Summer Guide 2026 — 05/21/2026

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It’s summer! Or at least, it’s the season of festivals and happenings that start Memorial Day weekend and offer up those summer vibes. In this week’s issue of the Hippo, we bring you oodles of summer events including fairs and festivals, art events, music festivals, outdoor and summer playhouse theater, nature events and more. Load up on sunscreen and get ready to head out for some summer fun.

Also on the cover Looking for some tasty fun? John Fladd serves up all the details on Manchester’s Taco Tour (next Thursday, May 28) and the Concord-based Sweet Springtime Stroll (this Saturday, May 23). See page 24 for those stories. John also talks to an organizer at the Rubber Duck Regatta in Nashua, part of four days of fun planned in the Gate City (page 23). Michael Witthaus also gets all the details about the ongoing Nashua International Sculpture Symposium. This year’s sculptors are working now on pieces that will become a part of the city’s landscape (page 20).

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Memorial Day It’s a weekend of Memorial Day parades and celebrations. Here are a few: • The Amherst Memorial Day ...
The Big Story – Baseball at the Quarter Turn: It has not been pretty for your Boston Red Sox. They’ve ...
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Fewer ODs As reported by WMUR in a May 14 online article, new data from the Centers for Disease Control ...
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Thursday, May 21 The Canterbury Shaker Village, 288 Shaker Road in Canterbury, will hold a Shaker Barn Dance tonight from ...
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It’s summer! Or, it’s “summer” — the state of mind we enter sometime around Memorial Day weekend, when we dig ...
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Nashua International Sculpture Symposium offers access to artists In front of a revitalized Civil War-era cotton mill, four sculptors are ...
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Dear Donna, I have several of these metal figures. They belonged to my grandfather. Do you think they are safe ...
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Buy a six-quack and watch On Saturday, May 23, the Downtown Nashua Association will launch what it hopes will become ...
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• A new Aroma Joe’s: There is a new location of the coffee joint Aroma Joe’s at 700 Mast Road, ...
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Manchester’s Taco Tour returns Manchester’s annual Taco Tour will take place Thursday, May 28, from 4 to 8 p.m. For ...
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Try a sample of treats at the Springtime Sweet Stroll “In a nutshell,” Emma Stetson, the owner of Wine on ...
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1 cup (120 g) all-purpose flour ¾ cup (80 g) dark rye flour ½ cup (42 g) unsweetened cocoa powder ...
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Simon Hanes, Gargantua (Pyroclastic Records) If you’ve already read the Playlist piece this week, you know I am presently besieged ...
• Blues power: Until he stumbled into a Chicago nightclub in the early 1990s, Johnny Burgin planned to be a ...
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The Janzen Boys make first New England visit While anchored by steady acoustic bass, joyful strumming and finger-picked flourishes, the ...

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