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VOLUME 34, NUMBER 21 OCTOBER 22, 2009 FREE THE WEEKLY NEWS & LIFESTYLE JOURNAL OF MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY Networking’s The Name of the Game: The MWV Young Professionals can help aspiring young businesspeople to network with others in the Valley for business contacts and social happenings … A5 Business Brief: The Brass Heart Inn in Chocorua has become a whole family affair, and the owner, Don Harte, explains how that’s come to be. … A 10 Halloween Hoots: Come find out where the real “wild things” are on the noc- turnal eve of Friday, Oct. 30, at Tin Mountain Conservation Center’s Halloween Hoots … B1 A SALMON PRESS PUBLICATION • (603) 447-6336 • PUBLISHED IN CONWAY, NH Page Two Freedom resident Sally Stoops hikes along the new Scarboro Ridge trail in Freedom. (Courtesy Photo) New hiking trail opens in Freedom By Daymond Steer retary, Jack Middleton, and volunteer and just a few were crimson. In some “wonderful” for snowshoeing in the Staff Writer Mike O’Brien, said Stoops. places, fallen leaves made a long red car- winter, said Stoops. Carroll County Independent The Scarboro Ridge Association is in pet that stretched along trail. Molin said she wanted to put the FREEDOM — Hikers can now enjoy a the process of attaining nonprofit status. “It looks terrific with the foliage experience she gained working on Trout new trail in town, which was recently The aim of the organization is to take going,” said Stoops during the hike last Pond to use on another project. She and created by the Scarboro Ridge care of the land. week. several other residents, including Chuck Association and about 50 volunteers. Association member Jennifer Molin Along part of the trail, the grade is and Heloise Depew, Katie Gove, Ned The Scarboro Ridge Trail runs from is one of the original organizers of the steep. Luckily, there are many large Hatfield, and Sally and Bill Stoops Old Portland Road and across Prospect Scarboro Ridge effort. She also helped stones and stonewalls along the trail for decided to work on the Scarboro Ridge Mountain. The other side of the trail Trout Pond conservation project. Trout people to sit on. But anyone looking to Trail. Originally, the trail’s organizers begins on Rice Hill Road. The trail Pond is a 1,984-acre piece of open space take a break on a stonewall needs to planned to ask landowners for a conser- would connect Old Portland Road to in Freedom and Madison. It includes a watch out for barbed wire. Decades ago, vation easement to allow hikers on the Rice Hill Road, but one landowner has 21-acre trout pond. the land had been farmland for livestock, trail. However, they found asking for not yet given access permission for a “The trail building was fun,” stated Stoops explained. permission to use the land for a trail tenth of a mile of trail, said one of the Molin in e-mail. “There was lots of At one clearing near the top of would be less expensive and easier for lead trail blazers, Sally Stoops, 76, of camaraderie and word of it spread, so Prospect Mountain, one can view the landowners, said Molin. Freedom. That section is in the middle there was help from people I did not Ossipee Lake and several of New “Chuck Depew and I had the experi- of the trail near a cliff, said Stoops. In all know.” Hampshire’s 4,000-foot mountains. On ence of making Trout Pond a successful about 10 landowners have given permis- Molin said during her first hike she a clear day, Mount Washington can be project, so we knew that you can make sion, she said. began to cry when she saw a view that seen, said Stoops. the almost impossible possible,” added Each end of the trail was laid out last seemed to go on forever. The trail is fairly wide and mostly Molin. “To us this was a piece of cake in year and the middle was cleared in Anyone hiking along the trail last free of obstacles. The volunteers marked comparison to what we had done August and September. In all, 53 people week would have experienced the colors trees along lower ends of the trail with before.” ▲ worked on the trail, said Stoops. Major of the fall foliage season. The forest pink ribbons. Trails are marked with contributors to the trail blazing effort canopy was mostly a rich green but some piles of rocks in higher elevations where were Scarboro Ridge Association’s sec- of the trees were turning bright yellow the tree population thins. The trail is On the Cover Inside Index Ghoullish doings at Cranmore Arts in Education Conference Arts & Entertainment.................Pages B1-7 It’s the end of October, the wind is beginning to Registration is still open for “Maps & Journeys: Perspectives Business News.........................Pages A10-11 bite, the leaves are swirling and the nighttime shad- on the Future of Arts Education in New Hampshire,” the Calendar......................................Pages B6-7 ows are lengthening — perfect conditions for the N.H. State Council on the Arts’ statewide Arts in Education ghouls to crawl out from their hideous hiding places Partnership