Category: forestry

• Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

  

  Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.

  Marek

  20 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Art, cows, forestry, Henry Cheever Pratt, hiking, weather, White Mountains

  Chocorua, cow, curse, diary, Henry Cheever Pratt, Thomas Cole, White Mountains

• Pitch Pine

  

  Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe … << BEFORE: Candles from hogs …

  Marek

  24 March, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, farms, forestry, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

  amputation, Asa Hutchinson, Ben Hutchinson, candles, John Hutchinson, pine

• Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)

  

  Some examples of “early amusements” from Smith’s History of Peterborough (1876):

  Marek

  30 August, 2015

  1700-1799, 1750s, colonial, corn, forestry, Peterborough

  alcohol, amusement, construction, corn, logging, work

• Colby 109: Duty

  

  The regiment’s responsibilities:

  Marek

  25 February, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, firewood, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby

• Colby 80: Stoves

  

  Finally, a fire in the tent! …

  Marek

  9 May, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, firewood, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS, weather

  civil war, fire, firewood, Freeman Colby, snow, stoves, weather

• Colby 102: Holiday

  

  1862: Colby gets an unexpected holiday break as Christmas approaches …

  Marek

  20 December, 2013

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, firewood, forestry, medicine, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  camp, civil war, firewood, Freeman Colby, march, Maryland, Potomac, sick

• Hawks 15: Looms Up the Grand Mansion

  

  1862: Dr. Hawks explores the “grand mansions” & grounds of Beaufort …

  Marek

  20 September, 2013

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, forestry, Massachusetts, NH history, Reference Links

  Barnwell, beaufort, civil war, Esther Hill Hawks, homes, oak, plantations, south carolina, trees

• Hawks 21: Family of Servants

  

  1862: Dr. Esther has some help at her new home in South Carolina …

  Marek

  28 March, 2013

  1860s, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, firewood, Freedmen, NH history

  Appolo, beaufort, civil war, Esther Hill Hawks, Eve, Joshua, servants, Venus

• The Wood-Pile (Robert Frost)

  

  I spent the afternoon exploring the winter woods on the mountain, and came back home to spend the evening with this poem by Robert Frost…

  Marek

  3 February, 2013

  1910s, birds, firewood, hiking, NH Poetry, poetry, Robert Frost

  firewood, poetry, Robert Frost, work

• Swett 6: Profile House

  

  1865: Swett approaches his destination …

  Marek

  1 February, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, forestry, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS, tourism, White Mountains, William B. Swett

  Franconia, profile house, white mountains, William B. Swett

• Swett 3: Train to the Lakes

  

  1865: See? Travel really was more fun for everyone back then …

  Marek

  5 January, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, firewood, Laconia, Pembroke, SOURCE=HHS, William B. Swett

  Laconia, Lakeport, train, William B. Swett

• ADVENTURES of a DEAF-MUTE… (Cover & Intro Links)

  

  Let’s kick off this series with a pin-up image of Mr. Swett in the Flume…

  Marek

  4 January, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, forestry, Henniker, hiking, posters, SOURCE=HHS, squirrel, White Mountains, William B. Swett

  white mountains, William B. Swett

• Pring 15 ~ Final Fire

  

  1603: The dogs save the fort, communications break down, and the expedition heads for home in this EXCITING CONCLUSION of Martin Pring’s Journal!

  Marek

  18 December, 2012

  1600s, dogs, encounter & exploration, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  martin pring

• Plummer’s Willow (Henniker)

  

  We all start small and grow from there…

  Marek

  17 December, 2012

  1780s, forestry, Henniker, horses, SOURCE=Cogswell

  Henniker, Joseph Plummer, tree

• Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)

  

  Even religious law can have loopholes…

  Marek

  9 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, firewood, religion, sabbath, Weare

  Levi Hovey, Samuel Hovey, Simeon Hovey, weare

• Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest

  

  Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…

  Marek

  3 December, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, harvest, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  Pring

• 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!

  Marek

  29 November, 2012

  1810s, forestry, harvest, Keene, SOURCE=Griffin

• 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 …

  Marek

  17 November, 2012

  1600s, animals, bear, berries, deer, dogs, encounter & exploration, fish, forestry, fox, herbs, hunting, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, porcupine, seacoast

• Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest

  

  Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …

  Marek

  16 November, 2012

  1600s, berries, encounter & exploration, forestry, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, seacoast

• Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens

  

  Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1600s, berries, corn, encounter & exploration, food, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, Peas, rivers, seacoast

• Moses Trussell (New London)

  

  Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…

  Marek

  10 November, 2012

  1770s, 1840s, education, forestry, graves & memorials, Hopkinton, John Stark, Massachusetts, New London, Plaistow, revolutionary era, SOURCE=roadside markers

• Pring 08 ~ Birchbarke Boats

  

  Description of native canoes.

  Marek

  8 November, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

• A Very Singular Circumstance (Henniker, 1775)

  

  Out of the firing line, into the forest. 19 April 1775 SOURCE: Cogswell’s History of Henniker (p.262)

  Marek

  3 November, 2012

  1770s, death, forestry, Henniker, Massachusetts, revolutionary era, SOURCE=Cogswell

• Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)

  

  Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…

  Marek

  1 November, 2012

  1760s, 1770s, Amherst, colonial, construction, death, food, forestry, graves & memorials, Henniker, milk, Nashua, SOURCE=Cogswell

  butter, cabin, construction, farm, settlers, stumo, table, tree