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“Ready On The BRail” Crew members and young passengers aboard the Gundalow “Piscataqua” pitch in to help gather in the sail as the vessel, which was launched this year, completes another two-hour cruise along the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth. Besides a unique view from the water, the cruise is also an educational journey in learning about the Maritime Region and waterways. brendan smith Photo

A Morning Cruise on The gundAlow

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If someone had asked me if I wanted to wake up early to take a two-hour ride in an eighteen-wheeler, I might come up with a convenient excuse to opt out.

I did, however, jump at the chance last week to rise a bit earlier than usu-al to ride aboard the new Gundalow Piscataqua in Portsmouth.

What, you might be ask-ing yourself, does one have to do with the other?

Gundalows were once ubiquitous craft along the very same river back

in the 1700s up to the early part of the 1900s. They were really “eighteen wheelers” on the water. Flat-bottomed boats that carried cargo. They mea-sured up to seventy feet and nineteen feet wide and could carry as much as fifty tons of cargo be-tween ocean schooners and the growing towns along the Piscataqua.

The Piscataqua is the only gundalow on those waters today (well, there is another one, but I’ll get to that in a minute). The last one was the Fanny M, which was owned by

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Wednesday, August 15th, at 7pm the Lake Winnipe-saukee Historical Society will present a program on “Cottages In and Around The Lakes Region at their mu-seum on Rte. 3 in the Weirs, next to Funspot.

The guest speaker will be Fred Clausen who has owned and operated Proc-tor’s Cottages in the Weirs since 1999.

Fred will be assisted by LuAnn Walsh who owned and operated LuAnn’s Cot-tages and by David Ball who assisted Fred and LuAnn

Cottages In And Around The Lakes Region

with research and content development.

Doors will open at 6pm to allow viewing of Fred’s exten-sive collection of hotel, motel and cottage brochures, post-cards and other materials.

For more info cal l 3 6 6 - 5 9 5 0 o r v i s i t www.lakewinnipesaukeemuseum.org.

by Brendan SmithWeirs Times Editor

2 THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, August 9, 2012

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Jack Irwin At Lake Winnipesaukee Museum

Jack Irwin, whose father, Jim Irwin Sr., operated the Win-nipesaukee Gardens in the Weirs, will be the guest speaker at the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society’s Saturday Sum-mer Program on Saturday, August 18th at 11am.

Jack will talk about the early days of Weirs Beach including the 1924 fire that destroyed the New Weirs Hotel, one of the states grand hotels; the Weirs Music Hall and the Winnipe-saukee Gardens, where many big bands were featured from the 1930s to 1970s.

This program is free and open to the public. The Lake Win-nipesaukee Museum is located on Rte 3 in the Weirs between Meredith and Weirs Beach next to Funspot.

For more info call 366-5950 or visit www.lakewinnipesau-keemuseum.org.

“Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond”

Peter Asher, mem-ber of 60’s British pop group Peter and Gordon and executive at Apple and Sony records brings his acclaimed show “Pe-ter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond” to the Capitol Center for the Arts’

Spotlight Café on Friday, August 10 at 8pm.This is a multimedia experience to the stage, hosted by the

two-time Grammy winner for Producer of the Year. Peter Asher moved effortlessly from his role with Peter & Gordon to Music Executive with the Beatles’ Apple Records, then famously- as in cover of Rolling Stone magazine level famous- to Producer and Manager, handling the careers of James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and a host of others.

Ticket are on sale now and can be purchased for $20.00. Tickets are available by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Annual Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Festival

The Capital Mineral Club is holding its 49th Annual Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Festival at the Everett Arena in Concord Saturday and Sunday, August 25th and 26th.

Over the years, this festival has expanded from its begin-nings as a small specialty event for dedicated mineral collec-tors to become one of the largest of such shows in the North-east (and, some say, the best). It now offers something for almost everyone, from children to adults and from the merely curious to hard-core rockhounds.

Visitors will find an amazing variety of treasures from the earth and most are available for purchase. Mineral speci-mens, fossils, geodes, jewelry, carvings, gems, and much more will capture your interest.

The Capital Mineral Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of the earth sciences and provides scholarships and grants to students and researchers. The Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Festival is its primary fund-raiser for doing this and is an educational experience in itself.

Open 9-5 on Sat., Aug 25th, and 10-4 on Sun., Aug 26th. Admission is $5 for adults and children over 12. Children 12 and under, with parent, admitted free and given free mineral specimen. Admission ticket stubs are used to determine win-ners of gift certificates redeemable at the show.

