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It's available at the Moultonbourough Historical Society Museum Bookstore.

also available through the winni.com classifieds http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...?do=ad&id=5383

Rice will be giving a presentation about the book at the Laconia Library on November 13.

Here's an interesting article that appeared in the Laconia Daily Sun

Written by Roger Amsden LACONIA — When Jane Rice was growing up on Parade Road in the 1960s there was a grass airport in her backyard and and a hangar with a variety of old airplanes in it that her father Lyman Rice owned.
The hangar was a gathering place for those interested in antique airplanes and from her earliest years Rice was steeped in the history of the earliest days of aviation in the Granite State and her family's link to that history.
''In the garage there was a sign "Fly at Weirs, N..H. - Enjoy Seaplane Safety'' and that piqued my curiosity.'' says Rice, whose book ''Bob Fogg and New Hampshire's Golden Age of Aviation'' was released last month.
She says that her grandfather, Thomas E.P. Rice, was a business partner with Bob Fogg, who operated the famous seaplane base at The Weirs and was a pioneer in the exciting early years of flight.
''I've always been fascinated by that history and the more I researched it, the more I saw how important Fogg was in the history of aviation in the state'' says Rice, who says her grandfather was Fogg's business partner in 1936-38 as president of Winnipesaukee Air Service.
She says her grandfather also flew planes out of the seaplane base but was more involved with the business aspects. ''He was as much of an angel investor as anything else. Bob Fogg had a lot of business partners over the years,'' she says .
Fogg brought aviation to Concord and the Weirs in the early '20s and he and his pilots introduced flying to a whole generation that grew up in that time period. The seaplane base operated at the Weirs from 1923 until 1950s and Fogg also pioneered mail delivery during summers around Lake Winnipesaukee and to its islands.
Rice considers herself extremely fortunate in being able to gain access to not only Bob Fogg's scrapbooks and log books, which were donated to Dartmouth College, but also to hundreds of photographs of the Weirs Seaplane base from Fogg's son, who lives in Florida, for her book.
''I was really lucky. Some neighbors in Meredith invited Bob Fogg, Jr. (now 87) to a wedding last summer and I got to meet him. I told him about my interest in writing a history of his father's adventures. He had three scrapbooks of photos of the seaplane base and found a fourth one when he went back to Florida,'' said Rice.
She said that writing the book took virtually all of her spare time from October through February. ''I had become so immersed in it that it didn't take long to put it down on paper. Thank God for the Internet. Whenever I had to research something it was right there. I was so lucky how things just kept falling into my lap. I just sat here in Moultonborough and things kept happening. I was so glad to be be able to write the book while these people like Bob Fogg, Jr. and my uncle Tom Rice (a former Laconia legislator, now 89) were still alive.''
Rice, a 1974 graduate of Laconia High School who went to college at Nasson College in Springvale, Maine, where she majored in English and History, has worked at the Moultonborough public library for 29 years and has always been an avid reader.
''She was a bookworm from the word go,'' says her mother, Mary, who accompanies her daughter to many of the public events where Jane talks about the book and entertains her audiences with a slide show featuring photos of Fogg and the many airplanes he flew, ranging from a pusher type Curtis MF "Seagull" to Classic Wacos, Travel Airs, Beech Staggerwings and Sikorsky amphibians.
She says that the book has been well received in the historic aviation community and was invited to Moosehead Lake in Maine for an international seaplane fly-in the weekend after Labor Day to sell copies of her book.
And Rice says she's learning something about the book publishing business. ''I thought that the hard work was writing the book. Now I'm finding that you have to market it as well, and that can be harder than writing a book. But I'm going to keep busy at it. I don't want to leave a thousand books in my garage when I die,'' she says.
Rice will be giving a presentation about the book at the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society next to Funspot on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7 p,m. and at the Laconia Library on November 13.