Classical guitarist Andrés Segovia was performing on TV and Ed Gerhard knew, even though he was just 10 years old at the time, that it was a life-changing moment. “There was something about the sound of it,” he says. At 14 years old, he got his first guitar. At 15, he was performing. And so it has been ever since….
December is a good month to mosey among New Hampshire’s small towns, keeping a sharp eye out for church holiday fairs and bazaars, which often include home-cooked lunches and church suppers. Begin in Rochester, following Route 11 to Farmington. If the date is December 13, detour north on Route 16 to Milton instead, to join the New Hampshire Farm Museum…
What once was shocking is now out in the open, though the subject still raises a few eyebrows. Romance in late life does exist. Statistics are hard to come by, but based on my acquaintance with older people around the state, I conclude that new relationships among people in their 70s and 80s are thriving. It makes sense. With longer…
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Jeff Balashak of Manchester had an early passion for woodworking. At a certain point in his high school training he began showing his shop instructors how to shape wood. His class projects of reproduction furniture nicely populated his parents’ living room. Then there was the house fire. When the furniture restorers came to repair furniture as part the the insurance…
Thank you for sending me images of your pair of portraits. The journey of researching your paintings has certainly been an interesting one! I had initially hoped to obtain from you additional images or clarification of the writing on the back of the canvas, but had inadvertently lost your contact information. Using Photoshop, I was able to enhance the legibility…
Brian Mitchell starts dragging the strings of Christmas lights out of storage — the attic, the basement, multiple closets and an 8’ x 10’ shed — sometime in October. Then come the waving Santas, the plastic light-up figures, the blow molds, the animated dolls, the working carousel, the wire frame train, the “Merry Christmas” sign and, of course, the reindeer….
