by Around Concord | Dec 23, 2020 | Community, In Print
Concord’s history of charitable and philanthropic organizations can be traced to the colonial period. By the beginning of the twentieth century, causes ranged from creating parks and libraries to ensuring that the intellectual, physical and artistic needs of the city...
by Sarah Pearson | Dec 23, 2020 | Arts, In Print, Life & Leisure
There’s nothing quite like cozying up next to the fire with a mug of cocoa, book in hand with maybe a blanket or cat in your lap. This winter, more than ever, we’ll be keeping closer to home. So here are some books written by authors who live around Concord. – By...
by Matthew Hongoltz-hetling | Dec 23, 2020 | Community, In Print
How the small town of Grafton became a Libertarian strongholdThe ultimate goal of the Free Towners is described in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, in which a hidden valley of industrialists form Galt’s Gulch, a rogue society ruled by a pure free market. Their...
by Around Concord | Oct 29, 2020 | Community, In Print, Life & Leisure, Travel
We’re all looking for ways to hang onto our traditions during the most untraditional of years. Among your best options could be to throw yourself into one of the area’s corn mazes. Plenty of fresh air and built-in social distancing make for a 2020-style excursion....
by Around Concord | Oct 29, 2020 | Community, Food & Drink, In Print, Life & Leisure
Please note that for the most part, all the farms require you to wear masks in their farm stands and when you are nearby other people, but allow you to remove them when you are away from others picking the fields and orchards. Each will have their own signs and...
by Ruth Nemzoff | Oct 29, 2020 | In Print
Celebrating those whose names aren’t in the history booksWhen I left New Hampshire in the mid-1980s, both the New Hampshire Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard wanted my papers. I had been the assistant minority leader in the New Hampshire House...
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