A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

Author: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Publisher: Public Affairs

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781541788497

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A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon spread into the neighboring woods. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. And it all caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

Strange New Hampshire
Strange New Hampshire

Author: Renee Mallett

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2010-06-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764334757

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In Manchester Ghosts of Portsmouth New Hampshire, Renee Mallett took you on a tour of some of the Granite State's most haunted cities. Now let her show you the other strange people, places, and points in history that New Hampshire has to offer. Covers every region of New Hampshire with more than 50 different locations and stories. Tales of lost treasure, hauntings, abandoned tourist attractions, off-beat travel spots, unusual world records and other oddities. Has both historical and modern-day people, places, and legends. More than 40 photographs. Whether you are on the trail of Marie Antoinette's lost diamond necklace, looking for the strange Blue Lady specter haunting one of Wilton's cemeteries, curious to find out what New Hampshire has to do with Saturday Night Live, or in the mood to visit strange tourist attractions like America's Stonehenge and the haunted High Hut of the state's tallest mountain, Strange New Hampshire is the guide for you.

The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire

Author: John Irving

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 034541795X

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The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp. “The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.

Haunted New Hampshire
Haunted New Hampshire

Author: Thomas D'Agostino

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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New Hampshire is a state rich with history-some of it haunted. Explore the tales of ghosts and haunts in towns such as Alton, Dover, Franconia, Litchfield, Nashua, Portsmouth, and West Chesterfield that will leave your senses tingling with adventure. Get the shivers that will keep you chilled as you explore the ghostly side of New Hampshire.

Cursed Objects
Cursed Objects

Author: J. W. Ocker

Publisher: Quirk Books

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1683692373

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Beware...this book is cursed! These strange but true stories of the world’s most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale. They’re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes. Their often tragic and always bizarre stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, novels, and campfire tales. They’re cursed objects, and all they need to unleash a wave of misfortune is . . . you. Many of these unfortunate items have intersected with some of the most notable events and people in history, leaving death and destruction in their wake. But never before have the true stories of these eerie oddities been compiled into a fascinating and chilling volume. Inside, readers will learn about: • Annabelle the Doll, a Raggedy Ann doll that featured in the horror franchise The Conjuring • The Unlucky Mummy, which is rumored to have sunk the Titanic and kick-started World War I • The Dybbuk box, which was sold on eBay and spawned the horror film The Possession • The Conjured Chest, which has been blamed for fifteen deaths within a single family • The Ring of Silvianus, a Roman artifact believed to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit • And many more!

The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England
The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England

Author: Thaddeus Piotrowski

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1476614083

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Years before Jamestown was settled, European adventurers and explorers landed on the shores of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in search of fame, fortune, and souls to convert to Christianity. Unbeknownst to them all, the "New World" they had found was actually a very old one, as the history of the native people spanned 10,000 years or more. This work is a compilation of old and new essays written by present-day archeologists, by explorers and missionaries who were in direct contact with the Indians, and by scholars over the last three centuries. The essays are in three sections: Prehistory, which concentrates on the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Woodland phases of the native heritage, the Contact Era, which deals with the explorers and their experiences in the New World, and Collections, Sites, Trails, and Names, which focuses on various dedications to the native population and significant names (such as the Massabesic Trail and the Cohas Brook site).

Outtastatahs
Outtastatahs

Author: Gary Patton

Publisher: Riverrun Select

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781939739117

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WHEN WE FIRST MOVED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE, my wife and I were in for a surprise. Some states have little sense of their identities. That isn't true of New Hampshire, which knows full well that it is a libertarian state and dares anyone to change it. Lord knows, we newcomers sometimes, even inadvertently, tried to budge it in a new direction, but we bumped into the attitude that Granite Staters don't mind being different. As a matter of fact, they thoroughly enjoy it. The phrase "That's not the New Hampshire Way" is heard here not infrequently. Newcomers to New Hampshire are known variously as "outtastatahs," "people from away," or "flatlanders." As new-comers, we had a lot to learn about our newly-adopted home. If you move to the Granite State, you, not the state, will have to change. Granite doesn't chip easily. This book reflects some of the lessons we learned.

Peyton Place
Peyton Place

Author: Grace Metalious

Publisher: Virago Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9781860499296

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Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...

Colonel Edward E. Cross, New Hampshire Fighting Fifth
Colonel Edward E. Cross, New Hampshire Fighting Fifth

Author: Robert Grandchamp

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0786493224

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Edward Ephraim Cross (1832-1863) accomplished more in his short lifetime years than most men who live to be 100. By the eve of the Civil War, he had traveled from Cincinnati to Arizona working as a political reporter, travel writer, editor, trail hand, silver mine supervisor, and Indian fighter. In the summer of 1861, he became colonel of the Fighting Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers and gained fame as a fearless battlefield commander during action at Fair Oaks, Antietam, Fredricksburg, and Chancellorsville before being mortally wounded at Gettysburg. However, behind this great soldier lay a flawed man, an alcoholic with a short temper who fought a constant battle with words against immigrants, abolitionists, and others with whom he disagreed. This detailed biography presents a full portrait of this controversial and little-known figure, filling a critical gap in the literature of the northern Civil War experience.