Essays on life from rural New Hampshire

About this site

About this site

This is home to the writing of Jarvis Coffin, including his fiction (to come). Subscribing to his newsletter, Postcard-from-Monadnock, is free, as is access to his other essays (Other Musings) on rural life in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, notably his Off the Highway column, which has appeared in Peterborough's Monadnock Ledger-Transcript since 2022.

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About Jarvis Coffin

For thirty-five years, Jarvis was an advertising sales and media executive. In 2011, he and his wife purchased the Hancock Inn, New Hampshire's oldest inn, which they ran until 2022. Today, Jarvis writes full-time, fiction and essays on rural life in Southern New Hampshire.

About the people you will meet here

They are like you, drawn to stories about our shared experiences. If you like what you read, tell a friend. There is always strength in numbers.