Feaured Shop – Wingdoodle • Warner Artists are springing up this fall in Warner. Stroll in to Wingdoodle, 19 East Main St., Warner, and feel your imagination take flight. Wingdoodle is a studio, a gift gallery and a magical place where non-artists are able to discover inner talents never before realized. The newest craze is all about doodling. It’s called…
What really happened on that cold night in 1873 …The three women had been left alone on Smuttynose, a remote island 10 miles off the coast of New Hampshire – their men had gone to Portsmouth for the night. When they returned the next day, two of the women were dead, brutally murdered. The third had escaped, and was ready…
Pushing classical design to the edge.Terry Moore, a native of Wales, settled in the Newport area around 1980. Without any official training, he began making fine furniture after gaining a reputation making kitchen cabinets. With several years experience, and work he was proud to show, Moore “plucked” up the courage to apply to the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.”It was…
Pellet and wood-burning stoves heat up your home without burning a hole in your pocket or the ozone layer. As we near cooler fall weather, it will soon be time to start turning up the heat. But since everybody’s going green these days, it’s also a good idea to look at alternatives in home heating. If you’re looking to “go…
Spot the Newt Spot four newts like this one (pictured) hidden on ads in each issue, tell us where you found them and you might win an assortment of great gifts. To enter our drawing for a free gift basket, send your answers to: Spot the Newt c/o New Hampshire Magazine 150 Dow St., Manchester, NH 03101 E-mail them to:…
Now there’s an alternative to ERsIt probably happens to everyone at one point or another: You twist your ankle while doing yard work on a Saturday morning, or your child suddenly develops an intense ear ache after dinner on a Tuesday. With the doctor’s office closed, and the typically long wait at the emergency room an unappealing option, what to…
Here, being female is a political advantage A month before the last New Hampshire Primary I was having a beer with Hillary Clinton. At the time she was leading polls in nearly everywhere, except in Iowa where she curiously never led. For this there were two largely accepted explanations. First, when her husband first ran for president in 1992 Iowa…
An open letter to Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple Inc.Dear Mr. Jobs:While working my way through a stack of magazines recently, I noticed they all contained promotions for your new generation iPhone and all the nifty applications that can now be purchased for it. These applications seem to cover everything, from the useful (GPS locator, level, tip calculator) to the…
My wife and I are going through near-empty-nest syndrome: one daughter in college in Iowa, one son more or less on his own and one daughter living at home while taking courses at New Hampshire Technical Institute. But suddenly, back in October, our whole nest changed in a most exotic way.My daughter, an art student, was walking home from NHTI…
Every kid loves to dress up, and David Oelerich was no exception (Buddy Holly was his favorite pretend). He probably never could have imagined he would one day own a costume shop filled with every imaginable character — a kid’s paradise. Ironically, his Costumes of Nashua (which is in Hudson) caters mostly to adults (yes, there are lots who dress…
