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Friday, July 28, 2017

Enlightenment

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This summer has been really rainy and dreary, but we are about to celebrate Sophomore Summer Family Weekend and the forecast is perfect. Tod...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Creepy!

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We couldn't let this go by without comment. Last week we worked with a group of health care professionals looking at the history of medi...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Faces of Aeneas

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Ogilby's Aeneas You don't really think of classical characters being altered by 17th-century political turmoil, but the face ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Rocks and a Hard Place

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Farming in New Hampshire has never been an easy proposition. Although the overwhelming number of boulders that fill the fields have been a...
Friday, July 14, 2017

A Sitter for Little Liza

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We were answering a reference question today out of Charles Jackson's papers and we stumbled on a sweet little moment. Jackson was fri...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Camp Fire Girls

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The Camp Fire Girls were founded just up the road from here in Thetford, Vermont, to give girls the same opportunities their bothers had in ...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Summer Vacation Battles

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In July 1864, a group of wealthy women and one gentleman set off on an excursion "to rusticate a few weeks among the mountains." T...
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