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Organic Farmers Struggle to Keep up with Demand

By Sheryl Rich-Kern on Tuesday, July 25, 2006.

Demand for organic foods – everything from milk, to beef and produce – is growing around the nation.

In New Hampshire, the supply is not keeping up with demand.

Some think that’s a problem for the farming industry.

Yet others realize it’s an opportunity.

NHPR’s Sheryl Rich-Kern reports.

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Chasing Butterflies

By Cheryl Senter on Tuesday, July 25, 2006.

Driving the back roads of New Hampshire, you might see a couple of men in the their early 60s combing nearby fields.

Longtime friends Richard Gray and David Elberfeld have got a hobby.

Armed with butterfly nets, reference books and a giant red notebook, the two are documenting the state's butterfly and moth populations.

NHPR's Cheryl Senter came across them in a field off Route 4 in Grafton. Click here to view slide show of Butterfly Men

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The Allure of the Rails

By Shay Zeller on Tuesday, July 25, 2006.

Whether it's a metaphor or a hulking machine, trains and their tracks occupy the imaginations of almost everyone who's ever heard a train whistle. Tonight we'll explore the allure of the rails on three fronts:

Humorist, essayist, and Fortune 500 business consultant Glenn Currie uses trains and boxcars as the basis for his new book of poetry, "Riding in Boxcars". We'll talk with him about choices we make on the journeys throughout life.

Chris Francis was a young man when he decided to drop out of school and become a "hobo". He rode the rails from state to state, letting fate decide his destinations. We'll hear his story from producer Ben Adair. The piece comes to us via the Public Radio Exchange. You can go directly to the story by clicking here.

And we'll learn about the efforts underway to restore the 1930s-era streamliner The Flying Yankee. It was a train created during the Great Depression to be an efficient and stylish way to get people back on the tracks. The train’s New England routes became so popular, it had to be replaced by larger trains. We'll hear about the history and future of the Flying Yankee from Paul Giblin, President of The Flying Yankee Restoration Group.

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Letting The Punishment Fit The Crime

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, July 25, 2006.

Several recent criminal cases have some state officials calling for higher minimum sentences. But critics say “one size fits all” approaches are too simplistic in a complex world. We'll look at the long-running debate over criminal sentences in New Hampshire. Laura's guests are Jim Reams, Rockingham County Attorney; Larry Vogelman, a civil and criminal defense attorney and Legal Director for the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, and Carol Ann Conboy, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and chair of the New Hampshire Superior Court Sentence Review Board.

Laura Knoy's guests on The Exchange - Top left to right - Rockingham County Attorney; Larry Vogelman, a civil and criminal defense attorney and Legal Director for the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union.
Carol Ann Conboy, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and chair of the New Hampshire Superior Court Sentence Review Board, and Rockingham County Attorney; Larry Vogelman, a civil and criminal defense attorney and Legal Director for the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union get set for the show to begin. Laura and her guests going over some notes before the show.
The Exchange crew in background moments before going on air.Exchange crew staff member Dan Colgan's face is reflected on the studio window as the show begins

(Cheryl Senter, NHPR)

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