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How Daniel Used To Do It

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Saturday, June 2–Daniel Fowle founded The New Hampshire Gazette on October 7, 1756. Last October we celebrated our 250th Anniversary. To honor Daniel and remind ourselves how far we’ve come, we sponsored the appearance, at Strawbery Banke, of Jack Williams and his reproduction of of an 18th century wooden common press. Jack built the press using plans included in the book, The Common Press: Being a Record, Description, and Delineation of the Early Eighteenth-Century Handpress in the Smithsonian Institution, by Elizabeth M. Harris and Clinton Sisson. We post this here, now, just to celebrate our finally figuring out how to make a YouTube video work …

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Not Dead, Again

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Friday, June 1–Despair not, faithful readers. We are not dead. See yon banner, up above? Note the date – it is today’s! The Post Office has papers for every one of our dear subscribers scattered across the country, lovingly prepared by our labeling crew. Our downtown distribution volunteers have (we’re pretty sure) completed their rounds. In a hundred and fifty locations around the Piscataqua basin, people of all stripes and inclinations are picking up copies. This is what we live for. And here’s a new wrinkle: everyone atttending the 4th Annual DemocracyFest, to be held at the Wayfarer Inn in Bedford this coming weekend, will …

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That Old, Familiar Feeling

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Friday, May 11–Readers, or would-be readers, who have been faithfully dropping in since last Wednesday to see if the alleged editor had followed up yet on last week’s threat to further defend the innocent noun “chickenhawk,” will be disappointed. He has been attempting instead, with what little time could be spared from the preparation of the May 18 paper, to make our online subscription system function. So far he has failed. Rather than take the same route as the Tourmaline’s Chief Engineer, or abandon online sales altogether, he has cooked up an alternative: a downloadable .pdf file of the Subscription Form that runs in the …

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The Chickenhawk “Insult”

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Wednesday, May 5–Harold Frayman asked yesterday in a comment, “where did the chickenhawks go?” We replied, “Our friends the chickenhawks are in limbo while the alleged editor tries to find the time to upload them all.” Then this morning we stumbled across Jonathan Chait’s piece in The New Republic, titled “The Left’s New Machine: How the netroots became the most important mass movement in U.S. politics.” In that article, Chait wrote that “One of the netroots’ distinctive contributions to American political discourse is the extremely promiscuous use of the insult ‘chickenhawk.’” The New Hampshire Gazette is the home of the original Chickenhawk Database. As such, …

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Did It Again

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Friday, April 20–We don’t even have the IRS excuse for our online silence this time. But, once again, we do have a fresh paper. It’s in the mail to our subscribers all over the country, and it’s available for free at more than 150 locations in Portsmouth and the surrounding towns.

The Main Thing

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Friday, April 6—Has it really been two whole weeks since we posted here? Yup, guess so. Time sure flies when you’re shoveling your way through heaps of old newspapers, trying to find small piles of tax documents, and putting out a fresh paper at the same time. Well, we may not have accomplished anything online this past fortnight — but we did get the paper out.