I’m running along the shoulder of a rural New Hampshire road thinking about aging. I’m 55 years old, and my companion on this run, an Australian Shepherd named Bodhi, is a year and a half.

As an avid cyclist, and a fan of New Hampshire’s backroads, I was delighted to see House Bill 1703 buried in committee, where it should die a well-deserved death. The measure would have required a $50 ...

It was zero degrees under bright blue skies when I drove into Tamworth one morning in January — the kind of day when you know it’s cold from the way dry snow sweeps across the road like dust.

It is a grim anniversary. On March 5, 1873, a down-and-out Prussian fisherman stole a small wooden boat from a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dock and rowed to the Isles of Shoals. In mild weather on calm ...

As kids, dreaming away our summers at a lakeside cottage, we peeled strips of bark off the birches, just for the fun of it, without giving any thought to whether or not such girdling would harm the ...

There’s a distinct irony at the intersection where Jeremy Davis’ vocation meets his favorite pastime. At his real job, as operations manager for Weather Routing Incorporated in Upstate New York, Davis ...

For more than 200 years, general stores in New Hampshire have changed with the times. Some closed forever, but dozens survived, adapting form and function to meet the needs of their clientele through ...

Move into an old home and a phrase comes to mind: “If these walls could speak.” Apply that same thought to the rugged hills and ragged shorelines of the Granite State, the “old home” in which we live, ...

After 400 years, it’s time to face facts. The founding of New Hampshire was a flop. There, I said it. Don’t shoot the messenger. We’ve been bending reality for centuries. Our founding English couple, ...

For three New Hampshire brothers and their kid sister, Tuesday, July 12, 1842, was a perfect summer day. They had left their Milford home the afternoon before in a horse-drawn carriage that took them ...

At Grape Time Winery you make your own wine. It’s located right next door to the related IncrediBREW, a make-your-own beer brew-on-premise facility.

If there is a trope about Stephen King novels, it would be this: A white, male novelist (or teacher) uncovers an otherworldly threat. The outside world is unable to help, so he surreptitiously fights ...