| Mobile Home Residents Buy Park
EXETER, N.H. -- The residents of an Exeter mobile home park have purchased the land under their homes in the largest deal of its kind in New Hampshire. The Exeter River Manufactured Housing Cooperative bought the Lindenshire Mobile Home Park last week for $15.6 million. The 89-acre park is home to 392 households. Chris Clasby of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund said the sale gives residents security because they won't have to worry about the park being sold and will have control over their rents. The loan fund provided the group with a $3 million second mortgage. .
Quick-dinner recipes a snap
The make-it-fast field of cookbooks and magazines is crowded these days, but the concept is well over 50 years old, says Laura Shapiro, a culinary historian and author of "Julia Child," a new biography of one of America's best-known cookbook authors. Packaged-food companies "manufactured" the idea of the time-crunched family cook to encourage women to buy prepared foods as ingredients for dinner dishes after World War II, Shapiro says. With the growth of two-career homes and a more mobile society, time constraints are much more real today, she says, giving the books a natural market. Seasonal and healthy ingredients began to play a bigger role in the 1980s, and in recent years moved to the center of things, she said. Now the important thing is for the books to also look good, she says.
Worn by Time
LEXINGTON - For Evelyn Kepley, memories of growing up in Erlanger Mill Village don't often match up with what she sees in her old neighborhood. A parking lot has replaced the old YMCA. A grocery cart filled with empty beer bottles sits beneath a "No Dumping" sign. An abandoned mattress lies across a path through the woods. "It is heartbreaking to see how we've let it come to this point," she said. Today, hundreds of former residents of Erlanger Mill Village will gather at Lexington Senior High School to reminisce. As former residents look to the past, they and city officials are also looking for ways to ensure Erlanger's future. The city has applied for a $1 million federal community-development block grant to improve part of Erlanger.
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