Category: 1820s

• Willey Family Disaster

  

  A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt’s original 3-verse poem (1885):

  Marek

  13 October, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, death, poetry, White Mountains

  avalanche, disaster, Frank Leavitt, poetry, rain, White Mountains, Willey

• Ravages of the Wind-Fiend

  

  Two painters summit Mt. Chocorua in 1828…

  Marek

  4 October, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Henry Cheever Pratt, White Mountains

  Chocorua, drawing, Henry Cheever Pratt, Thomas Cole, White Mountains

• The Legend of Chocorua

  

  One version of a local legend.

  Marek

  22 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Henry Cheever Pratt, White Mountains

  Chocorua, curse, hunter, indians, money, 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

• Pitch Pine

  

  Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe … << BEFORE: Candles from hogs …

  Marek

  24 March, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, farms, forestry, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  amputation, Asa Hutchinson, Ben Hutchinson, candles, John Hutchinson, pine

• Illumination

  

  Whale oil or hog fat? The sustainable energy debate of the 1820s…

  Marek

  24 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, farms, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, pigs

  candles, David Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Noah Hutchinson, pig, polly hutchinson, Rhoda Hutchinson, whale

• Choirmaster Power Play

  

  Brother Joshua makes his move …

  Marek

  9 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history, religion

  1820s, church, joshua hutchinson, Milford, music

• Empty Rooms

  

  Yet more neighborly concern for the Hutchinson family’s new home …

  Marek

  27 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

  1820s, Milford, music, polly hutchinson

• The Twin Buglers

  

  Milford’s most unusual marching band …

  Marek

  19 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

  1820s, caleb hutchinson, joshua hutchinson, Milford, militia, music, polly hutchinson

• Heirloom

  

  Brother Joshua discovers his Revolutionary namesake …

  Marek

  12 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, revolutionary era

  1820s, apples, Burnham, feature, George Washington, jesse-hutchinson-jr, Milford, polly hutchinson, revolution

• Colonel Burnham’s Apple Pockets

  

  Jesse Sr. invites Colonel Burnham to stay on at the old farm … 

  Marek

  7 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, apples, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, apples, Burnham, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford

• Joshua’s Job

  

  Brother Joshua helps his siblings across the wide Souhegan valley …

  Marek

  5 January, 2016

  1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, Asa Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, joshua hutchinson, Milford, polly hutchinson

• Buying Burnham’s Farm

  

  With ten children (and counting), Jesse and Polly Hutchinson hatch a plan to buy Colonel Burnham’s old inn … 

  Marek

  4 January, 2016

  1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, Burnham, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford

• Liberty-Pole (Henniker)

  

  1829: Never mind all the war heroes and noisy demonstrations, HERE’s the big story of the day…

  Marek

  8 January, 2013

  1820s, Henniker, SOURCE=Cogswell

  flag, Henniker, Jacob Gordon

• Celebration Day – January 8th, 1829 (Henniker)

  

  The people of Henniker party like it’s 1829…

  Marek

  7 January, 2013

  1820s, Franklin Pierce, Henniker, James Miller, music & dance, Peterborough, politics, SOURCE=Cogswell, War of 1812, Warner

  Andrew Jackson, Franklin Pierce, Henniker, James Miller, Judge Darling, Perley Howe, Phineas Campbell

• 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

• Drowning (Weare, 1824)

  

  Oh no, another disaster down by the Piscataquog… Or IS it?!?!

  Marek

  1 November, 2012

  1820s, death, Piscataquog, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  1824, drown, nh, piscataquog, rescue, revive, river, weare

• Deaths (Weare)

  

  How folks died in the early days of Weare…

  Marek

  25 October, 2012

  1810s, 1820s, 1830s, death, dogs, hunting, milk, SOURCE=Little, squirrel, Weare

  death, Enos Baker, Hasket Eaton, John Robie, Jonathan Atwood

• Trunks Like Black Bones (Marlow, 1825)

  

  Grandpa remembers “what happened to all the forests” in the Keene area…

  Marek

  14 August, 2012

  1820s, environment, forestry, Marlow, SOURCE=HSCC

  Elgin Jones, forestry, grandpa, Keene, lumber, marlow, slash and burn, trees