Fall's favorite beer event: the annual Powder Keg Beer & Chili Festival is celebrating its 14th year on Swasey Parkway in Exeter ...

In the nearly half-kilometer of bookshelves that cover the walls of my home and office are several yards of books on New England, most of them on New Hampshire. Many are long out of print, a few are ...

It’s hard to imagine driving past a rich field of buried treasure and never stopping to explore — yet thousands of people commuting along Route 4 do it every day. Route 4, aka First NH Turnpike, runs ...

In certain parts of rural New England, there still exists those quintessential close-knit communities that have a way of embracing you like a warm hug, a patchwork quilt of pieces woven so seamlessly ...

What was once Great Island has, for the last two centuries, been lashed to the mainland with a series of bridges. By car, starting at the south end of Portsmouth, you can travel what locals call “the ...

It is a grim anniversary. On March 5, 1873, a down-and-out Prussian fisherman stole a small wooden boat from a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dock and rowed to the Isles of Shoals. In mild weather on calm ...

About this special series: While we ask our readers to pick the best of the best each year in more than 100 Best of New Hampshire categories, there are many other worthy and outstanding favorites for ...

Plymouth, the town, and Plymouth State University, the institution of higher learning, are both famous for many reasons. The former, incorporated in 1763, is the place where novelist Nathaniel ...

Ghost towns have no regard for political boundaries. Take the village of Monson Center, for example: Bits of it lie in Hollis, Brookline, Amherst and Milford. The search for this ambiguously located ...

Nothing says “you’re in for a good time” quite like a food truck. The mobile kitchens are staples at every carnival, fair and festival, and are guaranteed to dish up variety anywhere they park.

“Does the Abenaki tribe exist today? What is the difference between Abenaki and Wabanaki? Are there Abenaki people in New Hampshire anymore? How many Abenaki are there?” These are the kinds of ...

Carroll doesn’t have a defined village center, but rather four somewhat amorphous ones: Bretton Woods, Twin Mountain, Fabyan and Carroll. None looks like a traditional New England town — no white ...