Above: Photo by Charlie Burke Olympic skier Bode Miller and his family have been the recipients of some less-than-upbeat press in recent years, but behind the scenes the extended Miller Clan has been doing a lot of good that hasn’t gotten so much exposure. Case in point, the Turtle Ridge Farm and Foundation, which has been producing certified organic produce…
This Thanksgiving Day, as we count our blessings amid football games, drumsticks and pumpkin pies, let us remember Sarah Josepha Hale, who likely knew nothing of betting lines and point spreads or points after touchdowns. Hale, a 19th-century New Hampshire woman, promoted for 30 years the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, an idea adopted by President Lincoln in 1863,…
Film plays a big role in my life. I was working in the movie industry back in the 1980s when I met my wife-to-be, swept her off her feet and proposed to her after a month of dating. It was every bit as romantic as it sounds, but, to be clear, I was working on a loading dock and she…
Thanksgiving’s menu was so easy when we lived in a big midwestern city. Sweet potatoes, check. Green beans, creamed onions, mashed white potatoes, cranberry sauce — check, check, check, check. And, of course, the piece de résistance, the bird itself: One of those peculiarly perfectly round waxy-looking things stacked like cordwood in supermarket freezers. But, I learned, that odd object…
Metalsmith Wendolyn Hammer augments the natural beauty in beach stones with sterling silver and precious stones. She has worked in metal for more than 18 years, but has developed this new line using the naturally polished rocks she finds on the beach near her home in Portsmouth. Hammer combs the sands for just the right stones, the ones that “feel…
That Thanksgiving is the most New England of American holidays is surely apparent in the local foods provided for the family table by New Hampshire’s farmers. Plan first to order your turkey because local flocks are limited. Free of hormones and antibiotics, most are pastured and fed high-protein grains. As Raymond Garcia of Littleton’s Cabin View Farm (444-0248) says, “We…
Above: Photo by PT Sullivan The advertising business is a game of ups and downs, lefts and rights. No agency knows this better than Manchester’s Griffin York and Krause, which has gone through a few sets of initials in recent years. But managing change is what it’s all about, says new president of GY&K, Travis York. Setting the strategic direction…
Above: illustration by Bic Parker Moose-watching, bird-watching — they’re popular pastimes in New Hampshire. And every four years, you can even try spotting a future president. Grab your binoculars — the candidates are coming. Actually they’ve been here since shortly after the balloons for the 2004 primary deflated, but the time for spotting the crop of candidates for 2008 is…
These are not the glory days for Granite State Republicans. After the national elections were swept by the Democrats, the state soon followed suit and turned from red to blue. But the man in the hot seat as the chairman of the Republican State Party seems to be enjoying the challenge, heading up the conservative insurgency and taking pot shots…
Above: Photo by Susan Laughlin She and her partner Deb Weeks had created one of the hottest scenes in Portsmouth with the Green Monkey restaurant when a space opened up across the street. They took a bold leap and bought it, starting a new restaurant named Brazo with a South American ambiance and dishes that suggest ports of call from…
