SPRING 2013

Community News
Sponsored By: Friends of the Library, North Hampton Public Library, North Hampton School Board & the Town of North Hampton

North Hampton

The Agriculture Commission

Boy Scout Troop 162

Now is a good time to try starting seeds in a warm, sunny window

roop 162 enjoyed the winter months with both indoor and outdoor activities. In January, scouts spent a very cold weekend cabin camping, hiking, cooking, playing games, and keeping warm by the campfire. In February, they participated in the District Klondike Derby, utilizing their scout skills in first aid, fire building, ice rescue, ravine crossing, team building, cooking, orientating, knots and lashings, and shelter and survival challenges with about twenty other troops. Six scouts worked with ~ continued on page 2 join us and experience the joy of a great harvest. Our town website (www.northhampton-nh.gov) has a link to the Agriculture Commission, where there are other links to interesting agricultural information, including Farmers Markets, UNH Extension, and workshops for raising a backyard piglet or chickens.
~ For other information you may contact, Cindy Jenkins: cynjenks@ comcast.net, Bob Copp: robert.copp@ comcast.net, Dick Wollmar: orgfarm@ myfairpoint.net, Walter Nordstrom: modig@comcast.net, Dieter Ebert: dieterebert@hotmail.com.

his year we have a great line up of support from our Master Gardeners, Ginny Shannon and Lisa Cote. APRIL 8 AT 6:30 PM AT THE NORTH HAMPTON LIBRARY Come get some help with planning your garden, any past problems, new techniques, what to watch for, or any other topics you want to discuss. JUNE 15 FROM 9 AM TO 11 AM AT THE COMMUNITY GARDEN A tour of the Herb Garden and an opportunity to learn about using herbs for more than food. The herb garden is amazing and there

are many examples of herbs for edible landscaping. SEPTEMBER 9: A LOCAVORE POT LUCK TO SHARE THE BOUNTY. Also included will be discussion about preparing the garden for next year. WE ARE ACCEPTING SIGN-UPS FOR GARDENS A 15 x 20 plot is still $20 and a 15 x 40 plot is $40. This provides rototilling in the spring and fall and water and mowing throughout the season. In addition, our master gardeners will be available and working there regularly. Come

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Dr. Craig Kelleher to earn the Citizenship in the World Merit Badge, and five Scouts are currently enrolled in Merit Badge University, an opportunity to earn up to three merit badges. Troop 162 attended a Hampton Falls scout meeting for a guest presentation about citizenship and patriotism by The Patriot Pastor. Some troop members participated in the Scout Sunday Celebration at the UCC, performed the flag ceremony at the North Hampton Deliberative Session, and participated in the Cub Scout Crossover ceremony. Troop 162 welcomed three scouts who crossed over from Cub Scouts in February. These boys, as well as another recent recruit, jumped right into the Boy Scout activities, and were presented with their first rank advancement of Scout at the March Court of Honor. Also recognized at the COH were scouts who earned other rank advancements, merit badges, training completion, and new youth leadership positions. Family and friends celebrated the scouts achievements with refreshments following the ceremony. Troop 162 meets weekly on Monday evenings, and all boys in 6th grade to 18 years old are welcome to join at any time. No prior scouting experience is necessary. For more information please visit www.troop16webs.com.

North Hampton Heritage Commission

officials dressed in period attire and the ringing of the Revere bell. The festivities start at 12 of the oclock noon. The interior of Town Hall will have an art exhibit created by the students of North Hampton School. We are hoping that some enterprising students will build a Lego model of the Town Hall. We also expect to have some goodies available to sample using recipes from the 1800s. There are more surprises in the planning stages. We are hoping some town folk will dress in period clothing. If your organization would like to participate please contact us at nhheritage@gmail.com. Our hope is to make this event a celebration the whole town can be proud of and enjoy. The entire cost will be covered by donations from businesses and individual contributions. To support this event, donations can be made at the Town Offices. Checks should be made out to the Town of North

