THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, May 10, 2012


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Northern NE Home, Garden & Flower Show Issue! VOLUME 21, NO. 19 THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 COMPLIMENTARY


TO UNDERGO MUCH NEEDED RENOVATION


by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor


General John Stark, con-


sidered New Hampshire’s greatest hero, and author of what later became our state motto “Live Free Or Die (Death Is Not The Worst of Evils),” is buried in Man- chester in the park that bears his name. You would think that such


an honored hero’s final rest- ing place, which was also the site of his former home, would be a revered and hon-


ored site. That is the case today, but it wasn’t so as recently as the early 2000s. It was the Friends of Stark


Park who have brought this magnificent park back into the public eye after many years of unwanted behav- ior and deterioration at the park actually kept people away. Today, they are in the


process of raising funds to renovate the Stark Fam- ily cemetery that sits with- in, including the General’s


“Banjos, Bones & Ballads” in Moultonborough


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This obelisk marks the grave of New Hampshire Revolutionary War Hero, General John Stark, whose written toast “Live Free or Die, Death Is Not The Worst of Evils,” would evolve into New Hampshire’s motto. The grave site in Stark Park in Manchester is waiting to be renovated after 100 years of neglect as the Friends of Stark Park seek funding to undertake the ambitious and much needed renovation.


BRENDAN SMITH PHOTO


On Monday, May 14, the Moultonborough Public Li- brary and the Moulton- borough Historical Society are co-sponsoring a NH Humanities Council musi- cal program by Jeff Warner, entitled “Banjos, Bones, and Ballads” at 7pm. Jeff Warner is among the na- tion’s foremost performer/ interpreters of traditional music. His songs from the lumber camps, fishing vil- lages and mountain tops of America connect 21st century audiences with the everyday lives–and artistry– of 19th century Americans. Rich in local history and a


sense of place, they bring us the latest news from the distant past. A native of New York City,


Jeff has lived in Portsmouth, NH since the 1990s. He has toured nationally for the Smithsonian, and taught at Ashokan, Swannanoa, and Pinewoods summer music camps.


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