Mrs. Huse & the Bear (Henniker)

In Henniker’s early days, a resourceful farmwife prepares dinner for her bear-hunting husband:

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(source = Cogswell’s History of Henniker…)

Cogswell isn’t clear on a year for this anecdote; I’ve assumed it happens around the 1780s, within the first decades of the town’s development.