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What's up Concord! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Rideout Park players need to know about the court shutdown.
  • How should Concord remember Dr. Cuming and those he enslaved?
  • How a Concord trainer says perfectionism holds dressage riders back

Also on today's calendar: Complimentary Presentation - Wealth and Wellness: Balancing Financial, Physical, & Mental Well-Being and 17 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the burglar wear blue gloves? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 78 and low of 68 degrees.
  • Thursday: A thunderstorm in spots, temps: high: 84, low: 54.
  • Friday: Sunny, nice and less humid, with a high of 76 and low of 46 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Rideout timeout: Park courts closed as replacement project starts (concordbridge.org) — If you play at Rideout Park, expect major changes: the tennis, pickleball, and basketball courts are now closed through at least mid‑November while a $1.04 million replacement project is underway. The rest of the park and limited parking on Laws Brook Road remain open, as Concord officials balance demand for pickleball with neighbors' and tennis players' concerns by lining new courts for both sports.
   

2. Weighing an 18th-century Concord physician's contrasting legacies (concordbridge.org) — Concord's own history is under the microscope as a visiting relative of 18th‑century physician John Cuming grapples with his medical contributions and his enslavement of Brister Freeman and Jem. Local historian Elise Lemire is pushing to preserve Cuming's Elm Street house while adding context about enslaved residents and wealth disparities, even as institutions like Emerson Hospital remove his name from buildings.
   

3. How Perfectionism Can Hinder Progress in Dressage (dressagetoday.com) — A Concord-based psychologist and USDF gold medalist shares how focusing on what you and your horse do right—rather than obsessing over mistakes—can unlock better dressage riding. Working out of Bear Spot Farm in Concord, she explains how positive reinforcement benefits both performance and emotional well-being for riders and their horses.
   

4. Gordon S. Wood (brownalumnimagazine.com) — Concord readers may be interested to know that renowned historian Gordon S. Wood, a leading scholar of the American Revolution who was born in Concord, has died at 92. Wood spent decades at Brown University, earning a Pulitzer Prize and National Humanities Medal while shaping how Americans understand the nation's founding.
   

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