Tag: hunting

• Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)

  

  Here’s a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand’s “Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley”…

  Marek

  22 July, 2013

  1850s, cats, guest artist, guns, hunting, Keene, NH history, rabbit

  cat, gun, hunting, Keene, Mr. Wheelock, rabbit, Thomas C. Rand

• Bear Ferry (Chesterfield)

  

  A color splash page based on that old Chesterfield story, “Fishing for Bear”:

  Marek

  1 February, 2013

  1700-1799, bear, Chesterfield, hunting, posters, SOURCE=HSCC

  bear, chesterfield, hunting, lake, spafford, spofford

• Sabbath Hawks (Weare)

  

  What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!

  Marek

  27 January, 2013

  1600-1699, 1800-1899, chicken, colonial, eagle+hawk, hunting, judicial branch, Massachusetts, sabbath, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Edward Gove, hawk, hunting, Josiah Gove, sabbath, weare

• Snakes (Weare)

  

  Let’s see what the old timers were up to in Weare, as related in William Little’s exhaustive History… (1888):

  Marek

  19 October, 2012

  1800-1899, hunting, snakes, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  garden, hunting, killing, snakes, weare

• Fishing for Bear (Chesterfield)

  

  An unusual hunting tale from the Keene area…

  Marek

  1 October, 2012

  1750s, bear, Chesterfield, colonial, hunting, Keene, SOURCE=HSCC, stick figures

  bear, chesterfield, hunting, spofford

• 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