Home » Travel » New Hampshire » Recap Challenge of 2001

Recap Challenge of 2001

© Christina Coruth

Sandy McCollum editor of Slices of Northern Life has issued a recap challenge to Suite101 editors. The challenge is to write an article incorporating the titles to our 2001 articles into the text. If it sounds like madness -- well it is! Here is my Recap 2001.

After finding a camera through the Holiday Shopping Guide, I decided to make my way around the state. Being it was Christmas time, I thought I would get a Snapshot: Bethlehem. But I got lost as I traveled on the Rocky Road to Ratification. I was lucky enough to get a Snapshot: Henniker, before heading out on the Kancamagus -- Highway to Leaf Peeper Heaven. So what happened to the foliage? What's with the snow? Could this be The Storm of the Century? Yes, it is! Winter Fun in New Hampshire almost kept me from getting my Snapshot: Newport.

Alas my photo tour of New Hampshire came to an end because someone broke my camera. Who could have done that? President Bartlet? Perhaps it was he. He has undergone a change since the good old days of Josiah Bartlett: The Early Years. He has even forgotten how to spell his name since he was our Josiah Bartlett: Patriot and Statesman. I can't blame him though. None of us has been the same since the Ladybug Invasion. The horror of it was too much. All Granite Staters felt Haunted in New Hampshire. If things weren't bad enough, we found ourselves dodging pine cones during the Pine Tree Riot. I'll tell you, there's nothing worse than a bunch of angry pine trees.

Coming face to face with our history had its sad and unpleasant moments. No one wanted to think about Slavery and New Hampshire or the Meetinghouse Tragedy. Terrible things happen, but We Are Not Broken. So we turned our attention to the building of our great State, to Manchester, the Mills, and the Immigrants. Oh to have lived during those exciting times and to have had a chance to know those great people that built our state and our nation. And there were fun times, too. I could just imagine myself calling out to the fiddler, "Give Me that Old Time Dancing." I imagined the enthusiasm of the dancers going wild like a Prelude to a Riot.

The copyright of the article Recap Challenge of 2001 in New Hampshire is owned by . Permission to republish Recap Challenge of 2001 in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.