GOT Wings? If you’ve got fairy wings (or can pretend you do), put them on and fly to Portsmouth on Sept. 23 and 24. There you will find a whimsical world of fairy houses, built by children from acorns, rocks and other materials provided by Mother Nature. They’ll be tucked in among the plantings in gardens in the Port City’s…
Dos Amigos had two locations, but the one to hit is in Dover, an-up-and-coming town with a great music scene fueled by the students at nearby UNH and a burgeoning hip restaurant scene to boot. Folks hang out in Dos Amigos reading or working on the laptop, while diving into freshly made burritos and tacos. The motto here is “hearty,…
While the dinner on the table and the vibe of the dining room are prime considerations for choosing a restaurant, a smashing view can add the finishing touch to a perfect dining experience. And from the seacoast to the mountains, New Hampshire has enough scenic settings to go around. Despite the dramatic crashing waves outside and the open-ocean view, all…
Chiropractors? Oh, they take care of back problems with spinal adjustments.” That widely held view of chiropractic care is correct, says Dr. Stephen Guild of Laconia, but it’s so much more than that. It also includes neuromuscular skeletal disorders, carpel tunnel problems, lumbar back strain and cervical strain, to name a few. The aim of chiropractic care isn’t just relieving…
A measly three miles an hour — hardly moving, really. But, wow, what an unforgettable ride it was. I boarded the Cog Railway one chilly fall morning to make the 3,500-foot climb to the summit of Mt. Washington, just as people have been doing since 1869. Little has changed since then — passengers are still showered with cinders and soot…
Cotton candy, the ribbon awards, a stuffed pink duck, The Zipper and an ox pull — nothing like a country fair on an autumn day. By B. Elwin Sherman Attention, city slickers: I live in the New Hampshire boonies, and every late summer and fall it’s possible to spend a months’ full of weekends doing nothing but hopping the archipelago…
Not Quite Yet We just received your August issue here at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, and were surprised to see the reference to a wing here being named after Alan Shepard . At this point in time, we do not have an Alan Shepard wing. However, we are currently in the midst of fundraising for a major expansion which will…
The Democrats are tinkering with the calendar again, which is always a dangerous thing. The party’s rules committee plans to insert a Nevada caucus between Iowa’s caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, leaving this state third on the schedule of presidential events. The Old Man of the Mountain must be turning in his rock pile. Several of the expected Democratic…
The sun is a-rising To welcome the day. Heigh-ho! Come to the fair! In “The History of the 124th Rochester Fair,” Violet Horne Dwyer and Florence Horne Smith give a fine account of the early days of the fair (when a luminary no less shining than the South Berwick, Maine, writer Sarah Orne Jewett was a visitor). According to Dwyer…
In the country: granite mountaintops, cliffs and ledges; tumbledown stone walls; random rocks and boulders scattered everywhere. In towns and cities: graveyards, public monuments and buildings great and small. Do some yard work or plant a garden; hunks of granite peek through the surface or lurk underground. Get in your car, and granite goes along for the ride — well,…
