'End of an era': Local statesman Crow Dickinson dies at age 78

 

CONWAY — A bit of a maverick; a mentor; a good storyteller; a conservationist; and someone who never ducked an issue. Those are just some of the ways Howard "Crow" Dickinson is being remembered. Dickinson, the former dean of the New Hampshire House of Representative and town selectman, died Wednesday at the age of 78.
2013-crow-dickinsonDickinson served in Concord for 32 years, winning his first election when Richard Nixon was president; the price of a gallon of gasoline was 38 cents; the computer was just a dream; and politics were a whole lot simpler. But through his years in the House and as a selectman, he remained committed to serving the public and no issue was too small for him to lend his attention to. He was a selectman for the town of Conway in the early 1970s, and, after his time in Concord, he served two more terms as a selectman and even held a seat on the municipal budget committee.

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