So the cops came a-knockin’… I had been out of town for a minute, so I had evidently missed the news.  Another Heartbreak Hotel hobo had met his demise in the Suncook River.  I say “another” because this is the second body they’ve found down in the river in the four years that I’ve lived in the ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNKen Rowe bought a shiny new Mercury Comet in 1965. Forty-one years later, in May 2006, floodwaters ripping through his low-lying neighborhood off Riverside Park Drive got as high as the Comet’s roof. Still, Rowe, a former teacher with no flood insurance for his home of nearly three decades, pledged to get the Comet running ...