Category: food

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Colonel Burnham’s Apple Pockets

  

  Jesse Sr. invites Colonel Burnham to stay on at the old farm … 

  Marek

  7 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, apples, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  1820s, apples, Burnham, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford

• Clean Living

  

  The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:

  Marek

  2 December, 2015

  1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

  Andrew Hutchinson, corn, dance, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford, tobacco, violin

• Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)

  

  Some examples of “early amusements” from Smith’s History of Peterborough (1876):

  Marek

  30 August, 2015

  1700-1799, 1750s, colonial, corn, forestry, Peterborough

  alcohol, amusement, construction, corn, logging, work

• Colby 108: Place of Honor

  

  More maneuvers along the Potomac …

  Marek

  5 February, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, corn, cows, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Edward’s Ferry, Freeman Colby, Poolsville, Potomac, Siegel

• Colby 107: Holidays at the South

  

  Colby observes Christmas festivities far from his native New Hampshire …

  Marek

  2 February, 2015

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

  chickens, christmas, civil war, corn, cows, Freeman Colby, slaves

• Colby 100: Warm Weather

  

  Enjoy it while it lasts, and send home for treats!

  Marek

  16 January, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, apples, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, herbs, milk, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, weather

  civil war, food, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, mail, sparerib

• Colby 96: Newton’s Transfer

  

  Newton finally ships out on a barge bound for Washington …

  Marek

  19 December, 2014

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

  civil war, Freeman Colby, newton colby, washington

• Colby 93: Medicine Enough

  

  Colby’s health woes continue, but he returns to duty at last …

  Marek

  11 December, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, bread, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, medicine, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, weather

  civil war, Freeman Colby, health, hospital, Maryland

• Colby 85: Mail

  

  Postal privileges & caustic comments from the camp of the 39th MA:

  Marek

  10 July, 2014

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

  Freeman Colby, mail, newton colby, Offutt’s Crossroads, Phineas Stearns Davis, Thanksgiving, Tremlett

• Colby 84: Offutt’s Crossroads

  

  Colby enjoys the lovely fall weather … for a little while.

  Marek

  7 July, 2014

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

  fall, Freeman Colby, Offutt’s Crossroads

• Colby 77: Regimental Sutler

  

  1862: Sutler Pullen provides the goods… IF you have the money!

  Marek

  5 May, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, apples, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, NH history, potatoes, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  apples, civil war, figs, money, potatoes, Pullen, raisins, sutler, sweet potatoes, tobacco

• Colby 76: Rations

  

  Talking food with the tent-mates …

  Marek

  26 April, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, hardtack, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  beans, civil war, coffee, food, hardtack, soup

• Colby 64: “Even the Negroes”

  

  1862: Colby vents his jealousy of the treatment received by former slaves …

  Marek

  27 February, 2014

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

  civil war, food, freedmen

• Colby 57: Rations

  

  1862: Col. Stearns secures more (if not better) victuals:

  Marek

  16 January, 2014

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

  camp, Maryland, Phineas Stearns Davis, Potomac, rations

• Colby 56: Caught At It

  

  1862: Newton tries his hand at peach orchard thievery:

  Marek

  8 January, 2014

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

  camp, charlie hart, civil war, Maryland, newton colby, peaches, Potomac, stealing

• Colby 55: Hospitality

  

  1862: Union boys aren’t supposed to take anything from the southron farms they pass…

  Marek

  6 January, 2014

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

  camp, civil war, Freeman Colby, hospitality, Maryland, Potomac

• Colby 54: Peaches

  

  1862: An intriguing meditation on property, slavery, and justice by our Northern narrator:

  Marek

  4 January, 2014

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

  camp, civil war, Freeman Colby, Maryland, peaches, Potomac, slaves

• Colby 103: Bakery Nearby

  

  1862: Colby’s on sick leave, waiting to catch a ride back up to the front …

  Marek

  21 December, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, hardtack, medicine, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  bread, civil war, coffee, Freeman Colby, hardtack, Maryland, Potomac, sugar, tea

• OCTOBER 1839: Phebe Weed to Larkin Weed (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1839: Phebe Weed (NH) asks her brother Larkin (NJ) for advice about starting a Sandwich silkworm plantation …

  Marek

  6 November, 2013

  1830s, cabbage, farms, food, NH history, Sandwich, silk, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Larkin Weed, marriage, money, Phebe Weed, sandwich, silk, silkworms

• “NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home…

  Marek

  5 November, 2013

  2000-2099, economics, education, food, guest artist, NH culture, NH history, Sunapee, tourism

  Adam Whittier, education, food-temp, parasites, property, sunapee, taxes, tourism

• Colby 38: The Picket Line

  

  1862: How they guarded the Potomac River, border between Union and Rebellion …

  Marek

  25 October, 2013

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

  Freeman Colby, Maryland, pickets, Potomac

• “The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …

  Marek

  9 October, 2013

  2000-2099, food, guest artist, Keene, NH history, ticks

  Keene, Lyme Disease, parasites, ticks

• Diary of a Keene Pumpkin (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Rudy takes a whimsical pumpkin’s-eye-view of the early days of the Keene Pumpkin Festival…

  Marek

  8 September, 2013

  1990s, food, guest artist, Keene, NH history, pumpkins

  fall, farm, festival, jack-o-lantern, Keene, pumpkin