Peterborough, New Hampshire

Grover's Corners, NH vs. Worland, WY In the play Our Town, a man very much like a narrator tells the audience all about how small Grover's Corners is and how everyone knows who everyone is. It's very interesting, and most people in the town of Worland, Wyoming would agree with what he is saying. Between Grover's Corner and Worland, Wyoming, people would get along fine with one another. The only way that people from Worland wouldn't get along with people Grover's Corner, is all the technology we have today. Worland and Grover's Corner were both built around the same time (1900) but people from the time of Grover's Corner wouldn't understand anything that the normal society has today (2015). For the most part however, things would run smoothly. The first reason why Worland is so similar to Grover's Corner, is the size. Worland is very small compared to other towns in the United States. 5,500 people is about the population of Worland, and Grover's Corner isn't far off at all. People of Worland would more than likely agree that living in Grover's Corner wouldn't be very different than living in Worland. The people of Grover's Corner have their own personal establishments owned by the very people who live in the town. Worland, has very little places that are personally own by other people outside of Worland, but it does have some establishments that aren't own by a large corporation. For example, the movie theatre in Worland is owned by someone who lives in Worland…

The plaintiffs begin by mentioning the implications of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, a recently decided legal case in which the Town of Gilbert regulated the placement of outdoor signs, on the New Hampshire court case. The Supreme Court held that treating these signs differently was a content-based speech restriction, meaning that is was subject to strict scrutiny. The Court importantly stated that if a law is content based “on its face,” then the government’s justifications do not matter—the law…

Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…

In 1761, Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Although Phillis was brought as a slave, the Wheatleys took a great interest in Phillis’s education. Phillis learned to read and write English, and she became familiar with Latin, Greek, the Bible, and other classics at an early age. Wheatley had a hard time publishing her poems because of the bad economy. Phillis published her first poem in a new england newspaper in…

From the article Taking a Biographical Approach to Literary Criticism “Frost’s poem ‘Out,Out-’ is based on a real-life incident recorded in the Littleton Courier, a New Hampshire newspaper, on March 31, 1901, in which a boy suffers a serious accident to his hand.” Robert Frost was a successful poet who used many elements of his personal life in his writing. He took inspiration from his hometown, local news-stories, and local farmers. Robert’s past experiences impacted and influenced his writing.…

Miriam White (Pritchard). After graduation in 1892, Frost attended Dartmouth on a scholarship and found joy in his Latin and Greek courses as well as in English verse, especially Francis Turner Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Burnshaw). However, the campus life of Dartmouth was dismal and Frost felt “isolated and restless,” therefore he quit at the end of December (Burnshaw). Physical geography is a major theme in several of Frost’s poems…

Robert Frost: An amazing Psychological Poet. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on March 26 from 1874 and died at the age of 88 in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 29 from 1963; he was a farmer in Derry, New Hampshire, which influenced in his writing when he and his family moved to England to start his poetry. Robert Frost was a very psychological, realistic and reflective poet, as account of the fact, in most of his works humanity will meditate about frost’s message in that…

Robert Frost is considered one of the most celebrated poets in America. Although he grew up in urban New England, Frost chose a distinct rural literary style using everyday language. Frost lost his father to tuberculosis at eleven and his mother to cancer fifteen years later. It was through his grandfather’s financial support that he continued on in high school where he published his first poem in the school’s magazine. He briefly attended college but returned home to various unsatisfactory jobs…

March 26, 1874. His father, William, named him after the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. William Prescott Jr. has always been a native of rural New England. In 1875 he became the head editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening…

Pittsburg New Hampshire is one of the state's most hidden gems when it comes to the outdoors and fresh air. The biggest small town in the state, sits at the very top right on the Canadian border. It is the biggest town in the state in terms of area, however has one of the smallest populations. Pittsburg is the place where people still hold the door open for you and say their please and thank you’s. The population tends to change on most weekends specifically the ones that fall between December…