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Linda Upham-Bornstein
Morning over Pliny Range, Lancaster
Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
If you are a nature nerd or a native boy like me, you probably are pretty good at identifying many of the species of flora and fauna among the brothers and sisters of our natural world.
On top of the mainly inherited stock of Old English words have come great waves of French, Latin, and Greek, and lesser streams of Spanish (plaza, mosquito), Native American languages (canoe, tomato), Italian (pasta, casino), Dutch (boss, cookie), Malay (ketchup, bamboo), African languages (jazz, banana), and of languages in nearly every place on earth.
I did some light reading this summer. I finally finished Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Spoiler alert: Napoleon loses.
Spending as much time as I do in thrift stores, I am deeply familiar with excess, with too much, with “no thanks, I already have five.”
Like the music from an ice cream truck: nothing stokes the fire in a fly fisher than the news that a new fly fishing shop is opening up. The name Fire on the Mountain is not a new one to seacoast residents.
While I am no journalist, I know the difference between reporting and opinion, and this was presented as reporting. But I wondered about that assertion so I looked it up.
Here, is where we come to the focus of this entry in our newly established “Anamaki Chronicles” series – an effort to tell the stories of New Hampshire and the surrounding areas in a broader cultural context: The story of the evolution of Mount Eisenhower.
Is it possible to write an interesting column about the letter R? Maybe not, but I’m going to try.
Then there was my last trip to the Trophy Stretch in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. My son Reed and I made our annual trip up to hit the upper Connecticut River.