Joe Pace
Granite State of Mind, #89: Moody Point, Newmarket
At the western edge of Great Bay, where the Squamscott River arrives from Exeter and the Lamprey from Newmarket, across the water from...
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Joe Pace
Apr 28, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #88: The Townlyne Grill, Exeter
The building used to be called the Studio Restaurant (and, rumor has it, once sheltered a drug house). That sordid and likely apocryphal...
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Joe Pace
Apr 27, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #87: The Isles of Shoals, Rye
Here's a dirty little secret: I've never been to the Isles of Shoals. I love the ocean, love sailing ships and history, and yet I've...
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Joe Pace
Apr 26, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #86: "Winterfell", Milton
Just North of Rochester, straddling the Spaulding Turnpike, sits Milton, NH, a onetime manufacturing center along the Salmon Falls River....
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Joe Pace
Apr 25, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #85: Whittemore Center Arena, University of New Hampshire, Durham
When I arrived at the University of New Hampshire as a freshman in fall 1993, the Wildcat hockey teams played in Lively Snively Arena, a...
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Joe Pace
Apr 24, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #84: Downeaster Train Station, Exeter
The story of how passenger rail service returned to the Boston to Portland line is a long one, and I won't share it all here. Let's just...
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Joe Pace
Apr 23, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #83: Dinnerhorn & Bratskellar Pub, Portsmouth
The Sagamore Creek springs from the earth behind Peverly Hill and Banfield Roads in Portsmouth, and wends its way east past the Mirona...
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Joe Pace
Apr 22, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #82: Brickyard Park, Exeter
A long day at the diamond with the boys yesterday reminded me forcefully of my own early experiences coaching youth baseball, more than...
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Joe Pace
Apr 21, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #81: Mount Washington Hotel, Carroll
Built in 1902, the Mount Washington Hotel is the granddaddy of the grand hotels that once dotted the New Hampshire in the 19th and early...
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Joe Pace
Apr 20, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #80: Kingston 1686 House, Kingston
Talking about senior prom the other day got me thinking about...well, about junior prom. 25 years ago next month, we decked out the...
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Joe Pace
Apr 19, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #79: The Powder House, Exeter
The first shots fired in the American Revolution weren't at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775. They happened four months earlier, in...
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Joe Pace
Apr 18, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #78: The Connie Bean Center, Portsmouth
It was the fall of 1997. I had graduated from UNH in the spring, and was working for the Greater Seacoast United Way when one of the most...
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