Category Archives: History

Immigrant to New Hampshire: Cora Alvina Parnell (1868-1913)

Posted on 25 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

The lovely face of Cora Alvina Parnell stared back at me from the computer screen. She was probably not a relative, I thought, at least based on her surname.  But for whatever reason, I clicked “buy” and spontaneously purchased her … Continue reading →

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A Manchester, New Hampshire Small Grocery: Morency’s Market & the Morency Family

Posted on 20 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

Over the past two hundred plus years, these shops have been called by many names: grocer, grocery & provision store, fruit & grocery, grocery company, market, retail store, corner store, convenience store. The corner grocery store has been an essential … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Fathers’ Day History

Posted on 16 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

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 →

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New Hampshire’s Canterbury Shakers: Elderess Bertha Lindsay (1897-1990) and Gertrude Soule (1894-1988)

Posted on 2 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

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 →

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New Hampshire in 1605: Spied by Samuel de Champlain

Posted on 25 May, 2013 by Janice Brown

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 →

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