Manchester New Hampshire’s Rock Rimmon–The Landmark, Park and Dupont Pool

Posted on 9 December, 2014 by Janice Brown
Title: A view of Manchester, N.H. / lith. of Endicott & Co., N.Y. ; Composed from sketches taken near Rock Raymond by J.B. Bachelder, 1855. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Title: A view of Manchester, N.H. / lith. of Endicott & Co., N.Y. ; Composed from sketches taken near Rock
Raymond by J.B. Bachelder, 1855. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

..How “The Rock” was named..

Lets go back in time about 165 years. It is obvious from the existence of the following two items, that at least as early as 1847 the great stone ledge of West Manchester was called Rock Raymond.  In 1847 a lithograph, “View of Manchester NH from Rock Raymond,” was created and colored by an artist named Uriah Smith, and published by Sharp, Peirce & Co. of Boston. Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Missing Places: Information Booths

Posted on 5 December, 2014 by Janice Brown

info booths page 1 markedStarting at least by the 1930s, about the same time that the federal government became involved in making improvements to many state-owned park properties, a small building was erected in many towns and cities, designed to be an “Information Booth, or Rest Area.” They were placed in strategic spots where a visiting tourist or curious local might pass it and stop. The town businessmen understood the importance of these locations as a traveler’s refuge. Local organizations supported them, along with The (NH) State Planning and Development Commission. They understood the value of them in relation to tourism. Attendants at the booths answered specific questions about the town or area, and often offered personal assistance in directing people to their next stop. They provided  maps and descriptive literature.

But are these ‘rest stops’ now fading away? Continue reading →

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New Durham New Hampshire’s Educator, Lawyer, Suffragist, Humanitarian and Author: Marilla Marks (Young) Ricker (1840-1920)

Posted on 1 December, 2014 by Janice Brown
Likeness of Marilla M. Ricker from I Don't Know, Do You? by Marilla M. Ricker

A likeness of Marilla M. Ricker from I Don’t Know, Do You? by Marilla M. Ricker

“I’m going to run for governor [of New Hampshire], although I have not the slightest idea of ever becoming governor,” announced Mrs. Ricker… I’m running for governor in order to get people into the habit of thinking of women as governors. You know people have to think about a thing several centuries before they can get acclimated to the idea. I want to set the ball rolling. There isn’t a ghost of a reason why a woman should not be governor or president if she wants to be and is capable of it.” [1910, Marilla M. Ricker–found in Grand Forks Daily Herald (Grand Forks, ND) newspaper dated Tuesday, October 11, 1910] Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Cranberry Bogs and Meadows

Posted on 27 November, 2014 by Janice Brown

cranberryWhen I hear the word cranberry, I most often things of masses of bobbing, minute fruit in Massachusetts or New Jersey bogs, although I know it grows in other states too. It was not until recently that I discovered that New Hampshire too has produced cranberries, though not on the large commercial scale that other states have and do. Continue reading →

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Old Thanksgiving Recipes from New Hampshire Newspapers

Posted on 24 November, 2014 by Janice Brown


Whitpot, Chow Chow, Roley-Poley, Furmity–all words used to describe recipes that were common in our grand and great-grandmother’s day.  Should these once preferred foodstuffs be allowed to sink into obscurity, and to no longer grace the palates of our modern families? You decide.  The following are  a collection of antique directions on how to prepare these, and other interesting table foods. Continue reading →

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