Archives: January 2015

Ski Jumping

Ski jumping is a part of New Hampshire's winter sport scene

What does it take to fly fearlessly through the air? Learn a little more about ski jumping and its place in New Hampshire’s winter sports scene.

The Old Man Lives (On a T-shirt)

A T-shirt competition for New Hampshire students commemorates the iconic granite profile

A T-shirt competition for New Hampshire students commemorates the iconic granite profile.

Your Letters from the February 2015 Issue

Send letters to Editor Rick Broussard, New Hampshire Magazine, 150 Dow St., Manchester, NH 03101 or e-mail him at editor@nhmagazine.com.  Sweet Memories Your item re: “sugar on snow” jogged my memory and took me back to the late 1930s when we called them “leather aprons.” I remember that Esther (Mrs. John F.) Weeks, den mother to a group of Cub Scouts, annually…

The Man Who Mapped NH's White Mountains

Bradford Washburn — renowned explorer, pioneering cartographer and mountain photographer — lived through nearly all of the 20th century. He was born when aircraft was in its infancy and died when GPS instantly mapped every corner of the globe. Washburn was a man ahead of his time and, when he died in 2007 at the age of 96, the last of his kind.