The city's actual name is Vormatia
This city was founded in 14 BC and is known as Vormatia, which is Latin and means settlement in a wet area due to the city being located on the banks of the Rhein. The letter v in German is pronounced as the w in English, and the name eventually evolved to Worms. Ironically, the […]
James T. Connell of Andover passed away unexpectedly in New London on May 8, 2023 at the age of 67. He was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Martha Merriman (Bitler) and Daniel Connell. Jim graduated from Kearsarge Regional High School in 1974. During Jim’s senior year in high school the KRHS tennis team was State […]
Captain Marshall T. Slayton, USN (Ret) of Portsmouth, Rhode Island died on May 27, 2023 at Webster at Rye, Rye, NH. Marsh was born on May 1, 1931 in Manchester, NH. He was the son of Howard D. Slayton and Marian (Marshall) Slayton. He graduated from High Mowing School in Wilton, NH in 1948. He […]
Diane Montgomery Rice died at home in New London on June 19, 2023. Diane was born in 1942 in Exeter, daughter of Dr. Willard and Mrs. Clara Montgomery. She graduated from Abbot Academy, Wellesley College, and Middlebury College Language School. Diane was good at everything she did: student, wife, mother, friend, and teacher. Diane married […]
Her story is filled with mystery and discovery
Born in 1957 in Worms, Germany, Ulrike Smith’s immigration story is filled with mystery and discovery. She is a petite, stylish woman with dark eyes and olive complexion. I sensed when I sat down with her that I was about to hear a very interesting life story. Ulrike never knew her father or anything about […]
Poet is former Andover resident
Back When —for Irene Jewett, 1921 – 2022 on summer nights after working the dinner shift she’d go to the lake with her girlfriends to skinny dip linger and smoke cigarettes the boys always came later she said their headlights beaming that was when there was a stocking mill and hame shop in […]
Carlyse and Bob met in Ukraine
Few people can say they have met Vladimir Putin, former KGB intelligence officer and current President of Russia. Carlyse and Bob Evans, of North Wilmot Road, told me this extraordinary story of how they happened to come to be in his presence as the three of us chatted in their kitchen. They told of their […]
Peter Kimball Smyrl, 76, of Candia, New Hampshire, died Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at Granite VNA Hospice House in Concord. He was born on September 13, 1946 in Manchester, the son of Albert W. Smyrl and Dorothy Kimball Smyrl. Peter married his high school sweetheart Dayle Rojek Smyrl on June 22, 1969 in Manchester. He […]
Shirley Henderson Currier, 87, left this life surrounded by family at Concord Hospital on May 5, 2023. Shirley was born on December 19,1935 in Fort Fairfield, Maine, to Perley Henderson Sr. and Elsie (Hanson) Henderson. The family moved to New Hampshire in 1938, settling on Tucker Mountain Road in East Andover. She graduated from Andover […]