To Our Readers

This week, we at The Granite State Sentinel bring you a very special edition.
In recognition of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we have compiled an 8-page editorial feature commemorating this anniversary. Staff reporters have covered stories that are both close to home, as well as national in scale, paying tribute to America’s loss ten years ago and its rebirth in the wake of those tragedies.
The memorial section also includes photos, information regarding educational resources, and a special events section to keep you informed of local, regional, national and televised programs that are taking place during this solemn anniversary.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this special issue. We are proud to bring it to your community, and we appreciate your taking the time to remember with us.
Sincerely,
The Staff at The Granite State Sentinel
Note: This section can be downloaded as a PDF on our web site. Additionally, photos taken by Molly McCoy during her trip to the 9-11 Memorial in NYC, can be viewed at this link: https://picasaweb.google.com/116758352106429291735/MollySTripToNYC?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Photo caption: The National September 11 Memorial in New York City is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the Center bombing in February 1993. The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools, which sit in the footprints of the Twin Towers, are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest man-made waterfalls in the North America. (Artist’s rendering courtesy of www.911memorial.org)

Children’s Museum Exhibits Work of McPhail

DOVER—
Celebrating children’s literature, Gallery 6 at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is presenting an exhibit featuring the whimsical work of New Hampshire author and illustrator David McPhail. This new show, David McPhail: Looking Back … and Beyond, opens September 17 and will be on exhibit until the end of the year.
Recognized as one of the most influential and prolific children’s writers in the country, David McPhail has been a passionate artist since the age of two. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and began illustrating books for children in 1972. Since then, he’s created over 75 books, including the celebrated Mole Music, which was a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
This fall, visitors to Gallery 6 will get a glimpse into David’s creative process from his first experiments with simple ideas and drawings, to more refined sketches and preliminary dummy books, culminating in finished artwork that brings David’s animal characters to life. Children and adults will enjoy meeting Henry Bear, Waddles the Raccoon, Emily Duck, Budgie & Boo and the characters from David’s newest book, Abandoned Lighthouse, coming out this fall.
As a special treat, David McPhail will be conducting a mini-workshop as part of the Children’s Museum’s Annual Birthday Celebration on Sunday, September 25 at 1:30 p.m. He looks forward to meeting with visitors of all ages to talk about his creative process, doig some drawing with children, and answering questions about being an artist. This mini-workshop is included in paid admission to the museum.
The “David McPhail: Looking Back… and Beyond” exhibit in Gallery 6 can be viewed during regular business hours at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday noon – 5 p.m. No admission fee is required to view the gallery only. Regular admission applies for families who wish to explore the rest of the museum.
Photo caption: Henry Bear, a character created by author/illustrator David McPhail, is just one of the charming children’s book characters featured in a new exhibit of McPhail’s work at the Children’s Museum of NH this fall. (Courtesy photo)

NH Fish and Lobster Festival to Celebrate 400 Years of Local Seafood

PORTSMOUTH—
The uniquely local New Hampshire Fish and Lobster Festival will return Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, from noon to 4 p.m. at Prescott Park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Admission is free, with seafood tastings available for $4 each. Support for the event is provided by sponsor Smuttynose Brewing Company.
The largest festival focused on local food in New Hampshire comes together once again in Prescott Park along the working waterfront where residents of all ages will have the opportunity to learn, explore and celebrate our community-based local fishing fleet and its fresh, healthy harvest. Through activities and delicious tastings of a wide variety of locally landed species, “Fishtival” will educate residents and visitors about local seafood resources and support and honor local fishermen by bringing fun and fish together.
Visitors are invited to walk the decks of a local fishing boat, taste freshly landed local seafood prepared by beloved Seacoast chefs, learn to identify and prepare local fish, watch a chef’s cook-off competition, investigate the Gulf of Maine ecosystem, meet local fishermen, and create one of a kind fish print t-shirts to wear. An exciting collaboration with the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival will feature their performances woven throughout the event.
The event is a true community collaboration. Numerous environmental, heritage and cultural non-profits participate alongside working fishermen, and restaurants and markets to bring this event to our working waterfront. Activities will be hosted by the Northeast Consortium, Blue Ocean Society, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth Historic House Associates, Gundalow Company, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, UNH Slow Food, NH Coastal Protection Partnership, and UNH Marine Docents, among others.
To highlight the diversity and quality of the local fishing industry, chefs from restaurants, markets and culinary programs across the region will prepare creative, delicious samplings fresh from local boats. Each participating chef will be assigned, by lottery, a different locally-caught seafood species to prepare and serve. For a nominal fee ($4 for fish and oysters, $8 for lobsters) celebration attendees can taste each of the species and the unique preparations.
Tastings will be prepared by chefs from 100 Club, Black Trumpet, The Blue Mermaid, Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish Cafe, Little Bay Oyster Company, The Old Salt, Portsmouth Brewery, Seaport Fish, Philbrick’s Fresh Market, Portsmouth Lobster Company, 106 Kitchen and Bar, and Hebert Brothers Seafood, among others.
Also during the afternoon, there will be opportunities to meet a lobster, or interact with two touch tanks worth of seafood animals. Aboard fishing vessels, captains will show how they bring in their haul; on land, listen to different talks about the aspects of the fishing industry, including innovations and sustainability in the industry, and watch first-hand the art of net building. Local fishmongers will show how to process several species of whole fresh fish, and share fish selection and preparation tips.
And for the third year, the festival features an exciting celebrity chef Seafood Cook-off where the defending champ Susan Tuveson defends her title against a new challenger.
Smuttynose Brewing Company, the Seacoast’s uniquely local and award-winning craft brewery, is the festival sponsor. The NH Fish and Lobster Festival is produced by a variety of community organizations and businesses collaborating to support the local fishing industry. Seacoast Local and Prescott Park Arts Festival co-host the event in collaboration with local fishermen (NH Sectors, Commercial Fishermen’s Association and Granite State FISH) and local food advocates, including Seacoast Eat Local and Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. Grant funding is provided by UNH Sea Grant, and generous in-kind support is provided by Seaport Fish Market, participating restaurants, educational non-profits, and Seacoast Growers’ Association.
More information about Fishtival is available at www.fishtival.org. To find out more information about the movement to support New Hampshire’s local fishing industry, visit our event partners at www.nhseafood.com, www.granitestatefish.org, and www.nhfishsectors.org.