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- Special CollectionsCora Watson Lewis was born in Concord, N.H. on November 26, 1858. At age 20, on the death of her mother, she joined her father in Washington, D.C., where he was doing work for former N.H. Governor N.G. Ordway, and took up teaching primary school in the house of the family she boarded with. After…
- Special CollectionsFlorence Cole [Heckman] of Dover, N.H. graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1912. In 1909, while still a freshman, she wrote the music to “On to Victory” with words by Professor Richard Whoriskey, the most…
- Special CollectionsMorris Leopold Ernst (1888–1976) was an American lawyer and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. The manuscript of So Far So Good is the second typed draft and dates from 1944. The novel was eventually published under the title So Far…
- Special CollectionsRebecca Peabody was a widow with six young children who lived in Franklin, N.H. Letter to Mr. Horace Chase, Judge of Probates, Hopkinton NH, May 1, 1848 in which Rebecca details her desperate plight. Her husband, who has recently left her - though…
- Special CollectionsWillis Boyd Allen was born at Kittery Point, Me., July 9, 1855, attended Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1878 and from Boston University Law School with an LL.B. degree in 1881. After practicing law for a short period he retired in…
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- Special CollectionsWalter S. Jenkins was a music professor at Newcomb College, Louisiana, and a lifelong biographer of composer Amy Cheney Beach. The Walter S. Jenkins Amy Cheney Beach collection mostly includes correspondence, research notes, and miscellaneous…
- Special CollectionsJoe Peidle is a professor of Scientific Instrument Making at Harvard University. He is also an avid photographer, with interests in a variety of subjects, and has his own darkroom. These photographs of contra dancing cover New England Folk Festival…
- Special CollectionsThe AMC Trail Crew dates to 1919 and is charged with trail and shelter maintenance in the White Mountains. The Association, formed to maintain a sense of community amongst trail crew staff and alumni, was organized in 1952. In 1999, the state of New…
- Special CollectionsJim Mayo is one of the few western square dance callers who began dancing in the more traditional style taught by Ralph Page and was later mentored in calling by Al Brundage. Mayo went on to be a founding member and chairman of CALLERLAB (est. 1972).…
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- Special CollectionsHanford Wentworth Eldredge (1909-1991) was a sociology professor at Dartmouth College who served as a counter-intelligence officer in the United States Army Airforce during World War II. This collection consists of a manuscript of his drafts for an autobiography.
- Special CollectionsOrmond Armstrong Roberts (1913-2005) was a First Lieutenant in the 168th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division when he was captured in February 1943 at the battle of Sidi Bou Zid in Tunisia and taken via Naples and the Brenner Pass, initially to a British grand blessé camp for a while and eventually by…
- Special CollectionsHerbert “Herb” Wendell Gallagher (1911-1992) served Northeastern University for over 60 years as player, coach and athletic director. In 1948 he was named New England Hockey Coach of the Year. He was one of the founders of the Beanpot tournament,…
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- Special CollectionsBrothers Frank Everett Steele and Roger Steele were Seventh Day Adventists from the rural farming community of Campton, New Hampshire. Both served as medics in WWII, despite their pacifist convictions. Frank Everett was mostly employed in Texas as a…
- Special CollectionsCharles Baldwin (1907-1986) was a square dance caller and teacher in the western or ‘modern’ square dance tradition. He was greatly influential in western square dancing starting in the 1940s. Baldwin founded Camp Becket (MA), editor of the New…
- Special CollectionsAdrienne Fried Block earned an MA in Musicology from Hunter College 1967 and a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1979. In addition to her groundbreaking scholarly work in musicology, she taught/conducted at several schools including the Dalcroze…
- Special CollectionsArthur H. Reynolds enlisted in 1936 in the NH National Guard and enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940, ending up in Manila in the Philippines. After the surrender of the US and Filipino forces in 1942, Reynolds was prisoner in P.O.W. camps for…
- Special CollectionsBorn 1835 in Milford, NH. He accepted a position in the Treasury Department in 1865 and in July 1874 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, being the first man to rise to the position after serving only a clerkship. From 1877 to 1880 he served as the department's funding agent,…
- Special CollectionsThe first resurrected New Hampshire Folk Festival – an event with that name had previously been held from 1946-1964 – was held at Pat’s Peak Ski Area in Henniker on August 15, 1976. The New Hamsphire folk community felt that it was time that serious…
- Special CollectionsAnna Maria Greeley Clarke (1811-1883) was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire to Stephen L. and Anna Norton Greeley. In 1834, she married William Cogswell Clarke, a lawyer from Manchester. He and Anna had four children: Stephen Greeley, Anna Norton,…
- Special CollectionsJoseph A. Leach was a Keene, New Hampshire teacher. He was born in April of 1836 in Vermont and married Stella Eliza Ranney in 1866. Joseph A. Leach ran a school for the children of prominent people in Keene, New Hampshire. In these letters he tells General Henry Goddard Thomas about the progress…
- Special CollectionsBridgewater is a New Hampshire town in Grafton County. The population in 1810 was 1,104 but had dropped to 727 by 1820. By 1840 it had gradually grown to 747. Bridgewater, N.H. selectmen’s records showing records of school business, taxes, etc. for the years 1812-1844.
