Category: food
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Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)
Some examples of “early amusements” from Smith’s History of Peterborough (1876):
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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 64: “Even the Negroes”
1862: Colby vents his jealousy of the treatment received by former slaves …
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Colby 55: Hospitality
1862: Union boys aren’t supposed to take anything from the southron farms they pass…
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Colby 54: Peaches
1862: An intriguing meditation on property, slavery, and justice by our Northern narrator:
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Colby 103: Bakery Nearby
1862: Colby’s on sick leave, waiting to catch a ride back up to the front …
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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 …
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“NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home…
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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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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…