Archives: August 2010

Things to Do

Benson’s Wild Animal Farm Revisited

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

The gorilla politicians and wild beast weddings are gone, but Hudson’s “Wild Animal Farm” lives on as a recreational park. Wonder Woman couldn’t save one of New Hampshire’s most cherished childhood treasures. Neither could the Incredible Hulk or Mighty Mouse.On Labor Day weekend in 1987, all three superheroes came to mourn the imminent demise of Benson’s Wild Animal Farm, likely…
Opinion & Humor

Not Quite a Queen

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

Or “How I swallowed my bohemian pride and begged for donations.”When I was 18 I was a Hospital Day Queen candidate.Most of the businesses in New London offered up some hapless damsel to run for queen and I was it for the Sugar & Spice Restaurant. Sugar & Spice was a diner of sorts. You could get anything you wanted…
People

Jazz Man – Sonny Rollins

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

The world of jazz has its share of giants, and among those still alive and kicking no one looms larger than improvisational saxaphonist and composer Sonny Rollins. He and his horn will be in New Hampshire later this month when he receives the Edward MacDowell Medal at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough. Medal day is always the second Sunday in…