Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.
Category: forestry
Pitch Pine
Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe … << BEFORE: Candles from hogs …
Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)
Some examples of “early amusements” from Smith’s History of Peterborough (1876):
Colby 109: Duty
The regiment’s responsibilities:
Colby 80: Stoves
Finally, a fire in the tent! …
Colby 102: Holiday
1862: Colby gets an unexpected holiday break as Christmas approaches …
Hawks 15: Looms Up the Grand Mansion
1862: Dr. Hawks explores the “grand mansions” & grounds of Beaufort …
Hawks 21: Family of Servants
1862: Dr. Esther has some help at her new home in South Carolina …
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…
Swett 6: Profile House
1865: Swett approaches his destination …
Swett 3: Train to the Lakes
1865: See? Travel really was more fun for everyone back then …
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…
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!
Plummer’s Willow (Henniker)
We all start small and grow from there…
Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)
Even religious law can have loopholes…
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!
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 …
Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
Moses Trussell (New London)
Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…
Pring 08 ~ Birchbarke Boats
Description of native canoes.
A Very Singular Circumstance (Henniker, 1775)
Out of the firing line, into the forest.
Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)
Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…
