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By MEG GOURLEY

Many New Hampshire towns were originally set up by emigres from Massachusetts. As such, the Massachusetts legislature wanted towns set up a certain way; they had to be roughly six miles square and broken up into about 63 lots, with one set aside to...

By MEG GOURLEY

The telephone – where would we be without it? Most of us are familiar with the story of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. But if you were living in Jaffrey or Peterborough in 1899 or so, what did your actual experience with the...

By MEG GOURLEY

It’s that time of the year again! Time to begin the harvest of the first crop of the year – ice. But blessedly, it’s not 1910 and thanks to the marvels of modern refrigeration, the ice man cometh no more. But what did our forbears go through in trying...