Performance artist Jonathan Doyle, 29, who splits his time between Keene and Manhattan, was booted from the halfway point of Mt. Monadnock last fall after he was caught stalking Bigfoot on the trail. Doyle and his costumed friends — he won’t reveal who Bigfoot was except that he is a “well-known local figure” — were asked to leave by park…
A cemetery and ex-socialite.If you know anything about author Cornelia Read, now a New Hampshire resident, you know that the main character in her three books — Madeline Dare — has pretty much the same backstory as Read herself. They are both “runaway socialites,” who have, as Read once put it, “money so old there’s none left.”One way they differ,…
Two sides of the state’s population boom.If “New Hampshire” and “Population Growth” had a Facebook relationship status it would be “It’s Complicated.” For decades New Hampshire has been one of the fastest-growing states in the country: The current population of 1.3 million is nearly double what it was in 1970.Population growth statistics are not just for census geeks. These numbers…
Sometimes it takes a fresh perspective to make things happen.The sun was rising over the Franconia Mountain Range as New Yorker Karen Melanie LaRocco gripped her morning coffee. It was then that she knew this was the porch, this was the inn, this was the space she wanted to call home. Soon she was the owner of the white clapboard…
With the fully informed consent of my wife, I’ve been carrying on a 20-year “affair” with my next door neighbor. It started shortly after we moved to New Hampshire. She saw me working in the yard and pointed out that the line of trees separating our properties were drooping branches onto the roof of her house. If it wasn’t too…
Need a good reason to spot the newt?This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a gift basket from A Brush With Life (www.abrushwithlife.net).An Art Nouveau wine theme adorns all eight pieces in the basket: slumped recycled wine bottle cheese trays, wine glasses with a decoupage design and ceramic tile coasters. The items are all the creations of New…
They do it — not for riches — but because they love it.It takes a different breed. Though being on ski patrol is often glamorized by movies and tall tales, the men and women who spend their days outdoors in winter’s finicky grip are a dedicated group of hearty people who do more than rescue injured skiers and snowboarders on…
Now’s the time to plan and organize.Some people avoid certain topics like the plague: politics, religion and the big doozy, “who gets what after I’m gone.”After all, it’s much easier to come up with a “Bucket List” of things you want to accomplish before you die than it is to come up with an “I’ve-Kicked-the-Bucket List” of things that must…
Featured Shop: Zoë & Company• Concord.Zoë & Company, 92 North Main Street, Concord, is where you’ll find the lights on after the sun goes down. This classy storefront, with stretchy store hours, is not your typical Main Street boutique. It’s a bra store, where you’ll find more bras than in Dolly Parton’s closet. According to Elyssa Paris, store manager and…
Anybody can buy a box of chocolates or order a dozen red roses, but it takes imagination to have an affair to remember. Our redoubtable husband-and-wife reporting team offer some suggestions to guarantee that Cupid’s arrow makes its mark.Get A RoomAin’t love grand? Well, you don’t have to say it with flowers, you can say it with a visit to…
