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On The Job – Sally Pendleton

Physical therapist specializing in dry needling

Sally Pendleton is a Physical Therapist certified and specializing in dry needling, a technique used to treat muscle pain and improve muscle function. She serves patients in southern New Hampshire through her privately owned mobile practice, Dry Needling Delivered.

Explain your job and what it entails.

My job is treating people for muscle pain with dry needling in the comfort of their own homes. Dry needling is an effective technique that uses very small needles without any medication to help relieve pain such as muscle spasms, strains, repetitive injuries and headaches, among other injuries. Dry needling offers an alternative treatment option for pain relief and improved muscle movement. Unlike acupuncture, dry needling focuses on releasing trigger points in the muscle.

How long have you had this job?

I have been the owner of Dry Needling Delivered since April of 2021.

What led you to this career field and your current job?

I had been a physical therapist for 28 years working in outpatient clinics. I had seen how well dry needling worked for patients, so I wanted to take the course to be able to offer this service to help relieve pain for my patients.

What kind of education or training did you need?

The course is offered to medical professionals who already have a background in anatomy. It was an extensive three-day course to be able to perform dry needling as a physical therapist.

What is your typical at-work uniform or attire?

Typically I will wear business casual attire as I want to look professional but also be comfortable carrying my treatment table into people’s homes and performing the dry needling treatment.

How has your job changed over the course of the pandemic?

I started Dry Needling Delivered after I got laid off from my job as an outpatient physical therapist due to the pandemic. I had considered doing dry needling as a business before that, and getting laid off made me want to take more control of my situation. It also gave me time to plan and implement my business model.

What do you wish you had known at the beginning of your career?

At the beginning of my career as a physical therapist, I wish I had known that I had the fortitude to create my own business with confidence to be able to offer this service.

What do you wish other people knew about your job?

I would like other people to know how great the benefits of dry needling are so I can help as many people as possible.

What was the first job you ever had?

My first job was at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center back when it was Memorial Hospital in 1994.

What is the best piece of work-related advice you have ever received?

The best work-related advice that I have received is to look at the patient as a whole person — spirit, mind and body — rather than just focusing on the injury itself.

Five favorites

Favorite book: I don’t have any particular favorite — anything I can read while sitting on the beach.
Favorite movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Favorite music: Anything by James Taylor and Van Morrison
Favorite food: Who can pick just one? I do love savory foods for sure.
Favorite thing about NH: The friendly people, beaches and fall foliage

Featured photo: Sally Pendleton. Courtesy photo.

Treasure Hunt 22/11/03

Dear Donna,

Time to pass this carved Scottie dog bracelet to my daughter. Can you give me any information to pass with it?

Thanks, Donna

Rita

Dear Rita,

My first reaction is I’ve had one before and when it broke I was so sad! I had never seen another one before, but now I know there were more puppies out there.

Your wood carved Scottie dog bracelet is considered a clamper (it opens up to clamp on your wrist). It looks like it’s in amazing condition with original collar and glass eyes.

This style of bracelet along with Bakelite, lucite and others was very much in style from the 1930s to the present. This generation collects the unusual jewelry from the past and it can be very sought after in good condition. I would say your Scottie pup bracelet is in the $200 range to a collector.

Passing it on to your daughter is priceless, though. I hope she enjoys it as well.

Thanks for sharing with us, Rita. A nice memory for me.

An (eventual) pop of color

Forcing bulbs for early spring blossoms indoors

I love tulips. Fortunately, our dog Rowan keeps the deer away, so I can grow them in our garden. But if you have a deer problem and can’t grow tulips (deer think you’ve planted treats for them), I have a solution. Plant some in pots now so they will bloom for you indoors in March or April.

Almost any spring-blooming bulb can be “forced” to bloom indoors, but tulips take the longest: four months. If you pot them up in early November, they won’t be ready to start growing leaves and buds until March. But let’s back up a bit and see what they need to thrive and bloom.

First, they need a cool or cold place to rest for four months of dormancy. I am lucky: I have a cold basement that I keep just above freezing, which is ideal. Anything over 50 degrees will encourage them to send up green shoots too early. If they do that, they probably won’t bloom.

A garage attached to the house might be suitable for forcing bulbs. Or maybe you can put them in an unheated mud room or spare fridge. If the growing medium freezes it won’t kill the bulbs, but they won’t progress toward the hoped-for bloom time. They need to be growing roots and getting ready to bloom.

rectangular planter pot on table, top covered with wire mesh
Hardware cloth on top of the pot will keep out hungry mice. Photo by Henry Homeyer.

You need a suitable container for forcing bulbs. I use an Italian-made red clay container that is 16 inches long, 5 inches wide and 5 inches deep. It is handsome and will look good on my windowsill when I bring it up from the cold basement to blossom. You can, of course, use a plastic pot or a handsome ceramic pot. I have even used my window box for a bigger splash of color. But anything you use should have a drainage hole and something to catch the water that may leak out of it.

Next, you need a good growing medium. You can buy potting soil, or you can reuse potting soil from last summer’s annuals that were in pots on the deck or steps. A robust annual grows lots of roots, which you need to separate from the soil by shaking or banging the soil loose. The soil can then be used, but you should mix it with fresh potting soil, too.

Fill the container you plan to use about halfway with the growing medium. If the soil mix is dry, moisten it well before placing the bulbs in the pot. Then push the bulbs into the soil mix, cover the bulbs with more mix and pat it down firmly. You can place them closer together in the pot than you would if planting them outside in the soil. In fact, I plant some bulbs shoulder to shoulder.

You will need to check on the pots once a month to be sure the potting mix has not dried out. If it has, water lightly, but never get the growing medium soggy. But if it is too dry, nothing will happen, either.

Rodents are a problem outdoors — they love to eat tulip bulbs. But if you live in an old house you may also have mice or squirrels in your basement that will eat the bulbs. So I cover each pot with hardware cloth (a wire mesh) or a small piece of board. They won’t eat daffodil bulbs, but I have had rodents dig them up and throw them on the floor in disgust!

red and yellow tulips growing indoors, sitting in window, outside snow
Forced tulips are my favorites.

When selecting bulbs for forcing, always choose early or mid-season bloomers. I want early blossoms while snow is still on the ground. This is true whether selecting tulip varieties or daffodils. Daffodils generally only need three months of dormancy. Crocus and other small bulbs only need two months of cold storage.

My favorite daffodil for forcing is the Tete-a-Tete. These little gems are short and early, and produce lots of flowers, two or three flowers per stem. This year I potted up a dozen 4-inch pots with three bulbs each. These should be ready to come up into the warmth of the house in about 10 weeks, and ready to gift to friends a couple of weeks later while in bud. There is nothing like a blooming daffodil to pick up a person’s spirits in late winter.

Another blooming treat is the paperwhite. This is a type of daffodil that comes ready to grow. Most people like to set them in a bowl filled part way with stones and add water until it just “kisses” their bottoms. Put on a sunny windowsill, these bulbs will blossom in four to six weeks. Just keep on adding water as it evaporates or is sucked up by the paperwhites.

Paperwhites in bowls of pebbles sometimes get too tall and tip over. Some people add just a soupcon of gin to the water when they start to grow, stunting their growth. Me? I just try to rearrange the stones to prevent tipping. Another way to do it is to grow them in potting soil. But you should not bury the paperwhite bulbs if you do that. Leave half the bulb above the soil line.

A nice project for your garden club would be to pot up some Tete-a-Tete or other bulbs now for later use as gifts to the ill or elderly, or anyone who needs them. I know one club that is planning on doing so this year.

Featured photo: Five to seven tulip bulbs fit nicely in this pot. Photo by Henry Homeyer.

