NH Secrets Legends and Lore

NH Secrets Legends and Lore

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NH Secrets Legends and Lore episodes

  • The Mountains He's Moved: Tom Salatiello

    Tom Salatiello and The Mountains He's Moved

    Unsung Heroes
    From going undercover as a dishwasher to confirm allegations of abuse in a group home in northern New Hampshire, to teaching his clients and constituents how to navigate the bureaucracy, Tom Salatiello has lived a life of service to his fellow men and women.
    In his first year in Seminary, in Worchester Massachusetts, Tom discovered that the life of a priest was not his calling but he knew right then that helping people would determine the course of his life. He chose social work and within a few years landed in New Hampshire at the Department of Health and Human Services.
    This fall, he will begin his 49th year at HHS. At 75 years old he could have retired ten years ago. Today in the midst of a global pandemic he could be social isolating but to Tom that would mean he could not serve the people he loves and someone else with a young family, or older parents, would need to be doing what he is doing. So he persists. Nothing seems to stop Tom Salatiello, not even the pancreatic cancer that struck him nearly a decade ago and that he battles to this day.
    That’s why this episode of New Hampshire Secrets, Legends and Lore brings you the first in what I hope will be an ongoing series of stories called "unsung heroes" and why I begin this series with one of New Hampshire's greatest unsung heroes, Tom Salatiello of Sanbornton.
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    Sometimes I think Tom Salatiello is fueled by nothing more than pure love. In a world filled with partisanship, tribalism, bickering and anger he reminds us all that we humans have so much more that unites us than divides us. Every day for Tom Salatiello is another day when he draws the circle of humanity and love wider and wider to help unite us - in spite of our differences.
    If you would like to suggest someone we should recognize, go to the show notes and send me an email with your suggestions and reasons. NHSecrets.blogspot.com . There you can also contribute to this podcast if you feel moved to do that as well.
    Thank you for listening we'll be back again soon with another episode of NH Secrets, Legends and Lore.

    1 hr 23 min
  • Episode 16 John Harrigan Inducted into NE Newspaper Hall of Fame

    John Harrigan has received many honors in his storied 52 year career in journalism. In 2020 he has added one more as the New England Newspaper and Press Association named him to their New England Newspaper Hall of Fame. The Association calls him the quintessential newsman. His column "Woods, Water and Wildlife" has been continuously running for 37 years, one of the longest-running columns in the state of New Hampshire. In this Episode of the New Hampshire Secrets, Legends & Lore podcast, John reflects on the long arc of his career including its beginnings at the Nashua Telegraph and the New Hampshire Sunday News, the tragedy of the mass shooting, in Colebrook, by Carl Drega in 1997, that took the lives of four close friends, including the Editor of one of his newspapers. John himself was only spared because he had been called, at the last minute, to fill in for an employee who had to leave his Lancaster paper - The Coos County Democrat - due to the death of her father. Finally, he recalls a glorious day at Fenway Park with Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey watching the 1967 World Series between the Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals.

    1 hr 27 min
  • NH Secrets, Legends & Lore: Episode 15: The Shakers and Communal Societies

    "Americans have this idea that communes were invented by hippies in the 1960s and 1970s. That could not be farther from the truth. Communal living is as American as apple pie and began in the earliest days of the Republic and even before." Darryl Thompson, Shaker Historian.

    Leaving aside discussions of whether Native American Indians were, in fact, the earliest of communal societies (they probably were) communal living among those migrating to the "New World" was a very common thing. The success of the Shakers triggered many new communal groups.

    22 min
  • NH Secrets_EP11B_Marilla Ricker_Pt2

    According to the historic record of the NH Bar Association, the first woman admitted to the New Hampshire Bar Association was Agnes Winifred McLaughlin admitted in 1917. But McLaughlin was NOT the first woman lawyer practicing in New Hampshire. That honor, and the shoulders upon whom all women attorneys stand belong to a woman named Marilla Marks Young Ricker. Learn about this extraordinary woman's career as a lawyer and advocate for the poor and downtrodden, and hear NH's recipient of the Marilla Ricker Award Attorney Maureen Raiche Manning interviewed about the honor.

