All posts tagged "Henniker"

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  Business and Labor

  Six Historic Barns

  Thousands of the historic barns of New England have survived severe weather, westward migration, suburban sprawl and competition from corporate agribusiness. Often...

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  New England Places

  Six New England Places With a Unique Name

  The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...

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  boston

  22 Historic Haunted Houses in New England

  Haunted houses belong to New England lore as much as Revolutionary battles or clipper ship races. New England ghosts, witches, devils and...

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  Massachusetts

  The Cold Friday of 1810

  The legendary Cold Friday of 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it for generations....

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  Arts and Leisure

  Amy Beach, Henniker’s Musical Prodigy

  Amy Beach’s parents realized their daughter was a prodigy when she knew 40 songs at the age of one, sang countermelodies at...

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  Irregulars

  New Hampshire Legend: Ocean Born Mary

  The New Hampshire legend of Ocean Born Mary has pirates, ghosts, a light green silk wedding dress – and some of it...