Miriam Carter: A Maker and Wearer of Hats

Miriam Carter: A Maker and Wearer of Hats

It’s a well-known adage that to juggle the myriad demands of running a thriving organization requires wearing many hats. In the case of Miriam Carter, the new executive director—since January—of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, this idiom is both figurative and...
Birds of a Different Feather

Birds of a Different Feather

BY LAURA POPEImagine a hand-wrought John James Audubon illustration of a colorful bird in nature composed with the sensibility of artist Edward Gorey. The image that most likely comes to mind is of a realistic yet distorted, somewhat allegorical polychrome...
A Quiet Brook in Spring

A Quiet Brook in Spring

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM , PHOTOS BY GEOFF FORESTER I always knew that spring had arrived when I heard the brook in our backyard roar. I was usually in the kitchen the first time I noticed it, washing dishes after dinner, or untying mud-soaked boots by the back door. I...
More Poems From Glenn Currie

More Poems From Glenn Currie

brbrbrbrbrbrThebrCatbrbrA cat waits by my door. brA visitor from the past, brEscaped from the mixing pot brOf watercolor memories. brHe silently sits by the dish brWhere pieces of my Mother’s garden brCome to rest. brbrHe stares unblinking, brSeeing me as a child,...