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
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
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
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
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
I talked to a guy in Michigan yesterday who was so excited about selling our movie, he wants to take it out and sell it to his church, his school, and even his neighborhood. He bought 30 copies of the DVD in our July deal, (a case of 30 for $99). He did not, however, start […]
Revolutions aren’t fought by hoping for the best in people. In that final stretch leading to the American Revolution, from 1770 to 1775, there were certain conversations that had to be conducted in secret. Certain friendships had to be sealed with something very much like a solemn oath. The largely peaceful pattern we have of […]
We’ve spent a big part of this week locating bloggers and reviewers who we think would have a big impact selling the show. My daughter observed something interesting about what I would call the “power girl bloggers.” These are women, ages 15-30, who blog about romance, parenting, fashion, and pop culture with a ratio of […]
In the 18th century, traveling minstrel pitch men would stand on a perch at fairs and musters and sing a song. If the country folk took a fancy to the the tune he sold them a copy printed on a broadside. We need some ballad mongers. Do you have a platform? Are you up on the soap box quite […]
Yesterday (and this morning) have been sort of hopping on the distribution front. We have a European network interested. (They all speak English over there, unlike here in the states) Ben Shapiro, the guy who was the youngest syndicated columnist in America at age 16 and who graduated from Harvard Law at 23 years old, […]
Next week, we’ll have a few meetings with “channel” distributors so I’m just writing this all down to see if I understand it:
Like any profession, the media has its share of rogues and whores. A few years ago, a production company came out here (Riley’s Farm) and promised us they intended to film a simple reality show featuring a family who loved visiting our farm. That was just about the last true statement they made in our brief history […]
If Courage, New Hampshire, were, well, Courage, Virginia, we might have a more flamboyant royal governor for the show, but this being New Hampshire in 1770, we have one John Wentworth (right) to study, and he’s just that — an interesting study. The enemies of the Wentworth family, in New Hampshire, called his extended kin “The […]
A trip through the New Hampshire Gazette, starting with December, 1768, including a report, in some detail, on the hanging and burning of Susannah Lott “..Last week a Court-Martial was held on board His Majesty’s Ship Mermaid, for the Trial of some Sailors for Desertion; two were sentenced to be flogged from Ship to Ship, & another […]