Retro revival: Despite major changes in music industry, Pitchfork Records as relevant as ever
With 49 years in the business of selling music, Michael Cohen has seen about everything. Lately, he’s seeing it all over again. “It’s gone back to the beginning!” said Cohen, the owner of downtown mainstay Pitchfork Records & Stereo, sounding both amused and a...
Old sole of Downtown Concord
At United Shoe Repair, a century-plus of comfort The shoes that line D.J. Annicchiarico’s shop on South Main Street are often well-worn and a testament to things built right the first time. But they’re...
Excerpt: My Antonio and the Stitch that Binds
Essays in ‘Time for Everything’ by Joseph Steinfield bring readers on a personal tour of history and connection Time for Everything picks up where Joseph Steinfield’s first book, Claremont Boy, left off, with tributes to friends and heroes and essays on being Jewish,...
Off the Shelf: Fall reading suggestions
As summer fades and fall arrives, it’s perhaps time for a change of scenery in your reading selections. Turn the page with NH writers. Deep Water By Kenneth Sheldon In the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped...
Fast Faves with Reagan Bissonnette
Reagan Bissonnette is the executive director of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA), a nonprofit organization that helps communities in New England manage their own recycling programs, including 85% of towns and cities in New Hampshire. (You’ll notice...
He’s making one giant pumpkin
In a Boscawen backyard that evokes images of Jack and the Beanstalk, farmer Steve Geddes is again growing a beast of a gourd that could top 2,500 pounds And you think kids grow up fast? Check out Steve Geddes’ baby, in his vast garden behind his house in Boscawen....
History: Amid disaster, hero emerges
Not every act of heroism takes place in battle. Concord’s only 20th-century recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor offers a case in point. On the afternoon of Aug. 29, 1916, Charles Willey was a 27-year-old warrant officer, a machinist aboard the armored...
Back on track
These high-end 1880s-style rail cars currently parked in Contoocook can take more than six months to build, but once done they evoke another era Playing with trains is a near-universal pleasure, but few of us have taken it as far as Chi Hofe. Behind the barn alongside...
Tranquil & transcendent
Boscawen retreat celebrates 10th anniversary with season that runs from May 22 to Sept. 17 On a recent morning in late April, the grounds of Avaloch Farm Music Institute were quiet, the only sounds coming from songbirds in the surrounding sunlit meadows and a cleaning...
Fast Faves with Dr. Jeffrey Fetter
A Pennsylvania native, Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, chief medical officer at NH Hospital, has become quite the Granite State transplant. He’s been an internist/psychiatrist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, worked at Concord Hospital, the state prison system and Riverbend Community...
A love takes flight
From Sy Montgomery, the New York Times bestselling author of “The Soul of an Octopus” comes “The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty.” When the Hancock author went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan’s Deering farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey,...
A net gain
One of the signs of spring in New Hampshire is the hundreds of thousands of brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout that get placed into lakes, streams and ponds all over the state. The fish are raised in six state-owned fish hatcheries until they reach a certain...
Mall memories: Kristy and JB Frazier worked at the mall, met at the mall and, eventually, fell in love at the mall
When Steeplegate Mall opened in 1990, it held the promise of being a center of Concord life for decades to come. As the mall winds down, we asked readers to share their memories. Here’s one about how Kristy and JB Frazier worked at the mall, met at the mall and,...
The need for seeds
When spring comes, gardeners itch to get plants into the soil. The same goes for foresters. Tree lovers are descending on the Concord area every year to pick up their annual allotment of bare-root seedlings from the State Forest Nursery, which began by providing baby...
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