Category: food
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All the Mirth that the Mind could Invent (New Hampton, NH)
1835: After classes, Larkin Weed & friends descend on “a place of resort for bathing”:
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Upper Crust of Keene
Guest cartoonist Bea Reel drew this page from Griffin’s History of Keene, NH during our recent FAMILY COMICS WORKSHOP at Keene Public Library:
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Mrs. Peters Shoots a Bear (Henniker)
GUN SAFETY IN THE 1770s: If you come to visit, DON’T take that shortcut through the cornfield…
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Colby 6: A Critical Inspection of the Teeth
1862: The 39th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment has high standards for its recruits…
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Colby 1: When the War Broke Out
1861: Freeman Colby (of Henniker) needs a break from the rigors of teaching… so he enlists to fight in the Civil War!
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Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
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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!
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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.)
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Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full
Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …
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Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
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Pring 10 ~ Rich and Fat Ground
After sailing around the New England coast for many weeks, the English run low on provisions, and so …
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Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
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Blood and Honey (Dublin)
A cautionary harvest parable courtesy of Dublin’s infamous Wranglin’ Russell Brothers:
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Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 3)
Dorothy’s account of the Hurricane of ’38 continues, with some rather surprising twists…
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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 …