New Hampshire Books

Gerry and Sue Hardy hae put together a basic guide to fifty hikes in teh State of Connecticut. Its easy to scan through and pick out easy hikes from hard ones as they ordered well. Some basic maps are provided and light overview of the trail.

However, if you want more information, you are based served to research on the Internet. You will discover that some of the Nature Centers are part of other organizations. And these larger organizations offer different and alternate hiking trails. In other words, the book is a bit outdated.

The moral of this review is for you to investigate these trails further as only a basic overview is provided here. Therefore, the three star rating sounds appropriate.

Salem is a wonderful place and it so enlightning to learn the history. The details about how George and Wendy Whitehouse slowly helped build the town was written in a way that was fun and easy to follow. A great way to learn about where you live.

To the small group of people that this book would be of interest to, get it. You will enjoy reading of God's work through this hero of the faith.

Renee Mallett's Manchester Ghosts is a valuable addition to the ever-expanding literature on haunted New England. As its title suggests, the book focuses on hauntings in New Hampshire's largest city, although the penultimate chapter briefly describes 25 other haunted locations throughout the Granite State. The main text examines 21 ghosts or haunted locations in Manchester proper, illustrated with 37 black-and-white photographs. Additional chapters include an interview with Ghost Quest leader Raven Duclos, and a primer on spirit photography.
Manchester may not be America's most haunted city, but it harbors spirits galore, from 122-year-old Chief Passaconaway of the Penacook tribe (now allegedly inhabiting Auburn's Massabesic Lake), to the shade of a kitchen worker killed at Elliott Hospital in 1890. Manchester has at least three haunted schools, along with a spirit-infested Youth Detention Center.
Some of Manchester's ghosts are benevolent, such as kindly "Grandma Josie," while others seethe with pure malice. River Road boasts a pesky poltergeist and a ghostly jogger, but apartment tenants on Beech and Hanover Streets are terrorized by invisible roommates. The Palace Theatre apparently hosts actors who do not appear on any playbill, but who make themselves heard nonetheless. And the dead find no rest at Valley Street Cemetery, or in the graveyard at St. Anselm College.
Manchester Ghosts makes a fun companion to Thomas D'Agostino's Haunted New Hampshire, expanding coverage of local ghosts well beyond the four sites covered in that volume. It will also be a welcome addition to any armchair ghost-hunter's library, or a useful field guide for travelers in the region who want some goose bumps, along with the normal historical fare.
--Michael Newton
Mysteries Magazine issue #20

As a Trail guide I think it definately needs more description of the trail and put trail names on the maps. It's nice to go by a map once you are on a trail, but these maps leave out a lot of important trail markers and was very hard to follow. Usually on any given trail there are a lot of loops you can take, nothing was specified on these maps. The description on what is on the trail is pretty nice, but using the maps turned out effortless. You need to concentrate more on the trail so people don't get lost.

Expected more of a driving history as the book title is "On the Road......".
Does give some interesting history of some of the areas but does poorly for the entire state.

Larry Maness obviously knows all the things a good mystery novel needs...he even provides most of them in this novel...but like his first in this series, "Nantucket Revenge," he just can't seem to connect them all into a smooth-flowing, logical, readable sequence of events. And his two main characters, Jake Eaton and Gloria Gorham, are as stiff and unyielding in this book as in the first. Oh, and by the way, I think that Eaton's dog, Watson, is supposed to be a version of Pearl the Wonder Dog in Robert Parker's Spenser novels...guess what...it doesn't work...this dog is as boring as his master!

I paid way too much Tom Terry Sells the WHOLE set of 10 for less than I paid for this one volume MY BAD

You should read the book if you like english villages or have a favor for melancholy storys. It is very emotional written and ethan frome is her masterpiece.

I read the other reviews and was shocked by what happened to those people. We spent two weeks in New England last summer and booked all our reservations from this wonderful resource. Every place we stayed was exactly like it was described in the book. An example of some of the inns we used were The Inns At Mill Fallls (wonderful and top knotch in every detail),The Dan'l Webster Inn (the dining room was excellent and service was also fabulous),Nauset House (a great value, interesting guests and a breakfast to remember), The Rangeley Inn (wonderful small communtiy, beautifully decorated and delicious food). We would use this resource again.

My husband used this book to plan a romantic getaway for our wedding anniversary in New England. From this book's description, a place named the 'Water's Edge Inn' sounded like the perfect option. However we arrived to find it a horrid place with tacky decor in the common buildings and were given a dark room with stained bedspread, a tiny window overlooking the parking lot, tacky old furniture, and decor last updated in about 1958.

As with any travel book, the author may only place ads for those that pay for them. However, I am deeply disappointed with how completely misleading the descriptions were.

This book also recommends The Vermont Inn in Killington, which was infested with fruit flies. When I tried to check out one day earlier, the innkeeper refused to credit my deposit, and I am taking it up with the credit card companies, as well as writing to all the guidebooks about the lousy service.

I am complaining to the guidebook to see if they will update their review.

Robert