You Thought You Knew . . .: New Hampshire!

By John Willard

This wide-ranging collection of New Hampshire lore will challenge, enlighten, and amuse ..,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514432952

John Willard

“Teacher, tutor, and translator, John Willard in an earlier life was an international systems consultant. He currently resides just south of Salem, New Hampshire.”

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Contents

PEOPLE Women of NH

Women of New Hampshire

Eunice Goody Cole

Sarah Josepha Hale

Celia Laighton Thaxter

Mary Baker Eddy

PEOPLE Men of NH

Men of New Hampshire

John Stark

Marquis de Lafayette

Daniel Webster

Moses G. Farmer

Robert Frost

Dan Brown

Dean Kamen

PLACES

Dartmouth

NH Colleges

Exeter

Dixville Notch

Portsmouth Navy Yard

Ski Mountains

The Isles of Shoals

Strawbery Banke

America's Stonehenge

Attractions

What's in a Name?

Geography

LEISURE

Hunting

Fishing

Ice Fishing

Boating

Sports

THINGS

At the Movies

NH Firsts

Animals

State Symbols

Highways & Byways

Business

NH Ingenuity

Energy

Beer

Wine

Statistics

STATE

History

Government & Law

Odd Laws

REGIONS

Great North Woods

White Mountains

Lakes Region

Dartmouth-Sunapee

Monadnock

Merrimack Valley

Seacoast

CITIES & TOWNS

Cities & Towns

POTLUCK!

Pot Luck!

To New Hampshirites who chose to

LIVE FREE OR DIE!

The particular and spirited exertions of the State of New Hampshire to fulfil the objects which we have in view cannot but meet the warmest applause of every lover of their Country.

George Washington      July 26, 1780

The collaboration of Gregory der Bogosian in the research, editing, formatting, and general preparation of this work is gratefully acknowledged.

PEOPLE

Women of NH

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. Struggling widow Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport composed:

A. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

B. Mary Had a Little Lamb

C. Ring Around the Rosie

COMMENT: The children's rhyme was recorded on tinfoil in 1827 by Thomas Edison in the first public demonstration of his latest invention, the phonograph.

___ 2. Marilla Ricker of Durham, NH was the first woman in the state who dared registering to vote and to:

A. Become a lawyer

B. Run for governor

C. Both A & B

COMMENT: She was initially denied the ballot but felt as a tax payer she deserved the right to vote. In 1920, months before her death, she voted legally for the first time.

___ 3. Amy Beach of Henniker was the first American woman to:

A. Write a symphony

B. Fly a plane solo

C. Obtain a patent

___ 4. Londonderry's Playboy magazine pinup, Joanie Laurer, also known as Chyna, was the first woman to compete with men in pro:

A. Sky-diving   B. Motorcycle racing   C. Wrestling

___ 5. Lucy Hale of Dover was engaged to marry:

A. John Wilkes Booth

B. Benedict Arnold

C. Blackbeard

COMMENT: They dined together two hours before the Lincoln assassination; she earlier procured Booth tickets for Lincoln's 2nd inauguration. Her picture was found on Booth's body when he was killed.

1B   2C   3A   4C   5A

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. Jeanne Shaheen is the only American woman to become a:

A. U.S. Senator and governor

B. U.S. Senator while pregnant

C. U.S. Senator and Cabinet member

___ 2. The 1993 UNH graduate Erin Whitten was the first woman to:

A. Row solo across the Atlantic

B. Command a Coast Guard ship

C. Win a game for a men's pro hockey team

COMMENT: Replacing Toledo Storm goalie Alan Harvey after his 2nd period injury, Whitten stopped 15 of 19 shots in a 6-5 win.

___ 3. Ella K. Haskell of Northwood was the first woman to:

A. Plead a case before the U.S. Supreme Court

B. Win a gold medal from the French Academy of Art

C. Become the U.S. Attorney General

COMMENT: At the time, she was practicing law in Montana.

___ 4. Dawn Zimmer of Laconia, a cum laude graduate of UNH, became the first female mayor of this city:

A. Orlando, Florida

B. Hoboken, New Jersey

C. Montpelier, Vermont

___ 5. In 1778, after denying Molly Stark's request to do so, the NH General Court granted permission for her husband, the Revolutionary War hero General John Stark, to:

A. Vaccinate their children

B. Enlist their servants in the militia

C. Have the British flag from the capitol

1A   2C   3A   4B   5A

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. The last woman executed in NH was the school teacher, Ruth Blay, who was hanged in 1768 for:

A. Concealing a stillborn   B. Witchcraft   C. Arson of a church

COMMENT: Her pardon arrived only minutes after her execution.

___ 2. Claremont native, Barbara Ann Cochran, born in 1951:

A. Won an Olympic skiing gold medal

B. Created the Orphan Annie cartoon character

C. Co-wrote a cookbook with Betty Crocker

___ 3. Hanover novelist Jodi Picoult wrote issues of the comic:

A. Batgirl   B. Catwoman   C. Wonder Woman

___ 4. In 2013 the only NH state prison for women was in:

A. Goffstown   B. Nashua   C. Concord

___ 5. Dartmouth College's first coeds enrolled in:

A. 1962   B. 1972   C. 1982

COMMENT: That class had 200 females and 1,000 males.

