John Clayton takes you from trolley cars to bootleg bars and introduces you to several of Manchester's most famous (and infamous) denizens, from "Peyton Place" author Grace Metalious to Revlon Cosmetics founder Martin Revson to the celebrated "Hermit of Mosquito Pond." Visit Camp Foster, the Amoskeag Ledge, the R.G. Sullivan Cigar Factory and Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House. A must-read for Manchesterites.

Here's what others have to say about John Clayton:

"He's a tireless gatherer of the threads of our State's culture and society; it's hard to tell a story about. . . the Granite State that he hasn't already marked as his own."
- New Hampshire Magazine

"Clayton focuses unerringly and intimately on the people. . . There is a warmth and an affection to his writing; you feel he's a part of the community he's chronicling."
- The Associated Press

"Life in New Hampshire's largest city produces all kinds of shared, familiar experiences that often go unnoticed. Except by John Clayton."
- The Boston Globe

"Clayton writes gracefully and with great clarity. His wording is precise and his transitions are flawless, with one paragraph flowing into the next ever so smoothly."
- New Hampshire Press Association