- Special CollectionsMembers of the Sterns Family of Epping NH included: Rev. Josiah Stearns (1732-1788), wife Sarah (Ruggles) Stearns (1731-1808), their son Rev. Samuel Stearns (1770-1834), Jonathan Stearns of Andover, MA, and Ebenezer S. Stearns. Also included is…
- Special CollectionsFort Constitution was built in 1632 on the island of New Castle, New Hampshire. Through several centuries, the post served as a trading port, a target of warfare, and a training ground for the military. It was a center of rebellion several months…
- Special CollectionsThe Browne family of Boston, MA consisted of Civil War veteran George Browne (1840-1912); Mountaineer/artist/author Belmore Browne (1880-1954) the youngest son of George and Nellie Browne; outdoor educator Evelyn Browne (1916-1994) the oldest child…
- Special CollectionsThe Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter covered scores, standings and game notes for all 4 leagues of NCAA Division I hockey and was the authoritative source for information about the college hockey scene. It was published in Troy, NY by Don T.…
- Special CollectionsAlan F. Kiepper was born in 1928. He was a prominant director in major public transit construction projects and their subsequent running in Richmond VA, Atlanta GA, and New York City. He also served as Associate Professor of Public Administration at…
- Special CollectionsHenderson N. White was born in Romeo, Michigan in 1873. From 1893 until his death in 1940 he owned and operated a musical instrument manufacturing business in Cleveland, redesigning twenty eight instruments during his career. Mr. White made a huge…
- Special CollectionsBetty and Barney Hill lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Betty (1919-2004) was a social worker, with a degree from the University of New Hampshire, and Barney (1923-1969) was a postal worker. The couple were catapulted into the international…
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- Special CollectionsSandy Freedman (ca. 1920-ca. 1993) was a dance leader in New York City. His particular passion was to bring folk dance to individuals who might not otherwise have a chance to partake, especially senior citizens and differently abled individuals. His…
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- Special CollectionsCharles “Charlie” Francisco (ca. 1920-1997) was a folkdance leader especially active during the 1940s-1960s in Buffalo, New York. His particular strength was in Slavic/Baltic music and dance, but he also enjoyed contra dance, square dance, Scottish…
- Special CollectionsNonny Hogrogian started her career as a designer of children’s books but soon began illustrating and writing. She twice won the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children, in 1966 for Always Room For One More and in 1972 for…
- Special CollectionsFirst Unitarian Church of Manchester's first place of worship was a small wooden chapel built in 1841 on the corner of Hanover and Chestnut Streets by the Second Methodist Episcopal society. In 1843 the society purchased a chapel and moved it to the…
- Special Collections“Save Our Shores” was a citizens group organized in 1973 to combat the proposal to build a massive oil refinery to be built on Great Bay just outside of Durham, N.H. Dudley Dudley played an integral part in the fight as a freshman legislator. She sponsored House Bill 18 that reaffirmed towns’ home-…
- Special CollectionsThe Portsmouth Council of Defense was part of the federal hierarchy for civilian defense during World War II. Each state had its own council to coordinate civilian defense within its borders. The Civil Defense Corps, run by the Office of Civilian…
- Special CollectionsRuth G. Stimson graduated from UNH in 1940 with a degree in Home Economics. She joined the Cooperative Extension as a Home Demonstration Agent-at-Large. Shortly after, she was assigned to the Rockingham County Office where she worked until she retired…
- Special CollectionsGalway Kinnell (1927-2014)was born in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Princeton University. After graduation he taught in France, Australia, and Iran, as well as the United States, and was poet-in- residence at several colleges and universities…
- Special CollectionsDonald Hall was born in 1928 in Hamden, Connecticut, and attended Phillips Exeter, Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Universities. He taught for 19 years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before moving in 1975 to the family farm on Eagle Pond in…
- Special CollectionsCharles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, moving to the United States in 1953. His first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, was published in 1962. Since then he has published more than sixty books in the U.S.…
- Special CollectionsThe Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests was formed in Concord, N.H. in February 1901 "...to preserve the forests of New Hampshire, to protect its scenery, to encourage the building of good roads, and to cooperate in other measures of…
- Special CollectionsAnnette Brinckerhoff Cottrell (1907-1997) was a conservation activist and a key figure in dozens of state and local environmental organizations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, including the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, the New Hampshire…
- Special CollectionsJean Pedrick Kefferstan (1922-2006),was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She was a poet, co-founder of the Alice James Poetry Cooperative (later Alice James Books), and founder of Skimmilk Farm summer poetry workshops in Brentwood, NH. Pedrick published…
- Special CollectionsThe Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend celebrates the legacy of New Hampshire dance caller Ralph Page (1903-1985) with an annual 3 day festival of New England music and dance. It was established in January 1988 as a branch of the New England Folk…
- Special CollectionsThese materials include programs and individual items from mostly non-collegiate hockey programs.
- Special CollectionsThe collection was donated by Dr. Stephen Hardy of the University of New Hampshire. It consists of articles on coaching taken from magazines, newspapers and manuals, and typewritten documents on Charlie Holt’s training system.
