Have a Happy Lucky Vintage Piggy New Year |
SeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic
Clearly it is not easy finding vintage pictures celebrating the New Year. All I could come up with was this vintage leather postcard showing a pig jumping through a horseshoe with a four-leaf clover. Think of it as a text message from the turn of the early 20th century. (Much more continued below)
Read the UNLUCKY HORSESHOE poem here
But it does remind me of a great poem by James T. Fields, my favorite Portsmuoth-born poet. Fields (1817-1881) and his wife Annie went on to become the toast of literary Boston back when being a great writer really meant something. As a partner in the firm Ticknor and Fields (later Houghton & Mifflin), he published and befriended top British writers like Dickens, Wordsworth, DeQuincy and Thackery. In the
BONUS PHOTO
(c) SeacoastNH.com