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Tag Archives: Webster
How Newspapers Can Help Tell Your Family Story
For years I worked on my genealogy without using a newspaper as a reference. I had boxes of starter material, and of course both my parents were alive to allow me to interview them. Easily 20 years had passed before … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, Holidays
Tagged Berwin, burning, fence, Hampshire, Merrimack, motorcycle, new, New Hampshire, newspapers, NH, wall, Webster
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Ashland New Hampshire’s Famed Miniaturist Painter: Bertha Loraine (Webster) Starr (1886-1966)
A miniaturist artist is known as a “painter in little.” This style of painting began to thrive in France and Italy during the Renaissance. Later miniature portraits of the saints were hand-painted in missals, and the tiny portraits of the … Continue reading
The Lost Faces of World War One — Part Twenty-One
This is the continuation of a series of stories about men who died in World War 1, and whose photographs appeared in a publication called “Our Nation’s Roll of Honor.” The original post and explanation can be found at this … Continue reading
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Christmas 2015: What shall we give the children?
What shall we give the children? “In the long twilight of the year, the faces of the children grow luminous. Rosy with cold, arabesqued with snowflakes, leaning into the wind, or drowsing before the fire, their eyes large, they look … Continue reading
Remembering Grandparents Day 2015: Clarence Leroy Webster (1882-1969)
National Grandparents Day falls each year on the first Sunday after Labor Day. The creation of this recognition day was a labor of love for Mrs. Marian Lucille (Herndon) McQuade of West Virginia. In the past I’ve focused on my … Continue reading