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As a child, my backyard looked like the alps and my life was like the sound of music without the touching and excessive ornamentation. Now, I live in the Upper Valley and I hate it. There are plenty of reasons to move to the NH or VT side of the Connecticut River but sadly/luckily none of them apply to me. I’m not a doctor, I don’t want to live in a white flight community, and I’m not in an unhappy marriage. The other night I was happy to see this nice sunset coming from Vermont and thought I would document it. For about five minutes I almost didn’t want to move away.

Who needs to save buildings when you can tear them down and build new ones that look older. I liked Portsmouth, NH as a kid because it looked cool and was kinda sleazy. I like it even more now that anything built in the last 50 years has been replaced with ugly condos and some awful post-modern interpretation of the past.

When I look at an older structure, I ask myself, “what is the story behind this building?” If I’m looking at a histora-ma-logical structure, I ask myself “What is the story this building is trying to tell me?”

I believe newer structures are designed to not only tell us their purpose but help us imagine who is welcome within the building.

Two Memorials In One Town

To The Brave Men and Women Who Saved Lancaster From The Wilderness

Merry Christmas To All The Brave Men & Women Serving Our Country