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A presentation of the Granite State, including its history, resources, famous citizens, and places of interest to visit. ... Read more

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Describes the history, geography, plants and animals, government, industry, people, and social life and customs of New Hampshire, one of the thirteen original colonies of the United States. ... Read more

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This book combines state facts along with craft suggestions to make it an excellent homeschool or classroom choice!
The name "New England" was coined by Captain John Smith, an Englishman who explored part of the area in the early part of the 1600s.The six states in the region are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.In this book you will not only learn several key facts about each state, but you'll also find a couple of interesting crafts you can make.Facts included for each state in sidebar materials include the origin of the state's name, its flag, the capital, its nickname, the state motto, its size (in area), the state animal, bird fish, flower and tree and its major industry.

The crafts are "state related."For example in Providence Rhode Island there is a bug named Nibbles Woodaway or the Big Blue Bug that sits atop a pest control building in the city.You can create your own clay "Big Bug" with a few ingredients, many you may have on hand.Another interesting paper craft is of Vermont's Lake Champlain's Champ, a lake monster.You can cut him out of construction paper and have him swimming in a lake in no time flat.Each craft included a bit of history about a famous place, person or in the case of Champ, a mythical creature in the state's history.

This is a very interesting book in that it combines state facts and crafts.Several of the crafts are not the popular types children would gravitate to, but instead are those that would be of interest when doing a state related project.The only problem I found with this book is that some of the instructions were a tad vague and would be confusing to the lower intended age group.For example one of the templates says "enlarge 153%."A little bit of assistance might be required for a few of these crafts.This book is one in series of"Fun and Simple State Crafts." This would be an excellent book to have on hand in the homeschool or classroom setting. ... Read more

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Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, culture and people of the state of New Hampshire ... Read more

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We stop at the Granite State on our trip From Sea to Shining Sea
One way of killing time when you are a kid and you have a piece of paper and a pen or pencil is to draw a map of the United States.You start with Maine and then you drawn Vermont and New Hampshire over Massachusetts, with Connecticut and Rhode Island tucked underneath before you get to New York.What you probably forget, assuming you even knew it in the first place, is that a bit of New Hampshire actually comes down to the Atlantic in between Maine and Massachusetts.New Hampshire has a port city, Portsmouth no less.If you drive along I-95 from Maine to Massachusetts you will drive through Portsmouth and see that New Hampshire is a seafaring state.Therefore, when you see that the state seal, which appears on the state flag, is dominated by a ship, the "Raleigh," you will not be greatly surprised.

Having started with Maine as our first stop in the From Sea to Shining Sea series, we now visit New Hampshire, with Terry Miller Shannon as our tour guide.The short opening chapter introduces us to the Granite State, the seventh smallest of the state with an abundance of valuable natural resources.Shannon emphasizes the interesting places in the state, from Mount Monadnock (the most-climbed mountain in the world) to Mystery Hill in North Salem (home to some of the oldest buildings in North America).Chapter Two, The Land of New Hampshire covers the basic geography of the state, looking at the three distinctive land regions (Seaboard Lowland, New England Upland, and the White Mountains), the 1,300 lakes and rivers, and the climate (expect snow on Mount Washington during the summer).

Chapter Three, New Hampshire Through History, begins with the nomad wanderers who came to North America 12,000 years ago, continues through the Algonquian tribes in the area, and the Early European Explorers (including John Smith).Shannon focuses on the establishment of the colony and the question of setting New Hampshire's boundaries, and its contributions during the American Revolution.The state's history continues through the Civil War and into this century, making it the largest chapter in the book.Chapter Four Governing New Hampshire, talks about the oldest constitution in the United States and the three branches of government before taking a tour of Concord, the state capital.In these volumes you will find a down top map of the capital, which will show you where the state house stands in relationship to the Museum of New Hampshire History and other buildings of interest.Chapter Five, The People and Places of New Hampshire, looks at what it means to be working in New Hampshire and takes a tour of the various regions to give you an idea of what there is to see there.This is also the chapter where you get the book's recipe, which is the Use-It-Up, Make-It-Do, Franco-American Toast (a thrifty way to use leftover bread, which adds vanilla and cinnamon to the eggs and milk in which you dip the day-old bread).

The book is filled with contemporary color photographs and historical illustrations, although as you might have heard "The Old Man of the Mountain" that is the state symbol and the subject of the final photograph in the book, gave way a few years back (after it was immortalized on the New Hampshire quarter).As you can see from the cover, New Hampshire is the home to some great covered bridges as well.Throughout the book there are informative little sidebars in three categories: Find Out More (e.g., how the town of Rumford was renamed Concord), Who's Who in New Hampshire (e.g., Daniel Webster and Christa McAuliffe), and Extra! Extra! (e.g., there are more than one hundred recording spellings of the name Winnipesaukee).

In the back of the book Shannon provides a New Hampshire Almanac, which lists a lot of fast facts about former capitals and state symbols.This is followed by a Timeline that parallels New Hampshire State History on the top and U.S. History on the bottom (note that Martin Pring landed along New Hampshire's coast in 1603, four years before the first permanent British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia that the history books always emphasize).There is a Gallery of Famous New Hampshirites from Ken Burns to David Souter (with Robert Frost and John Irving in between), and a Glossary of terms from "ancient" to "textile."If you need to look For More Information about New Hampshire for a school report, Shannon provides a trio of useful Web Sites and three rather eclectic Books (e.g., "Yum, Yum!: The New Hampshire Kid's Cookbook"), along with a couple of Addresses you can actually write to for information. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Republican Press Association; Publication date: 1889; Subjects: Libraries; Language Arts ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1903Original Publisher: H.E. Hodgdon, printerSubjects: American literatureNew HampshireHistory / United States / State ... Read more

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Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of New Hampshire. Also includes a state chronology, pertinent statistics, and maps. ... Read more

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A look at New Hampshire
There is more to New Hampshire than just the beautiful White Mountains (although I do miss the "Old Man Of The Mountain"). This little book will tell you all about this historic and prosperous state. In fact, the entire "Portrait of America" series provides you with great nutshells of information about each of our 50 states, and is valuable to both parents and teachers as a teaching tool. ... Read more

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Where is New Hampshire’s oldest building? What were the ‘New Hampshire Grants’? Which was New Hampshire’s major seaport in Colonial times? Find the answers to these and many other questions in ‘New Hampshire’, a book about one of the original thirteen colo

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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PREFACE: If one is to study Indian/Colonial relations historically, there is not very much that makes any sense. You are seeminly led to believe that events were no more than a quarrel between the French and the Englsih with the Indian People being only a vaguely interested third party. While the land has long since been taken from the Indian People there is still a large area of the State tha has gone through very few changes since it was only inhabited by teh Indian People. This is basically a chronological account of Letters of Agreement, so-called Land Sales/Purchases, treaties and other interesting events that shaped the pattern of eventual removal of the Indian People and the inevitable colonization of teh State of New Hampshire from the early 1600's onward. One should read the enclosed text, with the thought in mind, that the Indian People never placed any interest in individual ownership of ladn..... their beleif that the Earth is their Moterh, the source of Creation.... would have prevented them from selling their ancestorial lands. The European concept of "ownership"; of how much one could obtain for oneself, monetarily and in real estate, was completely alien to any Indian's way of thought. It is also an agreeable assumption that they felt there was more than enough room for everyone and were only allowing the Colonists to dwell amon them.... ... Read more

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Provides an introduction to the history, government, economy, resources, and people of the New Hampshire Colony. Includes maps, charts, and a timeline. ... Read more