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New London, NH
6 0 km 50 3 Kingfield
MAP L5
Skowhegan
0 miles
Without the overhead power lines VERMONT 50 St. Johnsbury 2 MAINE
Augusta
and asphalt on the roads, New 2 White
London would look as if time had Montpelier Mountains Lewiston Wiscasset
stopped around 1850. Home to 89 Lincoln North 95 295
Conway
NEW
Colby-Sawyer College, a prestigious HAMPSHIRE Brunswick
liberal arts school, New London Hanover Laconia Portland
bustles during the summer as the 91 93 Kennebunk
shopping and dining center for Lake New London Rochester
Sunapee vacationers; another draw Grafton Harrisville Concord Portsmouth
is the Barn Playhouse’s summer Brattleboro Manchester
stock theater season. Shelburne Nashua Atlantic
Falls 95 Ocean
Kingfield, ME
7 MASSACHUSETTS Boston
Worcester
MAP N2 • Stanley Museum:
Springfield
40 School St, Kingfield, ME; 207 CONNECTICUT Providence Plymouth
265 2729; open year round; adm; Hartford 95 6
www.stanleymuseum.org Wethersfield Tiverton
Four Corners
Gateway to the Sugarloaf ski resort Old 1 Martha’s Nantucket
(see p55), this characterful mountain Lyme Watch Hill Vineyard Island
village is a favorite with outdoors
Watch Hill, RI
enthusiasts. The Stanley Museum 9
chronicles the achievements of twin The gingerbread architecture
native sons Francis Edgar and of Westerly’s seaside village of Watch
Freelan Oscar Stanley, best known Hill reveals its Victorian roots –
for inventing the steam-powered there’s even a Victorian tea shop –
Stanley Steamer cars. Their sister but sport fishermen come here for
Chansonetta’s documentary the perfect confluence of surf and
photographs capture rural life. shoreline currents (see p88).
Harrisville, NH
Shelburne Falls, MA
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This charming New England mill Many artisans, musicians, and
village has revived the production of Sixties counterculture holdouts
yarn and textiles using water power. make their homes in this quirky
Picturesque structures include the village on the Mohawk Trail (see p60).
1838 general store, historic brick Cross the Deerfield River – which
mills, and several wooden workers’ divides the town – on the Bridge of
cottages. It is the only early 19th- Flowers, a former railroad trestle
century industrial community in New heavily planted in blooms. The geo-
England still perfectly preserved in logical curiosity of glacial potholes
its original form. Keen knitters will scoured by a natural falls made the
want to visit the yarn factory and shop. spot famous centuries ago.
Bridge of Flowers,
Shelburne Falls

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