Fritz Wetherbee’s New Hampshire

Fritz Wetherbee tells us about Landaff's connections to the Academy Awards in the 1970s. Plus, learn about a key advocate of the Old Man of the Mountain, before and after its fall. 

In this episode, Fritz Wetherbee tells of the first man to ever fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He came from Lyme, New Hampshire! Plus, Learn more about the Edgell Covered Bridge, which was made five and a half miles away and needed to be towed to its location by oxen.

Fritz Wetherbee shares the back stories behind two old libraries in the Lakes Region. Plus, learn about a statue that honors a Civil War hero from New Hampshire who also witnessed President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. 

Fritz tells us about one of the great heroes of the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Pierce. Plus, learn more what happened in the spring of 1949 in Milford, where a funeral was held for a man who wasn't actually dead.

Hear Fritz Wetherbee tell stories from the Merrimack Valley, including one about a family that produced three governorships and another about a local minister who liked to get in fistfights. 

Fritz Wetherbee shares stories from New Hampshire's Seacoast, including tales from Exeter, Hampton Falls, Hampton, Seabrook and Kingston.