CHS Alum Offers Clues
To ‘Pressing Questions’

So how do you milk a moose, anyway?

Vershire native and Chelsea High School Alumni Lara Bricker answers that question and other pressing issues of the day in her first book of columns "How Do You Milk a Moose Anyway?" released this month by Virtual Bookworm Publishing. The book is now available through www.brickerbooks.com.

Bricker sets her sights on the truth behind the $500-a-pound moose cheese and other important issues including how to survive an attack by a washing machine and the truth behind those home skin care parties.

From her moody horse that needs progesterone to her surprise encounter with an Elvis impersonator, you never know what Bricker is going to write about next. No matter what, though, she brings her trademark humor and witty observations on life. Local book signing events will be scheduled.

As a news reporter, Bricker has received awards from the New Hampshire Press Association and New England Press Association for her investigative and crime reporting. Now a freelance writer, she writes a twice-monthly humor column for several New Hampshire newspapers. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe and several magazines.

Bricker grew up on a horse farm in Vershire, then attended the University of New Hampshire where she majored in equine science. She opted for a minor in journalism "after falling off one too many horses," she explains. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, with her husband Ken, toddler Will, grandmother Gladys, one cat and three retired horses.

A chapter from her book appears elsewhere in The Herald.