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THE
TAMWORTH CIVIC NEWS
Volume XXI, Number 3 A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Tamworth Civic Association
March 1st, 2016
NEW CAREER DAY
TCC 250TH PHOTO COMPETITION
The Tamworth Economic Development Commission
(TEDC) is planning an important forum in May to address
the serious matter of employment opportunities. There are
many individuals in our area who are unemployed, underemployed, or would like to pursue a new career path. We want
to bring these people together, along with local companies
who have agreed to train selected individuals.
Once participants in this TEDCsponsored program have completed
their training, they may be offered
permanent employment by their sponsoring business or they can submit
applications elsewhere. Each participant — wherever they choose to apply
for a position — will enter the job
market with recommendations and a
record of their newly acquired experience in hand.
Thus far, the TEDC is pleased to
have commitments for training in the
diverse fields of hospitality, medical,
veterinary, food management, stone
work, education, and several others. TEDC is continuing to
work on including even more companies, in order to offer as
many exciting employment opportunities as possible.
The TEDC Employment Forum will take place on Saturday, May 14th, at the Tamworth Town House. If you are
interested in either offering or seeking a new challenge,
please let us know, as it is important for us to ensure a successful program by addressing the needs of those in attendance. We will be marketing this event on the Tamworth
Exchange and in the Conway Daily Sun in the near future.
For further information, please contact Pat Farley at 401524-6655 or [email protected].
Do you have a favorite Tamworth scene? Here is your
chance to share it with others. As a way of highlighting
Tamworth’s landscape, buildings, and natural resources, the
Tamworth Conservation Commission (TCC) is sponsoring
a photo contest during the town’s 250th Anniversary celebration. Photographers are invited to submit photographs of
Tamworth scenes which depict the town’s natural beauty or
something of historical interest. There
will be three contests divided into the
season in which the photo was taken:
winter, spring/summer, and fall. There
will also be a separate competition for
school-age photographers (criteria for
subject matter and dates of submission
will be the same as for the general competition). Winners will be chosen from
each season’s competition; winning
photos will be printed and displayed
for the public to see and also posted on
the TCC web site. Prizes, as yet to be
determined, are being provided by the
250th Anniversary Committee. There
are a few rules:
1.Photos must be taken during the official year-long celebration:
October 2015 to October 2016.
2.Deadlines for submission: Winter scenes by April 1, 2016;
spring/summer scenes by September 1, 2016; fall scenes by
October 31, 2016.
3.Only digital photos will be accepted; they should be sent to
the TCC email: [email protected].
File size should be a maximum of 3 MB.
4.Photos will be selected based on how well the subject matter
shows Tamworth plus photographic quality—composition,
lighting, exposure, etc.
5.When submitting your photo, please include a title or identify
the subject. If you are a student, please mention that as well.
—Pat Farley
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
The Tamworth Scholarship Committee is now accepting
applications for our 2016 scholarships to be presented this
June. The applications are available at the Cook Memorial
Library, Chocorua Library, Kennett High School guidance
department, and on the Town of Tamworth’s website. Go to:
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tamworthnh.org, click on Downloadable Documents, then on
Forms & Applications, then on Selectmen. Scroll down to
find the Tamworth Scholarship Application. Applications
must be received by April 16th, 2016. If you have any questions, please contact Deb Davis at 323-8166.
Tamworth Select Board Minutes Go to www.tamworthnh.org for complete minutes of all meetings
December 31st, 2015
Road Agent Richard Roberts reported that the department
is ready for winter; they are still brush cutting and limbing. •
Reporter from the Conway Daily Sun, Daymond Steer, asked
the board if Tamworth still had a Police Chief. Chairman
Steve Gray stated that Chief Poirier has submitted his notice
of intent to retire as of 2/1/2016. Steer asked if there was more
to the story, to which Chairman Gray responded no. • Board
voted to seal the December 14th, 2015 non-public minutes
until January 1st, 2025. • Voted to seal the December 21st,
2015 non-public minutes until January 1st, 2025. • Regarding
the insurance claim for the accident in Chocorua Village, the
board can expect a check for $10,311.80. Veno will fix pole and
fixtures. A check for $500 was sent directly to the landowner to
repair the grass. • From 3:55 to 4:37pm board was in non-public session. Board voted unanimously to seal the non-public
minutes of this meeting for perpetuity. • There is no heat in
the selectmen and clerk offices. It is being repaired. This line
should be revisited for 2016 budget. • Town Administrator
Cassandra Pearce needs information and pictures regarding
the Boston Post Cane recipient. • Pearce presented a list of
encumbrances for 2015 including $9,660 for reconstruction of
Chocorua Lake Road and $10,340 for reconstruction of the
Whittier Road bridge. • From 4:56pm to 6:05pm the board had
a non-public session and again voted unanimously to seal the
minutes of this non-public meeting for perpetuity.
