This time of year never fails to catch me off guard. Perhaps it’s bearing witness to the cycle of rebirth, as life, that fecund thing, can be found in those sprouting flowers. Why, you can even see it in the joyful flitting of birds and the adorable buzzing of bees. However, you won’t ...
Three days before Christmas in 1947, leaders of Nashua’s Universalist Church – this was before the parish merged with the Unitarians to form the Unitarian Universalist Church – took a chance and invited a local teenager they’d heard was a pretty good magician to do a show at the ...
WAXING PHILOSOPHIC: Famed NYC restaurant Peter Luger Steakhouse has teamed with Madame Tussauds to have celebrity wax figures rub elbows with patrons, promoting the easing of pandemic restrictions on indoor dining in the Big Apple. A wax Jon Hamm, known for his ad exec Don Draper in the series ...
Free is the ultimate catch word for any promotion. Use the word “free,” and one is likely to garner almost anyone’s attention. Free with purchase, free for stopping by, free, today only. A TV ad for a regional car dealer who likes to “keep it awesome” even promises free money. Of ...
In February 2013, I wrote an Op-Ed about a new record number of individuals who were stuck in New Hampshire hospital emergency departments waiting for a psychiatric inpatient bed for an involuntary emergency admission (IEA). There were 44 individuals waiting on February 4, 2013. Eight years ...
The 1930s are often referred to as “Nashua’s Disaster Decade,” and is understood to refer to the three calamities that visited these parts between May 1930 and September 1938. Unless, of course, you count the Great Depression, which would bring it to four calamities within the ‘30s. ...
