Kung-Tai Tsay came to this country from Taiwan back in 1975 when her husband was accepted into graduate school here. But, in all the years since,Tsay never forgot the Chinese traditions she grew up with. She pursued the ancient arts of Chinese knot tying and classical dance. Today – when she’s not helping with the family business or enjoying her…
Frank Coppola says he was a bookworm during his school days and never participated in organized sports, but in the years since then (he’s now 32) he’s become a major player in the state’s fantasy football craze. The Lee resident, who’s assistant sports editor for the Seacoast Media Group, writes a column about fantasy sports for Sunday Seacoast and spends…
About one percent – that’s David McDonald’s guess about how many people know very much about the stars:”People tend to know their trees, the animals because they see them out their back door. We don’t encounter the stars as much.” His quest, as director of education for the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, is to change that. What do you…
Not many children have an 18th-century painting hanging on their bedroom wall, but Susan Strickler did. It was a reproduction of Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy” and she remembers it being there from the time she was 8 or 9. Whether that early introduction to fine art influenced her career path, the fact is she’s now the director of the Currier Museum…
By day, he’s an economic consultant for RKG Associates in Durham. By night, he could be any number of things – king, friar, villain, soldier, courtier. Those are the kinds of roles Larry Cranor plays for the New England Shakespeare Festival, a professional touring company based in Deerfield. In the upcoming summer season’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” one of Shakespeare’s…
If you’re into politics, Jennifer Donahue is a name you know. You’ve seen her on “Hardball,” “Anderson Cooper360” and the nightly news on all the networks. She’s widely quoted in top newspapers like the New York Times and magazines like Newsweek. Her acknowledged political acumen and her role as political director for the N.H. Institute of Politics at St. Anselm…
When Peter Ramsey, now 50, was a kid his house was right next door to the New London Barn Playhouse, and on summer nights he listened to “Hello, Dolly,” “Oklahoma” and the other Broadway songs that wafted up from the stage to his open bedroom window. Maybe it was, as he says, “a kind of brainwashing” that instilled a deep…
Steve Priest is retired, but for him that only means more time to work as a motivational speaker and writer, and to do things outdoors- hike, bike, run, swim, canoe and bang up his nose riding rapids. And that’s just in the summer. His latest winter adventure was sleeping in a snow hut (it was 10 degrees outside). Not always…
She hasn’t learned to do it yet (“it’s really difficult”), but that doesn’t keep Michelle Keezer from being a great coach to a bunch of 7- to 14-year-olds who ride unicycles. They learn in a unique program at the Andover Elementary/Middle School and, when they get good, they join the traveling team. Over the years the team – the only…
Simon Leeming has been in this country – mostly in Canterbury, N.H. – since his family came here from New Zealand when he was 18, but his heart still belongs to the land of Kiwis. So much so, he serves as the country’s honorary consul to the six New England states. When he’s not lawyering at Preti Flaherty Beliveau &…
