Joe Pace
Granite State of Mind, #65: Band Room, Exeter Junior High School, Exeter
Between seventh and eighth grade I learned how to play the tuba because Mr. Bethel asked me to. He needed more low-end horns, I guess,...
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Joe Pace
Apr 4, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #64: North Conway
North Conway isn't technically a town - it's a village, a "census-designated place" within the town of Conway. Still, it's one of the...
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Joe Pace
Apr 3, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #63: Mister Donut, Portsmouth
In this age of Starbucks and Dunkin's, who remembers Mister Donut? There was a time years ago when it was a player in the American coffee...
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Joe Pace
Apr 2, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #62: Kensington Elementary School (basketball courts), Kensington
It may come as a fair surprise to many, considering my overwhelming vertical footprint, but I'm a decent basketball player. I'm certainly...
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Joe Pace
Apr 1, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #61: Huddleston Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham
During my undergraduate days at UNH, students had three dining hall options: Stillings (Swillings, complete with Food River and one-armed...
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Joe Pace
Apr 1, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #60: Ames, Stratham
Before the mind-numbing ease of shopping online, and before the cookie-cutter dominance of Wal-Mart and Target, there were crappy little...
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Joe Pace
Mar 31, 2017
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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