Too libertarian and irascible?

A Sunday edition of the once much feared and admired Manchester Union-Leader, run for many years by far-right publisher William Loeb (1905-1981). A stepdaughter recently accused him of molesting her.

In high and chilly 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., former long-time editor of Yankee Magazine, in “Vermont vs. New Hampshire,’’ in the April 1992 American Heritage magazine. And yet Yankee has always been based in Dublin, N.H.

Historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876 — a reminder that the state has a (very short) seacoast.