New Hampshire is different, right down to its ancient bedrock — a tectonic gift from Proto-Africa, left when the world danced with the heat of its creation. Primordial gas seeps through granite baseboards and aboriginal ghosts rattle bars of birch and maple wood. No wonder that the peculiar is so common here. In New Hampshire you are looking for something different, or else you are lost. Either way, Area 603 is where the search begins.