Arts
Tea time at a hidden gem in New Ipswich
By ASHLEY SAARI
In the middle of New Ipswich, there sits a slice of the English countryside.The lovely gardens around the historic Millbrick House are bursting with summer blooms, and inside, ladies and gentlemen, dressed in their tea-time best pass a basket of...
House & Home: A Greenfield house built out of straw
By TIM GOODWIN
The Big Bad Wolf might have been able to blow down the straw house of The Three Little Pigs, but the same result isn’t likely if he huffed and puffed at the front door of Laura Tashjian’s Greenfield home.It was back in 2009 when Tashjian finally...
Monadnock Profiles: For Vere Hill, music is in his soul
By TIM GOODWIN
Get Vere Hill behind a keyboard and the St. Maarten native is in his element. He lives for that connection that comes with performing his craft in the company of others.Music has always been a part of his life – perhaps even before he was born, Hill...
Monadnock Profiles: At home among the woods and the hills
By TIM GOODWIN
Swift Corwin always wanted to be surrounded by woods and hills. He longed for it growing up in Northwest Ohio.There the only things around him were cornfields and more wide open space that was flat and stretched as far as the eye could see.It was a...
Those bugs in your house right now may not be stinkbugs; even if they do stink
By DAVID BROOKS
There are probably a lot of bugs invading your house right now that stink when you smash them. But that doesn’t mean they’re stinkbugs.They’re more likely to be western conifer seedbugs, or perhaps box elder bugs. Or they might actually be a stinkbug...
Francestown native to play final Old Meeting House concert
The Old Meeting House of Francestown proudly presents Marybeth MacKay and Jonah Bobo in an open air concert on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 4 p.m.MacKay and Bobo will be playing and singing Americana-style music and pop favorites. Bobo plays Mandolin, banjo,...
Monadnock Profiles: TikTok, hip hop and a boyhood dream
By TIM GOODWIN
It’s a Thursday afternoon and Bob Kelly is exactly where he wants to be.He’s sitting down at his piano in the basement of his Rindge home, music sheets in front of him, headphones on and a microphone mere inches from his mouth. There’s recording...
Monadnock Profiles: Welcoming multiple generations of new babies to the world
By TIM GOODWIN
Cindy Dunleavy never knows when her phone is going to ring. It could be during dinner, when she’s out for a short hike on Pack Monadnock or in the middle of the night. All Dunleavy knows is that when a baby is ready to make its way into the world,...
Monadnock Profiles: Gib West closes book on three decades in education
By TIM GOODWIN
Gib West thrived in the classroom setting – standing in front of a group of questioning young minds eager for more.Through 35 years in the ConVal School District, while filling a number of different roles, he has spent his days engaging students,...
How to survive black fly season
By SUSIE SPIKOL
The air is warm. The grass is green and the flowers are up. Finally after months of cold, snow, ice and gray skies, the outdoors beckons us. The ground is soft, the sun is out and our gardens need tending. We want to rake and tidy our front yards and...
Praying pets: Wilton woman raises exotic mantises
By ASHLEY SAARI
Nicole Fish’s collection of exotic insects is small but precious. On one end, is her Asian Giant, several inches long and bright green. On the other, is a Boxer Mantis, smaller than her pinky nail, brown and hard to see without a magnifying...
FPU marks the beginning of Lent with ‘Ashes on the Go’
The Rev. Elsa H. Worth, and Deacon Derek Scalia, distributed ashes at Franklin Pierce University on Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the Christian season of Lent. Organized by Students of Faith FPU, Ashes on the Go was available to the Franklin...
Muralist Rufus Porter left his mark on many homes and inns in the Monadnock Region
By ABBE HAMILTON
Artist, inventor and publisher Rufus Porter is one of the most famous of the itinerant New Englanders who were commissioned to paint murals in homes and inns. And before his death in 1884, he left his mark on the Monadnock Region where his murals at...
Once a train station, the Hancock Depot is now a musical hotspot
By MAX SCHEINBLUM
Depot Road in Hancock has long been a popular site for nature adventurers, joggers, and outdoor enthusiasts, but thanks to one, David Young, the Depot is now known for another reason: music.Beginning in 1878 the Hancock Train Station/Depot served the...
Stories of 2019: Sharon Arts Center shutters
By MEGHAN PIERCE
After 73 years of providing a place for artists and the public to come together to learn, work, shop and appreciate fine art, the Sharon Arts Center closed in the summer of 2019.The announcement was made in June and by the end of the summer the center...
Antrim church offers holiday hope in Blue Christmas Candlelight service
By MEGHAN PIERCE
For some, the holidays can be the worst time of the year. With that in mind, the First Presbyterian Church in Antrim held its first Blue Christmas Candlelight Service Sunday night.“I think validating people’s feelings is one way of helping them move...
Peterborough Night Market plans return
By MEGHAN PIERCE
On the heels of the first Peterborough Night Market, plans are already in the works for the next, organizer Roy Schlieben said Wednesday.Saturday night, School and Depot streets were closed and crowds flooded into the municipal parking lot in the...
House & Home: Mid-century modern has quite the view of Monadnock
By TIM GOODWIN
Most homeowners are lucky to have one breathtaking view to show off to visitors – David Jeffries has them everywhere he looks.At Jeffries’s 159-acre estate in Jaffrey, his 6,000 square foot mid-century modern home is impressive enough to get people...
Night Market coming to Peterborough this summer
By MEGHAN PIERCE
Downtown Peterborough will light up next month with its first-ever Night Market.“We have a great downtown in Peterborough, but nothing ever happens at night, why don’t we try to create a night market here,” said Roy Schlieben, executive director of...
Third act for Whitmore family at Players
By MEGHAN PIERCE
It was her Peterborough Players’ debut, but when Aliah Whitmore took to the stage in “Mahida’s Extra Key To Heaven” last week it was as a third generation Peterborough Player.The daughter and granddaughter of actors James Whitmore Jr. and James...
