Late Fall—Keene, New Hampshire

by Stephanie Minteer We did not get the early season snowstorm, so was it national news or overtime envy that pushed Public Works to be out in their front-end loaders and dump trucks to pick up leaves, piles and piles of them— oak, maple, elm, and ash—along the boulevards, heavy equipment at the ready toContinue reading “Late Fall—Keene, New Hampshire”

Beatrice Trum Hunter, Renaissance Woman

by Stephanie Minteer If you’d been watching public television at WGBH, Boston shortly after Julia Child made cooking shows famous, you might have encountered Beatrice Trum Hunter extolling the virtues and rewards of simple cooking using organically grown, natural foods. She was enlisted by the nascent independent medium to produce a taped show demonstrating healthyContinue reading “Beatrice Trum Hunter, Renaissance Woman”