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May 30 FAST FOOD FACTS FOLLOW-UP Thanks for the very speedy reply to my question about weather conditions during the PPAF Chowderfest this Sat. Your headline to my question, "Water in the Chowder" was truly inspired and I laughed heartily! I loved your article on your family's history and chowder "superiority!" Your website is truly remarkable. So informative and so chock full of culture and historical lore. If I didn't know the NH seacoast so well, I'd have believed it to be as large as the state of NH itself! Thanks for your help and sublime sense of humor! Barry Again May 29 WATER IN THE CHOWDER? Could you tell me if the Prescott Park Chowder Festival on Sat. June 2, will have a rain date in case the weather is too inclement to have it? Barry in Lynn, MA EDITOR'S REPLY: We don't imagine it's possible to put off 500 gallons of clam chowder, rain or shine. The official Prescott Park web site does not list a rain day in its EVENTS section. The phone number is listed if you wish to call in for details. No matter who wins, we still think our chowder wins. http://www.artfest.org/ http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/please011898.html May 28 MORE WITCHES IN NH? I enjoyed your article about Ocean Born Mary! I also saw that you are documenting many New Hampshire women, including Goodwife Cole of Hampton, who was condemned as a witch. Did NH have a history of witch hunting? I have been researching my family roots in NH (they went to Ohio about 1800) and found Mary Boulter of Exeter and Kingston, who married James Prescott in 1695. I read that she was accused of being a witch in 1680, but have not been able to find anything else out about this. We are visiting New England in June and I would love to know where to go to find some information. Karla Sasse in Ohio EDITOR'S REPLY: There were accusations of witchery in NH in the era of the Salem trails, but Goody Cole was the only NH women tried and condemned by the province. We're not up on the Exeter incident, but the historical society phone in Exeter is 603-778-2335. Brewster discusses witchery in Portsmouth and we've attached that link below, as well as =our link and the detailed Hampton Library links page on Goody Cole. The town of Hampton officially apologized to GC and lifted the expunged the criminal accusations in the mid 1900s. http://www.seacoastnh.com/brewster/144.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/please102498.html http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/goody.htm May 26 SUMMER CONCERTS AT THE BEACH i was wondering if yous could please email me some info on when yous will have tony pace there in concert on your sea shell stage concerts events, thanks and i hope this isn't any inconvenience to yous. Lori in Providence, RI EDITOR'S REPLY: We's never heard the gentlemen you're seeking, but the entire Concert Shell schedule for the summer is posted on our site. For further you, try contacting the Hampton Beach Chamber of Commerce or the Hampton Beach Precinct. Both have their own web sites. http://www.seacoastnh.com/hamptonbeach/index.html May 26 ALBACORE OPEN Could you please let me know when the US Albacor is open for the public to go see? We are interested in coming down on Sat. and hope to get an answer from you soon. thanks. Pat Carter EDITOR'S REPLY: The sub is open for visitors seven days a week starting next week. It is open this weekend, but closed the day after Memorial Day, but then the hours will be 9:30- 5pm. (Closes at 4 pm this week.) The phone number is 603-436-3680. Admission is still just $5 for adults with discounts for seniors and $2 for children. Keep checking in for our ongoing series of articles about the Albacore and the Squalus. http://www.seacoastnh.com/navyyard/ussalbacore1.html May 26 FAST SHOT OF MRS. LANGDON hey um do you have any info or pictures of John Langdon's wife Elizabeth Sherburne? because i need a picture of her or you know what would be better is if you could give me a picture of John and his wife. thanks because i have a report tomorrow. Bye Alexandra M EDITOR'S REPLY: Always best to go to those who know the most, in this case, the John Langdon House on Pleasant Street in Portsmouth. They are the experts on the Langdon family. We checked a couple of books and did not see a picture of the Mrs., but there will certainly be images at the Portsmouth Library (in the biography of Langdon there) or at the Portsmouth Athenaeum too. We have only the picture of a local actress portraying Mrs. Langdon in a recent theater production. Sorry about that. We've seen portraits of them Langdon's separately, but never in the same painting. http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/ona.