Troop 162 participants in the Klondike Derby with their sled, retrofitted with wheels due to the lack of snow fo rthe event!

ebruary 13, 2013 will be remembered as the day the North Hampton Town Hall achieved a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The actual date of the official opening of the Town Hall was March 12, 1844. To commemorate this date in our history, the Town of North Hampton will celebrate Town Hall Day on May18, 2013. Plans are under way that include a reenactment of the actual opening complete with town
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Hampton with the notation Town Hall Day in the memo. Channel 22 will be helping to publicize the event - so stay tuned! The Heritage Commission was very happy to assist the Conservation Commission with the Dale Farm Warrant Article. This was a wonderful accomplishment for our town and we are so pleased with the tremendous support of the voters at the Town Meeting. On another note, the Heritage Commission is hosting a first ever Seacoast regional meeting of Heritage Commissions and Historic District Commissions on May 4, 2013. We have invited 13 towns to participate in a half day event. In conclusion, our Survey effort continues to move forward. We were pleased to have a presentation by Rich and Joan Correll former owners of the Depot and Joe Butler former RR employee at the last survey meeting. ~ Donna Etela, Chair

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Cub Scouts Pack 162 News

In This Issue
Agricultural Commission...... 1 Boy Scout Troop 162............... 1 Heritage Commission............ 2 Cub Scouts Pack 162............... 3 Conservation Commission.... 4 North Hampton Bandstand... 4 People Active in Learning....... 5 Recycling Center..................... 5 Girl Scouts Summer Camp..... 5 Library Trustees...................... 6 United Church of Christ........ 6 Historical Society.................... 7 Friends of the Library............ 7 North Hampton School.......... 8 NHPL Youth Programs........... 9 NHPL Childrens Room.......... 9 National Library Week......... 11 Adult Programs at NHPL..... 12

he Cub Scouts of Pack 162 have been busy having fun! This is the time of year when the boys design, build and paint their Pinewood Derby cars! For many of the scouts and their parents, its the highlight of the scouting year! We never can decide if its more fun building the cars or racing them on Pinewood Derby day! Another highlight is the Blue & Gold Banquet. Scout families gathered at the NHS cafeteria on the evening of Feb 20th for a festive evening of dinner, special ceremonies and birthday cake to celebrate 103 years of scouting and 83 years of cub scouting! Cub Master, Porter Davis, awarded many scouts with special achievements and advancements. We welcomed Jordan Bezio and Owen Kroner onto the scouting trail, as they earned their first advancement, the Bobcat badge! We celebrated with a group of boys who advanced to the rank of Webelo! Congratulations to Chris Bowes, Cam Bowes, Josh Cabral,

Clay Davis, Seth Desilets, Christopher Holden, Isaiah Nazario, Michael ORegan, Liam Perkins and Max Strater! And we celebrated three boys who finished their Cub Scouting trail and crossed over to Boy Scouts. Zachary Klidaras, Gregory Hill and Andrew Higgins each earned Cub Scouts highest award, the Arrow of Light! Afterwards, in a special crossover ceremony, they were welcomed into North Hamptons Boy Scout Troop by Scoutmaster Dick Tharp and Boy Scouts from Troop 162. North Hampton boys can join our pack at any time! If you know a boy who loves adventure, learning new skills, making new friends and fun family activities, invite him to one of our Pack Meetings! We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month in the NHS cafeteria. Please contact Cub Master Porter Davis for more information at Pack162Cubmaster@gmail.com

Next deadline
Tuesday, May 18, 2013
New Boy Scouts Zack, Greg and Andrew on the Crossover Bridge with their Cub Scout Den leader, Mike Higgins and their new leader in Boy Scouts, Scout Master Dick Tharp

contact info
SCHOOL: Jan Scipione, 964-5501 TOWN: Lorreen Keating, 964-6326 or email at youthlib@nhplib.org
The North Hampton Community Newsletter is published four times a year to inform citizens of news of Town Boards, Commissions, Departments, and North Hampton School. Short news items from non-profit groups in town are welcomed and will be included on a space available basis.
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North Hampton Community Newsletter Spring 2013

