This July will mark the 50th annual Stratham Fair. That's sobering, because when I was a kid I remember that number being in the teens....

As the longest day of the year and the official advent of summer is upon us, it seemed an appropriate day to highlight one of New...

I've never been a fitness club guy (and I think the results speak for themselves). I spent my time at the then-new Hamel Rec Center at...

The Pennacooks called it Namaoskeag. Veterans of Queen Anne's War settling there in 1727 under a Massachusetts charter called it...

No, I don't have a story about the Walgreens at the corner of Portsmouth Ave and Green Hill Road. This is about what used to be there in...

I don't claim nearly the intimacy or familiarity with the port city's crown cultural jewel that many could more creditably boast. But I...

Another Durham restaurant that isn't there any more - and frankly, wasn't there for very long. It was such a brief comet in the downtown...

Just down the street about two miles from my parents' camp on the shores of Lake Merrymeeting is the Powder Mill Fish Hatchery, managed...

I've always considered Newmarket as something I have to endure to get somewhere else; an obstacle between Stratham and Durham, straddling...

Rochester has always been just far enough away from Exeter to feel like the frontier. The Winnacunnet Warriors were our rivals, we...

I've made mention of New Hampshire's family farm tradition before, and I have fond memories of many of them - the Saltbox Farm, the...

I've driven down Front Street in Exeter thousands of times, and every once in a while the stately brick house a couple of doors down from...