The previous building included an opera house that would have been the largest auditorium in New Hampshire, if it hadn’t burned down. Rather spectacularly, at that.
FLOCKING TO CITY HALL
Tag: Photos
BUOYS AGAINST A WALL
Each lobsterman has a set of distinctive buoys to identify his traps. This is how the floats look out of the water. Shingle siding adds to the effect.
RAGING COLD
As the temperature drops, the water gains clarity. Gone is the tannin tint.
Here the river plunges over the Cocheco dam and falls.
PATRIOTS CENTRAL
Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, and the Old State House stand close together in downtown Boston. It doesn’t take much to imagine historic figures appearing here.
Or even some celebrity athletes.
There’s always a surprise around the bend.
A CALVINIST VIEW
Thanksgiving raises thoughts of New England Puritans, even though they differed in many ways from their fellow Calvinists, the Pilgrims – the ones who celebrated that first round of feasting.
Here is Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586-1661), a Puritan who founded Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630 before his return to England.
EMPTY SUNFLOWER HEAD
The birds and squirrels have already harvested the sunflower seeds. I like to leave the stalk up anyway, just as a perch for the critters.
WATSON AT WORK
Why let power go to waste? A small hydroelectric station captures a share of the Cocheco River. The Watson Dam itself is a V-shaped design stretched across the stream. I imagine it runs in front of a waterfall.
PASTEL DUSK
An argument’s been made that November has the loveliest sunsets of the year.
OL’ ME, I.E. YOUNGER
Time flies. And how!
PRESIDENTIAL HOMEPLACE
The presidency of Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), with its tilt toward powerful slave owners, left the nation headed for Civil War.
While he was born in a humble dwelling nearby, this Hillsborough, New Hampshire, estate is where the family moved in his infancy.
