1855: This story of home-grown finance comes from William Little’s chapter on “Peculiar People” in Weare …
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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”:
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:
Mrs. Peters Shoots a Bear (Henniker)
GUN SAFETY IN THE 1770s: If you come to visit, DON’T take that shortcut through the cornfield…
Peculiar Calf (Henniker)
1894: Quality journalism in an age of miracles.
Colby 6: A Critical Inspection of the Teeth
1862: The 39th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment has high standards for its recruits…
Colby 3: Woburn
1861-2: Colby finds work at an unfamiliar Massachusetts town…
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!
Milk of War (Keene)
The fort’s surrounded, but the babies need milk… What’s to be done?!
Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
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.)
