Category Archives: Really Old News

New Hampshire’s Missing Holiday: Fast Day

Back in 1991 the New Hampshire Legislature abolished a New Hampshire holiday that had been celebrated for 310 years

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New Hampshire Winter Rules

Winter has arrived in New Hampshire.

Some creatures will do their best to hibernate as the snow blankets the … Continue reading

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The Season of Hospitality: 1840

CHRISTMAS, that season of hospitality, bluff and hearty honesty, open-heartedness and merriment is close at hand; the old year is … Continue reading

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Thoughts On A Christmas Tree

One of the prettiest things that Charles Dickens wrote is this:
 “I have been looking on, this evening, at a … Continue reading

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New Hampshire: And Be Ye Thankful

I was reading through some of the old New Hampshire newspapers about how Thanksgiving was spent in the “olde days.”… Continue reading

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