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The Vanished Girl Wonder

Barbara Follett had done more by the age of 25 than many will do in their lifetime. Including vanishing. Today on the show, the disappearance of an American prodigy... and how we forgot her. Plus, the rediscovery of the first known published African American in the country -- a woman from New Hampshire -- and how one woman figured out how to bring LGBTQ pride back to Concord year after year.

  • The Disappearance of Barbara Follett
  • New Hampshire Firsts: The First Published African American Novelist
  • Dating in the Granite State: We want to hear your stories!
  • How Concord is bringing LGBTQ Pride back year after year

Hannah McCarthy first came to NHPR an intern in 2015, returned as a Fellow the following year and then bounced around as a reporter and producer before landing as co-host of Civics 101. She has reported on everything from the opioid epidemic to State House politics to haunted woods of New Hampshire.
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