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HISTORICALLY SPEAKING WITH ED COLEMAN: Pondering the leisure activities of Planters, Acadians

Looked upon in some quarters as the bible of the New England Planters, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton’s History of Kings County ignores, for the most part, the leisure activities of these people.

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Moose and caribou and other game was plentiful in the 18th century and surely some of the younger Planters occasionally took time off from farm work to add some wild meat to the larder. Or on a rainy day, they must have skipped down to a nearby stream now and then to catch a feed of trout.

Possibly they did, but you’d never know it by reading Eaton’s book, which is mostly about religion, politics and genealogy. Surely a line or two on these........

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