Category: guns

• Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)

  

  Here’s a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand’s “Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley”…

  Marek

  22 July, 2013

  1850s, cats, guest artist, guns, hunting, Keene, NH history, rabbit

  cat, gun, hunting, Keene, Mr. Wheelock, rabbit, Thomas C. Rand

• Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #3) (Guest Post)

  

  1860: Burleigh sends news about his family’s Thanksgiving activities…

  Marek

  11 May, 2013

  1860s, Contoocook Village, goose, guest artist, guns, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety, turkey

  burleigh jones, chicken, civil war, contoocook, goose, letter, Thanksgiving, turkey, wood

• Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #2) (Guest Post)

  

  1860: Burleigh relates a classic NH Thanksgiving… (Drawn by guest artist Dan Haines of Hopkinton)

  Marek

  13 April, 2013

  1860s, chicken, Contoocook Village, guest artist, guns, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

  burleigh jones, chicken, civil war, contoocook, ice skating, letter, shooting, Thanksgiving