Brook Trout, School, Fast Day & The Month Of May In 1952
It was the month of May in the year 1952 and I was finishing my last year at the New Hampton Community School, the last of two because the “consolidated school” for the town’s school…
Category: Not So Long Ago
When Mothers Got Out Of The House: Beginning Of The Women’s Movement
PHOTO: Mrs. Martha J. Buxton, one of the early President’s of the Penacook Women’s Club. It is difficult to argue that anyone’s position is more important in society than that of a Mother, and any…
Time To Read Some Old Books The Pathway To Knowledge
“‘The Real Diary of a Real Boy’ was and is one of the funniest books ever published. We never have seen a normal person who was such a non-conductor of humor as to be able…
Pioneer Doctors In New Hampshire
With the present onslaught of the coronavirus health crisis our attention has been drawn to the importance of those in the medical profession in our society. Though the politician of past years is apt to…
Domestic Markets And Spring Goods For New Hampshire In April, 1854
Now is the time for farmers to make their soap. Those who know the great saving there is in using Potash, do not think of making this necessary article for family use without it. As…
Easter Is About Giving Life
In March of the year 1900 friends of the late Henry S. Blaisdell were said to be “surprised and pleased” when the recipients of the contents of his will were made public. Mr. Blaisdell left…
NH’s Revolutionary War Hero General John Stark
Many of the men and women whom New Hampshire citizens take pride in as notable native sons and daughters of the State left the State after finishing whatever schooling they had received and lived and…
The Irishman Who Was Denied The Right To Vote
His name was Samuel S. Lowery. He was a resident of Manchester New Hampshire, but when he went to register to vote in that city early in the year of 1854 he was allegedly denied…
General Stark Defended Fort William Henry -A St. Patrick’s Day Defense
Fort William Henry was built by the English at the southern end of Lake George in New York State during the French and Indian War. The French had a fort at the other end of…
Raging Rivers Flooded New Hampshire WPA Rushes In To Repair 1936 Damage
According to William P. Fahey, the New Hampshire Administrator for the WPA , “The floods in 1936 caused the greatest damage in New Hampshire’s history.” The floods came in the month of March and were…
The President’s Slave Escaped To NH – Senator Langdon Helped Her Stay
It was during the year 1799 when President George Washington learned that his wife’s nephew, Burwell Bassett, Jr., was planning a trip to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as the guest of Senator John Langdon. Washington had…
Charges Of Violating The United States Constitution – History Repeats Itself
It is said that history repeats itself, but hopefully in studying history and considering the past we learn from it and make more educated decisions in the present. In the news recently we have heard…
The Courtship That Lasted Until The Moon Went Down
A legend can relate a story that is true or one that is not, and my source for the tale in this article as told in The Granite Monthly many years ago would not vouch…
A New Hampshire Love Story
I have not forgotten an incident from my college days involving one of my roommates. A girl he had been dating had broken up with him and soon afterwards in our dormitory room he was…
Deacon Brown – The Bible Man
In the month of January in the year 1849 Deacon William G. Brown began working under the auspices of the New Hampshire Bible Society with the task of traveling around the state selling and distributing…