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  • November, 2008

  • Feature Feature
    In Service of Fire and Family by David Lazar
    In 1948, Harry Truman was President, the number one single was Dinah Shore’s “Buttons and Bows,” and Ken Towne was a teen working the fields with his dad on their Hollis dairy farm when duty came rushing like a rocket from their rural homestead.
    Featured Imagery
  • Letter From The Editor Letter From The Editor
    “Real Heroes” by Michael DeBlasi
    It’s easy to recognize. We see the gold, bronze and scarlet brilliance that has adorned our strong maples and birches flutter to the ground.
  • Town Town
    Welcome to Peterborough
    The signs entering Peterborough proclaim this Monadnock hideaway and venerated arts colony as “a good town to live in.” The signs don’t lie. Nor do the senses.
  • Treasures Treasures
    Classic Troubadour Excerpts
    Notable selections from Troubadour issues of old are scattered throughout our magazine and are collected here.
  • slice of life slice of life
    Pot Luck by Becky Rule
    True story. Clive lived next door to the Meeting House, so it fell to him to keep the keys.
  • New Hampshire Then & Now New Hampshire Then & Now
    Berlin from Mason Street Bridge
    Incorporated in 1829 and originally a logging community, Berlin has been dominated by paper mills, such as this one above, for nearly 150 years.
  • Your Troubadour Your Troubadour
    Designed Specifically For You: Reader Submissions
    Readers share a bit of their memories, moments, stories and smiles about this state.
  • Our New Hampshire Our New Hampshire
    Celebrate NH with Robert J. Finlay
    From the time of the American Revolution, New Hampshire residents have never shied from offering their time and bravery so that their neighbors could live freely.
  • Trumpets Trumpets
    Recognizing Those Who Make A Difference
    Moore-Mart founders Carole Moore- Biggio and Paul Moore have helped send care packages to more than 15,000 deployed troops and retired veterans.