(Okay, maybe a few words. That's Ben and Annabelle during our Fathers Day gathering in Maynard in June of 2024.)

It was winter in New England. The sun stayed low in the sky, the cold stripping its ambition to climb any higher or stay very long. It...

Bertha Fairbanks, my maternal grandmother, would never break the rules, would she? She was straitlaced and I looked up to her as a child....

In the year 1905 your Dad was fourteen years old, and he was working ten hours a day for 10 cents per hour. My work was on a saw and buzz...

To kick off summer, my wife Meaghan and I decided to take a road trip to visit family in New England. We took along our three kids, Jude...

He waits as long as he dares, then a bit longer. A bit longer. Too long! He spins, churning the sand as he races the fringe of another...

Springtime in New Hampshire brings a flurry of activity as cold nights lead into warm days and the sap begins to run in the sugar maple...

Today I am celebrating my personal graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy just as surely as any of you have in the past or will in years...

Dad called my sister and me into the living room one fall afternoon. I knew it was going to be something big because living room...