WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, SUMMER 1957 It hadn’t changed much in generations and it was still a rugged railroad town, downtown stores hadn’t yet been destroyed by the Vermont sales tax that came a decade later, the slow decay of the 1960s, 1970s and.
Twenty-five years ago, a storm struck parts of the Upper Valley, weighing down trees under a coating of ice and knocking out power for days.Two weather fronts stalled over the Northeast for three to four days in early January 1998, and it fell not as.
He ran for president once, lost three primary bids for New Hampshire governor and was defeated twice in gubernatorial general elections. But, no matter, Orford’s Meldrim Thomson Jr. was elected to be the Granite State’s chief executive three times,.
The Westboro Rail Yard was once a wonder, but in recent decades it was a testament to inertia “deserted and decrepit,” in the words of a Valley News story in 1987.A haunting wind blew through the large brick roundhouse, and wooden shacks were.