Specimens of New Hampshire
“I like your nickname, ‘The Granite State.’ It shows the strength of character, firmness of principle and restraint that have characterized New Hampshire.’’
President Gerald R. Ford, in a speech in Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, on April 17, 1975
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“Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,
One each of everything as in a show-case
Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.’’
— From the 1923 poem “New Hampshire,’’ by Robert Frost