“I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get  it.’’

— Mark Twain (1835-1910), long-time resident of Hartford, Conn., who also loved his late-in-life sojourns in Dublin, N.H., where he rented a house in 1905-1906.