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My Friend John Harrigan Has Passed
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When I finally met John in person, he was as handsome as the picture next to his Sunday column. He was genuine, and we fell into an easy conversation that went on for hours.
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Dog Days on First Connecticut Lake. Kayaks are okay, but they’re really harder on the legs than canoes.
Longtime statewide outdoor writer and North Country newspaper owner John Harrigan of Colebrook wr0te for InDepthNH.org whenever the spirit moved him before he died Dec. 27, 2022. We miss you John.
His weekly column “North Country Notebook” ran in the Salmon Press papers covering the northern two-thirds of the state (newhampshirelakesandmountains
When I finally met John in person, he was as handsome as the picture next to his Sunday column. He was genuine, and we fell into an easy conversation that went on for hours.
North Country publisher, avid outdoorsman, and well-known writer John D. Harrigan of Colebrook has died at age 75.
We have become a nation of weather-obsessed neurotic ninnies. Television weather coverage begets neurotic viewers.
Harrigan reflects on the long arc of his career including its beginnings at the Nashua Telegraph and the New Hampshire Sunday News, the tragedy of the mass shooting in 1997 that took the lives of four close friends, including the editor of one of his newspapers.
Note to self:
Goals for the first day of 2016:
— Fix hydraulics on tractor and bucket loader
— Clean out and restart outdoor wood furnace
— Catch up on New Year’s e-mail
— Write “Hello from Harrigan on InDepthNH.org”
John Harrigan’s on a rant like only Harrigan can rant.
JOHN HARRIGAN: I’ve been out of the loop for a while, self imposed. When I came back from camp the other week I heard about this special Trump election commission, whose mission is to try to restore faith in the U.S. election system, which I did not know was missing.
VIEW FROM ABOVE THE NOTCHES: On this day, I heard people complaining about being ambushed by the Trump agenda. “Poor babies,” I thought. Where have they been?
Find out how to order a green cake of your own and help celebrate InDepthNH.org’s 1st anniversary. Thanks Mike Marland for the terrific cartoon. Hear, too, from Roger Wood and John Harrigan.
John Harrigan spouts off on the verge of Geezerdom.