Tag Archives: Berwick

Granite State Mainers

A Civil War monument in New Hampshire lists many local men who served in Maine units. Does this mean these veterans are “Granite State Mainers”? For some, certainly “yes.” Located sufficiently distant from the Seacoast and the White Mountains to avoid the tourist hordes, Rollinsford lies directly across the Piscataqua River from South Berwick, also […]

What good are Union monuments (part 1)?

Not satisfied with tearing down Confederate monuments in 2020, some history haters turned their ignorance on Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederate monuments, many Americans might understand the reasons for demolishing, but vandalizing Lincoln and Grant statues? Lincoln never owned a slave and freed them all. Grant freed a slave soon after inheriting […]