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, Marquis de Lafayette
This winter, my podcast, ReadLocalNH, will help broaden your booklist even more, with seven additional episodes, featuring winners of the 2023 New Hampshire Writers Project Literary Awards. Helped by three wonderful interns at Southern New Hampshire University, I’ll introduce you to novelists, poets, non-fiction writers, children’s authors and more – who work right here in the Granite State.
In 1948, French citizens filled forty-nine railroad cars with tens of thousands of gifts, to show their gratitude for American assistance during World War Two, and for the relief aid that came after.
My motto for my podcast for readers is "expand your literary horizons by reading from your own backyard."
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we must all commit ourselves to this: Never Again.
ReadLocalNH: The threads of an idea for a podcast began weaving themselves together in the spring of 2022.