Category: 1790s

• Ethan Allen Crawford

  

  Spaulding’s “Giant Mountaineer”…

  Marek

  5 October, 2016

  1700-1799, 1790s, Ethan Allen Crawford, NH history, NH people, White Mountains

  Ethan Allen Crawford, fire, Giant’s Grave, Guild Hall, Vermont, White Mountains

• Clean Living

  

  The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:

  Marek

  2 December, 2015

  1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

  Andrew Hutchinson, corn, dance, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford, tobacco, violin

• Blood and Honey (Dublin)

  

  A cautionary harvest parable courtesy of Dublin’s infamous Wranglin’ Russell Brothers:

  Marek

  2 November, 2012

  1790s, bees, Dublin, harvest, honey, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

  1790s, argument, bees, brothers, dublin, honey, nh, russell

• Mrs. Dustin’s Witchcraft

  

  How did they know the “Great Witch of Weare” was really a witch?

  Marek

  31 October, 2012

  1790s, animals, milk, SOURCE=Little, Weare, witches

  animals, butter, dustin, Mrs. Dustin, needle, neighbor, weare, witch, witchcraft