway Dinner Bell. Conway Dinner Bell at from 11 to 11:30 a.m. For more information call stamworth.org. part of this morning. Bring a friend or come the Congregational Church (brown church) on alone. All are welcome. 539-1537. Sunday 22 Main Street in Conway Village serves a free com- Computer Tutoring. Every Wednesday, free Saturday 21 Argentine Tango Class. Join Isabel Costa at the munity dinner from 5 to 6 p.m. All are welcome. For information call 447-3851. one to one computer tutoring at the Gibson AMC Evening Program Series. The North Conway Community Center for tango les- Center. Co-sponsored by the Kennett Retired Gibson Center Programs. The Gibson Center Appalachian Mountain Club will present the film sons. Beginners meet at 1 p.m. Classes are $10 Teachers Association and the Gibson Center. for Senior Services in North Conway offers a “Dr. Quackenbush Skis the Headwall,” at 8 p.m. per person. No partner necessary. New students Call to set up an appointment at 356-3231. number of activities and informational programs This hilarious comedy is great entertainment for welcome. For more information, call 383-9403. for seniors, including yoga and mobility classes, a Dinner Bell North. Elizabeth Ann Seton the whole family. The program is free and open Giant Indoor Yardsale. A giant indoor yard sale game day, computer labs, dances, support groups, Church in Fryeburg, Maine will hold their to the public. For more information call the will be held at the Fryeburg Academy music movies, health related service programs and trips. Dinner Bell free dinner every Wednesday from 5 Pinkham Notch Visitor Center at 466-2727. building from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All proceeds will to 6 p.m. benefit the music program. For more informa- Call 356-3231 for details. Life Drawing Sessions. The Mt. Washington Grief Group. A grief group will be held from 9 Valley Arts Association located at Norcross to 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at The Met in Circle in North Conway will hold life drawing North Conway Village. The program is free and session on the second and fourth Mondays of the open to the public to discuss feelings about the month from 6 to 8 p.m. The class is $10 per ses- death of loved ones. For more information call The Shannon Door Pub sion for members and $12 for non-members. Jeff at 986-4977 or Visiting Nurse and Hospice Serving Great Food For 56 Years Artists should bring their own materials includ- Care Services of NCC at 356-7006. ing the medium of choice and a drawing board. Knit and Crochet Group. The Knit and For more information or to register, call 356- Crochet Group meets at the Effingham Library ENTERTAINMENT GALORE! 2787. every Wednesday at 2 p.m. Bring along your E• Thursdayntertainment11/19: DENNIS & JONO Preschool Story Time in Lovell. The project to work on. Everyone is welcome whether Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell, novice or expert. Call the library at 539-1537 for • Friday 11/20: JOHN SARTY & FRIENDS Sundays Maine is holding story time for preschoolers age more information. • Saturday 11/21: DENNIS & DAVEY Only five and under on Mondays at 10 a.m. For more Nature Nuts. Tin Mountain Conservation 2-4-1 Pizzas information call 207-925-3177. Center presents “Nature Nuts,” the nature pro- • Sunday 11/22: KEVIN & SIMON After 9pm Quilt Making. The Freedom Christian Church gram for children ages three through five and their caregivers from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the • Wednesday 11/25: DENNIS & DAVEY not available for Ladies Guild will meet every Monday, weather permitting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to make quilts TMCC Nature Learning Center on Bald Hill • Closed Thursday 11/26 take-out for charity. Bring a bag lunch. All welcome, no Road in Albany. This week the topic will be matter age or ability. For more information call turkeys. For more information call 447-6991 or Myrtle at 539-5831. on the web at www.tinmtn.org. Polar Express Mondays Square Dance Workshop. The Mount Self-Help Meeting. Every Wednesday evening Shannon Door & MTN EAR have teamed-up Washington Valley Stompers Square Dance Club at 7:30 p.m. adult children of alcoholics and other to give away Polar Express tickets!! will hold a workshop every Monday from 7 to 9 dysfunctions meet in Suite B of the Eastern Slope Inn in North Conway. The meeting is free and Each Monday night pizza ordered gets you a p.m. at the Conway Elementary School in Nightly Sepcilas Too.... Like Meatloaf, Pot Conway. The caller will be Darrell Sprague. For open to all who wish to recover from the affects chance to win tickets... and Shannon Door more information, call 447-5527. of growing up in a dysfunctional home. Roast, Roastdonates Turkey, $1.00 Italianper pizza Specialties to Angels & & more Elves.! U.S. Census Test Sites. The U.S. Census T.O.P.S. Take Off Pounds Sensibly will meet Bureau will hold testing sessions at the Gibson Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. (4:30 p.m. weigh- Center in North Conway at 2 p.m. and in the in) at the O.C.C. building at the corner of Dore Rt. 16, Jackson • Take-Out: 383-4211 Center Ossipee Town Hall at 9 a.m each Monday. Street and Moultonville Road in Center Ossipee. For information contact Linda Littlefield at 539-