    Today almost anyone from NH can name dozens of exceedingly fine women lawyers. Jean K. Burling, was the first female judge in NH in 1973.
    Attorney Linda S. Delianis was first appointed to the NH Superior Court and then served with distinction as NH's first female Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court.
    Today Associate Justice Carol Ann Conboy from the NH Supreme Court carries on the tradition of service.
    Landya Boyer McCafferty (born September 19, 1962) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. She is the first female judge to serve in the District of New Hampshire.
    Even today one cannot miss the impact that Kelly Ayotte (1993): First female Attorney General of New Hampshire (2004-2009) continues to have, now in the political arena.
    • Emily Gray Rice (1984):[11][12] First female to serve as a U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire (2016)
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    • Patti Blanchette and Susan B. Carbon:[13][14] First females to serve respectively as the President of the New Hampshire Bar Association (1992-1993; 1993-1994)
    • Maureen Raiche Manning:[15] First female to serve as President of the New Hampshire Women's Bar Association (1998)
    • And there are scores of others: Tina Nadeau, Ellen Arnold, whom I first met when she was counsel to the New Hampshire Senate and has represented Dartmouth College among others, Leslie Nixon, Cathy Green, Donna Brown, Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster,
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    • All of these remarkable women stand on the shoulders of one extraordinary woman named Marilla Ricker of New Durham, NH. Who was never formally recognized by the NH Bar Association, though she practiced Law in New Hampshire for the latter part of her life by special dispensation from the NH Supreme Court often in partnership with other NH Attorneys.
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    • Anyone who met Marilla as a very young child would have recognized that here was a person who would leave her mark. At only three she was cutting out headlines from local newspapers and asking her mother and father to explain the meaning of large words. By 4 she was reading herself. At 16, having been turned down in her application to become a nurse for Union troops in the Civil War, she became a teacher and would subsequently teach in both Dover and Lee, NH
    1870 She first tried to vote in Dover and each year thereafter for 30 years
    1882 - Admitted to the DC Bar
    1884 First woman
    1891 - Admitted to practice Law before the US Supreme Court (51 years old)
    1897 Applied to be Ambassador to Colombia (57 Years old)
    1910 (70 years old) Applied to run for Governor but was refused a place on the ballot because of her gender., yet she campaigned vigorously throughout the campaign nonetheless, insisting that she was seeking to get people used to the idea of a woman governor.
    2016 Put her portrait in the NH Statehouse - Artist: Kate Gridley, Bill Sponsor: Renny Cushing
    2002 Thesis on Marilla Rickert by Lee Ann Richey of Stanford University - PDF
    Katherine O'Brien - "True Light" the Life of Marilla Ricker

    45 min
  • Saving Forest Lake - NH Secrets

    In 1935 New Hampshire created Forest Lake State Park. One of the original 10 state parks. On land donated by the Newell family, New Hampshire created a "little slice of heaven" for working families from the area. In the ensuing years it would become a refuge for working class families in the North Country. 396 acres of woods and trails and a beautiful North Country lake where - on hot summer days - the families of working folks could escape from the heat of a hot summer day. Many of them would pack a lunch or a picnic and rest, swim and play until mom or dad could join them after a hard days work in one of the local mills. It was - and still is- a gem in the crown of New Hampshire’s state park system. 

    Six months ago a Vermont company announced plans to create a landfill in the Forest Lake area and a firestorm of opposition was ignited. The people of Dalton, Whitefield, Bethlehem and nearby Littleton, led by a reluctant warrior named Jon Swan. Jon had come to the North Country from Texas by way of Iraq - where he was stationed after signing up at 38 following the 9-11 attacks. After two years in Iraq Jon returned to upstate New York and finally settled with his wife in Dalton, NH where he believed he had found his "spot on the porch" to quote Carlos Castaneda.

    1 hr
  • NH Secrets Gloria Norris 9 21 19

    Author Gloria Norris on Journalism, InDepthNH, her memoir KooKooland, The NH Primary, Climate Change, Film Making with Woody Allen, Brian DePalma, Robert Deniro, Martin Scorcese and Writing her memoir.

    Gloria Norris talks about joining the board of Directors of the NH Center for Public Interest Journalism and InDepthNH.org as well as her memoir KooKooland about a young greek girl growing up in the "Projects" of Manchester NH.
    Gloria Norris was raised in a tight-knit Greek family. She attended Bennington College and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She began her career in New York as an assistant to film directors Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and Woody Allen. Since relocating to Los Angeles, she has worked as a screenwriter, with assignments that have taken her from Paris to the Amazon. As an independent producer, her films have premiered at the Sundance, Toronto, and Tribeca Film festivals.
    Gloria writes from the perspective of her 9 year-old self and in doing so she explores a world that she knew but rediscovers through writing the dialog that reflected her family and their interactions.
    Gloria will be headlining an upcoming fundraiser for the NH Center for Public Interest Journalism/InDepthNH.org on November 12th at the Derryfield Restaurant in Manchester NH. She has recently joined the Board of Directors of the organization.

    31 min
  • Climate Strike - 9_7_19

    Plymouth Citizens Join the Climate Strike September 20th

    In fewer than 10 days more than 120 citizens of the Plymouth, NH region have organized themselves into a “strike force” aimed at launching the local effort to address the Climate Emergency and they are planning to hold a climate strike on the Plymouth Town Common on Friday, September 20 from noon to 3pm.
    The newly formed Pemi Climate Emergency Coalition is determined not to waste a moment.
    “Nothing ever happens in politics without a popular uprising,“ said Steve Rand Co-Chair of the Coalition. “We have come together to create that uprising locally. Nothing else matters if we don’t get this right and there is very little time.”
    The sense of urgency among these 120 citizens is palpable and they are pushing for citizens to turn out to join the Strike.
    The Strike is part of a global day of action organized by 350.org. Similar groups will be joining together across the planet demanding action and accountability from political and industry leaders.
    Links:
    https://globalclimatestrike.net/
    https://www.facebook.com/pemiclimate/

    16 min

About NH Secrets Legends and Lore

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Welcome to the NEW HAMPSHIRE SECRETS, LEGENDS AND LORE PODCAST where twice a month we explore the world of New Hampshire that lies outside of the hard news. I’m your host, Wayne King, and I invite you to join us for an adventure that will take us on a journey together to explore those things that are unlikely to make the pages of your newspaper, the waves of your radio station or the bits and bytes of your favorite news website. Yet for many of us these stories will reveal what makes life here in the Granite State truly worth living.