New Hampshire's identity is the White Mountains plus the village-green-and-steeple tradition. Preserve both registers across the bundle
— — the granite the steeple sits on.
Not only on a wall.
“New Hampshire is a state of two registers. North, the White Mountains: granite, weather, Mount Washington. South, the village green: white clapboard church, common, bandstand, library across the way. The state runs from the Atlantic up through hardwood to the alpine zone in under two hundred miles. Both pictures are true. Most New Hampshire people carry both in their heads.
New Hampshire's identity is the White Mountains plus the village-green-and-steeple tradition. Preserve both registers across the bundle, on ceramic.
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New Hampshire is the fifth-smallest U.S. state by area and the largest part of New England's interior north. The White Mountain National Forest covers nearly 800,000 acres in the northern third, including Mount Washington at 6,288 feet, the highest peak in the northeastern United States. The southern two-thirds hold the colonial village pattern of green, meetinghouse, and common, repeated across roughly 234 incorporated towns. The state was the first to declare independence from Britain, six months before the Continental Congress, on January 5, 1776.
The summit of Mount Washington holds the western hemisphere's longest-running mountaintop weather station, founded in 1932. The recorded surface wind of 231 mph on April 12, 1934 stood as a world record for sixty-two years. Tree line drops to about 4,400 feet on the Presidentials, lower than anywhere comparable south of the Arctic; the alpine zone above it covers roughly seven square miles, with cushion plants more common to Labrador than to New England. The summit is colder, in annual average, than sea-level Anchorage.
The state's village pattern was largely set between 1750 and 1830, and most of the meetinghouses on the greens predate the Civil War. White clapboard, slender steeple, granite step. The Old Man of the Mountain on the state quarter fell in 2003 but is still on the highway signs. Town meeting, held on the second Tuesday of March, remains the legislative body of most New Hampshire towns; roughly two hundred of the 234 still govern themselves that way each spring.