Massachusetts

Scenes from the Nantucket Christmas Stroll

During the first weekend in December, the island of Nantucket celebrates the holiday season with shopping, costumed carolers, and special events during the annual Nantucket Christmas Stroll.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Poem

by Michael H. James Off in the meddows where lies a hay stack, Comes a rugged old man to his weathered shack. Wears a black sock on one foot, gray on the other, Bares a milk pail in one hand, stool in tother. “Well blow me down”, he mutters away, Me keow hain’t give but […]

New Hampshire

When Keene Was Very Young

by Sewell Ford SCENE *The interior of a log cabin. A door is open at back centre. At Right is seen a crude stone fireplace with log mantle, crane, bake oven, etc. In front of fireplace a spinning wheel and stool. Near that a rough table and half-log bench. At Left a four-post bed. A […]

New Hampshire

The Story of New Hampshire’s 
Capital

TIME ENOUGH FOR many changes to take place has elapsed since the ordination of young Timothy Walker in a blockhouse in the wilderness. There, in 1730, the Reverend John Barnard of Andover, Massachusetts, who had come on horseback over the rough trail to the Plantation of Penny-Cook which he firmly believed to be the former […]

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