New Hampshire has gained a net 145,648 Massachusetts residents since 2005, according to Census migration data analyzed by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. These are the reasons Bay Staters keep crossing into New Hampshire, and why so many of them end up staying for good. Note: This is general information, not tax or…
Parke County calls its Covered Bridge Festival Indiana’s largest, and this year the ten-day event opens its gates on October 9. It’s a homecoming of sorts. Every fall the festival pulls Hoosiers back from wherever they moved to, the same people who packed up for other states and never quite let go of home. These…
Nearly 20 Mississippi high school football games hit the radio live on the same Friday night, according to SuperTalk Mississippi Media’s fall schedule. That’s just the part you hear from home. Inside the stadiums themselves, Mississippians keep up a whole set of game-night habits that would confuse people from other parts of the country. These…
Washington State Ferries now makes every Kingston-bound driver stop at a ticket kiosk on State Route 104 (SR 104), about a mile up the highway from the tollbooth. Washington’s Department of Transportation (WSDOT) built it. That kiosk is only one stop on the way to the boat. Deckhands, toll takers, and loading crews across the…
Minnesota’s state high school hockey tournament set a new single-session attendance record in March 2024, when 20,208 fans packed a Class AA quarterfinal at Xcel Energy Center. Minneapolis TV station KARE 11 called it a new record for the event that same night. These are the ways Minnesota treats high school hockey differently than the…
Do you think a Nebraska Husker football Saturday looks like game day pretty much anywhere else in the country? It doesn’t. These are the things Nebraskans do on a game day that nobody else would. 1. Cheering the Visitors Nebraskans have built a national reputation for clapping for the team that just beat them on…
West Virginia didn’t finish paying off its share of Virginia’s Civil War-era debt until 1939, according to West Virginia’s state encyclopedia. That’s 76 years of unfinished business. These are the arguments Virginia and West Virginia have never settled. 1. Statehood’s Legal Cloud Virginia and West Virginia’s 1863 split still bothers anyone who reads the fine…
You can tell a boat mechanic you’re careful with your boat. But your boat gets a turn to tell its side, too. These are the things Louisiana boat mechanics can figure out about a boat owner in ten minutes. 1. Zinc Anodes A boat mechanic checks the zinc anodes before almost anything else on the…
Chattanooga Bakery has baked MoonPies in the same Tennessee building since 1917, and it still ships them by the truckload to gas stations across the state. Some orders never change. These are the gas station orders that give away a lifelong Tennessean. 1. Little Debbie off the Rack Little Debbie snack cakes have come out…
Arkansas’s two U.S. senators couldn’t agree on how to pronounce the state’s name. The General Assembly ended the debate in 1881 by writing the official pronunciation into state law. Out-of-staters still get it wrong, and Arkansans still correct them. These are the things that give an Arkansan away the moment they leave the state. 1….
