Craftsmanship.

The Library is a restaurant located in the Rockingham Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The Langdon dining room.

My son and I enjoyed a splendid lunch here. It’s a haven of tranquility and even the tab is presented inserted in a book – ours came in a Danielle Steel, so make of that what you will!

The Hotel itself was the site of the negotiation of the 1905 Russian-Japanese Peace Treaty whose successful conclusion earned Teddy Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize, a far better use of his time than shooting wild game.

Here’s the Hotel from across the road with the African Burying Ground Memorial in the foreground:

iPhone6 snaps.