Keene

So it was just me honing in on that both years every day and just building off of that.

Yeah, and just to add to that, too, even your two summer, you know, seasons, and, you know, you mentioned the one in Keene already, you know, between your first and second year at Indiana, and then also that following summer, you know, in the Cape Cod League, you know, you're hitting, you know, right below or right above 300 at both of those levels as well, so...

It's really like Toby said, everywhere you've gone, you've just had that really good, you know, consistent level of just good production.

And I love that you have two straight seasons playing up here in New England, just from me being a New England kid, you know, not that many.

Yeah.

I've visited both.

Obviously Keene doesn't have too much compared to it, but I mean, in Keene, like, Obviously, when the Swamp Bats come in town, everybody's there for them.

And it felt like that.

Cass Girl Cigar Lounge, Bedford, New Hampshire, Foundation event on November 5th, 6 to 10 p.m.

The Diplomat Cigar Lounge in Keene, New Hampshire.

Blackbird at the Dip.

Thursday, November 19th at 4 p.m. with a limited number of new Mockingbird 10th Anniversary Limited Edition.

I kept returning.

I, I, I also, I did a race last year in Keene, New Hampshire, um, drummer Hill.

Awesome.

Cool.

here in the United States.

And he actually preached in the Newport Church, the Claremont Church, the Newport Church, Wilmont, and yeah, in Keene.

But so I was really honored to be the director of in Czechoslovakia, and that was quite a transition for a country to coming out of communism and kind of reestablishing a democracy.

I also served in Morocco, which is quite another different arrangement and with a king but a very fascinating country and with a lot of need but we could really work well together and that's one of the things I think I really enjoyed was with working with people and building communities and strengthening communities so they can do things by themselves In fact, in the Czech program, I actually proposed to Washington that it was time for us to close, which is kind of unique for a bureaucrat to close out a program, but that's what we did.

But you still have to think about, OK, well, how do you get these kids on that bus? How do you get them there? And we're kind of doing this already.

Like my daughter, when she was in high school, she took a marketing class over in Keene.

So we do like and my other daughter took a forensics class in Springfield, Vermont.

So we are tuitioning kids around and we do have that kind of figured out.

Now, I also loved baseball, and I loved baseball a lot.

I played baseball, was the captain of my team in high school, once hit a home run in American Legion baseball on Carlton Fist Field in Keene, New Hampshire.

So I loved baseball.

But Greg, I got to the Cincinnati Inquirer in 1980, and I was the backup beat guy on the Reds.

It's not like anything needs to be produced.

The KNEFM tower in Keene, out on the side of town, it's part of this huge tower that's shared with the public television and a bunch of other stuff.

Massive tower.

It goes way up in the air.

And other issues, I know the whole median age of New Hampshire is well on the other side of 40.

Helping incentivize how we keep our youngest college graduates and workforce in our state and figure out a way to incentivize, you know, even at say for UNH or Plymouth State or Keene or one of our public colleges, how do we create a program where we incentivize their tuition or their scholarships if, you know, kind of like, not the Peace Corps, but like, What's the America? Teach for America.

AmeriCorps.

AmeriCorps.