Arts & Living

Peterborough: Drawing on threads of inspiration

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Anna Von Mertens is a different kind of quiltmaker. She studies patterns — both from natural phenomena, such as ocean currents or the ebbing tides of San Francisco Bay, or from man-made events, such as the way energy is dispersed in a nuclear explosion. Then she takes those patterns and hand-stitches them into intricately detailed quilts, some of them highly … 0

Jaffrey-Rindge School District: Playing the part to music

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

For one Conant High School drama class, celebrating the works of William Shakespeare and memorizing the Old English vernacular also means putting it to music. … 0

Rindge: ‘Ella’ Gibson: Breaking barriers

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

More than a century after her death, a Rindge woman is being remembered this Memorial Day for her service as the first woman chaplain in … 0