Joe Pace
Granite State of Mind, #47: The Flume, Lincoln
The Flume is New Hampshire's real-life Rivendell, eight hundred feet of waterfall-carved Conway granite walls looming eighty feet up and...
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Joe Pace
- Mar 18, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #46: Saunders at Rye Harbor, Rye
In putting this list together I've been a little surprised and not a little sobered to realize how many entries don't exist any more. I...
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Joe Pace
- Mar 17, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #45: Exeter Country Club, Exeter
First off - and anyone who's been on a course with me knows this - I am a horrific golfer. A military golfer (left-right-left-right) with...
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Joe Pace
- Mar 16, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #44: Mrs. Gowen's Kindergarten, Great Bay Road, Greenland
I've attended my share of schools in New Hampshire - UNH, Exeter High, Exeter Junior High, Stratham Memorial School. We'll get to all of...
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Joe Pace
- Mar 15, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #43: The Newington Mall, Newington
It's all shiny and new over there now, between the Fox Run Mall and the Crossings at Fox Run, with the huge cineplex and all the...
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Joe Pace
- Mar 14, 2017
Granite State of Mind, #42: Main Street, Wolfeboro
I've always been partial to Water Street in Exeter as the quintessential New Hampshire downtown (I know Portsmouth has its adherents, and...
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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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