January 14th, 2016
Acting Police Chief Penny Colby is getting acclimated to her
new role. She is receiving tremendous support from the Sheriff’s Office and State Police. Colby and the board reviewed
quotes for a 2016 AWD Police sedan and a FWD sedan, the
price difference is $1,000. Colby would prefer getting an
AWD vehicle. • Chairman of the Economic Development
Committee Pat Farley reported the committee is planning a
New Career Day forum for unemployed or under-employed
individuals. • Pearce presented the updated police department
budget that includes the police chief’s buyout to 2/1/2016 and
the new police chief salary. Adjustments were made to the
FICA, Medicare, and retirement lines. • Ed and Mary Phelps,
owners of the old Brass Heart Inn were in to introduce themselves. They are very excited to be in Tamworth and will be
running the inn as a wedding venue. EDC Chairman Farley
recommended the select board appoint Mary Phelps as a
member of the Tamworth Economic Development Committee, which they did. • Approved and signed five sets of
non-public minutes from December 31st, 2015. Voted to seal
four of them for perpetuity. Also accepted and sealed for perpetuity non-public minutes from January 6th and 7th, 2016. •
The planning board requested a number of tax cards. Pearce
is questioning the necessity and asked if a list would be sufficient. Would like to work together. • Pearce asked permission
to apply for the Primex Emerging Leadership Program. It is
nine days of training throughout the year, and includes meals
and materials for a cost of $250. After a non-public session,
the board voted two to one to approve. • Resident Rebecca
Mason asked the board if they had heard anything further
from the state regarding Irene’s Way. The board has not.
January 28th
Meeting started with a one minute non-public session. R.
Roberts reported the road crew has been limbing and cutting
trees. There were three large trees cut on Route 25. Roberts
is very pleased with the new 550 truck. There was a brief
discussion regarding speed signs. • Pat Farley reported a street
fair will be held Saturday, August 6th. She discussed the possibility of closing the road during the street fair. The board reps
requested a meeting with police and fire department to discuss.
The street banner will be delivered in early May; Farley asked
Selectman John Roberts to speak with Lloyd Hadden about
getting the banner mounted. • Chairman Gray attended the
library trustees meeting. They reviewed the library budget and
policies. The trustees are creating a better accounting system
to record revenues. They are actively recruiting members. •
Reporter Daymond Steer inquired about Police Chief Poirier’s
status and if Officer Dana Littlefield was resigning. Poirier is
back until the end of the month and will be retiring February
1st. Littlefield asked the board if they had received his resignation. Gray stated they had received paperwork and that no
action had been taken at this time. • David Little presented
the board with a list of items that he feels should be included
in the town report. The board did not discuss this item, as the
deadline for putting items on the BOS agenda is the Tuesday
before the meeting. • The Albany selectmen are hosting a
public forum on February 1st with District 3 & 7 reps to discuss upcoming legislation and how their votes will affect the
municipalities. The board is encouraged to attend. J. Roberts
will try to attend. Gray asked if there had been a public
hearing on House Bill 1395 regarding electronic storage. This
should be discussed during the above-mentioned forum. • It
is time to renew the agreement with HEB Engineers. The
board agreed to a meeting with Dubois and King to see if
they could provide the landfill monitoring and possibly other
engineering work in the future. • The board briefly reviewed
the third draft of the 2016 budget. • The board discussed the
proposed warrant articles for this year. All are on board with
the proposed town office renovation. A copy of the proposed
office renovation plan will be made available at the public
hearing on February 11th.
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Tamworth Civic News
Issue deadline: April 12th for the May 1st edition
Editorial: Amy Berrier & Annie Riecken ([email protected])
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ARE YOU UP FOR A DAILY CHALLENGE?
About two years ago, the Tamworth Community Nurse
Association (TCNA) started posting the Daily Challenge
on the Tamworth Exchange. The MeYouHealth.com web site
was brought to our attention by former TCNA board member
Cathy Baybutt. She was so enthusiastic about the site and
the Daily Challenges that it offers, we decided to make it
available to all Exchange members.
