NH Secrets Legends and Lore

NH Secrets Legends and Lore

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NH Secrets Legends and Lore episodes

  • Episode 10 Sugaring With Uncle Harry

    Uncle Harry was a deacon in our church and he wasn't my uncle - he was everyone's uncle. His kindly face, worn with the seasons of a Yankee native's life, would beam as he leaned down to remind me of the sugaring off party at his sugarhouse that afternoon and called me "dear" in that rich North Country accent that resonates still in my brain. Read the full piece here. https://newhampshireadventures.blogspot.com/2017/04/uncle-harry-uhlmans-sugaring-off-parties.html

    10 min
  • Ep 09 NH Secrets Sen Ralph Hough - When Merit Guides Governance

    For those who long for more civil times when Republicans and Democrats saw one another as the loyal opposition. State Senate President Ralph Hough Gave New Hampshire A Senate to Remember in 1992.

    Named as a Defendant in the nationally renowned Claremont v NH lawsuit over educational funding because of the constitutional office he held, Hough was a profile in courage when, he filed a brief on behalf of the Plaintiff School Districts and testified before the NH Supreme Court, asking them to side with the Schools. That year the Supreme Court Ruled on behalf of the Schools and the Children, though the struggle continues, this decision will set the precedent for a new suit recently filed once again.
    To my mind Ralph Hough is a hero and a living example of a Radical Centrist. Seeking to build consensus, to create both common ground and to build new ground upon which people of good-will could stand to find solutions to challenging problems.

    1 hr 16 min
  • Ep 08 PAREI Sandra Jones And Peter Adams 4:27:19

    Episode 08 Ripples of Hope - The Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative PAREI. This is a joint podcast of The Radical Centrist and New Hampshire Secrets, Legends and Lore and cross broadcast on both podcasts because of the unique nature of PAREI

    1 hr 10 min
  • EP 05 NH Secrets: The Way We Were - V. Michael Hutchings

    EP 05 NH Secrets: The Way We Were - V. Michael Hutchings

    V. Michael Hutchings served as a Republican State Representative in the NH House from 1983-1986. He has a special place in his heart for New Hampshire's political system and is a fierce advocate of our democracy and a life long observer of the political scene and its historic context.

    1 hr 27 min
  • The Many Faces of Robert Rogers - Frontier Hero, White Devil_Stephen_Brumwell 2b

    The Many Faces of Robert Rogers

    Part 2 - Episode 2B
    Robert Rogers – Frontier Hero
    Wobomagonda - White Devil
    Few New Hampshire citizen’s played a more unique and controversial role in the pre-revolutionary period of what would come to be The United States of America than Robert Rogers.
    Robert Rogers was a New Hampshire resident and colonial frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Mass, his family soon moved north to what is now New Hampshire settling in a town Roger's refers to in his writings as Mountalona and today encompassing the towns of Dunbarton and Bow.
    His service to the people of New England, particularly in the war known in the colonies as the French & Indian War is well documented and a study in the fame and controversy that surrounded this remarkable man. At only 14 years of age he became a member of the militia in King George’s War (1744–1748).
    In this second part of our second episode I continue my interview with author and historian Stephen Brumwell who spoke with me from his home in Amsterdam.
    If you have not listened to part one of this episode, I urge you to listen to part 1 first in order to understand the broad sweep of Rogers career and to follow Stephen Brumwell’s interview that is largely presented in chronological order.
    In this two part episode it’s our good fortune to have author and historian Stephen Brumwell speaking with us from his home in Amsterdam. Stephen Brumwell is the author of numerous books including White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America about Robert Rogers and his Rangers.
    Stephen Brumwell is a former newspaper reporter - so he knows well the process for digging up a story and appreciating the nuances of that story. Stephen received his Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. In addition to White Devil his most recent book Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty - from Yale University Press; is a must read for anyone who wants to truly understand the role of Benedict Arnold in the American Revolution in its broadest sweep. He lectures regularly in the US and the UK.
    In part two Stephen Brumwell provides more details on the raid on St Francis as well as a detailed discussion of what we know about the Abenaki people who were in St. Francis at the time of the raid and the storied retreat of the Rangers to the Cowas Intervale on the Connecticut River near Haverhill. Their flight was marked by hunger, deprivation and cannibalism with vengeful French troops and Abenaki Indians hot on their heels.
    Stephen Brumwell also discusses why Rogers served in the King’s army during the Revolution and not on the American side. Including what might be described as a bit of jealousy on the part of George Washington about Robert Rogers who was more famous and celebrated than even Washington at the start of the Revolution.
    He also points out - and rightfully so - that if the war had not ended as it did, with an American victory, the traitors of history would have been named Washington, Jefferson, Stark and Adams. Confirming the addage that history is largely written by the victors.
    Finally, Stephen Brumwell and I explore what may be a secret and is certainly a legend about the final resting place of Robert Rogers - presumed to have been buried in a paupers grave in London. Specifically the question: Did someone spirit the remains of Robert Rogers back to New Hampshire for burial in the family plot in a Dunbarton cemetery?

    56 min
  • NH Secrets 02a Robert Rogers Frontier Hero White Devil Episode2A

    The Many Faces of Robert Rogers - New Hampshire Born Frontier Hero, "Wobomagonda" (White Devil) to the Abenaki.
Few New Hampshire citizen’s played a more unique and controversial role in the pre-revolutionary period of what would come to be The United States of America than Robert Rogers.

    Robert Rogers, or Rodgers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795), was a New Hampshire resident and colonial frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Mass, his family moved north to what is now New Hampshire settling in a town Roger's refers to in his writings as Mountalona and today encompassing the towns of Dunbarton and Bow.
    His service to the people of New England, particularly in the war known in the colonies as the French & Indian War (in Europe the Seven Years War) is well documented and a study in the fame and controversy that surrounded this remarkable man. At only 14 years of age he became a member of the militia in King George’s War (1744–1748).
    Many military historians attribute the seeds of the American Revolution’s success to the ideology, tactics and strategies of the famed Roger's Rangers, led forcefully and adeptly by Rogers. Indeed, one of his favored rangers was his second in command John Stark who would later set aside his "Ranger temperament" to become a General in the Colonial Army and utter the famed phrase "Live Free or Die" in the heat of battle.

    51 min
  • NH Secrets: Arthur Walden, Chinook and the Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1:2:19

    Arthur T. Walden and Chinook

    The relationship between humans and dogs likely goes back to a time before we could even communicate with one another. It is, without doubt, the stuff of legend and lore.
    New Hampshire can claim a special part in that long trail of legend and lore because of one very special dog and the man who loved, raised and trained him; and turned his remarkable traits into a unique breed of working dog.
    Disney himself could not have created a more powerful story of love between a man and a dog and the achievements spawned by that affection.

    49 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.