“Freedom to those who have virtue to defend it.”
— one of the toasts offered by the Provincial Congress to his Excellency General Washington, and his suite, the General and Staff Officers, and the Commanding Officer, of different regiments in & near the City of New York, on June 19, 1776.
[from: Freeman’s Journal, Published as the New-Hampshire Gazette, dated July 20, 1776, Vol. I, Issue 9.]
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Likeness of Benning Wentworth from “History of New Hampshire,” by Everett S. Stackpole, Volume II, The American Historical Society, New York; 1916, page 46a
Happy Sestercentennial, Semiquincentennial, or Quarter-millennial to you! In 1763 thirteen towns in New Hampshire were considered official by proclamation of then Provincial Governor Benning Wentworth. In that year New Hampshire was a rough and dangerous place to live. Within a decade it was about to become more so, as the American Revolution would break out. In 1763 charters for these towns were granted: New Boston, Haverhill, Croydon, Cornish, Thornton, Warren, Plymouth, Lancaster, Alstead, Peeling [now Woodstock], Sandwich, Candia, and Gilsum. Continue reading
It’s close to midnight
Some sap is dripping from my family tree
Under computer screen light
You see search results that make you want to flee
You try to shriek
But a zillion family hits just blur your vision
You scroll through pages you don’t need
As the NEW search engine stares you in the eyes
You’re keyword-ized.
‘Cause this is filler
Filler all right
And only G2G can save you
From the hits about to spike
You know its filler
Filler all right
You’re wishing hard for your old search engine
Inside a filler
Filler tonight. Yeah!
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 photograph. Continue reading
Joseph Morency, proprietor of Morency’s Market in Manchester NH, circa 1950. Photograph Courtesy of Marc Morency, his grandson, and used with his permission.
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 part of most New Hampshire communities. Continue reading
