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Kancamagus Highway Hits 50
The Kancamagus Highway, the only route to connect motorists from Lincoln to Conway, NH, had a long, colorful history, even before its official summer 1959 opening and thousands of foliage-seekers found its breathtaking vistas. With two days of events and programs, New Hampshire’s scenic Route 112, “The Kanc,” was honored for its 50-year anniversary August […]
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Five Weddings and Six Funerals
This spring and summer, it seems, has been a succession of weddings and funerals. I want the weddings to win but the funerals keep coming. One week in May I went to three funerals in six days, all at a distance so, just in terms of the driving, I felt spent at the end. A […]
Anchored in the east by Conway Village and to the west by Lincoln, the Kancamagus Highway is driven by more than 750,000 vehicles every year and is some of the loveliest and wildest land in the White Mountain National Forest.
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The Shad Shack Lives!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the woman who wrote to me to tell me of the demise of Spencer’s Shad Shack. She had been to visit and she had taken photos and then she went by again and saw the dozer poised to push it over. And I wrote a plea to […]
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Homes and Gardens on Display
Yesterday I went on a house and garden tour in the next town. There are many historic houses in that town, especially on their main street, which looks more like a stage set for Anne of Green Gables than it does a real town, operating in the 21st century. But it does operate every day, […]
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Get Out There and Shoot
I am truly blessed by the mail that I receive. It all seems to me to come out of the blue. A letter from a member of the National Guard, telling me how much he loves Yankee, how it used to be the perfect size to fit into the pocket of the cargo pants of […]
Around here, we have our choices of ways to celebrate the Fourth of July. In the town next to us, dozens of residents gather to read the Declaration of Independence, including the names of all the signers. This is done at their historic Meetinghouse which looks like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. The […]
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Two Dogs, One Heart
Mayday came home a week ago. Her fever was gone and she was basically ready to return to her life. There had been no ready explanation for her illness and no real explanation for her recovery, other than the antibiotics she received and the “magic” chicken and rice concoction I took to her up at […]
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Summer is Calling
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Book Review | Peter’s War
When historian and constitutional scholar Joyce Lee Malcolm first discovered a 1765 bill of sale for a 19-month-old slave boy, she put it aside. She was reconstructing the famous running battle between the Minutemen and the Redcoats that passed through Lincoln, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. The couple who bought Peter, Josiah and Elizabeth Nelson, […]
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Summer Skin Soothers
Sun, sand, and surf can wreak havoc on skin and tresses. Wearing plenty of sunscreen outdoors is key to protection; then when you step inside (or into an outdoor shower), soften things up with luxe products–featuring ingredients such as olive oil, almond oil, green-tea extract, shea butter, vitamin E, and sea salt–from New England beauty […]