James Patrick Riley(Hour 2c) On the Eve of New Year’s Eve, James Patrick Riley of Courage, NH shared some interesting history of celebrations during colonial times.

Riley shared a romantic story about a courtship on New Year’s Eve in England.

Also, the origins of the month of January and the writer of an editorial in the Portsmouth Gazette revealing the moral climate of the colonists.

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