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It is official! July 2023 was the wettest July on record in New Hampshire. For details see the links  here .  What have we learned from this almost constant deluge? What can we learn from the past?  Floods are nothing new in New Hampshire.  The booklet about the 1936 flood, seen above, can be found in the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room  here .  The governor of the time proclaimed that it was the "Greatest Disaster to Befall State." The booklet includes 110 devastating photographs documenting 52 cities and towns in the flood area.  Records of floods in Conway go back at least to 1770.  The oldest remaining house in town, now the 1785 Country Inn, was originally built on the intervale or valley near the Saco River. However, after a flood it was moved higher above the flood plain where it stands now. You can read about see that on their website  here .  Janet Hounsell, notes that this building also served as the first library i...

abc x insert pic flowers June flowers  the left gate post has been hit and damages  View of the south end of the triangle 2021.  view towards covered bridge looking over the water fountain  x x cut copy the scrap paper bit?  just do the record book first  x  x x a pre-printed blue lined  hand written, cursive black ink  On the cover, adhesive label outlined in red reads "Village Park Association."  The original can be found on our online catalog  here . with it's Dewey Decimal number, call number that identifies it's location.  we have scanned it and it can be read here. The bound handwritten minutes book/booklet  here  at archive.org  There was also an incomplete but useful typescript/transcript of much of the original record book (5 pages) here.   here . (note this searchable by keyword)  can the untranscribed pages be seen in the scanned bound book above?  and the envelope and "loose" paper...