Archives: July 2011

Discover Derry

A look inside ReRuns – The Best of the PastHow can you tell if someone is really your friend? They take you to ReRuns and let you browse for hours. This charming yellow house, set back from Rte. 102 in Londonderry, is a treasure trove of gently used furniture and home décor that doesn’t smell like a grandmother’s attic. Rooms…

Feeling a Presence

An Atkinson photographer evokes our Colonial past.A metal hook on a meetinghouse door that shows more than two centuries of use – it’s one of the photographs in Paul Wainwright’s “A Space for Faith” that inspire you to imagine life back then, to imagine the many times the door was unlocked for events in the community.Wainwright’s evocative photographs – taken…

Letters to the Editor

Need a good reason for spotting the newt? How about two good reasons?This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotters will receive this handcrafted and locally designed silk floral door décor from Ideas In Bloom LLC, planned with spring in mind (www.ideas-in-bloom.com) or a complimentary one-year subscription to New Hampshire Magazine. Ideas in Bloom is a proud member of NH Made…

Community Impact

Words are a bit like sponges. They can soak up all kinds of meaning and significance from the world around them or they can get squeezed dry from overuse. Take “community,” a word that once meant a group of people living in relationship to one another. Now that word is drenched with our contemporary ideals of localism, sustainability and neighborliness.On…

Steeped in Tradition

The tea-stained Betsy Ross flag is a favorite for the Fourth. A few years back, action star and conservative activist Chuck Norris called on tea partiers to stop using the modern American flag as a way to protest big government. Norris advocated the use of the Gadsden (“Don’t tread on me”) flag, the Navy Jack or the 13-star Betsy Ross…