Conservation Commission Update: Reaching Another Milestone

in preserving the rural character of North Hampton and for protecting the water, wildlife habitat, agricultural, historic and natural resources of our Town. As of this writing, we still have one more major hurdle to overcome, namely the receipt of the Federal Ranchland Protection Program Grant. We remain optimistic that this will become a reality in the near future. We also remain highly motivated to complete this major milestone event for the aesthetic and economic benefits to current and future generations of North Hampton residents. Other activities are ongoing. We are actively pursuing two other major opportunities for preserving additional historic farmlands for conservation acquisitions. While were just beginning to develop plans for pursuing them, were hopeful that at least one transaction will be completed by this summer. Our efforts continue with additional trail clearing and marking for several of conservation parcels in Town. Our maps and descriptive brochures of these trails will be completed within the next several weeks. In addition, we are beginning another phase of effort for improving the water quality of the Little River, with funding from a DES grant for $30,000 and in-kind match of $23,000. This will include several projects for mitigating surface water runoff in the Little River Watershed. Finally, there are several other ongoing projects we will be undertaking to further identify sources of bacterial contamination, such as septic system failures and concentrations of animal wastes, which continue to degrade the rivers water quality. Weve started 2013 with a very busy and challenging schedule and it now appears that well be busy on projects throughout the rest of the year. However, well be sure to keep the public outreach and information programs active so you can track our progress... Thank you for your continued support of our efforts. ~ Chris Ganotis, Chair

ith a resounding 83% of the vote on Article 7 of North Hamptons Town Meeting warrant, we would like tothank you, the residents of North Hamton for your confidence and support of our Conservation Commissions efforts to preserve the pastoral and historic Gov Dale Farm, shown below. It demonstrated that hard work really pays off. We also wish to thank the members of five different town boards/commissions, each of which voted unanimously to support Article 7... truly a rare event in Town government, demonstrating the unity in purpose of the Towns multi-benefits of this important project. We believe this vote was a clear mandate to our Conservation Commission to continue our efforts

North Hampton Bandstand

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he 2013 Summer Bandstand season will open on Wednesday, June 19th, 6:00-8:00, with a local favorite, Jumbo Circus Peanuts.

Mark your calendars and join your friends and neighbors as we kick off the summer season. Band concerts will continue each Wednesday at

6:00. The full season of concerts will be available at a later date on the town web site and the local papers. ~ Delores Chase, Chair Bandstand Operating Committee

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PAL: People Active in Learning

can hear the snow melting and baseball bats cracking. Winters departure is bitter sweet but a new season awaits and PAL is busy preparing for various spring events and planning for the 2013-2014 school year. On March 23 North Hampton girls donned their spring best to attend PALs first ever Glitter Ball dance. It was a night full of energy, friendship and happiness PAL hosted a chess night for interested parents and students on March 25. Steve Schulten, a local chess expert, guided attendees through the basics of the game and provided insight into game strategy. Gary Krinsky brought his entertaining and educational show Toying With Science to the NHS stage this March. Students from kindergarten through 4th grade attended his show centered on simple machines and their roles in our everyday lives The 7th and 8th grade students are preparing for their class trips to New York City and Washington, D.C. after much fundraising work

and planning. PAL is proud to support our students as they participate in these experiences. Safe and happy travels to all! PAL is hosting a spring Scholastic book fair May 3-10. This book fair is an opportunity for students and community members to build on their personal libraries for the coming summer break. PAL is running Original Works as a fundraiser. Students create artwork that is transferred onto various objects such as tote bags, cell phone covers and water bottles! We should see some amazing NHS student art around town this summer! Thank you to all the volunteers and patrons who support PAL with their time and energy. You are the engine of this organization and the fuel. Please join us at any one of our remaining meetings on April 2, May 7 and June 4 at 7:30 in the NHS library and help us reach our goals. ~Justine Pallatroni and Nancy-Jane Luff, PAL Co-chairs

COME OUT TO THE RECYCLING CENTER WITH ALL YOUR RECYCLING ITEMS
Open all year on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8:00am to 5:00pm. The Recycling center is located off Cherry Road.

