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New Hampshire's "Fighting Fifth" regiment

By John Walters on Monday, May 28, 2001.

Mike Pride and Mark Travis are the authors of "My Brave Boys," published by the University Press of New England. It's a history of the 5th New Hampshire Regiment, which fought in the some of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War, and sustained one of the highest casualty rates of any regiment in the Union Army. (Re-broadcast from March 19th.)

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Crossword Puzzles--made in Concord

By John Walters on Monday, May 28, 2001.

If you enjoy doing the crossword in the daily paper, and you?ve ever wondered how the puzzles get constructed, you?ll want to meet Matt Higgins. He lives in Concord, and after several years of doing crosswords himself, he began constructing them himself. His puzzles appear in the Concord Monitor, the Boston Globe, and other papers. (Re-broadcast from March 19th.)

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