Essays on life from rural New Hampshire

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Musings on life, love, food (and the weather) from the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire
About this site

Postcard from Monadnock is an independent publication launched in May 2022 by Jarvis Coffin. It features essays mainly about rural life in southwest New Hampshire along with "Other Musings" that have appeared elsewhere, notably as part of a bi-weekly column Jarvis writes for the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. Subscriptions to the Postcard and Other Musings are free.

Apart from his essays, Jarvis writes fiction which is available here to Paid Members.

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