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New Hampshire Magazine This month brings a variety of events, from art exhibitions to drive-in concerts to festivals April 26, 2021 Photo by Morgan Karanasios If you look carefully at the world around you, you’ll see beauty reflected in the simplest unturned stone along our path. This has been a year of profound change and uncertainty and yet in our days we still find wonder in our reflections. Share your reflections in this show to help everyone around you see what you see, or stop by and see how others have been viewing the world around us this last year. seacoastartist.org

New Hampshire Magazine Walk the 1.5-mile trail and see all the quaint, creative pocket gardens April 12, 2021 Mid-summer fun featuring gardens, cookies and music? Who could refuse! The Pocket Gardens Tour of Portsmouth is back for its 32nd year, and it won’t disappoint. Given the historic Portsmouth location, attendees can simultaneously sit in a flower-bedecked park, sip fresh hand-squeezed lemonade, listen to a lively band and watch cargo ships go by. Organizers emphasize that there’s only one way to see all of the adorable pocket gardens — walk! It is an easy, self-paced 1.5-mile tra...

Dear Editor: I write in support of Charlie Culbertson’s candidacy for Third Selectman in Alna. I find his thinking in concert with my own on two very important issues: rivers and schools. It might be said that my soul is embedded in the ebb and flow of the Sheepscot River. In the 1930s, I learned to swim in the Sheepscot River; in the ’40s to row a dinghy; in the ’50s I learned to fish; in the ’60s to shoot ducks; and in more recent years, to paddle a kayak and revere the eagles, kingfishers, otters and mink … and ducks.

After Portsmouth native Doris Moore returned home in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in hand, she wanted to do something to help her country. America was embroiled in the Second World War at the time, a literal battle between good and evil. Moore was a woman, and she was Black. Her opportunity to make a significant contribution to the war effort was limited not only by her gender but by her race. This opportunity ultimately arrived with the formation of the 6888th Central Postal Delivery Battalion, an all-Black detachment of the Women’s Army Corps. In order to achieve success on the battlef...

PORTSMOUTH — Anticipating the springtime signing-on of prospective tenants, Strawbery Banke Museum is renovating two houses on its historic campus for residential use as part of the Heritage House Program. The Banke’s Patch House and Webster House are joining 11 other houses holding tenants, which has become a major income driver for Strawbery Banke since COVID-19 has limited operations. The difference between the current state of the two houses is night and day, said Rodney Rowland, the museum's director of facilities and special projects. “Webster is in fantastic condition and easy ...