"Happy Jack" Chandler" discusses his famous great grandfather, a pioneering Abolitionist US Senator, John Parker Hale of New Hampshire

This interview was conducted in October 1989, where Mr. Chandler discusses his great grandfather, and grandfather, both of whom had distinguished carreers in New Hampshire politics, as well as his own long service as a state senator, state representative and governor's councilor. "Happy Jack," as he was commonly known, I had known for many years. Controversial, colorful, blunt spoken, a wealthy blue-blood whose ancestry dated to the Colonial Era, and American Revolution, to the fight to free the slaves and after...a true "character," an original in the Yankee tradition.

Loons at play by our deck at our cottage on Lake Wicwas, Meredith NH, on an otherwise quiet July Sunday morning, not so long ago.