“Once a sovereign nation”…
Category Archives: 1840s
Hutchinson Family Singers
Color portrait of the world-famous Milford, NH quartet… PLUS series source links!
Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)
The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England.
Dublin Lyceum (1836-1844)
Community education & discourse in Dublin: The adults publish (& perform) their own bi-weekly zine… and the kids put out TWO!
Moses Trussell (New London)
Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…
Haunted House (Weare)
Let’s peek into another Weare haunting…
To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)
A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…
