The American author Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was beloved during his lifetime for his poems, novels, and nonfiction writings which appealed to popular tastes. Today, he is most identified with
ALTHOUGH DANIEL Webster (1782-1852) moved from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Boston in 1816, and then spent the rest of his life as a resident of Massachusetts, he always maintained a
Ken Burns lives just where you might imagine. The documentary filmmaker, who has spent a lifetime exploring American history, long ago made Walpole, New Hampshire his home, a bucolic village founded before the American Revolution. It’s dotted with old inns and quaint shops, and democracy is practiced there the old-fashioned way, through the traditional Town Meeting. …