On Saturday the public is invited to come and see what it’s all about during an open house at the farm in Raymond, at 119 Langford Road, from 2-4 p.m. for pony rides, raffles and the official ribbon cutting for a therapeutic equestrian program designed to help at-risk girls.
Ken Sheldon has put fictional town Frost Heaves on the map through the persona of quintessential Yankee Fred Marple. Listen in for the story behind the story – and find out how to get your tickets for the final performance of “Welcome to Frost Heaves,” April 8-9.
Tickets are available for the March 31 Manchester Community Music School “Share the Music Gala.” This is the organization’s primary fundraising event, which supports the tuition assistance fund, extending musical instruction and appreciation to local students.
I know what amuses me: Standing by my kitchen window (inside the house) and watching all my little friends arrive to feed off one simple little birdfeeder. Yes, I said ONE! The antics I can watch for hours just makes me smile. It’s fun watching a blue jay chasing away everyone as if he was the boss and had to have it all. Just like life, karma will always get you. I just love the picture of the blue jay sitting on my canopy rods waiting his turn as the squirrel does to him what he’s been doing to others and, hopefully, he has learned a lesson here: To be patient and let others have their turn.
The ending will surprise you and sets up the story for the sequel. Yes, this book is the first in a trilogy.
“Many of the dogs were housed in tiny cages covered with feces and lacking clean water and food. We also witnessed the heartbreaking consequences of this cruelty — carcasses and piles of bones strewn across the property.”
Now that the Most Interesting Man Alive, aka the Dos Equis guy, is retiring, Ed Brouder may be a worthy successor. You won’t believe how he got his start in the radio biz.
They are sometimes referred to as shelf people. They are men and women, young and old, rich and poor, from all different backgrounds and walks of life. The cremains are abandoned for many reasons: Some people have no families and thus no one to pick them up. Some family members can’t bear to claim the remains because the loss is felt so greatly. Some are simply left behind.
See, Joe fell in love with a pretty switchboard operator here in town – the former Ruth Ball from Lake Avenue – and when Ruth agreed to marry Joe and follow him back to New York where an engineering job awaited him, Joe vowed that, one day, he would bring her back to her home town. And again, for those of us who love the Millyard, it was serendipity.
Come out March 19 for this inspirational and high-spirited event at New Hampshire Institute of Art, 148 Concord St., Manchester. Showtime is 6 p.m.