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Dartmouth has author A.A. Milne exhibit thru December 4
| Republished from the Journal-Opinion daily newsletter One hundred years ago today, children’s literature classic “Winnie-the-Pooh” was published. “One hundred years later, these stories and characters are as beloved as ever, and [author A.A.] Milne is remembered mainly as a children’s author,” noted the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College. Rauner and Baker-Berry Library, also at Dartmouth, are hosting an exhibit on Milne, who was more than a children’s book author, through Dec. 4. “This exhibit explores Milne’s literary career—his earliest influences, his body of work, and his enduring impact—as shown by materials in the Dartmouth Libraries collections.” A.A. Milne did not name Winnie-the-Pooh after Winston Churchill. The name “Winnie” comes from a bear named Winnipeg that Milne’s son Christopher Robin visited at the London Zoo, while “Pooh” was inspired by a swan that Christopher Robin fed. Speaking of libraries and Pooh bear, the original stuffed bear, despite being a British icon, resides at the New York Public Library. “We have George Washington’s Farewell Address, we have a Gutenberg Bible, we have a copy of the original Bill of Rights, but the first thing people do when they walk in that [Treasures] gallery is make a beeline for Pooh and friends and ignore everything else,” NYPL’s Director of the Research Libraries Brent Reidy told Town and Country Magazine. “And only after they’ve said ‘hi’ to their friend can they turn around and consider these other life-changing documents that we have on display.” The Brits want their bear back and it’s not the first time they have pined for their honey enthusiastic ursine, which embodies a “national concept of a childhood Eden.” |
| NEK bridges restored |
| Hardwick celebrated the reopening of a downtown pedestrian bridge on Sunday, Oct. 10, The Hardwick Gazette reported. The new bridge replaced one that had closed in 2020, but had been in place for 104 years. COVID-19, the death of an architect, and flooding in 2023 and 2024 delayed replacement. By 2025, the town’s selectboard and its road crew could refocus on the pedestrian bridge. “They quickly realized that, ironically, if they had replaced it in 2022, the floods of 2023 and 2024 would likely have destroyed it, so they expanded the project to include repair and reinforcement of the banks around the bridge.” Meanwhile, in Brighton, 2024’s floods destroyed a bridge, according to the Barton Chronicle. But traffic is once again flowing across the bridge on 10 Mile Square Road in the Essex County town. “Reopening the 10 Mile Square Bridge marks an important step forward for Brighton,” said Town Manager Michael Strait in a press release marking the bridge’s completion. “We are grateful to our project partners and to FEMA for helping restore this vital connection for our community.” In New Hampshire, one rusty bridge in need of replacement gives a writer pause: “What you see in this rusting, broken bridge depends on your politics,” writes Howard Mansfield for New Hampshire Bulletin. “Maybe you see government overreach, pork barrel projects … Or you see the ghost of the American Century, the long-gone, ruined shell of the can-do industrial colossus that triumphed in World War II.” |
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