THE TUNBRIDGE FAIR AS IT ONCE WAS — Yes, it was good that a crusading young minister came to town and led the charge to clean up the wild, alcohol...
There’s a measure of melancholy that always surrounds a farm auction. Chances are it is bringing down the curtain on a life’s work, an ending...
John Adams famously said the true founding of the United States of America came on July 2, 1776, not on July 4, because on July 2 the Continental...
It was by far the greatest technological advance of the 20th century for livestock farmers, and it lives on today serving what’s become a niche...
‘Twas 63 years ago when the Enfield board of selectmen — Charlie Tupper, Isaac Sanborn and Henry Laramie — sat down with representatives of the...
Upper Valley roads are wicked muddy this spring? Ha! Go back a few decades, or maybe a century or two — that’s when just about every road around...
Time was when the food served on Town Meeting day was nearly as important as things like the school budget, highway maintenance and a new fire...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, SUMMER 1957 — It hadn’t changed much in generations and it was still a rugged railroad town, downtown stores hadn’t yet been...
He ran for president once, lost three primary bids for New Hampshire governor and was defeated twice in gubernatorial general elections. But, no...
At the time it seemed like it was taking forever to get those new interstate highways built to connect the Upper Valley to what many people...
The Forgotten County by John Brighton, Bauhan Publishing, Peterborough, N.H., 2019, 197 pagesI’m on board for most any good writing set in New...
Growing up on a dairy farm on Hardy Hill in Lebanon, John Porter spent a lot of time in barns, and over a long career as a University of New...