Page B6 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 ing (11/18) 9:00a Conway School Board budget meet- Valley Vision Channel 3 Schedule: 12:00p Sports Bar ing (11/18) NOV. 20 TO NOV 26, 2009 12:30p H1N1 Discussion part 2 12:00p Conway School Board budget meet- (Schedule Subject to Change) 1:00p TBA ing (11/19) website: www.vv3tv.org 1:30p Honor of Our People 3:00p Conway Selectmen (11/18) 3:00p Conway School Board budget meet- 5:00p Conway School Board (11/24) phone: 603-356-8941 ing (11/18) 7:00p Pawprints 5:00p Conway School Board budget meet- 7:30p Eagle Hour 20 Friday subject to change ing (11/19) 8:00p Valley Christian Church 6:00a Conway Budget Committee (11/18) 7:00p Conway Selectmen (11/18) 9:00p Conway School Board (11/24) 26 Thursday subject to change 8:30a Your Workout 9:00p Conway Budget Committee (11/18) 6:00a Conway Selectmen (11/24) 9:00a Sports Bar 8:30a Your Workout 9:30a H1N1 Discussion part 2 22 Sunday subject to change 25 Wednesday subject to change 9:00a Recreation Weekly 10:00a TBA 6:00a Conway School Board budget meet- 6:00a Conway School Board (11/24) 9:30a Breakfast with Phil 10:30a Honor of Our People ing (11/19) 8:30a Your Workout 12:00p Recreation Weekly 10:00a The Clean Plate 8:30a Your Workout 9:00a Pawprints 12:30p Breakfast With Phil 10:30a Artist of the Month 9:00a Conway Selectmen (11/18) 9:30a Eagle Hour 1:00p The Clean Plate 12:00p Fryeburg Selectmen (11/19) 12:00p Pawprints 10:00a Valley Christian Church 1:30p Conway Budget Committee (11/18) 3:00p Pastor Tim 12:30p Eagle Hour 12:00p Conway School Board budget meet- 5:00p Sports Bar 3:30p Fryeburg Budget Committee (11/10) 1:00p Valley Christian Church ing (11/19) 5:30p H1N1 Discussion part 2 6:00p Fryeburg Selectmen (11/19) 3:00p Conway Selectmen (11/24) 6:00p TBA 3:00p Conway School Board (11/24) 9:00p Fryeburg Budget Committee (11/10) 5:00p Recreation Weekly 6:30p Honor of Our People 5:00p Pawprints 5:30p Breakfast with Phil 7:00p Conway School Board budget meet- 23 Monday subject to change 5:30p Eagle Hour 6:00p The Clean Plate ing (11/18) 6:00a Conway School Board budget meet- 6:00p Valley Christian Church 6:30p Artist of the Month 9:00p NH Executive Council (11/4) ing (11/19) 7:00p Recreation Weekly 7:00p Sports Bar 8:30a Your Workout 7:30p Breakfast with Phil 21 Saturday 7:30p Mice & Menus subject to change 8:00p The Clean Plate 6:00a NH Executive Council (11/4) 8:30p Honor of Our People 8:30p Artist of the Month 8:30a Your Workout 9:00p North Conway 24 Tuesday subject to change 9:00p Conway Selectmen (11/24) 9:00a Conway School Board budget meet- Water Precinct (11/25)

