by Kate Dolan | Feb 7, 2014 | Colonial America, Latest Posts, Living History
I hate cold weather and find that winter always seems to drag interminably. In fact, by February I have usually whined enough to stock a liquor store. So I thought I would cheer myself up by reading a historical narrative in which someone describes chipping the ice...
by Kate Dolan | Feb 23, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History
“Mr. Emerson …tells me that he saw boys skating on the Mississippi, and on Lake Erie and on the Hudson and has no doubt they are skating on Lake Superior. Probably at Boston he might have seen them skating on the Atlantic.” –Henry David Thoreau, February 1856...