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Artful Living welcomes Ceara Hunt, Proprietor of Postage Stamp Soap Company. Family owned and based right here in Northwood, NH, Postage Stamp Soap specializes in artisan cold processed soap and specialty face and body products. Jane and Ceara have a delightful time in this Artful Living segment!

The 90th Annual League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Fair will be held from Saturday, August 3 through Sunday, August 13 at the Mount Sunapee Resort in Newbury, NH. The Executive Director of the League, Miriam Carter, joined us to feature all there is to explore at the country’s longest-running craft fair.

For more information, log onto www.nhcrafts.org!

This week on Facing the Future, we turn once again to the expertise of David Lerman, editor of CQ Budget Tracker, for a breakdown on the current breakdown in Congress when it comes to passing bills to fund the government. The clock is ticking towards the end of the current fiscal year on September 30th and if nothing is passed, the federal government would go into a partial shutdown. The Senate has passed all 12 appropriations bills out of committee with a strong bipartisan vote (for the first time in a dozen years), but the House is not able to come to consensus. Hard right members are seeking deeper spending cuts than the caps set in the bipartisan debt limit deal between Speaker McCarthy and President Biden.

Musical theater was the topic of the day as Bryan Halperin was our guest. Bryan is one of the founder of the Powerhouse Theater Collaborative and their next production is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic, “The Sound of Music."

The hills will be alive at the Colonial Theater in downtown Laconia from August 11-13! Tickets are available at www.coloniallaconia.com

Acting Commissioner D. J. Bettencourt joined us for our monthly conversation with the New Hampshire Insurance Department. The discussion was timely as we talked about flood insurance (www.floodsmart.gov) and legislation signed into law recently in New Hampshire regarding pet insurance.

Jane is joined by Monica Sawyer of Sawyer Farms. Monica tells us all about Sawyer Farms long history and all the wonderful products they are now offering to our community as Sawyer Farm Essentials.

Toniann Leavitt joined us in studio to discuss the upcoming Fall semester for the Osher Lifelong Living Institute at the University of New Hampshire. Toniann is OLLI’s Program Manager. Also with us were two of OLLI’s long-time presenters, Rabbi Robin Nafshi of Temple Beth Jacob in Concord and Dave Hess who served as NH’s Assistant Attorney General under Warren Rudman and David Souter and was a NH State Representative for 25 years.

The OLLI registration starts Wednesday, 8/2, at 9 AM at www.unh.edu/OLLI

David Moloney is the author of the novel Barker House. He has worked in the Hillsborough County Department of Corrections, New Hampshire, from 2007 to 2011. He received a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he now teaches. He lives north of Boston with his family.

Concord resident and author, Paul Brogan joins Jane today on Artful Living to discuss his new book, and has many years as an active performing arts supporter here in the Granite State. We welcome you to join our lively "conversation" on Artful Living.

A New Hampshire native, Dan Pouliot earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNH, and his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. He is Vice-Chair of the New Hampshire Writer’s Project. His passion for positive thinking sets the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.