Joe Pace
Granite State of Mind, #59: Canobie Lake Park, Salem
I have such mixed feelings about New Hampshire's big old theme park. It's got everything you're looking for in these places, with rides...
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Joe Pace
Mar 30, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #58: String Bridge, Exeter
There are two ways across the Exeter River in town. And yeah, I've got some love for the modestly named Great Bridge where the dam used...
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Joe Pace
Mar 29, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #57: Great Island Common, New Castle
New Castle is a funky place. It's the smallest town in New Hampshire at less than 2.5 square miles, though less than a square mile of...
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Joe Pace
Mar 28, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #56: Friendly Toast, Portsmouth
Earlier in this list I mentioned some of the great traditional breakfast places in the New Hampshire seacoast (Betty's Kitchen, Rogan's,...
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Joe Pace
Mar 27, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #55: Seahawk Field, Cooperative Middle School, Stratham
In the fall of 2000 I joined the Exeter Seahawks youth football program as board president, twelve years after having played for the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 26, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #54: Hampton Cinemas, Hampton
I've spilled a lot of ink on another movie house in the seacoast, and I'm sure I will again before this list is finished. But I can't...
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Joe Pace
Mar 25, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #53: Berlin, NH
When we first moved to western Washington state, we were greeted by a certain odor along the stretch of I-5 between Olympia and Seattle....
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Joe Pace
Mar 24, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #52: Thompson Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Today we inaugurate a new president at the University of Puget Sound, the culmination of a project I've worked on for the last six...
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Joe Pace
Mar 23, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #51: Swasey Parkway, Exeter
There are a lot of places I love in Exeter - and unapologetically so, as there are so many places there worth loving. Among these is...
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Joe Pace
Mar 22, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #50: Pleasant View Drive, Exeter
In 2010 we left New Hampshire for Sarah's military medical career, and we've had a few addresses in the seven years since - two in...
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Joe Pace
Mar 21, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #49: Prescott Park, Portsmouth
There are few places in the seacoast, indeed in all of New Hampshire, where the past and the future come together with the vibrant energy...
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Joe Pace
Mar 20, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #48: Astros Field, Stratham
There's no way that's the real name of it - I just made that up. In fact, I doubt there ever was a name for that ballfield out behind the...
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