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Written by Joan Styrna andAllison Anneser
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SEACOAST COOKBOOKS
Read yourself to good health? Not exactly. But it can’t hurt to hear what these two locally published cookbooks have to offer. Seacoast NH authors Allison Anneser and JoanStyrna offer simply prepared recipes for wholesome food in two new paperbacks. Step one, buy the books. Step two, eat food. Step three, live longer and feel better. Sounds easy enough.
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Written by Bill Rogers
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NH FILMS
Bode Miller is all New Hampshire – opinionated, independent, hard-working, but just as determined to enjoy life. Okay, maybe he’s got a little California in him too. Independent filmmaker Bill Rogers has captured the Bode spirit and story in a documentary film. We couldn’t slow Bode down for an interview, but we got the next best thing.
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Written by James T Fields
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SEACOAST POETRY
Forget the Grinch and Mr. Scrooge. The meanest cheapest man in the world is – or was – Lot Skinner. He was so cheap he would bite a raisin in half when weighing out a pound. Portsmouth-born poet James T. Fields went on to make his fortune in Boston. One has to wonder if Lot Skinner was fashioned on the owner of a Portsmouth grocery store.
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Written by John R H Kimball
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SEACOAST BOOKS
No, this is not about Hurricane Katrina or the Bush administration. New England has its share of disasters too. "Disasters Etc." is a new book about codfishing, shipbuilding, sea captains, and maritime law in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Today it is a yachting capital, but there was a time when Marblehead was considered "backward, dirty and immoral". Click to more..
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Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 SEACOAST POETRY
When the elderly NH governor married his young housekeeper It was the Seacoast scandal of the 18th century. Commoners simply did not mate with royalty in those days. The story was 100 years old when New England’s top romantic poet transformed it into verse. It appeared in his most famous collection, "Tales of a Wayside Inn" that also included the classic and often innaccurate poem about Paul Revere’s ride. Here is the complete Longfellow ballad. |
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Written by Mike Dater
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SEACOAST BOOKS
Both were once pilots. Both are middle-aged white men today. Both "stay the course". But when it comes to politics, Mike Dater and George Bush are poles apart. Readers of the NH Gazette are familiar with Dater’s biting political satire. Now all that left-wing angst has been freeze-dried into a single volume. It’s Doonesbury on steroids. If Jonthan Swift could draw (and didn’t die 250 years ago) he would happily be Mike Dater.
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Written by Fred Samuels and Joann Snow Duncanson
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SEACOAST BOOKS
The way things have been going lately, we could all use a book of
smiles. Well, here it is. Poet Fred Samuels and columnist Joann Snow
Duncanson have teamed up to produce "Breakfast in the Bathrub". If
you’ve had enough of nasty weather, political strife and bird flu, or
if you happen to be President of the United States – this book’s for
you. Click for special excerpts from the book.
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Written by SeacoastNh Gallery
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SEACOAST GALLERY
Many readers never notice that the image at the top of this web site changes weekly. Most pictures are shot locally and, over time, they pile up. Here are two dozen of them, slightly reduced in size. Some come straight from the digital cam, others have been fiddled with in PhotoShop. New header images submitted by photographers are always welcomed as long as they are long, flat and thin.
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Written by Glenn A. Knoblock
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SEACOAST BOOKS
What better way to welcome October than with a new book about gravestones? Portsmouth’s Arcardia Publishing, among the fastest growing publishers in the world, has released a new photo volume focused on the city’s historic cemeteries. These tombs are endangered and the more we learn about them, the better they can be preserved.
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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THE LEGEND THAT NEVER DIES
America loves its villains. And no villain has stolen more celluloid than the outlaw Jesse James. Although his story has never been truly told on film, Hollywood just can’t stay away from the legend. This time around Brad Pitt will play James. And even as the film is being shot, the author is digging into the truth behind the myth.
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