N.H. 'doesn't fit in'

Downtown Dublin, N.H.

"There's little question that Vermont (particularly Vermont), Maine, Boston, and Cape Cod, are, together, responsible for the New England image. New Hampshire just doesn't fit in.''

-- Judson D. Hale, Sr.  in "Vermont vs. New Hampshire,'' American Heritage (magazine), April 1992.

Mr. Hale was the long-time editor of Yankee magazine, based in Dublin, N.H., in the "Currier & Ives Corner'' of the Granite State. Dublin, said to be the highest town in New England, perched as it is on Beech Hill, looks like most Americans' idea of a small New England town.