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The View From Rattlesnake Ridge: The Two Party System Has Failed Us
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Walking along the Ammonoosuc River here with Kodi, I contemplate the peaks and valleys of my days recently, reflecting on just the past few months.
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Walking along the Ammonoosuc River here with Kodi, I contemplate the peaks and valleys of my days recently, reflecting on just the past few months.
There is nothing quite like the stirring sight of a mature bald eagle flying directly overhead to focus the mind.
What most people are unaware of is that Wah Pah Nah Yah loved New Hampshire and especially the White Mountains.
I wanted to speak with someone who came at this from an experiential basis; someone who has lived the disparities on a day-to-day and year-to-year basis. Someone who has seen how the system short-changes our kids and our communities.
In writing a fictional account of the Chocorua story Jeremy Osgood has tackled the unknowable. Taking on the challenge of providing mythical “documentation” where there is none by utilizing the rich history of folklore and myth surrounding the Chocorua story as a tapestry into which he weaves his own version of the myth.
Paula Tracy said about the Lifetime Achievement award: “This is really the audience I would want to be respected by; people who do this job on a daily basis and know how hard it is.”
Over the course of 42 years Mark Okrant has evolved from academic to tourism research guru to murder mystery author.
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.
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.