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Title: The White Mountains of New Hampshire : in the heart of the nation's playground
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Boston & Maine Railroad
Subjects: White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Passenger Traffic Dept., Boston & Maine Railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Through Franconia Notch Swimming Pool, Ammonoosuc River rivalries on the baseball diamond or tennis-court and exchanging socialvisits when the spirit moves. And the spirit moves with oft-recurringregularity. The summer vacation season in the Mountains (there is nowadays,by the way, a winter vacation season there, too) begins about the lastweek in June, although some of the larger houses do not open untilsomewhat later. At Bethlehem, Maplewood, Profile House, Jefferson,Bretton Woods, Crawford, Fabyan, Twin Mountain, North Woodstock,North Conway, Jackson, Dixville Notch and elsewhere some of theleading hotels are ready to receive guests about June fifteenth, andof late years the custom of spending the Fourth of July in the Moun-tains has been followed by many. No more effective and sensible method of escaping the noise andheat of the Glorious Fourth could possibly be adopted. The quicktransition from city clamor to Mountain quiet is almost miraculous.
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The noise of the celebration is far less trying because of that impressivesilence in which it is so easily lost. Shortly after Independence Day the regular summer visitors beginto put in an appearance at the various Mountain resorts. Pantinglocomotives draw them in long trainloads up through the wonderfulfifteen-mile Crawford Notch; big delegations of them drop off thetrains at North Woodstock, and hundreds swing round the south-western frontier of the Mountains and disembark at Bethlehem,Maplewood. Jefferson or whatever point on the West Side they arebooked for. By the first of August the hotels begin to take on the appearanceof a London bus on a bank holiday, and throughout this ideal monththe summer life is at crescendo. The younger members of the bigsummer colony are in an hourly whirl of delicious excitement — golfing,driving, fishing, motoring, disporting in swimming-pools, playing base-

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