15

On June 15, 15 year-old Japhet French pulled the ropes on 15 hammers connected to tubular chimes. It was Wednesday evening and service at the First Chruch of Christ, Scientist, in downtown Concord was about to begin. Inside the… 0

Third in the Nation

Parents and their children slowly filled the second floor of the Concord Public Library. They formed a semi-circle in chairs and on the carpeted floor. Pam Stauffacher, children's services manager, joined the group and began… 0

300 Acres

Off Pittsfield Road in Loudon, a muddy path leads to a pile of cut and de-branched white birch, hemlock, pine and spruce trees. Next to the log pile is a large yellow machine called a skidder. If you glanced at this scene from… 0

12:00 pm

A few minutes before 12 noon, employees began to trickle past their fluorescent-lit cubicles carrying plastic containers with their lunch. Silence, then the slam of a microwave followed shortly by the timer's ring. While some… 0

1,000 pieces

Rose Stevens was working a corporate job as an insurance underwriter when she received a 1,000-piece puzzle as a gift from a friend. "I would work on a puzzle and forget about everything else," she said inside her Northwood… 0

16 free dental procedures

Louise Stott of Alexandria tried to translate instructions into Creole to her five year-old, Emily Michena Sylvain, as Emily received an oral X-ray. Emily's brother, Michael Rolando Sylvain, 9, watched through a crack in the… 0

6 steel roller coasters

The dark green-colored steel track rises to the tops of a few surrounding trees, both covered by the year's first snow. Below, crews laugh as they work to clear the double figure eight track of Rudy's Rapid Transit. "A… 0

208-pound trophy buck

The night before, Joey Kotfer, 16, was the last person to pick up his hunting license before the store closed. He was up at 5:30 a.m. and shot the deer by 8 a.m. Joey was shaking when he saw the buck through the thick, morning-lit… 0