All posts tagged "exeter NH"
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11.7K10ConnecticutJohn Trumbull Gets a Few Things Wrong in His Famous Declaration of Independence Painting
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
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14.0K8Arts and LeisureSix Brutalist Buildings
Two of the most famous Brutalist buildings in America are still provoking strong emotions in New England decades after they first reared...
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13.4K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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42.7K6New HampshireWentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Revere
Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire’s first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also...
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15.4K12MassachusettsAnne Hutchinson Takes the Fall for John Cotton
The story of how the Puritans punished Anne Hutchinson for heresy is told often; less so the way John Cotton escaped the...
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8.0K6Connecticut6 New Deal Projects Still in Use
The New Deal put tens of millions of people to work and changed the landscape in every New England city and town....
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3.1K1New HampshireMoses French Sets Monetary Policy in 1786 at the Point of a Gun
Today, banks have lobbyists and economists to convince the central banks to create money. In 1786, no such niceties existed and a...
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18.2K8bostonThe 21 New England Colonial and State Capitals
New England cities and towns used to vie for colonial and state capitals the way they now court sports stadiums, with the...
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4.2K9Arts and LeisureTabitha Tenney – New Hampshire’s First Best Selling Author
For the 50 years after 1799, Tabitha Tenney of Exeter was the best-selling novelist in the country, though she wasn’t necessarily proud...
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5.6K9Arts and LeisureThe Unknown Kid Who Created the Concord Minute Man
In 1873 an unknown, 23-year-old college dropout was given the commission to create a monument to the Minute Man who dropped his...
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