New Hampshire
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2.0KBob Fogg Brings Aviation and Adventure to New Hampshire
“The Weirs” on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, has been a popular summer resort since shortly after the last Ice Age, when the...
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6.1K2Samuel Maverick Writes A Guide to the Wonders of New England – in 1660
Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
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12.6KThe Greatest New England High School Football Rivalries
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled by stagecoach to visit their opponents. When there...
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5.1K5Eight Great Zingers by Bette Davis, Yankee Gal
The legendary movie actress Bette Davis called herself the “Yankee-est gal who ever came down the pike.” She was born and educated...
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6.2KThompson Maxwell, the Forrest Gump of the American Revolution
In 1820 at the age of 78, Thompson Maxwell rode his horse more than 1,600 miles from Detroit to New England and...
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6.1KNew England Witchcraft Trials: It Wasn’t Just Salem
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
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5.3K1Six Places an Iconic Food Was Born
New England has given birth to many an iconic food. The exact birthplace, however, of such beloved treats as the fluffernutter sandwish,...
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5.5KThe 1790 Census: New England by the Numbers
Just after the American Revolution, Gilmanton, N.H., ranked as the 30th biggest municipality in the United States. The Lakes Region town was...
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3.3KThe American Winston Churchill, Once More Famous Than the Other
Back in the early 20th century, an American Winston Churchill got a letter from a young war correspondent of the same name....
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