A Happy New Hampshire New Year 1841
A happy new year.–Before we again shall have an opportunity to address our friends and readers, the present year will have passed away & the New Year of Eighteen hundred and forty two will be...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Resolution Makers 1914
RESOLUTION MAKERS From: Portsmouth Herald, December 31, 1914 Any weakling can make resolutions. It needs a strong man to keep them. That is perhaps why New Year’s resolutions are so often futile. The...
View ArticlePopular Superstitions of the Winter Season: 1840
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE WINTER SEASON From: Saturday, December 26, 1840; Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth NH) page 2 Associated with Christmas and the New Year are many of...
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s Old Time Christmas Traditions and Decorations
In New Hampshire’s early days, Christmas was celebrated in a much quieter and sedate manner. The early New England immigrants were stern opponents of what we consider today to be our usual Christmas...
View ArticleThe Death of the Old Year, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842)
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842) ———————————– Full knee deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing; Toll ye the church bell sad and slow And tread softly...
View Article2017 — New Hampshire’s Hourglass Has Turned
The hourglass has turned; the last few sands That marked the Old Year now have slipped away, And in his outstretched hand the New Year holds The future of a twelvemonth’s span. Then hail New Year! We...
View Article100 Years Ago: WWI and the New Year (January 1918)
In most New Hampshire places newspapers were not published on New Year’s Day, however many were printed on New Year’s Eve 1917, and January 2, 1918. The following compilation is gleaned from those...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbits: Old Toasts and Traditions of the New Year
Tradition is interwoven with the changing of the year. On New Year’s Day it is common to bid farewell to the old and to welcome in the new with an optimistic perspective. For a brief moment at the...
View ArticleA Toast to My Readers: New Year 2020
A toast to my readers, may you continue to have keen eyesight and discerning tastes. A toast to historians, that you will offer insight into the past without embellishment and with proper credit and...
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