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Featured Shop – Liv’n Out Loud• Hampstead Tell it like it is. It’s a new year and, although I am a writer who cringes at “first person,” I for the sake of underscoring this article will regress for one issue…

A N.H. naturalist reveals a world few know about After growing up on a farm in Peterborough, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas thought she knew what there was to know about deer - they were "essentially loners who got into your garden…

N.H. Designer to the Stars — Under the RadarKrista Larson is an internationally-known fashion designer who flies below the radar. Raised in Salem, N.H., Larson went to school in Rhode Island, dabbled around in New York and then gravitated back…

Sweet and spicy! In a blind taste test, our staff compared three N.H. chutneys from around the state. Here's what they thought.Fennelly FarmsThis mildly spicy cranberry chutney will fit right in next to your slice of Thanksgiving turkey. With its…

Alabaster and ebony, together in perfect harmony.Ainsley Bodman always enjoyed the intrinsic beauty of rocks, but focused her artistic endeavors on sculpting wood - beautifully simple forms, both human and animal.While touring in Tennessee, she found renewed passion for minerals…

As glassblower Trish Dalto says, “Glass is like nothing else; it is difficult and takes real commitment to do well, but it never gets boring. There is so much you can do with the colors.”The new Kalish/Dalto “shard” vases are…

Featured Shop ReStore • DoverImagine a one-stop store that might actually allow you to move forward with remodeling plans while saving you money. ReStore, 15 Fourth St., Dover, is an 11,000-square-foot public warehouse full of donated new and reusable building…

Featured Shop Mill Brook Gallery . Concord Britain's singing sensation Susan Boyle has taught the world you can't tell a book by its cover. Nor should one judge an art gallery and sculpture garden by location. For more than a…

America's favorite rich, conservative satirist revisits his reckless youth and finds much to like.Reviewing a book by P.J. O'Rourke is always a challenge, because the temptation is not to comment on it so much as simply excerpt from it. For…

Every truly GOOD gift has a story to tell and says something about the giver. Gifts that are made in New Hampshire reflect the spirit of the state and support the GOOD artists and craftspeople who have made it their…