Forever Young: Laconia Motorcycle Weeks Turns 100
The Lakes Region's beloved bikefest becomes a centenarian this year, but still brings out the kid in bikers of all ages.
Author: Rick Broussard
Greatest Versus Worst
Our postmodern age is fun if you enjoy watching language change before your eyes. I’m an editor, so my job is to be a stickler, but as Gen. John Stark’s life made clear, you’ve got to pick your battles. Which brings us to my point of contention: our famous state motto
Readers Remember the Old Man of the Mountain, 20 Years Later
To give others a chance to state their own cases for the true legacy of the Old Man, I invited readers to submit short stories about what he meant (or still means) to them and got some wonderful responses.
The Old Man and Me
Don’t hate me, but I was originally not that fond of the Old Man of the Mountain. I’m from out of state (ain’t we all?). Maybe that stony visage was just less endearing to someone whose formative outdoor experiences were not bracketed by drives past it.
Concord Locale Heroes: Joan Woodhead & Julianne Gadoury
History lives in New Hampshire and nowhere more so than in its Capitol City where our state Legislature still meets in the same chambers it has occupied since 1819 and where the U.S. Constitution was finally ratified, in 1788, ensuring that it would become the blueprint for America democracy.
Manchester Locale Heroes: Peter Ramsey & Liz Hitchcock
“All you have to do is one thing, and then keep on doing one thing over and over again and it will create such an amazing path forward.”
100 Odes to Infinity
In “Outer Space: 100 Poems,” a new volume curated and edited by Midge Goldberg, the power of poetry is used to scan the heavenly firmament and finds that it reflects those same intricate beauties back to the careful observer.
Power of the Individual
The top doctor in the world, according to the education company Embibe, is a professor of orthopedics and medical director for The Dartmouth Institute. Surgeon Dr. William A. Abdu leads a top 10 list they recently released.
Reeling in the Years
This coming March, I’ll have worked as editor of this magazine (or a precursor of it) for 30 years. So, 2023 will be an auspicious year for me, but even more so for the state celebrated in these pages: New Hampshire is turning 400.
Secret Agent
Meet Yasamin "Yaz" Safarzadeh, an Auburn activist, visual artist and performer.
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