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New Hampshire: The Snow-Storm, Or Was It a ‘Blizzard’?

Posted on 3 February, 2021 by Janice Brown

Ralph Waldo Emerson perhaps said it best about a storm that includes snow: “Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire: Twenty-Five Words for Snow

Posted on 28 February, 2011 by Janice Brown

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart… Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Native Americans: Hiding in Plain Sight

Posted on 10 August, 2006 by Janice Brown

Contrary to what you have been led to believe, New Hampshire's history did NOT begin with the arrival of the European settlers… Continue reading →

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New Hampshire: 40 Different Words For Rain

Posted on 24 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

“You know, in New Hampshire we have over 40 different words for rain…”

…All of them unprintable… Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Endangered Language

Posted on 25 April, 2006 by Janice Brown

In New Hampshire you may hear words and phrases that are unique to our state…

or at the very … Continue reading →

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