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Joe Pace
May 5, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #95: Three Chimneys Inn and ffrost Sawyer Tavern, Durham
It's the oldest building in Durham and one of the oldest in New Hampshire, built in 1649 by entrepreneur Valentine Hill. Hill owned more...
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Joe Pace
May 4, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #94: Franklin Street, Exeter
As the Exeter River makes its final freshwater turn before plunging under the Great Bridge to meet the saltwater Squamscott, it passes by...
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Joe Pace
May 3, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #93: St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth
The Anglican faith is often dated back to 1534 and the Act of Supremacy declaring King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England,...
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Joe Pace
May 2, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #92: Lincoln
Lincoln is an odd little duck of a town. Actually, it's not all that little, the second largest town in the state by area at over 130...
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Joe Pace
May 1, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #91: Stratham Memorial School, Stratham
Let's be clear - I'm not talking about the perfectly nice little school on Gifford Farm Road, where Stratham elementary school kids...
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Joe Pace
Apr 30, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #90: Jumpin' Jay's Fish Cafe, Portsmouth
A counter-intuitive choice, perhaps, given that I'm not a seafood guy. Never have been. I'll eat a tuna sandwich, sure, but salmon?...
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Joe Pace
Apr 29, 2017
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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