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Bedford native Heather Paul began alpine skiing at age two. By her junior year in college, and at the top of her racing career, she got tired of the scene and quit. She learned a different type a skiing the next year- telemark. It's like alpine, but the binding leaves the heel free and the turns are executed differently. Heather became a world champion in the sport by the mid-nineties. She now lives in Barrington and runs Ultimate Groove- a telemark ski clinic for women that travels to different ski areas.

Lou D'Allesandro is best known these days as a state senator form Manchester, but he had a football career before he went in to politics. He even tried out for the Patriots. He talks about his life in semipro ball and the heady expereince of being at the Patriots' tryout camp.

It’s a primary-free zone tonight on the Front Porch, but not entirely politics-free. Ted Leach jokes that running a marionette theatre is not much different than running for political office. And he would know. For much of the 90's Ted ran the New England Marionette Opera in Peterborough. Today, he serves as the Republican State Representative from Hancock and Chairman of the Clean Air Subcommittee. In his spare time, he is writing an opera, a novel, and a musical and pulling all the right strings to make his various projects a reality.

Charles Brereton is a writer from Concord who?s followed the primary since 1972. He's the author of four books on the subject. His latest, Primary Politics, is full of reflections on the primary, stories and reminiscences of past campaigns, and a stout defense of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation status.
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Jose Lezcano is Cuban-born classical guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist, and professor of music at Keene State College. He directs KSC's Latin Ensemble, a student group that performs Latin American music, as well as the KSC Guitar Orchestra. As an ethnomusicologist, his specialty is the indigenous music of Ecuador. He was given a 2004 Artist Fellowship by the New Hampshire Council on the Arts. He will perform the world premiere of his latest composition, a guitar concerto, on February 1 in Keene at the Colonial Theater.

Dante Scala is a political scientist at Saint Anselm College. His new book, Stormy Weather, explores the history of the first-in-the-nation primary and the dynamics of past races. He talks about what it takes to win in New Hampshire, the indicators of future success, and New Hampshire?s effect on the rest of the primary season.
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