Featured Shop – Miranda’s on Main, KeeneDump boring. Throw out your old blazers and do your wardrobe a favor by indulging in a smart timeless jacket. Miranda’s on Main, 1 Main St., has a nice collection including designs by 3 Sisters, Damer and Joseph Ribkoff. Dresses by London Times start at under $100 and look like a million. Totally welcoming…
Today’s seniors are sitting on bikes, not rocking chairs.When Theresa Bean, 66, was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia close to a decade ago, the only prescription doctors gave to alleviate it came in the form of antidepressants. “They made me sleep all the time, and I thought to myself, ‘I can’t take these,’” she says. “I told myself that I had…
For Philip Jacobs, love of art was instilled at an early age. Growing up in Washington, D.C., he was a frequent visitor to its many galleries and museums. When he went to the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he met his wife and fellow craftsman Karissa who would introduce him to the charms of New…
If you’re a rock climber, what could be better than a Granite State?The White Mountains are rock climbing heaven. Cannon Cliffs tower in the west, North Conway has its storied walls in the east, while the alpine ridges of Mount Washington are in the north. New Hampshire is the Granite State for a reason and rock jocks test their mettle…
Need a good reason for spotting the newt?This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a lovely Peterboro basket from the Peterboro Basket Company, compliments of NH Made. Peterboro baskets have been manufactured here in New Hampshire for more than 150 years.Peterboro Baskets is a proud member of NH Made (www.nhmade.com), the state’s official non-profit booster of locally generated…
Finding a taste of the state on back roads.Sometimes the journey is the best part of life. Sure, you could just go to the local wine shop or State Liquor Store to grab a bottle of vino, but now that New Hampshire has 23 active wineries open with tasting rooms, you may want to make a road trip out of…
We take our liberties pretty seriously here.One hundred and fifty years ago shots were fired at Fort Sumter outside of Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War had begun.The Civil War has been called America’s Second Revolutionary War. The question of slavery divided both sides, but the war also set out to answer two fundamental questions. First, whether power lies in…
A humorist and essayist sizes up his adopted state.Glenn Currie admits he’s a complainer, but he’ll tell you it’s a good kind of complaining, that he just wants to make our great state even greater and, as he puts it, “cure newcomers of potentially bad habits, especially if they have just moved up from Massachusetts.”In his recently released book, “Granite…
The handsome and charming new co-anchor of “The Early Show” on CBS every weekday morning might look familiar. Before becoming one of the top national talents in broadcasting, Chris Wragge, or “Rags,” as he is known, parlayed an internship at WMUR-TV to an on-air sportscasting job at the station and from there his career sailed over the moon, collecting 10…
