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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.
Tavern Talk
Richard Hanna - Part 2 Aug 25, 2015
Tavern Talk
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.
Tavern Talk
Richard Hanna - Part 1 Aug 5, 2015
18th Century America Primary Texts
Primary Texts from 18th Century America
Historians are a bit like ministers in this respect: they summarize, and inevitably interpret, vast tracts of the text so that the central idea can be squeezed between two points of the clock. Unfortunately, many times the “central idea” is not even “central” nor is it an “idea” even remotely conveyed by the original material.
With that reality in mind, we encourage everyone to read the original history — the diaries, journals, letters, and statutes of the past.
Here’s a good start..
The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee
(Colony Bay Exclusive)
The Works of John Adams — Volume 2
John Adams Old Family Letters, Alexander Biddle Ed.
The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, NH
Letters and Diaries of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, 1759-1762, 1764-1779
The Diary of Anna Green Winslow
The Literary Diary of Rev. Ezra Stiles
The Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 2, 1770-1773
Philip Vickers Fithian
Journal and Letters 1767-1774
A Method For Prayer — Rev. Matthew Henry
(Insights into the prayer life of the 18th Century)
The Diary of Joshua Hempstead 1711-1758
Letters from An American Farmer
(J. Hector Saint John de Crevecoeur 1735-1813)
Glimpses of Colonial Society and the life at Princeton College 1766-1773
Edmund Burke’s Speeches and Letters on American Affairs
The Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson, Esq.
Letters of Nathaniel Walker Appleton to his Classmate
Eliphalet Pearson, 1773-1784
Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the 18th Century
(Sarah Byng Osborn)
The Life of Benjamin Franklin Written by Himself, Vol. II
George Rogers Clark Papers 1771-1781
Acts and Laws of His Majesty’s Province of New Hampshire 1759
New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers 1725-1800
Acts and Laws of the English Colony of Rhode-Island, 1767
Journals of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1770-1772
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd Edition
Journal of Occurrences during the Late American War, R. Lamb
A French Volunteer of the War of Independence
(The Chevalier de Pontgibaud)
Memoirs of the Reign of George III, Volume II
Journal of the Reign of King George III, 1771-1783
Horace Walpole
New Travels in the United States of America — 1788
Orderly Book of Capt. Ichabod Norton, Col. Mott’s (Conn.) Regiment
Travels in American 100 Years Ago (Thomas Twining)
(An account of America in 1795)
