This article was first published in May 2008. ~ Ed. BATH – The little story, simply told, is about a little girl who planted a little garden on top of a big rock a long time ago and the people who, more than two centuries later, continue to tend it. Her name was Mercy Harriman…
This article was first published Jan. 11, 1995 edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader. PITTSBURG – On the road to Canada, 12 miles past the last utility pole, 23 miles from the village and 74 miles from the last McDonald’s, the unplowed snow on U.S. Route 3 gives a clue as to what kind…
n the summer, the cross gets its share of visitors, who leave wild flowers and money. Hewson collects the coins or bills and gives them to charity. He removes the plastic flowers before the first snow fall. The wild flowers wither and fade on their own.
(This article first appeared in the New Hampshire Sunday News on July 2, 2006.) ELLSWORTH – When the last worshipper had departed this tiny church last December on the music of Christmas tidings, the candles were blown out, the few lights extinguished and the door closed tight against the winter and more than half a…
Lorna Colquhoun was the first reporter in Franconia Notch after the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain. Her report and photos appeared in the New Hampshire Sunday News on May 4, 2003. FRANCONIA – In the cover of darkness and a shroud of rain and fog, the Old Man of the Mountains gave…
(This article was first published June 6, 2004. On June 3, 2014, a proclamation was issued by the Sugar Hill selectmen declaring July 4th as Roger Aldrich Day, in recognition of his devotion to his town, which helped found in 1962. — LJC) SUGAR HILL – Roger Aldrich is in France today, a country that…
(This article appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader on May 6, 2003. LJC) FRANCONIA – The headline was bold and it stretched across the front page of The New Hampshire Sunday News 45 years ago. Old Man Doomed An accompanying story carried the headline, “He Would Die Impressively but Dangerously.” A photo of the…
(Originally published in April 2003) FRANCONIA — As winter recedes from the steep slopes of Mount Lafayette, there are those who say the last remnants of the season cling to ravines, forming for a short time, a cross on the side of the mountain. “It’s visible right now,” says Don Eastman, who spotted it from…
Originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader September 1998. At about the point where you come nose to nose with the Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire nomenclature gets a little quirky. Whether on foot or in a car in northern environs, chances are that to get from point A to point…
(This story was written in May 2004 and published in the New Hampshire Sunday News.) If nowhere is a place where no one has trod for decades, then Mount Kancamagus is in the middle of it. A hiker found himself there last week on what the Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountain Guide describes as a…
LISBON, NH – Who knows what the future would have held for Harry Chandler were it not for a college dare and a vat of starch. Maybe he would have found another reason to leave New Hampshire and head west to southern California. Chandler’s future was set when, as a Dartmouth College student, he…
FRANCONIA July 2, 2011 Today was the annual Franconia-Easton-Sugar Hill Old Home Day, continuing a century old tradition of New Hampshire towns calling back to their communities those who left, for whatever reason, to rekindle friendships and maybe, just maybe, draw them back. A photographer friend of mine, always looking for a new…
