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When Jody Hill Simpson arrived at the Hancock Meeting House in late September for what would be the first rehearsal of the Norway Pond Festival Singers since the choral program took a hiatus last spring, she finally felt whole again. This particular...

Doug Sutherland vividly remembers making the most important promise of his life.In Maryland for a work conference, Sutherland found himself standing in a slave graveyard on a former plantation. Something about the moment struck him, and he knelt down...

All it took was one field trip when Ben Fisk was five to know what he wanted to do with his life.Most boys at that age dream of being a police officer or professional athlete – maybe even a superhero – but not Fisk. When his preschool class visited a...

For Sadie Halliday, it’s all about creating that work life balance.Her daughters, Lucy, 13, and Sarah, 10, are her world and spending as much time with them as possible is something that is more important than anything.It’s why she decided to help...

Somewhere along the way, Joe Cuddemi was dubbed the unofficial mayor of Bennington.Maybe its because of all those years of service he put in to the town. Maybe it’s because he’s lived there all but about two years of his life. Or maybe it’s because of...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 3/13/2021 9:44:01 AM Lisa Bostnar still gets butterflies when the curtain opens and the lights get bright. But not the nervous fluttering kind, more like an excited anticipation of performing in front of an audience, there to capture her every move on stage. Since moving to New York City in 1986, acting has not only been Bostnar’s career, but it has fulfilled a passion for creativity and imagination that really began as a child playing in the backwoods o...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/17/2021 5:05:45 PM The one message that stuck with Jim Guy ever since he was a young boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio was the importance of getting an education. His parents grew up in the 1920s, and life as Black people coming of age was anything but easy. “They were subject to severe racial discrimination,” Guy said of his parents James and Josephine. Yet they persevered, with James eventually beating the odds and becoming a doctor, and he wan...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/7/2021 4:09:50 PM Jonah Wheeler knows his story resonates with others. How at the age of 17 he’s lived in so many apartments and houses that it’s hard to keep count. How his mom has worked tirelessly to provide for her two children and at times it just wasn’t enough. How he’s seen firsthand how the systems in place can fail people. How racism still exists. “I know my story matters,” Wheeler said. “I can articulate my story and it will be im...

Published: 2/2/2021 5:46:08 PM To honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Allen Davis started a tradition over lunch on the third Monday of January. The tradition of reading King’s “I Have A Dream” speech is one that only encompasses the last three years, but is something Davis plans on keeping for many years to come. In fact all, of Davis’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a tribute to the Civil Rights leader. It started by viewing the video put together by the ...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 1/15/2021 11:24:23 AM Swift Corwin always wanted to be surrounded by woods and hills. He longed for it growing up in Northwest Ohio. There the only things around him were cornfields and more wide open space that was flat and stretched as far as the eye could see. It was a trip to Hancock, when still in high school, to visit his cousin Marg Link that Corwin saw the Monadnock region for the first time. It had forests, hills and mountains everywhere you look...