Category: New Hampshire
Vote Here – Vote Early – Vote Once
| January 10, 2012 | Filled under New Hampshire, Upper Valley |
The usual springtime primary election happens before winter has hit. New Hampshire moved the primary election up as far as it could to maintain first-in-the-nation election status this year. First of the first were the nine residents of Dixville Notch
Robert Frost’s Yellow Wood
| October 10, 2007 | Filled under New Hampshire, Poetry, The Frost Place |
A yellow medow behind the Frost House.
Twisters
| August 17, 2007 | Filled under New Hampshire, Upper Valley |
I woke up to the sound of tree chippers. I’m not sure where some of my lawn furniture went. Part of a tree split and landed on the duplex next to mine as pictured above. I saw the spinning tree branches and ran into my basement hoping the house wouldn’t blow away. Around the corner from me I saw two cars with a tree on top, one of the cars looks totaled. I like basements.
I know now that a funnel cloud was what hit us yeaterday from a neighbor’s report, not just severe storm winds. I noticed the counterclockwise rotation of the wind as is typical of tornados in the northern hemisphere, that’s when I ran into my basement…No storm chaser here! I really wanted to see if there was a funnel cloud nearby, wanted to go outside and watch the storm. But I know too well their immense strength and damage potential. I grew up in the midwest with frequent tornado drills at school. Many times we sat out storm watches at home in our basement and I often thought of Dorothy and the tornado scene in the Wizard of Oz. This storm hit fast and I had no warning, and barely enough time to realize what was happening.
Poetic Fragments
| August 10, 2007 | Filled under New Hampshire, Poetry, The Frost Place |
These sticks and stone are leftover fragments used in the making of a poem by the Frost Place 2007 resident poet Jody Gladding.
Poetry Bumper Sticker
| August 10, 2007 | Filled under New Hampshire, Poetry, The Frost Place |
Is this Haiku spotted on the car bumper of a poet?