A Portsmouth family — living with the challenges of mitochondrial disease — lets us venture into their world.“Deaf Perception” opens with the title, “This film has been captioned for the signing impaired,” ushering the hearing into the world of 16-year-old…
This new collection of short stories makes the state's familiar haunts seem just a bit more haunted.As the literary world prepares to be devoured by giant celebrity-based publishers and while digital zombie hoardes of Androids, iPads and other shambling mobile…
Dimensions of the past take a new form.If art is in the details, David Lamb's work is truly a very high art. His creations combine the skills of a master furniture maker with the craftsmanship of a wood carver, tempered…
A silver heirloom that comes with a great story.Thank you for sending me an image of your Russian silver kovsh. A kovsh is a cup or ladle that is a ceremonial drinking vessel with a boat-shaped body and a single…
Bring the host or hostess something local, maybe something they have never tasted before and will love to share.Red Raspberry WineThe Red Raspberry Wine from LaBelle Winery is easy to like. The initial taste of raspberry is bold without being…
Naughty or nice? That's not the criteria we're using to choose gifts this year - we want our holidays to be green. We've looked around the Granite State and selected a few gifts that we thought would be good for…
Sometimes the key to great design isn't found in bright color. At this year's York Show House, muted tones of gray and beige took center stage.Even expansive summer houses, it seems, deserve a conservative touch in times of fiscal frugality.…
Need a Good Reason for Spotting the Newt?This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a medium-size gift basket containing syrup, pancake mix, maple cream, maple sugar and maple candy from Fuller's Sugarhouse of Lancaster. www.fullerssugarhouse.com. Fuller's Sugarhouse is…
A native son offers a few modest proposals.As a patriotic citizen I am proud to announce that, unlike just about everybody else in New Hampshire, I am not running for office. However, I do have some ideas for solving our…
Important things happen at the beginnings of decades. That's my experience, anyway. And since no one has ever definitively determined whether a decade begins on a "zero" year or a "one" year, December 2010 is a fine time to contemplate…
