The greatest virtues of humanity — justice, wisdom, compassion — are usually depicted in art as women, and women intuitively appreciate the power of art to liberate, instruct and heal. This year our annual celebration of new hampshire women combines…
Humor is the seventh sense. And just like all the others — vision, touch and smell, etc. — it varies from person to person and from situation to situation. From John Kerry’s “botched joke” to George Bush’s unintentional ones, there’s…
It may look like a typical New England downtown, but Nashua is a city of secrets — international secrets. Already home to the most diverse ethnic population in the state, New Hampshire’s second-largest city continues to welcome immigrants from South…
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” That classic prescription is a relic of days gone by, good for a chuckle in today’s world of designer drugs. Infections that once meant almost certain death can now be subdued…
Consider the lowly foot, daily stuffed into a shoe and forgotten. Think about those two slender appendages, carrying your 150-or-so pounds uphill and down, over rough terrain and smooth, several thousand steps a day, with no complaint. No complaint? Not…
Judson Hale and Steve Taylor Two Needlers in a haystack On the trail of the funniest people in New Hampshire, I turned to a couple of droll yankees, Judson Hale, editor of “Yankee,” and Steve Taylor, commissioner of agriculture. Jud…
Hall of Fame Color photos indicate doctors who were voted top in their category for five consecutive years by our annual survey. Here’s how it works We send a survey to each doctor on the New Hampshire Board of Medicine’s…
Rubbing Salt? After reading this Q&A [with Ann Miller, director of N.H. Peace Action, March 2007 issue], I almost gagged from a sugar high. I’ve never read anything more naive than Ms. Miller’s opinion that everything in today’s violent world…
When you spot the forsythia at Strawbery Banke, you know you don’t have to wait much longer to enjoy the gardens there. John Forti, curator of historic landscape, is working to get the gardens up and running (there’s a volunteer…
The language of art is sometimes a simple translation. Artist Kyeong Kim found her inspiration in an elevator. The simple industrial beauty of the raised stainless-steel Braille words and the seemingly random pattern caught her eye. It was not the…
