Up The Creek
Bill DonahueA hermit's misadventures in rural America
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Farewell
It was at this humble wooden desk that the last 26 issues of Up The Creek were produced. Phony replicas of this desk are widely available on eBay. Please refrain from taking the bait.
Dear Readers:
Up The Creek launched almost exactly a y...
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The Dump Run Cafe’s house band is called The Dump Run Gang. Some, but not all, musicians are pictured in this 2024 photo. Courtesy of Louella Leroux.
If you live in Gilmanton, you surely know about the Dump Run Gang. You know that this loo...
When Will Black Fly Season End?
The dread Simulium venustum, a biting black fly common in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. F.L. Washburn, Edith Reed, via Wikimedia Commons.
Seasoned residents of the Lakes Region know that historically there has always been one pleasant thin...
Hot Fun in The Summertime
An unidentified U.S. Army man backflips into a lake in Sweden. Summer, 1944. Unless otherwise indicated, all photos are courtesy of the Gränna Museum-Andréexpeditionen Polarcenter.
If you live in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, you know. You...
The Cobbler Who Saved The Library
Cobbler Ira Pennock standing outside his shop, now the Gilmanton Corner Public Library, in the late nineteenth century.
Like a novel, a small town needs characters. When I was a kid in the 1970s, there was this freelance handyman here in G...
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I’ve been working as a journalist since 1987, and I've written for Outside, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine, among others. I live in rural New Hampshire and try to get out on my bike or my cross-country skis every afternoon.
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