Diane and Chuck Souther have built a life together around their love of apples and each other
From the moment Chuck and Diane Souther met in high school and worked together at a local farm, their shared dream became crystal clear: to spend their lives together and cultivate apples. That’s exactly what they’ve been doing for nearly five decades at Apple Hill...
Exploring the Appalachian Mountain Club with new President Nicole Zussman
On Nicole Zussman’s backpack, a mosaic of patches present a passport of past hikes. From hut to huts in the White Mountains to day trips on Connecticut trails, many of the trails and experiences illustrated in the iron-on emblems are thanks to the Appalachian Mountain...
Concord Escape Room adds a kids room because why should grown-ups have all the fun?
As escape rooms mature from novelty status and approach a sort of middle age – they have been around New Hampshire for almost a decade – this hands-on form of group entertainment is looking to get a wider variety of hands involved. “At the end of the day, it’s a...
Danbury Woodsmith creates ‘one-of-a-kind’ pieces
The deafening whirring sound of the shaper drowned the entirety of the wood shop as Myrl Phelps carefully guided a thin piece of pine through the machine, giving a quick demonstration of how the blade is used to carve out a decorative molding. Phelps is an expert...
History: ‘Lumber Jills’ of Turkey Pond
“Rosie the Riveter” was the archetype for American women stepping into jobs once held by men during World War II. But few real-life women demonstrated that a female could do a man’s job any better than the “Lumber Jills” of Turkey Pond. The great hurricane of...
Poem: Autumn
His heart ran out of autumns, he lived his last day, Octobers are now melancholy, in a very special way. Seasons bring back memories, especially the seasons he did love, the arrival of the killing frost, memories of harvest time now just above. Sometimes I wonder, and...
Around Concord – Fall 2023
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Lace ‘em up, make a friend
Weddings, birthdays, children’s births, family member’s deaths – the running group out of Runner’s Alley in Concord is there for it all. When Brigitte Gray, the store manager, got married in 2021, members of the running group were there. A running friend, whose family...
Photo gallery: Call of the wild
Nestled along 210 acres across from New Hampshire’s second largest lake, the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness is a sprawling collection of fields, forests and wetlands teeming with wildlife from the natural world. The animals on display at the center...
Fast Faves with Xochiquetzal Berry
For Xochiquetzal Berry, life and work are centered around food. A food systems specialist and certified permaculture designer, she’s passionate about helping other food-loving folks develop a resilient, equitable, and vibrant regional food system. She’s also the...
Follow a rail trail
Thanks to the White Mountains, New Hampshire is famous as a place to take long walks going almost straight uphill. But increasingly it is also a great place to take long walks on the straight and narrow. “A lot of people have trouble doing the 4,000-footers, all those...
Pedal on the metal
One of the things you won’t find on most rail trails are rails. Usually the tracks get pulled up after the local train company abandons a corridor before the state makes it available for public use. But not always. Concord contains one of the most unusual examples of...
Connect to the past
At 21 chosen sites in the Granite State, history and nature combine for a well-rounded education through a program of trails and exhibits Don’t let the name fool you. Yes, the New Hampshire Heritage Museum Trails include hiking, and offer walking paths through the...
Q&A with Concord Parks and Recreation Director David Gill
As the weather warms and daylight lengthens, Concord Parks and Recreation gears up for its trove of summer offerings. From swimming pools to movie nights to sports camps, residents will have plenty of options to enjoy the summer months. Around Concord caught up with...
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