Squamscott Soundings

Some Participating Vendors:

Fellow Strathamites,

The Stratham Fair needs your help. This year the Fair is from Thursday July 21st until Sunday July 24th. We are looking for help in the Admissions booths (Jack Rabbit Lane Entrance and the gate at the paved parking lot).

Each booth needs two workers for each shift. The shifts are 8 a.m. to noon, noon to 3 p.m., 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. There are several shifts that need filling. If you are willing to help out please e-mail or call Patty Lovejoy at pjlovejoy at comcast dot net or 778-9662.

The net proceeds from the Stratham Fair are used to support the Stratham Volunteer Fire Department that benefits all of us who live in Stratham.

Thank you,

Patty Lovejoy

Looking for a new place to take a little stroll? I hadn’t walked the Piscassic Greenway in Newfields until last month. These pictures were taken around Columbus Day so the foliage was considerably nicer than it is post-Thanksgiving. The small parking lot is maybe a half-mile or so up Bald Hill Rd. off of Rt 87.

I’ve wondered for quite a while what all the metal cabling is in the woods at Sandy Point (I refuse to call it the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve or any of its other ugly new names).

But now I notice – I think they’re recent but I could be wrong -  a series of little ‘nooses’.

It looks like they’re going to hang Tinker Bell and her little fairy friends. Anybody know what all the heavy metal is really used for in a nature reserve? Some kind of training?

A number of smart and frugal locals took to the cheap nosebleed seats to watch the Blue Angels this weekend. Climbing up Stratham Hill a little before 3 on Sunday we found premium fire tower space already in high demand. Wonder if the engineers who built it took air shows into account when calculating its strength.

The crowd grew to somewhere between 50 and 100 as the Blue Angels demo began.

Most of the action seemed to favor Great Bay.

But mid-show they did appear to circle the area once, pleasing the assembly.

It wasn’t like being on the tarmac; but it wasn’t like being in traffic for three hours either.

Hopefully the sun will be back in time for the weekly Exeter Farmer’s Market on Thursday afternoon. So head on over to Swasey Parkway to pick up some fresh veggies and other local produce. When we were there two weeks ago there were more vendors than I had ever seen before.

But – a word of warning – the peaceful scene has been infiltrated by visitors of uncertain intention. So you might want to bring along a ray gun.

Well, it’s been almost a year but we’ve finally moved most of the info on the old web page over to the new format. There are separate pages now for food, shopping and local info. Wonder how much of it is out-of-date?

The previous squamscott.com site is being upgraded to be more usable and interesting (hopefully).

If you’d like to go to the prior site to find your favorite links in the Exeter/Newfields/Stratham area,

please click here.