UPCOMING DATES
Brush DUMP
Opens Saturday, April 6th 8-12pm and 12:30-4:30pm. For your efforts of disposing of your yard and garden waste material, the brush/branches are chipped, and yard waste is composted. The chips and compost are available to residents at no charge.

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BULKY GOODS PICK-UP

Held May 11th, during Recycling Center hours.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL

Held May 18th in Hampton. For additional information, call the Recycling Center (964-9825) or DPW (964-6442).

Girl Scouts Summer Camp Seawood Portsmouth, New Hampshire

FOR GIRLS IN GRADES K-8

Session 1: July 8-19, Session 1A: July 8-12, Session 1B: July 15-19, Session 2: July 22-August 2, Session 2A: July 22-26, Session 2B: July 29-August 2. 9:00am - 4:00pm. Day camp price ranges $180-$350. Bedazzle Daisies Pixie Dust Cookin, Craftin, Craziness Silly Science Sun Catchers Treasure Hunters Art Attack C.S.I. Take the Stage Team Challenge Buddyettes Spa La La

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For More Information about camp visit girlscoutsgwm.org!

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North Hampton Public Library Trustees

he NHPL Trustees and Directors would like to sincerely thank the citizens of North Hampton for their show of support in approving Warrant Article 14 that will raise through taxation the sum $50,000 to be placed in the librarys Capital Reserve Fund. The Capital Reserve Fund was established in 2006 for monies to be held for future construction of a library addition or a new building. The approved warrant article is a small step in our eventual goal of constructing a new library, but a very important immediate step nonetheless. Thank you North Hampton residents! We have recently launched our

Library Building Committee and held our first kick off meeting on February 13, 2013. Committee members will focus on Design & Construction; Marketing & Public Outreach; and Fundraising & Capital Campaigns. After conducting interviews and careful consideration, the Trustees have hired Opus Advisors LLC of Portsmouth, NH to conduct a feasibility study and capital campaign. The feasibility study aims to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of NHPLs fundraising capabilities and ultimately to provide a framework for our capital campaign. In addition, the NHPL

Building Committee has created a Request for Proposal (RFP) for architectural services and have submitted the RFP to five architectural firms. Proposals are due to NHPL by April 3, 2013. Once proposals are received our building committee will begin the process of selecting which architectural firm is the best fit for NHPL. Thank you again for your support of your library! ~Sincerely, The Trustees of the North Hampton Public Library, Kelly Parrot, Chair John Kollmorgen, Treasurer, Susan Leonardi, Secretary

United Church of Christ North Hampton

he United Church of Christ in North Hampton sends a word of gratitude to the many groups that utilize the church for meeting space. We are grateful to host so many that cultivate healthy community! As spring has sprung, we encourage your health through Health and Healing Programs and invite you to participate in the following ongoing programs. Gentle Yoga Mondays from 5-6pm Fitness Group Thursdays from 9-10am Healing Meditation Circle 3rd Wednesdays from 7-8:30pm Should you have questions about these and other programs, you may contact the church at 964.8687.
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In addition to Health and Healing Programs and other regular church programming, UCC, North Hampton will be engaging in an earth stewardship program called Mission 4/1 Earth from April 1 May 19 this spring. As a church, we have been encouraged by our parent denomination to volunteer 1 million hours for earth stewardship, plant 100,000 trees, and write 100,000 letters of advocacy for the environment. We are happy to extend the invitation to all members of the North Hampton community

to green up, power down, and shout out for the environment this spring! If you engage in environmental service, planting trees, or writing letters of advocacy for the earth, please let Rev. Michele Bagby Allan know about it with an email to revallan@uccnorthhampton.com, or a phone call to the church, and she will report your service to those who are adding up the totals. She will also share back with you the accumulated totals from across the United States.

