Our first clocks represent time. Clocks represent nature. Clocks mimics the passages. And then by the end of the 19th century, clocks are time and nature is forgotten. And this happens for a lot of different reasons; industrialization, the railroad plays a huge role in this. Youre no longer just on a little hillside in your little village. You need more accurate time if youre taking the train, because now youre going from one local place to another local place to another local place. You might get off, and therell be two different clocks on the train platform. And thats when the railroads, essentially, actually create time zones, in 1883. Its the railroads that do it, not the government, not congress. The other thing to understand about the railroad is in the 19th century the railroad is everything. I mean, it is the shaping technology. People look to it to get rich, people look to it to unite our bands, hold this union together, its going to do gods work, its going to bring progress o
State libraries in the country. The New Hampshire state library is the oldest state library in the country. It dates from 1717 when we were still a province. We have been at this location in concorde since 1896 when we built the state library. The major purpose of the state library is to provide information to the citizens of the state and clearly that means we have to protect materials that have the information and we have to keep that information uptodate and we have to make it available to the citizens. We do that in a number of ways, the traditional materials that we have that date back to 1718 for example and the latest things that we have, reports from state agencies, etc. Are in digital format and are available on our website. Our major goal is to collect materials that deal with New Hampshire specifically so we have an exempted collection. We like to think of ourselves as the place to go for information, natural history, cultural history and political history and we think we do
Literary life. We have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seen to our viewers. You can learn more at cspan. Org citiestour. The New Hampshire state library is the oldest state library in the country. It dates to 1717. Location in at this concord since 1896, when we built the state library and Supreme Court building. The purpose of the state library is to provide information to the citizens of the state. Clearly, that means we have to elect materials that have the materialsn collect that have the information, and we have to keep that information up to date and make that available to citizens in a number of ways. The traditional materials we have that date back to 1718 and the latest things we have, reports from state agencies, which are in digital format and available on our website. Our major goal is to collect materials that deal with New Hampshire specifically, so we have an extensive collection. We like to think of ourselves as the place to go for information about New Hamps
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Thursday morning, Moms Demand Action gathered their gun safety advocates in the New Hampshire State Library to encourage them to continue pressing lawmakers to support their legislative agenda and to run for office to replace those who don’t.