Artificial Wildlife Spotted On Tilton Island Park
TILTON — When a flock of pink plastic flamingos landed this month on Tilton Island Park in the middle of the Winnipesaukee...
Bob Lawton Left His Mark In Lakes Region
LACONIA — The news that Bob Lawton, founder of Funspot and the Weirs Times, died at age 90 on Veterans Day, Nov....
Place-Based Learning
“On July 16th, 1878, Jennie Lind Dickerson was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. It seemed that the moment she was born, a beautiful...
Donald Hall Offers Candid Thoughts While Facing Death
A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
September 20 would have been Donald Hall’s 90th birthday, but he died three...
Still Showing
Once a mainstay of the American experience, drive-in theaters have all but disappeared from the landscape. Weirs Beach, which has one of...
Understanding US History
A new book by Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson, published by Viking, covers the United States’ evolving democratic republic in...
Judge Gordon retires — but not for long
BRISTOL — As a circuit judge serving mainly in the district court at Franklin for the past 12 and a half years, Edward M....
Restoration Effort Relies Upon Pipe Organ Donors
Sometimes there is a need for a different type of organ donor.
The closure of many once-prominent churches around...
Lessons From An Old Adversary
As I sit down to write this column I have just finished a long walk along the banks of the Ammonoosuc River...
A Few Abenaki Words For Thanksgiving
About twenty-five years ago, the New Hampshire Department of Highways proposed building a bypass near North Conway. The highway would bisect the...