Thank you for sending me the image of your Wallace Nutting photograph. In the early 1900s, Wallace Nutting emerged as a leading photographer of New England country scenery and interiors. Today, each Wallace Nutting photograph encapsulates a rich history of American material culture. After graduating from Harvard in 1887 and serving as a minister for many years, Nutting changed course….
David Thomson might have been repairing his fishing nets when Miles Standish arrived at his home in 1623. Thomson, the state’s first non-Native American resident, lived on what is now called Odiorne Point in Rye and fished for cod in the nearby waters. It was the cod Standish was interested in. He was on a mission from Plymouth Plantation to…
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 &…
David Watters is an academic with a bushelful of credentials – professor of English at UNH, director of the Center for New England Culture, a scholar for the N.H. Humanities Council, a trustee of the Robert Frost farm and an expert on the history of gravestones, to name a few. But ask him a serious question – like is it…
