Podcast: Peter Powell, A Life With Community At Its Core

By Wayne D. King, New Hampshire Secrets, Legends & Lore Podcast, InDepth NH

Podcast: https://feeds.podetize.com/7CASaR71n.mp3

Peter Powell has been in the Real Estate business in Lancaster, NH for 50 years now and he’s very well respected and talented at it. But ask him what he lives for and he will begin to spin stories of family, New Hampshire, and his community, both local and in the broader sense – NH and the US – long before he gets to his business career.

I think it’s that focus on community that allows Peter to have been the choice of both Republican and Democratic leaders in the US and in NH as a leader they can count on to build bridges. . . and if there is anything we need desperately these days it’s a restoration of a sense of community. From his heartfelt call to the legendary US Senate Republican Leader Mike Mansfield at one of the most trying points of his life to simply say, “I’m proud of you. Keep on.” To the moment that Democratic candidate for President Fritz Hollings poked his head into a late night bull session at a local store in Lancaster and asked “Anyone here know Peter Powell? Tell him Fritz Hollings says hello!” There followed appointments to prestigious state panels in the humanities, the Trust for NH Lands, the NH Charitable Fund and so many other state honors that it would take too much time to mention.

Peter spent a few years working in Washington after college, working for Norris Cotton and the Senate Commerce Committee as well as congressman Louis Wyman before deciding he wanted the country life and making the move to Lancaster. His father Wes Powell was governor of NH for two terms and of course that invites hundreds of stories into the conversation so we are going to schedule another podcast in a month or two so we can get in a few more of those. Wes was from the rough and tumble area of Puddledock in Portsmouth which seems to play prominently into many of those stories.

With an always ready and genuine smile, and a spirit ready to reach out in every direction to find common ground, Peter Powell is the sort of citizen who moves mountains, whether he means to or not. Our world could use a lot more people like him.

Wayne D. King

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This story was originally published by InDepth NH.