Money, the having and not having of which makes all the difference.

The first war against trees was the first big push to get some money out of New Hampshire

Winter is settling in on 1834 and both the supporters and opponents of Noyes are busy.

Even the best among us can be powerless in the face of determined evil. But there will be sheep, so not to worry.

Wallace’s History of Canaan New Hampshire isn’t a cohesive book. Wallace wrote a lot of narrative history, and it’s in there. He also...

The abolitionists seem to be almost angelic in their early insistence on human rights. Except they may have had a blind spot of two.

Elijah Blaisdell seems to have been a terrible human being. At least according to Wallace's History. https://www.alisakline.com/post/money

Each side of the Noyes Academy debate tried to ascertain whether they had the support of the town. They interpreted results differently.

The narrative of Noyes Academy begins on August 15, 1834. It was a busy day.

I thought Masons v. Anti-Masons was going to be about one aspect of the events surrounding Noyes Academy. It got bigger.

July 4th is one of our less-complicated. holidays. Hurray America and pass the mustard! But The Fourth was contested ground in 1834/35.

This post, which features a lot of Gary Hamel's artwork, outlines the narrative of what happened in 1835 around Noyes Academy

George Kimball, one of the founders of Noyes Academy, was bursting with promise that he never seemed to deliver on

Wallace spent two years in California not finding much gold. But his writing about it is wonderful.

'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Meet Jacob Trussell

Wallace’s book does contain quite a bit of history, but it's also a memoir about ordinary people in extraordinary times

In 1835, leaders of a still-young abolitionist movement created the nation’s first, co-ed integrated school. Things did not go as planned.