A color splash page based on that old Chesterfield story, “Fishing for Bear”:
Category Archives: bear
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!
Mrs. Peters Shoots a Bear (Henniker)
GUN SAFETY IN THE 1770s: If you come to visit, DON’T take that shortcut through the cornfield…
The Old Bear (Dublin)
No sense complaining about the food…
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 …
Pring 07 ~ These People in Colour
Native fashions of the 17th century, for men and women …
Mr. Barnes & the Bear (Henniker)
In honor of the start of hunting season, we continue with (what else?) another action-packed story of ursine mayhem! … << BEFORE: Fishing for bear in Chesterfield.
Fishing for Bear (Chesterfield)
An unusual hunting tale from the Keene area…
“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)
Mrs. Huse & the Bear (Henniker)
In Henniker’s early days, a resourceful farmwife prepares dinner for her bear-hunting husband:
