THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, January 19, 2012


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VOLUME 21, NO. 3


THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012


COMPLIMENTARY


Santa Croce Family at Franklin Opera House


Let your family be enter-


tained by the Santa Croce Family at the historic Franklin Opera House on Saturday, January 28, at 7:30pm. Santa Croce has a fam-


Lobster Boat docked on the shore of Kittery Maine, along the Piscataqua River with Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the background.


THE PASCATAQUA RIVER 106 Year-Old Article Tells History and Questions Modern Day Spelling


by John Scales The Granite Monthly -1906


The Pascataqua River


was discovered by the very earliest explorers along the New England coast, but the first one to make mention of his sailing on its waters was Martin Pring, who came up as far as its headwaters at Dover in June, 1603. He was searching for “sassafras,” that being regarded as


one of the great remedies then popular in the medi- cal world. He did not find any, but says he saw huge forest trees, various kinds of wild animals and the camping place of the In- dians at the head waters, where they had cooked their fish and feasted in the spring of the year, when the salmon and oth- er fish were plenty about the falls. This fishing and feasting season was over a


few weeks before Captain Pring arrived, but he saw and reported the fresh fire brands, which the Indians had left when they start- ed on a hunting excur- sion up country, among lakes Winnepesaukee, Suncook, Pennacook and other favorite summer resorts which they had, something as the civilized mortals now spend their hot weather vacations. During the next score of


years, from 1603 to 1623, when Edward Hilton and his party settled at Dover Point, it is quite probable that English fishermen caught fish all along the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, and in doing so frequently came up the Pascataqua river, which at certain seasons of the year, then, was swarm- ing with fish of various kinds, and which those See PASCATAQUA on 14


PHOTO COURTESY OF PHOTOGRAPHER ROB CLIFFORD


ily musical chemistry that only few can deliver. Six brothers and sisters with un-surpassed five part harmony, and vir- tuoso Guitar and Man- dolin skills, Santa Croce delights audiences with songs from the Mamas and Papas to Justin Beiber as well as some of their own songs. For tickets and in- formation call the Frank- lin Opera House Box office at (603) 934-1901 or visit: www.themiddlenh.org. To learn more about San- ta Croce and hear sam- ples of their music visit: www.wearesantacroce.com. Adult tickets are $12, students and seniors are $10.Franklin Opera House is located at Franklin City Hall, 316 Central Street in Franklin, NH, known also as The Middle NH Arts and Entertainment Center.


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