Tag: November 2024

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  Travels with Count Rumford

  A spy, a lover, a scientist, an inventor, and a diplomat, Benjamin Thompson, the American-born Count Rumford of Concord, lived a complex and controversial life. Rumford’s time in New Hampshire was brief but meaningful, as when he was ennobled by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1792, he chose to be…

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  Trail Notes: A strenuous climb that sets the spirit free

  The last years of our serious mountain hiking were on Lowe’s Path up Mount Adams. Lowe’s Path is one of the more strenuous climbs in the White Mountains and Adams ls second only to Mount Washington in height. Anne and I still had the strength and energy to backpack what…