A Sense of Place
In the late 1700s, Benjamin Randall of Portsmouth, N.H., split from the Congregational Church and founded a new religious order known as...
Feb 10, 1978
Short Seeley of Chinook
It begins abruptly with one dog, then another, and another, until the entire kennel is engulfed in one long, almost lyrical howl. "It's a...
Jan 6, 1978
The Day it Blew 231 MPH
“You had a sensitivity to the wind,” said Wendell Stephenson as he recalled his days at the Weather Observatory on top of Mt. Washington,...
Aug 12, 1977
The Long Road to Happily-Ever-After
Bob Morrell remembers his first job (after he didn’t pass his second year of business college) as a private secretary for a fire...
Jul 8, 1977
Backstage with Francis Cleveland
It's been 46 years since Francis Cleveland and his troupe first stormed barns in New Hampshire, and his life since has been greatly...
Jul 8, 1977
My Father, The Babe
“Oh, it was great,” said Julia Ruth Stevens describing her life growing up with the man called the greatest baseball player in history,...
Jul 1, 1977
Livermore A Town Lost in Time
There it sits, unseen save for few foundations and stone walls barely visible among the undergrowth. The once thriving community of...
Aug 27, 1976
Mt. Washington: An Arctic Island in a Temperate Zone
It’s the first sight you see when you pull into town. Looming high above the horizon, majestic, awesome, snowcapped all but two months of...
Aug 6, 1976
The Crawford House: The End of an Era
For a moment, it was like in the old days. Crowds of people, laughing, conversing, enjoying themselves, were bustling in and out of the...
Jul 30, 1976