Each day, TCNA receives a new challenge from MeYouHealth.com and we post it to the Exchange so others can
benefit. Each Challenge is presented with sections on How
to Do It, Why It Matters, and a Fun Fact relating to that
day’s challenge.
One recent example was the “Booty Challenge”:
Dance While You Clean or Tidy.
How to do it—Put on some music with a fast beat and crank up
the volume. Then go around the house and put things where they
belong as you dance to the music. You could even make a game of
it by putting the sheets back on the bed or doing all the dishes in the
sink before a song is up. Or aim for a set number of songs for all your
booty-shaking and bed-making (or whatever else is in need of doing).
Why it matters—Getting fitness into your daily routine can help
you burn energy and lower your risk factors for certain illnesses such
as heart disease and stroke. And all that shimmying can boost your
mood, too, by releasing endorphins (feel-good hormones). Finally,
don’t forget the perk of a tidier home when you’re done!
Fun fact—Popular disco dances from the 1970s included the Bump,
the Penguin, the Watergate, the Robot, and, of course, the Hustle.
For the most part, the program has been very well received
and TCNA gets interesting feedback from readers. Ellen
Farnum even wrote a song about the Daily Challenge and
performed it with the musical group Stanza 21 at last year’s
TCNA concert! Marletta Maduskuie, TCNA office manager, also posts the Challenge to the Madison Boulder and
Sandwich Board community internet groups.
Anyone interested can sign up on the MeYouHealth.com
website to receive the Daily Challenge seven days each week.
In other TCNA news, “A Matter of Balance” is coming
to Tamworth this spring! This award-winning program
is designed to help people manage concerns about falls,
increase physical activity, and emphasizes practical strategies
to manage falls. TCNA, in collaboration with Memorial
Hospital, will host this eight-week class. Exact dates TBA.
TCNA is always looking for input. If you have an idea
for an educational program, a service we might offer, or just
some interesting info you’d like to share, please let us know.
For more information about services offered by Tamworth’s
own nursing service, go to www.tamworthnurses.org, call them
at 323-8511, or stop by the TCNA office at 84 Main Street
in Tamworth Village, at the back of the Tamworth Town
Office building.
—Jo Anne Rainville, TCNA Director
Members of the Model T Ford Snowmobile Club of America brought their machines to the 13th annual Ice Harvest & Winter Carnival, held at Tamworth’s Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm in February. Lucky visitors enjoyed rides on the vintage rigs, experiencing first-hand a form of winter
transportation often used by country doctors and rural mail carriers. The Snowmobile Company in West Ossipee developed and marketed a conversion
kit, patented in 1913, that enabled Model Ts to travel over snow. Company founder, Virgil White, coined the term “Snowmobile.”
COME BUILD TAMWORTH’S 250TH MOSAIC
Arts Council of Tamworth received such a wonderful and relations, bring all the generations, so that many hands
abundance of submissions during the mosaic design process— can share in this creation. If you’d like to volunteer during
thank you! Now we want you all to come build the mosaic as the mosaic build, contact [email protected].
Community Sessions at the K.A. Brett School:
well. Mural artist David Fichter will be in town from March
22–26 & March 28–April 1, 2016. He’ll be at Brett every • Wednesday, March 23, 6:00pm–8:00pm
school day, and we will have five community mosaic builds • Thursday, March 24, 3:15pm–5:00pm
in the afternoon and evening, and one Saturday morning.
• Saturday, March 26, 9:00am–1:00pm
Building a mosaic is fun, creative, communal, and relaxing;
a chance to visit with neighbors and make history. Come for • Tuesday, March 29, 6:00pm–8:00pm
an hour, a whole session, or every session to build a beautiful • Wednesday, March 30, 3:15pm–5:00pm
permanent artwork in celebration of Tamworth’s 250th. No
Funding is still needed for the mosaic project. Go to www.
special skills needed—David will teach us. Bring your friends crowdrise.com/tamworths250thmosaic/ and click “donate.”
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TAPPING MAPLES
SUGARING
I love the maples surrounding our farm in March.
Sugar, Red and one Norway Maple by the barn.
