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BOOKS, FILMS, NEWSPAPERS AND MUSEUMS HAVE ALL RECORDED NEW HAMPSHIRE?S 20TH CENTURY HISTORY.

AND NOW THE MONADNOCK INSTITUTE OF NATURE, PLACE, AND CULTURE, IS ADDING TO THAT COLLECTION.

LONGTIME RESIDENTS ARE RECOUNTING THEIR MEMORIES AT LOCAL STORY CIRCLES.

HUMANITIES REPORTER KEVIN GARDNER ATTENDED ONE IN MARLBOROUGH.

HE FILES THIS REPORT.

The Manchester Diocese will pay more than 5 million dollars to 62 people.

The Diocese is paying the money to individuals who claim they were sexually abused as children by clergy.

NHPR's David Darman has more.

A new federal education law could raise the price of education by 500 dollars per child.

That's the conclusion of a study by the New Hampshire School Administrators Association, which says the No Child Left Behind Act could leave schools with a big deficit.

President Bush signed No Child Left Behind earlier this year. Some education leaders worry it's an unfunded mandate like special education. The federal government has never lived up to its commitment to fund that program.

But backers of the new law say it's too early to tell how it will affect state finances. They say critics are overreacting.

NHPR's Trish Anderton reports.

ANOTHER COLLEGE HOCKEY SEASON IS UNDERWAY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE WILDCATS AGAIN HAVE THEIR SIGHTS ON THEIR FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. CURRENTLY RANKED NUMBER TWO IN THE NATION, THE WILDCATS TONIGHT HAVE THEIR FIRST MEETING OF THE SEASON AGAINST THEIR ARCH-RIVALS, THE BLACK BEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. NHPR?S JIM JEANNOTTE SAYS, WHILE IT?S AN IMPORTANT EARLY-SEASON GAME, IT?S ONLY ONE STEP ON THE BUMPY ROAD TO A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

When Governor-elect Craig Benson takes office in January, he'll face some critical decisions about the state's children protection system. Advocates say the Division of Children youth and families or DCYF desperately needs more caseworkers to help abused children. But the administration says it needs to fix management problems in the division before hiring anybody. Meanwhile the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit on behalf of abused children are expected to go back to court soon. NHPR's Trish Anderton reports.