Don’t Lose Your Marbles. Some of them go back a long way. Thank you for sending me an image of your glass sulphide marble. It is a great piece and makes me think back to when I was first introduced to playing marbles at my grandmother’s house in the late 1970s.Marbles have had a long history as a game that…
Basic metals and elemental design forge a simple statement.Who needs gold jewelry? Jeweler Julie Schmidt cuts and hammers bronze and copper alloys and gives them gleam and shapely appeal without the extravagant price.Her metal necklaces and earrings are three-dimensional hearts, flower petals or just free-form curvilinear shapes swinging and swaying with the wearer. The simple shapes are hammered for texture,…
The Gate City has an exceptional Main Street, with plenty of great places for holiday shopping.Featured Shop: Fresh of NashuaBegin at the City Room Café, 105 W. Pearl St., for some quick eggs over easy and coffee and then get ready to fill your awesome. Let Fresh of Nashua, 178 Main St., fuel your fashion. Slip into a pair of…
Peter Brodeur – aka “Bearded Turtle” – says he never set out to be a storyteller. But back in the 1990s, while he was working at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner, he started telling stories and soon realized he had found his life’s work.Encouraged by Native American storytellers, Peter uses storytelling to help preserve an oral tradition that…
Climbing boulders isn’t always child’s play.Late fall is an ideal time of year here in New Hampshire to get outside and hike. And if you’ve spent any time on trails or anywhere out in the woods in our great state you’ve surely noticed a large rock or boulder here and there, the kind that calls adventurous kids to come and…
Need a good reason to spot the newt?This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a handcrafted clay pendant and pin set from Clayworks of New Hampshire in Wolfeboro Falls, featuring handcrafted jewelry and pottery by Lisa Boucher (www.clayworksnh.com).Clayworks of NH is a proud member of NH Made (www.nhmade.com), the state’s official non-profit booster of locally generated products and…
Here are the people who have had the kind of impact that the world should expect from a true Granite Stater (even the one who just dropped in from New York to save the Gorham Mill). Each one is a true chip off the Old Man of the Mountain and to each one we say, “Rock on!”
Being the designated cook for my family has its rewards and its challenges. My technique is very informal – mostly based upon memories of watching my mom and dad (both excellent cooks) work in the kitchen. I don’t use recipes as a rule, preferring to treat meal preparation as a kind of jazz improvisation, but one of my proudest moments…
Noah Elbers built his business one artisanal loaf at a time.It all began one day in February when Noah Elbers was 17. He remembers Elliot Burch, a friend of his parents, calling to say he was firing up the outdoor oven to bake bread and that Noah could come over to help him if he wanted to.It was a couple…
