Ken Andler's Mew Hampshire

The '26 writer's book features maple leaves and memories.

Ken Andler '26 has been writing for newspapers and magazines for decades now, and a new collection of his essays reflects that fact. The book, What I Want My Grandchildren to KnowAbout New Hampshire, contains more than 20 articles published in Yankee, the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, and others, covering 1935 to the present. Ken has donated all his writings and paintings some of which illustrate the book to the Newport, New Hampshire, Library, which published the book. Copies can be obtained for $10 plus $2 shipping from the Newport Library Arts Center, Newport, NH 03773.

We couldn't resist showing you the penultimate paragraph of the previously unpublished title essay, a letter to Ken's grandchildren.

Wander all over New Hampshire, see the old historic houses.... Oh, there are so many things that you should know and feel: the way a stone wall in the woods marches single file out of its pioneer past, the gray, lichened color of it and its rough dignity; the cellar holes of long forgotten people with lilacs blooming by them in the spring; the dusty bloom on blueberries; morning mist on the Connecticut River; the taste of spruce gum, of maple sap before it's boiled down to syrup...