Below is a selection of articles written about the town of Lempster, New Hampshire, where I lived from 1980 to 2014. In 2001, I founded a The Lempster Owl, a community newsletter. With the help of David Diehl and Erik Walker, and the many Lempsterites who contributed articles, we published four issues a year for almost ten years. I served as a trustee of the town’s public library for many years, and on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the library, I published an article about how the library came to be in the state historical journal, Historical New Hampshire.
Living in Lempster was a great way to experience direct democracy in the form of New England Town Meetings. Here’s a description of elections in a small town of 1000 people with about 300 registered voters.
“In New Hampshire, a great way to vote,” Concord Monitor, November 2, 2008
“Hillary and Barack Up Close,” The Lempster Owl, Fall 2008
“Tin Can Men,” The Lempster Owl
“Building the Wind Farm,” The Lempster Owl, 2009
“The Moon and the Stapler,” The Lempster Owl, 2007
