Congratualtions to Riley Tebbetts, of Gilmanton Iron Works, NH and
the Class of 2016 at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts, who
has achieved Dean’s High Honors for the just completed spring term.
In order to be included in the Dean’s List, a student must maintain
a minimum grade point average of 3.2 for at least 12 credit-hours
and receive no grade below a C+ during the semester. A student who
earns a grade point average of 3.6 or higher is awarded Dean’s High
Honors.
Letter To The Editor
Lew Henry has an unhealthy obsession with the Tea Party. The Tea
Party (Taxed Enough Already) is made up of Americans who are tired
of being over-taxed and excessive government intrusion. The Tea
Party members I have met and talked to are good, hard-working people
who love America and the life that we have been blessed with. They
are not racists or criminals. Yet Democrats, like Lew Henry, are
threatened by them. The members of the TEA Party are regular people
like you and me, who are the targets of childish name calling by
people like Lew Henry. The answer is quite easy to explain.
Lew Henry, like Barack Obama, is a disciple of Sal Alinsky. Alinsky
was from Chicago and despised the American way of life. His goal was
to destroy America as we know it. His Utopia was a Socialist
America. Nearly all Democrats, including Anne Custer, Carol
Shea-Porter, and Jeanne Shaheen adhere to the same socialist goal
for this country.
In his book, “Rules for Radicals,” (Formally titled “Rules for
Revolution.”) Alinsky admonishes his disciples to tear down the
Republic of America from within. One of his tactics is to “demonize”
those he considers his opponents.
Lew Henry considers good, hard-working Americans as his opponents.
This is why his letters to newspapers are focused on trashing the
TEA Party. They have done nothing to him, but he is compelled to
attack good, hard-working Americans because he is stuck in Democrat
partisan politics, rather than what is best for America. Alinsky’s
disciples like Lew Henry, Lucy Edwards, and Nancy Heath resort to
calling Supreme Court justices “Chauvinist pigs,” demonizing the
Judeo-Christian faith, and pushing their socialist agendas through
government legislatures.
Maybe one day Lew Henry and others like him will mature to better
behavior toward their fellow citizens.
Rick Lucas
Gilmanton
Stockwell Scholarship Awarded
On June 12, 2014, President Raelyn Cottrell of the
Ellis-Geddes-Levitt, Gilmanton Unit #102 of the American Legion
Auxiliary awarded the Unit’s Stockwell Scholarship to Ceara
Connelly. The Scholarship is awarded annually by the Auxiliary to a
Gilmanton student graduating Gilford High School and pursuing
further education. Ms. Connelly’s award-winning essay, What It
Means to be an American, was chosen from among the applying senior
submissions. The Auxiliary’s purpose is to Further Americanism and
support Veterans, Military, Their Families and Their Community.
This annual award encourages students to consider the importance of
contributions to the community and society.
What It Means to be an American
Ceara Connelly
When talking about what it means to be an American, I feel as though
we take the phrase too lightly. Being an American is being free to
do, dream, live, speak, pray and possess an endless amount of
opportunity. Simply having the ability to express our own opinion on
what being an American is a privilege others can only dream of.
Being an American is the ability to say the Pledge of Allegiance, or
choosing not to; choosing to go to church, or even something as
minuscule as what to eat that day. Regardless of skin color, gender
or beliefs everyone gets the same privileges and opportunities.
Everyone has the ability to create their own “American dream” and
work to achieve it. Living in the United States opens more doors
than anywhere else on the planet. You could move to Florida or
Hawaii and live an endless summer or move to northern Maine and
rough it in moose country. You could live in a busy city or the
quiet country; you could work in a small local store or a world
class business firm. Most importantly you could become the President
or any part of Government. If you don’t have interest in that you
can at least participate in your Government by voting. Voting gives
opportunity to put your opinion and voice into action to change your
Government. Voting also prevents from Government corruption and
tyranny. I think it’s important to be involved and give back to a
country that allows you to live life to the fullest. Being an
American is having power, the power to create your own life and
pursue your own happiness. Some people take being an American very
seriously and with a lot of pride. Others fail to recognize it and
don’t see it as significant, but having that choice is exactly what
being an American is all about.
