Keene, New Hampshire Keene, New Hampshire Central Square in downtown Keene Central Square in downtown Keene Official seal of Keene, New Hampshire Keene is a town/city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
Keene is home to Keene State College and Antioch University New England and formerly hosted the state's annual Pumpkin Festival.
8.2.2 Keene Music Festival 8.3 Keene in prominent culture 8.7 Free Keene When the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was fixed in 1741, Upper Ashuelot became part of New Hampshire.
In 1747, amid King George's War, the village was attacked and burned by Natives.:79 Colonists fled to safety, but would return to rebuild in 1749.:96 It was regranted to its inhabitants in 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth, who retitled it "Keene" after Sir Benjamin Keene, English minister to Spain and a West Indies trader.
Land was set off for the suburbs of Sullivan and Roxbury, although Keene would annex 154 acres (0.62 km2) from Swanzey (formerly Lower Ashuelot).
Boston and Maine barns yard in Keene, about 1916 Keene became a manufacturing center for wooden-ware, pails, chairs, sashes, shutters, doors, pottery, glass, soap, woolen textiles, shoes, saddles, mowing machines, carriages and sleighs.
Keene was incorporated as a town/city in 1874, and by 1880 had a populace of 6,784.
An example is the Keene Public Library, which is situated in a Second Empire mansion assembled about 1869 by manufacturer Henry Colony.
Keene's manufacturing success was brought on in part by its importance as a barns city, being the meeting place of the Cheshire Railroad, the Manchester & Keene Railroad, and the Ashuelot Railroad.
Keene was home to a barns shop complex and two barns yards.
The Manchester & Keene Branch was abandoned following the floods of 1936.
Beginning in 1945, Keene was a stopping point for the Boston & Maine's streamlined trainset known at that time as the Cheshire.
Keene became noteworthy again in 1962 when F.
Unfortunately, the plan fell through, and after one operating season in Keene the exhibition was relocated to close-by Bellows Falls, Vermont.
The Boston & Maine abandoned the Cheshire Branch in 1972, leaving the Ashuelot Branch as Keene's only rail connection to the outside world.
In 1978 the B&M leased switching operations in Keene to the Green Mountain Railroad, which took over the entire Ashuelot Branch in 1982.
In 1984 the last train appeared in and departed Keene, consisting of Boston & Maine EMD GP9 1714 with flat cars for rail removed from the railyard.
In 2011, the radical fathers' rights activist Thomas Ball immolated himself on the steps of a courthouse in Keene to protest the court system. Keene is positioned at 42 56 01 N 72 16 41 W (42.9339, 72.2784). 37.3 square miles (96.5 km2) of it is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km2) of it is water, comprising 0.67% of the town. Keene is drained by the Ashuelot River.
The highest point in Keene is the summit of Grays Hill in the city's northwest corner, at 1,388 feet (423 m) above sea level.
Keene is entirely inside the Connecticut River watershed, with all of the town/city except for the northwest corner draining to the Connecticut via the Ashuelot. State highways converge on Keene from nine directions.
Keene is served by Dillant Hopkins Airport, positioned just south of the town/city in Swanzey.
Keene is positioned in a humid continental climate zone.
The average high temperature in July is 82 F (28 C), and the record high for Keene is 102 F (39 C).
During the summer, Keene can get hit by thunderstorms from the west, but the Green Mountains to the west often break up some of the storms, so that Keene doesn't usually experience a thunderstorm at full strength.
Keene is situated in an region where cold air meets the moisture from the south, so often Keene gets the jackpot with winter storms.
Even in the warmest of winters, Keene usually has at least one evening below 0 F ( 18 C).
During January 2004, Keene saw highs below freezing 25 of the days, including five days in the single digits and one day with a high of zero.
The record low in Keene is 31 F ( 35 C).
In addition to the cold temperatures, Keene can receive biting winds that drive the wind chill down below 30 F ( 34 C).
Keene's first snow flurry usually occurs in early November, though the town/city can also see 60 F (16 C) days into mid-November.
For example, record rainfall and flooding with the axis of heaviest precipitation (around 12 inches (300 mm)) near Keene occurred in October 2005.
Climate data for Keene, New Hampshire Keene's government consists of a mayor and a town/city council which has 15 members.
Several media sources are positioned in Keene.
The Keene Sentinel The Equinox, student journal of Keene State College Valley Post, covering Keene; Brattleboro, Vermont; and the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts The town/city has a several airways broadcasts licensed by the FCC to Keene.
WKNH 91.3, directed by Keene State College WKHP-LP 94.9, a low power FM directed by the Keene Four - Square church WSNI changed its town/city of license from Swanzey to Keene in September 2009. Free Talk Live, nationally syndicated radio talk show based in Keene Keene is part of the Boston tv market. Time Warner Cable is the primary supplier of cable tv programming for Keene.
Keene Weather Keene is often considered a minor college town, as it is the site of Keene State College, whose 5,400 students make up over of the city's population, and Antioch University New England.
At the secondary level, Keene serves as the educational hub of the area, due in large part to its status as the biggest improve of Cheshire County.
Keene High School is the biggest county-wide High School in Cheshire County, serving about 1,850 students.
Keene has one middle school, Keene Middle School, and four elementary schools, as of 2014: Fuller Elementary School, Franklin Elementary School, Symonds Elementary School, Wheelock Elementary School.
Keene is part of New Hampshire's School Administrative Unit 29, or SAU 29.
Keene has over 20 churches and one Jewish church.
