“Once a sovereign nation”…
Category: NH culture
Frontier Quarrels
Five reasons for the raid…
Hannah Dustin (1697)
“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)
The First Bridle Path
Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…
Willey Family Disaster
A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt’s original 3-verse poem (1885):
Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua
Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.
NH Constitution Article 10: Right of Revolution.
“The people MAY and of right OUGHT TO…”
NH Constitution Article 9: No Hereditary Office or Place
Free elections, not family dynasties!
NH Constitution Article 8: Accountability of Magistrates & Officers; Public’s Right to Know.
Open, accessible government, for the people…
NH Constitution Article 7: State Sovereignty.
State’s rights, reserved for the people of NH…
NH Constitution Article 6: Morality and Piety.
This one explains why public schools and other state institutions don’t celebrate any one religion’s holidays
NH Constitution Article 5: Religious Freedom Recognized.
A logical extension of freedom of conscience.
NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable
Some rights you just can’t give away.
NH Constitution Article 3: Society, its Organization and Purposes
Balancing NATURAL RIGHTS with the compromises and exchanges of SOCIETY…
NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms
This one’s short and to the point.
NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights
Life, liberty, property, happiness… This article has it all.
NH Constitution Article 1: Equality of People; Origin & Object of Government
“All [people] are born equally FREE and INDEPENDENT…”
Colby & Bacon on a Night March
The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …
Choirmaster Power Play
Brother Joshua makes his move …
Empty Rooms
Yet more neighborly concern for the Hutchinson family’s new home …
Resolved
Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …
The Twin Buglers
Milford’s most unusual marching band …
Musical Family
Decades later, townsfolk fondly remembered one voice in the local church choir…
Clean Living
The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:
