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Hello and welcome. I'm Mike Nikitas from NECN. New England Cable News, guest hosting tonight on NH Outlook. |
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In this program. Some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. |
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Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." |
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And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. |
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But first, a look at some of Tuesday's political news. Senator John Kerry has a new national chairwoman. Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen has joined the Kerry for President campaign. |
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Kerry - 12:00:21 - I think that she brings to my campaign a level of credibility about those issues that matter to real people and what we need to do for our country to change direction. And put this country back to work and make ourselves safer and stronger in the world. 12:00:50 Shaheen - 13:06:52 - Now vacation's over the stakes are too great in next year's presidential election. For me or for anyone how cares about this country to stay on the sidelines. |
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Joining me now - Andy Smith, Director of the UNH Survey Center. Andy thanks for being here. |
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Now a development in New Hampshire case that's received national attention. Police may have nabbed the man they've been calling "Jack the Snipper." The Durham Police arrested a 27 year old man. Jeffrey Gelinas of Barrington, New Hampshire. He hasn't been charged with any of the snipper cases but the Durham Police Cheif is calling him the prime suspect. Gelinas has been charged with prowling and loitering in two recent "peeping tom" cases. The chief says he felt it was important to announce the arrest on unrelated charges beacuse the "Jack the Snipper Cases" has so unnerved the UNH community over the summer. BITE RUNS Q.".COMMUNITY PROVIDES US" |
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Actually there's two-fold message here - one that we want to make sure that our community knows that the Durham police department does have a primary suspect and to identify him and then also look for those pieces of information that may come out of doing these news releases where someone says 'hey, I saw that guy around here' or that type of thing. Because what is usually the situation in these cases is what may seem insignificant to a resident or a student may be very significant to the durham police department investigation. We were advising people who lived in town, especially student housing, to lock their doors to be aware of their surroundings to walk with friends and things like that and I would say that even under ideal conditions. So I think that's the message but under the same breath to work with us because we'll be as successful as the information that our community provides us. |
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A UNH SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE SCHOOL IS RELIEVED THE SNIPPER CASE MAY BE SOLVED BUT URGES STAFF AND STUDENTS NOT TO LET DOWN THEIR GUARD. THE CASE WAS CALLED "JACK THE SNIPPER" BECAUSE THE SUSPECT SNUCK INTO THE UNLOCKED APARTMENTS OF YOUNG WOMEN IN DURHAM. DURING THE NIGHT. AND REMOVED OR CUT OFF THEIR CLOTHES WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPING. |
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In an age of eroding social institutions, there are leaders who are finding new ways to connect with their fellow citizens. That is the message of a new book, "Better Together" by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam and Lew Feldstein, head of the NH Charitable Foundation. Both are currently on a speaking tour about the book. Richard Ager caught up with them for a conversation last week at Harvard University in Cambridge. They spoke about their findings, and their hopes for constructive social change. |
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Soundup: Better Together tape 1 07:03;48 Social capital and civic engagement is not about just everybody agreeing. It's about everybody getting involved in the debate. Track: Robert Putnam pioneered the study of social capital, creating its vocabulary and describing the dangers posed to our nation by a population becoming alienated from its civic foundations. His analysis and critique first drew widespread acclaim through his book "Bowling Alone" in which he argued that America is losing the social glue that holds it together. Bite: Steve camera 05:18:45 Americans are a joining people and for most of the 20th century, we joined more, we schmoozed more, we voted more, we gave more. And then, mysteriously, suddenly - in the late 60s and early 70s - we started doing all of those things less and all of those lines - for voting, for joining - PTA membership was down, Rotary membership was down, church attendance is down, philanthropy is down. And spending time with your family, having dinner with your own family, and knowing your neighbors. All of those trends reversed in the late 60s and early 70s. And