8090. late musical and cognitive development. The pro- come. Work on your own project or interpret the Great Glen Trails in Pinkham Notch where over White Mountain Stamp Club. The White gram is designed for children 18 months to three still life set up. Short critique at class end. Free 30 crafters will display handmade gifts under one Mountain Stamp Club meets on the second years old. Program fee is $8 per class. For more and open to members and nonmembers. For roof. Raffle and bake sale to benefit Gorham Wednesday of every month at 1:30 p.m. and again information, call 447-4737. more information, call 356-2787. BKL Jr. Skiers. on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Rock and Roll Jam Band. Mountain Top Music Story Time in Denmark, Maine. The Denmark Kids Craft Workshop. Come join in the fun and the home of Barbara Savary, located at 1724 NH located on Main Street in Conway will hold a Library will host story time on Fridays from 9:30 make ornaments with us at the Effingham Route 16 (on the corner of the south end of Bald rock and roll jam band with Chad Cummings to 11:30 a.m. For more information call 207-452- Elementary School at 9 a.m. Refreshments will be Hill Road in Albany). Everyone interested in col- from 6:30 to 9 p.m. every Thursday evening. 2200. available. For more information, call 539-7910. lecting stamps is welcome to attend. For more Explore jazz, pop, rock and other forms of Story Time in Effingham. The Effingham Puppy Playgroup. At Four Your Paws Only information, call Barbara at 447-5461 or email at improvisational ensemble playing. To sign up or Public Library hosts infant and toddler story time located on White Mountain Highway next to [email protected]. for more information, call 447-4737. from 11 to 11:30 a.m. For more information call D’Angelo’s Street in North Conway from 11 a.m. Thursday 26 Storytelling Dinners. The Corner House Inn in 539-1537. to noon. All puppies must be on a leash and up to Center Sandwich will hold storytelling dinners date on vaccines. No aggressive dogs please! For Billiard Tournament. Rafferty’s Restaurant and every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. No storytelling din- Saturday 28 more information call 356-7297. Pub located on Kearsarge Street in North ner on Thanksgiving. Jim Brewer of Rumney will AMC Evening Program Series. The Santa Claus Express. All Aboard! for a visit Conway will hold a 9-ball billiard tournament on be the featured storyteller on Dec. 3. Cost for Appalachian Mountain Club will present “The from Santa Claus complete with goodies and a Thursdays at 7 p.m. Double elimination, winner dinner and entertainment is $19.95 plus tax and Laughing Couple - Interactive Storytelling” with chat with Santa for the children with a 55-minute takes all. For more information, call 356-6460. gratuity. For reservations or more information Carolyn Black and Rick Hunt at 8 p.m. ride on the Conway Scenic Railroad. Trains Canterbury Trails. The Fryeburg Walking call 284-6219. Participants will be invited to help illustrate the depart at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. today and Group at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church walks Friday 27 stories during the program. The program is free Sunday. For further information, call the Conway 1/2 to 1 mile on Mondays and Thursdays at 1 and open to the public. For more information call Scenic Railroad at 356-5251. p.m. Rain or snow, we cancel. All welcome. Wear A.A. Meetings. There are several AA Meetings the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center at 466-2727. Traditionally Yours in Jackson. This Holiday comfortable shoes and warm clothes. For more held daily throughout Carroll County. Call 1- Boxwood Tree Workshop. The Remick Celebration offers Open Houses, Wreath information call Bebe Toor at 207-935-2068. 800-593-3330 or go to www.nhaa.net to find one Country Doctor Farm and Museum in Tamworth near you. Making, Magical Sleigh Rides and more! The Grief Support Group for Children and Teens. will hold a boxwood tree workshop from 10 a.m. Jingle Bell Chocolate Tour will be available today The Mountain of Hope grief support program Al-Anon. From 8 to 9 p.m. at the Gibson Center, to 12 p.m.Decorate your home with a traditional and tomorrow, so be sure to make your reserva- for children and teens is held every Thursday at corner of White Mountain Highway and Grove holiday boxwood tree. Learn to shape your tree tions in advance by calling 383-9356. All Saint’s Episcopal Church on South Main Street in North Conway. Call 800-593-3330 or and care for it, then take it home to decorate. For Wildcat Mountain Opening Day. Wildcat Street in Wolfeboro from 7 to 8 p.m. The pro- go to www.nhaa.net to find one near you. more information or to register for the workshop, Mountain located in Pinkham Notch begins their gram is sponsored by the VNA-Hospice of call 323-7591. Bingo Every Friday. The VFW Post #6783 in season today. For more information and ticket Southern Carroll County. Pre-registration is Lovell, Maine will hold bingo every Friday. Early Christmas In Effingham. A juried craft show rates, call 466-3326. required. Contact Sheryl Power at 569-2729 ext. Bird Games start at 6:30 p.m. and Regular Games will be presented by Friends of Effingham 230 for more information or to register. start at 7 p.m. For more information, contact Library at the Effingham Elementary school Sunday 29 Music For Babies. Mountain Top Music Center David at 207-935-7807 or 207-890-9222. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Artisans will present jewel- Argentine Tango Class. Join Isabel Costa at the located on Main Street in Conway will hold Community Food Center. The ry, pottery, woodworking, children’s clothing, North Conway Community Center for tango les- music for babies from 9:30 to 10 a.m. every Sandwich/Tamworth Community Food Center herbal products and much more. A special lunch- sons. Beginners meet at 1 p.m. Classes are $10 Thursday. Activities are designed to stimulate based at St. Andrew’s in the Valley Episcopal eon will be available. For more information, call per person. No partner necessary. New students baby’s cognitive development. The program is Church on Whittier Road is open every Tuesday 539-4964. welcome. For more information, call 383-9403. designed for baby’s from birth to eighteen and Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. Anyone need- Freedom Food Pantry. Open every Saturday Spanish Lessons. Learn conversational Spanish months. The program is free and open to the ing assistance at other times, call 284-7778. from 10 a.m. to noon for residents of Freedom, public. For more information, call 447-4737. with Isabel Costa every Sunday at the Met in Friday Painters Open Studio. The Mount Effingham and Ossipee at the First Christian North Conway. Beginners will meet at 10:40 a.m. Music for Toddlers. Mountain Top Music Washington Valley Arts Association will hold Church in Freedom Village. For more informa- and intermediates will meet at 11:40 a.m. New Center located on Main Street in Conway will Painters Open Studio from 9 a.m. to noon at the tion call 539-2637. student welcome. The cost is $10 per person/per hold music for toddlers from 10:15 to 11 a.m. MWV Visual Arts Center at 16 Norcross Place in Great Glen Craft Fair. Looking for unique gifts lesson. For more information or to signup, call every Thursday. Activities are designed to stimu- North Conway. All mediums and abilities wel- this holiday season? Shop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 383-9403.

Visitors will be treated to holiday decorations, sweet treats galore Annual Inn to Inn Cookie and Candy Tour celebrates year 13

MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY — “C” Inn to Inn Cookie & Candy Tour will fea- non-profit organization, and each year the a complete list of cookie tour packages, is not only for Christmas, but also for ture original holiday cookies and candies, results are exquisite. visit www.countryinnsinthewhitemountains. cookies and candy this holiday season in along with exquisite decorations, offering Participating businesses will either inter- com/holiday_cookie_tour_packages.htm. Mt. Washington Valley. Dec. 12 and 13 is tour goers the bonus of taking home holi- nally create these sculptures or recruit Tour tickets are available in advance by the weekend when the Country Inns in the day decorating ideas as well as scrumptious artists, school groups, chefs or bakers to reserving a lodging package from partici- White Mountains assure holiday revelers cookies and candies for themselves. The construct their gingerbread sculpture for pating inns, and this is the best way to the ultimate in sweet dreams at the 13th participating inns have developed original the contest. Tour goers will then vote for secure a ticket for a weekend of cookie, Annual Inn to Inn Holiday Cookie and recipes for everything from sweet to their favorite, and the winning sculptures candy and gingerbread fun. Those not Candy Tour®, held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. savory holiday treats, with each inn featur- will receive $500, $350 or $250 donations wishing to reserve an overnight package each day. ing new recipes for this year’s tour. for the non-profit organization the sculp- may purchase tickets from Dec. 1 through With a “Holidays Inn New England” Additionally, tour participants visiting all ture represents. In years past, these gin- 8 for $27 per person by calling 800-233- theme, participants will not only tour inns 15 properties will receive a keepsake brass gerbread houses have then been auctioned 8309 or 383-9339. Tickets reserved by decked in all their holiday finery offering collector’s ornament, intended to be the off to create additional donations for the phone will be available for pick up at des- signature decorations, holiday cookies and fourth in a collection of Cookie Tour orna- participating non-profits. ignated pick up locations. Tickets are lim- candies, but once again this year they’ll be ments to be distributed in years hereafter. The tour stretches from Hart’s ited. Any unreserved tickets will be sold treated to a display of beautiful handmade To top it off, tour goers will take home Location to Chocorua and over to for $27 per person on the day of the event gingerbread sculptures, collector’s orna- recipes for the treats featured on the tour, Fryeburg, Maine, with 15 inns opening at the 1785 Inn, Admiral Peary House, ments and recipe collections from each creating a keepsake collection of tested their doors to those in search of a fabulous Notchland Inn and Riverbend Inn. inn. Chosen by editors of New Hampshire holiday cookies and candy recipes to use at holiday treats. No inn is more than 15 Those interested in booking the Inn to Magazine as “The Best Sugar High,” home. minutes from the next, with many much Inn Holiday Cookie & Candy Tour pack- here’s one chance to participate in the ulti- Once again this year, Country Inns in closer. Each participating inn will offer age may make reservations at the inn of mate cookie walk. Best of all, proceeds the White Mountains will continue their two tickets (a $54 value) with their cookie their choice. To learn more about the tour from the event benefit area nonprofit gingerbread house display. Local busi- tour package, including a two-night stay and the inns’ lodging packages, call 800- associations. nesses will be recruited to create ginger- and breakfast for two each day. Some inns 233-8309 or visit www.countryinnsinthe- Each of the 15 inns on the 13th Annual bread sculptures in honor of their favorite have added dinners to their packages. For whitemountains.com. ▲

