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By KELLY SENNOTT

About six years ago, when in his mid-70s, Charlie Sawyer began sifting through his old photos.The Concord native had retired from his software career, most recently as a programmer at Google’s Cambridge office, and finally, after more than 30 years,...

By KELLY SENNOTT

When professional rock and ice climber Majka Burhardt learned she was pregnant with twins back in 2015, she began composing letters, notes and recordings for them.At the time, Burhardt was in her late 30’s and had recently started a nonprofit, Legado....

By KELLY SENNOTT

In Joy Malcolm’s mudroom hangs a six- by four-foot canvas plastered with paint by her and her kids.The family has been adding to this communal art piece for years, and it holds a lot of personal meaning for the Hopkinton mixed-media artist and...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Three days into his retirement, Joseph Monninger received a phone call from his doctor.It was the spring of 2021, and Monninger was standing outside his cabin in Pembroke, Maine, shoveling a walking path that overlooked the Pennamaquan Bay. The...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Music is a universal language, transcending borders, cultures, race – and, yes, language, too.This is according to Martin Toe and Destin Boy Official, the artists behind the Black History Month Unity Concert at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage this...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Rachael Chapin Longo first read “Breadcrumbs” during the pandemic’s early days, searching for one- or two-person plays for theatre KAPOW to livestream.She was intrigued by Jennifer Haley’s script, which tells of a reclusive fiction writer, Alida, who...

By KELLY SENNOTT

While Brad Wolcott served as a cavalry officer in the United States Army, his days were spent leading soldiers on patrol and planning tasks associated with the job.But when the tasks were done, there were also large gaps of time. Time in which to...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Chicken wire. Glass. Spray paint. Fabric. Acorns.The Concord Garden Club’s floral arrangements, part of the 20th annual “Art & Bloom” exhibition at the League of NH Craftsmen gallery, are more avant-garde than what you’ll find at your local...

By KELLY SENNOTT

First and foremost, Bradford artist and printmaker J. Ann Eldridge is a storyteller.Her subjects? Bugs. Rocks. Moles. The outdoors in general. Instead of novels, she prefers reading about the science of the natural world, from horizontal gene transfer...

By KELLY SENNOTT

For Melissa McKeagney, there’s nothing like creating art and putting it on repeat.The Wilmot resident has been a textile artist for fifteen years, but until recently, she’d been creating with other people’s prints. Now her company, Studio Buue, sells...

By KELLY SENNOTT

When Warner bladesmith Zack Jonas joined the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in 2012, he was the only person selling knives at the Sunapee fair.Bladesmithing hadn’t yet hit mainstream pop culture due to shows like Forged in Fire, and most people...

By KELLY SENNOTT

Winter in New Hampshire isn’t what it used to be.At least, that’s what Walpole filmmaker Gabriel Andrus’s grandfather has been telling him via the daily weather log the older man has been keeping for the last 20 years. As a boy, Andrus was told of the...