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Category Archives: food

Colby 76: Rations

Talking food with the tent-mates …

Posted byMarek26 April, 20145 May, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, hardtack, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHSTags:beans, civil war, coffee, food, hardtack, soupLeave a comment on Colby 76: Rations

Colby 64: “Even the Negroes”

1862: Colby vents his jealousy of the treatment received by former slaves …

Posted byMarek27 February, 20143 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, Freedmen, NH history, SOURCE=HHSTags:civil war, food, freedmenLeave a comment on Colby 64: “Even the Negroes”

Colby 57: Rations

1862: Col. Stearns secures more (if not better) victuals:

Posted byMarek16 January, 201427 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, NH history, SOURCE=HHSTags:camp, Maryland, Phineas Stearns Davis, Potomac, rationsLeave a comment on Colby 57: Rations

Colby 56: Caught At It

1862: Newton tries his hand at peach orchard thievery:

Posted byMarek8 January, 201427 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, farms, NH history, peaches, SOURCE=HHSTags:camp, charlie hart, civil war, Maryland, newton colby, peaches, Potomac, stealingLeave a comment on Colby 56: Caught At It

Colby 55: Hospitality

1862: Union boys aren’t supposed to take anything from the southron farms they pass…

Posted byMarek6 January, 201427 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, NH history, SOURCE=HHSTags:camp, civil war, Freeman Colby, hospitality, Maryland, PotomacLeave a comment on Colby 55: Hospitality

Colby 54: Peaches

1862: An intriguing meditation on property, slavery, and justice by our Northern narrator:

Posted byMarek4 January, 201427 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, farms, NH history, peaches, SOURCE=HHSTags:camp, civil war, Freeman Colby, Maryland, peaches, Potomac, slavesLeave a comment on Colby 54: Peaches

Colby 103: Bakery Nearby

1862: Colby’s on sick leave, waiting to catch a ride back up to the front …

Posted byMarek21 December, 201321 January, 2015Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, hardtack, medicine, NH history, SOURCE=HHSTags:bread, civil war, coffee, Freeman Colby, hardtack, Maryland, Potomac, sugar, teaLeave a comment on Colby 103: Bakery Nearby

OCTOBER 1839: Phebe Weed to Larkin Weed (Sandwich, NH)

1839: Phebe Weed (NH) asks her brother Larkin (NJ) for advice about starting a Sandwich silkworm plantation …

Posted byMarek6 November, 201322 November, 2013Posted in1830s, cabbage, farms, food, NH history, Sandwich, silk, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family LettersTags:Larkin Weed, marriage, money, Phebe Weed, sandwich, silk, silkwormsLeave a comment on OCTOBER 1839: Phebe Weed to Larkin Weed (Sandwich, NH)

“NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)

Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home…

Posted byMarek5 November, 201312 November, 2013Posted in2000-2099, economics, education, food, guest artist, NH culture, NH history, Sunapee, tourismTags:Adam Whittier, education, food-temp, parasites, property, sunapee, taxes, tourismLeave a comment on “NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)

Colby 38: The Picket Line

1862: How they guarded the Potomac River, border between Union and Rebellion …

Posted byMarek25 October, 201327 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, peaches, pigs, SOURCE=HHSTags:Freeman Colby, Maryland, pickets, PotomacLeave a comment on Colby 38: The Picket Line

“The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)

Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …

Posted byMarek9 October, 20135 November, 2013Posted in2000-2099, food, guest artist, Keene, NH history, ticksTags:Keene, Lyme Disease, parasites, ticksLeave a comment on “The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)

Diary of a Keene Pumpkin (GUEST POST)

Guest artist Rudy takes a whimsical pumpkin’s-eye-view of the early days of the Keene Pumpkin Festival…

Posted byMarek8 September, 20138 September, 2013Posted in1990s, food, guest artist, Keene, NH history, pumpkinsTags:fall, farm, festival, jack-o-lantern, Keene, pumpkinLeave a comment on Diary of a Keene Pumpkin (GUEST POST)

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