Tag: Oyster River
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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…
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Resolution
10 January 2024 The warm, festive glow of my little 2023 Christmas tree is no more now that Twelfth Night has come and gone, and the tree rests, au naturale and snow covered, on the deck. The library sans decoration now seems both larger and more desolate. Some compensatory cheering arrived on Sunday the 7th…