AUGUSTWed. 1st – sat. 11th

“The Last Night of Ballyhoo”the Winnipesaukee Playhouse, alpenrose Plaza , Weirs beach. appropriate for ages 12 and up. 366-7377 for showtimes and reservations

tues. 7th – sat. 11th “Our Town”the barnstormers theatre, 104 main street, tamworth. 323-8500 for tickets and showtimes.

thursday 9th

Scotty McCreeryhampton beach Casino ballroom. doors 6pm, show 8pm. 18+. 929-4100

Paws for a Cause – Annual AuctionChurch Landing, meredith. an evening of fun, comedy and giving to benefit the nh humane society. $50pp. www.nhhumane.org 524-3252

Bucky Lewis – Hilarious Comedythe margate, Laconia. doors open at 7:15 and the show starts at 8pm. $15

at the door. 524-5210

Silent Film Series – Buster Keaton’s “Cameraman”the Flying monkey, main street, Plymouth. 6:30pm.536-2551 $10pp. www.flyingmonkeynh.com

America’s 1st Notorious Serial Killer – HW MudgettLane tavern, 520 sanborn road, sanbornton. 7pm. born and raised in Gilmanton, herman Webster mudgett (alias dr. h.h. holmes) murdered up to two hundred people in his intentionally built “murder hotel” in Chicago. 286-4526

Musical Enigmasnew hampshire music Festival, silver Center for the arts, Plymouth state University. adams, Faure & elgar. 8pm. 279-3300 www.nhmf.org

Fabric Collage Workshopmeredith Village savings bank in Laconia. 9am-3pm. $45 fo bmQG members and $60 for non-members. 293-2975

Summer Nature Talk – “The Taming of the Shrew” the Loon Center, Lee’s mills road, moultonborough. 7:30pm. Free. 476-5666

thurs. 9th – sun. 12th Two Gentlemen of Veronasandwich Fair Grounds Craft building. $15/adult, $10/seniors and $7/kids. www.advicetotheplayers.org 986-6253

Friday 10th Little Featthe Flying monkey, main street, Plymouth. 536-2551 www.flyingmonkeynh.com

Peter Asher – A Musical Memoir of the 60’s and BeyondCapitol Center for the arts, Concord. 8pm. 225-1111

Seeing Stars in the Sky – Special Mount Washington Cruisems mount Washington, Weirs beach. Partnered with the mcauliffe shepard discovery Center hosting a satellite exhibit aboard the ship. 888-843-6686. www.cruisenh.com

Teddy Bear Clinicthe Children’s museum of nh, 6 Washington street, dover. 10-noon. www.childrens-museum.org 742-2002

Musical Enigmasnew hampshire music Festival, silver Center for the arts, Plymouth state University. adams, Faure & elgar. 8pm. 279-3300 www.nhmf.org

Line Dance Instructionstarr King Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 101 Fairgrounds road, Plymouth. 6:30-9:30pm. $5pp. 968-5179

Andy Cooney “Forever Irish”Great Waters music Festival, Kingswood art Center, Wolfeboro. 8pm. 569-7710 or www.greatwaters.org

Barbecue Bluegrass Bash st. andrew’s-in-the-Valley episcopal Church, Whittier road, tamworth. 6pm. enjoy the bluegrass Country boys and an all american bbQ! $15pp, kids 12 and under are only $5. 323-2385

Fri. 10th – sun. 12th On the Green 2 Arts & Crafts Festivalbrewster academy, 80 academy drive, Wolfeboro. 10- 5 Fri. & sat. and 10-4 sun. over 80 exhibitors, live music, food and free admission. rain or shine. www.joycescraftshows.com 528-4014

saturday 11th Meredith Kiwanis Golf TournamentWaukewan Golf Club, Center harbor. 1pm shotgun start. $110pp includes golf, cart, raffle tickets and dinner catered by hart’s restaurant. 476-5511

Gilmanton Old Home Daythe grounds of the smith meeting house, Gilmanton. starting at 10am. www.gilmantonnh.org

Belmont High School Alumni Reunion; Class of 1953 and Priorthe bhs Cafeteria, 55 seavey road, belmont. 11am-1pm. 267-7569 or 267-6047

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After many years of imagining what it was like in the homeland of so many of my ancestors, I finally got off a plane at Shannon Internation-al Airport and actually set foot in the Hibernian Heartland, just as John F. Kennedy did there 49 years earlier.

Like Kennedy, I won-dered if I had local rela-tives who’d acknowledge kinfolk in America. Un-like Kennedy, I saw no

welcoming throngs. But as my trip was prompted by a “Writers Group” tour. I looked forward to con-necting with others who enjoyed putting words to-gether while concurrently seeing wondrous sights, learning history and meet-ing interesting locals.

My Irish trip coincided with the British Open and I wanted to get on a golf course. This was accom-

plished on Day 2. I met some young Irish golfers who were impervious to the wind and rain and we trod some ground that was surely trod by the likes of great Irish golfers such as Rory McIlroy. The weather was awful, but it was neat to see ruins of ancient castles ON the golf course itself.

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predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and vicinity.Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will be found in these pages, just the good stuff.30,000 copies are distributed every week in the Lakes Region/Concord/Seacoast area. 15,000

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Candidate Introduction

To The Editor:My name is Jane Cormier

of Alton, New Hampshire, and I am running for the New Hampshire House of Representatives in District 8 of Belknap County for the towns of Alton, Barn-stead and Gilmanton.

