Dave Eisenstadter covers arts, Rindge and the Jaffrey-Rindge School District. Raised in the Monadnock region, Dave returned after graduating from Bard College in 2005 with a degree in English and math. He performed freelance work for area publications and was hired by the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript in 2007. When he is not at the paper, he can be found editing for Stemmer House Publishers in Gilsum, traveling to contra dances and working on his own writing projects.
Yankee Magazine, the publication that continues to be, in words penned by founder Robb Sagendorph in 1935, “for Yankee readers, by Yankee writers, and about Yankeedom,” turns 75 this year.
On paper, the theme to last weekend’s Monadnock Chorus concert was Americana, but beneath the sometimes silly, sometimes patriotic, always beautiful performance was another underlying theme: the American ideal of self-reliance.
RINDGE — Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. By the 80th anniversary, Franklin Pierce University hopes to achieve carbon neutrality.
JAFFREY — Fred Alibozek of iRobot begins his presentation to Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School students by switching on a Roomba, a small, round robot designed to clean floors automatically while the occupants of the house are away.
In a space above Nonie’s in downtown Peterborough, a sneeze away from the Sharon Arts Center’s Downtown Exhibition gallery, Tim Donovan runs Launch Art, which he calls an incubator for new art and artists.
Pastor Jim Melhorn passed away nearly a year ago, but a coffee house music series he started is getting new life.
Students at Franklin Pierce University will be in their element next weekend when they hold two presentations of their installation “Art for Water.”
Temple Grandin, featured this month as the subject of an HBO original film bearing her name, was born in Boston, Mass., in 1947. At the age of 3, doctors diagnosed her with autism and recommended she be institutionalized. She had yet to speak.
JAFFREY — He wears sunglasses and a leather jacket. Piercings cover his face, tattoos cover his body and his facial hair is died a bright yellow. His name is The Scary Guy.
Assisted by the coordination efforts of Peterborough native turned New York City artist Joseph Hart, the Sharon Arts Center Exhibition Gallery will display the innovative works of 30 printmakers from far and wide.