Famous Residents
The town of Hampton is the birth place of John Peters Humphrey, (one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), home of the late artist and sculptor John Hooper, MLA Bev Harrison, NHL referee Tim Peel, philanthropist Art Burns, East Coast Music Association 2007, 2008 & 2009 nominee - singer/songwriter Jessica Rhaye, journalist/New Brunswick author Dorothy Dearborn, and journalist/New Brunswick author Stuart D. Trueman.
Steve Fossett once made a crash landing outside Hampton, New Brunswick in one of his famous ballooning trips. For his first solo around the world attempt, in the Solo Challenger departed Stratobowl, South Dakota, on January 8, 1996.
Chicago adventurer Steve Fossett called it "the most embarrassing day of my life," but a woman from the tiny, picturesque town of Hampton, New Brunswick thought otherwise. Forcing her way through the crowd that gathered Wednesday around Fossett's grounded Solo Challenger after his aborted attempt to be the first balloonist to fly non-stop around the world, she offered him a miniature Canadian flag. "Welcome to Canada," she said. Fossett sighed wearily and said thanks.
As the shire town of the county, Hampton is also home to the Kings County Museum.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)