Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Fall Festival, Shawnee, Tom Carson, beans on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It all begins peacefully enough on a mild October morning, with Squire Miller and Mistress Rebecca picking beans in the field outside the fort.
Little do they suspect that the fearsome Shawnee Two Hawks and his band are skulking up through the forest only yards away!
At just the right moment, when his intended victims have their backs to him, [...]
Posted in Indian Summer, Shawnee, autumn, beans, corn, pumpkins, squash on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fall on the old Virginia frontier was, above all, a season of preparation against the coming Winter. The foundation of the cabin would be banked against the cold wind with a thick matting of cornstalks and pumpkin vines, or straw if they had it, or even banked with earth. And naturally a substantial stockpile of [...]
