Five reasons for the raid…
Category Archives: corn
Clean Living
The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:
Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)
Some examples of “early amusements” from Smith’s History of Peterborough (1876):
Colby 108: Place of Honor
More maneuvers along the Potomac …
Colby 107: Holidays at the South
Colby observes Christmas festivities far from his native New Hampshire …
Bank of John Gillet (Weare)
1855: This story of home-grown finance comes from William Little’s chapter on “Peculiar People” in 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…
Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
Woman of the Revolution (Dublin, 1779)
Dublin neighbors rally to support each other in time of war…
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 …
