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By PATRICK O’GRADY
CHARLESTOWN — Amateur historians share a few things in common. They are more curious than most, passionate and persistent in confirming their findings.They research and write for little to no financial gain, and their published works do not yield much...
By JIM KENYON
ENFIELD — During his 27 years as the town’s police chief, Peter Giese took mentoring Enfield officers to a new level. He made sure they dotted every I and crossed all Ts — literally.Giese checked officers’ investigative reports and court affidavits...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
ORFORD — The annual Orford Town Meeting would be only a couple of articles into voting on town budget items when a familiar voice would shout from his seat in the bleachers at the back of the school auditorium.“Paper ballot! Paper ballot!” came the...
By ALEX HANSON
HANOVER — For someone who devoted his life to the glitziest of businesses, Bill Pence kept out of the light.His career in film had a profound influence on the medium, but he came at it from the perspective of a fan and a theater operator, not a...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
WINDSOR — For Anthony Rocchio, human encounters and connections were more than an opportunity to forge new friendships. They were a cause for celebration.Rocchio’s natural gift for engaging others and wanting to learn about them brought him his...
By NORA DOYLE-BURR
SOUTH STRAFFORD — Robert Murray had a gruff communication style, but everyone at The Newton School, where he served as principal for 28 years, and in the community, where he served in numerous volunteer roles, recognized that he cared.Joey Hawkins,...
By JIM KENYON
Lee Cutting and John Walsh were the best of friends. Whether they were good influences on each other is arguable.But they had a bond. His name was Jim Beam. “We put away a lot of bourbon,” Walsh told me.For 10 years, Cutting, 64, and Walsh, 72, lived...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — When Ella Casey arrived in Newport in the mid-1960s, she hit the ground running and rarely stopped for the next 50-plus years, involving herself in more town and community endeavors than anyone can recallCasey, who died at age 92 on October...
By JUSTIN CAMPFIELD
Friends and family members agree that one characteristic permeated nearly every part of longtime Upper Valley resident Dale “Penny” Breed’s life: She did not like being told she couldn’t do something.Whether it was as an accomplished student and...
By ALEX HANSON
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Like any creature just getting its legs under it, electronic music had a wobbly start.Composers worked on cumbersome analog machines and recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. Concerts often consisted of composers placing a reel...
By JOHN LIPPMAN
NEWPORT, N.H. — Bill Rodeschin was born at the Rodeschin family home which was located across Sunapee Street from where LaValley Building Supply is now, in 1926.His brother, Henry Rodeschin, was born in the same house in Newport six years later, in...
By John Lippman
Post Mills — On the afternoon of May 8, Megan Naylor and Nicholas Berry exchanged wedding vows in the living room of their trailer home in Post Mills.That evening, the guests gone and the newlyweds alone, Berry died.They were married six hours.“Nick...
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