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The Nature Conservancy

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, March 28, 2009.

Anne Filson and her siblings spent summers with their grandparents in Madison, when the Ossipee Pine Barrens were abundant blueberry-picking grounds. Anne jumped at the chance to help The Nature Conservancy conserve this area.

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Marguerite's Place

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, March 21, 2009.

Marguerite’s Place in Nashua provides transitional housing to homeless women and their children. While women are there, they can learn job skills, parenting skills and life skills to move into self-sufficiency. Kelly moved to Marguerite’s Place when her daughter was four months old.

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Canaan Historical Society

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, March 14, 2009.

In 1834 – almost 20 years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed -- a group of abolitionists from Canaan, New Hampshire, began a courageous and high-minded enterprise. They opened Noyes Academy, a school that would educate white and black scholars, side-by-side.

Donna Zani-Dunkerton of the Canaan Historical Society has a direct connection to the school: an ancestor of hers was one of its founders.

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Appalachian Mountain Teen Project

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, March 7, 2009.

Jackie's son was born the summer after her freshman year in high school. With help from Appalachian Mountain Teen Project she stayed in school, graduated and is now in college.

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