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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...

Joe Pace
Mar 13, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 12, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 11, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 10, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 9, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 8, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 7, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 6, 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,...

Joe Pace
Mar 5, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 4, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 3, 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...

Joe Pace
Mar 2, 2017
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