that challenge which is posed by the fact that we're losing our social capital - or at least the traditional forms of social capital are declining - really set the stage for this new book. Track: Putnam wrote "Better Together" with Lew Feldstein, President of the NH Charitable Foundation and a fellow social critic. Soundup: Better together tape 1 07:04:10 "Zip down from Portland to the Rio Grande Valley." Track: The two selected stories from around the nation to illustrate the point that many people are finding new ways to strengthen social bonds including Craigslist, a free internet site based in San Francisco. Bite: Better together tape 1 07:06:28 It's actually now one of the 2-300 top websites in the world. If you go to it, it looks like a place you'd get want ads for jobs and apartments, but if you look behind the scenes, there's a whole lot of community being built there. It's interesting because it's not an alternative purely cyberspace, purely virtual community. It's the use of internet technology to build real face-to-face communities. Bite: Better together tape 1 07:04:38 *** And the next one we move to is - Portsmouth, NH. Track: Perhaps the most unusual story is that of the Shipyard Project. Bite: Better together tape 1 07:04:50 Portsmouth, NH, the home of the nation's oldest shipyard. A shipyard that is now involved almost entirely in repairing nuclear subs. Manned entirely by people who - workers, pipers, fitters, riggers. Some who have followed their fathers and grandfathers into this job. It is a blue-collar conservative pro-nuke crowd. Three hundred yards across the river is Portsmouth. Incredibly prosperous, green, anti-nuke, liberal. How do you put the two together? Liz Lehrman using dance. Anyone who thought dance was the way to do it, put up your hand. You get a free book. soundup: LPA 49 01:22:32 What happens if you just change your focus - what happens if you just moved an ear? Track: Liz Lerman conceived of dance as something to bring different communities together to learn about each other through their shared art. Bite: LPA 49 01:22:14 We've got all the fragmenting that's going on around race and class and it seems to me that art is one of the ways that you can pull things together. I don't mean that we're all going to end up being mushy. I mean that we can bring our differences together. Track: Using grant money, she and hundreds of community members did just that. Bite: Better together tape 1 07:05:35 She spent two years - she and a group of people using dance as a way to do it - having people tell their stories to her and getting them to dance. And if you haven't seen a welder or a rigger 55-60 years old dancing in front of 1200 people, acting out a big crane , you ain't seen nothing. Bite: Steve camera 05:30:58 I want to emphasize the duration. They spent two years doing this and then a week doing the performance. But the two years are the key, not the one week's performance. But now, 6-7 years after this is done, there's a dozen organizations that owe their life and their birth to people working on the Shipyard Project. Track: Putnam and Feldstein say there are many measures of how interconnected a community is - which is just as well for NH. Todd Camera 05:20:20 YOU KNOW, NH HAS A WELL-EARNED REPUTATION FOR YANKEE THRIFT. AND STUDIES HAVE CERTAINLY SHOWN WE'RE NEAR THE BOTTOM IN CHARITABLE GIVING. I'M WONDERING WHAT YOUR PERSPECTIVES ON WHY THAT IS. AFTER ALL, NH IS A PLACE OF SMALLER COMMUNITIES, I WOULD THINK MORE COHESIVE KINDS OF NETWORKS. WHAT DO YOU THINK? Bite: Steve camera 05:20:40 There's probably no one factor that accounts for that one piece not running in parallel with all the other trends. The most important factor may be that we're a very low church state. We're the fourth or fifth least churched state in America, and since so much social capital is built out of the church and out of church membership. And you've got a very low church membership - and a lot of the giving comes from that. 50% of all giving in America goes to religion. So when we have a state with low religious membership, it's got to reflect itself in low giving. Bite: Todd Camera 05:21:10 SO IS IT JUST A LESSENED SENSE OF OBLIGATION ITSELF, OR IS IT THE SOCIAL NETWORK ITSELF THAT CREATES THE GIVING IF IT'S MORE OF A CHURCHED STATE? Bite: Steve camera 05:21:28 by almost all measures, not the philanthropy measure, but by almost all other measures that we have of social capital, of connectiveness, of caring for your neighbors and so on, NH is actually quite high, not low. Bite: Todd Camera 05:21:59 WHERE ARE WE WELL OFF IN SOCIAL CAPITAL? Bite: Steve camera 05:22:02 Oh, in many different measures. How often people go to meetings to talk about local affairs. I'm not talking about town meetings in the official sense - I'm talking about just hanging out with neighbors and talking about how the things in your town could be improved. Membership in civic organizations. Let me suggest the one that's the most unusual, that really stood out and I think surprised us. And that is the degree to which class makes a difference. In most places in the country, we don't usually talk about class in America. But if you measure class roughly by level of income and level of education, the higher the income and the higher the education, the