Deep Underground: Inside the Infamous Maginot Line

  •  5/20/2025 10:00 PM

I've long been fascinated by this chain of more than two dozen fortified bunkers built along the border between France and Germany, built to protect France from German invasion after World War I. the Maginot Line was a massive military miscalculation. In the spring of 1940, Germany simply went around it, through Belgium and into Northern France.

A NH writer ahead of her time: Sarah Josepha Hale

  •  9/11/2024 01:14 PM

Sarah Josepha Hale was an author, poet, magazine editor, and activist, born in 1788. Her work had enormous national impact despite the times, when society strictly limited “acceptable” roles for women.

Meeting America's Favorite Fighting Frenchman: My Encounter with Revolutionary War Hero, the Marquis de Lafayette

  •  3/4/2024 12:16 PM

Meeting America's Favorite Fighting Frenchman: My Encounter with Revolutionary War Hero, Marquis de Lafayette