I like traditions. I'm a sucker for them. The problem is that getting new ones established can be a tough slog, especially at venerable...

I've never been much of a churchgoer - my spirituality has always tended to be more personal than congregational, and while I've had some...

It may seem odd to include the athletic facilities of Exeter High's longtime rival down the road in Hampton among my most memorable and...

After World War II, the race was on to develop the next generation of submarines, and with it, supremacy of the seas. The US Navy created...

Founded in 1638, Exeter is one of New Hampshire's four oldest settlements, along with Portsmouth, Dover, and Hampton. And that's just the...

Headed north in New Hampshire? To the north country, Vermont, or perhaps Montreal? Take the brief detour off I-93 just south of Littleton...

Between seventh and eighth grade I learned how to play the tuba because Mr. Bethel asked me to. He needed more low-end horns, I guess,...

North Conway isn't technically a town - it's a village, a "census-designated place" within the town of Conway. Still, it's one of the...

In this age of Starbucks and Dunkin's, who remembers Mister Donut? There was a time years ago when it was a player in the American coffee...

It may come as a fair surprise to many, considering my overwhelming vertical footprint, but I'm a decent basketball player. I'm certainly...

During my undergraduate days at UNH, students had three dining hall options: Stillings (Swillings, complete with Food River and one-armed...

Before the mind-numbing ease of shopping online, and before the cookie-cutter dominance of Wal-Mart and Target, there were crappy little...