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North Hampton Historical Society

orget your taxes on April 15th and remember the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Just in time for its anniversary, the North Hampton Historical Society will celebrate Reveres later role in our nations history by presenting an illustrated talk by Patrick M. Leehey, Research Director at the Paul Revere House in Boston. Reveres bell and cannon foundry, where our own Town Hall bell was forged, supplied materials for our young nations ships that fought in the War of 1812 and one remarkable vessel that never did, because it was completed too late. Leehey over the past twenty years has written and lectured widely, including at schools, on topics related to Revere, the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras, and the history of Boston in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Come see our Town Hall, just named to the National Register of Historic Places, on Monday, April 15th at 7 pm, and hear USS Constitution, Harbor Fortifications, and the Vessel that Never Fought: Paul Reveres Role in the War of 1812. We expect to have available for sale the newly created North Hampton flag. Anyone with a flag pole will want to see and purchase for $50 this 3 x 5 flag featuring our town seal. Quantities are limited. Pre-orders are being taken by George Chauncey at georgec28@ comcast.net

Friends of the North Hampton Public Library

Then, on Monday, May 20 at the UCC Church, 295 Atlantic Avenue, at 7pm, the Historical Society and NH Humanities Council will offer the program Exemplary Country Estates of New Hampshire. In the early 20th century, the NH Board of Agriculture launched a program to boost the rural economy and promote tourism through the sale of abandoned farms to summer residents. After introducing the country house movement, art historian and independent scholar Cristina Ashjian will focus on some of the great country estates featured in the NH program. Using historic images and texts, Ashjian will cover well-known estates now open to the public including The Fells on Lake Sunapee, The Rocks in Bethlehem, and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish. Ashjian serves as chair of the Moultonborough Heritage Commission. She holds an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and a PhD in Modern Art and Architecture from Northwestern University.

he last few months have been busy for the Friends of the North Hampton Public Library. As we leap into spring time, our 2012 2013 Annual Membership Drive is well underway. Our first mailing went out in December, and for those of you who responded we would like to thank you for your generous donations, and the enthusiastic increase in the number of people attending our bi-monthly meetings. As we prepare for this newsletter, our second mailing will be going home in the Friday folders through North Hampton School and we are planning a third for later in the year. We are currently working closely with North Hampton Public Library on the new building initiative and continuing our support of current library programs. Your generous donations support improving the library facilities, enriching the cultural opportunities of our community and promoting growth for all adults and children of North Hampton. We welcome new ideas and new members on our committee. If you would like to participate, our next scheduled meeting is Monday, May 20 at 6:30 pm at the North Hampton Library. We will be planning a social gathering for the summer months, so please keep an eye out for more information and plan to come be a part of our group! Thank you so much ! ~Kathleen Kilgore, Co-Chair Friends of the NHPL
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North Hampton School Uses Local Resources to Enhance Curricular Studies

ver the past years, all grade levels have found ways to make the most of the resources found in and around our community. This use of human and site resources includes inviting in area experts to share their knowledge with students and teachers, or students and teachers visiting sites beyond the walls, as we say. When we take advantage of the resources that exist in and around our community, our learning becomes grounded in the real world. Within this piece, we will lightly touch on an experience or two of each grade level to give you a sampling of the variety of opportunities provided our students. At this time, we would like to focus on the peoples and places that Fourth Grade accesses to make New Hampshire history and culture come alive and make good use of the science experts in our area! Pre-School The preschool students at North Hampton School participate in two community field trips to explore local resources. These trips support themed curricula throughout the school year and allow preschoolers hands on exploration. Field trips may vary year to year, depending on the themes that students are interested in learning about. Kindergarten There has always been an annual fall trek to Applecrest to learn about tree, apple, and bee cycles of growth. In the spring Kindergarten students visit the North Hampton Police and Fire stations during their unit of community places.
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Grade 1 This winter, first graders collected supplies for The New Hampshire SPCA. The children delivered food, toys, blankets, tennis balls etc. when they visited the Stratham site as a culmination of their study on domestic animals which incorporated social emotional learning and service learning!

