Tag: fall

• Colby 84: Offutt’s Crossroads

  

  Colby enjoys the lovely fall weather … for a little while.

  Marek

  7 July, 2014

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

  fall, Freeman Colby, Offutt’s Crossroads

• 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…

  Marek

  8 September, 2013

  1990s, food, guest artist, Keene, NH history, pumpkins

  fall, farm, festival, jack-o-lantern, Keene, pumpkin

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 1)

  

  A Henniker schoolteacher wrote this letter to her mother during the Hurricane of ’38:

  Marek

  29 October, 2012

  1930s, Contoocook, Henniker, weather

  1938, bridge, fall, flood, Henniker, hurricane, landslide, letter, railroad, teacher, trees

• John Stark Statue (Concord)

  

  Sketching statues on the State House lawn today, I found myself drawn to Major General John Stark’s defiant stance beneath the falling maple leaves…

  Marek

  26 October, 2012

  1700-1799, Concord, John Stark, Londonderry, Manchester, NH State House, revolutionary era, statues

  bennington, bunker hill, concord, fall, John Stark, leaves, revolution, state house, statue

• Snow Storm (Henniker, 1804)

  

  A freak Autumn snow storm disrupts the apple and potato harvests…

  Marek

  16 October, 2012

  1800s, apples, harvest, Henniker, potatoes, SOURCE=Cogswell, weather

  1804, apple, fall, harvest, Henniker, potato, snow, weather