Travel Lecture: New Hampshire

The American Corner's branch at The August Cesarec City Library will host a travel lecture on New Hampshire by Mikell Reed Carroll, a native of Bath, Maine, USA, and a co-presenter Laura Tashijan from New Hampshire.


New Hampshire Is a state in the northeastern United States, in the country's New England region. It is known for its natural beauty and outdoor activities. Concord is the capital city. Large deposits of granite give New Hamphire the nick name the Granite State.  New Hampshire is the 5th smallest by land area and the 10th least populous of the 50 United States. It is one of the original 13 colonies, and it was the first state to have its own state constitution. New Hampshire became the ninth U. S. state when it ratified the U.S. Constitution. The state motto is "Live Free or Die', describing the spirit of independence. New Hampshire plays an important role in national elections “As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation''.

https://www.50states.com/newhamps.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-hampshire
https://www.visitnh.gov/


About Mikell and Laura

Mikell Reed Carroll is a native of Bath, Maine, USA. She is a wife, mother, volunteer and the current World's Mrs. Tourism 2018.
As World's Mrs. Tourism she promotes tourism worldwide and and works to promote her own personal community service platform of Preventing Heart Disease in Women. She is a volunteer and official Ambassador with the American Heart Association and recently received the President's Volunteer Service Medal for her work to prevent heart disease. In addition, she was featured in a heart health issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine and invited by the White House to attend the United State of Women Summit in Washington DC in 2016 for her work as an advocate for women's health.
Currently Mikell resides with her husband and son in Zagreb. Mikell has previously lived in Maine, Washington DC, Hawaii, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.

Laura Tashjian is a semi-retired nurse anesthetist born in the New England state of Massachusetts. She went to college in New Hampshire and learned to love its rugged beauty and independent spirit. Laura has travelled all over the world, for pleasure and while doing medical volunteer work, and decided to settle back in New Hampshire for her final home. This plan was interrupted by the chance to live in Zagreb with family members assigned to the US Embassy in Zagreb. Laura is loving her new adventure!


A series of monthly travel lectures entitled ''Discover America'' is held at the August Cesarec Library in collaboration with American Corner Zagreb to cover geographical, historical and cultural diversity of the fifty states of America.