New Hampshire Magazine - March 2010

Above: Photo by PT Sullivan The advertising business is a game of ups and downs, lefts and rights. No agency knows this better than Manchester’s Griffin York and Krause, which has gone through a few sets of initials in recent…

That Thanksgiving is the most New England of American holidays is surely apparent in the local foods provided for the family table by New Hampshire’s farmers. Plan first to order your turkey because local flocks are limited. Free of hormones…

Metalsmith Wendolyn Hammer augments the natural beauty in beach stones with sterling silver and precious stones. She has worked in metal for more than 18 years, but has developed this new line using the naturally polished rocks she finds on…

Thanksgiving’s menu was so easy when we lived in a big midwestern city. Sweet potatoes, check. Green beans, creamed onions, mashed white potatoes, cranberry sauce — check, check, check, check. And, of course, the piece de résistance, the bird itself:…

Film plays a big role in my life. I was working in the movie industry back in the 1980s when I met my wife-to-be, swept her off her feet and proposed to her after a month of dating. It was…

This Thanksgiving Day, as we count our blessings amid football games, drumsticks and pumpkin pies, let us remember Sarah Josepha Hale, who likely knew nothing of betting lines and point spreads or points after touchdowns. Hale, a 19th-century New Hampshire…

Political scandals in the Granite State are infrequent, at least compared to those of our Bay State neighbor to the south, but we do have them. Usually, you have to wait for all the affected parties to die before you…

Tell people you’re heading to Salem for the weekend and invariably someone will assume you’re looking to indulge your inner consumer. It’s hard to ignore the presence of the Mall at Rockingham Park, which, with almost 150 shops, is the…

The blood pressure cuff — that familiar low-tech tool — was introduced to the U.S. medical community in 1903. But don’t be fooled by its age and simplicity — it serves a critical function. “Let’s check your pressure” is often…

Above: Photo courtesy of Dan Klores Communications He swore, after producing “The Civil War,” he would never do another documentary about war. But 17 years later the legendary Ken Burns of Walpole was persuaded to do another by the aging…