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How about our Laconia Motorcycle Week, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, dog sled racing, White Mountain National Forest, Portsmouth Navel Shipyard, Mount Washington Hotel, The Balsams......and Black Flies!!!
-only state without a seat belt law
-only state in the lower 48 without a sales and income tax
-first aerial tramway in north america
-northern most of the original colonies
-coolest state motto
Bob Montana (1920 -1975) Montana created the popular comic strip "Archie" in 1942. The comic strip was based upon his high school classmates in Manchester.
J.D. Salinger (born 1919) Salinger is famous for writing the novel Catcher in the Rye. He also wrote many short stories. In 1953 he moved from New York to Cornish New Hampshire.
Triple H (HHH), now part of the WWE, grew up in Nashua NH. As a lean 14 year old he won a free week at a small local gym over the summer. He liked it so much that he spent nearly everyday of the next three years training there. After winning many body building competitions he joined the independent wrestling circuit. From there he joined the WCW where the WWE noticed him.
Sarah Silverman A talented comedienne, writer, actress, singer & musician, Silverman was born in Bedford, NH in 1970, and is the youngest of four daughters. Silverman performed in community theater at the age of 12, starred on local Boston television programming at the age of 15, and attended the Derryfield School in Manchester.
Seth Meyers was born in Bedford, NH in 1973, and is currently serving as the co-head writer of Saturday Night Live. This talented actor and comedian attended West High School in Manchester before going to college at Northwestern University in Illinois.
Eleanor Porter (1868 -1920) A children's author from Littleton, Porter made it big after she sold over 1 million copies of her book Pollyanna.
John Irving (born 1942) Irving is a best-selling author. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of New Hampshire. His novels include The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and The Cider House Rules.
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 -1879) Hale wrote and edited two magazines during the early 1800's: Ladies Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book. She also wrote several books and the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
Horace Greeley (1811 -1872) Horace founded and published the New York Tribune, which was a famous newspaper during the 1800's. He used the paper to voice his ideas on politics and other issues during that time
Manchester Union Leader newspaper is the longest running right wing propaganda rag on earth.
VELCRO invented in an old mill in Manchester. Production was once halted by a terrible lint storm.
Best Maple Syrup from Hank Peterson's farm in Londonderry. Fresh eggs from across the street at Misty Meadows.
Major collection of tried and true YANKEES living North of the Notch.
Revolutionaries tossed out the King's Tree markers from an Exeter sawmill in 1750 or so. Different bunch captured Fort William & Mary, located in Newcastle, and renamed Fort Constitution on X-mass eve 1774. The cannon captured were used to take Ticonderoga and to chase the Tories out of Boston.
After you have been harassed by the mosquitoes, bitten by black flies, chewed on by deer flies, munched by horseflies you are weakened enough to see UFO's (I have been strafed by A-10 planes) you might just consider taking a dose of good old NH Rye Whisky a proper thing to do.
NH has the highest motorcycle registration per capita of any state.
Oh and like Greg said NH has the longest running fair and balanced newspaper, the Union leader, kind a helps keeps the liberal tv news at WMUR in check,
MUR is Liberal? Not that I noticed. There are no really liberal news sources in New Hampshire. The conservatives really rule this place. Even the Democrats are conservative around here. Just another thing NH is famous for.
Please source the 7% poverty rate. IIRC most towns in Northern NH are just about dead broke.
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