Sit back.
I've got the drive.

The main terminal at Manchester–Boston Regional Airport is actually in Londonderry.

About half the airport sits in the northwest corner of town.

In 1961, Derry native Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

That's why Derry calls itself "Spacetown."

The first potato grown in North America was planted in Nutfield, the settlement that became Londonderry.

That patch is in today's Derry, which split off later.

Windham has a castle. Searles Castle was finished in 1915 for more than $1.25 million.

Today you can rent it for weddings and events.

Logan goes A, B, C, E. So where's Terminal D?

A 2006 reconfiguration folded Terminal D's gates into C and E. A plan to rename E as D was scrapped to avoid confusion and save money.

Looms in a single building. Amoskeag Mill No. 11 was 900 feet long.

Manchester's Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was once the largest cotton textile plant in the world.

Fig Newtons are named after Newton, Massachusetts.

The Kennedy Biscuit Company named its new cookie after the Boston suburb.

Benson's Wild Animal Farm in Hudson closed in the late 1980s and reopened as Benson Park in 2010.

It's free, and it has New Hampshire's largest 9/11 memorial, including a beam from the World Trade Center.

In April 1934, observers on Mount Washington measured a 231 mph wind gust.

It stood as the world record for 62 years.

Steps to the top of the 221-foot Bunker Hill Monument.

Fun twist: it stands on Breed's Hill, where the redoubt was actually built.

Robert Frost lived on a farm in Derry from 1900 to 1911.

The Robert Frost Farm is now a National Historic Landmark and state park, open spring through fall.

Bridges from Litchfield to Merrimack, even though only the Merrimack River separates them.

Merrimack even owns the two river islands inside Litchfield's town line.

Marshmallow Fluff was invented in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Archibald Query sold it door to door before selling the recipe. The Fluffernutter followed.

The Big Dig was first estimated at $2.8 billion. It finished at $14.6 billion.

It buried the elevated Central Artery under downtown, and it's still the most expensive highway project in U.S. history.

Manchester was declared the "Chicken Tender Capital of the World."

The mayor made it official in July 2023.

The first Dunkin' Donuts opened in Quincy, Massachusetts.

New England has been running on it ever since.

Hudson was called Nottingham West until 1830.

The stories tying the name to Henry Hudson are just legends.

TD Garden sits right on top of North Station.

The Bruins and Celtics moved in when it opened. It's been the Shawmut Center (on paper), FleetCenter and TD Banknorth Garden along the way.

Stonyfield, the organic yogurt company, has its headquarters in Londonderry.

So does Blue Seal Feeds.

SNHU began as the New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science.

Today it has well over 100,000 students, most of them online.

Logan opened as "Boston Air Port." It became Logan in 1943.

It's named for Gen. Edward Lawrence Logan, a Spanish–American War officer from South Boston.

Only in New Hampshire: the highway rest areas in Hooksett have state liquor stores.

One on each side of the highway.

Londonderry was chartered in 1722. Before that, settlers called it Nutfield.

The name likely came from the area's thick woods of nut trees.