Kiddie Pool 22/11/03

Family fun for the weekend

Art and science

• Learn about exoplanets at the event “Exoplanets: They’re Out of This World!” with experts Dr. Andrew Jordan, a University of New Hampshire research scientist; Dave McDonald, an astronomy educator; David Petriel, exoplanet enthusiast, and the Belmont High School Astronomy Club on Friday, Nov. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive in Concord; starhop.com). The event, this month’s Super Stellar Friday program, will talk about what exoplanets are, how they’re discovered and what conditions might be like on the planets, according to the website, where you can purchase tickets, which cost $12 for adults, $9 for children ages 3 to 12, $11 for seniors older than 65 and students, and are free for children under 3.

• Join the Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St. in Manchester; bookerymht.com) for a free family art walk through downtown Manchester on Sunday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon. On the walk, there will be more than 40 pieces of public artwork to see and learn about. The walk will start at Bookery at 10 a.m. While the event is free, the Bookery requests that people register in advance on the Eventbrite page, which can be accessed from bookerymht.com/our-events.

Last bit of October-ness

• The corn maze at Elwood Orchards (54 Elwood Road in Londonderry; 434-6017) is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with the last entrance at 5 p.m.) through Sunday, Nov. 6, when it closes for the season. Tickets can be purchased at the farm and cost $10 per person, free for children under the age of 5. According to the website, the farm still has pick-your-own apples, but call ahead to check on conditions.

• And for the teens: This is the final weekend for some of this season’s haunted attractions. Spookyworld Presents: Nightmare New England (454 Charles Bancroft Hwy. in Litchfield; nightmarenewengland.com) and Fright Kingdom (12 Simon St. in Nashua; frightkingdom.com) will close on Saturday, Nov. 5, with the last time for a fright being at 10 p.m. at both locations. Read our story about this season’s spooky settings in the Oct. 20 issue of the Hippo. Find the e-edition at hippopress.com; the story is on page 10.

Outdoor adventures

• Kids 18 months to 5 years old can be part of the Natural Wonders Fridays at the Beaver Brook Association (117 Ridge Hill Road in Hollis; beaverbrook.org) starting on Friday, Nov. 4, and running through Dec. 16. The weekly event will have kids exploring in nature and learning about the world around them. The six-week session costs $72 for an adult with one child, and there is a 25-percent discount for additional siblings.

• Join the New Hampshire Audubon for a birding walk at Massabesic Center on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 a.m. The walk will start at the Massabesic Center (26 Audubon Way in Auburn; nhaudubon.org) and will explore some of the trails with local birder Joe Mahoney. All ages and skill levels are welcome at the walk, which will be about 1 to 2 miles, according to the website. Registration in advance is required and costs $10 per person. Binocular rentals are included with the price of tickets.

Showtime!

You don’t have to go under the sea to see Spongebob the Musical at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St. in Manchester; palacetheatre.org) on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. The show, performed by the Palace Teen Company, featuring actors ages 12 to 18, follows the lovable sea sponge Spongebob and his friends as they go on an adventure together. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $12 for children.

Let the good times roll

Concord native presents new photo biography of B.B. King

By Mya Blanchard

[email protected]

Whether through pictures or narrative, Concord native Charles Sawyer has a long history of storytelling. His latest project, B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon, is a coffee table book of photographs of the blues icon all taken by Sawyer. He will be at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord for an author event on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m., to talk about the book.

Sawyer started writing in 1967 for the purpose of providing text to go along with his photographs. Through this experience, he realized how much he enjoyed it, and his writing eventually took on a life of its own. Since then, Sawyer has amassed experience in journalism and has worked on several unproduced screenplays in a variety of genres, including a special on King that was commissioned by WGBH, as well as a screenplay based on a murder trial in Vermont, and another centered on the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

One of his most successful projects was his 1980 book The Arrival of B.B. King, which stayed in print for 25 years. Used copies of that book can still be found on Amazon.

Many of Sawyer’s projects have been centered around King, with whom he became good friends over a period of 40 years.

“I met him in 1968 when he was playing at a famous nightclub outside of Boston [called Lenny’s on the Turnpike],” Sawyer said. “[It was] … a small 200-seat nightclub where he was playing for about nine days running. I had seen him perform a few times before but I had never met him, and I was very eager to photograph him and possibly to meet him. The intimacy of this club … afforded me the opportunity to get in real close under very optimal lighting conditions while he was performing.”

