Veterans to discover no man is an island but can live on one

Family to make island a veterans retreat
April 17. 2013
By GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent

By 2014, Bruce Montville hopes to have this family-owned island on Bow Lake developed into a retreat for veterans and their families. (click link to see place)

STRAFFORD - The Montville family has owned a 10-acre undeveloped island for many years off the shores of Bow Lake.

As Bruce Montville, founder and CEO of LifeWise Community Projects in Hampton, began to learn of the plight of returning veterans - some troubled with traumatic brain injury, physical disabilities or challenged in returning to everyday life - he began envisioning the island as a retreat for those veterans.

He talked to his family and earned its blessing to begin development of a veterans family island retreat.

The idea is still in the planning stages, but already Montville has received buy-in and support from the N.H. State Veterans Committee, local businesses and other volunteer groups.

Landscape architect Jonathan Halle, who designed the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, has agreed to create a conceptual design for the retreat.
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