NOV2025

BRISTOL • BRIDGEWATER • ALEXANDRIA • HEBRON • PLYMOUTH
2025 VOL. 5. NO. 11
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NOVEMBER
By William nieman
Let love clasp grief lest both be drowned
Let darkness keep her raven gloss Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss To dance with death, to beat the ground.
-Tennyson
Most of us have experi- enced the help music can give us when we are feeling numb by the loss of a loved one. Each of us probably has a special “grief” song. One of the most popular and beautiful of these is Eric Clapton’s lament for his son Conor, “Tears In Heaven”.
Lamentations have been a human expression since our kind walked the earth. Over aeons of time, the most musi- cally sophisticated of these, the requiem, grew from the halls of cathedrals to many secular venues. Erudite audiences con- tinue to experience the repose of these beautiful composi- tions. Those attending to this music not only sense its beauty but are mindful of its creative
Left to Right: Josiah Ahlgren, Daniel Moore, Sam Adams, Janet Finlayson
Good Grief....and a Jug Band
complexity. Brahms’s “A Ger- man Requiem” is a wonderful example of this musical elegy.
Good Grief is a jug band, home-based in Bristol. It has descended from a very dif- ferent cultural expression of grief than that of Brahms’s Requiem. One much more in
tune with the drunken joy ex- perienced in the last two lines found in the opening quote from Tennyson. This jug band, with that expressive name, brings the audience loud joy, not repose; active celebra- tion, not rest. The audience is moved to join in the festivity,
not to reflect cerebrally. The roots of Good Grief are not found in Western Civiliza- tion’s Renaissance. Initially, the music was only percussive.
Even before rudimentary
GOOD GRIEF
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Camp Resilience
Run from
Canada to MA
By Donna RhoDes
BRIDGEWATER – Belmont resident Jeff Ladieu is a retired U.S. Army Special Operations soldier who went on to become a Captain in the N.H. State Police, and since retiring from that sec- ond career, is now the director of Camp Resilience. His dedication to the charitable organization can be seen by people throughout the state right now through his “Run for Resilience” journey from the Canadian border in Pittsburg to the border of New Hampshire
CAMP RESILIENCE
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