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7 March, 20169 March, 2016 Marek 1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms

This one's short and to the point.

1 March, 20167 March, 2016 Marek 1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights

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

29 February, 201620 February, 2023 Marek 1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

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

"All [people] are born equally FREE and INDEPENDENT..."

24 February, 201618 October, 2018 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, farms, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, pigs

Illumination

Whale oil or hog fat? The sustainable energy debate of the 1820s...

12 February, 201612 February, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history

Colby & Bacon on a Night March

The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency ...

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 ...

8 February, 201623 January, 2022 Marek 1800-1899, 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby at Muddy Branch

Somehow, Colby has to get a pail of drinking water out of Muddy Branch Creek ...

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 ...

23 January, 20161 February, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, politics, religion

Resolved

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

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 ...

12 January, 20169 February, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, revolutionary era

Heirloom

Brother Joshua discovers his Revolutionary namesake ...

7 January, 201612 January, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, apples, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

Colonel Burnham’s Apple Pockets

Jesse Sr. invites Colonel Burnham to stay on at the old farm ... << BEFORE: Joshua's Job ... NEXT: Heirloom >> SOURCE: As told in The Story of the Hutchinsons Vol. I (John Hutchinson, 1896) p.8

5 January, 20167 January, 2016 Marek 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

Joshua’s Job

Brother Joshua helps his siblings across the wide Souhegan valley ...

4 January, 201619 January, 2016 Marek 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

With ten children (and counting), Jesse and Polly Hutchinson hatch a plan to buy Colonel Burnham's old inn ... << BEFORE: The Twin Buglers ... NEXT: Moving day >> SOURCE: The Story of the Hutchinsons Vol. I (John Hutchinson, 1896) p.8