After King’s first set that night at Lenny’s on the Turnpike, the two engaged in conversation and quickly formed a personal relationship. Sawyer returned to the nightclub for several days and gained status as an insider after King invited him back to his motel room to join in on his poker game.

“I opted not to play because I was scared to death I would lose all my money,” Sawyer said.

With the extra down time that came with his retirement in 2015, Sawyer turned to his archive of photos of the blues singer. As he started digitizing them, he realized he had the makings of what would become B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon. This new book consists of more than 200 photos — some never before published — that Sawyer took over the years, accompanied by some of his own reflections and memories of his friendship with King. The first chapter of the book, for example, tells the story of how it began.

During the event at Gibson’s, Sawyer will engage in a question-and-answer session with attendees, share excerpts from his book and possibly show some projections or panels of pictures.

“One of the reviewers made quite a comment to say that a book of this quality, in this league of coffee table books, to be sold for as little as $45 is quite remarkable,” Sawyer said. “The photographic production … is of the very highest quality that I could have anticipated.”

Charles Sawyer presents B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon
When: Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord
Visit: gibsonsbookstore.com

Featured photo: Courtesy photo.

The Art Roundup 22/11/03

The latest from NH’s theater, arts and literary communities

• Open studio: In addition to the Route 3 Art Trail this Saturday (see page 17), keeping the spirit of the 2010s event NH Open Doors alive is the Kearsarge Open Studios on Friday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 5. On Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. head to Main Street in Warner for an Art Walk. The evening will feature wine and hors d’oeuvres at Upton Chandler House Museum (10 W. Main St.), an artist in residence at Cafe One East (1 E. Main St.) and the gallery at MainStreet BookEnds (16 E. Main St.), according to a press release.

On Saturday, the venues will open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a lineup of artists and their work. At the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum (18 Highlawn Road in Warner) see artist Lenny Novak with crafted dream catchers and Vicki Blanchard with pottery. At Cafe One East, see fine artist Meghan Blood. MainStreet BookEnds will host local artists in a variety of media. At Upton Chandler House Museum, artists include painters David, Laurette and Sean Carroll; Michelle Marson with jewelry and baskets; Jerilyn Nieder with pottery; Susan Parmenter with paintings; Mary Beth Quattrochi, who is a silversmith; Carolyn Rordam from Joppa Glassworks, and Gary Young with wooden bowls, according to a press release. See warnerhistorical.org for more information.

• Weekend of theater: At the Hatbox Theatre (Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Road, Concord, hatboxnh.com) and Lend Me a Theatre present Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opening Friday, Nov. 4, and running through Nov. 20 with showtimes are on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and tickets cost $22 for adults and $19 for students and seniors. Reporter Katelyn Sahagian talked to the actors playing the titular characters, Sean Damboise and Zakariah Tber, as well as John Jenks Seymour, who plays Claudius, in the Oct. 13 issue of the Hippo; find the e-edition at hippopress.com (the interviews start on page 13).

On page 12 of that issue, find an interview with Hadley Harris, who plays Janet Van de Graaff in The Riverbend Youth Company’s The Drowsy Chaperone(Angie Sykeny also interviewed Hannah Shepherd, who plays The Chaperone).The showwill run at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts (56 Mont Vernon St., Milford) on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2:30 p.m. See svbgc.org/amato-center.

The Actorsingers bring the musical thriller Sweeney Todd to theKeefe Center for the Arts (117 Elm St., Nashua) Friday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m.. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and students (plus fees). Visit actorsingers.org.

The Village Players Theatre (51 Glendon St. in Wolfeboro; village-players.com) presents Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoatstarting this weekend Friday, Nov. 4, through Sunday, Nov. 6, as well as Friday, Nov. 11, through Sunday, Nov. 13. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m and tickets cost $25.