They wear bracelets with charms of silver buckets in
the sugar bush, along country roads and stone walls. We
You’ll never find a kind of app
as lovely as the maple sap
that seeps out when my neighbors tap
their shaggy maple trees.
even tap the maples behind the moose pond and
into the woods but not the Norway Maple by the barn.
It hangs over the corral and the horse scrapes the branches
sucking and savoring the dripping sweetness. No filtering,
There’s nothing like the sticky smoke
that hangs out with the guys who joke
and give the rattling fire a poke
as often as they please.
no boiling needed. The snow is deep enough still
to lose half your body in drifts. Snowshoes and
sap yoke are mandatory regalia. It takes Yankee
strength and stamina to lift snow-shoed feet and
balance sap buckets on the yoke. Towards the end
When skiing’s done, and maple’s run
and when at last the syrup’s done
we drink it as a gift of sun
come down upon a breeze.
of the three-week sap run the weather warms to
meet Spring. Today the snow is gone from the forest
floor and the woodcocks have returned to nest.
Although we step carefully, our boots crackle the
leaves and snap every twig. We watch for
the woodcock’s fat camouflaged bodies in the brown
and gold beech leaves. Suddenly, one lifts off
in front of us, whirring in spiraling flight and follows
her darning needle beak straight into a hemlock. We
finish collecting sap into metal buckets, pick up dried
fallen branches for kindling and follow the sweet boiling
maple-scent back to the evaporator. The woodcock
will hopefully return to her nesting. Tomorrow, we’ll
leave our winter jackets and snowshoes inside. We’ll
circumvent the woodcock’s nesting site, collect the last
dark-amber-jeweled drops, pull the taps from all the
trees and after one last batch, let the fire go out.
—Peggy Longley
—Peggy Johnson
1000 BOOKS BEFORE KINDERGARTEN
Cook Memorial Library has started a new project, “NH
1000 Books before Kindergarten,” to encourage parents to
build their children’s early literacy skills by reading 1,000
books to them between birth and age five.
To have your child participate in “NH 1000 Books before
Kindergarten,” stop by the library and pick up a tracking
sheet to keep count of the first 100 books. When 100 books
have been read, come back and pick up a fun sticker and a
new tracking sheet for the next 100 books. If you prefer, you
can use the iPhone or Android app to track reading instead
of paper sheets; find apps at 1000booksbeforekindergarten.org.
When you and your child have read 1,000 books together,
you will receive a certificate and a special prize, donated by
the Friends of Cook Memorial Library.
For more information about about this or other children’s
programs, call 323-8510, or see tamworthlibrary.org/for-kids.
TAMWORTH RECREATION DEPARTMENT
Call Director Parker Roberts for program info, 323-7582
Ongoing Activities
Tai Chi, Town House, Monday, 6–7:30pm; Tuesday, 9:30–11am.
Call Parker to find out which class is appropriate for you, as one
is introductory and one is for more experienced students.
Step Aerobics, Town House, Wednesdays & Fridays, 8–9am.
Living
Strong, Town House, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8–9am.
Winter Programs at the Brett School:
Jr. High/High School basketball. Mondays, 7–8:30.
Adult basketball. Tuesdays, 7–9pm.
Adult Dodgeball starts March 3rd. Thursday nights from
7–8:30pm at the KA Brett Gym. Must be 18 or older.
The annual trip to the Boston Flower & Garden Show will
be Thursday, March 17th. $30/person. Bus will leave St.
Andrew’s Church parking lot at 7:30am. Call 323-7582.
As part of the Tamworth 250th anniversary celebration, Cook Memorial
Library held “Lego Build: Tamworth Village.” Pictured here is the library
itself; renditions of other town buildings are on display at the library. See pictures at tamworthcivicnews.org. The project was made possible thanks to the
gift of thousands of Legos by the Pariseau family, funds donated in memory
of Susan Chiaradonna, and the creativity of many industrious builders!
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TAMWORTH COMMUNITY CALENDAR
March & April
Steve Kull’s hats from around the world will be on
exhibit at Cook Memorial Library (CML).
Sundays
Live from the Lyceum. Featured musician at 12:30–
1:30; song circle & jam session, 1:30–2:30. Free.
Dinner Bell community meal. 5pm at St. Andrew’s.
Mondays
Congregate meals for 60 years & up.
Tamworth Town House, noon–1. Call 539-6851.
Tuesdays (first three of every month)
Storytime for young children. CML, 10:30–11:30.