Heritage Commission, The Little Boars Head Commission and the Friends of Centennial Hall. Please reference the January 2013 edition of the Community Newsletter for that writing. Grade 4 Focus Grade In an effort to connect local agriculture with grade level life science curriculum, fourth grade is visited each year by a local beekeeper arranged with assistance from the UNH Cooperative Extension. The beekeeper brings her queen and a small portable hive into the classroom. The children are exposed to both the lifecycle and importance of bees and beekeeping as well as to its link to plant life cycles. This is a fantastic example of science coming to life. Another exciting connection that began last year was the fourth grades participation in New Hampshire Fish and Games Trout Release program. Teachers and a parent representative attended the training to learn about operating the fish hatchery. Classrooms obtained 200 trout eggs and were able to monitor the changes from egg to trout. Students were able to use specialized microscopes called pro-scopes to share their observations with the school. In the spring of 2012, students released their 200 raised trout into the Little River. This year students are participating in the program again, adding to the science by taking pH samples of three local rivers to determine the best release spot in the community. For the last two years, students in ~ continued on page 10

Grade 2 Each May, Second Grade heads to our local Shaws supermarket in connection with their nutrition unit in science and money unit in math. They have a guided tour of the facility and then shop carefully for the ingredients for their Healthy Foods Brunch. Grade 3 As we profiled in last falls Community Newsletter, Grade 3 students personally prepared a book about the Seven Wonders of North Hampton with the support of members from the North Hampton

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News from the Childrens Room at the North Hampton Public Library

Programs for Youth at NHPL

April Vacation Week Activities
Having fun at Saturday Stories

pring is here after a long snowy winter! Join us National Library Week (April 14 -20) for the following programs at the Library: On Tuesday, April 16th from 6:00 7:00 p.m., our fourth annual Edible Book Festival on Wednesday, April 17 at 4:00 p.m. will feature a readers theatre presentation by 3rd and 4th graders from North Hampton School. The Youth Department is busy planning summer reading programming for children and teens. Our youth theme this year is Dig into Reading and the teen theme is Beneath the surface. Parents, Liz in Adult Services Department is planning an adult summer reading program too!

STORY TIMES
TWOS TIME WITH MS. STACY Story time for ages 2-4. Thursday Mornings from 10:15-10:45 Spring Session 2013: April 11, 18 (no April 25) and May 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 SATURDAY STORIES: Two Saturdays each month! at 11:00-11:45, Saturday April 6, 20, Saturday May 4th. (last one of Spring) Please sign up to help us plan for Saturday Stories. Registration is required for Story Time but drop-ins are always welcome just call us and let us know you will be joining us.

Picture BINGO For ages 3+. Monday, April 22 1:00- 2:30 p.m. Win books and prizes. No sign up required Movie MVP 2, PG, 87 Min Wednesday, April 24 1-2:30 Bring your own snacks. Children under age 11 must be supervised by a parent or sitter. Make a Kite! Thursday, April 25 10:30 - 12:00 Make a Kono Beetle kite. Ages 6+ Sign up Required. Limited to 15.

KIDS CRAFTS
~Happy Reading Everyone! Ms. Lorreen Keating, Youth Services Librarian Thursday, May 23, 4:00-4:45pm Sign up required.

YOUNG ADULT BOOK GROUP

Grades 7 and up. Thursday, May 23, 7:00pm Thursday, June 13, 7:00pm Kids create art relating to the theme of friends

AMERICAN GIRL
Ages 5 and up. Spring Tea. Coming in May!

