Letters
Pass It Forward I have just read the article about our New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson, and am thankful to see such a thorough and carefully, thoughtfully written piece. I find it to be very well-written, open and fair-minded and…
New Hampshire Magazine - March 2010
UpFront
A Fresh Look at Classic Holiday Traditions This Christmas will be 10-month-old Meredith’s first. Her parents, Tiffany Eddy and Danny Ryan, look forward to creating holiday memories for their daughter — ones of warmth and joy — in their Goffstown…
Taxing Menus
Welcome to New Hampshire: Live Free or Die.” You see that sign entering the state from the south, not long before you come to the first of three toll booths between Nashua and Concord. If you really want to “live…
Handcrafted Chanukah
Ha-ne-roat Ha-lah-lu (These candles) Ah-nach-nu mad-lee-keem (that we light) Al Ha-nissim (are for the miracles) V'al ha-nif-lah-ot (the wonders) V'al ha-te'shu-ot (the salvation) V'al ha-mill-khah-mot (the battles) Sheh-ah-see-tah (that you fought) 1 Hand-wrought iron, $300; Jafar Shoja, (603) 888-0386, Nashua…
Home-Baked Flavor To Go
What’s for dessert this Thanksgiving? How about traditional homemade pies you can simply order and, in some cases, have delivered? While you focus on the turkey, someone else can slave over the pastry and peel all those apples. Here are…
Cozy November Dining
As winter temperatures descend and winds escalate, the salad days of patio and terrace dining give way to the cozy glow of firelight and twinkling candles. It’s the time of year for intimate dinners for two in quiet surroundings, for…
The Vision Thing
What is an eye? A strange device, A bit of film and nerve, the first camera, A wonder steeped in mystery, Recording scenes and filing prints in cabinets of the brain. From “Windows of the Soul” by Grace Seaton Thompson…
What’s Inn Your Christmas Package?
I come from the generation that gets many of its best ideas and memories from TV. So it may not be surprising that when I think of this season, I think of John-Boy Walton and his grandpa, wearing homemade scarves…
Turkey Shoot
One afternoon during my first week in New Hampshire Mahoney had called from Oklahoma and I was gazing out the back windows, describing the wilderness — the trees, the pond, the view. Suddenly I shrieked! Turkeys! Wildlife! We had actual…
Calm before the storm
A hurricane has brewed for two years in the worldwide Anglican Church. It has exhausted its front-page news cycle in the U.S., but has been gaining speed and power overseas and threatens to make landfall with devastating impact in the…