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page B7 On the Rockpile

Week of November 10 through 16 Record warmth and unseasonably mild on the Rockpile this week

Sunset on the summit, Nov. 11 (Mount Washington Observatory Photo)

By Mary Ellen Dunn unusual for mid-November. The sum- oil tankers sitting on the Portland coast- degrees, breaking the 1937 record of 45 Summit Intern mit was in the clear all day and ended line! High clouds led to another great degrees. Mount Washington Observatory with a gorgeous sunset full of bright sunset, which the crew enjoyed. Friday, These mild temperatures brought his week began with the passage neon colors (see above photo). the summit experienced another beauti- hope for another record-breaking day of a weak cold front on Tuesday, The summit remained in the clear on ful day as winds blew from the southeast on Sunday. Winds shifted to the west Tplacing the summit in the fog Thursday and as winds shifted to the and steadily increased. and attempted to filter in drier air, but and dropping temperatures into the low easterly direction, temperatures steadily Remnants of Hurricane Ida were there was just enough moisture linger- 20s. As the day continued, a Canadian rose above freezing. Skies were extreme- slowly ushered up through New ing to keep the summit in the fog for high pressure began to build into the ly clear on this day; there was at least a England on Saturday. The summit was most of the day. As a result of this, tem- area. 130-mile visibility. Looking west, back in the fog while moderate to heavy peratures were unable to rise to a new Wednesday saw great weather for our Whiteface in the Adirondacks was so rain fell for most of the day, measuring record; however, we were able to tie the shift change, making the Auto Road clear and, looking to the southeast, we 1.97 inches. With these southeast winds, record set in 2008 at 48 degrees. passable with a van, which is really were able to see, without binoculars, two temperatures also rose to a record of 47 This mild air didn’t last for long, as early Monday morning a strong cold front passed through the region. The crew woke to howling winds and colder temperatures, more seasonable for this time of year. The fog cleared and a beautiful undercast was revealed. High pressure began to build in to the region throughout the day, which cleared skies and allowed the crew to enjoy the Leonid meteor shower under a beautiful night sky. This week was unseasonably mild for the summit, but thanks to the recent cold front passage it feels more like November. Hopefully, the summit is on track for the more seasonable, winter- like weather we are all waiting for! ▲ WEATHER MT. WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY Compiled by Observatory Staff Date High Low Prec. Snow Nov 10 37 20 —— 11 29 19 —— 12 35 27 — — 13 36 28 — — 14 47 29 1.97” — 15 48 36 0.09” — 16 36 12 — — Highest recorded wind gust, Nov.16, 86 miles per hour from the Northwest.

Page B8 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 On the Slopes

Don’t miss Captains Meeting on Nov. 24 First-ever Attitash Race League to begin in January BARTLETT — For the first time in Attitash’s 45 year history Attitash will present an eight-week Tuesday race league. Starting Jan. 5, 2010, through March 2 (excluding President’s week), teams of six will race two runs down a single format GS on Spillway at Attitash. The only requirement is that racers be at least 21 years old; teams may have skiers, snowboard- ers, telemark, male or female racers. The entry fee is $150 per person. An entry fee of $75 is available to individuals with paid season passes (excludes non- paid passes, i.e. employee guest passes, contest winners, etc.). Racers will have access to Attitash all day on race league Tuesdays. The course will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in order to allow racers plenty of time to make their runs. The best of each racer’s two timed runs will count. If you are only able to make one run, that will count. Team scores will be calculated by the four fastest racers per New guns, more snow at Cranmore. Cranmore skiers and riders were excited to see the sunrise the team allowing two out of the six racers to be absent without morning of Nov. 7 to find the snow guns blasting at North Conway's home town mountain. Cranmore affecting team scores. In the event that a team has less than installed 80 new tower guns this fall and is already putting them to good use. four members race, the team will receive a zero score for the (Kathy Bennett/Cranmore Resort Photo) absent individual(s) for that week, so be sure at least four members race each week. Individual scores will be recorded sepa- rately, and we will honor the top three in each division and top three teams at the series Awards Party. Divisions will be set up in 15 racer increments. In the case that a team member is unable to complete the series due to unforeseen situations, until week five you may replace that racer for a fee of $35. The replacement racer must be on the roster by 12 p.m. on the fifth week and your roster will be set for the duration of the league at that time. Upon replacement, the new racer must race four runs, two to qualify and two for race runs if the regular quali- fying weeks are past. If it is necessary for a team to replace a member, the points earned by the original member remain for the team. Important dates to remember Registration will be held at a Captains Meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 24, to go over rules and regulations and to pass out ros- ters and release forms for all team members. It will be held at 5 p.m. in the Main Base Lodge at Attitash. This will be a 21- plus event with weekly giveaways from local beer sponsors. Payment in full must be received at the time of registration. ❄November 24 – Captains Meeting at 5 p.m., located in the Main Base Lodge at Attitash. ❄December 18 – Season Pass office will stay open until 6 p.m. prior to final registration day. ❄December 22 – Final day for team registration/payment. ❄January 5 – First week of racing ❄February 2 – Last week to lock in your team by 12 p.m., after 12 p.m. your team is set for the season. ❄February 16 – Presidents Week NO RACING Attitash Race League passes will not work at any lift. ❄March 2 – Final week of racing. ❄March 23 – Awards Party at 6 p.m., located in Ptarmigans Pub. ▲

