To read the fevered letters to the editors of Granite State newspapers invoking his name, one would think that General John Stark had stumbled on the Battle of Bennington only by chance. That he’d really run out for cigarettes. Well, probably just tobacco, since cigarettes weren’t around when New Hampshire’s favorite Revolutionary War hero was kicking British butt. According to…
While most of us dream our dreams as an exercise of the imagination, a rare few actually make their dreams come true. Alyson’s Orchard in Walpole is such a dream, a very real imagining about a magical place. Looking across the Connecticut River from his Westminster, Vt., home more than 25 years ago, self-made technology entrepreneur Bob Jasse spied a…
To understand carpal tunnel syndrome, it helps to have a visual metaphor. Picture a train going into a narrow tunnel. Now imagine the walls of that tunnel closing in, squeezing the train until it can no longer stay on track and the engineer can’t read the signals up ahead. Not vivid enough? OK, then picture yourself on the Pirates of…
The idea is the thing. Bruce Iverson’s Hsieh-i brush paintings capture the essence of the object, be it bamboo, orchid or chrysanthemum. Paintings are not done from set-ups, but by observing nature and then expressing the “ch’i” with simple, yet controlled brush strokes that can take years to master. Iverson works in limited colors or just black ink, quoting an…
Behind those shades, Carl Cameron’s boyish face is familiar to the world from his work as a political reporter and White House correspondent for FOX News and as a former reporter for WMUR-TV Ch. 9. Cameron and the rest of his crew will be rolling into town for the FOX News-sponsored GOP Presidential Debate on September 5. The debate will…
Serving the Common Man Ray started his restaurant empire, the Common Man Restaurants, with little capital in 1971. He built slowly and conservatively and at last count has 13 venues, from the Tilt’n Diner to the Lakehouse in Church Landing at Mill Falls. He must be one busy guy, but in September of 2005, Ray packed up a van with…
Call state Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, a “privacy freak” and he’ll want to know how you got that information. “That’s what people who want to run rampant over privacy rights say,” Kurk fires back, claiming they want to make him a pariah. He seems determined to oblige, refusing to have his picture taken or to divulge such routine information as…
Biotech Goes Boom When Tillman U. Gerngross, 43, and Charles E. Hutchinson, 70, two Dartmouth College professors, started a little biotech company called Glycofi about six years ago, they set about developing a yeast-based technology that could serve as a platform for vaccines and cancer-fighting drugs. This year their company was purchased by pharmaceutical giant Merck for $400 million —…
Mega-Pastor Bruce Boria, Sr. Pastor for Bethany Church in Greenland, leads a growing “mega-church” (the largest in the state and one of about a dozen in New England) with about 1,500 members. It provides an incredible array of services to parishioners and to the Seacoast community, but his goal is to keep things small. “We don’t want to come across…
Colorful Co-Creators Their signature is bright, bold patterns and colors. Whether it’s an area rug, bedspread or throw pillow, you can spot the ones from Company C at 50 yards. Company creators Chris and Walter Chapin started small 10 years ago, selling handmade rugs to the design trade from their home in Concord. Then they, both lovers of color and…
