Author Archives: Janice Brown

President Daniel Webster, and Other Great Humorists, by B. Elwin Sherman

Daniel Webster, who I'm now nominating as the first official Humorist

Laureate of New Hampshire, was once asked to fill … Continue reading

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Happy New Year To One And All

We

are called to record the death of 2007, which took its departure last

night at about fifty-nine minutes past … Continue reading

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Judge Samuel Sewall

Samuel Sewall was Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1718 to 1728. See article about him, and … Continue reading

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"The Leakeys of White Mountain Geology": Hanover New Hampshire’s James Walter Goldthwait (1880-1947), Richard Parker Goldthwait (1911-1992) and Lawrence Goldthwait (1914-2001)

For countless years the Goldthwait name was synonymous with geology and geography, not only in New Hampshire, but throughout the … Continue reading

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2008 New Year Resolutions: Feeling Like A King

Today I am feeling like Janus, the mythical king of early Rome who could look back on past events and … Continue reading

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