Yet Another Scoop I’m a fan of homemade ice cream so was very interested in your story in the August issue and looked to see if my favorite places were listed. Some were. One that wasn’t listed is another fine choice: Merrivale Farms Ice Cream, located on Route 3A (254 W. River Rd.) in Hooksett. It’s a small shop but…
Keep your mitts off our primary — that’s been New Hampshire’s mother-bear-fierce message to all who would diminish the importance of the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Now the N.H. Historical Society and the N.H. Political Library have teamed up to deliver the message once again, except with far more subtlety and elegance. With candidates searching for votes in every N.H….
Your neighbor comes over with an armful of the bloated green vegetable, and the farmers markets are flush with zucchini of every stripe. We offer you 12 great reasons to embrace the bounty with enthusiasm and a good chef’s knife. 1 It’s a gateway vegetable. A fresh, flavorful zucchini will remind you of all the riches available now at local…
It’s just a little luncheonette-style spot with a counter and a few tables, but Rincon Colombiano offers big, bold flavors in traditional Columbian dishes with some familiar ingredients merged with flavors you might never have tried before. Start with a couple of crispy empanadas with beef or chicken for just a buck each, along with arepa, a cornmeal cake served…
If my family were the Kennedys, I would be the last one picked for touch football. It’s not that I am particularly clumsy or slow, too short or too old. It’s just that I am too rational. Why waste a perfectly good afternoon throwing around a dead, inflated mammal when you could be solving a crossword puzzle or listening to…
Begin in Groveton, a former lumber town north of the White Mountains, where the Ammonoosuc River used to be filled with logs waiting for the pulp mills. Now a park holds an old coal-fired logging railroad engine and caboose beside the bypassed 1852 Groveton Covered Bridge. Follow US 3 north through town to Emerson’s Outdoor Equipment (www.emersonoutdoors.com), known throughout the…
What About Us? As a subscriber to New Hampshire Magazine I was thrilled to see the August addition of the magazine featuring the article “The Big Scoop on Ice Cream” written by Susan Laughlin. I eagerly turned to the page to read about all of the great places in New Hampshire that are making their own ice cream. I have…
The power of mind over biology is a mystery that science has just begun to understand, but healers from the the Eastern world did not wait for science to break the mind-body code. Elaborate systems of curing and preventing disease have been developed by trial and error, and applied by faith in an invisible energy called “qi.” It was almost…
Sometimes the hardest part of a room makeover is finding where to start. We asked nine designers to take us along on the design process, from inspiration to the final touch. The project was eight rooms in the 2007 Old York Designer Show House — a Shingle-style home near the sea. Above: Anne Cowenhoven of Accent and Design created a…
Since I recently turned 55, and since all twin-digit birthdays are special, I decided to celebrate this “mid life” (presuming a life span of 110) milestone by doing something I’d never done before. I had never climbed a mountain — never even driven to the top of one. I know that in New Hampshire this is sort of like admitting…
