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Category Archives: 1830s
When My Wedding Is Going to Be (Sandwich, NH)
1839: Phebe Weed writes Larkin from Sandwich to tease & joke & vent (in some unexpected ways!)…
Of One Blood All Nations (Sandwich, NH)
1838: Sandwich petitions Congress to end the “nefarious traffic in slaves” in the District of Columbia…
OCTOBER 1839: Phebe Weed to Larkin Weed (Sandwich, NH)
1839: Phebe Weed (NH) asks her brother Larkin (NJ) for advice about starting a Sandwich silkworm plantation …
Regulations (New Hampton Academy)
1835: Larkin Weed’s daily schedule at New Hampton Academy …
Thus You See (New Hampton, NH)
1835: Larkin Weed writes home, in part to justify the expense boarding school at New Hampton …
A Scene Such as I Never Before Witnessed (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)
1835: GUEST ARTIST “E.J.P.” (of Sandwich, NH) details Larkin’s adventure in a House of Death …
The Most Excruciating Torture (New Hampton, NH)
1835: GUEST ARTIST draws the next episode in the education of Larkin Weed:
All the Mirth that the Mind could Invent (New Hampton, NH)
1835: After classes, Larkin Weed & friends descend on “a place of resort for bathing”:
Larkin’s Classes (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)
1835: Larkin describes his classes and hints at adventures to come …
JUNE 1835: Larkin Weed to Phebe Weed (New Hampton, NH)
1835: Larkin Weed writes home to his sister Phebe at Sandwich, describing his experiences in a single day of classes …
Capt. John W. Gunnison (Goshen)
A roadside marker in Goshen hints at stories & mysteries from the Wild West…
Live Free and Draw 