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Author Archives: Janice Brown
New Hampshire’s Fathers’ Day History
The celebration of Fathers’ Day in New Hampshire is over 100 years old, unofficially that is. The anniversary date hinges really on which year you consider as the advent of Fathers’ Day in our state. A newspaper article acknowledged the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, New Hampshire Men, Not New Hampshire
Tagged celebration, father, Father's Day, holiday, June, parent, parenting
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New Hampshire’s Canterbury Shakers: Elderess Bertha Lindsay (1897-1990) and Gertrude Soule (1894-1988)
Eldress Bertha Lindsay, and Gertrude Soule were not the last of New Hampshire’s Shaker Colony–Ethel Hudson was the last when she died in 1992. At Christmas-time in 1978 when the radiant faces of Bertha and Gertrude were captured for this … Continue reading
New Hampshire in 1605: Spied by Samuel de Champlain
On the 15th day of July, 1605, the French navigators sailed smoothly on from Cape Porpoise twelve leagues toward the south; they coasted along the beaches of Maine and New Hampshire, passing the Piscataqua River without notice, and by nightfall, … Continue reading
Portsmouth New Hampshire’s Charity Worker and Suffragist: Sarah Whittier “Sallie” Hovey (1872-1932)
Sallie W. Hovey was the daughter of a prominent New Hampshire minister, and the sister of a navy Ensign who lost his life in the Philippines. In her own right she worked tirelessly to make sure that the poor and … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Hampshire Women
Tagged admendment, Hovey, New Hampshire, NH, Portsmouth, right, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, vote, voting, women
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1823: An Awful Casualty in Hopkinton NH
It was a chance encounter with the Silver family. If you research genealogy you are familiar with how it happens. I was researching an entirely different family, gleaning tidbits from old newspapers. And then this story leaped out from the … Continue reading