Parental Warning: a few scenes in Turn may not be appropriate for younger children and teenagers. Almost from the moment of its rumored pre-production, I’ve been asked by friends and fans of Courage what I thought about the new Revolutionary War spy series, “Turn” on AMC. A few folks even appear sheepish about it — […]

Mortified in light of the recent Dartmouth “Fiesta” fiasco, we offer our apologies for words we may have used without even thinking… First off, an apology. For too long now, I have apparently failed to thank the people of New Hampshire for allowing me to use the term “New Hampshire.” They have also graciously permitted […]

Golf memories with my dad… I really should be a better golfer. My dad — who was so poor as a child he never really knew how to stop working later in life — allowed himself one semi-unrestrained pleasure: golf clubs, a cart (if it was absolutely required), and a round of golf, perhaps, on […]

Piecing it Together We inadvertently stumbled onto a pretty big industry party the other night.  Mary and I were off to see a friend’s concert and we booked a room at Pasadena’s historic Langham Hotel, and, frankly, we fell into a crowd that was a tad intimidating.  There we were in our three year old […]

If you’ve been following our posts on Facebook, you know that last week, we called in cast and crew to shoot some second season footage and that we’ve been issuing invitations for crowd funding. Our hard-working director of photography, Drew Ganyer, used three cameras for this last shoot, all hand held, and it made for […]

Some years ago, I worked this up for the Riley’s Farm website, and my cousin Lani reminded me of the details tonight… Samuel Adams, My Third Cousin 8 Times Removed..Or.. “Samuel Adams Great Grandfather, Henry Adams, was my 10th Great Grandfather.” Henry Adams& Edith Squire Ursula Adams Joseph Adams | | Stephen Streeter John Adams […]

The Performance Art Angle Our fundraising campaign for season II is now in full swing and you can make your tax-deductible donation here. Do it right now before you forget! Several years ago the producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart called and asked if I would appear on the program. This was shortly […]

August to December, 1771 “Courage, New Hampshire” is fiction, of course, but we try to base many of the episodic plot points around actual news that took place in New Hampshire and the surrounding New England colonies.   Here’s just a glimpse of things taking place in the latter half of 1771, large and small. […]