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/houses/langdon/index.html May 24 RE: BERNARD NUGENT, WENTWORTH WORKER I am emailing a request as I have been recently told that my Grandfather who came from Ireland via Liverpool to Ellis Island in 1915 had worked at Wentworth by the Sea. I am not sure what he did there but would like to ask if you would have any information on him. He died before I was born and I am very interested in the kind of work he did. I would appreciate any information you can email me. Roisin Lindsay of Windsor, California EDITOR'S REPLY: We don't do genealogical research, but you may want to consider hiring someone who does. Someone in the Rockingham Genealogical Society might be able to orient you, but usually research means planning a lot of time to come to the area and look though local records. This sounds like a tricky, if not impossible job of searching. The hotel records, if they existed from that era at all, are likely long gone. You can check with the Portsmouth Athenaeum to see if there are any records from that era, but what survives is mostly brochures and photos like the ones you see on our WBS site. Hotel summer workers even from the 1980s when the Wentworth closed would be hard to track, and records from the early 20th century are unlikely. A professional researcher could look through city directories and tax records in surrounding towns, but without more details -- wedding and death records, an address, an occupation -- or more specific details, the work is hard. Readers with ideas of helpful hints can write to us for Roisin's email address. http://www.seacoastnh.com/wentbysea/index.html May 23 KEN PREDICTS WEATHER TWO MONTHS AHEAD!! My family and I are coming to New Hampshire in July this year and I would like some idea of the weather and temperatures we can expect. Does it rain frequently during July normally and how hot does it get during the day and how cool at night? We need to know what clothes to pack. Thank you for a quick response! Jane Thatcher of Placentia, California KEN MITCHELL REPLIES: Hi..I'm Ken Mitchell and I issue a daily forecast every morning of this site. I checked local climatology data and have come up with thee following numbers. These are representative, as they are from stations within 50 miles of here.
Average high temp: 82
A quick check of the NWS 90-day outlook shows that there are no extremes
expected in July of this year, so things should wobble along within a
reasonable distance of these average numbers. Hope this helps. May 23 GOOD MOORING, AMERICA! We are considering relocating to NH. We must first find a marina for our boat. May we ask for your assistance-- We have a 34' 6" LOA, 11' beam boat- Mfg is Sealine. What does your marina offer and of course the rental of the slip per season? Jan Kight EDITOR'S REPLY: We've been mistaken for the Navy Yard, the chamber, the local newspapers, the Naval Shipyard and a bunch of local hotels and towns, but never for a dock before. If only we were a marina, we'd get more fresh air and have a better view, but we, alas, are a web site. Fortunately, we do have a listing of local marinas in SeacoastSearch.com. Go to TRANSPORTATION/BOAT or just type the word "Marina" into the search box. http://www.seacoastsearch.com/ May 22 DISNEY IMPRISONED AT THE NAVY YARD? IN A WEB LISTING FOR INFORMATION ON WALT DISNEY I FOUND YOUR WEB SITE. IN THE LISTING IT SAID ( SOME SAY WALT DISNEYS INSPIRATION FOR THE ... AM TRYING TO FIND THE REST OF THE STORY! THIS IS FOR A PROJECT WITH MY SON AND THE BOY SCOUTS. I CLICKED ON YOUR WEB SITE BUT COULD NOT FIND THE INFORMATION I WAS LOOKING FOR. I GOT LOST IN YOUR WEB SITE. VERY NICE
SITE BY THE WAY. WE RECENTLY CAMPED OUY FOR A WEEKEND AT THE SHIP YARD AND WE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY WALT DISNEY WAS AT THE SHIPYARD PRISON. PRISONER OR GUEST! ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED, THANK YOU
As to finding things on the site, you need to know only two things. When in doubt, hit the lighthouse in the upper left corner or at the bottom of every page. That takes you HOME. Click on SEARCH to find anything in the site, or just intuit the location of the article. Most items are in HISTORY. Click that button and you'll find access to all articles via dozens of sub-directories. Practice makes perfect. There are only about 2,600 pages on the site currently, but more coming rapidly.
