Concord, New Hampshire locally owned, nonprofit, independent cinema in 2007. The SNOB Film Festival is one of the many arts organizations in the city. Other sites of interest include the Capitol Center for the Arts, the New Hampshire Historical Society, which has two facilities in Concord, the Steeplegate Mall on Loudon Road, and the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, a planetarium named after Christa McAuliffe, the Concord teacher who died during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Concord's public schools are within the Concord School District, except for schools in the Penacook area of the city, which are within the Merrimack Valley School District,
Bob Hohler Bob Hohler Robert T. "Bob" Hohler is an investigative sports reporter for "The Boston Globe" (""The Globe""). He also writes in-depth news stories ("enterprise reporting") for "The Globe". Hohler was "The Globe's" Boston Red Sox beat reporter during their 2004 championship run. Hohler is native of Boston, and a graduate of Suffolk University. He worked at the "Monadnock Ledger", and then at the "Concord Monitor" beginning in 1983. While a columnist at the "Concord Monitor", he wrote the book, "I Touch the Future: The Story of Christa McAuliffe", which describes the life of New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe who died