Tag: food-temp

• “NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home…

  Marek

  5 November, 2013

  2000-2099, economics, education, food, guest artist, NH culture, NH history, Sunapee, tourism

  Adam Whittier, education, food-temp, parasites, property, sunapee, taxes, tourism

• Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #1)

  

  1860: Burleigh’s recently back from the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago, and he can’t wait to tell his brother all about the celebrations back on the farm in Contoocook:

  Marek

  10 April, 2013

  1860s, chicken, Contoocook Village, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

  burleigh jones, Civil War, food-temp, pie, Thanksgiving

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 3)

  

  Dorothy’s account of the Hurricane of ’38 continues, with some rather surprising twists… 

  Marek

  31 October, 2012

  1930s, animals, chicken, Contoocook, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, milk, mills, religion, weather

  1938, animals, bridge, clean up, damage, flood, food-temp, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, hurricane, water

• Mrs. Huse & the Bear (Henniker)

  

  In Henniker’s early days, a resourceful farmwife prepares dinner for her bear-hunting husband:

  Marek

  21 September, 2012

  1780s, bear, Henniker, hunting, NH history, SOURCE=Cogswell, stick figures

  bears, cogswell, cooking, dressing, farm, food-temp, Henniker, hunting, nh, supper, wife, woman