New England in miniature.Milford artist MaryLyn Yonika gets all the details right in her stoneware candle houses – all just inches tall. Shutters, clapboards, chimney bricks and the weathered barn boards of classic Yankee barns are studied and reproduced in clay. The small details are a joy to behold. The church has glass windows and barns are topped with hand-hammered…
Wool and silk in a colorful marriage.Inspired by her Hopkinton garden, fiber artist Annette Frye translates fresh-picked blooms into wearable art. Frye, a master gardener, understands the botany of calla lilies, dahlias and other gorgeous flowers that she redefines with colorful wool fibers. Even her Monet-inspired water lilies, first spied on a kayaking trip on Turkey Pond, became subjects for…
In 1969 Richard M. Nixon was president of the United States, man first landed on the moon, and 16-year-old magician BJ Hickman joined The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Some 41 years later The I.B.M. honored Hickman in a cover story in their journal, The Linking Ring. The feature article, “BJ Hickman – Magician of Many Talents” by Bobby Warren, reviewed…
When Jane Kaufmann took a pottery class at UNH in the mid-’60s, she had no idea where it would lead her. “It looked like a good way to keep busy at home while I raised my children,” Kaufmann says. Today the Durham resident is a ceramic sculptor of note, exhibiting and selling her work through the League of N.H. Craftsmen,…
Scanning through the real estate listings can be a bit like browsing the personal ads. Those lonely, lovely properties sound attractive, but is there a match made in heaven just for you? After all, you wouldn’t select your spouse based merely on location, location location. Why pick your house that way? There’s no place like home, so they say. And,…
Doctors focus on genes in the battle against breast cancer.You’re grateful for the piercing blue eyes and appreciate the good teeth, but not so much the weak chin and near-sightedness. What else have you inherited? For women with a family history of breast cancer, genetics – as it relates to cancer risk – can be a real and substantial worry.To…
The Feds aren’t hiding in your closet. They are holding up your roof.Staunch Libertarians and committed members of the Free State movement have long been attracted to New Hampshire for our decentralized politics and “Live Free or Die” mindset.So it must be stunning to them that somehow the Granite State has emerged to be the most socialist state in the…
Lower the emotional heat and work it out with mediation.Until you’ve been divorced, you just don’t know what it’s like.Divorce is easily the most-thought-of segment of legal endeavors known as “family law.” It’s one of the greatest legal misnomers because most of the time “family law” turns out to involve disentangling the legal, financial and (if done right) emotional relationships…
Need A Good Reason to Spot the Newt?This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a 10″ x 10″ print, framed and matted with non-glare glass, from Sunny Valley Creations of Columbia, N.H. (www.sunnyvalleycreations.com). The photo of Beaver Brook Falls in Colebrook was taken by Roxanne Herres.Sun Valley Creations is a proud member of NH Made (www.nhmade.com), the state’s…
Surviving it in Snuggies with enough brandy to get you to boogie.If you spend a winter in New Hampshire, there are several unpleasant experiences that you simply can’t avoid. You will slip on ice while carrying groceries. You will have the plow guy bury your driveway entrance shortly after you finish shoveling. And you will experience the dreaded power outage.Some…
