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Colony News August 9, 1771

James Riley — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:16:22 +0000

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 […]

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Coaching A Little Sympathy

James Riley — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:36:28 +0000

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 […]

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The Details

James Riley — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:03:15 +0000

Over on Facebook Group page for Courage, Paul W. Pyle aks: I was wondering about the process you use in gathering historical facts when you start creating a great movie such as this. How you get the idea of the basic historical location and so on. Over the years, we’ve collected quite a few primary […]

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When Evil Wears Good Manners

James Riley — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:35:47 +0000

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 […]

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An ‘Encouraging’ Dose of Tar and Feather

James Riley — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:36:46 +0000

‘Community’ may be many things to many people, but for most of the industrial era, at least, it hasn’t had much to do with seeking justice. The days of the sheriff calling out the posse and deputizing every honest man in the neighborhood have morphed into ‘community watch’ programs, where people just peer out their windows and call […]

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The Travail of Sarah Pine — The Research Story

James Riley — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:13:21 +0000

Although “Courage, New Hampshire” as a project had its roots way back in 2003, it had several false starts. When I started back in again, in the summer of 2010, I turned to a new friend, Shelly Cavallaro, for help on the research front. Shelly works at one of the premiere 18th century document locations […]

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