WELCOME TO THE WEEK, UPPER VALLEY!
Yuck. There's cold air at the surface, a low off the mid Atlantic coast that's lifting our way, and warmer air above coming from the southwest. The result is a mess: slight chance of freezing rain this morning, a chance of rain in the afternoon, freezing rain at night, sleet and freezing rain after midnight, and everything all mixed together tomorrow. Maybe a little ice accumulation once things get going tonight.Hanover Farmers Market falls victim to chamber merger. As the Hanover and Leb chambers join forces, they're shedding old responsibilities, and the Hanover market is one of them. It might survive if the town can find a new manager and a new venue, since the Green's been problematic for farm vendors, traffic, and the rest of Hanover. “We haven’t given up yet, but it’s going to be challenging to figure out an alternate location to the green that’s as visible," says town manager Julia Griffin. (VN)My, that's a lot of orange! Sometimes a "trail" exists in name only, since it's so overgrown and blocked by fallen trees that it's impassable. That's been the state of Bradley Hill Trail in Norwich, leading people to find ways around and beside it, leading to roiled neighborly relations... So on a cold morning yesterday, a crew of trails committee volunteers showed up to clear everything out, including some very large oaks. The trail's now open for walkers, runners, mountain bikers, and horseback riders.Norwich couple aims to surf the switchel wave. What's switchel? A traditional concoction of apple cider vinegar, ginger, and a sweetener — sometimes called "the Amish version of Gatorade," the VN's John Lippman writes. Now Corina Belle-Isle and Russ Schleipman are trying to get a version developed by Belle-Isle from an old family recipe into stores around New England. They're already in a bunch of UV outlets, and have signed on with distributors for ME and are about to land one in MA. Visiting prof takes over Jamal Khashoggi fellowship at The Washington Post. Ezzedine Fishere, an Egyptian novelist, scholar and former diplomat who's teaching Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth, has just been named to the fellowship honoring the Saudi journalist who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last fall. Fishere will write a bimonthly column about the Middle East.Dewey the therapy dog gets some love. For the last five years, the 6-year-old chocolate Labradoodle has been a fixture in the Hanover High halls and the office of school psychologist Tom Gamble. But in September, Dewey collapsed while on a walk in the woods, and was found to have a blood clot pressing on his spine. Now students are taking turns helping him with the physical therapy he needs. Oh, and that is an "Awww"-worthy pic that the VN's Jennifer Hauck snapped. (VN)Windsor minister fought lonely pacifist battle. Historian Mark Bushnell is up on VTDigger with an intriguing look back at Pentecostal minister Clarence Waldron, who in 1917 refused to preach in favor of Liberty Bonds to fund the US effort in WWI. Windsor, of course, was home to a machine-tool industry thriving because of the war, and a mob quickly gathered. Waldron declared that he did not believe in preaching earthly matters in church. He was eventually fired and then tried under the Espionage Act.New morning drive-time host on WNTK aims for community-focused show. This is notable because Jason Place, who took over the slot on the New London-based talk radio station last week, is replacing Keith Hanson, the combative former Sullivan Co. GOP chair who got in hot water for his vulgar social-media comments about critics of his views. "I am not going to say where I stand on issues politically," Place told the VN's John Lippman. "Because, frankly, nobody cares." Full disclosure: Place is a Daybreak fan and uses items on air, and I'll be on the show from time to time talking about local news.Camel's Hump as you don't usually get to see it. From an airplane in the early morning, a lowering sky above, the sun behind the mountain just starting to brighten the valley below.And what the heck: Here's why you hike to the top. A filmed panorama from atop Table Rock at Dixville Notch this fall — those are some serious reds — that starts with a jaw-dropping look straight down, then pans over to the abandoned Balsams resort.NH, VT among top ten magnets for people 65 and older. An intriguing chart put together by Axios (third item down) of where people 65+ are moving. Tops are Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and Florida. NH, interestingly, is 6th and VT 10th; along with Delaware they're the only states in the Northeast on the list.Currier Museum buys second Frank Lloyd Wright house. You may remember that back in September, the second of two Wright-designed homes in Manchester went on the market; the Currier already owned the first. Well, on Friday the museum announced that thanks to an anonymous gift, it's purchased the Toufic H. Kalil House to add to its collection. It hopes to open it to tours in the spring.Now that's workplace loyalty. A 19-year-old driver was pulled over on I-95 in Greenland, NH for doing 126 mph. In a Nissan Altima, no less. When the trooper asked why, he explained he was late for work. If you like Daybreak and want to help it keep going, here's how:
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Odds are pretty good that you never saw the original, theatrical cut, because it played a few 2017 film festivals and then got yanked (it was a Weinstein film). This is, by all accounts, a better version of the struggle over AC v DC between George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) on the on the alternating side, and Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumeberbatch) on the direct side. 7:30 at Woodstock Town Hall.
The first, a 1919 silent, is the oldest surviving feature by a black director (Oscar Micheaux). A young black woman running a poor school in the South heads north to raise funds. Micheaux "sketches a wide view of black society...and the harrowing ambient violence of Jim Crow, which he shows unsparingly," wrote Richard Brody in
The New Yorker
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The Cry of Jazz
is musician Ed Bland's 1959 look at the streets, jazz clubs and pool halls of Chicago's South Side, with score by Sun Ra & his Arkestra. At 7.
The Upper Valley Democrats are hosting Grafton County elected officials — we're talking people like Commissioner Wendy Piper, Sheriff Jeff Stiegler, and others — to talk about what they do and answer questions about why down-ballot offices matter. "We sometimes take them for granted and we shouldn't," says UVD. "They work hard to keep this county on track, innovate and manage our tax dollars." At the Upper Valley Senior Center in Lebanon, starting at 6:30 pm.
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