Category: firewood

• 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 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 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

• 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