Archives: January 2025

Stealing the King’s Powder: Did The American Revolution Start Here?

Local historians have long proclaimed, not always tongue-in-cheek, that the American Revolution began in New Castle, New Hampshire, rather than on the bloody battlefields of Lexington and Concord. 

Local historians have long proclaimed, not always tongue-in-cheek, that the American Revolution began in New Castle, New Hampshire, rather than on the bloody battlefields of Lexington and Concord. 

Live Free: The Ballad of Upright Hank

Last June, my cousin, Dr. Amy Paré, sent me a text. She was helping my uncle, Dr. William Paré, organize the large home he shares with my Aunt Marilyn. Amy’s text included a cartoon I drew on the envelope of a letter I’d written in the early 1980s to Uncle Bill’s father — our Grandpère. Henry Paré immigrated to the Granite…