Friday, February 20, 2009

Concord Conquered

Last Friday, while the Governor and Legislature were away, I and a group of 4th graders got a tour of the New Hampshire State House.

The New Hampshire General Court is bicameral in nature, just like certain other legislatures I could mention. At 400 members, NH House of Representatives is apparently "the third-largest parliamentary body in the English speaking world" after the U.S. Congress and Britain's Parliament, but serves a relatively small population of 1.3 million. In any event, their chamber was light and airy...

...while that of the NH Senate (24 members) was dark and somber.

Nearby, there's a new-looking town square type area with a quaint, old-world feeling. In recognition of New Hampshire's long, cold winter, they planted a Tree that Would Never Die:


We enjoyed some mediocre food with old-world service (the waitress was spectacularly inattentive), then drove around a bit and saw this building (not in Concord, but in one of the bigger towns within easy driving distance):

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