RANDOLPH — The words and photos that make up the core of Glorious Mountain Days: The 1902 hike that helped save the White Mountains,” researched and edited by Allison W. Bell and Maida Goodwin, were produced during a camping trip in the White Mountains in July 1902, 116 years before being published in 2018.
The photographs were preserved through the generations by the Lowe family in this small town and by a Massachusetts family.
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