A Home Improvement Column?
If you have gotten over the fact that the Weirs Times looks a little different this week, you might have also noticed that it is also the start of our Annual Fall Home Improvement Section.…
Carrigain Notch & Mount Carrigain
The mountaintops were hiding behind the clouds as I drove down Crawford Notch. I turned up Sawyer River Road and drove up the gravel road that is now narrow in a few places due to…
Helpful Books
As we get older, focusing more on keeping ourselves healthy is important. It isn’t always easy to do as there are so many unhealthy opportunities that surround us every day and most of them smell…
Losing Our Religion
Last month in these pages (“Nobody Can Disappoint Like Family,” August 1st) I lamented Governor Sununu’s acquiescence to one of liberalism’s newest tenets. With his signature on SB263, “gender identity,” is now a legally protected…
Great Hill Fire Tower
Great Hill certainly lives up to its name. The panorama vista from the Great Hill Fire Tower is one of the finest. The Sandwich Range winds around Great Hill, from Sandwich Mountain all the way…
September 1, 1939
At the risk of outing myself as a philistine, I must admit that I’m not a fan of poetry. After the forced march through haiku in middle school and learning the naughty delights of dirty…
Journey’s End: Vermont’s Long Trail
Liz and I are finally End to Enders. We finished the Long Trail last Wednesday, all 272 miles. We began section hiking the Long Trail a year ago last June. We hiked 20 days total;…
From Good Wood To Goodwill
There is something refreshing about seeing familiar sights with new eyes. That was my sense while hiking to the summits of North and Middle Tripyramids last weekend. My hiking group consisted of two old guys…
Cannon & Loon – Family Mountaintop Fun
Katie and Scott, my husband Charlie’s sister and her husband, are from Wisconsin and they came to visit us and they wanted to see our White Mountains. We couldn’t have been happier to show them…
Nobody Can Disappoint Like Family
Some version of “Nobody can disappoint like family” has probably been around for as long as humans have been forming families. It’s human nature to be disappointed when those closest to us don’t live up…
My Other Job
My job always get a little harder in the summertime. I am not talking about being the editor of this paper, but my “other” job. Being the self-anointed voice of the Flatlander here in Central…
Mount Pemigewasset and Clark’s Trading Post
We sure had a full day of summer fun last Sunday. Bria and I met at the north end of the Flume parking lot at 9 am. Since we had two cars we decided to…
Man On The Moon: Looking Back At One Of America’s Greatest Achievements
As a boy of 13 in the summer of 1969 I was mesmerized, as was the rest of the world, when American men walked on the moon in a quest which carried a risk of…
Other News
I had a lot of fun putting together this edition’s front page story about the Apollo 11 Moon Mission that happened 50 years ago this week. It certainly wasn’t difficult. I had so many newspapers…
Moon Landing Remembered— Failure Was Not an Option
Bondville, VT – For those of us of a certain age, we vividly remember where we were on July 20, 1969 the date of America’s successful Lunar landing. On a cool July southern Vermont evening…