Having been a resident of Alton for 15 years, my husband Carlos Marti-nez (who is running as a NH Delegate), and our children Catherine and Christopher, are proud members of District 8, and believe in the “citizen legislature” form of public service. Our family has decided not to accept any financial contributions in this first political contest, rather we are willing to sacrifice monetary security to insure an indisputable platform on which I can present the truth about government and politics.

I believe in a fiscally con-servative government with limited government inter-vention and no new taxes or fees. I believe in growth of small businesses and helping them to thrive, not just survive. The protec-tion of personal liberty of which New Hampshire is famous is also paramount to our “Live Free or Die State”.

In order to meet the chal-lenges ahead, I desire an honest and open dialogue. A public servant is one who serves the people and does not deceive or abuse the office they have been offered by our citizenry. This is my philosophy for entering public service: to serve in integrity and truth.

Please visit my website www.jane4newhampshire.com to read more about my stand on the issues. Feel free to contact me and let me know of your con-cerns for Belknap County, and how I can make our county and State once again a place of integrity.

Jane CormierAlton, NH.

Wants To Learn MoreTo the Editor:

I am a voter in NH Sen-ate District 2 and would like to learn more about the candidates running for election in this district. As for Senator Forrester I can look to the promises she made when elected and the record she has since being in office. What is troubling to me is trying to find out what Mr. Lamb, the opponent stands for.

So far I’ve discovered that he is a former Wall Street banker, the Chair of the Plymouth Area Democrats, and he refuses to answer hypothetical questions, which was his response at a recent house party event when asked what he would have done to fix the $800 million deficit NH was facing in 2010.

Based on a recent article written by a reporter I gather that he also refuses to compromise. There is much ado being made claiming that Senator For-rester is refusing to have any regular debates when she would like forums where the voters ask the questions of both candi-dates. Senator Forrester offered a compromise to Mr. Lamb to choose the

format of the Plymouth event that he rejected be-cause he wants to choose the location and format of EVERY event they jointly appear at.

The voters are going to have to make a choice at the polls in November. These choices are not only for which Senator to elect but also for their Rep-resentatives in the NH House. In these economi-cally challenging times the State Budget is critical to NH’s success. These budget bills originate in the House and these Rep-resentatives also make up the County Delegation and approve the County Budget. These budgets will affect the taxpayers of NH and I believe that the vot-ers should be able to hear from ALL the candidates. I have read and heard that Mr. Lamb is also refusing to allow any candidates for the NH House to ap-pear at any event he is at. I guess he doesn’t want to be inclusive and let the VOTERS hear ALL the candidates.

I really do hope that someone can convince Mr. Lamb that the voters do not want a Senator that is so very inflexible and unbending. I don’t want someone who refuses to be inclusive and is unwilling to compromise. Please Mr. Lamb, I ask you and I am quite certain the Voters in this district ask you to accept Senator Forrester’s offer to have an event in Meredith arranged by her volunteers; an event in Plymouth arranged by your volunteers and an event in Haverhill arranged by the local media.

I and the voters in Dis-trict 2 are awaiting your re-sponse. You should know that your response could be the decision maker for the voters this November.

Greg KnytychNew Hampton, NH.


I u s e d to be the President of The Air Is A Little Bit Better Here Than W h e r e I C o m e F r o m Fund (TA-

IALBBHTWICFF). Today, it behooves me (whatever that means) to be forced to use this column to bla-tantly and without any shame, call upon you, the unsuspecting reader, to stop contributing to this organization I so proudly began ten years ago.

I started TAIALBBHT-WICFF with every one of good intentions. Today, as some rather uninspiring individuals have joined on and, over time, gotten themselves elected to the board, and me thrown out I have seen the true mission of this once great organization fall into dis-repair.

TAIALBBHTWICFF was developed to help middle to upper class folks who forgot to book their lake-front summer vacations in time, only to be told there is “no room at the Inn.” Well, there was room, but not the one they’d prefer.

They, through only a small fault of their own, are now left helpless; sit-ting quietly, yet resent-fully, in their surburban neighborhoods some-where while some of their neighbors are gone, bask-ing in the sun and cool waters on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee.

Why should these poor souls have to listen to the jabbering and be forced to stare at the cell phone images of their neighbors when they return from their week in paradise?

TAIALBBHTWICFF was set up to help them find their place in the sun so they won’t have to go through that mountain

of shame, that lasts deep into the winter and even hangs on lightly the next spring.

No one needs to go through such suffering. That is what TAIALBBHT-WICFF is, well was, all about.

The first few years were beautiful ones for TA-IALBBHTWICFF. To see the look on the faces of families as they gingerly stepped from the musty confines of their Lexus wagons onto a sandy beachfront on Lake Win-nipesaukee, used to bring tears to my eyes.

Even as they avoided eye contact and gently wiped off their hand after shaking mine after greet-ing them on arrival, I was always left misty.

Fundraising was easy back then. Many local businesses were on board. It wouldn’t just be good for the soul, it would be good for the economy as well.

