Born during the Woodrow Wilson administration the eldest of 10 children of Swedish immigrants, she’s outlived all but one sibling, was around, albeit as a child, when women got the OK to vote, and to this day can recite a favorite childhood prayer verbatum – in both Swedish and English – ...
The COVID-19 contagion has hit New Hampshire hard, as it has the rest of the country, hurting small businesses, local economy and our local media. At such an unprecedented moment – when more than 121,000 Americans have died – our local and national media are more important than ever before. ...
Over recent months, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need to improve access to telehealth services across New Hampshire. During this challenging period, and at all times, individuals and families face significant hurdles to accessing in-person health care, including physical, geographic, ...
In the spring of 1968, I was a 22-year-old seminarian preparing for the ministry at a theological school in Rochester, New York. It was a predominantly white seminary with a sizeable number of Black students (the term “African American” had not come into use at that time). On the evening ...
Dames. Broads. Cats. Crumb bums. Sadly, no one talks like this anymore and it’s a doggone shame. I wasn’t born until ‘64 so I missed the parlance from the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s eras. Having seen Sinatra live more than a dozen times, I have relied on his ring-a-ding-ding lingo to ...
The coronavirus interrupted 2020 legislative session will be one to remember, just as graduations will be this year for college and high school seniors. Normalcy is gone, improvisation is the norm and things may never be the same. This year a high school graduation ceremony was held atop ...