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fourth grade have explored through historic accounts, pictures, and literature, the life, activities and economies of the peoples who lived and worked on the Isles of Shoals from the early 1500s to present day. It is a marvelous and intriguing resource that mirrors the development of their own community and New Hampshire in general. The study culminates with a day on the island where students take historic tours, investigate the self-sustaining nature of island living, and experience the beauty of the surroundings through art. Late fall is the perfect time of year to visit one of our seacoasts terrific natural resources, Great Bay Discovery Center. For the past few years fourth grade has kicked off their study of New Hampshire history, politics, and changes in lifestyle and economy by visiting Great Bay. Staff Docents lead the children on focused tours allowing all to experience life as an early Native American, a European settler growing salt marsh hay, a gundalow captain transporting goods over our inland waterway network, and as a more recent hunter/trapper or recreational user of the region. Visiting the Hampton Historical provides fourth grade students yet another continuous glimpse of how seacoast New Hampshires politics and economy has shifted over time. Students view the great barns of North Hamptons not too distant agricultural past. They see the implements used in salt marsh haying and experience what a going to a one room schoolhouse was like. And we see first hand how tourists vacationed here in
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Hampton and North Hampton in the 30s and 40s by squeezing into and authentic beech cottage from years ago. A visit to Strawbery Banke allows students to experience life in seacoast New Hampshire through parts of four centuries. Fourth graders live the life, taking part in a day of both guided tour and focused workshop. Workshops include: hearth cooking, historical architecture, maritime history and archaeology. The annual visit to the UNH Farm exposes fourth grade students to the vast array of agricultural resources present in NH such as dairy farming, beekeeping, logging, maple syrup making, and wool making to name just a few. This day also exposes children to current environmental efforts underway such as storm water control and composting. This is all made possible through the UNH Farm to School Experience. While our visit to the Canterbury NH Shaker Museum is another exposure to yet another New Hampshire lifestyle of years gone by, the primary focus of this field trip is one of science. On this adventure we will be examining the way shakers lived and worked, accomplishing great things using simple machines. Visiting the NH History Museum helps children further understand New Hampshires continually changing political and economic landscape. We are treated to first hand accounts of life in a

mill town, as a passenger aboard a famous Concord Coach, or as a candidate in New Hampshires first in the nation presidential primary. When we visit the Statehouse, we get to see both chambers of our legislature, often visit with the governor and witness in person some the daily activities taking place in our capitol. Grade 5 During their study of germs and the immune system, students are able to swab different areas of the school and grow germs within sterilized petri dishes provided by Portsmouth Hospital. The hospital incubates the dishes for the required time and then Carol Gammon, a microbiologist, comes and presents to the students, sharing what the various germs are and which contain good or healthy germs and which may contain less desired germs. This helps students to understand that germs and bacteria are all around us, all the time. By providing actual supplies and an expert perspective, students are better able to understand how what we are doing in school relates to the real world. In 2013, we introduced a new unit of study that included forensic science. To help extend students understanding we had NH State Trooper Tara Elsemiller come and

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share what is involved with these skills at a state level.

to Mr. Weisshaus speak becomes a personal turning point. Many are overwhelmed with gratitude and Grade 6 admiration for his courage, and A key part of the mission of powerful words about taking Eco-Movement is educating the positive action in the world today. next generation that will inherit this He reminds them that because they planet. - Aka our own Sixth Grade hear his story, they become witwho in turn is educating nesses and with this comes the rest of the school. Through the responsibility to care for othEco- Movements collaborative ers. His visit is sponsored by the work with us, we are composting enrichment money we receive from in the cafeteria each day and come PAL- so, a much deserved thank planting time, we will receive back a you needs to go to the many cubic yard of rich compost for our community members that school garden. make this fundraising happen for our school. Grade 7 Here at school, we feel very A big piece of the seventh grade fortunate that our students social studies curriculum is all learning is constantly enriched by about personal finance and the collective efforts of the whole investing. The students and staff community. These opportunihave been very lucky to have local ties allow students to extend the community members come in to content being presented within share their area of expertise. Steve the classroom or sometimes avail Witt, the president of a local bank themselves of a unique opportuhas come in several times to talk nity to learn something that cannot to our students about how banks make money and how they help the possibly be captured within the walls. Thank you to PAL for their economy. Nancy Beveridge, a local real estate professional has come in financial support of so many local resources and to the community to talk about purchasing homes as members and businesses who an investment in part of our Flip That House unit. The UNH Exten- volunteer time and resources to make our learning real! sion service has been a great liason for science. Laura Bogardus has THANK YOU! come to several We thank you, our community, classrooms to get us involved for supporting the North Hampton in surveying for the Asian School budget articles in the Longhorned Beetele and the recent vote. With your support, Emerald Ash Borer, both of which we will upgrade needed facilities are invasive species to NH. and continue to strive to provide Grade 8 The opportunity to listen to a Holocaust survivor while studying this time period is a gift and, for many students, listening the best education possible for our Pre-School through Grade 8 students. Thank You for being partners in this quest. ~ NHS Board, Students, and Staff

