GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until Aug. 23—just a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. Why, here we are at Friday again! Time for Lost Woods! I'll be as curious as you are to see what the crew's up to. In case you're a new reader, every week Lebanon author and illustrator DB Johnson (Henry Hikes to Fitchburg and other classics) chronicles the doings in Lost Woods. Scroll right to move on to the next panel or left to catch up on previous weeks. If you've missed a week (or more), check out the archive and synopsis behind the three little parallel lines at the top right.And it's also time for the News Quiz. Each Friday, Hanover's Kevin McCurdy and Bill Miles test your knowledge of what's gone on around the region that week—and ask your opinion on a burning question or two.
Can you be super-human and funny? Yes. If you're a squirrel. Or Mark Rober. You knew this one was coming back.... Rober's a former NASA engineer and a very popular science and engineering explainer on YouTube. And he had a problem with squirrels marauding his bird-feeder. He tried the store-bought workarounds, but the squirrels figured them out. So he did what any homeowner would: built a squirrel obstacle course for the four highly personable rodents intent on his back yard—Rick, Marty, Frank, and Phat Gus. This is his first go-round from last year, in case you're thinking you just saw this in June. Warning: It's about 20 minutes, and once you start you won't be able to help yourself. (Thanks, AW!)
When he was in his 50s, Canadian folk performer Tom Wilson discovered that, instead of being the "big, sweaty Irish guy" he'd always thought, he was actually adopted and his birth parents were Mohawk. Understandably, this led him in new directions, which is how he wound up last March at an Indigenous awards ceremony sharing a stage with iskwē, a singer-songwriter of Cree, Dené and Irish heritage. They'd never collaborated before but they hit it off, and have just released a redo of an earlier Wilson song, bringing in Ojibwe jazz trumpeter Chuck Copenace to add to the extremely cool vibe on "Blue Moon Drive."See you Monday.
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