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Current Issue of HISTORICAL NEW HAMPSHIRE Historical New Hampshire is a benefit of membership in the New Hampshire Historical Society. Join today and you will receive this current issue with your membership. Copies of this and back issues are available for purchase through the Society's museum store.
Volume 62, No. 1, Spring 2008 The articles in the current issue of Historical New Hampshire, while diverse in their subject matter, all involve people and issues of regional or national as well as statewide significance. The spring issue this year is especially appropriate for the season, with a colorful cover evocative of early automobile travel nearly a century ago and with two of its articles featuring landscape design and highway travel. "Following the Theodore Roosevelt Trail into the Heart of New Hampshire" The cover story by Professor Max J. Skidmore of the University of Missouri–Kansas City examines New Hampshire’s role in a now all-but-forgotten trans-continental highway, named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt shortly after his death in 1919. The TR Trail, which passed through New Hampshire’s White Mountains, helped attract tourists and enabled the state to benefit in the 1920s from the new trends of family camping and cross-country travel. "The Exeter Landscape Designs of Robert Morris Copeland" Landscape historian Dr. Susan E. Schnare makes the case that two post-Civil War landscapes in Exeter—one for a girls’ school (the Robinson Female Seminary) and the other for a private residence—were designed by Robert Morris Copeland. Copeland was a prominent Massachusetts landscape gardener whose career and achievements paralleled those of Frederick Law Olmsted, to whom the two Exeter landscapes were until now mistakenly attributed. "Ona Maria Judge Takes French Leave of Her Mistress to Live Free in New Hampshire" Professor Emeritus Robert B. Dishman of the University of New Hampshire traces the life of Martha Washington’s maid Ona Judge who escaped from slavery during the Washington presidency and found refuge in New Hampshire. Her story is remarkably well documented, partly as a result of the Washingtons’ attempts to have her returned to slavery and partly as a result of the New Hampshire abolitionists who recorded her memoirs. Book Reviews The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, by Emerson W. Baker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It, by Kimberly A. Jarvis (University Press of New England, 2007) Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region, edited by JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007) The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe (Kent State University Press, 2007) Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style, by Dean T. Lahikainen (Peabody Essex Museum, 2007) Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform, by Scott Gac (Yale University Press, 2007) The Sketchbooks of John Samuel Blunt, by Deborah M. Child (Portsmouth Athenaeum, 2007) Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum Four Hundred Years in the Making, by J. Dennis Robinson (Peter E. Randall for Strawbery Banke Museum, 2007) 
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