Dreams Fulfilled
There is a certain glamour about the restaurant business. People pay you, the owner, to be the consummate host. You dream of serving great food and creating a pleasant environment — a place that people want to come back to…
New Hampshire Magazine - March 2010
Interview with Jodi Picoult
As an award-winning writer Jodi Picoult uses her literary X-ray vision to peer inside homes, family ties, relationships and dark secrets of the heart. Her characters seem unnervingly familiar, her revelations are often disturbing, but the most powerful sense a…
Shady Business
Planting a tree is not as simple as you might think. Drive to the store — any big box discount store will do — pick out a nice looking tree, dig a hole, plop it in and let nature take…
This Old Yard
A landscaping project can be a daunting task for any homeowner. Whether the project is big or small, there are many factors to consider. To start with, there are zoning codes and safety issues, not to mention New Hampshire’s inconvenient…
Getting the Big Picture
In prehistoric times clans gathered around a fire to bond by telling stories and making funny body noises. In the roaring 1920s and through the Second World War it was the crackle of the radio that brought families together every…
Parking Spaced
Why did I buy six parking meters? Well, first and foremost, I’m a guy, and buying the parking meters was as much an “impulse” thing as checking out RVs at Campers Inn whenever I’m within a five-mile radius of the…
Object Lesson
It’s a fact that is both obvious and surprising, serious and ironic. The places we are most endangered are the places that feel most like home. Most people know that cars are the biggest cause of fatal injuries in the…
Unarmed and Dangerous
Most of us who live in New Hampshire don’t spend a lot of time worrying about our northern border. It’s just one of those things that has always been there and has seemed to work OK. We have lots of…
The World According to John Irving
A John Irving conversation unfolds like a John Irving novel. The sentences begin, dense with clauses, bristling with specific detail. Merrily they traverse the tangled undergrowth between subject and verb, meandering past, around, never quite to the point. Tagging along…
Top Dentists 2006
We asked the dentists of the state who they would recommend to someone seeking a top dental specialist. Here's who they named in seven specialty areas. The top dentist in each category is listed and appears first. The remainder are…
