by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ellen had lived in her Keene house for almost twenty years, and she thought she had seen every kind of summer storm the Monadnock region could throw at her. Then came that July night. The wind picked up fast, the lights flickered twice, and by the time the rain eased...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Rick and Diane Callahan bought their place on the west side of Keene mostly because of the maple. It stood taller than the house, threw shade across the whole back lawn by July, and turned the kind of deep orange every October that made neighbors slow down as they...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The morning after the storm, Ada Okonkwo walked to the end of her driveway in Keene and looked up at the big sugar maple that had shaded the side of her house for as long as she had lived there. A few small branches were down in the grass. The lawn was littered with...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The storm rolled through the Reynolds family’s Keene neighborhood on a Tuesday afternoon, the kind of August blow that snaps a few small branches and stuffs the gutters full of leaves. By dinnertime the wind had quit. The family walked the yard, picked up the...
by Harry Kennedy | Aug 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Karen and Dave Harper woke up the morning after August’s windstorm thinking they had gotten off easy. Two of the tall white pines along the edge of their Keene yard had come down in the night, but neither one was flat on the ground. They had fallen into each...
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...
