NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNS TO 2012 (David Shribman)

David Shribman - NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- There's a blanket of white on Mount Washington, a whiff of snow in the air down here in the valley. Some mornings there's a rime of ice on the ponds, a thin sheet on the windshields. Everywhere in the North Country there is the sense that a change of season -- dramatic, in some ways brutal, in all ways unavoidable -- is in motion.

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