Around Town: The Exeter Ledger

The paper is still downtown, an old building that stretches back to the block behind it. The Stoneburner family started the paper back in the late 1800s, publishing twice a week. The Exeter Ledger was one of three papers in the town at the time, and soon ended up as the only one. The paper [...]

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Around Town: Exeter Train Station

At mid-day, the Exeter train station is quiet, the small depot shut up. The low-roofed building peaks in the center at the station’s heart, before flattening to a slope just barely steep enough to allow snow to run off of it during the winter. The bricks are faded from time, the original clay red softened [...]

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Around Town: Becca Stone’s House

The Victorian Painted Lady house pops, even on a street full of them, thanks to a colorful paint job. Bold blue, accented with green and vivid yellow, is bright enough to attract attention, but not so much that it attracts snickers and stares. The landscaping, too, is colorful no matter what time of year you [...]

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Around Town: Exeter Town Common

Snow coats the leafless branches of the maples and oaks scattered throughout the open space near Exeter Town Center as the sun rises, a rosy glow reflecting across the unbroken expanse of white. Town plows rumble by periodically, their blades pushing gray chunks of snow onto the sidewalk that rings the Common. As the sun [...]

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Around Town: Downtown Exeter

Another in a series of pieces focusing on the places in Exeter:  Katie Reilly stepped out of Town Hall, notepad and camera in hand. If she could get this streetscape grant for Exeter, the town might be able to make some other improvements that didn’t make it into the budget this year. She turned and [...]

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Around Town: The Reilly House

Welcome to this week’s Around Town, a series of posts looking at places in Exeter that show up in the series — if not in Thrown Out, then in a future book. This week’s is a little long as we see the Reilly house change through the years as Kevin and Eileen’s family grows, then [...]

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Around Town: O’Leary’s Market

Welcome to the first in a series of Around Town pieces focusing on places in Exeter. Watch for a new one every Thursday! O’Leary’s Market Headed out of downtown Exeter, out toward some of the subdivisions, O’Leary’s Market is a small store on the north side of the street. The single-story brick building has a [...]

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