Category: hiking

• The First Bridle Path

  

  Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…

  Marek

  15 October, 2016

  1810s, Ethan Allen Crawford, hiking, NH history, White Mountains

  Ethan Allen Crawford, mount washington, path, tip-top house, White Mountains

• Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

  

  Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.

  Marek

  20 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Art, cows, forestry, Henry Cheever Pratt, hiking, weather, White Mountains

  Chocorua, cow, curse, diary, Henry Cheever Pratt, Thomas Cole, White Mountains

• Colby & Bacon on a Night March

  

  The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …

  Marek

  12 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history

  antietam, civil war, coffee, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, sugar, walking, washington

• Colby 35: Day of Rest

  

  1862: Colby’s footsore “day of rest” just happens to be the bloodiest day in US military history …

  Marek

  23 September, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  antietam, civil war, Freeman Colby, harper’s ferry, jonas bacon, Maryland, Potomac, washington

• 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 …

  Marek

  19 September, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  Freeman Colby, John Richardson, jonas bacon, Maryland

• Colby 33: Straggling Commenced

  

  1862: Colby’s regiment gets back to basics on its first hard night march …

  Marek

  26 August, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, Maryland, straggling

• Colby 32: We Plodded Doggedly On

  

  1862: The sun goes down & the miles drag on …

  Marek

  21 August, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby, Maryland, Potomac

• Colby 31: Dusty Roads

  

  1862: Troop movements along the Potomac …

  Marek

  8 August, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  alexandria, chain bridge, civil war, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, Maryland, Potomac, virginia, washington

• Colby 30: Night’s March!

  

  1862: The orders go out: It’s a night’s march! …

  Marek

  24 July, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, coffee, Freeman Colby, sugar, washington

• Swett 10: Snow-balling in June

  

  1865: The restorative powers of the White Mountains during the closing months of the Civil War…

  Marek

  29 April, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, tourism, weather, White Mountains, William B. Swett

  cannon mountain, snow, war, white mountains, william b

• 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)

  Marek

  1 April, 2013

  1850s, Concord, Contoocook Village, guest artist, hiking, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH culture, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

  burleigh, civil war, concord, contoocook, letter, May Day

• 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 …

  Marek

  23 February, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, horses, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby, Jersey City, mules, Philadelphia

• Colby 20: On Parade

  

  1862: Discipline stretches in the hot noonday sun …

  Marek

  16 February, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, Massachusetts, SOURCE=HHS, weather

  Boston, civil war, Freeman Colby

• Swett 8: The Old Man of the Mountain

  

  1865: Swett gets his first glimpse of a rocky NH icon …

  Marek

  9 February, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, Franconia, hiking, Old Man of the Mountain, SOURCE=HHS, tourism, White Mountains, William B. Swett

  Franconia, old man of the mountain, white mountains, William B. Swett

• 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…

  Marek

  3 February, 2013

  1910s, birds, firewood, hiking, NH Poetry, poetry, Robert Frost

  firewood, poetry, Robert Frost, work

• 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…

  Marek

  4 January, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, forestry, Henniker, hiking, posters, SOURCE=HHS, squirrel, White Mountains, William B. Swett

  white mountains, William B. Swett

• Snow-shoes (Weare, 1762)

  

  The only way to travel in those 18th century snows…

  Marek

  10 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, encounter & exploration, hiking, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  snowshoes

• Young Chase at Keene

  

  Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…

  Marek

  28 November, 2012

  1800s, 1810s, 1820s, Connecticut, Cornish, death, education, glass, hiking, judicial branch, Keene, Roxbury, Salmon P. Chase, SOURCE=Griffin, SOURCE=roadside markers, sources, Vermont

  Keene, nh, Salmon P. Chase

• Darby Field Climbs Mount Washington (1642)

  

  Two Indian guides lead the first European expedition to the top of the White Mountains…

  Marek

  7 October, 2012

  1640s, Dover, encounter & exploration, hiking, Piscataqua, rivers, Saco, SOURCE=Calloway, SOURCE=Winthrop, White Mountains

  abenaki, darby field, hiking, john winthrop, mount washington, mountains, rocks, weather, white mountains

• “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)

  Marek

  26 September, 2012

  2000-2099, bear, guest artist, hiking, White Mountains

  animal, bear, becky rule, guest post, hiking, white mountains