May 22 MORE THANKS Being new to the area, I welcomed the chance to read a little bit of New Hampshire history. Thanks. Stephanie Bertani May 20 REPAIRING OUR CIVIL WAR MONUMENT Who accomplished the repair of the Monument Bronze "white bronze" or zinc civil war monument (Portsmouth Goodwin Park, Soldiers and Sailors Monument)? We have several such monuments in our area. Please assist with our efforts to locate a specialty firm to repair the zinc skin. Bruce B. Clark, PE, Consulting Engineer, Gouverneur, NY EDITOR'S REPLY: We contacted the City of Portsmouth and Nancy Carme told us that the zinc monument is scheduled for restored by a company called Daedalus Inc. from Cambrdige, MA. About 25% of the cost will be covered by a grant. Goodwin Park was restored last year, also thanks to a large grant. Our extensive coverage of that particular monument includes a visit inside the Civil War-era "white bronze" statue - and more. http://www.seacoastnh.com/monuments/goodwin.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/monuments/goodwinpix.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/please110599.html May 20 PONDERING JUDD PENS Please let me thank you for the amazing article (Web Site of the Week Review). I laughed, I cried, I blushed, and well, as you probably could have guessed from our phone conversation, I laughed some more. It is easily the best piece of press we have received to date, and will look good in our new press kits. Marty England, Pondering Judd http://www.seacoastsearch.com/feature52.htm May 19 BARTLETT TECHICALLY WAS FIRST NH GOV Saw your article on John Sullivan in Link Free or Die. Ialways thought Josiah Bartlett served as the first governor, but, hey, I live in Texas so what do I know. Just family lore? Winifred McNabb, Josiah's 3X great-granddaughter EDITOR'S REPLY: You could win this one on a technicality. John Sullivan of Durham was the first "president" of New Hampshire, appointed in 1786. The term was for the state chief executive, equivalent to governor. Josiah Bartlett, a physician from East Kingston in the Seacoast, was the NH President in 1791. The following year he continued as President, but the title was then changed in 1792 to Governor. So Bartlett was the first "governor" though not the first chief executive of the Granite State. He was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776). He served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1779), similar to a supreme court. So even if you are from Texas, you did pretty well on your history, much better than a former governor from there might have done on a spot history quiz. And look for our new Bartlett section coming up next week in Link Free or Die. http://www.seacoastnh.com/framers/sullivan.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/framers/bartlett.html May 17 TIME FOR JENNY LIND I forgot I was going to send you a picture of this clock until I received this month's SeacoastNH.com news. ("Jenny Lind & the Clipper Nightingale") This clock was sold in the 1880's or earlier as The Jenny Lind clock. My greatgrandfather bought it, but I don't know where. It has always been in my family. I am sending two pictures... one of the whole clock... as you can see the glass "tree of life" was broken and partially replaced probably before I was born. The picture of the top shows pretty well the face that was to have been Jenny Lind. Carol Smith, San Angelo, Texas 
May 17 HE FOUND LEACH ISLAND Eureka, I have found it. Leach Island that is. I located coordinates. The map choices are good and easily readable. I am going to contact a NH state officials to begin the process of inquiry for archeological purposes. Anything found, will be donated to a local library or museum. I will be looking for someone local to baby-sit the project as I would soon run out of dimes for the airplane. Thanks again for all your help at SeacoastNH. I will keep you posted. E. Leach May 16 SWEDISH TERMPAPER ON PORTSMOUTH Hello!! I'm a Swedish girl who's writing a paper about how a normal day was for the people in Portsmouth in the late 1900 century. I was looking on the Internet but couldn't really find exactly what I wanted. Hope you didn't have to much trouble reading my English!! EDITOR'S REPLY: Good English! But we're afraid the key to research is reading between the lines on a topic like this. There is nothing we know written as a guide to how Portsmouth People lived in that era, though a great portion of the 2,600 web pages on our site hit the right time period. You will need to dig through and draw details from a number of sections, especially Brewster's Rambles, which includes almost 100 articles written in that time period. Also check out pieces on the Red Light district in Portsmouth, articles in the Shipyard section, anything on Celia Thaxter. We assume you are doing the research becuase of the book Weight of Water, detailing the murder of two Norwegian women in 1873. We have TONS of material on that event in our Smuttynose Murder section. There is a detailed section in the Wentworth-by-the-Sea portion of the site on the late 1800s. And a GREAT deal of material can be found in "Old Town by the Sea" a complete book online written about Portsmouth in the 1800s by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Also check out Early Images which includes hundreds of pictures from that era. Use our Search Engine to review the site and the History Themes section to find those listed above. And don't miss the latest pieces on Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind. Good hunting. http://www.seacoastnh.com/themes/index.