Features
A Flowering Plant That Blooms Like a Cloud of Pink Smoke
By Liz Krieg
Years ago, I first noticed a plant growing along the side of the road in New Mexico. In large drifts, Geum trifolum is a major contender for inspiring awe. They were in the later seasonal growth stage called “smoke” and the whole patch was all a mist...
Origins of the Creemee
By Steve Taylor
You’re from Vermont, you call it a creemee. New Hampshire, it’s just soft serve.So let’s just concentrate on this peculiar Green Mountain thing, first its murky origin and then on what’s come to be the real thing, the maple creemee, because here in...
Actress Meghan Ory Says She Tackles Projects She Believes In
By Luaine Lee
Beverly Hills, Calif. — For a person who pretends to be someone else for a living, actress Meghan Ory should be in deep trouble. She cannot tell a lie. “I’m the world’s worst liar,” she says. “It’s really weird, and it’s funny because I have...
Petite Shoppers Finding Fewer Options
By Suzette Parmley
Philadelphia — At 4-foot-9, Mindee Hewitt is a dynamo with a can-do personality. But finding clothes that fit her tiny frame often becomes deflating. It’s getting harder for Hewitt and other women 5-foot-4 and under, as department stores...
Summer Is For Swimming: A Guide to Upper Valley Swimming Holes
By John Lippman
The Upper Valley in summer is a paradise for fresh water swimmers. Fresh water — lots of it — flows everywhere: the Connecticut River, the White River, the Ompompanoosuc, the Ottauquechee, Trues Brook, Silver Lake, Canaan Street Lake, Storrs...
Watch the Sun Set Over the Valley
By Jared Pendak
Perhaps nothing connects us to the natural world better than sunsets. Whether the day behind us has been pleasant or painful, absorbing the brilliant hues of dusk is a most effective way to revitalize the mind and spirit, helping both to settle like...
Where to Pick Your Own Produce
The sights and smells of summer are perhaps most abundant in the farms that make their homes in the Upper Valley. Every year, fields filled with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and other produce are open to visitors to play farmer and harvest...
Orford Tree Farm Cultivates Lupines
By David Corriveau
Orford — Almost as soon as the lupines begin painting a matrix of deep purple alongside the logging roads through his tree farm in early June, Tom Thomson can count on his phone to start ringing.“A lot of people in the last week have been calling,”...
Famed Editor Maxwell Perkins Loved Windsor Best
By Kevin O’Connor
After a long day at the office, some people lose themselves in a good book. The late editor Maxwell Perkins — the man who discovered such talents as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe — had to find solace elsewhere.In his case, the...
Return of the Native Elm
By Nicola Smith
After World War II, Dutch elm disease began its decimation of the American elm, a tree that was the glory of hundreds of Main Streets in the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. At the same time, it also affected the American elm’s lesser-known cousin,...
The Five Who Married Kennedys
By John Reinan
As the 20th century fades into memory, so does the Kennedy family. The children of Jack, Bobby and Teddy are old enough now to be grandparents themselves, and although a number of them followed their fathers into public life, none have achieved...
Art Notes: Bishop Says Windsor Church Will Retain George Tooker Paintings
By Nicola Smith
What’s a parish to do when it owns a number of extraordinary paintings by a famous 20th century American modernist, but almost no one knows they’re there?In the case of St. Francis of Assisi church in Windsor, which has the distinction of holding...
Why Loons Migrate to the Ocean
By Tiffany Soukup
Why Loons Migrate to the Ocean- When I was a child, I looked forward to spending summers with my grandmother at our family cottage on a Canadian lake. Every year, as soon as I was out of the car, we would run to the point to look and listen for loons. As an adult, I still watch...
Beacons of Freedom
By Nicola Smith
Beacons of Freedom- There are few eras in American history as shrouded in myth as the Underground Railroad, with its imagery of whites and blacks together forging a path to free African-Americans from slavery, women and men crossing rivers chased by baying hounds, or...
