Consider it the guest list for the best cocktail party ever. The 2007 It List is our selection of the 34 most interesting, happening, talked about people in the state. If you got these folks all in the same room, no telling what would transpire, but you can bet it wouldn’t be boring. (It was all we could do to…
The placid farms and pastures along the Connecticut valley were not always so serene. The river was the major route for Native Americans, as it was for settlers, and the French and Indian War was fought along its banks. Leave Charleston heading north on Rte. 12, the town’s main street. About a mile beyond the Stick-Gothic Episcopal church, sidetrack left…
It is perhaps four of the most frightening words a woman could hear: “You have breast cancer.” It’s a club of more than two million women that no one wants to join. And yet breast cancer survival is improving, in large part because of advanced technologies and treatments — many of which are offered at hospitals right here in New…
Bob and Elaine Kinne had been married for 38 years and had always talked about getting their wills in order but just never seemed to get around to doing it. “We thought we were still young and you never think something is going to happen,” says Elaine, 66. Then, four years ago, Bob was diagnosed with an aggressive pancreatic cancer,…
Double the visual kick of fall foliage by viewing it twice, first right-side-up and again as it reflects in the waters of New Hampshire’s lakes, ponds, rivers and bays. Of course, you can do this by standing on the shore, but for the full effect, wrap yourself in color from all directions by moving onto the water itself. New Hampshire…
Nineteenth-century inns are flourishing on Main Street. Upscale restaurants and galleries are sprouting in once-abandoned storefronts like the Queen Anne’s lace and other wildflowers that bloom alongside the main street. Even the 210-year-old grist mill has been refurbished and is back in business. Don’t believe it? Go to the Depression-era Littleton Diner (an authentic diner car) and chow down on…
Steve Doocy reporting the weather on Fox and Friends: “… and in Boston, the capital of New England …” What? Boston, the capital of New England? Sez who? How could Boston, sinkhole for federal highway funds, whose mayor speaks some alien tongue, where Theresa Heinz-Kerry keeps her lapdog, workplace of New Hampshire-phobic word thief Mike Barnicle, possibly be the capital…
There are lots of reasons to hate Halloween, I mean other than the Wal-Mart shelves filled with cheesy costumes and the bags of leftover candy that get deposited in the office break room. The main one for me is the fact that it has morphed from a holiday for kids playing dress-up to yet another excuse for adults to get…
To my knowledge, no black bear tour exists in New Hampshire. Dear New Hampshire Office of Travel and Tourism, get on that. Really. Grab a bunch of tourists, put them in a vehicle — preferably open on all sides — give them some delicious-smelling edible goodies and plop them out in bear country. I estimate you’ll be raking it in,…
