#ConcordNH #HandsOff rally!

Crowds gather in Concord, other New Hampshire communities for 'Hands Off!' rallies

https://www.wmur.com/article/hands-off-rallies-new-hampshire-4525/64395338
#NewHampshireResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism

From 603 Equality on Instagram:

Show up tell your state representatives & state senator:
No bathroom ban!
No forced outing!
Stop controlling our bodies & lives!

Thursday March 20th
8:30 AM-10 AM
outside NH State House Concord, NH

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHUSguvBwl2

Heaven 17, The Luxury Gap, 1983 on Virgin

Heaven 17 included Martyn Ware and Ian Criag Marsh who had been founding members of The Human League – Glenn Gregory took the place of Philip Oakey to make Heaven 17.

This was their second studio album (and best selling album) – with the single “Temptation” being the best known hit.

My copy, via Pitchfork Records in Concord NH, is a UK pressing from CBS’s Aston Clinton plant. (The US release was on Arista and has a different track list).

#1980s #1983 #ConcordNH #GlennGregory #Heaven17 #HumanLeague #IanCraigMarsh #MartynWare #NewWave #PitchforkRecords #SynthPop #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #Virgin

Steve Earle, Guitar Town, 1986 on MCA Records

Earle’s debut album from the mid-eighties – note the proud “Digital Recording” stamp on the cover (where now you’d see “All Analog” promoted). Topped the country charts, and the title single made #7 on the country singles charts.

I think Earle’s really matured into a wonderful elder statesman of a certain kind of roots / Americana that is bigger than just country or rock charts – but you can see his strengths even through some of the 80s production. Here the label’s presenting him as some kind of John Cougar / Bruce Springsteen manque.

My copy via Pitchfork Records in Concord NH

#1980s #1986 #7_ #Americana #ConcordNH #Country #MCARecords #PitchforkRecords #Rock #Roots #SteveEarle #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

From @603.equality on Instagram and bsky:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DF-Q-eOR6cj/

https://bsky.app/profile/603equality.bsky.social/post/3lhyb4zxc6s2f

We have 3 nearly identical bathroom bans to defeat this year. These bills control the bodies + lives of transgender, non-binary, + anyone who’s seen as gender nonconforming. If we can’t use the bathroom in our workplaces + all the places we need to go, we are pushed out of public life.

Sign in to publicly show lawmakers where you stand, and testify in front of the committee if you can!

Sign in here: https://gc.nh.gov/remotecommittee/senate.aspx

So, the line is almost around the streetcorner for tonight's event with Jodi Picoult at the Capitol Center for the Arts... I keep thinking she'd make a great political candidate, as an author whose books have been GOP targets for banning, but unfortunately whenever I'd ask her on the previous site, I could never get her interested...
#NewHampshire #ConcordNH

hiking • railtrails • reviews • maps

Oak Hill & Knowlton Forest, Concord NH
3-4 2.9-4.7 mile options • Easy difficulty
https://www.trailspotting.com/2021/09/oak-hill-tower-trail.html

Why is it when I'm just about to wind down for bed, the Earth decides, "Hey, why don't we send you a little bitty 2.7 earthquake for Christmas so you don't sleep on the day before you're supposed to travel because you're gonna be so wound up reading up about how earthquakes are measured because it's going to be your new special interest for the next 24 hours.... As a treat!" and now I can't sleep because I'm too busy reading about earthquakes.

Concord Area Transit (my local public transportation) appears to have gone fare-free while I wasn't paying attention; bus driver isn't making any of us pay... so that's cool! #ConcordNH

I'm not really sure how many New Hampshire arts people I'm connected via the Fediverse, but I recently found out that there's going to be an arts and crafts centric thrift store moving into where the old CVS used to be in downtown Concord, and I'm absolutely obsessed with this idea and feels like there should be more of this everywhere.

They're taking donations and should be open by the end of the month according to their Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/DIYCraftandThrift

New historical marker for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was unveiled here in Concord today! #ConcordNH #MayDay #NHPolitics

Quiet forest park in the hills close to New Hampshire's capital city: Winant Park, Concord NH .. https://www.trailspotting.com/2023/01/winant-park-concord-nh.html

3-star hikes • 2-3 mile options • Easy difficulty • Gain 270-320 feet.