Category: chicken

• Colby 91: Tea

  

  A dipper of hot tea brings back memories of home …

  Marek

  7 December, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, chicken, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Henniker, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, turkey

  civil war, Freeman Colby, mail, sage, sweet flags, tea, Thanksgiving

• Colby 90: Unpacking

  

  1862: Now that the holiday boxes have finally arrived, the boys choose to look on the bright side…

  Marek

  5 December, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, chicken, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, turkey

  boots, chicken, civil war, Freeman Colby, mail, newton colby, peter warren, Thanksgiving, tobacco, turkey

• 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)

  Marek

  13 April, 2013

  1860s, chicken, Contoocook Village, guest artist, guns, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

  burleigh jones, chicken, civil war, contoocook, ice skating, letter, shooting, Thanksgiving

• 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:

  Marek

  10 April, 2013

  1860s, chicken, Contoocook Village, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

  burleigh jones, Civil War, food-temp, pie, Thanksgiving

• Sabbath Hawks (Weare)

  

  What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!

  Marek

  27 January, 2013

  1600-1699, 1800-1899, chicken, colonial, eagle+hawk, hunting, judicial branch, Massachusetts, sabbath, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Edward Gove, hawk, hunting, Josiah Gove, sabbath, weare

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 3)

  

  Dorothy’s account of the Hurricane of ’38 continues, with some rather surprising twists… 

  Marek

  31 October, 2012

  1930s, animals, chicken, Contoocook, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, milk, mills, religion, weather

  1938, animals, bridge, clean up, damage, flood, food-temp, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, hurricane, water

• Terribly Troubled with Ghosts (Weare)

  

  In which strange noises emanate from the unfinished room above …

  Marek

  28 October, 2012

  1800-1899, chicken, ghosts, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  betsey clough, chicken, daughters, david purington, ghost, upstairs, weare, winthrop clough