Retired for three years from a career as a forestry educator at UNH, Steve Wood now makes a living of playing Abraham Lincoln. He?s member number 118 of the nationwide Association of Lincoln Presenters, the only member in New Hampshire. Wood specializes in anecdotes about Lincoln?s travels to New England, especially his stops in Concord, Manchester, Exeter and Dover, N.H. He stays in character until the end of his presentations, when he speaks about Lincoln?s life and entertains questions. He appears at the Brookline Public Library at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 and the Amherst Town Library at 7 p.m. Feb. 13.

New Hampshire?s northern thespians extended an invite to their southern counterparts at the fifth New Hampshire Theatre Awards Friday, Feb. 2, at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. And, judging by the awards, they might have a point.

Osso bucco, translated literally, means bone hole.

It is one of those dishes that seem harder to make than they really are, and once you have done it, it will become part of your repertoire.

When you start a new radio program you want to do it with a bang. That?s why I picked Devin Hester to be MVP of the Super Bowl during my (plug, plug) inaugural broadcast on WGAM. And a scant 14 seconds into the game I was already ready to say ?I told you so? after Hester ran back the opening kick-off for a TD. Alas it wasn?t to be, as after Tony Dungy made one of the great (or was it the most obvious) coaching adjustments in Super Bowl history Hester never laid a glove on the ball again, and QB Rex Grossman did ? with decidedly less success. Oh well, just have to dazzle them with something else.

I thought I was so cool a couple years ago when I got a watch that doubled as a USB flash drive.

There was a short little USB cable built right into the rubber wristband, and I could hook it up to my computer to store up to 128MB of whatever right there. This was secret agent stuff.

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