Got Moxie?
Back in the 1880s, Dr. Augustin Thompson patented a nostrum called Moxie, which he produced at a small plant in Lowell, Massachusetts. He said the carbonated drink was “food for the nerves which has been proven to cure imbecility and…
New Hampshire Magazine - March 2010
February's Letters
The Cultured Club “Get Cultured” in your November 2003 edition tried to do an overview of New Hampshire arts. [Your list of] performing arts venues glaringly omits Keene’s Colonial Theatre, University of New Hampshire and Plymouth State University. Out of…
Playing Among the Stars
A friend of mine told me, “The most important lessons in your life take place when you’re doing something you don’t want to do.” I wasn’t thinking about that on the night I went to “Play Among the Stars.” I…
Eleven Questions for New Hampshire's Official Irish Wit
I’ve heard you described as one of the state’s premier Irish wits. How would you interpret that? I’d interpret that to mean we have an alarmingly low number of wits in the state. Seriously, how’d you get that reputation? I…
March Letters
February was Fine I just received and read the February issue of your fine magazine and just wanted to say thanks for the consistently high quality from start to finish. I read all of your editorials. I particularly liked the articles on…
A Single-Malt Adventure
A scotch tasting doesn’t usually include a meal. Maybe some dry crackers between sips, but hunger sharpens the senses, so purists avoid a big feed with their single malts. But in the frost bitten, spirit-riddled mountains of Northern New Hampshire,…
Change Happens
People change places. This may seem obvious, but it bears repeating when you’re trying to assess the trends and the expectations of a small state like ours — one that has undergone substantial growth in just a decade or so.…
Stay at a cabin in the clouds — without paying sky-high prices
IF YOU STAND at the edge of King Ravine at dusk, you can see, some 3,000 feet below in the valley, the twinkling lights of Gorham and, farther away, of Berlin. As you gaze across the massive U-shaped ravine, with…
Seven Questions for a Professional Nature Lover
New Hampshire nature lovers may recognize Rosemary Conroy’s name — she pens a nature column for the New Hampshire Sunday News every other week. They may know her voice as one of the co-hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio’s “Something…
Winning versus Showing Up
TEDDY ROOSEVELT ONCE SAID (probably after one of his rougher rides) that it is “far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy…