Tuesdays & Fridays
Community Food Center at St. Andrew’s Church.
Open 10– noon. Call 960-4067.
Tuesdays
Tech Tuesday, 1–2pm at the Cook Memorial Library.
Call 323-8510 for more info on all CML programs.
Thursdays
Farmers’ Table lunch at the Community School. Noon.
By donation; reservations helpful. Call 323-7000.
Wednesdays, March 2nd & 9th; April 6th & 13th
Lego Club for school-age kids, 3:45–4:45pm, CML.
Fridays, March 4th, 11th, & 18th
Quilting Circle, 10–noon, Remick Museum. Free.
(Does not include access to the museum.) 323-7591.
Saturday, March 5th
Cabin Fever Bake and Book Sale, 10–1, CML.
Lunch, silent auction, crafts for kids. There will also
be a book sale on April 2nd from 10–noon.
Saturday, March 5th
The History of Pharmaceuticals in America: From the
Backyard to Big Pharma. Remick Museum, 1pm. Free.
Saturday, March 5th
16th annual end of winter celebration: Great Gatsby
Party, Runnells Hall, 6–9. Silent auction. $25/person.
Contact [email protected] or call 323-8610.
Monday, March 7th
Post-Downton Elevenses, 11am, CML. Come enjoy
discussion, tea, and biscuits.
Mondays, March 7th, 14th, & 21st
Music for Babies with Mountain Top Music Center,
for birth–18 months, 12:30pm, CML.
Tuesdays, March 8th & 22nd; April 5th & 19th
Fiber Arts Group, 9:30–noon, Remick Museum. Free
(this does not include access to the museum).
Thursdays, March 10th & April 14th
Hillsdale 4-H Dairy Club meets at Remick Museum,
7–9pm. For Carroll County residents ages 8–18. Free.
Contact lmcallister@remickmuseum, or call 323-7591.
Saturdays, March 12th & 26th; April 9th & 23rd
Winter Farmer’s Market, 9–1, Tamworth Town House.
Saturdays, March 12th & April 9th
Barnyard Basics Workshops. 10–noon, Remick
Museum. $15/participant; ages 16 & above.
Pre-registion required. Call 323-7591.
Saturday, March 12th
“Gatekeeper” Training. TCNA and the Carroll
County Public Health Network co-host a workshop
to introduce risk factors and warning signs for those
who may be at risk for suicide. No cost to participants. Call 323-8511 to pre-register.
Wednesday, March 16th
Mind Your Manners, 7pm, CML. Marion Posner performs “Mrs. St. John-Braithwaite’s lesson on good
British table manners.” Audience participation!
Saturday, March 19th
Maple Sugaring Day, 10–2, Remick Museum. Free.
Mondays, March 21st & April 18th
Homeschool classes at Remick Museum, 10–noon.
Students must be accompanied by a parent or chaperone. Pre-registration required. Call 323-7591.
Tuesday, March 22nd
The Art of Growing Food, with food and garden
writer Ellen Ecker Ogden, 7pm, CML.
Wednesday, March 23rd & April 27th
Brown Bag Book Group, noon, CML. Call 323-8510.
Fridays, March 25th & April 15th
Small Farmers Club, Remick Museum, 10-noon.
Hands-on activities for ages 2–6. Parents must accompany; pre-registration required; $5/child. Call 323-7591.
Monday, March 28th
Bibliomaniacs reading club for ages 12–14, 5pm, CML.
Wednesday, March 30th
“Why does Tamworth have over twenty burial sites?”
presentation by NH Old Graveyard Association, 7pm,
Cook Memorial Library. Cosponsored by CML and
Tamworth Cemetery Trustees.
Wednesday, April 6th
“Family Stories: How & Why to Remember Them.”
A NH Humanities workshop with Jo Radner, 7pm,
CML. Cosponsored by Tamworth History Center.
Friday, April 8th
RATs book club (ages 9–12), 5pm, CML.
Wednesday, April 13th
Everest Odyssey with Russ Staples, 7pm, CML.
Tuesday, April 19th
View Sunspots with Marc Stowbridge, 1pm, CML.
Come see the sun through a telescope! If cloudy,
rescheduled to April 20th at 1pm.
Send calendar items to [email protected]. Submissions for the May 1st TCN are due by April 12th.
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A DIXIE PERSPECTIVE
At the point when I came to feel that I’d lost control of
the events in my life, I decided to make a drastic change; I,
who had spent all sixty-one years firmly ensconced well south
of the Mason-Dixon Line, decided it was time for a move.
