Tag Archives: Milford

A New Hampshire April Fool

Posted on 1 April, 2020 by Janice Brown

Over the past 14 years I’ve written several stories about April Fools Day as it relates to New Hampshire and New England.  The custom of playing pranks was most certainly brought to New Hampshire by the first European colonists. A … Continue reading →

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One Hundred Years Ago: New Hampshire’s Thanksgiving of 1919

Posted on 27 November, 2019 by Janice Brown

Thanksgiving Day of 1919 was celebrated with feelings of both great sorrow and hope. Within the previous  two years, at least 4,000 New Hampshire residents had died before their time (war causalities plus those who died unexpectedly from the flu). … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Suffragist, Performer, Composer, Poet, Human Rights Advocate: Abby J. (Hutchinson) Patton of Milford (1829-1892)

Posted on 26 June, 2019 by Janice Brown

“She was interested in the education of women and was an earnest believer in women’s suffrage, which movement she has aided by tongue and pen,” is how she was described in the book, “A Woman of the Century; Fourteen Hundred-Seventy … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Tidbits: Milford New Hampshire’s Oddity Party of 1876

Posted on 22 February, 2016 by Janice Brown

In olden times, Oddities were people with odd or strange looks or mannerisms.  Think–Barnum & Bailey’s side show.  Parties where attendants would dress as ‘oddities’ were being held as late as 1900 when there was a newspaper report in Sheldon … Continue reading →

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Cow Stories: Bringing in the Cows, by Arthur Corning White

Posted on 1 July, 2015 by Janice Brown

“A precious, elusive element of poetry has gone out of farming with the passing of the old style smoke house, home made mittens, and those great, round, shining, shallow milk pans for raising of the cream. Now, the rural population … Continue reading →

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