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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
A drive along the back roads of New Hampshire’s rural areas from the North Country to the state’s southwest shows another Granite State with families caught in the cycle of poverty, workers stuck in low-paying jobs with little room for advancement, opioid addiction and alcoholism eating at society’s fabric and little state help to change it.
This year, most New Hampshire students reported during the last week of August, with many colleges and universities following suit. By the time you read this column, hotels and motels, campgrounds, restaurants, amusement parks, golf courses, and others will have lost many of their bellmen, housekeepers, waiters, maintenance crews, etc.—thereby affecting the flow of business during an extended period of favorable weather.
CAROLYN HUTTON: It takes a great deal of energy to keep things from falling apart.
JOYFUL MUSINGS: Julia, myself and a British colleague once drove to Austria to go skiing. We imagined ourselves on a talk show entitled, “Not Beyond the Car” and stories were told, secrets shared – and at one point we all sung our own National Anthems as an intro to the program.
InDepthNH.org celebrates our second anniversary by debuting Wayne D. King’s new column: The View from Rattlesnake Ridge: Ruminations of an Unabashed Optimist, an Environmental Patriot and a Radical Centrist. “It was Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite writers, who said that the United States needed a ‘Secretary of the Future.'”
I knew we would make it thanks to all of you.
BETHLEHEM – Removing the decrepit Thoreau Falls Bridge in The White Mountain National Forest means “increased risk” to hikers during “during moderate to high flows” and winter travel would be “complicated” by snow and ice.
NH Travel Guru: How did so many talented artisans arrive in one place? Since 1932, The League has been preparing its members to achieve the level of skill that was on display at Sunapee.
The Whittemore Center is filled with couches, dorm fridges, notebooks, books, white boards, staplers, cleaning supplies, book bags and even the bumper to a Jeep. Essentially, it’s filled with the things students simply tossed out last May.