[About Me]
Hans Larsson
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My ancestry includes recent immigrants from Sweden, older German immigrants to Pennsylvania Dutch country, some Canadians, and some who have been in America for several generations.
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My Story
My Story
I am a son of New Hampshire, born in Nashua and raised in Center Harbor. I had my first job at George’s in Meredith, learned to ski at Gunstock, bought my LP records downtown Laconia at Greenlaw’s, and traded in my report card for tokens at Funspot. Working, playing, and living in the Lakes Region, I grew to love the character and beauty of the area and its people, a love that only became clearer after living in Florida for a decade after high school.
I am the middle child between two sisters. My older sister is a teacher in South Carolina, and my younger sister is a Special Olympics athlete and aspiring writer. My mother’s family story, like many others in N.H. is written across both sides of the Massachusetts border. My father’s side can be traced back through more than six generations of N.H. farmers and laborers.
A job peeling and slicing potatoes at George’s led to my first career in the restaurant business. I worked at the Woodshed, the Mills Falls Restaurant, and ended my hospitality career as assistant manager of a Checkers restaurant in Florida. For the last 20+ years I have worked for N.H.’s incumbent phone company, first doing installation and repair throughout the Lakes Region and more recently in an operations center for NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, Verizon, FairPoint, and now Consolidated Communications.
With the support of my employer, I earned an Associates in Telecommunications at Nashua Community College. I followed that up with a Bachelors in Information Technology from University of Phoenix, and a Masters of Information Assurance (security) from Norwich University in neighboring Vermont.
Before my health and COVID-19 interfered, I volunteered at my church to make deliveries of donated bread to the Liberty House for veterans and organize collection drives in support of charities caring for homeless N.H. families. I am also a member of a Star Wars costuming group who appear at charity fundraisers and visit hospitals to cheer up patients, another activity I hope to return to. In the past I have been a volunteer at Special Olympics events like the Winter Games in Waterville Valley.
The part of New Hampshire’s character that I love the most, and which drew me back to the state and drove me to run for NH House, is its value of individual liberty. That value was exemplified by General Stark in his famous toast declaring that dying in pursuit of freedom is preferable to living without it — Live free or die. My goal in government would be to preserve that focus on individual freedom, including the right to life, right to self-defense and to carry firearms, right to privacy, and general freedom to live and work in a manner of one’s own choosing limited only where it infringes on another.
I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2016. The initial course which seems to have defeated the papillary form of my cancer was surgery followed by radioactive iodine treatment. The tumor returned later, indicating that the remnant of medullary cancer was not entirely removed, so I had a second surgery. Unfortunately, MTC is not very operable, so further surgery is not likely. Instead, I had a month of focused beam radiation and I am now on an at-home chemotherapy regimen daily. I am thankful for every day now and I try to make the most of it that I can, trying to get my health back so I can do the work the Lord has given me.
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