(Photo Credit: Elizibeth Frantz, Concord Monitor) What’s Happening Now: New Hampshire State Congress

By: Liam Smith, July 17th, 2019

 

In the New Hampshire’s State Congress building, there is one room that has a peculiar room.  In room 103 of the NH State building it holds much history, before becoming a room to address issues and ideas in the public it was also State Treasury. Within the walls of this small yet important building, was a secret Virgina Drew, Director of the NH state visitor center wanted to find out. Drew has been working in the state building for 20 years and for almost the entirety of it had been asking about one of the two vaults in the ex-treasury room. When she first got there she was curious about the vaults. She asked almost every meeting in the room to open the vault, and being turned down. She asked, and waited, going through this for 18 years of working in the building. When finally, finally, she convicted a higher standing government worker to open the vault. Besides the vault being filled with dust and mold, there were artifacts dating back to the civil war. Ledgers and weapons laid dormant in the vault, waiting for one curious woman to let them free. Besides the vault being opened and Drew being content with a long term goal, the artifacts held some more historical insight.