Category: bear

• Bear Ferry (Chesterfield)

  

  A color splash page based on that old Chesterfield story, “Fishing for Bear”:

  Marek

  1 February, 2013

  1700-1799, bear, Chesterfield, hunting, posters, SOURCE=HSCC

  bear, chesterfield, hunting, lake, spafford, spofford

• The Bear & Boorn’s Buttons (Richmond)

  

  Just when you thought you’d heard every variation on these bear hunting stories… Jacob Bump to the rescue!

  Marek

  30 January, 2013

  1700-1799, bear, colonial, hunting, Richmond, SOURCE=Barrett

  Amos Boorn, bear, gun, Jacob Bump, Richmond, Silas Whipple

• Mrs. Peters Shoots a Bear (Henniker)

  

  GUN SAFETY IN THE 1770s: If you come to visit, DON’T take that shortcut through the cornfield…

  Marek

  23 January, 2013

  1770s, bear, colonial, corn, Henniker, hunting, SOURCE=Cogswell

  bear, guns, Henniker, Sarah Peters, William Peters

• The Old Bear (Dublin)

  

  No sense complaining about the food…

  Marek

  16 December, 2012

  1760s, bear, colonial, Dublin, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

  bear, dublin, Eli Greenwood

• Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full

  

  Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …

  Marek

  17 November, 2012

  1600s, animals, bear, berries, deer, dogs, encounter & exploration, fish, forestry, fox, herbs, hunting, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, porcupine, seacoast

• Pring 07 ~ These People in Colour

  

  Native fashions of the 17th century, for men and women …

  Marek

  7 November, 2012

  1600s, bear, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  bear, clothes, feathers, indians, martin pring

• Mr. Barnes & the Bear (Henniker)

  

  In honor of the start of hunting season, we continue with (what else?) another action-packed story of ursine urgency! … << BEFORE: Fishing for bear in Chesterfield. *”BY THIS TIME, BARNES BEGAN TO REALIZE…” ~ I just love that line. (source = Cogswell) Elisha Barnes was a leading figure in the early days of Henniker; for…

  Marek

  2 October, 2012

  1780s, bear, Henniker, hunting, SOURCE=Cogswell

  axe, bear, fight, forest, hunt, wounds

• Fishing for Bear (Chesterfield)

  

  An unusual hunting tale from the Keene area…

  Marek

  1 October, 2012

  1750s, bear, Chesterfield, colonial, hunting, Keene, SOURCE=HSCC, stick figures

  bear, chesterfield, hunting, spofford

• “Walk to Camp” by Becky Rule (Guest Post)

  

  NH storyteller Becky Rule adds some quick cartoons to her tale of a fashionable bear encounter: (Drawn & told at the Weeks Act Centennial festivals, 2011)

  Marek

  26 September, 2012

  2000-2099, bear, guest artist, hiking, White Mountains

  animal, bear, becky rule, guest post, hiking, white mountains

• Mrs. Huse & the Bear (Henniker)

  

  In Henniker’s early days, a resourceful farmwife prepares dinner for her bear-hunting husband:

  Marek

  21 September, 2012

  1780s, bear, Henniker, hunting, NH history, SOURCE=Cogswell, stick figures

  bears, cogswell, cooking, dressing, farm, food-temp, Henniker, hunting, nh, supper, wife, woman