All posts tagged "white mountains"
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4.7K6Arts and LeisureRobert Frost Spends a Night of Terror in New Hampshire
A night of terror in New Hampshire’s Ossipee Mountains inspired Robert Frost to write about the incident again and again over 25...
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13.7K25Religion and Social MovementsOne First Love – Ellen Louisa Tucker Marries Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Ralph Waldo Emerson who married Ellen Louisa Tucker on September 30, 1829 would hardly have recognized the man he became by...
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5.6K16Science and NatureBetty and Barney Hill Take a Long, Strange Trip
On Sept. 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill made their way back from Montreal to their home in Portsmouth, N.H., after a...
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2.5K2New HampshireSarah Orne Jewett Spends the Night in the White Mountains
Sarah Orne Jewett traveled in 19th-century international literary circles, but it was the White Mountains, the ocean and the people of her native New...
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3.8K1New HampshireThe Spy Who Came In To The Bretton Woods Conference
As World War II was ending, 730 delegates from 44 nations converged on the Mount Washington Hotel for the Bretton Woods Conference that...
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5.6K11New HampshireOld Man of the Mountain Discovered, Hangs on for 198 Years
In 1886, a professor named C.H. Hitchcock urged travelers to hurry up and see The Old Man of the Mountain because he...
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2.3KArts and LeisureFlashback Photo: The White Mountains of New Hampshire
The White Mountains of New Hampshire have long inspired artists, writers and photographers. John Collier took this photograph in June 1943 while...
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15.5K5New HampshireThe World War II Bomber That Crashed In New Hampshire
A B-18 bomber that crashed in New Hampshire today serves as one of New England’s most unique memorials to those who died...
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28.6K21New HampshireThe 1936 Flood That Engulfed New England
The great 1936 flood began on March 11 with a downpour in New England that didn’t stop for 14 days. The rain...
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The Improbable Savior of the White Mountain Forests
If you had to guess who saved the White Mountain forests from destruction, you probably wouldn’t come up with a politically ambitious...
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