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A bumper crop of mushrooms in fall, interestingly enough, doesn't start with fungi but with nearby trees.

William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of the most fanciful comedies ever written. It takes place in a forest and has been restaged against the backdrop of the American Dust Bowl during the depression of the 1930's. The play will be performed this weekend at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center. We'll talk with director Anne Bogart of the SITI Company in New York about her unconventional adaptation, and with Dartmouth Shakespeare Professor Lynda Boose about the proliferation of Shakespeare's works in non-traditional settings.

W.D. Wetherell's 1995 novel is centered around two characters: Ferris, a craggy Northern New Hampshire man who’s predicted the winner of every "First in the Nation" primary since nineteen fifty two…and Max, a Pulitzer prize winning columnist, who reports on him every four years. As the 1996 primary draws near and both prepare to meet again, both also need to come to terms with the truth of their lives, loves and a declining society. We look at how the primary has shaped our state and how the people in our state have shaped our "First in the Nation" primary especially at a time when its status is finding its largest threat...on the next Granite State Stories, through the pages of W.D. Wetherell's "The Wisest Man in America". This show will broadcast live at the Political Library Reading Room at the State Library building in Concord. Admission is free and open to the public. Laura's guests are Michael Chaney, President and CEO of the New Hampshire Political Library and Jennifer Donahue, Senior Advisor for Political Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.