Beverly Stoddart
Charles J. Doane: The Boy Who Fell to Shore, Part 2
Thomas sailing off Culebra. Courtesy of Stephanie Labonville PORTSMOUTH, NH: For Part 2, we delve into Thomas’s life after his father and...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Oct 31
- 12 min
Charles J. Doane: The Boy Who Fell to Shore: Part 1 – Peter Tangvald
The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald By BEVERLY STODDART, A NH Writer’s Life PORTSMOUTH, NH: In...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Aug 20
- 23 min
Dan Dowds: A 50-Year Memory Brought to Life
In the first moments of The Shawshank Redemption, the 1994 film based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Jul 26
- 19 min
Sy Montgomery: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
Sy Montgomery. Photo credit Tianne Strombeck. On a day in May, I arrive at Fiddleheads Café in Hancock, New Hampshire, to meet with...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Jul 1
- 10 min
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson: Girl as Birch
After meeting with Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, poet, and author of Girl as Birch, I drove home on a winding country road; I thought about her...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Jul 1
- 22 min
Steve Taylor: Newspaperman, Farmer, and Public Servant
Steve Taylor of Plainfield is far more than what the title of his book declares. The book title is Stephen Howard Taylor: Recollections...
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Beverly Stoddart
- May 22
- 11 min
Dave Silberman: The Best Cannabis Vermont has to offer New Hampshire.
Dave Silberman The sound of thunderous applause you are hearing from our neighbor on the western border of New Hampshire is coming from...
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Beverly Stoddart
- May 10
- 14 min
Alexandria Peary: NH Poet Laureate, Mindfulness, and the Monkey Mind
As New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Alexandria Peary “serves as an ambassador for all poets in New Hampshire and works to heighten the...
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Beverly Stoddart
- May 10
- 5 min
Sam Safford: A Message of Love at Easter
Sam Safford and I are members of Winning Speakers Toastmasters in Windham. He is the Vice President Public Relations, where he works to...
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Beverly Stoddart
- May 10
- 13 min
Paul O. Jenkins – Ambassadors of Bluegrass Music
"Give me rhythm In its fullest measure Wild harmonies we never learned in school If this is what they're calling foolish pleasure You're...
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Beverly Stoddart
- May 10
- 17 min
A New Hampshire Native Answers the Call to Cannabis
Paul Morrissette has a lot to say. Born and raised in New Hampshire, he has been an auctioneer for the better part of three decades and...
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Beverly Stoddart
- May 10
- 14 min
Searching for the Shoah in Auvillar, France
The Spiral Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II is a book by Sandell Morse that started out...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Apr 12
- 18 min
Alcoholism and Andy Marsjanik's Mission to Help
After thirty-five years, Andy Marsjanik stopped drinking following a short stay in rehab. He never took another drink. Unfortunately, we...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Feb 7
- 10 min
Radio and the Mind of Mike Morin
Mike Morin has been on the radio for decades. In that time, he has been stalked, buried alive three times, done a striptease in downtown...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Dec 16, 2021
- 8 min
Terry Farish – Literature is how I know the world.
A NH Writer’s Life On a sunny October morning, I met Terry Farish at a perfect New Hampshire location. We sat at a rustic table on the...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Dec 16, 2021
- 7 min
Michael Davidow – I’m a lawyer who writes for fun
A NH Writer’s Life Michael Davidow’s latest book, The Hunter of Talyashevka, takes place in 1926 in the Ukraine capital of Kiev (Kyiv)....
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Beverly Stoddart
- Dec 15, 2021
- 9 min
Dan Szczesny – Sharing Smiles Only Two Will Understand
A NH Writer’s Life Dan Szczesny is a journalist, speaker, and writer. In his books, he takes us to places on high where our imagination...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
Remembering A Veteran
On Thursday, November 11, 2021, Arlington National Cemetery will honor the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and commemorate the 100th...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Nov 2, 2021
- 8 min
John Robinson - A Literary Life
At the University of New Hampshire's Dimond Library, three levels down in the basement are the Milne Special Collections and Archives,...
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Beverly Stoddart
- Sep 28, 2021
- 5 min
Robert Wheeler and Hemingway's Havana
In Robert Wheeler’s book, Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba, the foreword is written by America Fuentes, the...
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