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New Hampshire’s Best Christmas Traditions, Recipes and Stories (Recap)
Next year this blog (Cow Hampshire) will celebrate its 15th year. That is a gloriously long time for a genealogy blog to be around. At this point it is easy for me to have forgotten every single topic I’ve written … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, NH Tidbits, Poetry, Recipes
Tagged Christmas, decoration, food, Hampshire, Historical, history, holiday, new, New Hampshire, NH, old, old time, poem, poetry, recap, recipe, tradition
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An 1873 New Hampshire Halloween
The Mirror and Farmer newspaper (Manchester NH) published this story on 15 November 1873, page 8 HALLOWEEN AT BRENTWOOD — A correspondent of the Exeter News-Letter gives the following account of the celebration of Halloween by some young ladies in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, Really Old News
Tagged 1873, All Hallows, apples, Brentwood, cakes, custom, customs, Eve, Halloween, Hampshire, new, New Hampshire, NH, old, rings, Scotch, Scottish, soul cake, traditions
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Cow Hampshire Blog Turns 13
Some consider the number 13 to be unlucky, but then some folks think cows are useless animals. Both are wrong. On 16 March of 2006 after losing my twin sister to cancer, I began writing a blog, for it had … Continue reading
Posted in History, Personal History, Really Old News
Tagged 13, blog, luck, old, thirteen, unlucky, years
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200 Years Old: The New Hampshire State House in Concord
I first wrote about the New Hampshire State House in 2006, when the building was only 187 years old, and since then I’ve updated that story several times. This year (2019) the building is officially 200 years old, and … Continue reading
Posted in History, NH Tidbits, Really Old News, Structures
Tagged 200, anniversary, building, Concord, General Court, Governor, Hampshire, house, hundred, legislature, new, New Hampshire, NH, old, state, State House, statehouse, two, years
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