Poetry: ‘Snow’ by Glenn Currie

Poetry: ‘Snow’ by Glenn Currie

The thing about snow,It seduces you.For a brief time,It beguiles.In its virginal world,You can start over.Making loveTo its innocence.A canvas for angels,Clay for the sculptor,Body to explore.Ammunition for schoolboys.But its charms grow old.An affair gone bad.Beauty...
Taking their sweet time at Crust & Crumb

Taking their sweet time at Crust & Crumb

Long before the sun rises in Concord, Alison Ladman pops in a 1980s mix tape and heads to the custom coffee maker. The work is about to get started at Crust and Crumb, her popular North Main Street bakery.Greg Rebelo and Sam Jiran, meanwhile, move in silence and begin...
Old ski areas are lost, but they’re not forgotten

Old ski areas are lost, but they’re not forgotten

BOX; New England Lost Ski Areas Project lists 172 ski areas that used to operate in New Hampshire, most of them tiny one-hill operations featuring tow ropes, which were killed off by costs for insurance and snowmaking.Here’s a NELSAP list of areas that existed in...
The Library Trail: Time to hit the books

The Library Trail: Time to hit the books

By ANN SANOKGilmantonGilmanton is home to Grace Metalious, the famed author of Peyton Place. Her controversial book, which was made into a movie in the 1950s, is replete with affairs, incest and murder – all rumored to be based on the lives of Gilmanton town folks....
The Most Haunted Place In Concord?

The Most Haunted Place In Concord?

By ERNESTO BURDENThe Concord Public Library may be the most haunted building in the city.“Personally, I don’t like to be in this building alone late at night after we close,” Concord Public Library Director Todd Fabian told a tour group last year. “I feel like at 7...