by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Maria figured the worst was behind her. A summer storm had rolled through Keene and dropped the old pine across the edge of her lawn, and after a long day the crew hauled the last of it away. The yard looked open again. She could finally stop staring at the mess out...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Osgoods have two maples in their Keene yard. For years they looked like a matched pair. Planted around the same time, roughly the same height, both throwing good shade over the back lawn by July. Then a summer microburst rolled through one August evening. It...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Carters live at the far end of a quiet road in Keene, the kind of street where everyone knows whose dog is whose and the plow driver waves on his way through. On an August night a couple of summers back, a line of storms rolled over the Monadnock Region and the...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was a little after 11 at night when the Delgados heard it. Not a full crash, more of a deep crack followed by a low groan and then a heavy quiet. When Ray Delgado stepped onto his back porch in Keene with a flashlight, he could see the trouble. A thick limb had...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
For years, Tom raked the leaves under the big ash in his Keene backyard every fall. He knew that tree the way you know a piece of furniture. It was just there, part of the yard, something he worked around without ever really looking at it. He never looked up. That was...
