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December 04, 2009

What's up, doc?

Heading to Exeter Hospital to tell stories to the staff at 8 a.m. A challenge for me, since the organizer asked for stories the doctors could relate to, stories about medicine or mortality. I searched the archives. Come to find out, I don’t have a lot of medical stories (would welcome suggestions), but just about all my stories have some connection to mortality. Yankees are a morbid bunch. I had another thought: Hygiene is kinda medical related. Which means I can tell all my outhouse stories. Hey, I’m set.


I did find one Exeter Hospital story that I’ll spring on them. Maybe it’s funny. We’ll see.


Fella told me he was born in the Exeter Hospital in 1935. He and his mother stayed in the hospital for two weeks, and the bill was $35. Father always said, “You get what you pay for.”


File under: How to build your child’s self-esteem.

Posted on December 04, 2009 |

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    Rebecca Rule, author of Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire, spends a lot of time on the road, traveling to her performances throughout the Granite State and beyond. She loves her home state, meeting lots of great people and visiting both new and familiar places. She shares stories that she finds with her this blog. So please "join" her on the road and check back often.

About Becky

  • Becky has lived all her life (so far) in New Hampshire. She has written several other popular books set in her home state, including "The Best Revenge," a collection of short stories that was named one of the five Essential New Hampshire Books by New Hampshire Magazine, and "Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments and Outright Lies." However, she is probably best known for her live storytelling events, many sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

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