Celebrate National Library Week

uring week of April 14-20th the North Hampton Public Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers. Please join us for the following programs scheduled during the week: Tuesday, April 16, 6-7pm Edible Book Festival View and vote for favorite book-themed and book-related art displays that are also edible! Children and adults from the community will share their creations with you. This event is co-sponsored by the NHPL. Wednesday, April 17, 4pm Readers Theatre Students from grades 3 and 4 from North Hampton School will present stories for your enjoyment. Thursday, April 18, 7pm Spring Poets: Barbara Allen to Blackbird with John Perrault. A musical and poetry program sponsored in conjunction with the New Hampshire Humanities Council. All programs are free and open to the public contact the library at 964-6326 for more information.

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Upcoming Adult Programs at North Hampton Public Library

Genealogical Roadblocks: When the Trail Turns Cold April 11, 6:30 pm Diane Florence Gravel, CGSM will be teaching this class. Diane is a Certified Genealogist, specializing in genealogical research techniques and methodology, with a focus on New Hampshire research. She enjoys sharing her passion for genealogy, and has lectured at state, regional, and national conferences. Diane currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Professional Genealogists, and is Past President of its New England Chapter. She is also Vice President of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists. Diane is co-editor of Volume I of New Hampshire Families in 1790, published in 2007 by the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists, and is currently working on Volume II. The project seeks to document the families of the 1790 census, which enumerated only heads of household. Genealogical Roadblocks: When the Trail Turns Cold is designed to assist the researcher who has exhausted traditional sources, but has been unable to solve a problem. It will explore many sources often overlooked in genealogical research. Among the sources that will be examined are account books, church records, diaries and other manuscripts, newspapers, militia/ military records, town records and
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annual reports, tax records and their role in establishing descent, and other pre-census records. Celebrate National Poetry Month with this special program at North Hampton Public Library! Spring Poets Barbara Allen to Blackbird with John Perrault. A musical journey to PoetryLand a visit with those poems and songs that make us laugh, cry, and remind us who we are. April 18th, 7:00 p.m. Once upon a time, poetry and song were inseparable. Then they quarreled. During the Renaissance they broke up. The separation proved painful for both. Gradually they patched things up, thanks especially to Wordsworth and Coleridge who counseled the reconciliation. They put it all in writing in Lyrical Ballads back in 1798 promising to engage their heart-felt lyrics with the old ballad form. Guitar in hand, former Portsmouth Poet Laureate John Perrault sings the story, beginning with the early English ballad, and working his way through poets from Burns to Dylan, Dickinson to Mary Oliver, in a salute

to the romantic tradition. Sponsored by the North Hampton Public Library in conjunction with the New Hampshire Humanities Council.Everyone is invited to attend this free program. John Perrault is the author of Jeffersons Dream, The Ballad of the Declaration of Independence (Hobblebush Books, 2009); The Ballad of Louis Wagner and other New England Stories in Verse (Peter Randall Publisher, 2003); and Here Comes the Old Man Now (Oyster River Press,2005). He was a co-recipient of the Rosalie Boyle/ Norma Farber Award, 2008, from the New England Poetry Club; a finalist

in the 2007 Comstock Review Poetry Contest; and a past recipient of the Virginia Prize from The Lyric. John was poet laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2003-2005. Sample his poems and ballads at www.johnperrault.com. ~Susan Grant, Director North Hampton Public Library

North Hampton Community Newsletter Spring 2013