Category: animals
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“The Adventure of the Fisher Cat in New Hampshire” by Adam (GUEST POST)
Nashua guest artist Adam draws a detailed overview of a fisher cat’s life…
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Colby 107: Holidays at the South
Colby observes Christmas festivities far from his native New Hampshire …
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Colby 90: Unpacking
1862: Now that the holiday boxes have finally arrived, the boys choose to look on the bright side…
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Curse of the Dead Dog Ballot Photo
Here’s a spooky (true) NH tale to carry you over from Halloween to Election Tuesday…
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Colby 42: A Hundred Feet of Rope
1862: As far as Newton is concerned, the longer the rope, the bigger the tangle …
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Colby 41: Newton & the Georgetown Mules
1862: Freeman’s hapless brother Newton Colby seems to have a knack for getting himself into trouble …
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Colby 38: The Picket Line
1862: How they guarded the Potomac River, border between Union and Rebellion …
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“The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …
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Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)
Here’s a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand’s “Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley”…
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Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #3) (Guest Post)
1860: Burleigh sends news about his family’s Thanksgiving activities…
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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)
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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:
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Company B Fall in for Dinner (Jones, June 13th 1862, #2)
1862: Burleigh K. Jones takes a break from letter writing to observe dinnertime; then he continues with some ghastly details from the Fair Oaks battlefield:
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Colby 22: Philadelphia by Mule
1862: With the war raging next door in Maryland, the city of Philadelphia STILL insists on certain inconvenient city ordinances …
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Hawks 8: Miserable Night
1862: Dr. Esther’s party passes a difficult first night in their new quarters …
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The Wood-Pile (Robert Frost)
I spent the afternoon exploring the winter woods on the mountain, and came back home to spend the evening with this poem by Robert Frost…