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page B9 On the Slopes

Attitash started snowmaking efforts Wednesday night, Nov. 11, and will crank up the Big Guns each night thereafter, Mother Nature permitting, with a goal of being open Friday, Nov. 27, to start the 2009 - 2010 skiing and riding season in time for the Thanksgiving weekend. Get those skis and boards ready; it’s time to play! (Dennis Coughlin Photo) Bartlett ski area boasts many improvements & investments Snow is flying at Attitash with plans to open day after Thanksgiving

BARTLETT — Attitash started Nov. 11, and will crank up the big Nature permitting, with a goal of proud to announce the Attitash Race snowmaking efforts Wednesday night, guns each night thereafter, Mother being open Friday, Nov. 27, to start League Series, a first in the area’s 45- the 2009 - 2010 skiing and riding sea- year history, running from Jan. 5 son in time for the Thanksgiving through March 2 (with one week off weekend. for the President's week holidays). Join Attitash at the annual Boston See the full release with all the details Ski Show, Nov. 19-22 at the Bayside elsewhere in the ski news in this Convention Center to kick off the week’s Mountain Ear. For more infor- 2009 - 2010 ski and ride season in mation, go to http://attitash.com/atti- style and purchase your Attitash gift tash race.html. cards with one time only unbelievably Attitash has made yet another sig- discounted prices. For more informa- nificant investment, this time in the Winter Squash, Apples, Cider tion, go to http://attitash.com/events. upgrading of rental equipment with & Maine Cranberries html. scores of new skis, designed to further Taking Orders Now for Free In other event news, Attitash is improve the skiing experience on the area’s two mountains. Check out the Range Maine Turkeys, & Balsam Wreaths great rental deals at http://attitash. com/ rentals.html. In addition, they're making improvements to the already leg- endary Ptarmigan's Pub, home of apres ski for skiers and riders for many years, improving an already wonderful experience with hearty pub style fare, adult beverages and weekly Ride through the countryside of Mt. Washington Valley live entertainment. At Ptarmigan's, there's something for everyone. On the physical improvement side, Bear Peak Base Lodge has undergone Valley Train significant repairs, as well as receiving some interior remodeling and paint- Weekend Departures from North Conway Station ing, while the extensive pipe system for snowmaking has seen the replace- Saturday & Sunday Only ment of more than 2,000 feet of pipes and the addition of 30 more snow Nov. 21st - 22nd guns. ▲ Bartlett - 11:30 am • Conway - 1:30 pm

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Page B10 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 Nooks & Crannies

