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"The ongoing invisibility of women and girls is a serious issue for our country, and for the world. The invisibility of our history, heroes, stories, challenges, and success handicaps the future of all Americans, and it deeply affects our economy and our communities."--Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology OfficerWhat History Isn’t
“History isn’t about dates and places and wars. It’s about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
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- Janice Brown on Littleton New Hampshire: Kilburn Stereoscopic Views
- Valley News - Upstart prevails in Grafton County sheriff’s contest on New Hampshire’s First Woman Sheriff and Deputy Sheriffs: Helen Kenney of Concord, M. Jennie (Wood) Kendall of Nashua, and Lillian (Christian) Bryant of Conway
- Upstart prevails in Grafton County sheriff’s contest – Westlebanon Valley News on New Hampshire’s First Woman Sheriff and Deputy Sheriffs: Helen Kenney of Concord, M. Jennie (Wood) Kendall of Nashua, and Lillian (Christian) Bryant of Conway
- Friday’s Family History Finds | Empty Branches on the Family Tree on Samuel Joy and His Spite Tombstone in Durham New Hampshire
- “Mowed down like a pack of cards”: Carrie M. Hall, nurse. | American Women in World War I on Chief Nurse of WW1 Expeditionary Forces, Red Cross Chief Nurse Harvard Unit, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing Founder, National Association President and Pioneer of American Nursing: Nashua New Hampshire’s Carrie May Hall (1873-1963)
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Tag Archives: book
Autographs From the Past: Manchester (NH) High School, Class of 1882-1888
I have written several times about the Manchester High School graduates of the 1880s, including their photographs and genealogies. Recently an artifact of a different sort came into my hands–an autograph book with signatures, pithy sayings, and sketches inked on … Continue reading
He Made "New Hampshire Beautiful:" Rev. Wallace W. Nutting, D.D. (1861-1941)
“The people of New Hampshire possess greater breadth of view and broader sympathy than most other rural people, owing to their contact for generations with the world at large as it comes
Rev. Wallace W. Nutting, D.D. (1861-1941). Photograph from “Nutting Genealogy: A Record of Some Descendants of John Nutting of Groton Massachusetts,” by John Keep Nutting, 1908, C.W. Bardeen Publisher, Syracuse, N.Y., page 166
to visit them….To live in New Hampshire and not to breathe deeply, think strongly, love truly, is a crime against the landscape. For ever, amid the glories of the outer world, we look for stronger men and fairer women, for growth and power and invention and dignity in character of the people, and we do not look in vain.” Continue reading
Posted in New Hampshire Men, Not New Hampshire, Travel
Tagged American antiques, antiquarian, antiques, author, book, Congregational, doctorate, early American furniture, Harvard, illustrator, lecturer, Maine, minister, ministry, NH Beautiful, Nutting, pictorial, publication, Union Theological Seminary, Vermont Beautiful, Wallace, windsor chair
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Sentinel of the Seas, Nubble Light, book cover
Sentinel of the Seas, Nubble Light, was written by Rose Labrie.
Look for an upcoming article about this writer/artist. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged artist, author, book, New Hampshire, Nubble Light, Rose Labrie, Sentinel of the Seas
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New Hampshire’s Missing Places: Peyton Place
I sometimes wonder how many tourists have visited New Hampshire looking for Peyton Place…
only to realize it does … Continue reading
Posted in N.H. Missing Places, New Hampshire Women
Tagged author, book, Central High School, De Repentigny, DeRepentigny, George, Gilmanton, Grace Metalious, Hampshire, Manchester, Metalious, new, New Hampshire, NH, novel, novelist, Peyton, Peyton Place, place, scandal, writer
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Webster New Hampshire Author and Illustrator: Tasha Tudor aka Starling (Burgess) McCready (1915-2008)
Tasha Tudor was a national treasure…
… an illustrator, author, or subject of more than ninety books–living her art … Continue reading
Posted in New Hampshire Women
Tagged artist, book, collectible, illustrator, McCready, New Hampshire, painter, Starling Burgess, Tasha Tudor, Webster, writer
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