Need a Good Reason for Spotting the Newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a selection of great local literature including Fritz Wetherbee's latest "In Good Company." The books are all the products of Plaidswede Publishing, which…
When a person has a deep genetic tendency toward sarcasm, it's fun to pick on people with a deep genetic tendency toward sincerity. In my case, the target of my (usually good humored) mockery was teachers of one sort or…
A native son offers a few modest proposals.As a patriotic citizen I am proud to announce that, unlike just about everybody else in New Hampshire, I am not running for office. However, I do have some ideas for solving our…
In 1969 Richard M. Nixon was president of the United States, man first landed on the moon, and 16-year-old magician BJ Hickman joined The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Some 41 years later The I.B.M. honored Hickman in a cover story…
In time for the mid-term elections, O'Rourke ruminates anew on exactly why and just how badly politics stink.Politics is a familiar beat for Peterborough's P.J. O'Rourke, whose book titles alone ("Parliament of Whores," "Give War a Chance," "Age and Guile…
The Feds aren't hiding in your closet. They are holding up your roof.Staunch Libertarians and committed members of the Free State movement have long been attracted to New Hampshire for our decentralized politics and "Live Free or Die" mindset.So it…
Taking to Great Bay to farm glistening morsels for local raw bars.Consider the oyster - cold, briny succulence. The gray amorphous bodies of the bivalve mollusk arrive on your plate nicely chilled, their defensive shell levered apart revealing the inner…
From Merrimack to Chocorua, from Nashua to Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire owes much of its nomenclature to its pre-Colonial native people. But for a state so rich with Indian names and legends, official tribal status here is nil and offices for…
New Hampshire is partly geography, sure, but so much of the character of our state is actually defined by the people who live here, work here or pass through and leave their mark. Our It List is an annual check on that biological infrastructure, the ever-changing human geography of the Granite State. Here are 16 people who have become, at least for now, New Hampshire's face, heart, mind and imagination.
Need a good reason for spotting the newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive two beautiful collection sets of artist photo greeting cards from Artemis Natural Resource Designs: New Hampshire's State Symbols Collection (two cards each of…
