Musician Steve Cady poses for a portrait while playing the double bass outside his home in Keene, New Hampshire. Cady has been playing the bass for 24 years.
Proud of her new lighting set-up, Kira Danser, a 14-year-old who expresses her creative side through makeup, poses for a portrait in her bathroom at home in Keene on Nov. 2, 2022. Last month, the accessible restroom she relies on at Keene High was closed for repairs, leading her to miss a week of school. “I wasn’t going to send her to school if she’s going to struggle to use the bathroom. My child’s mental health is more important,” her mom Michelle Gambill said.
Dorothy Nemecek from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, takes a break from preparing Kolach dough while Jim Drahozal presses dough at St. Ludmila Catholic Church for the Kolach Festival. Due to the large Czech community in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, there is a great demand for Kolaches each year during the Festival. The baking begins the night before and volunteers cook through the night while community members line up hours before the 6am sales.
Mike Romans, owner of Roman's Pub, poses for a portrait in his 1967 Shelby GT350 on the street outside of his home and bar.
Lauren Jacobson glows in the blistering summer heat and humidity of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sherman and Marjorie Lovering’s wedding photo hangs on the wall of their bedroom at their new home, Langdon Place of Keene, Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 24. The Loverings, educators who are still very passionate about learning, recently moved back to the Monadnock Region where they first met and are already preparing presentations at the assisted living center in Keene.
Kevin Kamp of Marion lets go of a pibal, pilot indicator balloon, to check the wind speed and direction in real time so he can assess flying conditions, in Marion, Iowa. Kamp has been a hot air balloon pilot since 2002.
Will Allen poses for a portrait in his greenhouse between the rows of his aquaponics system at Will Allen’s Beyond Organic LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of 2018 Allen now grows hemp plants in his greenhouses and uses aquaponics for some of his plants, which allows them to “grow twice as fast.”
Chief and Elder Paul “Gwilawato” Bunnell of the Ko’asek (Co'wasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation, stands along Maple Avenue in Keene on Thursday afternoon. Bunnell said he was surprised and disturbed that the city recently cut down about 150 red pine trees along the road, which officials said were either dead or dying and posed a risk to passersby.
Demitria Kirby, a former Keene resident who lives in Middlebury, Vt., feeds her 10-month-old daughter, Cecilia, at their home Tuesday morning after returning from a dialysis appointment an hour away. Kirby is now searching for an organ donor and is in kidney failure, following serious complications giving birth last year.
Molly Robinson of Swanzey poses for a portrait with her dragon and stars decorated graduation cap before Monadnock Regional High School’s 2021 graduation.
Dr. David Levene, a doctor in the Monadnock Region who has delivered over 4,000 babies during his 35 years working in the community, shows off his backyard and his love for birding late in August 2022 in Dublin, New Hampshire.
Larry Wright sits in the kitchen of his home on Armory Street where he lived for almost 60 years and is now selling to move in with his daughter. Decorations from Wright’s 90th birthday party are strewn across the kitchen from a final celebration in the house with his children in January.
Sadie Stock poses for a portrait in the evening light of Santa Maria la Blanca in Toledo, Spain. This synagogue is one of three medieval synagogues left in Spain today, two are in Toledo, the third is in Córdoba. The rest were destroyed or converted into other religious structures in the subsequent years.