Date: Fri 03-Sep-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: MARYG

Quick Words:

symbols-Hampshire-online

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N.H. Chooses New Symbols

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CONCORD, N.H. -- You can help choose New Hampshire's symbols for the

Twenty-first Century by voting for your favorites on an innovative on-line

ballot on the New Hampshire Historical Society Web site www.NHHistory.org.

Voting is free and will be open through September 30. In honor of the new

century, the society will create an exhibition featuring the top 21 winners,

which will be on view at the Museum of New Hampshire History beginning in

February 2000.

Participants can vote for 21 of their favorite New Hampshire icons from a list

of 49 possibilities including the Old Man of the Mountain, the Mount

Washington Cog Railway, and the Isles of Shoals. The list includes some

symbols you would expect -- stone walls, covered bridges, and maple sugaring.

Lots of historic sites are among the choices, from Strawbery Banke in

Portsmouth, to Fort William and Mary in New Castle, to the Meetinghouse in

Washington.

For those who do not have access to a computer, paper ballots are available

from the society and at many local libraries. For more information,

603/226-3189, ext. 224.

The New Hampshire Historical Society is an independent, nonprofit organization

dedicated to preserving and sharing New Hampshire history through its research

library and the Museum of New Hampshire History, both in Concord.