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Way, way too much weather hype (or how, in Coös, to form a mob)
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We have become a nation of weather-obsessed neurotic ninnies. Television weather coverage begets neurotic viewers.
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Dog Days on First Connecticut Lake. Kayaks are okay, but they’re really harder on the legs than canoes.
Longtime statewide outdoor writer and North Country newspaper owner John Harrigan of Colebrook writes for InDepthNH.org whenever the spirit moves him.
His weekly column “North Country Notebook” runs in the Salmon Press papers covering the northern two-thirds of the state (newhampshirelakesandmountains
He is a guest every Thursday morning at 7:10 on Concord’s WTPL FM 107.7 with host Peter St. James. He has been working in various media, with a lot of radio and television but mostly newspapers, for 47 years and, he says, “still counting.”
We have become a nation of weather-obsessed neurotic ninnies. Television weather coverage begets neurotic viewers.
Harrigan reflects on the long arc of his career including its beginnings at the Nashua Telegraph and the New Hampshire Sunday News, the tragedy of the mass shooting in 1997 that took the lives of four close friends, including the editor of one of his newspapers.
Note to self:
Goals for the first day of 2016:
— Fix hydraulics on tractor and bucket loader
— Clean out and restart outdoor wood furnace
— Catch up on New Year’s e-mail
— Write “Hello from Harrigan on InDepthNH.org”
John Harrigan’s on a rant like only Harrigan can rant.
JOHN HARRIGAN: I’ve been out of the loop for a while, self imposed. When I came back from camp the other week I heard about this special Trump election commission, whose mission is to try to restore faith in the U.S. election system, which I did not know was missing.
VIEW FROM ABOVE THE NOTCHES: On this day, I heard people complaining about being ambushed by the Trump agenda. “Poor babies,” I thought. Where have they been?
Find out how to order a green cake of your own and help celebrate InDepthNH.org’s 1st anniversary. Thanks Mike Marland for the terrific cartoon. Hear, too, from Roger Wood and John Harrigan.
John Harrigan spouts off on the verge of Geezerdom.
By the time I bought my Times at LaPerle’s IGA, at around 4 p.m. if I was lucky – only six copies reached Colebrook – the news was already almost 10 hours old, and by the time I spread it out the next-morning it was 30 or so, older than wrapped fish.
John Harrigan’s View from Above the Notches: It came in a column I did for InDepthNH.org, “Iowa, Schmiowa,” in which I wrote that I was “number than a two-by-four about presidential politics.” The problem with that phrase is that “number,” as in “He’s number than a fencepost,” looks and reads just like “I tried to get her telephone number and she smacked me number than a dead cod.