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 sources for mid to late 18th century in New England.   Since our goal is to root each episode in a specific month or season of the pre-Revolutionary period, we usually start by reading all of the issues of the two period newspapers we have multiple issues for — The New Hampshire Gazette and the Providence, Rhode Gazette and Country Journal.    Continue Reading »