Talking food with the tent-mates …
Category Archives: food
Colby 64: “Even the Negroes”
1862: Colby vents his jealousy of the treatment received by former slaves …
Colby 57: Rations
1862: Col. Stearns secures more (if not better) victuals:
Colby 56: Caught At It
1862: Newton tries his hand at peach orchard thievery:
Colby 55: Hospitality
1862: Union boys aren’t supposed to take anything from the southron farms they pass…
Colby 54: Peaches
1862: An intriguing meditation on property, slavery, and justice by our Northern narrator:
Colby 103: Bakery Nearby
1862: Colby’s on sick leave, waiting to catch a ride back up to the front …
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 …
“NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home…
Colby 38: The Picket Line
1862: How they guarded the Potomac River, border between Union and Rebellion …
“The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …
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…
