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Today is National Read a Road Map Day. It encourages people to go on an adventure the old fashioned way, with a paper map! We took the advice and drove up through Crawford Notch this afternoon.  A keyword search in the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room online catalog for the word "map" yields 475 results. Try it through this link here .  The collection includes tourist maps from guidebooks, geological maps, soil type maps and even a  handwritten map by John Cannell on the back of photo on how to find the site of the Wizard Birch. A search for the word "map" in our main library catalog  here  yields 21,161 items including maps, books on maps, and even novels with the word map in the title. In this blog today, we will look at just a handful of maps intended to whet your appetite. Of course we would be happy to show you around our map collection and we do offer a free outreach program on historic maps and mapmaking for local schools and community groups,...

abc Another "sign" of spring is the migration celebration for the official state amphibian, the spotted newt. FMI see our previous blog  here .  peepers not far away link to the frog sound bit on facebook other signs of spring  last load of logs skidded in dooryards last of the snow landings bucked for next winter's fuel, heat  bruins not bears returning, hibernation  black flies not far behind  birds returning community bulletin boards  return each spring and I return to books such as  Bolles books  Land of the Lingering Snow , and  Chocorua's Tenants  (both published 1895).  previous blog woodcock show  here .  talked weather now talk weathering  ravages of time,  plows and spring tools hidden in patches of snow, revealed by the sun  emerge from the snow, patches of snow, an old iron spring, previous blog  here .  road side history, remnants of our farming past, history  fascinated by p...

abc x x    no it is not an insult, instruction, inuendo, double entendre   see gdoc maple blog HHR  NH maple weekend  FMI  here .  x Maine maple Sunday here.  x x x x show various stages, steps in the sugaring process  x x dlj z

... so they say. While the deadline for removing bob houses from New Hampshire lakes and ponds is not until April 1, I would not recommend waiting until then.  If you do, you are just "headin' for the rhubarb."  Vernacularly that phrase means you are about to get into trouble, as explained in Rebecca Rule's New Hampshire dictionary of the same title.  You can find her book in several libraries in the Mount Washington Valley. See this link  here .  However, phrases can have multiple meanings, or layers of meaning. In another, seasonal sense, the title of this blog can refer to the traditional role of heading towards the season of rhubarb, one of the early crops we harvest fresh up here.  In New England the rhubarb harvest is an almost sacred celebration as it represents the end of winter, the end of fear from famine and the promise of a new beginning.  However in New England, the transition from winter to spring is not often quick nor consistent.  ...

abc z gjd x  x copy from shrove tues blog draft and gdoc  compass  chores, duties, expectations  laundry, wash, iron, mend  Museum of the White Mountains Frances "Dolly" Macintyre donation  here .  exhibit Taking the Lead: here .  can see online exhibition  and exhibition catalog  and etc.  Short Seeley, Kate Sleeper etc. see link to Tamworth women display is that online?  x  z