The other day I was thinking about whom to call back from the dead and I came up with five names (this time): Miles Davis. Dave Brubeck. John Steinbeck. Fred Rogers. Jeff Cleveland. Ah, I see you want to know why, so I will tell you, but only because I like you. With Miles and ...

75 years ago, 1943 Because of government orders to conserve fuel, the midday B and M bus from Nashua to Peterborough was cancelled, leaving one bus in the morning and one in the late afternoon. A Japanese two-man submarine, captured at the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, was being trucked ...

Here’s how the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance describes the state law that allows Milford officials to offer a tax break to the people developing the old Boston Shoe Store site on the Oval. “RSA 79-E is a state law that encourages investment in downtowns and village centers. It ...

Anything that attracts people to a library is all right with us, so applause for the new Story Trail at Wilton’s Public-Gregg Free Library. According to library director Pat Fickett, the trail was created “to bring parents/caregivers onto the library gounds by creating an opportunity to ...

In two weeks, it will be Memorial Day, and this year it might behoove us to prepare for the holiday by thinking about John McCain, who now faces death as bravely as he faced torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans will spend the holiday paying ...

75 years ago, 1943 Miss Pauline Mason, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mason of Mont Vernon, was the first girl in the secretarial-science class at Bay Path Institute of Commerce in Springfield, Mass., to be awarded a pin for typewriting at the rate of 75 words a minute. Lyndeborough ...