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World’s First Steam-Driven Airplane

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Thursday, April 12, 2012 — For years now we have been running about 140 very brief items of historical interest on the back page of our paper in a feature we call, “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes).” We love putting that page together; due to its limited space it is an ideal opportunity to practice the journalistic virtue of concision. Also, for years now, we’ve been under-using the spiffy and infinitely-elastic medium you are now reading. Today it occurred to us that we might meld our passion with our deficiency by selecting a single item daily and expanding upon it. …

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The Vermont Joy Parade Busking in Market Square

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Monday, April 9, 2012 — Human beings trapped by the machinations and depredations of late-stage plutocracy are likely to respond by sinking into numb despair or by defiantly manifesting, in whatever mode best suits them, their utter contempt for the corrupt system that mistakenly believes it can confine the human spirit. In other news, The New Hampshire Gazette’s Newsreel Division stumbled upon the Vermont Joy Parade busking in Market Square this afternoon.

Lowering the Weights

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Sunday, March 25, 2012 — The last section of a 500-ton counterweight was lifted from the south tower of Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery about 1:45 p.m. yesterday. At about the 45-second mark, three guys can be seen shoving the 250,000-pound hunk of concrete and steel into place on the barge.

F** The Banks

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 — We’ve been doing a pitiful job of updating this site. We just got inspired, though: The site fthebanks.org seems to be overloaded right now due to too much love, but we suspect it will be back up soon.

Memorial

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Thursday, January 12, 2011 — While we do not wish to trigger a flood of poetry submissions, we could not resist this. Memorial Last days seem often to be occasions of assemblies prefacing disassembly, as of the tired, too late loved bridge, a spare, utilitarian grace soon to be substituted for the gentle arches and tapered towers. Many feet and paws that daily trod, and some that never did, the grated walkway that borders the venerable spans, will later. But now, as dawns the day before the gates are closed and the work of the cutting torches begins, The moon, whose perfect nickel shape will …

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