“I just hope my fingertips don’t open up again,” Dave Cummings said before stepping to the free throw line inside the gymnasium at Epsom Central School. Too late. About an hour later and 650 free throws into his daily thousand…
Location: the Martignetti Company offices in Manchester, Feb. 25, 2009 for an interview with Dan Aykroyd conducted by New Hampshire Magazine Editor Rick Broussard. Aykroyd wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket and pin-stripe vest was seated at a table below…
The Verizon Wireless Arena will host hairstylists from across the country in a glam dash for the top prize of $7,000. This is one of the biggest events of the year for the New Hampshire Food Bank, with proceeds going…
Author Stephen King is like the Sherlock Holmes of horror, detecting and exposing our deepest fears. And he has his Watson. Russ Dorr, a mild-mannered physician’s assistant living in Merrimack, has been King’s researcher, adviser and a close friend for…
In more than 30 years onstage in New England and beyond, actor/director George Piehl has played many major roles. But one that seems to suit him especially well is that of the cold-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ “A…
Wild weather, wondrous views and spring thaw soupIf you think a book about the Mount Washington Observatory is likely to be a real snooze, think again. Eric Pinder’s “Life at the Top” [Hobblebush Books, 2009, $16.95] is a great read…
Jon Gibson learned his craft at his father's knee. And not much has changed about the pewtering process since Raymond Gibson opened Gibson Pewter in 1966 in Hillsborough Center.Continuing the craft alone, son Jon turns out traditional pieces like spoons,…
Ah, summer! Long, sunlit days, cool nights and crisp mornings. Gardens at the peak of color. Festivals and antique shows. Who could ask for more than what we have right here in New Hampshire? Well … not to be disloyal…
The best way to do that? Don't smoke.Information about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) doesn't appear in the press much; surely it's not in the public consciousness the way that breast cancer and heart disease are. But it is the…
The race for Judd Gregg's Senate seat could determine it. The year 2006 had just begun and Jack Heath, a political consultant with a Concord radio show gaining in popularity, heard that highway signs welcoming motorists across our state's border…
