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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
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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
Courage, New Hampshire – The Major Events of 1771
The year 1771 broke upon New Hampshire with international rumors of a possible war with Spain and her ally, France, over the Falkland Islands. The British army and navy continued to have trouble with desertion and 40 shilling rewards were being posted for the return of British sailors to their ships. Governor Wentworth began cracking […]
It’s a Hot Day — Don’t Drink the Water!
Editor’s Note: perhaps a student of medicine might tell us what was happening in the late New England summer of 1771. We’re thinking the water is getting a bum rap. Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette August 16, 1771 Boston, August 8, 1771: The extreme heat has continued longer this season than has ever […]
The Devil Went Down to Paris
Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, August 2, 1771 The following odd, but true circumstance happened a few weeks ago at Paris.. Two gentlemen going to a masquerade, went to a place where habits are hired, in order to dress themselves; accordingly, one of them took it into his head to be dressed in resemblance […]
Colony News August 9, 1771
Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, August 9, 1771 Those Pesky Frontiersmen The War against the Regulators (rebels) of North Carolina, and the disputes between Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and Connecticut Men on the frontier, prompted one Philadelphia writer to observe this about the people of frontier Colonial America: “..it is our opinion of folks in […]
Coaching A Little Sympathy
Did I Mention the Mail? And the Newspapers? And the Snow? And how little profit I make on the Deal? You have to love John Stavers, the keeper of the Earl of Halifax tavern in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For many years, if his advertisement (below) is to be believed, he maintained a stage […]
Putrid Fever Takes 150 in One Town
Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 12, 1771 Duxboro’, July 5, 1771: A very malignant putrid fever has, for some time past, much prevailed in this town; about 150 persons, chiefly children, having had it in the course of a few months; to a considerable proportion of whom it has proved fatal. More especially […]
Colonial Shark Attack
Reprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 12, 1771 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 12, 1771: We hear from Damariscotta (Maine), that about three weeks ago, three men being in a canoe, fishing, about half a mile from the shore, a large shark came along side, and after going several times round the canoe, came up […]
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Snow. A Masquerade Country Ball at the Hawk’s Head Tavern. Too Much Snow to travel. Everyone is stuck in the tavern for the night. The people of the town are absolutely charmed by ….
1777 Wisdom: Lower Taxes, Increase Wealth
In September of 1777, the gentleman at the right, François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois was traveling from Boston to Philadelphia, as secretary of the French legation to the newly born United States. On the 6th of the month, some 22 miles outside of Boston, he had this to say about the inhabitants of New England: No […]
