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My wife and I just returned from New Hampshire, and herewith a few pictures.

We stopped in Northampton at the Green Street Cafe, which is, believe it or not, located on Green Street in that fair city. The owners are currently engaged in a David and Goliath battle with Smith College, from whom the apparently lease space, and who wants that space to build a new facility. You can read all about it at their blog, which you can reach from the link above. Anyway, the food was good, as were the murals. It took me a while to realize that this one is slightly sacrilegious.

If you don’t see it, think Leonardo.

We stopped briefly in Brattleboro, where I noticed this apparently lovingly restored ad from a bygone era.

We proceeded on to Keene, where, as I said in a previous post, we were meeting friends and going to see a Little Feat concert. As I said before, I had heard of them but couldn’t name a single song they’d done. Turns out I did indeed choose their most popular song for Friday Night Music, Dixie Chicken, which was their encore song. I was interested to learn that one of their now deceased founders penned a song that Seatrain performed (I’m Willin) a song laden with drug references that got him thrown out of the Mothers of Invention, where Frank Zappa apparently ran a drug free ship. The band also adopted Don’t Bogart that Joint, which it recorded in the ’70s. Here they are in all their glory.

A word about Keene, New Hampshire. The concert was in the Colonial Theater, the interior depicted below.

It’s a beautiful theater, apparently recently restored, and it brought to mind the Capitol Theatre in New London, which has been vacant and unused at least as long as I’ve lived in this area (going on 35 years). It’s my understanding that the Capitol was a great theatre, now sadly deteriorating under the weight of decades of pigeon droppings. If they can do it in Keene, why can’t we do it here?

No trip to a small New England town is complete without a picture of the town green and/or white steepled church, so here it is. (For reasons I cannot explain, my blog editor would not upload this picture, so I had to do it using WordPress, hence the small size. It will enlarge if you click on it)