article_snippet.sent: HELLO, NEW HAMPSHIRE!
article_snippet.sent: Hanover, New Hampshire is 80 miles away from the nearest commercial airport and more than a two-hour drive from Boston.
article_snippet.sent: The entire Granite State is in some ways a closed information ecosystem, built half of Boston exurbs and half of towns best described as small, smaller and smallest.
article_snippet.sent: Manchester, the state's biggest city, has a population that barely ticks above 100,000.
article_snippet.sent: Fully 70 per cent of New Hampshire towns are home to fewer than 5,000.
article_snippet.sent: Dartmouth sits in a town of 11,000 and remains both the northernmost and the smallest of the eight famed Ivy League universities .
article_snippet.sent: But sometimes lightning in New Hampshire can strike early.