The biggest problem I had with Dan Szczesny’s book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, is that it introduced me to so many cool people, I could hardly get through a page before I had to google someone or buy their book. After it led me to buy my second book—a collection from…
Author: Matt Larson
NH High School Basketball: The Travel Grind
Written late last night in Claremont, NH. I’m currently writing this from Claremont, NH, where my son’s high school basketball team just took on Stevens High School. To get here, I drove two hours over a route that included Lempster Mountain Road—a roller coaster of white-knuckle stress I haven’t experienced in a long time. There…
Butt-Sliding on Cherry Mountain (aka Owlshead)
The first hour took an hour. The second hour took two. And the third hour took about twenty minutes. At least, that’s how it felt going up and down Cherry Mountain on Saturday. After a solid holiday week of skiing and sledding with a ton of family and friends, I finished vacation off with “a…
Taking Church with You
So it’s the day after Christmas, and if you’re Christian, you probably went to church yesterday. For many, it’s the only time they go each year, or maybe the only time they go outside of Easter. And that’s fine with me. I’m not here to chastise or judge. I can’t get my family to go…