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More Catholic Churches Decide to Merge

By Mark Bevis on Monday, July 10, 2006.

New Hampshire's Catholic Diocese has announced that three Roman Catholic parishes in Portsmouth have merged.

Saint James Church, Immaculate Conception, and Saint Catherine of Siena are now known as Corpus Christi parish.

All three churches will stay open for now, with Sunday Masses at all three.

This recent development is just the latest in a series of mergers across the Diocese.

Last Month, several churches in the Monadnock region announced they would merge, and earlier this spring three parishes in the Plymouth area decided to join together.

All this consolidation is the result of a planning process that organized the state's 117 Catholic parishes into 31 clusters.

Priests and lay people within those clusters were then given the task of deciding the best way for their churches to meet the church's goals.

Father Robert Gorski is Director of the Diocese Long Range Planning Commission.

He described the diocese situation to NHPR's Mark Bevis.

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Front Porch Summer Arts Series

Front Porch Summer Arts Series
The Front Porch has always been the place on the radio for in-depth conversations about the rich arts and culture scene in New Hampshire. This Summer, we're expanding that coverage with our Front Porch Summer Arts Series.

New Hampshire residents have many opportunities in the coming months to enjoy some of the best work the arts community has to offer. Local and regional writers and performers are gearing up for a vibrant season, and artists from around the world are visiting the state to bring new sounds and ideas to our area.

The Front Porch Summer Arts Series keeps listeners plugged in with in-studio performances and conversations with some of the most respected thinkers and creators around. Join us weeknights at 6:30pm on New Hampshire Public Radio, and check out our website to keep abreast of upcoming performances and events around the state.

The Summer Arts Series is supported by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts.




Programs:

Country Musician Liz Carlisle: As part of The Front Porch Summer Arts Series, singer songwriter Liz Carlisle will sing and play in the studio with some backup help. Liz is a Montana-based country singer who's been compared to Ani De Franco, Dar Williams and Faith Hill. She's 22 and has a 2006 summa cum laude degree from Harvard, a new CD, and she'll be playing at Tupelo Music Hall on September 1st.

Cellist Kristen Miller: Cellist Kristen Miller has taken it upon herself to re-define her instrument. She wants it to be associated with more genres than just traditional Classical music. Her work is a mix of heavily-layered compositions of folk, rock and world music, and it's often accompanied by her spoken poetry. She'll join us for an in-studio performance as part of our Front Porch Summer Arts Series.

Trio Encompas: The Jazz group "Trio Encompas" describes its sound as energy-driven avant groove jazz. Jonathan Blakeslee, Mike Walsh, and Thom Keith make up the trio and do time on stand-up bass, drums, and saxophone respectively. As part of the Front Porch Summer Arts Series, the three Seacoast jazzmen will play in the NHPR studios and talk about the development of their sound and their place in the world of Jazz.

Two Great Operas: We look at two different operas today, a very funny work by British composer Benjamin Britten and some more traditional work by one of opera's favorite sons, Giuseppe Verdi. Opera North is in the midst of a production of Benjamin Britten's opera called Albert Herring, and in tandem with that, a production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore." We'll talk about the beautiful but demanding works with Opera North's Director of Productions Ron Lukinger and Artistic Director Louis Burkot.

Singer/Songwriter Catie Curtis: Boston-based Catie Curtis has become a regular fixture at the biggest folk festivals in the Northeast and throughout the country. Her new CD "Long Night Moon" is the first recording she's made since adopting two children. She'll play in the studio and talk about the effect being a parent has on her music and about the impressive mix of musicians she's got behind the new work.

More Summer Arts Series programs...
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Such a Deal!

By Shay Zeller on Monday, July 10, 2006.

New Hampshire has the highest concentration of antique shops for its size than any other state in the nation. And that means our culture of auctioneering is especially dynamic. We're going to explore ways the Granite State is a model for bidders around the country with The Gavel editor Kathy Greer and professional auctioneer George Foster of Epsom, New Hampshire, and we'll crash one of New England's biggest wholesale antique shows, with Bob Wyss, the author of Brimfield Rush.

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Childhood Web Dangers (Best of The Exchange)

By Laura Knoy on Monday, July 10, 2006.

Blogs, chat rooms, online journals, picture posting sites…the list of places children and teenagers visit on the Web is endless. Young people may share personal details of their lives with their computers, but not necessarily their parents. We’ll explore the dangers teens and preteens face on the Internet and learn what precautions educators, parents and adolescents take to help prevent Internet crimes and tragedies. Laura's guests are Brad Russ, Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Kim Lavoie, Secondary Vice-President of the New Hampshire School Counselor Association and Counselor at Nute Middle High School in Milton.

*This show originally aired on 2/10/06*

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