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New Hampshire Missing Places: The Whittier Pine of Center Harbor

Posted on 15 July, 2019 by Janice Brown

It had been called the Whittier Pine.  The famed poet John Greenleaf Whittier had his own personal name for this great tree–Wood Giant.  It was located on land near the Sturtevant Farm on Route 25B/Dane Road, Center Harbor NH. [Editor’s … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Tidbits: Land Serpents of the Granite State

Posted on 9 July, 2015 by Janice Brown

Down deep in that hollow the bees never come– The shade is too black for a flower; And jewel winged birds, with their musical hum, Never flash in the night of that bower:– But the cold blooded snake, in the … Continue reading →

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Missing Places: "Giant’s Grave," Carroll New Hampshire (?-1872)

Posted on 20 April, 2006 by Janice Brown

Could “an Indian maniac's” prophecy explain the series of fires that occurred in the town of Carroll, New Hampshire…

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