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Joe Pace
Mar 13, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #41: Wiggin Memorial Library, Stratham
Yeah, I know. That's the Stratham Historical Society Building now. The town library is over on Bunker HIll Ave, part of the municipal...
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Joe Pace
Mar 12, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #40: The Chocolatier, Exeter
Some of the businesses along the Water Street stretch of Exeter's downtown have come and gone, and some are longtime staples. The...
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Joe Pace
Mar 11, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #39: Hitchcock Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Hitchcock Hall was built in 1959 and named after Leon Whitney Hitchcock, a longtime professor of electrical engineering. There's some...
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Joe Pace
Mar 10, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #38: Storyland, Glen
Storyland opened in 1954, the same year as Disneyland. One of the two theme parks became the insatiable predatory juggernaut of family...
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Joe Pace
Mar 9, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #37: The Old Salt & Lamie's Restaurant and Inn, Hampton
There used to be a restaurant down at Hampton Beach called the Old Salt, but in 1999 it burned to the ground. The owners, the Higgins...
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Joe Pace
Mar 8, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #36: Market Square, Portsmouth
In 1762, a public lottery provided funding for paving the Market Square in Portsmouth, where Congress Street and Pleasant Street and...
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Joe Pace
Mar 7, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #35: Sargent Camp, Hancock
It used to be that a big part of sixth grade at Stratham Memorial School was the weeklong outdoor experiential learning camp out in...
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Joe Pace
Mar 6, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #34: Mount Major, Alton
Everybody hikes Mount Major. It's more than a hill and less than a mountain at just shy of 1,800 feet, an easy ascent in exchange for the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 5, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #33: Applecrest Farm Orchards, Hampton Falls
Along Route 88 (also known as Exeter Road) in Hampton Falls you'll find the largest and oldest apple orchard in New Hampshire - in fact,...
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Joe Pace
Mar 4, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #32: Benjamin's, Durham
It isn't there any more, and hasn't been for a while. Long enough that even the interwebs have been reluctant to yield up a photo of the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 3, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #31: Water Street Bookstore, Exeter
To be a great small town, there are certain inarguable requirements. One of these is an independent bookstore, shelves groaning with...
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Joe Pace
Mar 2, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #30: Odiorne Point, Rye
There are other, sandier beaches in Rye - Jenness, Wallis Sands - but Odiorne Point has always been my favorite part of New Hampshire's...
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