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eBook details
- Title: Hidden History of New Hampshire
- Author : D. Quincy Whitney
- Release Date : January 18, 2012
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Travel & Adventure,United States,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4409 KB
Description
A collection of colorful stories about some of New Hampshire’s most notable newsmakers and remarkable historic events. Includes photos.
Hidden in the cracks and crevices of the Granite State are the stories of pioneers who pursued their passions, creating legacies along the way. Compiled by a Smithsonian researcher and former Boston Globe contributor, this treasury includes tales of: the mountain man who became an innkeeperthe “Bird Man” who took his passion to the White Housethe gentleman who ascended the highest peak in the Northeast in a steam-powered locomobilethe story of one skier’s dramatic win at the 1939 “American Inferno” Mount Washington racethe Shaker Meetinghouse, built in just one day, in complete silencethe gallant efforts to save the Old Man of the Mountainand much more