Did You Know? The Barnstormers in Tamworth is the world's last theater to stage eight plays in eight weeks during summer. Wolfeboro boasts of being the oldest summer resort in America (1770s). North America’s first passenger aerial tramway began operation on Cannon Mountain in 1938. Funspot, near Lake Winnipesaukee, is
Did You Know? Artificial rain was first used to fight a forest fire in 1947, near Concord, N.H. Nine of the 48 tallest peaks in New Hampshire’s White Mountains are named for U.S. presidents. The world’s first cog railway was built on Mount Washington in 1869. The red in autumn
Did You Know? Ninety-five percent of Napa Valley's wineries are family owned and operated. In Sonoma Valley, one acre of grapes produces 15,940 glasses of wine. California’s wine industry began in Sonoma Valley, site of the state’s oldest commercial winery and oldest family winery. Only 4% of California’s wine grapes
Did You Know ... ? Herman Melville’s book, “Moby Dick,” was based on the true story of a Nantucket whaling ship. The first European owner of the island sold it to nine men for £30 and two beaver hats (1659). Cars were first permitted on the island in 1918 after
Did You Know? In 1938 the entire city of Vidalia was moved a mile inland because of a huge river-widening project. Fully 78% of the world’s exports in feed grains and soybeans are produced in the Mississippi River basin. Morganza featured in the 1969 film “Easy Rider.” Louisiana’s Mississippi River
Did You Know? Rock Island gangster John Looney was inspiration for the John Rooney character in “The Road to Perdition” (2002). Alton resident and U.S. Sen. Lyman Trumbull wrote the 13th Amendment, ending slavery. Due to a devastating 1856 fire, it’s forbidden to build with wood in downtown Galena. Alton’s
Did You Know? Pass Christian Yacht Club was the South’s first yacht club (1849). The Biloxi Lighthouse stands in the middle of a four-lane highway. The world’s longest manmade sand beach stretches for 26 miles along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Ship Island was cut in two by Hurricane Camille (1969)
Did You Know? The Ancestral Puebloans occupied cliff dwellings for only 100 years of their 700-plus years at Mesa Verde. Great Sand Dunes National Park has North America’s tallest dunes (the highest, 750 feet). The Painted Wall in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is 1,000 feet taller than
Did You Know? Boonville has had a locally invented dialect, called Boontling, now dying out, since the late 19th century. Philo Ridge Vineyards (Mendocino County) is the world’s first off‐the‐grid winery, relying only on solar energy. When Eureka obtained its charter (1856), its sawmills were producing 2 million board feet
Did You Know? Hawaii’s last sugar plantation, on Maui, was set to cease operations in 2016. Bats are Hawaii’s only native warm-blooded land animals. Maui’s Puu Kukui mountain holds the U.S. record for the most rain in 12 months, 739 inches, December 1981-December 1982. Lahaina was the capital of Hawaii
