| What does the literature of New Hampshire say about who we are as Granite Staters? The Exchange's Granite State Stories series explores a different book each week that looks at who we are and what matters to us in New Hampshire - and you're invited to join the conversation!
Born and bred authors like Ernest Hebert, Grace Metalious, and Ruth Doan MacDougall write from a lifetime of experience of living in New Hampshire. Poets like Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall and Robert Frost paint a picture in words of who we are, what we believe and the varied landscape of our mountains, farms, lakes and beaches. And there are books about New Hampshire that range from Thornton Wilder's Our Town to Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains and Russell Banks' Trailerpark which trace New Hampshire's history and culture, showing us where we've been, where we are and where we might be heading.
Each installment of Granite State Stories explores a different book about New Hampshire and/or by Granite State authors to find out more about the Granite State and those who live here.
Since 2006, each edition of Granite State Stories has been broadcast live on location. This year, we will broadcast live from the Mara Lecture Hall on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University.
Reading groups from libraries around New Hampshire also participate in Granite State Stories, discussing the books in communities around New Hampshire, participating in the live broadcasts and sharing their insights in "virtual book discussions" on NHPR.org.
Study guides for each book have been developed by David Watters, UNH Professor, Director of the Center for New England Culture, and Sharon Dean, professor of English at Rivier College.
Granite State Stories is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council
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By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, May 1, 2007.
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- Dr. David Nathan, Former head of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, teacher at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Cancer Treatment Revolution: How Smart Drugs and Other New Therapies are Renewing Our Hope and Changing the Face of Medicine".
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