August 19, 2009

The UNH Digital Collection is featured in the Scout Report from August 14, 2009:

Overseen by the University of New Hampshire Digital Library Committee, the Digital Collections Initiative seeks to document the unique holdings of the University of New Hampshire Library. The materials in these collections deal with a wide range of subjects, including geology, early journalism in the Granite State, literature, and official records of the University.

The Scout Report highlights, to a national audience, the best of the best websites. It is produced by the Internet Scout Project, which since 1994 “has focused on research and development projects that provide better tools and services for finding, filtering and delivering online information and metadata.”

July 30, 2009

Milne Special Collections recently cataloged a 137 page manuscript diary kept by Abraham Brown of Hopkinton, New Hampshire from 1788 to 1808. Brown, a Quaker horticulturalist, recorded his principal activities in brief entries in the handmade diary, which consists of ten fascicles sewn together.

Much of his life’s work can be gleaned from the diary. One entry, for May 29, 1792 notes “we took up out of the great nursery this Spring 1309 apple trees.” Another records that “about 170 bushels” of apples were gathered from the orchard, while a two page entry lists the trees sold over a two month period from the Great Nursery.

Abraham Brown was originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts and moved to Hopkinton before the Revolution. A successful farmer who gave special attention to his fruit stock, he had extensive apple orchards as well as plum and peach trees. Most of the primitive orchards in the town and in surrounding towns were the products of his stock. He died on April 23, 1812 aged 65. The homestead where he and his family lived has become an important landmark.

For more information, contact Special Collections.

April 24, 2009

The Betty and Barney Hill Exhibit is now open in the University Museum and runs until the end of May, 2009. The museum is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library.

The Betty and Barney Hill Collection in Special Collections consists of thousands of items stored in 87 folders, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films, audio tapes and artwork.

April 23, 2009

Government Information presents a new featured resource, Backyard Conservation.

“Backyard Conservation,” from the US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, shows you how conservation practices that help conserve and improve natural resources on agricultural land across the country can be adapted for use around your home.

April 10, 2009

As Portsmouth resident Betty Hill drove her mother home on Route 108 at 8 p.m. Sept. 7, 1977, she saw large red and green lights on what she believed to be a UFO as she neared Trickling Falls in East Kingston. Later as she was driving home, she saw another UFO with red and green lights following railroad tracks near Route 107.

Betty Hill’s report of a UFO sighting is one of thousands she catalogued during her lifetime after she and her husband, Barney Hill, became known internationally for reporting they had been abducted by aliens in 1961 in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

On Friday, April 17, a public forum will be held to celebrate the opening of the Betty and Barney Hill Collection exhibition. The forum and exhibition highlight the couple’s reported alien abduction in 1961, and Barney Hill’s civil rights activism in New Hampshire in the 1960s.

The public forum, “Betty and Barney Hill: Tales of Alien Abduction and Civil Rights Activism in New Hampshire,” begins at 1 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Room 334/336.

Following the forum, please celebrate the opening of the Betty and Barney Hill Collection exhibition with a reception at 3:30 p.m. in Milne Special Collections and Archives and The University Museum, Dimond Library, Level 1.

All events are free and open to the public.

The Betty and Barney Hill Collection consists of thousands of items stored in 87 folders, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films, audio tapes and artwork.

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