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Audio Postcard
3:39 pm
Mon May 29, 2006

It's Tourist Season in N.H.

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By Cheryl Senter
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A beach goer, sound asleep in his chair, is framed by parking meters that line the beach.
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Steve and Cheryl Courchaine from Suffield, CT tuck into their first day of camping at the Hampton Beach State Park campground. They will be staying throughout the long weekend.
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A young rollerblader makes her way down RTE1a.
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A little girl jumps the cold waves.
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Keene seniors made the two hour trip, to enjoy their 'Senior Skip Day' at the beach. Seen here, the girls in the group are deciding whether or not to go swimming.
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Local seniors from Rye sit, Seabrook and Hampton people watch. Donald Flint, and his fifth wife Sandy are far right Donald is the dancer in the group Patricia Frazier, second from left, could "Own half the bench she sit's on with the taxes she pays"
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Elizabeth Moreau of Salisbury has run the shooting gallery at the Hampton Beach Arcades for twenty years.
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An unidentified male cruises the RTE1a Hampton Beach strip on his modified bike.
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Douglas Jolly has been custom spray painting t-shirts up and down the seacoast for over twenty years. Seen here Doug is designing a Black Crows t-shirt.
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A basket of beach items for sale on the boardwalk.
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Hampton Beach starts to come to life Friday afternoon
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The beach is reflected in the Blink's Fried Dough wall menu as fry dough cook Scott Graham of Exeter serves up an all time favorite with cinnamon and powdered sugar.

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer.

And across the state, resorts, hotels, and other tourist attractions are taking care of last minute primping before the onslaught of summer season.

One of those attractions is of course, Hampton Beach on the Seacoast.

On Friday, road crews were still painting lines on a section of Route 1A, that goes along the beach.

But ready or not, the tourists came, as they always do, to enjoy the beaches and the boardwalk, to lie in the warm sun and play in the sand.

Some were even hearty enough to brave the brisk Atlantic, with temperatures in the 50s.

Freelance Producer Cheryl Senter visited Hampton Beach over the weekend and sent us this audio postcard.

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