Back on track

Back on track

These high-end 1880s-style rail cars currently parked in Contoocook can take more than six months to build, but once done they evoke another era Playing with trains is a near-universal pleasure, but few of us have taken it as far as Chi Hofe. Behind the barn alongside...
Tranquil & transcendent

Tranquil & transcendent

Boscawen retreat celebrates 10th anniversary with season that runs from May 22 to Sept. 17 On a recent morning in late April, the grounds of Avaloch Farm Music Institute were quiet, the only sounds coming from songbirds in the surrounding sunlit meadows and a cleaning...
Fast Faves with Dr. Jeffrey Fetter

Fast Faves with Dr. Jeffrey Fetter

A Pennsylvania native, Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, chief medical officer at NH Hospital, has become quite the Granite State transplant. He’s been an internist/psychiatrist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, worked at Concord Hospital, the state prison system and Riverbend Community...
A love takes flight

A love takes flight

From Sy Montgomery, the New York Times bestselling author of “The Soul of an Octopus” comes “The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty.” When the Hancock author went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan’s Deering farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey,...
A net gain

A net gain

One of the signs of spring in New Hampshire is the hundreds of thousands of brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout that get placed into lakes, streams and ponds all over the state. The fish are raised in six state-owned fish hatcheries until they reach a certain...