Archives: March 2009

Letters to the Editor

Need a Good Reaso for Spotting the Newt? This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a basket filled with Harry David’s praline-pecan pancake mix, a spatula, pure N.H. maple syrup in a glass maple leaf bottle, one Newfound B&B mug, a mix of teas and a $50 gift certificate toward a stay at A Newfound Bed & Breakfast…

Anyone for 10ish?

Anthropologists chalk it up to the digits, i.e. fingers, of the anthropoid. When cave persons first started keeping track of their personal stock of, say, dried iguana jerky, it was convenient to tick them off on those pointy things on the ends of their hands. That’s what gave birth to base 10 math, the concept of the decade, that sexy…