Dec 30, 1977
1977 Ear of the Year - Horsefeathers
It's not easy to pick winners. Gamblers die trying, and the rest do so with such infrequency that most prefer the matter be left to the...
Aug 12, 1977
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,...
Jul 8, 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 1, 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,...
Feb 19, 1977
Chub Whittaker Remembers
He remembers before they plowed the roads in Conway, when he’d pick up the 6:20 a.m. train from the A Street station en route to school...
Jan 14, 1977
The White Mountain Forest in Winter
“It’s like the sign says, “The Land of Many Uses,” noted Verland Ohlson, District Ranger for the Saco District of the White Mountain...
Nov 4, 1976
How Skiing Started in the Mt Washington Valley
In the Beginning: It was a long time ago when Norman Libby and a companion made an ascent of Mount Washington's western slope in February...
Aug 27, 1976
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 6, 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...