Tag: Madbury NH

• Glimmers

  11 April 2025 In 2021 when he was running for Ohio’s Senate seat, J.D. Vance, alumnus of the Ohio State University (’09) and Yale Law School (’13), gave a speech he titled “The Universities are the Enemy,” in which he argued that universities are hostile institutions, and must be attacked “honestly and aggressively.”  He concluded…

  georgeannmurphy

  April 12, 2025

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  Abigail Dunn, Hands Off protests, MA Poetry Out Loud competition, Madbury NH, poetry, The Barn at Powder Major’s Farm, Wentworth Greenhouses

• Revolution 2024

  4 July 2024 On Saturday, 15 June, Durham NH celebrated—six months early—the sestercentennial (aka 250th anniversary) of some doughty Durham residents’ 1774 raid on the British Fort William and Mary in New Castle, enacting there at the mouth of the Piscataqua River the first major act of colonial rebellion that took place four months before…

  georgeannmurphy

  July 4, 2024

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  american-revolution, Durham NH, Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, Ft. William & Mary, Gen. John Sullivan, John Paul’s stone house, Madbury NH, New Castle NH, Oyster River, Paul Revere, Piscataqua River, Powder Major DeMerritt

• “Slanders of the Age” and the Write-In Campaign, 1.27.24

  This past week I’ve been consumed by two endeavors, volunteering in the Write-in Biden (WIB) campaign and reviewing my KDP editor’s notes on the Henry V chapter of my forthcoming book, Will to Live:  Learning from Shakespeare How to Be—and NOT to Be.  Doing both in such proximity reminds me of the curious elision of…

  georgeannmurphy

  January 27, 2024

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  donald-trump, Durham Town Landing, Henry V, Madbury NH, news, NH Primary, nikki-haley, politics, Shakespeare, trump, WILL TO LIVE, Write-In Biden