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Poised high atop a bluff overlooking the ocean and river below, the historic Wentworth by the sea hotel once again offers its guests a bygone lifestyle of grandeur and elegance.

Located on New Castle Island, NH, just an hour north of Boston, the Wentworth opened in 1874 with much fanfare. It instantly became a favorite destination for socialites, film stars, and presidents, including delegates to the historic 1905 peace talks that ended the Russo-Japanese war. The island resort blends the best of the past with the finest of the future. Today's spectacular restoration and new construction brings back the

Golf club of New England is designed to appeal to individuals who would enjoy playing a tournament-caliber course where there are no tee times, and partaking of the amenities of a distinctive but unpretentious clubhouse catering only to golfers. The palmer course design company, which has developed or redesigned more than 250 fine courses worldwide, designed golf club of New England’s stellar course, which is nearly 7,200 yards long. Situated on rolling woodlands near scenic great bay, the course is an imaginative blend of ample fairways and greens and natural waterways.

Kittery point yacht club is located in new castle NH, on the southern shore of the Piscataqua river. Its clubhouse stands opposite Seavey Island, home of the historic Portsmouth naval shipyard. Ships from all over the world pass before it, vying with local lobster and fishing boats during the week and hundreds of pleasure boats on holidays and weekends. A member of the US sailing association, KPYC is well represented in local, regional and occasionally national events, with members racing and cruising a variety of boats. KPYC sponsors the seacoast sailing school and is dedicated to the improvement of boating in the seacoast region.

The gardens and grounds at Strawbery Banke Museum represent a living history of the New England Landscape. They range from the story of a tidal salt marsh, which served as a lively habitat for native plant, animal and cultural communities, to the development of that tidal inlet as a place of dense urban settlement. David Thompson, his family and entourage arrived in the Piscataqua region 1623. Their migration followed in the wake of a generation of European fishermen and profiteers, who came to know this coast for its "merchantable commodities" or the potential profits they saw in the wilderness. Thompson's group was followed by Walter Neal and a small band of Englishmen that settled in this area in 1630. They called it "Strawbery Banke" for the wild strawberries that grew on the hillsides and banks of the river.

Placing a lighthouse on the Nubble had been recommended by many local mariners since 1807. An 1837 proposal was rejected on the grounds that there were already three lights in the vicinity: Boon Island, Whaleback, and Portsmouth Harbor Light. Even after the wreck of the bark Isidore in 1842 near Bald Head Cliff, north of the Nubble, it still took close to four more decades before the lighthouse was established. The Isidore, according to legend, still reappears as a ghost ship with a phantom crew.

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The NH Department of Education, in partnership with nine other states, is involved with a five-year “Ready to Teach” grant from the US Department of Education called “eLearning for Educators.” The NH version will be called: OPEN-NH. The mission of OPEN-NH is to build capacity to design and deliver high quality professional development to meet the needs of NH educators and students in a cost effective manner

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