___ 6. By 2013, this many women had been NH governor:

A. Two   B. Three   C. Four

COMMENT: Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, and Vesta Roy. Roy was president of the senate and acting governor for a month while Gov. Hugh Gallen was hospitalized in 1982. On Gallen's death, Roy became governor for seven days until John H. Sununu was sworn in on Jan 6, 1983.

___ 7. Grace D. Owen of Concord had this distinction in 1936:

A. The first woman elected to Congress

B. Founder of the League of Women Voters

C. The lowest social security number

COMMENT: Her number was 001-01-0001

1A   2A   3C   4A   5B   6B   7C

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. In 2012, NH became the first state to have all female U.S.:

A. Senators

B. Representatives

C. Both A & B

COMMENT: Senators Kelly Ayotte and Jeanne Shaheen; Representatives Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Custer.

___ 2. Elizabeth Virgil, the first African-American coed of UNH, graduated in the class of:

A. 1926   B. 1956   C. 1966

___ 3. Swimmer Jenny Thompson of Dover won 12 Olympic medals, including eight golds, in this many Games:

A. Three   B. Four   C. Five

COMMENT: In the games of 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004

___ 4. This Milford born member of Charles Manson's cult-like hippie family, infamous for the Helter-Skelter Tate and La Bianca murders, was the key witness for the prosecution:

A. Susan Atkins   B. Linda Kasabian   C. Mary Brunner

___ 5. Laura Dewey Bridgeman of Hanover, was the first deaf-blind American child to gain an education in:

A. American sign language   B. Braille   C. English

___ 6. Doris Haddock of Laconia, walked 3,200 miles across the U.S. from January 1999 to February 2000 at age 88-90 to protest:

A. Campaign corruption   B. H-bomb tests   C. The Gulf War

COMMENT: She was subsequently arrested along with 31 others for reading the Declaration of Independence in the Capitol.

1C   2A   3B   4B   5C   6A

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. Bradford, NH is named for the 2nd MA governor, William Bradford. His wife, May:

A. Fell off the Mayflower and drowned

B. Was scalped by the Pequot Indians

C. Served the first Thanksgiving dinner

___ 2. Famous evangelist Harriet Livermore of Concord, NH, was portrayed in the John Greenleaf Whittier children's poem titled Snowbound. After reading it, she responded by:

A. Thanking him in an open letter

B. Throwing his book across the room

C. Sending a nursery rhyme she composed

COMMENT: She was miffed at Whittier's unflattering portrait of her in which he referred to her as a vixen.

___ 3. The philanthropist, socialite, and novelist Brooke Astor of Portsmouth had a lifelong history of charity service for which she was awarded the:

A. Nobel Peace Prize

B. Presidential Medal of Freedom

C. Humanitarian Service Award

COMMENT: Her father-in-law Vincent Astor IV went down with 1,514 others in the 1912 sinking of HMS Titanic. Her husband himself was the great-great grandson of America's first multi-millionaire -- the German immigrant and fur trader John Jacob Astor. Brooke Astor died in 2007 at age 105.

___ 4. This Nashua actress and singer was in such films as The Princess Diaries, A Walk to Remember, and Dr. Doolittle II:

A. Judith Light

B. Mandy Moore

C. Eliza Coupe

COMMENT: Her record sales exceeded 12.5 million.

1A   2B   3B   4B

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. Concord's Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an American communist and social activist, was a founder of the:

A. American Civil Liberties Union

B. League of Women Voters

C. Socialist Party of America

___ 2. Harriet E. Wilson of Milford, NH was known for being:

A. A conductor on the Underground Railroad

B. The first African-American novelist

C. A 19th century advocate of women's voting rights

COMMENT: The novel was titled: Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

___ 3. Concord's Tara Mounsey won Olympic gold in:

A. Ice hockey   B. Alpine skiing   C. Canoeing

___ 4. Joyce Maynard of Durham, author of the memoir At Home in the World, created a scandal when she moved in with Catcher in the Rye author J. D. Salinger of Cornish when he was age 53 and she was:

A. 16   B. 18   C. 19

___ 5. After her record-breaking Olympic career as a swimmer, Dover's Jenny Thompson, became a:

A. Doctor   B. Pilot   C. Teacher

COMMENT: She graduated from Columbia University as an anesthesiologist. She was actually born in Danvers, MA.

