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Women’s History
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Tag Archives: New Castle
New Hampshire Matrilineality and Mothers Day
This year for Mother’s Day, I thought I’d try something different when it comes to story telling. I was looking at my personal matrilineality–the tracing of kinship through my female line. In some cultures people are identified through their “matriline” … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Hampshire Women, Personal History
Tagged Charlestown, DNA, Goodwife, Great Island, Hampshire, haplogroup, Jane, K1a4a1b, new, New Castle, New Hampshire, NH, Portsmouth, Walford, Weymouth, Wilford, witch, witchcraft, Wolford, Woolford
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New Hampshire Glossary: Lithobolia–The Stone Throwing Devil
Lithobolia, or the Stone-Throwing Devil, was a term used to describe a type of poltergeist that reportedly harassed a New … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History, New Hampshire Glossary
Tagged Devil, diabolic, Hannah Jones, lithobolia, New Castle, New Hampshire, Newcastle, NH, seacoast, stone, throw, Walford, Walton, witchcraft
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Portsmouth New Hampshire’s Peace Conferences
On December 10, 2006, the Theodore Roosevelt Nobel Peace Prize Luncheon will be held at Wentworth By the Sea Hotel … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History
Tagged hotel, Japan, New Castle, New Hampshire, Nobel Peace Prize, Peace Conference, Portsmouth, Russia, Theodore Roosevelt, war, Wentworth By the Sea
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New Hampshire’s Castles
For a fairly small state, we sure have our fill of castles…
there is New Castle, Castle in the … Continue reading
Posted in Structures, Travel
Tagged Anam Cara Castle, castle, Castle in the Clouds, famous, Hales Castle, Hampshire, J.B. Hunt Castle, Kimballs Castle, Moultonborough, new, New Castle, New Hampshire, NH, Rindge, Searles Castle, Wentworth Castle, Windham
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