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By DAVID ALLEN

Medals earned and memories made!

I headed down to Norway Pond in Hancock to watch a group of people race around a course, two to a canoe – one in the bow, blindfolded, with a paddle, and one in the stern, giving directions.

By DAVID ALLEN

Telling someone to “Look where you’re going,” wouldn’t have done much good Monday evening in Hancock, where paddlers were forbidden from doing so while taking to the water on Norway Pond for a good cause. The Blindfolded Boat Race to benefit Avenue A in Antrim pushed off just after 6 p.m., and after five preliminary heats and a final dash around the course, entrants helped raise over $8,000 for youth programs run through the Grapevine in Antrim. And nobody flipped into the pond. 

Avenue A’s third annual Blindfolded Boat Race will take place Monday, June 9, at 6:15 p.m. at Norway Pond in Hancock, with a rain date of June 10. The two-person canoe race features one blindfolded paddler and a rear navigator who shouts directions through a loop course that begins and ends at the town beach.

Reading “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé roughly 33 years ago informed me of the dire environmental consequences of eating a meat-based diet and ignited my journey to a plant-centered diet.

The lights are on, and the door is open again at the Hancock Market, after a pause of several weeks for improvements by the new owners.

By DAVID ALLEN

Wild turkeys can cross local roads in such a casual manner that they give the impression of indifference to cars and having always been in these parts, but Mark Ellingwood assures that this is not the case.

Monadnock Community Hospital hosted its annual Emergency Medical Services  Recognition Dinner on Wednesday, May 21 at the Monadnock Country Club, bringing together emergency medical personnel from across the region to acknowledge their contributions to patient care and community safety.

Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St., will host “Collaboration: Photography and Painting,” an exhibit featuring Hancock artists Mary Ball and Jean Mann, from May 31 to June 25. An opening reception will be held in the Daniels Room on Sunday, June 8, from 4 to 6 p.m.

My first memorable foray above treeline was a visit to Colorado in the mid-1990s. My uncle, a true wildman, picked pre-teen me up at the Denver airport and drove directly to the top of Mount Blue Sky (then called Mount Evans) at 14,272 feet.

The Hancock Historical Society will hold its spring plant and bake sale Saturday, May 24, from 8 a.m. to noon at 7 Main St., Hancock.

The American Red Cross has scheduled the following local blood drives:

Novelists Dawn Reno Langley and S.M. Stevens will appear at the Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St., on Wednesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. to discuss their latest works. The event is free and open to all.

A 13-year commemorative period honoring those who served in the Vietnam War winds down this year It will end Nov. 11, Veterans Day

By DAVID ALLEN

Three residents of Hancock will help the town decide whether to consolidate its police force with neighboring communities.

Wildlife biologist Mark Ellingwood will present “Let’s Talk Wild Turkeys in New Hampshire” on Thursday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at the Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St.

I had the pleasure of speaking at a vegan potluck tasting last month at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Milford. It was my first “potluck” of this sort, and it turned out to be a great way to spend an evening.

By DAVID ALLEN

People in the region took steps toward reducing food insecurity by participating in the Monadnock Hunger Walk Saturday.

I have seen the “Mona Lisa” and, just downstairs from her, visited the Venus de Milo, two extraordinary women attracting millions of people every year to their home in the Louvre.

Three or More Poets will host the annual poetry gathering on Saturday, April 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Daniels Room at the back of the Hancock Town Library, 25 Main St. in Hancock.

This spring, billions of migratory birds are working their way back to their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada, and they need your help. If this familiar mantra falls flat, perhaps consider doing so for your own health and well-being.