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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
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New Hampshire’s First Woman County Commissioner: Keene New Hampshire’s Grace A. Richardson (1873-1947)
According to Leon Anderson, New Hampshire legislative historian, “Grace A. Richardson of Keene “agent” for that city’s Bureau of Public Service ( a private charitable society) became New Hampshire’s first woman County Commissioner in the 1922 election. She was re-elected … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Politics, New Hampshire Women
Tagged Acton, adoption, cemetery, Cheshire, children, club, Commissioner, county, female, first, Grace, Hampshire, Hope, Keene, MA, Massachusetts, Mount, new, New Hampshire, NH, nurse, nursing, politics, Richardson, Visiting, VNA, woman, Womans
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The Early History of Manchester New Hampshire’s Hesser Business College (now Mount Washington College) and the Hesser Family
The small business school started in Manchester, New Hampshire by Joel Harter Hesser on 1 June 1900 (for the first few years called simply “Hesser School”) still exists, though it no longer bears its founder’s name. [Editor’s note: At the … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, History, New Hampshire Men, New Hampshire Women
Tagged building, business, college, commercial, Concord, early, Elm, facility, Fellows, Gladys, Hesser, history, Joel, Lowell, Manchester, Mount, Mt, New Hampshire, NH, odd, penmanship, school, shorthand, Street, typing, Washington
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New Hampshire Missing Places: Dome Mount aka Pleasant Dome aka Mount Pleasant
New Hampshire has a penchant for changing things–slogans, and place names especially. It’s “in with the new and out with the old!” As you’ve possibly guessed (as it is the case in most of my “Missing Places” posts) the mountain … Continue reading
Posted in History, N.H. Missing Places, New Hampshire Politics
Tagged 1969, Clay, Dome, Eisenhower, Mount, mountain, Mt, name, New Hampshire, NH, Pleasant, Presidential, Range, Reagan, rename, Washington
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A White Mountain Ghost Story
The wind whistled mournfully around the hotel as the story was being told, and the hearers involuntarily clustered nearer one another and waited the next gloomy reminiscence. It came from an elderly gentleman who wouldn’t vouch for its truthfulness, but … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History
Tagged death, ghost, haunted, monument, Mount, mountain, Mt, New Hampshire, NH, snow, snowstorm, storm, story, tale, Tip Top House, Washington
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New Hampshire: Where Even Boiled Water Is Entertaining
There is only one place on earth where boiled water could be so entertaining… Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Humor, Oddities, Accidents and Crazy Weather, Travel
Tagged boiled, conditions, experiment, fun, humor, ice, Mount, Mt, observatory, play, snow, Washington, water, winter
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