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“Craggy Rock Beach” (oil on line), by New Castle, N.H.-based painter Grant Drumheller, this month as the York (Maine) Art Association.

In New Castle, the Wentworth by the Sea resort hotel in 1920. It was built in 1874 and is one of New England’s few remaining Gilded Age establishments of its kind.

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"The Breakfast Room" by Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938). This Boston area Impressionist painter eventually moved to New Castle, N.H.

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UNH moves into marine autonomous vehicle sector

At the Judd Gregg Marine Research Complex, 15 miles from UNH’s main campus, in Durham, and at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor in New Castle, N.H. It supports research, education and outreach in marine biology, oceanography and ocean engineering, with particular emphasis on marine biology and ecology, aquaculture, acoustics and ocean mapping, invasive species, autonomous surface vehicle research, ocean acidification, and renewable energy.

A University of South Florida researcher deploys Tavros02, a solar-powered marine autonomous vehicle.

— Photo by Bgregson

Edited from a New England Council report

“The University of New Hampshire has opened of a new maritime autonomy innovation hub.

“In collaboration with the Paris-based nautical-technology firm, Exail, UNH will use the new center as an operating base for marine autonomous vessels. The hub will produce pioneering un-crewed surface vessels, house a center for international remote autonomous operations, and train future generations on the use of remote autonomous vehicles. As a result, this effort will expand access to public and private customers and offer innovative solutions to help support the blue economy.

“‘This exciting collaboration will not only be good for Exail and UNH students and researchers but also good for New Hampshire and the nation,’ said Larry Mayer, director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping. ‘We anticipate that it is just the start of bringing many of our other industrial partners and government colleagues to the state as we create a local engine for the new blue economy.”’

A New England paradox

The grand summer resort hotel Wentworth-by-the-Sea, in New Castle, N.H., in 1892

Inside one of the world’s largest factory complexes, the Amoskeag Mills, in Manchester, N.H., around the turn of the 20th Century

“{By the last quarter of the 1800s} tourists sought out the isolated or remote parts of New England, looking for an imagined world of pastoral beauty, rural independence, virtuous simplicity and religious and ethnic homogeneity. In these years, a trip to New England came to mean an escape from the conditions of modern urban industrial life, the very life New Englanders a generation earlier had been praised (and sometimes blamed) for creating.’’

From Inventing New England (1995), by Dona Brown