I was proud of the good work we were doing and, I must admit, the hearty treasury we built up.

About three years ago a few, and I won’t men-tion any names, less than altruistic folks managed to finagle their way onto the board of TAIALBBHT-WICFF.

Suddenly, the “truly needy” were being replaced by the “not so needy.” It wasn’t random families picked by our original pro-cess of names from a hat, it was now, conveniently, relative and friends and friends of friends.

In all the years I headed TAIALBBHTWICFF I nev-er played favorites, even when family and friends from New York called me in desperation. Well, there was Uncle Louie that one time, but that was it.

Two years ago, a vote was taken to create a po-sition for someone to go out and travel, looking for

families to participate.Sure, that doesn’t sound

so bad, but it was soon found out that the person in charge needed a few assistants (wink, wink). It wasn’t until I saw the bill from Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut for three nights, four shows and a case of Moet Chandon that I grew suspicious.

That, it seemed, was only the first leaf to spring from this dirty tree. I could go on, but I’m sure I’d only bore you. Here we were, soaking in all sorts of cash under the pretense of using it to help others and, well, I think it’s a story you’ve heard before.

The Air Is A Little Bit Better Here Than Where I Come From Fund has lost its way. Soon the hundreds of middle to upper class families who looked forward to escap-ing the stuffy confines of their gated communities to spend a few precious days along the shores of Winnipesaukee (and even some of the smaller lakes, if they must) will no longer have an honest advocate here in the Lakes Region.

So, I am asking you, the next time that letter comes in the mail, taste-fully done, showing a be-fore and after picture of a family with 2.4 kids in their transition from being stuck for the summer in a sweltry, suburb to enjoy-ing time on a private home on the lakefront, don’t fall for it. Don’t give in.

I am ashamed to have to write this column, but I know what is right.

Thanks for reading.

Brendan Smith wel-comes your comments at [email protected], You can follow him on Twitter at @weirsbrendan.

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can help you decide if you want to collect the art you have seen. If nothing in-spires you, just thank the gallery worker and move on. Simple as that!

Let me back track a bit. Collecting art should be kind of like falling in love. Your art collecting will fall flat unless you walk into the room and see that special artwork across the room. Love at first sight! Your art might never be-come famous but you will love your unique, one of a kind work of art.

Another tip for the bud-ding collector is to decide what you are looking for before you start looking. Perhaps you like tradi-tional art. Perhaps you like interesting outdoor sculptures. There are so many options! Best of all, collecting can be a pas-sionate pursuit as well as a way to live with beauty

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is more of an investment than purchasing mass produced art. On the oth-er hand, if you purchase mass produced art, some-one else has inevitably decided what you will like and mass produced it. I find something very wrong with that scenario!

Now to get started… There are reputable galler-ies and there are reputable shows. Some shows are ju-ried. That means the artist has passed the quality test. And, by the way, it is O.K. to politely ask if the show is juried. If it isn’t, you still might find some great treasures. Remember, this is your art collection!

Kimberly B. Severance is an artist and art teacher. She will be contributing occasional articles on all things art.

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A dozen swallowing incidents have been linked by the CPSC to Buckyballs since 2009. Com-pare that to the estimated 30,000 emergency room visits that occur every year as a result of children swallowing government-minted

coins.There are no fewer than five

cautionary labels on every Bucky-balls or Buckycubes product box; the company distributes an edu-cational video on the dangers of swallowing the toys. And Maxfield and Oberton has cooperated with the government on safety policy since its inception.

Yet, several feckless retailers (including Brookstone, Amazon and Urban Outfitters) under the regulatory gun have already yanked the magnets from their virtual and physical shelves despite the company’s clear warnings that Buckyballs and Buckycubes are for adults -- not children.

“Obviously the bureaucrats see danger everywhere, and those responsible people -- like our company who have vigorously promoted safety and appropriate use of our products -- gets put out of business by an unfair and arbitrary process,” Craig Zucker, founder and CEO of Maxfield and Oberton, said in a statement.

Obama’s big-business pals sit on do-nothing jobs councils and host countless dog-and-pony shows touting their commitment to “Startup America.” But when a 3-year-old startup that has earned $50 million in sales all on its own faces ruthless bureau-cratic extinction, the government jobs blowhards are nowhere to be found.

The Obama administration has issued thousands of waiv-ers to union donors and other politically connected recipients to protect them from onerous federal health care regulations. Where’s the usurper-in-chief’s special executive order to keep the CPSC’s hands off of America’s Buckyballs?

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W A S H I N G T O N , D . C . - - T h i s week’s revela-tion about the president’s au-thorizing covert action in Syria should not have come as a sur-prise to anyone. On Wednes -day, August 1, CNN carried a

breathless report sourced to “U.S. officials” that our beloved Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the Oval Office “has signed a covert direc-tive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad.” According to the story, which was picked up by dozens of other outlets within hours, “The secret order, referred to as an intelligence ‘finding,’ al-lows for clandestine support by the CIA and other agencies.”

