New Hampshire: of Thee I Sing

About the Book

From 1933, when Del Brandt, at 17, first visited the beautiful vistas of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, his love affair with the area never faded. For a week, for a month, for a summer, once even in a brief relocation, the journalist and historian from New Jersey found at once peace and excitement under the azure skies and towering peaks of his second home.

In retirement, Del and his wife, Hannah, were able to spend almost unlimited time in the Granite State (although never challenged its daunting winters.) There, writing for the Weirs Times, Brandt composed the wistful and informative essays that make up this charming volume. In these pages you will find not a tourist’s guide to the region, but a poet’s insight into its wonders. In the author’s own words, “I do but sing the praises of New Hampshire because I must.”

           Readers will do the same.

About the Author

Del Brandt was a journalist for the Vineland (N.J.) Times-Journal for more than 35 years, writing the award-winning daily column "Round Our Town" for most of those. Following "retirement" in 1980, he was a feature writer for the Laconia Citizen and wrote reviews and essays for the Weirs Times during summer vacations in his beloved N.H. At 86, he continues to produce a weekly column, "Time Capsules", for the Vineland newspaper. Brandt is Historian Emeritus for Cumberland Co. in N.J. and has written several plays presented on television and by historical societies and colleges. This is his first book.