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Off-Season
The joke goes that following our first visit to the Inn and meeting with the owner, Robert Short, Marcia turned to me in the car as we pulled onto Main Street and said, “Well, if it’s like this a...
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Ghosts
Terrance Cronyn was a retired school master who lived in a small, graciously appointed apartment on the first floor of the Lower School at Bishop Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, which I...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day
Let us go to a country inn for Valentine’s, my love We will pack a toothbrush and take the car And drive there in a day Traveling over rambling roads, past snowy fields You will point out all the...
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March 2021
No less an authority than Jamie Trowbridge, the President of Yankee Publishing, which is based next door in Dublin, New Hampshire, has remarked that March is, really, the best winter month overall in...
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Vaccine
Our turn for a first Covid vaccine was yesterday, three days after we became eligible to register for the shot in New Hampshire as members of category 2B (the 50 – 64-year-old crowd). Pretty speedy...
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Kin Schilling is Leaving
Kin Schilling is leaving the Monadnock Region after 38 years and it is going to leave a hole in the fabric of the community through which any of us will be able to peer. At the Hancock Inn we will miss...
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Why Wait?
Spring clean-up season has gone by, which is the time when we confront the web of debris left behind from last fall, buried and compressed by winter. We feel there was an unusual amount of wind this...
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The Children are Back
This Postcard started out with the title, Summer Vacation, a seasonal reflection on the crowds along Main Street (which is to say the presence of more than a dozen or so people at one time) until the...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving 2020
Our National Day of Thanksgiving is upon us again and we’ve been reflecting on how to celebrate it this year.It is an old question.We went back to the archives to read Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation...
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Winter
Winter arrived with a bit of a vengeance this weekend. There was not much snow, but it was a heavy snow and with winds gusting over 20 miles per hour trees and limbs fell over the roads and power lines...
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The Rumford Fireplace
It has seemed an unwelcome thing to do in these winter days of COVID to have our fireplace going in the reception area of the Inn when guests are prevented from sitting before it because of...
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Off-Season
The joke goes that following our first visit to the Inn and meeting with the owner, Robert Short, Marcia turned to me in the car as we pulled onto Main Street and said, “Well, if it’s like this a...
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Ghosts
Terrance Cronyn was a retired school master who lived in a small, graciously appointed apartment on the first floor of the Lower School at Bishop Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, which I...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day
Let us go to a country inn for Valentine’s, my love We will pack a toothbrush and take the car And drive there in a day Traveling over rambling roads, past snowy fields You will point out all the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
March 2021
No less an authority than Jamie Trowbridge, the President of Yankee Publishing, which is based next door in Dublin, New Hampshire, has remarked that March is, really, the best winter month overall in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vaccine
Our turn for a first Covid vaccine was yesterday, three days after we became eligible to register for the shot in New Hampshire as members of category 2B (the 50 – 64-year-old crowd). Pretty speedy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kin Schilling is Leaving
Kin Schilling is leaving the Monadnock Region after 38 years and it is going to leave a hole in the fabric of the community through which any of us will be able to peer. At the Hancock Inn we will miss...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Wait?
Spring clean-up season has gone by, which is the time when we confront the web of debris left behind from last fall, buried and compressed by winter. We feel there was an unusual amount of wind this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Children are Back
This Postcard started out with the title, Summer Vacation, a seasonal reflection on the crowds along Main Street (which is to say the presence of more than a dozen or so people at one time) until the...
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