Summer Guide 2021

Summer Guide 2021
There’s plenty of live, in-person stuff happening this year! Packed with concerts, arts events, foodie fun, festivals and more, our annual guide will help you plan your summer, from now through Labor Day.

Also on the cover, find out how to get the kids in your life to love gardening, p. 20. A local chef presents a monthly Haitian dinner series, p. 28. And find live music for your weekend and beyond in Music This Week, starting on p. 39.

The stores are full of patriotic paraphernalia right now. I can skip past the metallic flag pinwheels; the red, white ...
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Covid-19 updateAs of May 17As of May 24Total cases statewide97,77498,349Total current infections statewide1,169411Total deaths statewide1,3331,344New cases973 (May 11 to May ...
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With six no-hitters already, the Mets’ Jacob DeGrom off to a historic start before going on the DL, Shohei Ohtani ...
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Coming to you live The NH Live Venues and Theaters coalition held a press conference via Zoom on May 18 ...
With the return of many live and in-person events, Summer 2021 is already looking more action-packed than last year, as ...
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New children’s book helps kids cope with pandemic life Most people who are stuck at the mechanic’s for three and ...
The latest from NH’s theater, arts and literary communities “The Haze of July Flowers” by Jess Barnett. Courtesy photo. • ...
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Aim for more fun, less weeding OK, all you parents and grandparents, it’s time to garden with your beloved little ...
Family fun for the weekend Photo courtesy of the New Hampshire Farm Museum. A day at the farm The New ...
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Dear Donna, I have accumulated several hundred marbles. I display them in jars but think it’s time to move them ...
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Victoria Bombino Dental assistant Victoria Bombino is a dental assistant at Simply Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics in Pelham, where she ...
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News from the local food scene • More markets return: For the first time in two years, the Derry Homegrown ...
Braised chicken with rice and peas, fried plantains, and pikliz.
Chef Chris Viaud is on the far right. From the left is Chris’s brother Phil, Phil’s wife Sarah, their father ...
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Becky Costello of Londonderry is the owner of Owl Hill Preserves (owlhillpreserves@gmail.com, and on Facebook and Instagram @owlhillpreserves), a business ...
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Finding food wines at Angela’s Pasta & Cheese If you haven’t visited Angela’s Pasta & Cheese, on the corner of ...
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La Battue, Get Set, Go! (Parapente Records) Second EP from this off-kilter but quite accessible group, which consists of a ...
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The Audacity of Sara Grayson, by Joani Elliott (Post Hill Press, 400 pages) Imagine if Stephenie Myers had died right ...
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Army of the Dead (R) Dave Bautista and team attempt to capture millions of dollars from beneath an abandoned Las ...
Local music news & events • Mellow time: Sip a bit of local wine while watching Sam Hyman & JT ...
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Texan guitar ace Chris Duarte returns Born in San Antonio and a fixture in Austin’s music scene, Chris Duarte is ...

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