What a cool judge.NYT:
Justice Souter was born in Massachusetts but moved to New Hampshire when he was 11, settling into his grandparents’ farmhouse on Cilley Hill Road. After going to college and law school at Harvard, he returned to New Hampshire to practice law and quickly became the state’s attorney general, scaling the White Mountains in his down time.“A lot of people would live up here and hate it,” said Wilbur A. Glahn, a lawyer who has known Justice Souter since 1975 and still hikes with him in the summer. “But David has got a real love for the people and the land and the simple things here. I’m not sure I know a lot of people who are more connected to a place than he is. It’s a very strong, kind of visceral feeling that he has.”