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We are very happy to have Mr. McQuaid join us and share his experiences renovating his home, or at least being party to that process, as his Home Team engages in transforming their 1912 house with a new kitchen.

As Dr Debi put it, Mr. McQuaid is the 'top pen' at the Union Leader - as Publisher of New Hampshire's great newspaper that is read around the world. His column covers insights on home life and political comment on topics near and wide.

More info - Here is a bio from a government conference at which he was an invited participant -

Joseph W. McQuaid

President and Publisher, Union Leader Corp.

Joe McQuaid is a fourth generation newspaper man who climbed the ranks from 15 years old to now publishing a world class newspaper. Joseph W. McQuaid is the third of a four-generation New Hampshire newspapering family. His grandfather worked for the Manchester Union at the beginning of the 20th Century before a career with William Randolph Hearst papers in Boston and New York.

His father was a decorated World War II correspondent for the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, co-founded the New Hampshire Sunday News after the war, and later became editor-in-chief of The Union Leader.

Joe McQuaid began his career at age 15 as a newsroom office boy. He reported sports during high school and later became a news reporter and photographer. He was named editor of the Sunday News in 1971. He has covered local, state, and national politics and has reported from Europe and the Mideast. He has twice won New England Associated Press writing awards and was honored in October 2002 with the New England Society of Newspaper Editors' "Yankee Quill'' award for significant contribution to the advancement of journalism in New England.

He has served The Union Leader as managing editor, editor-in-chief, and general manager. In June of 1999, he succeeded Nackey S. Loeb as president and publisher of New Hampshire's largest newspaper. In addition to the daily and Sunday statewide papers and their news web site, the corporation owns the NewHampshire.com web site and the weekly Salem Observer.

Mr. McQuaid is president of the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications, Inc. and is a trustee of the William Loeb Memorial Fund. He was a founding member of the For Manchester civic group and served two terms as a director of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He is a director of the Independent Newspaper Group. He attended local schools and the University of New Hampshire, but did not earn a degree. He was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree from Notre Dame College, Manchester, N.H., in 2000.

From http://jcoc.dod.mil/archive/jcoc_66/participants.html#McQuaid

From Joe McQuaid's Editorial Column

Paper: New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester, NH)
Title: PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK: Roughing it during kitchen renovations means no dice for drinks with ice
Author: JOE McQUAID
Date: July 24, 2006

   A relative heard that our kitchen was undergoing renovations this summer.
   "You wait," he said, with an air of grim fate in his words that reminded me of Ishmael's narrative in "Moby Dick."
   "You'll start out with plates. Then there will be no place to wash them, so you will switch to paper plates and plastic forks. Then," he said, the words coming slowly and menacingly now, "when things get really desperate -- and they will -- you'll give up and just eat with your fingers."
   I thought he was kidding. He wasn't.
   The hands are still relatively food-free, but I'm taking no chances. We have been eating out a lot lately, mostly out on the porch but sometimes making it all the way to one of the kids' homes, when we can wangle an invite. The lady of the house is a great cook; but there is only so much you can do with a George Foreman, a stir-fry, and a toaster.
   I'd like to see Emeril or Rachel Ray or Bobby Flay or Daisy Mae or one of those other TV iron chefs get out of their fancy studio kitchens and prepare a meal on a computer table in the front hall where the utensils consist of a knife, a spoon, and a cutting board the size of a DVD.
   What does Emeril like to say? "Take it up a notch?"
   In our house these days, that means setting the toaster on "9."
   The refrigerator is the only thing still standing in what used to be the kitchen. And the workmen keep relocating it as they do their thing. One of the kids swears the thing is possessed because each time he comes home, it seems to be edging closer to the door.
   I admit I am not the handyman around the house. My tool belt has no notches in it. But I know the basics. Like, you can't fool me about the little light in the fridge. I know it goes off when you shut the door.
   But the icemaker was a whole other learning curve during our Big Dig. It being summer, the evening gin and tonic is especially anticipated. So imagine my chagrin to find we were out of ice cubes.
   "Why isn't this thing making ice?" I asked the other night.
   The lady of the house, after realizing that I wasn't kidding, calmly explained that to make ice one needs water and there had been no water hookup for the fridge for a week.
   Boy, this "roughing it" is getting downright grueling.

   --Joe McQuaid's e-mail address is publisher@unionLeader.com.

Author: JOE McQUAID
Section: Opinion
Page: a8
Copyright 2006 Union Leader Corp.

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