Fifty years before our web site SeacoastNH.com there was this little magazine. We have found four issues, so far, of this tourist booklet, published soon after the War in 1949. Our logo, you can see, is on the cover! Great minds run in the same channel, they say.

Organized efforts to promote this region are rare. It is more common for local independent towns to promote themselves separately. The region has six chambers of commerce. This 1949 efforrt was organized by a group representing 17 separate towns -- each with its own member. The group called itself The New Hampshire Seacoast Regional Development Association.

We don't know who they were, but we like their style. These little black and white booklets are filled with lovely photos. They focus on the elusive Seacoast "qulaity of life" unlike many publications -- then and now -- that emphasis commerce and growth. This is a surprisingly artsy publication for a group of town officials.  War, it seems, makes people thankful.

A half decade later we offer these sights again, some gone and some preserved,  in the Seacoast region. -- JDR