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LCHIP Video: Merrimack Valley Region and the Upper Valley
Welcome!We invite you to travel via our newest video to recentLCHIP projects in the Merrimack Valley Region and the
Photo: Robie Farm
LCHIP ROAD TRIP: Got Turkey?
Upper Valley. Enjoy your trip! If you are taking any road trips these days, it's clear bythe number of roadside signs that there are some hotlycontested elections coming up. Please be sure toidentify and support candidates who reflect yourpriorities about land conservation and historicpreservation. The New Hampshire Association of ConservationCommissioners will be holding their annual meeting andconference on November 1st at the Laconia MiddleSchool. For more information, goto www.nhacc.org/annualmeeting44.
Dijit Taylor LCHIP Executive Director
It's a tough job...
... and we are happy to do it. Our staff is small. VERY small. Two full‐time and two part‐time employees. Thus, it's all hands on deck to visit the sitesof the current round of applicants. We try to get to any sitewhich we haven't seen before, and squeeze in a visit to someof our previous grant recipients as well.
We visit these sites to inform them, to get the back story, toget updates on how things stand since they filled out that 19page application back in June. We ask deep questions like,"Sooooo... Do you really expect to raise the match fundswith a bake sale?" or "You say there are six siblings, two ofwhich aren't speaking. Do you think it realistic that they'll
November is right around the corner, and if you areinterested in supporting local farms AND preparing a "best‐ever" Thanksgiving feast, consider purchasinga locally‐raised bird. In2005 LCHIP helpedpermanently protect theHurd Farm in Hampton. Steve and Sheryl Hurdoperate the farm, in fact,Steve is the thirdgeneration to live and farmhere. They take great pridein their agriculturalheritage and are passionateabout raising the bestlocally grown meatsavailable. Click here to learn moreabout Hurd Farm.
LCHIP Links39 Grants Awarded in 2013
LAKES REGION
Mount MajorBelmont BandstandBelknap MillMeredith Public LibraryMiddleton Old Town HallMilton Town HouseJones FarmCastle in the CloudsLane Tavern
MERRIMACK VALLEYREGION
Crooked Run ConservationEasementOld Boscawen Public LibraryBow Bog Meetinghouse
agree to put the land under conservation?" After we tell them that we have just over $3 million to fund 53applicants who have requested over $4 million, someshoulders fall. "This is actually good news," says ourExecutive Director, Dijit Taylor, "We have fewer applicantsthan last year and full funding."
We, the LCHIP staff, are merely the messenger in these visits‐ it's the LCHIP Board of Directors who will decide on whogets how much. Sure, we get a bit dusty and have had towalk through fields of poison ivy, but they have the toughestjob: choosing among the dozens of projects worthy ofprotection and preservation. Driving around the state this month has been more of a perkthan a curse. We have explored forests and fields surroundedby stunning foliage. We have climbed ancient steps intoattics and bell towers, and walked through town hall theaterswhich are no longer open to the public. So, we apologize that we have been out of the office morethan in. We'll settle back in come November, when we haveto summarize all our observations for the Board.
We're happy to do it.
LCHIP Spotlight:Here's what our partners have to say:"Last year 150,000 New Hampshire folks visited thePalace for all sorts of different shows."
Peter RamseyPresident/CEO
Palace Theater, Manchester
Bow Bog MeetinghouseCanterbury Village TrusteesOfficeTuck LibraryStickney Hill AgriculturalNeighborhoodPalace Theatre
MONADNOCK REGION
Acworth Village StoreBrennan Brook ConservationProjectShattuckDinsmoreConservation ProjectBuilding #3 and InspectionRoom in HarrisvilleStone Arch BridgeWyman TavernLempster MeetinghouseWingate Farm
NORTH COUNTRY
Brown Company BarnsGreen Hills PreserveExpansion ProjectMaple Ridge Farm
SEACOAST REGION
Isinglass River Calef Growing Pawtuckaway toGreat Bay GreenwayKingston Historic BandstandAfrican Burying GroundJohn Paul Jones HouseLowd HouseWarner HouseWentworthGardner HouseOceanic Hotel
UPPER VALLEY
East Grafton Union ChurchRobie FarmLittleton Community Center
The NH Conservation andHeritage License Plate
"This project protects a lotof wildlife habitat. This propertywas donated by T.L. Storer forpassive recreation for the BoyScouts that use it and also forlocal residents."
Daniel Kern, Executive DirectorBear‐Paw Regional Greenways
Crooked Run, Barnstead
LCHIP Spotlight: Previous Projects inthe Merrimack Valley and Upper ValleyHazleton Farm in Hebron
Three hundred and seventy five years after it was firstgranted to an early family member in 1637, 270 acres ofHazelton Farm in Hebron will be open land forever. LCHIP funds helped the Society for the Protection ofNew Hampshire Forests to purchase a conservationeasement on the land, which features open agriculturalfields, managed woodlands, frontage on a stream thatfeeds Newfound Lake and abundant wildlife.
(Moose Plate) programsupports the protection ofcritical resources in our state. You can purchase a plate atany time ‐ for your new car,for a car that's alreadyregistered, or even for afriend!
Visit www.mooseplate.com tofind out how to purchase yourplate. Income from theMoose Plate program pays formuch of LCHIP'sadministrative expense. Thank you, Moose Plateholders, for your support!
Thanks to the New HampshireCharitable Foundation fortheir support of thisnewsletter.
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The Colonial Theater in Bethlehem
The Colonial Theater was literallycollapsing in 2003 when LCHIPfunds facilitated the rehabilitationof the historic building which hassince then become a recognizedarts center for the North Country.
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