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New Hampshire Tidbits: The Geddes’ Great Pumpkin and Other Really Big Fruit

Posted on 22 October, 2018 by Janice Brown

Ralph Waldo Emerson said “We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.” His words are the truth.  Starting from a pumpkin seed, every pumpkin plant grows into … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Tidbits: Land Serpents of the Granite State

Posted on 9 July, 2015 by Janice Brown

Down deep in that hollow the bees never come– The shade is too black for a flower; And jewel winged birds, with their musical hum, Never flash in the night of that bower:– But the cold blooded snake, in the … Continue reading →

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The Sea Serpent That Invaded Portsmouth New Hampshire

Posted on 12 January, 2011 by Janice Brown

The desperation of the stranded whale,
When wedged 'twixt jagged rocks he writhes and rolls
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New Hampshire’s "Lakawaka": Terror of the Isles of Shoals

Posted on 21 April, 2006 by Janice Brown

An enigmatic entry in an 1872 story speaks of something terrible–“self-illuminating, like a glow-worm,” that was “seen for many years near the shore” of the Isles of Shoals…
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