Guest artist Chris depicts the arrival of new technology around 1765-1770, thanks to the efforts of Mrs. William Smith:
Category Archives: 1760s
Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 2)
1861: In its official report, the Henniker School Committee proceeds to excoriate parents & dispense vocational advice:
The Old Bear (Dublin)
No sense complaining about the food…
Snow-shoes (Weare, 1762)
The only way to travel in those 18th century snows…
Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)
Even religious law can have loopholes…
Winter of 1761-1762 (Weare)
One settler family receives a surprise visitor during a particularly harsh winter in early Weare…
John Colony (Keene)
John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…
Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)
Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…
Second Horse in Town (Henniker, 1767)
Because sometimes being FIRST doesn’t really count…
Live Free and Draw 