Main Dishes

American Chop Suey Casserole

This recipe for American Chop Suey casserole is a savory blend of baked noodles, ground beef, and seasoned tomato sauce.

Food

Baked-Apple Mini-Crisps

If you love baked apples and apple crisp, why not combine them? Topping apple halves with streusel and baking them in sweet cider gives you the best of two classic desserts.

New England

Peak Perfection

As the fall foliage display makes its spectacular journey from northern elevations to valleys and shorelines, these seven hot spots along the way will keep you in the thick of color.

New Hampshire

The Many Worlds of Winnipesaukee

New England’s most popular summer lake holds something for everyone: the tourist, the nature lover, the seeker of seclusion.

Magazine

Dreams and Observations

by The Collector THE EDITOR OF THIS department has been as badly bitten by the collecting bug as any other true Yankee, though his special field is not mentioned in the trade magazines. He doesn’t know Stoddard glass from Keene pottery, but he is a specialist in his line. Nose a-twitch and ears cocked like […]

Magazine

Book Lady of the Air

by Maude W. Schrader Mrs. Schrader, now lecturing at Chautauqua, N. Y., will be remembered by many not only for her broadcasts on Massachusetts radio stations, but also for many women’s clubs activities. She “gets’’ Monadnock from her home on Norway Hill in Hancock. GIVE ME THE HILLS and a book and contentment is mine. […]

Magazine

Shoe Industry in New Hampshire

by W. B Grover THERE ARE OLDER INDUSTRIES in New Hampshire than that of making footwear, but few of the State’s principal businesses can boast of a more spectacular growth nor of more widespread investment of capital. Although less than one hundred years old in the White Mountain State, the shoe industry has given employment […]

Magazine

America Takes Up Forestry

by Lawrence Rathbun IN THE BEGINNING America was a forest, and the finest for the use of man to be found in the world. Her trees furnished the first raw materials for permanent settlement; fence posts and rails, rough logs, and planks. By 1631 a little mill at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in […]

Magazine

Textiles

by Percival S. Howe Jr. FROM ITS EARLIEST days New Hampshire’s development and prosperity have been dependent in large measure upon its water power and its forests, for industry sought out sites upon its rivers, and from its forests have grown the lumber industry. In the past decade, however, industry in the State has not […]

Magazine

Agriculture

by Hon. Andrew L. Felker GLADYS HASTY CARROLL in her story “As the Earth Turns” gives a delightful glimpse of rural New England life as if it was lived and enjoyed in the good old “horse and buggy days”; as one thrifty old New Hampshire Yankee termed them, “The Pod Auger days.” While one would […]

Magazine

Shake Hands with the Country Dance

1935 New Hampshire Model by Beth Tolman WHAT HAS HAPPENED to the jigs, reels, quadrilles, and hornpipes that used to rollick America back in its teens? Who does them now and where are they danced? The answer, of course, depends upon what section of the country you speak from. In most places it is safe […]

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Aunt Betsy, Aunt Luce, Uncle Ely

As told by Herbert F. Nichols When I was a boy and used to come here—when I first come here Aunt Betsy and Aunt Luce was both alive. Betsy was really the drudge of the family—she went out and helped Uncle Ely hay—he had a wife before her and Aunt Lucy Upton. Her father cleared […]