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In 1942 Congress passed the Flag Code, which outlines what can and can't be done to the American flag. There were no penalties prescribed, though, so enforcement has been sketchy. Too sketchy for Steve Fowle, editor of The New Hampshire…

He got his pugnacious interview style from his years in the wrestling ring. He got his monosyllabic name from Merv Griffin. You might say he broke into radio when he busted his kneecap into six pieces two weeks before Wrestlemania,…

Peter Brodeur - aka "Bearded Turtle" - says he never set out to be a storyteller. But back in the 1990s, while he was working at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner, he started telling stories and soon realized…

Rick Rideout liked to live within history. Whether a schoolhouse, church or railroad depot, he preferred old to new any day. It started in Hopkinton, N.H., at the age of 10 when his family moved into a white three-story colonial…

They declared their affection for New Hampshire in photos and video and are richer for it.Proof of just how loved is our Granite State lies in the annual New Hampshire Dream Vacation Contest. Residents and visitors wanting to compete take…

Although she calls Vermont home, Hannah Kearney was born at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, went to Hanover High School and skied for the Waterville Valley Freestyle Team. So when she won America's first gold medal in Vancouver's 2010 Olympics, the Granite…

Wilson Bethel roamed the woods of southwest New Hampshire and skied the mountains in the winter, but he says he wouldn't call his upbringing "typical." His parents, both creative types, were divorced when he was young and he bounced between…

When Larry Pletcher and his wife Carol moved to N.H., they settled in rural Warner and started a farm that was soon certified organic. That was back in 1988 when organic was cool only to a select few, a "hard…