“I just hope my fingertips don’t open up again,” Dave Cummings said before stepping to the free throw line inside the gymnasium at Epsom Central School. Too late. About an hour later and 650 free throws into his daily thousand shots, the red, white and blue basketball Cummings is using starts showing specks of blood.Dave couldn’t care less. He’s on…
Location: the Martignetti Company offices in Manchester, Feb. 25, 2009 for an interview with Dan Aykroyd conducted by New Hampshire Magazine Editor Rick Broussard. Aykroyd wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket and pin-stripe vest was seated at a table below a poster advertising his Discovery Series wines. On the table were two bottles of his 2007 vintage, one a Chardonnay…
The Verizon Wireless Arena will host hairstylists from across the country in a glam dash for the top prize of $7,000. This is one of the biggest events of the year for the New Hampshire Food Bank, with proceeds going directly to fund the Food Bank’s fight against hunger.April 22, Manchester Tickets are $35. Purchase four or more for $25…
Author Stephen King is like the Sherlock Holmes of horror, detecting and exposing our deepest fears. And he has his Watson. Russ Dorr, a mild-mannered physician’s assistant living in Merrimack, has been King’s researcher, adviser and a close friend for more than 30 years, ever since a doctor’s visit where King asked Dorr if he’d dig up a few facts…
In more than 30 years onstage in New England and beyond, actor/director George Piehl has played many major roles. But one that seems to suit him especially well is that of the cold-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” which he performs each year at the Palace Theatre. It’s not that there’s anything miserly or cold-hearted about…
Wild weather, wondrous views and spring thaw soupIf you think a book about the Mount Washington Observatory is likely to be a real snooze, think again. Eric Pinder’s “Life at the Top” is a great read — full of well-told stories about living 6,288 feet up on a mountaintop that sits in the middle of the world’s worst weather. Pinder…
Jon Gibson learned his craft at his father’s knee. And not much has changed about the pewtering process since Raymond Gibson opened Gibson Pewter in 1966 in Hillsborough Center.Continuing the craft alone, son Jon turns out traditional pieces like spoons, tankards and cups, plus traditionally inspired creamers, sugar bowls, tea sets and contemporary pieces of his own design — in…
Ah, summer! Long, sunlit days, cool nights and crisp mornings. Gardens at the peak of color. Festivals and antique shows. Who could ask for more than what we have right here in New Hampshire? Well … not to be disloyal to our beautiful state, but sometimes the travel bug bites. Sometimes one wants to be …somewhere else. Perhaps you are…
The best way to do that? Don’t smoke.Information about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) doesn’t appear in the press much; surely it’s not in the public consciousness the way that breast cancer and heart disease are. But it is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. More than 12 million people are currently diagnosed with COPD, and…
The race for Judd Gregg’s Senate seat could determine it. The year 2006 had just begun and Jack Heath, a political consultant with a Concord radio show gaining in popularity, heard that highway signs welcoming motorists across our state’s border were being replaced. Gone were the old blue and yellow signs with the phrase “Bienvenue.” The new signs were cleaner,…
