He’s making one giant pumpkin
In a Boscawen backyard that evokes images of Jack and the Beanstalk, farmer Steve Geddes is again growing a beast of a gourd that could top 2,500 pounds And you think kids grow up fast? Check out Steve Geddes’ baby, in his vast garden behind his house in Boscawen....
History: Amid disaster, hero emerges
Not every act of heroism takes place in battle. Concord’s only 20th-century recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor offers a case in point. On the afternoon of Aug. 29, 1916, Charles Willey was a 27-year-old warrant officer, a machinist aboard the armored...
Summer 2018 Calendar
Your Guide To The Best Summer Has To Offer Around Concord
44 Bikes: Think It, Design It, Build It, Ride It
Kristofer Henry’s ideal business client is someone for whom biking plays a significant role in life. “Someone who’s been riding for 15 or 20 years,” he says. “And has owned 10 or 15 bikes.” He pauses and laughs. “Someone whose ideal number of bikes to own is N plus...
Around Concord Summer 2018
CREATE YOUR OWN: Art experience , mountain bike, summer escape, and more . . .
Around Concord Summer 2018
Pick Your AdventureCREATE YOUR OWN:brArt experiencebrMountain bikebrSummer escapebrAnd more . . .
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
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...
Community Gardens Take Root
BY DEBBIE KANEStarting in spring, Concord’s Birch Street Community Garden hums with activity as gardeners of all ages tend more than a hundred plots of flower and vegetable gardens. It’s just more evidence that community gardening has taken root in the Capitol...
The Life Cycle of a Home
BY JERRY KINGWILL, PHOTOS COURTESY OF COBB HILL CONSTRUCTIONSome young homebuyers view their first house as a starter home—an inexpensive place to hold them as they grow their family and finances. Then they seek out the next house and begin a process of purchasing homes...
Honey, Can We Talk?
BY SHANTI DOUGLASCommunication is the foundation of any healthy relation-ship, but it’s often the hardest thing for couples to do. Busy-ness and going in multiple directions distract us, and we fear that conflict is inherent in communication. Given the importance and...
A Parent’s Final Act of Love
BY TINA ANNIS, ESQ. AND JEFFREY J. ZELLERS, ESQ.GLJane Concordian was an organized woman. She paid her bills on time. She maintained her tax records in a properly labeled file cabinet, and she balanced her checkbook every month. As Jane got older, she began to...
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...
Around Concord Spring 2018
IN THIS ISSUE:The surreal woodblock prints of Lyell CastonguayThe sloppy bliss of mud seasonAngst and the evolving nature of adulthood
TRENDING
- Our Gold-Leaf Dome
- Our New Hampshire lilac and how it came to be
- The Most Haunted Place In Concord?
- Greens of the Granite State – NH Golf Courses
- Old ski areas are lost, but they’re not forgotten
- Community Gardens Take Root
- Trail-Running the Presidential Range – Attempting All Nine Mountains (In One Day)
- Farm Life Discovered
- QA – Kris Blomback, general manager at Pats Peak Ski Resort in Henniker, facing a season like no other
- A Small Town Discovers Its Black History