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Rebecca Kaiser Gibson: Girl as Birch
After meeting with Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, poet, and author of Girl as Birch, I drove home on a winding country road; I thought about her...
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Jul 1, 202210 min read
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Steve Taylor: Newspaperman, Farmer, and Public Servant
Steve Taylor of Plainfield is far more than what the title of his book declares. The book title is Stephen Howard Taylor: Recollections...
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Jul 1, 202222 min read
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Dave Silberman: The Best Cannabis Vermont has to offer New Hampshire.
Dave Silberman The sound of thunderous applause you are hearing from our neighbor on the western border of New Hampshire is coming from...
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May 22, 202211 min read
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Alexandria Peary: NH Poet Laureate, Mindfulness, and the Monkey Mind
As New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Alexandria Peary “serves as an ambassador for all poets in New Hampshire and works to heighten the...
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May 10, 202214 min read
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Sam Safford: A Message of Love at Easter
Sam Safford and I are members of Winning Speakers Toastmasters in Windham. He is the Vice President Public Relations, where he works to...
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May 10, 20225 min read
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Paul O. Jenkins – Ambassadors of Bluegrass Music
"Give me rhythm In its fullest measure Wild harmonies we never learned in school If this is what they're calling foolish pleasure You're...
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May 10, 202213 min read
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A New Hampshire Native Answers the Call to Cannabis
Paul Morrissette has a lot to say. Born and raised in New Hampshire, he has been an auctioneer for the better part of three decades and...
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May 10, 202217 min read
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Searching for the Shoah in Auvillar, France
The Spiral Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II is a book by Sandell Morse that started out...
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May 10, 202215 min read
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Alcoholism and Andy Marsjanik's Mission to Help
After thirty-five years, Andy Marsjanik stopped drinking following a short stay in rehab. He never took another drink. Unfortunately, we...
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Apr 12, 202219 min read
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Radio and the Mind of Mike Morin
Mike Morin has been on the radio for decades. In that time, he has been stalked, buried alive three times, done a striptease in downtown...
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Feb 7, 202210 min read
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Terry Farish – Literature is how I know the world.
A NH Writer’s Life On a sunny October morning, I met Terry Farish at a perfect New Hampshire location. We sat at a rustic table on the...
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Dec 16, 20218 min read
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Michael Davidow – I’m a lawyer who writes for fun
A NH Writer’s Life Michael Davidow’s latest book, The Hunter of Talyashevka, takes place in 1926 in the Ukraine capital of Kiev (Kyiv)....
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Dec 16, 20218 min read
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Dan Szczesny – Sharing Smiles Only Two Will Understand
A NH Writer’s Life Dan Szczesny is a journalist, speaker, and writer. In his books, he takes us to places on high where our imagination...
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Dec 15, 20219 min read
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Remembering A Veteran
On Thursday, November 11, 2021, Arlington National Cemetery will honor the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and commemorate the 100th...
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Nov 10, 20213 min read
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John Robinson - A Literary Life
At the University of New Hampshire's Dimond Library, three levels down in the basement are the Milne Special Collections and Archives,...
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Nov 2, 20218 min read
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Robert Wheeler and Hemingway's Havana
In Robert Wheeler’s book, Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba, the foreword is written by America Fuentes, the...
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Sep 28, 20215 min read
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Staycation: Submarines and Rail-riders
The date is September 6, and it is the last day of our 2021 vacation. I walk outside on this gorgeous end-of-summer day and see a blue...
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Sep 14, 20215 min read
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First in a series: A Writer’s Life: Masheri Chappelle
Still small voices. Do you listen to them? Some say they come from here somewhere near your heart, the voice of God. We get a feeling,...
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Aug 5, 20216 min read
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...Regret
First, just reduce, reuse, and recycle were the watchwords for those who want to help save the planet. Do you recycle? Do you care about...
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Jun 26, 20213 min read
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Leaving Home
At the age of 17, I left home after graduating from high school in 1972. The urgency was the search for something. We were a...
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May 3, 20214 min read
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