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a Everyone knows that Paul Revere rode to Concord Massachusetts to warn the militia of the approaching redcoats leading to the "shot heard around the world."  As children we learned these truths in school and summer travels with the family  visiting battlefields, historic sites  x x x x x x  The heroic response commemorated every year .... with reenactments  x x x pic/s patriot's day reenactment/s use one showing both sides  Last month, on April 19 Mass celebrated their Patriot’s Day  Honoring event/s of April 18 and 19, 1775 threat of redcoats While may be patriotic, not good history  Honor actually belongs to NH  Mass pr and propaganda  Major Mass mistakes  Before Paul Revere’s midnight ride and the battle of Lexington and Concord  Celebrating April 18, 1775 And the battle shot heard round the world  Dec 13, 1774 He rode to Portsmouth NH There were important revolutionary events that occurred in NH leading to the first m...

If you see this type of "blonding" on your tree, you can kiss your ash goodbye.  This is what is going on beneath the bark. Yesterday I attended an interesting program on the Emerald Ash Borer and increasing damage to other trees presented by Wendy Scribner at the Freedom NH public library.  Tonight there was a program on successful big trees at the Conway Public Library presented by David Govatski. More on that later in this blog and in a future blog    Wendy covered how to id ash trees and the evidence of damage done by the Emerald Ash Borer. She also covered ways to manage the problem. In some cases this is being done with introducing good bugs to kill the bad bugs.  Last year the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room was involved in exhibits and outreach programs in which we covered the role of ash in making baskets, dog sleds and Windsor chairs. We offer these programs for free to local schools and community groups.  You can see a previous blog o...