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New Hampshire Slanguage: Beach Wagon
I was looking at some 1960-ish photographs today, a few showing my family’s pale yellow beach wagon parked in the driveway. BEACH WAGON was the local (New England) term for what most people then called a “Station Wagon” (or a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humor, New Hampshire Slanguage
Tagged 50s, 60s, auto, automobile, Beach, beach wagon, car, caravan, cruiser, England, fifties, Hampshire, new, New England, New Hampshire, NH, ocean, origin, phrase, sixties, Station, station wagon, SUV, term, travel vacation, vehicle, wagon, wood, woody, word
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A Tribute to My Mother on Mothers Day 2015
Mary was born into a large Irish family in Manchester, New Hampshire, the youngest girl, and next to the youngest child of thirteen. She had polio as a youngster, but felt lucky rather than upset. She said that though she … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Hampshire Women, Personal History
Tagged Beach, Light, Maine, Manchester, Manning, Mary, mom, mother, New Hampshire, NH, Nubble, ocean, Webster
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New Hampshire’s Cranberry Bogs and Meadows
When 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 … Continue reading
Posted in History, Native Peoples, New Hampshire Glossary, Really Old News, Recipes
Tagged Auburn, Berlin, bog, canned, cranberry, craneberry, first, fruit, Manchester, Marcus, marsh, meadow, Native American, New Hampshire, NH, ocean, pemmican, rare, Spray, Urann
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The Transatlantic Cable & New Hampshire
In order to speed up delivery of messages and news between Europe and the United States (normally it took weeks … Continue reading
Posted in History, N.H. Historical Markers, Structures
Tagged 1866, Atlantic, Beach, Cable, Cyrus, Cyrus West, Field, Hampshire, historic, Historical, Jenness, marker, new, New Hampshire, NH, ocean, Rye, Telegraph, Trans, trans-Atlantic, U.S., United States, west
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