These Are the Silliest Street Names in New Hampshire
Have you ever been driving along and you drive by a street with a RIDICULOUS name and you can t help but giggle? I always wonder, who s job is it to name streets?
I swear that some streets are named after inside jokes that people had with their friends. But people have to live on these streets with silly names, poor unfortunate souls!
New Hampshire has to have some of the strangest street names I have ever heard. It was hard to narrow the list but here are my picks (in no particular order):
Ballard Performing Arts Collage Concert presents a musical virtual smorgasbord of nonstop talent
Make it dinner and a show with a Tom Douglas Dinner Box to go
Thu, 01/14/2021
The Ballard High School music program has been busy recording and mixing a virtual concert that showcases over a dozen ensembles in a wide variety of styles and that promises to offer a little something for everyone. The free performance airs online Friday, January 22 at 7 p.m.
“It will be a nonstop evening featuring an incredible range of performances from our music ensembles,“ says Courtney Rowley, director of choirs.
Enjoy dinner and a show Those wishing to enjoy a restaurant meal with the concert can purchase a takeout dinner box ($55, serves 2) from Tom Douglas Restaurants, and a portion of proceeds benefits the performing arts program at Ballard High School. The restaurant partnership has been a popular element of Ballard High School virtual performances since its inception last fall with t
New book traces Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe’s musical legacy
By Brad Barker
Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe was a trailblazer.
Back in the early 1940s, Lowe took on the male-dominated music business and composed two songs for Frank Sinatra, the first of which helped launch the singer’s career.
Lowe wrote
I’ll Never Smile Again in 1940, and it became an instant hit when Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra recorded the song with vocals by a young Sinatra. The song has since become a standard, and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982.
In 1943, Lowe teamed up with Paul Mann and Stephan Weiss to write
M.E. (Davis Smart) Miller (English Education, ’70; English, ’73) recently donated a treasure trove of vintage popular and classical sheet music, books, and trade magazines dating back as far as the 1860s and up through the mid-1970s to the Louisiana Tech University School of Music.
This donation of over 1,300 items is now housed in the department of University Archives and Special Collections in Prescott Memorial Library. The collection features a wide range of music genres, including ragtime, vaudeville tunes, country and western, film music, jazz and the blues, patriotic music and war songs, Broadway classics (with a particularly large collection of works by Irving Berlin), and novelty tunes, such as “Oh! I Love No One But’er My Oleomargarine” (Gaskill and Leslie, 1926). Included among the donated items are very early editions of popular tunes appropriate for this time of year, such as “White Christmas” (Irving Berlin, 1942) and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”