For the Free State, it is more than a motto — it is a mission:

“Live Free or Die —
Death is Not the Greatest of Evils.”

This Thursday marked the 216th anniversary of General John Starks’ immortal words, delivered in a toast to veterans of the Battle of Bennington.

There are few things more beautiful than the New Hampshire North Country — especially in the summer and autumn.

This year, the North Country Porcupines have really put their region on the map as a destination for all who love liberty — with a thriving community, a new clubhouse (The Pine), and a homegrown, three-day music festival.

Speaking of that music festival… Freedom Palooza begins today!

If you are experiencing summertime sadness, then you must not be in the Free State — because there’s no time for that here.

The mild summers of New Hampshire make this one of the most beautiful places to be this time of year to make memories with friends and family.

Even the mainstream media admits we are in the midst of a beautiful New Hampshire weekend!

Did you think PorcFest was the only great Free State event happening this summer?

Of course not — we’ve only just begun.

Let’s hop right in.

It was a beautiful idea: “liberty.”

249 years ago, Thomas Jefferson and our forefathers dedicated our country’s mission to that purpose.

Along the way, however, our general government changed. 

At the Constitutional Convention several years later, the nationalists and the federalists fought over what form of general government was to rule us.

For more than a decade, the Porcupine Freedom Festival has rallied around the “Free Ross” cause.

As the Granite Cradle of Crypto, the Free State of New Hampshire was home to the earliest pioneers and evangelists for Bitcoin — seeing its potential as an emerging technology to challenge fiat currencies controlled by central banks.

“This [Free State] movement continues to recruit people from all over the country to move to New Hampshire in order to create a stronghold for libertarian ideas: a ‘free society’ with limited government, self-reliance, and free markets.

Let’s cut right to the chase.

This Friday, May 16, marks exactly one month until the start of our 22nd annual Porcupine Freedom Festival (June 16-22).

As we approach the 250th anniversary of 1776, only in New Hampshire do the spirit and ideas of our American revolution still animate state governance.

That is due (in no small part) to the libertarian concentration strategy providing reinforcements to bolster New Hampshire’s native libertarian culture and the remembrance paid our revolutionary history — like the Pine Tree Riot of 1772 in Weare, NH.

We’ve been passed the torch by those who came before us, and it is our responsibility to tend the flame and keep it burning.