No Kings Day Events Planned in Three Sullivan County Towns

No Kings Day brought demonstrators to three Sullivan County communities Saturday, with gatherings at Claremont's Broad Street Park from 10 a.m. to noon, across from Grantham's post office from 11 a.m. to noon, and along Charlestown's Main Street from 1 to 3 p.m. The three sites were among roughly 50 New Hampshire locations where No Kings, a decentralized volunteer network, organized simultaneous events on March 28.

The Sullivan County schedule appeared in a statewide calendar InDepthNH published March 26, two days before the events. The post aggregated dozens of local meeting points into a single public list and invited local organizers and photographers to submit images and updates, relying on volunteer contributions to document events in small municipalities across the state.

That decentralized model defines how No Kings operates at every level: participants coordinate through social media and community message boards, settle on meeting points and times, then funnel images and updates back for cross-state coverage. The structure allows the network to activate dozens of communities simultaneously without a formal organizational hierarchy.

Participants at No Kings gatherings typically include residents, activists and community groups who describe their demonstrations as opposition to monarchical symbolism and what they characterize as elitist, unelected power at the state and national level. The annual March events have become a recurring fixture in New Hampshire's civic calendar.

Claremont, where ongoing SAU 6 school district controversies have kept civic engagement elevated, offered Broad Street Park as a visible platform where even a modest symbolic turnout can feed into an already-charged local conversation. Charlestown's Main Street and Grantham's post office area gave participants in both communities prominent, publicly accessible gathering points.

Town officials and public-safety departments in Sullivan County municipalities typically handle No Kings events as routine First Amendment demonstrations. Without a permit for amplified sound or a road-closure request, gatherings of this kind generally proceed without law-enforcement intervention.