Conference, taking place Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 at the Nooks & Crannies .......................Pages B12 and gather on dark mountaintops... Cranmore is AMC Highland Center at Crawford Notch. See Page A3 On the Rockpile.............................Page B16 just such a mountaintop and anyone who dares can visit and tour the creepy Ghoullog during the next KHS Mountain Bike Team Passages............................................Page A9 two weekends. See more photos on Page B8. The Kennett High School Mountain Bike Team fared well at Real Estate.........................Pages A11 & B16 (Dick Pollock/Moat Mtn. Photography the second annual Stark’s Hill Challenge. See Page B10. Sports ........................................Pages A9-11 Page A2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, October 22, 2009 Presentations & demonstrations by renowned artists in varied disciplines, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 Statewide Arts Education Conference comes to Crawford Notch BRETTON WOODS — Registration is still open for “Maps & Journeys: Perspectives on the Future of Arts Education in New Hampshire,” the N.H. State Council on the Arts' statewide Arts in Education Partnership Conference, taking place Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 at the AMC Highland Center at Crawford Notch. Conference keynote speakers include artist-in-residence Julie Lyonn Lieberman, nationally renowned violin- ist, vocalist, and composer (the national Green Anthem project) and educator, who will speak on “The Power of Creativity”; James Tusty, director and producer of the documentary film, “The Singing Revolution”; and Bob Morrison of Quadrant Education Research, who will present findings from the N.H. Arts Education Data Project, the first com- prehensive survey of arts education in the state. The conference is open to all inter- ested persons, and provides professional development for educators, artists, arts specialists and community arts leaders. Workshops and keynote addresses will focus on the multiple ways the arts develop essential skills such as creativity, imagination, leadership, perseverance, team building and problem-solving. A variety of hands-on, interdisciplinary workshops in all arts disciplines will be offered. Other highlights will include a community arts mapmaking experience and artist exhibit and resource-sharing opportunities. Many hands-on workshops Workshop titles and topics include: Art as History: A Look at Two Centuries of White Mountain Art; A History of White Mountains Map-Making from Hideaki Miyamura, a potter, glazer and N.H. Artist Fellow, is one of the presenters at the Arts in Education Partnership Conference. Free Hand Sketch to GIS; He will present a pottery demonstration followed by a question and answer session on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. at the Highland Scriptwriting, the Hero’s Journey; Center in Bretton Woods. (Courtesy Photo) Journeying through Shakespeare’s Archetypes; Artist in Residence Boot arts education and we love bringing invited to join participants for presenta- Alliance, the N.H. Department of Camp; Using Maps to Generate Visual these presenters and speakers and edu- tions and demonstrations by guest Education, the National Endowment Imagery; Music Improvisation; Project cators to the North Country because we artists and Artist Fellows Alexandra de for the Arts, the White Mountains Playwright: Four Years of Improved make an extra effort to reach out and Steiguer (photographer); Stuart Paton Regional School District, the Mount Literacy through Theater; Using bring them into North Country schools (Taiko drum master), founder and artis- Washington Resort and Red River Digital Media in the Classroom; for special presentations,” says tic director of the Burlington Taiko Theatres of Concord (which will show International Connections through the Catherine O’Brian of the N.H State Group; and Hideaki Miyamura (potter the film “The Singing Revolution” in its Arts; Henniker-San Ramon Comics Council on the Arts. This year’s North and glazer). screening room Oct. 23-29). Exchange: Cultural Exchange through Country school-based offerings will “We are thrilled to be able to bring Participants may attend for one day Comics; Teamwork, Trailworks, include presentations by three confer- the statewide conference back to the or the entire weekend. The agenda, Mapwork; Create a Clay Map of Your ence keynotes and artists-in-residence, North Country,” says Arts Alliance of workshop descriptions, plus registration World; and Dancers, Buildings and Julie Lyonn Lieberman, James Tusty Northern New Hampshire executive form and booking instructions for People in the Street: Making (and and Stuart Paton. director Frumie Selchen. “It makes it reduced conference group room and Teaching) Dance in the Real World. more affordable for our teachers, and we meals are posted at www.nh.gov/nharts “Our statewide AIE conference Demonstrations by guest artists can focus some of the programming on and www.aannh.org.