SUNAPEE — Whittier Perkins wasn’t widely known during his lifetime, though he served as a selectman in Wendell, N.H., which was Sunapee’s name...
Historic markers recognize the Morgan horse all over the Upper Valley, or the Vermont side of it, anyway, where the breed originated in the late...
Little is known for certain about the life of Dinah Mason, but a few facts now seem incontestable.A bill of sale from 1783 shows that Dinah, who...
On winter nights before going to bed I feed the wood stove and walk the dog. It’s a ritual I enjoy because whether my walk is starlit or moonlit or...
For reasons I cannot fully fathom, I have of late developed an interest in the Middle Ages. Not middle age, which I am entirely done with, but...
The force that keeps many adventurers moving forward is what’s waiting for them at home. But what is home? The answer varies according to the...
The greatest part of the labor upon the farms, and nearly all the whole of the travel and transportation in the state is performed by horses, and...
In early New England communities, the initial proprietors set aside land that was not privately owned as “common lands.” In some cases, parcels...
Since boyhood, Frank J. “Jay” Barrett Jr., has collected vintage postcards of Hanover, where he grew up.In the 1990s, he pitched to a publisher the...
Hanover — For now, the way to the newly expanded and renovated Hood Museum of Art runs through a cafe smelling of french fries and crowded with...
The Woodstock Inn and Resort wants to expand, but two 19th-century houses on South Street that are part of the town’s historic district stand in...
By modern-day standards, 20-year-old Frederick Ransom was dead to begin with.But when someone died of tuberculosis in 1817, one could never be too...