Tag: trees

• Hawks 15: Looms Up the Grand Mansion

  

  1862: Dr. Hawks explores the “grand mansions” & grounds of Beaufort …

  Marek

  20 September, 2013

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, forestry, Massachusetts, NH history, Reference Links

  Barnwell, beaufort, civil war, Esther Hill Hawks, homes, oak, plantations, south carolina, trees

• 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

• Trunks Like Black Bones (Marlow, 1825)

  

  Grandpa remembers “what happened to all the forests” in the Keene area…

  Marek

  14 August, 2012

  1820s, environment, forestry, Marlow, SOURCE=HSCC

  Elgin Jones, forestry, grandpa, Keene, lumber, marlow, slash and burn, trees