The Keeper of Stray Ladies
Bette Davis may have shopped in the stores among the locals, tromped in the woods and skied down the slopes, but she was Hollywood and she brought it to the North Country.
The Day the Old Man Fell: ‘There is Emptiness and Devastation’
In the cover of darkness and a shroud of rain and fog, the Old Man of the Mountains gave up his stony, silent vigil as the beloved and venerable symbol of the Granite State sometime Friday night.
The Old Man and the Irresistible Force of Geology
Scenarios for the Old Man’s demise included a slight earthquake that would set off a big slide, a dynamite explosion or sonic boom.
North Country Nomenclature
North Country nomenclature is a mix of history, legend and imagination. It’s an anchor to way things were and perceived a few centuries ago. It’s part of the character of the land.
It Was Like Old Home Day …
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…
The Old Man Rocks On
Reprinted from the May 9, 2003 edition of The Union Leader on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain. FRANCONIA – The man had waited until Monday to come down from Littleton to Franconia Notch, partly to avoid the crowd of the curious on Sunday…
The Poor Man’s Pocket Watch
Reprinted from April 2001 (With a fond remembrance to the late Don Eastman of Franconia) We must ‘spring forward’ this weekend, so don’t forget to put your clocks ahead one hour when you go to bed on Saturday night. This is a nice time to devote some time to timekeepers here in the North Country,…
