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Article: Beyond the undergrowth and clouded glass
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- August 23, 2008
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Much about the Merrimack Valley landscape remains unchanged over
the past 70 years. Concord is still a modest center of politics and
law. Boscawen's Main Street is still lined with tall elms and
Colonial-era homes. And brick and granite mills still frame
Franklin's riverfront.
But to get a sense of what has changed, it helps to have a
guidebook from the past. Where else will you learn about Penacook's
old "Kaywoodie" pipes or find your way to the beautiful and hidden
Sanbornton Gulf, once a favored picnic spot but now shaded behind
decades of undergrowth?
This tour through the past is made easier by the 1938 New
Hampshire edition of the American Guide Series. The volume was part
of a series ...