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WMNF’s Lake Tarleton – A Gemstone in the Balance
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Today the area is once again under threat, this time from the very agency that was charged with caring for it when $7.5 million in public and private funds secured its preservation.
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Michael Kitch – Journalist, Economic Guru, and Political Strategist
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For more than 40 years, since he left his teaching position at the University of London, Michael Kitch has interwoven his own life in the fabric of New Hampshire.
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The View from Rattlesnake Ridge: Our Moment
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The dramatic changing weather here in the valley between Rattlesnake Ridge and the Waterville Range has produced days and nights well below zero interspersed with a few calm and pleasant ones. One warmer night seemed to summon forth the Barred Owls with their enchanting calls whoooo, who cooks for youuuu.
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Tom Wessels: In the Footsteps of Abbey, Muir, and Whitman
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It’s interesting that for someone for whom evolution, natural selection, and succession became the (early) hallmarks of his professional life it all began at an early age when he would escape to a nearby 70 acre forest for his own personal peace and evolved from an almost therapeutic and innate understanding of the natural world to a deeper understanding of our social and civic relationships.
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Conversation with Actor, Writer and NH Icon Richard ‘Dick’ Backus
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If you saw a photograph of Dick Backus and you thought – “I know him!” it may be because you are of a certain age when you watched daytime soaps like Ryan’s Hope or went to see Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah Wilderness” at the Ogunquit Playhouse, or you even went to see “Butterflies are Free” on Broadway.
Brian Callnan
PSU and NH Electric Coop Launch Pilot Vehicle to Grid Project
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A pilot project with big implications.
Donna Sytek – Madam Speaker! Wrangling Cats with Grace and Aplomb
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New Hampshire’s first woman Speaker of the House was renowned for appropriating the phrase “herding cats” as her way to humorously describe the process of governing the 400-member House of Representatives aka the General Court in New Hampshire.
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Yankee Editor, Citizen, Senator: The Colorful Life of Edward Jackson Bennett
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Born in the same year as his Groton School classmate Robert F. Kennedy, Edward Jackson Bennett “batted” his whole life for the other team – the Republicans – as an elected official; but just as often he was the fellow calling balls and strikes as a member of the media as well – both journalist and editor/publisher – where he was called upon to provide unbiased journalism and fairness to both sides.
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Wayne King Talks With FPU Civics Scholar Andru Volinsky on Issues That Matter
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When the long draft history of New Hampshire is written for the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st, Andru Volinsky will be among those held in the highest regard for his unwavering commitment to children, the natural environment and equal justice for all.