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/aldrich/index.html#oldtown http://www.seacoastnh.com/search.html#1 May 15 POW-WOW CAM I happened by your site today and wondered if you were interested in a reciprocal link exchange. Our site has been up for over a year now and we average 100 - 200 hits per day. The main attraction being four live 24/7 webcams overlooking Powwow pond in Seacoast NH. I believe this would be mutually beneficial for both of our sites. Thanks for your consideration, Robert Berthel http://www.newhampshirevideo.com EDITOR'S REPLY: Well that killed our whole afternoon! We started watching the rippling water on the dock in East Kingston and somehow the day just slipped by. The climax was when what looked like a mother swan and three swan babies glided by. Who says there's nothing good on the Web these days? Thanks for the cam reference. We should add a new category to SeacoastSearch and pop it in there. May 15 NO, WE PREFER A ROLLS Thank you for your assistance during our visit to Portsmouth. The tour of the Wentworth-Gardner house was truly delightful. While we were leaving, a Bugatti drove by. The ladies who gave the tour thought that it was you in the car. Was it? If so, what can you tell me about it? I have never seen one just cruising around on city streets - only in museum displays. Thanks again, Ed Campbell EDITOR'S REPLY: Glad we could help make the arrangements. Connecting people with historic sites seems to be one of the many underground services we provide here at SeacoastNH.com. No, our Bugatti. After the Bondo all fell off the company's Chevy Nova, we have taken to traveling exclusively on shoe leather, which fits our corporate budget and prevents any parking problems. Visitors who cannot get to town due to traffic, may tour here online. http://www.seacoastnh.com/wentworth/index.html May 14 BEACH FILLING UP FAST I'm looking to rent a 4 bedroom house in August 2002 for one week in the Rye/Hampton area. Any advice? Patrice EDITOR'S REPLY: A headline in this morning's Fosters.com reads: "Despite economic slowdown, beach rentals nearly all booked." According to the article, economic slowdowns and high gas prices actually tent to INCREASE traffic at Happy Hampton. According to one rental agent, most of the 2,200 available summer units in the Hampton area are already booked through Labor Day. That may account for the fact that Hampton Beach has very little presence on the Internet and rental agents rarely advertise for rooms - knowing they will be booked anyway. As to rental of a full-sized house, we can only suggest you read through the online guides on the local newspapers and check our LODGING listing which includes the best Vacation Rentals listing we've found on the Seacoast. Also check out SeacoastSearch for over 60 Real Estate agents in the area. But around here, the best strategy is to come a year early, make friends, look around, and book ahead. http://www.seacoastnh.com/touring/lodging.html http://www.seacoastsearch.com/ May 11 SEEKING THE PORTSMOUTH PENNY POST My great-grandfather, Colonel John Pender, former mayor of Portsmouth, founded a newspaper called the Portsmouth Penny Post, which after a time was subsequently sold to what became the Portsmouth Herald (I think this paper is the earliest in the Herald's longevity list). I was wondering if anyone knew if copies of this paper continued to exist - at libraries, museums (Strawberry Bank?), etc., or better yet, an ephemera dealer who might have some to sell? We just want a representation for our archive of family history. RP of Maryland EDITOR'S REPLY: NH Gazette owner Steve Fowle, editor of America's Oldest Newspaper, here in Portsmouth tells us that you are correct and that the Penny Post started on September 23, 1884. It very soon became the Portsmouth Herald although the Herald has incorrectly recorded its own founding date (see below). Mr. Fowle suggested that there are copies of the paper in the Portsmouth Athenaeum (603-431-2538) in the loft area above the vault in the back room. The Athenaeum is a private membership library open Tues, Thurs and Saturday from 11 am to 4pm. The Herald presented its back issues of the Penny Post to Strawbery Banke decades ago. We checked the Portsmouth Library (603-427-1540) and it appears they have the first three months in a bound form, but we couldn't tell if it has been transferred to microfiche as well. Your best bet is to contact Mr. Fowle (503-433-9898) and then pack up the camper and visit historic Portsmouth while you do your research. In return, we want to know as much as possible about your ancestor. The late Ray Brighton, an editor of the Herald, mentions Col. Pender a number of times in his rambling history of Portsmouth "They Came to Fish." In a footnote he credits a Mrs. Helen P. Boynton as having been a source of much of his info about Portsmouth and notes that she was the daughter of Col. Pender and that she once worked for her father at the Penny Post. Pender was mayor in 1902, the year the powerful tycoon Frank Jones died. Brighton also offers an interesting anecdote in his history of the Herald in a footnote to They Came to Fish. Although Mr. Fowle would strongly disagree, Brighton says the Herald is the only survivor of about 40 early Portsmouth newspapers that once flourished. After turning the Penny Post into the Herald in 1887, new owner FW Harrford bought up and closed all of the remaining local newspapers, killing the competition for 100 years. In the 1940s, according to Brighton, it was discovered that the Herald had actually incorrectly transcribed its volume number into Roman numerals, thereby cutting two years off its own origin date. Embarrassed by the error, Hartford refused to make the change and the error stands today, we think.