Given the torrent of self-adulato-ry leaks since the O-Team arrived in Washington three and a half years ago, this should have been the non-story of the month. But the mainstream media fell for it faster than Missy Franklin could

swim 100 meters. That’s just what the O-Team wanted -- and has come to expect.

It turns out the story is true. Obama did sign a “finding” -- a document required by the 1974 Hughes-Ryan Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act. The Nixon-era law compels a president to notify Congress that he has for-mally authorized a “covert” U.S. intelligence activity that goes be-yond the collection of information, and that the activity is important to U.S. national security.

As a result of Hughes-Ryan, Congress set up “permanent se-lect committees” in the House and Senate and committed to protect sensitive sources, methods, iden-tities and operational details that would put Americans and/or our allies at risk. Both committees were provided special access fa-cilities where classified material could be discussed, debated and stored. Members of the committee staffs are subject to background investigations and granted secu-rity clearances.

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I f M i l t o n Friedman were alive today -- and there was never a time when he was more needed -- he would be one hundred

y e a r s o l d . He was born on July 31,

1912. But Professor Friedman’s death at age 94 deprived the na-tion of one of those rare thinkers who had both genius and com-mon sense.

Most people would not be able to understand the complex eco-nomic analysis that won him a Nobel Prize, but people with no knowledge of economics had no trouble understanding his popu-lar books like “Free to Choose” or the TV series of the same name.

In being able to express him-self at both the highest level of his profession and also at a level that the average person could readily understand, Milton Friedman was like the economist whose theories and persona were most different from his own -- John Maynard Keynes.

Like many, if not most, people who became prominent as op-ponents of the left, Professor Friedman began on the left. Decades later, looking back at a statement of his own from his early years, he said: “The most striking feature of this statement is how thoroughly Keynesian it is.”

No one converted Milton Fried-man, either in economics or in his views on social policy. His own research, analysis and ex-perience converted him.

As a professor, he did not at-tempt to convert students to his political views. I made no secret of the fact that I was a Marxist

when I was a student in Profes-sor Friedman’s course, but he made no effort to change my views. He once said that any-body who was easily converted was not worth converting.

I was still a Marxist after tak-ing Professor Friedman’s class. Working as an economist in the government converted me.

What Milton Friedman is best known for as an economist was his opposition to Keynesian economics, which had largely swept the economics profession on both sides of the Atlantic, with the notable exception of the University of Chicago, where Friedman was both trained as a student and later taught.

In the heyday of Keynesian economics, many economists believed that inflationary gov-ernment policies could reduce unemployment, and early empir-ical data seemed to support that view. The inference was that the government could make careful trade-offs between inflation and unemployment, and thus “fine tune” the economy.

Milton Friedman challenged this view with both facts and analysis. He showed that the relationship between inflation and unemployment held only in the short run, when the infla-tion was unexpected. But, after everyone got used to inflation, unemployment could be just as high with high inflation as it had been with low inflation.

When both unemployment and inflation rose at the same time in the 1970s -- “stagflation,” as it was called -- the idea of the government “fine tuning” the economy faded away. There are still some die-hard Keynesians today who keep insisting that the government’s “stimulus” spending would have worked, if only it was bigger and lasted

P A R I S — A s the London Olympics set new records f o r a th l e t i c achievements, the Summer Games equal-ly h ighl ight global compe-titions, both in the field of

sport and nationalism. And despite all the naysayers that the London Games would not be ready, the traditional British can-do attitude prevailed (as they did in London 1948), and came through with a spectacular open-ing ceremony and subsequent sporting contests.

I’ve been watching the Games from across the Channel. Here with a splendid setting of Paris and, to the backdrop of Notre Dame cathedral and the River Seine, the city of Paris has a widescreen for viewing in a Brit-ish themed park. During the Opening Ceremony, most popu-lar with the crowd were the seg-ments with James Bond and the Queen, as well as the Mr. Bean skit showing the buffoonish comic in a marathon running se-quence based on the Chariots of Fire movie. (an amazing Olympic movie by the way). Mr. Bean was uproariously popular with the largely French audience.

Just as an aside, the British in-dustrial revolution segment with rising smokestacks without the soot was clever, but the National

london olyMPiCs Mirror globAl CoMPeTiTionsHealth Service (NHS) skit with dancing doctors, prancing pedi-atric nurses, and somersaulting kids evoked the kind of gymnas-tic ode to socialist medicine one would come to expect in Pyong-yang, not London.

Now to sport. Team USA, despite those “Made

in China” Ralph Lauren outfits I groused about a few columns back, are giving an amazing ath-letic performance both on land and in the water. Team USA ranks second among the 200 na-tional team contestants.

The People’s Republic of China now is in first place with the Mainland’s athletes still ap-parently in the afterglow of the Beijing 2008 Olympics. China’s powerhouse team already has ten gold medals and counting. Tough training, rigorous disci-pline and State-directed focus seems to be paying off, at least for now. Importantly Taiwan, the “other China” is separately rep-resented, under the rubric “Chi-nese/Taipei.” So far, Taiwan’s athletes have scored a medal in the shadow of the dragon.

