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Celebrating 150 Years of Train Trips “to the Moon”

New Hampshire’s own Rebecca Rule talks about the Cog’s 150th anniversary.

First Mountains

My first mountains arrived in a book — a gift from a waitress I was courting while washing dishes in a breakfast joint in California. I’d told her of my yearning to climb a mountain so she bought me a book of photos of them.

In Florida, where I grew up, the closest thing to mountains are sand dunes. There were some big ones on our beaches, including one we called The Matterhorn that was treated like a faux snow hill by kids on cardboard sleds wearing nothing but swimsuits, grins and Coppertone. So I was sincere about my unrequited desire to mountaineer. I had…