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What To Do In NH This Weekend: Maple Sugar Season Fun Begins, Plus Beer & Snow Events
Friday, March 1, 2013
The shortest month is behind us, and spring is just a few weeks away! Also just around the corner-Maple Sugar Season! If you're a syrup fan, or an experimental-pancake fan, you'll love maple sugar season in The Granite State! Take a guided maple sugar tour and sample sweets along the way at the It's Maple Season at Nature's Sweet Secret Sugarhouse in Goffstown on Saturday! Find a sugar house near you on our Maple Sugar Map at NH.com/Maple-Sugar!
Enjoy the outdoors this weekend, and if you're in the Stewartstown area, don't miss the 21st Annual Swift Diamond Riders Club's NH SnoDeo, with time trial snocross, helicopter rides by CR Helicopters, antique snowmobile display & parade, food & end of season deals on everything snowmobile related. And if you're ready for a drink after vacation week, check out the tail end of Portsmouth Beer Week. Enjoy!
Merrimack
Theatre
Saturday
March Mandolin Festival Concert
Headliners Comedy Club With Mike Donovan, Rob Steen, Mike Murray & Matt D
Wagner's Parsifal-New Production
Little Price of Pop, Aaron Carter live at Tupelo Music Hall!
Divas Through the Decades
Sunday
Parsifal
Miranda Lambert with Dierks Bentley & Lee Brice
Opera NH Presents: Le Nozze Di Figaro
Community
Dr. Seuss Birthday
Goffstown, NH
Saturday, March 2
It's Dr. Seuss's Birthday and we're having a party to celebrate! Drop in between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm. Join us for a piece of a birthday cake and listen to some Dr. Seuss stories!
It's Maple Season at Nature's Sweet Secret Sugarhouse
Goffstown, NH
Saturdays & Sundays Through March 31
Our Sugarhouse doors will be open for all to enjoy. Take a guided tour inside and outside, learning the sugaring process along the way. Enjoy samples of our maple products. This event is free and is for all age groups.
The Mall of New Hampshire Hosts Kidgits Book Blast Event
Manchester, NH
Saturday, March 2
Simon Kidgits Club's Book Blast is offering an assortment of fun book-based activities to ultimately help kids reap the many benefits of reading.
Fly Fish New Hampshire Show
Pelham, NH
Sat-Sun, March 2-3
Vendors signed up to exhibit at the show include fly shops, guides, outfitters, authors and sporting and conservation organizations throughout New Hampshire.
Cedar Swamp Saturday
Manchester, NH
Saturday, March 2
Join us for a group hike on the trails of the largest protected conservation land in Manchester: The Nature Conservancy's Cedar Swamp Preserve at Hackett Hill, a unique ecosystem in NH.
Compost Bin and Rain Barrel Sale
Nashua, NH
Through March 15
For the fourteenth year in a row, the Nashua Garden Club and the Division of Public Works Solid Waste Department are organizing a spring sale of Backyard Compost Bins, Kitchen Waste Pails, Rain Barrels, and Compost Turners.
Seacoast Region
Theatre
Saturday
Ryan Clauson
Community
Fox Run Mall Hosts Kidgits Club Book Blast Event
Newington, NH
Simon Kidgits Club's Book Blast is offering an assortment of fun book-based activities to ultimately help kids reap the many benefits of reading.
Portsmouth Beer Week
Portsmouth, NH
Through March 4
Portsmouth Beer Week is about, above all else, a love of beer. 2Beerguys.com & Seacoast Beverage Lab are once again teaming up with local businesses to host the 4th Annual Portsmouth Beer Week. Portsmouth Beer Week is a 10-day celebration of beer.
Dartmouth / Lake Sunapee Region
Theatre
Saturday
The Spirit of Johnny Cash
All Weekend
Anything Goes
Monadnock Region
Theatre
Saturday
The Tempest
All Weekend
theatre KAPOW present THE ILLUSION by Tony Kushner
Community
Milford Antiques Shows
Milford, NH
Sundays Through March 24
Over 80 dealers from several states present a large variety of quality antiques and collectibles at reasonable prices. Show hours are short and sweet from 8:30 am to 11 am. Admission is only $5 from 8:30 am to 9:30 am and FREE ADMISSION from 9:30 am to 11 am. Free parking, ATM machine in lobby, cafe with brunch specials including fresh baked items and good coffee.
Great North Woods Region
Community
Swift Diamond Riders Club's NH SnoDeo
Stewartstown, NH
Fri-Sat, March 1-2
The 21st Annual NH SnoDeo. Demo rides of brand new 2013 & 2014 snowmobiles from Arctic Cat, Polaris, Ski Doo & Yamaha. Other events include time trial snocross, helicopter rides by CR Helicopters, antique snowmobile display & parade, food & end of season deals on everything snowmobile related. Proceeds benefit the Swift Diamond Riders Club for maintenance & grooming over 100 miles of snowmobile trails.
White Mountains Region
Community
Family Fun Night
Franconia, NH
Saturdays Through March 16
Every Saturday through mid-March 4:30-6:30 pm in the Peabody Base Area. Movies for Kids in the Brookside Lodge, Huckerbrook Mini-Park open under the lights for $5 and the Cannonball Pub open for adults!
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