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Category Archives: NH culture

NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable

Some rights you just can’t give away.

Posted byMarek13 March, 201622 March, 2016Posted in1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.govTags:conscience, constitution, nh, rights, state governmentLeave a comment on NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable

NH Constitution Article 3: Society, its Organization and Purposes

Balancing NATURAL RIGHTS with the compromises and exchanges of SOCIETY…

Posted byMarek9 March, 201622 March, 2016Posted in1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.govTags:constitution, feature, nh, rights, society, state governmentLeave a comment on NH Constitution Article 3: Society, its Organization and Purposes

NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms

This one’s short and to the point.

Posted byMarek7 March, 20169 March, 2016Posted in1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.govTags:arms, constitution, feature, nh, rights, state governmentLeave a comment on NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms

NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights

Life, liberty, property, happiness… This article has it all.

Posted byMarek1 March, 20167 March, 2016Posted in1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.govTags:constitution, happiness, liberty, nh, property, rights, state government1 Comment on NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights

NH Constitution Article 1: Equality of People; Origin & Object of Government

“All [people] are born equally FREE and INDEPENDENT…”

Posted byMarek29 February, 20167 March, 2016Posted in1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.govTags:constitution, equality, feature, freedom, nh, rights, state governmentLeave a comment on NH Constitution Article 1: Equality of People; Origin & Object of Government

Colby & Bacon on a Night March

The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …

Posted byMarek12 February, 201612 February, 2016Posted in1800-1899, 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH historyTags:antietam, civil war, coffee, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, sugar, walking, washingtonLeave a comment on Colby & Bacon on a Night March

Choirmaster Power Play

Brother Joshua makes his move …

Posted byMarek9 February, 201618 October, 2018Posted in1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history, religionTags:1820s, church, joshua hutchinson, Milford, musicLeave a comment on Choirmaster Power Play

Empty Rooms

Yet more neighborly concern for the Hutchinson family’s new home …

Posted byMarek27 January, 20169 February, 2016Posted in1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH historyTags:1820s, Milford, music, polly hutchinsonLeave a comment on Empty Rooms

Resolved

Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …

Posted byMarek23 January, 20161 February, 2016Posted in1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, politics, religionTags:1800s, abolition, alcohol, baptist, Milford, prayer, school, slavery, temperanceLeave a comment on Resolved

The Twin Buglers

Milford’s most unusual marching band …

Posted byMarek19 January, 201611 February, 2016Posted in1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH historyTags:1820s, caleb hutchinson, joshua hutchinson, Milford, militia, music, polly hutchinsonLeave a comment on The Twin Buglers

Musical Family

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

Posted byMarek9 December, 20154 January, 2016Posted in1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Mont Vernon, music & dance, religion, sabbathTags:Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Mont Vernon, Polly Leavitt Hutchinson, Sarah LeavittLeave a comment on Musical Family

Clean Living

The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:

Posted byMarek2 December, 20153 January, 2016Posted in1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & danceTags:Andrew Hutchinson, corn, dance, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford, tobacco, violinLeave a comment on Clean Living

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