Niddy Noddy

Posted on 13 May, 2006 by Janice Brown

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New Ipswich New Hampshire Artist: Benjamin Champney (1817-1907)

Posted on 12 May, 2006 by Janice Brown
Benjamin Champney, from Sixty Years' Memoris of Art and Artists, by Benjamin Champney, frontispiece. 1899

Benjamin Champney, from Sixty Years’ Memoris of Art and Artists, by Benjamin Champney, frontispiece. 1899

Lithographer and renowned landscape, portrait and floral painter, Benjamin Champney,  was born in New Ipswich New Hampshire, 17 Nov 1817.

He began his career as a lithographer in Boston, but became a renowned landscape, portrait and floral painter. He was especially associated with scenes of the White Mountains of New Hampshire and described by one art historian as the “dean of the White Mountain painters” (Falk). He is considered the founder of the “White Mountain School” of painters who came to North Conway and surrounding areas during the second half of the nineteenth century.  He died in Woburn, MA in 1907. Continue reading →

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Benjamin Crackbone Champney (1817-1907)

Posted on 12 May, 2006 by Janice Brown

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New Hampshire’s Mooooo-la-la

Posted on 11 May, 2006 by Janice Brown

The premier source in New Hampshire for everything moootivating, at least in the bovine world has to be the Stonyfield Farm web site.

With web topics entitled, “What’s Moo [New],” “Have-A-Cow” (where you can actually sponsor a real dairy cow), “Celebrities in the Moos,” and a daily blog called “The Bovine Bugle,” I found myself “moooved” beyond my wildest expectations.

Burning questions such as “What the heck is a Pole Barn,” and “what is ketosis and drenching.” are questions posed by members of this online com”moo”nity to a real life farmer, who responds with practical answers.

If you worry about eating like a pig without looking like a cow [as Joanie does], did you know that eating yogurt actually helps you to lose weight? Eating yogurt may actually help turn up the body’s fat-burning ability.

Stonyfield Yogurt Inc. itself was “born and raised” in New Hampshire.  The venture began in 1978 in Wilton, New Hampshire, as Samuel and Louise Kaymen’s “Rural Education Center,” an organic farming school. In 1982 current President/CEO Gary Hirshberg was recruited as a board member. In 1983 they had seven dairy cows and a newly created yogurt recipe. In 1989 the company moved to Londonderry, New Hampshire where it is located today, selling its products of yogurt, yogurt smoothies, cultured soy, organic ice cream, frozen yogurt and milk nationwide, with annual sales of over $212 million (thats alot of moola). They donate 10% of pretax profits to environmental causes.

If only everyone could be as earth-centered!

If you get a chance, take a tour of this fascinating company. According to their web site Stonyfield tours have been temporarily suspected due to heavy construction going on (yes, they are growing again). 
Janice

PS: If you are wondering about the origin of the word “moola,” I have a pretty good theory.  The Gaelic word for million is “muillean,” pronounced “Moo-lin.”  Close enough.

Additional Reading–
– History of Yogurt in the United States –
– Things I Can’t Live Without: Gary Hirshberg –
– History of Stonyfield –

 

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Manchester, New Hampshire: Victory Monument and Park

Posted on 10 May, 2006 by Janice Brown

Victory Park of Manchester, New Hampshire is located between Concord and Amherst,

Victory Park Monument, Manchester, NH. Photograph by John Platek, used with his permission.

Victory Park Monument, Manchester, NH. Photograph by John Platek, used with his permission.

Pine and Chestnut streets. It was originally part of a larger park called Concord Square or Concord Common and it extended to Vine Street (that portion is now a parking garage).

On March 3, 1928 the City of Manchester decided that the site for the World War Soldiers Memorial was going to be at the location now known as Victory Park, and statue plans were finalized. A monument was to be constructed, and placed to face Chestnut Street. The memorial itself would recognize  Manchester heroes, both living and dead of the World War (This would be at first just World War I, because of course the city could not envision in 1928 that there would be another world war). Continue reading →

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