Gilmanton Historical Society Leads
Local History Tour for Elementary Students
Through the looking glass into the
past, students
inspect artifacts from their community.
On May 29th the Gilmanton Historical Society presented a guided tour
of the town to the Gilmanton School Fourth grade class. The trip
was enormously successful and is expected to become a regular part
of the NH history curricula at GES.
Historical Society President, John Dickey led the tour which began
at the Old Town Hall site of the Gilmanton Museum in the Iron Works
and continued with visits to various historical sites throughout
town.
The following article was written by student Karina MacLeod, about
two points of interest along the tour.
Once the town of Gilmanton had many schoolhouses, eighteen to be
exact. One schoolhouse, by the name of Loon Pond School, has been
restored to its original condition. We learned what it was like to
go to school back then. The children would quickly run inside when
the school bell rang. They would take their lunchboxes of wood and
metal and place them on the shelf in the coat room. The children
would sit two to a seat in rows according to their ages. The teacher
would ring the attention bell and class would begin. The children
being equipped with slates and chalk would practice writing and math
and reading with posters with sentences on them called guides. At
music time, the teacher would play the piano and the children would
sing along. The children would have lunch and recess and then they
would repeat math, writing and reading before walking home.
The Town Hall today is used for meetings, voting, licenses and other
things. Many people don’t know its history and may not know when
and why it was built. In 1784, the Academy, as it was called back
then, was built. Ten years after the Academy was built, it was
destroyed by fire. The Academy was rebuilt in 1797, only to catch on
fire again in 1807. The town loved the Academy and they had it
rebuilt in 1808. Ninety nine years later, three months before its
100th anniversary, the Academy had a play to celebrate the occasion.
During the play, one of the oil lamps fell and ignited a fire. The
townspeople thought they had put out the fire and cleaned up the
oil, but they didn’t. For some oil had crept under the stage. After
the play everyone went home and went to sleep. Near midnight, the
Academy caught on fire again and by the time everyone got there, the
flames had burned their beloved Academy to the ground. The town
loved their Academy and yet again, they rebuilt it nine months after
this tragedy. In 1910, the Academy closed till 1920 when it became a
public school by the name of Corner School. It taught lessons until
the present day Gilmanton School opened and it became as we call it
today, Town Hall.
We hope Karina’s article will inspire children and families to come
explore the museum. Summer hours are Saturday’s from 10-12
Letter To The Editor
“WHEW!”
NH Legislative Candidate Nancy Heath’s recent published screed about
a US Supreme Court decision begs the question: Does this candidate
have the temperment to be a Legislator?
I suppose that all of us have a bad day sometimes. But Ms. Heath’s
reactive hysterical repeated name-calling characterization of United
States Supreme Court Justices does nothing to advance public policy
nor public understanding. Furthermore, would persons of the ilk of
Ms. Heath tolerate published characterizations similarly
inappropriate and unacceptable if they were aimed at, say, “people
who are often in error, but never in doubt”? (We won’t even go into
Ms. Heath branding repeatedly in her letter a group of people whom
she does not know as “pigs” and repeatedly mocking their religious
affiliations. Aren’t fat jokes and stereotypes politically
incorrect to the Statists, and therefore verboten?).
By the way, does anybody notice that Ms. Heath’s nonsensical rant
attempts to address a US Supreme Court ruling which denies NO RIGHTS
TO ANYBODY. Everybody who wishes to can continue to freely purchase
abortion pills, just as before. The Court’s narrow ruling simply
prevents The Government from FORCING payments for Other People’s
abortions by people who do not wish to do so.
Freedom always has been frightening to Statists.
Michael Harris
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