Archives: July 2010

Chocolate and Jazz Festival

The 11th Annual Waterville Valley Chocolate and Jazz Festival takes place Saturday, August 7th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm and will feature accompaniment by the Tom Robinson Jazz Trio. The event, which takes place in Waterville Valley’s Town Square, also features chocolate delicacies to please even the most discerning chocolate afficianado, all prepared by Town Square merchants.An accompanying wine tasting will…

Concert for the Cure

This year’s Seacoast Concert for a Cure, an annual music festival that raises funds for breast cancer survivor support, will feature a unique lineup of national musicians with local roots. The event will feature the internationally-acclaimed band The Adam Ezra Group plus reggae stars Mighty Mystic and the Strings of Thunder.Attendees will also have a chance to bid on and…

Lakeside Living Expo

The Lakeside Living Expo runs from July 16–18 in Gilford. The third annual expo showcases over 250 exhibits featuring everything needed, wanted or desired by lakeside living enthusiasts. This special expo invites you to a celebration of lake homes, adirondack furniture and decor, boats and outdoor water sports adventure and much more.Over 250 exhibits from around the N.H. Lakes Region,…

Discussion and Demo With Cookbook Author Susie Middleton

Cookbook author Susie Middleton will discuss her latest cookbook (“Fast, Fresh & Green”) with a demonstration – Top Ten Tool & Ingredient Tips for Making Fast, Tasty Vegetable Side Dishes – to follow. This will be a demo using Middleton’s favorite ingredients (fresh herbs, lemons, garlic, ginger, Parmigianno Regianno, etc.) and her favorite hand tools (microplane zester, julienne peeler, ceramic…

Sweet Stuff

Celebrate the season for romance with three of New Hampshire’s chocolatiers, a cozy sleigh ride for two, a winery, a walk on the beach and a fireside dinner.Begin in downtown Concord, with a stop at Granite State Candy Shop, family owned since 1927, for a selection of chocolates to savor while traveling.Continue on Route 27 into Candia Four Corners (3…

Digging Deeper

A cemetery and ex-socialite.If you know anything about author Cornelia Read, now a New Hampshire resident, you know that the main character in her three books — Madeline Dare — has pretty much the same backstory as Read herself. They are both “runaway socialites,” who have, as Read once put it, “money so old there’s none left.”One way they differ,…

Facet-nating Stones

Local beauties that really rock.Who knew that New Hampshire held such treasure? These vivid green fluorite stones are mined by Bob Borofsky, owner of the William Wise mine in Westmoreland.The mine had been active in the early 1890s to 1919 when about 7,500 tons were extracted for use as flux. It’s the only mine in the Ammonoosuc Volcanics to produce…