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March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 by Bill Donahue

Live Free and Fly

New Hampshire is angling to become the flying car capital of the universe. Let me take you on a flyover.
Bloomberg Hyperdrive
Edited by Dimitra Kessinedes


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February 24, 2021 by Bill Donahue

Talk of the Town

What happened when I set out to discuss politics with my Trump-supporting neighbors.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell


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August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 by Bill Donahue

Mill Town

In Jay, Maine, the paper mill has been the lynch pin of the economy since the 1880s. And now it may close.

The Boston Globe Magazine
Edited by Michael Fitzgerald and Francis Storrs

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March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 by Bill Donahue

The Ambitious Plan to Build a Ski Utopia in Maine

Shuddered for five years, Saddleback Maine aims to become a rare thing in today’s ski industry when it reopens: a humane mountain where the workers are treated well and the PBR flows at a people’s price.   

 

Outside
Edited by Gloria Liu

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August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 by Bill Donahue

King of The Mountains

My Gilmanton, New Hampshire neighbor has likely been to more remote spots in the White Mountains than any other living hiker.

 

Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon

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August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 by Bill Donahue

The Kingmaker

Twenty-nine years old, gay, and a transplant from Puerto Rico, is an unlikely New Hampshire primary powerbroker.

The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell

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November 5, 2018May 7, 2019 by Bill Donahue

Full Cleetus

Kale Poland is the progenitor of a new philosophy of physical fitness. “Cleetus Fit” eschews the gymnasium and sees practitioners hoisting large rocks, mud wrestling with cows, and sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon while seated in the Lotus position.

Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower

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December 29, 2017November 14, 2019 by Bill Donahue

The Last Naturalist

In a world where our time and attention are fractured into smaller and smaller bits, legendary biologist and runner Bernd Heinrich is a throwback, a man who has carved a deep grove in his patch of Maine woods.

Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photo by Jesse Burke.

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February 25, 2017October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Painting the Fence

The joys and agonies of maintaining the picket fence at my family’s ancient home in New Hampshire. 

Yankee 
Edited by Ian Aldrich. Illustration by Cindy Rizza.

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