Above: Photo by PT Sullivan David Mendelsohn came to UNH to study forestry, but soon gravitated to the photo labs. It was a good move. His photos began appearing in significant journals of photography and he received a grant from the NEA to photograph an extended road trip titled “Route 40.” It’s the kind of assignment most photographers would consider…
Above: Photo by PT Sullivan Ernest Thompson has been hosting a playwright workshop near his home in the Lakes Region for a decade or so, while writing and directing some of the most compelling and controversial theatre anywhere. His most recent play, “Ax of Love,” is a touchingly brutal look at how love survives whatever life throws at it. It…
Above: Photo courtesy of Dan Brown The man who wrote what Time magazine called “The Novel That Ate the World” is at work (though there are rumors of writer’s block) on another book at his Rye home. Can publishing phenom Dan Brown — author of the all-time best-seller “The Da Vinci Code” — do it again? Brown and his publisher,…
From professional-level classes to a single-menu demonstration by a master chef, the mystery of food preparation for the home cook is being unraveled by the experts. The glut of celebrity television cooking shows and enticing food magazines are just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce?) that is reflecting the gastronomical passion of the time. With star chefs commanding prime television…
Potter has an enduring story to tell Gaze at Tim Christensen’s black and white pottery and you first think of Escher. But Christensen’s work is more than a striking pattern, he is telling a story about the relationship of man to the natural world. Animals, fish and birds cavort and go about the business of survival in designs inscribed through…
To my knowledge, no black bear tour exists in New Hampshire. Dear New Hampshire Office of Travel and Tourism, get on that. Really. Grab a bunch of tourists, put them in a vehicle — preferably open on all sides — give them some delicious-smelling edible goodies and plop them out in bear country. I estimate you’ll be raking it in,…
There are lots of reasons to hate Halloween, I mean other than the Wal-Mart shelves filled with cheesy costumes and the bags of leftover candy that get deposited in the office break room. The main one for me is the fact that it has morphed from a holiday for kids playing dress-up to yet another excuse for adults to get…
Steve Doocy reporting the weather on Fox and Friends: “… and in Boston, the capital of New England …” What? Boston, the capital of New England? Sez who? How could Boston, sinkhole for federal highway funds, whose mayor speaks some alien tongue, where Theresa Heinz-Kerry keeps her lapdog, workplace of New Hampshire-phobic word thief Mike Barnicle, possibly be the capital…
Nineteenth-century inns are flourishing on Main Street. Upscale restaurants and galleries are sprouting in once-abandoned storefronts like the Queen Anne’s lace and other wildflowers that bloom alongside the main street. Even the 210-year-old grist mill has been refurbished and is back in business. Don’t believe it? Go to the Depression-era Littleton Diner (an authentic diner car) and chow down on…
Double the visual kick of fall foliage by viewing it twice, first right-side-up and again as it reflects in the waters of New Hampshire’s lakes, ponds, rivers and bays. Of course, you can do this by standing on the shore, but for the full effect, wrap yourself in color from all directions by moving onto the water itself. New Hampshire…
