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Article: New heights in New Hampshire White Mountains are serene, scenic and...scary New England Summer \ Today: Hart's Location, N.H.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 22, 1999
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When I booked a room at the secluded Notchland Inn in New
Hampshire's smallest town, assistant innkeeper Kath Harris assured me
I would get a spectacular White Mountains view and no telephone or
TV.
And should anyone call for me, she said, innkeepers would be happy
to say no such traveler existed.
Peace and privacy are priceless amenities, and when I awoke the
next morning and saw -- before even lifting my head from the pillow
-- only deep green forested slopes rising high against a blue New
Hampshire sky, I understood why the White Mountains have been luring
summer visitors for almost two centuries.
And luring them from the earliest days to this very spot. Before
breakfast, I crossed the ...