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Friday, May 2

New Hampshire: Let Them Eat Cake

by Janice Brown on Fri 02 May 2008 12:00 AM EDT

The following ancient cake recipes were gleaned from old New Hampshire newspapers:

BLACK CAKE: Three pounds of butter and three ... more »

Keywords: bake, cake, recipe, cook

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Friday, April 18

New Hampshire: Strange Health Tips From 1888

by Janice Brown on Fri 18 Apr 2008 12:00 AM EDT

In November of 1888 the American Association for the Advancement of Science published "Science--An Illustrated Journal, a magazine to educate ... more »

Keywords: health

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Thursday, April 17

New Hampshire in 1918: The "Spanish Flu" Influenza Epidemic

by Janice Brown on Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:42 PM EDT

The year one thousand nine hundred and eighteen was a bad one for New Hampshire--and everyone else in the world. ... more »

Keywords: flu, influenza, infectious

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Sunday, April 6

New Hampshire's Missing Holiday: Fast Day

by Janice Brown on Sun 06 Apr 2008 12:00 AM EDT

Back in 1991 the New Hampshire Legislature abolished a New Hampshire holiday that had been celebrated for 310 years

In ... more »

Keywords: fast, day, Cutt

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Wednesday, April 2

Hampton New Hampshire's Norse Boulder, aka Thorvald's Rock

by Janice Brown on Wed 02 Apr 2008 12:00 AM EDT

Somewhere near the end of a street in Hampton New Hampshire (appropriately named Viking Ave and Thorwald Ave), at Boars Head ... more »

Keywords: hoax

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Monday, March 31

New Hampshire Glossary: Temperance

by Janice Brown on Mon 31 Mar 2008 12:00 AM EDT

Temperance is defined as having control over ones own actions.

From a historical perspective, temperance usually refers to not drinking ... more »

Keywords: temperance, spirits, alcohol

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Sunday, March 23

A New Hampshire Easter Medly

by Janice Brown on Sun 23 Mar 2008 12:00 AM EDT

Happy Easter Everyone! Even though it may not feel like Spring, a few days ago on March 20th... more »

Keywords: spring, peep, easter

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Saturday, March 15

Hanover NH: Death by Sponge in 1851

by Janice Brown on Sat 15 Mar 2008 12:00 AM EDT

Foreign Body In The Trachea-- In July last, Mr. J.A. Dobie, of Hanover NH while making an application to his ... more »

Keywords: sponge, death, accident

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Friday, March 7

Where Were You During the Great Depression?

by Janice Brown on Fri 07 Mar 2008 12:00 AM EST

"Where were you during the Great Depression?" is a question raised by the GenLady, for her *Where Were You Carnival.* ... more »

Keywords: depression

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Wednesday, March 5

New Hampshire Glossary: Lucifers

by Janice Brown on Wed 05 Mar 2008 12:00 AM EST

A "lucifer" was a nickname frequently used to describe friction matches. These matches were made of a sliver of wood ... more »

Keywords: matches, fireplace, fire

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Saturday, March 1

The Civil War Nurses

by Janice Brown on Sat 01 Mar 2008 12:00 AM EST

During the War of the Rebellion, some would like to paint a picture of the male nurses being "thoroughly incompetent... more »

Keywords: war, rebellion, nurse, civil

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Tuesday, January 15

Death on Mt. Washington: The Tale of Lizzie Bourne

by Janice Brown on Tue 15 Jan 2008 12:00 AM EST

A monument of a few rough stones originally lay near the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire where on ... more »

Keywords: memorial, washington, summit, mountain, mount, monument, marker, Bourne

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Friday, January 11

Giving Back History Through Genealogy: Sitting Bull

by Janice Brown on Fri 11 Jan 2008 01:00 AM EST

Up and through the 20th century, it had been common practice to collect and "museumize" remains and artifacts of America's ... more »

Keywords: people, native, museum, Indian, genealogy

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Saturday, January 5

New Hampshire Glossary: Bannock

by Janice Brown on Sat 05 Jan 2008 12:00 AM EST

Bannock is a simple or quick- bread cooked on a hearth, or in a frying pan. This type of bread ... more »

Keywords: bread, food, cook, colonist, colonial

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Thursday, December 13

Sleep Sweetly: Manchester New Hampshire's Connection to Marchiness Margaret (Fuller) Ossoli

by Janice Brown on Thu 13 Dec 2007 12:00 AM EST

In a well-known book entitled, "At Home And Abroad," by Margaret Fuller Ossoli,

and published in 1856 by her brother ... more »

Keywords: writer, woman, teacher, journalist

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Sunday, December 9

New Hampshire: Facing The New Millennium and New Century

by Janice Brown on Sun 09 Dec 2007 12:00 AM EST

Lets face it. The Millennium only exists because we have a calendar. The purpose of a calendar is to show ... more »

Keywords: century, millennium, years

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More on Best of NH 2007"We live in a history-drenched part of the world, but Cow Hampshire is much more than a tour of the New Hampshire “Memory House” (thank Howard Mansfield for that excellent term). It’s a look at the state’s past and present through the eyes (and words) of a true Granitophile. Janice Brown digs through the stories of New Hampshire with an amazing knack for pattern recognition, finding the connections and the nuances that make the dustiest of footnotes into something relevant and entertaining." -- NH Magazine

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