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Category Archives: Really Old News
New Hampshire Epitaph: Killed With An Axe By An Insane Brother
An epitaph on a stone located in Central Cemetery in New Ipswich, New Hampshire is succinctly understated: “Mr. Gilman Spaulding was kill’d with an ax by an insane Brother, Sept. 19, 1842 AEt. 38.” I was recently contacted about this … Continue reading
Posted in History, R.I.P, Really Old News
Tagged asylum, ax, axe, Brattleboro, brother, Charles, death, Gilman, insane, insanity, killed, murder, New Hampshire, New Ipswich, NH, Spaulding, Vermont, VT, Windham
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New Hampshire 1877: Disastrous Mardi Gras Transplant
The attempt to transplant the Old World ceremonies of Carnival and Mardi Gras to our northern soil has always proved disastrous. Southern cities have had considerable success in frolics of this kind, but as a rule such attempts elsewhere turned … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Really Old News
Tagged disaster, disastrous, failure, mardi gras, north, nothern
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A New Hampshire Valentine Warning of 1850
ST. VALENTINE’S–On Thursday, St. Valentine will hold his annual festival. Single ladies and gentlemen may expect the usual quantity of favors, while “the little god Cupid” acts as post-boy. Old bachelors should fortify their bosoms with an extra covering of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, Really Old News
Tagged Gazette, love-lorn, missive, New Hampshire, NH, Portsmouth, romance, soft impeachment, valentine
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Concord New Hampshire: A Year of Celebration in 2015
Concord is a city with a complex past. Its not surprising that people aren’t quite sure what anniversary, or even which ‘founder,’ to celebrate historically. In the case of anniversaries–they celebrate them all. Anyone who was present for Concord New … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humor, New Hampshire Men, Really Old News
Tagged anniversary, celebrate, celebration, centennial, Concord, Eastman, family, first, founder, founding, Henry, jubilee, Malden, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, NH, origin, Penacook, Pennycook, Richard, Rolfe, Rumford, settler, Uran, Urann, Urin
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New Hampshire’s Cranberry Bogs and Meadows
When I hear the word cranberry, I most often things of masses of bobbing, minute fruit in Massachusetts or New Jersey bogs, although I know it grows in other states too. It was not until recently that I discovered that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Native Peoples, Really Old News, Recipes
Tagged Auburn, Berlin, bog, cranberry, craneberry, fruit, Manchester, marsh, meadow, Native American, New Hampshire, NH, pemmican, rare
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