Archives: September 2009

Losing It For Good

The results of two nationally-respected obesity studies are relatively flattering to New Hampshire. We are officially one of the least rotund states in the U.S.A., ranking 33rd (high numbers are healthier) in the 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey and 39th in the Trust for America’s Health report sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mississippi, Alabama and…

A Farmhouse Makeover

Sometimes it takes a village to rehab an older home. Every summer the volunteers at the Museums of Old York select a house that becomes the creative outlet for a host of area interior designers. The makeovers are truly stunning – and a testament to the dedication of participating design professionals. The house chosen for this year’s fundraiser by the…

Our Green Valley

Plainfield, N.H: The field is not plain, despite the name. It is on a plain — a plain renowned for a fertility borne of the work of a hundred million years.It was in the warmth of the Mesozoic Era that the Connecticut River came into being. The attractive crush of continents had given rise to Pangaea, but then the masses…