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In #NewHampshire a bill was passed to end child marriage and raise the min. age to marry to 18.

The bill passed the Senate unanimously and in the House it passed 192 to 174.

ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR!!! voted to sustain child marriage! WTF? And they say they need to protect kids from trans people!

One GOP representative argued this would restrict the freedom of those who are of “a ripe and fertile age”.
This is the modern day republican party folks.

https://shorturl.at/qAFWZ

GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’

Twenty states don't set minimum age for girls to marry

^{Kevin Manahan | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)}

Spring #Flowers in #NewHampshire 🌸

(Let us know if you know their names!)

Edit: names have been promptly found - thank you!
1) Bluet (HT @otterX)
2) and 4) Hepatica Nobolis (HT @ambivalena )
3) is a Red Trillium (HT @WestLawns and @LorenAmelang )

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August 31, 1983: The Appalachian Trail followed some dirt roads through a pleasant farm valley encircled by mountains and reentered the forest to begin a rather taxing climb up to Holts Ledge, the first real mountain it had thus far traversed in New Hampshire. It kept turning onto one woods road after another, and each was a bit steeper than the preceding one.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #NewHampshire #nature #forest #mountains #adventure #trails #AppalachianTrail

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September 1, 1983: The trail down the far side of Smarts Mountain was in worse shape than the ascent had been, but what did that matter to a man surrounded by that kind of magnificence? The AT lunged downward across more of those dripping, mossy rocks.

#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #NewHampshire #nature #mountains #forest #adventure #trails #AppalachianTrail

… and coming back!
#Eclipse #NewHampshire

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The almost-full #Eclipse in #NewHampshire…

Edit: improved order, the last one you see is the maximum we got
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