It is a grim anniversary. On March 5, 1873, a down-and-out Prussian fisherman stole a small wooden boat from a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dock and rowed to the Isles of Shoals. In mild weather on calm ...

Looking to soak in the woods of New Hampshire and art at the same time? The Andres Institute of Art in Brookline is your spot. New England’s largest outdoor sculpture park, the cultural hub offers ...

“It was the landscape in Hollis that drew us,” says resident Louann Swaney, whose grown children live nearby. “You feel nestled in the country and minutes from shopping and highways.” Hollis is ...

Summer is just around the corner, which means that summer theater is too. To help celebrate this season of sunshine, rising temperatures, barbecues and outdoor fun, we’re starting “Behind the Curtain, ...

Warner referred to her as "the little bitch," but Bette Davis was box office gold and he knew it. She had received two Oscars, the first for "Dangerous" and the second for "Jezebel." She would ...

Seventy-five miles north of Mount Washington, Route 16 is a bumpy, twisting, rural road, hemmed in by fir trees and interrupted only by an occasional farmhouse shrouded in mist. Here the peaks of the ...

I’m on the Pontook flowage up in Dummer headed south following the Androscoggin. The river is flowing freely now, but 100 years ago it would have been jammed with activity as log drivers floated their ...

The results listed here will be published in the July Best of NH issue, which will be available on newsstands, online and in mailboxes in late June 2026. The list below serves as a quick reference ...

Oysters are the perfect way to start a meal or simply satisfy a desire for something perfectly fresh, infinitely interesting and salty as the sea. It’s that taste of brine, snap of raw meat and ...

Move into an old home and a phrase comes to mind: “If these walls could speak.” Apply that same thought to the rugged hills and ragged shorelines of the Granite State, the “old home” in which we live, ...

It was the quest for a waterfall that first took us to the little town of Stark, located in the Great North Woods Region between Groveton and Milan. Stark includes three villages — Stark, Percy and ...

Nestled in the shadows of New Hampshire’s majestic White Mountains, the area that encompasses the town of Whitefield was once described as a tract of land that no one wanted. According to historical ...