You won't find any cabers being tossed around the NH Scot office on Green Street. Nobody serenades you on the bagpipes as you march through the door, and the yard is curiously devoid of sheep or other livestock.Loon Mountain is where you'll find all of that from Sept. 21 to 23 during the annual New Hampshire Highland Games Festival, which is celebrating its 37th year this fall.…

Perhaps it was a telling sign when Ron Knee found steady work during the Depression.He held a job essentially every day thereafter until he retired. And he tried just about all of them.Knee spent the Depression helping to repair train tracks, a job he secured through a friend, and performing various other odd jobs, before also taking a job with the Works Progress Administration. After…

Goldenrod wildflowers take center stage in late summer and early autumn after many other flowers have folded for the season. Their profusion of golden color in open fields and along roadsides gives a radiant charm to autumn landscapes. The goldenrod is the state flower for Kentucky and Nebraska.The goldenrod's generic name, solidage, comes from two Greek words meaning "to make whole," with reference…