Stories of New Hampshire by Speare, Eva A - 1977

Somersworth NH.: New Hampshire Publishing Company., 1977. 2nd printing, soft bound edition.. Trade paperback. Good. Clean unmarked interior after front end paper and inside cover, where a child's scribble in pencil, splashed coffee, and cover creasing blemish. Front cover angled crease w/ short corner curls. Back cover corner creasing. Very readable.. 1 Lime green glossy paper covers w/ Pen&Ink Speare portrait towering over blend of NH historic images. xviii, 248 p. 23 cm. B&W archival prints, photos, maps, facsimile documents. Eva A Speare, active in the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs, which collaborated on this collection's publishing, spanned over two centuries in collecting these tales of her native New Hampshire, b.1875-d.1972. Herein are articles which appeared in the Manchester Union Leader newspaper, 1970-1972. Sections: Venturing to the New World, The Massachusetts Connection, A Royal Province, Rebellion and Independence, The Ninth State, Paths of Commerce, Minds and Hands, From Coos to the Sea, Of Quakes and Quakers.