Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 603-643-9660;
www.canoeclub.us
;
27 S Main St; mains $10-23; 11:30am-11:30pm)
This smart cafe does a fine job with grilled food - not just burgers and steaks, but also
tasty treats such as duck breast with fig port glaze. There's also live entertainment
nightly - anything from acoustic to jazz.
Drinking & Entertainment
Murphy's on the Green
PUB
( 603-643-4075; 11 S Main St; mains $8-18; 11am-12:30am)
This classic collegiate tavern
is where students and faculty meet over pints (it carries over 10 beers on tap, including
local microbrews like Long Trail Ale) and satisfying pub fare (mains $8 to $18). Stained-
glass windows and church-pew seating enhance the cozy atmosphere.
Hopkins Center for the Arts
PERFORMING ARTS
( 603-646-2422;
www.hop.dartmouth.edu
; 2 E Wheelock St)
A long way from the big-city
lights of New York and Boston, Dartmouth hosts its own entertainment at this outstand-
ing performing arts venue. The season brings everything from movies to live perform-
ances by international companies.
Information
Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce
( 603-643-3115;
www.hanoverchamber.org
;
53 S
Main St, Suite 216; 9am-4pm Mon-Fri)
For tourist information. It's inside the Nugget
Building and also maintains an information booth on the village green, staffed July to
mid-September.
MAINE
Maine is New England's frontier - a land so vast it could swallow the region's five other
states with scarcely a gulp. The sea looms large with mile after mile of sandy beaches,
craggy sea cliffs and quiet harbors. While time-honored fishing villages and seaside lob-
ster joints are the fame of Maine, inland travel also offers ample reward. Maine's rugged
interior is given over to rushing rivers, dense forests and lofty mountains just aching to
be explored.
As a traveler in Maine, your choices are as spectacularly varied as the landscape. You
can opt to sail serenely along the coast on a graceful schooner or rip through white-water
