Editing Claremont, New Hampshire (section)

==In popular culture==
Wrightsville, the fictional small-town setting in New England of many [[Ellery Queen]] novels and short stories, was based on Claremont. Ellery Queen was the pen name of cousins Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971). Betty Miller, a Claremont native, had married Manfred B. Lee in 1927. According to the Queen Spaceports website, the ''[[Eagle Times|Claremont Eagle]]'' newspaper provided front-page coverage (on July 10, 1959) of a talk Manfred Lee gave, in which he revealed that Wrightsville was indeed based on Claremont.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Floor_Plan_3.html| title=Wrightsville| website=queen.spaceports.com| access-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Irregulars_ned__8.html| title=Claremont, the Real Wrightsville| website=queen.spaceports.com| access-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref>

Claremont was the filming location, though not the setting, of the 2006 movie ''[[Live Free or Die (2006 film)|Live Free or Die]]'', co-written and co-directed by [[Gregg Kavet]] and [[Andy Robin]] and starring [[Aaron Stanford]], [[Paul Schneider (actor)|Paul Schneider]], [[Michael Rapaport]], [[Judah Friedlander]], [[Kevin Dunn]], and [[Zooey Deschanel]]. Set in fictional Rutland, New Hampshire, it is a picaresque comedy-drama about a small-town would-be crime legend. The name of the movie derives from the [[Live Free or Die|motto of the Granite State]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432318/ |title=Live Free or Die |publisher= IMDB |access-date= October 24, 2012}}</ref>

The Topstone Mill, formerly a shoe factory and now housing a restaurant,<ref name="sheknows">{{cite web |url=http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/2012/10/24/ghost-hunters-recap-haunted-shoe-factory-filled-with-ghostly-footsteps/|publisher=realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com|title=Ghost-hunters-recap-haunted-shoe-factory-filled-with-ghostly-footsteps |access-date=February 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923054424/http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/2012/10/24/ghost-hunters-recap-haunted-shoe-factory-filled-with-ghostly-footsteps/ |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> was featured in season 8, episode 20 of ''[[Ghost Hunters (TV series)|Ghost Hunters]]'', airing October 24, 2012, titled "Fear Factory".<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2478974/?ref_=ttep_ep20|publisher=imdb.com|title=&quot;Ghost Hunters&quot; Fear Factory (TV Episode 2012) - IMDb|access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref>

Claremont was featured in the fourteenth episode of the Small Town News Podcast, an improv comedy podcast that takes listeners on a fun and silly virtual trip to a small town in America each week, in which the hosts improvise scenes inspired by local newspaper stories.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.buzzsprout.com/1011646 | title=Small Town News }}</ref>