May 10 WAS IRONSIDES MADE OF IRON? Can you please tell me about the construction of "Old Ironsides?" My history teacher and I are in dispute as to what it was made of. Thanks Katie EDITOR'S REPLY: It was made of wood. We hear the key to the ship's strength was the live oak hull. Some of the replacement wood from an 1855 refit still sits in a pool of water at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. For best answers, check the list of Ironsides links below and you can contact the ship crew and museum directly. http://www.seacoastnh.com/ussconstitution/links.html May 09 CREDIT GOES TO ELIOT Looking for information on the clipper ship Nightingale and stumbled across several articles at your website. All of these articles stated that she was built in Portsmouth, NH. Just wanted to set the record straight. The Nightingale was built at Hanscom's Shipyard in Eliot, Maine. Daniel Riley EDITOR'S REPLY: You are likely looking at the "old" Jenny Lind material that we put on the web four years ago. That's all be replaced by the "new" Jenny Lind material that gives Eliot its due. This article is coming up this weekend, for example, and two other new pages are already online. We'll be cauterizing those old links this week and our original report will disappear forever. Now finally, Eliot can share the glory of the sleekest clipper in history and share the blame for the horrific slave ship. Our readers may be surprised to see how much of the shipbuilding Portsmouth takes credit for, actually occurred in a series of boatyards all along the Piscataqua. http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/please050801.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/please011600.html May 09 "ONE OF THE FINEST" This time of year I have a little extra time to "surf" the web, among other things and wanted to tip my hat to you. The web site is one of the finest I've ever seen. Thanks for the Seacoast Trolley listings on SeacoastNH and SeacoastSearch. Best wishes. Paul Reardon, Seacoast Trolley Company http://www.locallink.com/seacoasttrolley/ May 09 HOW MUCH ARE WHITTIER WORDS WORTH? NOT SURE IF YOU ARE THE RIGHT ONES TO BOTHER, BUT I BOUGHT A BOX OF OLD BOOKS AT AN AUCTION, ONE IS A BOOK TITLED "WHITTIER'S POEMS. IT IS AN OLD BOOK PRINTED BY W.B.CONKEY COMPANY, CANNOT FIND A DATE BUT IT IS OLD, IN FAIRLY GOOD SHAPE. NOT A FANCY BOUND BOOK BUT ALL PAGES ARE INTACT. IS SOMETHING LIKE THIS WORTH ANYTHING??? LINDA L. SCHMIDT from KANSAS EDITOR'S REPLY: Not likely, Linda. Whittier was the most popular poet of the late 19th century and there are zillions of copies of his books. Just check out www.bibliofind.com, type in your book, and see what others are selling it for. Unless it is a first edition or signed it might be worth $5-$10, we guess. http://www.seacoastnh.com/postcards/whittier/index.html May 08 THE MUSIC OF CELIA THAXTER I've been enjoying (again) your website materials on Celia Thaxter as I resume work on a project I've been pursuing for a few years: the music and travels of Celia Thaxter. As a musician and writer, I'm deeply interested in the influence of music on Celia's poetry, both as she worked with the rhythm and phrasing of words and as her poems have been set to music. As a geographer raised in Newton, I began to take up your challenge of getting to know the "landlocked Celia" in high school. The interest returned last year when I worked at Dragon Systems in Nonantum, where I walked past her Newtonville house almost every day, discovering Thaxter Street on my way to the Charles River with my dog. Recently, I've been running across Celia in many odd corners of my life, from a stint with Maptech where I covered the Isles of Shoals for a cruising guide, to a return to rivers history work in some reading on the industrial-era history of the Charles. The Portsmouth Sea Music Festival has invited me to return for my third year with them this coming Columbus Day weekend, and to present a program devoted to the music of Celia Thaxter and her milieu. Ten years ago, before reading Sandpiper, I had begun to set a song cycle to tunes of her era, and was deeply intrigued by Rosamond Thaxter's references to those who beat me to it while she was still alive. The Sea Music Festival program is still in development with organizer Peter Contrastano, but I hope to combine a concert program of Celia Thaxter songs, both period and modern settings of her work ,with some living history, either third-person or first-person, retelling her travels from the Isles of Shoals to "Little Italy" in