• Art at the cinema: The Red River Community Gallery at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main St. in Concord; redrivertheatres.org) will feature an exhibition from local artist Katy O’Gorman Rhodebeck titled “Explorations in Printmaking,” according to a press release. The exhibit will display her “hand-pulled, painterly style reduction block and screen prints,” the release said. See the website for theater hours, which is when the gallery is open.

Craft fairs

The first weekend of November brings more fall craft fairs. If you have an upcoming craft fair, let me know at [email protected].

• The Merrimack Knights of Columbus Fall Craft Fair will run Friday, Nov. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mastricola Upper Elementary School (26 Baboosic Lake Road in Merrimack) with more than 40 crafters, a bakes table and a food counter serving homemade meals, drinks and snacks, according to an organizer’s email.

• The Goffstown Lions Club will hold its craft fair Saturday, Nov. 5, and Sunday, Nov. 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days at Mountain View Middle School (41 Lauren Lane in Goffstown). The fair will feature crafters and artisans from around New England and admission costs $2 (kids under 12 get in for free), according to a Lions Facebook post.

• Silver Bells Craft Fair at the Tanger Outlets (120 Laconia Road in Tilton) will run Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The offerings include home decor, fused glass, metal artwork, jewelry, quilts, hand-knitted items, wooden spoons, artwear, hand-poured soaps, maple syrups and more, according to a Facebook post.

• The Hampstead Mothers’ Club will hold its craft fair Saturday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hampstead Middle School. The fair will feature more than 80 crafters as well as a raffle and a food court, according to the group’s Facebook post.

• The Annual Village Craft Fair at the First Congregational Church (15 Lawrence Road in Salem) will run from 9 am. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, and feature crafts and a snack bar, according to a church Facebook post.

• Future fair: The Craftworkers’ Guild in Bedford (5 Meetinghouse Road in Bedford, the building at the bottom of the library parking lot; thecraftworkersguild.org) will open for Veterans Day weekend, Friday, Nov. 11, through Sunday, Nov. 13. The fair will open this pop-up shop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Route 3 Art Trail
Travel the corridor through Concord, Penacook and Boscawen this Saturday Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the Route 3 Art Trail.
The locations will offer art exhibits and demonstrations and other events. Find a map at route3arttrail.com. Pick up a passport at the first stop and then visit five stops to be entered into a raffle. According to a press release, participating locations include:
• Twiggs Gallery (254 King St. in Boscawen): Twiggs’ annual holiday art fair, Sleighbell Studio, will open for the season Saturday with locally made fine art and craft as well as refreshments. Spriggs Shoppe, which is located at Twiggs, will have items including calligraphy art from artist and owner Adele Sanborn, the release said.
• Gadzooks Glass (232 King St. in Boscawen): Karen Mehos will hold an open studio featuring her glass art, which may include a demonstration.
• Susan Douglass (231 King St. in Boscawen): Douglass will set up outside her home to showcase her sculptures and other upcycled creations for the home and garden, the release said.
• Chadwick Hill Rustic Furniture (187 King St. in Boscawen): Craftsman Doug Egounis will display his log furniture (made from woods including black birch, white birch, pine and maple) and work during the tour to demonstrate the furniture-making process.
• Marshall’s Florist & Gifts (151 King St. in Boscawen): The shop offers fresh, dried and silk arrangements.
• Bittersweet Fabric Shop (8 Cottage St. in Boscawen): A local sewing machine shop that sells and maintains machines as well as selling quilting fabric, thread and sewing notions, Bittersweet will offer demonstrations of the machines on Saturday.
• Front Room Art Studio (50 Tanner St. in Penacook): Artist Melanie Deshaies will open her studio to display her drawings, paintings and pottery pieces.
• Jo Shields Studio and Lee Spoons (5 Steeple View in Penacook): Spoon maker Lee Scheffey and mixed-metal jeweler Jo Shields will display their pieces. Scheffey will offer demonstrations.
• The Wild Bean (316 Village St. in Penacook): This shop sells locally made natural body care products, herbs, flowers and plants.
• Monica Cote (48 Woodbine Ave. in Concord): A plein air painter, Cote paints portraits and animals.

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