CONWAY — Gene Chandler proved last Thursday he can take a joke.
Highlighting the annual Carroll County Republican Committee’s Lincoln Day Dinner that took place May 9 at North Conway’s Red Jacket Mountain View Resort, colleagues who served with the former Speaker of the N.H. House served up some whimsical tales of Chandler, who laughed heartily at each one.
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