Theme Week New England – New Hampshire and Maine

25 February 2017 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  20 minutes

New Hampshire - Berlin © Americanadian 8

New Hampshire – Berlin © Americanadian 8

N E W    H A M P S H I R E

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. New Hampshire is the 5th smallest by land area and the 9th least populous of the 50 United States. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. Other cities are Nashua, Dover, Rochester, Keene, Portsmouth, Laconia, Lebanon, Berlin, Claremont, and Franklin.   read more…

Bar Harbor in Maine

13 November 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© flickr.com - Tina Saey/cc-by-sa-2.0

© flickr.com – Tina Saey/cc-by-sa-2.0

Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine. Its population is 5,300. Bar Harbor is a popular tourist destination in the Down East region of Maine and home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory, and MDI Biological Laboratory (Salisbury Cove village). Prior to a catastrophic 1947 fire the town was a famous summer colony for the super-affluent elite. Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point within twenty-five miles (40 km) of the coastline of the Eastern United States. The town is served by the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport.   read more…

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