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We don't often think of autumn as time for flowers. But seeing witch hazel in late fall might change your mind.

The two candidates for the second Congressional District have spent much of this campaign debating the war in Iraq.

But recently, health care has come to the forefront in the race between incumbent Republican Representative Charlie Bass and Democratic challenger Paul Hodes.

And as New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton reports, when it comes to health care like so many other issues, the two candidates are on opposite sides of the fence.

Nature writer Tim Traver's new book celebrates Cape Cod's Sippewisset salt marsh through personal memoir and scientific exploration. The book is called "Sippewisset: or, Life on a Salt Marsh", and it tells the tales of the swamp, from the microscopic organisms that filter out pollution to the people who make their living off the land. We'll talk with Tim about his new book and the important role of salt marshes in the ecological cycle.

Where We Lived presents, for the first time, a marriage of eyewitness accounts of early American life with the remarkable photography of the Depression-Era Historic American Building Survey. Combining images with text by gifted historian Jack Larkin, the book offers a new look into everyday life at the dawn of the new Republic, from the lives of slaves and paupers to those of frontiersman and the East Coast elites. Laura's guest is Jack Larkin, Museum Scholar and Historian Consultant at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA. He is also an Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University in Worcester, MA.