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VOLUME 33, NUMBER 50 MAY 21, 2009 FREE THE WEEKLY NEWS & LIFESTYLE JOURNAL OF MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY MAILING LABEL Looking Back: New From M&D: Gaby Griswold sailed to France M&D Productions is in 1916 at the height of WWI, now offering the on-stage committed to helping the troops drama, ‘Facing East,’ in whatever way she could … at their new theatre A 4 in North Conway … B 1 A SALMON PRESS PUBLICATION • (603) 447-6336 • PUBLISHED IN CONWAY, NH Page Two Guest Appreciation Days! May 23-24-25, Publishing and Remembrance May 29-30-31, A Tree Grows in North Conway By Steven Caming It was an instructive time working Contributing Writer with Steve in the art of what was possi- N A SUNNY MORN- ble — doing well by doing good and June 5-6-7 ing in late April, a small even enjoying the process. In many Ogroup of people gathered ways, a newspaper creates and becomes in North Conway to remember the intangible roots of the community. someone and plant a tree. It was a Each generation has its season, its sto- 9 am to 5 pm spindly little sapling, showing the ries and personalities…and as the leaves promise of green tips and a life to fall away it is the stories that remain, to come. More important was what flourish in the rediscovery and retelling could not be seen…the young roots of a new spring. that had begun to find their way It was an honored and mysterious into the strange new soil that would position to be the court scribe in Admission is only now be home. ancient times. To be the transcriber of Above those roots an engraved history remains both an art and a sci- granite marker remembered Steve ence and is one of great responsibility. $21 per person Eastman, founder and former pub- Not just to posterity, but so that each lisher of the newspaper you’re read- of us, in our time, might have a better ing right now. When he came to this understanding and clearer vision of valley more than three decades ago, ourselves…in hindsight, maybe the (regularly $25) • he had a few things in common with struggling news industry can learn a that spindly little sapling that now lesson from a small town publisher bears his name —Steve’s own tenta- that got it right: that bad news for its Ages 1&2 Free tive roots took hold in a way that cre- own sake doesn’t sell, it doesn’t help ated a newspaper that bound together The Eastman family gathered recently to plant a and it doesn’t reflect very well on the a community within its pages…pages tree at the Whitaker Homesite Recreation Area in source that celebrates it. made of paper and so a tree seems remembrance of their husband, father and brother, This is not a news flash. even more apropos to the occasion. Steve Eastman, co-founder and former publisher of And after the wave of 21st cen- But it’s the roots that hold fast to a The Mountain Ear, who passed away April 25, tury bad news crests and washes over place, that claim a spot in time and 2008, from brain cancer. Standing in the top photo us, taking back out on the tide with it NH Public TV through the seasons of a life. In the (left to right) are Steve’s daughter, Emily, his broth- the worst of the trash, what will pages of Steve Eastman’s paper the er, Dave, his sister, Mary Borowski, and his wife, remain are the roots of why newspa- history and characters, events and evo- Sarah. Kneeling are Steve’s son, Grant, and his pers were important to start with: Day - June 6 lutions of these mountain communities brother, Tom. (Steve Caming/Mountain Ear Photo) they are part of the community — found their venue and their audience. they are our collective bulletin board, He surrounded himself with an eclectic petitive media. memory and sounding board. They mix of voices, family literally and figura- At a time when the newspaper indus- matter because our daily lives matter and Featuring tively, and told us all stories that defined try as we know it is facing weakening because they can both reflect and inspire our life and times. revenue and an increasingly fragmented the angels of our better nature. The Unlike some publishers, nationally audience, the collective answer can’t be good ones can, anyway. and locally, who often seem to celebrate ever more salacious stories in bigger I miss my friend…his name is on a “Super Why!” the lowest common denominator in type. Somewhere along the line (written boulder in one town park and now a tree the pursuit of any edge, even a bleeding or otherwise) must be a sense of journal- in the other. Forevermore passers- by one, Eastman’s years at the helm were istic purpose — to determine what kind will know the name of a newspaper and “Curious different. The news was there, but of person you are, what kind of commu- publisher who once lived his life here. not the sensationalist overtones that nity you want to live in and what kind of What they won’t see are the roots that George” have come to mark so much of the com- newspaper you want to publish. hold all the stories. ▲ On the Cover Inside Index Memorial Day, 2009 Biz to Biz Expo Arts & Entertainment..............Page B1 The Mt. Washington Valley Chamber Monday, May 25, is Memorial Day and Calendar...................................Page B4 The Mountain Ear would like to honor of Commerce honored a wide variety of Route 16 • Glen, local businesspeople at the annual Down Stream.........................Page A12 all the men and women who have Business to Business Expo at the served our country in times of war as Mount Washington Hotel on May 18. Entertainment..........................Page B6 well as in times of peace. We wave the Page A17 On the Rockpile.....................Page B20 New Hampshire flag for all of you. (Steve Caming Photo) On The Links Nooks & Crannies.................Page B10 Golf columnist Pru Smith is back to 603-383-4186 bring readers another season of all the Real Estate .............Pages A5 & A17-20 golf news that’s fit to print.. Page B12 Sports ..............................Pages B14-17 Page A2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Ear Marks Carroll County 4-H offers Green Thumb Teams for kids Summer gardening fun for kids and parents CONWAY — This summer 4-H will be plant and tend their own gardens. By the Although the program will meet weekly, and the Mount Washington Valley Green partnering with two different community summer’s end, each participant will have program participants are free to come and Team on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., garden efforts to offer kids and their parents their own small crop of flowers and fresh tend their gardens during the week. The beginning on June 30 through Aug. 11. an opportunity to get involved in vegetables. cost of the program is $10 per child for In addition to each child’s yardstick gar- gardening. This program is set up for children ages seven sessions and scholarships can be made den bed, families can lease an additional Carroll County 4-H is working with the 5 to 13 and a parent or adult to meet once a available for families in need. All children garden 4’ x 10’ garden bed from the MWV Mount Washington Valley Green Team in week for games, activities, and planting and and parents from surrounding communities Green Team for $25. For more information Conway and the Green Mountain tending their own “yardstick” garden beds. are welcome to join the Green Thumb on the Valley Community Garden, contact Conservation Group in Effingham, to run a Participants will learn how plants grow, Team or lease their own garden plot Jen Andrews at 475-3587. summer 4-H Green Thumb Team garden- about garden soils, “good” and “bad” insects through either community garden. The Effingham 4-H Green Thumb ing program. Kids can sign up to be part of and food and nutrition from our gardens, as The Conway 4-H Green Thumb Team Team will meet at the Green Mountain a Green Thumb Team and will meet week- well as how to plant and tend a small veg- will meet at the Valley Community Garden Conservation Group Office on Huntress ly for garden fun and an opportunity to etable garden. on Tasker Hill Road, hosted by Russ Lanoie Bridge Road in Effingham on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., beginning on July 2 to Aug. 13. Additional 4’ x 8’ garden beds can be leased by families through the season Come get dirty and grow with the Valley Community Garden for $15. For more information on the CONWAY — The Valley Community venient water supply. Generous sponsorship and support from Green Mountain Conservation Group Garden is slated to hold a grand opening Educational programs and mentoring by Blue Sky Environmental and U.N.H. Community Garden, contact Tara and celebration of the spring planting sea- master gardeners will be offered. Cooperative Extension, as well as the time Schroeder at 536-1859. son on Sunday, May 31, from 12 to 5 p.m. at Additionally, the Valley Community of many kind volunteers, have helped to get For more information about the 4-H the garden site at 397 Tasker Hill Road in Garden will also be a host site for the 4-H the project this far; however, in order to Green Thumb Teams, 4-H clubs or pro- Conway, eight-tenths of a mile from its Green Thumbs youth gardening program.