New Hampshire

<p><span class="deck"> Of herbal medicine, a “doctor” named Samuel Thomson, and a sure cure for almost everything…</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The life and death of the world’s largest textile mill, in the words of the men and women who worked there</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He had all the right qualities. Only the time was wrong.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">They border each other, they look alike, and most outsiders have a hard time separating the two. Yet residents know the differences are enormous.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Every December, a 350-year-old New Hampshire port re-creates centuries of changing holiday traditions.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Up fierce Mount Washington by rail and auto routes from the 1860s</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution, and were poisoned by it. Henry David Thoreau believed that the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today, it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America’s rise to power.</span></p>