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  Peterborough, N.H. January 6, 2009  
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Doug Williams of Peterborough walks a labyrinth inside the Peterborough Town House on Wednesday.
Staff Photo by Meghan Pierce

Happy Holidays
Slow down and enjoy
By HATHER MCKERNAN
Are you feeling it yet? I mean the anticipation and sometimes frenzied anxiety that speeds up time and raises blood pressure during the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas as we make lists and plan holiday meals and make trips to the grocery store and find the perfect tree and pull out the decorations and make gift lists and shop and wrap gifts and make holiday cookies and do all the things that our holiday traditions have us do each year. Are you feeling it yet?

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Blogs blogsNH blogs
Elsa and the house... Submitted by Dave
By Barbara Stewart on January 5th, 2009
Hibernation
By Mary Wakeman on January 4th, 2009
Chilly Feet
By Mary Wakeman on January 2nd, 2009
Nothing Doing
By Terri Oberg on December 31st, 2008
A Dream: Visit and the Bull
By Barbara Stewart on December 31st, 2008