Later, dinner at Candela Tapas Lounge-tacos de pescado and braised pork belly over pineapple-is good enough to order twice (so we do). But then we discover Base Camp Café, specializing in Nepali food and run by husband and wife Bhola and Saraswati Pandey turns out the lightly spicy scent of sweet-potato chhoila and chicken tarkari on a chilly January afternoon is more warming than a wood stove. The two quickly add Dirt Cowboy for best coffee and Canoe Club Bistro for lunch. “We like drinks at Pine-the atmosphere is fun and they have a real mixologist,” says one half of a longtime-resident couple, referring to the Hanover Inn’s sleek restaurant. The Hopkins Center for the Arts, touting some seasonally appropriate Shakespeare. The sports-inclined can find a hockey game on Occom Pond or watch the college stars at Dartmouth’s Thompson Arena, and cheer on the entire college community at the Big Green bonfire on homecoming weekend. The adjacent Hood Museum, one of the oldest and largest college museums in the country, shares its rich collection for free, but residents can also volunteer to be docents, learning all there is to know about Assyrian reliefs in the process. While the Hopkins Center for the Arts (the Hop) posts a full roster of films and performances, it offers less predictable events, too-a piano master class, say, or Christmas Revels at Spaulding Auditorium. “People are well educated, and you feel it.” “It’s a concentrated shot of culture,” says one local resident. Seuss (student), or Mindy Kaling (student) might appreciate. Or the dynamic café scene that someone like Robert Frost (student, lecturer), Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Or the range of daily diversions, from arts to sports, that speak to both students and residents. Maybe it’s all that youthful energy, or the elegant 269-acre main campus infiltrating the town. Hanover’s population (11,260 in 2010) is almost double Dartmouth’s, but it feels like an even match. Since then, the two have grown together like vines, to the point where they’re practically indistinguishable from each other. The pretty town was founded Jthe college followed in 1769. Neither, as it turns out, but the lines get blurry in this Ivy League enclave. “Parents or alumni?” asks a fellow passenger as we step into the elevator at the Hanover Inn, docked like an ocean liner on the banks of the Dartmouth College Green in Hanover, New Hampshire. Shades of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall can be seen in the original 1928 facade of Dartmouth’s Baker-Berry Library.
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