France ranks third globally with nine medals, four of them gold. The French team has been especially adept in the water from swimming to kayaking.

The Koreans have been doing remarkably well. South Korea now stands at number four in the overall rankings and com-munist North Korea amazingly ranks number five. Clearly, the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics,

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an amazing achievement putting South Korea on a global pedestal, may be part of it, as much as South Korea’s increasingly global status.

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On the signs in front of Ray’s stores has a great message: “I built this business without gov’t help. Obama can Kiss my BLEEP! I am Ray Gaster & I approve this message.”

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The final round of the Open was played on a Sunday, of course, which is the big sports day of the week in Ireland. But Sunday’s Irish television sports fare also included Gaelic Football and hurl-ing.

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Moffett from 15sic station. I did even-tually find a sports-talk radio station, hosted by a knowledgeable and polite woman. The show fea-tured none of the ranting so typical of American sports talk radio.

As to being on the road, driving the narrow Irish thoroughfares was truly terrifying. The roads in some parts of the country are approximately 15 feet wide, with ancient stone walls taking up space that in America we would call SHOULDERS. Driving on the left side of the road in a car with a steering wheel on the right is dis-concerting enough, but to have trucks and buses barreling down on you at almost 60 miles per hour with only inches to spare between traffic lanes is to have your life pass before your eyes as you brace for collisions that somehow never happened.

The speed limit on these country lanes was 100 kilometers per hour (63 mph). Crazy.

Irish SightsStill, the ancient coun-

try roads eventually led to modern multi-laned highways which took our American travelers to the Irish capital of Dublin, with all its history. A visit to Trinity College to see the 1200 year-old Book of Kells was a must, as was a service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

That the Irish have a long history was made apparent by a visit to the massive Newgrange and Knowth burial sites, the construction of which pre-

dated that of both Stone-henge and the great Pyra-mids of Egypt.

A trip back across the country brought the American visitors through County Cork to the famed Cliffs of Moher on the west coast in County Clare, and later to stirring vistas in the highlands around County Kerry.

HighlandsTime didn’t quite allow

for a climb of Carrantuo-hill Mountain, the highest point in Ireland at 3414 feet. I did don my green 2008 Boston Celtic cham-pionship t-shirt to ascend nearby Kerry Mountain. The word “Celtic” (pro-nounced “Keltic”) is ev-erywhere in Ireland. The Celtic people flourished in ancient Ireland, prior to the Vikings coming to plunder, pillage, and rape, and before the English inflicted their own dep-redations upon the Irish people.

I had my photo taken next to a cairn atop Kerry Mountain just before an older, diminutive white-haired man bounded up to the summit. We chat-ted for a while and he explained he often ran up and down Carrantuohill and adjacent mountains to stay in shape for expe-ditions to Africa’s Mt. Kili-manjaro. The leprechaun-like hiker shared some lo-cal history in a delightful Irish brogue before pick-ing up his walking stick and bounding down the mountain, disappearing into a late July mist.

Irish LoveAs our time in Eire drew

short, I chatted up local pub patrons, who con-firmed that their economy was indeed in dire straits, Ireland having been hit especially hard by the post-2008 world reces-sion. But if the Irish were poorer financially, they remained rich in spirit -- generous and hospi-table to Americans. In

fact, they seemed to love Americans more than any other people I’d met any-where else in my travels, which include England, France, Norway, Afghani-stan, Panama, Japan and Hawaii. (Yes, I know Ha-waiians are Americans, but a lot of Hawaiians just don’t seem to like Ameri-can mainlanders.)

During my last day in Ireland, I was a bit anx-ious about my return flights from Shannon to London Heathrow to Bos-ton Logan Airports. A lot of Olympic traffic was coming into London, and I braced for possible delays. While waiting, I concluded that Ireland was the best

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ATTrACTing sTrAngerscommercial areas of you community and you will recognize these species.

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Catbirds, thrashers and northern mockingbirds, members of the mimic family, are possible back-yard visitors in similar habitats of dense low growth such as thickets, shrubs and bushes. Cat-birds are robin-sized, grey birds that have a very dis-tinct cat-like “mew” sound. Thrashers sing a variety of notes and regularly repeat the same version over and over again. Mockingbirds have an annoying habit of repeating the last sound they heard before dark-

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Captain Edward H. Ad-ams and launched in 1886 from Durham, NH. Drawings of it are today on display at the Smith-sonian Institute and were used for the design of the Piscataqua.

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There was a good fog on the river when I arrived to board the 10am to Noon cruise along with about nine others. It leaves from its dock at Prescott Park in Portsmouth. This was the maiden year for the Piscataqua, it was launched last December and has been taking on passengers for cruises, public and private, since Memorial Day.

