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and museum buildings are open seasonally, with guided tours available, from late May through October. Admission is free for children age 15 and under and for all visitors on Entrance Fee-Free Days (2022 dates TBA). Regular admission for adults costs $10 and secures a seven-day pass.

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ed making jams and jellies with her mother as a young girl. The product list includes gourmet fruit jams and jellies like strawberry rhubarb and raspberry lavender; red, Weirdest NH Attraction or white, rose and New Laurel Hill Jams and Jellies. Historic Site Hampshire-made Courtesy photo. Best of the best: America’s Stonehenge, wine jellies; spir105 Haverhill Road, Salem, 893-8300, stoneits-inspired jellies like margarita and pina hengeusa.com. The 4,000-year-old stone colada; and tea jellies. Each batch is made by construction, likely the oldest man-made hand using as many local ingredients as posconstruction in the United States, was built sible and with no artificial colors or flavors. by an ancient people as an astronomical calVisit the Laurel Hill website to order products endar to determine solar and lunar events of online or see a list of local stores that carry Lauthe year. It’s open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. rel Hill products. (last entrance at 4 p.m.). Admission rates are Best Massage $15 for adults, $13 for seniors age 65 and up, Therapist: Beth$8 for children ages 5 through 12 and free for any J. Chabot is a children age 4 and under. licensed massage The Old Man of the Mountain, Fran- therapist and the conia Notch State Park, Exit 34B off I-93, founder and ownFranconia, cannonmt.com/things-to-do/ er of 444 Hands activities/old-man-of-the-mountain. The Innately Integraseries of cliff ledges resembling the profile tive Massage & of a man’s face was a popular tourist attracEnergy Therapy Bethany J. Chabot. Photo by tion at Franconia Notch State Park until its Devon Gagnon. (36 Baboosic Lake collapse in May 2003. The site is now home Road, Merrimack, 834-2758, 444hands. to the Old Man of the Mountain Profile Placom). She received her certificate for za, which features seven steel “profilers” that Massage Therapy and Bodywork from Macrecreate the Old Man’s visage, as well as Intosh College in Dover in 2004 and her museums with history, photos and stories of national and state license in 2005. Her serthe Old Man and a gift shop. vices include focused massage, body work Site of the reported alien abduction and energy therapy; focused recovery sports of Portsmouth couple Barney and Betty massage for athletes; reiki, meditation and Hill on September 19, 1961. The event is Tibetan sound bath; aroma touch technique; memorialized by a state marker outside the and prenatal and pregnancy massage and entrance to Indian Head Resort (664 Route may incorporate chakra work and essential 3, Lincoln), and by a mural and memoraoils. There is normally a waitlist for new clibilia at the nearby Irving gas station (off ents, and referrals are required. Exit 33 of Route 3). Alien-themed souveBest Dog Trainnirs are sold at the gas station and at the ing Company: Indian Head Resort gift shop. New England Dog Training Co. NH is #1 at ___ (978-350-6274, Live Free or Die! newenglanddtc. Drinking, which you could interpret as com) consists of “Drinking Beer, having a good time, worka network of seving hard,” as one reader puts it, or “Drinking en professional dog iced coffee during a snowstorm,” as another trainers throughTrainers Nikki and Nick reader says. out New England, Wolak. Courtesy photo. Everything! including ManchesEverything to do with our outdoors: ter-based husband-and-wife team Nikki and “Beautiful landscapes, mountains, ocean, Nick Wolak. With over eight years of expelakes,” as one reader says. rience between the two of them, the Wolaks Fall, its foliage and its foliage-related utilize a variety of training methods to work excursions. with dogs with all kinds of learning styles in both rural and urban environments. NEDTC uses a “board-and-train” sysThing We Forgot to tem in which the dog being Ask About trained stays at the trainer’s s Best NH Food Prodk n a personal home for two conTh Voting! uct: Laurel Hill Jams and secutive weeks. Trainers r Fo Jellies (47 Birchwood Circommit to providing daily cle, Bedford, 472-5388, updates and communication laurelhilljams.com) was with dog owners during their established in 1960 by Sue dog’s training session. Stretch, who first start-


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