___ 6. Harriet Patience Dame of Barnstead, whose portrait hangs in the statehouse, gained fame in the Civil War as a:

A. Balloonist   B. Newspaper correspondent   C. Nurse

___ 7. Mildred McAfee of Randolph was the first woman to receive a:

A. Navy commission   B. Miss USA crown   C. Purple Heart

1A   2B   3A   4A   5A   6C   7A

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. The New York Times prominently reviewed Mary Sargeant Neal's 1855 autobiographical novel, Mary Lyndon, calling it a book of very bad tendencies. The Goffstown author and social critic is said to be the United States' first female advocate of:

A. Free love

B. Hypnosis (then known as Mesmerism)

C. Inter-racial marriage

___ 2. In a state Supreme Court case prosecuted by NH Attorney General Louis C. Wyman in 1953, Elba Chase Nelson of Windsor was prosecuted for being a:

A. Labor activist   B. Subversive   C. Serial bigamist

COMMENT: The 1951 law under which she was prosecuted was NH's Subversive Activities Act. Chase was the NH communist party's head for three decades and its three time gubernatorial candidate.

___ 3. After two trials, in 2013 43-year-old Beatrice Munyenyezi of Manchester was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she was found guilty of lying about her role in:

A. The Rwanda genocide

B. A multi-million Food Stamp fraud

C. Human trafficking

COMMENT: Prosecutors said the African refugee checked national identification cards at a roadblock, instructing Tutsis to sit and wait for Hutu militia armed with machetes and crude garden tools to hack and beat them to death.

___ 4. Born into a family of photographers, Lotte Johanna Jacobi fled her native Germany in 1935, eventually settling in Deering, NH. Her most famous of many celebrated photographs is what is considered the iconic portrait of:

A. Eleanor Roosevelt   B. Robert Frost   C. Albert Einstein

1A   2B   3A   4C

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. In mid-18th century NH, this woman and her family were kidnapped by the Abenaki Indians, forced to march through the NH wilderness far into Canada, sold into slavery, and considerably later were ransomed:

A. Susannah Willard Johnson of Charlestown, NH

B. Jemima Howe of Hinsdale, NH

C. Both A & B

COMMENT: Mrs. Johnson was nine months pregnant when abducted and named her child Elizabeth Captive Johnson. She gave birth to yet a second child while in captivity. 42 years later she wrote a memoir that was republished numerous times. Jemima Howe's captivity narrative was also popular.

___ 2. Husband murderess Pamela Smart of Derry, a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, was convicted of conspiring with her 15-year-old lover, William Billy Flynn. Smart had been a cheerleader at:

A. Phillips Exeter   B. Windham High School   C. Pinkerton Academy

___ 3. In 1929, at age of 22, Bernice Blake of Manchester became the first woman in New England to have:

A. A painting exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum

B. A veterinarian degree

C. A commercial pilot's license

___ 4. New Castle's Samantha Brown, a graduate of Pinkerton Academy, hosted TV shows on the:

A. Food Channel   B. Travel Channel   C. Disney Channel

___ 5. The itinerant preacher Harriett Livermore of Concord, who is referred to in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound, was the first woman to deliver sermons here beginning in 1827:

A. House of Representatives

B. National Cathedral

C. Seneca Falls Convention

1C   2C   3C   4B   5A

Women of New Hampshire

___ 1. Dinah Chase Whipple ran a Portsmouth school from her home from 1807 to 1855, the only school in NH that served:

A. Former slaves   B. Unwed mothers   C. Native American children

COMMENT: Emancipated at age 21, on that same day she married the still enslaved personal servant of Revolutionary War General William Whipple.

___ 2. Two years after receiving her Ph.D. from Catholic University in 1931, Sister Madeline of Jesus founded in Hudson, NH:

A. Sisters of the Presentation   B. Rivier College   C. Catholic Charities

COMMENT: The institution has since relocated to Nashua.

___ 3. Armenia Aldrich White, born in 1817 in Concord, NH, became a leading figure in NH's:

A. Anti-slavery movement

B. Women's Suffrage Movement

C. Both A & B

COMMENT: She was also active in the Temperance Movement.

___ 4. Emma Coolidge Weston, who lived 1857 to 1939, founded this organization in Hancock - the NH Association for:

A. Women's rights   B. Home nursing   C. The blind

COMMENT: She was the first blind person in New England to graduate from an advanced level school for the sighted. She also matriculated for a year at Wellesley College.

___ 5. Old Molly, named for Molly Stark, the wife of Revolutionary General John Stark, is on display in New Boston, NH. The Old Molly artifact is a:

A. Battle flag   B. Bell   C. Cannon

___ 6. Abby Hutchinson of Milford, NH, together with her three brothers, performed as the best known one of these in the 1840s:

A. Dancing troupe   B. Singing group   C. Magic show

1A   2B   3C   4C   5C   6B

Eunice Goody Cole

___ 1. In 1656 Goody Eunice Cole, of Hampton, was the first and only NH resident ever to be convicted of:

A. Witchcraft   B. Abortion   C. Gossip

___ 2. For practicing witchcraft Eunice Cole was first punished by:

A. Whipping   B. The ducking stool   C. Tar and feathering

COMMENT: Local historians claimed she was cantankerous.

___ 3. As punishment for witchcraft Goody Cole was:

A. Banished to Rhode Island   B. Hanged   C. Imprisoned

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