1860: Burleigh sends news about his family’s Thanksgiving activities…
Category: Hopkinton
Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #2) (Guest Post)
1860: Burleigh relates a classic NH Thanksgiving… (Drawn by guest artist Dan Haines of Hopkinton)
Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #1)
1860: Burleigh’s recently back from the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago, and he can’t wait to tell his brother all about the celebrations back on the farm in Contoocook:
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)
I am Pedling Buttons (B K Jones, March 6th 1858) (Guest Post)
1858: Be careful what you wish for! Burleigh K. Jones just can’t get rid of those buttons he had his brother send him from Boston! (Drawn by guest artist Heather Mitchell) …
They Have Discovered a Cave! (B K Jones, April 1st 1855) (Guest Post)
1855: Contoocook’s Burleigh K. Jones shares news from home (and demonstrates his sense of humor) in an exciting letter to his brother Sullivan. (Drawn by guest artist Andrew Z.) …
Dear Brother (Jones, June 13th 1862)
Contoocook’s Burleigh K. Jones writes to his brother following the Battle of Seven Pines …
Moses Trussell (New London)
Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…
Welcome to New Hampshire (Hopkinton, 1781)
Mr. Peabody just wants to drive his oxen from Maine to his new home in Henniker, NH…
Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 3)
Dorothy’s account of the Hurricane of ’38 continues, with some rather surprising twists…