A momentous landmark in downtown Keene is the United Church of Christ at Central Square, colloquially known in town as the "White Church" or the "Church at the Head of the Square".
Keene is the seat of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Spirit, whose pastor is the Dean of the Monadnock Deanery, a division under the see of the Diocese of Manchester.
The church has two churches in the City of Keene, Saint Bernard and Saint Margaret Mary.
Keene has one Episcopal church, Saint James, which is inside the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire.
Keene also has one Greek Orthodox church, Saint George, which is under the see of the Metropolis of Boston.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building is home to the Keene Ward and is part of the Nashua, New Hampshire Stake.
A several of the tens of thousands of pumpkins on display at the 2000 Keene Pumpkin Festival Every October from 1991 to 2014, Keene hosted an annual Pumpkin Festival.
The first time was in 1993, when Keene set the record with less than 5,000 carved and lit pumpkins. The tally from the 2003 festival stood as the record until Boston took the lead in 2006, but Keene reclaimed the world record in 2013, with a total of 30,581 pumpkins, as stated to Guinness. Besides the pumpkins stacked on massive towers set in the streets (see photo at right), thousands of additional pumpkins would line the streets of the city.
Over 60,000 citizens from around the world attended the event annually. During the 2014 festival, college students, the majority not enrolled at Keene State, caused riots in close-by neighborhoods, resulting in the town/city council declining to grant the festival's sponsors a license to hold the event in 2015.
Keene Music Festival In late August or early September the town/city hosts the Keene Music Festival.
Keene in prominent culture The 1949 movie Lost Boundaries, starring Mel Ferrer, tells the true story of a black Keene physician who passed as white for many years.
Much of the 1995 movie Jumanji, starring Robin Williams, was filmed in Keene (in November 1994) the movie's fictional town of Brantford.
Bagley Bandstand, after the noted composer of the National Emblem March who made Keene his home until his death in 1922. Many improve groups perform on a regular basis, including the Keene Chamber Orchestra, the Keene Chamber Singers, the Keene Chorale, the Greater Keene Pops Choir, and the Keene Jazz Orchestra.
The Monadnock Pathway Singers are an all-volunteer hospice group based in Keene whose members come from many different suburbs inside Cheshire County.
Every year, the Keene branch of the Lions Clubs International performs a Broadway musical at the Colonial Theatre (a restored theatre dating back to 1924), to raise cash for the community.
Other theatres and auditoriums include the new Keene High School Auditorium and the county's biggest auditorium, the Larracey Auditorium at Keene Middle School, and The Putnam Arts Lecture Hall on the ground of Keene State.
Keene Cinemas is the small-town movie theater positioned off of Key Road.
Keene is home to the Keene Swamp Bats baseball team of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL).
The Swamp Bats play at Alumni Field in Keene amid June and July of each summer.
The Elm City Derby Damez roller derby league, members of USA Roller Sports (USARS), call Keene home while playing their officially sanctioned bouts in close-by Brattleboro, Vermont.
The Monadnock Wolfpack Rugby Football Club now calls Keene its home.
The town/city has turn into home to an active voluntaryist protest group known as Free Keene, which is associated with the Free State Project. Some Free Keene activists have been arrested for video recording in court rooms as an act of civil disobedience, in violation of the state's wiretapping law.
In 2009, Keene's Central Square Park had turn into the center of daily 4:20 pm smoke-ins which promoted the legalization of marijuana. One widely publicized case happened in 2010 when Andrew Carroll, who moved to Keene through the Free State Project, stood in Railroad Square, made a short speech, and held out a bud of marijuana cupped in the palm of his hand.
Free Keene has encountered opposition from other Keene residents. In February 2011 the boss was the subject of a report on WMUR-TV which concentrated on the high number of Free Keene arrests due to civil disobedience and their effect on Keene's image and economy.
For example, a common act by some Free Keene activists involves paying cash into expired parking meters, in order to help other people avoid parking tickets, which has created conflict between the meter pluggers and the parking enforcement officers.
The Free Keene members would video their encounters with the parking enforcement officers and suggest the PEO's should refrain from writing tickets and get a different job.
The close encounters with the "Robin Hooders" resulted in one PEO resigning his position and a lawsuit filed by the City of Keene citing harassment of their employees. In December 2013, the judge overseeing the case dismissed the city's arguments against the "Robin Hooders" on first amendment grounds, citing the enhance sidewalks' part as a traditional enhance forum. Hale, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the 39th Governor of New Hampshire City of Keene.
The Keene Sentinel.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Keene city, New Hampshire".
A history of the town of Keene from 1732: When the township was granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, when it became a city.
Keene, N.H.: Sentinel Print.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Keene, New Hampshire Keene, NH, New Hampshire, United States: Climate, Global Warming, and Daylight Charts and Data a b c "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (DP-1): Keene city, New Hampshire".
"Selected Economic Characteristics: 2010-2014 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP03): Keene city, New Hampshire".
City of Keene.
"New Hampshire Public Radio".
"Homepage Keene Classics 99.1 WKNE-HD2".
"Keene Weather".
"Keene, NH tops Boston's world record with 30,581 jack-o'-lanterns".
Free Keene website "Pot Smokers In Keene Protest Drug Laws".
Free Keene.
"Is Keene Turning Into a Battleground for Activists, Police?".
Judge Cites First Amendment in Dismissing Keene Case The Colbert Report ~ Difference Makers - The Free Keene Squad City of Keene.
""Memorial of Samuel Whitney Hale, Keene, N.H.
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