From logging and fire to wilderness New book tells story of Wild River Valley By Steve Smith area for recreation and solace. Though a Contributing Writer second, more selective round of logging prawling for miles between the Carter took place in the 1950s, Bennett notes, a Range and the Baldface Range, east of new, less utilitarian land ethic was taking SPinkham Notch, the Wild River shape for Wild River, one that encouraged Valley is one of the most remote and beau- “the preservation of wilderness, and tiful areas in the White Mountains. In nature’s inherent values of beauty, diversity 2006, the special qualities of this place were and persistence.” recognized when Congress designated He then relates how, starting in 1998, 23,700 acres as the Wild River Wilderness. the volunteer group “Friends of Wild This region has a fascinating and color- River” promoted the concept of a federally ful history, and its story is fully told in the designated Wild River Wilderness, where just-released book, “Nature and Renewal: natural processes would remain undis- Wild River Valley & Beyond,” written by turbed. The Friends’ campaign was ulti- This large hemlock - with a trunk over three feet in diameter - has stood in the Wild River Maine environmental historian Dean mately successful, as in its 2005 Forest Plan Valley for as long as 300 years. The survival of this tree through the years - including Bennett and published by Tilbury House the Forest Service recommended that a heavy logging and fire at the turn of the 20th century - is a recurring theme in "Nature Publishers from Gardiner, Maine. Wilderness be created. Legislation passed and Renewal," a new book about the Wild River Valley by Maine environmental histori- Available at local booksellers, it should Congress in 2006 and the new Wilderness an Dean Bennett. (Steve Smith/Mountain Ear Photo) delight any White Mountain history buff. officially came into being. Bennett’s engaging tome covers a wide In addition to its informative narrative, There were two campers at the Wild River bed of a small brook. The location of this range of topics. He starts with the valley’s the book contains a number of historic Campground; otherwise the valley was relic was revealed to author Bennett by geologic formation, the Ice Age, and early photos, several interesting maps, a time- lonely and desolate during this quiet sea- retired WMNF employee Arthur “Joe” forest history. Next he discusses Native line, and an extensive section of reference son. Taylor. (In the book there are photos of American presence in the area, and the notes. Our initial search for the old railroad Taylor at several other historic sites around coming of the Euro-Americans, who sur- A unifying theme in Bennett’s book is track proved futile, but we had better luck the valley.) veyed here in the 1700s. the presence through the centuries of a finding the ancient hemlock, hidden in the This was as fascinating a glimpse into The book then covers the eventful giant old hemlock in the tributary valley of forest off the Basin Trail. It was as magnif- the valley’s human history as the old hem- 1800s, when the land in the valley was pur- Blue Brook. Discovered only in 1999 by icent as advertised, commanding respect lock was into the story of its forests. We chased and timber harvesting was begun. WMNF forester Walter W. Wintturi, this and reverence from those in its presence. tried to imagine what it was like here at the The most intensive logging was in the tree measures three and a half-feet in diam- Nearby was another old hemlock that was turn of the twentieth century, when the 1890s, as the Wild River Railroad was eter and is thought to be as much as 300 only slightly less impressive. axes were ringing and the locomotives pushed 15 miles up the valley and many of years old. Somehow it survived through We then bushwhacked up a nameless belched black smoke as they chugged off the surrounding slopes were cut clean. A the catastrophic years of logging and fire, hardwood ridge, passing a lovely gorge and with their heavy loads of timber. major village sprang up at the location and is now protected within the boundary cascade on a tributary of Blue Brook, and Dean Bennett’s new book had enriched called Hastings, near the confluence of the of the Wilderness. pushed through dense spruce to the view our Wild River adventure beyond meas- Wild River and Evans Brook. ledge. Here was revealed a sweeping ure. I highly recommend it for anyone with During this time also, Leon Leonwood he Wild River Valley has long been panorama of the wild and rugged eastern an interest in the Wild River Valley or Bean began frequenting the valley, eventu- Tone of my favorite haunts, and John flanks of the Carter-Moriah Range, from White Mountain history. ally leasing an old logging building as a Compton of Bethlehem and I had been Carter Dome on the south to Howe Peak Note: As it happens, Dean Bennett, the hunting camp that he named the Dew planning a visit there during this post- on the north. Long ridges and valleys author of “Nature and Renewal: Wild Drop Inn. In 1911 he invented his hunting foliage season. As luck would have it, the flowed down from the lofty peaks to the River Valley & Beyond,” will be doing a shoe, and the L.L. Bean Company was cre- approximate location of the ancient hem- floor of the main Wild River Valley. The book-signing at White Birch Books in ated. lock described in Bennett’s book was near only visible sign of civilization was the North Conway on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 2 Bennett also tells the sad tale of forest the off-trail route we were contemplating tower-topped tip of Mt. Washington, just to 4 p.m. Don’t miss it! ▲ fire devastation — in the Moriah Brook to a ledge on a nameless ridge with a view peeking over Zeta Pass between Mt. Hight area in 1895, and in the upper (southern) across the valley to the Carter-Moriah and South Carter. Editor’s note: Pick up “The AMC White Wild River Valley in 1903. The latter blaze Range. From the ledge we descended to the Mountain Guide” for maps and descrip- scorched more than 12,000 acres and put Also in the vicinity would be a remnant floor of the valley and poked along the tions of these and other trails in the White an end to logging operations in the valley. 40-foot section of the old Wild River rocky shore of the Wild River. A long view Mountains. Disasters such as this helped spur the cre- Railroad, complete with rusting rails and upstream brought us a glimpse of the dis- Steve Smith, author of “Wandering ation of the White Mountain National slowly rotting ties, which appears in a tant summit of Middle Carter. Through the White Mountains: A Hiker’s Forest (WMNF) under the 1911 Weeks photo on the cover of Nature and We still had some daylight left, so we Perspective,” has hiked and written about Act. The Wild River area was one of the Renewal. struck off into the woods again, renewing the White Mountains for more than 20 first areas purchased, in 1914. Last week, on a fairly warm day with a our effort to locate the abandoned railroad years. He owns the Mountain Wanderer The second half of the book focuses on high cloud ceiling, John and I made the track. This time we were, by blind luck as Map and Book Store in Lincoln, and lives nature’s renewal in the valley, as the forests 5.7-mile drive up the gravel Wild River much as anything, successful, stumbling with his wife, Carol, in Lincoln. grew back and visitors began coming to the Road off Route 113 in Evans Notch. upon its rubble-strewn resting place in the ! We’ve Moved TTHHAANNKKSSGGIIVVIINNGG AAUUTTOO AANNDD TTRRUUCCKK RREEPPAAIIRR SSPPEECCIIAALLSS Award Winning service thats right next door, come experiance the Importech difference. 