I’d been born and raised in central Florida, went “north”
to college (Macon, Georgia), and “out west” for law school
(Nashville, Tennessee). Having decided to move, and having
inherited a wonderful house in Tamworth, it seemed only
logical that I should relocate there.
As the time for the move drew nearer, however, I began
to have considerable trepidation about actually leaving The
South. How would the people “up Nawth” receive me? Would
I fit in? Would I make any friends at my age, and given my
southern background? My misgivings faded when two dear
friends from Tamworth arrived in Nashville, helped me load
a U-Haul truck and trailer with all my worldly possessions,
and actually hit the road, heading north. I had lived in, and
loved, Nashville for forty years, but it was time to leave.
I arrived in New Hampshire on June 13th, not a particularly auspicious number if one is superstitious about such
things, but I’m not. As I was making the long drive up, I
decided that, when I got here, I would try to observe and
consciously note differences between life in the North and
in the South, aside from the obvious ones of weather and
racial demographics. I would categorize them as something
of an intellectual exercise, not to mention a validation (I
hoped) of my decision.
Of course, the first thing I noticed was the weather!
I’d left two days of packing up the truck and trailer in the
mid-90s, and arrived here to one of the mildest summers I’d
ever spent here, and I’ve been coming to Tamworth for over
twenty-five years.
Nashville might well be the poster child for global climate
change. We have long-since ceased to have four distinct
seasons of summer, fall, winter, and spring. Instead, there is:
hot as hell, unseasonably warm, unpredictable, and extreme.
A few years ago, within the span of a single week in April,
the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama
had more than twenty-five tornado watches, then warnings,
then actual touchdowns of funnel clouds, causing a number of
deaths and property damage in the many millions of dollars.
I am too old to keep dragging myself and my dog out of bed
and down to the basement in the middle of the night, night
after night, during every March and April. Recent events
down South have proven that NO month is actually safe
from the storms!
In contrast, September in Tamworth comprised thirty
days in a row of the most gorgeous weather I have ever experienced. The beautiful sunshine, the light breezes, the cool
shade beneath the trees, all made it remarkably pleasant to
work outside in the gardens and woods at my home. I made
sure to check the weather in Nashville each day, so that I
could congratulate myself on the fact that I no longer had to
endure temperatures in the high 90s long after kids in Nashville had already returned to their classrooms in early August.
But, apparently, I did not truly leave the South behind.
Shortly after arriving, while running errands in North
Conway, three young men roared past me in their souped-up,
super-sized-tire, pick-’em-up trucks with New Hampshire
plates, proudly flying (two each!) the Confederate battle
flag. This astonished me, much as I’ve always been taken
aback when, driving through a tiny town in northern New
England, one often finds a monument to those from the
town who perished in the Civil War. One hundred and fifty
years on, it still seems crazy to me that any young man so
far removed from the furor and frenzy of the pre-War South
would drop his plow, grab his rifle, and head off into the
unknown horrors that became the War Between the States.
Coming from Tennessee, which is second only to Virginia in
the number of battles fought therein, it has always seemed at
least believable that the local folks would have joined. But
it is truly baffling, well into the 21st century, to see grown
men from New Hampshire tearing around displaying the flag
that even most Southerners have decided is too offensive to
continue flying. ’Splain that to me, Lucy!
One very pleasant surprise has been the delightful, cheerful quirkiness of the local inhabitants. From the patient,
helpful ladies who work in the Town Hall, the Post Office,
and the Drivers’ License Bureau; to June, Bill, and Katy at
The Other Store; to the inscrutable but friendly stranger to
whom I gave a ride home with his groceries; to the collection
of garrulous old gentlemen who meet virtually every afternoon to play cribbage at the old country-style store out on
113A near Sandwich, who cheerily offered to teach me to
play. There is something unique about nearly every person
I encounter in this corner of the earth. Not just your runof-the-mill bureaucrats and dreary, nameless souls who are
on the other side of a take-out drive-in window, these are
real people, characters really, with whom you might like to
spend some time. I’m sure some of this is attributable to my
having come from a more urban setting to a rural one, but I
did grow up in a tiny rural community in Florida, so I believe
it’s more than just that. I think this corner of the world is
different, and special.
