Category: hiking
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Colby 35: Day of Rest
1862: Colby’s footsore “day of rest” just happens to be the bloodiest day in US military history …
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Colby 34: Trouble in Camp
1862: Colby & Bacon may have “straggled” in a field the night before, but they’re up at dawn and on the road …
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Colby 33: Straggling Commenced
1862: Colby’s regiment gets back to basics on its first hard night march …
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Swett 10: Snow-balling in June
1865: The restorative powers of the White Mountains during the closing months of the Civil War…
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Mayflowers (B K Jones, April 25th 1858) (Guest Post)
1858: Burleigh K. Jones has some fun times planned for May Day, but life around the capital still seems unbearably dull… (Drawn by guest artist Althea Barton)
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Colby 22: Philadelphia by Mule
1862: With the war raging next door in Maryland, the city of Philadelphia STILL insists on certain inconvenient city ordinances …
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The Wood-Pile (Robert Frost)
I spent the afternoon exploring the winter woods on the mountain, and came back home to spend the evening with this poem by Robert Frost…
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ADVENTURES of a DEAF-MUTE… (Cover & Intro Links)
Let’s kick off this series with a pin-up image of Mr. Swett in the Flume…
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Young Chase at Keene
Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…
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Darby Field Climbs Mount Washington (1642)
Two Indian guides lead the first European expedition to the top of the White Mountains…
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“Walk to Camp” by Becky Rule (Guest Post)
NH storyteller Becky Rule adds some quick cartoons to her tale of a fashionable bear encounter: (Drawn & told at the Weeks Act Centennial festivals, 2011)