Between seventh and eighth grade I learned how to play the tuba because Mr. Bethel asked me to. He needed more low-end horns, I guess,...

North Conway isn't technically a town - it's a village, a "census-designated place" within the town of Conway. Still, it's one of the...

In this age of Starbucks and Dunkin's, who remembers Mister Donut? There was a time years ago when it was a player in the American coffee...

It may come as a fair surprise to many, considering my overwhelming vertical footprint, but I'm a decent basketball player. I'm certainly...

During my undergraduate days at UNH, students had three dining hall options: Stillings (Swillings, complete with Food River and one-armed...

Before the mind-numbing ease of shopping online, and before the cookie-cutter dominance of Wal-Mart and Target, there were crappy little...

I have such mixed feelings about New Hampshire's big old theme park. It's got everything you're looking for in these places, with rides...

There are two ways across the Exeter River in town. And yeah, I've got some love for the modestly named Great Bridge where the dam used...

New Castle is a funky place. It's the smallest town in New Hampshire at less than 2.5 square miles, though less than a square mile of...

Earlier in this list I mentioned some of the great traditional breakfast places in the New Hampshire seacoast (Betty's Kitchen, Rogan's,...

In the fall of 2000 I joined the Exeter Seahawks youth football program as board president, twelve years after having played for the...

I've spilled a lot of ink on another movie house in the seacoast, and I'm sure I will again before this list is finished. But I can't...