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Excavating the Sutler’s House: Artifacts<br />
of the British Armies in Fort Edward<br />
and Lake George, by David R. Starbuck,<br />
university Press of New England, 2010,<br />
118 pages. pages<br />
Before any Declaration<br />
of Independence, there<br />
were British settlers<br />
fighting not against<br />
Britain’s royal government<br />
but for it against<br />
the French in the New<br />
World. The British set<br />
up camp on Lake<br />
George and Lake Champlain, and one New<br />
Hampshire anthropologist h<strong>as</strong> made it his<br />
job to dig into those sites.<br />
David Starbuck is <strong>as</strong>sociate professor of<br />
anthropology and sociology at Plymouth<br />
State University. He previously wrote The<br />
Archeology of New Hampshire: Exploring<br />
10,000 Years in the Granite State. Now<br />
with Excavating the Sutler’s House he documents<br />
the findings of his team (and earlier<br />
archeologists) at a handful of sites in northern<br />
New York state, particularly at a sutler’s<br />
house in Fort Edward. A sutler w<strong>as</strong> a merchant<br />
who set up shop near a military camp<br />
and sold goods to soldiers.<br />
The sutler’s house proved to be a tre<strong>as</strong>ure<br />
BooK & LECTURE<br />
LIsTINGs<br />
Libraries<br />
• Amherst Town library<br />
14 Main St., Amherst, 673-2288,<br />
amherst.lib.nh.us<br />
• Bedford Public library<br />
3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford<br />
472-3023, bedford.lib.nh.us<br />
• Concord Public library<br />
45 Green St., 225-8670,<br />
onconcord.com/library<br />
• Derry Public library<br />
64 E. Broadway, Derry, 432-6140,<br />
derry.lib.nh.us<br />
• goffstown Public library<br />
2 High St., Goffstown,<br />
497-2102, goffstown.lib.nh.us<br />
• Hollis Social library<br />
2 Monument Sq., Hollis,<br />
465-7721,<br />
hollis.nh.us<br />
• Hooksett Public library<br />
1701B Hooksett Rd., Hooksett,<br />
485-6092, hooksettlibrary.org<br />
• Manchester City library<br />
405 Pine St. (main branch)<br />
and 76 N. Main St.<br />
(West branch), 624-6550,<br />
manchester.lib.nh.us<br />
• N<strong>as</strong>hua Public library<br />
2 Court St., N<strong>as</strong>hua, 589-4610,<br />
We’ll pay<br />
your co-pay<br />
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see store for details<br />
• Exams<br />
• Contacts<br />
• Eyegl<strong>as</strong>ses<br />
eyecare<br />
n<strong>as</strong>hualibrary.org<br />
• Rodgers Memorial library<br />
194 Derry Road, Hudson,<br />
886-6030, rodgerslibrary.org<br />
• Tucker Free library<br />
31 Western Ave., Henniker,<br />
428-3471, tuckerfreelibrary.org<br />
• Wadleigh Memorial library<br />
49 N<strong>as</strong>hua St., Milford, 673-2408,<br />
wadleigh.lib.nh.us<br />
• Wilton Public library<br />
7 Forest Road, Wilton, 654-2581,<br />
wiltonlibrarynh.org<br />
Bookstores<br />
• Barnes & Noble<br />
1741 South Willow St.,<br />
Manchester, 668-5557;<br />
235 DW Hwy, N<strong>as</strong>hua,<br />
888-5961; bn.com<br />
• Borders<br />
76 Fort Eddy Road, Concord,<br />
224-1255;<br />
281 DW Hwy, N<strong>as</strong>hua,<br />
888-9300; borders.com<br />
• gibson’s Bookstore<br />
27 South Main St., Concord,<br />
224-0562,<br />
gibsonsbookstore.com<br />
• MainStreet Bookends<br />
16 E. Main St., Warner,<br />
456-2700,<br />
1093 Elm St., Manchester<br />
(beside Black Brimmer)<br />
(603) 296-0235 059490<br />
trove of artifacts in a region that includes<br />
“some of the most significant eighteenthcentury<br />
military sites in the United States.”<br />
This book, slim and unimposing, includes<br />
a list of artifacts recovered there, and it’s<br />
flush with photos showing the items up<br />
close. Laid out before you are the soldiers’<br />
wine bottles, the dishes they ate with, the<br />
knives they used, the coins from their pockets,<br />
their keys and padlocks, combs and<br />
pipes. There’s a mostly intact sundial and<br />
comp<strong>as</strong>s that w<strong>as</strong> made in the 1730s.<br />
Starbuck also shows and tells us about<br />
the excavation itself, which is <strong>as</strong> enlightening<br />
and interesting <strong>as</strong> the history. The<br />
process of discovery, of piecing together<br />
<strong>this</strong> building’s life story, is an adventure in<br />
its own right.<br />
For context, and because it’s yet another<br />
informative part of the historical record,<br />
Starbuck provides quotes from the diary of<br />
Jabez Fitch Jr., who served in Fort Edward<br />
in 1757 and ’58. One entry mentions that the<br />
soldiers made chocolate the previous night.<br />
“The sutlers probably sold a great deal of<br />
hot chocolate, especially in the mornings,<br />
and it would have been just <strong>as</strong> popular <strong>as</strong><br />
coffee,” Sutler says.<br />
My kinda guys. A —Lisa Parsons<br />
mainstreetbookends.com<br />
• River Run Books<br />
20 Congress St., Portsmouth,<br />
431-2100, riverrunbookstore.com<br />
• Toadstool Bookshop<br />
586 N<strong>as</strong>hua St., Milford,<br />
673-1734, toadbooks.com.<br />
other<br />
• Manchester Historic<br />
Association<br />
200 Bedford St., 622-7531,<br />
manchesterhistoric.org<br />
• New Hampshire<br />
Humanities Council<br />
19 Pillsbury St., Concord,<br />
224-4071, www.nhhc.org<br />
• New Hampshire State library<br />
20 Park St., Concord,<br />
www.nh.gov/nhsl<br />
• New Hampshire<br />
Writers’ Project<br />
SNHU, 2521 N. River Rd.,<br />
Manchester, 314-7980,<br />
nhwritersproject.org<br />
• Rivier College<br />
420 Main St., N<strong>as</strong>hua,<br />
888-1311, rivier.edu.<br />
• uNH Manchester<br />
400 Commercial St., Manchester,<br />
641-4101, unhm.unh.edu<br />
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