Gorham, NH from Mount Hayes, Guy Shorey photograph and panoramic postcard, 3.5" x 10.75"


Shorey’s business efforts did not stop at his front door.


He knew that his success depended in part on the prosperity of his town and of his region. The quality of his livelihood was a function of the economic health of Gorham and of the White Mountains. A thriving Gorham, in tourism and in other enterprises, was a necessity for a thriving Shorey Studio. Plus, he was raised with an innate sense of civic responsibility, a North Country neighborliness where one did what one could to serve one’s community.


As a result, Shorey was active in many arenas. He was a founder and long active in the Gorham Rotary. He was a driver in the creation and operation of local events, such as winter carnivals. He was instrumental in the founding of a YMCA in neighboring Berlin, and long served as a director of that institution. He was a stalwart on the State Planning and Development Commission, serving under three governors over 15 years. When, in 1939, his fellow citizens hesitated to open an information booth in Gorham, he established


one out of his own pocket. He created a slide presentation, “New Hampshire Enchantment,” in 1938, which he offered to countless audiences, encouraging appreciation of and visitation to the Granite State.


It is no accident that Shorey picked for his studio’s


tagline, “Among the White Hills.” That simple saying branded his efforts and his products as being integrally affiliated with the White Mountain landscape and its heritage. But more than a piece of marketing verbiage, “Among the White Hills” expressed Shorey’s own affection and enthusiasm for New Hampshire’s lofty landscape, a landscape that, over his long life, he came to know intimately, exploring it under his boots as well as through his lens.


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