‘A spoon and a rolling pin’

“Aunt Fanny’s headstone in the roadside graveyard is moss-stained … but her reputation as queen of the kitchen still lingers in the village of Franconia, {N.H.} for she was one of those natural cooks who are ‘born with a mixing spoon in one hand and a rolling pin in the other.’ New England has produced many. They invented baked Indian pudding and apple pandowdy. They established the boiled dinner as a Thursday institution, and Boston baked beans and brown bread as the typical Saturday night supper.’’

-- Ellen Shannon Bowles and Dorothy S. Towle, in Secrets of New England Cooking (1947)

State-owned Cannon Mountain, a large and old (founded in the ‘30s) ski area, rising over Franconia village in 2007. The building was the home of Dow Academy, founded in 1884. It was the town's high school until 1958, after which its building, a Georgian Revival wood-frame building built in 1903, became a centerpiece of the the small and experimental Franconia College (RIP) campus. The building was converted into condominium residences in 1983; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.