How the Indians Made Maple Syrup
Dropped hot rocks into the sap
Indians Try for a Giggle
Hiding girl doesn’t laugh
Durham Love Story
Gets his wife back by singing
Justice in Hollis
Gossip gets three hours in the stocks
The Widow Dennett
Portsmouth come-a-courting story
Oldest NH Paper Mill
It’s in Pennington
18th Century Customs in Walpole
Just what is an eel skin?
John Taylor Gilman
Exeter man says goodbye and dies
The Old Boar
Brigs down a bear in Hollis
Throat Distemper
Killed thousands on the Seacoast
Bones in Portsmouth
Man hanged and buried in the road.
The Great Ox of Hampton
Sucks up to the Governor
Bears in Dublin
A remote control shooting
Boys Chased by Wolves
In Fitzwilliam
Whipping the Cat in Hampton
Shoemaking in 1776
First Workers Strike in America
It was in Sandown
Nevins Rock
The guy who left it died at Bunker Hill
Nancy’s Brook
Frozen to death in Crawford Notch
New Ipswich Mob
A Tory is in Ashburnham
Frenchmen’s Duel
In Portsmouth Cemetery
Shakers
In New Ipswich
The Cockade Hat
Treason in Milford
Lightning Accidents
Jaffrey had a lot of them
Surgery in Sharon
Medical history made
Stool Pigeons in Bedford
Real pigeons yet
Londonderry Turnpike
It’s now Route 28
Religious Revival 1814
You could get arrested in New Ipswich
Silver in Barrington
The buried coins are still lost
The Tornado of 1821
Blew a hole in Warner
The Old Portsmouth Bridge
The quickest way to Kittery
Funeral in Sullivan
So many the floor collapsed
Shot by His Own Gun
In Fitzwilliam
Saved By His Hat
Robbery in Nelson
The First Black Author in America
Came from Milford
The Witch of Coos
A true story from Stark
Ben Thompson and UNH
Eccentricity in Durham
Josiah Pike Hanged
Killing in Hampton Falls
First Rubber-tired Car in NH
In Manchester
The Great Souhegan Bank Heist
Milford family taken hostage
Apple Hits Horse
And Jaffrey girl is shot
Goose Yokes
No kidding: in Meredith
Snow Rollers
Last ones were in Conway
The Lancaster Fox
Why a fox?
Ship Saved off Venezuela
By a guy in the White Mts.
Domestic Goose Wooed by Wild Goose
In Hancock
NH Towns Get Names Oddly
What’s in a name?
Ashland
Named for Henry Clay’s home
Fort Atkinson
Opening of the Lakes Region
Daniel Webster in Boscawen
Had his law offices there
Center Harbor
Named for a family
Charmingfare
Now Candia
The Chester Cemetery
Where only half the angles smile
Concord’s Bridges
End of the First NH Turnpike
Dover
The place of wigwams.
The Greenfield Fair
Used to be a big deal
The Brickyards of Hookset
Amoskeag Mills were built from them
Amoskeag
The largest textile mill in the world
Marlow
They moved the town here
Lake Massasecum
Named for a Native American
Middleton Town Hall
A hidden treasure
New Boston’s Eagle
Fancy, schmancy
Newbury
AKA Dantzic/Hereford/Fisherville
Stories from Fritz’
I’LL TELL YOU THE STORY
Here is a list of stories you will find in this book. Each is identified by subject and the place the story happened.
Maxfield Parrish’s Stage Set
You can see it in Plainfield
The Richard Nixon Profile
In Marlow
Oyster River Plantation
Now Durham
Pawtuckaway Boulder Field
A “wow” attraction in Nottingham
Peterborough Town Library
First in the world supported by taxation
Purgatory
A little piece of hell in Mont Vernon
Sanbornton
Lots of history
Sharon Schoolhouse
No running water and an outhouse
Sunapee
The goose lake place
Surry
Where Ichabod Crane is buried
Christmas in NH
The perfect place to be
Finding Jesse Buters
Under the snow all winter
Salmon P. Chase of Cornish
Among other things The Chase Manhattan Bank
Winston Churchill of Cornish
Yah, a different guy
Cigar Box John
From Derry
Saved by the Cheese
In Alexandria
Bedford
Got name from Lady Di’s family
Invented the Revolver
Guy from Pembroke
First European to Climb Monadnock
Sam Willard
First European Death on Mt. Washington
A British Peer
Fired Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Buried in Deering … maybe
Edward Gove
The Hampton Hero
John Parker Hale
Dover’s great emancipator
Lucy Hale of Dover
Loved Robert Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth
Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport
Created Thanksgiving Day
Aunt Jenny the Witch
From Hillsboro
Sanders McMurphy of Alexandria
Wore George Washington’s uniform.
The Northwood Minister’s Pay
Not much money but a lot of stuff
James Monroe in NH
He liked the ladies in Concord
Jonathan Moulton
A pact with the devil in Hampton
Ocean Born Mary of Henniker
Not what you think
Thomas Pickering
Took and ax to the British in Newington
Paving the Road to the Cemetery
Durham Doctor was scandalized
Robert’s Dad Comes to Exeter
Abe Lincoln
Count Rumford
Concord’s most-famous man
The Russian Count in Meredith
A straight shooter
Chesterfield’s Harlan Fisk Stone
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
The Last Signer of the Declaration
Matthew Thornton of Londonderry
The Tramp in Ashland
He died in on Christian Hill
Amos Tuck of Exeter
Created the Republican Party
Mark Twain in Dublin
Loved the town
The Snowball Trial
Judge and jury in Sanbornton
NY’s First High School For Women
Founded by a woman from Sutton
Daniel Webster Learns Table Manners
In Exeter
Nobel Prize Winner From Ashland
Dr. George Hoyt Whipple
Prince Whipple of Portsmouth
The black man crossing the Delaware with George
Returns From the Dead
In Salem
The Grand Hotel
In Mont Vernon
Miller State Park
Dedication in Peterborough
Memorial Bridge
In Portsmouth
Armistice Day
In Milford
Hattie Butler Loses Her teeth
My Grandmother
My Dad Plays a Trick
On my mother
The Manchester Dinner Party
Dad got drunk
The Bell that Wasn’t Supposed to Ring
In Milford
Fritz the Candidate
My only political run
Gregory Peck and Me
I got him angry
My Dad’s Yankee TV
And I mean Yankee
