New Hampshire’s Missing Heirloom Apples
The conversation had started off innocently enough. I purchased a scabbed and ugly, but still interesting looking apple at the Merrimack Farmer’s Market from Tom Mitchell who runs Ledge Top Farm in...
View ArticleWilfred Ernest Burpee (1860-1948) and Other Early Opticians of New Hampshire
Many of my blog stories are generated based on the view of a curious, old postcard. “Reception Room, Brown & Burpee” was inscribed on the front of this particular postcard. Three men are...
View Article“Recollections of Long Ago,” by Hannah Eayrs Barron–Dunstable (Nashua) and...
In April of 2014 I wrote about Merrimack New Hampshire Poet, Hannah Eayrs Barron. She was born in Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in 1809, daughter of Williams & Hannah (Foster)...
View ArticleManchester New Hampshire Shoemaker, Mechanic, Harley Motorcycle Dealer,...
This year is the 100th Anniversary of the Manchester (NH) Motorcycle Club. Though this club officially lists its birthday as 1915, it’s technically 19 years older, as it began as a bicycle club in 1896...
View ArticleThe Elusive Manuel Family of Franklin, New Hampshire
My quest to discover more about the Manuel Family of New Hampshire arose from my purchase of a gem sized tin type on Ebay of George Manuel of Franklin, New Hampshire. I remembered running across this...
View ArticleThe Early History of Manchester New Hampshire’s Hesser Business College (now...
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...
View ArticleThe Face of Addie G. (Whittemore) Tallant of Pembroke New Hampshire (1850-1875)
A lovely woman sat very still for a profile portrait at M.G.C. Kimball, Photographer, at the corner of Main and School Streets in Concord New Hampshire, probably in the early 1870s. Her naturally curly...
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s Early Elections: Bloody Noses, Riot and Corruption
Each time the presidential primary rolls around, some people become excessively focused on preventing potential vote cheating (which happens to be an exceptionally rare event here despite the hype). We...
View ArticleRaymond New Hampshire Businesswoman, Teacher, First Woman Legislative...
Emma Louise (Tucker) Bartlett, according to NH legislative historian Leon Anderson‘s 1971 booklet, New Hampshire Women Legislators, was “of Raymond, 63-year-old operator of an insurance business and...
View ArticleInventor of America’s First Automobile–Maybe: George Alvin Long (1850-1951)
When it comes to who built America’s first automobile, the discussion becomes as overheated as a car climbing New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington. The answer comes down to the details. What is the...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbits: Fun Things To Do Before 1880
The Cheer of New England Life For one, I utterly deny that the rural society of New England, taken as a whole, is in a grim, stern or extravagantly repressed condition. I do not know much of...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Suffragist, Physician, Teacher and Civic Leader: Dr. Jennie...
Jennie Sarah Barney‘s birth certificate does not list a first name. But the 1880 U.S. Census calls her Jennie S. Barney, and her college graduation listing shows: “Jennie Sarah Barney.” Most of her...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Women Who Gained The Vote–100 Years Ago and Today
From the faith of the suffrage movement came a great idea, the idea that a nonpartisan organization could provide political education and experience which would contribute to the growth of the citizen...
View ArticleA Time-Line History of Errol New Hampshire From 1776-1948
The estimated census of Errol, New Hampshire today is about 265 people, a drop from its peak of 313 in 1980. Though settled before hand, this town was legally incorporated in 1781. A good number of...
View ArticleHistory of the Boston Motorcycle Club (Boston MA) From 1909 to 1926
I was reviewing some of my previous motorcycle stories and discovered that two men who were instrumental in the early motorcycle clubs of Boston lived in New Hampshire at the end of their lives. It was...
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