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Hundreds of New Hampshire residents come to Concord to register their opposition to the War in Iraq.

Freelance producer Cheryl Senter was there and brings us these sounds from the march.

At Manchester Central High School, the diversity of the student body is obvious to anyone who walks into the cafeteria. The athletes have their table, as do the Goths, the cheerleaders, the over-achievers, the Arabs, the Hispanics and the Somalis. Finding your group and sticking with it is part of teenage life.

But there is a hope, heard mostly from adults, that in the middle of this diversity, students would be willing to cross those dividing lines.

Culture Lessons, our series on Manchester Central, continues with a report from producer John Rudolph. He offers this look at at how students and Central's principal reflect on the make-up of their school.

Manchester Central is New Hampshire’s largest and oldest public high school, and its most diverse. Refugee and immigrant teenagers from nearly 70 countries attend classes at Central.

This week NHPR is presenting Culture Lessons - a series of reports and special programs about the school.

There are hundreds of kids at Central from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean. Unlike refugees, who are sponsored by resettlement agencies, most Latinos are immigrants who arrived in Manchester on their own. As John Rudolph reports, Latino students at Central High School face a unique set of challenges.

Being a teenager in America means questioning everything. At least that’s true for many teenagers. But if you are Muslim and female and an immigrant or refugee, life can be less about questioning, and more about learning to navigate. Today in our week-long series Culture Lessons, John Rudolph reports on Muslim girls at Manchester Central High School. Of all the students at the school, they are the ones most obviously searching for a way between American culture and the culture of the country they left behind.

A New Hampshire woman’s first adventure into real estate hopes to change a long pattern of what she says is bad development.

The Peterborough resident is hoping to build a new pedestrian-friendly “smart growth” community near downtown.

She’s asked the entire town to take part in its design.

But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, not everyone in Peterborough thinks the idea is so smart.