‘Liberty’ Turkey Brigade Hit Concord, Manchester

More than a thousand families in Concord and Manchester will have Thanksgiving meals this year thanks to the efforts of Shiresharing.org, a collaborative effort among “liberty” activists who seek “to address social ills through voluntary action and private charity.”

The volunteers visited the families all day on Nov. 24, going door-to-door with food baskets while below zero wind chill factors whipped against them.

The effort has been put together the last few years by Amanda Bouldin who said she gained inspiration from her late father who did the same thing in Dallas, Texas. After he died, she carried on the tradition with her children and enlisted Free State Project members and others to help out.

“I just want to feel my fingers and toes,” Bouldin said, while trying to stay warm, handing out bags of food from the back of a U-Haul on Christian Avenue on the Heights.

Three years ago, Bouldin said, about 200 families were served by the effort. Last year, it was 600. This year, it was 1,300, with the group getting referrals from Lutheran Social Services and other organizations.

State Rep. Mark Warden, R-Goffstown, who drove a bus full of volunteers to deliver the food baskets noted that some of the food packages were also tailored directly to the dietary requests of the families, some who are refugees and others who are vegetarians.

This year, Bouldin noted, her daughter’s classmates are Polaris Charter School in Manchester helped to make about 80 bags on Friday.

For more information on the program, visit Shiresharing.org.