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Three places in New Hampshire undying

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photos and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN New Hampshire Welcome Center, Spaulding Turnpike (Rte 3), Hooksett, N.H. Summer! Time to head for the White Mountains or Lake Winnipesaukee. But first, one has to deal with this, perhaps the tackiest,......

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 Tags  Ashland   Center Sandwich   N.H.   New Hampshire Welcome Center  

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No need for the hose now, Janet Lage

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''Hosed 4,'' oil, oil bar, graphite on canvas, by Janet Lage (2009), at Eo Art Lab, Chester, Conn. (eoartlab.com). July 1-Aug. 2 This is one of the playful images in Connecticut artists Lage's "Hose Me'' show, celebrating, among other......

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 Tags  Chester   Conn.   Eo Art Lab   Janet Lage  

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Norwich's golden age

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-- "View of Norwich,'' oil painting by John Denison Crocker done around 1873. At the nifty Slater Memorial Museum, in Norwich, Conn. The eastern Connecticut mill town sure looked pretty back then, especially if you avoid thinking of the......

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 Tags  Conn.   John Denison Crocker   Norwich   Slater Memorial Museum  

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Buzzards Bay 'saved'; Sununu stays out; Dept. of the Interior

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--"Kennebunkport Tug,'' by John Wheatley, part of a show at the Providence Art Club scheduled for July 12-31. The presidential Bushes, the most prominent local rich summer people, use considerably sexier craft to move around that town's waters in......

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 Tags  Elizabeth Islands   Jay Cashman   John Sununu   John Wheatley   Kennebunkport   Massachusetts Ocean-Management   Providence Art Club  

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Clothesline crisis! Laid-off greyhounds

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-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING No, this isn't a setup for a joke about taxpayers as state legislatures adjourn. It's SVF Foundation's Annual Visitors Day, June 6, 2009, in Newport, R.I. Now give those poor animals wetsuits! XXX Project......

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 Tags  Belmont   clothesline emergency   greyhounds   Seabrook   Twin River  

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Governor's 'furlough'

5:37 PM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said he'd be willing to furlough himself to save the state money. But he emphasized he'd still come to work. "I would just come in (and) take the day without pay and be here,"......

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 Tags  furlough   New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch  

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The Currier Museum

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-- Photo by Jose Martinez "Origins,'' by Mark diSuvero, welcomes visitors to the Currier Museum of Art. The Currier Museum, in Manchester, N.H., is perhaps not what you'd expect in that old mill town, whose Amoskeag Mills complex, on......

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 Tags  Amoskeag Mills   Currier Museum of Art   Gary Haven Smith   Gerald Auten   Manchester   N.H.  

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