The 21st century may have gotten off to a bad start, but there’s always reason for optimism, especially if you’ve got a good imagination. For example, in John Irving’s “The World According to Garp,” the title character is house shopping with his wife. Just as they are about to tour a home a small plane crashes into it. Garp buys…
The Seedling Café sprouts a leaf It may not be the most hospitable season or favorable economic climate for growing a new restaurant, but two young hopefuls have dug in and transplanted their sprouting café to nurture a new leaf — a full-scale restaurant. Josh and Danielle Enright have opened the Rustic Leaf Bistro in the former location of the…
Advice for Palin on the path to the presidencyA few months back former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin released a book that was either an attempt to run for president, an attempt to make money or both.But if she pursues the presidency, then she’ll have to become more acquainted with New Hampshire given that we hold the first-in-the-nation presidential…
A storm only photographers could like …“It was 1:15 Friday morning when all the trees were exploding out back. It sounded like cannon fire or gunshots.”It was December 12, just over a year ago, when a massive ice storm swirled into the Northeast. It would leave in its wake trees covered in up to an inch and a half of…
“I just hope my fingertips don’t open up again,” Dave Cummings said before stepping to the free throw line inside the gymnasium at Epsom Central School. Too late. About an hour later and 650 free throws into his daily thousand shots, the red, white and blue basketball Cummings is using starts showing specks of blood.Dave couldn’t care less. He’s on…
A sleepy little state? Hardly Take a quick tour of Manchester, Nashua, Keene, Portsmouth and Plymouth to get a sampling of the after-dark adventure that awaits night owls around the state. You can start with a nice meal or appetizers at the bar of a hip restaurant, move on to a venue with entertainment and finally get a late night…
