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By Lori Catozzi CookMosquitoes, fleas, and ticks are not

only a nuisance when enjoying our outdoor time, they are also a danger to our family’s health. This is where a knowledgable, trained, and licensed technician from Mosquito Shield of Cheshire County comes in handy.

Mosquito Shield (which was once Mosquito Terminators) is known as

the pioneer and leader in residential mosquito control. Using their services is an inexpensive and effective way to enjoy your deck, yard, patio, or play area mosquito and tick free.

“It’s so nice to be able to go out and not get eaten up,” reports Helen Hoyt, a resident of New Ipswich.

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Richmond Civil War Soldiers Are Topic

L. Warren Wright of the 14th New Hampshire Regiment.

On Sunday, July 8th, in the Veterans’ Memorial Hall at 2 p.m., the Richmond Heritage Commission and the Richmond Historical Society will present a program on the men of Richmond who served in the Civil War. Research uncovered 76 men who were born in Richmond and served in the war.

Hank Hallas will present some of the findings and present a binder of the full research combed from over 30 sources. There will be a full uniform Honor Guard to greet people at the door. Photographs, music, and artifacts from the war will be on display, and refreshments will be served. This event will be held at 150 Old Home-stead Highway in Richmond.

The public is invited to learn more about Richmond’s involvement in the Civil War.

The Monadnock Food Co-op will host a series of farm tours this summer, kicking off with a tour of Archway Farm in Keene on Saturday, July 14th from 10 a.m. to noon. (Rain date is July 15th.) This event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required at monadnockfood.coop/archway.

Long-time homesteaders, Mark Florenz and his family leapt into farming three years ago after pur-chasing a historic farm property on Arch Street in Keene. Florenz raises his pigs using Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) standards certified by A Greener World. He sells his pork chops, sausage, bacon, and salamis at the Monadnock Food Co-op. For more de-tails, visit Archway Farm’s website at archway.farm.

“We take great pride in raising happy healthy ani-mals,” shared Florenz. “Our pigs are raised outside in social groups where they can root, roll in the mud, and express their true nature.”

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Mark Florenz and his son, Leo, of Archway Farm in Keene.

Players Present Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our TeethThe Peterborough Players continue its season

with the Pulitzer prize-winning comedy, The Skin of Our Teeth, by Peterborough’s own Thornton Wilder, playing July 4th through 15th.

The play introduces George and Maggie Antro-bus of Excelsior, NJ, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportu-nity. Whether he is inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his redoubtable family somehow manage to survive – by the skin of their teeth.

The Skin of Our Teeth is directed by Players Artistic Director Gus Kaikkonen and the cast of dozens fea-tures Jack Koenig, Dee Nelson, Leon Axt, and Kraig Swartz and local actors Mia Moravis, John Smith, Ray Cote, Chris McCartie, and Eve Pierce. The production also makes the Players’ debut for Rebecca Brinkley.

Tickets can be purchased online anytime at www.peterboroughplayers.org and by calling the Box Of-fice at 603-924-7585. Box Office hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 10 a.m. to showtime on show days. Single tickets are $42. To help celebrate the 4th of July, the Players is offering $20 tickets to the opening night performance on July 4th.

For more details on all upcoming productions, call 603-924-7585 and visit www.peterboroughplay-ers.org. The theater is located at 55 Hadley Road in Peterborough.

New 6-week memoir sessions will take place from mid-July through Au-gust at Pam Bernard’s home in Walpole.

For those who yearn for a deeper engagement with life, the act of writing about experience can provide meaning and direction – not as reportage, but as a way to shape one’s life story. William Zinsser says, “If you make an honest transaction with your own humanity and with the humanity of the people who crossed your life, no matter how much pain they caused you or you caused them, readers will connect with your journey.”

In the face of relentless information overload, people are starved for human stories. As the tide trends toward the fleeting and disposable, an effort to take

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