Spring is a big deal in the Granite State. We can finally take the snow shovels out of the car, leave our puffers in the closet, and take walks without fear of slipping on ice. It’s no surprise we want to get out and celebrate at fun vernal events scheduled all...
Earth Day is April 22 and it’s a great time to check in on our state’s environmental health. In New Hampshire, you can check air quality data and air quality forecasts online every day. Here’s how to do that:
Since it began 54 years ago, Earth Day has become more and more of an important occasion that is meant to be fun, but also to give people information and education about the environment. Here are a few Earth Day events happening in New Hampshire this weekend.
Hundreds of eclipsers in Nashua spread out through the city finding their little corner of a cloudless, cerulean sky on what felt like the true first day of spring Monday. Some chose corners of the city’s parks, others chose parking lots, backyards, and bridges crossing the Merrimack and Nashua rivers.
Some reported shaking lasted as long as 20 or 30 seconds. According to the United States Geological Survey, this event was a shallow earthquake—which has more severe shaking than deep quakes. The agency stated that in the northeast, 23 million people felt light shaking, 300,000 experienced moderately shaken, and 9,000 felt strong shaking.
According to NASA, Granite Staters are among 31 million Americans who live in the path of this year’s solar eclipse, that’s more than twice as many as the 2017 eclipse, and 10 times as much as when the skies darkened in 1979.
While businesses, libraries, and museums have been offering solar spectacles for the April 8, celestial event, supplies are running low. Here’s a list, as of now, where you might be able to find a pair or two.
When Booth died shortly after assassinating Abraham Lincoln 159 years ago, he carried with him the portrait of New Hampshire heartthrob, Lucy Lambert Hale of Dover, New Hampshire.
Here is a listing of some fun Easter Egg hunts in New Hampshire. Be sure to check the sites on the day of the events to see if there are any schedule changes due to the weather.
According to “World Population Review,” New Hampshire leads the way with 20 % of our population of Irish descent.