The crew onboard the Piscataqua this day were: Captain Matt Glenn; Me-gan Glenn, the captains’ wife and also onboard ed-ucator; Heather Froumy, educator and deck hand; Deane Gelinas, volunteer deckhand and Michael

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Komisarek, a junior at Pinkerton Academy who was volunteering as he pursues a career in ma-rine biology.

At dock, the Piscataqua is an unassuming ves-sel. It’s sail pulled tight against it solid white oak stump mast, the captain’s wheel up front and a few

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Passengers board the gundalow Piscataqua at Prescott Park in Portsmouth.

Captain Matt Glenn greets a young passenger.

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The Piscataqua crew: (L to R) Deckhand Michael Komisarek; Captain Matt Glenn; Heather Froumy, educator and deckhand; Megan Glenn, onboard educator and Deane Gelinas, deckhand.

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started to build a new gundalow. In 2011, with funding in place, con-struction began on the Piscataqua. Six profes-s ional boat bui lders worked with 50 volun-teers who contributed over 2,500 hours until the new gundalow was completed.

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under the power of en-gine, it was hard for me to discern exactly where we were. The fog was a bit heavy, but it slowly began to lift, very slowly.

It was nice to be on the water, that calming effect I haven’t had much of lately. Still, I couldn’t let my guard down. After all, I was on assignment.

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ence.“Ready the Main Sheet,”

yelled Captain Glenn and the crew was set in mo-tion. Not without the help of a few passengers. I would have helped, but someone needed to take the pictures.

Heather Froumy ex-plained the handing of the Main Sheet, to the four passengers who jumped to her assistance..

It was effortless team work as soon the sail was unfurled to its full length and the real beauty of the Piscataqua was ap-parent.

The fog kept us a little limited to where we would sail that day. Captain Glenn said it was one of the foggiest mornings he had seen all season, just my luck. He said that he would usually take the Piscataqua a bit further into the harbor.

After awhile, Captain Glenn shut off the engine and we were under full sail; the only gundalow on the water.

Captain Glenn came on board with the Gundalow Company to take the helm of the vessel in March. His previous experience impressive. He holds a 500 ton Ocean Masters license. He has served as a deck hand and mate on a number of tall ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, was a schooner captain in New Jersey and Bos-ton and had even spent a season as a deckhand on a tugboat. So, we were in good hands.

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Crew member Heather Froumy and passengers working the main sheet to unfurl the sail. brendan smith Photo

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One interesting point I did learn was that the Piscataqua is considered the fastest navigable river in the country though Megan did say that there would be some who might dispute it; still, the evi-dence for it is pretty good.

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The Piscataqua at full sail.

Heather Froumy explains the working of the Main Sheet.

View from below quarters of Captain Glenn at the wheel.brendan smith Photos


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phytoplankton swimming aimlessly against the cur-rent in the Piscataqua River. They are the low-est on the food chain in the ocean and they also provide about fifty per-cent of the earth’s atmo-sphere. Pretty impressive. Of course, I didn’t know any of this until I rode aboard the Piscataqua.

A few of the younger passengers helped Megan and Michael collect some plankton for observation.

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Onboard educator, Megan Glenn, explains the history of the Piscataqua River and gundalows.

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I saw a man playing “fetch the stick” with his dog off of Pierce Isand. Seemed innocent enough until Captain Glenn ex-plained that the current at that particular point created a riptide, which you could see, and that dogs had been lost there

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Volunteer crew member Michael Komisarek, gathers some plankton for study.

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We cruised the rest of the way under engine power, past the Ports-mouth Navy Yard, cor-doned off by fencing in the water and signs re-minding us to not even think about coming close. I spied a few workers along the perimeter who were, most likely since they were wearing side arms, not there to build ships. I was even a little

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nervous about snapping photos, but all went well.

Then it was back to the dock at Prescott Park. The fog was completely lifted now and it looked like the 2-4pm cruise might have a little better view than we did. I would have liked

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Heather Froumy secures the Piscataqua to the dock as our journey comes to an end.

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your pow-ers of persuasion, backed up, of course, by your considerable expertise, help you establish your case even to the most dubi-ous decision-makers in your workplace.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might still be a bit reluctant to face up to some less-than-pleasant realities. But the sooner you accept the facts, the sooner you can set about making some needed changes.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Expect to make adjustments, even when things seem locked up and ready to go. But cheer up: At least one change could lead to something you’ve been hoping for.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) The success of a recent project should do a lot to boost your self-confidence. You might want to

start now to check out ways to make that long-deferred bigger and bolder move.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Ease up on the pressure you might be put-ting on the new person in your life. It takes time for a budding relationship to blossom. Show more patience and understanding.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You have lots of inner strength in reserve. Use some of it to resist intimidation from those who might try to impose on your good nature for their own reasons.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) The good news is that your on-the-job sta-tus is improving. The one cautionary note, however, involves a personal situation you might have been ignoring for too long.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to Decem-ber 21) Congratulations. Once again, your sharp Sagittarian “horse sense” helps you work through a complicated situation that would leave most people confused.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to Janu-ary 19) Plan on indulging yourself in some well-earned good times through much of the week. Then be prepared to face some thought-provoking issues by the 18th.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Positive factors continue to domi-nate following a recent change in both your professional and personal lives. Expect to make contact with someone from your past.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Workplace stability allows you to con-tinue making progress on your projects. But don’t ignore your personal life. Spend more quality time with those special folks.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have the gift for making people feel special. Maybe because you know how special you are.

