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The Mystery Stone remains a mystery. What do you think?
04-27-2017 11:24 PM

By RAY DUCKLER

We walked through two glass doors, unlocked by a gentle, soft-spoken man with a trimmed white beard. Leave your coffee behind, Wes Balla, the director of exhibitions at the New Hampshire Historical Society, told me. No use taking chances. No use...

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From clay model to cast in bronze: How sculptor Benjamin Victor created the Christa McAuliffe Memorial statue
08-25-2024 12:06 PM

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Sculptor Benjamin Victor was in second grade when NASA’s Challenger exploded in 1986, killing the seven people onboard the space shuttle, including New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe.Selected for NASA’s Teacher in Space Project,...


Jube Savage and Titus Wilson were Black Revolutionary War soldiers with ties to the Monadnock region
02-17-2021 5:35 PM

By ABBE HAMILTON

In October 1792, the Temple town fathers met to address a frightening development in the town, Monadnock Center for History and Culture Executive Director Michelle Stahl said. “Smallpox had broken out in a community that had grown up around the site...


Train depot brought hope
12-14-2018 4:53 PM

By James W. Spain II

There was a time in the early years when the Merrimack River offered our ancestors a good life. It provided fertile grounds along the flood plain for planting crops and provided food to the hungry.Along the banks our ancestors found American Elm...


History and ecology of stone walls
12-31-2016 10:00 PM

By RUTH SMITH

Winter is a wonderful time to get out and enjoy the natural world. When I do, I often encounter old stone walls in the woods. These relics of our region’s history tell many stories about past inhabitants and current residents of the landscape.The...

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