When cleaning out grandma’s attic, are you making decisions based on memories, just guessing an object’s value as you go? When it comes to your valuable objects, would you recognize the treasures from the trash? My quiz game, “Dumpster or No Dumpster” will help you to use your antiques ...
A version of the old saying might be appropriate right about now: “So much great material, so little time and space.” But is there any such thing as “too much” great material in the context of local history, from first-hand recollections to the precious snippets of family lore, passed ...
It’s that time of year, when people put aside their petty differences, relax their political posturing and take down their Halloween decorations (finally, I’m talking to you, house on the corner, that still had gauze ghosts hanging from every tree in your yard). Instead, we wrap our ...
Being inundated with Black Friday commercials and circulars caused me to have yet another flashback to the “60’s, prompting a “virtual” shopping trip in downtown Nashua. It’s only virtual in the sense that I am referencing an online Telegraph dated December 5, 1963 and imagining what ...
My older son can’t get enough of music. At the tender age of four, he’s always singing or playing his tambourine at home and asking me to put on music in the car, the louder the better. When I play a favorite track at home, whether Bach or BB King, he sticks his face in front of the speaker ...
Between freakishly weird toys, devilish Christmas carols and frigheningly uncomfortable holiday TV specials, someone is out to spook the kids during this most joyful of all joyous seasons. Grandma getting run over by a reindeer is the least of our worries, and yes, some tortured soul at a TV ...
