InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/series/view-from-above-the-notches/page/2)
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 wr0te for InDepthNH.org whenever the spirit moved him before he died Dec. 27, 2022. We miss you John.
His weekly column “North Country Notebook” ran in the Salmon Press papers covering the northern two-thirds of the state (newhampshirelakesandmountains
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.
View from Above the Notches: The 1968 primary was in full swing, and I was number than a two-by-four about presidential politics. “Nixon’s in town,” growled editor Mike Shalhoup, handing me a battered twin-lens Rollei. “Go get a photo.”
Longtime statewide outdoor writer and North Country newspaper owner John Harrigan of Colebrook has joined InDepthNH’s growing staff of contributors.