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Nov 5, 2024 | 
nhmagazine.com | Emily Heidt |Caleb Jagoda |Anna-Kate Munsey
Tips, ideas and resources for creating a locally sourced Thanksgiving feast The carving knives are sharpened, the ovens are primed, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Thanksgiving Day football games are recorded and ready to go. Whether you are hosting a meal for two or 15, preparing and cooking Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be overwhelming or include stressful last-minute grocery trips to pick up cranberry sauce.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
Founded in 1952, the New Hampshire Home Builders Association unites all those involved in the building of a Granite State home — from actual builders and kitchen remodelers to bankers and insurance brokers. And for the second time this December, they’ll come together to build edible lodgings with a holiday twist.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
J.W. Ocker, New Hampshire’s preeminent travel writer of the strange and the unexplained, approaches his subjects, no matter how grim, with an insatiable curiosity. What happens when his own life gets dark? In 2016, J.W. Ocker took a road trip with his then-wife and two toddler daughters to Plainfield, Wisconsin, a landlocked Midwestern town, population 862.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
There’s fear of the unknown — and that doesn’t mean that aliens, entities, beings, the presence that surrounds all of this stuff, whatever you want to call it, is benign. But I do know you can document it way back, and I think it’s pretty safe to say it’s been an experience going on for hundreds of years.”I’m speaking with Dean Merchant, at Me & Ollie’s Café on Water Street in Exeter.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
The acoustic troubadour and world traveler talks creating for the sake of creating and performs three songs Bobbo Byrnes has seen it all. A self-described “acoustic troubadour and world traveler, inspired by Kerouac and Pollock,” as his Instagram bio says, Byrnes puts on a one-man show brimming with sincerity.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
The day-long arts market and concert aims to galvanize community and build thriving green spaces If you noticed that a beautiful, brand-new bandstand in your hometown was hardly being used, what would you do? Most might shrug and hope for a concert or two — but not Griffith Comtois.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
The Portsmouth sculptor and high school art teacher discusses "Dune" and allowing yourself to be creative Sarah Mundy leads a life devoted to the arts. By day, the 33-year-old Portsmouth resident works as art teacher at the town’s public high school, leading teenagers through the fundamentals of painting, drawing, ceramics and sculpture, and by night (and school vacation), Mundy churns out an impressive collection of her own.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
The year is 1985. A hunter walking through the woods of Allenstown’s Bear Brook State Park discovers two decaying bodies in a blue barrel. There are no leads, no tips, no suspects and no real clues. The case remains static — until 2005, when two more bodies are found, 100 yards from the first two. In 1989, 19-year-old Jason Carroll is convicted for a Bedford murder he later says he didn’t commit. There’s no evidence — except his own taped confession. Sound intriguing? Jason Moon thought so, too.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
The Seacoast-area hip-hop band performs three songs and discusses looking fresh like Mary J. Blige, yelling in people's faces and the importance of stage presence College bands shapeshift as swiftly as Gremlins devouring a midnight feast. It’s only natural. Social groups change, people develop new passions, lose interest in old ones, transfer schools, lose themselves, find themselves anew; nearly every aspect of a 19-year-old’s life exists in a constant state of flux.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
nhmagazine.com | Caleb Jagoda
The 22nd annual event looks to celebrate the state's best and brightest at Lee's Flag Hill Distillery and Winery The Best of NH Party is back the way it was originally intended. On Thursday, June 22, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Flag Hill Distillery and Winery in Lee, the annual celebration of the Granite State’s best and the brightest returns to its glory days of sampling great food, drink, live music and fun.
