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CLEAN AND GREEN — As they have faithfully done so in previous years (pictured), HamptonGarden Club members were planning on conducting their annual spring clean-up at the LaneMemorial Library on Wednesday of this week.
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Hampton Garden Club does somespring cleaning at the Library
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HAMPTON | If it’sspring, it means it’s time forthe Hampton Garden Club tohold its traditional springclean-up at the Lane Memor-ial Library on AcademyAvenue.
Garden club memberswere encouraged to bringtheir garden tools, gloves,brooms and lots of energy forthe event, which was sched-uled to take place onWednesday of this week.According to Marcia Gau-dioso, even those who with-out garden tools were invitedto “come along anyway …
the fun and camaraderie youexperience during thisevening is so worth theeffort!”
Tasks that garden clubmembers have performed inpast clean-ups include rak-ing, pruning, planting andmulching. Jane Eiras andBobbie Kittredge were sched-uled to serve as refreshmenthostesses; Eiras and Mary JoMurphy provided libraryflowers for the month.
The Hampton GardenClub’s next meeting will beheld on Wednesday, June 8 at7 p.m. at the First Congrega-tional Church of Hampton,
located at 127 WinnacunnetRoad. This meeting comes atthe perfect time, as TomMickey, a Master Gardenerwith a graduate certificatefrom Harvard University’sLandscape Institute, will pro-vide a slide presentation on“How to Design a PerennialGarden”.
Refreshment hostesseswill be Karen Ryan and Mar-cia Gaudioso. The libraryflowers will be provided byPriscilla Caira and CatherineFletcher. For more informa-tion on membership, callMary Hildreth at (603) 926-3114.
On Saturday, May 14, at 4 p.m., the Hampton Seacoast Chorale will perform in the FirstCongregational Church, located at 127 Winnacunnet Road in Hampton. The Chorale will singselections from “Les Miserables,” and other songs suited for the entire family. This event is opento the public. Admission is free and donations are much appreciated. For more information aboutthis concert and/ or the Chorale, contact Katie Ells at (603) 926-5520.
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TO SING IN SPRING
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PORTSMOUTH | EarlyAmerican furniture enthusi-asts know what a tour deforce it is to secure a daywhen one can share in thecombined knowledge andincomparable teaching skillsof Allan Breed, reproductioncabinetmaker and antiquesconsultant, and Brock Jobe,Professor of American Deco-
rative Arts, Winterthur Pro-gram in Early American Cul-ture, Winterthur Museum.
Strawbery Banke Muse-um will be offering just sucha day on Saturday, May 21,from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In themorning, Mr. Breed willdemonstrate the cabinet-making techniques of turn-ing, carving, reeding andveneering. In the afternoon,
Allan Breed and Brock Jobewill guide participants inexamining several pieces of18th century furniture fromthe collections of StrawberyBanke Museum.
In the process, partici-pants will hone their skills atidentifying tool marks, con-struction techniques, deco-
Banke Symposium explores Early American furniture
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EXETER | It was twoweeks after President Lin-coln was shot, and a Con-gress of ten-year-oldsdecided unanimously toforce captured Confederateofficers — lingering prison-ers of war — to face trialsbefore being released.
Boston-based TheatreEspresso made a stop at Lin-coln Street ElementarySchool last Friday, perform-ing a slice of “educationaltheatre” that incorporatedits fifth grade audience intothe show.
“When you put kids in aposition of power, theirlearning increases,” saidactor Chris Cook, whoplayed the role of AndrewJohnson.
The show, titled “Lin-coln’s Final Hope: Recon-structing a Nation,” was setin post-Civil War America,shortly after the assassina-tion of President AbrahamLincoln.
The South had alreadyreleased all of its prisonersof war, and the north hadreleased all enlisted Confed-erates that they had cap-tured — but Confederateofficers were being held
ON TRIALStudent ‘Congress’goes back in time
ON TRIAL — Though the Civil War is over, Secretary of WarEdwin Stanton implores “Congress” to keep the capturedConfederate officers behind bars.
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