Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
Category Archives: harvest
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!
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.)
Blood and Honey (Dublin)
A cautionary harvest parable courtesy of Dublin’s infamous Wranglin’ Russell Brothers:
Snow Storm (Henniker, 1804)
A freak Autumn snow storm disrupts the apple and potato harvests…
