Word of Mouth

There are loads of hiking groups in New Hampshire—groups for women, families with young kids, birders...a quick search on Facebook will turn up one or more that fits your style. The Over the Hill Hikers club has been climbing New Hampshire’s mountains since 1979. Back then, the group's schedule was mailed out by hand. Word of Mouth's Virginia Prescott recently took a hike with the club, and came back with plenty of stories to tell.

When we started asking for questions from our listeners about the state, we got pages and pages of submissions online; so many we couldn’t answer them all. So I combed through and picked one that sounded interesting to me. And that’s how I ended up calling a woman named Jen, and asking one of the stupidest questions I’ve ever asked.

Paul Hutchinson is a Boston University lecturer and co-curator of an exhibit on New Hampshire’s summer camp history. It's on view at the Museum of the White Mountains in Plymouth until September 13. I went to the museum to see the exhibition and to talk to Paul about the long history our state has as a summer camp getaway.

Kelly’s dad grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She remembers her father, George, telling stories of growing up in "Irish Harlem", a pretty rough neighborhood squeezed between Spanish Harlem, Black Harlem and Columbia University. George was a straight-up "city kid", but each summer from about the age of 6 or 7, until he was a tween, George escaped to New Hampshire, and a Catholic boy’s camp called Camp Notre Dame on Spofford Lake.

New Hampshire is the mainspring for America’s summer camp story. The birthplace of a tradition that has shaped the lives of not only local kids, but kids we'd now call "at risk". Kids who'd never been out of their city or even neighborhood. And a number of celebrities spent their summers tucked away at Squam, Spofford, or Winnipesaukee lakes. People, like Paul Fireman, the founder of Reebok. James Frey, the once disgraced then quasi-redeemed author of A Million Little Pieces . Actors and

On today's show: Only in NH: You asked, we answered! Why does New Hampshire still require annual car inspections? NHPR's Casey McDermott went in search of answers. Our very own Jimmy Gutierrez talked to Margaret Gillespie a naturalist at Squam Lake Science Center about Animals with Bad Reputations and then talked to the team about a creature that might deserve its bad rap: the tick. You can visit the Red Barn Speaker Series at the New Hampshire Audubon to hear a talk about some animals who get a

On today's show: Producer Hannah McCarthy takes a drive up to Livermore to find out why a recent census listed the ghost town's population as "3". You can read more and listen to the story again here . Civics 101: Church & State Producer Molly Donahue answers the Only in New Hampshire question: is it true there's a secret list of archaeological sites in New Hampshire? Less is the new novel of the by Andrew Sean Greer , the O. Henry Award winning author who will be at Writers in the Loft on

The woods of New Hampshire are scattered with signs of civilization: crumbling foundations, railroad spikes, scraps of unidentifiable metal. Find enough of these in one place, and you're probably looking at a ghost town - a place people once called home, and have long-since abandoned.

On today's show: You Asked, We Answered: Is N.H.'s Craft Beer Hype Actually Brewing Big Business? Producer Taylor Quimby answers a listener's question about the proliferation of the craft beer business in New Hampshire Anthrax in Manchester: Revisiting the Arms Mill Outbreak of 1957 NHPR reporter Todd Bookman looks at the history of the anthrax outbreak in Manchester's mills. Civics 101: The 25th Amendment At N.H. Parole Board, Tough Talk Can Veer to the Profane NHPR reporter Emily Corwin story

On today's show: A conversation with artist and Dartmouth Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences, Soo Sunny Park. See photos and listen to this piece again at this link . Threshold Season 1 Episode 6: Territory Folks Should All Be Pals Starting tomorrow, we're airing Season 2 of Invisibilia , Virginia talks to the hosts of the show about Season 3 which will air starting next Monday!

The Currier Museum of Art ’s website describes the current installation by Soo Sunny Park , titled BioLath, as: “an immersive sculptural environment that explores the effect of light on visual perception.” On a recent visit to the Currier with some Manchester Elementary students, I witness the effect first hand: the kids are enthralled and immersed in the installation, and more comfortable than most adults when it comes to talking about contemporary sculpture. Beyond the initial ooh-ing &

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