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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Boscawen New Hampshire Author, Lecturer, Activist for Peace and Social Reform: Lucia True Ames Mead (1856-1936)
While researching notables of New Hampshire, I frequently 'discover' amazing women who I have never heard of–Lucia is one of … Continue reading
Posted in New Hampshire Women
Tagged activist, Ames, author, Boscawen, Hampshire, lecture, Lucia, Mead, new, New Hampshire, NH, peace
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New Hampshire’s Deadly Thunder-Boomers
No one seems to be certain when the term “thunder boomer” was first used.
Cassell's dictionary of slang (Jonathon Green) … Continue reading
Posted in History, Oddities, Accidents and Crazy Weather
Tagged Amos Manser, Archie Campbell, Barnstead, Bellows, boomer, Candia, Charles E. Hodgdon, Clark, Colburn, Concord Railroad, Croydon, Daniel, Exeter, Gerrish, Hampton Falls, Hart, Hudson, Jeremiah Lane, John Farnum, John G. Moore, Joseph, kill, killed, lightning, Lunenburg, MA, Manchester, Massachusetts, Mears, meetinghouse, New Hampshire, Newmarket, NH, Peterborough, Rowell, showers, Solomon King, strike, Sutton, Swamscot House, thunder, Varrell, Walpole, weather, Willilam Carr
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Rindge New Hampshire Teacher, Historian, Genealogist, Editor, Legislator, NH Secretary of State: Ezra Scollay Stearns, A.M. (1838-1915)
Anyone performing genealogy research extensively in New Hampshire and Massachusetts is bound to run into a reference, or a book … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Men, New Hampshire Politics
Tagged editor, Ezra Stearns, genealogist, historian, legislator, New Hampshire, NH, teacher
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