The Picador is a publication that serves to inform the Holderness School community and stimulate discourse through the thoughtful and respectful exchange of ideas, featuring the dynamic and insightful voice of the Holderness student body.   In light of our above mission statement, The Picad...

Holderness happily welcomes some amazing new teachers, coaches, and dorm parents this year.  Below are a few questions and answers to help the community better know our some of our new great faculty members.   Ms. Lacasse: What made you choose to become a teacher at Holderness School? “I rea...

While many people in the Holderness community consider the summer to be a time of rest and relaxation, two groups of Bulls chose to do various camps to improve their skiing skills quite literally all around the world. Those two groups were the Eastern Nordic and the Eastern Alpine teams.   The ...

A survey was sent out to Holderness students on September 25th, which had three questions regarding eating habits at Holderness. Out of approximately 275 Holderness students, 152 students responded to the survey. The response rate was about 55.47%, which is comparatively higher than the typical Interne...

19-year-old high school graduate Michael Buskey committed suicide in the woods outside his home in Plymouth, New Hampshire, on May 8th, 2018. On further investigation, the police questioned Buskey’s roommate, Parker Hogan, who admitted to giving Buskey the gun that he used as well as the paper and pen for t...

"Crazy Rich Asians", a movie with an all Asian cast,  was released in the United States this year. In case you haven’t heard of this movie it is a film adaptation of the best-selling novel written by Singaporean author Kevin Kwan. The plot is about an Asian-American woman’s introduction to her S...

The highly-awaited 2018 midterm elections are less than two months away, and with it comes a referendum of sorts on President Trump’s policies from the last year and a half. New Hampshire, a battleground state, tends to receive a lot of media attention during presidential election years. However, midter...

I was walking to Schoolhouse on a warm September night to meet Dylan de Vries outside of his dorm. He rode towards me on a scooter, and, to my surprise, he exclaimed that the scooter was for me. I was thrilled since last year my childhood scooter had been stolen from me here at school. This excitement...