Category: corn

• 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

• 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

• Bank of John Gillet (Weare)

  

  1855: This story of home-grown finance comes from William Little’s chapter on “Peculiar People” in Weare …

  Marek

  30 August, 2013

  1850s, corn, economics, metals & minerals, NH history, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  banks, corn, economics, finance, John Gillet, money, weare

• 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

• Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens

  

  Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1600s, berries, corn, encounter & exploration, food, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, Peas, rivers, seacoast

• Woman of the Revolution (Dublin, 1779)

  

  Dublin neighbors rally to support each other in time of war…

  Marek

  8 November, 2012

  1770s, corn, cottage industries, cows, Dublin, potatoes, revolutionary era, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

• Ghost in the Corn Field (Weare)

  

  Weare historian William Little has little patience for rumors of hauntings.  Here, John Hodgdon boldly investigates a spooky shade in his corn field …

  Marek

  27 October, 2012

  1700-1799, corn, ghosts, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  basket, corn, ghost, haunting, hodgdon, story, weare