Story Archives of 'Audio Postcards'

It’s hard to imagine Christmas without a choir singing Handel’s Messiah.

In recent years a new tradition has developed: the “Messiah-sing.”

It operates like a pick-up basketball game. Anyone who wants to sing the Messiah shows up at a concert hall with music in-hand. Tenors sit with tenors and sopranos with sopranos. And then -- without rehearsal -- the concert begins.

New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Doug MacPherson attended one-such Messiah-sing at the Music Hall in Portsmouth.

He filed this audio postcard.

Apple picking season in New England is fast and sweet.

The idea is to pick them before they drop.

And once their stems dry, the juice laden apples start dropping like crazy.

So, at Woodmont Orchards, nestled along side I-93 in Londonderry, workers are picking like crazy.

The Woodmont staff are working six and seven days a week to pick, clean, sort, box, and ship their Macs.

It's back to school time again, and lots of college students from around New Hampshire will be putting in their final hours at their summer jobs this Labor Day weekend.

They've been doing seasonal jobs such as landscaping, waiting tables, and lifeguarding... and in the Lakes Region, some have been pumping gas.

It's not the typical summer job, but these aren't your typical gas stations.

They're gas docks, and on Lake Winnipesaukee, most of them are run by gas dock girls.

New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Shannon Mullen stopped by one gas dock in Gilford, to talk to these girls of summer, and she sent us this audio postcard.

The sound of the ice cream truck's jingle is certainly familiar during the summer, but a couple of young women in Deerfield have come up with another, less common way to peddle frozen treats.

Every weekend, 16-year old Onni Irish and her friend Philomena Duffy pilot their ice cream boat to residents on Pleasant Pond.

They call themselves the Pleasant Pond Pirates.

NHPR's Christina Nyquist caught up with the young entrepreneurs as they packed up their skiff for their route around the lake.

All this week, New Hampshire Public Radio is bringing you some of the sights and sounds of bike week in Laconia.

Today, the Wall of Death.

It's a regular attraction at Bike Week...and it draws the crowds.

A motorcycle rider uses centrifugal force to hold him and his bike horizontal as he rides around the inside of what looks like a very large barrel.

Freelance Producer Cheryl Senter sends us this postcard.