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The Life of Riley
Cobblestones (test pilot #2)
Jim recruits Harmon and Oz to cobble together a plan for a long overdue project.
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Cobblestones-Full Episode Apr 18, 2016
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Country Scholars - Etiquette
Young scholars visit Riley's Farm and learn a few things about 18th century etiquette.
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Ep 1 - Country Scholars Feb 6, 2016
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Fall Afternoon with Jim Tavaré & The Bost Family Traditions
It's a foot stompin' good time when Jim Riley is joined at the Old Wilshire packing shed by British actor, comedian and Courage cast member Jim Tavaré, his wife Laura and the Bost Family Traditions bluegrass band.
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Fall Afternoon - Tavaré Oct 1, 2015
Tavern Talk
Richard Hanna - Part 2
In part 2, Mr. Hanna talks with Jim more about his service in World War II, whether we should have dropped the bomb, his postwar days as a tommy gun-toting adventurer and the current threats to American freedom.
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Richard Hanna - Part 2 Aug 25, 2015
Tavern Talk
Richard Hanna - Part 1
World War II veteran and longtime friend Richard Hanna drops by the Hawk's Head Tavern to talk with Jim about growing up during the Great Depression and his service in the war.
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Richard Hanna - Part 1 Aug 5, 2015
Island at War II
Well, shoot. The next four episodes of Island at War, though very good, seem to err in the Desperate Hausfraus direction. Sleeping with the enemy, of course, is a dramatic staple. It’s the very stuff of espionage films and there can’t be anything more poignant than losing in battle and knowing the enemy has taken […]
Island at War
Redeeming the Time on Netflix So far, this series, a fictional story set during the World War II occupation of the British Channel Islands, is just stunning on all levels: the performances are compelling, the art direction is gorgeous, and the light! It certainly seems divine, since it has that breakfast-in-an-Irish-cottage quality, where everything feels […]
Raise the Militia
Reprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 5, 1771 As no nation or people can be secure from their enemies and preserve their independency without the military art, it must give great pleasure to every friend to his country, and the British nation, to see the present revival of military discipline in this and the neighboring colonies. […]
What do we do about PIRATES?
Watch our procedural, bureaucratic Admiral Mullen talk about pirates and then re-visit an age of moral clarity on the matter: Reprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, June 21, 1771 New York, June 10: Extract of a letter from Kingston, Jamaica, April 10. “The 18th of March last was tried and convicted at a court of […]
“The Gliegendorfs Are Here..”
Do people still call on each other at Christmas? Drop by for a visit? I’m not sure, post-Facebook, whether this is still done, but if they do, you need a gift-giving strategy. It could happen: you could be upstairs, just out of the shower, toweling off, when your eleven year old yells out, “heah, […]
She Comes Only With Her Shift
From Kalm’s Travels into North America we find this observation about marriage customs in the colonies: “…There is a very peculiar diverting custom here, in regard to marrying. When a man dies, and leaves his widow in great poverty, or so that she cannot pay all the debts with what little she has left, and that, notwithstanding […]
Hannah Snell, Amazon Maiden
Reprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, April 19, 1771 London, January 2, 1771: Friday last a press-gang was very busy at Newington-Butts, and having impressed a poor countryman from his wife and children, the distressed woman followed her husband with lamentations, which induced many women to sally from their houses. Among the Amazons was the […]
Irish Mobs
Reprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette — May 24, 1771 When an Irish mob are at the height, their method of preventing the military acting against them is singular and very political; they secure the sons of several nobility, and placing them in front, march thus wherever they please, always facing the military. When the […]
Going Dutch on the Poor
Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, May 24, 1771 “Kept to Constant Labour” “Industry and Frugality are the Hands of Fortune” This maxim is no where better observed than in Holland, a Country naturally poor, but by the Industry of the Inhabitants made populous and opulent unequalled by any Nation in the World. The maintenance […]
