Joe Pace
Granite State of Mind, #125: Stratham Fair, Stratham
This July will mark the 50th annual Stratham Fair. That's sobering, because when I was a kid I remember that number being in the teens....
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Joe Pace
Jun 20, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #124: Hampton Beach, Hampton
As the longest day of the year and the official advent of summer is upon us, it seemed an appropriate day to highlight one of New...
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Joe Pace
Jun 15, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #123: Great Bay Athletic Club, Newmarket
I've never been a fitness club guy (and I think the results speak for themselves). I spent my time at the then-new Hamel Rec Center at...
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Joe Pace
Jun 14, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #122: Manchester
The Pennacooks called it Namaoskeag. Veterans of Queen Anne's War settling there in 1727 under a Massachusetts charter called it...
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Joe Pace
Jun 12, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #121: Epicurean Restaurant, Exeter
No, I don't have a story about the Walgreens at the corner of Portsmouth Ave and Green Hill Road. This is about what used to be there in...
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Joe Pace
Jun 9, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #120: The Music Hall, Portsmouth
I don't claim nearly the intimacy or familiarity with the port city's crown cultural jewel that many could more creditably boast. But I...
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Joe Pace
Jun 8, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #119: Cancun Saloon, Durham
Another Durham restaurant that isn't there any more - and frankly, wasn't there for very long. It was such a brief comet in the downtown...
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Joe Pace
Jun 7, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #118: Powder Hill Fish Hatchery, New Durham
Just down the street about two miles from my parents' camp on the shores of Lake Merrymeeting is the Powder Mill Fish Hatchery, managed...
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Joe Pace
Jun 6, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #117: The Riverworks, Newmarket
I've always considered Newmarket as something I have to endure to get somewhere else; an obstacle between Stratham and Durham, straddling...
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Joe Pace
Jun 5, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #116: Hugo Bolin Field, Spaulding High School, Rochester
Rochester has always been just far enough away from Exeter to feel like the frontier. The Winnacunnet Warriors were our rivals, we...
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Joe Pace
Jun 4, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #115: Stuart Farm, Stratham
I've made mention of New Hampshire's family farm tradition before, and I have fond memories of many of them - the Saltbox Farm, the...
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Joe Pace
Jun 3, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #114: 80 Front Street, Exeter
I've driven down Front Street in Exeter thousands of times, and every once in a while the stately brick house a couple of doors down from...
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