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Then, as every New Hampshireman knows, Democrats will take you to lunch, marvel at pictures of your grandchildren and listen to your views on the perils of fluoridation...
...Elizabethan ballads played on dulcimers is way too narrow. Most of the artists associated with Rush and Maple Hill play acoustic instruments, though Rush's keyboardist, Irwin Fisch, for instance, played a Baldwin grand rigged out with a synthesizer at Symphony Hall. Bill Morrissey is a quirky, funny New Hampshireman who sometimes performs with Rush, singing made-by-hand songs about how he should be working the second shift at the shoe factory, except that here he is in this bar and probably won't make it tonight. David Buskin and Robin Batteau are classically trained musicians, sophisticated enough...
...outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell-yes position. The hell-no side was defended by Gaines, a novelist (Stay Hungry, Dangler) and writer for outdoor magazines, and Bob Gurnsey, 39, a New Hampshireman and sometime ski-shop owner...
Winter, however, is not the only grave matter that the New Hampshireman finds to brood about in the gentle weeks that follow the summer solstice. True, the presidential campaign is not a matter for concern. We did our best in the New Hampshire primary to warn the nation of the perils that lay ahead, by picking Carter and Reagan. If the nation went ahead and picked Carter and Reagan anyway, despite our effort to sound the alarm, that is no business of ours...
...this munching have been received with equanimity in New Hampshire, whose yeomen tend to take the view that something is always chewing on Massachusetts. If there is anything left to chew there after crooked paving contractors and easy-had tax assessors have put down their napkins, the New Hampshireman is perfectly willing to leave it to adolescent moths...