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...
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...
