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lation. The influence of friends will expand development in old areas, 

 and increased travel and continued activity of real estate agents will push 

 development into new areas. Experience indicates that certain types of 

 rural properties will command preference, but that varied human desires 

 will give value to many types as potential summer home sites. 



EFFECTS ON THE RURAL COMMUNITY 



The daily lives of rural people and rural communities have been 

 affected to varying degrees by the settlement of summer residents in 

 their midst. Effects of summer homes have not been confined within 

 the borders of those towns wherein summer homes are located, but an 

 analysis of these local communities affords an understanding of the areas 

 most intimately affected, and indicates the nature of the broader relation- 

 ships and problems involved. 



Land Utilization and Occupancy 



The influx of summer residents has complicated further an already 

 complex pattern of land utilization and settlement in rural New Hamp- 

 shire. Summer people with a wide variety of occupational and social 

 backgrounds have become neighbors of farm and nonfarm native families 

 (Figures 3, 4, and 5), of retired persons, of skilled and unskilled la- 

 borers engaged in many occupational pursuits. Everyday social con- 

 tacts have been altered, new markets for labor and products have 

 modified traditional patterns of living and working, and dependence 

 upon multiple sources of employment and income has increased 

 significantly. 



Year-round Resident Households 



The present diversity of land utilization and sources of livelihood 

 among the year-round households is in contrast with the uniform sub- 

 sistence agriculture and the agriculture and small industry economy of 

 a century ago. Farming is not the exclusive or even the primary source 

 of employment of local people but farm activity was reported for three- 

 quarters of the year-round households in the three towns. Off-the-farm 

 employment comprised nearly two-thirds of all labor by male house- 

 hold members (Table 1). Principal sources of outside employment were 

 summer residents (for skilled and unskilled labor), town and state govern- 

 ments (for highway and forest labor, and local elective offices), and pri- 

 vate operators of farm and forest enterprises. Nearby manufacturing 

 establishments hired many Sanbornton residents. Work in other com- 

 mercial establishments, and the expression of Yankee ingenuity through a 

 variety of independent enterprises, including wood-carving, wrought- 

 iron work, and making balsam pillows, accounted for the remainder. 



