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By JIM SPAIN

“Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its...

By JIM SPAIN

It was just 66 years ago in 1958 when a storm visited the coast of New Hampshire, a storm that rekindled memories of a Concord romance from well over a century before. It was on Jenness Beach in Rye, that this intense storm exposed the old...

By JIM SPAIN

Sometimes there is beauty that transcends many generations. It is created and enjoyed by many and continues to collect admirers as another generation follows. It is today that I write about just such an occurrence over in the Hillsboro and Hopkinton...

By JIM SPAIN

I have always been fortunate with supply and demand. My family has supplied me with many stories relating to the old days of Concord while my demand for interesting stories seems to be quite bottomless. I attribute the fact that I am the fifth...

By JIM SPAIN

Travel back with me 208 years to Barrington, New Hampshire. It is the Hayes family I greet, some of the earliest settlers of Barrington and known locally as hard-working farmers. The Hayes family resided over on Green Hill and grew their crops like...

By JIM SPAIN

Our little town of Rumford was growing. People were arriving, and the frontier was becoming a town. Governor Benning Wentworth determined that the name would be changed to Concord to mixed emotions within the community, and the Revolution arrived,...

By JIM SPAIN

Our ancestors embraced darkness during the early years in our little town. When the first people arrived in Concord and gathered on cold New England nights in the Pennycook garrisons’ people would sit in front of the fireplace in search of warmth and...

By JIM SPAIN

There are times in life that are most sacred and respected, times such as the birth of a child, care for the elderly, nursing the very ill and ultimately the fate of death that each and every one of us will experience. Many of our sacred events are...

By JIM SPAIN

Back in the year 1835, our ancestors listened as the United States Government claimed President Andrew Jackson paid off all of the national debt for the first and only time. Our ancestors then learned of the first assassination attempt of a United...