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Does the title of this blog make your mouth water?  If not, then you are just too young to remember these recipes! Now that Autumn has begun, our thoughts may turn to traditional comfort food. A number of interesting recipes can be found in a recent donation to the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room. As you will see you just can't go wrong with bacon, cheese and corn.  This cookbook was compiled by the ladies of Mountain-View Grange in East Conway. The distinctive architecture of the building can be seen today on Google street view.  The building is now the East Conway Community Hall. See their facebook page here .  several nice interesting comments about this cookbook and past events there  x described as  Quaint little building available for all of your special occasions! This century old building has hosted many events over the years. Gatherings such as birthday parties, weddings, yard sales, and public suppers have been held at the hall. Each o...

x only steps from the damaged facade, the original supporters of the library left a legacy  x x flanking a pair of windows are a pair of framed photos of people involved in the building of the library. In the right framed panel, listed as number 2 is "James P. Falt, Springfield, Mass, Contractor for freestone work." (click on images to enlarge them).  x x x His portrait is above.  x an initial internet image search yields a copy of an ad he ran in a stone industry trade magazine here.  xx overall page from the American Architect and Building News, p. xix, October 28, 1898.  x x x mentions red sandstone, the type of stone used on our building.  mentions the Carlisle Quarries in Springfield, Mass.  over the years he operated several quarries in the Springfield, MA area including  Carlisle Longmeadow  Sixteen Acres  According to historian Bruce Moore there were over one hundred quarries in the area. See this link here .  The ad refers ...

November is best known for celebrating Thanksgiving.  But did you know it is also the time to celebrate Geography Awareness Week and Native American Indian Heritage Month.  How does all this tie together to the U.S. Census Bureau?  Today I received an email bulletin fron the U.S. Census Bureau that covered all these topics and more. See this link here .  Some of the fun facts from the bulletin - there are 4 places named Turkey and 5 places named Cranberry in the U.S. FMI see this link here . Facts should not lie, but in this case they do. If you look on the left of that pdf under "A History of Giving Thanks" you will note it focuses on the 1621 Pilgrim event so many people believe is the earliest celebrated in what is now the United States.  I find a certain irony of the census bureau getting the date and the location of the first thanksgiving wrong. See my previous blogs  here  and  here .  The census bulletin also features American Indian H...

Time to put on the shades and enjoy the summer! Our current display at the Conway Public Library compares summer fun then and now.  It begins with a map from x date showing hiking trails in what is now Whitaker Woods. The Conway Public Library's Henney History Room has many historic trail and tourist guides showing long lost summer attractions. For a previous blog on that subject see this link here .  Donald Hall captures a nostalgic look at late 19th century summers in his book Lucy's Summer .  The cover art features an iconic summer picnic.  add cole picnic? popular to have picnic in cemetery  The book also features New Hampshire's old home day celebrations  previous blog here .  fix text under rollins pic x search hhr online calendar yields 38 results here .  summer specific books  x Here are a few with summer specific titles.  x x x x x x A major highlight of the summer season is our Independence Day celebrations.  We are alread...

Greetings from the Conway Public Library's Henney History Room.  Today is World Ocean Day! Time to shell ebrate! In honor of today's event and our upcoming "Oceans of Possibilities" theme for our summer library reading program ... I offer you one of Keith Henney's most unusual books... ...with the intriguing title, "A Hunt for Sea-Going Elephants, 1899-1901."  You can find a link to it in our online catalog here . For more on Keith Henney see our previous blog here .  This book is quite a departure from the many technical and scientific books he wrote on electricity and radio, or his many books on local history. It serves as a good introduction to today's theme.  The purpose of the World Ocean Day is to inform the public of the impact of human actions on the ocean, develop a worldwide movement of citizens for the ocean, and mobilize and unite the world's population on a project for the sustainable management of the world's oceans.  The book...