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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Page B11 North Country Notebook From panning gold to passenger trains, all from the desk’s mother lode By John Harrigan voters and taxpayers let the Contributing Writer media, bureaucrats and elect- ’m in a desk-cleaning ed officials get away with such mode, the goal being to biased nonsense? mine a pile of paper on A couple of months my desk to get at a vein ago, after reading one of my (maybe even a mother favorite sections of the Ilode) of good stuff, and then Sunday Times, the travel sec- throw everything else away. So tion, I fired off a brief, two- here goes. paragraph letter to that sec- Steady readers of the New York tion’s editor. In the section’s logo appear Times (that would be me) and steady lis- a plane, ship, bus and car, but no train. teners of National (and New My wife and I toured Germany, Hampshire, and Vermont) Public Radio Switzerland and Italy several years ago, (that would also be me) cannot possibly all by train, and never once touched a be obtuse enough to not realize that steering wheel. It was seamless, effort- NPR derives many of its lead stories less, hassle-free travel, and it took us from the Times. My habit is to read the from one center of an ancient city to Amtrak’s fast, quiet, comfortable, smooth-riding Acela train, traveling at 150 miles per Times early the next morning, at 5 a.m. another, within walking distance of hour as it speeds northbound past the Kingston, Rhode Island station on a mid-morning or so, on my kitchen counter. By then, everything and anything we needed. It run. (Photo by Glen Zibolis) NPR’s staff has evidently done the same was, in sum, the absolute best way to go. (although not at the same hour), and put How come the Times travel section stoic about pain, the latter is definitely about the expelling of gas. their own spin on the story of the hardly ever even mentions passenger rail no walk in the park. On the way to the I asked her if she’d thought about moment. in its “If you go” sidebars, I asked. torture chamber, I made light with the washing her kid’s mouth out with soap, So when NPR’s story on investor Granted, the editor sent me a brief very pleasant woman who was to inflict but we both agreed that these days Warren Buffet’s acquisition of the reply, but it was to the effect that a soon- the pain. “Just follow me, please,” she something like that would get you Burlington Northern Railroad came on, to-be-published article would make me said, after introducing herself, at which I tossed into the hoosegow. ▲ I could almost mouth the words. There a happy camper. It turned out to be a said “We’re off, like a prom dress.” was the line about Buffet evidently being dull feature on Amtrak — nothing at all She turned and said “You know, my This column runs in a dozen weekly papers interested in “old fashioned” things, as if to do with the subject at hand, which son said that to me just the other day covering the northern two-thirds of New railroads are old fashioned. There was was tourist travel by rail in Europe. and I was some shocked, but I had to Hampshire and parts of Maine and the line about him buying the line laugh.” Vermont. John Harrigan’s address: Box because his parents never gave him a toy n the pile of stuff I mined, there was “Well, it’s not as bad as other sayings 39, Colebrook, NH 03576, or hooli- railroad. a clipping of a newspaper story on that have developed around the ‘we’re [email protected] Buffet got his revenge in a later inter- Ipanning for gold. I’d clipped it as a off’ bit,” I replied, thinking instantly view, in which he castigated members of reminder of another thing besides trains the media for invariably using the term “chugging” that makes me foam at the “chugging” whenever writing about rail- mouth. In the story, and in the headline, roads. Diesels and electric locomotives was the inevitable “gold in them thar do not “chug,” but the media, displaying hills” line. As my father would have put ignorance about railroads, never seem it, “Ye gods, make me happy or make me able to resist harking back to the days of mad, but please don’t bore me with the Sports Highlights steam. expected.” Railroads, by the way, are hauling Finally, two items that walk the fine more freight than at any time in the line of propriety, but at my age and country’s history, and the major lines are longevity of writing I figure I can get Eagle boys’ hoop meeting tonight, Nov. 19 double-tracking as fast as they’re able, away with most anything. demonstrating that nothing as energy- Micah and I were working up a pile of NORTH CONWAY — The Kennett and goals for the program, review team efficient as a steel wheel rolling on a blocked firewood. He’s enlisted with the High School boys’ basketball parent- rules in detail and recruit volunteers for steel rail has ever been devised, except Air Force and will ship out some time in student athlete informational meeting the MWV Eagles Basketball Club. maybe for dirigibles, and that mode February, and is working hard to stay in is scheduled for tonight, Thursday, All student athletes are expected to seems never to quite get off the ground. shape for basic training. The wood we Nov. 19, at 6 p.m., at the KHS gym. sign up for the basketball program at Speaking of trains, poor Amtrak con- were working on happened to come Attendance for this informa- Athletic Director Kerry Brady’s office tinues to be pilloried for needing (gasp!) from an exceptionally clear, straight, big tional meeting is manda- anytime between Nov. 9 and 19. Up- subsidies, as if this is the scarlet letter of bole of an ash tree, a tree that never tory for any student to-date physical forms and a signed transportation, the most evil of all evils. should have gone for firewood, but athlete who wishes to copy of the KHS Athletic Code must Duh — what an insult to the public’s there it was. participate in the bas- be on file with the AD no later intelligence. Every other mode of public “Best piece of ash you’re likely to ketball program this than Nov. 19. Copies of transportation anyone can name is sub- see,” I couldn’t help saying, and of season. Parents are these documents are avail- sidized. Harbors, bus stations, the buses course Micah, who after all is 18, strongly encouraged to able at the AD’s office or can themselves, airports, state highways, and instantly got it. attend. be downloaded at www.ken- last but not in any way the least, the On Wednesday of last week I had to The intent of this meet- nett.k12.nh.us/ schools/ken- Interstate Highway System, are all sub- go to Weeks Hospital in Lancaster for ing is to introduce the nett/athletics.htm. ▲ sidized with taxpayers’ money. Why is an MRI and then to Dartmouth- coaching staff, discuss philosophy Amtrak constantly singled out for such Hitchcock in Lebanon for some bone- vapid, vacuous treatment, and why do marrow tests. While I do my best to be Three Knights, two Eagles on field New Toyotomi Laser 73 Kerosene Heaters hockey All-State teams $$ 0000 By Joshua Spaulding Johanna Currier and Stacey Howard of 15991599 each Sports Editor Plymouth, Erica Agrodnia, Jessica Smith $ 00 REGION — The New Hampshire Field and Katie Achilles of Portsmouth, Lindsey or 2,495 Delivered & Installed Hockey Coaches Association has released Howard and Kelcie O’Brien of St. Thomas {No delivery included on unit only prices} the 2009 All-State teams following the and Sadie Oliver and Emily Readdy of Installed units include the following: completion of the recent season. 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Vacation Rentals Why place North Conway: Northbrook Condo, your ads panoramic view from deck. Sleeps 8, 2 anywhere else? baths with full kitchen. VCR/Cable TV. 1-877-766-6891 Washer/Dryer. Outdoor pool and tennis court. Available year round. Call John at 978-663-3282 Motorcycles Fitness BMW MOTORCYCLE WANTED, older Hypnosis airhead/boxer. Running or not for father and son project. Call 603-520-1765. for habit change, stress control, regression. Gift certificates available. White Mountain Hypnosis Center, Madison, NH. Michael R. Hathaway, D.C.H. 603-367-8851. MC/Visa accepted. www.whitemountainhypnosiscenter.com Wanted To Buy General Services Services DDiirreeccttoorryy Muscle not enough? GOLD IS OVER Call me for Tree Work, Brush removal, Road, Driveway & Landscape Grading, $1,100/o$1,100/ozz “YOUR PERSONAL HANDY MAN” Field Mowing, Backhoe Work, Post Hole Digging, Tilling, etc! Tim 207- WE BUY ALL GOLD, Glenn 447-6480 608-0978 SILVER, PLATINUM, www.timarsenault.com. DIAMONDS, COINS & Fully insured. Maintenance, Light Trucking, JEWELRY TREE WORK: Single trees to entire Carpentry, Painting, Property Care-Taking ~ All pieces... Any condition ~ house lots; brush chipping; light & Various Odd (and not so odd) Jobs. trucking; odd jobs. Fully insured, Free Dental gold, sterling flatware, estimates. Call Gary 603-539-8438. broken jewelry, old watches and More! Condo Cleaning • Lisa • 986-7379 Salmon Press ~ Free Estimates ~ has Eleven NORTH COUNTRY Services Newspapers FAIR JEWELERS Est. 1969 in N.H. 2448 Main Street, LOG CABIN BUILDING CO. & SAWMILL North Conway, NH Ask about the all paper buy that includes 603-356-5819 or the website 888-jewelman LOG HOMES Mbr. Nat’l Assoc. Jewelry Appraisers 4 weeks (30 words) We manufacture & construct our own $120.00!!!!! products Since 1986. Call Our Main Call Center Our Log Homes are constructed 1-877-766-6891 with authentic hand-peeled logs. Mon-Fri 8:00-4:00 Ken & Madeline Walker or place online 24/7 at: Custom Log Homes. newhampshire 603-788-3036 1-888-508-5042 lakesandmountains.com Lancaster, NH We also sell Log Cabin Logs & Siding. Deadline: Monday 10:30AM e-mail: [email protected] BOOKING FOR 2009.

