On the Appalachian Trail with Carey
On March 18th, Carey Kish left the summit of Springer Mountain in Georgia and started hiking north on the Appalachian Trail, aka the AT. His Six-Moon Journey (the name of his blog at MaineToday.com) began…
Arthur Mazmanian – Early Inspirations
Arthur Mazmanian If you are fortunate enough to have found you life’s work, your bliss, the reason you are here on this great planet, you will understand my interest in the late artist, Arthur Mazmanian.…
Caption Contest Photo #559
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Amplified Amber – Great Rhythm Brewing Company
New Hampshire is enjoying a booming business: craft brewing of fine beers around the entire state. As mentioned before in this column, NH leads the country in beer sales. That’s quite an accomplishment for a…
Apples Matter
The pumpkin is kicking the apple to the curb and I, for one, am not happy about it. I never really used to care, but I never really took notice until this year. Has it…
Ora Henniker Brewing Company
One can only appreciate true craft-brewed beer when it is something special and the consumer is wowed by it, bringing their focused attention to the partaking of an awesome moment in time. These times can…
Caption Contest Photo #558
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Words To Live By
This time of year is always exciting for people like me. No, it’s not just 6’2″ bald men approaching sixty (thought some of them might be excited) who love this time of year, but others…
China Blues
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer New York—The reverberations of China’s economic jolt are being felt worldwide from New York, to London, Frankfurt and Tokyo. It’s the fear of a slowdown in the…
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe…
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer “It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J. K. Rowling “We are our choices.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre In the…
Toasted Pumpkin Ale / 603 Brewery
As summer weather finally fades into the New Hampshire sunset, your taste choices may also begin to change with the seasons as well. With Octoberfest right around the corner, fall sports take root and focuses…
Syrian Apocalypse
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS— Syria continues to descend into the inferno while the international community stands transfixed. A political solution seems elusive as ever, the civil war grinds on…
My Trump Card
All the excitement over the upcoming presidential race has really gotten me to thinking. Next year I will most likely be involved again in my own campaign for governor of New Hampshire running under the…
Caption Contest Photo #557
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Opa’s Oktoberfest from Moat Mountain
When we realize that summer is waning and the inevitable is on the way (falling leaves, frost and then snow…), we go through a change in many ways. Our activities move from aquatic fun to…