Cast Away
Featured Shop - Hanover Outdoors • Hanover.Remember the feel and sound of your first cast with a new fishing rod? A smooth cast, a couple of clicks and a bait box full of anticipation. You’re sure the day will land…
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Get Clean And Be Green
Powerful yet gentle! In honor of Earth Day, we took three environmentally friendly all-purpose cleaning products (two locally made against one national brand) and really put them to the test — we cleaned our office microwave, which is no easy…
Going Dotty
The point of patienceThe first question you have to ask is — how do you ever get all those glass dots so perfectly placed?Kristina Logan, a Portsmouth glass bead maker of international acclaim, says, “It’s about slowing down. Through controlled…
Making a Splash Along Water Street
Featured Shop – Cymbidium Floral Boutique • Exeter.Water Street in historic Exeter is a happy promenade, offering a little something for everyone. You’ll find toy stores, beading, bakeries, copy shops, and clothes and more clothes. Picnic in Swasey Park and…
Better Than Broadway
New Hampshire’s summer theaters offer top-notch plays in towns where the stage is a part of the community. And the actors who just thrilled you could easily wind up enjoying an after-show drink in the booth next to yours. Geographically…
Home Grown Summer Escapes For Your Mind
The Granite State has a rock-solid reputation as home to many of the world’s best writers. If you’re lounging at Hampton Beach, you wouldn’t eat a lobster roll imported from New York — so why not make your summer reading…
Between Times
A whodunit set on New Hampshire’s seacoast.It might look like the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel, but the setting for this work of fiction is called the Smythe Hotel. There unwinds a tale of mystery and murder that spans two…
More “Cereal-sly”
Featured Shop – [me] and goji • Barrington.It’s a slam dunk hit — [me] and goji, based in Barrington, has people all over the country waking up to a new concept in cereal. It’s a make-your-own online artisanal cereal from…
Rocking Stockings
Surprise Santa with a sense of style.After 33 years as a high school business teacher, Pam Chaffee thought it was time to put down the books. Three years ago she gave up computer software for soft fabrics, feathers and felt.The…
Nature Nurtured
Polymer clay — transformed.In a word — stunning. How else to describe the wearable fine art of Kathleen Dustin of Contoocook?Dustin has taken a crafter’s medium without a fine art history and given it a shining presence. Polymer clay (Fimo)…
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