Nonantum and to the Continent, to evoke the influences of place and music on her life and work. This summer, I'm planning to retrace Celia's journey from Newtonville to Appledore as much as possible by water, photographing and mapping landmarks that still exist from the scenes she saw on her seasonal "commute." If time and venue permits, we may include these slides in the program. I totally agree with you. "What we need here is one of those thesis-hungry literature grad students to bear me out and create a great timeline of Celia's travels, logging her on and off the Isles and tallying up the days. There was her lengthy tour of Italy don't forget. That time balances against months on the island running the hotel, nursing her parents, and always taking care of Karl, her handicapped son." I'm long past my grad student days, but I'll take up that gauntlet between now and October. This work follows on other musical history I've done (see website), interweaving the songs and adventures of voyageur Lisette Duval, Viking Gudrid Thorbjornsdottir, pirate Ann Bonny, and the mill girls of Laconia's Belknap Mill. Celia has been on my horizon for a long time, and I look forward to joining those who study her life and work more deeply. I did so want to come to last year's Symposium, but I spent the weekend working overtime on a software release (sigh) and contented myself with a walk down Thaxter Street from the office to the river. Landlocked, indeed.
I'll start the timeline of her travels, and I'd welcome your involvement in the project. Also, if you know of anyone who would like to join me in my "Celia from River to
Sea" paddle, I'm going to start by canoe. Thanks for your attention, and I look forward to corresponding further.
Peter Contrastano
Meanwhile, our schools provide a place to children where they are Cared for, taught, and helped to grow into maturity. In schools they are taught to socialize and communicate effectively, they are helped to learn compassion and tolerance. Schools emphasize the importance of
reading, of critical thinking, of problem solving. And increasingly, schools are incorporating peer mediation and conflict resolution education into their curricula.
Robinson suggests that we throw out the stable, caring base that our children need, and plug them into computers instead. How will they learn to interact with others? Who will monitor their affective needs as they jump through electronic hoops that the computers provide? How
will individual needs of special ed kids be met? And who is going to tell Mom or Dad that they have to quit their day job so that they can ensure the presence of their kid in the virtual classroom??
Robinson's proposal is so half-baked it's laughable. While I respect an earnest suggestion to improve educational techniques, throwing the student out with the bathwater is inane. Let's look at the school system with an unjaundiced eye and admit that it does a pretty good job,
all considered, and then try to help the teachers get what they so desperately need to do better.
I'd like to propose an alternative to Mr. Robinson's option. Instead of connecting all kids to CRTs, CPUs, and keyboards, let's BAN all electronic technology from schools. Surely, this would create numerous hardships for administrators, teachers, and students alike, but at least it would show the kids that we value human interaction over all else.
We could use the money we save on yearly upgrades of hardware and software and hire more teachers and T.A.'s, one proven method to improve educational effectiveness.
I present my option not in earnest, but to make a point. Children are already plugged in too much of the time. They don't need to be plugged in to learn, and in fact the most important lessons can't be taught through electronic media. Direct human interaction is essential.
Sincerely yours,
I also wanted to mention that ALF is having a weekend event in Portsmouth on June 2-3. See my cruise and event calendar at Part of the event that isn't mentioned on the calendar is that at the dinner on June 2, we will be honoring Connie Small on her 100th birthday. Connie lives in Portsmouth and is author of the wonderful book, "The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife." The last lighthouse station she and her husband Elson lived at what was Portsmouth Harbor Light.
SeacoastNH.com note. We saw a Farragut shot on Thom Hindle's online gallery and linked the page below. You might also want to contact him in Dover, NH. -- JDR
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