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This is one of those heads-I-win-and-tails-you-lose arguments. Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Although Milton Fried-man became someone regarded as a conserva-tive icon, he considered himself a liberal in the original sense of the word -- someone who believes in the liberty of the indi-

vidual, free of government intrusions. Far from try-ing to conserve things as they are, he wrote a book titled “Tyranny of the Sta-tus Quo.”

Milton Friedman pro-posed radical changes in policies and institution ranging from the public schools to the Federal Reserve. It is liberals who want to conserve and ex-pand the welfare state.

As a student of Profes-sor Friedman back in 1960, I was struck by two things -- his tough grad-ing standards and the fact that he had a black secretary. This was years

before affirmative action. People on the left exhibit blacks as mascots. But I never heard Milton Fried-man say that he had a black secretary, though she was with him for de-cades. Both his grading standards and his refusal to try to be politically cor-rect increased my respect for him.

Thomas Sowell is a se-nior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Uni-versity, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.

Gold in Judo, Hungary a Gold in Fencing, and Ger-many Gold in equestrian. Expect the medal stand-ings to show dramatic shifts in the next days.

An academic question? Do the powerhouse sport-ing teams largely come from the biggest G-8 economies?

Most do such as the USA, France, Italy, Ger-many, Russia and Japan. But Britain and Canada have not as of yet.

Fur thermore wh i l e many economists have touted the virtues of the BRICS; the business ac-ronym for the purportedly mega-economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, it’s really only China and Russia who score in the top ten list in sports here.

What about population size? Well, there’s no question about Mainland China but what about nearly as populous India? The USA has a large pop-ulation as does Brazil, but Team USA leads without question.

What about the actual sports offered? Both team and indiv idual sports usually favor the big countries, but if this were the winter Olympics, small populations coun-tries like Austria, Norway and Switzerland would score disproportionally well.

And despite all the hype and spectacle for the Summer Olympics, do the Games really excite inter-est? Surprisingly a poll in the French daily Le Figaro found that a mere 50 per-cent of the people were

interested in the Olympic Games with 49.9 percent saying they are not.

Still stated another way the Olympics provide a welcome respite from the seemingly endless Euro banking crisis, conflict in the Middle East, and per-petual political campaign in the USA. Although the clash of sports teams does not seem to reach the din and hyper-nationalism of World Cup Football, the Olympics certainly provide a proper venue for excellence, national pride, and the often once in a lifetime chance for athletes’ to set sporting records.

John J. Metzler is a Unit-ed Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues.


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The 33rd Artists in the Park, will take place on Wednesday, August 15th, 10am to 5pm at Cate Park in Wolfeboro.

The event will take place rain or shine and is hosted by the Gover-nor Wentworth Arts Council whose mission is to bring quality and bril-liant original juried artwork to the park. This year there are sixteen new exhibitors and more local tal-ent

There will be local potters, Paper quilling, scherenschnitte and Ori-gami, painted gourd ornaments, hand-painted canvas rugs and detailed marquetry, using rare and beautiful woods. In the fiber and clothing category hand-stenciled and painted children and adult tee-shirts, hand painted and sewn silk jackets and kimonos and colorful and practical fabric handbags.

There are more jewelers than usual this year and they all offer very different work and materials. There will also be artists in the mixed media category. Oil painters, Chinese Brush Painting (Sumi-e), watercolorists,pastel drawing and more.

Local photographers, Tom Lavoie and Russell Schundler will be joined by Ronald Wilson. There will

ing this hour-long show! Charming original stories and folk tales are delightfully chock-full of audience participation and humor!

Outstanding art set in a beautiful location on the waterfront in Wolfe-boro’s Cate Park – all for FREE. Come join in for the day!

33rd ArTisTs in The PArk in wolfeboroWednesday, August 15th from 10am-5pm

also be live demonstrations from Robin Cornwell, rug weaving, in the morning and then painter Peter Ferber will present his watercolor technique in the afternoon.

Beyond the day full of fine arts demonstrations and sales, be sure to catch one of the after-noon performances by Lindsay

and Her Puppet Pals at 12:30, 1:30 & 3:30pm at the community bandstand. Based in New Hamp-shire’s seacoast, Lindsay brings a large collection of beautifully handcrafted and life sized stuffed hand puppets and marionettes to young audiences across New Eng-land. Characters come alive with a wacky array of unique voices dur-

Lindsay and Her Puppet Pals will be performing at the 3rd Artists In The Park at Cate Park in Wolfeboro on Wednesday, August 15th. The event is from 10am to 3pm and Lindsay will be performing at 12:30, 1:30 & 3:30.

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