more likely people are to be involved. And the less - less involved. And usually therefore a state that has high income and high education as we do is heavily involved. But in NH, people are less attentive to class, there is less distinction between the person who owns the mill and works on the floor of the mill; between the school superintendent and the janitor; less in difference in how involved they are, how trusting they are, how often they vote than in literally any other place we measured in the country. Steve camera 05:23:35 If you go to a public meeting in Los Angeles, to take the other extreme, the people who are likely to be there are the bank presidents. If you go to similar kind of meeting in NH, the bank presidents and the bank tellers and the bank tellers are all likely to be there. So we know that because we've asked thousands of people across the country about how often they go to meetings and how much time do they spend with friends and whether they vote and so on. So we know the facts. We know less about why it is that NH is so relatively - the class differences in social capital, in connections, are so much smaller. It's a terrific advantage in NH because it means all those resources among people who are not up in the top of the income distribution, all of their intelligence and social resources get utilized in NH in a way they don't in Los Angeles. MAYBE IT'S OUR LACK OF ZONING LAWS. Todd Camera 05:24:28 I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO DESCRIBE A SOCIETY THAT DOES NOT HAVE SOCIAL CAPITAL, OR HAS DEFICIENT SOICLA CAPITAL. WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY WOULD THAT BE? Steve camera 05:24:38 Well, it's a society or an organization in which you're always having to look over your shoulder to wonder if somebody is out to get you. It's one in which you have to look out for yourself because no one else is going to look out for you. It's a society in which you use up a lot of energy just worrying about whether your car is going to get broken into or your house is going to get broken into. It's a society in which there are a lot more lawyers because people are suing each other all the time. In general, what social capital does is to lubricate our relations with other people. Trust is a terrifically useful tool. Track: In this book, UPS delivery men, Chicago libraries, Philadelphia seniors and many others all share a role in building social capital, even if they don't know the jargon. Bite: Better together tape 1 07:08:25 Bonding social capital are your ties to people just like you. Bridging social capital are your ties to people unlike you. Bite: Better together tape 1 07:08;45 A society that has only bonding social capital looks like Bosnia or Belfast. And in a modern, pluralist society like ours, we need a whole lot of bridging social capital. It's not easy to build bridging social capital. Your grandmother knew that - she said 'birds of a feather flock together.' What she meant was bridging social capital was more difficult to build than bonding social capital. She didn't think you'd understand that - that's why she used the avian metaphor. Bite: Todd Camera 05:45:55 WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THIS BOOK? I'LL START WITH YOU LEW. Bite: Steve camera 05:46:04 We'd like to inspire people to do more, we'd like to help a growing group of people who think about application, who want to learn from this, who want to intentionally build social capital. We know the need is there, we know the power of it, and now we need to learn how to do it. And that's where we're lagging, that's what we're learning. And these cases begin to help us learn. Bowling Alone was a description of how America is going to hell in a handbasket and I didn't want to let the story rest there. I wanted to be able to say 'and here's some ideas - not my ideas, other people's ideas - on how we can begin to reweave the fabric of this community and I think we're making progress. Track: For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager. Maybe end with some book signing video |
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The restoration of a church in Portsmouth is bringing the community together in unexpected ways. Chip Neal has more on the restoration of the Pearl of Portsmouth and its place in history. |
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Pearle St. Church Chip Neal visits with some of the Friends of the Pearle in Portsmouth. They are a group of people trying to save the Pearle Street Church an important part of african american history in New Hampshire. The church became the first black church in the state back in 1915 and that congregation stayed in that church until the mid 1980's when the church was sold and became a restaurant. After the restaurant failed Magaret Britton bought the building and uses it for her Unity Church meetings as well as weddings and other functions. Now she has entered into an unusual easment relationship with the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail. State LCHIP money was used to repair the steeple and the sanctuary in exchange for restricitng Brittons rights to make any changes to the steeple or the sanctuary. |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - Supporting children through the court process with a program called CASA. We'll profile a volunteer, see what's involved and meet some children who've been helped by the program along with the woman who founded CASA. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Supporting children through the court process with a program called CASA. We'll see what's involved and meet some children who've been helped. Join us tonight at 10:00 |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/03 22:00 HOST: Mike Nikitas Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. But first, a look at some of Tuesday's political news. Senator John Kerry has a new national chairwoman. Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen has joined the Kerry for President campaign. Instudio Andy Smith, Director of the UNH Survey Center. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Jennifer Ellis, Mike Nikitas NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Sen. John Kerry\D - Massachusetts, Jeanne Shaheen\Former NH Governor, Andy Smith \UNH Survey Center |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/03 22:00 HOST: Mike Nikitas Length: 2:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. Now a development in New Hampshire case that's received national attention. Police may have nabbed the man they've been calling "Jack the Snipper." The Durham Police arrested a 27 year old man. Jeffrey Gelinas of Barrington, New Hampshire. He hasn't been charged with any of the snipper cases but the Durham Police Cheif is calling him the prime suspect. Gelinas has been charged with prowling and loitering in two recent "peeping tom" cases. The chief says he felt it was important to announce the arrest on unrelated charges beacuse the "Jack the Snipper Cases" has so unnerved the UNH community over the summer. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Celene Ramadan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Dave Kurz\Durham Chief of Police |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/03 22:00 HOST: Mike Nikitas Length: 10:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. In an age of eroding social institutions, there are leaders who are finding new ways to connect with their fellow citizens. That is the message of a new book, "Better Together" by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam and Lew Feldstein, head of the NH Charitable Foundation. Both are currently on a speaking tour about the book. Richard Ager caught up with them for a conversation last week at Harvard University in Cambridge. They spoke about their findings, and their hopes for constructive social change. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Robert Putnam\Co-Author, "Better Together", Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, Liz Lerman\Dance Exchange, Lew Feldstein\Co-Author, "Better Together", President, NH Charitable Foundation |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/03 22:00 HOST: Mike Nikitas Length: 10:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. In an age of eroding social institutions, there are leaders who are finding new ways to connect with their fellow citizens. That is the message of a new book, "Better Together" by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam and Lew Feldstein, head of the NH Charitable Foundation. Both are currently on a speaking tour about the book. Richard Ager caught up with them for a conversation last week at Harvard University in Cambridge. They spoke about their findings, and their hopes for constructive social change. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Robert Putnam\Co-Author, "Better Together", Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, Liz Lerman\Dance Exchange, Lew Feldstein\Co-Author, "Better Together", President, NH Charitable Foundation |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/03 22:00 HOST: Mike Nikitas Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. The restoration of a church in Portsmouth is bringing the community together in unexpected ways. Chip Neal has more on the restoration of the Pearl of Portsmouth and its place in history. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Arron Sturgis\Preservation Contractor, Valerie Cunningham\African American Historian, Margaret Britton\Church Owner, Richard Candee\Historic Preservation Boston University |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 9/23/03 22:00 HOST: Mike Nikitas Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, some changes on the political landscape. who's in the race and what the polls say about a matchup against the President. Plus a look at the glue that connects the fabric of our society. A conversation with the co-authors of "Better Together." And later, we'll look at how a community came together to restore the Pearl of Portsmouth. The restoration of a church in Portsmouth is bringing the community together in unexpected ways. Chip Neal has more on the restoration of the Pearl of Portsmouth and its place in history. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Arron Sturgis\Preservation Contractor, Valerie Cunningham\African American Historian, Margaret Britton\Church Owner, Richard Candee\Historic Preservation Boston University |
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