Since 2000, New Hampshire Magazine has polled and published the picks of its readers and editors in categories that range from best cupcakes to best martini to best antiques shop and everything in ...

New Hampshire Fourth of July Fireworks, Parades and Independence Day Celebrations Celebrate Independence Day in style with our guide to Fourth of July fireworks and parades in NH! Whether you’re ...

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 ...

It’s been 50 years since a spectacular UFO was spotted over Exeter. That case, along with many others, remains unsolved. Fifty years ago this September, UFOs came to Exeter. They haven’t left. The ...

As kids, dreaming away our summers at a lakeside cottage, we peeled strips of bark off the birches, just for the fun of it, without giving any thought to whether or not such girdling would harm the ...

Ready for agricultural fairs, foliage festicals and beer fests? Check out New Hampshire Magazine's list of our favorite annual fairs and festivals (and when they happen!) ...

Two legends have haunted the Isles of Shoals since colonial days. According to Capt. Christopher Levett, who visited from England in 1623, “Upon these islands are no savages at all.” Levett’s claim ...

Frederick Strickland owns a grim first — he was the first-recorded person to die on Mount Washington on October 19, 1849. Despite winter-like conditions, the 29-year-old Englishman did reach the ...

Sledding — rocketing down a hill as steep as a wall with the wind in your face and your heart in your mouth — is the quintessential winter activity. Whether you prefer a padded toboggan, a high-tech ...

University of New Hampshire senior captain Ariadne “Ari” Dogani sprints away from her Skidmore College opponent during a match last November. Federico “Fede” Wulff had a dream. This past fall, as his ...

The patriarch of the Common Man Family of Restaurants arrives tired, disheveled and covered with soot, a half-hour late for a scheduled interview at his Italian Farmhouse restaurant in Plymouth, one ...

Move into an old home and a phrase comes to mind: “If these walls could speak.” Apply that same thought to the rugged hills and ragged shorelines of the Granite State, the “old home” in which we live, ...