Those Who’ve Helped – Nonprofits have had New Hampshire’s back during this time of crisis — let’s show that we have theirs
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, New Hampshire’s nonprofit organizations did what had to be done: they adapted – and kept meeting their missions.Homeless shelter staff figured out how to keep roofs over people’s heads, even when that meant scrambling to find room...
The Pinnacle of Concord
Local businesses and leaders recognized with annual awards The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s Pinnacle Awards Ceremony looked a bit different in 2020 but the significance of the event has not diminished. The contributions of this year’s honorees during a year...
Fall 2020
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Get lost in the season
We’re all looking for ways to hang onto our traditions during the most untraditional of years. Among your best options could be to throw yourself into one of the area’s corn mazes. Plenty of fresh air and built-in social distancing make for a 2020-style excursion....
It’s time to get picky
Please note that for the most part, all the farms require you to wear masks in their farm stands and when you are nearby other people, but allow you to remove them when you are away from others picking the fields and orchards. Each will have their own signs and...
THE RIGHT TO VOTE – 1920 – Appreciating the pioneers
Celebrating those whose names aren’t in the history booksWhen I left New Hampshire in the mid-1980s, both the New Hampshire Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard wanted my papers. I had been the assistant minority leader in the New Hampshire House...
New schools of thought
If only a person could view the Concord School District at the beginning and end of the twentieth century, she would see the same challenges confronting the district. As the century opened and closed, Concord had too many elementary schools, many of them no longer...
QA – Kris Blomback, general manager at Pats Peak Ski Resort in Henniker, facing a season like no other
Pats Peak opened for business Jan. 5, 1963, and Kris Blomback has been with them more than half the years since. “We are the longest [-held] and largest continually owned by the same family ski area in all of northern New England,” says Blomback, who lives in “the big...
Big taste in a small town
After driving 20 minutes north of Concord, through the woods of Salisbury and into Andover, you might not expect to find a lunch spot that serves a Vietnamese-style Bahn Mi sandwich with 12-hour roasted pulled pork and liverwurst. Or a Po Boy Sub with crispy fried...
2020 Cappies – Best of Concord
ANNUAL READER SURVEY OF TOP PLACES IN AND AROUND THE CITYBEST RESTAURANT1. The Red Blazer Restaurant & Pub72 Manchester St., Concord224-4101theredblazer.com2. The Barley House132 N. Main St., Concord228-6363thebarleyhouse.com3. Angelina’s Ristorante Italiano11...
Keeping up the Spirits
When CJ Lundergan signed a lease on an old Office Depot warehouse two years ago, planning to turn the space into a distillery, he hadn’t included a provision for a global pandemic in his business plan.Lundergan opened Steadfast Spirits Distillery in Concord this year...
Fields of lavender & respite
At the edge of Warner sits a quaint, cool gray house. A few yards away is a warm, well-loved barn surrounded by fields of purple bushes. In the middle of the field, an old pastel yellow truck glows in the early morning light. The delicate, sweet aroma of lavender...
Summer 2020
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She’s taken many types of trips; now it’s your turn
Go ahead. Try to rattle Kathi Russ. Try to bring her down. It won’t work. Not after her younger brother was hit by a car and died. Not after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. And now this: Russ opened a travel agency last January, only to see it face an enormous...
Editor’s Note Summer 2020 – Will our buying habits change?
Three months ago, with the spring issue of Around Concord set to go to the printer, I made a last-minute change to my editor’s note. I spiked what I had written weeks earlier and instead hammered out an editor’s note that attempted to capture the uncertainty of the...
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