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ArchivesRFID Comes to New HampshireBy Avishay Artsy on Monday, April 25, 2005.RFID technology has arrived in New Hampshire. Radio Frequency identification tags are being called the “barcodes of the future.” They're already being used in warehouses to track shipments. Soon they will be in airports, libraries and hospitals. NHPR News Correspondent Avishay Artsy looks at some of the possibilities this new technology brings… and some of the concerns. listen:
 Sax and the SeptuagenarianBy John Walters on Monday, April 25, 2005.Professional saxophonist Darlene Nevins took a 52-year hiatus from her instrument in order to work and raise her children. She's 79 now and has recorded 3 CD's, and performs in bands and as a soloist throughout New England. She tells John Walters about the event that got her back to playing her 1939 Conn Tenor saxophone, and what she hopes to instill as a teacher to her many students. She performs Sunday May 1st at Main Street Bookends & The Gallery of Warner. listen:
Manchester's Mill HistoryBy Kevin Gardner on Monday, April 25, 2005.With its powerful river and thousands of eager immigrants, New Hampshire's Queen City of Manchester was once the king of the world?s textile manufacturing industry. At one time 17 thousand men, women and children worked in Manchester's mills. We?ll learn about the rise, the heyday and subsequent fall of the Queen City's textile industry. Kevin Gardner guest hosts. His guests are George Comtois, an independent scholar specializing in New Hampshire's textile and industrial history and former director of the Manchester Historic Association and Robert Perreault, Historian, speaker and writer on Manchester's Franco American history. listen:
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