Photo gallery: Call of the wild
Nestled along 210 acres across from New Hampshire’s second largest lake, the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness is a sprawling collection of fields, forests and wetlands teeming with wildlife from the natural world. The animals on display at the center...
Fast Faves with Xochiquetzal Berry
For Xochiquetzal Berry, life and work are centered around food. A food systems specialist and certified permaculture designer, she’s passionate about helping other food-loving folks develop a resilient, equitable, and vibrant regional food system. She’s also the...
Beer is near
Concord now has three microbreweries, each with its own flavor Not so long ago, Concord was devoid of any New England-style double IPAs made right here in the city. Extra-hoppy lagers and fruity sour ales were exotic drinks made in far-away breweries that only arrived...
The rise of fall
Welcome to autumn in New Hampshire, where the leaves star, visitors descend and the season of fairs and festivals is in full bloom. If you’re looking for a place to start your exploration of this iconic season, we suggest visiting the Warner Fall Foliage Festival One...
Excerpt: My Antonio and the Stitch that Binds
Essays in ‘Time for Everything’ by Joseph Steinfield bring readers on a personal tour of history and connection Time for Everything picks up where Joseph Steinfield’s first book, Claremont Boy, left off, with tributes to friends and heroes and essays on being Jewish,...
Off the Shelf: Fall reading suggestions
As summer fades and fall arrives, it’s perhaps time for a change of scenery in your reading selections. Turn the page with NH writers. Deep Water By Kenneth Sheldon In the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped...
Fast Faves with Reagan Bissonnette
Reagan Bissonnette is the executive director of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA), a nonprofit organization that helps communities in New England manage their own recycling programs, including 85% of towns and cities in New Hampshire. (You’ll notice...
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...
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
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
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
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
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...
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