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9 February, 201618 October, 2018 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history, religion

Choirmaster Power Play

Brother Joshua makes his move ...

27 January, 20169 February, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

Empty Rooms

Yet more neighborly concern for the Hutchinson family's new home ...

19 January, 201611 February, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

The Twin Buglers

Milford's most unusual marching band ...

9 December, 20154 January, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Mont Vernon, music & dance, religion, sabbath

Musical Family

Decades later, townsfolk fondly remembered one voice in the local church choir...

2 December, 20153 January, 2016 Marek 1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

Clean Living

The musical history of NH's famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep... and complicated:

1 December, 201520 September, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1840s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

Hutchinson Family Singers

Color portrait of the world-famous Milford, NH quartet... PLUS series source links!

28 August, 20151 September, 2015 Marek 1700-1799, death, guest artist, music & dance, Peterborough, religion

An Interview with the Devil (Peterborough) (GUEST POST)

Guest artist Malcolm (of Dublin, NH) dramatizes of an old supernatural fiddler legend from Peterborough...

31 January, 201327 March, 2014 Marek 1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, music & dance, weather

Hawks 5: A Most Grateful Party

1862: Amidst tempest, terror, & rumors of a wreck, Dr. Esther's ship somehow pulls into Hilton Head ...

13 January, 20135 February, 2017 Marek 1600s, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, music & dance, posters, seacoast

Journal of Martin Pring (cover + intro)

1603: Here's a color cover image of Pring's young guiternist...

7 January, 201322 August, 2015 Marek 1820s, Franklin Pierce, Henniker, James Miller, music & dance, Peterborough, politics, SOURCE=Cogswell, War of 1812, Warner

Celebration Day – January 8th, 1829 (Henniker)

The people of Henniker party like it's 1829...

2 November, 20125 February, 2017 Marek 1600s, deer, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, music & dance, seacoast, snakes

Pring 04 ~ Sassafras Dance

Quite possibly the first world-fusion dance party in New England history...