Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

Memorial for Reuben Cummings — Merrimack’s only Revolutionary War Casualty (im000419)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

In Memoriam
Reuben Cummings
June 25, 1761 September 13, 1776
Merrimack’s Only Casualty of the American Revolutionary War
At age 14, enlisted as Minute Man
Fought at Battle of Bunker Hill june 17, 1775
Promoted to Drummer July 20, 1776
At age 15, he died and was buried
in the area of Ft. Ticonderoga

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In Merrimack’s Turkey Hill Graveyard
Lat: 42.85776
Lon: -71.52103

20050621-nh-kdf-foster-edwards

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Kids For Democracy (New Hampshire Chapter) with NH State Senator Joe Foster and Senator John Edwards

Photo credit: Anita Gonzalez-Cecchin anitagc@kidsfordemogracy.org

Left to Right: Joe Foster, Spencer & Griffin Nozell, John Edwards, Mikayla, Jhoshona, and Gabrielle Foster

For more information (okay, the site is pretty just a placeholder as of today) see KidsForDemocracy.org

Press coverage of the fundraiser:

* Nashua Telegraph

* PoliticsNH.com

* Boston.com

* UnionLeader

Fathers’ Day 2005

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Kids for Democracy visit New Hampshire State House (group shot)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

I’m just getting around to uploading a bunch of photos Spencer took at last weekend’s Kids for Democracy visit to the NH State House.

See the complete set here

Sea Lampreys at Amoskeag Fishways

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Gross, yet cool.

Apparently in the 1700s they were very plentiful and usually feed to children because they have no bones. Yum!

See the whole collection

Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyrotory Up, Variation III (Chrinitoid @ RPI)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

I was tripping down memory lane and dug out some photos from RPI. Here is a fairly
good one of the Chrinitoid I took graduation weekend 1986. Okay, it was taken with one of those cheap-ass Kodak Disc cameras, but hey, there aren’t may photos of it.

Matthew Thornton (1714-1803) New Hampshire graveyard sign

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Geotagging is a way to tag your photos with a latitude/longitude on flickr.com and have them mapped using Google Maps.

geobloggers.com just does that.

Basically you add the tags “geotagged“, “geo:lat=xx.xxxx” and “geo:lon=xx.xxxx” to a photo and optionally (but I’ve not see it work otherwise) put a link to geobloggers.com in the photo description.

When you click on the link, it will show that photo on a zoomable google map.

This afternoon Griffin and I took some photos around Matthew Thornton’s gravesite. Drill down can you can see the relative location of all the gravestones. Don’t know who Matthew Thornton was?

I’m trying to convince Spencer and Griffin geotagging a cemetery closer to the house would make
a great summer project — using digital camera, GPS, using the PC, helping genealogists, and of course, the possibility of fame — hopefully will be enough to get them interested.

If you add the appropriate tags to your photos on flickr.com (geotagged, geo:lat=XX.XXX, geo:lon=XX.XXX), then it will automatically be displayed on geobloggers.com’s augmented Google Maps.

Check out mine. There are a couple other Granite Staters who are playing along too — crschmidt and StarrGazr