Restorative Granite State

The Hopkinton (N.H.) State Fair, held every year in early September

“The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it.’’

— Retired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter (born 1939). He served on the high court from 1990 to 2009, when he moved back to his native New Hampshire, where he lives in the small town of Hopkinton.

Hot colors, cold water

“Lake Sky” (oil on canvas), by Kate Graham Heyd, in Galatea Fine Art’s (Boston) August show, “New England Collective XI.’’ She lives in Hopkinton, Mass., which is most famous as the starting point of the Boston Marathon and of the Charles River.