Category: harvest

• Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest

  

  Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…

  Marek

  3 December, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, harvest, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  Pring

• Live Free and Draw Wood (Keene, c.1812)

  

  An example of how NH town governments kept costs low 200 years ago: the annual minister’s firewood bee!

  Marek

  29 November, 2012

  1810s, forestry, harvest, Keene, SOURCE=Griffin

• Sarah Josepha Hale on Thanksgiving (1864)

  

  Hale reflects on the national holiday she helped create in the midst of Civil War. (Note her “peculiarly” 19th century conceptions of politics, gender, charity, & religion.)

  Marek

  21 November, 2012

  1860s, charity, Civil War, harvest, Newport, politics, religion, Sarah Josepha Hale

  civil war, Sarah Josepha Hale, Thanksgiving

• Blood and Honey (Dublin)

  

  A cautionary harvest parable courtesy of Dublin’s infamous Wranglin’ Russell Brothers:

  Marek

  2 November, 2012

  1790s, bees, Dublin, harvest, honey, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

  1790s, argument, bees, brothers, dublin, honey, nh, russell

• Snow Storm (Henniker, 1804)

  

  A freak Autumn snow storm disrupts the apple and potato harvests…

  Marek

  16 October, 2012

  1800s, apples, harvest, Henniker, potatoes, SOURCE=Cogswell, weather

  1804, apple, fall, harvest, Henniker, potato, snow, weather