Author: New Hampshire Magazine Staff

The critically acclaimed Irish music show Celtic Crossroads will perform a fusion of traditional Irish music, bluegrass, gypsy and jazz in a return engagement at the Capitol Center for the Arts Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. Celtic Crossroads is…

Exhibit opens March 7 The whimsical and enchanting original drawings, paintings, and sketches of best-selling author and illustrator David Macaulay are the subject of the Currier Museum's major spring exhibition, which opens March 7. Macaulay's gift for conveying complex concepts…

It's not just for hippos to wallow in ... It's March, and the dreaded mud season is about to begin. Melting snow is the first sign of what's to come - the boot-sucking, car-stucking muck that makes our lives miserable.…

A sleek Saab and a wide open road ahead. By the time we got to Woodstock we were ... wondering where everybody had gone. Sorry, Joni Mitchell, but ... I'd  just rolled up Interstate 93 beneath crystalline sky, a dome…

Sea creatures get their moment in the sun in the hands of this Nottingham artisan. Matthew Smith was a very good commercial fisherman, but in the end, he decided that was very bad. After a world tour to study fishing…

John Patrick Newman, a Northwood resident, may introduce himself as either just John or as John Patrick - it depends on whether he wants to be Irish or Scottish that day. He's not making it up; he does have one…

Anthropologists chalk it up to the digits, i.e. fingers, of the anthropoid. When cave persons first started keeping track of their personal stock of, say, dried iguana jerky, it was convenient to tick them off on those pointy things on…

The mudroom. It’s easy to think the name says it all, that it is simply the place where shoes and boots are quarantined to keep your floors safe from muddy tracks. For many, it’s where hats, coats, mittens, scarves and…

Not a fun thing, but it's a proven life-saver If you knew of a cancer-screening test that, for most patients, is fairly painless, low-risk and highly effective, would you take it? How about if you were told that the same…

Tie one on for the Celtic nations There's more to Celtic history and tradition than St. Patrick's Day and green beer. At least that's the word from Debbi Codd, owner of Celtic Crossing in Portsmouth. While shoppers are invited to…

Bring your ice axe...Mount Washington is New Hampshire's most famous peak. At 6,288 feet, it is the tallest in the Northeast. The mountain holds the title of receiving the strongest recorded wind gust on the planet, an astounding 231 miles…

Walpole restaurant is more than icing on the cake

Three things town meetings should tackle ‘Tis the season of town meetings. The relic of New England participatory democracy is charming for outsiders, tedious for most and very serious business for the selected few. Just a dwindling one-third of New…

More gems from the state’s master storyteller It’s a subtle thing, but spend some time with Fritz Wetherbee’s latest book, “Taken for Granite,” [$19.95, Plaidswede Publishing] and you’ll soon see it — a rich mosaic of New Hampshire slowly being…

When does something end? An ex-brother-in-law of mine always worried about not being able to tell when he did something for the last time. When, he would wonder, was the last time he wore his winter jacket before it was…

Using a washboard, steel guitar and their voices, Avi & Celia have mastered a sound of their own in mixing the music of the "old" with the pop and rock sounds of today. This Boston-based duet combines the cultural music…