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Dartmouth Lake Sunapee
Living the Dream
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Kesner traveled through small towns, they envisioned themselves living a life “surrounded by the beauty of nature in a more remote country setting.”
After living in Albany, New York, Park Slope in Brooklyn, Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia, and Lexington, Massachusetts, they decided it was time to find the smalltown life they’d always pictured. The couple’s children were grown, and it was time for a house that could welcome future grandchildren. Glenn Kesner explains that, “After all the ups and downs of raising three kids and providing the ever changing, all-encompassing needs that many families have to navigate, we finally felt like we could dream and turn our dream into reality during the next chapter of our lives.” They searched in neighboring states, but it was New Hampshire that felt most like home. “Henniker was a surprising find, offering us both the respite we craved,” he says. Here they found the natural beauty they’d been looking for, with “the bonus of flourishing arts and culture, and opportunities to satiate our intellectual appetites with the neighboring colleges and community offerings, all integral components to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.”
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Kesner is a filmmaker and Serebrani-Kesner is an interdisciplinary and expressive arts educator. They are a family, says Kesner, of “committed environmentalists, educational advocates, adventurers, lovers of history, music, adventuring and art in all of its forms/ modalities,” so they were looking for a place in which they could prosper and contribute. Henniker and this region of the state checked all the boxes: natural beauty, welcoming neighbors, access to arts and culture venues and the right pace of life. “We’ve had the privilege of living in big cities and small towns throughout the Northeast, New England and the South,” says Kesner. “We now look forward to bringing our dream of living in a rural setting to reality while still being very much connected to the world.” They look forward to gardening, enjoying the views, and the ability to “take a giant, clarifying breath, knowing that our family will have a place to continue to grow their health, happiness and balance with meaningful intention from the inside out.”
Top: The Cornish-Windsor bridge is the country’s second-longest covered bridge. Above: Glenn Kesner and Jacqueline Serebrani-Kesner
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Perhaps one of the state’s more overlooked regions is also one of its best. Here a love for the outdoors, art, culture and learning all come together to create a unique mix of everything that makes New Hampshire great. The region represents a harmonious dichotomy that’s anchored by the prestigious Ivy League school Dartmouth College in Hanover and the serene Lake Sunapee. The graceful grounds of the SaintGaudens National Historic Site are juxtaposed against the groundbreaking discoveries at the world-renowned Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. This part of the state is also known for its world-class precision manufacturing. Industry giants Hypertherm in Hanover, Timken Aerospace in Lebanon and Thermal Dynamics, a division of Thermadyne, in West Lebanon all have operations here. Firearms manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co. has facilities in Newport.