Dr. Matthias Spalding

Posted on 23 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

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Not New Hampshire: Massachusetts Threatens To Close Vital Records

Posted on 23 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

A major threat to genealogy researchers in New England looms on the horizon….

The Massachusetts’ State Legislature may soon close some of their vital records and indexes to the public.

Namely:
Legislative bills (H-3642, H-3643, and H-3644, petitioned by Plymouth Rep. Thomas J. O’Brien, et al.), currently pending in the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee, are being pushed for passage within two weeks. Continue reading →

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Postcard: Alma’s Tea Room, Manchester, NH

Posted on 22 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

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Meredith New Hampshire Doll Maker Barbara Annalee (Davis) Thorndike (1915-2002)

Posted on 21 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

Barbara Annalee Davis was born in Concord New Hampshire in 1915.

About 1934, she began to design dolls and doll clothing.  Her first dolls were marionettes.  The doll clothing was sewed onto the poseable doll, and were intended for display.  Originally she sold them through the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts.  In 1941 She married Charles “Chip” Thorndike, the son of a Boston physician.  They lived in Meredith New Hampshire. Continue reading →

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Poem: In A Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost

Posted on 20 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;

The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
“The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.”
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can’t help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.
          by Robert Frost.

Janice

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