ECRWSS PRESORT STD U.S. Postage PAID Winnisquam Echo Postal Customer Winnisquam Echo THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008 SERVING TILTON, NORTHFIELD, BELMONT & SANBORNTON, N.H. FREE Paradise is in the rough for Belmont man BY ERIK ZYGMONT
[email protected] know.” went solar, another move Rather than pay Public ahead of his time. BELMONT — Going Service of New Hampshire “Doing solar power was green is the trend these days, to extend its electricity lines always something I’d but George Nudd has been way back onto his 113-acre dreamed about trying,” he living a low-impact lifestyle property, Nudd used battery said. since 1985, simply because he power to meet his basic Nudd’s home is located off didn’t want to pay $10,000 and needs, and he went without a Province Road near the sign a contract with the util- lot of luxuries. Gilmanton border. A crude ity company. “We pumped water by wooden sign marks his ad- “I’m just trying to be in- hand with a pitcher pump,” dress, and a long dirt drive- dependent,” said Nudd. “I’m he said. “We got sick of that.” way winds through wood- a Yankee I guess; I don’t Five years later,in 1990, he land and clearings before his log home, which he built over one summer, comes in- to view. The open land sur- Belmont to form new rounding his house and sep- arate garage, with woods be- yond and no houses or roads development council in sight, gives the property BY ERIK ZYGMONT the feel of a remote outpost
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