I’ve also discovered that this is trivia heaven! As one
whose head is filled with an excessive amount of utterly useless, but extremely varied, information, I have participated
in trivia nights at some very, shall we say, “modest” establishments. But here, just down the road in West Ossipee,
every Tuesday night, I get to sit down with some of the most
highly intelligent (not to mention fun-loving!) folks in the
wonderfully restored Hobbs Tavern. The wait-staff always
greet me with a cheery smile and a “will you be having your
usual Margarita on the rocks, light salt, this evening?” What’s
not to like?
All things considered, for me the pros of moving up to
New Hampshire vastly outnumber the cons, and moving to
Tamworth was definitely the right choice for a transplanted,
lifelong Southern girl.
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—Kathi Padgett
Tamworth Lumber Co.
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Jim Alt (603) 651-8881
[email protected]
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TAMWORTH CIVIC ASSOCIATION
PO BOX 402
TAMWORTH, NH 03886
ELECTION DATES AND CANDIDATES
Wednesday, March 2nd
School district meeting, 7pm, K.A. Brett School gym.
Monday, March 7th
Town clerk available to accept absentee ballots, 3–5pm.
Tuesday, March 8th
Town Election Day. Polls are open at the Tamworth Town
House from 8am–7pm. You may register to vote at the
polls. All voters must bring a photo ID. Those registering
to vote must also show proof of Tamworth residency.
Wednesday, March 9th
Town meeting, 7pm, K.A. Brett School. No new voter
registration will be done at town meeting. Note: All
dates listed above are based on information available
as of the Civic News’ 3/1/16 publication date.
The following candidates will appear on the ballot:
TOWN ELECTION:
Selectmen (1 seat; 3-year term) Steve Gray
Moderator (1 seat; 2-year term) Write-in
Treasurer (1 seat; 1-year term) Priscilla Remick
Supervisor of the Checklist (1 seat; 6-year term)
Sharon Nothnagle
Trustee of the Trust Funds (1 seat; 3-year term)
Robert Seston
Cemetery Trustee (1 seat; 3-year term) John Roberts
Library Trustees (2 seats; 3-year term) Sheryl Power,
write-in
Planning Board (2 seats; 3-year term)
Rebecca Boyden, Sheldon Perry
Fireward North (1 seat; 3-year term) David Bowles
Fireward South (1 seat; 3-year term) Shawn Bross
SCHOOL ELECTION:
School Board Member (1 seat; 3-year term) Helen Steele
Clerk (1 seat; 1-year term) Write-in
Treasurer (1 seat; 1-year term) Write-in
Moderator (1 seat; 1-year term) Kent Hemingway Jr.
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SLED DOG FUN RUN
Come join us for the 8th Annual Wonalancet Fun Run
on Saturday and Sunday, March 12th & 13th, hosted by
North Country Mushers. This two-day event starts off
with teams leaving the start in the field across from the
Wonalancet Chapel at 9am. New this year is a 25-mile
course to celebrate Tamworth’s 250th year.
Teams leave the field and head towards the Whiteface
Intervale fields, turn around, and then run the 15-mile
course around Great Hill Pond and James Pond, and back
to the finish in Wonalancet. The 15-milers run the Great
Hill Pond and James Pond loop.
The Tamworth Firemen’s Club will be providing warm
food and drink near the start/finish line. We will also be
accepting non-perishable canned food items for the local
food pantry that weekend. Bring a canned item and receive
a race course map!
Please come support these two local clubs and cheer on
the mushers and dogs.
We are in need of road crossing volunteers for a few
morning hours on one or both days. Also needed are a
photographer and several strong, able people to help get
teams to the start. Please contact Marsha Colcord at 603986-8375 or [email protected] if you would like
to volunteer.
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES
Is there an issue that concerns you at the local, state,
or national level? Reach out to the people representing
Tamworth and make your voice heard! Here is some basic
contact information to help. Our thanks to Representative
Ed Butler for providing the list below.
Ed Butler: [email protected]
Mark McConkey: [email protected].
Susan Ticehurst: [email protected]
Jeb Bradley: [email protected].
Frank Guinta: 603-641-9536
Senator Kelly Ayotte—
Adam Hechavarria: [email protected]
North Country Office: 19 Pleasant Street, Suite 13B,
Berlin, NH 03570, 603-752-7702
Senator Jeanne Shaheen—
Moira McConaghy: [email protected]
Chuck Henderson: [email protected].
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