Rink Earle returned to South Conway from a trip to Colorado in May of 1963, reporting severe drought conditions throughout the West. By summer, those conditions had migrated eastward, and on the Fourth of July it was so dry here that the North Conway Water Precinct banned the watering of lawns. Tinder-dry conditions (and perhaps a careless smoker) were blamed for a forest fire in Chocorua that was quickly contained.

By then, wells were going dry everywhere. Few people enjoyed the luxury of drilled wells, at least out in the sticks, where most residents lived in old farmhouses and used the original dug wells that came with their homes.

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