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Keene
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MAP L6
At 132 ft (40 m) wide for most of its
length, Keene’s attractive Main
Street is easily the widest in New
England. This shire town has a lively
mix of old-time shops and art
galleries, as well as the good bars
and cafés you’d expect in a college
community. At its heart stands the
pretty United Church of Christ with
its soaring white steeple.
Hanover
2
MAP L4 • Ledyard Canoe
Club of DOC: Ledyard Bridge; 603 White Mountains, a hub for hikers
643 6709; open May–Oct; call for
availability; adm philosophers, and theologians
It’s hardly a bad thing, but Dartmouth sought inspiration, they made a
College utterly overwhelms the rest pilgrimage to these majestic hills to
of Hanover. The town green and the experience the sublime rising peaks
college green are one and the same, and plunging glens (see pp20–21).
and the shopping district clearly
Portsmouth
favors the tastes of young scholars 4
and their well-heeled parents. But MAP N6
Dartmouth holds many riches, even Portsmouth was New Hampshire’s
for the visitor just passing through. first English community, settled at
Not least among them are the art the mouth of the Piscataqua River in
treasures of the Hood Museum of 1623. Plentiful timber and a deep
Art (see p43) – closed until 2019 for harbor made it a natural for ship-
expansion. Hanover sits on the building, and from 1780 to 1870 its
Connecticut River and is popular merchant traders grew rich. Walk
with canoeists. Most recreational through the handsome squares of
programs of the Dartmouth Outing the Colonial settlement to see some
Club, including boat rentals, are of New England’s finest town man-
open to non-students as well. sions, and to breathe the salt air that
has always been Portsmouth’s life-
White Mountains
3 blood. The historic houses and
period furnishings of Strawbery
The White Mountains have a
special place in American history. Banke (see p38) relate the city’s
When early 19th-century poets, four-century domestic history.
Portsmouth, on the Piscataqua River

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