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PAINTING MASONRY TILE & STONE CLEANING

Interior20% with OFF this ad TROY HUOT HARDSCAPES Now Booking Winter Season!!! TILE & STONE Bucket’’s Up Clleaniing 11/1-3/28 Cleaning the way you want it. For all your masonry needs, 10% Off Installation with Pride & Insured · Excellent References BRICKS & STONES for jobs booked Creativity to fit before 11/18/09 Call for FREE ESTIMATES your Style Private Homes • Rentals MASONRY • Kitchens • Offices • new construction • Baths • Free Estimates • masonry inspections • Fully Insured • Outdoor Hardscapes 447-2817 • Interior/Exterior 603-387-6676 603.231.5419 Ask for Marie! • Spray Texture m a r i e 5 1@h o t m a i l . c o m • Roof Shoveling North Conway, NH PO Box 631 · Conway, NH 03818 • Water Damage Phil Murphy - STONE SPECIALIST Repair TOWIN Phone: 603-447-1135 G Cell: 603-662-6261 BUILDING [email protected] & REMODELING TREE SERVICES Center Conway, NH Chipping Available COMPUTER REPAIR WANTED WOOD LOTS TO CUT In business in MWV since 1985 Paying Top $ For Timber New Homes jumpstarts • lockouts Dale Metcalf Sr. Remodeling • Roofing flat tire changes/repairs & Sons Additions towing • winching LOGGING AND TRUCKING Screened Porches (207) 625-7117 603-447-2345 Mt Washington Valley cell: 603.387.2278 TREES Eaton, NH • [email protected] Towing & Road Service CUT DOWN in tight places FLOORING Serving the General Public & All Auto Clubs! Jim Cline Jr. MMEELLLLOO 356-4000 284-6475 WWOOOODD FFLLOOOORRSS CHIMNEY SERVICES ROOFING We install, Sand, SAFETY SWEEP ALL and Repair using "First Step in Chimney Fire Prevention" SEASONS “dustless” system. • CHIMNEY CLEANING ROOFING -Custom Borders • CHIMNEY RELINING 30 years experience -Inlays -Staining • MASONRY REPAIR • Shingles • Rubber -Pre Finish • STAINLESS &COPPER 15 Years Floor Installation CHIMNEY CAPS Residential & Commercial Experience • FULLY INSURED Certified Factory Installer New Work • Repairs Go Overs • Strip Work DAVE FONTENAULT Call Herb 356-2155 “If you need a roofer – Call a roofer” Call Richard ONWAY 603-730-7470 C , NH 539-2450

BUILDING & REMODELING PLUMBING & HEATING

• Renovations / Additions

Building & • Custom Homes / Log Homes Remodeling Contractor • Excavation / Lot Clearing • Fully Insured

Ask For: Paul E. Brown, Swift River Valley Development, Conway NH. Home: (603) 447-6826 • Cell: (603) 387-6779 email: [email protected]

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