The People
New Hampshire ranks 41st in population. The population density is 137.8 persons per square mile (53.2 per km 2), about 1.7 times that of the United States as a whole. Whites make up 96 per cent of the population. Blacks, the largest nonwhite group, account for 0.7 per cent.
| Annual events in New Hampshire | |||
| January-March | |||
| Winter Carnivals in Franconia, Hanover, Lincoln, Plymouth, and other communities (January and February); Ski races at all mountains (January through March); Annual Sandwich Notch Sled Dog Races in Center Sandwich (February); Annual World Championship Sled Dog Derby in Laconia (February). | |||
| April-June | |||
| Annual Sheep and Wool Festival in New Boston (May); Market Square Days Celebration in Portsmouth (June). | |||
| July-December | |||
| Prescott Parks Art Festival in Portsmouth (July and August); League of New Hampshire Craftsmen's Fair at Mount Sunapee State Park in Sunapee (August); Riverfest Celebration in Manchester (September); Annual New Hampshire Highland Games in Hopkinton (September); Fall Foliage Festival in Warner (October); Sandwich Fair (October); Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth (December); First Night New Hampshire in Portsmouth and Wolfeboro (New Year's Eve). | |||
